Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Weight loss chat

A space to talk openly about weight loss journeys and challenges. Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. You may wish to speak to a medical professional before starting any diet.

BigMoFos w/c 8 February

74 replies

WigWamBam · 09/02/2008 16:49

New thread.

Hopefully with added kicks up the backside ...

OP posts:
aGalChangedHerName · 15/02/2008 07:29

Someone i know (used to be a good friend) buys her dd who is 10/11 padded bras (she has no boobs) and thongs. Yuck!!! Has been wearing them for quite some time.

Being judgy i know but just think she's awfully young to be wearing all that

Oh and put on a pound this week. Pound off pound on,same old!!

TigerFeet · 15/02/2008 10:19

2.5 lbs off - hurrah! so back to where I was 2 weeks ago . I forget the total loss, 8.5?? not sure.

LMS - not at all! Compare yourself to Agalch's aquaintance and you'll see the difference.

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 17:37

Thongs? Blimey.

We've got rid of our manky old three piece suite today (new ones tomorrow, hurrah!) ... have a guess how much we found in change down the back of dh's armchair?

OP posts:
JackieNo · 15/02/2008 17:38

Ooh, about £13? Is your DH a lounger, like mine (no, not a sunlounger, a sprawler)?

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 17:39

He's a lounger. And he is always losing change down the back of the sofa.

Up a bit ...

OP posts:
JackieNo · 15/02/2008 17:40

£17.50?

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 17:43

Up a lot ...

OP posts:
JackieNo · 15/02/2008 17:44

You said a bit
OK - umm, £41.32?

JackieNo · 15/02/2008 17:46

Right - off to make supper. Will check back in later...

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 17:53

£85

Will go a long way towards a new carpet (although we should have done that before the new suite came, not afterwards ...!)

OP posts:
JackieNo · 15/02/2008 19:20

Blimey. That's pretty impressive. Does your room feel huge without any sort of suite in it?

hecate · 15/02/2008 19:27

85 pounds??? Bloody hell fire, I want to rip my sofa apart now!...

How's everyone doing? Tiger did you get that spreadsheet and was it any cop?

Well. I can kiss my 8lb goodbye - or more accuratly I can say hello to it and probably 8 of it's friends.

My gran died and I seem unable to control myself. In the last 2 days I've had 2 family sized bars of choc, a pack of scotch eggs (i know, but crap food is comforting. ), 2 mcdonalds meals and several packets of crisps - this is as well as normal meals. It seems I am unable to stop myself. I had to ask dh not to leave me alone in the room in case I went to the kitchen. How awful is that? I feel sort of burning and starving - and yes, I mean starving. Even when I'm bulging I still feel hollow and hungry.

Any words of wisdom? I need to be stopped. Does anyone know how I can get back in control of myself - simply telling myself STOP isn't working at all.

JackieNo · 15/02/2008 19:32

Oh hecate. So sorry to hear about your gran.

Can you be nice to yourself in other ways? It's difficult to eat in the bath (not impossible, I know, but certainly once you're in there it's more difficult to get out and get to the food). But I can understand the eating.

I would also heartily recommend (if that's not too strange a word) getting the house to yourself and having a huge, and very noisy, cry - when my dad died, I did this - screamed, and ranted and raved, and cried for an hour or two, but it really helped. Would have felt like a madwoman if anybody had seen or heard me, but it worked. Don't beat yourself up about eating - you've got other stuff to cope with at the moment.

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 19:39

The room feels enormous! The cat is decidedly unimpressed though; her usual perch on the back of the sofa, roasting gently with her nose on the radiator, is gone forever!

Tis an impressive amount of loose change I've read dh the riot act though; change comes out of his pockets before he parks his arse in future. Trouble is, he won't put change in his pockets in the mornings because it's too heavy and wears holes in his pockets. So every day he changes yet another note and comes home with vast amounts of change ...

Hecate, I'm really sorry about your gran. Filling the void with food is understandable, you know - when something is missing in our lives, when there's an emotional void, it's very often food we turn to to try and fill the hole.

Can you meet that emotional need in some other way? Long, hot bath, get your dh to rub your shoulders for you? I know that it's easier said than done, because I know that it feels like a physical need to shovel food in - but you know that it won't fill the emotional hole, and you'll end up feeling worse in the long run.

OP posts:
hecate · 15/02/2008 19:44

Oh dear. I've just noticed I wrote it's when I should have put its.

I blame mumsnet that I was bothered enough by that to post again to apologise.

What type of sofa are you getting WWB? Got any pics?

I just want someone to take me somewhere, lock me up and hand me what I can eat - you know, take total control of me and responsibility for me. I just hope I get control of myself before I do too much damage.

Sorry for the moan.

And sorry for the '

I'm actually more sorry for the '

Mumsnet has a lot to answer for!

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 19:58

Bloody hell, I should think a missing apostrophe is the least of your worries!

Having someone else take the reins would be wonderful, wouldn't it. Absolve all responsibility and let someone else do the hard stuff!

Be nice to yourself. It helps.

The sofa is like this one. Which looks revolting in that pattern, but we're having it in a plain, light brown cotton fabric. I took one look and said "I'm not having that thing" - then sat in it, and it was just sooooo comfortable.

And I know it's dhs and they are the spawn of the devil but I was almost on the floor in our old sofa (the springs were all gone, which is probably the fault of my fat arse) and it will be so nice to be comfortable again!

Even if the cat will hate us forever.

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 19:59

Dhs ... I mean, of course, dfs ...

Gah.

OP posts:
JackieNo · 15/02/2008 20:03

That looks nice, WWB - very classic. And presumably you won't have to start paying for it till the next century (our last sofa was from DFS), which is always a bonus.

JackieNo · 15/02/2008 20:04

Having someone else to take responsibility for everything would only work if you were locked up though, as you say, with no access to any shops.

hecate · 15/02/2008 20:05

Yeah I know, I just have this weird 'Stupid' reflex. You can tell how I'm feeling by how many daft, pointless, 'funny' or irrelevent things I say. The worse I'm feeling the more I laugh and make facetious remarks. I'm a freakazoid, there's no avoiding it.

Sofa does look comfy. I'm a fan of leather myself - far easier to clean!!!

hecate · 15/02/2008 20:07

Locked up with no responsibility for anything or access to anything actually sounds really nice, Jackie. That's a bit disturbing, innit? Maybe I should try to rob a bank and get myself a nice 10-12 stretch.

WigWamBam · 15/02/2008 20:09

I feel very uncomfortable about leather. Freaky veggie and all that.

I really did want something with washable covers, but the only ones we could find were so bloody uncomfortable. Dh was interested in an Ikea one - Klippan, I think; cheap and cheerful - but after I'd been sitting on it for five minutes my bum was numb and I couldn't feel my feet!

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 17/02/2008 12:21

OK, so Mrs Useless forgot the weights again and no-one nagged her

Agalch: +1 (total -1.5)
JackieNo: -3lb (total +1)
TigerFeet: -2.5 (total -8.5)

Cream slices for Jackie and Tigerfeet, the crumbs that are left once they've finished for the rest of us!

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 17/02/2008 12:23

New thread

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page