The 5 Stone Plus Club - The Battle of Christmas (and beyond!). Come in! We're friendly!

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New thread here ladies as the last one as getting a bit mahoosive!!

The old thread is HERE should you need it!

Hi Ria

You plan for having friends over sounds like it went well! Glad they didn't get lairy! ;)

How did you manage without DH? Did you do your girly night in stuff?

Nothing new to report here, as usual lol. Went to my first WW meeting in months and months today at lunchtime. They dont have meetings tho,just the weigh ins through the summer because of people being thin on the ground. Apparently when the kids have gone back to school people will stay and then they have the talks, which is what i want really as i find it helps to motivate me.

I cant believe this thread is so quiet, except for me and you gassing on to each other!!

LOL. It's the 2 R's show

Hope they give you a discount if you're only getting half the service! seems a bit of a lame excuse if you ask me

DH came home about an hour before they left. It was OK without him, especially as I didn't do food!

Am plodding on doing my best here, seemed to spend all day cooking today. Went to visit DHs DD yesterday, without any kind of planning as I decided it was my turn for a lie-in, DH having had 5 nights away in a hotel in the last 2 weeks... I had a SW friendly lunch before we left, and only a tiny nibble of the boys pizza, but it was such a long day I succumbed to junk food before the day was out.

I feel huge and bloated though. Am not weighing in til next week before I go away. Am hoping for a good result.

Yes i was a bit peed off that they use summer as an excuse to not do the lectures! I wanted to use that as my "home" club rather than the one that is local to me but now i'm not so sure! I do think the talks are invaluable really and they do give you the boost you need and/or some good tips about how to control your eating etc. My Monday morning meeting was great but now of course i go to the gym on a monday morning so that meeting's out the window. They do another one on a Thursday night too but i think it's something silly like 6pm and i dont get home from work til about 7.15. I need one that starts at 8pm!! Think i'm going to check out the site and see when there's one more convenient that actually has a meeting!

Good for you for getting a lie in!! I hardly ever have a lay in these days. I think the most i've done recently is gone back to bed a couple of hours after DP gets up. I do feel better for it tho, so it can only be a good thing!

I would normally succumb to junk food after a long day too - it's just so easy and quick and satisfying isn't it.

Hope you get a good result at your next weigh in. Where are you going? How long will i have to be here talking to myself? ;)

Looks like we're going away on Tuesday, me and the boys are going to the Dales with my parents for about a week again.

if you get lonely you'll have to create an alias to chat to

good luck in finding a WW class - are there Saturday classes? not a great way to spend your weekend though I suppose. Have you started "counting" again then? do you count or do the No-count?

I was planning on following SW all the time when I'm away (apart from the day we walk over the fields in to the village cos we were going to the chippy!), but it is really hard work all the planning meals and cooking more than 1 meal a day etc. Plus I'm having a "fat" day today, I feel really bloated and heavy. I'm wondering if I should take a bit of a break and just eat sensible healthy meals and no snacking (no chance of over-eating with DM). Am also thinking even if I stay on SW 100%, I'll still need a boost before the wedding, so will probably do Rosemary C for the 2 weeks before. Gah! Why is it such hard work? Maybe youand your new alias could design a no-fail wine, chocolate, crisps and curry diet!

Tuesday? Blimey, that soon?! Hope you have a lovely break.

There is a WW class on a Saturday morning which would be ideal as it's about 5 mins walk away from my house but Sing and Sign starts again mid-september so i dont really see the point in transferring to that meeting for a few weeks and then transferring somewhere else again. Plus there's the getting to know people thing that would piss me off. I would hate to get to knwo people there and then not turn up. They would all think that i'd not bothered coming because i'd given up or something, which would get my back up lol.

I will try and work on that chips/chocolate/wine & curry diet while you are away!!

Just popping in to the "2 R's Show" to say bye (don't think I'll dare log on in the morning)

Have dug out some different clothes from my stash, hope they'll fit. Am just having a beer break from packing.

Am taking my Rosemary Conley book with me, fingers crossed my willpower will come along for the ride (though I think DM will make up for it)

Good luck with the WW RG!

Have a fantastic time Ria!! Dont beat yourself up too much if you dont stick to your diet while you're away. You're on holiday after all!!

Stayed the same weight wise this week, which is good considering i've been bad as usual lol.

See you when you get back!

Hi, Just thought i would pop by and say Hi. sheepishly!!!!

I have got LOADS of weight to lose and thought i would start when the kids go back to school in a couple of weeks time. I am massively overweight, but have not tackled it for a few years as I really could not face it and I really needed to sort my head out to WANT to do this for ME. Now I feel as if I am ready. In the past I have favoured a low fat diet and was thinking of doing that again as I find I can keep to it and I do seem to lose weight that way.
For a year now I have been a carer for my DD3 which has just piled on the pounds as I ahve had to drive everywhere and not walk, as she could not walk and I have been sat at home for weeks at a time unable to get out and do anything, but eat!
So this is my first step, to introduce myself, say hi and if you don't all scare me off, can I come along and join you?

Hi positive!

No scaring off from here. I've only very recently joined this thread myself. I've got a 20 week old and was very overweight before I had her, and was losing weight when I got pg, so now I'm back on it again.

What diet were you thinking of doing?

Hi Grinningbee,

Thanks for the welcome. I am going to do a low fat/basic sensible eating diet. I really do know what i need to do, just need a kick up the enormous backside to do it.

Only flying by now, so will keep an eye on here.

Hi Positive! Welcome to the thread! It's good that you now feel ready to start losing weight. I think half the battle of losing weight is your mental attitude to it and if you are not ready, it just wont happen! I am in the "i really want to lose weight but emotionally i'm not ready to let go" bracket i think I've also got loads of weight to lose (ideally about 8 stone, but i'll be happy with 6 ).

This thread is great to try and keep the ol' pecker up! Even if you're having a bad day, please dont feel like you have to hide away and not post on here. We are here to support each other after all

Hi Grinningbee! How's your gorgeous little girl? (nice pics, btw!)

Thanks Rgpargy!

She's not bad - we had the 4 month jabs on Monday poor sausage had the squits and has been a bit grumpy since. And she keeps biting me with her two new teeth when I'm feeding her!

Never mind.

I'm trying very hard not to miss my daily scones and biscuits. I'd got into such a bad habit! Oh, not to mention the nightly family bar of choccy that dh and I used to scoff while watching tv.

I do have a stash of curlywurlys though for when I get the urge.

Drat. Must go - someone is wailing yet again and I've just got a cuppa!

awww bless her. i hate the jabs It's so hard to get off the bad habits. When i was BF my DD i used to sit and stuff muffins from Asda lol.

Ooooooh muffins!

Bf'ing makes me really hungry, but for naughty food rather than something saintly like fruit.

The weather is horrible today. Really dark cloud and windy. So much for putting washing out today. Bet we get heavy rain soon. Boo!

It's the sort of day for dunking custard creams into a mug of tea... which I won't

Yes BF used to make me want crappy food too! Must be something in the hormones lol.

Has everyone had a good BH weekend?

DP and his dad have done the decking now and today DP started on the block paving around the side of the house. Things are finally starting to progress in teh garden - just as the summer is ending lol.

I sold my car yesterday too! Now i'm after something family-fied and reliable/economical. I've been looking at a Ford Focus, perhaps. Anyone have any experience of a Focus? Do they have Isofix bars at around 1999 onwards? I doubt they do......

Hey, you never know, we might get an indian summer . It's been a joke this year, again!

Had quite a nice weekend, just lazed around really. Bought a travel cot for when we go away in October - damn thing takes up half the sitting room! But we must get A used to it.

Don't know about the Focus. Dh might know so I'll ask him later.

I blame hormones for everything - including my very first dose of road rage this weekend when someone went past without waiting for me to move totally back into the left lane as I was moving out of the fast lane on duel carriageway. They'd been right on my bumper and A was in the back of the car. I did a rude hand gesture! I was very at myself.

Dh thought it was funny...

It turned out to be PMT

It's been bloody windy here today!! But the good news is that the decking AND the paving has been finished! Woohoo!! The only other big thing that needs to be done now is the returfing of the "lawn" and putting the block paving garden path in. Then it'll just be little bits and pieces to do, like planting etc. It's probably really too late in the year to do loads of planting and even to returf so i'm a bit nervous about the grass surviving!

Travel cots can sometimes be a lot less "travel" and alot more "cot" than you imagine! Where are you going?

Well done on your first road rage/pmt episode! lol! I hate it when people are right up your a*se, especially when you have kids in the car. I find they do it more if you have a rubbishy car (like my old one!). If you have a really nice car then they tend to hold back. Drives me NUTS!!

hi all, nice to come back to a busy thread

my holiday was like groundhog day crossed with some kind of endurance test. Fecking kids were awful (probably because it rained most of the time)

DH has not had a personality transplant while I've been away and has blossomed from lazy incapacitated arse to lazy obsessed-with-work-and-nothing-else arse, I can see from the way he stands and that his neck has disappeared that he is in a massive amount of pain, b ut I am a bit narked that I have come back from an intensive week witht he boys to nothing any tidier than when I left, and having to strip the beds tonight when we got in. I hope he's in a better mood tomorrow (though he will be cos he goes to collect his wages, so he'll get to be the important creative one for 10 minutes...)

I don't suppose any of you live in Ripon?

Welcome back Ria!!

Sorry your holiday was frazzling for you. Sorry that DH has not bothered to consider your feelings and tidy up a bit! men can be very inconsiderate sometimes, cant they?!

Sorry, i dont live in Ripon - where is it?

Ripon is a lovely place in Yorkshire RG (it couls be the smallest city, but it's been a while since my last pub quiz). I was there yesterday and missed out on buying a gorgeous flattering dress because DH and the boys didn't like it, and by the time I'd decided sod them I did, the bloody shop had shut.

Today has been even worse TBH, but I had a bit of a strop and said more than I should have. Tonight seems OK.

Last night of freedom before 2 solid weeks of effort to try and shift half a stone before the wedding.

How you doing?

Ah-ha, i thought Ripon was in Yorkshire but didn't want to embarrass myself, just in case it wasn't!!

What a bugger the shop was shut!! How annoying!!

Sometimes saying a few words than you should can make them see sense a bit more than they would have. If tonight's ok then maybe it did some good??

Good luck with your 7lb loss! If you set your mind to it, i'm sure you can do it!

My diet is non-existent at the moment as usual. I just cant get my head into gear so i'm going to try some hypnotherapy soon i think. I just need someone to programme my brain with some sort of "stop stuffing your face" spell.

I agree, there has to be a better way. I have Paul McKenna, but he makes me think of Steve Wright, and then I go off on a complete tangent and don't give a monkey's about "stop eating when you are full" etc!

I suppose I kind of give it away because I rarely go anywhere except God's Own County!

Oh i was thinking about getting Paul McKenna! I got his DVD about stopping smoking years and years ago but i actually fell asleep during it. However, having said that, the images in the DVD did stay with me for a while and i'm convinced they helped me to give up smoking a few months later and I've not smoked since! That was about 7 years ago now, so maybe his stopping smoking DVD/CD could work for me too......

Off to check the library for availability!

I fell asleep too, and was BF (so nothing was going to work really, and I didn't have time to lay on the bed for however long doing nothing but listening). Good luck!