Aug 08 Hot Mamas - roll up for Ms Sazz and her House of Slim

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Hey Sazzles hope you don't mind the nameheck but you are our inspiration [crawly bumlick]

LOL at [lush] I am not boasting, obv meant

Pah a measly half pound. I had previewed during week and suspected as much tbh.

3lbs and 5lbs is just briliant hots and Sazz. Fantastic.

Sazz if you commit murder I hope you get a cell with an exercise bike.

Good luck dizz.

Sazz that is fantastic, well done! You are beating me by 3.5lb now and deserve every ounce of it

I have celebrated my weight loss by...eating a pain au chocolat was blardy delicious though. Have burned an extra 100 calories rushing to the opticians, and am going swimming at lunchtime

VG yours will start speeding up again soon I'm sure How much do you still ahve to lose, as you know it gets harder the nearer you get to your ideal weight. Still at least 2 stone to go here

So impressed oops, hots and Sazz! Brilliantly done. I fear I will be no competition this week as have been rather rubbish with my food [not lush] but did go to yoga last night and will be going again tomorrow am, as well as lots of high speed walking/pramming this week.

Forgot to weigh this morning as was rushing out the door, will do so when I get back.

I'd like another stone and a half I think hotter. I would love two stone but certainly a stone and a half seems doable and would leave me fine.

In order to punish my recalcitrant body I have just come back from 7 miles of pram walking. A beautiful walk but hilly (extra punishment) and past some houses, vast and lovely.

4lbs off and celebrated with an aero

well done all - back to work tomorrow for 4 days of shifts so will keep going with the water intake and distraction techniques

Well I'm bottom of the class today aren't i?

Pah.

Well done to you though dizzy. 4lbs is a good lot & most heartening. Work is great for keeping away from fridge.

I've put my 2lb back on, lol

You are very good-humoured about it cyteen I am as cross as a bag of knives today, am blaming my pathetic half pound though who knows.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH.

Well, it wasn't exactly a surprise - I've eaten and drunk all sorts this week. Still, never mind, I'm still thinking about my eating habits and trying to be better. It's not all or nothing is it, it's a change.

I know but the weeks I don't lose much, or nothing, I get so fed up.

I think I am furious today for other reasons (nothing specific, I am not fishing for focus! ) so I am not sure why I expect other people to be as ill-tempered as I am.

Dizzy that's brilliant news, well done

Cyteen you're bound to weigh more getting weighed at teatime, bet you've not put any on really

VG loving the expression 'cross as a bag of knives', but sorry you are feeling that way Have you given up bread? I'm absolutely certain that's what is doing it for me. I was a bit and very at the sight of someone's white bread butties in the fridge at work when I went to get my salad, but would rather be thin!

Am dressed from head to toe in size 16 and it's not even tight oh this is worth no more bread

Forgot to mention that I came home to a surprise delivery of a Green & Blacks mini-bar selection box, sent as a thankyou by the lady I've lent my Moby to.

Oh dear

Ooh powerplate looks jiggly

Don't know what it is Sazz about rewarding with the thing I am trying to avoid, but I long for pastries every day so feel I can have an occasional treat without too much damage, esp when I have just lost 3lb... and that is the reason I have never managed to lose this much weight before - the first few lbs come off so easy I think I can cheat a bit, then before I know it I am eating cake every day normally again and back to square 1. This time I am managing to keep the treats occasional and I am getting thinner.

I know, I know, it's just food, and most of the time I can think sensibly that something might be yummy but being able to feel my ribs is a gift that just keeps on giving

LOL at wine being your friend 'tis mine too. In fact wine o'clock has come here half an hour early will drink a glass for you too. Or can't you go and sit in the Landy with DH?

Can't imagine having a teetotal DSis, mine is rather flaky. And really quite fat. She is an almost-vegan but counteracts the healthy food with copious alcohol and sitting around doing nothing.

Forgot to say that I did my 40 minutes swim today (36 lengths) so have done my 4x 30 mins already . Am just exercising self control now as am drunk and hungry, DH has crisps for when I've gone to bed. Good job they're not Pringles...

Hots I'm really glad you are feeling so chipper & positive, as we were saying the other day it's when you feel like that it's easier to keep going (I am ignoring the pastry longing ) cos nothing tastes good enough to ruin that feeling for yourself. Delighted you are in a nice size in a comfortable way and so happy about things. Well done!

Re. the bread I am not eating bread at the moment, or pasta - they are both fatal for me. I tend to skip breakfast (I know!) and sort of race past lunch - I mean I never plan what I am having for lunch, sometimes skip, sometimes finish ds's - that's bad too, I know. And for supper I tend to have the house supper plus salad and minus the pasta or whatever. Last night dp and ds1 had an Indian takeaway and I had steamed trout and salad. I really didn't want the takeaway and was very happy to make myself something. And I felt much cleaner with my trout.

Sazzles I like that body-is-not-a-dustbin idea, it's so true & v. important image to keep in mind. Why do we (or should I say DID we) sabotage ourselves? Why do EXACTLY what we know will make us unhappy in the long run? Breaking the cycle is the hardest thing. I don't even know if I've properly broken it yet = I don't think I have left it behind for ever and ever amen (viz. lemon biscuits).

I've made out a spreadsheet now and I have decided definitely that I want another stone and a half off minimum. I am going to talk to dp about leaving ds at the playroom in the gym so that I could exercise in the mornings - it's not something I've done yet.

Apols for inner ramble-type post.

Trout and salad sounds delish VG, but how on earth do you manage all day without breakfast and sometimes without lunch? I find it much easier to have the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day so I am not tempted into sandwiches. So I have cereal - rice crispies or shreddies for breakfast, then salad leaves, tomato and cucumber with low fat salad cream and a bit of feta (much less calorific than cheddar and way tastier so you don't even need that much!) then I have pretty much what I want for tea but with less of the carby bit and more veggies. I'm not really up with all the dieting theories but aren't you scuppering your chances by skipping meals then your body grabs all the calories you do eat and plonks them on your bum? Could be talking nonsense...

I know. I've never been much of a breakfaster (apart from when in hotels) though I do always have coffee (healthy lifestyle, anyone?) and the lunch skipping is down to poor planning. Perhaps resolution for this week will be plan a nice salady lunch.

VG could you not whip up a quick batch of veg (no point) soup and have a mug of that on the go for lunch?