The 5 Stone Plus Club - New Year, New Ladies!

[RGPargy]

Hi ladies!

Thought it might be nice to have a new thread for the new(ish) year.

Hi Ria - sounds like you have been having a tough time lately. Hope things are improving for you now.

I cant get on with Yoga. I tried it for 3 weeks but just ended up feeling like a lemon because i get into the positions because my fat gets in the way

I thought there was a WW thread but i couldn't find it either the last time i looked, although that was a while ago.

I think DP has a secret problem with me losing weight. Today i was taken out for lunch by one of my bosses for christmas (yes, really!) and ended up having a Thai Green Chicken curry with steamed jasmine rice. I mostly ate just a few bits of chicken with about maybe 5 dessert spoons of the curry sauce on it so i dont think it was too bad. Anyway, i told DP that i'd been taken out and then the conversation got on to what we were going to have for dinner tonight. He said about having a pizza from the freezer but i said no and that i would do myself beans on toast.

So when i get home, he has put some wedges in the oven and his pizza is sitting there waiting to be cooked. He asks me again if i want any (this was after me telling him how good i'd been) and i ended up saying yes! Anyway, when his pizza was cooked he asked again and i said no i didn't want any (yay me!) and did myself two slices of Nimble with half a tin of low sugar beans. If the "gentle persuasion" with the pizza and wedges wasn't bad enough, i then see a bottle of wine in the fridge!! I just felt like he was seriously trying to get me to cheat tonight - my two most favourite things were offered to me - wine and wedges!!

He always does end up sabbotaging (sp?) my diets one way or another alot of the time and it does make me wonder if he is scared of the beautiful me getting out!!

Sorry for the ramble, but i'm quite about him tempting me time and time again tonight!!!

And breathe...........

don't know RG, maybe he doesn't realise? but well done for resisting. DH bought me chocolates because I was cross with him

can you stock up on WW-friendly pizza and wedges for next time?

miserable and rainy here. DHs boss has lent him a car so he can get to work, but I am house-bound for the time being.

going to catch up on the tidying today - I had the downstairs of the house immaculate the other day, then the kids trashed it yesterday

RGPargy - Well done for resisting but it sound as if DP is acting oddly with regards to you dieting. Have you some straight out and asked him?

Ria - Have I missed what has happened to your car? I so understand that feeling with the kids trashing the house. I feel like keeping the house tidy is a never ending job!

Hi all, how's the weekend going?

Mels - DH crashed after swerving to avoid a deer and skidding on ice last week on his way home from work in a blizzard. He was OK the car was not it has been a tough week.

well, good WW day here , even saved some points in an attempt to claw back my traditional day one binge last night. Been for a 40 min walk pushing DS3 on his dratted trike, and then 15 mins on the exercise bike tonight

Oh no Ria, your poor DH. At least he wasn't hurt and hope it wasn't too big a job getting the car fixed.

You sound as if you have had a good day today.

All good here. Stayed the same again this week so that's 2 weeks on the trot now staying the same.

Evening ladies!! Weighed myself yesterday and i have lost a bit fat ZERO!!! I think it's probably due to being out on a bender with the girls on Saturday night and drinking about 20,000 Smirnoff Ices. They are notoriously bad for sugar content so perhaps i should really find an alternative drink. I'm not sure what else i could drink. I do like wine but only drink it at home as when i'm out, it gets me hammered I am thinking about vodka and diet coke but i dont really like that (lol!) and Vodka and orange would give me "digestive discomfort" lol. Hmmm.... what to do?!!

I went to the gym twice on Monday - once in the morning to body pump and once in the evening to Step. I had the day off yesterday and did a double class this morning. To say i ache is an understatement!

Ria - Sorry to hear about your car. As mels said, at least he wasn't hurt and a car is a small price to pay for him being in one piece.

So glad you had a good WW day! I have been good so far too, but today it's gone to pot a little as it is our 4 year anniversary of meeting and so DP bought me some flowers and some wine (and also some chocolate, ggrr) and i took that as a cue to have a large dinner, instead of pointing it and being sensible. I think i will have to have a salad and zero point soup day tomorrow.......

Mummymels - well done for staying the same - at least you dont have a gain!!

RGPargy - I can't think what else you can have drink wise. I have to say that since dieting I have so far managed not to drink at all. Do you like any other spirits? I used to drink vodka, lime and lemonade sometimes if that gives you any ideas. You've done really well on the exercise front though, I'm not surprised you are aching. Sounds like you had a lovely anniversary today, happy anniversary.

Just bookmarking ladies. Gone very quiet on here!

I was thinking that too. How are you all doing?

All well here, thanx. Lost 3lb this week, altho i dont hold out much hope of losing anything for this coming Monday's weigh in because it is TOM here and i am very bloated and full of wind!

How are you doing?

Oh and Vodka (double, of course!), Lime and Lemonade is my new tipple.

Hello?!!

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(they are tumbleweeds, btw lol)

Brilliant on the 3 lbs off. You have given me a taster now for the vodka, lime and lemonade, I've not dunk for ages!

I lost 1/2 lb this week. My weight loss has really slowed down now.

Any sign of Ria?

Well done on the 1/2lb off! It's better than nothing!

Still no sign of Ria. Perhaps she's having an MN/internet break.... ?

well done on the losses.

I have been lurking but not felt like posting - I am down 9lb and one DH, who moved out 3 weeks ago on Thursday. Have been off food, the booze and life in general. Had half a bottle of wine in the fridge when he went, that I finished after the first week, and I felt crapper. Bought another bottle (and a mini bottle of pink fizz) on Friday for my birthday, but I really don't have any appetite for it, though I am having a couple of glasses tonight as it's been a long day. No loss or gain over the last week, but I have been hitting the crusty bread as TOTM, so I suppose not bad.

Anyhow, am hoping to hit WW with renewed vigour tomorrow - if I have to plan what I'm eating I may actually eat something...

I used to drink southern comfort with lime and lemonade. don't think I could stomach it now

... don't suppose I would have a queue of no hopers attractive men waiting to buy them for me now though

oh gawd, I've killed the thread!

Have also lost a stone

Weighed in a day early this week as I fancy a bit of a treat tonight, and alcohol-based treats are not a good idea on a Sunday night

need to step up the exercise though, and get toning.

Hope you guys are OK and doing well

Oh Ria!! So sorry to hear about DH How are you feeling about it? Are you devastated or relieved?? Big hugs to you - hope you're doing OK.

On a lighter note, great news on the weight loss!! That's fantastic isn't it! I think i must be the only one who's not losing weight on this weight loss thread!!

thanks RG. I am gutted TBH, have done hysterical, upset, angry, confused, now I am , but we are trying to work things out. It will take a while though - easter will get in the way of talking, and then he is in hospital the week after the kids go back to school. DS1 has taken it very badly, so we will have that to sort out too, after we've worked it out ourselves

but I am determined to capitalise on the situation and work it in my favour weight-loss-wise

how's the gym going?

Ria, I am so sorry to hear about your DH moving out. How are you feeling now? It?s no wonder you haven?t felt like posting or eating. Big hugs to you. Do you think you can sort it out? Sorry I?ve not replied sooner but haven?t been on here for a few days as work has been really busy and had a religious holiday.

On another note, well done on the weight loss.

Poor DS1 Ria (and of course, your other DCs). I hope you can work it out. Feel so for you - i have been there myself when a partner goes and you feel absolutely crushed and devastated. I really do hope you can work it out. Massive hugs. If we lived closer i'd be round like a shot with a bottle of vino and some cake.

Yes sorry I meant to acknowledge about DS1 too. Your poor DC and of course you too. Is DH staying in touch with the DC? I hope you are ok. Hugs.

thanks guys.

whereabouts are you mels? the religious holiday bit has me intruiged.

think we have made a big step forwards this week, early days, but DH seems to have ??? I don't know that "realised what he's missing" is the phrase I want, but he has a different perspective now to this time last month. He sees the little 2 twice a week (he has seen DS3 more this week as he had to come with me when I saw DH), am hoping to get DS1 to see him on Monday, even if just for 5 minutes. Fingers crossed.

that you have known how I feel RG, your DPs comment on FB last night made me though. Bless him.

must go to tesco (DS2 needs an easter girft for his girlfriend), visit my sister,and it looks like its going to pour down... Yippee, its a bank holiday

hope you have all both had a great weekend. We had lunch with my sister on Sunday, I think I was quite restrained, though I still had far too much to eat, it was all healthy stuff though - jacket potatoes, salad, sausages (I only had 1 sausage cos they are not my favourite thing unless cooked until very crisp!), a small amount of peanuts, chocolate and dessert, and only one glass of wine

I am in need of a treat day though! Might have a couple of glasses tonight, and am not counting what I eat today... but after this weeks weigh-in I am having a proper treat!

Hope you are doing OK

Hi Ria

Glad you enjoyed lunch with your sister. It's fine to have lots of good stuff! Hope you enjoyed! I'm at just the one glass of wine!!

How are you doing? how's things with DH and the kids? Any progress yet? Thinking of you x

I've had lots of alcohol over the weekend and am still drinking tonight too I think it's because it's there and it's nice to it has to be done. Plus i haven't quite got back into the swing of "normal" food yet after easter lol.

Still, at least i went to the gym yesterday to semi-make up for it!

Double classes tomorrow - step followed by pump, which seems to be the norm for me lately!

Another good thing is that 2 weeks ago when i was at the gym, one of the "regulars" said that she thought i'd lost weight as it seemed to be really coming off, and then last weekend DP and I went to his mate's 30th birthday bash and two of his other mates both said that i'd lost LOADS of weight (one of them even said i looked "fit"!! haha!! ). I'm deffo encouraged by that and glad that the gyming is paying off (finally!).

Right, where's the wine?