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The_Dragon

dellybelly wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the good wishes. I've been keeping myself busy the past few days and the diet has gone completely off track.

Yes, bails there's been lots of scrabble.. (not complaining at all) and I've also been trying to catch up on the last 2 series of Heros so that when the next series starts OH and I will watch it together.

I've had a meltdown on Tuesday and OH and I talked stuff out, but I'm still waiting on the appointment to Relate.

Home on my lunch hour at the mo, will check in again later.

DB.

Sorry about the meltdown DB - hopefully things will start improving now - keep in contact though you hear!

andyslinz

Hi all, thanks for all your comments. i'm still a bit slow with this site, I am not sure how to quote someones message in my message, I'm sure I will figure it out! But thank you to everyone who offered words of encouragement.
It is really hard avoiding biscuits in the house, because I live at Andrews, with his family, no-one there is on a diet. Andrew is 20 his brother is 17 and they can eat what they want and don't put an ounze on! And they do too...eat what they want, alot of it! Seriously it is like a constant fest of biscuits/cakes/doughnuts/muffins etc etc...and I am always tempted! Mostly on an night time when I'm watching the soaps, I will have a cup of tea, and then think "Oh a few custard creams won't hurt" But you know the story, when 2 ends up as 6 or more!!! And then I'm left feeling like a total failure because I can't stay off the biscuits! It's terrible! :eek:
At work the only time I really crave chocolate or biscuits is with a cup of tea, so I have stopped drinking tea at work. I have my 1litre volvic bottle constantly going! And that keeps my hunger pangs away too.
I go home to my mams once or twice a week, and everytime I go she makes a big tea for me (my favourite is mince and dumplings!) and she made that last night. Only she gave me SIX dumplings on my plate! I couldb't finish it, but I was stuffed. I know I should tell her I will prepare my own tea, but the thing is when I haven't seen her for a while, she likes to make me something she knows I love. And I feel obliged to eat it.
I am really going for it this time tho (how many times have I said that to myself!)
It is 8 weeks this saturday until my 21st birthday _party_ and I intend to lose around a stone in this time. I have done it before with tesco diets (in January) and so I feel I can do it again.
I'm going to go for a steady loss of around 2lb a week and see how I go.
I will post here as often as I can and that might keep me motivated. Since I will feel bad if I haven't stuck to my diet plan for the day.
Here's to the next 8 weeks then!
:T

grannynise

Whoops - missed the WI because I didn't know that it was Wednesday yesterday. I thought it was Wednesday today.
It would have been a sts anyway ... although actually I'd lost what I'd put on the previous week. So now I'm ready to start the September challenge with a current toal losss of 26.5lbs. [STRIKE] If I [/STRIKE] When I achieve the challenge this month it will only put me half a pound under where I was at the beginning of August :eek: I need Victory's boot camp (well, except for tomorrow - Sunday when I'm eating all meals in restaurants and hotels :eek: :eek: ). Thanks Lois, in advance, for the next month's chart's. I could do it in November if you like.

Day 3 was fine ... more fruit, more veg, more p**, thanks BB and Bails. Sorry about your day 3 Bails... anything I can do? Don't go looking at any more bourbons.

Hello Cathy, jollyme, rumbly glad you joined us! :beer:

Mr Granny and I don't buy each other presetns any more .. he is so hopeless at it (and evidently so am I) so we put what ever we would otherwise have spent together and have an experience instead. Depending on financial state it could be a meal out or a holiday. Then you don't have things you have memories .. they don't need dusting, they're not surprises and we choose them together. Works for us.

Lynsey could you maybe buy biscuits for Andrew's house that you don't actually like but they do? For me it would be jaffa cakes which I can resist with no problems.

Back to work.

Lois_Lane

rumblytum wrote: »

I shall pop along with any weight changes next week. I notice the chart is posted on a Wednesday evening - is there a deadline for the info to be provided - is Wednesday morning too late, for instance?

Best wishes to all - I may not be a frequent poster, but will certainly be around for the long haul.

rumbly x

Hi Rumbly - great user name for this thread!

I'll be doing the chart in September, and I'll aim to post it at about 9pm, so if you get your result on here by about 8.45 it will be included.

Welcome to the group, and good luck with your weight loss.

LL

Missy™

Hey guys

Good to see it's getting busier on here again! Welcome new peeps, good luck and please stick with us! A lot of lovely people seem to have gone AWOL lately as well, so if you're lurking please come back!

All's good here, I am going to attempt to do the school walk this afternoon which will be my first exercise since the op. Thanks again to everyone who sent well wishes and told me to take it easy - I will! xx

Lesley I'll have to be excused from the gymnastics this weekend Do an extra one for me will you?!!!

I'll try to catch up a bit better later! What's everyone up to this weekend?

victory

andy like your thinking, it will work for you, you have done it before but for me the only sure way of not eating was to not buy it, the kids they moaned for a bit about lack of biscuits crisps etc but now they can have it as a one off pocket money treat on a saturday they seem fine with that and look forward to it.
As for you though, being surrounded by it could you not ask them to keep it out of your reach, to put it somewhere where you don't know and eat it there? It is not particularly fair on them but then again it is not fair on you.

delly hugs and when I went to relate or marriage guidance counselling as it was called then you could have an 'emergency appointment' so long as you were generous with the donation by the door, not sure now how it works but I never had to wait...

My eldest is at his new school today and he was taken there by OH, he had to choose his options and he chose sport because at the end of it without so much as taking an exam you get the equivalent of 4 GCSE, I mean I ask you? In my day you had to work for your o'levels:rolleyes: OH said he was very nervous, £57 later for his uniform he best settle into it:rotfl: :rotfl:

andyslinz

grannynise wrote: »

Lynsey could you maybe buy biscuits for Andrew's house that you don't actually like but they do? For me it would be jaffa cakes which I can resist with no problems.

If that was the case it would be really easy. But I have moved in with andrew and his family. Therefore his mam does the shopping for them lot, and I do my own diet shopping. I have got my own shelf in the fridge and a cupboard to put my other stuff. Since she does the shopping, there are soooo many different kinds of biscuits/cakes etc and I have no say in what she should buy, after all she has let me come and live in her house! It would be a bit cheeky if I started telling her what to put in her cupboards for her boys!! Lol.


I suppose the idea of asking to keep them out of my reach etc would be a good one, as I am 5ft!! And if they were moved to the top shelf in the cupboard I'm sure I wouldn't be able to reach!!:j <<< then I may end up doing alot of this, equalling exercise!!!

But on a night time the biscuit barrel gets fetched into the living room and they are there on the coffee table looking at me, saying come on you know you want me, like the kinder bueno advert!! Haha and I've been weak lately and given in and eaten them!!!

I don't know a solution! I can't tell everyone in the house not to eat biscuits and things around me, I don't know what to do. I wish I could be hypnotised to not like biscuits and chocolate!!

P.s Grannynise - How cud u not like jaffa cakes?? I like to nibble all around the edge, then bite the sponge off, then suck the dark chocolate off until the orange bit is left on my tongue!! Mmmmmmmm

grannynise

andyslinz wrote: »

P.s Grannynise - How cud u not like jaffa cakes?? I like to nibble all around the edge, then bite the sponge off, then suck the dark chocolate off until the orange bit is left on my tongue!! Mmmmmmmm

Jelly :eek: in the middle :eek: =YUK YUK and double YUK (Don't like jelly trifle either but jelly babies .... that's different obviously

if only Mr Granny looked like this!

Note to self Must update signature as now quite untrue due to serious backsliding since then

tagz

andyslinz wrote: »

P.s Grannynise - How cud u not like jaffa cakes?? I like to nibble all around the edge, then bite the sponge off, then suck the dark chocolate off until the orange bit is left on my tongue!! Mmmmmmmm

Ah a fellow connoisseur! I do very similar apart from I pick the choccy off and then leave the orangey bit to melt on my tongue. Exquisite!

Missy™

Andyslinz - how about setting a biscuit/treat "quota" for the week? You could, for example, allow yourself 8 biscuity-type treats for the whole week (one a day and one for luck!) and it's up to you whether you eat one per day or save them up?

Otherwise, is upping your exercise/activity levels a possibility?