Lose weight 27

Brighton_belle

Bails, this has got to stop: you're having a great time in Nepal... you've just got engaged in the proposal of the decade... AND you are losing weight without trying hard**. For goodness sake woman!:rotfl::rotfl:** Not that I am suggesting everest basecamp was a walk in the park:)...though in fact, from here on my sofa it does look fairly easy...

Seriously, I think you just need to keep going as you are are - with the added exercise and toning up you perhaps don't need to tweek much at the mo. And it will get quite cold for you soon? So you may find you'll need to eat more to keep warm and still be losing.

Nyk, changing one thing at a time is probably good(not eating between meals): better than several drastic changes all at one that are unsustainable. And slow off should mean easier to maintain when you get where you want to be too.
Peppop - I know we've already welcomed you but Peter Andre:eek:. This is a respectable forum you know with standards:D. Don't worry about TOTM. Sometimes you have got to take the seagull view of things and see your weight loss over a whole month, as individual weeks can fluctuate irrationally at times.

Missy™

Hey all

Yes BB I do remember the orange trouser quest, how fab that you've finally tracked down a pair! Hope they're worth the wait! Thought of you the other day actually when I was in M&S and all their cord colours were dark & a bit drab.

KPC it must have been a wrench but good to hear it's helped relieve some of the time pressure!

Good to hear from you Bails, well done on surviving your Himalayan adventures! I can imagine there's some serious muscle training going on with all that trekking etc, congrats on the fab weight loss too. Sounds like things are going GREAT all round!

PepPop I know it's horrible if you have gains around TOTM, but you'll soon work out exactly what to expect and what can be safely 'ignored'.

As for exercise, I only started getting serious about it in May 2007 which was when I decided I needed to lose weight. Before that I would do a bit here & a bit there, but never had targets & objectives as I do now In June 2008 I started adding a bit of jogging to my repertoire and it's evolved from there. Can't really believe how much I've improved, and what a huge difference it's made to my life

I'm always over on the exercise thread if anyone wants to talk a bit more in depth about the exercise & fitness side of things Newbies very welcome, please don't think we're all hardcore, a lot of us have only got started in the last year or two!

Brighton_belle

Hi weesmiler:j.Welcome to our lovely forum. Congrats on needing to weddingdress hunt:T.
Why don't you start with writing down everything you eat each day. That may help you see when you tend to snack on the wrong stuff and work out a way to not get to that stage of desperation.
How are you upping your exercise - is it something you enjoy?

VanyaHargreeves

I know I keep saying this over and over but I'm actually determined to stay in this thread and lose some weight now.
So, did a weigh in - 146.6lbs.

sarymclary

Hi gang,

Welcome weesmiler, and congratulations with the impending wedding. BB's advice above is a good place to start.

Bails :wave: It's so good to hear about your adventures. It does sound truly wonderful, and I had to laugh about the blind lady with the scales in the street! I take it that's the Kathmandu version of Boots huh? So, are you going to be turning this into a fully fledged diet plan in the future, a bit like Rosemary Conley, but with mountains?

BB & kpc you do make me laugh with your OH sharing. The poor chap must be knackered!

PepPop - my TOTM has come a week early too. They seem to be getting closer together these days, which is no fun. Difficult to plan a smear test too.

Well, I've got a stinker of a cold, and felt proper poorly all w/end. Shivers then boiling hot and sweating like a pig. Craving chocolate as if my life depended upon it, and then TOTM arrived this morning, so I kind of understood part of what that was all about. It's totally messed up my low carb intentions, but to be honest, I've had so little energy to do much, that grabbing a slice of toast has been a way of just getting something in me to get through. I think I'll be writing this week off, and just focussing on getting better again. My youngest is home with a sickness bug too, so there's not much time to just sit with my feet up. Poor lamb has been trying really hard to make himself well today, but the trial run of 2 crackers and some water didn't stay down, so he's back to lucozade to keep him going.

I have a busy week ahead of me next week, as OH is off work, and we intend to lay a wood floor, and build some built-in cabinets and shelving.

BB - I wish I'd had a friend like you when I had any of my 4 babies. That was such a wonderfully thoughtful thing to do. My friends and family seemed to expect feeding and entertaining, and my husband at the time just kept inviting people round, totally unaware of how absolutely exhausted I was. I had an elected caesar with my 3rd, and the nurses cottoned on to the fact that I liked my stay in hospital, and was treating it like a hotel stay after day 5! I was getting 3 meals a day cooked for me, hot drinks on demand, no housework or laundry to do, and the chance to sleep whenever I wanted, plus, my baby slept and fed like a dream - why go home?

Vixarooni - your time for babies will come, and then you won't have time for anything else! Make the most of walking out the door with just your purse and keys, rather than 'luggage' and baby paraphenalia. I was 24 when I married, and 25 when son no.1 arrived, 26 for son no.2, 31 for son no.3 and 33 for son no.4, by which time I was kernackered!

kpc & peppop - lol @ the gig confessions. My last gigs were Madonna & the Stereophonics last year. My 1st ever (as a child) was, believe it or not, Bill Haley and the comets! My big sister took me. Other confession has to be Sophie Ellis-Bextor who I went to see with my neice. She had pretty dresses and shoes if it's any consolation!

Right, off to get a hot drink and snuffle into my hankie again.. atchooo!:rotfl:

bails

Aah, get well soon Sary! No wonder you're knackered with 4 children! ROFL at the idea of my own WL package - I was looking for way to earn a living when I get back so you may be onto something

Thanks for all the support guys, it's great to have you around :T We're hoping to get married sometime next September (make a note BB) so I have a fair bit of time yet; good to start slowly and keep it off as BB said.

Missy, it is amazing how far you've come from the 'I'm just not a runner' days :T and I think it provides a great inspiration for anyone who thinks they can't 'do' exercise. It's all about finding something you enjoy, and taking a chance on things you think you won't sometimes brings unexpected pleasure!

katiepoppycat

i love sophie ellis bextor! club gig was loads of fun. We were sitting behond a woman with 2 small girls. The support acts were terrible ( s club juniors and 3SL) so she just kept nippng to the bar. by the time s club came on she was legless, standing on her seat whooping and hollering as herdaughters begged her to be quiet.

Hezzawithkids

- 3LB LOSS for me this week - which puts me back where I was 2 weeks ago, makes me think that last week's gain was a fluke. Ah well, a loss is a loss and I have been getting compliments about how toned I'm looking not least from OH and my trainer at the gym!

Went to another aqua-aerobics class on Sunday with the hunky 20-year old James presiding..... I could be his mother!! :rotfl:He is only covering for the full-time instructor but at the end he said he was thinking about strarting up his own aqua-circuits class, and would any of us be interested in sining up??? Poor lad nearly got killed in the rush Makes Sunday mornings go with a swing, let me tell you!!!

weesmiler

Hi again,

Sary, I hope you feel better soon, sounds like you've had a rotten time of it!

I've been keeping a food diary for a while, but I just write down the junk food and continue to eat it, I wish I could learn my lesson!

Been going to aerobics and spin classes a few times each week, although didn't go last night oops! Got legs, bums n tums tomorrow...oh joy!!

Take care everyone...when is it we post our weight each week?

weesmiler xx

victory

My first gig was bob geldof:D and the blond one that had a huge bee hive that the name escapes me, alison keeps coming to mind but not sure it was alison def not alison moyet, that is going to bug me now:rotfl::rotfl:

sary get well soon;)

I find it really hard at work being a chemist 95% of the people come in and relate deaths, illnesses, losses, horror ill stories and by the end of the shift the sympathy has run out and can't wait to get home to watch a comedy:rotfl:the best ones are when I say I am diabetic and they go to great lengths to tell me of so and so who had his foot amputated, or so and so died, or so and so went blind, lovely:rolleyes::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hezza:j:j:j:j:j

Is it only BB that is invited then Bails? Favouritism like I have never seen before:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: