Katy has got her financial incontinence pants on!

LeeSouthEast

Good luck Katy! I don't "do" running either..

EssexHebridean

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

Good luck Katy! I don't "do" running either..

Running? Isn't that something you do if you're about to miss a bus?!

Well done on the Great North Run place!!

Lemon_Tree

there's nowt wrong with going to bed at 9 on a friday or any day, i was like that on sunday and headed to bed early at 9. I've been shorn at the hair dressers today, it's feels very short

Katy83

I'm feeling a lot better today, managed to stay awake till about 11pm, then OH rang me at about 1.30am for a lift (:money::rolleyes:), then I went back to sleep and got up about ten for some breakfast then went back to sleep and didn't get up and dressed till 2pm . Think I needed it, I was just wrecked last night.

Apart from that had quite a quiet day today, weather is awful so I'm happy just to be staying in and staying warm!

X-factor tonight :j

Katy83

LT - sorry to hear you don't like the hair...do you think you will get used to it?

EH - yep, running for a bus...or a bargain maybe! :money:

Katy83

Hmm, gone off the idea of veggie chilli for tea...fish finger sandwich is calling.

Lemon_Tree

sure i'll get used to the hair, it always seems really short once they trim it, but it needed a good cut this time, so quite a lot went. It'll grow back soon next year.

Katy83

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

sure i'll get used to the hair, it always seems really short once they trim it, but it needed a good cut this time, so quite a lot went. It'll grow back soon next year.

Hope you get used to it soon - it's probably just the shock of it being different. Sometimes new cuts seem to need time to 'settle'.
It's one way of being dfw anyway! :rotfl:

Katy83

It's c-c-c-cold in the house just now! No heating on though, I've been inspired by essexhebridean and others to shiver. Well actually we're going out in about ten minutes so there isn't all that much point putting it on!

Going round to my parent's house for dinner because my awful cousins have come to visit and I have to do the dutiful bit. Not looking forward to it at all...am dragging OH with me to help lessen the pain and at least it is a free meal.

Have been very productive today, I've made scones, pasties, soup, chilli and vegetable bake. The freezer is once again full of yummy stuff to keep us away from takeaways this week. OH cleaned the house while I was cooking and then we went and cleared 8 bin bags full of crap from the cellar of the flat (where it was all wet and full of miuse sh*t) into the tip.

It's a lovely feeling not having any DIY to do at weekends...that particular pastime has long since lost its allure!

Didn't make it to the gym this weekend but I have eaten healthily and small portions. For the first time in ages I actually feel well rested and on top of things, which is a great feeling. I will definitely go after work tomorrow...will pack my PE kit tonight to make sure I do.

xx

Katy83

Am I the only one who is horrified by this? This poor woman looks awful! She has aged about 20 years by losing that weight and she is far, far too thin. She can’t have lost it healthily either by losing that much in such a short space of time. Natalie Cassidy was much applauded for her weight loss and the criticised for the subsequent gain until she revealed that her secret was in fact an eating disorder...bulimia.

This kind of thing makes me so angry, the amount of pressure that is put on women and the unrealistic results they are expected to attain. Okay so Hannah Waterman didn’t look brilliant in that bikini, but it was a bad bikini and there was nothing there that some sensible healthy eating, exercise and a bit of fake tan wouldn’t have fixed.

There just doesn’t seem to be a happy medium any more. Losing weight by exercise and a sensible calorie deficit rather than starvation or Atkins or mail order food plans just doesn’t seem to be enough. Why, oh why, oh why?

Don’t get me wrong, I know there are many people who seem to lose weight on these kind of diets, but how do you sustain it? You don’t – that is how they make their money!! You lose weight, stop what you were doing, put it back on and then think “oh that diet worked for me so I’ll go back to it” and so it goes on. The only way of maintaining a weight loss, of being one of the 5% who keep it off, not the 95% who put it back on, is to be sensible. Eat less, exercise, drink water, sleep more, build muscle mass, learn your triggers and maintain your motivation. It is hard, hard work and you can never stop working at it but by god it’s worth it in the end.

I’m sorry for ranting but this is a topic that is very close to my heart and I am so fed up of women starving themselves and beating themselves up all the time trying to reach something which isn’t even real. You don’t have to be hungry to lose weight and you don’t have to be skeletal when you have lost it!

**steps off soapbox**