Lose weight 29

vixarooni

victory wrote: »

Morning:D I am in work at 2pm and already at this time of morning I feel sick, keep thinking what if I have been marked and not passed? What if I have not been marked still have to wait? Got myself into a bit of a hyper mess over this one, who said a job is supposed to be fun?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Eldest is pretty much the same as me he sat a maths exam and regrettably feels he has made a mistake and not answered the correct questions, fortunately he has other ones that go towards his overall mark so he should be fine as the others he feels he has done well in.

Exams are a huge fear field for me, get so worked up, in my history o-level (yes vix that was what they were called in my day:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:) there were 3 questions you had to answer but 1 from each section, what did I do? Answer all 3 questions from the same section,result....failed:rotfl: Read the questions, read the questions:D

Ahh i didnt think they even had exams in your day!! haha only joking!!

beanielou

Watch it vix:rotfl:

victory

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:yes they did and a lot harder they were not these easy ones they have these days:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Eric_Pisch

woohooo

my treadmill is fixed, after waiting 6 weeks for a new PCB from the states :T:T:T

I can start using it, gently and if I feel crap I can just stop and go and lie down :j

Hezzawithkids

Good for you eric!! :T Dont go mad though!!

sarymclary

Sorry I forgot to post this week Fred, but it would have been a STS anyway (totm). I don't feel I have a great deal to contribute right now. Life is much calmer than it was, and am shepherding one son through A'Levels and another through his GCSE's. Feeling incredibly frustrated with both of them tbh. Both are bright kids, the eldest particularly so (you don't get A's in your GCSE's without revising for nothing I reckon), but here they both are not revising, despite my best efforts to get them to do so. I have a house rule where they have a choice of day in or evening in to do revision. It was hoped it'd give them the balance of work/socialising. They may be here, but I don't think watching endless episodes of Friends, or updating your Facebook really counts as constructive revision. I find this whole culture of their generation that everyone will be successful, earn buckets of cash - for little effort, I might add, and not seeming to realise that hard word still pays better dividends than anything else... oh, and we can't all win the Lottery and live like the Beckhams! They seem to be such a shallow generation, self-obsessed, and self-aware to an enth degree. I'm glad I was born when I was, I reckon I had it better than them.

The other thing going on here is that my 2 youngest have been gaining weight steadily since Christmas, to a point now where my OH and I can't ignore it, and hope it's going to just burn off and go away. So we've weighed them, measured their height, and told them that we need to help them get lighter and fitter. They're not going to be hungry, but we're going to cut back on treats, and replace them with healthier, lighter option. I've discussed better options for them, and they're actively involved in making the choices for the best. I felt quite sorry for my 12 y/o who did a sleepover last week with a friend, and he was recounting to me how this lad has dinner and then gets to have a nice supper before bed of cereal and hot chocolate. The problem is that of course this other lad is skinny as a rake, about a foot shorter than my boy (who's also short for his age too), so it seems so unfair. I just pointed out that his friend must be really active, and buzzing around all the time, so perhaps if he burns off more energy, he can end up having a supper too one day! You've gotta give them hope.

I was a skinny young child, hated food, and was hard to feed. Then as I approached senior school I found an appetite, and ate for comfort and company, as I was left at home alone an awful lot. I became very overweight by my late teens, and it blighted my teenage years, depriving me of what I saw as 'rights of passage', such as teenage boyfriends, bikinis, holidays with girlfriends, shorts and pretty dresses. I was always more chunky, and still am. I've fought my weight all my adult life, and I don't want to wish that on my children. If they learn good habits now, they'll be OK. My 16 y/o was very chubby in junior school, and was indulged enormously by my now estranged in-laws. They fed him up like a buddah. I made similar changes with his diet at age 11, and he's now a slim lad, wearing 28" skinny jeans, and skinny tshirts, and attracting more girls than he knows what to do with.... well, actually, he does know what to do with them, and that's more of a worry!

I'm still busy out in the garden, and hoping that the boys and I can encourage one another to stay on the straight and narrow, and get fitter and slimmer together. It made me feel awful to know they were both overweight, but it just goes to show you can love them too much sometimes, and I'll be loving them more with smaller portions. I'd understand it if I let them have sweets all the time, but I don't because I want them to have good teeth. I think it's developed over time, and they are such great kids to feed, as they like to experiment and try new things. Thankfully they love veggie foods, so that can be low calorie and filling most of the time.

grannynise

I am still here beanie and reading but with not much to say about losing weight. I had some treatment this week for my dodgy hip (basically a year's worth of medication dripped in 30 minutes) and have mostly been in bed since. Still, if it works it will rebuild some bone and should reduce pain considerably and get rid of the bl88dy stick.

At least whilst I'm in bed I'm a looooong way from the fridge!

Great news that your son is back to normal Victory - actually sounds a bit better than most lads of his age!

Good luck with the pre - procedure check up Eric. <<hugs>>

Oh, and Vix - we even had exams in my day but of course we wrote the answers on slabs of rock.

victory

It is funny people say they have not much to say or not much to contribute, I am reading daily but also feel the same, not much to add, nothing special is happening around here.

sary my eldest does not do near as much revision as I would expect him to do and nowhere near as much as I did in my exams, I used to have to stay in every night and do it to 9pm and weekends were mine. It was hard going but I ended up with 6 0'levels so well worth it, my eldest spends far too much time on the x box, talking on msn or facebook and going on about football but so far he has been lucky if that is the right word and has managed the exams. He feels confident.

My son is of the generation you speak of that thinks he will be fine and if he is not the parents will provide and if not the scrathcard will, if not the lottery, if not his nan, if not....never work:D

I was a skinny child always until I put some weight on and mum made me loose it sharpish with a strict diet and then late teens twenties boredom, loneliness, comfort, they all played a part and I gained and stopped being so active before you can say 'you have put weight on' I had and lots, so starts the yo yo of life.

My youngest is not the skinny one, that is three things huge portions for his age, constant grazing and a severe lack of exercise, we are addressing all three and he understand he has to do something about it now before it turns into a major issue.

My eldest is a handsome lad, he attracts the ladies but he is too selfish, self absorbed, football crazy and lazy to have a girlfriend and he has a big head, he knows he looks good, the girls used to knock on the door in a desperate hope to catch a glimpse of him but they no longer bother, his character could not sustain a relationship:D

Lois_Lane

Hiya :wave:

Funny to read about people's youngsters and how they are these days - my son is 30 and in a careers interview at school he was asked what he wanted to do when he left school, his answer was 'win the lottery'! Thankfully he's very hardworking and has never been out of work, and he realised that you need to work to get anywhere in life.

Sary - well done for tackling the problem with your younger ones before it gets out of hand. It's hard for youngsters to understand that everyone isn't the same, so while one person can eat what they like and stay lean, another has to be more careful - life just isn't fair sometimes!

Granny - hope things improve for you soon ((hugs)).

Victory - do you think exams are easier now? I'm of the impression the current school generation seem to be under more pressure than we ever were, with SATS and all the coursework deadlines they have to meet. *insert shrugs smiley here* Maybe we should all have a go at a GCSE exam paper and see how we get on.

OH and I have decided not to pack the scales to weigh in on Wednesday, we'll have a week off and hopefully by the following week any wedding excesses will have disappeared!

I'm not taking my laptop either, so I probably won't be back here until Wednesday, so have a good week everyone.

TTFN

Lois and Superman

victory

Yes I think the exams are easier these days, I could never opt for school work or homework as my eldest can, classwork scored instead of the exam day, he takes each part as a percentage and has strengths and weaknesses, he aims to get higher in the strength to counteract what he can't really do, the failure rate even that word you can no longer use, not passed rather than failure is million times smaller than in our day.


You had one chance, the exam paper, fail as I did on the history when I wrongly answered 3 questions from the same section rather than 1 from each makes all the years leading up to it and straight A's in all my history essays getting to that day a waste, no one looked at that, it was pass the exam or fail.