NEW THRIFY GIFTY GIRLS WEIGHT LOSS thread 2011

Anglea

Diddly it might even be a simple reason you're not doing it - it much easier not to do it.

It takes a lot of discipline to continue even if you have lots of relapses.

Losing weight is similar to de-cluttering. How many of us have vowed to have a really good clear out, a tidy and organised home and it's been on our to-do list for years? As soon as we get rid of something, we buy more!

It could also be because we've got too many projects at once and never finish any of them.

diddly74

Thats very insightful Angela and something for me to think about - I am a person who always has something on the go but has trouble finishing something!

mum2one

nellis10 wrote: »

Hiya...I love the shakes....Butterscotch, Toffee/Walnut, Strawberry my favs....I add them to 500ml of coffee as a warming shake!!

March 11th is when I turn the BIG 40!!! Eeek! :eek:

Like the poster before me, I need to get my BMI down in order to get the IVF on the NHS, but I am under pressure as my appt is in February and they need me to start stimming on Day 21 and that has to be before my 40th Birthday, so Jan and Feb are going to be juggling dates!!!!!

OK the Big Weigh in this morning.... 203.8lbs....so I need to get to 182lbs to get the BMI down to stimming levels!!!

so lets call it an even 20lbs loss in 8 weeks......eeek! :eek:

I love the sound of the butterscoth and the toffee walnut, may have to have a venture for a peep.
You've got us all behind you for support, tips (def open to offers) .

Good luck with IVF, and also the other lady with the IVF coming up. xx

mum2one

elysia2003 wrote: »

Well I did it - I got off my derrier and set up the Wii shape and did half an hour exercise. That's enough for now. I'll build up gradually.

The poor dog didn't know what was going on and was attacking me - he's 9months old today, and I don't think he's ever seen me move so fast.

I've had a look and the first WW meeting I can get to locally is Tuesday evening, so I'm in two minds to just start cutting back on Monday or do the ww plan properly from Wedneday. It is only two days and there's stuff still left from christmas.

Sorry, shouldn't laugh about the dog, think our wouldn't know what the heck had happened.
What breed have you got?
Go for the Wed, - the thing is most of us have chocs, biscuits etc from christmas, and we've got to work through that.
The schools go back Tuesday, so reallly the 1st week is ease ourselves into. xx

mum2one

diddly74 wrote: »

So VERY JEALOUS of you Elysia and Blue-eyed-girl - I find it incredibly hard to lose weight. I have never been slim - since childhood I have been chubby and don't know how it feels to be slim (or at least know and feel I am slim). I started putting weight on at about 8 yrs old partly because my mother listened to a quack who told her to give me a mars bar a day because I wouldn't eat and the discovery of books - I stopped running around. And then I discovered I did actually like food the unequal calories going in to the ones being used in play etc turned me into a butterball.

I look back now and see photos of me really ROUND and then in years later when I wasn't as porky as I thought to now at 17 and half stone. I owe it to my family to do something about it as well as myself. I too have Polycystic Ovaries, but have been blessed with 2 beautiful daughters (who came my way with very little trying - I guess we were lucky) but PCOS does make it harder to lose weight.


One fear I do have about being slim is that I won't like it! Sounds daft, but having never been a skinny minny how will if afftect me as my person??? Will my Hubby go off me? I have always had some "cushioning" (we've been together for 22 years since we were 14). He also has no confidence in me slimming down as I have tried lots of diets (ww, slimming world, etc etc) and none have ever worked for long and he is frank with his vote of no confidence in my ability. My kids are also conforming to his opinion. They all love me but have no confidence in me. Do I intentionally sabotage myself because I am scared of being slimmer, and how things may change? Do I hide behind my weight so I don't have to do things???? I.e. go out and have fun and be sexy??? The three of them are tall and slim and can eat whatever they want and I am short and fat and find it so hard.

SO..................

I have treated myself to an Xbox and kinect this christmas and a fitness game, and a dance game and start Cambridge on Monday. I did it for 3 weeks last yr and lost 13lb. But gave up (stoopid) I want to be in the 10s in weight just to say I can. I want to prove to my hubby and kids I am not a failure and have got willpower and I am hoping that this thought will spur me on this year.

Sorry for this rambling post, but to me dieting is as much a mental challenge as well as a physical one. And if you are gonna know me well you might as well see my faults as well and the nice bits. I can offload to you people because I don't have to look you in the eye.

Diddly, big hug, I know exactly where your coming from re weight, being a 70s child, it was stodge, and to different circumstances, I was a podgy child, or puppy fat as it was called then, the only thing it didn't shift. I remember being 11 and a size 16, - my cousin was getting married and had her youngest sister and I were bridesmaid, there was 3weeks age difference, - the fun we had getting matching dresses as she was still under the 10/11 age group, me an adult dress. Another 80s example - I was asthmatic from birth, but in secondary school they couldn't settle my asthma, so the done thing then by hospital consultants was to ban all exercise, even swimming so for 4 1/2yrs I use to sit there with a book, The only highlight of that was giving the letter to the teacher off the hospital, as till then mum was writing the excuse letters and the teacher had threatened to make me do PE. The consultants letter did the trick.

At 18, I was a size 18, creeped up, at 21 I was a size 22, now 26/28, I've never been slim, don't forget we've never been slim, we've always been cuddly, we've got use to accepting it, were not failures we couldn't be further from that, its taken a big step to say I want to lose weight for me, not because the GP says its bad for my health, or for me having built in shock absorbers and the spare tyre, - when I had my 1st car accident, I was aged about 22, the steering locked while I was driving - lost control of the car and went into a big mound of earth - the drivers side - the headlight was under the steering wheel, the roof buckled, the door crunched in, but I got out alive.
When I did the next day to see the GP, I had a full imprint of the seatbelt and the steering wheel, I can remember his words as clear as punch - if I'd of been a size 8, they'd of been taking the steel wheel out of me, - my size was a built in shock absorber.

Your not short and plump, you are a wonderful lady with a big heart, and your taking a leap into the unknown, I know I am, - ur family will support, there still love you, the only thing is maybe if you have tried before and failed, then its family that picks up the pieces, - same with any family, you do the same with the children, if relationships break up, but in your brain you hope its the last time, but your heart doesn't. Diets are the same.
Just take one day at a time, - just think of the differences as an adventure, there is no way in this wide earth I would sunbathe in my swimsuit or tankini (love it so much brought 3 the same - got the shorts for bottoms), but abroad I would lie there till I scorch and would move the straps off my shoulder to avoid marks.

Sometimes we get so use to life that we make the plump jokes - even thou inside were screaming its not a joke, but its better for us to get in 1st. Like sometimes I joke, wide load coming through - the crutches, even though there most prob thinking it, I got in there 1st.


I'm sorry about the PCOS - I know its not a helper on the diet stakes, I can't go to a gym, back,hips, knees that damaged that sometimes walking 50 yards feel like a marathon. So every 1lb that I can lose will be a miracle, but be my miracle, hense same for you.

DD has got a wii, and wii fit, I've got a couple of exercise discs even if I do them sitting in a chair, its that bit of exercise I wouldn't of done 6mths ago.

Sorry I've babbled on for England, but a massive thank you to one and everyone, slowly getting the list updated x

elysia2003

Mum2one - what you have said is so true. Maybe it's the time of night but I just wanted to cry then. I think you hit the nail on the head.

This has been going for what? Two days? and already, the 24 hour help, advice and the odd laugh is better than any weightloss club.

blue_eyed_girl

:hello:

Mum2One - what you say makes an awful lot of sense. Things have certainly struck a chord with me. As I'm reading your posts I'm feeling quite emotional and 'filling up' - sorry for sounding dramatic.

Anglea - you talk sense too.

Diddly - well done - you know we're here to listen and offer support x

XX

Loopylou90322

Please can i join too ? Pretty please I too have been over doing it, Well if i`m honnest have been over doing it for quite a while hence the reason i`am planning to join WW on the 4th of january would really appricate the extra support here too, I will post a starting weight once i have been to my meeting i cant bear to weigh myself until then, Many thanks - Louise

Legendmum

Well did the big weigh in this morning and dun dun duh 14st 5lb!!! So want to be 11st by May 8th! MISSION ON!!!
Started the day off with a WW yoghurt! Fingers crossed I can keep it going at lunch when DS is eating crisps or something!

sarahe

Hello all
can I join please? I want to lose about 4 stone - I haven't weighed myself in months but will wigh myself when I visit my mum later on for tea.
I'm Sarahe and i did ww in 1992! I hit 45 last year and have 3 children 9,7,and 5 that I need to start setting a good example to.
I need to eat better and exercise more. I'm hoping that an internet group will
a) save me money - if I put £3 in a jar each week when I weigh on Monday then I can save for something nice
b) to keep me on the straight and narrow - when I've done it at home I give up after 2/3 weeks
c) read success stories and help encourage others - I did the biggest loser one for a few weeks and having a 'buddy' helped

So what do I need to measure? Weight in kg or stones and lbs?
Do I measure any other bits of me?
Is the first goal the first week in Feb or will it be every monday?

how exciting . . . .. .