Wedding Diet Thread....

Rups32

thats still good though. we are not allowed at all. i once got told off for typing fast as its noisy. i was like WTH!! i wont miss that here. My new manager is nice but i did have to see where i can move on and also on the career ladder as over here, there is no chance at all! I hate the no talking bit esp as i am chatty. grrr. Apparently in the new role, i will be working with clients from Astra Zeneca so I am really looking forward to that ;0)

its cold in our office. got body pump booked as missing it on wed to go for a lovely team outing to the museum. :-)

codemonkey

Sometimes I wish for silence especially as my manager talks to herself almost constantly. It's like a running stream of consciousness which is amusing, except when you're trying to focus. When I need to concentrate I put my mp3 player on, although they were laughing at me the other day cause I keep dancing along with it.

Enjoy the body pump. I'm thinking of doing wii zumba but I know as soon as I get started, my deliveries will come and I'll need to answer the door all sweaty and red in the face.

Rups32

LOL. i suppose you could start and shout at them to wait. hehe. i dont fancy pump on a monday as my day is wednesday but i better go otherwise wont get any pump dont then. :-(
haha i always listen to my mp3 too as i need some background noise and nice music (and to drown some other food noises here). its like working in a library. Think my new floor is very different. :0)

oh god yesterday, by chance i happend to watch a bit of supersize vs superskinny and i saw this woman (who seemed to have lots of time) going around trying different things to lose her belly fat and i saw her doing this new pilates thing in a gym. my god it seemed so hard as you have to work hard to stop your legs being stretched back or somethng. looked painful. lol. it was a good program though.

codemonkey

I do like supersize v superskinny although a lot of the time it's just stating the obvious.

If you eat nothing but junk all day long of course you'll be fat. And if you eat 2 grapes and a rice cracker, you're going to be underweight. I always like it when the skinny person does their best with the fat person's food though. I hate it when they just turn their noses up and don't try, especially when the fat one is usually starving and being given a glass of water and a rice cake.

Rups32

I know how sad is that?? yesterday the skinny one was gagging eating pasties and stuff. lol and the fat one got a cup of coffee and coke. poor things. lol. Then they did a thing on anorexia and that was sad. :0( funny how people feel guilty eating, with what they feel is too much.

Thank god i am sort of normal. lol

codemonkey

I think in some ways its a problem with society. All the media stuff showing skinny, emaciated looking girls, and all the emphasis on schools with healthy eating and so on. It's a crime to be fat, and I don't think it helps those people who are sensitive to eating disorders.

I've just finished reading about about anorexia. It was written by the mother of an anorexic, and it was about their battles of trying to get her into treatment and dealing with the fact that the treatment is about giving the patient control over her/his eating and that was all wrong for their daughter because she needed to feel like the eating wasn't in her control to be able to eat anything. They didn't mention any weights and so on because they didn't want the book being used by pro-ana sites. Don't know if you've seen any of those sites but they're horrible.

Rups32

my god it does sound horrible :-( I agree with you. Its the way society is. Even us women read all these magazines etc and put a lot of pressure on ourselves. i really thought after I turned 30, I def would be confortable withmy body and confident but i still have issues. I think its just looking at other woman and thinking 'i wish i could be as slim as that!'. I def am aware that i need to change my thinking.

I have been there too where food is so lovely if you are down in the dumps. its just getting that balance and that relationship right with food. its hard though.

codemonkey

Especially as every day there's a new enemy.

Fats were the enemy. Then it turns out we actually need fat to survive. Then carbs were the enemy. But oh, if you don't eat any carbs, you go into ketoisis and damage your organs.

So, next, carbs are ok, but only some carbs at different times. Carrots are declared evil, as are tomatoes.

Then it's the whole 5 a day thing being pushed.

Personally, as unfashionable as it is, I like moderation. I struggle with it, but I'm getting there. I like not having a banned list of foods, checking every label, laboriously counting calories, turning every meal time into an equation. Ok, I might still eat too much of the bad stuff and too little of the good stuff, but I'm working on it slowly.

Rups32

totally agree on that there. what is good nowdays? i read about the carbs and thought here we go again!!! I just think back to what i was taught at school, where they showed us the plate and said we need a bit of everything, hence a balanced diet! Like you said, its eating in moderation. there are good fats as nuts etc (but i do eat he bad ones too). lol. we will get there. i m glad no one here has the mind-frame of those women who are totally out of control! we are normal. yay...:0)

codemonkey

Hehe, yeeeeah. I just took delivery of a sledgehammer so I can do shovelglove. I'm not sure how normal that is...:D