Lose Weight 9

katiepoppycat

hi everyone, struggling to keepup with this thread, especially as things are tough at work atm. Still, we soldier on. Loads of encouraging stuff on here this week and I'm very impressed that VIctory is actually LOOKING FORWARD to weighing in! Still when you know you've stuck to it it doesn't seem so bad does it and it is so exciting to get on the scales and see that you've lost and it was worth it. I've been sticking like glue to the plan this week and I'm really pleased. I've also been to the gym twice. I had achinese takeaway last night, but I counted all my syns really carefully and planned it and really really enjoyed it. Just acouple of things you might find interesting - I read in a magazine this week an interesting tip - if you have an electric toothbrush (and enough room in your bathroom) do some squats or luncges whilst you clean your teeth! AN another thing, for those with a chocolate fetish. I was given a bar of hotel chocolat 'the purist' 72% organic dark chocolate with chilli and pink peppercorns. It;s absolutely gorgeous, really smooth chocolate and the pepper hit is amazingly good. And the best thing is, I defy ANYONE to binge their way through a bar of chocolate thats half pepper!!

btw thanks for the advice on the pork and pepper casserole petrichor - I'm doing it inthe slo cooker this week. I'm planning to have the Janssons temptation tomorrow, I;ll let you know if it's any good.

MissMoneypenny

consultant31 wrote:

MissMP I wish I looked like Princess Di, even before the nose job, lol. What are you studying for? I do admire anybody who goes back to studying after their children have flown the nest. The only thing I wanted to learn was how to use a computer. I did the ECDL course, found this site and never went any further 'cos I spend so much time here, I don't feel the need to go any further. Like Honey, I too am an addict :rotfl:

Thanks consultant, but I started studying when my two were at primary school, because I was getting bored in the evenings when they had gone to bed. There was only so much time that I could spent pulling back the furniture in the lounge and training the dog.:D I started with City and Guilds and RSAs, then onto an access course then A levels at evening school (law and psychology). When the foot and mouth happened and I was unable to compete for a while with the dogs as I live next to a farm, I did a degree with the Open University in IT and Computing. I did a post graduate degree too. The Open University was hard as you work on your own a lot and the written word can be mistaken when you are reading, but it fitted in my life as I chose when I studied. This year is a wind-down course, because I can't stop:D It's just a third year degree maths course. One for me to enjoy and fits in with a project I am working on. That's part of my life history:D

Forgot to say, I don't think age is a barrier to learning. I taught a computing class of mixed ability. One woman in her late 60s couldn't even control where the mouse went when she started, whereas some of 20 year olds were already using computers at work and had been sent on the course by their firm. At the end of the 10 week course, the older lady was the star pupil. At least RSAII level (as it was then) and could research anything on the net.

PiixxySu

hello fellow losers

i am finding it so hard to not 'stray' off the path (:D)

also i had 2 rather good days and today is going well too!

consultant: i liked your 'mantra' about perspectives
i am getting married on 29th june and you are right! 23 weeks to go and if i 'only' lose 1lb/week that's still 23 lbs!!!!!!!

so eyes straight ahead it is :T

ehm, can someone please move all the goodies out of my way

consultant31

MissMP I'm genuinely impressed, your children must be very proud of you. I do agree, there's no age barrier to learning, indeed, it helps to keep you young, but I think my problem is idle-itis!!

Piixxy that's the spirit. 23lbs would make a lot of difference to the way you look on your big day, but more importantly, to the way you feel.

Katie you deserved to enjoy your Chinese. Having taken the decision to have one, planning it in advance etc is the way to make permanent changes to your bad eating habits. Well done and thanks for sharing, it just may make all the difference to someone else who's planning a bit of a blow-out this weekend (as if they would:rotfl: )

iceicebaby

I am sooo glad I have found this thread!

I too am tying to lose weight. i am 4 stone over weight. Finding it very difficult at the moment , but I am sticking to it.

Its the excercise that I am having a problem with. I have quite a demading job and at the end of the day I just want to chill out in front of the tv. Also, i suffer BADLY with asthma and the slightest exertion starts it off (I can manage 2 flights of stairs before it kicks in) so If I try to excercise, I get very breathless so I stop as it is so painful. I have never really excercised at all really because of this but when I was young this didn't catch up with me. Now I am getting older, and hence the weigh piling on. I have tried swimming, same thing happens. I am ok walking as long as its on the flat. (I live up a mountain!!!)

Any suggestions ??

dellybelly_2

Wow, so many posts to catch up on. I've been walking to work all week (yes, inn that weather!) and I've been so exhausted every night, I've been going to bed early.

Well done everyone for staying on track and posting on the thread - it shows your determination

Consultant31 I'm sure this is none of my business and tell me if I'm being rude but, I was also diagnosed with PCOS and b4 I had DS I was trying for a baby for 3 years. My consultant told me that I had to lose weight or I wouldn't be treated but I still had to attend my hospital appointments for infertility. I was fortunate to get a Registrar at my next appointment and was put on a combination of drugs - clomid to stimulate ovulation and metformin (I have very little idea what it was for but I do know it has something to do with insulin as it is also a treatment for diabetics). When I started the metformin, in combination with a healthy diet, I dropped 2st in 8 weeks.

My advice to you and your daughter is, go to a more sympathetic doctor and get proper treatment. It's a known fact that obesity and the inability to lose weight are symptoms of PCOS and it is unfair to expect your daughter to lose weight completely on her own.

(dellybelly steps down off her soapbox)

Am off to have a gorgeous (free on green) minestrone soup.

Have a great weekend everyone.

honey28

Afternoon campers!

Its a horrible wet day here in N Ireland. Have been out with kids who are spending the last of their Christmas money (why does it burn a hole in their pockets so much!!) Having a red day today - which is unusual for me but hoping a change to the norm will help with weight loss
Breakfast: porridge
Lunch - Scrambled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tin tomatoes
Dinner - is going to be salmon, prawns, mange tout, baby corn, asparagus and brocolli. DH is having egg noodles with his but I am going to leave them
Have a chilli, ginger and soy fish sauce for it but am off to look up the syn value first :eek:


EDIT: Delly, any chance of the recipe for the soup I'm making carrot and coriander (sp?) soup tomorrow

DD, DS and DH are torturing me to allow them to get a dog. I'm swaying towards it. I love dogs and grew up with dogs, its just the cleaning up and walking that I know will be left to me once the initial novelty wears off. On the other hand, its an excuse to get out and have to go for a walk and I quite like that idea. Might help with the fitness/weight loss!! We are thinking (gosh, no, THEY are thinking) of a rescue dog, perhaps a year or two old - I dont think I could cope with a puppy - I'm too obsessed with a clean house for that. I told DS earlier that they would need to tidy up if we got a dog as it would eat all the toys left lying around - he disappeared for an hour tidying his and his sister's room :rotfl: Must try this more often :rotfl:

Anyway, be good for the rest of the day and enjoy the rest of the weekend
Honey x

Suggs

Evening all.

Hope all ok, just popping in for a quicky as I weighed myself today, unable to get to Boots on Monday. Anyway I lost 2lbs :T Im happy :j

MissMP, Im impressed also, wish I had the discipline and motivation to study, migh seem odd to say, but IT is a little boring for me and thats my job!
iceicebaby, I have the gym bag in the car, so I go to the gym and then use that as a chill out. Any exercise is good for you and little steps and slow build up will soon help. I ould check with your GP though, just in case, especially with asthma to consider. Good Luck and keep at it.

Right got to go, off to my parents with the children.

Have a good weekend all.

angeluk69_2

First of all... sorry for my maudlin the other night , was feeling really down, but jumped on the scales this morning and 5.5 lbs OFF

I am only going to weigh myself once a week from now on!!!!

consultant31

dellybelly wrote:

Consultant31 I'm sure this is none of my business and tell me if I'm being rude but, I was also diagnosed with PCOS and b4 I had DS I was trying for a baby for 3 years. My consultant told me that I had to lose weight or I wouldn't be treated but I still had to attend my hospital appointments for infertility. I was fortunate to get a Registrar at my next appointment and was put on a combination of drugs - clomid to stimulate ovulation and metformin (I have very little idea what it was for but I do know it has something to do with insulin as it is also a treatment for diabetics). When I started the metformin, in combination with a healthy diet, I dropped 2st in 8 weeks.

My advice to you and your daughter is, go to a more sympathetic doctor and get proper treatment. It's a known fact that obesity and the inability to lose weight are symptoms of PCOS and it is unfair to expect your daughter to lose weight completely on her own.

Thanks for the advice Delly, and it fits my thoughts exactly. Her Doc told her to come back when she'd lost 4stone, but she's finding it almost impossible.

She's 26 and they've been trying for almost 3 years, like you she's been to her hospital appointments but each time they've said "ah, come back in a year". I feel as though I want to go with her to the surgery and get stroppy (she's too easy going) but I'm sure it wouldn't go down well.

I will tell her about your experience though (if you don't mind) and get her to go back and demand a second opinion on her treatment.

She got her NNEB at college for childcare, went into nannying for a few years, then as soon as she got married and got a house, she had it extended so she could be a childminder (the only one in the area without children of her own). She's in her element with children, and it seems so unfair she can't have her own (yet, I keep telling myself it's 'yet').

Honey we had 2 dogs from rescue when the children were younger and they were both wonderful dogs - they were clean and obedient from day one. I was always convinced they knew they'd been rescued from certain death (one only had 24hrs to go) and that was what made them so keen to be everything you wanted them to be. I still miss them after all these years!

Well done Suggs another weight loss :j . Even when you've been naughty you never seem to put on, only maintain. If I didn't like you, I'd hate you :rotfl:

Welcome Icebaby. Don't worry about exercise at this stage. As you lose weight you may well find that your asthma becomes less of a problem (I know a lady who's never had an attack since she lost several stone with SW.
Walking is as good an exercise as any other, so if you can manage that as often as possible to start with it'll be great. You can still lose weight without any exercise at all, so stick with the healthy eating and stick with us too:)