Tesco Discussion Chats & Grabbits 11+ Xmas/NY (Incorporating HC's Glitch & B1tch Pub)

Winjackie

Right, I'm off to bed now, nite all x

French_Knickers

Winjackie wrote: »

Right, I'm off to bed now, nite all x

nite nite xx

kadison

Fudge_Cake wrote: »

Thanks Beki and yes....DITTO!!

Oh no kadison, bless you! It didn't sound condescending, though I'm not really a 'typical' anorexic. I mean this in the sense that I never thought I looked fat in the mirror, I ate chocolate every single day I was anorexic and I wanted to get better from day one so therefore I wanted to talk talk talk if that's what I needed to do to stop it. I didn't want to rely on food or the absence of food to make me feel worthy of life, I wanted the support of my family....and I'm sure you've gathered from my posts how that went! :eek: So it didn't take me much to admit I was anorexic at all, infact I make a point of telling people if the subject or something related arises. There is WAY too much stereotyping and misunderstanding about mental illness. I think it's crucial to society considering the sharp incline of mental illness diagnosis, that people are more aware and have better knowledge. I'm moe than happy to play my part in increasing awareness and understanding

As for the girl on JK, we lost touch She was much better at the end of our conversations than at the beginning so I hold out hope that she recovered. I often wonder, it's such a powerful and demanding illness with a 20% death rate so it takes some going to beat it!

EDIT: Just to add, I've re read my first bit of this post and it sounds like my anorexia was a breeze and that's not what I'm saying at all. It's completely and utterly soul destroying and when the eating disorder got mixed in with all the other things, I'd say it took about 6 years of tears and bloomin hard work for me to see light at the end of the tunnel. When I said I didn't see a fat person in the mirror, I should have put that I saw a skeleton and that matched how I felt. I felt I deserved to look like a bag of bones because I was invisible and I didn't feel like I was worthy of eating anything I liked. I ate chocolate sort of as a punishment to myself, I'd have a bit of a bar and feel like I'd succeeded if I didn't have another bite etc etc.... I don't wanna make this really dark and awful but felt I should explain!

Well done for getting through it, it must take such strength of character, I liken it to any addiction really, whether your addiction is slimming, drugs, alcohol, it's all the same basically. It takes a really strong person to overcome it, I'm not sure I'd have that strength, I'm struggling with far less challenging stuff! I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you chick xxx

As for the other girl, hopefully the guidance you gave her helped her turn a corner in her life, don't forget that a 20% death rate means an 80% survival rate, there's a 4 in 5 chance she's doing really well now :T

freddies_flyers_two

Has anyone else had any problems with the Sun's £1 off £5 frozen coupon? Bought well over a fivers worth & it wouldn't scan SA said it had to be Ben & Jerrys, I pointed out that was wrong & it should be all frozen food but she couldnt get it to scan. Goona email CS as I didnt want to make too much of a fuss having then got her to put through McCains vouchers, Aunt Bessie vouchers & managing to get her to scan some 1p stuff without realising (ahhh, love the distraction, sorry art of conversation!) Also got some of the 50p BE chicken in korma sauce so thanks Op for that.
One of the 1p items was the Tetleys Teabag handy packs. This store didnt have them a couple of months ago when they were trending on here & tonight I managed to get the last 4 left on the clipstrip. Just goes to show it pays to keep an eye out on the old stuff too, who knows whats kicking about in the warehouses! Also found a box full of Sienna Gold lighterson top shelf but these looked different to the piccies ive seen of everyones, these were just a long silver stick rather than having a handle/trigger type bit at one end will they scan at 1p? The scanners in this store have been OOO since the FB debarcle occured!

lloydy84

Sienna Gold lighters - I scanned one of these today, came in at £2 for me

freddies_flyers_two

God just read that back & it's a right load of waffle! Terrible grammer & I'm not 'goona' do anything, I am gonna, actually that should be going to. So Im gonna shut up now & go to bed before I waffle anymore! Haven't even had a drink either!lol

freddies_flyers_two

lloydy84 wrote: »

Sienna Gold lighters - I scanned one of these today, came in at £2 for me

Thanks, they were in the warehouse cardboard box but on clipstrips stickered at £2, so wonder if these are the new style & the others were RTC.

French_Knickers

freddies_flyers_two wrote: »

God just read that back & it's a right load of waffle! Terrible grammer & I'm not 'goona' do anything, I am gonna, actually that should be going to. So Im gonna shut up now & go to bed before I waffle anymore! Haven't even had a drink either!lol

Sounds like a plan to me! Sleep well.

Fudge_Cake_2

kadison wrote: »

Well done for getting through it, it must take such strength of character, I liken it to any addiction really, whether your addiction is slimming, drugs, alcohol, it's all the same basically. It takes a really strong person to overcome it, I'm not sure I'd have that strength, I'm struggling with far less challenging stuff! I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you chick xxx

As for the other girl, hopefully the guidance you gave her helped her turn a corner in her life, don't forget that a 20% death rate means an 80% survival rate, there's a 4 in 5 chance she's doing really well now :T

Thank you It's the only thing I've ever done in my life that I'm really proud of. It truly is a horrendous illness but my battle wasn't really with the illness, it was with my 'family.' Of course everyone's experience of a mental illness would be different anyway but it's very hard to come to terms with the fact that it wasn't the illness that nearly ended my life, it's that I'm disposable to my family and not worthy of their love. I don't know if I've got through it, rather that I just get on with it. I've had to learn to accept it for my own sanity and try to convince myself it's not my fault and that I deserve better. Hard to dispel that when you've already ended up with an eating disorder because your self worth is in the gutter and now your own flesh and blood are confirming it to you!

Yes my addiction is definitely food. It is an addiction, it just gets so confused with emotions and tied in with everything else and then it takes over.

Yeah I really hope she's ok The sad thing about anorexia though is that while the survival rate is 80%, there is a very large percentage of that spending their lives battling the illness in cycles. Referred to as the 'revolving door' syndrome Really hope she's not one of them and she got the support she needed

:o:o I've admitted way too much on here, you guys make it too easy for me to talk but I really should shut up now! :o:o

mandycr

freddies_flyers_two wrote: »

Thanks, they were in the warehouse cardboard box but on clipstrips stickered at £2, so wonder if these are the new style & the others were RTC.

scanned the gold and red ones today gold ones have stickers over the barcodes red ones didnt but they both scanned at £2 maybe worth looking out for the gold ones without stickers