Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 8. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

Pollybear

I can so sympathise with all of you. I could eat one normal slice of cake in a whole week and put on 3 lbs. It's not logical but that's how I'm made. Even without any treats I'm liable to put on a pound or two in just one day but it takes nearly a week to get it back off again. That sums up my "staying the same".

Maybe I should weigh less often but I'm worried that if I don't weigh every day I won't realise it's going on and be able to nip it in the bud.

It's very depressing to realise that this is how the rest of my life will be

officeguru

Hi All

I don't know why, but the 'thanks' button is missing on all the posts so I can't click the 'thanks' .... but just know that I would have if it was there ...:beer:

Anyway, I thought I would add my tuppence worth this morning...

Ellie ... There might be something in your diet that is stopping you losing weight... I know you will know better but I laugh when I remember my daughter going on a diet and she put on weight instead of losing it !!! She moaned and moaned that she was sticking religiously to it but was putting pounds on ... Anyway, I went to visit her one day and here she was, making a sandwich (bread which she was allowed) but the she was putting a thick slice of PATE on it... :eek: The calories she had been consuming with the pate was a terrific amount... but she had thought that pate was the same as cold meat... So it just goes to show that we can all be caught out... so there might be something lurking in your diet that is doing a lot of damage... Also glad to hear that you are getting a new fridge... It's a shame you have to wait so long to get delivery...

Anyway, this weekend was a disaster in some ways.... As you know I look after cats... Well, I have a little female downstairs and Arthur who resides behind the wardrobe and mum & kittens in the wee room... Well, Saturday morning, I went into the conservatory and smelled cat pee. I couldn't trace it, so I steamed cleaned the floor (not something I wanted to do) and had to tolerate my beloved muttering away about the cats and if there is another incident, that they would have to go !!!

Well it rained a bit on Saturday so I put my newly washed quilt cover over the couch in the conservatory to dry off properly as the mother & kittens were in the wee room... Anyway, my beloved came down on Sunday morning and the cat had messed and peed on the cover and the cushion beside it... He was mad ... The cats definitely had to go !!! Anyway, it totally ruined my Sunday as I had to wash all the cushions and listen to my betterhalf go on and on and on... I was a bit puzzled about it all, but the older cat had come down stairs during the night and there was a right set to... so I think one of them was marking its territory...so I shut the big cat upstairs and went to my bed last night... Yes, this morning, a cushion in the living room had been peed on... Well at least I know it's the little female that's doing it as the male cat hadn't got down last night... I'll not bother telling you know who, as he will just go on and on and on... and the wee female goes to her new home tomorrow so that will resolve itself... I'll mention it to her new owners, but I'll stress that it has only happened since the set to with the other cat !!!

I also have been sewing again... so I decided to make myself a beachbag... so at last I have one that suits me... I made it out of canvas.. I embroidered loads of pockets and sewed them on... I then lined the bag and put on long handles and, I am pretty pleased with it... I'll take a photo of it as the making of it has kept me off food.. :A In my case, every little helps...

I'll be having chicken tonight... I also have mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers and home grown cucumbers ... so I'll make something with that..

Have a good day everyone... I'll post some pics ....

officeguru

Hi all,

Here's my beach bag that I have been slaving away on all Sunday.... I've just got to put a button or a magnetic clasp on it to finish it off..

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financially_gaga

Hello friends! Am back from the sunny states...surpirisingly to a sunny UK :T

Haven't caught up totally yet but firstly, hugs to all those who needed them... , good job to all the losers :T and keep going to everyone else :j

As per my earlier report food was AWFUL out there. But it was a holiday! My excuse (a rather valid one) is a very fussy vegetarian DH who refuses to try new places and things...hence we pretty much lived off pizza, mcdonalds and veggie taco's for 2 weeks. I was cogniscent of what i ate though - pizza was thin base where i could get it, chips had no molten cheese on and the mcdonalds...well a girl has to have a mcflurry now and again!

All in all, a 2lb gain in 3 weeks. Mrs KW, can you please increase my total to 7lb to take this into account? Thank you

DH and i had time to patch things up though which made my whole weight loss thing seem very insignificant. Not huge problems but daily bickering etc had taken root an di could see it getting worse over the last few months. So much needed family break to mend all the broken fences and come back stronger :cool:

So back to normal this week, with a few renewed mantras:

1. Work is still hectic but i have a safe and secure job that helps people daily

2. Kids will be kids and not listen to me all the time but they are happy and healthy with not a real care in the world

3. In laws will be in laws no matter how hard i try to appease them but they are happy and healthy and help me lots with the kids

4. I am bigger than i want to be but i am trying to change this and it really doesn't matter what the wider family think of me or my appearance

5. I may not have time to do all that i want to do but i have an oppression-free life where i am not subject to anything that i do not want to do

6. I may be tired with daily life occasionally but i live in a safe place where i do not have to deal with war, drought or famine or any other major concern

And that ladies (and gentlemen) is enough to keep me happy

Hugs and thoughts with everyone

gresleyrover

Hugs to everyone who needs them.
I had a lovely weekend away at a 60th birthday party. Unfortunately it was a disaster for my weight. Have a feeling it might be going up again this week. I suppose that I'll just have to stick to the plan for the rest of the week and hope for the best

Knit_Witch

Welcome back financially gaga (is the two pound gain an official weigh in total?)

SIRENS

ellie99 wrote: »

Wouldn't it be great if there was a "weight amnesty", where a lovely fairy waved her magic wand and suddenly we were all at our target weight?
I'm sure we'd be so overjoyed we'd be able to "stay the same" with no problems at all. !

That would be lovely, but my fairy would need a wand the size of Blackpool tower to shift the pounds I need shifting:rotfl:

Well work day today, more moaning from the powers that be that I'm behind target, blah blah blah. But really I can't be bothered with all the selling thats heaped on us now, to me customer service matters not selling, but I guess thats why I don't earn the bug bucks!

B. cereal, plain yog
L. Left over pork with a noodle salad, orange, hm cookie
D. Might just have a salami sandwich and a packet of crisps, as I'm [STRIKE]too tired[/STRIKE] lazy to cook:rotfl:

Lovely bag ,OG I love a bag with lots of pockets, so useful

Molly41

Pollybear wrote: »

I can so sympathise with all of you. I could eat one normal slice of cake in a whole week and put on 3 lbs. It's not logical but that's how I'm made. Even without any treats I'm liable to put on a pound or two in just one day but it takes nearly a week to get it back off again. That sums up my "staying the same".

Maybe I should weigh less often but I'm worried that if I don't weigh every day I won't realise it's going on and be able to nip it in the bud.

It's very depressing to realise that this is how the rest of my life will be

Apparently according to my Psychologist (I see him for my depression and ongoing stuff) a 5lb variation is normal. I need to rey to weigh myself less too.

Sue14

Another bad weekend:o! It was DS's birthday yesterday, so on Saturday OH and I went with him and his GF to Madame Tussauds in London (with 2 for 1 vouchers of course), a trip that we had been talking about doing for about 3 years. It took us 3 hours to get in (2 hours of which was queuing inside the building and at least 15 minutes spent in the wrong queue, lol!), then we spent about 3 and a half hours in there. During this time we only ate some boiled fruit sweets and drank some water, so by the time we left we were starving and headed to the nearest mcd's, which we had planned to do to save lugging a packed lunch round all day.

OH and I had large fries, double cheeseburger and large choc milkshake as usual, I was struggling just to get through the fries (proof that I'm getting used to eating smaller portions) but did manage to eat it all. Then DS's GF offered to get us a mcflurry, which we agreed to, but they didn't have any ice cream so had to have a smoothie instead (fate saved me from myself, lol!). I think with all the walking we did, it hopefully evened out.

Yesterday we had a large slice of birthday cake, but we hadn't had any lunch, and we did leave the remainder of the cake with DS, then came home and had pizza and wedges. Because I did almost no exercise I went way over my allowance for the day, but I was under for the week!

On the plus side I did lose another 1lb last week, despite eating all the wrong things, and now I'm back at work I'll hopefully be able to get back on track.

MrsCD

Yoo Hoo :hello: Back from a week in Keswick, and for the first time in years, we didn't need our coats or umbrellas! Had a really great time, and had pizza twice at Casa Bella's. They make lovely, very thin based, normal sized pizzas, and I had lots of salad, and pinched a couple of yummy chips from DD2.
We walked every day from the car park up to the other end of the town so it must have done something as I have lost 1lb. I'll do a proper weigh-in at the end of the week MrsKW.

I haven't had time to read back much, but there are some hurting people out there, so I'm sending some gentle hugs to you tonight.

F-G - I love your new mantras I could do well to remind myself at times how well off I am, and to count my blessings.


OG - What a clever OG you are :T You have been busy!

officeguru wrote: »

Hi all,

Here's my beach bag that I have been slaving away on all Sunday.... I've just got to put a button or a magnetic clasp on it to finish it off..

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Today I had to see the nurse, as my cholesterol levels are too high. Well actually, only my HDLs are out of kilter, so I am now the proud owner of an A4 poster, which is stuck on my kitchen wall for all to see, explaining which foods I can eat every day, which foods I can only have 2 or 3 times a week etc.. you get the picture! So the top and bottom of it is (forgive the pun) if I don't lose weight, and therefore reduce my cholesterol in 3 months, I will have to go on statins, and I really don't want to So maybe this is the push I need to get off my backside and do something about it!