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katyk_2

Hi again:wave:
As i mentioned earlier I have not been on for about 2 weeks so have not had heard anything about the secret santa - can anyone let me know the details rather than having to trawl back through everything for 14 day, please?:D Have decided I will go and menu plan and see if I can coax myself back onto the straight and narrow.:A

Have just finished making the xmas 'Tia Maria' (or Tia Me as we call it - Tia made by me!) and it cannot be drunk for 14 days minimum so I have decided I am not allowed one until I lose 7lb from now! (I am back to about 2lb below where I started!!!:o )

Right off to look through a catalogue or two and try to get some inspiration for 2 lovely parents who seem to get harder to buy from each year! Desparately want to avoid the having to resort to a bottle of whisky yet again but they are not sweet toothed particularly, and, being 77 and 83 respectively, have pretty much all they want for the house! Not great for going out either as mum has Alzheimers (sp?) and gets easily confused now. Guess it might be back to the garden center for ideas again....still, it's an improvement on socks!:p

Night folks
Katyk

Brighton_belle

[quote=katyk;6905302]Hi again:wave:
As i mentioned earlier I have not been on for about 2 weeks so have not had heard anything about the secret santa - can anyone let me know the details rather than having to trawl back through everything for 14 day, please?
Hi katyk: there isn't anything else to tell you. Suggs asked if we were doing one and as others said yes please I said I'd organise it - see my post of today: PM me your details if you want to be included. Details of the actual secret santa (how much and dates etc) haven't been decided yet!

katyk_2

Right, the good news is I have written out the 1st 2 days of menu planning.:A
Bad news is I ate about 100g of Jelly Belly sweets whilst browsing the diet book.....:o

Day 1 def starts tomorrow!

x_raphael_xx

Brighton_belle wrote: »

That is apositive side affect :beer: . Definitely keep listening away! It's so easy to eat when we're supposed to rather than when we are hungary. Perhaps it is a little easier for folks like you and me without a family to cater for (Mr bb gets to eat a meal when I'm hungry rather than a preset time:rotfl: ). And of course having the cake is fine isn't it - everything in moderation.

Although I did end up eating a roast at 11pm the other night, a combination of not hungry before and changing shift patterns!

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I remember you asked a few weeks ago about gravy and whether then was a less fat version than the gravy you liked. I felt at the time and forgot to say I think that as you seemed to absolutely love your "meal swimming in thick gravy", I should carry on having it: If it is something you love, keep it, because this is about changed eating habbits for life, not being deprived and when focussed, you seemed to be losing weight ok.

I don't have these dinners very often, so I shall keep my thick gravy. It will keep my 'treats' the yummiest.:D

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I didn't know you were a taxi driver - does that mean you go all over PLymouth. My mums from plymouth, so as a child I was there a lot and I rmemebr the bombed out spaces between building being there for years.-I'm in the middle of typing up her 'memoires' she has written for the family. She lived on the hoe and was there throughout the blitz - all very dramatic. The family I have left there live at Crown hill and Torpoint and did live on Mutley Plain. I would love to have grown up in Plymo

I'm not a driver myself, I work in the office, thou I've been thinking about getting my licence soon and going out on the road.
There's lots of regeneration in Plymouth at the moment, so it's looking good, and they've still got the bombed out church on the roundabout.

I weighed myself today, 223.4 lbs! A loss of 2.4 lbs, AND I've passed my first stone! :D

victory

Morning everyone:D I feel absolutely lousy, self inflicted lousy as I overdid the food this weekend and my diabetic numbers shot up leaving me feeling sick, bones aches, head aches, arthritis has flaired up, hey ho, won't be doing that again in a hurry:D tonight is the first time I take the tablets for the arthritis so need to get the numbers down by tonight to give them a chance, back to the hot lemon and porridge for breakfast:D prefer it that way...

A question from my H , he asked me this morning but I do not know the answer, I drink masses of hot lemon during the day, he was asking whether that being 'a detox drink' does it actually keep you hydrated or does it go through the body too fast to actually quench the thirst/hydrate?

I am having WW chicken,tomato and spinach lasagna for dinner tonight and really looking forward to it:D

Suggs

Morning All

Trust we all had a good weekend, Played rugby against the local rivals on Saturday and won 12-0 my poor legs though, feel like a bad dead leg, very sore, tried a hot bath to get the bruising out, but it hasn't helped. I still might go to the gym later to see if keeping it moving will help.

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

I weighed myself today, 223.4 lbs! A loss of 2.4 lbs, AND I've passed my first stone! :D

Well done x_raphael_xx great result and excellent stuff that you got through the fist stone, bet you feel great for it!

Hope you feel a little better today victory

Right back to the study

victory

missyg wrote: »

As for Christmas, it seems to me there's a clear personal choice to be made, either you're going to relax your weight losing (totally or partially), or you're going to continue it right through.

If you plan to relax things you can plan ahead how you're going to offset any consequences. It's still a month away so put in some extra effort now, see if you can get ahead and give yourself a buffer. Schedule in a long walk on Boxing Day, have a detox day in the middle of Christmas and New Year so you don't totally lose focus. If you know you're likely to start shovelling in the Quality Streets, work out a way you can distract yourself in advance. Have fruit baskets around and lots of convenient, healthier options that you can snack on. I'm sure others have loads of suggestions to stop anyone going completely off the rails? Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with going off the rails if that's what you choose - just have a strategy for getting back on track! Maybe putting something in writing to yourself would help.

If you're continuing (like me), nobody's Christmas is going to be ruined if you say "no thank you" to some food and nobody will care if you're still keeping a food diary. I am expecting comments like "oh come on, it's Christmas!" but I will stick to my guns. I'm a lot of things but weak willed isn't one of them . Food isn't the be all and end all of Christmas, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate. My family can pig out all they want, I'm going to be playing games with the kids, taking photos, talking to relatives I don't see often, etc.

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This is all very true and an excellent post... after the weekend I have had where I feel truly awful due to excess food I have decided that I will continue as I am whether it be xmas or not because it is the after affects that no one enjoys, the guilt, the weight gain, the misery associated with over indulging, all the xmas foods taste delicious but end up leaving a nasty taste in the mouth and to me it is not worth it... I have put a lot of time effort, hard work and energy into the weight loss to blow it over the festive season.

It is so right, xmas is more than food, the family being together to me is brilliant because we can spend many a day/week passing each other because one has football training or work commitments or wants to stay over at friends etc and before you know it ii has been months since a proper conversation took place, I am looking forward to that and yes maybe incorporate some walking over the festive season, playing games etc.

I am doing exactly what you have said as it is a month away yet, I am putting all the extra effort in now and will indulge for xmas day and the cold buffet on boxing day and that is it, I am allowing 2 days off or relaxing morethan I normally do and as soon as they are over back to the normal way of eating. That way those 2 days can be enjoyed but cannot cause masses of destruction on the over all plan.

Also I have loads of foods upstairs ready for the big day (always start buying in Sep) but this year have cut down to just what they like treat wise rather than buy masses just because we have to have it for xmas, no one really wants it/likes it but eats it because it is there and it is xmas:D waste of money and we have far too much so this year the list has been stream-lined to their very favs which they will enjoy more, have not bought any nuts/nibbles etc as they do the damage and going to make all my own dips from the WW recipe book and serve with veg crudites rather than crisps.

I am going to look at everything and see if I can cut calories/buy it lower fat etc (even got WW chipolatas and bacon for the pigs in blankets) everyone benefits from that and they do not know or need to know that the sausages etc are low fat/low cal:D they will tuck in anyway:D

Another thing is to work out for yourself what really you like and use that as the treat, in all the xmas day dinner I love the roasties and the turkey and veg, the rest..yorkshires, stuffing,cranberry sauce,bread sauce, etc can take or leave so will look forward to and serve up to myself a few roasties and enjoy them;)

ajaxgeezer

Suggs wrote: »

Because we are all going to need it in the New Year Would suggest the challenge runs until Wednesday 19th December so there is time for Christmas fun and frollicks :beer::rudolf: Then perhaps restart the Challenge January 2nd? What do you ladies and Ajax think???
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.........sounds like a plan. I'm happy with anything you good folks decide.

victory

well done x-raphael :j :j :j :j

bails

Hi everyone!

Had a lazy morning to help me recover from the 7-hour journey home yesterday:rolleyes: Have also found out that my benefits have been suspended despite being assured last week that they wouldn't be (I have to fill in a very big form, which incidentally is completely unnecessary as they have all the info already, and was allegedly given some extra time for my disability, or not as it turns out) :mad::mad:. So instead of recovering properly today I am going to have to complete that and find all the evidence they want again, and I'm meant to be at work tomorrow...

Any-way.... Sorry to hear about your fall Beanielou, its sounds like the company were being negligent to me. Victory, hope you can feel well enough to take your meds tonight; it's great that you don't enjoy your old faves any more. I completely agree about conceding to the urge sometimes before it is all-consuming - invariably you don't want it as much as you thought, then it's longer until the next urge comes along. I used to use food massively as an emotional tool, I'm glad to say that I now have other things in place but very occasionally when I try to 'eat my emotions' again, I just can't do it, get rid of the food and resort to what does help, like writing in my diary. This is a lifetime problem that I have finally just about cracked, and there's no feeling like it to describe the freedom I feel

BB, thanks for offering to organise Secret Santa, £4 or £5 sounds okay to me, don't mind whether it's for one pressie or more, will send address. Sorry you're finding it tough at the mo but reaching for those comfort foods is understandable in the circumstances. Just go with it for now, your health is the priority and the WL will come, as you know. Big hug x

Suggs, how's the revision going? Hope you're getting through it okay. Katyk, glad to see you back - I agree totally with Pet that we're here for the good and bad times so keep posting and let us know what your menu plans are, will help inspire the rest of us.

Raphael, well done on the first stone mark, that's brill! And Bargainbabe for the half a stone too, it's great to get to those milestones!:T:T

I'm sure I've forgotten stuff as ever but Hi to you all and hope you're having a good week. My weekend hasn't had too disastrous an effect on the scales I don't think (and I had a really, really lovely time with my mates:D) so onwards it is! I'm only a couple of pounds behind my 25th March target, and as Ajax has said many times, what's a couple of weeks in the long run? My true aim is to have lost the weight by my b'day (in June) so I'll be happy as long as I manage that. May then try for the extra half a stone before my brother's wedding in October if it feels right.

Okay, off to start my day properly and then finish that bl00dy form! I can't wait to be INDEPENDENT!!!

ps who is it that lives in Newton-le-Willows? Is it Serendisglair? I always liked this and thought it was a made up location until I was looking for places to move to around Manchester and came across it!

Oh yeah, and personally I would prefer it if the chart and challenge keep going throughout December - that way people can opt in and out as they choose but it's still there for those that want it.