Lose Weight 18

beanielou

Pet~ Its just fab.Hope you enjoy it~ you deserve it
Well funnily enough I have a Radley confession to make today.
Got an email from Hudsons and there was these new keyrings ~ like mni bags on keyring.Fab.
Anyway my friend went to Edinburgh today & phoned to see if I wanted one..........

Another confession as well.
Just dont think I can keep going on wth this weight loss malarky.
I seem to be going through a stage of being really hungry & then just eating a lot of things I shouldent.Not helped by the things I really want being really empty calories.
Really want a glass of wine as well.......

Brighton_belle

beanielou wrote: »

Another confession as well.
Just dont think I can keep going on wth this weight loss malarky.
I seem to be going through a stage of being really hungry & then just eating a lot of things I shouldent.Not helped by the things I really want being really empty calories.
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Aww Beanie, really sorry you are struggling and going hungry just doesn't sound good. That's why I love SW so much - they tell you if you are hungry on their plan you ain't eating enough. I can have choc and my fav cheese everyday so don't feel deprived. Perhaps you could take a break for a few weeks to eat how you want and that might lessen the sense of deprevation and you can start over, perhaps witha new plan for a fresh appoach. Or perhaps you are just bored with the same foods all the time. I think it's seren who said she does better if she doesn't deny herself anything and then the desparation drops. If you do take a break, do stick with us though!

Gloomgirlie - can't help you about the mixed packets, but 2 dried apricots =1.5 syns and 28g raisons = 4 syns (it's syns as in synergy, not sins as in baaad!)
Starlight - I don't think anyone puts those books on ebay at a high price - they start off very low: it's the auction that sends them sky high. I tried to get some for a family member last year and it was cheaper to pop into a one of meeting during a free registration period and buy the book then. I appreciate this may not be physically possible for you to get to a meeting though.

dellybelly_2

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Waiting with trepidation to hear from Delly: it's crunch time with the in laws coming home today...

Thanks for that bb but we've been told that they'll not be home till tomorrow at the earliest :rolleyes: Spent a great morning this morning having family time in town and even treated myself to an eyebrow wax and an eyelash tint.

Spent most of this evening finishing off bits and pieces in Fil's house (and I even took photos... would you like to see them? - cant show befores as I didn't take any , too embarrasing). We only have a curtain pole and some blinds to put up and it's all done.

Welcome cazzdevil & julie - glad to have you on board.

starlight_xx

Brighton_belle wrote: »

[Starlight - I don't think anyone puts those books on ebay at a high price - they start off very low: it's the auction that sends them sky high. I tried to get some for a family member last year and it was cheaper to pop into a one of meeting during a free registration period and buy the book then. I appreciate this may not be physically possible for you to get to a meeting though.

A lot are a bit over priced. I was probably a bit over sensitive I just found the tone of the post a bit offensive referring to people like me as suckers. Seemed a bit ironic on a Money Saving Forum too :rolleyes:

victory

bails thank you for your post,it is 100% what is missing acceptance:D

You are so right, I mean I could blame my mother for putting me on a diet when I was 12 ,could even blame her for being diabetic and arthritic as it is supposed to be genetic (she has neither) or the tablets or moan etc and be a victim but I am not going to be, I am not even going to justify it by thinking as I did 9 years ago when I was diagnosed that I had to eat all the carbs to stay alive, I needed all this portions to stay away from the docs office, for the sake of being here for the kids I had to eat all the time, what rubbish.
It is no ones fault and there is no buck to pass, it stops here with me.

I have fooled myself, lied to myself and let myself down for long enough. I will not become a victim of the past, the present is like this I am both diabetic and arthritic, I take insulin and heavy arthritic tablets, my daily moveability etc is heavily decided on how or even if I can get out of bed and move about, that said that is the way it is, end of, no more excuses, no more falseness, that is the way my present is and my future will be, forget how before 9 years ago I was none of those things and took I guess good health as a given.

My insulin has been reduced severely because of the weight loss, I was 6/6/18/32 now 1/2/6/18, it likes the weight loss,my docs love it, my H adores it, theres more energy, more life to me, more interaction within the family, I have many times pushed against it, trying to jump the fence, for both, over walking puts me in the house for a week, over sugar keeps me in bed for two days and it does not work, never has done never will.

I can't fight it, it is there and that is that. The boredom/fed up/resentment/why my metabolism and not theirs eating for 5 people in one go does not work and will stop, why not just think you can have one or two, enjoy that and move on? My thinking process has been programmed badly, it thinks I am missing out,that all the good food is not the food I want to eat that it is just 'food for the diet' that I want to be left alone to eat whatever, whenever and not have to justify it to anyone. More rubbish.

I enjoy the food I eat and no longer resent it, I am not sure I will not always long to have more of the bad ,still have a huge appetite ,etc but that will diminish in time.

victory

bails wrote: »

Having read your post again Vic, I really wonder if WW is the right choice for you? This is a question, not an opinion, as I don't know the systems well enough but it seems completely wrong that you should feel hungry and not full. I know that you have lost a fantastic amount of weight on WW and it may be very scary to even contemplate another system... also, are you not allowed to eat more when you are maintaining? You're right, noone should have to spend every minute thinking about food (therein lies the ED route). Does being able to share so much more with your family outweigh the food?

WW works for me on the points idea, you see I am a greedy person but also as the weight loss proves a very dedicated, determined person and WW takes the portion sizes out of the equation, the lack of having to think, weigh, WW ready meals are just that, a meal, there'sthe points, add the veg and dinner is served, for a massive portion sizer to WW meals =for me anyway weight loss.

That was and is at the mo missing from the wrong programmed thinking, that I have lost the weight and maintaining so should be allowed more, that is still being unprogrammed:rotfl: at first even goal reached I was still eating the same as I would have been o nthe diet, the same for fear of gain, the same because it was what I knew, the same because it was the easiest non thinking thing to do and what I had been used to.

Since Jan 4th 2007 when I started and reaching goal around July and for the rest of the time up until today I am hungry, get hungry and never feel full and contented but have never once deviated, cheated etc just sometimes have massive over indulgences and cut so right back to the bone after that the points/calories balance out in the end. I basically swim in hot lemon;)

I have writen on the scraps of paper that this would not be so bad, the healthy eating,as I do enjoy what I eat and the hot lemon love it, keeping the points etc if I was not always hungry, leading me to think about food, then bringing up resentment, then that leads to oh what the hell I am off to eat...vicious circle ,if you are full no need to constantly clock watch/think of food/think of your next meal etc.

Sharing with my family is fab no doubt about that but no, the hunger has to be addressed because now I am thinking and writing that is now the prob and has been for ages, the hungrier one gets the more food obsessed etc and so no, I don't want to go out with them, I want to know what time it is until I can have some more food.

You see I know that I am eating the right amount of daily calories for my weight/height/BMI etc(seen nutritionalists, diabetic nurses, been on the internet etc) so if I ate more I would gain/be over the allowance,all my doc tests always come back negative and good results, it is just me I am hungrier and greedier than I am allowed to be!!
I have to not be hungry find a way around that one without weight gain(which will stop a lot of the add on probs that go with it) and remind myself I am not on a diet.

QT2006

Hey everyone..:j

This is gonna be a long one....sorry I haven't been on here for a couple of days, had that deadline to do, but it is all done know and I am well happs . My goodness you all know how to type away I am sure I missed almost 10 pages :eek: .

Well I have good news, I weighed myself today at Boots as I said I would and it seems that I have lost 2lb, it said I had lost weight on my home scales, but I didn't believe it as it was playing up on wednesday. Mind you might have put it all back on today when my friend invited me round for dinner and tried to fatten me up a bit more..lol

I wanted to ask yall a couple of questions...

Firstly has anyone tried any of these tablet to support weight loss like adios or zotrim? If so what you have found them to be like...

Secondly, I am really worried as I have been invited to go out for dinner for next saturday and sunday, one is my friends 26th bday, the other is my friend's baptism celebration....so that not only means 50 quid, but possibly 50lb..lol..on saturday it is thai, and on sunday it is an italian restaurant...can anyone give advice as to how i should approach this, i know the thai menu is a set menu that my friend has already ordered....shall i just eat before i go then don't eat that much there (which is a waste of money, i will be segregated and everyone will think i am mad, or I might just have a double portion and eats loads at the restaurant anyway...) I really need advice on this one, as I know it will be major temptation especially seeing as THAI is my absolute fav, but I kno its so bad especially with all the coconut milk and saturated fat..

Oh yea...I didn't realise you work @ debenhams vixs, so do I....the one in Uxbridge though and in womenswear, which store you at?

Thanks guys...i know I am emailing at random times, so I will log in afternoon time tommorrow, which really is later on today!

Love you all

QT x

ajaxgeezer

starlight_xx wrote: »

Its already online

http://www.minimins.com/weight-watchers/21990-online-eating-out-guide.html


Hmmm couldnt link direct to the Frankie & Benny page for some reason but its on the link above if anyones interested

.....Thanks for this Starlight xx. Just my luck though, the three courses I usually have don't appear on there

Cazzdevil

missyg wrote: »

Cazzdevil, 34E sounds like a nice size, what were you before that made you so gutted about it? I was last measured at 30E (down from 32F) and I know I'm small around the back but I love my E cups and I'd hate to lose any more in the cup! Have fun with the biking or whatever you decide to do!

Since puberty I've been a 34DD (my first ever bra was a 34B but within 6 months I'd gone up to a DD), they went down to a 34D when I did Weight Watchers a few years back and I loved it but they've gradually been getting bigger. I realise it's probably just because one's a bit bigger and not all bras are manufactured equally but it was the backside kick I needed. I don't like them - I wish I could be a C cup.

I'm tall though so I don't look disproportionate, in fact at 5ft 10 and just over 12 stone no-one think I'm overweight but I feel it in myself so the ultimate aim is to get as close to 10 stone as I can with as much lean muscle mass as possible (gotta have muscle to ride my beloved mountain bike up big hills!).

victory

QT:j :j

My mum eats a lot of thai foods and is slender so it can't all be bad:D having said that though I know nothing about thai foods:rotfl: I am guessing either google the best off thai calorie wise or go for the ones that are not in batter/fried etc.

No to the adios tablets, there has been threads about those on here just put it in the search, lots of studies that say it is rubbish and not worth the money but then people buy it and it works for them, it is like herbal teas, green tea, etc loads of people I know it works for them...