Maintainer

I really am an ungracious hostess... I'm very happy cooking for two, even if I often make the dish for four or six and freeze. I also like doing what I want to do! I think it's a luxury that us childless couples have become accustomed to. I get up when I like, go out early, HATE waiting for others to get up to be able to eat/go out etc. I'm just purely and simply - SELFISH!! and quite happy to be so.

I've been up since 5am because my one year old kitten got her foot stuck in the hinges of our bedroom door and woke us SCREAMING... it took a good (oh so long) two minutes to free her, as she was panicking and wriggling and the door had to be pushed against her body to release her little foot and she managed to snag a vein on R's arm who bled profusely. (Think of a chainsaw massacre, and that's how my flat looked.) I'm afraid I was totally useless, and froze, although I admit to showing my relief when told it was R bleeding and not the little one whose white fur is covered in (now dried) blood...

Anyway both are fine... and sleeping it off... while I work.

Obviously I forgot to get on the scales this morning after all that! Half day tomorrow (again) so mightn't get to post in the morning... if I don't, speak Monday and hope things go ok with your sister... at least the weather is beautiful and you can maybe BBQ?
x

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

clairejen

Oooh your poor little kitten, they do get into scrapes, lucky she didn't take any harm. Hope that scratch heals cleanly, cat claws can be very infectious. Not what you need in the early hours, hope you get an easy evening tonight.

I've been cooking and cleaning since I got home, I've left the upstairs hoovering for David. A quick blitz of the bathroom and some dusting of the living room should see me finished. And a shopping list for the morning. My SIL is arriving for lunch tomorrow, no big deal there as we have plenty of homemade bread in the freezer. Menus are planned, I've baked a cake and made pancakes for a seafood mille crepes, and I have various homemade icecreams already prepared. Diets will have to go by the board, I'm getting nervous that my weight is creeping up, so Monday must herald a new start. How often have I said that?

Have a lovely weekend, are you staying in the city? We are promised nice weather for a change so I'm hoping to get the garden furniture out and enjoy being outside. So long as the neighbours kids keep quiet it should be very pleasant.

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Claire

"tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow,
you're only a day away"

Maintainer

Morning!
Kitten's paw still a bit swollen but she's long forgotten it, although I doubt I'll ever quite forget the sound of that blood curdling scream! R made door wedge jams this weekend, being forbidden to do any other DIY by yours truly, so all doors are wedged open now in the flat so no room for little curious paws to insert themselves into slots!

R on the other hand has some twelve puncture marks, and a bruise running from his wrist to his elbow (under side) where the little one must have caught the vein... incredible colours! He refused to go to A&E, see a doctor or even accompany me to the chemist, so he's very lucky nothing went septic. I gave up in the end.

Our weekend was in the country, and very nice too with our veg plot producing a tonne of beans the right weekend for us! Last year I blanched and froze extras, but wasn't keen, so this year I'm giving extras away! I smiled at your "neighbours kids" comment as I have trouble putting up with the kids over the street playing ball endlessly. The bong bong is one thing when it goes on endlessly on the cement courtyard, but when it hits the metal barn door, GRRRR! and the squeals of excitement and shouts among the kids drive me mad! I wasn't allowed to make that racket as a kid!! haaaaa!

(poor Tash, won't want to talk to us any more... TASH?!!)

Hope all went well with your sister. An Ok food weekend for me, behaviour wise, but I had treats so staying off the scale until tomorrow

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

fitforuni

joanne - how did you loose your weight? x

tashy100

Hi Folks - (she creeps back quietlyinto the room )

Have been having a few marital problems and havent had much to say for myself. Things hopefully getting better now though!

Weight wise has been very good - have been maintaining at around 11/4 until I get motivated to lose another half stone. However this week has been a nightmare - have put on 4lbs and I know that its not from calories as I monitor my food every day. Have done nothing different from the last few weeks and can only put it down to fluid.

Its bad enough when you know you've been bad - but when you havent - its just downright rude!!!! Feel so sluggish and very bloated.

Kids have been away for the week with their Dad in Ireland so hopefully they've had a fab time. I've been working full time whilst they've been away and cant wait for them to come back.

Hope your cat is better Joanne. I have 2 cats and we are having our kitchen changed at the moment - they hate it!! So neurotic and clingy!!! Bless!

Last evening by myself tonight so will make the most of it - last of the glorious weather too apparently for a while.

Hope you are both well

Tash

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Started calorie counting 6 May 11 stone 11lbs
Current weight 11 stone 3.5lbs

Maintainer

hi fitforuni,

I lost my weight on my own really following a plan I devised based on all the trillions of diet plans I'd followed and failed at previously!

I ate a lot of chicken, vegetables and salads, and few if any towards the end starches...

I wasn't doing a VLCD though so lost at a "normal" pace, so it took me 1 year 9 months to lose my 11 stone...

Do you need some help getting started?

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

Maintainer

Tash - very pleased to see you with us again. Inexplicable weight increases are very annoying, particularly when unmerited, but perhaps you're retaining water in the heat? Watch your salt intake and drink lots of water! Ironic, but true...

Glad things seem better now... maintaining your weight loss is great... I always say that dieting is easy; maintaining far more difficult.

Take care and if ever you want to talk / rant or whatever, you know where we are...

Hope they're not working you too hard Claire...

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

clairejen

Hi folks
Sorry I've been MIA, the weekend was taken up with visitors and cooking (and eating I'm afraid) and today I have had to work a full day. I've been offered the job on a permanent basis and accepted, it will still be part-time though. We have a lot of extra work on at the moment, implementing a new computer system, so it is inevitable there wil be more hours involved.

My weight has shot up after the weekend, did binge rather I'm afraid. DD today, and tomorrow will be a low UD. I am still cycling to work and back, this seems to have no effect on weight loss but must help my fitness.

Joanne, poor R, what a lot of damage caused by one tiny kitten, he's probabaly too embarassed to show the doctor. Glad to hear kitty is OK (and R of course). It's good to know I'm not the only one who gets crabby about noisy kids. They weren't too bad this weekend (apart from shrieks at 6.30 on Sunday morning), it was the Lithuanians who caused problems. Smelly barbecue, singing (badly) outside until the small hours, letting off fireworks, talking loudly in the street at 1.30am and again at 6.30am. I was terminally exhausted by Sunday night. Other than that we had a good weekend.

Tash, good to see you back, sorry to hear you've had a rough patch. It will be lovely to see the kids again, are you going on holiday soon? Undeserved gains are very unfair, ut usually leave quickly, mine are deserved unfortunately.

I'd better dash to the supermarket before it closes, I couldn't keep up this full time malarkey for long! I'll try to pop in tomorrow, I might be late though.

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Claire

"tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow,
you're only a day away"

clairejen

Work days have got back to normal length, that just means I don't get everything finished! But since the idea of having finished everything that needs doing is patently ludicrous it has ceased to worry me too much. Good news of the day is that my car passed its MOT with nothing needing doing, huzzah! Bad news is that I have to go to the dentist tomorrow.

Scales not too bad, UD yesterday and this morning I was 9st10lbs so only three pounds over and hopefully less by tomorrow, I'll keep plodding away at it.

How are things with you Joanne? And you Tash, are the kids home?

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Claire

"tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow,
you're only a day away"

tashy100

Yay!!! Always a good feeling when you just get the bill for the MOT without the usual £350 add-on!!

We missed an appointment 2 weeks ago at the dentist and I still havent managed to build up the confidence to call and rearrange - dentist receptionists always seem so severe!!! (Sorry to any lovely dental receptionists reading!)

Good news on the scales!

Yep kids are back and they had a wonderful time - lovely to have them home.

Got lots of building work going on at the moment being carried out (managed) by their Dad. Its weird - spent most of our married life arguing about his constant DIY and now I'm paying him!!!! (mates rates of course!) Some sort of irony there! New kitchen, new patio and some hard landscaping and a wall being knocked down to make the kitchen bigger

My poor nerves!

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Started calorie counting 6 May 11 stone 11lbs
Current weight 11 stone 3.5lbs

Maintainer

Sorry to have been MIA myself...

Claire - glad that all seems fine now... when you say you "binged", I presume you ate in company... which for me just means "socialising", not bingeing... yes? Just 3lbs over is great! You must have caught it nicely on time. The trouble is that there's always some water weight we gain and lose depending on what phase of our respective programmes we're on.

Tash - building work is a nightmare... kitchen building work? Double nightmare! In the country, we've pretty much finished all we can afford to do to the house, and have decorated throughout, EXCEPT the kitchen. I just can't see how to live through that mayhem... I think I'll stay in the city working, letting my man do his own thing. The kitchen cupboards, for instance, while not to our taste (because white and modern) are fine so won't be replaced but my man wants them all down to decorate... (and what if they break as most "white and modern" things tend to if you touch them?!) I don't think I could watch that happening! And where do I put everything? Ugh! The thought of it!

Kitten is now fine (of course!) and R has some fabulous bruises to show for his experience. I'm alone this week as he's visiting family in your country so I'm staying vigilant for obvious reasons. I'm feeling strong though, and because of the intense heat here at the moment have been sleeping no more than five hours a day, walking further and further on the way to work because I've more time, and so have had no problem with food (yet...). Thankfully storms due soon, and rain this weekend grrrrrr, because I don't think I could bear any more over 30°C weather! The cats are miserable too in their fur coats!

I know I wasn't allowed to make noise when I was a kid... how do you cope Tash? I think often that parents seem to have the knack of "not hearing"... when I ring a friend with a young child who cries or yaps in the background, it drives me mad yet they seem able to differentiate between the two voices... unlike me! It must be something transmitted to pregnant women!! Oh that and tolerance!!

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

clairejen

Dentist trip went smoothly, he didn't do anything but has made two more appointments to get the broken tooth crowned. Tash, I have missed dental appointments before now, my memory is so rubbish these days. Great that you are getting your building work done, and that relationships are better with your ex, does make life easier.

Joanne, bingeing for me was overeating in company, I don't really do the secret eating stuff. Are you enjoying having some solo time? I always like that for a limited period, wouldn't appreciate it all the time. Glad the kitten is doing well, poor R, he'll have to keep explaining what happened. Hope the storms break without too much damage.

I must dash off to work, tgif.

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Claire

"tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow,
you're only a day away"

Maintainer

Personally, I don't consider "overeating in company" to be binge eating in the slightest. "Normal people" who never diet or yoyo can eat nice meals, and compensate automatically before or afterwards...

For someone with an eating disorder as I freely admit I have, the notion of eating secretly is what binge eating is all about... eating when not hungry, secretly, hiding wrappers etc etc. Been there, have the tshirt, and am ashamed to say "revisited the experience" last night just before R returned from the UK armed with fresh cream cakes and pork pies (at my request!) so of course they followed too... (no wonder there's an ever growing obesity issue in the UK: 4 x fresh cream eclairs for £1!! A malt loaf for 20p... crazy crazy world!!)

Anyway I'm over it now, and won't dwell on it, but will ponder on the whys and wherefores...

"Poor R, he'll have to keep explaining what happened." <-- the rotter told everyone it was ME who'd hurt him! Fortunately they know him well enough to realise his warped sense of humour!!

How's everyone today?
x

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K

clairejen

Hi, rather a late visit from me I'm afraid. Started my job proper today, which keeps me a little later, I finish at 2.45 officially, although I left a bit earlier as I didn't get a lunch break. My colleague is on holiday so I have to do some of her work too.

I don't think I have an eating disorder, just get urges to eat too much from time to time! I know I have phases of wanting to eat a lot, and other phases when I don't want uch, unfortunately they don't quite balance out. You are right, food here can be ludicrously cheap, although good healthy food is way more expensive than sugar and fat loaded trash. There is definitely an obesity problem though, just going out in the streets you see the majority of people around are overweight.

Not sure what the scales are doing at the moment because I haven't weighed for a few days, but I suspect nothing good. I'm planning a very restrained salad tonight, and have been studiously avoiding the cake tin.

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Claire

"tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow,
you're only a day away"

Maintainer

So what are your hours now Claire? I forget (sorry!!).

I'm certain that you don't have an eating disorder, Claire... I can tell by certain things you say and do... you, like all normal people, have certain tastes towards more fattening foods but you rectify things immediately and so would never let things go as far as I once did... thankfully!!

I gained a kilo, but am concentrating on the positive side of that (ie, I ate some delicious fresh cream cakes and a pork pie - neither of which I can buy here... I didn't need to follow those with 2 x jam sandwiches (on square long life English bread!), but that was silly of me. Oooh and the treacle sponge could have been left in its tin on its shelf - it wasn't doing any harm there - and did I really need to cover it in golden syrup too? Ah well - nice memories which have me smiling now (and hopefully won't send either of you to your food cupboards to do likewise!!)... I confessed all to R afterwards, and he remains in marvel at how much I can actually put away when I put my mind to it, and how good I am at hiding everything while going through an "episode".

All well now though so looking forward to my healthy lunch
x

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Joanne
Start weight: 141K (March 2002)
Target weight reached: 67.5K (December 2003)
Maintained until Feb 2007 when I quit smoking and regained 13K+
Now - life long stabilisation - to stay between 63K and 66K.

23/10/08: 66.8K