Everyone else has got one... so now it's my turn

[elfy1807]

thank you elfy there isn't much at all regarding SF even on google.

i have lost three stone previously on sw but put it all back on and more (hence being back on ww now) it is really hard & agree losing it is the easy part, that is what worries me about having 90 wkls, im going to stick to sf though as i definately eat healthier on that than pro points.

I feel so much better and my confidence in clothes and generally just being out is sky high, although it didnt stop me going out, i wasnt too bothered about clothes as it was more a damage limitation excercise in just covering up (mainly my huge stomach, you will see how massive it was when i post my got to goal photos) i actually looked like i was about to give birth !! ive got my size 14 fave shorts on which i bought 2 months ago and felt really slim in but now there is room all round them and they are falling down im a small 12 atm to be able to actually try on a size 10 even though a bit tight is amazing in itself.

why dont you replace one or more of your classes with yoga to tone up it is supposed to be really good at lengthening and toning muscle and you wouldn't be burning up loads of calories x

I wouldn't be able to do sf because I can't tell myself when I'm full. I keep going.
So with pro points, I have to be full or finish off with 0pp foods because I don't have any points left haha.

If you don't feel comfortable eating 90 weeklies, maybe try and build up to them?!
You're so close to goal now, you could start giving it a try as I'm sure, like me, you'll still lose for a few weeks whilst trying to learn to maintain. So this week, instead of 49, you could try eating 55 or 60. Not a huge increase, but a start, and you'll learn where you can add in extra points without going overboard on junk. If that makes sense.
Obviously you don't have to - its your choice, just a suggestion =)

I'm at 8-10 on top/in dresses, but I'm a comfortable 12 on bottom. But I don't mind because I've always been bigger on the bottom - I have big hips and a big bottom haha.
It'd be nice to fit into a 10 - and I think it all depends on where you buy your clothes - but I'm happy at a 12 because it's not a 16-18 like I was! Haha.

I look forward to seeing your got to goal pics. I need to subscribe to your diary - shall do that when I get to my laptop. On my phone is ok, but I prefer proper typing haha.

And yoga is a good suggestion - I tone in the gym twice a week now and I go to a legs, bums and tums class on a Wednesday night. I used to do spirals Pilates, that was quite slow going, but can't make it now due to the hours I work.
Trouble with yoga is that I don't know anywhere around here that does it and I'm not one to do stuff from home because I can just never be bothered - especially when there's people about because they just wanna know why you're doing.

 

[elfy1807]

Yesterday.
All my troubles seemed so far away.
Until I got to work that is haha.

Long long long day.

Started with the penultimate Saturday morning Zumba class. I'm gutted they're cancelling it - well not quite cancelling it - moving it to a Tuesday night - but I work at youth club on Tuesdays so won't be able to do it during term time =(
I wasn't feeling right - my head was a bit light and my shoulder & lower back were aching. But I got there.

Then a mad dash home for food then time to go to work.

And then it got bonkers.
Walked in, the deputy manager said "Emma, what shift are you on today?"
I replied 12-4.
Then she said it again "What shift are you on today?"
To which I replied 12-4 again.
Then I got worried that I'd turned up late.
Then I clicked and said "what shift would you like me to be on today?"
"12-815"
"ok"

Fool.

The first few hours were fine - very busy, but it's always busier at the weekends.
Apparently it's like it constantly at Christmas - I may have to be sick for 6 weeks lol.
There's a lady on customer services with me, used to work on the tills and got moved to CSD a couple of weeks before I started on there. She's lovely, but she's not the most confident of people on there and is hard work sometimes and it feels like you're doing your job and then having to help her do hers a lot as well.
So that was wearing me down a little.

I obviously didn't have any lunch with me because you don't get a lunch break on a 4 hour shift, but as I was doing almost 8 and a half hours, I was then entitled to two 15 minute breaks and a 45 minute lunch break.
The other member of staff on CSD didn't go on her lunch til about half 4, meaning it was gone 5 before I had chance to get on mine - but because it was so busy, and I couldn't leave her on her own, I didn't get off til 6.
And when I did, I went straight to kfc.
I enjoyed it, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I used to enjoy kfc.
I'm finding this a lot with takeaways & fast food.
Good I suppose.
I still enjoy Chinese though

So by the time I got back from lunch it was 645 and I just didn't bother with my last break - didn't see the point.
I wouldn't have bothered with my lunch but I was getting hungry, still felt a bit run down and just needed some time out.

When I finished work (the last couple of hours weren't too bad - nice and quiet at the tills), I headed round to the boy's house where he gave me the world's biggest hug and a lovely back massage and then cuddles in bed.
Just what I needed.
I've been up about an hour and a half because apparently I can't do lie-ins anymore.
My body is used to getting up and being fed pretty early.
Also, Flo has arrived this morning for a few days - which I was expecting because I've taken a pill break and because I was feeling it yesterday in my aches and pains haha.

So food wise yesterday...

Breakfast of weetabix (3pp) surprise surprise haha.
WW yoghurt (1pp)
Grapes (0pp)

Pre work lunch - chicken pasta (11pp)
Biscuits (3pp)

Dinnertime lunch
KFC Allstars meals (20pp)
KFC Toffee Sundae (5pp)

Total spend yesterday 43pp
33 dailies
10 weeklies
0 activities used
7 activities earned.

I'm getting there.
Today's BBQ day.
Not sure if it's still going on, but we'll see.
It's quite sunny ATM, so maybe.
Big day today if I go.
Argh!
Haha.

Hope everyone has a good day.

 

[ununpentium]

Wow sounds like a crazy day at work! Think of the extra money though

The last time I had takeaway I didn't enjoy it much either. Much prefer my WW meals! Never thought I'd say that!

 

[sammi.g]

I wouldn't be able to do sf because I can't tell myself when I'm full. I keep going.
So with pro points, I have to be full or finish off with 0pp foods because I don't have any points left haha.

If you don't feel comfortable eating 90 weeklies, maybe try and build up to them?!
You're so close to goal now, you could start giving it a try as I'm sure, like me, you'll still lose for a few weeks whilst trying to learn to maintain. So this week, instead of 49, you could try eating 55 or 60. Not a huge increase, but a start, and you'll learn where you can add in extra points without going overboard on junk. If that makes sense.
Obviously you don't have to - its your choice, just a suggestion =)

I'm at 8-10 on top/in dresses, but I'm a comfortable 12 on bottom. But I don't mind because I've always been bigger on the bottom - I have big hips and a big bottom haha.
It'd be nice to fit into a 10 - and I think it all depends on where you buy your clothes - but I'm happy at a 12 because it's not a 16-18 like I was! Haha.

I look forward to seeing your got to goal pics. I need to subscribe to your diary - shall do that when I get to my laptop. On my phone is ok, but I prefer proper typing haha.
.

i didnt think i'd be able to do it either (sf) considering the amount of crisps,sweets,pastries & anything else i could stuff in but it has been fairly easy and the alternative of counting everthing everyday didn't excite me in the least, i think my trouble with pp apaart from the counting is the using up all your points and then thinking 'the only thing i can have is fruit and i start to think 'i want that,this and anything i have no points for and also i don't make as good choices on pp mainly, im finding personally that sf is definately changing not only my food choices but my mind too in terms of healthy eating.


yes i'm definately going to build up to my 90wkls

i'm a typical apple shape, pretty equal up top & bottom but when i put weight on it goes straight on my stomach, tops of arms & chin(s) my legs and bum don't change very much

i warn you my pics are in a bikini so it's not a pretty site and tbh i didn't really think when i started that i might post them (if i ever lost all the weight at all) i just started taking them for my records, and i did do them in a bikini because well you just can't hide the disturbing truth can you in a bikini ?

i really hope i have cracked it this time as i was always slim til i guess i started dieting about 10 years ago when i was 35, i have spent the last decade eating my way to fatness usually in winter and giving up smoking 3x for 6 months each time & putting on 3 stone each time then i lose it & the cycle continues x

 

[elfy1807]

Ok... gonna try and make this a quick one because, right now, minimins isn't the largest part of my life.
Real life has taken over, with work, the boy, socialising and just generally doing things I want to do.
I still read through the posts when I get a few minutes but I don't always reply.
So don't go questioning where I am - I'm still here, but I'm busy living =)

Sunday was THE BBQ - the one where I met the boy's family (mum, stepdad, 2 sisters & niece) for the first time and I think it went ok.

I had usual breakfast of weetabix (followed by a few biscuits - naughty naughty), then a banana roll and grapes for lunch.
Then at the BBQ, I didn't hold back.
I had a hot dog, a chicken drumstick, a small spare rib, a chicken satay, a few little chicken nuggets, so tuna mayo pasta and a couple of pizza slices.
I pointed it best I could and made it to be a total of 45pp eaten, with 1AP earned.

Yesterday was a bit more reserved and I only ate 35pp worth of food, with 5AP earned.

So for today and tomorrow, I have 88 points to eat (44 a day) - 33pp dailies each, 3 weeklies remaining and 19 AP remaining.
I've got a zumba class in an hour (I'm skipping the gym this morning cuz I really cba) to earn a few more AP, and then my big AP earner will be tomorrow night at body tone/body combat, but it will be far too late to eat all those points, so eating AP may not work.
So really, although I've eaten a lot so far this week, points wise, I've not used as many points so far this week as I did just saturday night last week.

So who knows what result I'm gonna get on Thursday.

Hope you're all well.

 

[ununpentium]

I'm glad it went well meeting your boyfriends family

 

[elfy1807]

After life being in the way and not being able to get on here much (which is apparently unacceptable because we all have lives but manage to get online to support each other), I'm here to say I'm done with minimins.

I've had fun on here whilst losing weight, but apparently once there, you get rejected by the people you went on the journey with and it's no longer the same.
Actually a bit gutted it's ended up like this, but there we go.
You're there for people and the second you say something they don't like, they're done with you.

Thanks to everyone that's supported me, but now I've got the real world and the support of my family, friends and boyfriend to keep me on track for the rest of my life.

 

[trinab]

After life being in the way and not being able to get on here much (which is apparently unacceptable because we all have lives but manage to get online to support each other), I'm here to say I'm done with minimins.

I've had fun on here whilst losing weight, but apparently once there, you get rejected by the people you went on the journey with and it's no longer the same.
Actually a bit gutted it's ended up like this, but there we go.
You're there for people and the second you say something they don't like, they're done with you.

Thanks to everyone that's supported me, but now I've got the real world and the support of my family, friends and boyfriend to keep me on track for the rest of my life.

You dont have to have a dig at me emma they were your words not mine. We have suported u al the way even at goal its u that changed so your decision to leave is yours not because of here.x

 

[elfy1807]

You dont have to have a dig at me emma they were your words not mine. We have suported u al the way even at goal its u that changed so your decision to leave is yours not because of here.x

What were my words?
I said I was busy when you were questioning where I'd been.
I'm entitled to not be online 24/7.
You were the one that said that you've got a life but manage to get online, not me.
Which was obviously a dig saying that I wasn't trying hard enough.
And yeah, I have changed, you're right.
But why should I be on a forum where I'm mocked?
That was the final decider for me.
I hope you get to goal as you've worked hard for it, but I won't be around to see it.

 

[trinab]

What were my words?
I said I was busy when you were questioning where I'd been.
I'm entitled to not be online 24/7.
You were the one that said that you've got a life but manage to get online, not me.
Which was obviously a dig saying that I wasn't trying hard enough.
And yeah, I have changed, you're right.
But why should I be on a forum where I'm mocked?
That was the final decider for me.
I hope you get to goal as you've worked hard for it, but I won't be around to see it.

Thats your choice

 

[ununpentium]

As I said in the other thread, I also questioned where you were as I noticed you hadn't been around much, but I asked out of pure concern. So sorry for caring.

A few of your comments have been quite hurtful, with declaring you have 'a life' and so don't need to be on here, thereby suggesting all of us don't have lives because we need this website. You've done amazingly well in losing so much weight but I feel now you're at goal you have a different mindset and you're not as accepting of the rest of us any more.

I have seen no evidence of anyone on here being rude to you, or making you feel unwelcome. In fact it's been the opposite, we've shared your joy in losing and your frustration in not being able to maintain. So when we wondered where you were, it was really out of concern, not because we expected you to post 24/7 on our threads just to make us feel better about ourselves.

I wish you all the best for the future.

 

[*sarah-lou*]

After life being in the way and not being able to get on here much (which is apparently unacceptable because we all have lives but manage to get online to support each other), I'm here to say I'm done with minimins.

I've had fun on here whilst losing weight, but apparently once there, you get rejected by the people you went on the journey with and it's no longer the same.
Actually a bit gutted it's ended up like this, but there we go.
You're there for people and the second you say something they don't like, they're done with you.

Thanks to everyone that's supported me, but now I've got the real world and the support of my family, friends and boyfriend to keep me on track for the rest of my life.

I have only just read all that has been going on.

I wish you all the best for the future.

But you didn't need to make other people feel small and belittled because they don't have the support you have.

Some of us need the extra support and don't have the support of other people. Maybe if we all had the "real life" support you have then we would never of needed minimins.

But alas that isn't the case. Some of us have no support and conplusions we cant control and have come here to get advice and an unjudgemental hand to help.

IMO there is nothing worse than someone not being friendly and helping me with my mistakes and if you can't see someone was trying to be helpful then its a bad job.


I hope you get the support you need else where and manage to maintain.

 

[sparkledpixie]

Here to subscribe, I hope you don't mind but I am stealing A LOAD of your goals... we are a similar height with a similar start weight and a similar end goal. I hope I can echo in your footsteps to success

 

[elfy1807]

Well... it's been about 9 months since I last posted on here.

But I'm back, ready to start again.

Especially as I've just got back from a few days away to Butlins and am a porker right now haha.

A lot has happened in the last 9 months (no, no babies haha), but at the same time, barely little.

Quick recap - me and the boy are still together and going strong. He's moved out of his flat and has moved back in with his mum & stepdad, which I wasn't sure about to start with, but I'm used to it now.
We have now decided to start saving for a house deposit to buy (or he's even suggesting build) a house together somewhere in the foreseeable future (2017/2018 ish??)
I bought a new (to me) car in January because I bumped my old one before Christmas and felt deflated about it, so decided to just buy a new one. I bought a lovely white ford fiesta zetec and I love it.
I now have two jobs - alongside my job in the retail store, I also work for a supermarket as a dotcom picker - I do people's online shopping for them, and I love it! This is on saturday and sunday mornings between 0600 and 0945.
A couple of months ago I asked at my main job if there were any hours going, and the manager said budget was tight, however he could offer me an extra 6 hours a week on my wrong weekend day (I work alternate saturdays/sundays each week), so I've been working 6 days a week trying to boost my income. About 3 weeks ago a full-time supervisor position came up in store and I was urged to apply for it. I was hesitant because it wasn't a department I wanted to work on, but money's money. I wasn't successful with the supervisor job, however was offered permanent full time hours starting this week which I eagerly accepted (my first day back after holiday is tomorrow and will be working full time from then).
I quit the gym in October because I wasn't using it as much, and that's pretty much when my weight loss started going down hill.
For every "good" day I have, I tend to have about 10 "bad days" =(

So it's time I came back, if you'll all have me, and start again.

As I am now employed full time, I am planning on using some of the extra money and going back to the gym (once I've seen what my new shifts are going to be like and which gym will be most beneficial to me, ie working around shifts to go to the gym and classes).
I've also been doing the C25k program as I've signed up to Race For Life in July.

My scales weigh in kg, which is a pain in the neck, but therefore I will be working in kg also.

So here's the deal...

Current weight (as of 19/5/14) 69.3kg/10st 12
WW Goal weight 63.5kg/10st
New Goal weight 57.2kg/9st


The initial plan was to get down to my new goal weight of 9st by my birthday this year - my 1 year anniversary of hitting my 10st goal at Weight Watchers.
However, at just 9 weeks away to lost 26lbs is a little ambitious. Not impossible, but ambitious at just over 2.5lbs a week.
I'm gonna go for it though, and hopefully I'll be close.
Anything under 9 and a half stone would be lovely by then.

I'll be back shortly (hopefully) to update my goals and signature etc in a while - but must go get this hair dye washed out - desperately needed doing - I've pulled out over 20 grey hairs today =(