Katycakes Won't Give Up...

[Katycakes]

Not going anywhere Lelly, but need to post food choices for a while until I know I'm getting things right, and that isn't really fair to do over here, in case it upsets CDers. And I need some input from SW pros! Will still post here, don't worry! I am aiming for that maintainers banner, y'see! ;o)

xxx

 

[MinnieMel]

You are so thoughtful, KC.

 

[LellyCD]

Brilliant!

 

[Bess]

So glad you had a good day yesterday, have fun over the next few days. Another reason I like SW so much is that I don't feel I need to keep it secret, because it fits in so well with my normal social life. I don't like talking about myself/diet at all (I just bore you lot instead!) but if the occasion arises and someone says when I refuse a piece of cake (get me!) 'Are you dieting?' I happily say I am.
CD invited so many comments from people - all unwanted and unwelcome and mostly ill informed, which is why it stayed a secret.
Funny isn't it how unreserved people can be? Just about every Tom, Dick and Harry feel they have the right to comment on my weight/diet, in just the same way as people I hardly knew used to pat my tummy when I was pregnant! Huh! xx

 

[Katycakes]

Agree about the views other people feel forced to share, Bess! At the weekend was on a train with a middle-aged northern couple who loudly discussed their views on almost everything. They held forth for 10 or 15 minutes on an unfortunate friend who I guessed was doing Lighter Life. Rants ranged from:

'She should never have let herself get into that state in the first place! No restraint! What does she look like? She has to be morbidly obese... it's disgusting...' all the way to:

'She doesn't actually eat proper food, it can't be healthy, I've read about it in the paper... you can die from fad diets like that! Ridiculous! Why can't she just eat properly? She's lost two stone in three months, that can't be good for you, she'll make herself ill. I bet it costs a fortune. It'll all go back on again of course. And more. Don't know why she's bothering.'

I was aghast. Would have loved to knocked their heads together, but was comforted to see their views on other things were equally 'enlightened'.

Sigh.

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Agree about the views other people feel forced to share, Bess! At the weekend was on a train with a middle-aged northern couple who loudly discussed their views on almost everything. They held forth for 10 or 15 minutes on an unfortunate friend who I guessed was doing Lighter Life. Rants ranged from:

'She should never have let herself get into that state in the first place! No restraint! What does she look like? She has to be morbidly obese... it's disgusting...' all the way to:

'She doesn't actually eat proper food, it can't be healthy, I've read about it in the paper... you can die from fad diets like that! Ridiculous! Why can't she just eat properly? She's lost two stone in three months, that can't be good for you, she'll make herself ill. I bet it costs a fortune. It'll all go back on again of course. And more. Don't know why she's bothering.'

I was aghast. Would have loved to knocked their heads together, but was comforted to see their views on other things were equally 'enlightened'.

Sigh.

xxx

So a nice, peaceful journey then Katy?!! People used to say to me at work "Oh you on that stupid, faddy diet again?" It got to the point where I would mix my shakes up in secret.....I think it would have been better received if I had been snorting cocaine So agree with Bess that it is nice to be doing something more 'acceptable'. Also relate to all the people that thought they had a right to overstep the boundaries when it came to introducing themselves to the baby bump. Not just content with having a feel and a pat, I've had people actually asking me to lift up my top and let them have a look at it Yes, ok then mate if you show me your willy first!!!!

Aint nowt as queer as folk

 

[herewego]

Agree about the views other people feel forced to share, Bess! At the weekend was on a train with a middle-aged northern couple who loudly discussed their views on almost everything. They held forth for 10 or 15 minutes on an unfortunate friend who I guessed was doing Lighter Life. Rants ranged from:

'She should never have let herself get into that state in the first place! No restraint! What does she look like? She has to be morbidly obese... it's disgusting...' all the way to:

'She doesn't actually eat proper food, it can't be healthy, I've read about it in the paper... you can die from fad diets like that! Ridiculous! Why can't she just eat properly? She's lost two stone in three months, that can't be good for you, she'll make herself ill. I bet it costs a fortune. It'll all go back on again of course. And more. Don't know why she's bothering.'

I was aghast. Would have loved to knocked their heads together, but was comforted to see their views on other things were equally 'enlightened'.

Sigh.

xxx

Isn't it funny how people are so quick to criticise someones weight and then 2 seconds later criticise them for trying to do something about it!!

I used to be very anti VLCDs simply becuase I didn't understand them and also I never thought about the fact that using a VLCD for a short amount of time (in relative terms) is generally a lot better for your health than staying overweight or go on and off "accepted" diets for ever more and not really getting anywhere.

I only told one or two people about CD and used tetra's and bars at work. I'm convinced one of my colleagues is doing LL or CD as she has lost 5 stone in just a few months and she is incredibly vague when people ask. I haven't asked her and just told her how great she looks as she clearly didn't want to talk about the diet itself.

Agree that it's nice to be able to eat good food without anyone raising an eyebrow saying "so you're on a diet then?"

 

[Bess]

Not just content with having a feel and a pat, I've had people actually asking me to lift up my top and let them have a look at it Yes, ok then mate if you show me your willy first!!!!

Aint nowt as queer as folk

:8855:I wish I had the nerve or even thought about that! You make me weep with laughter! I think you've missed your vocation Chels - comedy, all the way, you're a natural! xx

Katy, what a pair those two on the train were! They must be related to my MIL while we were waiting to get a meal from a carvery, (standing in line, like school dinners - and she'd chosen to go there!?) She spotted a very fat woman who was carrying an enormous plateful away and said in a deliberately loud voice,'No wonder she's so big, being so greedy.' The poor woman went as red as a beetroot and I, for the first time, after listening to 35 years of her tactless remarks, said to MIL, 'How could you be so rude!' She didn't speak to me for a month! xx

 

[Bess]

Morning honey bun! Hope the sun is shining on you too and you have a lovely day in Glasgow. xxx

 

[herewego]

Morning KC - hope the weather is nice up north! Am just on a conference call with a glaswegian man (lovely man) and I can't understand a word he says . I love the Scottish accent but have to speak to people face to face as I really struggle on the phone... I've got myself into such a pickle by guessing what he's saying - luckily he's seeing the funny side and I swear his accent has just got even heavier!!

Have a lovely day!!

 

[Katycakes]

Hello mini peeps! Sun is indeed shining... yay!

Friends are still here, having a sleep in... last night the plans slipped ever so slightly, but only a bit, so flexible syns... I will not be discouraged. It was fine until the very end of evening when OH brought out cheese and cheese biscuits someone had given us at Xmas & which had been sitting ever since... he made a feta & tomato spread/dip (he has galley slave tendencies too) and it was sat on the table right in front of me for hours... not a good situation as it's one of my fave things. Ah well! It wasn't chocolate or cake, so that is something. Their kids had apple crumble, I had fruit & other adults had a bit of both. It was yum, so result!

Dog walk now (friends have their new dog with them & he has bonded with ours) then off to Glasgow. Hope everyone has a fab day!

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

:8855:I wish I had the nerve or even thought about that! You make me weep with laughter! I think you've missed your vocation Chels - comedy, all the way, you're a natural! xx
I don't know about that Bess, but I do have my moments. A lot of it is to cover up nerves, I take after my mum in that respect. My sex education was dirty jokes because that is the only way she could talk about *ahem* sex......that thing that a man does to a woman and I tend to treat life in the same way. If someone dies......see the funny side. If someone trips over in the street........howl your head off. If someone wants to have a serious conversation about something........crack a joke.
Katy, what a pair those two on the train were! They must be related to my MIL while we were waiting to get a meal from a carvery, (standing in line, like school dinners - and she'd chosen to go there!?) She spotted a very fat woman who was carrying an enormous plateful away and said in a deliberately loud voice,'No wonder she's so big, being so greedy.' The poor woman went as red as a beetroot and I, for the first time, after listening to 35 years of her tactless remarks, said to MIL, 'How could you be so rude!' She didn't speak to me for a month! xx

Oh how rude!!!??? I can't believe some people and well done to you for putting her in her place. Your MIL..... what's the make and model of her broomstick??? :8855:

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Morning Doll,

Sounds like you had a lovely evening and you didn't go overboard with the cheese etc., so that is good progress. Having a lovely evening with friends and family (and pooches) is what counts and food is very much a part of that, so you did really well with your choices.

Have a lovely time in Glasgow xx

 

[MinnieMel]

Hi KC,

It looks like a lovely day to be walking around in Glasgow. My DH's mum is from there, and he still has an aunt and cousins in the area. We visited a couple of years ago and were favourably impressed with gentrification.

MM

 

[LellyCD]

Evening Katy, hope you enjoyed your lovely walk in the sun, had some more decking time today...love it, then drove DD off to scout camp, what a fab weekend they picked for it, was quite jealous to leave her there.

Havea lush weekend hunny
x

 

[Bess]

Hope today was great and that you have a wonderful weekend. Isn't your daughter coming home soon? xx

 

[MinnieMel]

Hi KC,

I hope you are have a lovely weekend up north. You sure waited a long time for the good weather.

MM

 

[Katycakes]

the good weather is here... sigh! Hope everyone else is having a fab weekend too!

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Glad you are getting your share of the lovely weather Katy. Have a blissful Saturday xx

 

[Bess]

Oh yes!! :character00238: x