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Laura Croft
Happily maintaining
Just catching up. Glad all sounds well in your world 
Wales
Silver Member
Hmm, Sunday went off the rails a little - too much carb for lunch, was in to old eating patterns when in the house on my own, too much chocolate and not enough exercise and then a curry for dinner which was at my insistence. So there was no external pressure, no social pressure or choices from OH that I fit in to. It was all me and I chose at the time to do it. Lots to think about and up about 4lbs.
I am seeing my CDC tonight so will talk it through with her tonight.
Eyes need to get back on the goal here - reducing BMI for IVF. Yes I might be under the threshold but the lower I go the better for us all. So I am not at the end of my journey, the huge hurdle is over and all that weight is not coming back anywhere near me BUT I still have some way to go and that has to be in my mind.
TOTM is on the way and the celebrations for OHs birthday start on Friday night. So think I will be in for a bumpy week or so but this is life and I am going to enjoy myself and know that this doesn't need to involve over indulging and making bad choices.
Going to go away and think about strategies for the weekend. But keeping in my mind that if I hadn't started this diet my jeans would be a size 22 (if not a 24 if I had carried on eating as I was) and not a size 14. I have already changed my life this year so there is no reason that I can't make another change, and I don't want to be in a 16 for Christmas I want to be in a 12.
I can do this, I have done this, we can do this.
Hugs to all xxx
I am seeing my CDC tonight so will talk it through with her tonight.
Eyes need to get back on the goal here - reducing BMI for IVF. Yes I might be under the threshold but the lower I go the better for us all. So I am not at the end of my journey, the huge hurdle is over and all that weight is not coming back anywhere near me BUT I still have some way to go and that has to be in my mind.
TOTM is on the way and the celebrations for OHs birthday start on Friday night. So think I will be in for a bumpy week or so but this is life and I am going to enjoy myself and know that this doesn't need to involve over indulging and making bad choices.
Going to go away and think about strategies for the weekend. But keeping in my mind that if I hadn't started this diet my jeans would be a size 22 (if not a 24 if I had carried on eating as I was) and not a size 14. I have already changed my life this year so there is no reason that I can't make another change, and I don't want to be in a 16 for Christmas I want to be in a 12.
I can do this, I have done this, we can do this.
Hugs to all xxx
Good Morning Wales!
Your head seems to be in the right place which is great! This IS life and we can't make the best choices all the time - we're only human! You have done so well and I'm sure by making healthy choices most of the time you'll reach your size 12 goal by Xmas.
Your head seems to be in the right place which is great! This IS life and we can't make the best choices all the time - we're only human! You have done so well and I'm sure by making healthy choices most of the time you'll reach your size 12 goal by Xmas.
Katycakes
Stubborn tortoise
Morning Wales... your post so reminds me of me when I am trying to get back to normal after a day or so off-plan... it's as if I deliberately take another off-plan day to make the 'treat-eating' last a bit longer. Taking advantage, making it stretch out... and one more day in my case often ends up being a week of binge-choices. I could see this was a pattern and a trigger, would make good choices on the off-plan day, then 'reward' myself with bad choices afterwards before 'getting back to it', and that was a slipperly slope. Took me forever to stop that pattern, and fear it is something I will always have to keep an eye on.
BUT... a big part of it is not beating yourself up, trying to find a happy place where you are content with your food choices... and stay there. You can do it Wales. You have everything to motivate you and have done so well, but at this point our bodies do seem to rebel a bit, I think they are secretly trying to haul us back to where we started, and THAT is NOT gonna happen. You really can do this, and you ARE doing it, you just have to keep ON doing it.
Big hugs.
xxx
BUT... a big part of it is not beating yourself up, trying to find a happy place where you are content with your food choices... and stay there. You can do it Wales. You have everything to motivate you and have done so well, but at this point our bodies do seem to rebel a bit, I think they are secretly trying to haul us back to where we started, and THAT is NOT gonna happen. You really can do this, and you ARE doing it, you just have to keep ON doing it.
Big hugs.
xxx
Wales
Silver Member
Up and Down and 6lbs on at official weigh in on Tuesday - that is not going inmy yelow book and CDC is going to come back in a months time to sign off my final weight. Huge wake up call as that is the first time that I have not recorded a loss. And I know the exact reason, so therefore I can change that.
Going to be more conscious about the damage I am doing with bad choices at the time of making them - have the mental pain with the physical pleasure (is it really a pleasure??)
Really not liking the admin set up at Jimmys, have been calling them since Friday and no one has been able to help me - have had my number taken 4 times and no one has called me back. So I fired off an email before I left work yesterday so will see if I get a response today. Even if someone calls to say - sorry have no update - that is better than silence.
Saw my acu last night, lovely to see her again. Very positive treatment plan to nourish my blood and balance my yang Back next week for first session and to pick up my herbs. We have set out a schedule to get this full on acu treatment in before I start the IVF drugs. But until we know the treatment start date from the clinic we can't really plan! But she is a really positive woman and I left feeling like I had real practical support which was lovely. I have a book she suggested "Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal" which I have never read in full detail so that is my current bed time reading!
Only meant to be on for 10 mins - oops, better get off and in the shower. Hope all are well, and will catch up later xxx
ps. I bought my first pair of high street knee high boots yesterday, and I can wear with skinny jeans tucked in. Progress or what
Going to be more conscious about the damage I am doing with bad choices at the time of making them - have the mental pain with the physical pleasure (is it really a pleasure??)
Really not liking the admin set up at Jimmys, have been calling them since Friday and no one has been able to help me - have had my number taken 4 times and no one has called me back. So I fired off an email before I left work yesterday so will see if I get a response today. Even if someone calls to say - sorry have no update - that is better than silence.
Saw my acu last night, lovely to see her again. Very positive treatment plan to nourish my blood and balance my yang
Back next week for first session and to pick up my herbs. We have set out a schedule to get this full on acu treatment in before I start the IVF drugs. But until we know the treatment start date from the clinic we can't really plan! But she is a really positive woman and I left feeling like I had real practical support which was lovely. I have a book she suggested "Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal" which I have never read in full detail so that is my current bed time reading!Only meant to be on for 10 mins - oops, better get off and in the shower. Hope all are well, and will catch up later xxx
ps. I bought my first pair of high street knee high boots yesterday, and I can wear with skinny jeans tucked in. Progress or what
Katycakes
Stubborn tortoise
Big hugs for the knee length boots!!!! I haven't done this yet, but I think I could... at last any kind of boot is possible!!!
Sorry for the gain hun but you're learning huge amounts just now (and passing that knowledge on, so thank you!) so maybe in the long run the gain will be worth it. And I know it won't stay a gain for long, either. You are getting there, and if there is a little wobble at the very end, that's OK, as long as it isn't a falling off the edge of the cliff, and I don't think for a minute that it is. You are strong and focused and inspiring Wales, and you are getting to your goals, no doubt about it.
The delay for IVF must be torture hun, I hope you get a response from them soon so that you can begin to plan. Your Acu sounds like a star! That book is one I have heard of, would love to hear your verdicts on it... I suspect there are messages inside for all of us.
Be strong Wales, you are doing great... remember that. Those boots are made for walking!
xxx
Sorry for the gain hun but you're learning huge amounts just now (and passing that knowledge on, so thank you!) so maybe in the long run the gain will be worth it. And I know it won't stay a gain for long, either. You are getting there, and if there is a little wobble at the very end, that's OK, as long as it isn't a falling off the edge of the cliff, and I don't think for a minute that it is. You are strong and focused and inspiring Wales, and you are getting to your goals, no doubt about it.
The delay for IVF must be torture hun, I hope you get a response from them soon so that you can begin to plan. Your Acu sounds like a star! That book is one I have heard of, would love to hear your verdicts on it... I suspect there are messages inside for all of us.
Be strong Wales, you are doing great... remember that. Those boots are made for walking!
xxx
Wales
Silver Member
Very true Katy, very true...
Well we have a date, yippee, I am so relieved just to have a bit of plan. We go to see them on 1 December for a nurse consultation, this is when we go through the plan and get our drugs issued. We then physically start the treatment on the first day of my Jan period. So whilst it isn't this year, it very nearly is, plus we will be treated in the new clinic which is only 10 mins from my work and I will have a full year of holiday leave that I can draw on as well as taking hospital time.
I really do feel relieved that I can plan the next few months, I am not the most organised soul but I do need to know what is coming up.
Food has been good today, cereal, jacket pot and beans for lunch, grapes and a nectarine for a snack and am having stuffed peppers from M&S for tea (yum).
Thanks for your support ladies and kind words, it means loads. It is wonderful to be able to share ramblings and read others words of wisdom and get a bit of clarity and perspective!
Next few days are going to be hectic with OHs birthday and I am just going to go with the flow and enjoy myself but with my eyes definitely still on the prize.
I am so feeling, and giving, the love tonight
Wales
Silver Member
Thanks Katy & Bess x
Unashamed food porn - oven baked monkfish wrapped in parma ham with pea and king prawn risotto - OMG, delightful, exquiste, stupendous etc etc... I felt in control, satisfied, pleased with mychoice. Even had a couple of glasses of wine And I felt confident and well turned out and my lovely new very high shoes from Next were so comfortable and I showed quite a bit of leg and erm I think they are a little skinny (for me)
Lovely all round xxx
Unashamed food porn - oven baked monkfish wrapped in parma ham with pea and king prawn risotto - OMG, delightful, exquiste, stupendous etc etc... I felt in control, satisfied, pleased with mychoice. Even had a couple of glasses of wine
And I felt confident and well turned out and my lovely new very high shoes from Next were so comfortable and I showed quite a bit of leg and erm I think they are a little skinny (for me) Lovely all round xxx
Julie Williams
Silver Member
Just catching up on everyones diarys. Glad you enjoyed your night honey bet you looked a knockout. Know exactly what your going through with your weight and now having a date for the start of treatment will help no end with that because now you have a focus and something to aim for. I was a bit complacent as you can see on my diary and have joined SW which seems to be doing the trick for me and as all the foods you can eat any amount of but healthy eating is promoted so will work well towards IVF too!!! Hope you enjoy your weekend xxxx
curlywurly1234
Cambridge Consultant
Hey hon..
Hope your well.
So pleased you have a date for starting your IVF treatment its great to have that to focus off and a great time to have it in the new year!!
I will be keeping everything crossed for you like I do for Julie as I so know what its like to go through.........
Keep smiling hon
lotsa love x
Hope your well.
So pleased you have a date for starting your IVF treatment its great to have that to focus off and a great time to have it in the new year!!
I will be keeping everything crossed for you like I do for Julie as I so know what its like to go through.........
Keep smiling hon
lotsa love x
Thanks Katy & Bess x
Unashamed food porn - oven baked monkfish wrapped in parma ham with pea and king prawn risotto - OMG, delightful, exquiste, stupendous etc etc... I felt in control, satisfied, pleased with mychoice. Even had a couple of glasses of wine
Lovely all round xxx
Great! Well done. That's what it's all about!! xx
Watergirl
Rock Solid
Hey Wales!!! Great news on getting a date. Just catching up on peoples' diaries, starting with you. That meal sounds delish
Roll on Xmas and size 12 - am with you on that, as I've put on a stone in Orlando and back into 14 instead of 12.
Maybe we should start a new challenge?
Hope all is well with you hun x
Roll on Xmas and size 12 - am with you on that, as I've put on a stone in Orlando and back into 14 instead of 12.
Maybe we should start a new challenge?
Hope all is well with you hun x
Wales
Silver Member
Had a great weekend celebrating OHs birthday, lots of dancing on Sat night but nowhere near enough to burn off the booze that was consumed! Am on holiday this week and have family staying until Thursday so there are family meals and dinners out planned but am enjoying it. We then go to London for a long weekend on Friday with a party on Saturday night, so more dancing again to counteract the booze (will have to dance until the following weekend I think)
Clothes are a little tight and I know the scales are up but think I will go for a run tomorrow morning. Am at the acupuncturist again on Wednesday morning and will start my treatment again, which I am looking forward to.
Liz - I think another challenge would be great. My next big milestone is the IVF appt on 1 Dec when I want to be around BMI 28 and I think I will have around 7lbs to lose and that is 7 weeks tomorrow. Enough time to make some changes before the Christmas period???
Clothes are a little tight and I know the scales are up but think I will go for a run tomorrow morning. Am at the acupuncturist again on Wednesday morning and will start my treatment again, which I am looking forward to.
Liz - I think another challenge would be great. My next big milestone is the IVF appt on 1 Dec when I want to be around BMI 28 and I think I will have around 7lbs to lose and that is 7 weeks tomorrow. Enough time to make some changes before the Christmas period???
LizzMB
WILL be Slim!
do you mind me jumping on this challenge ladies? 2nd December is my birthday so that would fit in nicely with losing a stone for me.
Wales, glad you have your appointment! VERY exciting!
Hope you had a fabulous holiday hun! the weight will have been worth it!
xxx
