20 somethings

Fran glad you have had a lovely day, nice and relaxed :)

Laura, great you're having a fab time! Enjoy your time off and eat, drink and be merry :D
 
Ooh you lucky duck at only half a lb up! Half a stone will be me let off lightly I think. Mum has made her ameretti chocolate torte.

My nieces and their mum are here now. They are so funny. Nate was playing with their tea set and they were playing with his tool bench. Nate's got some more toys, including a 1m inflatable dinosaur and a big dinosaur bouncer (like a space hopper but with feet and is a dinosaur. He went nuts on it. As did a knickerless Amber. So funny. Alyssa was loving opening the presents when she realised what she was doing! And I was glad I saved one back for Nate to open. The girls are like little whirlwinds and are becoming lovely little sharers
 
Ladies, I'm back and starting from scratch tomoro.. I realised how much commitment is needed for SW and I'm going back to group as well this week. It may be
money that I can't do with spending but I'm going to have to do it.

I had a good xmas, and tonight, I am going out in a dress I haven't worn in a while! Haven't stepped on the scales but plan to tomorrow morning when I come home from
my friends. Thought putting a wee message up here will motivate me into getting back into things!
 
Hi ladies!!! Well I got an email about the mothercare sale today and the car seat we wanted to buy for jack was in the sale, so our plans for a quiet day in went out the window and we braved the sales! Went and ordered the car seat which will be delivered on Friday and we went clothes shopping for me :) My Christmas money paid for the camera I got so my birthday money was still going spare (it's not my birthday until 26th january, but i know what i get off everyone each year so thought i'd get more out of it in the sales). So I gave myself a limit of £70 which is about what I should get, I may get more, but don't want to count on money I don't always get, so just taking into consideration how much I get every year from my mum and dad and grandparents. I've bought 3 pairs of work trousers, 5 tops, one cardigan, one pair of jeggings (oh my god, they're the future!) and a blazer, all in size 12 and 14!!! So I'm sorted for a work wardrobe now :) Though now i've got to go through the mountains of clothes that I have that wont fit or I don't wear or don't like anymore and get rid of them because i can never find the few clothes I have that do fit me! My wardrobe will be empty by the time I get through with that lot! Going to give them all to charity at our church, they're currently collecting for people who cant afford anything, so sure they will be appreciated there :)

Well, Jack is currently sat on the floor surrounded by toys he got yesterday, and instead he is playing with one of Chrissy's (the dog's) new toys that she got yesterday instead!!! Babies, eh!?!

Ben and I have made our way through the whole of one of our boxes of chocolates, about 750 calories in half a box! But today is my last day having what I want and then tomorrow i'm back on it! Got a big fat pork crackling joint in the oven and I WILL be having some of the crackling when it's cooked! :)

Glad you're all having a nice day! We're trying to clean up from the chaos of yesterday and it's taking SOOOO long! Probably because we keep stopping to play with toys with Jack lol :) He's feeling a bit better now and last night he slept through for the first time in days (and it was my night to get up with him, yay!) So I got a lovely long uninterrupted sleep! :) He's still very snotty and got a cough but it's nowhere near as bad as it was, so I think he's on the mend.

Just about to have a lovely baileys now.... :) Enjoy the rest of your day ladies! xx
 
Wow Sammy what a lot of wonderful news! I am so pleased for you. And im really pleased jack is feeling better. I'm afraid he will be the same for his birthday if he is anything like mine. Just wait for next christmas. It has been great. Dreading the "i want!" stage.

Im avoiding the sales this year. Sales are pretty much constant now. I had a look online and there's nothing I really want so I'm saving my pennies.

Good idea going through your old big stuff. I will need to do that again, maybe after losing my Xmas gain ;)
 
I need the room and it's long overdue a clear out! I wouldnt mind but i only wear a select few things so everything just sits there taking up space anyway and we need all the space we can get now so a clear out is in order! Jack finally has his appetite back! So he just had a christmas dinner :) I've just had some pork and some crackling, i'm not actually that hungry at the moment, probably because it's just been a picky day.

Kind of looking forward to getting back on plan tomorrow though. We got a call from the mother in law yesterday (we had a massive do when I was pregnant and we fell out. She lives in Spain and we went on a day out and she was drinking and I was nearly 20 weeks pregnant with Jack, so when she wanted to drive us home and she was slurring her words I said we would get a taxt. She went mad, said I was a witch and a drama queen and that she would drive with her sons in the back and she loved them more than my baby and chucked me and ben out early and made us pay £200 we didn't have for a flight home because we had to get home early.) Anyway, since then we've hardly talked, but she did pop over to see jack for a couple of hours when he was a couple of months old. I've always had a love - hate relationship with her as I got on really well with her when we first met, but then 2 years ago we were in spain and even though she was the exact same weight as me, she couldn't stop commenting on how fat i was and how i'd be pretty if i lost weight, which really upset me. She then went on to have a gastric band fitted and lose loads of weight (supposedly for medical reasons, she apparently had a hernia that they wouldn't operate on until she lost weight) but then when she had the band removed she magically didnt need the operation on the hernia! Anyway, to cut a long story short, she's gained all the weight back now and I have lost over five stone since having jack (3 stone 9lbs since I last saw her) by doing it the healthy way on Slimming World. She called yesterday to say they're coming to england for 4 days on the 7th january and that she wants us to travel to pontefract to see them at bens grans because she doesn't have her photo license so cant drive a car, so we will be seeing her on the 9th for a few hours. I can't wait to see her face when she sees how much weight i've lost and she's just put all hers back on ! I know that may sound petty, but she really is a false two faced cow bag. She reackons i'm with ben for money (hang on a minute, ben hasn't worked or brought a penny into our relationship for a year and 10 months out of the 3 years and 4 months we've been together, i've paid for everything and bought us a house!) and that i'm after an inheritance from them (they have a house and an apartment in spain, both mortgaged to the hilt, and have just bought a rental on a bar over there too), so what she thinks i'm after is beyond me! I really can't stand her, so i'm so glad she lives in spain and i don't see her very often. If she thinks we're bringing jack over to visit she can think again, i'm not taking the chance that she decides to have a hissy fit and chucks us out with jack in tow too next time, you just can't do that with a baby. Sorry for the rant, but as you can see, i don't think much to her skills as a mother, a mother in law, a grandma or even a person really! xx
 
Well I'm up and about to get ready for weigh in, not sure how I will have done, have a sneaky feeling that I won't have done too badly, but also think that I will potentially have another gain next week after 3 weeks in London, so we will see! Hope you are all having a lovely day, I'm going to hit the sales today, hopefully get a few bargains, will post some pics later on!! Xxxx
 
Hope weigh in goes well Laura!

Ugh feeling hungover today, yuck. Not drinking until at least after January for several reasons. Firstly it's terrible for slimming world of course ha. Also I have always got terrible hangovers, worse than they should be considering what I have drank. As well, I don't like the effect alcohol has on me. The volume of my voice goes up and I shout for some reason, I do stupid things I'd never do if I hadn't a drink (not big things or anything, just silly little things, but silly things I shouldn't do and don't like that I'm doing them). I feel myself I get drunk very easily, and I don't like it. I just generally don't like the effect it has on me and what happens if I drink. It has too much control. And I feel like I need a break because I've lost that ability to have a few and stop. Not that I'm drinking myself into a stupor, I'm just drinking for a bit of confidence and getting to that shouty tipsy state I don't like. Sorry there's a rant and a half! I feel like I needed to get it out so that I lay out why I'm stopping for a while! I've gone long amounts of time where I haven't drank at all and gone out lots and it hasn't bothered me. It's when I've got to a stage where I feel like I need the drink to go out and be confident that I know I need to have a break and remind myself I don't! Plus ill save money, if I'm tipsy I seem to think I'm loaded and buy everyone a drink ha.

Apologies everyone I apologised for the rant and then continued to ramble on!

Oh and my granny came home yesterday, which was great. She's not the best but it's great to have her :)

Ok back to my hangover, ouch my head!
 
Hi everyone! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas- had a scan through and sounds like you did! I had a great time, got my iPad amongst loads of other things and felt very spoilt! We were each given some euros ready for our holiday next month which was fab cos I had out aside my spending money already. Took the equivalent out and went sales shopping- yay!
Got some lovely bits although I do have to change a few tops from next, I'm between a 12 and a 14 and I always find next sizes come up small. New look and topshop the 12s were perfect so didn't try them on in next as changing room queue was ridiculous, got them home and the tops felt a bit like a straight jacket so will be heading back to change them today!
Official weigh in today and I'm up 2lbs which is perfectly reasonable considering I've eaten my weight in cheese the last few days. Was given a cheese selection as part of a hamper, with a gingerbread house, curly wurlys etc and I know I can't give them away. Christmas comes but once a year and ill be getting back on the exercise in the new year in preparations for skiing so will help to give me a boost.
mike is back to work tomorrow and again on Monday which is a bit rubbish but will give me chance to watch and sob over the westlife farewell show that I got on DVD. Saw the screening at the cinema with my mum and we were both bawling our eyes out. we were at the boyzone tour in 98 where westlife supported as a brand new band and we were at one of the first dates so were there right at the beginning and as close to being there right at the need as we could be :)
Think today's plan is to change the tops, meet my friend for coffee then home to relax. No wine today! Maybe...;)
 
Ladies...I've stayed the same!!!!!!


I don't know how or why but I Am going to take it and run!!! I am however off to London in the morning for 3 days, so will be expecting a potential catch up gain next week, but I'm ok with that! This must be the first year in forever that I have managed to avoid a weight gain over actual Xmas day!!! Woohoo!!!

Was meant to be going to the sales today but my friend has text and cancelled as she is feeling poorly, so I am going to chill out ow, get something to eat, and invite oh round for a cuddle and some choccys on the couch this afternoon! Xxx
 
Afternoon girls, long time no see! Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas! :D Mine was really nice, love family time and got some lovely gifts of course. Ate lots of naughty food etc! I haven't weighed in and i'm expecting 1 6/7lb gain tomorrow but I actually couldn't care less and don't feel remotely guilty. Christmas is once a year...if we can't enjoy ourselves then, when can we!

Won't be on here a great deal, will catch up more in the new year! xx
 
Hello everyone! I've been all over the place doing Christmas with various bits of my family and the OH's. I started okay, taking grab and go healthy extras with me, but with all the nibbles around it's just gone out the window! I didn't think I'd been too bad - I've steered clear of chocolates and only had one meal a day (a roast with lots of veg) but the scales suggested a 4.5 lb gain this morning. I've got weigh in tonight so we'll see...

I had a lovely Christmas. I did presents with John's family on Christmas Eve. They really spoilt me with a camembert baker (sooo not SW friendly!), some fluffy pjs and a big Molton Brown set. John got me some David and Goliath pjs with a tortoise on them, a big fluffy animal hat/scarf/gloves thing and a gorgeous picture that made me cry...

ForumRunner_20121227_152838.png

We've played lots of board games and looked after my uncle who was doing his first Christmas as a single parent. We we're going to see The Hobbit today but we decided we didn't want to leave the house at all - other than obligatory WI!

Congratulations to all of you with STS and minimal gains! I think I need another Christmas miracle...
 
Ciara I'm exactly the same about alcohol but have to say if I didn't drink (sounds like SUCH an excuse) I wouldn't enter in to the situations my friends like-I went to the pub sober on Saturday and talked to one friend who I came with...just didn't enjoy it and felt really paranoid (spot the freak).
I was out last night, obv very messy but am fine today and out again tonight and that's me til New Year. Scales are showing a 4lb gain at the mo eek though after tomorrow I have 3 full days of being on plan (no syns) before weigh in so hopefully I can keep the gain to 4lb or lower.

That's great that your gran is home :D Hopefully she'll start to pick up!
 
Yeah Jenna depending on my mood I can be fine in pubs etc but it just depends.

Thanks hun she's very weak but its great to have her out!
 
Urgh Sammy your MiL sounds bloody awful, but getting to rub her face in it is awesome. How did you do it? "Oh, it all came off pretty easy... and ooh yes, I can have another glass of wine" haha. My grandma called my mum a prostitute, a whore, a cheat, she started going on that mum's boobs had grown once. Now she's bitter, infirm and stuck with a daughter who said she is like a stranger to her. You get out of life what you sew, so let her be bitter and you just wriggle your little bum :D


Ciara, and Jenna, I know what you mean about drink. I hate not feeling in control which is why i don't drink often now. But I did used to, for the same reasons as you guys! I think you'll do well without it Ciara :) So glad your nan is home, I'm sure she'll be improving every day :)

Scarlet, that's fab! only a 2lb gain! Well done girl! and yay for xmas presents and sales shopping. I've not done any sales shopping this year. The sales seem to be all year round so the boxing day hoo haa doesn't seem worth it. your 2lbs will be off this week easy peasy.

Laura WOW! you must have been one of the VERY few not to gain. woop woop :) Still enjoy yourself in London though chick

Hey stranger (Jo) :) I have exctly the same attitude as you, but just with a bigger gain. hahaha. I will find out tomorrow too. Then I'm naughty tomorrow (birthday law) and then back 100% surprising how much less crap I can put away now, despite really trying to eat everything in sight! heehee. I will wish you luck in getting the festive gain off asap

Emily, your Christmas sounds lovely :) I hope weigh in went well this evening. whatever the gain I know you'll get it back off in a flash!

Ooh, Jenna, good luck with WI on Sunday, I hope you can get it down.


I have had a lovely time over xmas and beyond. My nieces went home this afternoon and quietness descended on the house. Gosh they are loud, and very funny. They were playing with the toolbench and nate was playing with their tea set. I know what he's getting for his birthday! haha. My brother got him an inflatable dinosaur, like a space hopper, but in the shape of a dinosaur. It is so much fun. When my mum asked me to change the thermostat I bounced on the dinosaur to do it, prompting much laughter from the adults and the three kids to chase me, push me off and climb on themselves. Cheeky Monsters! This afternoon we played with playmobile and I build a cockerel and an owl in megabloks. They're very good. I've had alcohol, crisps, chocolate, biscuits, white bread and butter. fab! but I feel a bit sick after so much sweet stuff. One last day of naughtiness. Quite looking forward to being back on plan. Weigh in tomorrow morning. So long as it is less than a stone I'm happy.
 
I really need a new sw pack, do you know if you can get them if u sign up as an online member or if its just if u go to group? Maybe I will have to scour ebay lol
 
Back
Top