20 somethings

I think I'm already an addict lol bought loads of new wool and two new hooks yesterday cos I want to try a hat pattern.

TMI ALERT!
Continuation of the poo debate. I went! I actually went loads. Typical since I bought an enema in the chemist this morning. But I still feel that I'm not finished so I'll use that when I get home at lunch time. In my mother's right now waiting to collect Fia from playgroup.
 
Lol, that is typical, I usually go Wednesday night when weigh in is Wednesday morning. Drives me mad. At least you'll have shifted some bulk as my consultant calls it.

Good luck with the hat, can't wait to see it. We still have my horror nieces. It reminds me that Nate is really quite placid mostly. We have had wee on the floor, drinks on the floor, snatching, pushing, whining, "but why-ing", tantrums and wailing. Thank god I have weigh in tomorrow morning and they are setting off home at noon! Then I need not fear they will find the knitting... again.

I had another peek at the scales this morning which is pointless as they are utterly random in accordance with sw scales. So why do I keep checking. I like the ones that say I'm 15 stone, hopefully soon I won't like them anymore. It goes up to 21 stone so it shouldn't just stop at 15.

What yarn did you get by the way?
 
I think I am addicted! I got told you can get wool on special offer from also at the moment, I think it was 5 balls of Aran wool for £6.99? I could have got that wrong though. Going to go have a look and see what there is. I'm already into my next scarf for my mum :)

The hat is really cute, not got the confidence to make it quite yet though! Xx
 
Congratulations on the losses ladies!!

My stupid internet conection is playing up so I haven't been able to log in for a couple of days.

After being ill last week and knowing I don't have to go to group this week I have really gone off plan and I am eating anything I want/or that is quick or easy so I need to change my mindset.

I think the hardest thing for me is actually believing I will lose the weight, even when I am 'good' I still go to group and expect to gain and never believe that I have really lose weight as I just don't believe I can lose weight even though I really want to. Bit dumb but I have wanted to lose weight for about 5 years and keep trying but they ending up bigger so I am at that brick wall again. I have no intention of stopping group so will not give up but it's a struggle

Loving the knitting/crochet talk :)

Does anyone else watch the Great British Bake Off? I love it but it doesn't half make me hungry!!

I have also booked a holiday with my family at the end of the month so OH is being left here on his own so I hope he doesn't trash the place but I also know I am likely to go really off plan on those few days so I need to follow plan from tomorrow so I can enjoy my break lol
 
Star, I know exactly what you mean. I've always been trying to lose as well, and always ended up bigger than ever. It's hard to believe you can do it, when you've been failing for so long. But hey, you've already lost a stone! Just keep chipping away and you'll be a masterpiece in no time, my love!

I lost 2lb tonight at WI. I know 2lb is really good weight loss for a week, and I'm probably being silly for not being happy with that, but I felt like I deserved more lol
 
Ignore me! I just had a chat with myself, and realised I've gotten to my 4st, and reached my second interim target, and now have less than 5st left to lose. I'm doing well. Especially with the health concerns lately! Positive mental attitude has a lot to do with how well you do...so I'm being positive. Very positive!
 
4 stone award! Fabulous! Super jealous and pleased for you. I have weigh in tomorrow and hope to do as well as you :) if you feel like you deserved more then be good this week and you may see it next week. 1lb = about 3500cals, so 2lbs is a deficit of 7000cals. A big difference when you think of it like that.

Star, fresh day tomorrow. Food diary out and back on plan missy :) you have lost a stone, most people don't manage that. So lets get the rest of it gone so you can feel as fab as you are :) I love the bake off but i have to tape it because mum hates mel&sue. I craved beef Wellington so bad that week! Where are you off on holiday?

Oh, mandy, remember you thinking you were going to sts because the scales weren't moving? 2lbs is very different to a maintain :)
 
Thanks Fran and Mandy, I know it's silly but it's really hard to change your mindset so it's taking me a while, it's also hard as I don't really have any support other than on here so I really appriciate every bit of help I get from all of you :) I have loads of portioned and cooked meals that are syn free and have 1/3 superfree of veg in the freezer so I don't know why I don't just eat them esp as none need to be defrosted first. Seeing the losses you two, and others, have had is really motivational for me as it's proof you can lose weight :)

Mandy, you have done really well 2lbs off is great!! You weren't expecting it so you should be pleased, I know I am pleased for you!! I can not wait for the day I get my 4 stone award!!

I'm going to Cornwall and my birthday falls whilst we're away so it'll be really nice to be able to celebrate it in my favorite bit of the UK so I am really looking forward to it.

That beef wellington mmm that looked amazing!! How I wish pastry was SW friendly, I just like it as it's such a nice show and none of the *****ing or backstabbing of normal reality shows, I want Brendon to win. I really do love the show, it's probably my fav thing on at the moment until Merlin starts again on Saturday haha I am such a loser ;)

And I started a new job today...I had an interview for it a couple of weeks ago and didn't hear back so assumed I hadn't got it but got a phone call yesterday offering it to me and asking how soon can I start so I said today and first day is now done!! Luckily I have enough holiday to cover my time away as it wasn't booked when I had the interview. It's only 3 months so will only be until the end of the year but still it's good news after the last few months with no income after my redundancy and you never know where it may lead...but I will miss my day time fix of this site as we now have our internet sorted
 
Oh I am so pleased you have a job! That's wonderful. I'm living in the west country at the moment and it is nice down here.

For me it isn't meals but all the extra junk on top of it. You'll get there, so organised having that all ready. I was going to have left over cottage pie tomorrow but the kids all wanted seconds.... Little wee piggies. I keep debating trying diet coke chicken. I might be brave and try it. Normally I only really like proper food, not takeaway stuff. But if I don't like it i'll just have a dozen quail eggs. Hahaha.

BBO is so good for that niceness. I don't think you can bake and be hateful or vindictive, it comes through and makes your cake fall. Hmm flour and fat... It is never going to be free, just delicious. Everyone is loving brendon. I think that dani is a bit of a dark horse, and the girl with the brown bob reminds me so much of the girl who looked like her last year, all perfect and stuff.
 
Fran, I'm not sure what yarn it was. I don't really check much, only to make sure it's dk, and then hold it up to the lady in the shop and ask if it's okay for what I want to do. I got white for the hat, and black, pink and yellow for decoration...I'm not saying what exactly the design is, it's gonna be a surprise. It'll be a surprise if I get it right, actually, I spent most of last night doing it, went through a whole ball of yarn and it just kept getting bigger, so I must have been adding extra stitches somewhere!
Stop weighing yourself... I think we should all stop doing that, actually. It's not good, cos if we don't see a loss it upsets us and makes us think "ah well, it's going wrong anyway, so I may as well eat this."
My Consultant has actually told me to bring my scales to group next week so she can "mind them" for me haha. Fingers crossed for you at WI today!

Star, congrats on the new job! A temp job is better than no job at all.. trust me, I know this! And you never know, they may keep you on after!

Clare... get off your knees, I just washed the floor! Besides, at least you came back and didn't just give up altogether! Well done! Very proud of you, because the easier option is to give up.

Girls!!!!! My group does this thing where the raffle is only about once every month or so. They hold over the money and when there's enough in the kitty, they buy an airfryer and raffle that off. I WON IT! My Consultant rang me this morning. Actually, she's been trying to ring me all night, but my phone was on silent in my handbag! Argh! Anyway, I won the airfryer...so excited! Do any of you have one? What can I make in it, besides chips?
 
Clare, you should hold your head up high, it takes a lot to come back after crummy weeks. Any gain will soon come off again.


Mandy that's amazing! What a brilliant raffle prize! We have a Phillips air fryer, to be onward I only ever really do chips in it because I am addicted to them. You can cook other stuff in it. My mum did a quiche in it a couple of times, but I just use the oven so I can do one big one, not many small ones.


Pleased to report I lost 2lbs too. Just 2lbs more to my 4 stone award, and 3lbs to hit my 1st interim Target. I think I will do another no chocolate week and hope to do another 2lbs to get that 4stone award. I'm secretly competing with another lady. A few weeks ago she'd lost 4 stone 9lbs, she has gained some back (4st3.5lbs) and I have lost more, so I am fast approaching her. After that I have no one else to catch up to so I'm worried I will feel a bit stuck.
 
You can just buddy up with me, then Fran! We've lost just about the same, and we can keep each other going, especially throughout Halloween, Xmas and New Year! They're always my downfall...holidays, birthdays, etc.
 
I've lost similar too ladies! I've lost 2 stone 5lbs on slimming world in the last 14 weeks but I also lost the one and a half stone pregnancy weight before that so I've lost 3 stone 12lbs in the last 23 weeks! We can all push eachother on and motivate each other! We've all done so well, if someone had told me 5 months ago that I'd have lost almost 4 stone by now I'd have thought they were nuts, I never believed I could do it! Only 2 stone 10lbs to my final target of 10 stone 7lbs! :) xx
 
Oh gosh Sammy those lbs are running in terror from you! It's a good idea mandy. I dont know why I like competing with people who don't know. It is a bit nutty. Watching the bake off now. Son is napping and parents are taking my nieces home. Had a jacket potato with beans and a pear and plum, still hungry so I am "let[ing] it land". You're aiming so much higher than i am mandy, you want 5 stone by Halloween, I am aiming for 4st7lbs by x-mas. New years and my birthday will be fine. We never make a fuss of my birthday and I don't go out for new years. Christmas I am unsure. I am worried I will just want to eat loads of chocolate. Mum did slimming world and more or less still follows the plan so it wont be too bad, but x-mas eve we have fish pie (fine) and sticky toffee pudding (eep) and Christmas pudding on Christmas day. Hopefully we can gee each other through :)
 
I would like 5st off for Halloween, and ideally to be at 12st for Xmas, but you know what? With all the health problems I've been having lately, and finding it so hard to shift the weight, I'll be happy to just be in the 12's by Xmas, even 12st 13lb would do me lol
What I'm doing this week is relaxing a bit more. I'm not going to drive myself nuts. I'm going right back to basics and to what I was eating during the first couple of months.
I usually had toast for breakfast (heb +4 syns for flora light), stir fry for lunch with rice, and a meat and veg dinner, or bolognese or something. So today I've been doing that. I'll usually end up with ten syns or thereabouts by evening which I will use on whatever I fancy. I'm going to use all my syns this week.

Sammy! You should change your stats, then, and join us. 4st here you girls come. I'm keeping the 4st throne warm for you.
We'll reach target in stages too haha, Sammy will be first, with just under 3st to target, and then you can come kick my butt until I reach target (just under 5st) and then we can both kick Fran's butt!
 
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