Hershey:
"I'm on citalopram...After 10 days on it now I am a new me.
That's the ones I've got in the unopened box. You say they only tae 10 days to work? Well it's still an option.
"thought possibly you had a corner bath of something. I wish i did."
Oh me too! I used to absolutely adore luxuriating in my bath. I'd be in it for hours, with a pillow, pot of tea, magazines, audio books. Haha used to let some water out and top up with hot. Never came out till my fingers were wrinkly! Four years ago I had a shower installed in my bedroom. Never had a bath since. Boo hoo. Big time waster, but soooo relaxing!
"I hope your friend can help you relax!"
He gave me a really thorough, all-over back-scratching. It made all the tension just fall away. Also did some work on the knotted muscles. We watched 4 episodes of
Mock the Week and laughed like drains!
Ladyfelsham - How gracious of your Ladyship to allow us to call you Susie!
"I often come home with something that another mischievous shopper has put in there!"
Well, whoever follows you must have followed me. I ate the whole damned cake. My boyfriend didn't want any of the 8 slices. Bugger! Worse, my six-stone Russian lady lodger, having caught me sobbing at my desk yesterday morning (dammit- I thought she was out!) bought me a humungous amount of Maltesers to "cheer me up". This is after I have told her ten times never to bring me chocolate! It goes like this:
"Please don't bring me chocolate."
"Vy I must no bring choclit?"
"Because I am on a diet."
"You no need diet! You bootiful lady, no diet!"
"But I want to get fitter."
"No, you luffley lady, no diet!"
Then she skips her 6 stone way out of the door and walks into town without a care in the world. Grr.
Jojo:
"sometime the hardest bit with exercise is actually getting out of the door"
OMG YES! You have hit the nail right on the head. Once I am in the water I am genuinely really happy (once my poor nipples have got used to the cool water!)
"Have you spoken to the nice new lodger about some motivation and help?"
Nope. TBH he makes me feel really ashamed of myself. The whole time he is not at work he is on 10 mile runs or 50 mile (yes 50 that is not a typo!) cycle rides. He has a fabulous, slim, muscular physique and is incredibly handsome, too (down, girl!) I honestly don't know what he can do for me. I am so "far gone" in the super morbid obesity continuum. And it's not fair to ask him to spend his leisure time doing for free what he does all day for money, especially as he works 12 hour shifts many days. Lastly, he's moving out on 1st March as his job ends, and if I am to have a personal trainer it needs to be someone ongoing. I did have one, but
he dropped dead whilst jogging to work one morning (I kid you not!)
Mourners pay tribute at funeral of sportsman Tyrone Wildman - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer
I still miss him :-( Being Jamaican he found big, curvy women attractive (long story) so I didn't feel bad about myself around him. It's really embarrassing for a super morbidly obese woman to discuss weight and fitness issues with superfit young men who you know find you physically repulsive.
Llama:
Thank you for your super-kind message!
"I hope that if we ever had a difference of opinion (we do, it seems on certain women's issues) that we'd be able to discuss it with mutual respect without any form of "kick in the teeth"
My boyfriend is a staunch Tory whilst I am a Socialist but we have never argued about it. My closest female friend had been entrenched for decades in her defence of men's right to "porn and prost" and women's right to supply it. We debated it several times without once resorting to unpleasantness or falling out, so yes, you are absolutely right. One day she started reading serious reports about prost, and actually looked at some online porn for the first time. Within days she had completely changed her mind about both issues and at her behest we co-founded an abolition group this week. I am stunned at how quickly she changed her mind. All it took was for her to see the facts. Once reality replaced her fantasy version of the two trades -
poof! - she was converted.
"I think we've all been guilty of a stray cake occasionally"
Yes, but why do I keep taking in all these strays? I should send them to the rescue centre where they can be sent out to good homes!
"I am always here for support should you need it"
Aww honey! That is a
very nice thing to say. Thank you! Mwah! xxx
A police officer visited this morning and took a statement re: my thug neighbour. I told her that this time I want him prosecuted. She said I have no witness. I said his wife was in the car. She said it's not likely that his wife will testify against him. This was the same PC who arrested my former lodger for rape last year. It makes me cringe, that the police have been to my home so many times lately. She is going to make out a report to social services because the torrent of filthy abuse was spat out within earshot of his 3-yr-old daughter. She is also going to ask the Hate Crimes Team to contact me to give "victim support", because nowadays abusing someone for their weight is taken as seriously as abusing them for disability, religion or race. I was glad to hear that!
I just noticed that GrumpySpacePrincess has lost over 5 stone. Amazing! Oooh I'd love that. But I don't want to give up my cake and chocolate and stuffing myself stupid to get it. What a paradox!
Helena xxx
And also LOL on the Russian lady lodger, she means well I guess, and I love the accent! 
