A little bit about you....

[bulldogdaisy]

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I will have to look it up on the Internet! It's must b hard for u somedays knowing that there r things that u can't do! Does it just peel or is it really sore? U would gave thought in this day and age they could find some sort of cure! And well done for still doing some voluntary work, I bet it's nice sometimes to just help ppl, I think that's something not many ppl do anymore!

Well I haven't done anything voluntary since moving here but have helped out in mother and toddler groups,helped run one before and use to be a telephone listener for Parentline years ago.It can be frustrating,like running,I'd love to do that.Plus I was supposed to start college years ago but had blisters so didn't go,have looked up college courses over the years but just can't bring myself to go! Maybe one day! As to a cure,had special shoes made,made it worse,used to get a special cream for it but that was just to sooth it,I looked up more about it myself,I did that a few years ago as well,I have it easy compared to others! It can be just sore,like feel like blisters are coming,or blisters appear and are painful then they have to heal,I do still get them but as I said,I try not to get them as they're not much fun!

 

[sarah88]

Well I haven't done anything voluntary since moving here but have helped out in mother and toddler groups,helped run one before and use to be a telephone listener for Parentline years ago.It can be frustrating,like running,I'd love to do that.Plus I was supposed to start college years ago but had blisters so didn't go,have looked up college courses over the years but just can't bring myself to go! Maybe one day! As to a cure,had special shoes made,made it worse,used to get a special cream for it but that was just to sooth it,I looked up more about it myself,I did that a few years ago as well,I have it easy compared to others! It can be just sore,like feel like blisters are coming,or blisters appear and are painful then they have to heal,I do still get them but as I said,I try not to get them as they're not much fun!

I bet it's very hard to exercise! I volunteered in a preschool for 2 years whilst I was doing my nvq's but that's all I've done! What did u wanna do at college? Recently I have been looking into primary school teaching done through distance learning but it cost £7000 for the 3 years and I just don't have that sort of money!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

I bet it's very hard to exercise! I volunteered in a preschool for 2 years whilst I was doing my nvq's but that's all I've done! What did u wanna do at college? Recently I have been looking into primary school teaching done through distance learning but it cost £7000 for the 3 years and I just don't have that sort of money!

It can be hard with exercise,so I try and pick things that are ok for me or ditch some things in the warmer weather.I was going to do NNEB in childcare.Though I've thought about other courses over the years,I think even if it's to just keep the brain active it's something! Don't be hard on yourself,at least you have done stuff! Ouch at that kind of money! Crazy that it costs so much!

 

[sarah88]

Yeah the annoying thing is if I went uni I'd get it free! That's just not possible with my daughter! Childcare us such a lovely job, perhaps u should look into it! I did a work-based course, so I worked in the preschool and was assessed in my working! Then I did all the coursework at home and had a meeting with a tutor every now and again!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Yeah the annoying thing is if I went uni I'd get it free! That's just not possible with my daughter! Childcare us such a lovely job, perhaps u should look into it! I did a work-based course, so I worked in the preschool and was assessed in my working! Then I did all the coursework at home and had a meeting with a tutor every now and again!

Yes it can be frustrating,my OH is at Uni,just finshed his first year,maybe I should have a look around and see what is out there.What you did sounds really good :0)

 

[Becktoria79]

I like this thread, it's interesting to hear other prople's stories and their journeys. I will add mine shortly when I have a little more time. X

 

[Atomic pink]

Its interesting to hear everyone's back story. Guess I should add my own so I don't just feel like I am stalking you guys!

I am Janine and I am 30 (this scares me alot - I am pretty sure I should still be 19). I live in Nottingham with my husband of 5 years (we were together 7 years or so before we got married) and our two very cuddly cats and some tropical fish. I moved to Nottingham orginally 12 years ago to come to university - did a psychology degree, and never left. OH also did his degree in Nottingham, entirely by chance we had both chosen our 1st choice universities before we were really friends and got together in the last year of sixth form to discover we were heading to the same place for university. After uni I got a job with a local charity working in a hostel, still work for the same company but now do community outreach housing, benefit and debt advice. In the last few years I have got more involved with delivering training and assessing and teaching social work students which I really enjoy but still find quite nerve wrecking. I find I tend to give the impression of being a very in control and self confident person to everyone but often really don't feel that way myself!

Hobbies and interests. Hmmm. I have run and dj-ed at a few alternative clubnights over the last decade which I really enjoy. Very into my music - mainly punk/ hardcore and old 90's indie. I adore food and cooking and like reading cookery books and watching cookery programmes. I go walking quite alot in the peak district and really really enjoy this. Its something I have always enjoyed but something I have got a lot more into over the last year or so as my fitness has self perception of my fitness has improved. I like syfy fantasty type programmes - my favourite series of all time has to be Firefly. Its pure comedy genius and I laugh uncontrollably at every episode even though I have seen them an obscene amount of times. Other interests include cuddling my cats, football, UFC, wildlife documentaries, make-up, clothes and afternoon naps. Oh yeah - and a nearly found obsession with the gym!

Weight loss journey. Hmmmm. I remember always being fairly big, was a size 14 when I was a teenager. Never really completely happy with my weight but despite gradually gaining weight over the years I never really wanted to do anything about it enough to start any diets. I would sometimes cut back on things and try to eat a bit healthier for a few weeks but it never really stuck because I was never really that fussed. I think having an OH who although usually is attracted to gorgeous skinny things always made me feel good about myself and who always found me attractive probably didn't help to motivate me to change. Anway a couple of years ago my weight had crept up to 16 stone but it hadn't really registered to me until the nurse found that my blood pressure was quite high. I was far too young to have high blood pressure and this was a huge wake up call for me. I think I always thought I wasn't that unhealthy even though I was big because I ate lots of vegetables and healthy foods. I just also happened to also eat LOADS of cheese and bread and drink alot of beer and wine and generally eat too much of everything. So I cut down on the alcohol, swapped food for healthier choices and lost about 12 lbs in a couple of months. Then I did SW online for nearly two years but lost REALLY slowly - less than 2 stone in 2 years so swapped to WW about 2 months ago. Turns out it wasn't SW that wasn't working for me as I haven't managed to lose anything on WW either despite being on plan pretty much every week. Currently looking at a few possibilities with the nutritionist at my gym that might explain or kick start my losses again.

So ... yeah. That's me.

 

[Purpled]

Wow! What a good post! Hehe!

I'm gonna have a good read tomorrow as I'm half asleep right now lol! But I feel like I know so much more about you know! Even names and ages! I guessed them all wrong lol

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Ohh I forgot hobbies,probably cos I don't do them much right now! I do love reading,watching films and tv plus cycling,the reading and cycling I need to get back into,films and tv I also watch less now,I have some scrap book photo albums that were also a hobby of mine which I recently got down from the loft as hoping to get back into it :0)

 

[Becktoria79]

Ok then here goes...

My name is Becky, I'm 33 and live with my boyfriend in Newcastle although I'm originally from Middlesbrough. We have been together for 2 and a 1/2 years and bought our house together in September last year, so soon be a year as home owners! Scary and grown up but wonderful too!
My hobbies and interests are reading and knitting, I like going to gigs though most of the bands I once loved are split up and there isn't much new music I'm fond of. I dabble in baking but really don't trust myself to not eat all I make and I also hate housework which includes washing up after baking!

I am a teacher of secondary aged pupils with autism. The unit I work in opened 3 years and I was the only teacher along with the centre manager and we had 5 support staff and 8 pupils. I love my job and am probably a bit too emotionally attached to it at times. I trained originally as a secondary English teacher and coped with that for 18months before having a quasi breakdown- a whole load of other bad stuff was going on as well- then I got a new job as support assistant working with autistic young people and to sound really cheesy it changed my life. I'm really proud of what I've achieved since then, getting back into teaching and going for promotion as assistant leader of the centre on Tuesday! Not bad for someone on whom it had been commented on "she'll not get into teaching again."

I met my man shortly after starting my current job and my life is very different now. I was a big party girl and didn't take my career too seriously and wasn't after a proper boyfriend but I was miserable and trying to escape my life. I guess i didnt realise it but I was probably lonely and needed soneone who loved me and looks after me as much as my boy does. Now I'm very settled, content and don't feel the need to go out and get ridiculously drunk because there is nothing else for me to do on a weekend. I don't miss it either, my body really can't cope with the killer hangovers and lack of sleep anymore!

Now my weight journey: well was overweight from the age 11, I was a very shy kid and very self conscious. I think the worst time for me was around the age of 16-18 when I hid under men's shirts and size 18 jeans or wide legged trousers. A lot of my friends were starting to go out and meet boys but I tended to stick with a couple of good friends and go their houses or the cinema or bowling. Eventually I started to lose a little weight and get more interested in fashion and started to go out to indie clubs which I loved. When I went to uni I lost more weight naturally and grew more confident and basically made up for the time I missed as a teen. I first joined ww after leaving uni in 2001 with my mam and I'd lost a fair bit of weight by then but remember weighing in at 12:8. I didn't keep it up for long but went back in march 2002 and quickly got down to 10:7, this is the slimmest I've ever been want to be again. A few months later I moved to Newcastle to do my teacher training, got a job (the one i hated) and stayed. Over the next 3 years weight crept up and up and after my aforementioned bad spell in 2005 I went back to a ww meeting. I had gone up to 14:4, I wasn't as big as when I was a teen (I never weighed myself then but going on clothes sizes I know I wasn't as big) but I was uncomfortably large and unhappy- not just with weight but everything. I went to meetings a few weeks but my salary had been dramatically reduced so started weighing at boots. I lost over 3st and then over last few years have put on and joined ww then lost again, the heaviest I got was 12:1, after moving in with my boy- what do they say about contentment and gaining weight? when I rejoined ww after a flirtation with SW, that was 18 months ago so been doing pp for 18 months now and for the last year have been up and down the same 7lb. I will get to my goal eventually- which in ww is 10st but recently been thinking 10:7, my relationship with my body is not so bad and I reckon I look pretty good in the right clothes and dolled up! Losing a few extra lb would give me a little leeway to gain or lose in either direction and still be at or close to a healthy BMI (between around 8:7-10:10 I think- know 10:10 is highest).

So apologies that's really very long and prob put down more than I needed to but my weight loss journey has pretty much been a lifelong thing and tends to follow the ups and downs in my life!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Put down as much as you like! It's your story at the end of the day,I keep remembering bits to add lol anyhow that's great about the change of career working for you and that you are happy and content in your relationship :0) you and me want to be about the same weight! It's amazing how much life and food/weight go hand in hand be it sadness in our lives or being happy that we don't care anyhow!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

I need to add music! Love music and gigs,I guess I forget as life has changed so don't do a lot now(violins please) lol plus I love a good night out,be it the pub,club,cinema,meal or a comedy show!

 

[Purpled]

Wow! So much to read and reply to in this thread! Everyone Has changed in my head now!

Okay Daisy......you should be very proud of yourself for having this condition and staying positive and carrying on with day to day things. I know you may worry about it or get upset maybe?? But you seem pretty positive and I would never have guessed you had anything like this. But I do have a question....did you have it from birth? My friend has a variety of it called....(sorry if I spell this wrong)....Dystropheac epedermilysis bullisa??? Since birth...but it's started to get worse. She's got it all on her back and it looks red raw and so painful! She's being treated by a gp and I'm sure it will improve but her self confidence is extremely low. She's never had a boyfriend or sex or kissed a guy because it makes her feel in her words 'ugly' but she's actually sooo pretty, and it's a real shame. Anyway if you know any support group type thing, or any advice I could pass it on. It's got to the stage where she is at an all time low.

 

[Purpled]

Hi DJ Janine! Aged 30! I thought you was my age (not my real age 26) my mental age! 21! And how cute.....a lovely love story!

So you havnt lost any weight at all on ww?
2 stone in 2 years is a good loss but I agree a very slow loss! Despite not achieving what you wanted in those 2 years, I'm quite sure you have done a whole load of good to your body! I think it's hard to think about as we don't see the changes but I imagine your cholesterol, blood pressure and a whole matter of health concerns have improved!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Wow! So much to read and reply to in this thread! Everyone Has changed in my head now!

Okay Daisy......you should be very proud of yourself for having this condition and staying positive and carrying on with day to day things. I know you may worry about it or get upset maybe?? But you seem pretty positive and I would never have guessed you had anything like this. But I do have a question....did you have it from birth? My friend has a variety of it called....(sorry if I spell this wrong)....Dystropheac epedermilysis bullisa??? Since birth...but it's started to get worse. She's got it all on her back and it looks red raw and so painful! She's being treated by a gp and I'm sure it will improve but her self confidence is extremely low. She's never had a boyfriend or sex or kissed a guy because it makes her feel in her words 'ugly' but she's actually sooo pretty, and it's a real shame. Anyway if you know any support group type thing, or any advice I could pass it on. It's got to the stage where she is at an all time low.

Sorry to hear that about your friend Purp,as to support groups etc I guess having a nose online is the best option.I only know family members with the condition.Yea was born with it but it didn't come into effect till I could walk.It was worse when I was younger,missed a lot of school then I stayed off school as missed so much anyhow.Plus you always get people who say its just shoe blisters,even a doctor tried to say that once and when I had loads of small blisters one doctor called other doctors into the room saying I had foot and mouth disease(go figure?!) sometimes I get upset about it but not so much now I'm older,I don't like the fact my daughter has it,only she and my nephew have it out of the grand kids so to speak.His daughter has is so it hasn't died out unfortunately!

 

[Atomic pink]

Hi DJ Janine! Aged 30! I thought you was my age (not my real age 26) my mental age! 21! And how cute.....a lovely love story!

So you havnt lost any weight at all on ww?
2 stone in 2 years is a good loss but I agree a very slow loss! Despite not achieving what you wanted in those 2 years, I'm quite sure you have done a whole load of good to your body! I think it's hard to think about as we don't see the changes but I imagine your cholesterol, blood pressure and a whole matter of health concerns have improved!

I struggle seeing myself as 30 so glad you thought I was 21! Alot of our friends are several years younger than us, probably as we have reguarly dj-ed with the one of the university rock clubs for the last 5 years or so, and because I still have bright pink hair and my OH has a huge black mohawk I suspect we don't look that "grown up" to the casual observer. 2 stone 10lbs lost overall in just over 2 years but I think the tally so far on WW is 1lb. I am much fitter, my life style is much healthier, my blood pressure is much improved and I have made lots of positive changes that I wouldn't ever change back from which is what I hold on to at the moment.

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Your OH sounds cool..my OH wants a mohican :0)

 

[Atomic pink]

I think he is To me he is the perfect mixture of cool and utter geek.

 

[bulldogdaisy]

I think he is To me he is the perfect mixture of cool and utter geek.

Mine is a geek as well! Geeks rule in my books,my kids are geeks too,especially my daughter!

 

[Atomic pink]

He he, absolutely.