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[Gemstone]

:character00238: Good morning everyone :character00238:

Well Mr Sun is smiling on Planet Gem at the moment and I have just about completed the arrangements. The thing I have left is something I am putting off - getting Mum's bits and pieces from the nursing home. I am not looking forward to going into that room again. I have to do it as I have to choose the clothes she will be dressed in and take them to the undertaker. Once that is done that is it until Tuesday so I really ought to get on with it and have a few days to collect my thoughts. The day should run smoothly enough.

One thing I will do is look through old photographs and make up a board for the wake to remind people of happier times.

Well what is everyone up to this fine day?
I have hopped on the scales and I am on course for ticker movement tomorrow. Whether it will be 1lb or 2lb remains to be seen. It's about time the tickers moved. I'll have to look up all the passwords it's been so long

Sorry to hear about your problems Claire - I hope you feel better soon.

Well, have a fantastic day everyone and good luck Claire for the dentist - I hate doing that too. x :character00238:

 

[abz]

morning everyone.

taz and gem. you are so brave and so organised. i was offered the chance to speak at my grandma's funeral. i just couldn't. and i was such a wreck i'm glad i didn't. i lived with her for a long while and she was more parent than grandparent to me and i was a mess. I think you guys are doing fabulously.

elle. that is serious business that calorie stuff. but i'm all for it. at least the information is there. i think it's awful that when we are 'being good' and getting salad and it's worse, well, not great. things in denmark aren't going so well on the diet front. i keep trying but i swear the healthy food just doesn't seem to be here. i'm sure it must be. scandinavians are all skinny, but either we opt for traditional danish stuff which seems to involve frying, or insane amounts of meat and fat or we just pick at stuff. i think my main problem has been bread and cake... talk about carb addiction!! so i am going to email my diet women in a mo and ask for a week's leeway when i get back. i really really don't want to get weighed when i first get back...

abz xx

 

[Gemstone]

Very wise abz. I NEVER have an official weigh in as soon as I get back - far too many squatters. x

 

[abz]

i will be weighing myself. i do want to know what the damage is. i don't want to end up kidding myself and not getting back on said wagon. but i don't want to end up feeling crappy with that little number on my little green card. i actually used the term plea for mercy in my email to my cdc and i can just see her feeling bad for me which almost makes it worse, ha. she's so lovely. will see what she says in any case.

abz xx

 

[Gemstone]

Don't let anyone make you feel crappy abz. You're doing this for YOU and if you need "space" you need space. Yes, I weigh too when I know I have squatters, just don't make it official even though I don't have to share it with a CDC. I couldn't deal with the mental picture of a finger wagging, however nice the woman was. x

 

[Taz]

Claire, no ones should feel that their issues are any less important just because someone else is having a hard time. On Sunday one of my friends phoned me. She has had a really rough time lately but she is also a drama queen and her own worst enemy so I tend to do a lot of eye rolling! She was busy banging on about some complicated love triangle she'd got herself into and was asking me for advice. Eventually she said "So anyway, how are you?" and I said, "not great, my nan died this morning.". This was met with silence then huge apologies. I told her it was fine because it was. I'm not so wrapped up in myself that I would cast my friends aside just cus I am having a bad time and sometimes it is nice to hear someone elses problems as an escape from your own.

Positive is the only way to go in these situations, it will only get better and life must go on

 

[elle2585]

Morning all

Abz definitely do not go and get weighed, it's unfair on yourself. Even skinny people let loose on holiday! I weighed myself when I got back to check the damage and now i'm back on the diet and trying to shed pounds again. When you come back and your life is more structured, that's the time to get back on the bandwagon Good luck! And my advise would be to eat all the stuff you're eating, but eat a little bit less than you normally would. that's what i did on my hols and it seemed to work ok.

taz I like the way you think, you're absolutely right. Nobody elses life stops because one person is having a bad time. So today hugs go to everyone, but especially taz, gem and claire *hugs*. Man problems are completely, erm...AAAAARGH. haha. that's the only way to describe them. Also good luck for the dentists! Although they don't really scare me any more. Maybe it's because I moved from the last one because he was a little s*$! and my new one is lovely.

Gem i'm really glad that everything is going well and good luck with the weigh in tomorrow

Well guys, I went to tgi's and had a couple of bits and pieces for starters because we always do that. and then i had the sirloin steak with chips and salad and purely by accident left most of my chips. I think i've become an expert lol. And then the girls got a pudding to share, one of them big icecream sundaes with brownies etc and i didnt touch it. So i think i did ok. overall i think i was still within a good number of calories for yesterday, maybe even 1500. but yeah abz I really wish they would put cals on everything. that way i could have known for sure. maybe they could have 2 menus. one with and one without?

hope you all have excellent days!

p.s. gem, concerning the problems that i was *ahem* having before my hols, i've decided it's climate. It's SOOOO much better in Cyprus. I never felt bloated there at all. here i'm starting to go that way again :'(

xxx

 

[Gemstone]

Thanks for the update Elle - Whoopsie I've blown your cover again!!!

You're quite right - positive is the only way to go. No-one's problem or sadness is exclusive. The fact that we're both going through the same thing is proof of that. It also doesn't mean that someone else's problem isn't important and doesn't deserve airing. There is no scale of importance and no legislation for feelings. We're here for each other aren't we? (especially the Big Boys family)

Abz - No, No, No, No, No! Not worth beating yourself up for the sake of a week or two.

I hope everyone is having fun on this sunny day :character00238: and that naughty Elle is behaving herself

 

[Taz]

You're quite right - positive is the only way to go. No-one's problem or sadness is exclusive. The fact that we're both going through the same thing is proof of that. It also doesn't mean that someone else's problem is'nt important and doesn't deserve airing. There is no scale of importance and no legislation for feelings. We're here for each other aren't we? (especially the Big Boys family)

Gem sort that out please!

 

[Gemstone]

Done!!! Not like me was it? Sorry your Tazmanianship

 

[Taz]

Thank you Gemster

 

[Gemstone]

My pleasure Taz

 

[elle2585]

Haha, excellent, i see you too are picky on grammar and punctuation errors, tazmeister. I now see why we all get along so well.

xxx

 

[Taz]

There is no excuse for poor grammar!

 

[Gemstone]

I'll be watching Taz to see wot you done(!)

 

[elle2585]

guys i've had an epiphany! i really miss my kitkat chunky peanut butter chocolates and today I realise that calorie wise i can get away with it... some day soon as a treat i'm going to have the crayfish salad at 74cals and then a choccie at just over 200 cals methinks. and then i would equal my typical calorie intake at lunchtime! this idea has made me very happy. woo de dooooo x

 

[Taz]

Elle if you have the will power to buy a twin bar and save one for later, the new twin pack of peanut butter kitkats are smaller bars and only 199 calories

 

[elle2585]

yeah i noticed that before i went on my hols. i may well do it that way! yay this is very exciting!! x

 

[elle2585]

31lbs to lose by christmas!! argh it seems like a mountain :'( x

 

[Taz]

That's a lot! I'm sure you can do it though