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Croeso Y Grymru

Happy Easter everyone :D :D

Yesterday was simply lovely - I took loads of photos and when I get home will attach some.

Bit of a confession though - over the weekend I have eaten 5 pickled onions, 1 strawberry and, this morning, a piece of chocolate egg the size of a 10p piece.

I don't feel bad about it, except maybe the chocolate, but I have to say I loved the way it melted in my mouth and I savoured it. The strawberry was lush, just the one, in the sunshine at St Fagans whilst all around me tucked into grapes, strawbs, chicken, ham and pesto chargrilled baguettes, hula hoops and sweets. So, although it wasn't on the plan, I'm not beating myself up over a solitary strawberry.

The chocolate is a different matter - it's the first taste of real chocolate I've had in over 6 months and I have to say, it was bliss. Probably no more than the equivalent of one of those large cadbury buttons. I told my mate about it and she slapped me! lol

Will be home later today in readiness for the charity bash at the pub and to see PQM in drag!! (perhaps that will put me off him!).

Diolch am alw !
 
Bore da Jennie, sut ydych chi?

Glad you have had a lovely time in the land of my fathers, even though you went to the wrong bit :D:eek: *lol*.

Have a good journey home today and enjoy the quiz tonight.

Catch up with you soon!
 
Happy Easter everyone :D :D

Yesterday was simply lovely - I took loads of photos and when I get home will attach some.

Bit of a confession though - over the weekend I have eaten 5 pickled onions, 1 strawberry and, this morning, a piece of chocolate egg the size of a 10p piece.

I don't feel bad about it, except maybe the chocolate, but I have to say I loved the way it melted in my mouth and I savoured it. The strawberry was lush, just the one, in the sunshine at St Fagans whilst all around me tucked into grapes, strawbs, chicken, ham and pesto chargrilled baguettes, hula hoops and sweets. So, although it wasn't on the plan, I'm not beating myself up over a solitary strawberry.

The chocolate is a different matter - it's the first taste of real chocolate I've had in over 6 months and I have to say, it was bliss. Probably no more than the equivalent of one of those large cadbury buttons. I told my mate about it and she slapped me! lol

Will be home later today in readiness for the charity bash at the pub and to see PQM in drag!! (perhaps that will put me off him!).

Diolch am alw !

Oi naughty girl!!! That is absolutely not accpetable :mad: :mad:

You are on the peak of a very very very slippery slope young lady!!!!!

Come on you are stronger and better than this.... you deserve to be a gorgeous slim woman - and this ain't the way of going about it....

Love ya!
 
Oi naughty girl!!! That is absolutely not accpetable :mad: :mad:

You are on the peak of a very very very slippery slope young lady!!!!!

Come on you are stronger and better than this.... you deserve to be a gorgeous slim woman - and this ain't the way of going about it....

Love ya!

Lol, I know... you're right... :eek: no more, promise :D
 
Well, am home now and back to earth with a resounding crash. Left my friends in floods of tears and had to pull over just down the road to have a good cry. Took it very easy coming home, stopped at 2 services (1 was a loo break, the other just a break). Sat in the sunshine and knocked back a litre of water and debated in my head as to whether when I got home I was going to cook something to eat.

I have been dreaming about eating food all weekend. It's been terrible. I woke this morning wondering if I'd raided my friends cupboards! But no, I hadn't. But I could've!

I finally got in and cried some more - not really sure why. I think because every time I see Jan I miss her more. I wish we lived a lot closer. 4 hours is a long drive. We spent a lot of time this weekend talking things over.

I've got lots to think about, not least how I feel about food and why I want to eat it so much right now! I got in the house, straight to the loo (naturally)... and then saw a box on the table - a parcel from viking Direct! I haven't ordered from them in ages so was very surprised. I opened it and nearly cried when I saw the contents... a letter saying "We miss you" and a bloody box of Lindt 6% Cocoa chocolates!!!!

I tell you what, if EVER there was a moment of unmeasurable temptation - this was it!!!!!!!! I cursed them and vowed to never darken their order books again!! lol

Good job I'm going to the pub in a moment. It's a mega charity fundraiser so am taking them with me as a donation for the raffle. If they don't want them I shall open the box and hand them around. Either way, I am NOT having even one of them!

I got into the kitchen and it's a mess!! Zoe has been cooking and not cleared up. In the fridge I go... what's there!!! A flipping chocolate cornflake cake with jelly diamonds and glace cherries on top!!!

I feel SOOOOOOOOOOO angry and upset and confused and tired and hope to goodness I am pre-menstrual coz if not this is NOT a good feeling.

I don't know whether to go to pub or not, but that was the reason I came home today and not tomorrow!! Lucy is taking one of her even skinnier friends along and I just know I'm going to feel even worse than usual!!

Still, I promised Trudy I would go and would take photos.. so.. I have to go. I should've been there half an hour ago but a) wasn't home in time and b) really don't know what to do

I feel very bloated and look knackered (all that damn crying nonsense!) and desperately want to eat something! There are chicken strips in the fridge just screaming to be cooked and a red onion too... I got as far as taking the onion out of the drawer and then had a word with myself and put it back.. I'd turned on the George Foreman too! That was soon flicked off again.

What IS it about me today!!!! Grrrrrrr!

Right, pub it is, no idea what to wear so just going as I am and don't care coz no matter what I wear all eyes will be on Lucy and her skinny mate so it's ok really. I hope and pray that I snap out of this mood coz it's not nice and it's not grown up and it's not fair on Lucy!!!

Right.. chewing gum in gob. Purse in bag. Hair just about to get one last brush then off. I've got my washing in the machine ready to hang out in the morning., and my sis is coming up tomorrow and staying over so I have to get one of the spare beds cleared off before she arrives tomorrow too!! Will be good to see her though.

Catch you's all later. Hope you're having a lovely Easter Day. xxx
 
Well, am home now and back to earth with a resounding crash. Left my friends in floods of tears and had to pull over just down the road to have a good cry. Took it very easy coming home, stopped at 2 services (1 was a loo break, the other just a break). Sat in the sunshine and knocked back a litre of water and debated in my head as to whether when I got home I was going to cook something to eat.

I have been dreaming about eating food all weekend. It's been terrible. I woke this morning wondering if I'd raided my friends cupboards! But no, I hadn't. But I could've!

I finally got in and cried some more - not really sure why. I think because every time I see Jan I miss her more. I wish we lived a lot closer. 4 hours is a long drive. We spent a lot of time this weekend talking things over.

I've got lots to think about, not least how I feel about food and why I want to eat it so much right now! I got in the house, straight to the loo (naturally)... and then saw a box on the table - a parcel from viking Direct! I haven't ordered from them in ages so was very surprised. I opened it and nearly cried when I saw the contents... a letter saying "We miss you" and a bloody box of Lindt 6% Cocoa chocolates!!!!

I tell you what, if EVER there was a moment of unmeasurable temptation - this was it!!!!!!!! I cursed them and vowed to never darken their order books again!! lol

Good job I'm going to the pub in a moment. It's a mega charity fundraiser so am taking them with me as a donation for the raffle. If they don't want them I shall open the box and hand them around. Either way, I am NOT having even one of them!

I got into the kitchen and it's a mess!! Zoe has been cooking and not cleared up. In the fridge I go... what's there!!! A flipping chocolate cornflake cake with jelly diamonds and glace cherries on top!!!

I feel SOOOOOOOOOOO angry and upset and confused and tired and hope to goodness I am pre-menstrual coz if not this is NOT a good feeling.

I don't know whether to go to pub or not, but that was the reason I came home today and not tomorrow!! Lucy is taking one of her even skinnier friends along and I just know I'm going to feel even worse than usual!!

Still, I promised Trudy I would go and would take photos.. so.. I have to go. I should've been there half an hour ago but a) wasn't home in time and b) really don't know what to do

I feel very bloated and look knackered (all that damn crying nonsense!) and desperately want to eat something! There are chicken strips in the fridge just screaming to be cooked and a red onion too... I got as far as taking the onion out of the drawer and then had a word with myself and put it back.. I'd turned on the George Foreman too! That was soon flicked off again.

What IS it about me today!!!! Grrrrrrr!

Right, pub it is, no idea what to wear so just going as I am and don't care coz no matter what I wear all eyes will be on Lucy and her skinny mate so it's ok really. I hope and pray that I snap out of this mood coz it's not nice and it's not grown up and it's not fair on Lucy!!!

Right.. chewing gum in gob. Purse in bag. Hair just about to get one last brush then off. I've got my washing in the machine ready to hang out in the morning., and my sis is coming up tomorrow and staying over so I have to get one of the spare beds cleared off before she arrives tomorrow too!! Will be good to see her though.

Catch you's all later. Hope you're having a lovely Easter Day. xxx


(((((((((Hugs))))))))))

Hunny, you seem to be going through the mill right now don't ya. I guess there is nothing that I can say except that I'm thinking of ya and seems to me like you need some more of this sleep business.

Stop burning the candle at both ends and take care of yourself. Don't make me come over there and sort you out!!!

Enjoy the quiz tonight!
 
You have done so well and look at how much you have lost. Just keep thinking of that and this should give you the push to get the rest of your journey done. We are all with you in this
Irene xx
 
Self disappointment - worse than that of others

You have done so well and look at how much you have lost. Just keep thinking of that and this should give you the push to get the rest of your journey done. We are all with you in this Irene xx

Well it wasn't enough to keep me on the straight and narrow - I went to the pub, it was good but as I thought it would be. ALL the blokes were totally into Lucy and her even skinnier mate.... and I mean ALL!!!!(and there place was packed as it had been open all day and the music etc)

Having a rethink now as to whether I want to go there with Lucy any more now.

Probably will, just being a moody mardy mare.

I took the chocs and handed them out. I won a massive easter egg in the quiz and then traded it for a lovely Lily of The Valley set of tealights and wax burner things.. and then won again so chose a box of Dairy Milk and gave it to the couple who traded my egg with me , as a thank you, they then handed the chocs around. I didn't have any but I wanted to trough the damn lot.

Got home just before midnight and went straight to the fridge, ate half the cornflake cake (about the size of a large slice of pizza) gave rest to dog, then cooked all the chicken strips that were in the fridge and a whole red onion chopped that up and added the last of the pickled cabbage and pickled beetroot and shovelled it down and finally rounded the lot off with a cambridge bar!

So. massive failure, utterly ashamed, should have listened to "slippery slope" warnings. This was a complete out of control spiral. I know it could have been worse, I know it's probably knocked me so far out of ketosis that I'm going to regret it the entire fecking week, I know that calorie wise it was probably about 300 for the chicken and lots more for the cornflake thing.

Until yesterday I had never actually felt particularly "deprived" on this diet. I don't know why yesterday was any different. Although spending the entire evening surrounded by food may not have helped much (there was a BBQ at the pub and literally dozens of large Cadburys Easter Eggs and boxes of chocs.. everywhere!).

I am not going to put the telly on today, I am not going out.

I am going to SS again today. Have texted Zoe to tell her the fate of her culinary skills and begged her (again) to NOT leave anything in the fridge like that - although it is utterly MY fault, MY decisions, MY choices to do what I did. I didn't particularly enjoy any of it either. I wasn't going to spill the beans on here as I know that some of you will be terribly disappointed that I've succumbed now too.

I'll let you into a secret. I'm totally disappointed that I have too! So please, I don't want to be told that I have disappointed anyone - I already know it.

I feel rubbish about it. I'm glad it's done with and if it helps me stop feeling like raiding the shops today then it's a good thing, I guess.

In the greater scheme of things I think that it's a blip. Or at least I am going to tell myself that. I'm going to try to convince myself that this is not the beginning of the end but a tiny glitch in my food-related-leetle-grey-cells-wiring.

I know I could've gone to the petrol station and bought out their twixes and crisps and anything else I wanted and come home and stuffed myself and no-one would be any the wiser! I did go to the station and bought a paper (at about 11.45pm) but that was all.

I don't want platitudes, I just needed to get this off my chest. I don't want angry admonishings either - they won't help. Not this time. I don't want any psycho-analytical BS either. (told ya - mardy moody mare!!!)

So , please, just know that I have done it, admitted it, and today is a new day. Back to being 100% SSing and wishing tomorrows weigh in was today but hoping I haven't done too much damage and made it so that I have extended my time on CD.

Met up (on msn) with my friend in the states when I came home.. (online) which is why I didn't just come in and go straight to bed (which would have been my normal move to avoid temptation). I was in too bad a mood to chat really and told him what had happened. He was a poppet. I was so tired though so we didn't chat long.

I desperately needed a hug. Went to bed and put in ear plugs - no one else here so safe enough.

Woke up at 7 and went out to sort out a really nasty garden job I had to do.. not going into too many details, but suffice it to say, not impressed that the chap who came and did my garden the other month.. had left all the dog poo in one box at the side of the house and it was MOST unpleasant... so I had to dispose of it and I did so...down the main sewer... only to find that the drains were blocked (bit of luck I was doing what I was really or wouldn't have known until the loo had overflowed!!)

So, neighbour saw me out there scratching my head and he checked his drain and between us we sort of got things moving again but it was most unpleasant!

Then the dog got out - whilst I was preoccupied with drains the cheeky sod took the opportunity to run off for a little jaunt - who knows where! He came home though and was very pleased with himself!

I decided to come on here and say what I have, because this is, after all, my diary and it was a part of my day yesterday.

I've hurt my right hand lifting the drain cover but it'll be fine if I rest it a bit tonight. My sister will be on her way now, I haven't even hung out the washing, the kitchen looks good though and I have cleaned the cloakroom and bathroom.

Need to do the ad for the festival but not in the mood at all. Not in the mood to do anything and not in the mood to entertain a sister who STILL saw that eedjit and is now upset because he has done another of his miraculous vanishing acts on, well, whaddya know, another holiday where most folks would spend it with the person they love!!! He's a C*** word (and I NEVER use that word!!!) and she's an idiot. I don't think I'll be particularly sympathetic but will have to try as I know she's very upset but honestly, how many times do you let a guy treat you like a right muppet before you actually wake up and make the decision that he is spinning you a line and a liar and a cheat!! (especially given the past few months of his nonsense!!!!) I am so mad at him, and, to be honest, at her. She's older than me. She should know better. I'm crap with blokes too, but never lost money to em or allowed them to mess me around to the same extent. Mind you, in fairness, I've allowed them to treat me pretty shabbily so I guess it must be a familial genetic disorder in the females of our bloodline!!! So I will be sympathetic coz I love her and she's my sis and maybe we will sit and cry together and it just might do us both good!

I had to tell her to bring food as I don't have any. I hope and pray she doesn't bring lush stuff!!

Still brooding over last night and am getting very cross with myself about it.

Going to hang out the washing and try to clear a room for sis to sleep in.. might get her to help me sort out all the old clothes as that will mean we can chat and sort at the same time, and in the sunshine if possible.

Going to put the rubbish by the shed in bin bags and stack them up ready for the bin men to take next pick up (think its Weds but no idea really) am wearing very old baggy clothes which I feel huge in.. might change before sis gets here, I put these on coz of drain thing. Am very tired too. Not good. It's only 10am.

MUST do the festival ad.. it'll take me hours... why can't there be 40 hours in a day!!?????
 
Hey you :grouphugg:

Saying nothing, I don't think anything will help. BUT have a good day with your sis, I'm sure it'll be great to see her if nothing else and (so much for saying nothing!) I still think you're fab & have done an amazing job so far with your weight loss - blip or no blip.

Jan
xxxx
 
Jennie,
You know that I have blipped a few times on this diet and there seems to be no rhyme or reason behind some binges and sometimes i know exactly why i've done it, but - and this will sound silly - but you've got to see it as a positive experience. Ailsa has talked to me a lot about binge eating and the fact that, there is no doubt the diet works, there are many emotional problems it doesn't take away. Personally, I think it is a good thing that we blip occasionally so we can look back and try and work out why it happens.
I could have not touched any food since starting this diet, and yes i'd probably be about a stone lighter than I am now. But I didn't get to 19 stone by nibbling at the odd biscuit. I am a food addict, i wake up thinking about food and go to bed thinking about food. Last week I lost 7lbs and the next day went out and ate an Easter egg! Why!!!!
I have come to the conclusion that I need to work through these issues and find some strategies to help my relationship with food. You came home feeling unattractive and emotional - so you ate. I'm exactly the same and it is so self destructive, but we've been struggling with food all our lives and these issues will never go away because we're losing the weight.
However, I do think we can do positive things to hep it. I've just started seeing an eating disorder councellor in Kettering. Only done 1 session so far, but I'm hoping it will give me strategies to help me cope.
The main thing is you've come on here and admitted it. That is half the struggle admitting you have the problem in the first place.
So pick yourself up, shake yourself off, remember why you started this crazy diet in the first place, remember how far you have come and draw a line under it. Move on - no guilt, no worries. The true sign of strength is getting back on the diet and seeing it through. I know you can do this!
And don't forget Ailsa's inspiration - The woman lost 11 stone! She is living proof it can be done!
Jux
 
Jenny - you're human - end of!

Have a good day, hun xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Beat me to it Isobel..... I was just going to post the exact same thing.... great minds and all.....;)

Big hugs Jennie.... hope your slide back into ketosis isn't so bad.... I have to say I've never found it as bad as the first time around so fingers crossed for you hun.....

Your referral to the 'C' word earlier reminded me..... this may make you laugh.... remember the 'pastry' story???? Well my sister informs me she sent her 'erm ex!' a big thorntons egg with the word pastry on it...LMAO!!!!!

Enjoy your day with your sister..... speak soon...

Lots of love
 
Not sure if the comment about BS refered to me! I hope not, it was meant to be helpful!
 
Not sure if the comment about BS refered to me! I hope not, it was meant to be helpful!

Knowing the person who posted that ju-ju I can quite positvely say that it wouldn't have been directed at you.... your post I'm sure will be very helpful to Jennie.... don't worry hun...:D
 
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