Chelsea Lou - The Ventura adventure, not a sinking ship!

[Chelsea Lou]

Morning Chels --

I hope you have a wonderful day today. It was so fab to see that Jess had posted this morning.

I almost bought a netbook (in large part because it was red) but alas I am married to geek who said that the "pretty colour" did not compensate for the lack of functionality of the netbook... the way that my pretty face compensated for my ADD functionality. I wonder what he meant by that?

MM

Lol, I'd go for the pretty face every time. It has got enough functionality for my needs. Likewise with men..as long as they can do some of the basics that's ok. Let's face it girls, we gotta have something lovely to look at in the mornings And yes, glad to see Jess felt good enough in herself to post again.

Chels, agree on the lovely lazy Sunday, sounds perfect. And so does that laptop, why don't they do Macs in nice bright colours? Will your posts all be in purple once you start using it? Lol.

Time frame. End of feb sounds like a good time to move up, there's definitely nothing to lose because you can always move down again if you want, but I think 810 is a great step and can make all the difference. For me, losses are no different. You are doing so well Chels, keep it up and have a lovely, purple Monday!

xxx

I don't know what you mean KC!!!!!!! Purple????

I am definitely thinking end of February and then stepping up. Seeing how your scales have started moving for you has given me a lot of encouragement to do that.

Hope you have a lovely colourful Monday too KC x

Morning Chels,

aww love the lazy jarmy sundays, good for you!
Good plan to start thinking about a time frame, this was my approach at the beginning of the year, gave myself 4 wks 810 before moving up and then because it was in my plan I didn't think about the next plan until it was time, now i'm on 1000 for 2 wks minimum. Having a specific date may help with any feelings of 'oh my god i'm going to be doing this forever' kinda thing, because then you know you will be moving up on a certain date, one of my ARC's is 'the better I do on this plan the quicker i'll move up to the next one'.
Lucky you for the new purple laptop too, you deserve it hunny, something else to look forward to...not sad at all!! and certainly good for distraction!

Have a lush week hunny
xx

Morning Lelly, thanks for the reminder about ARCs - I have not read my book for a few days and I now have about three or four days to read and make cards for. I like the "better I do on this plan" mantra. Makes sense and will keep me going until the end of Feb. Thanks for that xx

Hi Chels,

I am doing SS+ now -- and will move up in plans when I hit a bmi of 25. I plan on losing to bmi of about 22 to 23 because I have a small frame. I joined Rosemary Conley and plan on using that long-term to maintain my losses. If for some reason that does not work... then I may move onto WW.

MM

Hi Mel, I can't wait for the BMI of 25 before stepping up as my goal weight takes me to 25.6 BMI. If I go any less than that I will look like a wrinkled-up, deflated balloon So will need to work up the plans going on lbs left to lose. It's good to get all the different views though - self-doubt is a terrible thing. Why can't I trust myself to make the right decision. I soooooo need my minis friends xxx

 

[Greeneyes11]

Ooooh Chels, glad you had such a good weekend, and yes it is really funny watching all your friends drunk and they thinking they are Gods gift to men and hyper witty when actually they are not..... lol and yes I have noticed the repeating things too.... ha ha

Hope Jess is feeling better, I do think she was treated really badly and I do think you should write a letter of complaint, make this your first thing on your new purple laptop...... it sounds awesome and I love purple.... wish they did Mac's in purple.... my boys have a really old desktop mac and it is bright blue and grey..... wonder why they stopped making them like that as the Mac Books were the same at one time I think....

I think your new clothes are very well deserved, good on you for treating yourself, and I must admit I am a Tottenham fan, so you are only above us in the league table on goal difference..... who will end up in 4th place at the end of the season do you think? And do you think Torres was worth the £50M..... lol.

Have a good day, you are doing wonderfully well......

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Day 23

I just love this, seeing the days I am on this going up. 22+ days of feeling really good about what I am doing. If I were to mess up now I would still have been 100% for 20 days longer than I have managed on my previous restarts. As Beck says.........give yourself at least one credit every day. So today's credit to myself is Well done on staying completely with it for 22 days!!

Woke up this morning with a dodgy throat. My neck glands started swelling over the weekend. At first I thought I might have strained my neck, as it was only on one side but this morning the other one has got swollen and painful too plus my throat has started 'prickling'. Feeling a bit washed out too so obviously I am hatching some illness or another. Great!!! Absolutely no excuse to think I can make everything better by comfort food and not even thinking along those lines.....which is nothing short of miraculous I promise you.

Jess stayed with me last night as she was feeling low still and needed some comfort and she is staying with me tonight as well. It's really funny when your children can't wait to get away from you and then a few months later she wants to be with me all the time She says she is feeling like a child and needy at the moment. "The Better Person" and her treatment of Jess last Friday wouldn't have helped matters on that score. grrrrr. Anyway, must move on from that scenario.

11:45 and I have not had a shake yet, so will go and sort that out now and speak later.

Have a magical Monday everyone xx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Just for this afternoon I am going purple!!!

I had an email sitting in my inbox this morning from Tesco Direct saying that there had been a 'technical hitch' with processing my payment for my new laptop so they weren't able to proceed with the purchase. Hrmmph. I remembered when I called the local store last Friday that they were expecting a delivery today, so decided that it wasn't worth throwing some kind of hissy fit and to call the store back. Anyway, they have taken delivery today of 5 purple laptops and I have had one put by to pick up this evening on the way home from work. Ace!!! So, in celebration it will be purple text for the rest of the day and then will go back to my Chelsea blue from tomorrow I really am getting so sad.

Talking of sad........I absolutely loathe, detest am terrified of spiders. They make me feel physically sick but last week a cute lickle spider made a home for itself in my bathroom. I had a word with it and said that as long as it didn't grow any bigger it could stay. So all week it has been in various corners on my bathroom ceiling. I even got to the point where I would look out for it (I think I need certifying).

Last night Jess noticed something on the bedroom ceiling and it was a little spider. Not being able to relax and go to sleep with it in the room, she lobbed my slipper at it, knocked it flying out into the hallway, crushed it in some tissue and flushed it down the loo then came back to bed looking very pleased with herself.

I got up this morning and my lickle bathroom buddy had gone :cry:It must have been the one Jess murdered last night. I was quite upset. The men in white coats will be here tomorrow lol lol xx

 

[Katycakes]

Lol... poor spider! Reminds me of something that happened when my daughter was about 4. She too is pertified of spiders, and was playing at a friends house while I had a coffee with friend's mum. Suddenly an unearthly wailing began, and both little girls appeared on the stairway, red-faced and sobbing. 'C has m-m-m-MURDERED Alfie!' the other little girl accused. Fears of having mothered a psycopathic hamster-killing child made my blood run cold, & I told off C, who seemed equally distraught. I was then told that Alfie was in fact a pet spider. Opening a matchbox to find a huge spider inside remains one of C's most vivid and terrifying childhood memories.

Oops.

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Firstly...:8855:

and you need...:help2:


LOL xxxxx

I know exactly what I need

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Lol... poor spider! Reminds me of something that happened when my daughter was about 4. She too is pertified of spiders, and was playing at a friends house while I had a coffee with friend's mum. Suddenly an unearthly wailing began, and both little girls appeared on the stairway, red-faced and sobbing. 'C has m-m-m-MURDERED Alfie!' the other little girl accused. Fears of having mothered a psycopathic hamster-killing child made my blood run cold, & I told off C, who seemed equally distraught. I was then told that Alfie was in fact a pet spider. Opening a matchbox to find a huge spider inside remains one of C's most vivid and terrifying childhood memories.

Oops.

xxx

Awwwwww poor C. I can imagine her horror

According to Freud, arachnaphobia is due to a sexual hang-up from your dark and distant past - if that is the case then I have some seriously big issues with s*x!!!!

 

[Katycakes]

hmmm, C was like that from birth, and she didn't learn it from me (my phobia is worms, after being chased with one by the boy next door as a very small child...) So if that's true, must have been from a past life in C's case!

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

hmmm, C was like that from birth, and she didn't learn it from me (my phobia is worms, after being chased with one by the boy next door as a very small child...) So if that's true, must have been from a past life in C's case!

xxx

I did give the Freud theory some credence years ago because of abuse from my father but then the fear of spiders kicked in and at the time I was very healthy in other areas, if you know what I mean Personally I now think that he sprouted a lot of nonsense. Having a fiance throw dirty great hermans at you because he thought it was funny probably didnt help matters, a bit like you with the worms.......boys can be so horrid

 

[Katycakes]

Frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails. And spiders. And worms. Pah.

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

And slugs and beetles and maybugs bleurgggggh

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Day 23....today's calendar wisdom

"You may delay, but time will not"


:thinking2:Really must get on with it then

 

[Katycakes]

However, little girls are made of sweeter stuff. CD hot chocolate shakes, in my case.

And by the way, that laptop is GORGEOUS.

xxx

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Little girls are, indeed, made of much sweeter stuff, apart from keto breath lol. Loulou perfume (for me) I just love it and it cheers me up

 

[SacredSilence]

I used to eat worms when I was little

 

[Chelsea Lou]

I used to eat worms when I was little

Lol, how on earth can you own up to THAT!!!!!
I used to play tea parties with a couple of lads that lived a few doors away and we would drink mud out of little plastic cups. We were a lot healthier than kids today are with all the sterilisation of everything :sigh:

 

[Chelsea Lou]

Yeeeeeee hah!!!

Someone at work has just asked me if I'd lost weight Now grinning like a cheshire cat x

 

[Katycakes]

SS you made me SCREAM!!!!

(Faints clean away...)

Chels, YAY!!!!! to the compliment, much deserved - how BRILLIANT!!!

xxx

 

[MinnieMel]

Chels,

I think that Jess should go out and find you another pet? A cockroach perhaps -- they are harder to kill.

MM

 

[Bess]

Love the purple laptop and the purple writing.....I don't mind spiders but have an utter phobia of snakes which I am trying to get to grips with, as last year I saw 3 around here (so how many more were there that I didn't see?.)

Shame about your pet spider in the bathroom and the murdering daughter! We have lots of ladybirds in ours, sometimes they drop in the bath and I rescue them and put them on loo roll to dry them while talking to them, so I expect that the men in white coats will be calling here after they have been to you .

Hope the sore throat gets better soon. xx
well done on the not smoking by the way, that's brilliant! x