Determined to be foxy 42 by 2014! Want to join me?

[incaravanland]

Wednesday, ie tomorrow ... eek. Btw, I have two diaries, the one I link to in my sig is just for recipes and I've not updated it for ages, I keep my angst and personal stuff in the Silver Members area as it does get pretty personal.

Here is the page you need to start your own diary Slimming World - Weight Loss Diary at the top left of the page is a bit that says + Post New Thread In Slimming World - Weight Loss Diary. It is a dark bluey grey on my computer. Click on that And you get an area for a title, that is what you will call your diary. Below that is a box to put the text in. It's a great idea for keeping track of your food and feelings. People will soon join you there I'm sure, I'll pop in and say hello for sure.

Also, there is a general diary area if you want that. Pm me if you want it but can't find it. There is also an introductions area but posts there don't seem to get a lot of response. Introductions

The charts showing ideal BMIs do seem rather out, I don't think it's just because we are so used to seeing overweight people now. If you are at all muscular they are way out. I'm meant to be something like 10.5 stone. Heck, I'd look like skin and bones if I weighed that little. I want curves and muscles as well as bones and vital organs.

I'm sure we'll all know when to stop though, won't we.

Yeah the BMI's are waaaaaay out - i think they are far too general. They just dont take into consideration other factors. I know if I weighed 11st which I think is about what I "should" be then i would just look ill. When I lost all the weight before I was starting to look ill then.

I cant wait to find my happy medium, i hope this time is for the last time. I severly need to address my relationship with food especially eating when I am not hungry. Sometimes I would go for days just eating and eating for the sake of it and not necessarily completely unhealthy food either just far too much of it!!!

When we were kids I was one of three with my mum working nights so dad used to cook us lovely healthy meals, pasta and a meat sauce or lasagne or baked potato or stew but it was just far too much of it. We didnt have much money so it was a waste not want not kind of house hold therefore you ate your food! ha!

Thanks for the tips on the diary I shall get moving and grooving with one. Good luck with the WI, let me know when you know, ill have everything crossed for you!!!! xxx

 

[malamobile]

Yeah the BMI's are waaaaaay out - i think they are far too general. They just dont take into consideration other factors. I know if I weighed 11st which I think is about what I "should" be then i would just look ill. When I lost all the weight before I was starting to look ill then.

I cant wait to find my happy medium, i hope this time is for the last time. I severly need to address my relationship with food especially eating when I am not hungry. Sometimes I would go for days just eating and eating for the sake of it and not necessarily completely unhealthy food either just far too much of it!!!

When we were kids I was one of three with my mum working nights so dad used to cook us lovely healthy meals, pasta and a meat sauce or lasagne or baked potato or stew but it was just far too much of it. We didnt have much money so it was a waste not want not kind of house hold therefore you ate your food! ha!

Thanks for the tips on the diary I shall get moving and grooving with one. Good luck with the WI, let me know when you know, ill have everything crossed for you!!!! xxx

Weird too as bmi on here is nearly a point higher than on sw site. On sw I am 29.2!

 

[malamobile]

A better week ahead? SW working great for you now, essays almost done ... yay. Skinny summer here we come. although, tbh, the idea of being skinny terriffies me and I do not equate 'skinny' with healthy. My strength is important to me.

Botherations to scales that do not consistantly show the same weight. Mine do not seem to match with the SW ones at all these days and apparantly all this sort of electrical stuff need to be calibrated at least once a year. I've never seen signs or ads for scale calibrators have you?

Boy oh boy I'm in a good mood today. Amazing what essay hand in and a loss can do. Ended up having to do a presentation on something I was clueless about first thing as the person we thought was doing it wasn't! I just said I didn't know much and ploughed on. We had a laugh so all was well. Went up to town to get birthday pressies and lunch (jacket with beans and fruit from m&s). Calm afternoon. Home already umm ing and ahhhing about whether to go for a nice swim or just lounge! Need to tidy up as the guy who helps me with the garden is coming tomorrow for 2 hours & I have to let him in through the house! It's a tip & im embarassed. i am the messiest person ever I'm afraid & I detest tidying but love it when it's tidy & am really house proud if people come over & need it perfect. My dream is to have someone to help me with it so I could come home & it would be all tidy & sparkly but d is as bad as me (almost)!

Right I am going to tidy up right now and then decide re swim - what you all been up to?

Ps d just came in to kiss me hello & asked whether we'd been burgled because the bedroom is so messy- how timely!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Boy oh boy I'm in a good mood today. Amazing what essay hand in and a loss can do. Ended up having to do a presentation on something I was clueless about first thing as the person we thought was doing it wasn't! I just said I didn't know much and ploughed on. We had a laugh so all was well. Went up to town to get birthday pressies and lunch (jacket with beans and fruit from m&s). Calm afternoon. Home already umm ing and ahhhing about whether to go for a nice swim or just lounge! Need to tidy up as the guy who helps me with the garden is coming tomorrow for 2 hours & I have to let him in through the house! It's a tip & im embarassed. i am the messiest person ever I'm afraid & I detest tidying but love it when it's tidy & am really house proud if people come over & need it perfect. My dream is to have someone to help me with it so I could come home & it would be all tidy & sparkly but d is as bad as me (almost)!

Right I am going to tidy up right now and then decide re swim - what you all been up to?

Ps d just came in to kiss me hello & asked whether we'd been burgled because the bedroom is so messy- how timely!

I'm do like my symmetry and a place for everything and everything in its place, but saying that we live in the tiniest of terraced houses with 5 cats and 2 teenagers so if I didn't keep in top of it all it would just collapse and we would all die under the mess..but I'm at home all the time don't work 23.5 hours a day like you do so I have plenty of time to potter around at my own speed and keep on top of it. It's a means to an end though my house ain't no show home, it's a functioning home and I can't think of anything worse than going into someone house where it's so pristine you're frightened to sit down or walk on the carpet.

I'm thinking of starting swimming next week and build up in it

I'm chuffed you're feeling happier chuck xxx

 

[malamobile]

I'm do like my symmetry and a place for everything and everything in its place, but saying that we live in the tiniest of terraced houses with 5 cats and 2 teenagers so if I didn't keep in top of it all it would just collapse and we would all die under the mess..but I'm at home all the time don't work 23.5 hours a day like you do so I have plenty of time to potter around at my own speed and keep on top of it. It's a means to an end though my house ain't no show home, it's a functioning home and I can't think of anything worse than going into someone house where it's so pristine you're frightened to sit down or walk on the carpet.

I'm thinking of starting swimming next week and build up in it

I'm chuffed you're feeling happier chuck xxx

Miles better thanks. I do crack under essay pressure. Most times I am 'bad' is when I have something big due in. There's a message there somewhere! NO formal study after September. When I work from home or have annual leave where it's just me pootling I do much more tidying. I live in a terrace too-my last 4 houses have been Victorian / Edwardian semis/terraces. Been in this 6 years now but for a few years we bought and sold houses ( renovating them) which it's why I've lived in 4 in the last 10 years. I'd love a detached. Neighbours are ok but hate living other people's lives with them and having to have tv low and be quiet when I go to bed at 1 am. Love my house though. Lots to do in it - nearly finished kitchen, but love how old it is. Right tv chilling now!! Night x

 

[Micci]

I grew up on Edwardian houses. They just feel right to me whenever I walk in. Mind you, my father got a bit avant guard in the 70s and ripped out the lovely panelled doors and replaced them with flush varnished wood. Yeugh. Modern (70s) light fittings too. Double yeugh. My late 20s terrace feels a bit too modern. And shabby too as I've been so untogether over the last few years. The de-cluttering continues though, I have a settee waiting to go for re-cycling as soon as we can co-ordinate schedules. Aaaah, the space

I went with my son to the Barbican to see some rather good young people's theatre on the subject of neuroscience. No way would he have gone if his sister hadn't been one of the performers. Great stuff, I get really caught up in the magic of theatre.

So glad today has been better for you.

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Miles better thanks. I do crack under essay pressure. Most times I am 'bad' is when I have something big due in. There's a message there somewhere! NO formal study after September. When I work from home or have annual leave where it's just me pootling I do much more tidying. I live in a terrace too-my last 4 houses have been Victorian / Edwardian semis/terraces. Been in this 6 years now but for a few years we bought and sold houses ( renovating them) which it's why I've lived in 4 in the last 10 years. I'd love a detached. Neighbours are ok but hate living other people's lives with them and having to have tv low and be quiet when I go to bed at 1 am. Love my house though. Lots to do in it - nearly finished kitchen, but love how old it is. Right tv chilling now!! Night x

I bought my first house back in 1989 for the grand total of £19,000 whilst still in HM services and sold it 3 years later with a £20,000 profit and then ended buying a money-pit a detached house with a very sad feel and look - couldn't wait to get rid and sold to break even.

I rented for a while after my divorce before meeting Hubbs where then we bought 2 ex council houses together on the same close knocked them through that gave us 4 bedrooms en suite etc so we sold that Hubbs took his redundancy and we moved up north. Rented for 3 years and ended up here.

In all the houses we bought, owned and sold this is the only house that we've felt comfortable in - it just feels very safe and, well....just right.

Its the smallest house we've had, but its post war and full of character with a typical coronation street back yard and ghinnel (alley-way) We've spruced it up has we've gone along initially meaning to sell but just never got round to it.

It's very quiet and literally 5 mins walk from the kids high school which is fortunate that its a very good school and a further 5 minutes walk and you're slap bang in the middle of the town centre.

I'm very lucky to have brilliant next door neighbors who work different shifts so don't hear a peep out of them. I wouldn't trade it in for any other type of house - I feel secure here...sorry for the mini piece of autobiography xxx

 

[Micci]

Oooh gosh Lisa, I can see why you've been doing it, but I don't envy you all that moving. As for the number of times Mal has done it - shudder. Moving is my worst nightmare and I've done it 3 times in my adult life including moving out of my parents' house. And I'm 55 so you can see I don't do it that often, the last time must be over 30 years ago now. Mind you there is a house on right move that I want so bad, a small matter of it costing 2.25 million is all that is stopping me

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Oooh gosh Lisa, I can see why you've been doing it, but I don't envy you all that moving. As for the number of times Mal has done it - shudder. Moving is my worst nightmare and I've done it 3 times in my adult life including moving out of my parents' house. And I'm 55 so you can see I don't do it that often, the last time must be over 30 years ago now. Mind you there is a house on right move that I want so bad, a small matter of it costing 2.25 million is all that is stopping me

Lol :O ahhhh thats just a drop in the ocean 2.25 million

I love moving house think its the gypsy in me! But I won't be moving from here anytime soon, unless I win the lottery of course xx

 

[malamobile]

Morning all. Tidied & cleaned last night - ahhhh that's better! Had a good tv Sesh too & lots of reading. Did Zumba class but only 18 mins long which is great!


Very quiet work day today. Lots of chat I see ahead of me!!! Suddenly was hit with a bit of a reality check last night. So pleased with my 17 off but realised more than double that still to lose. Thought about it and actually am fine with it because every loss is a step towards that lower weight & while 11-7 seems hard to get to, before then I will be slimmish. At 12 I look slim but still have quite high body fat still - 11 is probably about right but haven't been that weight since 21 so not sure that's realistic. Anyway it all seemed daunting & I told d I couldn't really tell the difference but then I just looked in the mirror in my undies ( usually avoid this) and I can REALLY see it! Sometimes I think we forget to look. Must measure too.

Brekkie- total 2% with fruit - 1.5
Snack - banana
Lunch - 2 m&s subs with cauldron saus (b & 1.5) & ketchup (1)
Dinner - veggie mince with tinned veg and tinned mushrooms chilli

A couple more syns and another b somewhere too.

Tonight I'm going to the theatre. Unlike micci I'm not keen but a friend asked and I thought I should make the effort to be sociable & do something different. Unless the cast are excellent I find it hard to suspend the reality I'm in a theatre and often find acting really forced and 'try hard' so fingers crossed they're good. It's 'wasted'.

Hope you have a lovely day. I'm going to make it a smiley positive one! X

 

[malamobile]

I bought my first house back in 1989 for the grand total of £19,000 whilst still in HM services and sold it 3 years later with a £20,000 profit and then ended buying a money-pit a detached house with a very sad feel and look - couldn't wait to get rid and sold to break even.

I rented for a while after my divorce before meeting Hubbs where then we bought 2 ex council houses together on the same close knocked them through that gave us 4 bedrooms en suite etc so we sold that Hubbs took his redundancy and we moved up north. Rented for 3 years and ended up here.

In all the houses we bought, owned and sold this is the only house that we've felt comfortable in - it just feels very safe and, well....just right.

Its the smallest house we've had, but its post war and full of character with a typical coronation street back yard and ghinnel (alley-way) We've spruced it up has we've gone along initially meaning to sell but just never got round to it.

It's very quiet and literally 5 mins walk from the kids high school which is fortunate that its a very good school and a further 5 minutes walk and you're slap bang in the middle of the town centre.

I'm very lucky to have brilliant next door neighbors who work different shifts so don't hear a peep out of them. I wouldn't trade it in for any other type of house - I feel secure here...sorry for the mini piece of autobiography xxx

Don't apologise I love to hear this stuff - really interesting what gets people to where they are. Your house sounds ideal. Mine is opposite a rec so nice to look at as no houses opposite. 20 mins walk from town. Handy but would still love detached in village but like micci all the ones I love are half a mill at least usually more!

 

[Lisa-Lisa]

Don't apologise I love to hear this stuff - really interesting what gets people to where they are. Your house sounds ideal. Mine is opposite a rec so nice to look at as no houses opposite. 20 mins walk from town. Handy but would still love detached in village but like micci all the ones I love are half a mill at least usually more!

I do waffle on abit though we don't have any houses facing us just flat waste ground left from when they flattened very old buildings to seemingly build a business park - but that was 4 years ago and now its all weed infested but with some gorgeous poppies...we do see a lot of foxes over there though

 

[Micci]

Don't apologise I love to hear this stuff - really interesting what gets people to where they are. Your house sounds ideal. Mine is opposite a rec so nice to look at as no houses opposite. 20 mins walk from town. Handy but would still love detached in village but like micci all the ones I love are half a mill at least usually more!

Oh well, if you really want to know (as I'm waiting for a bath to run) I've got a gas holder with a field in front of me, it used to be a sports field with footballers there Sunday mornings but it's wild now. To the back of us is another bit of urban wasteland, it used to be a sports field too so Sunday mornings were noisy with footy games front and rear of the house. Now horses live there in conditions that have me on the phone to the RSPCA from time to time. At leat now they occasionally get a bale of hay. I know rich grazing gives them laminitus but this goes too far in the opposite direction. Gets ragwort too in the summer, that did get them removed by (I think) the RSPCA for a bit.

This is an amazingly rural feeling part of East London, our road is now a cul de sac with a dual carriageway about 8 houses away so although we have the noise from the road it is not always audible when the wind is in the right direction, and I've got used to it. Being in a cul de sac does mean that we don't get masses of traffic. But there is crime. Muggings and stuff, a few years ago a bloke got badly stabbed in a corner shop and came down here, police and ambulances here for ages, then the end of the road was taped off with one of those incident keep out tapes but my morning all was back to normal.

We also had the night of the flying car. My daughter heard it land which alerted us all. The dual carriageway is up an embankment, ther is a pedestrian bridge going over it supported with heavy concrete pillars. somehow this car managed to fly off the big road, coming to land in the gas holder field. They missed the concrete pillars and flew over the top of a heavy duty metal fence with spikes on the top and took some branches off a tree. I like to think they were very lucky but don't know how injured the driver was. He got out of the car, and then got back, and then was cut out by the fire brigade. I don't know exactly what was going on as it was well attended by emergency services and I had quite small children to look after. We discussed the perils of drink and drugs and driving - I never miss the opportunioty to hammer home a point

We have lots of foxes, and the odd hedgehog. Cinebar moths that feed on the ragwort - they look uncanny - and other urban wildlife, squirrels that have come here quite recently and a black bird that hung around our washing line with a bit of straw in its beak, presumably showing off what a fine husband he would be. We felt sorry for his lonely state but a female turned up and apparantly approved the quality of his nest building material choice and went off with him. A happy ending I like to think.

Oh yes, we have a river too ..... and I smell my dinner burning

 

[RainbowRose]

Have a good day, hope you enjoy the theatre..what you going to see?

I like the idea of the housework fairies popping into my house every day, but unfortunately their sat nav must have directed them elsewhere

Loving all the houses and house move stories I have moved 8 times in my life, once as a child and the rest as an adult. Remembering thinking it was fun and exciting as a child, but stressful and a lot of hard work as an adult

I left the city 8 years ago and am now on an island and am very grateful and extremely lucky to live next to the beach and have a sea view...looks like I won't be moving again..ever!

Keep all that postive thinking hun, you are doing so well!

 

[Micci]

My wish for your theatre visit is that you enjoy the company and the outing even if you don't get gripped by the performance. Have a good evening

 

[malamobile]

Evening all! Not at the theatre as you can see. Friend couldn't make it due to ill kiddies. She said me and d could have the tickets but he wasn't keen so I went to Zumba class to the gym instead. I was really nervous not sure how hard it would be, how I'd manage. Last time was years ago and I loved it but went crimson. This time was fine and without the nerves would be better next time. I blubbed a tiny bit when I got home. I felt pleased and relieved. My last gym visits ended in panics so I am pleased to go back now with better nerves and start again. Swim next and back to the treadmill (maybe!). New sports bra needed though mine just not controlling these babies!

Relaxing back home now. How strange we all have houses facing onto land - very unusual and coincidental and as for you rose although envy is an unattractive trait I have it!! Sea view gorgeous. Was up in Lewis a few years ago - weather wild but setting gorgeous.

Sleepy tonight. Think may watch 'the raven' now. Hope you've had a good day x

 

[Micci]

Yeah the BMI's are waaaaaay out - i think they are far too general. They just dont take into consideration other factors. I know if I weighed 11st which I think is about what I "should" be then i would just look ill. When I lost all the weight before I was starting to look ill then.

I cant wait to find my happy medium, i hope this time is for the last time. I severly need to address my relationship with food especially eating when I am not hungry. Sometimes I would go for days just eating and eating for the sake of it and not necessarily completely unhealthy food either just far too much of it!!!

When we were kids I was one of three with my mum working nights so dad used to cook us lovely healthy meals, pasta and a meat sauce or lasagne or baked potato or stew but it was just far too much of it. We didnt have much money so it was a waste not want not kind of house hold therefore you ate your food! ha!

Thanks for the tips on the diary I shall get moving and grooving with one. Good luck with the WI, let me know when you know, ill have everything crossed for you!!!! xxx

Do let us know won't you, I for one will come and say hello. I should get some tips off your dad, the number of meals I've cooked that get scorned. just too soft, that's my trouble.

 

[incaravanland]

Do let us know won't you, I for one will come and say hello. I should get some tips off your dad, the number of meals I've cooked that get scorned. just too soft, that's my trouble.

I haven't managed the diary yet and it's probably a good job. I had the day from hell yesterday. Fell out with the bestie (nowt major and sorted now but just a little tiff) then work just got worse and worse resulting in.....2 hob nobs , 1 curly wurly, belvita breakfast biscuit and some mini eggs. I feel ashamed!!!!

Back on track today. I have it planned. Not expecting a loss now this week now I've cheated but still going to try.

 

[malamobile]

I haven't managed the diary yet and it's probably a good job. I had the day from hell yesterday. Fell out with the bestie (nowt major and sorted now but just a little tiff) then work just got worse and worse resulting in.....2 hob nobs , 1 curly wurly, belvita breakfast biscuit and some mini eggs. I feel ashamed!!!!

Back on track today. I have it planned. Not expecting a loss now this week now I've cheated but still going to try.

Ah but no el, that's why a diary is so essential. When you feel the temptation to pick up something off plan you can write it and we can try to rescue you!!! We all do it. Rants about work, spats with partners, things we are upset about - and while typing its almost impossible to eat!!!perfect. Obviously it doesn't always save us from ourselves but it helps. I've hardly cheated and its thanks to minimins & the gorgeous people on here.

Don't feel ashamed. We are all here because we eat when things are difficult/we are anxious/ happy/ sad etc otherwise we'd be the types who are 'stuffed' after a baked bean!!!all here for the same reason and all understand so dont beat yourself up, claw back syns if you can, do some exercise, drink pints of water and you never know.... Xxx

 

[incaravanland]

Ah but no el, that's why a diary is so essential. When you feel the temptation to pick up something off plan you can write it and we can try to rescue you!!! We all do it. Rants about work, spats with partners, things we are upset about - and while typing its almost impossible to eat!!!perfect. Obviously it doesn't always save us from ourselves but it helps. I've hardly cheated and its thanks to minimins & the gorgeous people on here.

Don't feel ashamed. We are all here because we eat when things are difficult/we are anxious/ happy/ sad etc otherwise we'd be the types who are 'stuffed' after a baked bean!!!all here for the same reason and all understand so dont beat yourself up, claw back syns if you can, do some exercise, drink pints of water and you never know.... Xxx

Thank you so much for that. It was just what I needed. I've really planned today. A nice green day. Fresh fruit. Pasta for lunch and something healthy and green and syn free for tea so I hope I haven't done too much damage. Just so peeved with myself u know. I shall start that diary when I get to work. Thanks again! X