MargyParker
My belly this will be!
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MargyParker
My belly this will be!
It seems there are quite a few ladies on here losing weight to get pregnant - apart from the obvious health problems related to being obese I don't quite get the biology of why people don't find it easy to conceive when they are over weight - unless it is the obvious one....
MadameLaMinx
Gold Member
Well, in my case I was ?Poly-cystic ovaries - which causes weight gain AND interferes with the ability to concieve. Hormones are a complex thing..
Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
Maybe the little wriggly things can't get through the lard?
Actually, I think the weight can have quite an effect on your fertility, Margy.
I'm definitely not losing weight to get pregnant. (I did that once: found out what did it: shot the stork.)
But at my heaviest - 16 stone plus - my periods were quite irregular. One of the drawbacks of losing weight is that they're now not!
So I don't know what the actual physiological link is, but so many things are connected, aren't they?
Actually, I think the weight can have quite an effect on your fertility, Margy.
I'm definitely not losing weight to get pregnant. (I did that once: found out what did it: shot the stork.)
But at my heaviest - 16 stone plus - my periods were quite irregular. One of the drawbacks of losing weight is that they're now not!
So I don't know what the actual physiological link is, but so many things are connected, aren't they?
MargyParker
My belly this will be!
metaphysical man (imagine hippy dude saying this) - I think you are right tho - I think everything is connected and sometimes I think that all that happens in this world is that one thing gets moved to another place - continually.
Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
Yay! I lost 2lb this week!!
As I was hoping for a STS that's a blimmin good result!
I can even afford to PUT ON 2lb next week, and still achieve my Christmas challenge. Wahooooooooo!
As I was hoping for a STS that's a blimmin good result!
I can even afford to PUT ON 2lb next week, and still achieve my Christmas challenge. Wahooooooooo!
woooooo hoooooo go jimbob!!!!! fantastic result..........glad the dancing was useful
Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
The dancing was VERY useful, Lurverick.
You do realise you're going to have to do it every Tuesday now?
You do realise you're going to have to do it every Tuesday now?
pesty
Fighting the bulge
Well done on the loss JoT!!! How did everyone else get on??
Margy - I havent started to have children either (im only 22!!) I started because every day when i went to get the train i was getting offered seats because people thought i was pregnant. And generally feeling poo about myself etc. Im now the lightest ive been since i was about 10 years old (maybe younger)
I started SW because that's where some girls in my office went at lunch time WIs and they took me with them after i came into work in tears again because of one horrible biatch on the tube laughing and saying 'ARE you prenant?' as if her and her friend had been discussing it. I had to stand in front of her red faced on a pack train for 20 minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rant over, im slim and sexy now lol xx
Margy - I havent started to have children either (im only 22!!) I started because every day when i went to get the train i was getting offered seats because people thought i was pregnant. And generally feeling poo about myself etc. Im now the lightest ive been since i was about 10 years old (maybe younger)
I started SW because that's where some girls in my office went at lunch time WIs and they took me with them after i came into work in tears again because of one horrible biatch on the tube laughing and saying 'ARE you prenant?' as if her and her friend had been discussing it. I had to stand in front of her red faced on a pack train for 20 minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rant over, im slim and sexy now lol xx
Eternalflame
Excited about the new me!
Well done Sarah.. great news for the week before Christmas. Well done you..
Pesty, WOWwwwwwwwwwwwww, bloody well done sweetie.. great for christmas.
Luverick, that lb will be off in no time
Minxy, hope the flu leaves your house soon, its awful when you have a house full of unwell kids, they are either tearful or throwing up. Fingers crossed all is well soon and that its well over in time for christmas week as well.
Hasta, hope the WI went ok for you too.
Hope everyone is well.
My meeting with regard to my job didn't go as well as I thought. My job is now gone in the new structure and I have been offered to apply for a matched position as a Personal Advisor, but it is competitive and a number of my friends and colleague have also been given the same news. If I think about it, I could do the job and it would mean earlier evenings, if I got it, plus at least I have a job for now til Feb and also I have not been made redundent yet.. Still in limbo at the moment, but its the way it is and need to put it to the back of my mind now.
Decided the first week in new year, I am going to to CD for a week, to get a good start with the new year. Then back to SW and gym as well week 2 onwards.
Any new years resolutions for anyone planned? xxx
Pesty, WOWwwwwwwwwwwwww, bloody well done sweetie.. great for christmas.
Luverick, that lb will be off in no time
Minxy, hope the flu leaves your house soon, its awful when you have a house full of unwell kids, they are either tearful or throwing up. Fingers crossed all is well soon and that its well over in time for christmas week as well.
Hasta, hope the WI went ok for you too.
Hope everyone is well.
My meeting with regard to my job didn't go as well as I thought
. My job is now gone in the new structure and I have been offered to apply for a matched position as a Personal Advisor, but it is competitive and a number of my friends and colleague have also been given the same news. If I think about it, I could do the job and it would mean earlier evenings, if I got it, plus at least I have a job for now til Feb and also I have not been made redundent yet.. Still in limbo at the moment, but its the way it is and need to put it to the back of my mind now.Decided the first week in new year, I am going to to CD for a week, to get a good start with the new year. Then back to SW and gym as well week 2 onwards.
Any new years resolutions for anyone planned? xxx
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MargyParker
My belly this will be!
Awww Pesty that sounds really horrid - it is strange, there are lots of threads on here about people saying things about 'fat' people and generally being nasty but there are also a lot that say that the comments spurred them on to do something about it. I hope you still see those girls and you are able to give them the one finger salute!
MargyParker
My belly this will be!
EF this is not time to be sitting on your laurels if you are going for a job with a lot of competition. You need to be reading up on stuff and generally talking to folk already in that position or higher to find out exactly what is needed - surely? Problem with this sort of stuff is that you find out one thing and then you have another revealed so it is much more time consuming than you initially think. Anyhoo good luck with the whole job situation - can't be easy.:cry:
Eternalflame
Excited about the new me!
Thanks Margy
Its a job that I have done training in, and work very closely with colleagues in the same job too..so I'm not sitting on my laurels in any way, have almost finished an NVQ4 in the job so have a good a chance as anyone as I have also done much more targetted work with young people. So that puts me in a better position then some too. Its just that the government cuts are causing all of us so much stress, but it is as it is and Im sure things will be as they are meant to be..
Its a job that I have done training in, and work very closely with colleagues in the same job too..so I'm not sitting on my laurels in any way, have almost finished an NVQ4 in the job so have a good a chance as anyone as I have also done much more targetted work with young people. So that puts me in a better position then some too
. Its just that the government cuts are causing all of us so much stress, but it is as it is and Im sure things will be as they are meant to be..
pesty
Fighting the bulge
Haha thanks Margy but i dont see them anymore as i dont work in london too often, if i do ever see them tho i will poke out my tongue at them!!
I think sometimes we do need to hear these things to inspire us to do something about it but at the same time it always hurts to hear it.
Oh yea, where are my meatballs!!!!! Or the recipe will do haha
EF - Sorry about the job hunibun, i think you cant lose anything for applying for the position even if you keep looking elsewhere. Its so pants not having job stability as really life revolves around money (whether we like it or not) and so life revolves around work. Hopefully your not getting too stressed about it all. Hows things at home?
xxx
I think sometimes we do need to hear these things to inspire us to do something about it but at the same time it always hurts to hear it.
Oh yea, where are my meatballs!!!!! Or the recipe will do haha
EF - Sorry about the job hunibun, i think you cant lose anything for applying for the position even if you keep looking elsewhere. Its so pants not having job stability as really life revolves around money (whether we like it or not) and so life revolves around work. Hopefully your not getting too stressed about it all. Hows things at home?
xxx
MadameLaMinx
Gold Member
Morning all!!
Still struggling along here, I have the worlds scabbiest lips, so dry and cracked, little one is starting to show some signs of improvement, in that she's actually showing a bit of an interest in food today- whenever she gets sick she pukes, so refuses to eat - you can tell she's on the mend when she starts showing a vague interest in eating. Not convinced they will be back at school before the end of term though.
As for me, I hurt. My face hurts, my sides hurt, hurty hurty hurt. Scales are still plummetting downwards though - t-2.5 today - don't for a second think I don't know this is a temporary situation that will reverse the minute I feel better, but it's nice seeing previously unheard of numbers on the scales, even if it is temporary. It has made me ponder whether to push on a bit further though. Clearly I still have a bit of room to maneuveure - so might be worth trying to chip a bit more off.
EF - sorry to hear about your job - how long have you worked for them? Are you likely to get any sort of redundancy package if you didn't get or go for the other job?
Also, you mention doing a week of CD in the new year? I don't really know much about TFR but is it not something you need to keep at doing for a while? I would have thought that putting yourself into ketosis for a few days only might produce a quick drop but then won't you just regain when you go back on SW? Like I said, I don't know much about it.
Still struggling along here, I have the worlds scabbiest lips, so dry and cracked, little one is starting to show some signs of improvement, in that she's actually showing a bit of an interest in food today- whenever she gets sick she pukes, so refuses to eat - you can tell she's on the mend when she starts showing a vague interest in eating. Not convinced they will be back at school before the end of term though.
As for me, I hurt. My face hurts, my sides hurt, hurty hurty hurt. Scales are still plummetting downwards though - t-2.5 today - don't for a second think I don't know this is a temporary situation that will reverse the minute I feel better, but it's nice seeing previously unheard of numbers on the scales, even if it is temporary. It has made me ponder whether to push on a bit further though. Clearly I still have a bit of room to maneuveure - so might be worth trying to chip a bit more off.
EF - sorry to hear about your job - how long have you worked for them? Are you likely to get any sort of redundancy package if you didn't get or go for the other job?
Also, you mention doing a week of CD in the new year? I don't really know much about TFR but is it not something you need to keep at doing for a while? I would have thought that putting yourself into ketosis for a few days only might produce a quick drop but then won't you just regain when you go back on SW? Like I said, I don't know much about it.
Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
To answer your question, Margy: I'm not exactly sure why suddenly this year I'm really doing the weight loss thing.
(And if you needed to sit down for Minxy's reply: you'd better get a milky drink and settle down for the night now!)
I've always been overweight. I lost most of the weight I wanted to once, (I got to within half a stone of what I saw as my target) and was very happy with my figure at that point. Six months later I was pregnant. The weight came back, and more, and it never came off again. That was 17 years ago!
I've had half-hearted intentions to lose it ever since. And, fuelled by life's circumstances, I've had depressive episodes where the pounds and stones have piled on.
Five years ago, when I could see 40 looming, I had a bit of a try, and managed to get down to 13 stone. But then life fell apart again, my depression kicked back in, and those stones went back on, bringing friends with them.
I started this year heavier than ever, still depressed, and kind of believing I'd never shift it.
My mum also wanted to lose a few pounds (nothing like my spare 5 stone, but a few pounds) and someone had recommended Slimming World to her. And there was a convenient class, only a mile down the road, at a convenient time. I think, really, she suggested it because I needed it - but what she actually said was that we could do it together to help her. I did, of course, see through that piece of manipulation, but I thought it was worth going along. It wasn't going to work anyway, was it?
I still don't know where the initial will power came from, to follow the plan to the letter, cos I was still depressed, with no will power for anything. But somehow it did. And then once I could see it working I started to believe that maybe it could carry on working.
One month in and nearly a stone down, hitting my 44th birthday, I dared to begin to hope that I could be on the way to looking & feeling how I wanted to by the time I was 45.
So that became my target. I still thought that the initial weight losses would slow right down, and it would take me years to lose nearly 6 stone. But I still thought if I set myself the target, it would be something to aim for. Then once I started to get a visible improvement, I was so delighted that that kind of fed itself, and I wanted to keep doing it.
It's brilliant. I'm not on a diet, I'm not in the slightest deprived, and the change in me is incredible. 7 1/2 months gone. 60lbs down. Wow.
[Here would be a good place to post some "Before" & "Now" pictures - we're not at "After" yet, but I can't do it from work. I'll try to remember to edit this post when I get home.
Oops. I did add some very scary pics, but on my diary thread. They can be seen there - but I warn you, it's not a pretty sight!.]
I now really believe that I'll be the size I want by the time I'm 45, and I'll NEVER BE FAT AGAIN! And this is me saying that: Sarah. The fat one. A-MAZING.
I really want to be a SW consultant when I've got to target. I think I've got a sitting audience here, in the Hospital, where if I could set up some meetings at lunchtimes, or shift-change times, so that people didn't have to go out again in the evenings, I could fill several classes.
So all I need is the Franchise money. Anyone got deep pockets???
(And if you needed to sit down for Minxy's reply: you'd better get a milky drink and settle down for the night now!)
I've always been overweight. I lost most of the weight I wanted to once, (I got to within half a stone of what I saw as my target) and was very happy with my figure at that point. Six months later I was pregnant. The weight came back, and more, and it never came off again. That was 17 years ago!
I've had half-hearted intentions to lose it ever since. And, fuelled by life's circumstances, I've had depressive episodes where the pounds and stones have piled on.
Five years ago, when I could see 40 looming, I had a bit of a try, and managed to get down to 13 stone. But then life fell apart again, my depression kicked back in, and those stones went back on, bringing friends with them.
I started this year heavier than ever, still depressed, and kind of believing I'd never shift it.
My mum also wanted to lose a few pounds (nothing like my spare 5 stone, but a few pounds) and someone had recommended Slimming World to her. And there was a convenient class, only a mile down the road, at a convenient time. I think, really, she suggested it because I needed it - but what she actually said was that we could do it together to help her. I did, of course, see through that piece of manipulation, but I thought it was worth going along. It wasn't going to work anyway, was it?
I still don't know where the initial will power came from, to follow the plan to the letter, cos I was still depressed, with no will power for anything. But somehow it did. And then once I could see it working I started to believe that maybe it could carry on working.
One month in and nearly a stone down, hitting my 44th birthday, I dared to begin to hope that I could be on the way to looking & feeling how I wanted to by the time I was 45.
So that became my target. I still thought that the initial weight losses would slow right down, and it would take me years to lose nearly 6 stone. But I still thought if I set myself the target, it would be something to aim for. Then once I started to get a visible improvement, I was so delighted that that kind of fed itself, and I wanted to keep doing it.
It's brilliant. I'm not on a diet, I'm not in the slightest deprived, and the change in me is incredible. 7 1/2 months gone. 60lbs down. Wow.
[Here would be a good place to post some "Before" & "Now" pictures - we're not at "After" yet, but I can't do it from work. I'll try to remember to edit this post when I get home.
Oops. I did add some very scary pics, but on my diary thread. They can be seen there - but I warn you, it's not a pretty sight!.]
I now really believe that I'll be the size I want by the time I'm 45, and I'll NEVER BE FAT AGAIN! And this is me saying that: Sarah. The fat one. A-MAZING.
I really want to be a SW consultant when I've got to target. I think I've got a sitting audience here, in the Hospital, where if I could set up some meetings at lunchtimes, or shift-change times, so that people didn't have to go out again in the evenings, I could fill several classes.
So all I need is the Franchise money. Anyone got deep pockets???
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MargyParker
My belly this will be!
I think I just got a glimp of Sarah there Jimbob! Good on yer missus for having the determination to do this and seeing it through.
Looks like you were eased into it by a lovely mum who could see things that you in your depressed state could not. Sometimes happens like that with depression - can't see what's under your nose because you don't have the energy to even look.
I see people returning to the site after leaving and then piling it back on - I'm hoping this is just because they forget or ignore the plan and if they see the scales go up (if they weigh themselves) they just don't do anything about it for whatever reason. I think I am really lucky - I don't have the cravings for food that some of the folk on this forum do and I actually find it quite easy to turn myself off certain foods if I put my mind to it.
I hope we all stay here for support after we reach target - I was so afraid that a certain sumbudy round here was going to disappear after reaching target I went quiet for a while!
It is amazing how just a handful of people can make such a difference to the atmosphere of a forum. Funny folk like you and umm certain 'others' just make the day with the comments here. A BIG UP TO US ALL I SAY!!!!!!! :vibes::thankyou:
Looks like you were eased into it by a lovely mum who could see things that you in your depressed state could not. Sometimes happens like that with depression - can't see what's under your nose because you don't have the energy to even look.
I see people returning to the site after leaving and then piling it back on - I'm hoping this is just because they forget or ignore the plan and if they see the scales go up (if they weigh themselves) they just don't do anything about it for whatever reason. I think I am really lucky - I don't have the cravings for food that some of the folk on this forum do and I actually find it quite easy to turn myself off certain foods if I put my mind to it.
I hope we all stay here for support after we reach target - I was so afraid that a certain sumbudy round here was going to disappear after reaching target I went quiet for a while!
It is amazing how just a handful of people can make such a difference to the atmosphere of a forum. Funny folk like you and umm certain 'others' just make the day with the comments here. A BIG UP TO US ALL I SAY!!!!!!! :vibes::thankyou:
ooo jimbobbins you have the same dream as meeeeee!! lol!!
i would so dearly love to be a consultant but like you lack of money stopping me and the fact i cant drive either...sob!!
this is why i intend on still going to class though as i keep up to date,remain a current member and live in hope that i'll be able to do it in a few years when money may be better and i can learn to drive too!!
makes me sad as its not very often i 'know' i could do something well and think i do have what it takes.
hope you get there one day too x
i would so dearly love to be a consultant but like you lack of money stopping me and the fact i cant drive either...sob!!
this is why i intend on still going to class though as i keep up to date,remain a current member and live in hope that i'll be able to do it in a few years when money may be better and i can learn to drive too!!
makes me sad as its not very often i 'know' i could do something well and think i do have what it takes.
hope you get there one day too x
hastalavegan
Silver Member
Sorry for the late update, I STS last night and I'm very pleased with that. Going to class wasn't so bad in the end, everyone was pleased to see me back.
I thought I might as well add my SW story, hopefully to encourage others and also myself if I'm having a down moment and look back on posts.
I've been overweight as far back as I can remember, although looking back on photos I wasn't *that* big when I was a child. But, I believed what all of the bullies at school and negative family members told me. I've always had mahoosive boobs and this only added to my problems, I was a DD cup when I was 10 years old, so you can imagine what all the kids at school used to say
I've been on and off diets since I was 11 and none of them have worked because I was always pushed into them by my mother. I never really wanted to do them. I would end up going on diets, doing well for a few months and then when I failed I would stuff my face with junk to spite my mum and make myself feel better. I also suffered from depression from around the age I began dieting and I turned to food for comfort. I thought if I made myself fat and unattractive I would be untouchable, and I sort of was in a way, although I wasn't particularly happy with it.
It wasn't until I was around 17 that I started to want to shift the weight. I hated my appearance and had zero confidence. With the help of Minx and another forum we used to be on, I lost around a stone before I went to university. This was the most I'd ever lost but it soon came to a plateau and I started to give up. When I was 18 I made a half hearted attempt to lose some weight by going vegan. I thought if I cut out meat, dairy and eggs I would automatically lose weight without having to try so hard, but I was wrong. I put loads of weight on as I kept discovering all the fatty, tasty, sugary treats I could bake and eat
University was not good for my weight. I BALLOONED. By my final year I couldn't bare to look at myself in the mirror, I had somehow become a size 22 without really noticing. I hated all of my clothes, despised every picture that was taken of me ( and that is a LOT, people at uni take photos EVERYWHERE!) and was generally unhappy with myself. I had given up on dieting, I felt that I was too far gone to really make a difference. Not long after finishing all my uni work I watched a programme on TV with my flatmate. I can't remember what it was called, but it showed a story of a really obese man. It genuinely got to me and upset me, I could see myself getting bigger still and I was scared. Thinking my diet was healthy enough as it is, I decided to start running in an attempt to shed some pounds. I have no idea if it really worked, I slacked off after a few weeks and never weighed myself to see the results.
Not long after Minx here started telling me all about SW. I hadn't realised quite how fantastically well she'd done, I was so proud of her. And the plan sounded so damn easy..and vegan friendly! Thanks to Minx's support I did the plan for a few weeks, went to visit her and went along to her SW class. I haven't really looked back since. SW doesn't feel like a diet to me, I can eat all the things I loved before. I never thought I would see the 12 stones, but here I am, only a few stone away from target! I'm determined to do it this time, take back some control of my life and to stay at a weight I'm happy with
I thought I might as well add my SW story, hopefully to encourage others and also myself if I'm having a down moment and look back on posts.
I've been overweight as far back as I can remember, although looking back on photos I wasn't *that* big when I was a child. But, I believed what all of the bullies at school and negative family members told me. I've always had mahoosive boobs and this only added to my problems, I was a DD cup when I was 10 years old, so you can imagine what all the kids at school used to say
I've been on and off diets since I was 11 and none of them have worked because I was always pushed into them by my mother. I never really wanted to do them. I would end up going on diets, doing well for a few months and then when I failed I would stuff my face with junk to spite my mum and make myself feel better. I also suffered from depression from around the age I began dieting and I turned to food for comfort. I thought if I made myself fat and unattractive I would be untouchable, and I sort of was in a way, although I wasn't particularly happy with it.
It wasn't until I was around 17 that I started to want to shift the weight. I hated my appearance and had zero confidence. With the help of Minx and another forum we used to be on, I lost around a stone before I went to university. This was the most I'd ever lost but it soon came to a plateau and I started to give up. When I was 18 I made a half hearted attempt to lose some weight by going vegan. I thought if I cut out meat, dairy and eggs I would automatically lose weight without having to try so hard, but I was wrong. I put loads of weight on as I kept discovering all the fatty, tasty, sugary treats I could bake and eat
University was not good for my weight. I BALLOONED. By my final year I couldn't bare to look at myself in the mirror, I had somehow become a size 22 without really noticing. I hated all of my clothes, despised every picture that was taken of me ( and that is a LOT, people at uni take photos EVERYWHERE!) and was generally unhappy with myself. I had given up on dieting, I felt that I was too far gone to really make a difference. Not long after finishing all my uni work I watched a programme on TV with my flatmate. I can't remember what it was called, but it showed a story of a really obese man. It genuinely got to me and upset me, I could see myself getting bigger still and I was scared. Thinking my diet was healthy enough as it is, I decided to start running in an attempt to shed some pounds. I have no idea if it really worked, I slacked off after a few weeks and never weighed myself to see the results.
Not long after Minx here started telling me all about SW. I hadn't realised quite how fantastically well she'd done, I was so proud of her. And the plan sounded so damn easy..and vegan friendly! Thanks to Minx's support I did the plan for a few weeks, went to visit her and went along to her SW class. I haven't really looked back since. SW doesn't feel like a diet to me, I can eat all the things I loved before. I never thought I would see the 12 stones, but here I am, only a few stone away from target! I'm determined to do it this time, take back some control of my life and to stay at a weight I'm happy with
Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
I'm not sure I'll ever have a non-obsessive relationship with food.
Fortunately it's turned, since SW, from obsessively eating anything that moves, into being obsessed with sticking to plan. And I suspect that once I've got to target, I may be able to relax this a bit. But I know what I'm like, and so I'm a bit scared that stopping being obsessed will quickly lead to stopping caring. And then back to eating everything.
I'm really not prepared for all the good work I've done to be undone. And I certainly can't afford to have to buy any bigger clothes again! So I'll just have to come up with a way that will work for me. Even if it's obsessively eating one week, and obsessively dieting the next, so that I constantly yo-yo between 3 below and 3 above target!
Though I do know what you mean, Margy, in a way. I've always craved bread, and baked stuff. But actually, now that I eat so little bread, I find that when I do it makes me quite uncomfortable. So that's one craving that I'm going to do my best not to give in to! And although I do love my chocolate, I can make just a little bit do. So maybe - just maybe - I can conquer my food cravings long term.
Whatever happens, I'm determined not to go back to FATNESS.
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