Thanks texty love, the same to you, I hope Kathryn's weekend doesn't make the scales too grumpy with you. That said you both looked great in those dresses, I can't see where you would lose any more weight from (except your knockers!)
Hi loubyjane. How awful that must be getting up the stairs. Are you looking to move to a bungalow in the future? How nice it must be to have your hubby do the sky etc for you... mind I bet he is enjoying the tv in bed too!
Knowing what is right for you both in eating and weightloss and target weight is so important i think. I know if I just eat fruit and yogurt in the morning it is likely i will fall off the wagon later and stuff myself silly with junk. Other people are quite content with a yogurt and a banana. The rice pudding is a nice way for me to save my heb for lunch while I'm at work... although it seems the youth group may be buying a microwave I might borrow sometimes. Muahaha! I just boil pudding rice in water with sweetener. When cooked and all the water is gone I mix in a yogurt and fruit
I rarely measure anything sorry! I'm positive there will be recipes with measurements all over the place! My way is different to my consultant's, but she wasn't brought up cooking so that's why she has too much water left over and has to drain it. Lord knows why she rinses it in boiling water and she doesn't add sweetener to the water and thinks I'm nutty because i do. So the rice pudding my way helps me, it keeps me on an even keel. I don't worry about carbs to be honest. Part Irish, part Italian, part Ukrainian. If I worried about carbs I'd be screwed! I'm amazed I don't drink! Everyone is different though. I don't lose fast but when I'm not being a tit and dealing with rubbish i am pretty consistent. So each week I'd plod on and each week a bit would come off. Other people get big losses every other week and that was normal for them. Some people want to be very slim, others are happier a bit bigger. Because I've always been heavier than I appear I'm happier a little heavier. And because i will have excess skin I want to balance that out with my weight. I do love sw for allowing us to decide what weight we are happy at.
My mum has an underactive thyroid so she can't lose fast, and she's a bit naughty at times, so that's why I'm her biggest cheerleader. She lost about 3 or 4 stones but then got stuck and it took over a year for them to work out her thyroid wasn't working properly. You just take it at YOUR pace. Being consistent is more important than big losses.
The floods are more inland i think although last week the beach huts all got buggered by the sea. The pebbles were just smashed into them and the ice cream parlour couldn't open because the pebbles were blocking it shut and there was no access because of them. There are rumours that the cobb wall is cracked round the back and the sea took one of the cannons. The houses are ok though it seems. Any more of this weather and there will be more landslips though. If the cobb is damaged that'll be a bugger. Next week is half term too and we won't get hardly any tourists now with this weather, which will hit us. It's just a sea side town-Lyme Regis. So it is all tourism really. . I'm safe I'm in a village that is a mile or two from the sea, in a new house that they had to prove would not flood. The park is still shut because of flooding though. Last year the sign for the village hall's overflow carpark was underwater. I'm just hoping that means we will get a nice hot summer like last year too!!!
I'm looking forward to the muffin top to be gone in my 16 jeans - probably at my 1 stone mark. I have a skirt I got at my lightest that sooo doesn't fit now that I'm looking forward to wearing again. Last summer was my first with bare legs too so I want to feel able to do that again
have you been slim as an adult? I've always been big so slimming down is all new for me. I imagine it's very different to have been slim and gotten bigger rather than always big.
I hope you and your carer both do great tomorrow. I checked this evening and my evening weigh is what my morning weigh was last week so I have definitely lost I just don't know how much. 2lbs or more and I will be thrilled. I need 8lbs in 3 weeks to hit my goal set at group so any extra will be a big boost. I'd like to be around 14 and a half stone for Nate's birthday and him starting preschool. March 24th and 26th respectively. Try not to get in the habit of weighing. It can be annoying. I went 6 months without doing it and I just can't keep on track without doing it. I used to only ever weigh at group. Oh. So funny last week I was expecting a gain. I gained and the weighing lady rang her hurrah weightloss bell (we are not supposed to have it but shh) anyway i start laughing and point out I gained a lb. She thought I'd lost a lb. Hahaha..