JanD's New Year, New Start, Maintenance Diary
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Zebs07
Dance the positive spin..
So nice to have u back...
I've got urticaria - had it for 15 years and cause unknown! Daily antihistamines required to keep it under control and boys it's awful when it gets out of control. Rash copeable with but the wheals wherever skin is touched and the burning hands and feet - Aaaarrrgghhhh. However now that I've freaked you out - don't be! Most cases resolve on their own .... X
I've got urticaria - had it for 15 years and cause unknown! Daily antihistamines required to keep it under control and boys it's awful when it gets out of control. Rash copeable with but the wheals wherever skin is touched and the burning hands and feet - Aaaarrrgghhhh. However now that I've freaked you out - don't be! Most cases resolve on their own .... X
JanD
maintaining since June'09
Hmmmm - thanks for that
.. I think.Don't have the wheals or the burning hands and feet going on, just (JUST!?!) the rash .. now in lumps all over my chin, jaw & neck & new ones appearing all the time ... still driving me mad itching, even with double doses of anti-histamine ..... and the occasional swollen lip, wrist, fingers etc
And i hate the way the skin looks bruised as they're fading, it looks like you've been beaten up! Not going to be too good when these on my face etc start to fade - though probably better than looking like something akin to the elephant man!
It's not showing any signs of easing up as yet but finger's crossed xx
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Awww Jan I hope it gets better real soon for you! xxx
Zenaworrier
Back to reality!
Glad it is starting to clear up hun. Poor you-I would have been itching away like crazy!
summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Glad it's a little better today hun xxx
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summergurl
♥3 Years Maintaining♥
Oh no back to work!!!!! what a bummer 1st day back is always such a struggle!
Did you cope ok over there with the time difference? I imagine so as were awake working when it's their day time?! Right?! Lol or is that just really naive of me to think that?xx
what a bummer 1st day back is always such a struggle! Did you cope ok over there with the time difference? I imagine so as were awake working when it's their day time?! Right?! Lol or is that just really naive of me to think that?xx
JanD
maintaining since June'09
While we were there we were 11hrs ahead so you're quite right Tan to think that when we're working our nights it's their daytime. I often had email conversations with my cousin's PA in the middle of the night before we went, over arrangements etc. When the clocks here went forward last weekend that made them 10 hours ahead of us and as their clocks are going back this weekend - as they go into their autumn - we'll only be 9hrs different.
Mary I haven't been near any scales yet - I'm really scared to as I KNOW I've put on tons. I have decided to do something I really hoped never to do but I've always said never say never - I've just ordered the bumper pack of Exante. It should come on Tuesday and I'd like to start it then.
I just feel that each time there's been an occasion, a holiday, Christmas or whatever I've put on and though I've lost subsequently I've never quite lost it all - each time the level has crept up by a couple of pounds until now I'm fairly sure when I get weighed on Tuesday it's going to be well over a stone that I need to lose to get back to where I was when I felt good ie 10st 3 or 4lbs. That's not all been put on this holiday, as I say it's accumulated over the last 21 months a lb here, a couple of lbs there not quite lost after a holiday and it's got to stop. I'm afraid if I don't do something drastic it'll just keep accumulating and before I know it I'll be back where I started.
I didn't want to go down the road of using TFR as a form of weight control iykwim but I KNOW I'll get really disheartened when I see the huge gain and without TFR it may seem like a mountain I can't face.
I KNOW it would be far more sensible to follow a 'plan' - I double-KNOW that if I just gave up the wine & v&cs for a few weeks it would make a hell of a difference but I also know myself and I know I wouldn't do it. I know I'd start tweaking things to allow for a li'l tipple here and there. Right now I feel I need the discipline of TFR. I'm disappointed that I do but I do and that's all there is to it.
The Bumper pack is 4 weeks worth of products, I may only do 3, for one thing we may be going out the weekend of the Royal wedding which is 3.5wks from tuesday and for another I'll see how it goes weightwise. If I feel I need to do the 4 and we're not going out I may do the 4.
I know I can count on your support. I especially could do with you telling me I'm not 'giving in' by doing this - I don't know why but that's what it feels like ...?! xxx
Mary I haven't been near any scales yet - I'm really scared to as I KNOW I've put on tons. I have decided to do something I really hoped never to do but I've always said never say never - I've just ordered the bumper pack of Exante. It should come on Tuesday and I'd like to start it then.
I just feel that each time there's been an occasion, a holiday, Christmas or whatever I've put on and though I've lost subsequently I've never quite lost it all - each time the level has crept up by a couple of pounds until now I'm fairly sure when I get weighed on Tuesday it's going to be well over a stone that I need to lose to get back to where I was when I felt good ie 10st 3 or 4lbs. That's not all been put on this holiday, as I say it's accumulated over the last 21 months a lb here, a couple of lbs there not quite lost after a holiday and it's got to stop. I'm afraid if I don't do something drastic it'll just keep accumulating and before I know it I'll be back where I started.
I didn't want to go down the road of using TFR as a form of weight control iykwim but I KNOW I'll get really disheartened when I see the huge gain and without TFR it may seem like a mountain I can't face.
I KNOW it would be far more sensible to follow a 'plan' - I double-KNOW
that if I just gave up the wine & v&cs for a few weeks it would make a hell of a difference but I also know myself and I know I wouldn't do it. I know I'd start tweaking things to allow for a li'l tipple here and there. Right now I feel I need the discipline of TFR. I'm disappointed that I do but I do and that's all there is to it.The Bumper pack is 4 weeks worth of products, I may only do 3, for one thing we may be going out the weekend of the Royal wedding which is 3.5wks from tuesday and for another I'll see how it goes weightwise. If I feel I need to do the 4 and we're not going out I may do the 4.
I know I can count on your support. I especially could do with you telling me I'm not 'giving in' by doing this - I don't know why but that's what it feels like ...?! xxx
Aww Jan, you know you will have our support whichever road you decide to travel on. I know what you mean by gaining the 1lb here and the other 1lb there..........thats how I am still half a stone over where I want to be, I have not really lost it since the last holiday in Oct.
I would never condemn anyone for going back on TFR, I did it myself March 2010 after I gained nearly a stone and a half when I stopped smoking. It IS a quick fix, but its sometimes just what we need to get us back to the comfort zone and if it means a month on TFR every two years, I would be more than happy to have to go along that route.
I even contemplated exante myself a few weeks ago, but somehow and I dont know from where, I have found a new motivation, I am enjoying it while it lasts (sitting here munching on a couple of thin slices of Cathedral City) but if I needed to do TFR again, I would and wouldn't feel ashamed or embarrassed.
Hopefully the scales on Tuesday wont be as bad as you are thinking chick xxx
Great to have you home again.
I would never condemn anyone for going back on TFR, I did it myself March 2010 after I gained nearly a stone and a half when I stopped smoking. It IS a quick fix, but its sometimes just what we need to get us back to the comfort zone and if it means a month on TFR every two years, I would be more than happy to have to go along that route.
I even contemplated exante myself a few weeks ago, but somehow and I dont know from where, I have found a new motivation, I am enjoying it while it lasts (sitting here munching on a couple of thin slices of Cathedral City) but if I needed to do TFR again, I would and wouldn't feel ashamed or embarrassed.
Hopefully the scales on Tuesday wont be as bad as you are thinking chick xxx
Great to have you home again.
JanD
maintaining since June'09
Thanks Mary Appreciate the support, right now I feel as though I'm going to burst! I so wish I could get into a regular eating pattern instead of this 'stuffing or strict' one that seems to be my default setting.
Enjoy your cheese and what are you doing up at this hour??!! You're not working are you? xx
Appreciate the support, right now I feel as though I'm going to burst! I so wish I could get into a regular eating pattern instead of this 'stuffing or strict' one that seems to be my default setting. Enjoy your cheese and what are you doing up at this hour??!!
You're not working are you? xxThanks Mary
Enjoy your cheese and what are you doing up at this hour??!!
Thats the great thing about the friendship that we have formed on here, the support will always be here for each other.
Not working tonight, but just sat at home having a couple of vodka's......I enjoyed my couple of thin slices of cheese lol.
Yes I hear you about the stuffing or strict - a happy medium is what we are all seeking.......will we ever get there?...........I dont know. I am there for a week, then not there the next week, but at the end of the day, it hasn't stopped us leading a NORMAL life......yeah, we may think more about what we are going to eat, or what we have eaten, but that in itself shows that we ARE maintaining, albeit a little heavier than desired.
When it comes to the time that we are stuffing our faces, with no care or thought about what is being consumed, then that's when we DO have a problem and will end up being back on TFR for months and months.
Try to relax a little about it hun, if the scales are not showing what you like on Tuesday, then you can do what you need to do to get to where you want to be without anyone on here thinking any worse of you.
