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Well done, Dolly. I went on one of those machines in tesco - it does your height, weight and bmi, and it said I have lost over an inch in height since last September, it can't be right as I am sure I was measured at the docs a short while back and was the same height as always, 5'6" My weight is now 13 st 1.4 lbs and last Sept was 13st 10lb so hope I can lose a lot more by Sept when we may go abroad for a holiday.
I would feel, and look, so much better without my big tum lol

Lizx

Hi Everyone, I've had another excellent weigh in, another 1 1/2lbs off!
Just 3 1/2lbs to do in the next 19 days and I will be really happy,
my aim, 1.1/2 st before the 22nd.

Dolly X

Huia, do you weigh yourself too often? What I mean is, if you stick to once a week and wear the same clothes then you will see the weight changes
properly rather than scaring yourself every other day!!

Aaaagh, my weight today is up 1.2kg. Makes me wonder if I misread the scales yesterday. Will have to go for a good stiff hike, if the weather permits. But then I have a cold at present and dont feel like hiking.

Huia.

I was surprised when I weighed myself this morning. I have lost 900 grams since yesterday morning. I dont know how I did it as I didnt do anything yesterday, apart from sleeping for 2 hours after breakfast and another 2 after lunch! I didnt go to bed until midnight last night and didnt get up until 9.45 a.m. I think I might have a chest infection so am going to see the doc this afternoon.

BTW, my weight is now 82.5 kg, or just under 13 stone, like you Brenda. It is a long time since I have been there. I dont follow any 'special' diet, just eating well (lots of fruit and veg, low fat everything.)

Huia.

Hi Barbra, yes it is a points system, point amount is worked out by your hright and weight.It is so simple to follow, the best yet with weight watchers, I have done them before but not with this system, its easy to follow.I don't eat WW bread, as ordinary bread is only 2 points per slice and fills me up more

Helen, well done! :-D

I weighed in again today and lost another 2lbs! I have 5lbs more to lose in the next 3 weeks so that will be then a stone and a half before our wedding anniversary. So far I have lost 1 stone 2lbs, and now just into the 12stone range!!, haven't been in the 12s for absolutely ages. I am really chuffed with myself :-D :-D :-D

Hi Dolly, how are you doing this week? I have just been weighed and have lost 2lb - this makes half a stone in all. Hooray!!!! But it has been very hard going.

Hya Dolly .i have been looking on the internet.at WW .meals & snacks >drinks .its about points system ..is this what you are doing .you mention bread .there is ww bread its 98pence .do you have that ..thinking of getting these & trying for a month .as my 45th wedding anniversary v,,coming up in sept ? what do you think Thanks Barbra .

morning everyone, Sorry not to have replied earlier, just been very busy with family and things.
Huia oh lol :-0 no wonder you put some weight on. never mind we all have blips from time to time. You'll just have to go and buy some more :-)

Helen thank you, it does give me a boost when people say well done, I think I am getting there now, although I did have my first tatste of fish and chips last night, the first in over 2months! I had a small cod and chips, ate the fish and some batter but only a hanful of chips, so didn't pig out, the hens had t
he rest of the chips. It was delicious!! :-D
helen I have found WW this time so much easier to follow, I have tried it twice before and failed. I have also tried dieting alone at home, and doing silly fad diets, this one is the only one I have managed to stick to for any length of time. Well done with your 6lbs!

Marion, thank you for looking in :-) I do eat a lot of salad, veg and fruit, mainly because its free points on WW unless you have an excessive amount of fruit, I eat as many as 4 apples a day, not a lot of bananas, maybe 2 a day sometimes, but a lot of salad. I limit my bread as I will eat loads of it, and of course I buy low fat cheese, as that was my biggest downfall, I'd eat a huge hunk of cheese and never think how much fat was in it.
I also buy WW caramel wafers for chocolate, I have 1 a day as a treat during the evening, I rather like them as they are real chocolate and not sinthetic.
I hope I haven't put on through having a bit of fish and chips, I will see on wednesday.

Dolly X

Not looked on for a wee while.

Well done Dolly and all you slimmers.
When I go on a diet I just eat lots more fruit,veg and salad.
I'm fine if I stay off the sweet stuff but,if you fall into the habit again it's like starting over again.
I'm a 14 but every now and then I start to creep up so I go on a mini diet.
ie I'll lose about 5-8lb before I go on holiday then put most of it on again while away lol

Marion

Huia, LOL!!! Sounds like something I would do. Put on weight then eat 3 bags of crisps since I already feel fed up!

Dolly, well done with your weight loss. Fantastic going. I am really inspired by you!

Liz, I had one of those BP thingies for a day. It coincided with us going out with people I don't know very well so I had to wear a massive floaty number to disguise it! I found it quite uncomfortable every time it went off but it didn't wake me at all at night so I can only assume it didn't work properly. The doctor said he had enough readings to work with, anyhow, and my BP was fine - it's only in doctors' surgerys that it goes sky high!

I have been going to Rosemary Conley Diet and Exercise classes and have lost about 6lb but, like Wendy, my downfall is the weekends when we do socialise a lot and we do drink a lot of wine. And I am weighed on Monday!!! It's fatal.

I am interested to hear about the Weightwatchers eating-out guide, I will look for it on Ebay, maybe. And also knock the wine on the head, I think, as a starter. I also joined a free website "Sparkpeople" which offers exercise challenges, calorie counting and loads more. It's very American but it's great for tracking what you eat and what exercise you do. Just off to track my breakfast now!

Confession time for me. Yeterday, I bought a pack of 6 chocolate muffins thinking they would be nice when my son comes tomorrow. I thought I would have one after my dinner, but they were so nice, one wasnt enough, so I had 3. I found this morning that I had put weight on. So what did I do? I had the other 3 for lunch. I hate to think what I will weigh tomorrow as I couldnt get out for a nice long walk today. Well I could have, but it was raining and I dont like walking in the rain. :-(

Huia.

Well folks, you really couldn't make it up!
I had a phone message yesterday to call the nurse at the surgery, which I duly did altho it took two calls to catch up with her.

Her first words were 'I am sorry to tell you' and my heart skipped a beat, and she went on to say 'unfortunately there were only two readings on the machine! Did you have a problem with it?'

Did I heck? I told her it had slipped down past my elbow so I had pulled it back up but I had tried to make sure it was still positioned in the correct place and she said she thought I must have been one of the unlucky ones - oh yes, so sometimes they don't work properly then? She started to say I would have to try again and I told her No way! Said I would come in and get prescription for meds, can't keep faffing about like this so the earliest apptmt I can get with the good male doc is August 3rd! I will be telling him how annoyed I am that I wasted two trips in to the surgery and 20 miles worth of petrol, plus a stressful 24 hrs with little sleep, and all for nothing!

I wonder if the other nurse did something as she pulled the tube out of the gadget as it seemed to have 'worked' on many occasions through day and night - so what was it recording?


I am 5'6" tall and wouldn't mind being overweight if it wasn't all mainly round my tum, I am a typical apple shape and it's crept up to my neck too, have more chins than I used to and hate it so much. Used to have quite a long elegant neck but no more, gobble gobble lol

Anyway am still trying to eat less but well so will keep you posted on weight loss and what meds I get given.

Take care folks,

Lizx

Morning Dolly.hope you are ok today .liz .what a carry on for you .we have gas men working in our area they have 9 holes .all dug up .2workman...not doing a lot .though ?? keep up the good work .with your diets Take care Barbra xx :-)

Hi Wendy,
Thank you and very good luck today with your weigh in! I hope you've lost.
( gosh you can't say that in any other situation can you lol)
Its always hard to lose weight when eating out or with friends, I have found that the hardest to do, I got a booklet from weight watchers called 'eating out' it gives nearly every eatery and foods they do and how many points to count.
You're doing well, you have to have some time when you gain or you wouldn't be human.

I don't want to get to the point of being frightened to eat certain things in case I gain weight, I know how serious this can all get to be so paranoid that you lose control, I have an anorexic sister, she has been anorexic since her teens, she is 43 now, she is slightly better than she was a few years back but is still extremely careful what she picks to eat to keep her weight right down.....

Liz, thank goodness you got your bp thingy done, I know its a nuisance as my brother had to wear one, he got so cross with it he took it off before he went to bed and refused to wear it, and he told the doctor as well.
You weigh less than me so you can't be that big, I am only 5ft 3 inches so my weight tends to go on my legs and tummy, I don't have big hips at all so my bottom is small. I think you're doing good, just cut down on the amount you have and read labels for total fat and sugar content.
Any exercise more than you did before will help, any activity you did be walking or anything similar, just do a bit more of it, it all helps to lose weight and it will definately lower your bp.
:-)

Good Luck,
Dolly X

Well done Dolly, I am sure you will reach your goal and feel great for your anniversary.

Wendy, it's hard to be strict with yourself when eating out, I will have a lapse Sunday and Monday when we go out for my birthday with my son lol

Am chuffed tho, I went to the nurse on Tuesday and had the bp thing fitted, what a rigmarole, round my arm over a tubigrip bandage which rolled over at the top so everything was tight, there was a tube from the band which went up my arm, round the back of my neck and back down the middle of me bosom under my bra. That led to the activating and recording device in a little pouch which was fixed to a belt made of tubigrip - apparently the receptionist and doctor never remember to tell patients to bring or wear a belt! By the time I got the darned thing on I was stressed and had to drive home with it activating every half an hour. It did it often, accompanied by a beep to tell me it was starting up and two beeps when it was done. On several occasions it repeated the action straightaway - when I asked the nurse she said Oh it does that if the first reading is high, just to check.
Well wearing it must have made my bp high cos it was stressful and a nuisance. At 11.30pm it went on to hourly readings, for the nighttime. I forgot to tell the nurse that my nighttime is not like hers so by the time I went to bed at 7am it was back on half hourly readings and beeps (they stop at night) Everytime I got into a good sleep (and that's not easy with fibromyalgia) the blasted thing woke me up and then when I was in a nice snooze the men from the Water company turned up to fix the hole in the road under the bedroom window, (no gardens and road is just 4 or 5 ft from the house) We have been waiting for weeks for them to do the hole, it had to be dug up, filled and reflattened etc.
I got up and had to drive 5 miles back to the doc to get the thing taken off and then they couldn't upload the info and tell me anything straight away as someone else was using the room where they do it!

I asked the nurse if she had a chart to give the doc who had had such a problem calculating my weight last time. She showed me a circular thing that they use to translate kgs to stones etc and weighed me again. I must have got muddled as I am 82 kg and haven't lost 3 kg since I was at the docs and she translated that to 12 stone 7 lb. Means the doc was right and our scales are wrong, yippeee!

Obviously I still have a lot to lose, but if I can get down to 12 stone in the next few weeks I will be happy and then try and lost another stone slowly.
Will start using the more modern scales when o.h. fixes them properly so they show my bmi etc and then I will get a real reading and know if I am loosing or gaining.

Have to wait now to hear from the doc and presumably go in to see him and gets medication. I just know those readings taken will be higher than is good.

I bought crispbread and avocados yesterday after the visit to the surgery, so off to have a snack now before I think about bed and catching up on some sleep.



Lizx

Good on you Dolly

I weigh on Thursdays, last week I lost a pound. We have friends staying with us at the moment and we eat out Thursday and Saturday and had more friends round for lunch, which went on all day, on Sunday. By Monday morning I had GAINED 2 lbs. Today I have lost just over one of them so hopefully by tomorrows weigh in I will be the same as I was last week!!!

Sometimes I wonder if it is all worth it but I know it is really

Wendy

Thanks Fiona :-D :-D :-D

Yaaaay! Well done! :-D :-D

Hi Everyone,

I am so pleased with myself. After putting on 1/2lb last week i have lost 2lbs this week!!! only another 7lbs in the next 4 weeks to reach my challenge of 1.1/2 stone by my 25th anniversary, fingers crossed I can do it :-D

thank you all for stilll adding and supporting me, and thanks Fiona :-)

Dolly X