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Making the apptmt for next week when o.h. is on lates, that way I won't be so stressed and the readings might be quite ok. Always more stressed when he is around lol

Lizx

Morning Dolly
a cat comes in our garden.& it has caught one or two birds .so we moved bird table away from the bushes .its not been about since .at the moment have a few rabbits , little uns & 2 big ones . 5 babies the other day .all came out of a hole near a heather bush ..they are so cute . Pauline quirk does look well .but 500.calories a day ..honestly .we live once enjoy your life .everything in moderation :-D Take care not long off your 25th now Barbra

Thanks Liz, Just go and get that BP monitor fitted!

I've never had a cat thats brought in live animals, my old cat I had used to kill things and dump them in the porch, but Sid just plays with everything and brings them in or into the porch, the best thing so far this year to date was an ice cream cone! :-D , usually he brings small plastic balls from the little girls garden 2 doors up, I have quite a few of those in the garden, way beyond returning as they are chewed and flat.

Dolly X

Have you seen Pauline Quirke now she has lost weight? She looks fabulous, I wouldn't look that good even if I lost all the surplus weight!

Dawn French apparently ate omelettes and salad and lost weigh and Nadia Swahala has lost weigh too, so if they can do so can we!

I am hovering between 13st 5 and 13 st 7 depending on time of day etc

Must remember to make that apptmt with doc for the bp machine to be fitted.

Keep up the good work Dolly and hope the cat doesn't bring in any more mice - I was lucky my cats never did that altho they did bring in a bird once which scared me as I don't like picking up feathery things if they are still alive.

Lizx

Thank you Wendy and Jan,

Yes Wendy I sure got exercise chasing cat and mouse lol.

Jan I don't know what I'd do if he brought a rat in, I can't stand them, I'd have to get the shovel out and smash it one, they are just the pits of the rodents.
And omg! at 10 stone, thats mega weight loss, she must be so proud!

Thank you again.

Dolly X

Reminds me of the rat we found living in the jukebox ... I just love my cat.

I had 2 weeks when I gained 1/2 lb then stayed the same - but the 2 weeks after that lost 1 & 2lbs. Just keep going Dolly. It could be worse - my group leader has lost 10 stones with another 5 to go!

Jan

Don't worry about the 1/2lb gain Dolly. Just forget about it and keep going toward next weeks weigh in which will probably show a loss. At least chasing the mouse gave you some exercise. lol

Wendy x

Oh I've had a horrible day! firstly I haven't been too good for the past 5 days, secondly the blickin cat brought in a LIVE mouse! it was in the kitchen, I managed to drag the fridge freezer out only to find it had shot behind the storage heater, cat was going frantic trying to get it out,, I had the hall door closed and there is no way the mouse could get through or under it, so I had to leave cat and mouse in the kitchen while I went off to WW.
To top it all I have gained 1/2lb I am so fed up, I know its not much but I was doing so well,I think I wouldn't have felt so bad if the cat hadn't brought the mouse, in, chasing him and said mouse around our large kitchen was not fun, this is the second live one he's brought in in as many days, last ights one got into the hall way, fortunately I managed to open the front door and shoo it out, Sid was reprimanded, not that he understands a word I say, he just adores playing with them.

Dolly X

Very well done Dorothy!
Just to offer another word of encouragement. I love eating and hate exercise, but have lost over 2 stones since March, not spectacular but slow & steady. I go to Slimming World rather than WW, suits me better. (As you are encouraged to eat a lot!). I plan to exercise a bit more now I feel better.
Only 3 stones to go!!
Keep at it and eat as much 'free' food as you can, don't let your body get into starvation mode whatever you do.
Jan x

I think we are all doing well.

I am going into a local Boots or similar where they have those machines that print out your height weight and bmi I had one done last September and was 5'6" tall, weighed 87.3 kg and my bmi was 31.3 - the ideal is 20 t0 25 !!! Ideal weight is 8 st 11lb to 11 st !!!! I haven't been under 9 st since I was 34 just before I got pregnant with my son, who will be 29 on Sunday, but if I could get down to 12 st I would be thrilled. I know I need to put new elastic in lots of skirts etc, which is how I knew I was changing shape a bit.

My o.h. lost weight by eating differently once he was found to be diabetic but also by cycling to work and back most days. I know I need more exercise but it's so difficult, doc said I need to walk more and do it till I am out of breath! Won't catch me on a bike nowadays, haven't ridden one since I was pregnant with my daughter in 1974!

Good luck girls

Lizx

Hi Wendy, Good Luck today and well done in your weight loss, it is a struggle, its just a complete change of eating habit, I am getting used to it, and I now recognise where I was going wrong! it is easy to slip back to the old ways but I am so determined that this weight has to come off and stay off I know I can do it, it is for my health after all, I gave up smoking 6 maybe 7 years ago this year, if I can manage that the new eating habit won't be so hard.

Dolly X

Hi Dolly,
Well done to you. What a great surprise to find you had lost 1½ lbs when you thought you had probably stayed the same.

I get weighed today. A couple of friends OH and I all weigh at our house every Thursday. From August to new years eve last year I lost 1st 4lbs and from then to now I have put back 4lbs. Now 4lbs isn't much to worry about but it is the beginning of a slippery slope. Exercising makes a big difference to my weight loss and it has been a bit too hot to do this lately. Now I know that this is really an excuse as it isn't hot early in the morning or in the evening!! I MUST get back on track. My husband doesn't exercise at all and has lost almost 2 stone!

Good luck Dolly with the coming week

Wendy x

Oh dear, us and our weight, its all such a fiddle. I went originally because I had gained an awful lot of weight and was feeling so unwell, my bp was too high, it was something like 195 over 85 which is high for me, I had my cholesterol checked after mum had her heart attacks, she has high cholesterol, so must my dad, he died from a stroke at 65, I don't want that happening, so thats the reason I went to my GP. My cholesterol was 2.3 and the bad cholesterol was hardly tracable, so I am very pleased. My GP likes us to be pretty fit if we can be and she has known me for over 20 years, she knows how slim I used to be.
I know I will get there in the end, I am just an impatient person and want everything yesterday.
I'm not weighing myself daily now on my scales because they obviously lie to me. :-\
I am only 5ft 3 I think or it maybe 2 now, but 14 stone was way too heavy for my frame as I am not big boned.

Liz good luck in eating less, just have a smaller plate and don't pile it high.cut out biscuits and cakes and you may lose it without too much of a change. ;-)
I suppose Huia if you retain water in your body you may change a lot daily in your weight, just a thought.

Dolly X

Liz, I could have told him he had it wrong. I am currently trying to get under 13 stone and was thrilled when I got down to 83.1, almost there. Unfortunately the next morning I was up to 84.3. I think I must have misread the previous days weight, possibly 84.1. I wouldnt have put on 1.2kg in 24 hours would I? I dont think I ate any more than usual. (Unhappy face here).

Huia

Well done Dolly.

Huia, I have read the same thing, if you eat too little your body hangs on to everything in case you eat nothing at all!! (Fat chance with me, if you will excuse the pun)

Well I went to the doc, was late and traffic was bad (my doc is near my own house and 5 miles from here but I want to stay with that surgery) Receptionist didn't say anything so I think he was running late anyway, I only had a few mins to wait before he called me in. Told him I had lost a few pounds and he checked my bp and then did it again a few mins later (told him I had been stressed by other people's driving lol) He has suggested I wear a special contraption for a day that measures my bp around 60 times at varying intervals as I go about my daily task so have to arrange that. He said You come in the morning and have it fitted and come back the next morning to have it removed and checked (you can remove it to shower if required) Well after I finished laughing - me? mornings? - he said Oh it doesn't matter when you come in, you can come and have it fitted in the afternoon and come back twentyfour hours later so that's what I will do.
Then he weighed me, I was 85 kgs. I asked what it was in English and he said Oh I am hopeless at converting it, wait a mo, and he fiddled about with his phone/calculator and came up with 12 st 9lb. Now considering I have been 13st 7lb of late I was thrilled and was convinced my scales were wrong. He said I needed to aim for 12st altho 11 would be my ideal weight, pmsl He checked back in my file and said I weighed 2 kgs less than two years ago and several more than 11 years ago according to the details on my file. I suppose at that point he was crosschecking in kgs.

I got some more Adcal for the vit d as the female doc had said it was cheaper for me to buy it over the counter, but it isn't! Not the strength and with the calcium as well so he was happy to prescribe me some as he said it will help my bones as well as my hair (loss)

I got home and thought about it and checked his calculations, my delight was shortlived! He got it wrong and I do weigh 13st 7lb so my trusty old scales are pretty close. I also checked on the posh do it all scales I got my o.h. when he started weightwatching and they come up with the same answer! Means I have a long way to go to get to 12 stone never mind 11 !!!

Will have to send doc a message that he needs to print himself out a chart for others who like to know their weight in English too lol, no false hopes for anyone else!

Note to self, must try harder to eat less :>(((

Lizx

Hi everyone,

I have been for my weigh in, I have actually lost another 1 1/2 lbs! I thought I hadn't lost anything, so it goes to show I am doing something right :-)

Huia, I know what you mean, I suppose at some point I will get to a plateau where I will get stuck and weight hard to shift.

Fiona, how is your weight loss going?

Barbra, mum is a bit better, her meds need sorting sligtly, she is due her warfarin check to morrow so hopefully her GP will sort her meds.

Dolly X

Liz, how did your doctors appointment go? I hope they will give you some help and support, it seems so wrong when people ask for help they aren't given it, it takes a lot of courage to ask, but to get nothing makes it harder.

Sometimes when you have lost some weight the body cries 'famine' and tries to preserve all the calories you have taken in. Well that is my excuse and I am sticking to it. Seriously though, I think I have read about it somewhere. That is why it is so difficult to lose weight. We tend to lose heart when we cant keep losing it. Just persevere and it will start to come off again.

Huia.

Morning everyone, :-)

Its my WW weigh in day, I don't think I've lost a thing this week, eaten according to my pro points, not slipped on that but have hardly done any exercise, not felt particularly good, I think its a slow down after being away last week, got hubby to bring my rowing machine down stairs as its quite lonely rowingh in the bedroom, I can now do it while watching TV, I know I have a TV in the bedroom but its not in a position to be able to watch it while rowing, it will entice me to do it more often downstairs.
I will let you know my weigh in result later today.

Dolly X

Morning Dolly . hope your mum is alright .its a worry when they are unwell .glad the ww is going okay for you .if you lose a few pounds a wk .you keep it of better than silly grash diets .hya liz & All Take care Barbra xx :-)

Hi Liz,
It must have been lovely to walk along the coast, we live near the coast, about 9 miles or a bit more if we want town, but we never go! I don't drive and hubby hates walking :-(
I usually eat a couple of weetabix for breakfast with skimmed milk and sweetener sugar if I want it. I try not to snack between meals :-\ if I do its always fruit.
Lunch is a bowl of salad with either a hard boiled egg or skinny ham, then an evening meal when everyone is home, I weigh everything! but have over the month got used to the size portions, so I eat off a smaller plate, I drink alot of water or diet drinks, I love tea but that uses my daily quoter for milk, I try to save it for a milky drink at bed time, I allow myself a pint a day.
This week I appear to have stayed the same weight as last week, I don't mind as long as I haven't put any on. I have my WW weigh in on wednesday. I did have a magnum ice cream yesterday, I haven't had one in weeks! its was lovely but I did feel guilty.

Dolly X