Posts by little_jaymo

Thanks Karen and good luck with your last 1.5 lbs.  Well done!

Unfortunately this week I've gone back up again :(  Serves me right really, all I've eaten all week is rubbish.

Weight today: 123.4 lbs

When I said,

"If they don't eat everything on their plate they don't get the scrummy pudding but it's fine to leave the table.  If they really like the pudding they usually manage a few more mouthfuls to get it!" 

I didn't mean that they had to eat every single morsel, I merely meant that they had to give it a good attempt.  And puddings in our house usually consist of yoghurts or fruit.  That's not to say that they don't sometimes eat cake.  As a cake-maker by profession they do but it's all good homemade stuff.  

Anyway, people seem to have jumped on that so I just wanted to clarify the point.

Hi there Sue,

Welcome to our group.  Weigh-ins are on Friday and it would be great if you could log your weight with us.  Ritzigirl and I are good at checking in and it would be great for someone else to join us although it's not at all compulsory. (Just a gentle prod to others in the group ;) )

Anyway, good luck, keep it up and I'm sure you'll do well.

Ritzigirl: Well done on getting it back down.  You see?  The 129 was just a wee blip! :)

Thank you all very much, especially trustwomen who made me happy and sad all at the same time. I think you got the situation completely right.  It's funny how, even though I think I knew it deep down, it needed somebody to spell the situation out to me.  ie: 

 "-he only got back in touch with you/remained in touch with you to keep the possibility of sex open. He has no interest in being "just friends". He went all weird when his daughter was born because you fill a "potential mistress" role in his life (incongruous with sharing one's new baby info) and not a "friend" role. Same with not wanting to meet your husband. "

I know that you are all right, (it's pretty unanimous!) and I'll not contact him again.

Thanks again.

Hi,  

Sorry I'm a bit late!  Weight today (which was actually Sunday not Friday) was 123.2 lbs.  Still going down by minute amounts but as Ritz said last week, at least I'm still going down!

Glories: None to mention.  I should have gone to the gym every day last week but I did my hip in on tuesday and had to cancel all subsequent sessions :(

Confessions: To many to mention!  Doing my hip in caused an onslaught of wine, chocolate, crisps (chips to you American folk) and all manner of other comfort aids.  "Och Well!" as they say in bonny Scotland.

Ritz, don't fret about your slight gain, I went up and down like a yoyo for the first month but now I'm going steadily down.  Slowly mind you, but still down.  Keep up the good work.  Also, do you get the feeling that it's just you and me in this group?  I'm not bothered mind you, I like the exclusivity! ;)

Original Post by darice_73:

I am a mother of three and I have learned that your children learn their eating habits from you.  The best thing to do is keep eating right and eventually they will want to try what u r having.

Also stop cooking the nuggets and offer other foods and let your child know that this is what we r having for dinner.  Kids will eat when they get hungry and not just the things they like.  It will be a little crazy for a while but the eventually get with the program.  This I've learned ffom experience.  My house use to resemble a food dinner with the different meals I was preparing everyday but now the have learned mommy is only cooking once, better eat now or be hungry later

 

This is completely right in my opinion.  I have two children, one aged 4 and the other 2 and they both eat pretty much everything, including salads and olives and mushrooms and all sorts of other food that people find unusual for kids to like. 

The only way to get children to eat is to lead by example and not offer a choice.  I don't subscribe to this whole "hiding" of good food.  I think that children should grow up knowing what they are eating and appreciating it for the lovely food that it is.

In my house we try to make meal times fun instead of battles.  If they don't eat everything on their plate they don't get the scrummy pudding but it's fine to leave the table.  If they really like the pudding they usually manage a few more mouthfuls to get it!

Also my kids like to be very "helpful", so if yours is similar (which I'm sure he is), maybe you could get him to help you in the kitchen while you prepare the meal.  He can pass you the carrots, put the peelings in the bin, get the peas out of the freezer and pour them into the pan, help lay the table etc.  I've found that if they take an active role during the preparation they are more likely to enjoy the end result.

Taking that one step further, if you have the room then maybe you and you boy could grow a few potatoes and carrots and tomatoes etc.  Tomatoes are great as they don't take that long to grow and your son can see them getting bigger and riper everyday.  And all kids seem to like treasure hunts and digging so imagine the fun that could be had looking for root vegetables. 

So in summary as I do tend to natter on, Keep it fun, Keep him involved, and Don't offer a choice.

Good luck.

I had my second child 2 years and 3 months ago and I've still got the tummy :(  I'm not convinced that it ever goes away for some people.  Others however lose it completely.  My friend looks like she's never had a baby at all and could wear a teenie weenie polka dot bikini if she wanted to.

Current weight: 123 lbs

Goal: 103 lbs via 112 lbs

Most people on here will tell you that you definitely need to eat to your calorie intake.  I, on the other hand, kind of disagree.

I'm kind of short with a very small frame. If I don't have unhealthy snacks or booze I find it really really hard to eat to my 1200.  I typically have some wheat based cereal for breakfast (weetabix, mini wheats), a small piece of meat, chicken or fish with loads of veg for lunch and a sandwich or soup for dinner.  Since trying to lose a bit of weight I generally have grapes and apples as snacks instead of jaffa cakes and crips (potato chips), and I generally drink water above anything else and I'm trying to cut out the booze on week days as it's just not all that good to drink every night like I used to.

A day without snacks and booze usually comes to just over 900 calories and I sometimes ponder on eating another 300 calories "just because" but for two reasons I don't really like doing it.  

A) If I start unhealthy snacking it won't end at 300 calories as the first chocolate bar etc is often followed by another (it's unhealthy snacks because I just can't eat that much fruit!)

B) If I wasn't logging my calories every day I would be none the wiser that I hadn't reached my calories so as I didn't feel hungry I wouldn't feel the need for food.

Anyway, as I said, I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as you are eating properly and you don't feel hungry or tired through lack of food, I'd carry on as you are.  Now watch me get flamed ;)

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I do still have days when I go way over too.  Usually at the weekend when the wine etc flows and BBQ season is a killer!

Original Post by karenadele07:

Hi, may I join? I started a group but it fizzled.

Age:  39 (want to be thin and hot by the time I am 40 on 7-27)

CW 110.5 (already lost 7.5lbs)

Goal: 105-108

Height 5'1 1/2 (that 1/2 counts when your only 5'1")

Luvmyboy, I am a Mommy to a almost 4 year old little boy, who is the light of my life.  When I first started to lose weight and was cutting back on treats and working out more he asked me why and I said because I want my tummy to be smaller, he told me he loves my big tummy and boobs and doesn't want them smaller.  He likes to cuddle a soft mommy, he has also said he likes to lay on mommy and cuddle mommy because she is soft and daddy is too hard.

So cute.  My 4 and a half year old daughter told me, "Urrggh Mummy!  Tummies shouldn't have layers!"

She's still very lovable though.

Anyway, Weight today was 124.4 lbs.  

Nothing happening really.  Although I have lost 1 pound since last Monday's weigh-in on Friday I weighed 123.8 so I'm still very up and down, and I'm still 2 pounds heavier than a few weeks ago.  :(

OK, looks like I'm the first to log my Friday weigh-in.  I think we should also add our "confessions" so we can see why we maybe didn't do quite as well as we would have liked, and our "glories" when we were really great!

Starting weight: 126 lbs

Goal weight: 104 lbs (gone down due to the fact that I'm now 5 foot 1 inch and not the 5 foot 3 I always thought I was.)

Current weight: 123.8 lbs 

Confessions: Had a bit of a "cheese moment" a couple of days ago and drank wine and ate crisps (that chips to you American folk) last night.

Glories: Been to the gym 3 times this week.

Original Post by nosouix:

The endocrinologist if a fruitcake and a drug pusher!  At 218, you should not need a drug to help you lose weight.  Why take the chance with the side effects if it is not necessary.  I do have hypothyroidism and have lost 76 pounds without drugs.  I made it from Obese to Normal BMI last week.  I am not saying that some people do not need help, but drugs should be a last resort.

I don't know anything about this drug, but I have to agree with Nosouix.  I wouldn't take any drugs for anything unless it was absolutely necessary.  Maybe you should go back to your Primary Doctor and ask for a second opinion.

Congrats Nosouix on your Normal BMI. :)

This site is linked to all over this forum.  It's pretty good.

http://www.phord.com/cc/

Hi Alennar.  This is the work out that the Personal Trainer at my gym told me I should be doing.  He suggested that I try to do it at least 3 times a week.   Obviously you need to gage your own weight settings.

Start with 5 mins on the cross trainer (level 5) to warm up.

2 x 15 reps on the squat machine at 80 lbs

2 x 15 reps on the upper back machine at 15 kg

2 x 15 reps on the chest press machine at 15 kg

2 x 15 reps on the lat pull-down machine at 25 kg

2 x 15 reps on lat raises with 3 kg in each hand

10 minutes doing intervals on the running machine - lower level at 4.3 upper level at 6.6

and finally, 2000 metres on the rowing machine record your time and try to beat it the next time.

Hope it helps.

You must be able to burn off more than you eat otherwise nobody would ever lose anything.  I mean what's the point in the extra exercise if you have to eat what you've burnt off?  (other than the getting fit bit.)

I'd stay at eating your 1200 and doing extra exercise.  That's my plan as I've been trying this lark for a month now and not lost a thing so upping my exercise seems to be the only way to change things.

Good luck.