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Help! I have so much weight to lose

zand said:
@Totto Walked away from computer after making my last comment and thought of other comments I have reacted badly to. Instantly the swimming one came to mind!!! We have a holiday soon and I have just asked an astonished husband if there is a pool at the hotel. There is, so I have torn house apart looking for old costume - one size too small - so I have ordered a new one. I can't promise I will continue going to a pool after my holiday, but I will try to swim while I am away.
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The problem with the written word is that it is easy to misinterpret as there are no visual or audio clues? I wouldn't beat yourself up about it? How about asda? I have bought a swimming costume from there before. They have a good range and lots of different sizes!
 
Scandichic said:
We were all young and foolish once! I have been known to sing a rant with some swear words in it to a lullaby tune when kept awake by my eldest for the 10th consequtive night at the hospital when she was a baby. She was premie (3 months) then at 10 months old grabbed the remote control, hooked it through the handle of a mug of coffee and it went all over her. My hubbie didn't speak to me for 24 hours and we were both interviewed separately at the burns unit to check we weren't battering our daughter. At 2am i was singing very quietly I wish you'd beep beep go to sleep, you're doing my beep beep head in. I was also driving 60 miles a day to do our washing and feed the cat. A nurse appeared and said "I often wonder when a rock becomes a shake! " On day 11 I went into the nurses station and they were not quite quick enough with the monitors and I saw that they had cameras in all the rooms and were monitoring people. Hope they had fun watching me get dressed. It was then that I realised they had sound. My own mother blamed me too so we didn't speak for 2 weeks. It was at Christmas too. My hubbie did appologise afterwards. My work arranged for me to have counselling and it was brilliant. So if you're considering it - go for it! It works!
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Did you report the cameras to anyone?
They cant do that without letting you know.
 
Pipp said:
Have managed to have a couple of sessions of (dare I mention it, zand?) water based exercise. Absolutley knackered, so today I just pottered about, and actually did some housework. Extremely dischuffed to find that housework does not count as exercise on myfitnesspal app. Grrrrrr!
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If you search for 'Cleaning' under cardiovascular exercise you should find a couple of options in MFP. On an iPad or iPhone you can also list all the CV activities to try and find the one you're looking for, but I don't know if there's the same option on the web site version.
 
this is too difficult said:
Did you report the cameras to anyone?
They cant do that without letting you know.
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They didn't let us know. There were signs in the corridors but not the rooms. I guess there are people who batter their kids but I felt bad enough without the horrible nurse and being monitored. It didn't feel good to think that I'd been getting changed in there! My daughter also got nappy rash because they wouldn't let me bathe her and then a nurse told me off for not bathing her and blamed me for the nappy rash. She had never had nappy rash before going there. We always bathed her every day, especially in the summer. Fairly horrendous experience and we were glad to leave. She is now a very petite wirey thing with a strong mind of her own and a terrific sense of humour. She is a real dare devil and we frequently have our hearts in our mouths! She climbed a 30 foot tree in the park when she was 2 1/2 and my husband had to climb after her and retrieve her!
 
Scandichic said:
We were all young and foolish once! I have been known to sing a rant with some swear words in it to a lullaby tune when kept awake by my eldest for the 10th consequtive night at the hospital when she was a baby. She was premie (3 months) then at 10 months old grabbed the remote control, hooked it through the handle of a mug of coffee and it went all over her. My hubbie didn't speak to me for 24 hours and we were both interviewed separately at the burns unit to check we weren't battering our daughter. At 2am i was singing very quietly I wish you'd beep beep go to sleep, you're doing my beep beep head in. I was also driving 60 miles a day to do our washing and feed the cat. A nurse appeared and said "I often wonder when a rock becomes a shake! " On day 11 I went into the nurses station and they were not quite quick enough with the monitors and I saw that they had cameras in all the rooms and were monitoring people. Hope they had fun watching me get dressed. It was then that I realised they had sound. My own mother blamed me too so we didn't speak for 2 weeks. It was at Christmas too. My hubbie did appologise afterwards. My work arranged for me to have counselling and it was brilliant. So if you're considering it - go for it! It works!
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I have a similar memory of 'rocking' my first born (also prem, at 30 weeks)a little too robustly and singing 'who's a noisy boysy, who's a noisy boysy? Wah, Wah ,Wah.' Well he had cried all night through. He did seem to like the song though and the Wahs weren't quite so piercing while I was singing it..
 
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zand said:
I have a similar memory of 'rocking' my first born (also prem, 30 weeks)a little too robustly and singing 'who's a noisy boysy, who's a noisy boysy? Wah, Wah ,Wah.' Well he had cried all night through. He did seem to like the song though and the Wahs weren't quite so piercing while I was singing it..
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What upset me was that I wasn't rocking her anything other than gently and whilst singing what I did wasn't perhaps the nicest of songs , I had had very little sleep in 10 days and she couldn't understand. Sometimes I think the automatic assumption of some people in the medical profession is that parents have done something wrong. They wouldn't even watch her when I drove home to feed the cat so that my hubbie could get some food yet insisted that he remained with her by her cot. I guess like all professions (including my own) there are good, bad and indifferent!
 
Not easy being a mother is it .I think babies learn very quickly how to push their mother s buttons.

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todays 30 minute exercise included going sideways over a wall into someones garden, luckily i had my 11 year old with me to offer concern and first aid, unfortunatly she didnt realise her role and opted for uncontrolled laughter instead, this is how she described how it happened to mum
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Andy12345 said:
todays 30 minute exercise included going sideways over a wall into someones garden, luckily i had my 11 year old with me to offer concern and first aid, unfortunatly she didnt realise her role and opted for uncontrolled laughter instead, this is how she described how it happened to mum

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You always know how to bring a smile to my face. For the second time in two days - hope you're ok! What happened with the wife's birthday?
 
it was good thankyou, she didnt get a present yet but i tried lol, i had a piece of her choclate cake, didnt want to test but at 2 and a half hours i figured sod it and was 13.5 so im glad i didnt test at 2 hours, i made her a cup of tea, that counts right? i did order a bike at halfords with them promising me itd be ready today before they closed 8pm after several calls to them i got a call at 8:05 saying its ready but they are closed until the morning lol so they can keep it


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zand said:
@Totto Walked away from computer after making my last comment and thought of other comments I have reacted badly to. Instantly the swimming one came to mind!!! We have a holiday soon and I have just asked an astonished husband if there is a pool at the hotel. There is, so I have torn house apart looking for old costume - one size too small - so I have ordered a new one. I can't promise I will continue going to a pool after my holiday, but I will try to swim while I am away.
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Errr, swimming? That is in water!! So who are you and what have you done with zand?

Just kidding! But hey zand, not sure when the holiday is, but the rate you are going that size too small swimsuit may just be too big when you get there.

I think this calls for a shopping trip to buy a new swimsuit. Who knows, a glamorous new cozzie, a suntan, and a newly toned slimmer body may well make it to a swimming pool near home.

Good going zand. You should be proud of yourself!

Pipp
 
Scandichic said:
We were all young and foolish once! I have been known to sing a rant with some swear words in it to a lullaby tune when kept awake by my eldest for the 10th consequtive night at the hospital when she was a baby. She was premie (3 months) then at 10 months old grabbed the remote control, hooked it through the handle of a mug of coffee and it went all over her. My hubbie didn't speak to me for 24 hours and we were both interviewed separately at the burns unit to check we weren't battering our daughter. At 2am i was singing very quietly I wish you'd beep beep go to sleep, you're doing my beep beep head in. I was also driving 60 miles a day to do our washing and feed the cat. A nurse appeared and said "I often wonder when a rock becomes a shake! " On day 11 I went into the nurses station and they were not quite quick enough with the monitors and I saw that they had cameras in all the rooms and were monitoring people. Hope they had fun watching me get dressed. It was then that I realised they had sound. My own mother blamed me too so we didn't speak for 2 weeks. It was at Christmas too. My hubbie did appologise afterwards. My work arranged for me to have counselling and it was brilliant. So if you're considering it - go for it! It works!
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Haha, Scandichic
It seems so wrong to laugh at something so harrowing as a little baby being injured, and I am not laughing at that, honest. It is just the circumstances, and your telling of them. I am sure you are an excellent mum, just as I know I would never harm my kids or anyone else's. But that awful beyond tiredness, when you cannot seem to pacify the little darling for the umpteenth night in a row, can make you a little unhinged.

My son was, still is, so clumsy that we were frequent visitors to children's A&E. By the time he was 2, the medical staff always asked him how the accident had happened, and examined him for signs of neglect, whilst ignoring anything we, his parents had to say on the matter.

I might have sung weird songs to him, but that is about as cruel as it got.

Pipp
 
julifriend said:
If you search for 'Cleaning' under cardiovascular exercise you should find a couple of options in MFP. On an iPad or iPhone you can also list all the CV activities to try and find the one you're looking for, but I don't know if there's the same option on the web site version.
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Thanks. I will have a look, or maybe just get off by behind, stop spending so much time on forum, and move about a bit instead.
 
Andy12345 said:
todays 30 minute exercise included going sideways over a wall into someones garden, luckily i had my 11 year old with me to offer concern and first aid, unfortunatly she didnt realise her role and opted for uncontrolled laughter instead, this is how she described how it happened to mum
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Oh no Andy12345. I quit being mean to you and your daughter takes on the role.
Hope you aint too hurt, especially after having that nasty turn yesterday.
 
Andy12345 said:
it was good thankyou, she didnt get a present yet but i tried lol, i had a piece of her choclate cake, didnt want to test but at 2 and a half hours i figured sod it and was 13.5 so im glad i didnt test at 2 hours, i made her a cup of tea, that counts right? i did order a bike at halfords with them promising me itd be ready today before they closed 8pm after several calls to them i got a call at 8:05 saying its ready but they are closed until the morning lol so they can keep it


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You could always get your bike fixed and let her go cycling on it with your daughter.

Looks like cycling aint your sport?
 
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