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Help! I have so much weight to lose

Well you never know, so it is good to be prepared!
This reminded me of my youth when I used to have Friday nights out with the girls . One of my friends always had her passport with her and when I asked her why she saiid in case I meet Mr Right and he wants to whisk me off to paradise it spoils the moment if I say hang on got to go home to get my passport !


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Hi, this morning I am not doing well. It stems from what I said yesterday about my skin not shrinking. I'm not sure I want to carry on with this anymore. I can't cope with how my skin looks already and I haven't lost 2 stones yet. I could do with a plateau phase right now. I'm well used to being fat, I'm not used to being wrinkly and old. I would like to gradually increase my calories, but I am struggling to eat 1200 at the moment. I don't want to eat at all. I am sick of protein and fat. I want a chip butty. Why did no-one say 'be careful what you wish for'? Hubby was wonderful about it this morning, but I still have horrid skin.

OK, here's my thoughts to myself after reading the above paragraph.....Oh for God's sake grow up, all this fuss because you are getting what you wanted. Does it really matter what your skin looks like? No-one is going to look at it anyway. So you're getting old - some people don't have the chance to get old. Whose fault is this anyway? You should have done this years ago. OK so you 'couldn't do it then', couldn't be bothered more like. How many years is it since you cared what you looked like? So why start worrying about that now? So decide what you are going to do about it, stop whinging and get on with it.

Some songs have popped into my head so I am going away to listen to them.
NIckelback - If today was your last day
Coldplay - Everything's not lost
 
hehe Zandy baby stop being so down on yourself!!!! yes you want to lose weight, yes you want tight skin!!! this is normal stuff, no one is ever satisfied with themselves, well maybe super models but probably not even them, you've just swapped one problem for another but the new problem is a healthier one, be proud of yourself, your amazing (if a bit baggy) your skin will stretch back in time :) and if not it will be a trophy for all your efforts :)
 
hehe Zandy baby stop being so down on yourself!!!! yes you want to lose weight, yes you want tight skin!!! this is normal stuff, no one is ever satisfied with themselves, well maybe super models but probably not even them, you've just swapped one problem for another but the new problem is a healthier one, be proud of yourself, your amazing (if a bit baggy) your skin will stretch back in time :) and if not it will be a trophy for all your efforts :)
lol
 
" STRENGTH DOES NOT COME FROM PHYSICAL CAPACITY, IT COMES FROM AN INDOMITABLE WILL!

Mohandas K Gandhi

I want a chip butty too! xx
 
My mum lost 8st and she looked years younger .. Ok maybe she did look a bit like a sharoei dog with no clothes on but that was because as she herself admits, she left it too late to do exercise. She has toned up a lot these last few years , 20 plus years since losing weight , by going to Curves three times a week, so I figure that if we start toning etc as we begin weight loss, it will have some effect. I think you just have to accept that it won't be perfect, but it will be better than losing a foot or an eye for. I don't know your financial circumstances but I've thought about putting aside the money I used to spend on takeouts and coffees etc towards any future necessary surgery.
 
Some songs have popped into my head so I am going away to listen to them.
NIckelback - If today was your last day
Coldplay - Everything's not lost

So when you've done that listen and bop around to Katrina & The Waves' "Walking on Sunshine".

(says he having listened to The Smiths' four albums back to back yesterday ...)
 
Hi Zand, don't beat yourself up about the loose skin, I lost weight so quickly my skin couldn't keep up so I am a bit wrinkly in places, buy hey ho I can cover that up and nobody sees it (only my Hubby who prefers the new slimmer me despite the wrinkles lol.) After a while your skin will tighten up again with a bit of toning in the right areas. You have done so well it would be a such a shame to give up now, and you will feel so much better in the long term.

Keep at Zand you are doing great.

Marilyn x
 
So when you've done that listen and bop around to Katrina & The Waves' "Walking on Sunshine".

(says he having listened to The Smiths' four albums back to back yesterday ...)

Jesus, you deserve a medal. I hate Morrissey with a vengeance.
 
The scars ( there are many) and stretch marks on my body are a reminder of a life lived to the full. The stretch marks are the price I paid for being a mother to the wonderful people that my children have become. The scars from surgery and accidents are a reminder that I have been through some terrible times, and survived. Show I am tougher than I look.

I won't deny, the scars and stretch marks do pee me off sometimes though.
sorry for my late reply, glad you can see the positive over the mother hood and how you are tougher to from all the things your body has been through, it can be sad times sometimes and in can relate to that,some times i look at my body and wish i looked how i was younger slimmer, so i am aiming for that now to get my weight to it's norm, the scars will ever go away yet i know they are special ones reminders of the babies lol, sending you big hugs and positive good health for now and futire, you can and will achieve your goals xx
 
Jesus, you deserve a medal. I hate Morrissey with a vengeance.

Haha yes he's a bit marmite isn't he - I like The Smiths more for Johnny Marr's guitar though.
 
Haha yes he's a bit marmite isn't he - I like The Smiths more for Johnny Marr's guitar though.
Marr is brilliant.. It's just Morrissey I can't be doing with. Beautiful jangly guitars then some really dire lyrics and tuneless whining on top. I'll stick to the early Waterboys and Lloyd Cole, though my iPad has the biggest load of cheesy pop on its iTunes ... David Cassidy and Barry Manilow help my exercise on bike.. Not sure that's not because I race through it to turn them off ;-)
 
Lloyd Cole, yes (exits to look for CDs of 'Rattlesnakes' and 'Mainstream') :cool:
 
hehe Zandy baby stop being so down on yourself!!!! yes you want to lose weight, yes you want tight skin!!! this is normal stuff, no one is ever satisfied with themselves, well maybe super models but probably not even them, you've just swapped one problem for another but the new problem is a healthier one, be proud of yourself, your amazing (if a bit baggy) your skin will stretch back in time :) and if not it will be a trophy for all your efforts :)
Zandy baby! Hahaha. Love this.
Pippy baby! X
 
Hi, this morning I am not doing well. It stems from what I said yesterday about my skin not shrinking. I'm not sure I want to carry on with this anymore. I can't cope with how my skin looks already and I haven't lost 2 stones yet. I could do with a plateau phase right now. I'm well used to being fat, I'm not used to being wrinkly and old. I would like to gradually increase my calories, but I am struggling to eat 1200 at the moment. I don't want to eat at all. I am sick of protein and fat. I want a chip butty. Why did no-one say 'be careful what you wish for'? Hubby was wonderful about it this morning, but I still have horrid skin.

OK, here's my thoughts to myself after reading the above paragraph.....Oh for God's sake grow up, all this fuss because you are getting what you wanted. Does it really matter what your skin looks like? No-one is going to look at it anyway. So you're getting old - some people don't have the chance to get old. Whose fault is this anyway? You should have done this years ago. OK so you 'couldn't do it then', couldn't be bothered more like. How many years is it since you cared what you looked like? So why start worrying about that now? So decide what you are going to do about it, stop whinging and get on with it.

Some songs have popped into my head so I am going away to listen to them.
NIckelback - If today was your last day
Coldplay - Everything's not lost
I can identify with most of this, having in the last few years lost 40kg. With still a long way to go before I am out of obese range BMI. I cover my flappy skin with nice new clothes that hide the excesses. I am in a plateau stage with weight loss, and I don't like it, but maybe it is my body's way of caring for the overall wellbeing. So rather than plateau I am thinking it is weight loss / metabolic adjustment / weight loss mode. I know I ought to have done something years ago, but I couldn't then, but can now. So can you. I see it as I am getting older, bits of me will start to fail, but rather than look at the negatives, I am trying to look at the positives. Working life and child rearing years done, so too the caring for elderly infirm parents, time to do what I choose, rather than what I have a duty to do.
Thanks for sharing your philosophy. You really do not need any of us to advise, you always work it out for yourself, and your honesty, and insight are a great help in rationalising similar thoughts and emotions for me.
Be well,
Pipp, aka Bleedin' Pollyanna
 
Btw
I wouldn't thank you for a chip butty, but pass the cheese. I could eat my way through a cheese mountain right now.
 
Well I sinned today....practising cakes for daughter's 6th birthday and had to sample the goods...

Waiting to test!

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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.
 
Well I sinned today....practising cakes for daughter's 6th birthday and had to sample the goods...

Waiting to test!

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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.
Only sin where food is concerned IMAO is when it is wasted.
 
Well I tested. 5.6 before, 7.1 an hour after. Cake base was sugar free but icing certainly wasn't. I'm shocked!


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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014. Just left to get on with it, no guidance or help from GP. Every day I'm learning something new.
 
Assume it was butter icing? If that was the case, a 2 hour test would make sense (the high fat potentially slowing the impact of the icing sugar)
 
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