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Only 12 weeks until christmas! I've been stuck between 12'12 and 12'7 for 7 weeks now (today at 12'9) but I *really* want to be under 12 by christmas. Still not convinced that I will get there though, I know I have got over sticking points before but this is the lightest I have ever been - I don't think my body knows how to be lighter than this

Queegle - recruiting Fuzzy to help rather than hinder your diet is a great idea. You can help him to see your success as his success too and everything gets a lt easier

I went to a "Lifestyle and Beauty" fair at the weekend. Thought I might have a nice couple of hours with a friend and a giggle at lots of unnecessary stuff people are trying to sell others.

One stand I stopped at but thought it looked a bit dubious, took a leaflet anyway. It was simply called "Low Fat 30" and seems to be a group like WW or SW which meets weekly, but they also put together individual diet sheets etc. Sounded absolutely what I need with my gall bladder having been operated out 4 years ago now.

Talking of gall bladders, I also had my palm read at another stand. It said all sorts of odd things (forecast for the next 2 years: I will move house and change job. Neither of which are likely, unless a death or divorce occur, so it was very worrying. Haven't shown my husband)

However, the palm-reader also said I had a lot of trouble with my digestion and should have my gall bladder seen to. Which was so exactly right (except that I haven't got a gall bladder) that it made the other stuff worrying, too, if everything held the same amount of truth.

Anyway I'll go along to one of these LF30 meetings and let you know how it helps. It's another one of these which claims to be not a diet but a change of life style. It's Wednesdays, but I can't go tonight because hubby has the car.

TC, was it you that tried the herbalife diet? How did you find that?

Hi everyone , been absent from this conversation string for ages, due to me not seriously dieting and weighing (oops).
Kelli, keep at it, honestly to be 12 stone something is miraculous, just think how far you've come! Its funny everyone keeps saying to me 12 weeks till Christmas, i must lose X pounds/stones. Its the time of year when we think of parties and outfits I guess.
TC don't worry about the palm reader, there may be some truth in the things she says, but two years is a long time, I mean, you could come into money (not necessarily thru death) and want to move somewhere larger. Or you may just see the job of your dreams advertised.
Its not always doom and gloom change. I say this cos when I was in hospital 4 years ago after an accident, the woman in the bed opposite said I had a big aura(I did have a weight problem then too) no seriously, she was a clairvoyant and did my palm. She said I would change my job soon, I was very surprised as I'd only just started a job I liked, she also said I would have trouble with a red haired woman!
I couldn't think of any.
I kind of forgot about it, but once I was back at work following the accident, the section was restructured and I did decide to go for another job, which I was happy about. And the red haired woman, my childminder who did the dirty on me financially, so there was a truth in what was said! Or maybe I just made it fit.
Just don't worry!

I just wrote reams and reams of a posting explaining about Herbalife and why it didn't work for me. It disappeared in some time/spatial anomaly or black hole thingy.

Site is playing up a lot lately - hope the upgrade thingy they are doing tomorrow sorts it out. I meant to say before - don't worry about the palm reader i wouldn't set too much store by what she said - after all she said you should check out an organ you don't actually have...

Hey Mystic - keep posting even if you aren't doing too well on the diet so we know what you are up to

Am wearing my pedometer today, so far by 4 pm I have done *rummages around waistband* 2350 steps - not too good is it?! Am going to the gymin an hour or so but I suspect even with that I won't get to 10,000 steps! I should maybe walk to fat club tonight, but then I'll be late. Is it better to do the exercise and miss the meeting, or attend the meeting and skip the walking?

Do the walk Kelli - you know its the right thing to do! Turn up late if needs be - get weighed and tell everybody that you are late because you chose to walk there!

I got my report from the gym today - I officially completed the 12 week Get Active scheme on Friday - it's the best report I've ever had in my entire life!

I have now joined the gym proper! I just need to get off this plateau I seem to be on at the moment...I like to think that it is because of all this muscle that I am developing!!

What plateau Lady? You post losses, even if they ar only little ones

We'll see how I feel after the gym! I only joined so I could attend the meetings, can weigh myself at home, so I don't really want to miss it - suppose it will depend on how much traffic I encounter on the way home from the gym *prays to traffic gods that the M4 will be clear tonight*

0.2kg is not a real loss in my eyes! It's the difference between going to the loo before I weigh myself and not! Anyhow - thanks for the encouragement Kelli.

I bet if it had been 0.2kg on you'd be beating yourself up about having gained weight! Half a pound off is half a pound in the right direction - you are doing brilliantly you know

Not praying to the traffic gods again - they gave me an 8 car pile up and 15 miles of near stationary traffic. My 20 minute commute took over 2 hours and I missed the meeting altogether

for the welcome everyone - been a bit poorly over the past few days, like a dying duck in a thunderstorm

However! I have managed to be good (despite all the glucose drinks the Other Half has been ladling into me) and have lost a kilogram!!!! If even half of that is fat rather than water I will be so chuffed!

On the down side, went to buy new underwear for going away (off to New Zealand two weeks on Monday) and found that a 38E was too small! Rats! Where can you get nice undies in, ahem, plus plus sizes? I only need size 14-16 smalls, so it makes it doubly hard to get the bra size I want with the matching undies.

I get most of my bras from bravissimo.co.uk, figleaves.co.uk and department stores as am (curently) a 34 FF. When I was bigger I was a 40 biggest-I-could-get! Make sure you are getting the right size though - a lot of people buy bras that are too big in the back and too small in the cup. It makes such a difference to the way you look when you have a well fitting one!

Well done with the kilo off

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3723270.stm

I wondered if this sounds familiar to any of you - apparently girls aged 11-21 want to be fitter (79% of them) but the majority feel self-conscious about exercising in front of other people, and this prevents them from doing so.

I really identified with that feeling - I was so scared of gyms to begin with as I thought everyone would be looking at me and thinking horrid things. It wasn't the case though, everyone is so busy getting on with their own world of torture *sorry - that should read exercise plan* they couldn't give a stuff about me. How can we communicate that to these young girls?

k

I totally hear what you are saying and agree from first hand knowledge - but that's because I am older and wiser!! I don't care who sees me wobbling away on the exercise bike or waddling along on the treadmill...because at least I am doing it!

Unfortunately you cannot communicate that (or much else it seems) to teenagers. My niece (15) is a prime example - her mum (my sis) has got her a full membership to the gym she goes to but she rarely wants to go "because some boys [she knows] might be there".

It is a quite embarrasing time though isn't it - puberty and adolescence - bits of you are getting wobbly, you start sprouting hairs and you don't want anybody to see your body!!

But what can be done? Perhaps gyms can offer a couple of ladies only sessions a week?

I can honestly say now that I don't care what people think of me - in most situations - but a few years back exercise was excruciatingly embarrassing (the jiggle factor comes into play here.) At high school I was *forbidden* by my PE teacher to go to the gym to exercise and do light weights reps, and instead we were all encouraged to play hockey, hockey and more hockey - which I was rubbish at. It took four years for anyone to look at me and diagnose me asthmatic, instead of just 'lazy'.
Most people at the gym won't care what you look like when you exercise, but when you're a teenager it only takes that *one* ill-intentioned person to say something nasty about you - a few years back I was exercising at the public tennis courts when some in a van drew up and shouted "Move it, fatty!" before driving away. Something like that can really drain your self-confidence, especially if you're at that difficult age.
I worry about my fourteen-year-old niece because all she eats is chocolates and sweets and pizza. No fruit and veg, no form of scheduled exercise. She's skinny as a rake right now, but she's got to be storing up health problems for later life. Pretty much all her friends eat the same way. There's miseducation afoot somewhere, right enough....

Oh well another week over and it's Saturday again , I suppose I should get on with it and weigh myself ..........OH well not as bad as I thought (thought I was getting to my sticking stage!)
have lost another 2lb So I am now 14st 8lb (92.5kg)

Well done Shez!

No posting on Saturday because I was away in Bonny Scotland...eating all sorts of things that I really shouldnae have eaten!!

For example - chips and cheesecake but I was at a hotel that had a gym and a pool so did a workout on Sunday and Monday mornings to work both excesses off!

Even so - I was very worried when I stepped on the scales this morning...I truly expected to see a kilo or two gained



101.3kg !!!

How chuffed am I?!