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'does a dance'

I have ankles again 'YAY'

For months now I've had water retention so bad it's been like wearing thigh high boots filled with concrete and my usually quite dainty ankles had vanished under a ton of puffines along with my face

today i have ankles again

must mean im getting better

dr has stuckk me on some weight control pills too. problem is im barely eating n not losing weight n yheyre an appetite surpressant! cant see how thats going to help but ill try it anyway

Great to hear that you are getting better.

I'm not a strong fan of diet pills, even if they do come from the doctor. I've heard so many bad stories relating to them. My girl friend found that the best way is just to go swimming once a week. She lost 3 stone in a couple of months and didn't really change her diet that much either. I know that might be a little difficult for you to do at the moment, but it could be an ida for the near future.

Ohh! and do a little dance. Yay you.

i cant swim

i have very poor co-ordination so learning to swim was always a prob, shame cos its great easy exercise

Dive in the deep end, you'll learn to swim real quick! .

RF

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greenpeace would be there with their nets in a hurry

Try amphetamines, they'll get the weight off.

I'll teach you to swim. I taught my Dad at the age of 7. Strange but true, normally it's the other way round.

You could always start trying to do a good brisk walk every day, even if not enough to actually help loose weight it should get the general resting metabolic rate up so you'd be using more energy up on a dairly basis amphetameins should work too though mind, afterall most 'diet pills' ertainly used to mainly just be speed I seem to remember albeit at low doses Glad to hear the oedima has reduced though

Learning to swim: Use floating aids, until you get the muscle strenght up. When you can do 1000 meters with aid you are ready to let go of the floats. And you can shift between something around the waist and a floating thing to hold straight ahead with your hands...

There might be classes for adults - I know there are here, where many women from faraway countries can't swim because a) they're from the desert b)women just don't.

amphetamines would certainly help but theyre nasty things cut with floor cleaner n im not sure i need any extra heart strain dont think ive not been tempted though

Sereph.

It's a known fact that those of us who have a little extra around the middle float much better than those who are stick thin (that's how I can swim )

You should find that you won't have too much of a problem to float...this way you can start off with kicking your legs whilst holding a float with your hands.

btw. G can't swim and everytime we go swimming we both use a float so he doesn't feel silly all on his own.

I'm a big scaredy baby thouh since i nearly drowned as a kid anything deeper than a bath n i panic

n oi youve got nothing round your middle woman!

*whispers* Tell that to my tummy

VV, I'm not entirely sure you can claim to "have a little extra around the middle"...not unless you've doubled in size since your wedding.

My mom can't swim and she's scared of water...actually I suspect she's scared, really, of drowning.

I've never understood that, but then I used to go free diving, which is why I've got a deformed ribcage

I will tell mummy

I just went n got weighed

ive lost 16lbs since starting the pills 7 days ago!

'does a dance'

OMG????? You are kidding???

That wonderful!!!

nope not kiddding at all!

though she reckoned a good bit of it could be the excess fluid i was retaining and i had heavier clothes on last week

But 16lbs???!! That is truly a wonderful acheivement!



You should be really proud of yourself!

I am so proud of you! Keep it up!

fankoo

nothing fits properly for thursday night now though!

i also seem to be having a rather pleasent side effect from taking reductil with my anti depressants as they both raise your serotinin levels so im really hyper n