Weightloss Support

Hi Lass 

Firstly, I'm having bother with the site and it's therefore difficult to post which involves a lot of switching off and on again so hopefully things will improve soon. Worst site ever I've been involved with. 

I'm ready to be the first bloke to go on to the front page. My present weight is 15st 10 lb. My target weight is 12 st. And help!  I've a paunch and I hate it. 

Hey Hope!

I've added you to the front page, so you should see your listing there now.

Sorry to hear you're having issues with the site, it's certainly had a few challenges recently hasn't it. I think some of the issues it is experiencing is because we are becoming more and more active, with a lot more members than we've ever had before. So there's a massive strain on the system. This is why they are currently working on updating the site and changing some things in the processes and systems so that in the end it will all work much more reliably and smoothly. However, there will be a window of disruption, where some bugs and such might come up while things are being switched over and updated. But in the end, it should all be for the better!

As for the paunch, are you still managing to get to the move more classes? And have you tried the DVD at home in between times? How's your diet?

We can work on our paunches (and then some in my case) together, don't you worry!

Lass

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It's very difficult at a time of stress and worry - I think a lot of us find that we either eat uncontrollably at such times or virtually stop eating altogether, neither of which is good.

You did really well to lose that 5 stone so don't go and blow it. The only thing that seems to be partly working for me is to regard the weight loss journey part of my life as just something else I am doing i.e. it's not the centre of my attention. Still, I know that we can sabotage ourselves within a couple of minutes (surprising what can be eaten in that time!) and then once 'blown' one kind of thinks that's it for the day so you may as well continue. We've all been there.

What I find really difficult is that so much food is just plonked down in front of one just about everywhere you go. For example, at my local cancer charity, for which I am forever grateful, there are always two or three types of biscuit on offer and quite often home-made cake as well. I can just about ignore these when I go to make myself a cup of tea but then find that a nicely arranged plate of them has been put on the coffee table around which people waiting for therapies etc sit. This surely can not be good on any level, no matter how kindly it is meant! Then, this week, I was invited to stay behind for a cup of tea after a recently joined Medau movement group and inevitably somebody had brought along a pack of chocolate covered Bahlsen biscuits. Helpful? Not. I am trying to look on this as 'my' problem and that there is no reason why others should be deprived because I have a 'problem' but I have to say that it does irritate me!

Sorry, I am going off your question there. The short answer and I don't mean this unsympathetically is that nobody can get you back on track bar you. It's not surprising you've had this blip but that's what it is. I wish you well and I'm sure everybody on this forum is rooting for you.

I'm having a moan because I'm fed up!

That pain in my back is still there from the fall a month ago. And in the last few days I've developed a really stabbing pain in the small of my back that means I can't stand up straight and I'm walking like a 100 year old. I've also started with a pain in my knee and hip. I'm absolutely fed up of all of these aches and pains, especially when there is no obvious reason for why they have appeared.

I've not been able to exercise for a month now - but weight is stable. But stable isn't what I want! I want a flipping reduction! The pain is exhausting, so lots of naps are happening. But plans are having to be cancelled left and right because Ijust can't get out of the house to do anything - mostly because getting in the shower isn't the easiest at the moment.

I'm sick and tired of it all, and being a grumpy cow. So I've just eaten 3 hot cross buns, toasted, with butter, as my tea..... I say eaten. I inhaled them! But I had a salad for lunch which was only two hundred and something calories - so I've not gone over my daily allowance, and I'm going to have a yoghurt a bit later which will still keep me under. So I'm ok on that front.

But just BLEH to the body as a whole and my mood!

L

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Hey Lass have you gone to see the Doctor after your fall? It could be possible you have done some damage there and if you have arthritis, not sure if you have already but that can be aggravating after a fall or if you move wromg. I didn’t find out about my arthritis till years after most of the damage was done. I hope you feel better soon. Plus well done on keeping the weight stable because I realise your wanting to lose weight but I think many of us do it we can comfort eat and it’s easy to pile the pounds on, because we tend to comfort eat when we are hurting either physically or mentally.

No arthritis that I'm aware of, but I do have bone mets. *Points to profile*

But not been to the doc. No bookable appointments ever. So there's not actually any point in even trying.

And yeh, the comfort eating is why I don't keep bad things in the house normally. If it's not here, it can't be eaten. But I did buy some hot cross buns last shop because it's a once a year tradition.

L

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I think some doctors surgeries are a joke. But so good you are keeping the naughty foods out the house.i love hot cross buns we have them every Easter. 

Sorry Lass i nearly forgot, well done in losing 2 stone already that’s fantastic. 

Well that's rubbish, I don't even have any pearls of wisdom that can help, except I do love a hot water bottle for back pain. 

Hopefully the stabbing pain does one and gives you peace. I'm at a standstill weight wise too, nothing coming off, I'll need to start counting calories I think but counting them makes me really sad, even though I love counting numbers. 

Are you due a back scan soon? Maybe your fall has mucked something up that can be fixed

Big hugs and I hope you feel better soon!

Xxx

I am still stuffing my face due to anxiety. But it stops

I have now got somewhere with the hospital and have an earlier appointment to check on my hematoma.

I can then ask about the second biopsy and when it will go ahead

Its been 4 weeks since my first biopsy which was begin, but still need another to confirm either ok or I have breast cancer.

My next biopsy is due 9 April

Well from tomorrow I am determined to get back to my healthy eating regime and try to start a little physio (I have arthritis) and walking

I feel so bad from eating a cheese scone and a piece of cake today, Bad indigestion. Feel awful. Guess not eating that type of food for a long while doesn't agree with me when I eat them.

Having a nice apple tea. Hope this helps