I’m a Pear ? the sequel part 3 - Wow!

Morning all, hope everyone is ok and I hope you had a lovely birthday NanKate it’s a beautiful day here & Ive just taken my car in for its MOT & walked back with my dog, it’s a good walk but I need the exercise as I’m afraid I have totally lost the plot over the last week and have been scoffing chocolate, sweets and biscuits. I don’t know why I get these awful cravings for sweet things but when I do I just don’t seem to be able to stop. emotional eating I guess?! You are so right about the winter being a dangerous time Karmalady Anyway, my binge is over, it’s made me feel sluggish & bloated and I’m very cross with myself but its done now so I just need to move on.
You can’t beat a homemade Victoria sandwich Whiff good idea to give most of it away though. You will have to send us a pumpkin pie recipe CocoPops Ive never tried it either, it always looks good in the pictures.

Hope you’re all having a good week, sending you all positive vibes

Thanks Four. Yes Whiff thanks I had a lovely day yesterday and had a nice, but not over the top lunch. .

I find 1200 calories a day hard to stick to, so well done Whiff for keeping to that number.

I will have my waterproof trousers ready too as the heavy rain is on its way.

NanKate sorry forgot your birthday yesterday. So happy belated birthday. Hope you had a wonderful day.

Allsorts it's so easy to put on but hard work to lose it. You need to eat 3,500 less calories a week your body needs to lose a pound. I try and stick to 1,200 cals a day as if I do I lose weight may only be quarter of a pound but it all adds up. It's treat day as it's my exercise class. I have made a Victoria sandwich as I fancy some cake. But what I bake is to give away that way I have a bit and not eat the whole thing. As I could quite easily do.

It makes me laugh all these so called celebs who lose vast amounts of weight and show photos of slink bodies. The only person to admit to having the excess skin removed is Lisa Riley and all the problems that causes. All the others make out it tightens up. With my excess arm skin if I flap hard enough wonder if I could take off??. But would rather have excess skin than the weight I carried for decades.

Karmalady you are the same height as one of my craft friends. Like you she is a dab hand with a sewing machine and makes a lot if her own clothes. As everything has to be taken up if she buys trousers and skirts even petit ranges.

Cocopops hopefully one day I will need tips on maintaining when I get to my goal. I have never had pumpkin pie is it nice? And do you taste the pumpkin?

Looks like I will be wearing my waterproof trousers today as it's pouring again. After my soaking on Thursday I don't want to get that wet and cold again. Made my joints hurt more than usual.

Have a good day everyone.

Happy birthday NanKate

Thank you CocoPops ?

Ahh whiff, hugs to you, you are made from strong stuff and I am glad you are back to normal

I cannot stop with weight loss, must plod on with it and like whiff says, it is a marathon, a way of life. I am only 4`11 and obviously look much better but for health, I must become lighter, I bear in mind that I do use my muscles, both in heavy lifting when gardening and aerobically when cycling, especially up hills and muscle is heavier. Numer of lbs is not the aim for me, just a guide but I notice that my legs look a bit slimmer too and I am bottom heavy, short strong legs, like people said, I won`t blow over in the wind. That never changed as I grew older

I weighed myself today, only rarely now but am still downwards, albeit very very slowly. Winter is my danger time, I am aware of that, hence have no biscuits in the house, nor fruit apart from apples and berries. I gave milk up a while ago and I am sure that has helped.

I put a dollop of yogurt and a bit of kefir on my breakfast, which is when I have some carbs. The only other carb I allow myself is one piece of rye/wholemeal toast, bm made, sliced and frozen. Butter and jam on that. Sometimes I need crunch so it is either that or rye crackers with cheese

I will also hard boil some eggs for the fridge, a grand standby for mouth munchiness

The best incentive for me is not the scales but to stand sideways in a long mirror, in a top that that I deliberately made in a smaller side which now skims my shape and suddenly my brain does not see fat

Happy Birthday Nankate. Glad you are feeling better after a poor week Whiff.
I am managing to maintain at 130lbs but I can't say it is easy. It's Canada Thanksgiving soon which will be a challenge. I can't resist pumpkin pie!

Glad to see you're all getting fairly good with just the odd relapse.
Whiff, My scales are manual and floors uneven, it's difficult getting a true reading, been known to hold on to door frame if it looks too high. Seriously I need to find a level spot and leave them there.
Not a good weekend, so many problems, all sorted now but it's dealing with things on my own that resulted in me eating a packet of biscuits and 2 Eccles cakes, plus wine, definitely put on a couple of pounds, but not going to weigh. Back to my eating plan today though. One thing I'm sure of though I have to fight for every pound off it goes on in a blink of an eye. I need to walk more but make excuses,mainly the rain stops me.
Eventually despite these mishaps I must surely lose more, I always stick at 11st then give up, but not this time, I need to get to 10.4 and that's higher than I should be, according to the nurse who weighed me I should be 9 1/2 stone,for my height, that's unrealistic and won't happen , would have to live on lettuce, so will plod on.

Thanks folks. I was good over the weekend and didn’t over indulge too much. Tomorrow it’s lunch out and then from Wednesday back on the wagon.

Good evening pears, not been around for a while but needed to report in today as my holiday resulted in a small increase. A week down the line of being back into my normal ‘eating less for life’ routine has seen me lose 4lbs again. So heading back into hovering around my target weight.
I have to say that I was pleased to get home and back to my normal routine as far as eating was concerned, but loved every second of my all inclusive holiday.

Whiff I was sad to read that you’ve had such a bad week, hope that everything gets sorted out for you.

Nankate have a great birthday

Keep going everyone.

Nan Kate hope you have had a wonderful time celebrating your birthday with your family. Hope you have a wonderful cake and lots of goodies to eat and presents .

Four that's how it goes you can eat everything naughty and hardly put anything on. But stick to your allowance and put pounds on.

Thank you both .I have had help from any other GN thread but I did think my wobble was trivial compared to what some are going through but like here they welcomed me and helped. So another thread for me to pop into.

My weight has stayed the same so fine with that. The rash from the adhesive on the electrodes for my 24hr ECG finally gone today. And my left leg is back to normal. The stupid thing didn't want to work from Thursday had to flick it forward so I could walk. Checking in with the HPX group it's happened to others so it's not just me being weird .

Have a good week pears .

NanKate incase I forget have a wonderful birthday on Tuesday ????

I've had so many commitments this week, I don't think I've even looked at GN at all. I was so sorry to read that you had had such a bad time Whiff but so pleased to see that you have got through it. Keep up the good work - we are all here for each other in good times and especially the bad times. We are one big family!

My commitments have led to mega mega naughties and I was really dreading the scales this morning - how is it possible that after a week that included far too many biscuits, toasties, chips and extremely naughty cakes can result in a gain of only 0.4lb?

That is ridiculous and I can only apologise to my fellow strugglers as this is so unfair. If I could find any logic I could understand it but it seems crazy - I really deserved to put loads on, so I'm really really sorry

Glad you are feeling back to your normal self Whiff you are such a battler and I admire you very much for getting back on track, when it would be so easy to let things slide.

I’m at my son’s near Brighton for the weekend to celebrate my 76 birthday next Tuesday. My grandsons have elected for fish and chips from the chippie for supper and it would be rude not to join in ?.

Off to see the Best Exotic Hotel in Brighton on Saturday with Hayley Mills and Rula Lenska. Should be fun.

On my way to the bus stop my exercise instructor phoned class was at 2 instead of 12 so it meant I could go. Took my heart monitor back to the hospital. As usual the tape has given me a rash but sudocreme will soon clear it up. It's a hour each way on the bus so went into town and had a hot chocolate and large chocolate croissant warmed up. Because I can't use a dinner knife I asked for it to be cut into four so it was easier to eat. Then went to class. Then went to do some shopping had taxi home. Been out since 10.30 just after 4 when I got home I was knackered. Don't know what hurts most. But it wouldn't stop me going to my craft group this afternoon.

Back to my normal self . Need to prick out my seedlings in the greenhouse house tomorrow and pot on. And hopefully do some weeding.

Have a good week everyone.

I hope you have a better week Whiff

Nice to see Karmalady back. I know you of old and always enjoy your posts . Wow what an achievement. But as I always say it's a marathon not a sprint took me decades to come to that conclusion.

Had a really bad week . Found myself crying all the time and then of course I had suppers every night . But had to laugh at myself while I craved chocolate, ice cream and bread I don't buy them so my suppers where porridge with my homemade jam. So put on 2lb .

Had to sort out why I was feeling like this as it's not me. Whatever life throws at me I get on with it. With the help of a thread I had been reading for a long time but never posted I realised what was wrong. I was scared. A foreign feeling for me. Because my PIP and MRN decisions where refused . I now have to go too tribunal. Last time I did that was when my husband was alive and it was a horrible experience. I know it is months away but when I was alone last week it just got on top of me. 34 years I have been fighting for benefits. The excuse was I had no diagnosis. And April finally got one but it doesn't make any difference. I don't think they read what my daughter wrote how my life is effected or listened to me in my phone assessment or MRN phone call to fill in the form.

At least I understand why I felt as I did so got straight back on my healthy eating. Even though I over ate I still weighted it and counted the calories can't change the habits of the last 5 years ?.

No more poor me . Hate that .

Allsorts I have Salter digital scales they stay on the same spot on my shower room floor which is tiled. I always weigh myself naked everyday and stand up straight and count to 10 before getting off and look at the reading but only count Sunday morning weigh in. Weight does alter everyday and at different times of the day. Years ago I had a Salter one which had a voice so it told you loud and clear what I weighed. As it was in the bedroom I had it on a large piece of wood so it would be level. I found manual scales easy to manipulate if I stood a certain way. With digital there is no cheating.

Keep at Allsorts you will win in the end. If it takes me another year I will get to the 11st I want.

I watched the funeral from 10 . The flowers where lovely and just enough and they where from the royal gardens and a simple message . While the main funeral service was nice thought the one at Windsor was better as it was more for the family. Going up the steps bet those young men where thinking don't drop the coffin. There would have been a lot of sore legs and feet that night. Slow marching for miles would have taken its toll.

Thought Charles looked shattered. He and Camilla have been none stop since his mom died. Hopefully now they can all grieve in peace for a while.

No exercise class today as I have to go back to the hospital. Went yesterday and had an ECG machine put had one before so not worried about the results.

Booked my flu jab at Boots for next month when it's available to my age group. Could have waited for my surgery to text me but decided to get it booked now as my weeks fill up.

My brother has lost just over 3 st he only eats dinner which while it works for him I don't think it's healthy. I always like the old saying breakfast like a King,lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. If I know I won't have time for my soup at lunchtime I have extra porridge for breakfast and that keeps me satisfied until my dinner at 6-6.30. I am a creature of habit like my meals when home at set times.

Anyway rambled on enough. Have a good week pears ?

Yes nankate, it was marvellous, it all went very well.

Yes, I wonder what, she eats too…lovely figure. Surprisingly , when we went to see Diana’s clothes on show at Kensington palace she wasn’t as thin as I thought, I’d say a healthy size 12 by the looks of her dresses , I think the Queen in her younger days was tinier by the dress size at tussauds .

Apparently King Charles and Princess Anne usually Skips a lunch , Charlie boy has fruit and seeds for breakfast , how factual that is I don’t know, maybe to keep trim that’s the way to go ?

I made sausage rolls and a Victoria sponge cake so had I roll and one slice of cake yesterday whilst watching…….like you all, back on track today

What wonderful pageantry today. The late Queen had a great send off.

I wonder what the new Princess of Wales eats to have such a tiny waist.

I’ve eaten 2 chocs today. ?

You’ve done really well Karmalady I agree cutting carbs really helps weight loss, even the so called healthy ones including fruit turns to sugar in your body so some restraint is needed.
That said, I sat watching the Queens funeral with a cup of tea & a dark Bounty bar, not had one for years. Tomorrow I am getting back on track.

Wishing everyone a good week ?

Welcome back Karmalady it's always good to welcome back those who 'disappear' for a while for whatever reason!
I did that a while ago when frustrated with the lack of progress among other things going on in my life, and in fact, I'm getting close to doing it again!!! It is so frustrating as I am literally losing a little, gaining a little, losing a little and gaining a little. I remain in the same 3lb bracket whatever is try arghhhhhh!!!!
This week (of course) I have gained what I lost last week!

Allsorts just out of interest are your scales on a carpeted floor? I had trouble like that with mine and was told they should be on 'solid' ground. That's not easy unless your bathroom is on the ground floor! We have cushioned floor covering but I had an old solid wooden chopping board and put that under my scales - it seems to work? May be worth a try?

Good luck everyone as we start a new week.

I’m glad you are back with us Karmalady and it’s good to hear how you have managed to lose your weight. Some of us are struggling at present, including me, but we are still here and battling away.

That’s marvellous karmalady , great achievement…..how lovely to have a flat stomach ?. I definitely agree with you, the ‘white’ stuff is the devil determining weight. Low carb suits me and I can knock it off when I put my mind to it….just of late I have been lax, I think it’s the holidays and weekend breaks we been having this summer.

What a success Karmalady , you deserve a prize. Like SachaMac I am stuck. I feel really hungry today won’t give in though.
My scales are a concern, they are Salter, fairly new but the weight varies so much day to day. Yesterday I was one stone lighter, I twiddled the dial to exactly nil again and promptly lost half a stone. As I move scales round the bathroom the weight alters by a couple of pounds. I take the lowest weight out of six goes but it’s not a very scientific mission.

It is a long time since I came on this lovely thread and had a different username. I lost weight but put a fair bit back on over the christmas break. I had the reality check and of course it was the nibbles and biscuits and comforting christmas cake

I started back in ernest soon after that, mainly vegan keto at that time as I have two vegan AC and it was an easy way for me to learn how to cook vegan for when they came to visit and I like vegan. It really helped and I slowly and steadily shifted lots of weight

I am back to eating meat and fish but not very often and am very careful not to eat many carbs and am aware of starch resistant goodies like potatoes and rice, when cooked and kept very cold for a bit. That helped a lot

Basically I have my last meal by 5 and my first at 6.30 however if I wake up hungry then I eat a small oatcake in my bed,avena sativa which is also a soporific and it makes me sleep

I don`t weigh myself much at all, I go how my stomach looks and generally it is now nice and flat and I can feel my hips when lying down. When I do weigh myself then I may only have lost 1 or 2 lb in a month but who cares, the trjectory is still down

The best thing is that my older clothes have gone, much too big and I am wearing today, lands end button up cardigan with buttons done up and it is too loose in a large, so now I am M when two years ago I was lucky to be XXL

It is a way of life now which was always my aim. Sugar is the very devil and so are white carbs in eg white bread, these carbs turn to sugars in no time and I have to avoid or I become addicted again

Well I’m another one stuck, I stayed the same again this week. I started the week really well but over the last few days have found myself skipping meals & dipping into the biscuit tin rather too often. Sometimes only a sweet snack will do, never mind what’s done is done and a new week begins. Good luck everyone.