I’m a Pear/Apple - Part 5. Still going!!

Thanks Whiff, I am feeling quite a lot better today. Am still on track to have a loss when I go to SW at the End of the week.

keeping quiet I know the frustration I jumped on the scales last Friday expecting a loss and zilch. 😏

I’m just hopeful for this coming week and keep reminding myself I am in trousers I haven’t worn for about 3 years and they are loose round the waist.

Onward and downward girls. 👎

My weight has stayed the same for three weeks now. It is frustrating...

silverlining hope you are feeling better.

Shirley I do . But as you know there are those who want short cuts and not put in the hard work, at least here we put in the hard work even if we have blips we keep going.

Carrot cake muffin and custard 😋😋.
Well done staying the same .

Lost 2lb this week so pleased about that. Went to my new craft group on Wednesday and made 2 of my hybrid lemon marmalade drizzle
cake one gluten free . Glad I did as 2 couldn't have gluten . I am always careful and bake the gluten free one first and cut and pack it into bags so no cross contamination. Other cake packed in bags as well. Had a wonderful time and made to feel welcome there is a limit of 20 so already got my name down for next month. I taught someone to cross stitch. The tea and coffee didn't cost anything as they had a grant. It started as a litter picking group few years ago and they have the monthly craft group,reading group and tea and chat . Would have loved to go to the tea and chat group but have blood test and wouldn't get there in time . Hopefully might be able to make the one in April.

Have a good week everyone 😊

Sillymoo it's a blip we all have them . That's what's so lovely about here no judgement. My only experience of weight lose clubs was Slimming magazine and Weight watchers in the 80's always felt like a naughty school girl if I put on . So decided they weren't for me.

You will have a better week. 🤸

Stayed the same this week, Ive been good but the grandchildren were here the end of half term and I finished off the Oreo’s last night….and a carrot cake muffin with custard….their, I said it 😂😂😂….not done that for ages, just shows, the urge is still just around the corner …I’m still keeping up with the couch to 5k though 3Xs a week, week 4 I think this is.

Yes girls, we are a fine bunch of losers, let it rise above your head whiff…..

Have a good week all….Soon be spring…

Havnt been well these past few days so had to miss SW last night which is annoying as I had lost some weight. So this week I have to be super careful not to gain it all back.

Sillymoo well done for going this morning. You know it makes sense.

Hi All back again, WI this morning at SW and put on 1.5 lb. Should have gone Tuesday but chickened out, thought I'd better bite the bullet today. Am hoping it will motivate me over the weekend.

Take no notice Whiff! I agree this thread is the place to be for losers!

I agree Whiff we are a lovely bunch of losers 😀

So glad this is a sane thread with lovely friends . Not like on the weight lose jab thread . Just be judged . But you know me I fight back .

Sounds good to me NanKate!

Meant to say my recipe is NOT to everyone’s taste.

Just a quick one why no paperclip is due to problems on Mumsnet. Should be back in a week GNHQ just replied to my email.

keepingquiet an inch off your waist is good. 👍

Whiff you have a lot to contend with health wise and if you have stopped counting calories for a while so be it. I know you will be back on track soon.

I bought a recipe book recently written by the late Dr Moseley’s wife with some input from him. There are some easy recipes, as I am not much of a cook.

This would be to everyone’s taste but I had it yesterday for lunch here goes.

Half an avocado crushed, 15 grams feta cheese, 4 broken up walnuts, a handful of parsley, half a tablespoon of olive oil and a few chilli flakes. All mixed up together delicious 450 calories, I added 2 rice cakes and it made an excellent 500 calorie meal and very healthy too.

I only found the app the other day when trying to book a GP appointment. I haven't used it since Covid.

It does have some stuff on there about my appointments etc but to be honest I didn't look at it!

I'm not really interested in looking at my records.

I've had chronic illness all my life and breast cancer twice but I now consider myself reasonably fit and well. I focus on the positive things in my life, of which there are many!

On that note my weight is on a two week plateau. I took a leaf out of your book, Whiff, and ordered an on-line shop this week. It is expensive but it means I have a fridge full of healthy food!

Although my weight is the same I managed to lose an inch from my waist.

Let's see how I we get on this week...only a one pound loss will be something...

Well done all the losers I mean in lbs 🤣..You are all winners in life. Well had a bad week last week put on again .

I didn't weight or count the cals for my over eating which isn't me. Still did all my exercises as usual but decided to add weight work this week . I have 500g dumbbells and 500g ankle weights. Sit fit was fun yesterday it was tea towel week always enjoy tea towel week . Your arms and shoulders feel it afterwards but I love it. We had a relaxation bit at the end . But I never shut my eyes so that I don't get startled if I did I would stiffen and not beable to move for a while . But I can relax with my eyes open .

No move it or lose it today out instructor is ill. Had a nice chat with her last night had a surprise she said she was 60 I would have said 50. Plus congratulated her on getting engaged. One of my sit fit friends goes to church with her and she got engaged the weekend .

Got back my mind set back yesterday. Making 2 cakes today but wouldn't be having a piece until tomorrow at my craft group. One will be gluten free as it's my first time at the group and don't know if anyone is gluten free and I don't like missing people out . Be my hybrid lemon marmalade drizzle cake . 20 going including me so at least I will make enough of each cake . Everything will be bagged and GF on the correct cake . I always make sure not to cross contaminate foods.

Thursday saw the neurologist and he had a student Dr with him. Because of my HPX it confuses things . Why I collapsed on the Tuesday was my BP plummeted and he said it was well documented as it happened on the acute cardiac ward. I just thought I fell asleep 🤦. Doesn't think I had stroke or TIA but a migraine. But I have a very visible pulse the right side of my neck which he hadn't seen one so visible before so had a feel. But had trouble finding the pulse in my neck on the left side but before he can say for definite it was a migraine he wants a scan done one my neck to check the arteries have no blockages . Hopefully done in a few weeks . I explained about my HPX he said it was a page when he was studying . But he is friends with my neurologist so will let him know he had seen me and what happened.

Spoke to my neurologists secretary on Monday last week and she sent him an email as I wanted to increase my Clonazepam while we chatted he replied so take 3 tablets a day and my legs are moving better again . Also started taking my statin on Wednesday ordered the tablets on Monday and they where delivered on Tuesday so far no side effects.

Saw my blood test results sodium levels down again so booked another blood test it's with the same phlebotomy nurse but will tell her not to enter anything into the fragility index score thing on the computer before she takes my blood . Not having that on my records again .
Makes me wonder how many people bother to check there medical records? I put the NHS app on my phone when covid hit so I could order my tablets . But it's shows all test results,medical records, appointments , medications plus any ones you are allergic to plus your medical condition. Even when you have had your flu and covid jabs .

Anyway have a good week fruits 😀

Well done Nan Kate, snap!

Walking is good in many ways but it’s the healthy eating plan you have to get back to keeping quiet. Dont despair if you stayed the same this week, Your meal tonight sounds fine, perhaps load it with a bit more veg to stop you feeling hungry…says me who has just finished a pkt of crisps, , low cal, but crisps all the same.
The topping I mentioned can be used for shepherd pie too and it was delicious.
Congratulations n the doctors appt. I am green with envy.

Surprisingly I have lost 1.5 pounds this week. Lovely to feel my shrinking waist, but still have a fat tum. 😏

Well done Silverlining48! I like this alternative mash idea.

My weight was static this week- I walked a lot but still not back on the healthy eating plan.

I think the weather is getting me down and I'm back in the bad habits zone.

I can make up all kinds of excuses though- so it was back on the grilled salmon with rice and broccoli tonight!

Good for you resisting the labelling Whiff!

I have managed to get a GPs appointment for next Thursday- that's an achievement in itself these days!

My dh made a fish pie yesterday and instead of using mash potatoes, he mashed swede with cauliflower as a topping and it was delicious. 🤤

I understand why you are upset about being labelled unfairly Whiff. My dh had a liver function test many years ago which was high. Years later he spotted ?alcaholic on his notes.
Clearly there had been a mix up as his next tests were all normal, but the note about alcohol? had remained on his notes for some years.
Keep on keeping on.

Week 2 and I lost another 1.5 today.

Well done silverlining nice surprise for you. I put on 3 lb on Sunday which is the day I count as my weight but today lost the 3lb. My body drives me mad . But I will keep plodding on.
Went to move or lose it this morning and she gave us a good work out . Glad to say numbers are increasing as the first week there where 4 of us this week 9. Had a nap after lunch that's how much we worked. Sit fit was fun yesterday next week it's tea towel.week . Had phone call from the hospital got an appointment at the stroke clinic on Thursday afternoon. Mind you was a bit insulted when I had the email confirmation and it said geriatric clinic . I know I am 66 but don't consider myself geriatric yet.

I was even more insulted when I went for a blood test at my surgery on Friday. I have the NHS app on my phone and look every week especially after seeing someone. The nurse had written which arm she took the blood and labelled it . Then I read severe fragility, fragility index score 0.361. I didn't even know she was assessing me nor did she ask me any questions and was only with her less than 10 mins. I know to my cost when wrong things are written on your medical records. I am disabled not frail . Speaking to a nurse tomorrow and getting it taken off my records. I found out yesterday after phoning the surgery it's a NHS app which asseses you when data is put in . The nurse did not ask my permission to to do this as I would have refused. I did start a thread on the health forum and but the consensus was it doesn't matter. But to me it does. One person said it was so I could get PIP but I am already on enhanced PIP for living and enhanced PIP for mobility indefinitely awarded in 2023.

In 1988 I was labelled by hospital drs attention seeking ,a fake and mentally ill. Which meant I had to see a psychiatrist before my GP could sent referrals to consultant who might help me . I will not be labelled unfairly again .