gain goal regain How was your 5:2 day today?

[M2G 1,836]

Awwww, sorry Wanda about your Uncle...thanks for the reminder to live our "dash" to best of our ability.

I was blessed to have another birthday, nice and quiet...had Breakfast with a friend, did some shopping, then picked up the kids from school, dinner was Subway in between school and volleyball practice home at 9pm to eat cake and open presents. I love Subway's 3 inch Subway Sunrise Melt (it's a breakfast thing but you can order it anytime) 3 inch is almost too big, but I get it with egg whites instead of regular egg. And yes the cake was good too! Dinner out tonight and then I can close the book on this birthday!

Thanks all for the bday wishes!

[feedyoureye 3,087]

Wanda, so glad to here that the scale is finally tipping in the right direction! getting in the groove.

Sorry to hear about Uncle... We have some great memorials, confirmations of life too... I still cry when I say goodby,but coming out to testify to a life well spent is awesome.

 

Shelia, glad you had a nice bday with family and friends. A 3" at Subway... Im afraid I can get down a 6 inch      slowly, but surely.... I don't eat meat, so maybe the veggie with a little cheese is more of a slider, but still...I love subway! If I get the chance, I do usually cut off about 1/4 of the bread....

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Awwww, sorry Wanda about your Uncle...thanks for the reminder to live our "dash" to best of our ability.

 

I was blessed to have another birthday, nice and quiet...had breakfast with a friend, did some shopping, then picked up the kids from school, dinner was Subway in between school and volleyball practice home at 9pm to eat cake and open presents. I love Subway's 3 inch Subway Sunrise Melt (it's a breakfast thing but you can order it anytime) 3 inch is almost too big, but I get it with egg whites instead of regular egg. And yes the cake was good too! Dinner out tonight and then I can close the book on this birthday!

 

Thanks all for the bday wishes!

Your Bday sounded that it was a really good day....I eat at Subway at times and I always tell them to hold the bread and it ends up being a salad. I love it....What kind of cake did you have?

 

Wanda, so glad to here that the scale is finally tipping in the right direction! getting in the groove.

Sorry to hear about Uncle... We have some great memorials, confirmations of life too... I still cry when I say goodby,but coming out to testify to a life well spent is awesome.

 

Shelia, glad you had a nice bday with family and friends. A 3" at Subway... Im afraid I can get down a 6 inch      slowly, but surely.... I don't eat meat, so maybe the veggie with a little cheese is more of a slider, but still...I love subway! If I get the chance, I do usually cut off about 1/4 of the bread....

 

 

Sar loved the story about the talk with your son. Children are so honest and most sons really love their Moms. Now get in front of. That camera more often so you'll have smiling pics to share

 

Happy birthday M2 hope u enjoyed the cake.

 

Ohh dating is hard. Good luck ladies. Follow your gut.

 

Way to go on the 3lbs lost Skinny!

 

Feed looking forward to see party pics

 

I attended a funeral yesterday for a very dear sweet Uncle. He was 72 in good health but out of no where. His heart just stopped. He's such a quiet man he may have been having problems but we didn't know. Part of the eulogy talked about how important the dash on your head stone is. You know the lived 1957 - 20?? Everybody's dash is different it represents the life you've lived. We must all make our dash count. It was very moving. Not a downer post cause our family funerals are mostly up beat celebrations of home going. Mostly a mini family reunion. I actually didn't mind getting in front of the camera for family pics. Lord life is short!

 

Still rocking the 5:2 scale moving slowly and I will take it.

I am so sorry for your loss, 72 years old is very young to die... I like to think of death as a passing to a better more happier place. My body is a shell and when I die, by spirit is released and I am free......It's a celebration of life and I how I choose to live it.

Denise I love that your attracted to this guy and I hope it goes well for you....You may be 61 years old now but you feel much younger than that, you sure look younger than that....

 

I am amazed. I still had restriction on a feast day and really chose not to feast, but I really wanted to eat more of my shrimp dinner at Red Lobster. I also wanted to go buy all the live lobster and run them down to the ocean and free them. It's so sad to see them and to know that their time is limited.

 

After my feast day, I still lost about 1/2 a lb. I'm so surprised and happy at the same time. Thanks to the 5:2 diet, I have hope again. I will get to the 130's after all.

[Georgia 2,908]

Sounds like everyone is making their (OUR) way back to good eating.

 

Wanda, so happy for you that 5:2 is finally rewarding you for your efforts

 

Shelia, glad you had a HAPPY birthday. Another January "baby!" I can eat about 3/4ths of a 6" subway but I take the top piece of bread off. I don't eat there much anymore, though. Don't do much eating out at a which is so different than the past. Now, like Kim we eat a lot of Soups and "whatever" at home. We usually eat out or pickup for Sunday lunch. I've never been a big fried chicken person but somehow right now I like it and sad to say, it's the extra crispy breast I like but it's usually not a whole piece and nothing else much with it. My eating hasn't been as clean as in the past months -not gaining- but not doing myself any favors health wise either by adding back more "snacky" kind of stuff. I absolutely crave PB cheese crackers and can down a pack way to fast and want more! lol

 

Skinny, you are staying "skinny"! Way to go with the loss.

 

Kim, cinch that corset tight!!!!! Hitch up those boobies high!! And TAKE PICS!

 

Coops, Sar, Chimera, Florinda, Sheryl and Denise, keep the posts coming. I read them all and chuckle more at the "love" gang!! Not that I understand all of them. I'm OLD AND BORING! Ha! (Coops Sar and Chimera, y'all not included in the love posts! Ha)

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Hello all!

 

All is well on the scale this morning. I am totally surprised because I ate 2 delicious Cookies last night, and they were big ones. They were so good though. So I was sure I would see a gain but I didn't '

 I am going to the gym now and nobody is requiring anything of me so I can put a lot of time in there today. I hate when I have to rush.

 Going to see that new Julia Roberts movie that she is nominated for an award for. The people on tv this morning were saying how good it is. Then I won't be able to resist the child size popcorn.< /p>

  I love though that if I do gain a lb or 2, 5:2 will take it right off.

 

  Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!

[BrownDoesAll 409]

OD enjoy the movie and the child size popcorn. For me a must have when I go to the movies is small popcorn with a handful of raisnetts mixed in. Sweet and salty. Last good movie I saw was Saving mr banks. I herd the julia roberts film was good too. Enjoy!

[Globetrotter 1,340]

Sheila - happy birthday! There IS a way to have your cake and eat it too, thanks to the experimentations of Eggface! She makes a Protein cake that is not just guilt free but even high in protein/good for you! I made it for my birthday last year and it was deelish.

Wanda - The older I get, and the more loss I incur, the more I see death as a blessing. The difficulty is for those left behind, but the person who is going home, their trials have ended, they have joy.

I will end up doing the extension, as much as possible, to save the money. I learned from my year of employment in Kansas that it is difficult to save money while living life, I made a great salary and cost of living was pretty low there, and after one year I had not saved a single penny! Granted, I was in a car accident, was hospitalized, so that would have been the money I would have saved that year, but that still would have been less than $10K. Here, I have the ability to bank 100% of my paycheck. So, I'm gonna try to do it.

Something just awful/humiliating/mortifying/painful happened this weekend - On Friday my buddy and I were going to have a cardio day, I got there early and stretched out on my hard Pilates roller. After some time I realized that a fair bit of time had passed and that he had not shown up yet, I looked at the clock and he was 20 minutes late. So, I got on an elliptical and did my think for 30 minutes and went home. There was a FB message waiting for me when I got there, profuse apologies, he had taken a nap and didn't hear his alarm go off. I messaged him that I was disappointed but that I worked out anyway. He kept apologizing and I said stop apologizing - spilled milk and all that. I made a comment about how I was bummed to not get my hug, which is just as satisfying as the workout. Awhile goes by and then I get this massively long message from him that is just ...... a tantrum. He flipped out on me so hard that while reading it, my ears began to burn and I started to cry. that bad.

He went on and on about how I can't be hugging on him, how everything we've done was a mistake, how I have to be professional, how he can't take care of me and everything else in his life too, how the training he has given me out of "the kindness of his heart" would already amount to $300 if we were in the US, how he doesn't have time for my pity party .....

And ladies, those are just the highlights. I was quite literally sickened by this. I felt like I had just been punched in the face by someone I utterly trusted. And for the record - He flirted with me, HE put the moves on me, HE pulled me into hugs and kept me there when I would have moved away, HE initiated intimacy, and worst of all - worst of all, he held me tight enveloped me in his strength and PRAYED OVER ME, telling me and god that he would be there for me, that everything would be alright, that everything had a reason. The cruelest thing that could be done to a person in my position is to offer them hope and comfort, and then $natch it away. Oh and PS - how incredibly irritating is it that I must make up for the dearth of comprension in this site's vocabulary, apparently nobody at Bariatric Pal understands that $natch means to take away quickly, it isn't JUST a slang word for a woman's genitals - they starred it out when I spelled it with a real S! >:[

And now, I'm out a trainer, and you really shouldn't lift without a spotter.

I have a month left here, I am going to try to continue with the lifting, maybe ask whomever is near if they will spot me during sets, but this is just so humiliating.

Edited January 19, 2014 by Globetrotter

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Oh I am so sorry to hear about this! I know how much you enjoyed working out with him, and I know how good hugs feel. I hope he comes to his senses and appologizes to you, but I know things will never be the same now.

 

I wonder what caused this melt down. I am sure it's not you. Something else has to be going on and he's taking it out on you. Maybe he has feeling for you and he feels guilty about it.

 

Hey the garlic you're talking about. Is that the dehydrated flakes? I know I sent you some that's almost like fresh chopped garlic in a jar. Did I send you both kinds?

 

I hope tomorrow is  a better day. Just keep remembering that you did nothing wrong and whatever is going on with him is his stuff and it's very wrong of him to take it out on you.

Edited January 19, 2014 by Oregondaisy

[Globetrotter 1,340]

I was hoping there would be an apology in my inbox at work today but, no. I have defriended him on FB. As for the garlic, I still have the fresh minced but am out of the flakes, nutmeg would also be awesome

[coops 1,790]

Florinda, what a pr*ck! But I agree with Denise - this isn't you, it is HIM! And he needs to get a grip!

My offer of a goodie bag is still there, if you PM me your addy... I know it won't be the same as the American stuff you are used to but I will do my best - just give me a list and let me see if I can sprinkle some magic on it...lol!

In the mean time- keep your chin up my lovely x

[coops 1,790]

Quick update from me - two good weeks of 5:2 fast days, plus some low cal in between days and a few cheeky carbs in between that. Overall a good 2 weeks back in the seat and the scale is still top end of my bounce range - not happy about that! I really need to see some movement down to at least my lowest because I am getting p*ssed off and frustrated again.

Oh and a few pages back I said that I felt as if I was on 'run up' well, my lil friend showed up again... what is going on? My hormones really do seem out of whack again - been a little teary too but for no apparent reason... nothing to set me off or upset me and I hate feeling like that! There is stress in my life but it is nothing new - work, teenagers kids, hubby, etc. Nothing to 'tip' me over the edge as such - so it must be the hormones making me teary?

Anyway, in good ole fashioned Coop-styleeee, I refuse to give up and accept that this is it.... I need to get below 154 (11 stone), especially since I am such a short arse!

I suppose it is a case of keep doing what I am doing and wait for my 'rewards'!

Glad I have this thread to come to - to read and share everyone's experiences. Thanks girls!

[coops 1,790]

Oh as a side note, I have to book an appointment to see my TT surgeon for check up, I am 10 mths post op now and I'll book it for next mth... I still have a little lip over the scar line and it is really bothering me... I hope he offers to sort it out but I have a feeling that I will have to pay, and I just can't afford it! *sigh*

Don't get me wrong - the whole tummy area is so much better than it was before, and I am glad the apron has gone.. but this little lip really does my head it - I know it is pathetic and I've tried to talk myself down, saying that it is only me who can see it etc... I dunno - perhaps I just have to get over myself...! lol

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Coops, If you want to do Florinda's care package this time, I will do one in another month. So far she wants olive oil, nutmeg, and dehydrated garlic flakes. Or garlic powder if you can't find the flakes. You can pm her and see if there is anything else she may need. I don't know how postage is in the UK.

Here we can fill up a box and it's one flat price no matter what it weighs. Is postage very high over there?

 

I didn't gain any weight from the movie popcorn. Osage County is a very intense movie. I didn't expect it to be that way, but I thought it was good . It's about a very dysfunctional family.

 

I am bummed that I didn't get an email from Bill today. Yesterday I got a really short one, and he said he would write more later. Oh well, I know he will and I'll be just as happy to get it then.

[feedyoureye 3,087]

Sheila - happy birthday!  There IS a way to have your cake and eat it too, thanks to the experimentations of Eggface!  She makes a Protein cake that is not just guilt free but even high in protein/good for you!  I made it for my birthday last year and it was deelish.

 

Wanda - The older I get, and the more loss I incur, the more I see death as a blessing.  The difficulty is for those left behind, but the person who is going home, their trials have ended, they have joy.

 

I will end up doing the extension, as much as possible, to save the money.  I learned from my year of employment in Kansas that it is difficult to save money while living life, I made a great salary and cost of living was pretty low there, and after one year I had not saved a single penny!  Granted, I was in a car accident, was hospitalized, so that would have been the money I would have saved that year, but that still would have been less than $10K.  Here, I have the ability to bank 100% of my paycheck.  So, I'm gonna try to do it.

 

Something just awful/humiliating/mortifying/painful happened this weekend - On Friday my buddy and I were going to have a cardio day, I got there early and stretched out on my hard Pilates roller.  After some time I realized that a fair bit of time had passed and that he had not shown up yet, I looked at the clock and he was 20 minutes late.  So, I got on an elliptical and did my think for 30 minutes and went home.  There was a FB message waiting for me when I got there, profuse apologies, he had taken a nap and didn't hear his alarm go off.  I messaged him that I was disappointed but that I worked out anyway.  He kept apologizing and I said stop apologizing - spilled milk and all that.  I made a comment about how I was bummed to not get my hug, which is just as satisfying as the workout.   Awhile goes by and then I get this massively long message from him that is just ...... a tantrum.  He flipped out on me so hard that while reading it, my ears began to burn and I started to cry.  that bad.

 

He went on and on about how I can't be hugging on him, how everything we've done was a mistake, how I have to be professional, how he can't take care of me and everything else in his life too, how the training he has given me out of "the kindness of his heart" would already amount to $300 if we were in the US, how he doesn't have time for my pity party .....

 

And ladies, those are just the highlights.  I was quite literally sickened by this.  I felt like I had just been punched in the face by someone I utterly trusted.  And for the record - He flirted with me, HE put the moves on me, HE pulled me into hugs and kept me there when I would have moved away, HE initiated intimacy, and worst of all - worst of all, he held me tight enveloped me in his strength and PRAYED OVER ME, telling me and god that he would be there for me, that everything would be alright, that everything had a reason.  The cruelest thing that could be done to a person in my position is to offer them hope and comfort, and then $natch it away. Oh and PS - how incredibly irritating is it that I must make up for the dearth of comprension in this site's vocabulary, apparently nobody at Bariatric Pal understands that $natch means to take away quickly, it isn't JUST  a slang word for a woman's genitals - they starred it out when I spelled it with a real S! >:[

 

And now, I'm out a trainer, and you really shouldn't lift without a spotter.

 

I have a month left here, I am going to try to continue with the lifting, maybe ask whomever is near if they will spot me during sets, but this is just so humiliating.

Oh holy cow! Why do some people have to act like this!? So sorry, that would feel like a kick in the gut to me too... It was NOT anything you did... I do think something else is in the mix...with him.... but really, there must have been a better way to deal with it. He sounded like a great guy, but perhaps his inability to be mature in this situation is the same reason he is having an open relationship with a youngster, and not a full on relationship with an adult!

[CowgirlJane 14,259]

Florinda sounds like HE is the confused one. I too would feel bowled over but you know he wasn't the one that brought you hope and all those things you said about him... being with him just helped you find that within. Hang onto THAT and let him just fade away.

I took a gun safety and basic shooting class with my friend Mary today. Super fun, learned alot, and we are both good shooting students.

Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super bowl!!!

The sad freaked out I am sick over it news...My EX plans to live in his car. He made me promise not to tell people we know so I have to carry this burdensome knowledge. I am horrified and mad because he has options. He has reasons for his insanity but does it even matter? Counselor says I am in classic co dependant relationship but without the traditional alcohol addiction. Maybe that is why I feel guilty beyond reason.