Hi ladies

All good intentions of getting focused and down to work, and the gods are against me. Out at the antiques centre, stuck in traffic, but a nice coffee and cake, back home and internet down. Hey ho, so a few minutes of sipping my kit royal with the fizz left over from last night. Can’t believe I left a glass in the bottle!!!

All is not lost, off for my walk in a minute, just scanning the site for HIIT info, thank goodness for phone internet.

Beldyboop, yes – the wine was a miss, this thread was originally for the foodies among us. FA. Foodies Anonymous, as Salma and I had no intention of giving up the good things in life – Salman. I see you mentioned my rule, eat and tell! Good job you and Appliepie are still here, otherwise we are in danger of all becoming goody two shoes!!!! Though not sure my visit to pizza express tonight quite reaches the category of gourmet, but extra raisins, extra olives and extra pine nuts might help it along!!!

Still pondering red or white – safe in the knowledge it’s not stopping Apple pie morph into gorgeously skinny, then it must be good for us!

Salma, looks like another Copenhagen trip is in the offing, so must get my head down to earn the cash for it, Appliepie, perhaps see you on face book at the weekend, rest of you, be kind to yourselves and well done on the losses!!!

Milena – Red! No contest. With pizza? white would be sacrilege. And it will be WESC after all your hard work. Very well deserved. Skinny? moi? not there yet.

Phoebe – the fairy cakes you imagined sound much better than the real thing, that made me laugh 🙂

MM – Welcome!! At our time of life we do have to make that little bit more effort to shift any extra pounds but as you are finding it does come off, slowly but surely. Stay with us and let us know how you get on.

Well I didn’t go in the pool. I am just dreading all the neighbours looking me up and down, examining every inch of me and voicing their opinions on MY body. They certainly wouldn’t like it if I did the same back. I will have to go in one day or I will just melt.

Applepie – as you can see given up on the work front, dunno whether to be thankful or annoyed!! Always red? Other choice is prosecco (sp?), which tastes lovely with pizza. Will give OH the choice, Scottish laws being what they are in this one party nanny state, you get taken away for just sniffing wine! So probably a whole bottle to me. Choices choices!

MinnesotaMiss. Hi!!! Another foodie, my kind of gal! 3 or 4 pounds a month is right on schedule, so you are doing well!

What are you going to do in September Lori? Did you mention a holiday? They are letting women play the Old Course now. Though Groucho Marx quote about clubs (places, not sticks), comes to mind!!!! Often an Indian Summer in September.

Salma, just did it – joined the Gym, induction Thursday, some kid will show me how to use equipment I was using before he was born. Last time I was induced I had a baby, hope this time it hurts less, though somehow the idea of a team of doctors looking at my vejayjay – I think that’s the modern parlance, pales into insignificance compared to walking into gym in my leggings and trainers this week.

Reminds me of when I was a young girl – you can tell I’ve nowt to do, can’t you – anyway, aged eleven and a fan of the Russian gymnasts, Olga Corbett or maybe even before her, and definitely before the days of Nintendo and Wii, when children used imagination and anything could be a prop to transform in one’s minds eye, decided to improvise a balance beam – using the wooden headboard on my bed.

Became very proficient, and considering the beam is 4 inches wide and my headboard an inch, excelled at the discipline!!!

Except when I tried to jump up into the splits.

Mislanding was fine, as long as I hit the mattress – but inevitably misjudged and instead of mid air splits, did the splits onto the headboard.

Much consternation trying to explain to Mum the frankly scary amount of blood gushing from the resultant wound was not a visit from mother nature- I even had the wearwithall to lie and say I had caught myself on the steel sides. And she believed me.

999 call, siren journey to RVI in Newcastle – there was LOTS of blood. But any slight embarrassment at my situation paled into insignificance when, lying in theatre, a young – male – surgeon who looked uncannily like David Cassidy – well I was eleven – asked me where I had hurt myself. Forty plus years later I still blush as much as I did then, despite losing so much blood, when it dawned on me that perhaps it wasn’t really called a fairy after all!

Worse still, he told me the proper name, and even spelt it for me!!!!

No way any young whippersnapper at the Gym is going to make me embarrassed about being overweight!!!

Milena! Loved your story about your trip to the hospital after your gymnastics exploits! Ahh…memories! 😉 Made me cringe just thinking about how much that must have hurt!

Yes, going on vacation in September. We will be 5 days in Seattle WA and then a week traveling the Oregon coast. Quite a trip for us as we live on the East coast. Well, not on the coast, actually about 5 hrs drive West.

I understand golf is not for everyone, but once bitten by the “bug” you are well and truly hooked. I’ll try not to post about it all the time. Although it is a big part of my life this time of year.

Have to attack the next pile of paperwork. I’m working my way thru it slowly.

Have a good evening!

Hi Milena,
Just wanted to thank you for the laugh, thoroughly enjoyed your tale, then felt a bit homesick when you mentioned the RVI , or was it when you said you had “nowt to do” ! I live in Scotland but originally come from the North East – Wylam just between Hexham and Newcastle.
Hi Applepie, would still like to live in Spain especially with the weather we have had so far this year, I do sometimes read this thread, and know you are doing really well! Congratulations Gooseylucey.

OMG, Milena, I am laughing so hard at your story, I have tears running down my face!

Hey, telling you all my most embarrassing moment and you find it funny???? You’re a hard lot!!!!!

Anyway, Applepie, had another Kir Royale as aperitif, large glass of Savignon Blanc with the starter, Vapolicella with the pizza, and rasperberry magnum for dessert. Salma will be proud of me!!

Kste, you paint a picture – are we Tenna ladies already. Giving is wine is good, but Applepie is evidence of the opposite, and the antics of our most successful lsdy must be ignored at your peril.

She has found a claim that wine helps weightloss. Coincidentally, one of the ladies on the aussie thread has started a thread about a book she has read. Apparently 50% of what we are told is wrong – hard part is working out the 50%. I hope the stuff about wine helping weightloss is in the 50% correct.

Ive ordered the book from ebay – it has sections on weightloss – althoughI think the Aussie lady was laughing at the part that claims to show you how to have fifteen minute orgasms – now that might be the best £10.64 Ive ever spent!!!

Gooseylucy, why hinny, ah wes chuffed tae lorn ye was a Geordie!! Ya knaa, ah live in Scotland as weel!!! Ah knaaa, Hadaway and shite, yer say, but nah, its true!!! De yer gan y’hem much? Its bin a lang tiem since ah wus at the toon, ah miss Fenwick’s!

Soory, goosy, losing the plot now!!!!!!

Hi Salma

I’m not even a Geordie, but I was brought up there, most of my family make Cheryl Cole thingy whatsit sound sophisticated.

Yorkshire and proud, and I can do that accent quite well, tha’ knoos

Those we know me better on this thread will, of course, know that my musings earlier was certainly NOT because I had ‘hit the bottle’, no even the one! if fact the kir royale I had made was, at the time, untouched. Interesting that my whitterings could be interpreted as drunken craziness, when I was stone cold sober.

Must be more careful in future.

Apologies if anyone finds my meanderings out of place on a diet forum, well this is the foodies forum, so an occasional detour from sensible calorie/fasting advice strikes me a well, sensible!!!

Of course my second post may have looked a little strange to those unfamiliar with the language of the land of the magpies, the five bridges and broon ale, May have thought my keyboard had gone awry. Except goosey, of course.

Hi all,

Just completed another FD (long) but done, so happy NFD today, as still have a pile of 20 more essays to mark..buuu! but it’s sunny here today, makes or the difference. Happy clothing moment, although no-one has commented on my weight loss (grrrrrr) I’ve noticed my “gilet” I wear to run, is giving me less of the sausage look, and more of the Ursula Andress (in my mind) so will go for a run with head held high.

Debbie, my sister has a fitbit, so I may get one for my birthday if I’m lucky, they look cool, I like how it can measure sleep, I used to have a Nikefit for running, but it wasn’t so sophisticated.
MM 4 Ibs is great, I suppose it depends how much you have to lose, I have another 21 Ibs to go, my goal is October (bday) but have a few mini-goals in between.
Kate well done on giving up the wine, I’m trying but usually succumb at the w/e, so better than nothing..might go for every other w/e
Phoebe 8Ibs that’s amazing, congrats!
Ginette David Essex any day, also love Bowie!
Milena like the ramblings and also your quotes..
Salma I’ve just bought some Molasses, making your thing at the weekend, a girl has to have some sweetness in her life..
hi Lori and anyone else I’ve missed!

Happy FD and NFD!
bb

P.S Milena of course I also mean your musings…not to be misconstrued 🙂

Hi beldy, I do ramble, I start posts and meander right off the point, and usually back on again.

White wine is good with anything! So is rose. Obviously red for weightloss!!!

This ole banger is here to keep you company as always, Salma. Im rsther fond of laybys, shall we stay awhile and bring out the picnjc hamper? What would be in yours?

Davy Jones? for me it was Mike Nesbith, George was my favorite beatle – always! Still know every word to every Bowie song, saw him in’72. Neil Diamond and Rod the mod – still my favourites today,

Aren’t men sweet? My friend Nessie is boarding a flight to Jamaica, a surprise destination for her hols, planned by her hubby. She is thrilled at the surprise, hubby is apparently beaming that he managed to keep the secret, but he is a policeman, said it was easy for him!!

Arent men guillible? We did a quick flight search the other day, worked out the only possible destination for Thomsons, from Manchester, requiring an early start from Edinburgh, was Montego Bay.

Took an hour to rehearse the ‘surprised and delighted’ look, but luckily she has great acting skills. Though she has just texted me to warn me if he doesn’t shut up there will be a death in paradise.

And he hasn’t commented on her weightloss – policemen are supposed to be observent too !!! Justifiable homicide methinks!

Joking?

I dont think so – perhaps you might think before being flippant in future, when you write things about me, such as I have hit the bottle or I have been telling porkies, is not my idea of a joke. But hey, sticks and stones.

Appliepie, the Groucho Marx quote was along the lines of “I would’t want go join any club who would let me in”

Todays quote – thought long and hard about this one but here goes!!

” The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared woman on the planet”

Good morning all, and thank you for the encouragement. Another fast day finished yesterday and, while the scale refused to budge this morning (at least it’s not going up), I did notice while lying on my back in bed that my rib cage seems to be making a reappearance, sort of like rocks that have been long under water. Pelvic bones still submerged, but hey, it’s a start. I know I should be grateful to my doctor for shaking me up before I had too much to lose–been seeing him since I was in college so I think he still thinks of me as that slender girl. He’s 75 now and retiring this summer. 🙁

Love the lightness to your posts and that this isn’t that dreaded word, a diet. And that I can still drink wine four of five nights a week.

As for the David, David, or David question, I’ll pick “all of the above.” Why do young men these days (at least here in the states) chop off all their hair and go around in baggy jogging pants or shorts? Not nearly as much fun to look at.

MM

hello all, and welcome MM. Don’t worry re scale if you are seeing/feeling other changes… sometimes the scales will be frustratingly stubborn then suddenly shift in the most delightful way!
And Ginette, I really must commend you on always giving such support and details to the newbies. In the wine voting, reds are year round my #1, but a crisp dry rose or NZ sauv blanc in summer is very refreshing! I ordered light kettle bells and workout dvd today to find a way to get HIIT easily at home, so I can channel my inner Ursula. Who doesn’t recall that iconic image?!
Salma, I know what you mean re ‘what’s the hurry’, and in any other circumstance I would agree fully, as it certainly took a while to layer on…… but as I will have major surgery [double mastectomy] in July, and not really very mobile for 6 weeks after, I am wanting to get in as much fighting form before as I can.
Ginette – just saw your last post. Please please don’t go. Online, it can be a challenge to interpret things in the way they are meant sometimes, without the face-face expressions, and I know I suffer unintentionally from hoof in mouth on occasion, as can we all.

Hi goosey

ya ken tek the wife ooooot of the Toon, but ya canna stop hor shoppin!

How man – A spam samwich, the wifeys here will thin thiv deed and gan te hivan if the et wan o thoos.

Reet me marras, iv given Ginnette a clip arund the lugs,it wus Goosey ideeaah, we alus de that in Geordieland, an iv telt hor to git hor skinny ass beck hea, reet now, iv sed ta for seyin she was in thu wrang.

Ya might hav thort skinny ass wus a bit tae farr but ah kna wi al wud cunsida it a vury nice thing te say, ah knaes ey wud. Ah ev

I huop av dun the reet thing, ah wes consorned aboot Applepie greetin’ aboot hor belly!

Translation: Geordies are great shoppers – mentioning span sandwiches might encourange our friends – especially foodie Salma – to try them, not suitable for fast days – followed Gooseys advice and had a work with Ginnette – accepted apology – paid her a compliment and suggested she returns straight away, because I am concerned for Applepie’s stomach!

Milena and Ginette – Glad you two are ‘on terms’ again because you are both simply amazing with all you do for us newbies.
Fasting tomorrow – does anyone else find the FDs easier than the NFDs? Today I met a friend for lunch, ordered a caesar salad as the least damaging thing on a panini type menu. It came with a roll, which I didn’t have to eat, I know (although of course i did), but then I seemed to be absolutely starving for the rest of the day. I wonder if I have some sort of problem with wheat or carbs or gluten or something. They seem to trigger hungry bingey feelings for me.
I managed to behave not too badly for the rest of the day, but had a big lump of cheese about 4 oclock – that time of day is very triggery for me at the best of times. Luckily I don’t have chocolate in the house or it would have been a disaaaaster!Limped through today, hoping tomorrow is easier with food just ‘off the table’ until night. Busy day planned, that should help!

Thanks Salma – I normally would have protein and veg but the type of place it was, everything seemed to be ‘bready’! And I was really looking forward to going out for lunch, bad choice of venue though. Will be a bit more careful in future.

As you say, no real harm done I know – it was just that I felt there COULD have been a real nosh up! I’m definitely not ready to have ‘goodies’ in the house. Came home and made myself go outside and cut the grass, out of the kitchen and away from temptation.

That is good info about the blood sugar.

Hi Salma, yup!

Compared to the delicacies of Scotland, deep fried pizza and deep fried mars bars, spam could be considered ‘gourmet’.

Getting back into the saddle is difficult, I am finding. Got rid of the last of the ice cream.

Must say I always thought people who, instead of chucking out temptation food, they eat it, were mad. Proud to say threw mine in the bin.

Well, into the recycling.

Well, the wrappers. Ate the ice-cream. It was lovely.

Fast day tomorrow, will it be just Salma and I, or is there anyone else?

Goosey and Salma

stotties!!!! With ham and pease pudding, now that is gourmet food!!!

stottie cakes are just unleavened bread – ham on the bone – not spam, and pease pudding – wonderful!

Think I’ll make some pease pudding this weekend – I make it now and then and take some to the manager of the local Tesco – a Newcastle lad!

I can’t believe you are talking about eating Spam! I am in the U.S. and we were forced to eat that when we were kids, and I swore to myself that I would never touch it again (along with baked beans!), and I never have! But I am happy that someone found a good use for it. Goes to show you how different our cultures and tastes can be!

I just drool over some of the foods you eat in the other countries! I really need to get a good cookbook from the UK.