Hi Auburn

All the best for the New Year to you too!

We all need the support of our friends and I appreciate your support too.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Tuesday 25/12/07

Got in a morning walk – continued the little extra walking sure in the knowledge that I could not resist Christmas pudding.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.4 miles
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 4.2lbs (i.e. 172.2 pounds)
Steps = 19,876
Distance = 7.52 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 large handfuls honey Shreddies
Roast turkey breast meat incl skin, swede, carrots, onion, broccoli, celery, brussel sprouts, gravy
Large helping of Christmas pudding with lots of double cream
1 very large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

YUM sounds like you had a great christmas dinner but got to say custard with the pudding not cream!!! (i dont like cream)

Hope you had a good day and I am very impressed you walked 6 miles as well!!

Sarah

Hi Sarah

I did enjoy my Christmas, and enjoyed my food too.

I dont think that I could reasonably expect to behave better on a Christmas Day. I was pretty pleased with how it went from a diet perspective. My only real flaws were the turkey skin and the Christmas pudding with cream. Since you only have that at Christmas and I love it - I really couldnt justify missing out.

I hope that you enjoyed your Christmas too.

Take care
Love
Margaret

Wednesday 26/12/07

Got in a morning walk – again continued the little extra walking for Newcastle because of both the previous day’s Christmas pudding and the fact that we have decided to go home Thursday and that will be a day with no walking!!!!! My cousin who was raised in the same house as me (and is therefore closer than most cousins could ever be) came for a family meal with her adult daughters and their families. I did the bulk of the catering and made things fairly healthy and not fattening. My mother however decided that we needed extra things like cauliflower cheese which she made (despite knowing how I put on weight with cheese - as if we didn’t already have enough vegetables). Various things like cake and chocolates were also produced by my mother - but I have been strong.

General Data:

Morning walk = 6.4 miles
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 12st 4.0lbs (i.e. 172.0 pounds)
Steps = 20,566
Distance = 7.79 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime – missed one bio-oil massage.

My Food / Drink:

1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
2 large handfuls honey Shreddies
Roast turkey breast meat, 3 small pieces potato, swede, carrots, onion, green beans, celery, gravy
Fruit salad (no syrup) made with small amount of fresh melon, 6 small segments of mandarin orange and quite a few grapes
1 large handfuls of raisins
2 litres of cold water
some diet cola

hmm maybe thats one of the many points i go wrong we have christmas pudding on Cristmas day, Boxing day, New Years day and Easter Sunday and Easter Monday oh well its only 5 meals a year!! LOL

Sounds like your doing well so far today as well resisting all the bits that your mother brought over

Sarah

Well done for resisting your mum's temptations. It's very difficult when others aren't following the same line of thought as you. My hubby has a few kilos to lose, that's all (middle-age spread, really) and my kids have nothing to lose as they do so much sport. So it's very difficult when everyone else is enjoying ice-creams, cakes, chocolates and all the other goodies we have at this time of year. Personally, I would have cracked for the cauliflower cheese, so I think you are just fantastic having the will-power to stick to what you believe in (your weight-loss project) and look ahead to the future pleasure of being slim, rather than the 3 minute pleasure of all that cheese.

Well done

Thanks for visiting Sarah and Auburn and your words of encouragement.

I adore Christmas pudding and the remains are in the fridge. We are staying with my parents until tomorrow so temptation is everywhere. Hubby and I are sitting in another room avoiding seeing what the parents are eating.

Hubby is as big as I was at the start of the year and I am still chunky. The rest of the family (parents and numerous cousins) are all so slim it is silly. The really difficult thing is that I have discovered by weighing every day that I put on weight worse with cheese than anything else. Calories do not seem to give the whole picture at all. Every time I eat anything with cheese I seem to put on 2 pounds that day - no matter how saintly my other food or how much walking I do. It happens with a single dairylea cheese slice that is individually wrapped and you cannot weigh it wrong. It is just wierd! After it happened enough times I decided that I ought to consider cheese to be almost poisonous for me. It is just not worth it.

My mother knows this and knows that I love cheese. I thought it really mean of her to effectively poison the cauliflower. I said "I cannot have that" and she said "I know that you cant - but everyone else can!".

I love my family - but I will be quite happy to go home tomorrow.

Sounds like water retention related to the cheese to me. If I eat popcorn in the evening, the same thing happens to me. Bah to your mother for not being more supportive, though. I also love my family, but it's always nice to be back in my own house without them.

This is where you discover that in fact you were adopted at birth, and that you are really the long-lost descendant and uncontestable heir to the throne of some obscure (but ever so wealthy) Eastern European nation. Hey, when you come to reclaim what is rightfully yours, don't forget who your friends are!

Your mum sounds like my mum.

Presents off her this year included a box of thorntons chocolates 4 bars of green and black chocolate (yes, the big bars), 2 bags of chocolate coins and a selection box.

I specifically asked her not to get me any chocolate. Im more than slightly irritated but I'm going to take it into work and share it all out. As if the struggle isnt hard enough

Well done one your christmas day. You have to have a few little treats or you end up feeling all deprived and eating more to compensate.
Happy New Year X

Thanks for visiting.

Phoebe

I wondered about water retention - but when you have been as big as I was and get so that you are dealing with it in a huge task - you just cannot risk a predictable backwards step for the sake of little more than a mouthful of food.

Hubby and I will be quite pleased to get home. At least we make the rules there and control the food in the house.

Auburn

I doubt that I am adopted - but you could easily believe it. When I was UK size 12 I looked tons fatter than all the rest of them. Dreams of wealth just round the corner are always good in my book. I'll start looking out for incredibly wealthy royal families that are inclined to put on weight.

Becky

What appropriate presents you got off your mother! At least my mother gave me lots of body lotion in addition to some money that will go towards the petrol - we spend a reasonable amount of money on petrol on every trip home (outer London to Newcastle). I go through tons of body lotion with my creaming regime. I am asking a lot of my skin and try and give it every opportunity of coping. I am a coward and want to try and avoid too much loose skin as I do not want plastic surgery if I can help it. My mother in law (well known for the way she always considers my feelings) gave me a Terry's chocolate orange. It isnt really a positive - but I suspect that hubby will volunteer to remove all chocolate from tempting me by eating it.

I am a firm believer in accepting that I will try to be good - but am certain to have moments when I weaken and give in to temptation. I have given up on too many weight loss projects in the past at this point - as I have difficulty in dealing with failure. This is the reason that I do not count calories and also it is the reason why I always forgive myself immediately for my moments of weakness.


Take care
Love
Margaret

OMG!! You're losing weight during Christmas! That is ab fab!! I'm reading about your "naughtiness" and the whole time I'm thinking that you've been eating like a relative saint this time of year. You deserve to be rewarded with those losses.

I can fit into D's and DD's without any trouble, so I don't think I'll need to fly over to Newcastle in order to bra shop. But if I ever feel the urge (or have the bank account for it), I'll be sure to do it when you're up visiting your parents.

I cannot believe how unsupportive some mothers can be with our efforts. Mine doesn't care too much, either. But since I've been off my diet for over a week, I guess it doesn't matter much.

Have a safe trip back tomorrow!

Yep, I'm the same way about baked potato chips (which are worse in terms of water retention for me than popcorn). I love them, and they don't have that many calories, but it's not worth the jump in the scale.

That stinks hun..
Cheese makes me gain weight too, but I had six crackers today, with small pieces of cheese ...
so I didn't go overboard...

The chocolate must have been hard to stay away from ...

So how did you do over the Christmas Break?

Anyway ..ttylater hun

love yas
always
Natalie jo