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09-07-2008 @ 11:10 AM
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Hi MG
Well there is a valid reason they call it comfort food whether we like to admit it or not. Roll on the day we can get the same buzz and comfort from a spot of exercise. I am told that this will happen if you let it!
It will be fascinating to see how I cope with an addiction to adrenaline when I become an exercise junkie! Having the addictive personality I do, it would be just my luck. Uhm, can I make that excuse number 27 as to why I should not exercise?
Isn't it annoying. You tell yourself that you shouldn't, as you are eating the rubbish food, and still - down it goes! I don't beat myself up about the occasional slip, but I want to pick me up by my scruff and shake me when I have a run of doing it. Even though every logical and fervent desire tells me to stick with the sensible eating, that food devil will keep coming back with the same whining sound track and I don't always ignore it. Fortunately, slip ups don't happen nearly as often as they would do without reds.
I have to admit, it gets harder to keep focussed the less I have to lose. The urgent need to lose weight is going, and I worry that I will get complacent. Sometimes, it is only the fact that I began by setting certain goals and know I never want to be the size I was, that keeps me going forward. I have to keep my eye on those goals, and tell myself that reaching the weight I have is great, but it is still not healthy.
What I actually wanted to say before I got into my rambling musings, was that it is wonderful to hear you are having a good day. I hope that as your weight comes down, you find your moods become more stable? I have suffered with bouts of chronic depression since I was a child, so I can sympathise with how you feel.
The hormones are all out of whack at our weight, adding to the severity and likelihood of suffering depression. So we have yet another miserable symptom to add to the list of reasons to do something about our size. (As if we needed any more motivation!)
I hope you are continuing to have a good day. Thinking of you.
Sue
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09-07-2008 @ 3:23 PM
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Hi Moonie,  (love that name!)
In a post you said I and others were a inspiration to you, well I have to say you are a bigger inspiration!
You are having problems with scales at the moment, but I don't think it will be for much longer, so you can't tell how much you are losing. This hasn't detered you, you are still going with determination!
Most would of said 'sod it!' Human nature, we have to see the scales going down!
So on this fact I salute you! You are the biggest inspiration.
Sharon xx
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09-07-2008 @ 5:08 PM
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Hi MoonGoddess. You are an inspiration. I would not have joined this forum had I not read your diary and found it so interesting. I was given Reds by GP but didnt find they worked. I found it interesting you say to take them on an empty stomach. I always took them after breakfast. Will try to take on an empty stomach tomorrow to see do they make a difference. I have 10mg but GP prescribed 15mg when I complained they werent working but i havnt taken them yet as I still have half a pack of 10mgs left. I have skipped a few days also as have been vomiting with a bad cough which I hope Im over the worst of now. Tomorrow is a new day so will take the Red on an empty stomach and try and be good & get a bit of a walk in.
My scales is saying 15st 2 lbs at the moment but im not sure if it's working. Getting weighed properly on wednesday so will be interesting to see what that scales says. I would like to get down to 11st but even at 12 or 13st I would be happy!! Any help, inspiration or advice would be great! Have many days when I feel quite down and it's definitly due to the extra weight!!
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09-08-2008 @ 5:49 AM
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Hello everyone 
I hope you don't mind me butting in to your diary MoonGoddess but I have just read your whole diary and feel some comfort here. I am not usually a 'joiner'.
I live in Sydney, Australia and am 35 years old. I am married with 3 young children (twin boys who are 3 and a daughter who is 20 months)
I am a size AU22, which is about a size 24 in the UK, I think.
I appreciate you sharing your ups and downs. I think we are all going through very similar feelings and it is nice to know that we are not on our own.
I have only been taking reds for a week but have been on every diet known to man for as long as I can remember.
sorry to butt in but I really felt like this was somewhere that I could fit
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MoonGoddess |
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09-10-2008 @ 12:52 PM
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Oh dear - embarrassed! 
I do not know what to say to you lovely ladies except thank you.
Well to catch up - no weight loss - AGAIN!
I have not been drinking the Jersey milk on my oats for nearly 2 weeks and it's made no bleedin' difference! Tastes crap too - lol.
I am seriously thinking of getting a second set of scales because these ones this morning in the same place read 26st 4 and a half, 26st 5 and three quarters and 26st 12lbs and all within 30 seconds.
Then it weighed all weights inbetween from 7-11lbs. Dispondant is the word I would use as to my mood now.
The doc thought I'd put weight on last time yet it only showed on my scales as maybe 3lbs on his scales it was 8kg or something.
And no - the measurements are not coming down either.
I've started getting a few allergy attacks this month as well - not been a good month for me actually.
Maybe if I cut out all food and just drink water I may starve myself thin lol...oh actually I bet I wouldn't, I I'd only have to look at a lettuce leaf and put on 3st! Hahahaha.
Bloody Fern Brittan looks so damn thin! 
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09-10-2008 @ 1:23 PM
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h moodgoddess
i've had a great idea about the scales! (i'm so pleased with myself - perhaps i should go on the New inventors!! LOL) - why dont you get 2 pairs of scales and put a foot on each and then add up the total? i think that willwork! it would mean that you are putting about 13 stone on each so they should be more accurate.
perhaps you could borrow a friends scales for a couple of days to check it out with your scales. or even go into an appliance shop and check it out on 2 scales there before buying the second pair.
what do you think?
i know this could come across as offensive but i think it actually could work as i just checked on my scales and they weigh the same whether i stand as you are meant to with two feet on either side or i stand on one foot in the middle. so it should work for you?
worth trying anyway. at least you'd get a more accurate reading
let us know what you think.
in regards to the milk - i personally never have skim milk or anything besides full fat dairy. it all tastes crap and seriously full fat milk is about 3 or 4% fat so not really fattening anyway. i'd much rather have full fat milk and not have the biscuit, hot chips, butter etc. i know a lot of people will disagree but seriously there was so many improvements i could make to my diet before giving up full fat milk.
cheers geminigirl
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09-11-2008 @ 12:54 AM
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*&^%! My message just disappeared and I was nearly at the end of it too! I can't recall what I was twittering on about, but it was obviously insightful. 
When I stood on the scales till they went dark and then stood on them again without moving them, I got a second, better reading (same as the 'sweet spot' reading). That reading then stayed consistent for as long as the scales were not moved. Someone mentioned that the digital scales need to calibrate to the surface they are on, so I will try it out again on a few other spots. An experiment - YAY.
I would not think that using two scales would work. I know if I even touch my pinkie to the wall during weighing, I can read 20kg lighter. You need to stand correctly on the scales or they don't read right. (as you found) One leg on each, would mean you are balanced incorrectly on the scales. Would be an interesting thing to try out though? I could be totally wrong.
I was also saying (I recall), that I prefer to use the tape measure for accuracy, and the scales are now just for curiosity. I was eyeing up the scales at the vets the other day though, and would have used them if the waiting room hadn't been full. LOL They are massive, like the ones used on the biggest loser. Wonder if those scales are more accurate?
I am about to phone for my cholesterol results. The Dr. has not been back to me freaking out, so I assume the results are pretty okay. Or at least not too far different.
Sue
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MoonGoddess |
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09-15-2008 @ 1:29 PM
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Hello again!
Sorry I've been away for a few days. I have been rebuilding my website which is taking an age. It's not finished but I'll get there eventually!
On Friday I bought a pair of Salter "Extra High Capacity" scales from Sainsbury's at £24.99 a whole lot cheaper than the German ones I bought. They are glass, not as thick as the German ones, but they don't have rubber bits on the feet which can fall off, move and give odd readings.
So I got on the German ones - 26st 7lbs - not good but could be worse. Got on the Salter ones 26st 12lbs  5lbs difference!
Anyhow, one thing has become more revealing, the Salter ones take around 20 seconds to weigh you taking into account body movement on the scales. It was lovely yesterday morning - the German ones weighed me as 25st 13lbs - oh that did look good, however the Salter ones were 26st 8lb. I even tried moving them around the floor - the German ones went from 25st 13lbs to 27st 1lb - Salter ones stayed at 26st 8lbs. This morning the German ones weighed 26st 11lbs whereas the Salter ones weighed 26st 6lbs.
So, still 2lbs off the weight I thought I was several weeks ago, but it's coming down and it's showing a far more consistant set of readings. The Salter ones may be weighing be a little heavy, or light or spot on but they are not all over the place like the German ones.
I seem to have also got my BP down to a rather consistant 80 something on the diastolic which is a great improvement.
Also, talking of the looser bra last week, I can now reveal my jeans are getting to the being pulled up every 10 minutes stage which is encouraging.
I think I may not have lost as much weight initially as the German scales suggested.
Feeling poorly today as I just want to go to sleep.
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09-16-2008 @ 12:51 PM
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Very bad night with mum she was ranting and ripping her bed apart til 3.30am so am very tired but I need to announce the Salter scales weighed me at 26st 5lbs this morning and the German ones weighed me at 26st 11lbs again!
I'm off for a bit of catch up sleep but I'm off to the docs this afternoon. It's the lady doc who panics so we shall see what her scales read this time! If she is anywhere near 167/8Kg her scales may not be too much off as it were.
Sorry I am so tired. 
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MoonGoddess |
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09-18-2008 @ 11:24 PM
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OK bit of an odd week.
The new scales showed me as 26st 4lbs yesterday - just where I wanted to be. Yippee!
Someone actually noticed I had lost weight today.
Jeans are still baggy and so are my tops.
I'll try and give you a potted view of my visit to the doctor yesterday. Please sit down and put on a tena lady if you need to.
I went to the docs and saw the lady doc. I went on the scales and she whooped because I "am now 23 stones".
No I'm not.
"Yes you are look".
Yes the scales only went to 23 stones and I looked like I weighted 23 stones.
I spent 10 minutes explaining the vaguaries of my two sets of scales and how I am now happy I have reached the 26st 4lb mark on the new and more consistant scales. I don't think she understood.
Then onto my blood pressure.
I told her I had been getting a consistant reading of 14?/8? sometimes the diastolic was down in the 70's and the systolic in the 130's. I told her how I did it via the vitamins and grape juice. I just don't think it registered.
She takes my BP with a small cuff which she is having to hold on to to stop it coming off of my arm.
She panics when she reads it as 190/150 and suggests I must be having a heart attack. I laugh.
She tries the other arm and after pumping and pumping the inflation bulb the mercury isn't rising. As Lexigirl said - I must be dead.
The doc then insists I take the cuff off of the right arm and put it back on the left arm, "because it worked on that arm". 
So, we do this. She pumps away at the inflation bulb...........nothing. Quickly she removes the cuffs pipes from the measuring bit and finds another measuring bit and attaches it. She tries inflating the cuff.
Still nothing.
On to the other arm and still nothing.
At this stage I express that it appears the cuff is broken, (or more to the point she damn well broke it!). So, she asks if I mind using a digital BP monitor and I say no. The cuff won't go up past my elbow.
I suggest we need a larger cuff to get the correct reading as a smaller cuff gives a false reading.
Off she goes to locate a larger cuff. She finds one but it has no inflation bulb on it. I suggest using the one from the other BP cuff.
After what seems like an age of her being unable to attatch the bulb and it flying off onto the floor, I offer to put it on. I do it first time.
Finally, a bigger cuff goes on and the reading - bearing in mind the stress level all this caused, is 144/88 - which she then thinks is very bad!
She then proceeds to tell me that looking at the weight readings I have put on too much weight and if I'm not careful I will be taken off of the Reds. She also says I should have lost 5% of my body weight in 3 months. 10% of 28st is 2st 8lbs, 5% is 1st 4lbs. From 28st 2lbs to 26st 4lbs is as near as damn it 2st. That's around 9% of my body weight. I tell her this and she still doesn't hear me.
*head-desk*
I shall go back to the male doc next time.
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