Countdown to Balloon Launch

[femfrankie]

Well just completed an overnight sleep study at gartnaval and my recent decrease in CPAP pressure from 17 to 7psi is as i thought not quite right for me and this has now been upped again by 2 to 9psi.
Despite my nights sleep in an uncomfy bed and being wired for sound I actually feel so much better already this morning!

 

[cb4]

Well just completed an overnight sleep study at gartnaval and my recent decrease in CPAP pressure from 17 to 7psi is as i thought not quite right for me and this has now been upped again by 2 to 9psi.
Despite my nights sleep in an uncomfy bed and being wired for sound I actually feel so much better already this morning!

Ahhh! God love ye. But fingers crossed for a better sleep tonight!!!!
You are getting there!
You are so constant with ur results!!!
You are well on ur way to success.
Give urself a good pat on the back u deserve it xx

carol b

 

[femfrankie]

Thank you carol just wish they would hurry up and let me go home now lol xx

 

[cb4]

Thank you carol just wish they would hurry up and let me go home now lol xx

I can only imagine! Hate hospitals.
I was out for an early morning jog at 7!!!
Feeling good
Fingers crossed I will get below 13 by this time next week!
I'm so over being in the 13s!!!!!!
I'm in the zone

carol b

 

[femfrankie]

Fingers and toes crossed hun x

 

[Yvessa]

lol love your attitude Carol...let me know if it works!

 

[cb4]

Thanks ladies

It comes in bursts for me. Well that's the way it has been before now! Lets hope I can keep the spirits up and power off the next 2 and a half stone

carol b

 

[Yvessa]

I think I need a bit of it...just struggling again to believe it will come off.

 

[cb4]

I think I need a bit of it...just struggling again to believe it will come off.

Take a step back! Look at how far you have come! How much you have lost so far. How tough it was. Look at all the achievements you have made.
Walking further, faster, happier healthier.
Clothes sizes. Take it all into account!
Then also think about how bad the habits were before.
You are doing a fantastic job!
You will get there! The suns not shining here but I'm using that as motivation towards next week. If I can be great this week and be carefull, then I will look and feel better next week, if the sunshines I will look and feel better! At the moment that's what I'm aiming for.
Not its raining I can't go out!
Positivity will get us there and will power, the confidence will follow xx

carol b

 

[Yvessa]

Thanks hon Hopefully I will see a loss this week and it will break my negativity. I don't do well with stalls.

 

[treacles1977]

Had a terrible day ..... Thought I was doing well , but sat down at school (work) and split my skirt . Not on the seams but actually on the material around my belly, in 4 places, it literally ripped around me. Gutted humiliated devastated is not the word.
What can I do

Crying a lot

Rebecca

 

[femfrankie]

Awww hun big (((((hugs))))) to you. I think most of us will have found ourselves in similar situations ... Hence my dread of plastic or foldable chairs
As for any scene created around what happened there is not alot that you can do about it other than hold your head high and get on with life. What is done is done but as far as your weight is concerned you are doing something about it treacle. You have recognised you have an issue that needs addressing and you are bravely tackling it head on. Treat it as a reminder when ever the "hungry head" appears as to why you have commenced this journey in the first place. I can laugh at it now but I once got stuck tight in a chair that I crammed myself into at a restaurant once. A colleague had to help prise it off my backside! Thankfully she is also a great friend of mine and we could laugh about it but I couldn't look at anybody else sitting in the place as I was mortified & I have never went back there!
Chin up hun when you are a skinny Malinke you will be able to laugh about it xx

 

[kismet68]

Dear Rebecca,

What a terrible day you have had. Your post is a difficult one to answer. I think we have all been in denial about our size at some point in our life and have worn something that is a snug fit. It isn't until something like this happens or we see a photo of ourselves it hits home that something needs to be done. I was in denial about my size for a while and it wasn't until my sister (who's in retail) pointed out how bad I looked and what I though was covering my lumps & bumps was actually exaggerating them!!!
Only you can change how you look as you are the one who controls what goes into your body.
Use this as a starting point, keep the offending item of clothing and every time you think of making a bad food choice take it out.
Chin up girl
K

 

[femfrankie]

I think I need a bit of it...just struggling again to believe it will come off.

Of course it will come off hun but it will do it in its own time! You know that though hun and you also know that we will continue to stall every few weeks or so & it's just our bodies reaction to "the regime". As CB4 says, look how far you have come Yve! That is a stonking weight-loss to achieve especially in the time frame you have done it in so i suppose the body is entitled to have its little hissy fits now and again in protest. To come from 30 stone to where you are now is absolutely bloomin' amazin'. You are my inspiration to keep going with this hun because you have shown me and others here its not such an impossible task as we imagine it to be and that with the right frame of mind & motivation it is in fact very doable. That hun is not flouncy words to make you feel better... It is the truth!

 

[Yvessa]

Thanks Frankie you're right - I do know all this...but my mind is as independent as my body - neither of them really listen to me!

 

[Yvessa]

Had a terrible day ..... Thought I was doing well , but sat down at school (work) and split my skirt . Not on the seams but actually on the material around my belly, in 4 places, it literally ripped around me. Gutted humiliated devastated is not the word.
What can I do

Crying a lot

Rebecca

Rebecca I just want to hug you and tell you that it will be okay. There is a way out I promise! I assume kids saw? They will forget. Or leave. And new kids will come along who will never have known you were fat. And those who did know will whisper about how good you look.

 

[cb4]

Thanks hon Hopefully I will see a loss this week and it will break my negativity. I don't do well with stalls.

You still have time to power off a bit more weight!!!
I'm down 3lb this week! Delighted. Positive thinking!
Xx

carol b

 

[treacles1977]

Thankfully no one saw.... I just sat down and heard it go, strange thing is its not even a tight skirt it's a gypsy skirt!! I wear it as a dress it is so big! I'm just having a really tough time at the minute ... This is BEFORE I've had it done god help me!!

It's pushing 35 degrees here at the minute so the heat is freaking me out I think !!! X

Thanks for your words xx

 

[Yvessa]

You still have time to power off a bit more weight!!!
I'm down 3lb this week! Delighted. Positive thinking!
Xx

carol b

I'm expecting a gain this week - I've had a lot going on and struggled to keep focused with food.

 

[cb4]

Had a terrible day ..... Thought I was doing well , but sat down at school (work) and split my skirt . Not on the seams but actually on the material around my belly, in 4 places, it literally ripped around me. Gutted humiliated devastated is not the word.
What can I do

Crying a lot

Rebecca

Hi Rebecca
God love you. I'm so sorry to hear this happined to you.
I think it may be a good idea to use yourself as an example to the kids! I hope you don't mind me saying. But it could make things easier for you!!!!
Explain that it was embarrassing and lots of people have little embarrassing moments and in turn lots of people would be bullied over even the slightest thing!!! Tell them how it can make you feel and how much easier it is if someone will stand up and take side for you.
It may be a good way to spin it! For yourself and others. It will also let u live it down, rather than be embarrassed for so long.
I hope your ok.
Hugs and kisses xx

carol b