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Oodles' Weekly Weigh In

Wags finger at Oodles
You watch that going in stairs lark ! :)

I'm so pleased you've met him .. It's makes everything worth awhile doesn't it ? And if nothing ever comes of this , it still wasn't a failure was it ..
I spend more time on here now than on Facebook .. It just seems full of adverts now and 'amen ' stories and people who seem to be constantly I'll , even if it's just a cold , they seem to seek attention for all the wrong negative reasons ..
My youngest daughter came off Facebook about 3 months ago , she says she doesn't miss it all and infact when she meets up with her friends they have something to talk about because she hasn't read any of their statuses ..
Mindy
Xxxx
 
Argh! Wearing my new troos/bardot top combo. Got to work... My trousers are all static and sticking to my every wobble :( disaster!!
 
Oh I realised tomorrow is my 10mth surgiversary. So using today's stats:

Start: 379lb (27st 1lb) (I forget this was at the start of it all, before the LSD. I lost 20lb on that and was 359 on the day of the op)
Loss: 182lb (13st)
Current weight: 197lb (14st 1lb)
%EWL: 83%
% total weight loss: 48%

BMI was 57
Now 30

Size was 32/34
Now 16 (ahem - in most things)
 
Oodles ! I got a tip , well a few
On your break or before ( tell a lie and say you need tampons or something ) go to the local shop and buy a pack of those tumble dry sheets then rub them over your trousers .. It works ! Failing that , spray hairspray over them , not as good but it will control static slightly ..
 
Ooh we have a little shop downstairs... Might go and explore! I'm allergic to Bounce so may have to try the hairspray option. If they do it.
 
Wow what a change I such a short time ! Amazing !
 
Or Lenor .. Just rinse a cloth in water and lenor and wipe it over th rousers .. Same thing
 
Well what happened was that I left it and walked around with trousers that stuck to me all day. And it didn't matter anyway because in the end I decided not to go and see him. Because what is the point? WHAT IS THE POINT? I'm 100% sure this whole thing is all one sided anyway, and even if it isn't, what am I expecting? He lives abroad. With his two children. And comes home to visit family. And I know from when I lived abroad when you come home, you are busy with family and don't have time time to meet up with a random who lives 3 hours away from your hometown.

So I've decided, in order to preserve my sanity, that I'm never going to see or talk to him again. Because otherwise it's just wasted energy. And if he wanted to see me that badly, he would have come to see me, which he didn't. One thing I do know about men, is that if they want to talk to you, they will talk to you. I've had one even throwing pennies at my window (while I hid under the sofa so he couldn't see me lol). So this is how I know it's all one sided and pointless.

So! Onwards and upwards. I just know that if and when I do go to his office for a few days (quite the possibility now) I will look better every time I go. Yippee!
 
I'm with you on this . I hate this outcome for you , but I agree .. Sensible even ..
But that devil in my shoulder is whispering to me to tell you ..
How do you know how deep the mud is , unless you step in it :)

But what will be will be , if he's meant to be then he will contact you , true .. Does he know you are single ?

Mindy
Xxxx
 
Wowsers Oodles !
If I was a woman on woman kind of gal I'd totally be after you ! Rofllll !
Your so damn cute and adorable !
A worthy man , will be a lucky man
Xxxx
 
Lol well at least I've had one offer this week ;)

If the job situation goes the way I want it to (I'll find out in a couple of weeks) I'll be at his office a lot more often, for a few days at a time. This wasn't a one time opportunity and it WAS the first time we'd met in person. I will see him again in one country or another. I just won't seek him out... Not that I really have for the past few weeks anyway. I feel soooo much better now and my head is soooo much clearer!
 
Well maybe you did the right thing... I was looking forward to the snogging in the broom cupboard story though .... You could have just pretended lol!
 
I am over the whole thing now, and I feel as a result my weight loss has stopped again lol. But it's ok. I'm wearing black jeans today, from ebay obv, and although they are technically wide leg 16s they look like boot cut on me and I'm really pleased with them. Although they show the fact I have no backside anymore :( and therefore my waist is less defined... all these things I'm going to have to get fixed! I don't know where to start.

This week I have mostly been poking my hip bones, as I can feel them now. The other day I lay face up with my shoulders on the sofa and my feet on the floor, and I could see them poking out! I looked like an actual normal person in leggings. Apart from the fact my position meant I was doing my best impression of a coffee table. But still! Bones! I have bones!

Last night I bravely attempted to eat cheese. In fact I ate half a jacket, beans and cheese. The beans were reduced sugar and therefore tasteless, the cheese was low fat and made me a bit rumbly but I didn't get ill. So that's good innit! Last week I tried one of those mini pots of Philadelphia light on some apple and cinnamon Ryvitas and that was ok too. I figure if I try to introduce more cheese slowly, I might be able to eat it again. Not that I've really missed it and it's definitely helped me lose weight (not being able to eat it), but I need to up my calories at some point if I want to try and maintain so cheese will be a good way to help that. I decided I'm going to let myself get smaller, potentially to a size 10 or 12 if possible (I don't know if it will continue that far obviously, my body might have different goals to me. But I've never even imagined being that size before). Then if I do end up putting some on at some point, as I know is commonplace for bypassers, I won't be sad if I do go up a size or two. I find myself trawling ebay for size 14 dresses so I must want to get smaller!

Instead of hiding away nowadays, I want to show people I'm not that girl anymore. My friend is coming over for a few days from the Swiss office but I'm on holiday that week and I'm gutted I won't see him. But hopefully I'll go there at some point. I don't want people to think of me how I used to be. So that's good, confidence-wise. But then I'm still the same girl inside. I still think no-one wants to talk to me and there will be awkward silences when I meet new people en masse. Sometimes I wonder what type of person I would be if I hadn't been heavy all my life. Pretty sure I would have been 100% ruthless diva. But as I feel I've had to work harder than others to get them on my side because of how I look, I know I'm a lot softer and shyer than perhaps I should be. I don't think that will change, and I do like being the one people turn to. But I wonder if this will hold me back in future when meeting new people? Isn't it odd how our personalities are built by certain aspects of life. I wish I had a Sliding Doors moment where I could see the Oodles who grew up thin. I bet her life would be so different to mine.
 
Oh and what's brought on all this reflection? Well I've been talking to a boy online. We get on very well, there's no chemistry but I think he would be a good friend to have. It's just made me think how differently I feel towards him vs the work crush. The online boy is the boy I would always go for: geeky, glasses, plays video games. I enjoy a nerd. I am a nerd. But do I fancy nerds? I don't think so actually. Boys I fancy are outgoing, confident, funny, and I never feel good enough for them - partly because of how I look (mostly), but also because I am a nerd. The whole thing about the work crush was that my confidence had grown so much that I felt perhaps I was now worthy of someone like him, and perhaps someone like him would pay me attention. But I'm still not. Which is fine! I'm being realistic here, not fishing for any sort of compliments or anything like that at all. I would hate to have a boyfriend who was better looking than me lol. It was good to have that dose of reality because I guess all the compliments had gone to my head. As I said before, when people say I look amazing, do they mean in comparison to other people or in comparison to what I used to look like? I know now it's the latter and if ever I want to turn heads I'm going to have to keep at it. And I want to turn heads. I want to turn the work crush's head, and then turn him down lol! But also I don't feel I should settle for someone who I get on with but don't fancy but who will take me (aka online boy), as I'm worth more than that. I deserve the butterflies and to want someone that much and for them to want me. So I don't know if I'll ever find someone, but I know I've waited this long, I will hold out til I find the right one this time :)
 
I think "matching is important in a relationship, it's good to be the same kind of score out of 10 it stops insecurities!
 
Agreed!

So I have done nothing but eat this weekend. And bad bad things. Argh!! Luckily I'm off for a week as of Friday so will have less chances to stuff my face.

I tried on my murder mystery dress today, it fits! Woop! Can't wait to get my hair extensions in and look all glam.

I also made a bucket of turkey mince stuff yesterday to get me back on track this week.

Back on it! Determined growl!
 
Turkey mince stuff ! What do you throw in there then ?
I to have had the urge to stuff my face this weekend . Must be a bank holiday thing ? I've just wanted to eat everything and anything , I havnt but God I could have .. Could easily have put a dvd fest on and bought a carrier bag full of junk and quiet happily led in the bed and eaten my way through it .. That's what I would have usually done lol ..
Mindy
Xxxx
 
I put in loads of veg, then make a tomato sauce, chuck in herbs and spices and this time branston (I've run out of Worcester sauce). It's different each time. Sometimes I use lean pork mince. It's just easy and freezable and feeds me for like 2 weeks. I'm no nigella!

I ate like olden times (without the inevitable takeaway). Wotsits, rich tea, marshmallows, liquorice. Ugh! My meals have been okay (lean protein) but I snacked my face off. Can't wait to get back to work tomorrow and remove all this temptation! I know now I just can't have sweet stuff in the house. I just can't stop myself. But I won't be in the house on my own for a couple of weeks so best behaviour!
 
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