Oh,
And yes I had a bad day yesterday.
My lettuce was so limp it was a joke.
But
I keep positive
Love Lucia
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Lovely to ‘see’ you Lucia:-)
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Indeed – we all missed you, Lucia. Good to have you back.
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What is puddle bashing, Lucia?
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February is when the wheels fall off.
I feel it is make or break time for many.
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My scales have died. That may be a good thing.
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Hi Janet
Yes, I think we all think too much and don’t do any leg work.
One if those things.
If I had a b s diet partner, I think I could have got results quicker, easier etc.
But, nope, I am here alone, only me that makes my decisions, yes, I have fallen of the band wagon, who hasn’t.
I am willing to try each day sometimes each hour.So I want you to be a little easier in yourself, you have everyone on this website. Yes, it is lonely when carbs sing to you from the kitchen. And if you just eat all the junk in the kitchen, it’s gone. Well that’s what I used to tell myself, now I either pour salt or fairy washing up liquid over it. Saves any cravings later in that evening.
So, take it easier, enjoy life and I am here, in the background if you need anything.
XxxxLove Lucia
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Also,
I am feeling that spring is in the air.
My daff bulbs that I planted at the end of Jan in a bowl in the kitchen are poking through the soil.Positive thoughts
Love Lucia
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Hi again
.I went back and read the beginning blogs of captain Lynn. She is wonderful.
I wish I lived in Durham, near her. So when I need my batteries topping up I could go for a coffee and natter with her.I said to hubby this morning… I NEED to go to the gym tonight.
He reminded me of all the things I have arranged, planned, agreed to do. Anyone fancy a visit to the gym at 1am?Oh well, I still do my exercise around the house, to the bus, to the shops, I take the stairs, I do a little yoga, I hit 10k steps. At least it is something.
So I am working each hour at the bs diet.
Love Lucia
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I have never been to a proper gym. Do they smell?
Has anyone else been asked ” When are you due?”
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Hi HumanKind, Gyms dont smell. I have just looked on your profile and you should change it to ‘soon to be fabulous’ and put a bit of info about yourself. It is nice to get to know someone.
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Our diet with be in the daily mail newspaper tomorrow.
Michael says he’s made it simpler.If you are not in the U.K., look at the daily mail website, probably under the health tab, the the diet tab if it’s hidden.
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Hi,
The gym I go to.
I now imagine the smell of blubber burning.No one has asked me if it’s my time of the month as I hadn’t seen one of them for nearly 20 years.
But
If they don’t ask that same question to men, isn’t it therefore sexist?
Also something happening to the inside if your body, isn’t up for comment or discussion.If there are any visible problems with your body, then it’s ok for a private word.
What is the world coming to?Anyway, here’s a bit more burning blubber ……..
Love Lucia
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Burning blubber lol!
Actually, though, I meant ” when are you due?” as in “when is BABY due?”.
So, basically, everyone keeps thinking I am pregnant.Just keeps happening, which is embarrassing for them and for me!
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Hi gang.
Thank you to those who have asked after me.
And a big Hi! To those who have read my blog here.
The story so far….
I couldnt walk, i sat on the settee like jabba the hutt. Shovelling junk food into my body, feeling low.One day, i would say a miracle. I found michael moseley. I watched his horizon documentary about fasting. And the one about fixing dad. Or curing dad. And the one about diabetes.
I got his book. And read it cover to cover.
I found this forum and read the messages for months. Scared to join in in case people criticised me.First thing was to reduce the amount i ate.
And then to normal cooked food.
Then the right food.
I had to do it in baby steps.The same with exercise.
I was too ashamed to go to the gym.
The machines would collapse under my weight.
I could hardly walk.
When i move it caused a wave of blubber to start moving.So i used the stairs at home.
I put a dining room chair at the top and one at the bottom.
I used the hand rails to drag myself up, step by step. My heart raced, my breathing hot, sore,raspy. Sweat? Tons.
Then i sat one the chair and recovered.
Then down. Sat. Recover.
Up, sat, recover.I also walked, in the living room. Then around the house. Then the garden.
Then between bus stops, sitting on the seats at the bus stops, pretending to wait for a bus, but really waiting fro my pulse to stop pounding in my chest.
Inch by inch.I then stopped the carbs, as suggested by bill1954.
He lost weight by cutting carbs. He didnt weigh stuff, or count calories.Then after climbing stairs, walking, and doing weights, i was ready for the gym.
For weights, it was cans of baked beans in carrier bags that i lifted in the kitchen.Yes, i was sooooo embarrassed to be so huge and going to the gym with the skinny minnies.
I took a big breath and went in. At first i walked on the treadmill.
I did one minute on the cross country, then i came off the machine, and went to the water machine for a drink. I was really trying to recovery, to catch my breath, to come down one or two shades of bright red.
The sweat ran down my back, i looked a mess.
The decision was
A. Look a mess with strangers and slowly get fit and healthy
B. Go slob out on the settee and stuff my face and die.Soon people were come over to me to suggest i do more sets. Or try a different programme on the machines. They talked to me but didn’t judge me.
I eventually got to love it. I could do an hour and a half exercise.
It did take time.
I watched newbies join, last three visits and never come back.
The gym isn’t for everyone.
You can go to the pound shop and buy a hoola hoop. Or bat and ball and either have fun with the kids. Or play on your own.It was hard work in the gym, i didn’t do it half heartedly. Each gallon of sweat that came out of me, i visualised my blubber melting off my body.
In the beginning i had a wii machine. I hated that woman with a vengeance, who kept telling me to keep going, or go faster. If only i could of catch my breath i would have sworn at her!
It did take time, i didnt tell anyone. I was sick of people rattling off their knowledge of diets, fitness etc. I used to think, so why are you a size 22?
Where are they when you need a gym buddy?
They love listening to their own voice, but do not offer help or talk their own advice.
You just have to suck it up and get on with it.Eventually, i could run up the stairs and not die.
I could run for the bus and actually catch it.
I could carry shopping bags and not pop a lung.Food, i wanted , needed, craved food, chocolate, junk.
It called out to me.
Slowly, one meal at a time, i ate what was good for me.
It was a fight to not give in to the cravings.
Healthy food tasted, well, healthy and not like my comfort food. I gave each healthy food change two weeks.
After two weeks i would sample the old junk and the new stuff.
The new healthy food tasted, well, tasty. The junk food tasted, well bland, stodgy, not nice.
So i could live with each new change.So, i have been working hard, looking after family, keeping busy. But i feel i need to come back to basics, as one or three things have slipped. ( i am human after all).
So, what have you all been up to?
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Nice to see you again, Lucia. Missed you lots. Brought a real lift to my Monday morning to see a post from you in my inbox. I am still here… I lose 5kg, I gain 5, but you know what? I am healthier and smaller than when I started out on this journey, even after a hellishly difficult year. So I am happy. I am off on holiday soon, for a fortnight. First proper break in 3 years, as we are holidaying rather than visiting family, which I always find comes with its own challenges. So I won’t have frequent internet, but no intention of undoing my good work with rubbish food as my body needs looking after too much.
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Hi julia
Nice to hear from you.
Sorry you subtract cive then add five.
When on holiday, can you take yourself for a safe walk along, the beach, fields, shops etc.
Tell yourself you will have a naughty treat, at the end of the walk.
The walk the legs off yourself.
Take the time to sit and breathe and enjoy , well, your holiday!
Do something crazy, float on a lilo.
Make a sandcastle.
Find a nice sarong to wear.
Tie your hair in piggy tails
Wear warpaint. Sorry i mean make up.
Find something light hearted and fun, something that you would not do normally.It was my birthday yesterday, i gave myself the gift of coming back here.
23 plus VAT if you are asking my age.Dont forget the pound shops with bat and balls
Hoola hoops
And board games like draughts or dominos, you are worth a pound!I will have a read of your blog to catch up.
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So how did yesterday go?
I stuck to my salad with a small amount of cheese.
Yoghurt and fruit.
Loads of water.
One biscuit.I aimed to stay away from bread pasta rice etc. So i did well.
My aim this week is just to stay away from the carbs..
Exercise… i am doing jobs in the house when i come howm from work so staying active.
Keep going, keep smiling.
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So how did wednesday go for you?
I had a big bowl of veg soup, felt stuffed.
Then i was too full to eat this evening.
Loads of water.
More work on the house.
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Evening all, can I join you?
I had a good start: 4 weeks, lost some weight, then went on holiday and really lost the umph. It’s taken me 3 weeks to realise that for me I have to be very strict: no snacks at work, no sneaky crackers, slices of toast or packs of biscuits. I’m not able to eat a little bit… So yesterday I started again and have kept in control for two days: not perfect, but a couple of squares of 81% dark chocolate and a few toasted nuts is far better than half a loaf of bread, butter and jam…
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Hi smeee,
It isnt easy, i wish it was.
I agree your four weeks have been a good start. You have learned that you can survive without toast etc.
I didnt think i could live up breakfast cereal, i thought the world would end.
How would i last? Would the world stop spinning?
24 hours later, all that happened in the whole world, wa that i ate less carbs!My favourite breakfast is…
I get one of those metal trays that you bake yorkshire puddings in.
I put one big mushroom, in the bottom, curved or top of mushroom facing down.
I get a strip of lean bacon and curl it around like a wall,
In the middle i crack an egg.
Bake in the oven until all cooked.
I do a few and have them in the fridge for my evening meal, or take it to work for lunch.
It is self contained as the egg acts as, well, cement! Holding it all together.I have had an ice cream last night as my throat feels as if it is on fire.
Probably the wrong thing for the diet, but i am not beating my self up about it as i have been good the rest of the day.The first two weeks are fantastic, when the penny drops, you realise what junk you have eaten and now know how to improve.
Keep going, keep happy, keep smiling
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Morning Lucia, hope the throat is not too sore today. Hi Smeee and welcome.
I find initially, after a bout of not sticking to BSD, the easiest way is to have absolutely loads of stuff to snack on – cherry tomatoes don’t half fill you up, ,but 80% dark choc or handful of nuts are good choices too. Whatever it takes… even if a little over on the calories, if the carbs are low, I find the weight still comes off. I know snacking is not encouraged on BSD, but initially it does help until the appetite shrinks, as it does.
Quite pleased with myself as the scales are going down a little each week, and I am off on holiday on Saturday, absolutely cannot wait to leave all this rain behind. Sticking with the principles of BSD while away, but won’t get hung up on the odd single scoop of ice cream after a sensible meal, followed by a walk.
Lucia I thought I should report, like Stringbreaker did on his return a while back (Bill’s thread) that I have stuck with the exercise as recommended by you months back. I think he still cylces/walks his age in minutes each day.
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So is the world on your shoulders.
So you havent got time for all this diet mumbo jumbo?Let me put it to you another way.
If, god forbid, you got very bad news from the doctors.
And he said you either die or just tweek your diet…
What would you do?You would run not walk into the kitchen, grab a bin bag, throw the junk food out and hug an apple/salad or whatever.
Phew!
Is that all it took to stay alive and well?
Just a bin bag?
Is that all?
No pills, , potions, no expensive gadgets.
Just eat healthy salads, fruit, veg, meat or fish most of the time ( not even all the time).You dont have to pay a gazzillion pounds for a gym membership, you only have to take a free 30 minute walk ( or three 10 min walks) . You dont need lycra, sweat bands, cardo bands, just a sensible pair of shoes you can walk in.
Is that all?
And what do i get in return?
Your longer life
Less illnesses
Less sweating
Less being out of puff
Healthy tummies
Less wind or heart burn
Less flab
Less medication
More fun because you can get out in the fresh air and walk
More smiles as you are happy in yourselfEddie izzard the comedian did a sketch … death or cake?
This is death or less carbs ?
I know which one i am reaching out for.
Want to join me?
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Hi julia to go,
Nice to hear from you.
Anyone want a challenge for tomorrow?
Its 30th of june or the sixth month.
Can you do 30 mins of walking for me?
Or 30 mins on a bike
Or 30 mins tap dancing
Or 30 mins of house work
Or 30 mins of joggingAND?…….
6 smiles
6 silly jokes
6 skips
6 hops
6 giant strides
6 times try and touch your nose with your tongue
6 times of singing different tunesSo thats 30 bits of exercise and 6 times to use your chuckle muscles or be light hearted and young.
Want to play?
Come on, you can do it behind closed doors….
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So 1st of july.
How about seven minutes of exercise?
Seven lots of one minute craziness.
Star jumps, or hopping, or rolly pollys, or skipping, or walking?
I think it is do-able.Join me.
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Hi Lucia,
Found you at last (I only switch on my computer occasionally and I can’t reply easily from my phone)
So what’s the “new challenge” you mentioned in yours of 29th June?
John
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Hi string breaker,
So in honour of the 4th of july.
Here is the challenge.Find out how many stars there are on the usa flag.
And well, do that many star jumps, it can be over the whole day.Then find out how many stripes.
Please do that many minutes of exercise, walking, running, jumping, skipping, tap dancing, wiggling, shimmying, anything!Lets go for it.
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Great challenges! I’m feeling challenged as I’ve eaten to much cake, sandwiches and toast over the last few days…
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Lucia,
I think Star Jumps are a bit beyond me. Would press-ups do instead?
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Hi john,
What ever is comfortable.
Whatever you feel you can due with a little effort.Now, there are 173 days to christmas.
do that many giant strides, or minutes walk, or hops, or anything.Do somethimg different.
How about a more difficult challenge.
173 smiles or laughs or jokes?Lighten the mood.
Love lucia
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Do star jumps in two parts.
Lift your arms up and down.
Then your legs.You dont have to do the two together?!!!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🤸🏼♂️🤸🏻♀️Love lucia
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Lucia,
Trouble is, you’re supppsed to start from a squat or semi-squat position and that is not good unless you’re pretty athleticJohn
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Hi string breaker.
Hands by your sides and feet together.Then.
Raise your arms to the side nad do a little jump so your feet are far aprt.
So you look like XThen jump back.
You dont have to do anything not in your comfort zone.
Little bit by little bit.
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Hi gang,
I have lost a quarter of a pound this week!
Is that all?
I suppose if i hadnt clipped my finger nails , trimmed my hair etc i wouldnt have lost even that!Are we worried?
Nope.
We which means me, will have to do a little more.
Knowing my luck, if i sulk this week coming, i will lose it.Its this a crazy world we live in?
Keep happy, keep singing, just keep on with it all
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So Lucia, what has happened to you? Are you still working on combat diabetes campaign?!! A veritable breath of fresh air ( even though you had brussel sprouts on board lol). Come on tell us about your journey for the year.
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Hi ohmy,
What a year 2017 has been.
No medication, and a lot more energy.
Yes, i have had. Ups and downs.
One of them, was, when i carb-o-itus. A new illness i have INVENTED.
Nothing to eat, grabbed sugar puffs, toast
Rushed dinner time, grabbed a sandwich.
Nothing much on the menu.. pie and chips.That evening , i felt sooooo sick.
Terrible indigestion from the pastry,
The grease from the chips , slopped around my tummy then my arteries.Oh yes, i thought i was invincible, boy did i come down to earth with a bang.
Felt off colour for days, energy levels very low.So…. for a week , i ate small, healthy and clean. Felt much better.
Moral of the story……
Before you stay anywhere, read the menu, if you have to eat somewhere else, DO IT. Dont just…. go with the flow.
My excuse? Laziness. Pure laziness.
Boy did i pay for it.So. I still make mistakes.
I still learn.The daily mail newspaper website yesterday had an article.
It had the same food, three plates of christmas dinners.Small portion, medium portion, large portion.
One was, this will lose you weight
Two was , maintain
Three put weight on.There was hardly any difference in their sizes.
I used to eat more than the large portion. And then go back for seconds. And thirds….. and four mince pies, and cheese and crackers, and pudding, and, and, and, and…..
Now, this year, i am treating it as an ordinary healthy meal and spoil myself in other ways.
Fitness.
Yes, still keeping moving.
I can painfuly remember sitting on the settee not for hours at a time, but for days.
Having no life.
I started by using the commercial breaks as my timer for exercise.
Fisrt i would actually prize my butt off the settee, – i called that weight lifting.
Then i would walk around the room.
Then, after a few weeks, i would do the monty python funny walks, or the posh name for it are lunges.
Then a few weeks on, i would try and jog on the spot, looked more like i was killing an ant that kept running away.
( hope you like my descriptions)
Then i would move out of the room and walk down the path and back.My famous one was, i put a chair at the foot of the stairs, another chair on the landing.
Then i would pull myself using both banisters up to a chair and sit down to catch my breath, then waddle back down, repeat, repeat, repeat.
Over time, i could go twice uo then sit.
My panting on the chair became shorter.
But three things.
Shows you how unfit i was
Shows you how i did tiny bits and built up
Shows you how i stuck to the damn monotony of the task.
I played the radio while i was doing it.I also tried to do yoga. Forget that, it was enough for me to lie on the bed and lift a heavy thigh up. More weight lifting.
But i kept at it, and at it.
Now i can put my socks on, by standing and bending at the waist.I still have far to go.
My next plan is to cycle 25 miles a day… to work and back.
By jingo, how?…..
Electric bike, to help me when i am knackered. Will save £100 a month.
Will buy the bike in the spring 2018…..Yes, i plan ahead, paln big. But if i only go half way with my goals, it is stiill half achieved, better than nothing.
Oh, the bike, i paln to go on the bus route incase i cannot make it.
I will train and build it up as well, planning, planning, planning.Next year 2018 plans,
1. Watch michael mosleys horizon documentary about 5:2
2. Watch fixing dad, about diabetes and how you can try and overcome it.
I know we havent got two fantastic sons but we have each other here on the blog.
3. A little more exercise.
4. A little more focus on what i ME that is, puts in her mouth.
5. ENJOY LIFE !!!!!!!Also, i am not going to start on 1st jan , when its cold and dark and manky.
I am going to start today, little by little….so on 1st, i am already on the path.What to join me?
Anyway, keep happy, keep healthy
Love lucia
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Hi oh my,
Short version
I am doing fine.
How are you?Love lucia
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Hi Lucia.
Just come back on here after being away and falling by the wayside slightly. Lovely to ‘see’ you back.
I have put about 3kg back on and its going to come off again sometime soon. Hopefully.
I have not been well and am still in pain with my back, shin still numb but I am able to get about although
I have not been motivated. Husband and I are back to planning meals and shopping this week so just crossing
my fingers and toes it works.
Like you we have had the odd pie and a couple of slices of bread now and again. Thats going to stop now.
I have bought some 90% chocolate and will have that when needed with a cup of tea. Told hubby the fruit with cream for]pudding has got to stop and so has the cheese and biscuits!New weight chart is ready for weigh in day on Saturday morning.
Determination renewed.
Onwards and downwards.
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Welcome back Lucia, I am so glad to hear things are going well for you. I have a non-electric bike that I must get out on more often next year when it warms up a bit. Good for me and saves money, what’s not to like?
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Hi fairy face,
Do you think your steps are too big to handle?I couldnt go from junk food to bs diet.
I had to do baby steps.
I changed one meal – lunch for one week. I had smaller portions.
The next week, changed chippy chips for sweet potato chips etc
The next week, i changed evening meals.I had to change from takeaway food, to cooking takeaway food at home,
Then i changed the potatos for veg.
I changed the pork chops with the thick bit of fat rind, to grilled medallions of bAcon.
Then i changed to more veg, less carbs.
Bit by bit.My biggest shock, was, i thought i could not live past breakfast if i didnt have cereal.
I would explode, or my arms and legs would drop off.
But, do you know what…… i survived.
Wow!
Then i chAnged little bit by little bit.I admire those WITH the will power to go cold-turkey.
I cannot cope.
I could not just start at the gym, i had to walk around the living room.
I changed bit by bit.I changed my frame of mind.
My blogs on here were a letter to myself.
It was a love letter in disguise.
In the end, i loved myself. A faulty, flabby, human being.So take it easy, set small tasks, do small changes.
Keep happy, keep going,
Love lucia
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Hi Lucia.
I found it hard, very hard and it took me at least 10months to not think about food morning, noon and night. I still have days where I could eat my left arm down to my elbow and head for the nuts!
I have had lots of support from my husband. We have done it together. He has done the shopping mainly on his own. |We have sat down together for weeks and weeks menu planning. Cooking was and still is a joint effort. I am so lucky. He has lost more weight than me. Typical man.
I have not felt this well for years and years. But with my back problems now I need to work on my mobility. I have started Tai Chi classes and try and walk as much as possible.
Neither of us worry about going out for meals now. We eat whatever is put in front of us if we have no choice. Or choose wisely if we have.
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Hello Lucia I saw your posts on another thread, very positive and helpful. Now that I’ve found you I’m sure I’ll enjoy reading the conversation here!
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Hi mil a lin,
Glad you like my posts. I hope you enjoy them.
An i ask, how are you managing to handle the stress of going to hosiptal, all all that other stuff?
What are you doing to keep your smile going?
Any chance of you setting yourself a treat at the other end of all this treatments ?
I bought a size 10 dress, a christmas gift to myself once i lost the weight.
Can you plan a trip, or a cinema date, or a foot spa, or buying a minions movie or… or… or…Something that you can focus on , on the other side of it all. Something to aim at.?
Come on, tell us, what you really, really, really would like to have a s a treat?
Love Lucia
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Hi Lucia, I just wrote a huge reply to you and it seems I somehow deleted it! Very frustrating! I’ll start again but this will be short for now. I’ve known about my illness for almost 30 years. Knowing it made me never take a day for granted. Whilst the battle has got harder over the last 5 years. I appreciate everything I’m able to do. Plus I’m the example for my daughter who has to face this illness too. My hope is a successful transplant and to be able to travel again in the future. Meanwhile I’m getting a real kick out of seeing my results. My first target is to come off insulin! X
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Hi Milalin, you probably used the back button to go back to the forum (top left hand arrow) you should click on the word Forums at the top of the page then go to All Recent Topics on the drop down.
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Thanks sunshine-girl I’m gradually getting used to navigating this. My Nephroligist dropped by dialysis while I was typing then my nurse cane 2 x so I was in and off and typing …
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Hi
Just a quick tip,
If i want to say a lot.
I use word on the computer
Or notes on the ipad
Then just copy and paste.
So if the little bugger disappears, i can still copy and paste again.love lucia xxx
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Thanks Lucia x
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Hi gang,
So can we all make a promise to ourselves?
That if we go weird for 24 hours over christmas , with say, booze, food, sweets, laziness etc.
That we can fogive ourselves and put it down to
A. An r in the month
B. The moon phase
C, planets out of wack
D. The shampoo we used
E, standing on a crack in the pavement
F. A black cat went within 500 miles of usAnd we all meet back here on boxing day.
We can call boxing day…. balance day
Or putting things back in wack day.And we ignore 24 hours.
Nothing to see here, move along please…..
Love lucia
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Hi Lucia, lovely to ‘see’ you again. You are always one of my favourites to read. And yes, let us gently draw a veil of the 24 hours of Christmas, or the 12 days of Christmas if needed. Forgive yourself any mistakes. Progress not perfection, as has been said by someone or other. To err is human, to really stuff things up requires a computer. And don’t forget, Murphy’s Law – anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Cole’s Law – thinly sliced cabbage. Am I taking nonsense?