Groovybabe

My weightloss nurse keeps telling me not to be so hard on myself even though I don’t know where she gets the idea that I am. It is true that I am hard on myself but I just don’t know where she would get that from, it’s not like I confide in her my [...]

Rain, rain, go away
Come back on a non-gym day
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I don’t normally like to talk about my day to day pound losses in the week, partly due to possible flutuations but also because it means it sounds better in my weekly weigh in on Friday, but today I just cannot help myself.
You see, I am in the 17-stone range at long last! When [...]

Odaatuk was asking what sort of food I eat on my Xenical diet so I thought I would tell you all in a post as it is relevant to the journal
Breakfast - Low Fat cereal with soya milk and chopped strawberries. I usually have Optivia cereal. I used to have Special K but [...]

Although I haven’t always been able to use the word “fat”, this is precisely what I have been since about 1999 when I started compulsive eating. That is 8 years living as a fat person and in this time I have been eating like it is going out of fashion. Not only in the [...]

Since I have been taking Xenical I have not had any accidents at all but I just took some cough mixture for my very bad and annoying cough that almost chokes me and it went straight through me. I got to the toilet in the nick of time!
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Well, by hook or by crook I have  made it 4 weeks dieting! Weightloss has been much slower this week, due to a couple of pitfuls, but I am satisfied that I have lost 2lbs more. My weight, BMI, body fat weight have all reduced but for some reason my body fat % has [...]

Urgh, I am so ill. I have had a really dry, tickly cough for a few days but otherwise felt okay. I bought some strepsils yesterday before heading to the gym, but once working out I soon realised that all was not well in camp Groovybabe.
I did try to do as much of a [...]

My mum and me, we don’t get on very well. I have just spent 10 minutes with her in the car dropping my son off at his preparation day at senior school and I am close to tears. Or it could just be that TOM showed up yesterday and I am exceptionally hormonal. Either [...]

I watched a really interesting programme tonight called Shrink Wrap… tonight it was Sharon Osbourne’s turn to have therapy with a TV therapist and they covered a whole manner of subjects. Obviously the subject of Sharon’s weight fluctuations were of the most interest to me. I know the insights the therapist had were [...]