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By Groovybabe • Aug 8th, 2007 • Category: diet pills, eating healthily, food, shopping, weightloss, xenicalI have made the decision to stop taking the Xenical. The main reason is it is giving me really bad skin on my face and I don’t like that, but it is also because I feel the main use I have had for it is no longer there. It doesn’t surpress my appitite, it just helped me to stop binging in the early days. I haven’t binged for two months now so I have decided to try and control it without the meds, which should be easier. It does apparently help you to lose a bit more weight than you would otherwise but I figure with the amount I am losing (2lbs last week) I should be able to manage that without the medication. I am going to give it a week and if the weight rapidly slows down then I will start taking it again but, well, life is nothing if not an experiment.
Don’t you just love shopping day? I do! I just had a wholemeal pitta with fresh salmon inside. Yummiola. I’ve decided to just buy Pitta instead of wholemeal bread. If I have a normal sandwich the bread alone comes to between 160-200 calories but if I have a wholemeal pitta then its 135 calories. And pitta is much nicer anyway.
I was going around Tesco and my mum was lagging behind when she remarked, ‘You’re doing quite well with your weightloss arent you? I can actually see your waist now.’ I know she meant it as a compliment but all I could hear in her voice was that I never used to have a waist. So I told her that it took her long enough to notice, LOL. So She asks how much I weigh. I’ve lost 2 stones, I told her. ‘But how much do you actually weigh?’ to which I respond with, ‘I’ve lost almost 2 stones and that is all you need to know.’ As if I am going to declare my actual weight in the middle of a supermarket, or tell her for pure entertainment sake. I mean, why does she need to know my weight so bad? Grr! Still, I kind of got a backhanded compliment and it shows my hard work is noticable so it is all good.
Groovybabe is 14.11 stones today and feeling in control.
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Leave it to mothers (or at least my mother) to build you up while simultaneously tearing you down. Don’t know what their problem is! Trying to feel better about themselves I guess. Can she be happy for what you have lost and leave it at that?
I can’t wait to hear how you do, when you go off of the xenical. I have a feeling that you are right about it not being necessary any longer. It is a crutch you still use after your injury has healed. And if worse comes to worse, you just go back on it until you have lost the weight.
You are doing a fabulous job any way that you look at it.
Thanks Rachel, you’re doing pretty well yourself.
Hey Groovybabe, thanks for stopping by my site.
I can totally relate with the backhanded compliments thing. I know a couple of people who are EXPERT at it. Good for you standing up to your Mom and letting her know you won’t be bullied.
Looking forward to reading your archives!
Bah. She doesn’t need to know your weight - only your accomplishments.
Good job on giving up the pills
If you don’t need them anymore then that’s good! I bought some pita bread the other day and am in love. You can shove a lot in half of those things and still eat healthy and get full. Gotta love that!
Congrats! I hope it works out coming off the meds. It’s always a good feeling to know that it’s all you and not the meds.
the pound slayer - thanks for reading!
sabriena - not sure I could cope with only half a pitta, LOL.
dirty vixen - I don’t really mind if its meds that help me to lose weight, the important thing is that I lose weight.
Oh, mothers.
Good answer, though, sticking to the “i’ve lost 2stone and that’s all you need to know.”
Also - good luck coming off the pills! I’m sure you will still meet your goals - the only difference I imagine will be that it might take a little longer to reach goal, but you should be making healthier changes for the long term anyways!
You’re doing great, keep it up!
Well…a compliment is a compliment C…
No matter how your mum meant it, she NOTICED YOUR WEIGHT LOSS!!
Take that as a “wahoo!” and leave it there, eh…
The meds don’t help you lose weight it just helps you stay on course. It’s always been all you this whole time.
Betz - yeah, you are right… as usual!
That’s what I think about the meds too. If I thought for one second they were losing the weight for me then I wouldn’t have come off them. They just helped me to get in the right place, psychologically.