Suninfrance Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I'm with you all. I have absolutely no hope of losing any weight over the next few days.Tonight - minced pies and mulled wine at local Auberged followed by dinner out with friends.Tomorrow, lotto at a neighbours. Sunday, cheese and wine at friends. Xmas dinner with friends, boxing day, dinner at friends, 27th - drinks and nibbles at our house, 28th, friends over from England til the 30th, 31st a James Bond night at friends. I'm going to be the size of a house by the time this period is over. I shall be living off smoothies and soup for the first few weeks of the new year.In the meantime - everyone - have a really Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocents Abroad Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Ooo, can I join please? Between February and May last year I lost 30lbs [:D], the incentive being a wedding back in the UK and a little silk frock in my wardrobe that I had never been able to wear and which was perfect for the wedding. I watched the 'old' thread with a certain feeling of smugness - but you'll be pleased to know that it came back and truely bit me on the (no longer quite so svelte) bum! Since the summer I'm afraid I've been very firmly OFF the wagon and rather too many lbs have crept - ok, leapt - back on [:$]! So, come 2nd January you'll find me here with my weekly weigh-in report (you might not be interested, but it's good for me to have to tell someone!).Have a wonderful, mouth-stuffing, boot-filling Christmas everyone - see you on the 2nd!Lynda M x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I can make two suggestions :The Swimming Pool Diet - Agree to help friend's three sons mix and lay concrete for their new pool. This is particularly effective if sons are half you age and double your intelligence (not hard in my case). Has the added advantage that you decide to have your own pool professionally installed. La Nouvelle Cussine - Remove the reinforced concrete wine vats, regretably already empty, from the lean to, install floor, move walls and re roof. Slight side effects - tendancy to phycosematic scabies from the glass fibre roof insulation. Regieme continues in new year with tilelaying and assembly of Ikea units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Never worry about putting on weight in the winter, it comes off in the summer. More exercise in summer - you know, gardening, building, working outside, walking, cycling and all that. [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumGirl Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Strangely enough, Cassis, I seem to lose weight in the winter and gain a few pounds in the summer! I just attribute it to burning more calories to keep warm.PG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I think it's also because we live on salads and fish in summer and eat meat and suet dumplings etc. in the winter - it just seems right, somehow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted December 26, 2006 Author Share Posted December 26, 2006 Well, what a day. Christmas dinner was superb. Home made Ice Cream Christmas Pudding for afters - scrummy. I so need to go on "the regime". To make me feel even dumpier, our friends daughter was over. Last time I saw her she was in the summer and since then she has lost 4st on the cambridge diet. She looked fantastic. So definately need to be positive next year.HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 hi Lynda,Won't be waiting until the 2nd of January. I've been asked to play tennis on Thursday morning at 10.00 for a few hours and then again either on Saturday or Sunday. Know that my fellow players are in the same situation so should be fun. It will be the recovery period of the aching legs for two days that will be worse than any beating on the court.Need to get my rating improved next year with regular games throughout so that fitness and performance on court are seen.Match reports as usual on the "Anyone for Tennis"David JAlways on the ball!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Original removed to stop the sillyness over what was only meant to be lighthearted. [IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/beach_heidi.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 I feel sick[+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Is that Peter Stringfellow or Rod Stewart? I can't decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Certainly 'stringy' something..........................[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Now who told her that looked good?Or was it Wayne? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 [:'(] Poor woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 That is definately not something I aspire to. I would be too embarrassed to go to the bathroom looking like that, let alone the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 This raises a question about how to grow old gracefully. In France I see lots of people, expats in particular, who are clinging to styles of the past. There are plenty of hippy types about with pot bellies and wispy grey hair.This woman may or may not know what she looks like. What if she just decided to grow old disgracefully and "wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go" ?Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 I actually plan to grow old discracefully, but I hope I don't lose my dress sense to that degree. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocGal Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 My first thought (and hope) was that this has to be a doctored image, but then I remembered seeing women almost as hideous as this photo on the beaches of the Cote d'Azur in the early 80s. If not a hoax pix, I'm with Chris in the sick dept ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 that's it then. count me out of the new, or any, regime. i think i'd rather hang on to my bits of blubber. they do say that when a woman gets older, she has to decide between her face or her f***y! not much of a decision then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 [quote user="LanguedocGal"]My first thought (and hope) was that this has to be a doctored image, but then I remembered seeing women almost as hideous as this photo on the beaches of the Cote d'Azur in the early 80s. If not a hoax pix, I'm with Chris in the sick dept ...[/quote]It is completely original and untouched................well you wouldn't want to, would you.......[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocGal Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 [quote user="sweet 17"] that's it then. count me out of the new, or any, regime. i think i'd rather hang on to my bits of blubber. [/quote]Sweet17, that's an easy cop out. Stick a copy of it (with author's consent, of course) on your fridge so you know when to stop your regime. [:D]Gary, you really HAVEN'Tmade my day. I now have to think of something with a thousand calories to eat in order to cheer myself up.[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 On the other hand, is it right to judge an old person for looking so old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]On the other hand, is it right to judge an old person for looking so old?[/quote]I think the comments are just as much about getting to be that old without acquiring the sense to know it's a seriously bad look.[+o(][+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 My point being that as she is old it is the only look she's got. We could exercise aesthetic apartheid, and ban her from beaches, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 She could cover up a little........which actually may have helped prevent the 'worn handbag' look in the first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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