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park381 · 31-12-2005, 17:53

Count me in as well Gayle........................Good luck

Gayle · 02-01-2006, 22:38

Thanks - yes got the cheque today GC. Everyone else, cheers.

vitty · 05-01-2006, 15:23

I know it's already been said, but you can read all about Gayle's progress in Friday's Accrington Observer.

Gayle · 15-01-2006, 12:50

Poem for January

'Twas the month after Christmas and all through the house, Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The stuffing I'd nibbled, the turkey I'd taste The yummies I'd eaten gone straight to my waist.
The wine and the mince pies,
The bread and the cheese
I should have just said, "No thank you, please."
So as I dressed myself in my boyfriend's old shirt, I couldn't believe my bottom and belly - the girth!

I said to myself, as only I can,
"You can't spend the year disguised as a man!"
So away with the last of the sour-cream dip, Get rid of the fruitcake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished 'Til all the additional ounces have vanished.
I won't have a cookie, not even a lick.
Instead I'll chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have Irish coffees, or chocolates, or pie, I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry:
"I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore- But isn't that what January's for?"
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot,
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

Just a reminder that I'm dieting for charity. I've got pledges of around £150 so far but if anyone else wants to pledge a couple of quid to the cause you can do it via www.justgiving.com/gayleknight or by sending me a pm.

My target is £400 and I'll be giving it to Cystic Fibrosis Trust, if I get any more than £400 I'll give the rest to a local charity.

katex · 15-01-2006, 13:38

Well, 1 pound gone, only 13 to go ... keep at it Gayle

Romps · 15-01-2006, 14:30

Well done Gayle...looks like you won't have to sever a limb after all. Keep it up.

grannyclaret · 15-01-2006, 15:58

i love that poem... WHY DO I FEEL SO GUILTY?

Graham Jones · 29-01-2006, 18:22

Here's another tenner Gayle. Cystic fibrosis is a great cause.

Gayle · 29-01-2006, 21:21

Thanks Graham.......

Gayle · 29-01-2006, 21:29

........and Mez

Gayle · 30-01-2006, 21:19

I'm just watching Super Size Me. It's making me even more determined to succeed. I've never been huge but I know when I'm a few pounds over weight so how come over 25% of Americans are classified obese, and Britain is going the same way?

Watching this programme should be compulsory for children as it's a great deterant.

Graham Jones · 03-02-2006, 20:03

Supersize me is a very revealing film. Morgan whatshisname, when he pukes in the car park on another forced supersize McDonalds. His metabolic figures, when they dived into the health red crises zone, and his GP said your liver is now like paté and you could die anyday now was worrying. He was only 2 weeks into his McDonald diet.

Gayle, you gotta watch the DVD extras though. THe one where he puts MDs burgers & french fries in glass jars and street seller burgers & french fries in glass jars and watches them rot. MDs did seem to not want to break down. The MDs french fries after 10 weeks looked identical to the day they were bought. You gotta watch it. It really put a break on me eating fast food though I never ate a lot anyway.

Gayle · 03-02-2006, 21:03

When I worked in Knutsford, I used to joke that the only fresh salad that I had in a week was the lettuce on a big mac. I lived totally on fast food because I worked long hours and used to pick up my food on the way home.

It got so bad that when I went on holiday I got back to a note from the pizza delivery guy asking if I was ok.

The only good thing at that time was that my lifestyle was so busy that I didn't put weight on. I've obviously changed my diet a lot since then and my lifestyle so now I eat a lot healthier and not just because I've been dieting lately. I would not want to go back to that at all.

Neil · 04-02-2006, 08:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graham Jones

MDs did seem to not want to break down. The MDs french fries after 10 weeks looked identical to the day they were bought.

Does that mean they pass straight through you without being digested. Now that would be a billion pound invention. Non digestable food so you can eat as much as you want. Imagine being able to eat all that fast food, chocolate and cream cakes, not to mention as much non-digestable beer as you wanted

Maybe McDonalds have found the holy grail of the food world.

garinda · 02-03-2006, 16:45

I get a mention in this week's column, even though it's only because I was complaining that the steady pound a week weight loss was boring.