Thread: 8 stone to lose, could do with a buddy!

Good lord Darlington is a right scummy hole lol you optionally choose to visit it?! Lol

Only because it's convenient and marginally better than Stockton or Boro!

Good point lol.

So what is diet chef? I haven't heard of it before. I'm doing slimming world and praying for a loss this week lol

Ok so i am watching that tv show huge. Drama about the overweight kids at a weight loss camp. its mostly lighthearted but one of the counsellors at camp said something to the kids which i thought was kinda profound and helpful:

These high expectations, whether they come from us or the people in our lives, can be destructive. All anyone should expect of you, all you should expect of yourselves, is that you try your best.

Diet Chef? To be honest, it's calorie counting for when you feel too lazy to do it yourself! You order a hamper of food every 5 weeks and you get 3 meals and a snack for every day of that 5 weeks (you can add some fruit and veg yourself). It restricts you to 1200 calories for a woman or 1500 for a man and I have to admit that the main attraction for me is the sheer convenience, but so far so good, I'm quite enjoying the food!

Is it expensive? Is the food good or is it like microwave meals?

These high expectations, whether they come from us or the people in our lives, can be destructive. All anyone should expect of you, all you should expect of yourselves, is that you try your best.

I really like this Keeps you grounded and realistic

They are microwavable meals, but they are pretty decent (so far) - better than the average ready meal. It is quite expensive up front (£195 for 5 weeks!) but definitely no more than I would spend on food normally, by the time I do supermarket shopping and buy lunches when I'm at work etc. I take that back - a lot less, since I'm swearing off booze (except special occasions) for the duration!

By the way, aesir, where does the dramatic quote in your signature come from?

Lol tv show called Angel. Spoken by someone who calls herself a God to a God so kinda a strong character

I am having a day free from syns on slimming world today after my blowout this weekend. Must get back on track for weigh in tuesday!!!!

Ah, Angel and Buffy were sort-of guilty pleasure programmes when they were on the telly, for me. Though why guilty pleasures, I'm not sure, I would have been a student when Buffy first came on TV, and if you can't watch slightly cult stuff then, when can you?

Lol it was Illyria if you remember her? Exercise time!!

Oh, the evil god-thingy that Fred turned into - it's all coming back now - I may have to get the DVDs!

Yeah she was awesome my fave character!!

'jealous! Plankton envying the ocean that holds them'

Love her

Err... is it just me, or have we turned your previously perfectly respectable thread into geeks' corner?

Of course!!! I am a total geek after all panicking a bit i am being taken out for an indian with my dad and its weigh day tomorrow!!!!!