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Hmmm what a difference a couple of stays in hospital makes. First a n e then stay in for the week being told it's gallbladder issues.... Then at the point of elective surgery they see the gallbladder is sound but the ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball has to go... But that was three weeks...

Ok well food today has been Green: Breakfast: mushrooms, tomatoes, Bacon(hexB) bread (HexB) Lunch: Mug Shot (free) Dinner: Syn free chips, mushy peas, Linda McCartney italian sausages x 3 (1.5Syn in total) Snacks: Pear, Apple, Banana, raspberry, - Hot Corss bun (apple and cinnamon) 9.5 syns Hex...

Well... that was a long wait! Job child riding and general winter blues have kept me in hermit mode.. SUn is out now and things are growing in the garden! Happy me. Weight...?... well in or around the 12st 10 to 13 st marker... got completely fed up with monitoring everything that went in...

Definitely empathise here... Bad enough to know you've put on for a reason but worse still to know you know how to get it all off, but the utter 'Can't be Arsed' fairy just won't do one!! Weather isn't helping mood and if not a good mood then motivation goes with it! I've plateaud well and...

Ok so things don't always go as planned but for once I'm not destroyed by it ... 6.5lbs in over best part if three weeks and being totally off plan! Can't complain too much really! Time to get back to normal now tho and give the cake away! Oddly not hungry now although I should probably eat...

Whoop whoop whoop woop.... Back to below that 13 marker! 3.5lbs off and back to the 12's... Now to keep it up I've told my C that I'm going to give myself that 4st sticker for my Xmas present. Maybe a little ambitious 5.5lbs before the 24th and why not! On a mission! Even if I put on over...

Looks like I'm on one of those rut things! Only half off this week! Food diary being done this week to tame my weary willpower! Problem is its manchester Xmas market with my besties tomorrow! Buggrit tho I rarely get to have me time and even rarer that I get the two if them together. Will be...

Bit of. Break in service there eh!? Been back at work and it's all a bit go go go... Good news is I've got my 3.5stone sticker... Bad news is I put in 3kbs last week and I'm crackin on trying to shift it again. Really quite pissed off at myself to be honest, but I know it's just a blip and it...

Right O!! 2lbs off at WI tonight.. pretty chuffed and have accepted that I am just a 1-2lbs a week gal at heart! the Odd 3-4lbs is very rare and I have to accept that… but looking good for the 13's before I go on holibobs at the end of the month! Things to note.. Upping my water intake and...

Oooo la la .. where HAVE i been….! Busy busy busy is what! Ok well this week as 1.5lbs OFF! so all good … beginning to think that my being TOO good is doing me no favours… I had that fa b flexi meal last friday and was good every where else and I lose this week… Hmmmm… I think I shouldn't be...

I think the Personal Positives in a Box is a fab idea… I used to do something similar … write down all the good things you think about yourself, all the things you have achieved, all the new things you have tried and all the lovely quotes you read along the way that have made you feel on top of...

Well… my best friend and his GF DID come round for tea on friday… Dinner was: Penne bolognese, mixed salad, broad bean, mint and lemon and ham salad (syn free dressing), pickled gherkins and beetroot (just something that me and the bestie used to live on when we couldn't be bothered cooking...

No not disheartened at all… I know weight fluctuates and I know it's because I hadn't eaten enough, actually felt like I was starving myself last week, but I just wasn't hungry. I had a bit of a to do with one of my friends and I also am not at all good with crowds, I was very on edge at the...

OK well ½ lb on… but after I had a thought about it it was mainly because I hadn;t eaten and more importantly drunk/kept hydrated enough over the weekend. Irony of ironies was that on Sat at the good food show I ate hardly anything but had only about maybe 1 litre of fluids to drink AND I drank...

I think drinking tea is ok… its more about keeping hydrated to be honest and I did read somewhere that milk has a quality about it that helps weight loss.. of course I am not a dairy fan.. except for cheese so I am cursed again! I don;t like eggs either so all these things that are good diet...

Oh thank god they may come back.. I'd be lost without my girls! lol Good the boy makes you tea and sausages too yum.. when I wasn;t dieting sausages were something I would have very occasionally, and mostly had posh butchers ones like the pork, mustard and black pudding ones but I don't even...

Oh and another thing…. it appears my chesticles have shrunk!!! at least a size and about the be 2 sizes.. gunna be nowt left when I hit target!! :P x

Ohhhh Hellloooooo there! Well today has been .. well today really! GREEN Black coffee and more vitamins and supplements than you can imagine ( joys of havin a duffed up set of knee ligaments and stuff and a weakness for kidney infections!) for breakfast Lunch was butternut squash soup and 3 x...

ooo… you're comin up North …. to see us Northern folk??? I wondered why the bunting is outside my house :P Have a wonderful tour day dear and keep us updated on the celebrity/neighbours of your spotting xx :P

PRoper Sausages… :P made me smile that did.. for two reasons.. 1 I like that we call these luscious fatty, tasty but oh so full of syns we would normally have PROPER and not just "BAD" things and 2) I had 3 Linda McCartney Italian veggie sausages syn free chips and mushy peas for my dinner so...

Hey.. Ref the Piloxing.. no you don't have to wear the gloves if you don't want to .. I think they are quite pricey, but my instructure has loads of pairs and she 'rents' them out, basically for the year she will charge you £2 so you can wear them at class and then spray them with anti bac spray...

Despite the monsoon that has decided to fall down, and the fact I haven't eaten much today but what I did eat was yum… Syn Free Butternut and Red Pepper soup so far (long story but came back from Piloxing then got interrupted by my mum :P ) .. today has been…. AWESOME! I got offered the job...

FOr the love of god.. Piloxing 3 times this week, plus callanetics and riding on Sunday!!! Thank God I get to the Good Food SHow tomorrow and an audience with the luscious Mr Paul Hollywood! Buggered I am! lol Well Piloxing burns off roughly 600-800cals per hour I've done 3 hours this week so...

How about fruit for breakfast or use the eggs in an omelette? Mushroom omelette … you can have an hex a cheese in it.. will fill you up for the day that :P Plodding is a good way to go chic, slow n steady and it will stay off that way! Make a syn free soup, if you look on the SW website there...

Coulda smelt of something MUCH worse! They're sh*t spreadin up here! :P Anyway it's sooooo good for you garlic I think everyone should smell of it. Antioxidant, good for blood, heart, anti cancer properties, excellent for digestion … the list goes on. Maybe she's a bit bunged up and just a bit...

Hope all goes wonderfully well at class tonight… me and my friend go when we think we are due a sticker now.. normally we go weigh in… giggle at the fact we only come for the stickers and then do one.. even our Consultant laughs at us now… she knows we are due one if we are sitting in front of...

Thank ye kindly!!! Made up for the only a half off last week… working on at least 2 off next week… need to get on a good roll xxx

I don't like eggs so much but can I take the second on your lunch ?? :P x

Morning Morning Morning!! Tis Friday Eve…. :) Breakfast on this glorious day of fantastic GREEN! B: 2 weetabix (hexb) strawberries and a banana and hazelnut milk (hex a - although I can hav 400 ml of it so I doubt I will get through THAT in a day!) L: Spanish omelette with beans I think.. D...

Have a blast in Dublin...;) WI may surprise you yet ... Fingers crossed x

RIGHT!! 3.5lbs off at WI WHOOOOOOP DE WHOOOOOP!:happy036: to say I am a little happy about this would be an understatement … so I had Steak and Salsa verde as recommended by a Minimins expert! :P Now to have a MilkyWay Mini and a Cobra ALcohol Free beer for my syns today (7.5 in total) yay go...

Firstly I was just popping in to say… THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO much for the Salsa verde recipe… had it for tea.. OMG it was lush! THEN I look at what you've been cooking today and ohhhhhhh emmmmm geeeeee…. looks fabulous and as for the before XMas and now pictures… you look amazing. You must be so...

Dinner sounds amazing…. :) Have a better day.. xx

Polioxing rocks.. such a sweaty red face type of exercis and only mild 'good' aching in the am… Yesterdays food went straight out the door.. basically had a quorn burger and leftover meaty pasta sayce(1 syn - ½ for the burger and 1/2 for the little bit of extra light philly in the sauce) over...

yes do… I like Jamie Oliver recipes… theres no style over substance and if you make a mess on the plate it's ok cos so does he… :) Hope you're feeling a little more chilled/social again very soon xx

Piloxed out last night… didn't had as much energy as usual, think it was because I had my tea before I went, but am going again tonight so maybe I shall hold off on tea until after, the class is at a much earlier time tonight too which is helpful! Food today… RED/Green/EE ????? SO unsure so I...

Work sounds grim, I am sure it is the time of year across the country, I have several friends this week worrying about job security etc. Hope it all blows over and you are recognised as irreplaceable! :) Quick Question do you make your own salsa verde? If so which recipe do you use.. I like...

Love that you just keep going down and down and down and down and then you get to …. BABIES! lol but that said we had a girl at SW group who weighed 1 stone lighter at full term than she did before she got pregnant! and then had a Haaaauuuuuge loss one week of about 15 lbs! 8lbs 4 oz of that was...

Ok well Interview was odd to say the least. First thing was the salary was misrepresented in the advert the actually guys had it waaaay lower, so not sure I can take it on those grounds for a start, but then they didn't appear to know what it was they were asking for.. not sure it is the one for...

Oh for the love of god.. barely anything fits me..black dress looks like a cocktail dress… wil have to do and a mismatched jacket.. lol I look sooo like I have raided the posh charity shops in Kensington! :) hey ho

Uh Oh… it's monday! I have a job interview at lunchtime and I really have zero clue what to wear because the last suit I bought for me was size huge and now doesn't fit me! SO if you know anyone who wants to buy a blue Next suit, trousers and skirt size 18 (worn once!) and a pair of black suit...

Aww Thanks Brewster! :) Water is good or sugar free cordial and water if water taste is too boring or even a squish of lemon or lime in water helps! As for the Wagon WHeel… include it in your syns and have one! WOn't kill you and it isn' the food of the devil… on the contrary I find a good...

You should try carrying around a bottle full of water with you.. drinking lots of water curbs your appetite long enough for your sensible side of your head to make you choose the right thing. :) ALso having a fridge full off little bags of chopped up carrots, apples, strawberries etc free and...

Ha Ha if ONLY my body would have told me to give it a rest ages ago then I wouldn't be doing SW!! Oh well.. off to the cricket club with various children, one of them mine .. I hope, and to get the local gossip from the growed up at the bar! Tiniest village in the world where the farmers new...

You have a wonderful day hunny and just enjoy the good bits and make the most of your little munch when you see him. MH stuff jumps out of a corner and surprises you, but soon you'll be able to outsmart it and be prepared, takes time and a lot of patience and all yer nutty mates on here at home...

Eddie Izzard was the BOMB! cried laughing… my friend turned to me a couple of times and just said… "nope no I've lost him… what's he on about?" I went to see him a million years ago in Preston and I was so glad my pelvic floor muscles were in working order… Love him to pieces brilliant gig...

SOunds like she's already got a manky celeriac stuck up her bum!! Narky wench! Think she needs to understand the small print in the Consumer Rights section of her Customer Services job description! … if there is a receipt and the goods aren't right.. REFUND IT! simples! Celeriac is Nice tho...

Hmmm… thank you for the good luck but think I blew it the week before!!! only half off this week, although Off is Off no matter what! Think it's star week too, but I never know because I am about as regular as a clock with half a cog!! It maybe be because I mixed EE with Red and Green, but the...

Aha.. Jules.. found you. Hope you managed to smile at least once today… chin up chic bad days serve to make you stronger.. :) Hope you are feeling a little more Jules like today. :) Happy thoughts to you xxx

Just been nosey for a few weeks s thought only polite to say Hellooooo there fellow wednesday weigher.. You have done really well so far .. Best o luck for those scales to register how floaty light you are! xx

What a day… Soo much sun… so bought some plants, did some washing and sitting on my chuff sunbathing! Food today has been GREEN… only because I bought some proper italian pasta from our local deli.. Yummy Breakfast: Cherries, banana, weetabix x2 HexB, Hazelnut milk Hex A (some of it the other...

Thank you.. glad to make you smile.. it is always important to smile! xx

To exercise or not to exercise … the first time I did SW I lost about 5 st and didn't exercise, which was ok, but after I had had my son I wish I had exercised because I was a wreck of a human being and couldn't run around the corner without risking an aneurysm or something!! :P I did the Purple...

Monday Monday… busy busy day somehow… Started out Breakfast outside of pineapple, strawberris and blueberries and Coffee Lunch was left over paster and hot smoked salmon from yesterday Dinner is going to have to be meatballs going to use half of them for tea tonight and half in the freezer for...

BBQ …. yum. Seriously wanted to do a BBQ myself today, but seeing as there is only me at the moment, Ogg is on holiday with his dad and his wife, so there is me myself and I and i reckon I would look pretty saddo lighting the BBQ all for myself with a quorn sausage and a single beefburger! lol...

You'll be surprised how quickly people will notice weight dropping off you… they'll see it in your face and you will notice it on your clothes by the time 4-5 stone is off they would have to be wearing a blindfold not to be able to tell … honestly it will happen sooner than you think. I...

Hi Yes on EE You get one HeXa and one Hex B. You get to eat as much lean meat and fish and free vegetables/beans as you like and the idea is that on your plate you have a third of Superfree vegetables/fruit, compared to 2 thirds of free meat/fish/veggie and free foods. The key is to make sure...

Ended up ful lwar paint on, some Fat Face frock i forgot I had (thankfully it fit!) didn't eat anything in the end, had 1 Gn Slimline T and diet coke< then was home by 11 ish to have another cuppa with My bestie before crashing! Excitement in our little village is all around the Cricket club...

arrrrrrgh it's 6 oclock and I a)don't feel that hungry, b)I don't usually eat tea until 730-8pm and c)got to be at the cricket club for 730, where they don't do food and me n Bestie will talk the night away… Maybe couple of Alpen light will do me instead of tea, lunch was rather a Large affair...

"I just know waters break, contractions and baby pops out :D"….. Oh Bless! That made me smile… then wince…(I remember the stitches is places we do not talk about! :P ) But good to see your muesli has come out fabulous.. hope the baby likes it too when 'it' has got to munching phase, by then no...

10lbs!!!!!! 10lbs!!!!! Waaaaaaaaay haaaaaaaaay!!! I'm super super impressed! Just goes to show your hard work and "only walking" has paid off.... BRAVO!! :) :) :) very proud of you ;) I'll send some sunny northern sun your way xxx

Morning morning mornin!!! GOt out of bed at 6 am was munching melon and espresso in the garden by 0610hrs!!! Can you tell the sun is out!! lol We are off to Portugal, Albufeira area on holidays. Just me and Ogg for 2 weeks, in the sun, so we can get our annual "blimey you two go really brown"...

Cheers ears… took a break from EE and went Green all week.. seemed to make a difference.. that and I wasn't subjected to my little chocolate and whisky demon sitting on my shoulder.. Well the Whisky demon is my pal I went to school with, she always says "I don't do single measures … so drink up...

Yogutty Hmmm.. no me not so keen on that either!! Today I managed to sleep 6 hours all in one go… nearly fell out of bed when I realised… the last thing left from My depression days is insomnia, but I could well have had that from being a child, my dad used to prod me as a baby ever 2 hours to...

Ooo not tried the lasagne.. I love lasagne:) Well the WI was ace.. Best STILL lost 1.5lbs after admitting to having 2 Maccy D's, Pizza and Pub dinner this week… I don't know how she does it but it's ace!! Me….. well I weighed in …… 4 lbs lighter than I weighed last week!!! Now I am...

You have a cat on your plant pot!!! lol Very cute! It's always difficult to see pics of my cat he's black! :P Poorly pet indeed.. he is going to have to be put down on friday, but he made special effort to be such a good pup today.. he's only 5 but he's a cocker spaniel too so looks extra...

Keep on plan, remember to treat yourself with your syns ( makes it feel naughty but oh so nice and keeps you determined to be good :) ) You'll do great I'm sure... You're motivated enough to talk diet on here with folk and that really does help... Lets you go on the journey together and keep...

If you think you need to see the professionals more often then you make a choice and bug them for help! I know I don't know you from Adam, but if it helps you can whine, moan and be happy about stuff to me on here ;) sometimes just saying/writing down what it is that's bugging you or getting you...

Dinner/tea ended up being pasta and some of the syn free chili I made with some gated cheese HexA on it. Alpen Light as HexB and Sugar free juice. Weigh in tomorrow… Sooooo need to drop that 1.5 lbs that found it's way ON last week and some more. Got a friendly competition with my bestie who I...

See if you went Sock commando you could have knocked that half pound too! lol…. Bravo Lady I am stunned and honestly inspired by your weightloss… You look ace.. end of :P xx

Ahhh PND I remember it only too well…. it's a big kick in the ass I seriously dodn't know who what where why I was when I had mine… it will be the making of you tho when it eventually passes, because it does. You have a fab hubby by the sounds of it who supports you and Mental Health services...

Hi, just subbin in on account that this entire thread of WI superstitions has had me in stitches… :) My bestie who I go to group with always gets 'oooos' and 'ahhhhs' and ' you are wearing ALL that AND your shoes to WI???' yeah she does so that when she knows she has run out of luck she just has...

Just a thought for you too… have you seen MinkyDinks food diary… she's done amazingly well she's funny too! :) xx

Painting would have been better had I not gone to the loo and returned to find a very suspicious cat like paw print on there… cat is denying everything in a Bart SImpson kind of way and the dog is looking like he hopes I don't think it's him! 9 YO ( or Ogg as he is known) is glad I am home...

Morning… or afternoon really(just) Am glad to say I have zero aches this am… last week after piloxing my foot and knee were shot, old dancing injuries but this week they have not flared up … ordered myself some new dance shoes for class tho as the room gets soooooo sweaty that the floor...

Fall wasn't so much scary as a bit humiliating I'm very self critical I always 'know' it was my fault! Yes I have had a couple of developers work for me who are into this exercise and staying slim thing, but mainly because they binge on crap at work then ride a perfectly good bicycle down a...

ABsolutely does… especially if you leave it as long between bouts as I do Lol. Exercise is one of those things where I was such an active bod and danced 6 days a week until I was 20, but the knee injury floored me and then I got married, got comfy blah blah… then did SW lost about 5 stones…...

You'll do well too…. that first goal will come round before you know it x

Ha…I was supposed to do it yesterday too…. but was too busy playing in the garden :P

ok well scrap the lunch … I had a change of heart. Lunch was : 2 x Linda McCartney Italian Sausages(½ syn each), syn free sweet potato chips, mushy peas and mint sauce… Tea will be those noodles or the syn free veggie chilli I have made… Time to steam n clean… god I love Housework on a Bank...

Amazing just how useful this answer and thread is… :P Mine are just going on the oven now… thank you most kindly :o

Good Morning… and here's the rain! hey ho! Green Day: Brekki: Grapes and Coffee Dinner: Melon, Batchelors Deli Box Chow mein Noodles, Juice (sugar free cordial stuff)…. May swap this for tea yet! Tea:Syn Free Chips, Mushy peas with mint sauce and Sauteed Mushrooms, garlic and Onions in Fry...

Hello, You don't know me, not entirely sure if I do either, but that's a whole other thread of conversation!. I am doing Slimming World again and actually it's working ok so far. I will tell you ALL about it as I go… and as long as I remember to post (memory like sieve, brain like swiss cheese...

I hadn't but I will now! Ta la..

hexB one was that the rumblngs around what to do with Scanbran apart from it makes a reliable substitute for brick mortar for your innards?? :P That said I have nought some because the cake with the Chocolate philly and the one with the apples looked nice and I'm NOT a sweet kinda bird! I think...

Very much a newbie on this whole forum thing, but reading this thread has made me chuckle :) So I thought, if it's ok I'd tag along? I've been doing SW since end of feb and a challenge sounds like fun. I started one challenge last week, WI is on a Wed, so I have been mostly Vegetarian since...