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Today re-visiting the slimming world books hiding in my drawer, I'm confident that done properly it will work. I can have controlled carby things to keep my inner Fred happy, while knowing I am being healthier with all the veggies I plan to incorporate. I so can't be bothered with counting cals...

Well, having just read a very enlightening topic from several years ago about changing habits - thank you KD - and having just bought 'slim from within'; perhaps it is time to change the way I attempt weight loss ... by using my brain! No more giving away my power to clubs and fads and...

A very latecomer to this thread, but my goodness how much sense it makes! For the past 30 years I have thought myself incapable of sustaining a weight loss and now I find someone else was in control! Someone who had decided that I must sustain not weight loss, but the entire weight loss...

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Great loss Spethyla, I hope you find the way which works for you. Do well whatever you do! xxx

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Awww have a :bighug:hug; anxiety can be really awful and physical. Don't restrict yourself too much today; remember Raes' advice - it's only one day out of seven. If you cut yourself back too hard today then that'll be when the rebellion sets in.... and the spiral out. Today is a new day...

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Don't believe it, my heads in gear at last and I am onto my third day of being sensible! It may not seem like much, but to me it's amazing, the little nagging 'eatme' demons have settled into place and I am happily eating S/W way. Happy happy me :D x

Hi Spethyla, Well done! Isn't it powerful when you feel you've eaten well. I hope you can keep off the evening munchies with free food! I can catch myself eating mindlessly in an evening, so I have learned I must plan for these times. I've been pretty good today too - a banana for...

Well, a couple of weeks in and I am still not getting any slower! Must keep on trying ha-ha!

Hi MrsSOS haven't 'seen' you around for a while, hope you are ok? x

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Thanks for your wisdom Rae Rae, I have had a much better day today, pretty well 100%, I am impressed with myself! Spethyla I hope your week is going well :). C x

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Hi Spethyla, I was about to say 'good-luck' with the next few days, but then, ''luck'' is not in it really is it? What a shame about the falafel disaster, I too would have guessed they were a healthy thing to choose! Have a nice time with your parents. (Rae-Rae, if you're looking in, no...

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Ok, there was temptation on the ward, and I succumbed - too much bread, bleugh!:(. However, today is a new day and a clean page. I have only managed 3 hours sleep - this is where the problems arise I get soooo tired, food becomes a cosy pillow to nestle against - or something like that, it...

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I'm back to work tonight, so I will be packing plenty of free snacks. Its a green day, so I had egg tomato and HEXB toast for breakfast. Pasta with a HEXA cheese for lunch. Jacket potato and beans for tea. To work I'll take the faithful mug shot, boiled eggs, fruit more HEXA cheese and...

Hi Spethyla, I to have found coming online and writing it down helps in a way that a paper diary doesn't - it is obviously the support and feedback that is part of the equation that makes this work. Yesterday, I synned... I had 1/2 a toasted teacake with butter (better than a whole one!) And...

Wednesday - a synful day! Egg tomato and HEXB toast to start. Half a toasted teacake with butter and later a slice of quiche with salad while out with friends - that's my syns for the week I guess! Tonight a good 'n healthy quorn bolognaise with some pasta, and a HEXA of cheese. The good thing...

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HI, I'll be reading your ramblings because it is soooo me - I can eat well all day then the evenings I manage to wreck myself, feel bad, spiral down..... I'm in my third week of diarying (is that a word?)and I've managed to maintain; I can feel my head gradually getting to grips with free food...

I think quavers are about 4, Enjoy the Lakes, I'm jealous!:jelous::jelous:

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Tuesday, quite a good SW day; breakfast of egg tomato and HEXB bread, lunch was the cheese 'pie' I made yesterday and one of the 'scones' with a 1.5 syn cheese triangle. I had a busy day helping out with grandchildren, and when hubby had a fancy for tea from the chip-shop I conveniently forgot...

Monday; a clean sheet and a switch gone on in my head, I can make this happen! I have had time to make tasty free-food to last a few days, possibly a bit stodgy, but it's freeee! A quorn bolognaise, the easy cheesy 'pie' and 'cheese scones' from a previous thread. Now I don't need to think of...

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Hello MrsSOS, how are you managing? Well done on a brilliant loss, and some perceptive gems in your ramblings I have enjoyed catching up on your diaries. As you say, it is a learning curve all the time, and there are many things about ourselves to learn! I have been looking at the online self...

Don't loose heart Smuffin, you are losing and getting fitter! Have your inches changed even though the scales are not swinging rapidly down? look at it as a long term commitment to yourself, not a quick fix. Though I am still maintaining (:sigh:), my eating habits are changing for the...

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Hellooo, thank you for you kind thoughts and good vibes Mrs SOS, my hubby is doing well; home and in charge of the remote control and sofa ha-ha! I am teetering on the need of some R&R myself now. I have managed another maintain - I thought waltzing up and down long hospital corridors would...

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Well, here we are at the end of week two - and I am HAPPY to have maintained! I know, while I have been doing this I have probably only been 50% on plan while I have been feeling my way around; therefore when I do give 100% (AS OF NOW) I know I will be rewarded by the evaporation of the...

Good afternoon, MrsSOS; you are a really inspiring read and, when I return from my mini-break courtesy of hubby/NHS I shall look forwards to following you and your meanderings. Well done on the 5 day weight loss! :clap:. I'm just awake after night duty, I've had a coffee and a browse, now...

Wow Smuffin, with all those books you are going to be so on the ball about things, enjoy browsing them! Cx

Hi Shazzla, this is a great site for support, I find I have to check in every day though, or I loose my focus too quickly! You are doing well, it must be really motivating to start to feel the difference. Re: the takeaway (mmmm.... thinks I haven't had a takeaway for ages :)) boiled rice...

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Well done on your weight loss Smuffin, you will get to where you want to be! :clap: x

Goodness, MrsSOS, please may I borrow your brain for a week or two, I had obviously not been looking at my freedom of choices, every day can be a picnic :)! Daughter is picking herself up again, thank you; hubby is supposed to be in hospital for 3 days, but last time they said that it was 6...

Thank goodness you were safe after the car brakes failed, it must have been terrifying, moreso with your children with you! Thanks for posting the cheese pie recipe it sounds lovely and comforting - just what I feel I need right now! :)

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You seem to be doing really well! An easy red day speed soup is tinned tomato, onion, carrot and celery boiled together with a vegetable stock cube and seasoned however you like, then whizzed up till it's smooth; you can add some quark stuff to make it 'cream' soup. A touch of chilli makes it...

Hello I'm here.... off plan but still determined to get back on, it's only been a 3 day backslide, glad to read other diaries and pick myself up again. The trouble is I am very much an emotional eater, and my daughter has had a couple of problems so I have eaten everything I shouldn't! My...

Thank you MrsSOS , it's nice to have someone else's view!:) x

I should have taken just a bit more food to work last night; I had a choc biscuit about 5 this morning, when a free mugshot would have really done the trick (I forgot to pack the mug-shot!), also, I didn't enjoy the crispbread n cheese triangles, so that's a lesson learned - for the same value...

Well done on wasting the cake, Better on a plate than on you!!!! Maybe you were hungry today because there was no protein with your salad box lunch? proteins really do 'keep you fuller longer', otherwise looking good x

I may try my grandsons' small cutlery, I always forget to count chews!

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Weigh-in this morning; Stayed The Same. I'm satisfied with that because I know I have been guesstimating syns this week and because of the cold I've been a total couch potato. Tonight I'm back to work so I'll be more active, and I'm going to use crispbread instead of bread, as I can have...

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Enjoy the roast meats but with none-starchy vegetables, or you could use a HEXB for potatoes, and Syn for a couple of roasties. You shouldn't have the Yorkshire pud... but that is up to you at the end of the day! You could use 'flexi syns' where you allow yourself to go over to a limit you set...

Last night went I went 'unconscious' and ate rather more than was good for me, or allowed :(. Ah well. Today is a new day and the sun is shining. Back to simple extra-easy meals. Toast and eggs for breakfast, veggie soup for lunch, turkey (frozen after Christmas!) potatoes onions carrots...

Hi you seem to be doing really well with your food, what is grana padano please? I never thought of having rice pud for breakfast!:) what a good idea to save the 'B's x

Keeping things simple, I'm going to stick with eggs for breakfast, soup for lunch and a casserole type thing for dinner. That's all free food, then I can add in the healthy extras and syns later when I know what I feel like! At the moment this morning I don't feel like thinking ;). May the...

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Yes, when other diets have been followed the weight loss is not so great; I've been low-carbing, so may gain some water this week, but I feel better for sure. I once gave up on SW because I was only losing half a pound a week - if I had kept it up I would be probably at goal now! Ah well...

I don't know if this has been discussed before - I'm not sure how to find out what topics have been posted in the past. But it is recommended to eat more slowly, and really savour food.... I have been listening to a well known hypnosis CD telling me this for ages, and it is still one thing I...

'Synned' to the max today I think; scrambled egg & small slice of toast for breakfast, but then I was out for lunch so chose a healthy lentil/vegetable soup and had it with a warm herb scone and butter. A delicious way to use my syns, I enjoyed every guilt-free mouthful. Dinner tonight will...

The weight loss will come Smuffin, and you can count your cups of tea towards your fluid intake. I just watched my little 2 year old grandson having lunch today; he drank first, ate what he wanted and left the rest - lessons to be learned I think ;). And when I get worn out carrying him, I...

I was pretty good till I had some ham then remembered I was 'green' and had had my 2 HEXB! This is why extra Easy is a blessing, ok it's 1 less A & B, unless used as syns, but I love being able to have rice pasta or potatoes with meat & veggies without counting; though I have to admit, I'm not...

Red day picnic at your desk with boiled eggs, cooked meats, cottage cheese, pickles, tomatoes celery stuff. Keep up the good work!

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Today I'm going green, Brekkies - Small slice of toast (1/2 HEXB) Scrape of butter (5 syn) 'Fried' Egg and tomato Lunch - Home-made leek n tattie soup, 1/2 a wholemeal pitta (the rest of the HEXB) free yoghurt and banana Dinner - Sort of one-pot bolognaise; quorn mince, pasta, tomato, onion...

What a shame about the gain, I bet this morning you would be two pounds lighter! I hate evening weigh-ins because tend to hold water a bit (I think it's to do with carbohydrate) certainly do not loose heart! You will get to where you want to be C x

They do fill a spot, and for my taste need a bit of something else - like cheese and pepper, but great as a filling free food which is quick n easy! You can add beaten egg to a made up one and cook off as a 'quiche', really filling comfort food, it just takes a little bit longer to make of...

I might pinch your meal-plans too, they seem nice and simple and tasty! Hope your weigh - in goes great for you :) x

Hi Smuffin, just been reading about your food again - I was interested in your thoughts on Zero noodles, I had been wondering about trying them, maybe I won't now! You've probably saved me from a culinary disaster, thank you ;)! X

Hi all, today I have more of a grip on myself, cold medicine can be my syns if I eat carefully; so brekkies was 2 eggs and HEXB bread, lunch a tomato & herb mug shot with cheese (HEXA) melted in and loads of black pepper - lovely and comforting! Dinner tonight will be more lean roast pork...

OK, today started well, scrambled egg for brekkies, and a HEB toast. But... I have a cold and sore throat, tinned soup for lunch, and some pork and mashed potato for tea, and cough medicine and honey, and honey.... I guess the little fat gremlins are out to test me already! Tomorrow I will...

Your food looks lovely, nice and tasty! I'm derailed already by a cold, so taking honey n stuff! Heigh-ho!

Hi Smuffin, best of luck to us both!

I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago, and still have the weight to lose that I was going to loose at 50, I've been 'on a diet' all that time, but I need to change! You name it, I've done it but obviously not properly, I must be an expert at deceiving myself or a sleepwalking eater. Anyhow, here I...