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Hi, looks like you are well and truly back into the swing of looking after your health and body. This is so good. Not that it's 'bad' when things fall apart IYSWIM, it's just good to see you in a place where you are looking after yourself again. I'm happy for you that your holiday was so good...

Thanks X Really, thanks. Today is the first time I've seen this. Been struggling a bit, both personally and health and emotional issues with the family. Am coming back, new start new Id. Will pm you with the new ID when I get a diary started here. Having to do silly little posts to get my post...

Ah yes, indeed. I'm nodding in agreement here. Accepting that inconsistency is a part of life, part of progress even. Also, as I keep saying to my son, progress is not one clean line up on the graph, we g down as well as up, but the overall goal is up and we need to see the bigger picture...

I'll list my food first before I forget. Breakfast: 3 x ryvita (hxB) with some pate made from black eyed beans, apple and a pear. Lunch: 2 x Fry's regular sausages (1/2 syn) green beans and tomatoes Dinner 3 x Fry's regular sausages (not quite a whole syn), mashed potato and green beans I like...

I'm wondering how you are working on feeling better about yourself? I find changing my self talk and thinking about past achievements are helpful. You struggled for a long time to see the new body you have been sporting as being the real you, didn't you? Did that change whilst Minimins was...

Sorry you've had a rough time. I can't remember - did you move? 9.7 is so impressive, is there anything stopping you get back there again? Well, hey looks like January 2016 is a restart for many of us. I do find it strange, the way my feelings about weight loss change from being 'can't do it...

You're back :)

AFAIK there is still a PDF of the green plan on the SW website. Doing the Green plan allows you to have olive oil as a HE B choice. You also get two As and 2 Bs on Green, it's great. I am starting SW again and will be swapping around Green and SP days.

Officially, according to two consultants, women over a certain weight (blowed if I can remember what that was :) ) can be offered 20 syns per day. This is because of the drastic change that cutting down to the lower number would mean. If you can stick at it only because you have higher syns...

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Hi, have these been lost in the transfer? Thanks

..... and then ... Minimins disappeared. Bee, have you come back? I blooming well lost it food wise yet again, and sadly didn't lose it size wise. today though has been a good syn free SP day in preparation for rejoining tomorrow evening. Tomorrow will be busy, as I'll be taking a load of...

You are doing so well. Congratulations.

Flipping excellent, well done you.

Been on a major bing for weeks, mother ill, husband ill, and son v depressed and cutting himself. Thanks for asking. I'm away on Friday for a little holiday on my own and hope to get myself together to face the workd and my too tight clothes and cope in a better manner.

Thinking about yesterday, I had forgotten when I posted before about how stressed I was. Loads going on, health of my mother and husband, loads of admin stuff to organise, the house has become pit like very quickly partly as m'boy is downstairs sleeping whilst I try and redo his bedroom. The...

I discovered the new Tesco bourbon chocolate spread today. Although I was very heavy handed with it, it didn't develop into a binge. Apart from that, food was pretty good, with a very nice version of rice and peas with the rice and onions fried in garlic frylight, black turtle beans. all done in...

Hi, hello, don't we all want to be in the 15s asap ;) I had my first WI for a month and lost 2lbs, bringing me to 16st 4lbs. Slowly and (slightly) surely I'm getting there.

Crikey no, I've missed 3 weeks. Anyway, I'm well on track again, got my club 10 and 1lb to go to lose 2st

Got weighed this morning, I think it's 2 weeks I've missed in total. 2lbs off :) :)

Not on the ingredients on the outside of the box? That's illegal. Take it back and COMPLAIN :(

I've had a very satisfying afternoon trying on clothes. I can now wear all my size 20s, some are a tad tight but all get on and I can move in them. The 18s are still not wearable until I've lost some more but there is one pair of 18 trousers that will go on and just about do up. Albeit rather...

Thanks. As far as I'm concerned that's raw ;) But I might try doing it with genuinely raw grated apple instead. Thanks for the heads up re H&B, I think they have free delivery atm and it would be worth stocking up on the 1 syn Fry's burgers

Hey, New to me discovery. You can do fried rice with fylight. I used the garlic frylight and cooked up some rice with it in a wok, added some frozen baby carrots and some Morrisons chicken style thingy lumps. When the rice started browning and getting a bit translucent I added boiling water, a...

I love the hazelnut Alpro on cereal and in coffee with a dash of vanilla extract. Coconut is nice too, you get 600mls of the chilled one as an A choice.

^^^ LOL at the scales story. Here's a delicious and totally free Thai(ish) veggie sauce to have with noodles or rice. Use Alpro coconut milk (the chilled one is 600 ml for an A choice on Green, no mention of the ambient one but I'm using it anyway) and boil it with sliced cabbage, sweet...

^^^^ That looks nice. Do you use raw apple, or do you cook it? I'm inspired, quinoa is lovely.

Hello :wavey: Soo, this is your home. Have you got yourself back into the SW way of living yet?

My favourite inspirational podcasts have all been put here, with the oh so annoying ads removed https://www.insideoutweightloss.com/podcasts?page=1

Sorry, I missed this. Thanks Kami. You are right, the crucial part of what you said is 'when you are ready' and I am now. Your 7 lbs will go soon enough. Naturally slender people vary over the course of a few weeks, the thing is that they seem to intuitively rein in their eating to compensate...

We did it, and my boy loved it. I sat in a corner wishing I was playing too but I doubt very much that my body could actually do what I was remembering doing. Like that oh so embarrassing time I went to a recorder music performance and ended up joining in. And being unable to play the music from...

Gotta fly ... but ... the loose jeans news is fantastic. As for the understanding of not wanting to see yourself as primarily a person who needs to lose weight ... I should post again when I have more time ... but yes, I agree totally with your post. Well done on surviving the move.

Gulp ... thanks !!!! Well, I still have no idea how much I weigh, I couldn't get to the session last night and tonight (hooray and jumping up and down with happiness) I take the lad to a martial arts group he is mad keen to join. It is a Philipino discipline called Escrima, you do it with...

You are so right, that is just the sort of feeling I am working with now.

I had an interesting chat with OH this morning. He is pleased for my sake that I now take more pride in my appearance, wear brighter colours and, well, generally take more care. He said where he works there are thousands of people and he has noticed that the larger ladies who wear black...

Sushi, some with gerkhin inside and some with tofu. There was also a dip with tamari and wasabi but it didn't get photographed.

Fingers crossed for Monday X

That's crazy :( Wishing you well for doing it the old fashioned way. You were losing weren't you, when you were having non SW snacks but just having less. Just do lots of swimming and more swimming on the hol and you'll probably come back lighter. It's a nice thought anyway.

Oh dear, it went from bad to worse. After pulling myself together after the birthday my mother was taken ill and I spent time in the hospital with her, and later back at her home. I've not been back for a WI yet and I'll miss next week as I've got a market research team round my house to...

Well well, a remarkably appropriate article popped up in an inbox on an account I rarely use. It explains a lot. College Life & The Perfectionist: A Road to Difficulties and Possibly an Eating Disorder | Eating Disorder Hope

How's it going Mal?

Crikey, I was last here 5 days ago. Well, I've been self sabotaging with a vengeance, this birthday week has completely knocked me off course. Tonight will be a valuable learning experience ( :( ) I will learn it is OK to go to get weighed, and to have a significant gain, I will stay for the...

Here is a seitan recipe, a steamed one to make a sausage, you can vary the spices of course. Simple Italian Sausages | Post Punk Kitchen | Vegan Baking & Vegan Cooking

Wonderful news :)

Oh gosh, yes, seitan. Love it, and was eating and making a fair bit during the week I had my biggest ever loss. This is an example of one the items that SW let us down on. It is not on the syns online page, if you try and work it out using the calculator it works out really high as gluten flour...

Food notes: Couscous salad 1 Pack of Ainsley Harriott Sund Dried Tomato and Garlic instant couscous (4 syns for the new large packet) 1 tin of chick peas rinsed and drained. A whole large bunch of tomatoes, courgettes, red peppers roasted with garlic frylight. Any odd salad leaves you have...

Or do one of those virtual images I was playing with. Post something anyway. Let's see your bikini !!!

We've had the birthday lunch, wine, and birthday cake. Now to get back on track. To help motivate me I'm posting a picture of my new jacket that doesn't fit properly yet. If I lose another stone I reckon it should fit for my mini hol. At the moment, I can get into it but not breathe, move, or do...

Hi, I've just found this thread and am leaping in with both feet to join you all. I hope this hasn't been said already but I found that the Alpro Soya Mild goes down quite well with dairy milk drinkers. I don't know how similar it is but it is meant to taste less 'soya-y' to make up a word. If...

I lost another pound this week, so slowly and creakily I'm getting to the bottom of this category.

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I saw this today, about a study, admittadly rather small, about a change in diet helping people with diabetic related nerve pain. Vegan Diet Eases Diabetic Neuropathy Pain

How are you doing today? Remembering the dream of warm breezes caressing your tummy? They will be able to because you will be feeling OK about wearing a bikini. Yeah, go for it!!!

Thanks Mal. I am feeling very positive today, I'll be baking soon for the birthay hijinks, and am planning to have a glass of water and some carrots at the ready, to put in my mouth instead of cake mixes.

Yay, lost a pound. Probably would have been about 6 (joke) if it were not for Sunday's insanity. Still, I am so pleased that I stopped and it didn't turn into a week ... a month ... a year ... which I have done in the past. Instead, I've cone home re-energised and determined for three...

In theory, this is 'eat very lightly' day until after WI this evening. I've been shopping for baking and stuff for family birthday celebrations but I dare not even unpack the bags till after I get back from SW. Tomorrow, my baby girl is 20 and I am so proud of the independent, intelligent...

we missed y and z: Yolanda pears Zucchini which botanically speaking is a fruit

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Xigua

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Loads of fruit, mushy peas soup and sushi tonight. Yum.

Told you not to worry :P Well done.

Aw, thank you, that is really kind, but I'm considering using them for my next online shop - picked up a discount leaflet in the shop today so I would expect to be able to get them that way,

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Oh, SOUTH Essex didn't have them :( I'll have a look in that big shopping centre I've forgotten the name of that popped up for the Olympics next time I'm in that area. Thanks Mal, and for your comments above X

I lost it! totally flipping lost it and had an hour of cramming in as much food as I could :( I had been shopping, buying goodies for my family who are coming to stay and I think the trigger was that I wanted goodies too, then over eating is a trigger to eat more. Oh dear, I've probably undone...

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Food today: Breakfast - nectarines, banana and some cold veggie soup from the fridge that was rather like a sort of V8ish sort of concoction Snacks up until 16.00 more fruit 1 seeded baton/roll that I shall count as 2 HE Bs and all of today and tomorrow's syns. It was nice, had it with some...

Breakfast: Fruit Salad and 8 cashews HE B Lunch: Salad of rosecocoa beans, romaine lettuce and tomatoes Dinner: rice and dhal Snacks, suger free herbal sweets, 2 syns rice and coconut milk, FRUIT and yet more fruit ;) Bedtime munchie, 2 weetabix (HE B) and apple chopped up together with almond...

I've just started this, definitely an almost unputdownable book.

I am furious on your behalf. Water retention? TOTM? Na, you'd have said. All I can suggest is drink lots of water and MAYBE your portion control was too strict? You know the issues with dropping down too low and going into famine metabolism. Otherwise, perhaps I could gently suggest that maybe...

I've so much hard work in front of me, a kind man just brought me loads of good topsoil but it is bags too heavy for me to carry so today I will (as soon as I stop typing lol) empty the bags into buckets and carry them through to the back and spread on the cleared area, level and remove the odd...

What are pickled chilli onions? That looks like my sort of meal, and guaranteed to lose lbs.

Here you go, it's FUN http://www.modelmydiet.com/women.html?cb=411009918176

Now let's see what they reckon I look like now. I can see a difference, but my face isn't this fat anymore. I think my thighs are fatter than this image,

Nope, lets try this

I've been playing with model my diet. Here is what it says I looked like when I started (EEEEEEEK) and what I wll look like when I get to 12 st Fingers crossed, I've not done this with photobucket before. <iframe width="480" height="360"...

lunch: apple with a tin of mushy peas and 3 free Linda m sausages. 6 syns worth of chocolate and 3.5 syns worth of almond breeze iced coffee. Hmmm, I seem to be using a lot of syns lately.

onomatopoeic

3 days of boogying should do it :) No reason why you should only boogy on designated times and places ... think 'holiday' 'exposed skin in warming sea breezes' 'being cooler and more comfortable than if I was were still overweight'

Breakfast: watercress soup made of two supermaket packs of watercress, stock cube and water.

lease

More walking today, more fruit for snacks, ryvita for HE B, coconut milk for HE A, the pate I was going to turn into soup had to be chucked as it was full of fruit flies and suicided moths. Atm I can't remember what I had but definitely recall 3 biscuits and a couple of mouthfulls of chocolate...

A good day today, well done ;) Fingers crossed, it is WI tomorrow isn't it? Whatever the result, you can and will stay focused and on plan for the weekend. Think, lean sunkised limbs bronzing by the sea in 7 weeks time.

Hellooooooo, Here I am nosying around your old diary. Not read it all, but dipped into the odd page here and there. Snap, I'm a sciatica survivor too. I was a candidate for surgery the year before last and was in a wheelchair much of the time when out of the house but got better. Mostly, I now...

This little burst of SW enthusiasm is going well. Yesterday I had plenty of syns but also all me HEs, lots of fruit and veg, and lots of exercise in the shape of walking. I got some mushrooms mucho reduced and made a pate with them and some black eyed beans. The left overs can have a tin of...

Probably hot enough for us not used to it, but wintery for locals. A half Spanish friend used to visit and in January said she was warm enough to walk around in English summer clothes as the people who lived there all the time shivered. I notice this difference here, as I see people walking...

Yeah, that's a nice shape! And definitely recoverable by your holiday, if my maths and your stats are right.

Well yes, I can understand that. We're neck and neck atm then. Did you know you can update your stats on the left? ETA: When you look at one of your own posts, the blue title under your avatar that says Update Statistics is a clickable link.

4.5 off all in one week? Go you!!!

Please never correct that typo - day on the toad is a phrase to treasure :) It is so good to see you being so positive. As the weight drops off you will get even more positive. And cheering each other on will help too. My holiday is going to be rather more sedately dressed than yours. I plan to...

According to the BMI charts I should be 11st at the heaviest to be in the healthy range. I think I'd look like a walking scraggy flesh covered skeleton at that low. But let's see how I feel about it when I hit 12st

Our clothes will be sliding off our hips ;)

I'm off on the 26th too ;) Ideally I'd have liked to have lost about another 4st but talking real life ... 7 weeks is it? I'm going to aim for a stone and would be happier with a bit more. You're on for the challenge.

Oh I ache! Have reclaimed another bit of garden today. Tomorrow I pick up some top soil and on Friday or Saturday I plan to get some turf. Then I can sit on the grass and relax! It was a bit stressful earlier, my son was meant to have a meds evaluation as he is going to try a different sort of...

Yes, success express is the 2/3 superfree and when working out the syns of anything you go by the highest value. Ie if it's got more syns on red than green or EE than you go by the red values. There is a bit more to it than that, there is a whole thread devoted to it somewhere. But if you are...

That's a bit frustrating. Do you get enough sleep? I was wondering, what with moving and all the stress that goes with that. Sleep is meant to be essential to weight loss. Being content is very important, and loving oneself as one is. That old hating our bodies and what we are doing to...

Your logic is impeccable, Bee. My consultant doesn't put it quite like that, just exercise helps. I saw a (LOL. one of many) programme about weight loss and metabolism and I got the impression from that is that one's metabolism speeds up after exercise, and stays elevated for a few days...

Saying no to cheesy chips after all that rum in no mean achievement. Give yourself all the credit you deserve :clap: Success Express is good, I've done that sometimes and combined it with a few vegetable soups for meals and had good losses.

I'm halfway through this journey through the 16s, WI last night and was 16.7

I had a WI tonight, my first in three weeks. Despite having a few good days here and there my overall impression of the last three weeks is of over eating so I was delighted to find I've lost another four pounds. Two to go for my club 10 and another four for two stones off. I can heartily...

7 weeks? I think my holiday is around that time too, 'spose I should check up on this minor detail. Your new found enthusiasm is inspiring. Have you tried success express, sorry, if you have, I just can't remember. I am positive you will look good in a bikini and even if you've not lost all the...

You'll get there, you know you can.

You are SO RIGHT about not reacting to over eating for a while with a bout of under eating / fasting. Been there, got the too small tee shirt etc. A 2lb gain is pretty good going, from what you wrote on my diary. It will go again soon and far far better to do it with healthy choices.

Hi Bee, thanks for that. Eh, mixed messages from our mothers .... it takes such a long time and a lot of effort to overcome them. I think my mother had some sort of ED at least she yo yo ed between a size 10 and a size 18. She would fill my plate with food she insisted was what I needed and...

Hi Clover, your day of swimming and walking sounds lovely, if hot and exhausting. Do you live within three hours walk of a beach.? I'd love to live near some open water where you can swim. There is a swimming pond far away on the other side of London that I used to go to .... ooh, about 25...

Good news came in a brown envelope today. We've been awarded DLA for my son, higher rate care and lower rate mobility. I can't say enough what a relief this is - the overdraft was nearly at it's limit - G not working, poorly cats ... and now with the back payments it will be cleared. I can also...

Edward

Iceni

Good luck on your first week. As everyone else has said, the great thing about SW is you can fill up, you don't have to go hungry. but you do have to make different choices in what you eat.

I've been to many many groups, amd the consultants do vary. Only one though, IHO has been really useless. I had joined and bought a countdown and disappeared into hospital with an emergency appendix situation. Most consultants send out supportive texts mid week, especially to new members. This...

Hi :) There is (was?) a veggie and vegan section in the healthy eating part of the forum. I'd be happy to be more active there if other people would be happy there as well. Nice to see another vegan ;)

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Dirk Bogarde

Zebadiah

Garlicky soup made with rosecocoa beans and tomatoes, SW chips done with BBQ frylight with some deeeeelicious soya cheese on top

Xerxes

arsenal

Gosh! A plate of SW style chips done with BBQ frylight with Moo Free Melty 'Cheese' on top does NOT taste like any sort of diet food. I was going to take a photo to show but my hand was moving too fast from plate to mouth to get my phone out. Funny, typing about enthusiastic eating feels...

alder

It was another bowl of the same, there was some left. I've been reading about horrific hygiene issues in UK chicken procesing units. Goodness knows if I'll be allowed to keep this link, vegan campaigning is not approved of by Minis. But I am vegan for four reasons, the effect of meat husbandry...

Ha, this was meant to be a food diary!!! Breakfast: 3 Free Linda Mc Onion and rosemary sausages, tinned tomatoes, coffee Lunch: 1 small and totally inadequate bowl of a salad made of chickpeas, tinned sweetcorn, fresh tomatoes and gerkhins. As I said, not enough so I'm going to have a prowl...

employment

You'll find it, have you looked under the cushions? Here are links to the SW stickers. Copy and paste the links into your sig. http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-weekly-weigh/313347-sw-awards.html

Hi, I thought I'd come and find you. Wow, half a cup cake? That IS being focused and making good/healthy choices for yourself.

Gosh, THANKS, Kami. I was talking things though with myself the way I used to at counselling. It did work, my internal dialogue has shifted back to calling myself 'the incredible shrinking woman' as I used to and every time I go past the big mirror my the stairs where I can see myself clearly I...

Yeah, part of the process and a 'valuable learning experience' Curses, I hate them. But having totally lost ot and gorged for two weeks now I think I understand it now. I've had so much on, so much responsibily that I've done my usual thing of putting my own needs to the back of the list. This...

That's crazy. It's so disheartening when you see a gain for no justifiable reason. Still, WI is Friday now isn't it. Fingers crossed your scales see sense by then.

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Imogen

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Finella

Yam

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Thanks Mal. Sadly, after writing that I totally lost the plot. So I'm on here and despite the title of this diary it is going to be a bit angsty. I think to start off with I just overate mindlessly through worry. Lots going on with the cats and G is still really not got his stamina back, he goes...

Wahida

enjoy

grapefruit

Sad un-honk for the last couple of days so honking vigorously in the expectation today will be better

ngultrum - basic unit of currency in Bhutan

Horatio

Caroline

byronic

Albert came home this afternoon, and Polly is OK :) :) :) And I've made a super nice version of houmous. It needs the B choice olive oil added to a tin of chickpeas, rinsed, with garlic, onion salt and lemon juice. It was by far the nicest home made houmous I've ever had. I did in rolls with...

usury

Lesser

Dido

Aaaargh, one cat is in the vet's on an IV drip because she got creosote on her and licked it off, and another is in small room confinemet until he gets an op on his knee for a damaged ligament in his knee. Or was, he got out somehow last night and I pray it wasn't through the window. I'm sick...

Beatrice

Kyoto

Zebedee

Didn't see that brand on the site. Can you get/like alpro?

I'll start saying good bye now then. Enjoy the next band down. I'll be here for a bit, still on 16.11 even though I have lost a little the last three weeks.

Baked beans are free, as are all other beans with no dressing, all pasta - ordinary raw dry stuff - is free. Quinoa is free too, and couscous. Do you have any SW information? As I can't type the whole program here.

Linda Mc Sausages, the red onion and rosemary ones are free. the other ones in the orange box are 1 syn each if chilled or 2 each if frozen. this has confused many a UK vegan but it seems that we generally get frozen ones. The mince is free, which surprises and please me, so I shall look out for...

ryvita

Thanks Mal <3

Weighing day! I lost 2.5 lbs. Not masses for three weeks, but all in the right direction. 1lb to go for my 1.5 st award, and 6 lbs to my club 10. I am resolved to go for the 6, I've done it twice before. Even if I don't do it, there's nothing wrong with aiming high, and I'm sure to get at least...

erratic

Rory

He went back to work, saw his own manager and the bloke who took the photo came in an made an abject apology. Aparently there had been quite a few engineers discovered sleeping during the night shift and this chap thought that OH was doing the same. In a corridor? Anyway, this man has had some...

rant

I know why the caged bird sings post a picture

How's it going Lisa?

You've been a bit quiet, how are you?

acute

Jeanette

Despite knowing how stupid my scales are I still get on them from time to time but am none the wiser as to whether or not I am going up or down. I assume down, I feel more slender, in fact looking at myself naked in the mirror is a bit of shock as I feel so much better in myself. I went for my...

Felicity

Alopecia

Canterbury Tales

Another happy honk from me for today and yesterday

This is so strange, I am actually looking forward to going back next week, I really don't like not knowing where I am on this weight loss journey. To use a cliche. I'm not feeling any slimmer and the tendency to over eat because of that is looming. Not seriously looming, I went to bed a bit...

Quadrophenia

Do the rules say that this has to be in English? As there are no english words beginning with NK but in Xhosa star is nkwenkwezi.

Ursula

I hope your time with your friend goes well. Supportive thought coming at both of you from me, even if you don't get a chance to see this until you are back. Know what you mean about new boy bun feeling 'non family' but I do hope he will soon. Sounds like Rosie has accepted him completely, and...

Casablanca

ps, I haven't dared try this yet but I suspect that the syns in an avocado could be swapped for a b choice of olive oil and just syn the rest. This is I know a teak of the unapproved variety. B U T olive oil is goofd for you and a B choice. Avocados are good for you and very oily, I've swapped...

^^^^^ that bit in red italics above. Wow, yes! Applaud yourself for making such a healthy decision, looking after your need for a treat yet finding something that satisfied the need for ... whatever the need was that chocolate at first felt like the answer to.

More ramblings on the subject of scales. The previous ones were from John Lewis. I can't remember the make but they were good and reliable. You know where you are with scales from John Lewis. If I can find the receipt these others are going back to Tesco and I'll tell the helpful person behind...

I hadn't thought of the commercial ones, there is a gadget in a chemist very near here that I plan to take my sone to so we know his BP. sometimes you don't see the wood for the trees. silly me, thanks for the idea. I think, if I have a sabatical again that is what I will do but I feel that atm...

quadrille

What a stressful day, left the lights on yesterday so the car wouldn't start when I was about to take Albert for his Xray. Fortunately I had a jump start thingy so I got it going but the journey wasn't long enough to charge the battery properly and by own gadget had run out of charge so I needed...

odiferous

Ismael

Harumph. I bought new scales and was incensed by their behaviour this morning. Every time I tried them I got a different figure between 110 point something kilos and 103 point something. Then I wondered if it was anything to do with having soft lino in the bathroom so took them down to the...

Odissi (an Indian classical style)

Syns: 3 x biscuits = 6 3 x chocolates = 6 2 x different biscuits = 3 = 15 syns Can't remember what my meals were earlier but finished off tonight witha whole bag of prepared supermarket salad with a tin of chickpeas. Loads of barley cup with almond milk but couldn't finish...

Um hum, another good day :)

I was reading a P D James, Devices and Desires I think, and I've absent mindedly put it down somewhere and I can't find it :(

Barbara

etymology

I don't usually bring my activism here - except for my sigs but I am so cross that SW have been suckered in by CRUK. Without going into a rant about it, anyone that wants to know why I feel so strongly about them read this. It's not only the animal issue, they have such funds they could be doing...

Wow! Wilderness Lady! 20 miles detour, wow again! Are you Welsh originally?

I suppose ours are urban here, a different variety to your truly wild ones. Ours scavenge although there is a lot of undisturbed land here for them to catch wildlife. But we are a crazy cat household, full of rescued animals that needed a home when they turned up. On the odd occasion turned up...

A fox just came into the living room whilst I was sitting there!!!! I know they come in but this is the best look at it I've had so far. Young and unscarred, lovely looking creature.

minuet

Dragon dance

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Tinned potatoes eh? I've a tin, I bought two and tried one is a stewy soupy thing, or as we call that sort of thing, a stewp. It was horrible, IMHO. But doing them as you describe, well I can imagine that being quite nice. If we are confessing the processed foods we like, I'm with you on baked...

He got up!!! Yay. And in the meantime I now have a nice bag of nearly fitting clothes and some that are too big to freecycle.

lyre

Hi, it's good to see you here again. Sympathy with the less good stress and happy for you for the good stresses. Wish you well for the hospital appt, is there no chance of going to another group for a WI before you go away? Anyway, do lots of swimming ( ;) ) and do your best to stay on track...

seated

And .... everyone knows we have large bodies already, don't they? It's not as though going swimming will be a surprise for our friends. And I like your implication that by sheltering them from our skin we are assuming they have prejudices against our size. Off I go ...

YAY!!!!! I'm so happy. BeeBee is going swimming with her skinny friends. I'm glad that the article reached you. It made me think about my own comfort levels to be sure. The baked bean soup is apparantly very like Heinz Cream of tomato when made properly: 1 tin baked beans, 1 tin tomatoes 1 tin...

Our VEGAN heroine: 'Fiona Oakes, who looks after 400 rescues at Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, is now recognised by the Guinness World Records Organisation as the fastest woman ever to run a marathon on every continent - aggregate time, as well as the fastest woman ever to run a...

It's your choice. Have a break whilst you get yourself more sorted, or find a way of getting back on plan. You have had a lot on and an emotional situation that would have most of us reaching for whatever is our chosen thing to stuff in our gobs when stressed. Or in my case anything, choice...

It sounds like you'll be very good at maintaining then when you get there. Good news about mking better choices, the plan is there for you to pick up when you feel like it. Tbh, it's blooming hard to do without getting really motiated and determined, then I think when things get rolling again it...

Thanks Mal. I'll admit to feeling a tad peed off and unsreuctured this morning. I went to weigh myself, was horrified at what I saw so jumped off and did it again. And got a number much more to my likeing a few kilos lighter. So being rather doubtful by this stage I did it another couple of...

Courgette, butternut squash, tomato, cabbage, leek, peach, grapes, banana.

Supper. A sort of roasted rather than fried bubble and squeek with Tesco free from 'cream cheese' on top with roasted courgette, tomato and butternut squash. Peach for desert and I think I'll go back for seconds in a short while as I'm still hungry.

Karen

Not only have SW got a page of advice specifically for vegans now, they have added lots of new dairy free cheese replacements in the B list. It only occured to me to check for Green days. Sorry. There is Cheezly and Scheeze, Tesco free from spreads - great news for any one who has to avoid dairy...

Yellow

Note to self, don't forget the Pom crisps 3.5 syns.

Today's food, loads of fruit until about 3.30 when I had 2 ryvitas and 10g of Tesco free from cheddar style free from spread. So, I've 20g of that left to use and another couple of ryvitas if I want. There's some cabbage and leak cooking away to become bubble and squeek done with frylight. Today...

Imogen

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Yet, the illogic of choices, I'll wear a swimming costume in a public pool and the only difference is that with a bikini the tummy skin is exposed. It's pretty damm obvious that there is a fat tummy behind the thin layer of fabric! Perhaps partly to do with the fat prejudice we have...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hi Kami, thanks for dropping by and the feedback. It is a good read isn't it. The dangers of spandex LOL. Yet at the same time she makes a very good point.

I loved this. Why shouldn't fat women wear bikinis? Although, tbh, I feel very uncomfortable at the idea of wearing one myself. I THINK though, it's to do with feeling exposed and even if I were half the size I am now I wouldn't be comfortable. Although, the idea of being completely naked in an...

Breakfast, a banana, grapes and a peach. Proper breakfast at nearly midday was the rest of the pseudo ricotta with loads or raw tomatoes and a gherkin or two. Half a banana bread Nak'd bar. Have been to the vet's with our own poorly Albert. An enormous cat with a bad limp. It turns out he has a...

Honk, and honk again for the last couple of days.

So good to hear you sounding more positive. Getting the air cleared is indeed good. Another positive side effect of work, apart from the exercise is the boost of having your own money. What you have really earned yourself. All your focus is going to start really paying off now.

Thanks ;) Rather liking what I saw, I scale hopped again, it was 16.10 woo hoo, my version of sucess express seems to work. I'm keeping the syns to around 10 a day but otherwise am eating mainly fruit and veg. Yesterday: More peaches than I can remember, a banana and an apple. A few...

Poor Billy. what sad news. Did the vet have any idea what it might have been? I hope it wasn't an infectious disease that his sister is at risk of going down with. Hugs to you all.

Turin

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Rotorua

It's still half gone now because you have got yourself on track again. Despite the sweets and everything. I stick by my previous comment ;)

Yesterday I had LOTS of fruit and veggies, here is a new chilled soup recipe. Into a blender put: 1 peeled and chunked cucumber, 1 tin of chickpeas, rinsed, half a tube of Sainsbury's tomatoe puree with garlic (or tom puree and real garlic) onion salt and some more onion powder. Add enough...

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Paris

Chilled soup made of chick peas, tomato puree with garlic, onion granules, onion salt all liquidised together. Fruit salad of banana, strwaberry and grapes.

AND two raffles bars, 4.5 syns each I believe. Still in under my 15.

Oh no! Get well wishes to boy bun - what a birthday! And congrats on 2lbs, good going even if it wasn't as much as you had hoped for.

Food: Salad with a tin of chickpeas, roast peppers from a jar, lettuce and tomatoes. 1 very very large bowl SW chips with roast courgettes, 2 small plates of this and more to have as a snack Apples, grapefruit and I think a mango - possibly not. Tonight's snack, warm almond milk, cherries...

Salad of chickpeas, roasted red peppers, tomatoes and lettuce with some herby flavoured salts.

As you know we've autism in our family, with co-morbid mental health issues, but have been supported. For my son anyway, OH has mostly just been left to get on with it apart from when he presented at A&E suicidal. A thought, when I've been wanting to run away from my family I've looked at...

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:( I got brave and did the conversion. I've some work to do to get back into the 16s even first thing in the morning and wearing considerably less than I do when in public.

Woo hoo, I was completely on plan yesterday. Maybe a bit light on the SS and SF but I did it. Not a binge in sight and had treats with in the limits.

PS didn't mean to suggest that the idea that the situation with stressed teens can/will change was a new one to you, :) just wanted to give a personal example.

Oooooh, sheet. Major changes. But they sound like it could be the beginning of a new life for you. If you've been unhappy in your marriage for a while then getting out whilst you still can sounds good. Presumably you've not been posting about the bad times here, but this is rather surprising...

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