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Hi ladies. I've been off line for a while. Moving house, no broadband for an age. I've had a week off Exante and mostly back on today. I'm calling it a flexi day today as I am nearly at 1000 calories. I've ridden my bike for nearly 38 miles today so not worried in the least. I'll have better...

I will. I don't allow myself cheat days as, if I fall off the wagon I can't get straight back on like lots of people can. It's easier for me to be strict with myself. Exante do enough 'treaty' type foods that I don't feel deprived. I turn the desserts into ice-cream pretty regularly. They are...

Just stick a spoonful of coffee powder in and then blend as normal :) I use a Breville Actiblend thing, I've had it for over 2 years and it's still going strong. You can have the shakes hot if you like but I add more water than the instructions say, add half a dozen ice cubes and blend the...

I would have a word with your GP about that. It's not normal and definitely something that isn't normal on SW. Have a lovely Easter

Not logged in for a fortnight :( Not sure what happened. I have had 2 weighs since I last posted and I lost 3lbs each time. I am now 20.6lbs down so very happy with that one :) another .4lb and I'll be a stone and a half down. A haircut should sort that, right?:D:p Still following Manplan and...

Well, Friday's weigh in was a bit pants. I have lost nothing at all but am down a good 4 inches over my body measurements. I know that Exante works so I shall just keep on keeping on. Eating was good today, even though my work day was a bit fraught and I seriously considered just going home...

I've been offline for a few days but had a good weigh day with a further 3.6lbs off, so I am very pleased with that. Manplanning away and riding my bike. I have had a seriously busy work day today so not riding and I had extra egg today as well as I walked over 21,000 steps. That's as well as my...

Hi. Welcome and well done for making some positive changes. I hated spinach as a child but love it now. I make Sag Aloo quite a lot (SW recipe) and have been known to chuck a slack handful in a banana smoothie. I know that it sounds vile but you can't taste the spinach for the taste of the...

Today has gone reasonably well. It was a work day and very cold out. I had a shake for my breakfast at 8.15am. I was going to have pancakes but we were out longer with the dogs than I anticipated. I do love Exante shakes and need to get some more shakes and bars. I'll have a look to see what...

Saturday went well. I was very pleased with myself actually. Breakfast was pancakes with an egg beaten in as I never know what time lunch is. It could be as early as 12.30pm or as late as 2pm. Turns out it was 12.30. I had my crab salad lunch and ignore the 2 humungous celebration cakes that a...

I actually meant that you've lost 2 stone since your start weight. I hadn't noticed the scales on feet bit. It's not me in my avatar pic either. That's a Cornish Tin Mine. If I get to that size, I'll really start to worry :D Do you measure as well? Waist, hips, chest, boobs, upper arm, mid thigh...

It sounds as if you are absolutely on plan. A bit of chicken or tuna is my go to food if I need a bit extra but I do Exante Man Plan. I too need to get on with things, weight wise. I find it hard at work when everyone is stuffing chips, burgers etc but I try and keep out of the way so that I...

Weigh day. 11lbs off :woohoo::0icanfly: Today has been a very good day. I will be happy with 1lb off next weigh day. I have done Exante before and know what week 2 can be like for the scales not moving so I'm prepared for that and not at all fazed by it. Eating has been fine today: Cherries...

I have never peed on a ketostick in my life and I don't get hung up on the ketosis thing either. If I'm in I'm in if not I don't get excited about it. I don't think that you can fail to lose weight on Exante so I don't worry about it really. The sticks don't always tell the truth.

Wednesday went well. Nice 11 mile bike ride. A social ride on the way back, so chatting with others, then solo on the way home and a bit quicker. Dog walking too so a nice day. I had: Cherries and Berries shake, ham salad, Hot Cross Bun bar and Bean Chilli and lots and lots of water. Today was...

Hi. I am hoping to get to around 11 stone by about early -mid May time. This is day 7 on Exante. I was very successful in 2015 and it stayed off until just after Halloween last yer and then it all went a bit sideways. I sit quite comfortably around 11 stone for about 9 months of the year and a...

Yesterday was good too. Hubster was off and we had an appointment in the morning so I had my breakfast banana shake with spinach a whole lot earlier than I wanted to. It was either that or wait until nearly noon to have it and I was worried that I might try and eat the stuffing from the car...

I used to mix up the porridge and pop a teaspoonful of baking powder in (bit of a cheat really) and put the mixture into silicone bun cases, cooked for 10-15 mins in the oven. You need to keep a bit of an eye on them TBH. They became little porridge muffins. If I was really having a treat - my...

I just fold the packet over a couple of times and stick a peg on it and pop it back in the box :D

Good luck and I hope it all goes really well. I used to work for Cambridge, back when I was in my 20s. Data entry clerk. We used to have Cambridge shakes for breakfast and lunch 5 days a week, if we wanted them. Sometimes bars too. They were getting near to their sell by date so we got them at work.

Yesterday was a good day for me. I started off with a lovely banana shake and chucked in half a dozen ice cubes and a handful of spinach - it sounds awful but it's not. It's really delicious and sticks to my ribs longer. Lunch was tuna salad with my neighbour and I said 'no thanks' to the...

Hi Silverlady I have enjoyed reading your diary and very pleased that you've had a good loss. Don't worry about that little .5kg sneaking back, it's just water weight. I use an app called Happy Scale, on my phone and weigh more than once a week, and it shows the downward trend of weightloss for...

Eat half a packet and then have the other half of your HEX later, it doesn't have to be the oats, I have been known to mix and match :D

First proper day back on manplan today. Breakfast was pancakes, tea was the gorgeous hot cross bun bar and evening meal was burgers. For lunch, at work, I had salad with a boiled egg and bit of ham. I run about at work like a loon as I work in a theme park. Stopping still is not an option so a...

I have to say that I've never had a problem with any of the flavours that I have tried, except for the Xmas Pud flavour which was a bit icky. I didn't have problems keeping it down though. I whizz mine up in my actiblend thingy with 7 or 8 ice cubes and a bit extra water and it ends up really...

That's awful - the rude woman, not the consultant. How dare she be rude to a paying customer. Is she always rude?

Hi and welcome. It's a nice community here - says she who lost her password and didn't log in for a month!

I, very successfully, lost 3 1/2 stone with Exante Man Plan during the spring and early summer of 2015 and kept that weight off until about October last year. Sadly, I became very depressed and lost all my healthy eating resolve, wasn't doing much exercise and generally lived on Hobnobs and...

Hi I search the deals and log in there a lot until I see prices that I like. I have just got 77 products for £60. It was on their 'buy £120 and get 50% off' deal. By choosing boxes of 7, each time, I got 11 boxes for the money, so pleased with that so 78p a meal. The deals have changed a lot...

Got caught in a huge rainstorm which washed all the mud of my bike for me :) My dog is asleep next to me My feet are lovely and warm

I've had a couple of very rough days. Wednesday was a bad day for anxiety and I was good all day and then had a massive anxiety attack and it went a bit down-bank from there. Yesterday was equally pants so I've put it behind me and back on it today, although I have oversynned a bit. Breakfast...

You might be better asking the same question in the Slimming World Introduction post sweetie. But in brief; Join your local Slimming World group and they will give you chapter and verse, a guide book and a ton of advice Every consultant is a Slimming World slimmer and they know first hand that...

Weighing every day won't really help much. Over time, you'll notice a downwards trend if you log it and you are watching what you eat and exercising but your weight will fluctuate on a day to day basis depending on all sorts of factors. I restarted earlier in the year and hid the scales and...

Great decision to have a good old restart. February is an excellent time and you have a ton of reasons to lose the weight. There is so much to eat on SW, no counting with the free food either so it's a real winner. I'm sure you and your BF will have lots of fun with new recipes and flavours...

Another day done. Grilled bacon (all fat removed) sandwich made with wholemeal bread today. Bliss. HEXB right there. I had a 2 egg omelette with a goodly dollop of quark chucked in to make it cheesy along with it as I knew that I had a busy day ahead and I didn't want to get peckish and...

Are you following any particular diet or just watching the calories? I do slimming world and have the 'fakeaway' recipe book so, at weekends, I can cook up a 'chinese fakeaway' or an Indian or whatever I fancy really and be done with. Hubster is deeply impressed and says that he prefers my...

Food and exercise diary for the day. It's been OK but not as veggie oriented as I'd hoped as I can't shift the dang boxes in front of the freezer. 5 syns - 2 x pink & white wafers HEX A has been milk for my cups of tea HEX B has been 35g oats in my overnight oats. I put extra frozen fruit as my...

Overnight oats is my go to breakfast. Except at the weekends when I have more time (it will be the other way about soon as I work in a touristy sort of job) when I whip up a couple of eggs and put a huge dollop of quark in there and make omlette. I add mushrooms, peppers and all sorts, sometimes...

Weigh day, for the first time in 4 whole weeks. I have lost 12lbs so I am totally delighted with that. That gives me a :mm007:and a bit for the month. :woohoo: It's raining out at the moment but I have my cycling clothing on the radiator rack/dryer thing and I live in hope. It's going to dry up...

Morning all. 12lbs off since I last weighed on the 2nd January. I'll weigh weekly from now on though. I'm rather pleased.

I have some Tesco ultraslim shake sachets in my cupboard. They are my go to option when I just cannot face food some mornings. I have them with unsweetened almond milk and they are lovely. Good luck, I'm sure that you will do just great. I did Exante a couple of years ago and I just cannot face...

Coming on here and stating your intentions is a big step towards your goal. Well done for getting into Boots and weighing without worrying about anyone else. I wish I were that brave. I've been known to weigh without my specs on so I can't see the horrors on the dial :eek:

A portion of porridge, made with 35g of porridge oats is your HEXB or 6 syns, I believe. It might be worth experimenting at home with how much that actually makes in a bowl to give you a better idea. I put fruit on my porridge, banana or some defrosted frozen fruit etc which is free...

Did you drink enough water do you think? Not getting enough water down you can slow up weightloss. I would think that this 6lb on is a blip, bit of water retention for some reason. Bodies are funny like that. I bet that you lose it and a bit more on your next weigh in.

It took me a while to get my head around quark, or at least my tastebuds. I love it now and always have it in the fridge. I chuck it in currys, soups, puds and allsorts. A little of that splenda type sweetener added, while you are getting used to it, can be helpful.

The day is about over. Eating has been good. 7 syns - 2 x pink & white wafers and 11g of Cadbury's Options choc (to make a mousse with some quark with) HEX A has been milk for my cups of tea HEX B has been a 50/50 kinsmill sandwich thin My free food has been: spaghetti hoops, baked beans...

All the time. I get 2 x toffee muller lights and stir it into a pot of quark. You need to be quite busy with your mixing in. I then freeze it for an hour, give it another stir, freeze for another hour, give it a stir, rinse and repeat until it's got a proper ice-cream consistency. It works with...

I have managed, horror of horrors, to let a little over 2 stone creep back on after losing 3 stone and maintaining for over a year and a half. I know what the problem has been; we moved to a hilly area and my cycling mileage went way down, as did my time on the bike. I have a relatively active...

Neither am I really but I kind of make myself get on with it as I'm a bit hopeless otherwise. We are moving soon so currently eating through the freezer so it will be as empty as possible.

I meal plan once a month. I buy tons of food, have a mega cook up for an afternoon and then put the resulting meals in plastic freezer boxes and then freeze them as 'ready meals' once they cool. Then all I have to do is take out the next day's meal before I go to bed. I do my overnight oats then...

Hi Is it too late for me to join the challenge. I have a 12lb target for the 1st Quarter of the year. Weigh day is Monday.

I can't say that I blame you. I did Exante, very successfully 2 years ago and the food was fine. I didn't try mousakka or the beef one (can't rememeber what it was called but was told it was vile). The curry was my favourite meal and was right up there with the chilli. They axed the chilli and...

1) I am getting right back into the groove of drinking more water again 2) I am one minute off my weekly bike riding time target (should have gone round the block but didn't realise) and I still have 4 days to go 3) My works rang today and offered me an extra shift this week. Our works is only...

Hi I'm new here too and a fellow Slimming Worlder. I do like the whole 'fill your boots' approach to SW.

Hi everyone I am a newbie to the site. I live in sunny Cornwall and need to shift a stone or so. I'm in my early 50s and losing weight is not as easy as it was when I needed to shift a couple of lbs in my 20s. I did Exante the year before last, and did very well and then followed Slimming...