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the most amusing thing about ziggy is how posh he seems to think he is...

the only way it can be stopped is by not buying off ebay or for ridiculous prices. i know cambridge have tried to stop it but everyone knows you can still get it off ebay if you have massive amounts of money to spend! it is disgusting, you're right, but people have been exploiting people who are...

i loved this show! had tears in my eyes almost all the way through! x

she is great! i am so pleased she won! does anyone else think she has lost a lot of weight suring the series? she looked fab in that black outfit at the end!

im so excited for you all and wish you all the best losing weight for your weddings and being slim, beautiful, happy brides! xx

i am 26 next month and i hope i dont look that old!

he is really old looking!!

aw, thanks gen! nobody i know as said i look like her. i think it's just the photo! x

wish i was as skinny as her! haha xx

i love both these things. had a frozen choc tetra for my brekkie too! i normally leave them to defrost for an hour tho rather than mic 'em.

thank you! good to see you! day 5 feels pretty good :)

hey nikki. crikey, that must have beeen so stressful. glad you've got the all clear though and are back on track. you'll get there in the end. just keep plodding on! hey happe. i must got catch up with your diary. bet you've transformed AGAIN since i was last one here! i'm on day 5 of CD and...

hi nikki. good to 'see' you. how are you? x

wow, you're teeny tiny! you look great. well done! x

ooh, how does this work? i love reading about a new diet! is there one thread on here that explains it all that i havent seen?

slimfast doesnt get you into ketosis does it? that's the main difference?

hey jules, bex and mini! thanks for the words of support. good luck to you guys too. well done getting back on track jules. bex- i'm sure you'll be looking lovely by the end of the month. sometimes a fast-approaching event is just the kick up the basckside we need eh?! mini- how are you...

thanks chelle! x

hello all not been on here for ages. had some ups and downs and some pretty crappy times but all sorted now. however, due to comfort eating i'm now busting out of my size 12s and not at all happy. don't know how much i weigh cos i threw my scales out! on day 3 of cambridge and doing ok...

any nice food under that rock? i am starving marvin! x

like that was ever gonna happen...;) :)

thanks hon. i still think sw is a great plan. it has worked for me in the past but not this time sadly x

what a sweet girl. the mum seems to be encouraging her to eat all the wrong things though? like subconsciously sabotaging her diet? did anyone else think this?

i agree with happe x

ah, step away from the takeaways!! stop! draw a line under, don't let it snowball, up your water and get right back on it. xx

hey ladies. i'm back on cambridge 790 programme as sw was doing nothing for me except putting weight on! it may not be the most sensible long term option but hey. x

that's the problem. all the stats tell you that most dieters put their weight back on. i'd be interested to know what the percentage of people the regain on vlcds is though. does anyone know? thing is, the most important thing is to make sure you're not one of them isn't it?! xx

i don't believe that. i have one of those little trampettes and the max wight is 15 stone. a big one must be able to take more! i don't want you to risk your safety but i wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturers are just being over cautious?

hey bathany. i think we all have bad days like this. i hope you're a bit chirpier now? do you know what, it's when i am at my most fed up with myself that i do best at sticking to a diet because i tend to think 'enough is enough, i am fed up of being miserable!" so maybe try and turn the...

what a shame you're feeling so confused and guilty now. i'm sure your uncle has the very best intentions but it's a little unfair to make you thinik it is all fine and then to make you feel guilty by saying he has to borrow money to replace his savings. do you think you would stick to a vlcd...

you'll get ripped off royally on ebay. im sure a kind cdc on here will come to your aid. sit tight x

hope someone can supply you hon. if not, in the meantime, stick to add a meal foods maybe? or think about getting slimfast?

wow karen! amazing! nice dresses. where are they from? x

oh dear. poor you. well done for not comfort eating x

sounds like a good plan! x

ooh, you poor thing. you can get cranberry extract tablets from boots etc but id get an over the counter if i were you x

i would say the same as the others. out of interest, how come nobody knows you're on it?

congrats on nearly being where you want to be and wel done for upping the man count! i'm sure ypu'll be an inspiration to other x

it is a great photo in terms of how skinny you look! good on ya! x

hope you have a great weekend. what fab weather for it! can't wait to see pix! x

best of luck xx

so so sorry to hear this awful news. i'll pray for you xx

brilliant!!!

hey, at least you're paying your taxes! i'm sure they won't blacklist you just yet debs! x

that is so kind and generous and such great news for you.i'm excited for you! x

well you have lost nearly two bloody stone. i'm not surprised! be great if you could bottle that feeling huh?!x

there's so many reasons hon. we're all different. it depends on how much you have to lose in the first place, how active you are, your metabolism, genetic make up, whatever. just think though. 2lbs a week is 8lb a month- more than half a stone. 3lb a week is 12lba month- nearly a stone. that is...

there you all are! wez- i know how you feel having stuck to it and put on. in fact, i am now scared to weigh because if ive put on more i'll just feel like crying/screaming/totally giving up! keep plodding on though eh? beats eating crap all day long. glad you had a good hol, howie. 3lb is...

excellent work!!x

oh ok, more4 not channel 4. now it makes sense! thank you hon x

what time do you think it starts? that says 11pm but my now and next on digital says there's something else on until 11.10pm? i should be having an early night but i wanna see this. tralier looked good.

hey karion. i know you're the queen of maintenance and i didn't do maintenance (tut tut) but i still don't think the maintenance stage is enough to teach you how to get rid of your bad habits, not at all. i mean, why should it? or how could it? it would be asking a hell of a lot of a diet to be...

think this goes to show that great as Cd at getting the weight off, it doesn't really teach you to change your eating habits. and that's from a former CDer...

i wonder if they have shares in coke zero?! lol. only kidding. that's good to hear. maybe we should start a thread on it to raise awareness?

best of luck. you'll find all the support you need here xx

totally agree on the lifestyle thing! pays to have the right kind of glossy magazines around!

good idea hon x

hey cj. missed you there cos your pix took ages to appear. as you already know, i think you look great, honey x

yes, definitely, hon. i was doing all green and put weight on, so is wapped to mainly red and havent weighed since then. then this last week has been ill and not sticking to it but not eating a lot. i think the weigh in got me down so much before when i put no weight after sticking to it, i'm...

sounds healthy enough hon. good luck with it. not long til turkey now is it? x

yes it is and that strawb and kiwi was definitely allowed last time i was on Cd. very nice it is too x

bloody outrageous! you've been telling people stories again, haven't you? i knew it!!

ok, so i've been ill what with wisdom tooth out and then the nasty ear infection so that's my excuse. where is everyone?! come back!! i haven't been on sw the last 5 days. been on so many tablets that made me feel sick and then not being able to eat solids cos of the tooth out so i've eaten...

they must think it's a stronger story with just her for whatever reason. us journalists are notoriously fickle..

damn it, forgot persuasion was on and not got any videos!

starting at 9pm, one after the other. should be a good night's telly! x

to be honest, if the only thing you're worried about is your clothes being too big for you, i'd stop worrying so much honey. hardly a downside really! :)

sounds like you've got it spot on! ;)

no, i think it's all very interesting, freedom of speech n all that!:)

very true. it's like saying "don't think you're getting something for nothing. if you don't have the money, don't waste our time"!

LOVE IT! x

well done so far and glad you're enjoying it. stay off the lettuce and mustard though! lol.. if i were you i'd save the weigh in for the end of your first week and have a nice, big surprise! x

sorted then. onwards and downwards. no point crying over spilt milk as they say. good from now on! x

i see a tom fan club forming..

food for thought indeed (pardon the pun!).. it's interesting to get everyone's opinions. out of interest has anyone had help from the NHS with eating disorders other than overeating? someone made the point that if she was anorexic it wd be a different story. has anyone found that to be true...

aaaaaaaaarrrrggghhh!! MEN! that's all i have to say on the topic...

sounds like she knows how to hurt you eh? has she catually got breast cancer or has she just found a lump cos it isn't exactly the same thing. sounds like a guilt trip to me. if she has then obviously that's terrible, but it doesn't mean you can suddenly forgive all the bad stuff. i'm sure it'll...

i think a lot of GPs could do with bucking up their dieas when it comes to weight loss. not all of them, but i have never had a positive experience when looking for weightloss help/advice from a doctor. when i got to goal on cambridge i went to my GP and said i think i need counselling as i look...

sound totally weird!!

congratulations and good luck with your pregnancy x

i reckon you'd look way too skinny at 11-12 stone so your goal is probably about right x

good, work tom. you look really different already x

aw, what a nice way to put it, jane!:)

another interesting point, amandajayne. kind of along the lines of should the nhs pay for smokers and obese people in general if they don't look after themselves. there's no clear cut answer but it's useful to discuss it i think.

i agree to an extent, helen. i didn't realise the LL thing was a complete medical. still seems a lot though. and in the context of the govt wanting to cut obesity (and its drain on the nhs) doctors shdnt really be doing things to discourage people from following a diet at their own cost. in the...

wowser. that's a lot. i can understand charging and in a way, diccouraging people because it's taking up doctor's time for ill people when we all know how hard it is to get an appointment these days. that said, it toally goes against the govt drive to cut obesity and if people lose weight in the...

oh it's gorgeous! i don't wanna know how much it is because it is probably a massive bargain compared to anything i'm looking at in london! is it a new build?x

hi hon. best of luck. i went from a size 18 to a 10 on CD and am a size 12 two years on. it does work! good luck! x

it is so hard getting back on Cd after you've been off it so i sympathise. my battle at the moment is NOT going back on CD even though i want to embrace it like an old friend! i know i can't keep going on and off it forever.

not bad today thanks hon. now the ear pain's virtually gone i seem to be more aware of the tooth pain which i didn't notice at all the last few days. i don't think the painkillers know where to go what with dodgy ear on one side of my head and tooth hole on the other! i would be suffering...

love it!

bloody weird song!

not bloody surprised! doesn't bear thinking about..

lol...x

yeah, but, yeah but.. since i've been off work being an ill person my body clock's all over the place. late nights and lie-ins and waking up in the night to take more tablets. not good!

i am! (puts hand up)

argh! that all sounds awful! and you had that under local? BRAVE!!!!

blimey. was yours impacted? was there something extra awkward about it? i reckon they gave me sedation cos they saw what a scaredy cat i was. maybe also cos my tooth was unusually close to the nerve endings and there was a risk of nerve damage. i had the top dude senior surgeon do it for that...

stopped using straws today. paranoid im gonna get something stuck in the gap. being good with my saltwater rinses though. yeuk..

yes, you and your teeth, you dont do these things by halves. mine went so well. conscious sedation, cant remember a thing after the injection, no stitches, no bleeding after leaving hospital. i was so scared as well. no need..

aha, but what about your forum addiction?

i've been eating them all week. mushy fruit good when you have a hole in your mouth huh?!

you have to have a check after wisdom tooth extraction?

cool. look forward to it x

lol, ok! :) thanks!x

any advice or recommendations on anything i can take to boost my immune system and make me feel a bit less run down? i'm currently recovering from a nasty ear infection and on strong antibiotics. since november my wisdom tooth was infected three times and i was on 2 lots of antibiotics every...

inspirational as ever! what is it with everyone getting better hair when they lose weight? i certainly did and seems everyone on here just gets better hair, better clothes, trendier and younger looking as they lose weight. go girls! x

i put on a stone over about 2 years. could be a lot worse. i didnt do maintenance at all. tut tut.

it's a weird one cos i went to A&E intitially, the doc wrote up my notes, gave them to me to give to A&E reception on the way out, that will somehow find its way to ENT and they will apparently be in touch with next available appt. now considering this is to check i have no hearing damage you'd...

i have read a few scare stories lately about home whitening and using bleach gel too strong, blistered gums etc. i think this is mainly caused by ill-fitting trays. in which case, having proper trys made then doing it at home for £99 (see my last post above) is probably a safer way to do it...

long may your luck continue. great loss. well done x

further into central london but not sure where yet. am putting everything in storage and moving in with my aunt and uncle for a couple of months to give myself time to look around and decide and also to make it a nice, easy, chain free sale. i still co-own with my ex and the time has come to...

if you're on a budget, this looks pretty good- The Smile Place offers a unique teeth whitening system for only £99 my friend's just got a kit so i'll let you know how she gets on. x

i'm selling mine soon. had valuations at the weekend and was also pleasantly surprised. i always think fresh flowers or green houseplants are nice, as little clutter as possible. i plan to minimalise a bit- hide away anything that'll make things look clearer- like i have loads of photo frames...

sorry to hear you've had the same prob as me. i reckon it's Cd-related myself. it is hard to keep motivated when you keep gaining. tell me about it. i'm ill at the moment but when i'm better i need to have a long hard thing about which diet to follow or if i should stick to sw.

on the mend, hopefully thanks, lesly. feeling a lot more human today. put on clothes and make up, went into town with my dad and had a coffee and did a little bit of retail therapy. definitely a lot more human and have halved my co-codamol dose (was probably overdosing) and also have more...

as someone with a nasty old ear infection myself im pleased to hear you havent got one! hope you feel better soon. annoying the docs cant give you anthing when you're feeling rough tho isnt it? x

brilliant! shows what you can achieve when you set yourself a goal and really go for it!:)

feeling a bit better today. yesterday was awful. felt so nauseous on all the medication i actually tried to make myself sick. but cos i hadnt eaten much apart from co-codamol, it wasnt happening. today i have an appetite on and off but as my food choices are still limited to mushy cos of the...

have a fab birthday x

wowser. there's more men out there dieting than we're led to believe! well done all of you on some great results! x

kerry katona's iceland ads. AAAAAARRRGGGHH! she has a new one out as well. i thought i'd seen the back of them.. my boss hates the picture loans ad(so do i) because she said it gives people from the north east a bad name. lol. my faves are the M&S food porn ads even though they make me...

i think you're thinking about it too much! justs ee what happens! i kind of agree with what everyone else says. you can be mates with someone you've slept with but it can also throw up a lot of complications.. x

having read this it all makes much more sense. it's human nature to be threatened by someone else's success i'm afraid, even when it's people who love you and have no need to be threatened x

you're doing this diet for your own reasons so why are you letting other people decide what is right for you? they knew exactly what they were doing when they told you you were looking ill and then you ate a chinese. i know they probably dont mean any harm but i find it really annoying when...

what do you do for a living if you dont mind me asking?

ooh, my fave! well, on the basis that most of the food there is rice or noodle based, if you go for a veggie option it'll be less syns. their ramen- noodle soups- are no doubt less fat (and less syns) than the fries rice or fried noodle dishes. they even do salads. you'll be fine. just resist...

wow. you really are having some mega losses! amazing! hope you feel better soon x

definitely, whatever your age! x

EAC :: Bullous Myringitis :: 1 if you're not too squeamish, this is what's going on inside my ear (thanks rach!) still in loads of pain and struggling to eat much because the antibiotics are making me feel nauseous. hopefully another 24 hours and i might be a bit better. for now it's still a...

welcome susan! tell us a bit more about yourself... x

yes he is, bless him. he's being a star x

well, the wisdom tooth thing went very well yesterday morning. had conscious sedation and cant remember a thing about it. dental surgeon did a very neat job by all accounts cos i didnt even have stitches. they dont give you antitibotics these days, just ibuprofen, but all seemed to be recovering...

you see, once you do a vlcd you cant leave it alone. but you cant keep going back to it forever. so what is the answer? someone tell me please cos i am gagging to back on a vlcd, impatient about the loss on normal diets but knowing it isnt good for me to keep doing it!

thank you. i am really really nervous right now :( xx

shouldnt you be busy enjoying your wedding night?! you look lovely. congrats x

aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww!!!!

one track mind....:rolleyes:

you could just do gred days but there are plenty of things you can have on a green that dont have wheat in them- like rice and spuds. green days arent all about pasta. and you can get wheat free pasta anyway- you'll have to check that's free. don't fret. sw is a great diet! good luck! x

you look fab. well done!

maybe thre antibiotics arent working because there's no food in your tunny and you're usually meant to have them with food. i think you need to get down any food you can, whather that means coming off the diet for a few days or not. like mini says, you cant ss when you're ill and you wont get...

wow marie! like a different person! x

audi, for sure!

congrats! can't wait to see pix! you sound so happy, it's lovely! x

this is a toughie. i did cambridge a couple of years ago. lost 4 stone and went froma 16/18 to a 10/12. i am size 12 two years on but my relationship with food is wrecked and i struggle to diet 'normally'. i can't diss Cd because if it wasn't for it i might still be really overweight now, but in...

thanks linda. i have no intention of stopping the painkillers early! i am one of those who takes as many as she safely can if it means less pain!

i'm having them out in orpington hospital x

very good point. hope you're ok hon x

better to eat free food. you're just following the diet. it's not like it's cheating! go eat your noodles, girl! x

i've never given birth but a few people who have, who have had wisdom teeth probs, have said the same as you. certainly makes me feel like less of a baby! the pain i have had from infections just made me want to cry!

where do you get those whitestrips?

fired up, lady! go girl! good luck. xx

ooh, how exciting! congratulations!!

thanks for the reassurance! if you've had tonsils AND wisdom teeth out you might have exhausted your ice cream excuses. damn shame!! xx

thanks mini. have looked at some similar things and although theyre really cheap they dont put your home on findaproperty and rightmove which are the two everyone seems to use. in the grand scheme of things, and considering the house is worth a lot more than i hoped, i think i can stomach paying...

i hate H&M. their sizes are definitely small and all over the place. don't worry x

i nearly went to work for the conpany that publish that mag last year (on a different mag) and iw as gonna try and sneak my way onto it. i think it's really good.

not sure really. very open minded. somewhere more central london, near a tube station. other than that, wherever really! been single a year now after splitting with my ex just after we moved here. luckily he moved out and i stayed here. im gonna put my stuff in storage for a couple months and...

aw, thanks girls! i feel a return to liquid diets coming back- but maybe ice cream rather than cambridge? lol.

cj you look fab in your pix, are you sure you need to lose more? maybe this is your body's natural weight? esp if you've maintainedfor so long? x

having put on myself slimming world i know how annoying it is but i think cj is probably right and even though it's hard, stick with it and see if your body sorts itself out. nothing more annoying though, i feel for you!!

eeek! am scared! hate hospitals, hate dentists, hate injectons. this involves all three! however, this tooth has been infected three times since november and each time one side of my face has swollen right up like the elephant man so i'm best rid of it. diet is going to go to pot as apparently...

had three estate agents round today quoting me from more than 2% to 1.25% (halifax) and halifax were so much more professional. think i'll go with them. and nice surprise on the valuations as well- between 197-215k and bought it for 170k a year ago. all improvements have been pretty much...

wow, you look amazing!! well done chick!

weds- green brekkie- none before lunch- 2 packs of ryvita minis lunch- jacket and baked beans afternoon- satsuma, grapes dinner- pasta n sauce (can you tell im skint?! lol) feeling bloated and horrible x

hmm. there's some ideas for red dinners. when i did sw first time round i often used to have a 'fry' up for dinner!

i dont vary hardly at all. i guess out of laziness or cooking for one. not sure. maybe it isnt helping me lose?

i'm fed up too cos ive put weight on with sw and since discovering i had put on 7lb i am actually too scared to weigh again. plus green days make me feel like a bloated heffer but red days are too pricey. argh! ok, rant over!

bloody hell. really makes you think. thanks for sharing. can he speak now? what happens when you have your voicebox removed? glad to hear he has back at work and i'm sure you have been a massive support. x

i dont trust this mix to max thing. stick to what i know, i say!

i wondered how long it'd be before someone said that. trust you, cheeky mare! lol. actually, i am green day jen again this week. red days cost too much and i am skint! mixing it up a bit... x

always knew you were a bit posh on the sly! lol. wow. i love lobster but can never bear to shell out (pardon the pun!) for it in M&S. will look out for it!

that's really kind if it isnt too much trouble to dig it out?

that's very cool! x

i dont go to class but i keep meaning to buy one off ebay. i guess if i go online and search for lidl on syns online that might work?

i too smoked like a train on ss. felt like it was my lifesaver but really it was killing me. however it is so hard to give up both. i lost my weight first. got to goal, waited a few months, then tackled the smoking. put on a few pounds but beats lung cancer eh? both my dad's parents died of...

just be careful about missing the patches. i did this a few times, thought i was fine then BHAM, suddenly craving again. not worth the risk. i'd suggest wearing the patch every day for at least a month, even if you feel like you don't need them. bit of a safety net. i only used them for 6 weeks...

i feel sick when i see people abusing themselves like this. disgusted in a way at their lack of self respect and care for themselves but mostly heartbroken and feeling like crying x

friend at work had it done thursday. she was back at work today, right as rain and delighted with the results x

just realised there is a lidl near work and wondered if anyone shops there and knows of anything they sell which is free food or low syn? thanks.:)

excellent work cj! i'd be delighted with that. not sure when to weigh in next as i was bad at the weekend. maybe next monday after a full good week? xx

mullerlight are. not sure about that partic cottage cheese. someone will know!

tuesday- green breakfast- 2 weetabix before lunch- grapes and one pack of ryvita minis lunch- jacket with low fat cottage cheese dinner- pasta n sauce grapes

i am eating a shedload of fruit. when i say 'fruit' i sometimes men a whole bunch of grapes and some apples! i am eating loads of fruit. do you think this might be slowing my weightloss?

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! i had absolutely no idea! thanks for telling me. lucky i've only had three in about three weeks!

welcome debz! any questions, just ask. someone will have the answer! best of luck, hon x

best of luck. it does work or so many people wouldnt do it! x

you look terrific. you've definitely lost years as well as pounds! x

monday- green brekkie- fruit healthy extras- ryvita minis lunch- fruit and mullerlight dinner- pasta and sauce

i am having a green week this week to mix it up a bit and because i find them so much cheaper. red lunches are hard. i normally ryvita with laughing cow light and ham. getting bored of that now tho! maybe soup from healthy extras with bread? i was going to try that. x

glad to be useful! x

how horrible. do they have weight problems by any chance?

how is it going sejay? x

brilliant! well done! it does work! x

i am refusing to go back to cambridge even though it is very tempting! going to continue eating healthily and following SW, mainly red days, and just see how i go. CD might fix my flabby bits but it won't fix my bad relationship with food or poor body image. janey, i don't eat loads on slimming...

i've been away this weekend with friends to Bath, so SW has gone by the wayside i'm afraid! but it could have been a lot worse foodwise and i had a fabulous time. back to it tomorrow..

hi hon. it's my friend moving to norfolk, not me. upton. do you know it? x

i'm just starting my fourth year Ou and it's great. there's another thread on here about it i started last week if you search for it x

what do you think of this? 1/2%: London Online Estate agents and Letting agents. Agents Let Sell property in UK. you're basically paying them 0.5% to take your pix, give you a board and put your details on rightmove and findaproperty. seeing as everyone looks on the net these days, provided...

what percentage commission did you pay your estate agent and any top tips?

wo, wow and more wow! massive congrats everyone. you look fantastic x

oh you poor thing, geri! (is it bad that i have had a little chuckle to myself at this thread? sory, hon!). is it sorted yet? as a blondie i can't help much i'm afraid. hope it gets sorted soon. and no bloody dishwasher tablets on your head again, you daft thing!

going back after a year off is a shock to the system but as it turned out i'm glad i took last year off cos during that year i got made redundant, bought a house and split up with my fiance. don't think i'd have had time! lol. everything back on track this year i'm pleased to say x

i wouldnt call myself a former anorexic, bullemic or compulsive eater but i definitely have an eating/body image disorder which i fear i will never get rid of.

i totally empathise with what you're going through. i too am so tempted to go back to cambridge but i have been doing that on and off for 2 years since i got to goal. cambridge isnt designed to be a diet for life. it is a quick fix and it does totally work but if you try and do it forever it...

nice one honey. food diary helps. i'm keeping up with mine xx

well you know you cant actually put on 4lb fat in a week so it isnt as bad as it seems. draw a line hon. you know where you went wrong, you wont do it again. x

wednesday - green fruit for breakfast, baked potato with butter (syns) for lunch, quavers this afternoon (syns), pasta with homemade tomatoe sauce and veg for dinner and about to tuck into a toffee mullerlight

oh, not so bad thanks hon. keep up the good work. well done for not turning that into a binge. good work xx

hello ladies. managed to stay on the wagon today. actually havent eaten a lot. apple and banana for brekkie, ryvita minis for snack, ryvita, cheese spread and ham for lunch, fruit mid afternoon, fish and veg for dinner and thats it!

welcome, welcome and good luck xx

i totally sympathise. see my thread "i've put on weight with sw!" i am trying tos tick with it and hope my body wil sort itself out but it is depressing. it is also so hard as it is to go from Cd to any other, normal, slower diet. when you put ON weight it is a bit soul destroying. but we cant...

sunday well despite yesterday and my disastrous weigh in today, i have stuck to red days today, not even had any sins. i had a mullerlight for brekkie and then just ate fruit for the rest of the day until dinner time. for dinner i cooked two small tuna steaks. i wrapped them in foil with...

thanks howie, that was such a nice post and really full of wise advice! thank you. i am trying my best to keep plodding on and not despair and go running back to cambridge because i know as well as you do that i cannot keep doing that. it is not a way of life and half the reason i started sw was...

excellent attitude, roch. good for you!

i'm going to carry on with red days for now and see what happens in a couple of weeks. if i keep putting on weight i'll be back on cambridge otherwise i'll never be slim for my holiday! it just feels like a constant battle..

i think my body is all over the place. i havent been on ss long terms for over a year and i havent been on it at all for months. it is all so confusing. i have really enjoyed eating healthily,cooking, all the fruit and veg etc and now to feel like it is making me "fat" is horrible. i feel...

lol. i like your way of thinking, hon! x

well i went to boots today and weighed on proper scales. i have definitely put on weight since starting sw. about half a stone in a month. this is the first time i have been over bmi 25 since i got to goal with cambridge. it's freaking me out. i want to go back on cambirdge but i know i cant...

hi roch. well done on the ss-ing. any time you feel like you're gonna fall off the wagon (which you're not!!) log on and read all these posts and remember how many people think you are fabulous and have faith in you finally doing this. do it for your son as well as yourself. sounds like you have...

i just see it as a big messed up day! i am gonna go easy on the syns for the rest of the week, started today with a mullerlight for breakfast x

ok, so after being really good yesterday, i completely messed up today, with little persuasion! i spent the day with one of my best friends and her baby. she is moving to norfolk next week and this was the last time i'll see her for a while. a bit sad now :-( and she had a hangover and we ended...

haven't treated myself yet but am going to get teeth whitening after i have a wisdom tooth removed (eek) this month and once that's all healed up and better. to be honest, i have no idea how ever afforded to amoke in the first place but that's addiciton for you. cheb- so sorry to hear about...

that's how i understand. she cant sole source anymore but she can still do cd to target x

do you mean bleaching or bleaching with laser treatment? because if it's so bad for your teeth, why do most dentists offer it? and it is surely better to have a dentist do it prfessionally than to do it yourself at home? i appreciate your advice but basically im not preapred to have yellow...

you let your boyfriend decide what you're gonna weigh?!

and it did make me laugh, being so scared of trying a fruit! lol. x

thank ladies! x

thanks cj! i havent bought all the right stuff yet but i am going to try some of these very soon! going to have some kind of savoury mine for my dinner tonight. x

cool!:)

i think it's equally important to consider how an animal has been looked after as how it was slaughtered.

it's a constant struggle isnt it because so often when you go to these beautiful places you're surrounded by poeverty and it does make you feel guilty. but then hat do you do? stop going and keep valuable tourist money out of a place? it is very difficult. because i'm the sort of person who...

i'm a meat eater. i didn't by any means enjoy watching it and it was mostly from behind my hands, but i was actually reassured by how wuick and humane it was with the pigs and sheep. the chicken really disturbed me though, because of the way they seemed distressed. it would actually make me...

hope it is ok to have this in the sw thread rather than food diaries cos i hope my fellow sw-ers will keep an eye on me! i'm onto 3rd day of red days now after not losing on green and it's going well. i'm not hungry like i thought i would be. thought i'd keep a bit of a food diary here to keep...

totally understand where you're coming from. i like to think i'm clever enough not to be drawn in by what i see in magazines but i'm not sure really.. what is most frightening i think is that these days, if you're a size 8, there are two sizes smaller than you still. there was a time when to...

yes, i went on a special tour of the abbey after the first harry potter was filmed there and i always look out for it on the films! i took my american friend there who is a massive potter fan when she came to visit me. she went mad! i didn't realise camilla's daughter got hitched there but...

hey sonya. how are you getting on with it? i think ou is great. it's a big commitment but it's such an accessible and cheap way to get qualifications when you're working x

i'd encourage everyone to do it. it is so nice not to stink anymore and i reckon i'll be more likely to find the man of my dreams being a non-smoker (cos this is of course much more important than my health. lol). i'm going to treat mysef to teeth whitening after i have my wisdom tooth out later...

i did dd100 social sciences. did you do that one? isn't ou great?! x

what was it like?

i just started my fourth year after having last year off. i'm doing introducing religions. it's a level 2, 60 credits. i just got my first tma back. 72% woohoo! had forgotten how hard work it is fitting everything in, but i shall plod on as ever! i'm working towards a degree in international...

anyone here studying with them?

i can see how people fall into that cycle of never being skinny enough. there was a time i thought i'd be happy just to be a size 14. then i go down to a 10 and i still htought i was fat. now i look at photos and realise i was a bit too thin. but now i'm a size 12 and i feel really overweight...

ss-ing totally played havoc with my time of the month. the whole time i was on it, and on the pill, i'd have a period when it was due and another mid packet. great fun! is back to normal now tho.

hi roch i remember you from the pink site and have just been reading through your thread. just wanted to say how impressed i am with the way you keep determinedly plodding on and trying. i hope this time Cd works for you and you keep going with it until you get to goal. the one thing i learnt...

there speaks a fan! i grew up less then ten miles from there and when i go home it's one of my fave places to go, or take friends. could that village be anymore english?! it does help that the national trust virtually owns all of it!

you can imagine how messy you could get trying to use the home kit though? i dread to think!!

on the 1 april i will have given up smoking for eight months. i used to smoke 20 a day and had done since i was 16. i just wanted to say, it can be done! with the ban coming in in just over 3 months, wouldn't it be a good plan to give up now, rather than be forced into it? trust me, i never...

oooh, how much is that?

i like jane austen too. i watched the entire pride and prejudice tv series on dvd the other week with a friend and it was so hilarious (and colin firth was fit!). a lot of it was filmed in lacock in wiltshire, near where i'm from.