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so dinner was fine... no problem on the scales at least! ***FOOD ALERT*** I had a lovely steak and salad with a tomato salsa on top - delish and no problem on the carb from. I stuck to diet drinks and had one glass of prosecco and one vodka and diet coke. I am so pleased it is working...

I am sitting in the sun on the patio in front of my little flat in the heart of Edinburgh and wondering what to have for lunch! Bar, shake or soup. Right now I cant imagine having to bother with anything more complicated as far as food is concerned. I have added a meal in the evening and I am...

Its pay-day!! WOOO

Right... off to have half a soup - good idea as I always find them way too 'thick' tasting to eat all of! I make the shakes with 300ml and then lots of crushed ice which makes them go a lot further.

You look fabulous! What a great transformation... congratulations!

completely frozen! now taken to going to bed wearing my snuggly dressing gown and my socks and hoping a cat wants to sit on my lap or snuggle in and give me some extra warmth! (hubby complains my hands and feet are too cold so he's no good)

Nomore you are definately having a good day! Its so lovely to see a full on success!

WOOOHHOOOOO! It feels so good doesnt it!

okay... sorry if this is TMI for some of you ladies but I have just had my first 'proper' meal. OH and I lived in Japan for 4 years when we were younger and I have been making him japanese food while I have been doing TS - this evening I tasted it! I used Livestrong.com to count the calories...

bloomin whatsit dutch - thats awesome!

thanks valentine - feel like a bit of a fraud next to your amazing losses and determination!

So, I made a decision...I decided to go working solution. As someone who is at home everyday I spend some time making food for my OH while he brings home the money and it is just so incredibly dull eating 3 quite boring packs a day! I know that other people can do this for much longer (only 2...

A-maaazing darling! 102lb is just amazing - well done you! In the more immediate term... 5lb is fab-u-luss! (sorry having a Craig from strictly moment!)

Did my usual 20 mins cardio and 20 mins weights yesterday - today is a gentle stroll in the sun (well gentle meaning up the giant hill to the shops) and on my feet at my easle for a couple of hours at least...

Hi Valentine - I did the same thing with my wardrobe after my second WI (I lost 4 lb woo!)... well, almost - I only managed to put them into an old suitcase but I will lug them along to a charity shop soon! I go to the gym 3 times a week and for walks on the other days - at the gym I do 20...

Hmmm fortune cookie, I was thinking of investing in some basil to add to the tomato soups - I like the idea of dill too... I only have chives, rosemary and thyme but the thyme does work in the mushroom too. And well done Ems - I am annoyed with myself that I didnt measure at the start! Grrrump x

I dont know if there is somewhere I should post this but I am at the end of my second week on TS and starting to experiment with the soup flavours and I suppose everyone must have done the same so here is what I have done for the last two days (someone might tell me that this is wrong but here...

didnt do any today - not that I can tell YOU guys about!:flirt2:

What an amazing achievement - what an amazing inspiration!

:character00238:Happy Easter everyone:character00238:

Hey Ladygaga - WI this morning and that makes me 4 lb lighter and clothes a lot looser too! Hurray hurray hurray! I have picked out some 'aim-for' clothes as well and taken a photo of how they look now and hope to shrink into them bit by bit - my fave is a lovely cotton shirt dress that I dont...

What an amazing day! This morning we woke up in Edinburgh to the most miserable weather and having chatted to my family and heard about the lovely weather down there I decided that we should head out into the countryside to find the sunshine.... and we managed it too! We found our way to the...

okay, phew! Had a rant and a moan and a grump and a day of feeling wretched but here I am a day later and feeling tip top and fabulous! As the song says 'what a difference a day makes!'. I managed to stay 100% too so that can only be a bonus... so now I have positivity, another gym session...

Well, yesterday I had a real down. I felt things werent moving fast enough and started trawling through all my other options for diets and whether I would loose weight quicker another way... in other words persuading myself towards the fridge. At some point last night my husband started to ask...

thanks loads goodness... just what I needed to hear - here's to dreaming!

sorry - its a long one but its my diary page so... just words really!

I knew I would need this area for a moan... and it co-incides with a bit of a turn in the weather. This morning I woke up and got on the scales... since Sunday I have lost.... wait for it.... 1lb!!!:mad::mad::eek: that makes me completely miserable. I have been to the gym twice this week and...

YAY for 7lbs in the first week! Same, same, same! (sorry, having a 5 year old moment)

Hey Sorcha and Valentine - how did you get on this week?? Sorcha - we started at the same amount and a day apart... how did you get on? I managed 7lb in my first week which I was a bit disappointed with as I went out walking for 2 -3 hours each day towards the end of the week and expected the...

How did you get on for your first weeks loss?? I too struggled over the weekend in the good weather - we were wandering around Edinburgh centre with loads of cafes spilling onto the pavement... oh the temptation to join all those 'normal' people having a relaxed Sunday in the sun! Then I woke up...

today is good because the sun is shining and I have been sitting in my garden with my cats this morning and listening to the birds... bliss (especially as I live in Edinburgh - who says its cold in Scotland!)

Hurray for you! I firmly believe every day is a little battle won! On the shake front, I was really underwhelmed by them until I started making them like a smoothie... I put the water, powder and 4 ice-cubes in a blender, blend until really fluffy looking (especially the vanilla) and drink...

I am just lucky that I can hibernate for the moment so there isnt much temptation - looks like you handled it right though... onwards and downwards!

good luck and welcome from a fellow newbie (to the diet not the dieting!)

Hey Cam, I am on day 6 now and I have just got into the 13s having lost 7lb so far.... I am also in Edinburgh so it looks like we are all in the same boat! Good luck with your weight loss - I am sure that you are going to do really well. YAY for newbies!

heres to good days (naughty or not so naughty) over the weekend!

welcome welcome welcome, I only started last weekend but the results have been pretty awesome... erm, I obviously couldnt resist the lure of the scales or I wouldnt know I had lost 7lb already!

Hi Chaz, I got energy on Day 4 too! I was lucky to avoid the headaches but my life is definately not as hectic as yours - no kids and no work so feeling pretty good! Oh my word was I hungry for the first 3 days though! I have started to eek out my lunch time bars - at lunch I have bouillon soup...

ps hannah, my hubby and i have a theory that the moment we reach for a kfc, life has got baaaaad! Tasty southern coating it may have but there is something about eating from a bucket that makes you realise that things need a shake up!!

Hi sorcha... today IS a good day! I didnt manage to refrain from the scales again this morning.. promise to stop looking at it so much next week but this first week is so incredibly exciting! I got into the 13s! Only just there but my oh my it feels mighty good! It made me realise that I had...

ooo, good question! I am only a week in and I am thinking (dreaming) about it already - I suppose the 'failure' is fresh in my mind so it is easy to work out where I went wrong! I ignored the fact I am 'allergic' to carbs which means that when I have too many I swell up all over... seriously...

Good luck pixar, good to have you around!

happy birthday emms!!

Today is a good day because the scales (I am a slave to them every day but it is my first week) say I am now in the 13s!

WOOOHOOOO FOR YOOOOUUUHOOOOO - well done I hope my week two is as good!

I'VE noticed that too! it seems that every single ad break has a tonne of lovely lovely lovely looking food.. why did they have to start this week.. they did start this week right? when I started the diet on Sunday... maybe that's just in my region!

HOOOOONNNNNKKKKK (that's five days worth!)

SMILES....

what a happy place to be!!! you have lost soooo much and you know that the bras will be too small soon too - congrats to you Hannah I am the same! I need 2lbs for the scales to say 13 something! Keep on keeping on!

Day 5... day 5 and it feels like I have come miles, that I am an old hand at this - I know what I am doing! Thats a bit depressing though isnt it the fact that this is all so familiar is a sign that I have been here before... a lot. The first few days of a diet although physically a bit taxing...

So you may be firmly on the wagon, you might have been there so long that you are chatting with the driver on first name terms but you might also be trying to haul yourself onto the back of it and try and keep your balance over the rocky track.... I am hoping whatever your situation there might...

Phew, everyone is getting a bit hot under the collar on this one! I have done Atkins and lapsed then gained it back, LL and lapsed and put the whole lot back on and more and here I am trying to loose it all again... I am not new to the process! (wish I was!) My current position is one that I...

I couldnt download the whole thing but found it on you-tube in four parts... terrifying and not for those feeling down about their body already but it will keep me on the straight and narrow for sure! Thanks for the link!

Finding your lost Beatles CDs when clearing the house to move and rocking out on the way to work!

Nibbling to the end of a choco orange bar and hitting a rich seam of chocolate chips just at that 4 o'clock witching hour!:happy036: Any other silver linings out there?

I have just started... Hello... But i plan on keeping to the simple solution until after crimbo! I cant deal with explaining to everyone why i am sitting at lunch with a bowl of soup but at the same time dont want to put on the usual half stone over the hols... Damn those sweet christmassy...

Hi Aaron, my hubby and I followed this for three weeks or so - it is amazing and really REALLY good for core muscles and general all over goodiness... trouble is... we just kinda stopped doing it and never picked it up again once the momentum was gone. Answer: Dont give up I was doing really...

Hi Seren, You are not alone and don't feel so bad about it. I too have the deepest tendency for pigginess (otherwise I wouldnt be here). I also have wondered about the importance of the group in loosing weight (otherwise I wouldnt be here!). It is a really interesting question as I had...

hi there, I feel for you completely. I think the thing is to take one step at a time and to make sure you always have some atkins snacks to hand. Try to make sure you never find yourself doing so much organising for others that you find yourself stranded with nowhere to go but to the...

Aw Shucks, it's great to be here!

the last bits were going to be thoroughly rejected and only for my hubby to enjoy... not now though!

Hmmm, wandered into the clutches of Slimming World last November and signed myself up to a long-term package. The meat eating option isnt too bad for me but I am soooo allergic to carbs that it was always a struggle! I did find it a good way to maintain though so maybe in the future.... My...

Hi Everyone, After a long and depressing flirtation with the darkside of diets I find myself breathing a sigh of relief as I fall back into the comforting embrace of atkins! Today's brekko as cooked up by my hubby was a couple of fried eggs cooked runny, asparagus and bacon! Lunch was big ol...

I have a house-full at the moment but luckily we are all quite excited about the new Wii game Wii Resort which has bowling, archery, golf, frisbee, table-tennis, swordplay and loads more. The control has an extra attachment which makes it ultra-sensitive to movement and really realistic. Over...

Amazing lovely and now very poor hubby I should say!x

thanks all, it wasnt worth it but it was fun at the time... and Laura you are completely right its a food hangover. According to my OH I used to have them quite a lot but he hasnt had to suffer me suffering one for a long time! Sharon, I got some great prezzies! Universal vouchers from my...

It was my birthday yesterday... YAY! Food wise things started going downhill with a danish for breakfast and some fresh fruit. :break_diet: Now, I am generally a hard and faster but birthdays bring out the child in me and the child likes carbs... lots of them!:cry: Skip forward 24 hours and...

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When I was at my slimmest a long long time ago my closest friends would tell me I was too thin... I wasnt according to the bmi charts. These friends have known me all my life (always been a round thing) and I think they couldnt make the same connections to me in their heads. When we diet we...

ARG - you check out a great weight loss, jump off the scales, do a dance in the middle of the room, get dressed (hehe).... next morning you ruin it by jumping on the scales again! I've done it a hundred times. It will all come out in the end Sharon(or come off!). My tip of the day is a great...

hehe, so NOW there's a cure and atkins friendly by the look of it... my sister told me it served me right for eating pork scratchings which (obviously) are bound to reduce my immunity to it!! thanks everyone - its so nice to be back!

Once the Atkins flu went away I got off to a roaring start over 3 weeks ago but then I came down with the dreaded (S?)flu and have spent over a week moping around the house feeling terrible. :sign0137: I just wanted to say to anyone else out there that you should stick to it if you come down...

I have promised myself a really nice, relaxing trip to the hair dressers for my 5% goal! (my hair really needs a cut but I never find the time or money!). Compliments are really important to me on my journey - something I learnt doing another diet in another lifetime. Compliment people and...

I havent met caulirice yet Jim?! Some sort of delicious substitute?

always check the label... and sometimes realise that the label MUST BE WRONG!!!:angeldevil:

by the way... my scales register all the other percentage thingys but I dont let them get that far and jump off before they frighten me! Electric pulses when I am naked as the day I was born with slightly wet feet? Body fat percentages? I still like myself so cant bring myself to go through all...

Sorry about the delay.... doing really well and posted on the weigh in thread today! Those scales did creep out for the second day in a row again this morning even after my vow to my hubby! Promise no peeking until at least the latter end of the week!

No problem Laura... although I hate going to a shop and grabbing a size off the rack only to find out that someone put a size 6 on the wrong hanger!....The panic in the changing room as I cant get my 'normal' size over my knees before realising the error!! HEHEHE

oh yes and mackeral is a must for home-made smoked mackeral pate so it is definately 'in' for me - i agree with laura about tiny kipper bones though!

Think Kedgeree without the rice so a smattering of peas(careful!) small amount of onion with smoked haddock and egg cooked up in some butter with curry powder - awesome breakkie or anytime meal! For a bit more of a carb load whole fat greek yoghurt (check label) with some flaked/ground almonds...

YAY I am down 4lbs in my first week and feeeeeeeeelin gooooooood!:D

pleasure treasures!

Hi everyone, I was browsing through the fab scales tyranny thread started by Jim :happy096:and noticed how many people were chatting about tape measures. I run a wedding shop and so find myself concentrating on peoples measurements an awful lot! Dropping dress sizes (sorry no menswear!)...

I hide my scales under the chest of drawers in my bedroom with the mistaken belief that it might stop me from jumping on them every day! Still in my first week back on though and feel like I need encouragement that I am doing things right... Hubby has made me promise not to fish them out every...

Yesterday started fabulously with mozarella, cold meat and olives which made me feel like I was on holiday - the weather helped. Lunch was pate, cheese, salami, salad and avocado and supper was a bbq care of my sister! Fabulous food! Started the day today with a cheese omelette. YUM I am...

Hi Sue, Poor you - things like that take a lot of getting over. Like everyone says, do things in your own time. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dont beat yourself up over food. It sounds like you have enough to worry about. The wagon doesnt trundle out of reach - you can jump back on anytime! Good...

well, I went up to a friends for a hog roast. YUM! YUUUUUM! Ignored a lot of everything else and spent a lot of time crunching crackling! After a long stretch away.... being back on Atkins is so fabulously familiar!

hey all, sunflowers and fenix are SOOOOO right! Enjoy it all! I enjoyed it a little too much and put a bit of weight on but the seamstress sorted the dress. The weather was awful - we were dancing in a bog - but everyone remembers it as a really good party! I run a wedding shop and get worried...

Awesome! no mean feat either!:happy096:

Hi everyone, Like a lot of dieters, I have been on the wagon before. I have had some success and then watched gloomily as the weight crept back on. :sigh: This time I am back with a new brilliant tool.... all of you successful amazing people who have done it! Properly done it!:grouphugg: So...

first days Thanks Curvy, First day half way done and feeling positive about it! :innocent0002: I am determined to take things much slower this time. Step by step, day by day so I dont feel overwhelmed! Jojo x

Hi everyone, I am waiting for the arrival of my first order of CS. I did atkins years ago and lost a great amount of weight but it left me with a bad stomach (not very good at 'sensible' so ate v. high fat foods and nothing else!:jelous:). I put that weight on and did LL in time for my sister's...