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Hello everyone :o so sorry i have lost touch! I have not been on in ages, but i am so off the rails at the moment (while eating a chippy tea at the same time :cry:) I have loads to catch up on!, but i try as best i can to catch up on how you all are. I am still trying to figure out which diet...

Hiya Sorry for not being about. I will need to make an effort in coming on here. I hope your all OK, and getting on fine with the diets, and getting back on track again. I am doing the slim fast diet, got a couple tubs, and i started today with it, and i have already mucked up! :mad: hubby...

Well done on the weight losses ladies!!! :0clapper::D I am slowly getting down to what i was when i started this thread :o i am 1 lb off of it now. So i haven't really lost any weight, but i have lost 2lb this week though which has brought me down. Still got af, but hope that will go soon lol...

my totm has arrived! so i can relax now and get focused of getting the weight off :D So this morning i had a muller light apricot yogurt. and i have just had a pear, going to have a cup of soup (carrot and coriander) and a slice of bread with it. And for tea we are having chicken with low fat...

I just looked into that celeb slim Oli! thanks very much for that. I don't have a chemist close enough for me to get to easy for it, but i can order online. I was going to get those shakes that are on the low carb diet. But those celeb shakes look good to. I will ask hubby lol. Great to hear...

Hiya ladies!! hope your all keeping well. Well my totm is now 5 days late, still negatives tests, so i am going to try and forget about it lol!. I am putting it down to gaining weight :cry:I weighed myself this morning as my weight had seriously jumped up, so i need to delete my ticker as i...

I have never watched that program yet, but i did watch birth programs before i gave birth, and to be honest, i am glad i did lol!!. I would have loved to have a silent birth, i was rather loud lol!! but i didn't have pain relief because i believed i could do it with out, as its what woman did...

Just family troubles mainly not with hubby myself or our girls, but with my folks and my sister, not helping by me having practically every preggy symptom going, but its also the same as the time of the month coming to lol!. I do tend to eat what i give my kids, except the extras to, so its...

Bless ya, you will be when your ready! *fingers crossed for you* xx

Hiya Kirsty I have still not had a tom but if it is related to being preg, then i will be overjoyed, but if its related to the stress i have been through lately, then i hope it arrives soon. I will try and post more on here, might start up another thread, 'Elaines downer thread' lol!! i never...

Hiya Oli and determind and everyone Sorry for not posting much, i am worried atm, my totm should have showed up yesterday, and no sign of it today, but i am also stressing at other things going on atm, but the weight loss is just not happening this now. I need to get my head focused right now...

Hiya everyone. Hope your all getting on fine with the diets. :booboo:I am starting mines properly again on Monday, and i am just going to do slimmingworld/lower cal lol. I am getting more focused about loosing this weight, had a lot of tears and stress lately due to issues atm, but we are going...

Hiya everyone. Sorry for not posting for a while, just not feeling to good at the moment. I didn't weigh in, i haven't weighed in since i last posted :eek: which is a shocker as i usually do it at least once a day. I am feeling so sick :cry:feeling very sorry for myself lol. I need to get back...

Hiya ladies, hope your all having a good weekend Welcome Nicki :) best of luck loosing weight doing ww, i really hope you get a clear positive ovulation test soon, i know that feeling of testing and testing. I have been ovulating on the 20th day of my cycle, but i either just missed the day for...

Hiya Ladies :wave_cry: i am having a very low day today, my face is burning also today (was last night to, no idea whats causing it). I am honestly not sure when hubby and i want to ttc, i just feel it will take years! to loose the weight needed :cry: I am having such a crappy day, i was...

LOL! at your dream Oli! bless you feeling guilty to hehe, but it didn't happen, and your doing great! :)

Morning ladies :bliss: I am going to resist this cycle i think. I just have a overwhelming urge to go for it though, its stupid i know. I would love to be a lot lighter than what i was when preg with my girls, so i need to focus. Well done with the more weight down Oli!, how much in total do...

Well done for not falling off the wagon Oli, sorry to hear its been a hard day for you, but it sounds like you have done amazing with keeping on track!, your weight loss has been really great and steady to, so just keep focusing on that brilliant work!!. How many more months are you planning on...

Welcome Flora :) I know what you mean in regards to bmi! mines started at 50, it is very scary seeing those numbers isn't it, Oli is doing the Cambridge diet, and is doing brilliantly! i hope you manage to do the diet well, i think once you get to that stage like! right thats it! its the best...

I was 19st when i fell preg with my eldest daughter 20 st when i fell preg with my middle daughter 21 st when i fell preg with my youngest daughter I had no problems with any of the pregnancies and labours, i did have aches, but who doesn't lol. My babies were 9lb 4oz, 10lb 9oz & 9lb 9oz so not...

Aww i bet that felt wonderful holding that little baby :D, the only babies i have held are my own lol. Lovely to hear your man still wants to have another little one, glad he cleared up what he meant, hugs still though. Hope you manage to get your bmi down quickly, i am looking forward to mines...

Morning Oli and everyone!! Fantastic weight loss Oli!!! you are doing amazingly! Ouch! with the missing the fibre! prob better to keep adding it eh lol!!. I actually gained during the week :o, i was comfort eating, but i am now back down to what i was last week. I can not wait to be able to...

It is to be done as 2 meal replacements and one low carb meal i believe, but it is not to be used just on its own, you need to eat also. I really can not afford it being weekly even at the 2 sachets a day, cause something else always crops up, but i will see about getting those other shakes...

Morning Oli I know what you mean in regards to favorites lol!, i never tried the banana and strawberry ready made drinks, i did try all of the shake sachets though but chocolate, and the chocolate mint was the nicest for me. That offer is now more expensive, it changed not long after i copied...

I received that email to! i thought it was great that it was under the £90!. I know i will not be able to order before the 13th. Not very impressed either!.

Hiya Oli, i ideally would prefer to be going on CD again, as i really loved the ready made chocolate shakes, i had never tried the soups though. I have been told that on exante the soups taste better (but that is obviously due to different people different taste buds eh lol). But i only liked...

Hiya :) I am wanting to start doing the exante diet at the end of the month (hubby gets paid then lol). I was going to do it a few weeks back but couldn't afford it then. For me, getting thinner would be just wonderful, to look good and have confidence would be brilliant. My main target for...

It does get addictive weighing every day though eh!. Oli, your man sounds like he is taken good care of with having all those yummy meals :D. When i did the cambridge diet, i was on step 4 the 1200 cals one, and i did get on fine with it, my first loss was 14lb! which was amazing!!. then it went...

Hya Oli!! well done you. Thats brilliant, must feel so rewarding loosing so much weight in a short time. Determined i am shattered to, my little lass is teething and not managing to sleep a straight hour with out crying :( Sounds like your being your name, and will do well this week though...

Thanks Kirsty, hope you and your little one are well x

Hope you get back on track again soon Erin, you sound determined for doing well this week! which is brilliant:greenapple: I know the feeling about still being under that stone that you dread to be back on again. My starting weight was 22st 8lb and i am now 2st lighter, but i dread to get to that...

Thanks very much. Its givin me much more of a boost to go out walking, going to be walking to the garden center with hubby and our girls, i love the walk there once i get into it, but it's a thought to do it lol!. Hope your all well x

Fantastic Oli!! well done :D I lost 3lb!, which i am very happy with :D so thats 28lb i have lost in total x Good luck ladies. x

Good morning all. Hope your all having a good weekend. I have a good strong feeling that hubby and i will not be able to do the deed for ages!! as my youngest is just not wanting to sleep through the night, she has been like this for a good few weeks (months!), so i have to say, this is really...

If it makes you feel any better, i was 19 st when i fell preg with my first, then went up a stone each pregnancy lol!. I sailed through my pregnancies, and i would actually love to get to 15 stone to ttc our 4th little sweetie!. You are not kidding yourself at all, midwives and doctors would...

Hiya Lucy, i felt like that a little while ago, but i think that good boost of will power does come back, even though it feels like it wont. I really would prefer to not be this weight and pregnant, so i think we will give it another couple months till i get at least a stone in weight off, i do...

Awww how lovely Oli!! :D i am sure that further 2lb will be off by Monday!. I do know how gutting it is to see that 1 line, i was testing like a mad woman my last cycle to see if i was ovulating or not lol!! but kept seeing 1 line, then i was getting what i thought to be ovulation pains, and i...

Hiya Oli :) I did the npnt with our eldest, as we were married and thought, well we want children, so it will happen when it does lol. We got married in the March, i fell pregnant late Aug early Sept. With our middle lass, I fell pregnant the month we tried. With my youngest, it took quite a...

Hiya Ladies. Well i have asked hubby to see if it would be OK to do the exante diet next month, just to get the weight off then we will ttc. I do agree that eating healthy is much better for you, but i am hoping to get a good bulk of the weight off quickly, then focus on my eating, i have my...

Thanks xx 2lb a week is very doable! amazing when its put like that eh! :D i do kinda want to hold back ttc till i have a few more stones in weight off!, but i have no idea how to do it quickly. I keep saying to hubby about the exante diet, but he keeps saying i will not be able to stick at it...

I am feeling pretty low atm :cry:. I read this! and i wish i never!!. I have been overweight in all my pregnancies, never had trouble with my pregnancies at all, i did go over my dates but i started each labour myself!. I am so tempted not to go to the doc if we manage to conceive our fourth...

aww well done with the 5lb weight loss!! I am a further 1lb down today (naughty i know lol, to weigh before monday). I ate loads yesterday! :eek:. I still have my totm at the moment (tmi soz lol) but i am so happy to have lost yesterday and today, i tend to usually gain. I hope by this time...

Awww well done Oli!! :bliss: Hiya LuckyLucy, best of luck for ttc! but also hope you manage to reach your target weight loss soon. I am following a low carb diet, have been since Friday, and i have lost 3lb!! :bliss: so not to bad, cause i was not exactly good before friday lol!. Hope all...

Aww its lovely to see more people on the same boat! its lovely we are all wanting to loose weight for ttc!. Determind! well done with stopping chocolate! i have had a sneaky bit today :o but i have to stop eating it. I have never had a subway before, but in the adverts they look so lovely!. I...

Well done with the 13lb weight loss!! Erin! i bet your over the moon with that. Hope the weight you want to shift before trying comes off in no time :D Well done Oli! i hope it manages to push to 5lb, you are really doing so well!. How much are you ideally hoping to loose? My hubby and I have...

I have still to buy the book, but this was very helpful (but i will be sure to buy the book to! lol) Thanks very much for posting this. x

Thanks very much everyone :) i will go and search for that to thanks. i have been snacking on baby spinach leaves lol! Well done maintaining your weight for 4 years Jim! Thanks again, i will go and read up on the forum, i have been looking at the menus to which are great helps. Hope your all...

Hiya Jim, thanks very much. I will be sure to make sure i up the veg on it, i do think i will miss tatties though lol and pasta, but i do enjoy veg so it shouldn't bother me to much. It is amazing how many carbs i would eat on a daily basis (i actually lost count it was that bad :o ) so i should...

Hiya & thanks very much Laura :). It has been funny shopping for doing a low carb diet, cause i am that used to looking at calories Lol!. I will make sure i put some veggies in with my tea, i do like veg, so thats great, i noticed the veg i like, Parsnips and Mushrooms are not as low in carb as...

Hiya Oli :) Well done for not touching any of the food while you were baking! Happy Birthday to your mum, its my father inlaws birthday today to lol. Also well done with the 2lb loss, you are doing so well! I weighed in today, but just so i have a start weight for doing this diet. But i will...

Hiya, i have just started doing the diet today, i have quite a fair bit to loose, and i hope i manage it on this diet. I didn't get off at a good start by missing breakfast everything is such a rush in the morning, i am going to have to make time to eat it. Lunch i had egg and bacon, which...

I am just starting today. But i was not off to a good start as i forgot to have breakfast (a very bad habit which i will need to break. lunch i had egg and bacon, which was lovely, but felt to be so naughty to! hehe. tea i am having tuna mayo on baby spinach and cubes of cheese.

My head is up in the clouds lol!, i was going to order the bargain pack of exante, but my hubby said, just do the low cal diet and get the weight loss going first then go on to something like exante or cambridge again!. I have loads to loose, i would love for the weight to come off a chunk at a...

All your gorgeous bumps are really making me even more broody lol!! My Youngest is 1 yr old now, but here is my bump picture with her I am hoping to loose a good bit of weight asap so we can ttc our 4th little darling (forgive the tired look haha! its not even putting me off!! am i mad...

Thanks :) Hiya Oli, Well done with the 6lb loss!!! thats fantastic! :D good luck with the coming up weigh in also x I have not been getting on great to be honest. But i am going to be doing a big shopping today so i can by low carb foods, and i am buying those shakes i mentioned about to...

I am ordering the shakes on Wednesday, i am not a fan of powdered soups, so i am getting 8 packs of the 7 sachets, i have ordered 5 packs of chocolate lol, 1 banana, 1 strawberry & 1 vanilla, so i can get 4 weeks worth. I am looking forward to starting it, this will be my first low carb diet...

Awww very well done!!. You have done brilliant with your weightloss, and your face is really slimming down beautifully!, i can not wait to get to the 19 stone mark!. xx

Thanks Ali :D for the ref numbers to. They are a good price to eh! not to expensive at all. Thanks for telling me you have a small low carb meal to. I used to be able to drink loads of water when i did the cambridge, i will need to get into the way of doing it again, it helps loads doesn't it. I...

Thanks very much Cheryl :thankyou: (also thank you for understanding what i meant lol) xx

Hello :bliss: I read on here, about people doing the Avidlite shakes diet, and i have thought about doing that, can you replace meals with the 'Avidlite Ready to Drink Shakes, Pack of 3? (scroll down till you see the 3 pack please) I looked at this site for low carb foods, so is anyone...

Thanks very much And congratulations on the birth of your baby girl to :D hope your both well I would love to be able to afford to do the cambridge diet again, i lost my first stone on it, i am trying to look for something along the same lines but cheaper :o xx

aww thanks very much for that :D:thankyou: Hope you have a good weekend xx

I love chocolate things, so thats great to hear about the chocolate one being lovely, thanks for telling me the carbs and cals, they are both low eh, so all the better :D. Thanks very much Tracy xx

Thanks Vickie, i love my veg so i really should loose weight easily with the fact i like all the foods mentioned, but i really make a lot of wrong choices. How exciting your wedding day coming up so soon :D, hope everything is set and ready for the big day!! :love047:

Thank you Ali :)

Hiya, sorry to jump on the thread so late on. But is it these shakes that your all taking? I am thinking about doing this diet, but just strictly shakes. I was wanting to just take the complan drinks, but i read its not suitable to take them solely. Well done everyone with the weight losses so...

Morning Oli I am still up in the air as to which diet i should be doing lol!!. I have spotted low carb shakes online which i am thinking about getting, not sure if i should just go for it and do just fully having shakes, or have low carb food to lol. I have gained weight since yesterday, so...

Thanks very much NewDawn xx

Hiya I noticed complan drinks in asda when i was last in, so bought the strawberry & chocolate ones, i plan to use them as meal replacements, going to start taking them tomorrow, but just as breakfast & lunch, would it be suitable to take as a evening meal to? Does anyone else have them? my...

Thanks LovelyLauren, what an exciting time for you! :D hope you have been keeping well Thanks Freefalling, best of luck loosing the weight you want to loose, hope it does not take long for you to conceive when the time comes :D I have so much to loose, and i would love to be able to eat and...

Hiya :bliss: (please forgive me if this should be in another part of the site). I want to loose 4 stone before my husband and i ttc our 4th little one, we have 3 girls, 4yr old, 3yr old and a 1yr old. And i was wanting to know if anyone else is loosing weight at the moment to ttc, and what...

Just want to wish you all the best of luck in loosing the 4stone. I am hoping to loose 4 stone at least, in this year, so we can ttc our fourth little one. xx

Thanks. lol! maths was my worst subject :o I was wondering where the 4th meal would have come from lol with there only being shakes soups and bars I just did 4*7 and got 28, so thought it meant 4 meals per day. I noticed that bargain is not on now darn it!. I will try and catch the other...

Hiya Bumper Pack - 55% off!!! | Proceed to the Shop > | EXANTE INC LTD Thats the one i seen with the 28 of each xx

Thanks very much for your reply :D Yeah i can not wait to have the 4 kiddiewinks, they have me rushing off my feet (though the weight still sticks hahaha!!) I will see how it goes, my hubby gets paid at the end of the month, so i might get the 4 week pack and just get cracking on with it. I am...

Hiya, i have been very curious about those pills. Very well done loosing so much in the two weeks! i bet you feel just wonderful! x

Hiya I am going to be starting the Cambridge Diet again on Thursday coming, but i looked on the Exante website, and noticed the bargain pack for the 4 weeks, with the shakes soups and bars, and it works out cheaper if i was to do that. Has anyone done the Cambridge Diet then gone on to the...

I did have a problem with alcohol to the extent of being so upset and moody if i did not have a bottle of wine in the fridge, i used to drink a bottle of wine 12% + alcohol content a night. It took me a while to get used to not drinking it, but now i fancy a drink now and again but could go...

Thanks very much everyone I will have a look at the food diary's and get a slimming world magazine and look for ideas etc. The woman really did look sore, but i so wish i could have gotten more information. Tonight for tea, i had chicken new potatoes and loads of veg, i loved it lol! Thanks...

Hiya I have been to my first meeting, and i am confused lol! i am doing the 'extra easy' plan. The lady holding the meeting broke her foot so i didn't want to hold her back as you could see she just needed to get home. I was going to have shredded wheat for breakfast with a banana, but i...

Thanks everyone :D One more question lol Do they weigh you with shoes on or off? cause i have just started wearing a pair of trainers again lol!! (i fractured my ankle 6wks ago, and my trainer still hurts going on and off again). xx

Thanks everyone. Thats great to know that i can put in a target when i am ready, and that it can be changed every half stone Thats great that your looking forward to your weigh in Pinktiger hope you get a lovely surprise! Good luck for you tomorrow to Shrinkingrannie xx

Well done! x

Thanks very much :) Well done with your weight loss to!! :D

Hiya I was on the Cambridge Diet (1200 kcals) and i lost 22lb in 5 weeks, but i felt really sick on it. So i am going to my first Slimming World meeting tomorrow, i am going with my mum. I have so much weight to loose, i am hoping i will not get told what weight i am supposed to be lol! i am...

Thats good to know that the pill still worked OK. I am still sticking with the CD i have lost 14lb in one week, so definitely sticking to it lol Thanks :)

It is a bit sore, but only because i have not had a period in a while lol. So tummy cramps galore lol. Thanks for your reply, i am so surprised with loosing so much on the first week, but i know the amount will slow down now. Thanks again Emma, you have done brilliant with your losses!! :D x

Hiya I have been on the diet for a week, and i lost a stone in weight, which i am very happy with. I am on the mini pill, and i never get bleeds when i am on it. But in the last few days i have had a bleed, not enough for needing a pad yet, but it is heading that way. Will it affect my pill...

thanks very much :D x

My doctor refused to sign my medical form due to surgery policy. So once my BMI is down to 40, my Counsellor said i could do the ss one (i can't wait lol, i can not wait to get down to a bmi of 40 to! lol). Thanks for the congrats, and for answering the water question, i am glad its a fine...

I have lost a stone (14lb) in weight!!. I am doing the 1200 kcal diet, i am so shocked to have lost as much as that. I have a question about water. I have been reading up on the water, and it saying that to much water can be harmful, how much water do you all drink? (my bmi is very high, but i...

I seen the cdc and i will be starting tomorrow! i am doing the 1200kcal diet. My daughters were not in when she arrived, but when they arrived in, my middle daughter was crying, and ran up and gave her a massive hug so that gave us all a giggle lol. I have got my shakes for 2 weeks, and she...

aww well done!!! Fantastic!!

I ideally would love to do the ss one. My doctor said that he would not sign the form, and the other reasons being the rebound effects of the diet (i don't fully know what that means though). I will ask my CDC and see what she says, but i think she is pretty by the rules, so might not allow me...

o my god! no wonder your so upset, so sorry to hear he was involved in an accident. I hope your able to see him soon and that he has a quick recovery Big hugs to you xxx

O how did you do that Anni? Thanks to :) xx

Thanks very much Bethan :)

Sorry :o, should this be in the CD 1000-maintenance part?

Brilliant pics! very well done, i let my hubby see to as he is close to 25 stone and wants to loose weight, and he said well done to you to!

Well done! you look great!! :)

Aww good luck for your next weigh in, i hope you reach your goal then!, must feel so amazing with your goal being with in reach now eh :D Good luck with going to be a CDC to!

Hiya I am not on the ss i will be doing the 1200 cal one on Thursday, but i am sorry to hear your feeling that way. I tend to have very low moments when i diet, i have never been to sure what causes it though. I hope your totm stops soon to, it might help you feel a bit better Sorry i can't...

I am hoping to loose a good few stone, but this is worrying me, my boobs are not a great sight now :sigh: We are considering having another baby when i loose the weight, so if we manage to have another little bundle then i am going to see about getting my boobs done, its the only thing about me...

Well done!! and very understandable tears to :D . You have done so well x

Hiya I am meeting my Counsellor for the first time this coming Wednesday, and i am looking forward to getting started :bliss:. (my previous thread about it) I want to ask my Counsellor if i can do a 1000 cal instead of the 1200, with the fact my bmi is higher than 40 i needed the doc to sign a...

I hope your tummy is better soon, you have done so well!! i hope your very proud of yourself x

:giggle: would be tempting to do that though lol!!

Thanks Butterfly, i think it is awful to, considering each time i am at the doctor, my weight is brought up :rolleyes:. Well done on your weight loss so far! x

You have done so well! :D what a lovely post to read :0clapper:

I drink diluted orange juice (the no added sugar) cause its what my girls drink lol! I would prefer to do the 1000 cals, i will run it buy my counsellor, i do like veg, and but with gravy :giggle: but i do enjoy it with out to. Thanks lunar jim Well done with your weightloss! lovely to see you...

I can not wait to start the ss step, i wish i was doing it now. Good idea about refilling a bottle, amazing how much easier it is drinking water out of a bottle instead of a glass. Thanks :)

Well done! :)

Thanks Flipp :)

Thanks very much i am looking forward to starting, i think i will find the drinking as much water part difficult though lol! but i will try as best i can on drinking it :D well done with your 4 stone loss! thats brilliant :D

Hiya:sign0144: i see my Counsellor for the first time on Wednesday, so will be starting the diet on Thursday. I really hoped to be doing the first step of the diet, but my doctor would not sign my medical form (my bmi is over 40) because it being surgery policy not to sign those type of forms...

Thanks, away to have a look at the section now x

Thanks very much How lovely that your engaged to be married, whens the big day? x Good luck with your weight loss to oops lol!! just seen the date for your marriage x

Hello:sign0144: My name is Elaine, and i am a mummy to three girls Julie (4) Jacqueline (2) and Joanne (1). And i am married to Kenvyn. We are from Scotland Perthshire I have a very large amount of weight to loose, and i am going to be starting a 1200 kcal diet (step 4 of the cambridge diet) on...