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I've been AWOL for a bit, but just caught up with your diary - wanted to say congrats on doing so well; you're looking fantastic! Keep up the great work :-)

Hey Ozzie and Marie (I can't help but think of the Osmonds now!); It's been like trucker's vacation for me recently, sorry I haven't been around to contribute to the wittering and the support. Sounds like you've been kept on your toes Oz by all the demands on your time. It's hard enough to...

Hey Sorus! Thought I'd cross the divide and come say hi :-) Congrats on your losses! Looks like you've swapped the truck for a shiny convertible, eh? Keep on breakin the speed limit! x

Hey Ozzie! Apologies for my prolonged absence from all interweb contact. Just caught up on your diary; well done on your progress! We should probably change our group name from the Truckers to the Glaciers ;-) I am having some troubles of my own, but I shall expand on them in my own thread and...

You are forgetting the most vital and hilarious incident of them all - the soft warm squish of dog-poop between your toes whilst hanging out the washing ;-P Life doesn't get any more exciting than that!

I love those random good-mood moments! Mine are usually caffeine induced, it has to be said :-) I like that your diary isn't just 'Here's what I ate, aren't I brilliant/rubbish.' SW is supposed to be about changing how you actually live and eat, so it makes sense that it would be tied...

Oooh, welcome back! Don't worry about what you've been up to, the important thing is that you're still here and ready to climb back in the cab, toot your horn... mirror, signal, manoeuvre and away! How you can live down in lovely Cornwall and not actually turn into a giant scone/pasty/slab of...

Have been absent too long - hope you're doing okay Ozzie! My path to SlimmingWorldliness has gone a bit wonky, but I'm still trucking. Full posts to follow but just while I'm here - am I going mad? Where has your diary gone, MarieN?

Yikes, I hate that panicked-for-no-reason feeling. It's the hardest to shake because your mind is constantly trying to tell you there is a reason, you're just too dumb to see it, so you panic more! Hope you can shake it soon and have a more relaxing few days of it. It must be a nice feeling...

Belated massive trucker-congrats to you for your 1.5st achievement! Let's all pause and blow our horns in unison in your honour: PAAAAAAAAAAAARP There you go. :-D Glad you are feeling relaxed; there's nothing worse than getting stressed about all this nonsense. It's going to happen for us...

Ugh, sorry you're not feeling well. So many of my online friends are lurgified this weekend :-/ Take it easy and feel better soon - you'll need the extra calories to help you recover so don't worry about your weight too much this week. Your measurement losses are brill! x

Oh dear! :-/ That's officially too much bad luck for one household, I think you need to phone the council and have them tow (toe?) some of it away. I hope things get better for you, I seriously do. Re: your Foreman grill - some people were like 'oh you'll use it twice and get bored of it...'...

Hey Oz! Sorry I've been a bit absent of late - hope your OH is doing better, that sounded very grim. :-/ You and I are so similar in our weightloss patterns; we work our metaphorical (and literal) as$es off, and yet progress is irritatingly slow. I haven't tallied up my results by month, but I...

Wow - that's some serious gymmage! I'm interested to see how you get on with Extra Easy - I have never tried it (have a mental block with it as it doesn't seem right to eat all that good stuff & lose weight!) Keep up the good work x

Hey, welcome Aussiemaid - you should check out OzzieMoz's journal - she's also trying to lose weight from your side of the spinning globe thingy :) Good luck with everything. x

Sorus! Where you at, girlfriend? Don't make me tweet your ar$e! ;-)

I'm glad it helped - mission accomplished! I hope I didn't come across too mean (even though you needed the random act of badness!) Marie, I'm not sure 'Voice of Wisdom' is a good nickname for me! More like 'Voice of BS' ;-) Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend. The sun here has just been...

Hey up! I thought I'd leave a little encouragement for you - people seem to be a bit shy about posting in newbie journals sometimes. It's quite discouraging at first; I went through the same thing! Firstly well done on your challenge, what a great idea. It's so easy to get caught in little...

THIS. It's so pigging frustrating, isn't it? I want to throw things across the room when I go to group as there always seem to be 2 kinds of people: those who blatantly haven't stuck to the plan and are really upset because they haven't lost weight, and those who blatantly haven't stuck to the...

Hey Yorkshire Rose; Welcome to the forum :) It's been a bit quiet around here the last couple of days (Easter holidays - everyone's off ruining their waistlines with choc eggs!) but I hope you'll find (as I have) that this is a wonderfully supportive place to hang out whilst you try to tackle...

Hi Dave; Love your diary - so inspiring and positive. I know what you mean about having to get rid of old favourite clothes, but it makes such a change chucking them out to buy smaller ones rather than bigger! Have a great weekend, x

I sh!t you not, I did this *exact* thing last night. Jinx!

This made me giggle - Maybe we should start a thread for us Monica-style pseudo-OCD neatfreaks! Gratz on your award though - off and running! :-)

Hello! It's been a couple of days since you checked in and I was starting to worry that you had been consumed by a giant jammy-creamy scone! Hope all is going well, anyway - truck wheels firmly planted on the road and all that. X

Yikes - it never rains but it pours, right? It's so hard to stay on track when you feel like the world is crumbling around your ears. I hope you've lost but don't be too hard on yourself if you haven't. Life happens! Good luck tonight, and just keep on truckin!

Nice piccie - you look lovely! Are you dressed as the Queen of Hearts, with the playing cards there?

Hey no probs - you guys reminded me really with your other picolinate. I'm off for a wander into town to get some chromium now. Happy supplemented truckin!

That's exactly what I thought until I was well into my teens! I always think 'dieting would be so easy if it weren't for all the other people. And the food.' Those of us who've been at this game for a while know that there's simply no way around the sorts of days like the one you're describing...

Hey Pickle; Just caught up on your diary - you're doing such amazing things especially considering the obstacles you have to navigate. Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading more. x

"Healthy extras ahead. Take the second Weetabix. Creme eggs ahead. Turn around when possible. Caution: Creme eggs. Turn around when- ... Too late. Never mind.'

Amputation indeed. I now have visions of Ozzie as the determined knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail flailing around limbless and declaring 'Tis a mere flesh wound! And I've lost 12lbs!' Re: supplements - in the past I have found chromium picolinate helpful too; it apparently helps keep...

You're developing a will-power of steel! It's so very hard in the moment when you're sitting there watching others indulge themselves, for me it's almost a physical pain that I get when my green-eyed monster feels deprived. But then as you describe, the feeling you get afterwards - when the...

Hey Ozzie; Sorry to hear you're still under the weather. These spring* colds are the pits, so darn tenacious. My body is misbehaving too, I think it's a protective thing with the lergy hanging around. Here's so good health, and soon. *I guess it's autumn for you though, innit :-)

This made me LOL big time; I scared my cats :-) That's so in-jokey, does it count as a new brand of geeky humour?

Oh pants, I'm sorry you're having a crappy time. I'm no stranger to the doldrums, and they suck the big one. I'm a big (heh) believer in the need to 'reset' your body as regards dieting (or food optimising, or whatever the heckins you want to call it ;-) This week has proven it for me. Weeks...

What's this epic thread of nonsense I have missed?! And where can I find this home made pizza recipe of which you speak, Sorus? I do get pizza cravings quite regularly. Hope your throat is better this avo. x

I love red days! I mostly do red, somehow it seems to fit my lifestyle better (plus I'm a sucker for steak... mmmmm). Good luck with your progress this week - truckin ever onwards :-)

Hello you; Thank you for the lovely comments on my journal; thought I'd check in with you now that I'm back. Happy belated birthday! Glad you had a good time. Fruit salads are epic, they have saved me so many times. I love them with yoghurt too (though I do put Splenda in my yog, because I...

A woman with a plan! I like it :-) A healthy goal and a positive outlook will get you a long way, I reckon. Go for it!

Hey; welcome to the mad-house! Congrats on taking this first step. It certainly can seem a long road ahead, but the help and support you get from the lovely people around here makes it all that bit more tolerable. Good luck! x

- I wish you well for tomorrow - I'm another one who weighs myself every day, I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as you don't let it get you down if things aren't progressing as you hope. I think it can help reduce the danger of veering wildly off course if you have had a...

I agree with Ozzie - if something's working for you and keeping you satisfied (not falling off the wagon) then you should stick with it. You could have STS for many reasons (the Chinese meal out of nowhere probably caused you to retain some water as it will have been carblicious whether you made...

Oh no! I'm sorry! I thought I was the only one who liked that claggy stuff. Thing is it's only good with loads of marg/butter, so would end up being like a billion syns - not worth it. Make some SW carrot cake instead - very low syn, and extremely tasty. The recipe is on my page somewhere...

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That is a truly splendiferous word! Hope you're all doing okay - Sorus has gone quiet of late. Enjoying herself, I hope!

I'm here, Bluefizz! Has it been a quiet day?

Hang in there TBM - the exercise will help you feel better as well as burning off extra weight. Hope you are feeling a bit better about stuff this week. x

I get these sorts of irrational cravings! Why does this happen? It's like getting the equivalent of woodworm in your brain, tap-tap-tapping away every day convincing you that you need to have a specific thing... and when you do it's inevitably a huge disappointment! Examples for me: Soreen...

I relate to this SO much. I pretty much know that if I have a meal out, no matter how good the choices I make I will either not lose or I'll put weight on. So frustrating. The only exception I have found to this is going to my fave sushi place - I *love* sushi, and a plateful of raw fish and...

This was a big factor in me joining SW. I had been doing the starve/binge thing for many many years beforehand, and no matter how many bargains I made with myself, nothing ever stuck. It was bad, and it has been especially bad the last 2 years since I changed up a gear in my career and took on...

Hey; Glad you've decided to join the ranks of us journalling Minis - I find that just rambling and letting it all out really helps, even if it seems sometimes like no-one is listening. Writing it down just makes it more 'real' for me, and I have found so far that the weeks I really journal...

Nicely done! It's amazing how language shapes our self-perception, isn't it? Keep on keepin on x

Looks like we're forming our own little mutual support club here, eh? ;-) I'm so glad you've had a better day - just keep focusing on each one at a time and they'll start mounting up before you know it. Rx

I am giving up thinking I need to give things up in order to lose weight - this is Slimming World, people! If you can count it, you can have it! : D (But good luck to those who are doing Lent - it's a very noble gesture)

Hey Michelle; I'm sorry you're having a bad time of it. The thing people don't get about losing weight is that (studies have shown) beating food addiction can be as tough as beating substance addiction. The difficulty is that although you can technically remove yourself from circumstances that...

Thank you very much!

Hi all; I would check this myself on the SW website but I had to drop in and run at my Tuesday weigh-in and didn't catch the website password. Can anyone tell me what the syn values are for the no added sugar variety of Dream Topping, made with skimmed milk? And as an aside, (assuming it's...

@cheekychinchilla - Holland and Barrett carry Scan Bran usually - have you tried there?

>>finished the day off with 1000 mini eggs! Doh! You know, every year without fail I get more easily derailed by the massive amounts of interesting and tasty chocolate varieties at Easter than I do by all the cakes and mince pies at Christmas. They're so much more tempting!

I wonder if it's the same one as on the SW website? I frikkin *love* that carrot cake (so does my hubby, which can be problematic!) - I can double up the recipe and still eat half the (massive) cake and if you count the scan bran as a Hex-B it's still only 6 syns. Amazing. I made it for my SW...

Well done everyone - what a bunch of losers! ;- ) I lost an epic (for me) 3.5lbs this week, and got my first ever Slimmer of the Week award! Very happy. I'm 5lbs off my Club 10, and only 3.5lbs off my 1.5 stone award. Win! Rx

Hey Lilo; I can totally relate - I started at a good pace, but then dropped to a low rate after only 2 weeks (and even gained a couple of times). Then last week, my consultant handed me my 1 stone award, coincidentally on my 14th week. That's 14 weeks of not binging, learning new habits...

I've done it! 3.5lbs lost tonight (SOTW!) brings me to 9lbs, so I'm two over with more than a week to go! Hurray! Red - for WIs for w/c 4th Jan Green - for WIs for w/c 11th Jan Orange - for WIs for w/c 18th Jan Bright blue - for WIs for w/c 25th Jan Purple - for WIs for w/c 1st Feb Dark...

Hey Becca - I went yesterday and I took along a pack of cherries (those plastic punnets from Tescos) and also a pack of that ready chopped melon (I think it's called 'Melon Medley Madness' or some nonsense, from M&S but you can get them in Tesco too). Grapes are good too - you want something...

Here's me last summer, finishing the Leeds 10k but weighing 16st and feeling very unhappy about it. And here I am tonight, having lost my 1st stone with SW. My reward was to buy some new jeans, hence the pic of my (slightly smaller!) bum!! I've got another approx 4.5 stone to lose, but I...

Oh dear! It's hard to resist, isn't it? I'm one of those 'naughty' people who weighs themselves every day - I do it because I like to get to understand those natural fluctuations that go on depending on what you've eaten, how much you've been drinking (as in water, not alcohol!) and what time...

I fill up a 1.5 litre bottle every morning with cold water, and add sugar-free cordial. Then I make sure I get through it every day. It's difficult at first especially if (like me) you tend not to drink enough water in general, but you soon get used to it. So does your bladder, eventually :-) I...

Hey there Wannabee; Sorry to hear you've had a crappy day. It sounds like you've got a handle on the reality of the situation - it's not you, it's her - and you just need a little help to keep you from letting her misery and anger derail you from *your* life. That's why we're all here, I...

That's amazing! It's certainly the highest 1 week loss I've heard of so far. Well done!

I think moderation is the key to EE, and for people like myself who are coming into SW from a background of compulsive overeating moderation just doesn't cut it. The reason we compulsively overeat is because moderation never enters the equation; we reach for food because it makes us feel good...

5.5 down, 1.5 to go! Rx Red - for WIs for w/c 4th Jan Green - for WIs for w/c 11th Jan Orange - for WIs for w/c 18th Jan Bright blue - for WIs for w/c 25th Jan Purple - for WIs for w/c 1st Feb Dark grey - for WIs for w/c 8th Feb (end date 14th Feb ) Happe - weight to lose 10lbs Tabby -...

Congrats Nikki :) I finally got my 1 stone award last night - I am very proud. 14 lbs in 14 weeks isn't bad going! It's slower than some people (one woman at my group got her 2 stone award after 15 weeks yesterday!) but after the abuse and neglect I have subjected my body to for the last 20...

4 lbs lost :-) Happy me. Highlight the list below (and this section) right click and click ‘copy’ (or Ctrl c), click ‘post reply’, right click in box, click ‘paste’ (or Ctrl v), change your weight loss, change colour as below (click the capital A to bring up the colour chooser), click ‘submit...

I'm pretty sure you could, yes - you'd just sub it for the cream, or whatever. Actually I made a *gorgeous* soup with it yesterday, and in the evening I made up some pasta and mixed it in with the left over soup, put a bit of cheese on top (from my A-Hex) - I honestly felt like I was eating...

I would say it's closer to Philly than to yoghurt. Thicker than fromage frais, anyway. I love it, and it's great for adding to things like mashed potato to really make it creamy (and for free!) In my supermarket, they keep it in the section with the cottage cheese, Philadelphia and other soft...

Hey sugarlove; The others speak the truth - having a mad alcohol binge is going to throw you right off your game. Your consultant will probably go through this with you at some point this year, but you would not believe the amount of syns that are in alcohol. Add to this that your diminished...

@paperclip - I like the idea of the super-speed challenge. I think I will set it for myself each day. @cocktailprincess - that's an amazing achievement, well done! You give me hope for my own leisurely stroll down weight-loss avenue ;- ) @evethewitch - yeah, my consultant told me off when she...

Wow, thanks guys - you're fast! To respond to some specifics... @Brightonrosie - I am having minimum 70 syns per week (so 10 a day). Had to fight initially my urge to avoid the syns - brain programming from other crazy diets I have tried before where eating choc (or even fruit) would have been...

I joined SW back in mid October. I had a couple of 4lb losses in the first 2 weeks, then a couple of 1 or 1.5lb losses, and since then I've been up and down like a yoyo with no more significant losses. I'm deeply frustrated - I am sticking to the plan 100%, and I keep my syns down to less than...

Thanks Klare - how was your New Years? You all fired up for 2010? : )

@Harry'sMom07 - Glad you made it through! Glad you guys liked the knitting story - it really helped me today, possibly the hardest day of the year for me. But I made it! less than 10 syns today. Hope you've all had fun. Rx

I feel your pain - days like this suck the big one. Some good advice from the people on here already - fill up on yummy fruit! I like to smother it in fat free yog mixed with sweetener. Our SW consultant did something really interesting this year. For about 6 weeks prior to our last...

I'm in! Going for 7lbs, hoping for more. Charlottegrace weight to loose 10lb 0 lost so far Nikkiwales weight to loose 9lb 0 lost so far Devon_Dumpling weight to loose 7lb 0 lost so far Bruggie07 weight to loose 7lb 0 lost so far Atchonblimp21 weight to loose 7lb 0 lost so far Donnie46 to loose...

I've got literally my entire extended family (on my hubby's side) coming over this afternoon/evening. Boy do they love to eat. I am looking forward to seeing them but dreading the food - I'm doing EE today, but I don't want to have more than my usual 10 syns. I don't tend to drink so that...

Hey all; I'm new around here but thought I'd weigh-in (pun intended ;- ) Our drop-in SW session was last night, and I'd gained 2.5lbs. I was a little disappointed with that, as I didn't go completely 'off-plan'. I'd been really hoping for a maintain or maybe a 1.5lb gain at the most. Happily...

Thanks Boho-Berry! I shall head over to the SW camp and make myself known :-)

Nice to meet you all - I have been lurking about on this (very useful) site for a while, but I thought I'd join in and be sociable. Hope you've all survived the Christmas/New Years food-based onslaught so far! Ruby