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Hi guys , I'm still here , not lossing an weight for the past 2 weeks but not gaining either . Very busy at work at the moment and my eating is all over the place and because I'm rushing my food I'm forgeting to take my xenical , hopefully things get back to normal soon!!!!

I'm goin to go for 7lbs after my epic fail last month.

Massive well done on your weight loss so far good luck with xenical its the only thing thats worked for me , you seem to be doing well at the gym thats something i'm looking into at the moment.

Back on track (ish) this week managing a 2lb loss , eating now sorted just have to up the exersise again. :D

Yeah got on ok at the doctor to my surprise , it turns out that it was five weeks since i was last there and had lost half a stone goin by her scales so she was happy!!! I'm learning the hard way after my month of bingeing and will have to rethink my diet as what i was getting away with at the...

Your not alone , I have only lost 1lb so far this month but that is due to me not drinking (alcohol) the first 2 months on xenical then doing 2 weekends in a row.

Hey guys , not been getting on very well for the last few weeks the problem being binging at the weekend (drink and food):cry: But as it happens I gain a couple of pounds the first weekend then lost them by the end of the week but gain 4lbs the second weekend but manage to lose 5lbs this week...

Thanx again for the support , I'm finding it a lot harder at the moment to keep away from "temptation" but still seem to be managing to lose weight so it's all good!!! :D

Have you noticed your clothes getting looser ? As you exercise you replace fat with muscle and it weighs more than fat , also are you still eating the same since starting the gym if so your body will need more "fuel" to burn if you don't up your food intake a little your body will start storing...

I'm goin to aim high at 12lbs but it is getting harder so I'll have to up my game , good luck everyone.

Well done mate a loss is still a loss.

As said it's been banned so steer well clear , buying online is a very risky business not know what your "really" getting , can you not go to your g.p and see if your suitable for xenical?

I managed a stone so bang on target!!!:D

Hi all , weighed a day early this week since it's the end of the month , so after 7 weeks on xenical I've lost another 3lbs this week taking me to one stone for the month and 29lbs down alltogether , quite pleased with that hope I can keep it up!! :D

I was me that lost 4lbs!!!:rolleyes:

I don't think you should worry , your nurse must understand what's goin on with you changing from LL to normal food.

Well done , that's a great achivement bet your well chuffed!!!:)

Hello and welcome , start taking the pills start losing weight simples!!

With all the bad press about obesity , if you show that your dedicated to the cause I can't see why your gp would give them too you , there is people who have alot less to lose getting them , it must be down to the individual gp.

Your 18th birthday is very important , if I was you take a day off from xenical and just enjoy urself , put it this way when your older and someone asks "how did you spend your 18th?" you want to say I enjoyed myself had a great time and not oh it was ok I was on a diet so couldn't eat what I...

You shouldn't be missing out , take time out and trail the net there plenty off recipes for currys , take a look at them and just replace anything high fat with a lower fat alternative , I found one for a buhna replaced the butter for Greek natural yogurt and it turned out to be the best curry...

Hello and good luck , sticking to the 5g rule can be hard but through time you will find out what "you" can get away with , like eggs and porridge are both things higher than 5g but both very good for you , as everyone is different it's trial and error for a start.

Monday morning again , after a tough week really craving take away food i broke on saturday :cry: went the whole hog pizza chips and garlic bread. On the up side i only managed to eat half of what i would usealy eat and felt sick , then throw the rest in the bucket !!!:wave_cry: So i wasn't...

Thanx again guys.:thankyou:

As I said on your "expected weigh loss" thread it's going to take a couple of weeks for your body to readjust to proper food then turn around and start losing weight , try not to worry about it , if i was you aim for a proper start in march.

Sounds like you've given yourself a great big kick up the arse , I wish I could get my foot high enough to do it to myself!!! Good luck with it and I will be keeping a check on your progress.

I take a multi vit and also a vitamin c , there not expensive and can only do you good.

As long as you stick to the rules of both I would think it can only help.

Low fat and low cal here also , makes it easier than trying to follow a pre determined plan and let's you eat what you want.

Do what your comfortable with and overtime this will increase as weight comes off and you get fitter.

Group hug everyone!!:grouphugg:

I haven't yet as I'm still on my first lot , but when the time comes I will make an appointment in plenty of time. If you are running out you could try skipping a pill now and again to make them last.

Well done that's fantastic , keep it up. ;)

Well done , your off to a great start :D

I'm in , any excuse to lose weight , it's good to get a bit of competition going :character00115: good luck everyone.

Your a saviour , I was wondering how I could dodge sugar filled pancakes!!!:p

Welcome back , there's alot of us newuns to help and inspire with your continuing success!!:D

Scottish prescriptions are £4 I got a 2 months supply for a start , bargin and there also trying to get free prescription here!!

Well done kirsty , I'm in the same boat after having a sesh on Saturday , all fine at the moment also!!

So far , touch wood when I have "wandered" off course and not taken the pill for that meal I've been completly fine , the only time I was caught out I had taken the pill and it was more to see if they were workin or not , won't do that again!!!

I would suspect things might be a little different for you in the first few weeks as your body readjusts to "normal food" don't be dissheartened if you don't loose anything for the first few weeks , it will happen.

Hey all , weigh in day again , this week has been ok until saturday o.h is on night shift so was turffed out of the house went to the football then ended up in the pub , this is first time I've been out on the sesh since starting xenical so wasn't sure how it was goin to work out. Turns out...

I noticed this a while ago , the thing is porrige is good for you and if your not having side effects with it then surely the goodness offsets the extra fat??? I will continue to eat it for breakfast.:D

Don't know if i should admit this but none at the moment!!!:hide: I do have a reason for this and it goes like this having managed to lose at lot of weight before i know its easy to lose alot quickly with little effort , the more you exercise the more you have to do to get results so after my...

Well done mate 3 stone is a massive acheivment , do you think that the calorie counting is helping?? It's something I haven't done as yet but might start when the initial weight loss slows up.

Thanks guys , the support from here is just great. :D

I find that 1st thing monday morning after the loo , naked (hello ladies:p) is best , if you are a serial weigher remember that your weight can go up 4 or 5lbs in a day so if your weighing at different times a day always take like for like.

Thats twice the average recommended weight loss of 2lbs per week , so thats a great start!!! The trick with the sugar is a mental think try and have something weighing 1lb in your cupboard just to remind you how much you have actually lost.:cool:

Well done!!!

I would second that , your at the weigh most of us want to be!!!:cry: You could try sticking to the rule of xenical and not eating anything with more than 5g per 100g and no more the 15g per meal , basiclly the tablets are only there if go over this.

Well done that's an amazing loss and glad your managing to stick to it the results speak for themselves.

You could always try wii fit , it works for me especially with the weather being so crap at the moment. If you can get somebody else to do it with you and turn it into a bit of a compition it's fun but you are actually excersising also.

Hello and welcome and congratulations on your 2 stone loss. Xenical is used to stop you eating too much fat , if you do it is passed out in spectaular fashion. I find eating fresh foods and cooking meals from scratch drinking lots of water works for me.

If your sticking to the 5g fat rule then the pills are actually doing nothing , they are there if you decide to go over that and will only do it once or twice until you get side effects. I think it is alot to do with knowing what will happen if you do over intake fat that helps people not to do it.

I have started making soups using asda soup packs add a couple of stock pots water and boil up , makes enough for about 6 decent size bowls and costs approx £1.50 low fat and low price!!

Well done your off to a brilliant start :)

Hi , don't be dissheartened everybody losses weight at different rates , also slow and steady the more chance there is of it staying off. As alex stay although you stick to the 5g fat rule so called "diet" foods tend to replace the fat with sugars , try eating fresh foods and cooking meals...

Hello and welcome , sticking to the 5g rule is a must also I have found that cooking with fresh produce has been a great help to me and you get the added bonus of knowing that your cooking good food and also losing weight.

Good to hear you enjoyed yourself , I'm sure I would put up with anything to get out this country at the moment and hit the sun!!!

I take mine just before I start to eat , I don't know if it's a mental thing but once I've taken it I know I can't cheat eat for fear of side effects.

Weigh day again and after a 2lb loss last week i come back with a 5lb loss this week :p. So that gives me a 20lb loss for the first 4 weeks which i can hardly beleive , long may it continue!!!

Mate , there is no fast and safe way of losing weight just think how long it took to get to your current weight that didn't happen overnight??? I think you really need to speak to your doctor to try a sort out the problems you seem to have , I can't say how you should feel but if you look...

As said pick a day and weigh yourself at the same time and wearing the same thing , I picked first thing Monday morning because it was a week since starting xenical. Don't be dissheartened that you haven't lost anything but the girlies above will keep you right on totm and I'm sure you'll...

Thanks for all the support guys it really means alot knowing that there somebody to big me up !!!!:D Had a good week so far , don't know if the weekend will be the same but we'll see what the scales say on Monday.

That's why your better steering away from "diet" foods and try a use fresh produce wherever possable. Mon SCOTLAND!!

Well done on your first weigh in , 3lbs is a good start remember it's a marathon not a race and small and steady amounts are more likely to stay off :D

Well done mate your a true insperation.

I will also shoot for a 14lbs loss , good luck everybody :)

Weigh in day again and another 2lbs gone , a little disapointed but its still a loss so i'll take it!!!:D When you look at the bigger picture after 3 weeks on xenical i've lost 15lbs , so thats one stone gone and also got me into the teens :happy096: so all in all not a bad start.

Hello and welcome and good luck with your weight loss journey , you started about the same time as me and there's no way I could go a month without the scales!!! I weigh once a week so it gives me an idea if I'm eating correctly and also doing enough excercise. Having an incentive to lose...

Not having the side effects means your eating correctly as said you really have to drink plenty of fluids be it water or juice it deffinatly help to keep you regular.

Taking the tablet first before you eat certainlly has the effect on me of not chancing anything fatty.

Well done , it's surprising how quickly the added weight comes off!!!

Most food packaging tells you the break down of the product per 100g so if it's under 5g per 100g of fat then it's ok. Then your meal should be made up of no more than 15g of fat giving you a max of 45g of fat per day. Back on subject , I would stop a couple of days before but eat what you...

Well done mate , every pound down is one nearer your target and your doing great!!!

Me too lol!!!!!! Well done in your weight loss:happy096:

Hi, I had an off weekend last week where I was away from home staying with relations , this consisted of cakes , roast beef then a fry up on Sunday morning , I gained 3lbs which I thought was a disaster but I managed to shift it by Wednesday so hopefully you will lose it as quick as I did:)

The wee turned into half a bottle of mcallans (on a school night) but was dam fine , had a bit of tango this morning but back on track again today.

Just scottish weather!!!!!! I have noticed that for some reason that my hands and feet are always freezing since starting to lose weight , the up side to that is your body has to work harder to heat itself up thus burning more calories:woohoo:

Monday morning again , this week has been a really good week trying out new recipes (and actually cooking again!!) so not eating the same boring stuff and the scales show i've lost another 4lbs which is good. I am surprised in myself that i have manage to stick to the 5g rule and also not...

Thanx for the words of encouragement hope i can keep it up.

Well monday mornings here and the long awaited weigh in after my first week on xenical and to my complete surprise i have lost 9lbs :eek:. Managed ok felt a bit hungry at the start of the week but that is wearing off , not really craving anything yet either so long may it continue!!!!

I'm trying to stick to the 5g rule , I'm not counting cals as such just trying to eat healthy.

I am a man!!!! Or was the last time i checked!!!!:character00115:

Hi , just read your blog from start to finish you are an incridble insperation and have done amazingly well.

Thanx guys!!!

Thanx I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions when things start to get tough!!!

Thanx , working ok at the moment with no side affects so far.

I have been put on xenical so trying to eat low fat and also to limit my calories , but as i see on here as most using xenical the info from the doctor was very limited , thats why i here to see what everybody else is eating.

Hi , just started this week with 6 stone to lose , i know everyone is different but what is a realalistic time scale to achieve that amount of loss???

After seeing the meaning of wemitt thats me:cry: I have set myself a goal of 6 stone in a year , which after looking at other peoples goals is relatively low , but hopefully realalistic for me. Started at the begin of the week and strangely seem to be managing ok , hope that...

Hi , just started xenical at the begin of the week after starting to suffer my health from being overweight. I have always been overweight and it has never really bothered me but when you start doing simple relatively non strenuous tasks and get out of breath i knew it was time to change...

Hi :sign0144: just started xenical and hope to get good results from it , and support from you guys!!!!