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ok, seems I need my hand held while I get my head around what I should eat, how does this sound then for so far today: 1 MiM with no sweetner or cinnamon just a small amount of fresh chives added, with some cream cheese on (breakfast Leafy green salad mixed with 100gm smoked salmon plus on...

:) Ok thanks for the advice, back to the drawingboard for me! oh but I did mess up, I meant about 40 crackers in the packet not 4....

Quinoa flour (meal) - is that ok in phase one? I never tried it but I found it today... and I thought it might be a handy thing for adding into pancakes or something? Also found: Soya flour - can I use that in phase one? I have seen yummy looking waffle recipes that use it at least. I...

what supermarket did you see that in pl thanks xx Well I live in Holland.... and it was in the Albert Heijn, which surprised me because usually I cant find much of anything I need there :) I dont know where else you could find it where you live. It says on the packet that each roll is 6.4...

Ok thanks, thought it might be too good to be true! I'll tough it out then too... I'm sure the MiMs will help!

Hi everyone and thanks for the warm welcomes and advice. I am a tiny bit annoyed at myself for forgetting to weigh in this morning, it is good to know what the start point is at least, as someone pointed out already :) Oh well, I'll just do it tomorrow morning! And I found the MiMs recipies -...

Hi everyone. I'm only on my second day of Atkins but I was already panicking because I cant handle eggs for breakfast everyday, I love eggs but.. everyday makes me feel sick just to think of them! So I made do with celery and hummus this morning (hope I can eat hummus in phase 1?) Anyway now I...

Thanks Leanne :) Glad to know that this does work. And I will try to keep my focus on the health benefits it will bring me by losing the carbs, and not focus on the weight I lose (or dont lose). I guess I need to trust myself more to stick with it this time after failing to stick with WW a...

I'm not sure I want to do a regular weigh in yet. I was doing that with weight watchers and the weeks I didnt lose anything I was really down about it. When I lost loads of weight after having my first child I never weight myself, I have no idea how much I lost but it must have been around 2 -3...

ooo thats what I want! thanks! 24 hours is very managable :)

Hi everyone, I was here before but doing Weight Watchers, which I got a bit tired of from all the counting, and I discovered I stopped losing on it too quickly even when I was sticking to plan, and I was still eating stuff that I dont think is good for me. I am pretty sure I just dont...

Atkins flu? Well forewarned is forearmed.. I was planning on starting this diet tomorrow! Is there anything in the book about this feeling bad phase?

I was looking at all these shoes and also found out about MTB's - anyone know if these are good? I am thinking of buying a pair, but they are expensive... http://us.mbt.com/default.aspx?lang=en-US

and there are so many to choose from, does anyone know the difference between the Sketchers 'Fitness Junkie' and the "metabolism' and the 'strength' models? Is the one better than the others for losing weight and shaping up or are the all kinda the same?

its really disheartening to see a gain when you expect a loss. All I can say is what our WW mentor said, stick with it, you WILL see a result, just give it time. She was right :-) But its hard to be patient...

I use 'Edibles', I really like it a lot. You have to create your own calculator yourself by putting in the values (but I am pretty sure it still says how to do that on their site and when I did it, it was super easy). So it not only tracks daily points, weekly points, exercise points, it also...

current motivation for me is the summer holidays - we hope to go to stay with friends of my husbands in Sweden, I never met them but they invited us to their summer house for a couple of weeks. They sound perfectly lovely! But I dont want to be wearing tents or not be able to swim because of...

Oh I can so relate to that. Its made worse because I also havent bought new clothes for a long time, I find it so depressing to shop! And now I look at clothes and think that instead of buying something now I will wait till I lose a bit more weight (or all of it) before I buy clothes. So like...

oooh I'm not sure I can do this in pounds, I think I started at about 11.5 stone, goal is 7.5 stone. And so far I believe I have lost about 19 pounds. So in either pounds or kilos I still have a long way to go yet! Oh well, keep on working :)

OMG chocolate is my biggest weakness.... Someone already came by and brought a 'gift' in the form of a giant jar of chocolate eggs, and I just cant help myself! I dont know how I am going to survive our Easter Sunday lunch plans at a friends house - they keep talking about all the chocolate for...

Yes youre right... I sometimes find myself 'neglecting' to add the points I've used with snacks, or I add a little less than I probably should by slightly underestimating the value of something I've eaten - at the time I think 'well I dont know exactly how many points this is worth so I'll write...

Hi! Just found this thread, and I want to join in too! I had 'thought' I needed to lose 3 stone, but found out I need to lose 4 stone too! Goal weight also at between 7 and 8 stone, better at 7 (I am soooo short!). Its almost scary to think of being that size, I feel like there will be nothing...

I think I will have to print that post out too :-) Its very good! I work in kilos and grams usually (living in Holland) and a couple of weeks ago I lost 2 grams.... it seemed totally pathetic and I was so disappointed. Then the week later I put on 2 grams and was even more devastated. I...

I always had the idea that my metabolism was very slow, in fact my body seems extra efficient at storing extra :-) A friend of mine suggested that having a day of eating a lot can give your dieting a kick re-start if youre on something of a plateau and not losing anything when you think you...

I dont know what it costs in the UK, but here in Holland its 10euros per meeting, and there is a small discount if you advance pay 10 meetings worth..

Congratulations everyone! I lost 1.1 pounds this week. It makes it all worthwhile to see the scales moving downwards :-)

Yes I think so, although I dont know anything about core..? I suspect we dont get as much information at our (dutch) meetings... My sisterinlaw in New Zealand has a whole lot more information, also better recipes! Basically they told us: be sensible with portion sizes and the green points...

I've been on WW for the last 5 weeks, have lost 12lbs so far and its going well. There has been a change too, and I think maybe its only here in europe at the moment - the way they calculate the points has changed, we now use 'Pro-points', of which I am allowed 29 per day (which is the minimum)...