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Even though I am rarely without a boyfriend, I don't subscribe to the belief that anyone "needs" another person to make them happy. Also I CRINGE whenever people use the expression "other half". Especially in relation to me! How dare they assume that I am only half a person without a man to make...

I dumped my fellah. I'm masking the emotional agony by shagging someone else. It's working.

Are you single and looking, then? I have a wealth of experience about modern day dating!

I have learned my lesson re: how much weight to lose by a deadline. It never works. Seems I can only control what I put IN, not what fat my body chooses to give up and when. (You may have found differently, of course.) I don't think about loose skin because ANYTHING is better than being this...

I was persuaded to join Slimming World. Not going to meetings in person but an online group. I got the pack from SW with all the rules. The women in the group were adamant that I MUST break my scale addiction and throw away the scales and trust the SW programme. Well I was not going to chuck my...

That's pretty good going. I find some days easier than others. Do you get that? Some days I feel totally satiated and by bedtime realise that I have only had about 1200 cals or so. Other days by 3pm I have only 300 calories left and end up going to bed at 6pm to stop me eating! My current...

So, that is two of us, Camplestar. Where are all the very big women hanging out these days, if not on here?

Still alone :-(

Sad to see nobody on here any more BUT I will post anyway and see if I can draw others to get this forum active again. So I am restarting for the nth time and at a horrendous 353 pounds. Here is my plan: 1500 to 1800 calories a day, logged on MFP. A set selection of calorie-counted...

I am here Buffy. This used to be a really busy forum. I need buddies!

Praise the goddesses!

Hi ladies and thanks for all the messages. I have barely been on the net at all! This is because I felt extremely well for a while and so took the opportunity to catch up with all the household maintenance and improvements chores that get backlogged each time I am ill. Have been busy...

Hi ladies and thanks for your messages. I've hardly been on the PC because, soon as I felt better I had a backlog of house-improving stuff to do; not least, a lodger left so I am repairing and fixing the room for the next one, whoever that might be! I must be the unluckiest person on earth as...

Hi everyone :-) Quick note as backlog of tasks to do. Feeling much better today. Just weighed, am now 324lb which is my lowest weight in 5 years. Welcome Letzes. Helena x

Oh gawd Susie, I know the Ventolin everywhere syndrome! Poor you! Scientists show that there isn't any point in buying anything to boost the immune system. Avoiding stress seems to be a proven cure, but it's being ill that causes the stress, ironically! How to boost your immune system -...

Hello ladies and thank you once again for the messages of support. Relieved to report that I am feeling SO much better! Actually got from bedroom to kitchen then to office without panting or getting completely winded. In a day or so I might even be able to leave the house! How exciting. It...

Me, too. The important thing is NEVER GIVE UP. Eventually it WILL work.

Thank you for all the messages of support, ladies. I'm back in the land of the living, having spent a week in a semi-life lying on the sofa swaddled in blankets and eating totally off-plan. Chocolate, Chinese, pizza, KFC, potatoes, cake, cream cakes, HobNobs, you name it, I've eaten it...

Sorry for my absence for a few days. Been down with the flu bug that is going around, and it's made my chest infection much worse. Welcome Updown and thank you for reading. As predicted, Easter has been a nightmare as far as dieting is concerned and it ain't over yet. Chocolate, Chinese...

Thank ladies for caring about me. Feeling depressed and a failure as I have TOTALLY failed to reach the goal stated in the very name of this journal. I was supposed to have dropped from 352lb to 266lb by Maundy Thursday. In reality, I was 329 yesterday. So I only lost 23lb and not the 84lb I...

Hiya My health took a turn for the worse and I was awake much of the night unable to breathe properly. Ended up breaking down in tears and just sitting up in bed, sobbing. No one to phone, no one to speak to. I was totally wretched. Forced myself to come downstairs so I could let the cleaner...

Hi ladies and thanks for dropping by. Susie there isn't any chance of me getting over this condition. In 4 weeks time, I'll have had this lung infection for three years. I'm on my 4th course of antibiotics this year, and this course is 49 days, so by May I will have been on them for 3 months...

Lungs no better and so I have no puff to do anything except a little light weight training. On the plus side, lost another 2lb. This has all become suspiciously "too easy". Am at 325, so that is a loss of 10lb in 10 days. After 30 years of yo yo dieting, struggling, crying, beating myself up...

The plan was aquafit, chair aerobics, and a one mile walk. The most I can manage is the chair-aerobics, top half of body only, and weight lifting :-( However, my lungs are full of infection again so I am wheezing and using Ventolin again. Started on a new course of AB yesterday - 49 days of...

Things have taken a downward turn. The sprain in my right leg is much worse than I thought. Not only can I not go to aquafit, I can't even walk to the Co Op and am having to send a lodger. The lentil-potato-leek soup has proved to be a winner. It's so filling, and it's delicious. What more...

Whoops... fell off the wagon. Galaxy Caramel and Hula Hoops. Both large portions. The surprise was that neither tasted as good as I remember them. Just tasted like a load of salty, sugary junk. I'm so glad I am beginning to feel like this. Phew, what a relief! Not beating myself up, because I...

Hi ladies .... how can I watch the prog you mentioned? I don't believe in calorie theory. I count "calories" because you have to count "something" to keep a restriction on the amount of food eaten. And calories are easy cos the calorie count of everything is either printed on the item or...

Yep. Even the taxi driver mentioned it. I wish I knew how I did it. Because I want to help people who are where I was .... in a rut full of misery and hopelessness. Also, in case I go back ... I want to know how to return to this exuberant mood, in which I feel absolutely certain that I WILL...

TODAY. This is the view on the walk from the pool to the gym. And me in the gym cafe, blinded by the sun.

Cheers, ladies! Another great day! Went to doc's at 9am, to get results of ECG and womb scan: everything fine. Relieved to hear there is nothing wrong with my heart, considering how fat I am and what junk food I've eaten for the past 50 years. I also have perfect heart rate, cholesterol and...

THANKS for all the messages. Weighed today .... 328.8 so that's down another 2lb almost. Off to the doc's then to aquafit again.

Went over calories a tad today, because my lodger gave me a Kinder Bueno. But I am not overly concerned as I was under for a few days recently, and I earned 600c in exercise yesterday but did not "eat them back." Here is what I ate today...

Cheers Chezz and Llama Yeah I thought of it but haven't done it yet. TBH I don't think I need another "number" thing to fret about ~ you've seen what I'm like with the scale :-) I didn't weigh today! Kept to 1600 calories yesterday, though, and felt full and satisfied. Today's exercise...

This is me at 26 stone 7. Taken in Paphos in 2010. Now I am 23 stone 8. I shall have to dig out that skirt and top and take the photo again in the same stance and see if anyone can see the difference! Also, am up to 1600 calories today, but I've had a huge amount of food. With my 200 I might...

Cheers Llama! I was so hungry to the point of weakness and all tingly so I just went and had a really big, guilt-free feed. Mushrooms, onions, 4 eggs, a knob of butter and a half teaspoon of olive oil, 2oz ham, and some grated cheddar on top. (Made an omelette.) Now tucking into TWO Slimfast...

Please stop procrastinating! Just DO IT! You don't need to be able to swim, even... lots of fun to be had with an 8 yr old. xxx

Do you go swimming?

Morning Your Royal Highness and Miss MPI Thank you MPI for your fabulous message, which touched my heart. What a roller coaster you have been through. Yes, I sometimes wish I could meet a woman who lives near me and is as big as me so we could buddy up in real life and train together. HOWEVER...

Did one hour's aqua zumba and I totally SMASHED it! I had SO MUCH energy I did not know what to do with it, and went nuts till I was out of breath three times. Behind me, ladies my age were doing the languid breast-stroke-that-doesn't-get-your-hair-wet whilst I danced, punched and kicked like...

Thanks for the messages and recipe! Spent the morning in bed watching chef's recipes for making veggies palatable, and lentil soup. I know I promised I would not weigh but... could not resist, and found I am TWO POUNDS down from yesterday. So, Now 330. I'm absolutely over the moon! I've...

Thanks for the messages m'ladies :-) Absolutely knackered today. Cannot do anything except sit down. Also, hungry all day. Well I only had 1500 yesterday (300 short) so I have allowed myself to go up to 2100 today (300 over). I'm also really cold the whole time (probably from lack of...

This is a video made at the martial arts centre I am thinking of joining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peO5gZaORbI&t=149

Thanks Llama, Chezz and Tracy for the messages of hope & praise! Goddammit I promised I would not weigh but when I went to put the scale away in a cupboard for the week on sudden impulse I stepped on "just one last time" and found I am a pound down from yesterday. So, Now 332. I should...

Where is Kym? Come back..... are you OK????

Mayra Rosales: SEVENTY-stone woman once dubbed the 'half-ton killer' loses an incredible 80% of her bodyweight - Mirror Online Mayra Rosales: SEVENTY-stone woman loses an incredible 80% of her bodyweight

Great news to share! Performed one hour of aquafit and THEN walked 1.2 miles home! :winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::0clapper::0clapper::0clapper::0clapper::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner::winner: More tomorrow! Helena

At last I have an NSV to report! Just took my black hoodie out of the draw it's sat in for about a year. I always had to pull the two sides together quite hard to engage the zip at the bottom of the garment. It was so tight on my hips that of course it kept "riding up" when it was zipped up...

WOW! One chin disappeared! How did you do that? XXXXX

Purple ~ summer 2013 ~ 360 pounds (?) In black, last summer ~ 352 pounds Group pic was Xmas ~ 330 pounds (?)

Hi everyone and thanks for the messages. Broadsbean Yes, you are right. I suffer from a perfectionism syndrome: if I cannot be perfect, then I just give up. (My father's conditioning - again!) I DO torture myself, it's true. THIS is why when I go off the wagon it's never for one meal or for...

Sorry, to have to report bad news. Today I got more and more upset about everything as the day wore on (not just lack of weight loss and general frustration with conflicting diets and ideas etc but life) and just so fed up and tired and hurting all over from the slam-ball, weightlifting and...

Thanks Princess.

Oh dear! I just can't do anything right :-( I bought a whole load of these soups for the freezer because Tesco had them half price, right after I read on the 5:2 board that these CG soups were delicious, nutritious and fitted into a 500 calorie fast day. The salt content did not even enter my...

Hello everyone and thanks for the messages. Thanks Llama for the link... which linked to THIS: Kathy's No Fuss Recipes Haven't changed my diet. And after all I've read (for HOURS!) about SW I don't know if I will. Some people said it didn't work. Lots of people are questioning how it can...

Hi Mandy I make curry all the time so there is always a big potful in the fridge whilst another 4 breasts are defrosting ready for the next batch. I make it all from scratch, too. The idea of "unlimited" scares the living daylights out of me, except in relation to fruit and veg, which I find...

Again disappointed with my trainer. On our walk we happened to pass the spot where the half-marathon starts every year. I stated that I am going to "walk the half-marathon, but in stages!" I said I'll do a mile once a week for 13 weeks, then I can say I've walked 13 miles. I felt really excited...

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Cheers Ms Karma. I will try to find the prog. It can be done ... by HER. Doesn't mean anyone can do it, as we are all individuals. Also, women who do this are in their 20s, or 30s tops. I'm almost 57. My joints are knackered from carrying all this weight for 30 years. All I can do is diet and...

It can't be ALL about calorie counting though, can it? I'm UP another 1lb today, making a gain of 6lb in 3 days, despite keeping to average 1700 calories daily for a week. Clearly, water/sodium etc also has an effect, though on reflection that cannot possibly make a woman stay at over 300lb if...

Cheers Mandy. I will definitely look all this up tomorrow and take notes. Your food intake looks like more than I usually eat! So you are saying that this idea of combining certain foods on certain days is more efficacious for slimming than just counting calories, or just that it's the same...

MFP.

Thank you Stackie; that is a great comfort. It's just those damned scale numbers that make me miserable. No wonder last year I threw out the scale!

Calories eaten this week... Sat 1010 Sun 1730 Mon 1490 Tues 3215 Wed 1378 Thurs 1578 Total 10401 divided by 6 days = 1,733 calories per day. Surely I should have LOST weight on that, especially as I've done at least 3,000 calories-worth of exercise (over 2 days) that I normally don't do. My...

Cheers Mandy for the reminder. I tell other people this, then get all upset when MY scales show a gain! A question .... I assumed Slimming World was just another way to count calories, but someone just told me that it works by food combining and that it often works for people who find calorie...

Thank you for your thoughts, Esta. I'm puzzled about the salt content because if you put too much salt in your food it tastes vile and is inedible, so how come we don't notice it in Chinese takeaways? Is it because they put in loads and loads of sugar, and they cancel each other out (taste...

Gained 5lb since weighing 2 days ago. I thought the Chinese takeaway would be ok because I adjusted calories that day and the next day so that I averaged 1800 per day. Evidently it wasn't. The idea of a life with no treats is just too dreary to bear. Moreover, my body hurts all over PLUS I...

Hello, thanks for dropping by and well done on shifting a stone already! Wow: your BMI drop is also excellent. Keep it up ~ we are all in this together and we will never give up.

Yes indeed, Mandy (the not-so-broad bean!) Pass those pills around, please! I ate 3/4 of the chinese yesterday. Today I skipped breakfast, and did 70 minutes aqua fit, then walked 1/4 mile to a housewares shop, then another 1/8th mile around the shop. Finally got home at 1pm and had the 1/4...

Dropped in to say hi and welcome, and that I started at 26 stone 7. Are you weighing the granola and aware of the calorie count? Mine is horrendous! Helena

Being a rebel by nature, I love that there are people who break some of the so called rules and still lose weight.... such as don't eat breakfast don't exercise have treats The only rule seems to be: create a calorie deficit over a month/year and keep on doing it I felt terrible last night...

Yep we cannot argue with five stones! Grr if I'd not fallen off I'd have lost that ... I'm cross with myself now. Many congrats on the resolve, Claire and getting there. Fantastic! I bought a drum of Slimfast Banana and am trying it now with Koko chocolate milk. It's just over 200 calories...

Session 5 with personal trainer and we walked 1.2 miles along the seafront in the sunshine. Today I feel incandescent with belief in myself and my determination to *DO THIS* has never been higher. :talk017: Please, PLEASE dear goddesses up in the sky, I beg you to let me keep feeling like...

Thanks for the messages ladies :-) Part of the personal trainer's sign-up rules that I have to agree and sign are that I "must not skip breakfast". But as we are all individuals, this should not be set in stone. Skipping breakfast can be a good way of saving up those calories to splurge on a...

Hi Krup and Tracy and anyone reading. I just had to share the most amazing thing that I just did! My six-stone Russian lodger Nina habitually ignores my requests not to buy me chocolate. As I am addicted and unable to resist, or to eat " a little bit" and put the rest away - I am impelled to...

Your story has really helped me because now I feel that, if I have a lapse and eat a Belgian bun or a takeaway, it's not the end of the world. This has been my biggest problem, all these decades. If I got, say, 3 days into a diet and then cheated, I'd become so utterly despondent that I'd tell...

My trainer would be horrified, confused and bewildered to meet you, Tracy. You go against everything she believes in. Her entire belief system would be challenged. You've actually lost a bit more than her, as it goes. Right, I lost track of my weight a little bit over the last few weeks, but I...

Oh there was just one other thing I want to say ... Everyone who gives advice on dieting is convinced that they know THE way (the ONLY way) to lose weight effectively. I bet everyone here has experienced this! Some people insist that dieting does not work, it's all about exercise. Some people...

Tracy I don't really know anything about PTs and whether they have regulating bodies. I only know that she's qualified from her own lips, she has never shown me any diplomas or anything. Susie... you could be right. Maybe someone who used to be 23stone isn't the best. Could it be that she...

THANKS everyone for the support. My stomach was churning each time I thought about it, all day... but her response was not the angry, defensive one I'd expected. Thank goodness she said that she was concerned that I wasn't 100% happy, and she does want to put it right. She DID admit that the...

Really NOT happy with the new personal trainer. And now I am really stressed out from thinking about how I can tell her. She's fierce and aggressive, and the type who gets angry really fast AND never admits she's wrong. How on earth am I going to raise my grievances? Edited to add: just talked...

Cheers, Stackie. Weighed today, naked but for bra (a treat for the neighbours opposite) and am on the way back down. 332.6 yesterday, 331.2 today. Personal trainer coming at 1pm. Otherwise on bum all day. Aquafit + osteo tomorrow. Helena

Hi Susie It's a big GP practice and I've never seen this doc before .. she was a young woman, about 25 yrs old. I could go back and see my fave one, the one I've decided to nominate as 'mine'. I'm not happy with seeing a different one each time. In the last month or so my life has been...

I was so upset all yesterday because of the doctor's warnings that I rang her in the afternoon and asked her to give me a name for the condition so I could describe it and look up treatments. She did a complete volte-face, so much so that I actually asked her if she was getting me mixed up with...

Stack ~ Funnily enough I had lost my addiction to the scale, and had not weighed for some weeks, when my personal trainer asked me how much I weighed and I told her I did not know. She then insisted I weigh. I still didn't, and she got quite cross the following week and insisted I get out my...

Hello Stackhead and thanks for being our resident mathematician! Many congrats on your massive weight loss. I'm a bit confused now as you are taking 2,400 as my daily calorie allowance, when I'm trying to keep to 1,800. Surely if I eat my TDEE I won't lose any weight, as I won't be in deficit...

Chezz ... the technician said she only found one small fibroid, a centimetre across. No tumours, no cancer, no polyps,no cysts. Bigbear ... thanks for the praise! Congrats (again) on over 5 stone lost. Susie ... Cheers... buns seem to have added 2lb back <sigh>. I didn't need them and...

That is a bargain on that link. I paid £40 and £45 for mine (I have two) and that was 5 yrs ago. Grab it! Have lost 2lb since Friday. Pleased. Had to have vaginal ultrasound today. Not nice! They stick a big long cold thing smothered in jelly right up inside you to the cervix. Owing to the...

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Day Two .... perfect. In bed now, kept to under 1800 calories, and zero chocolate. Goodnight x

Hi everyone Oh Claire many congrats on FIVE STONE lost. You put me to shame ... I've only lost 20lb ... 1/3 of your achievement. I feel ashamed at letting myself fall off the wagon for so long. Mind you, if I am kind to myself, I did go through a winter period of misery, illness, hopelessness...

Thanks everyone for dropping by. Day One Update Laid in bed till 10am watching 2 episodes of the BBC Which Diet For You (or whatever it's called). 1030 Granola and live yoghurt and a dash of grape juice 400 calories One hour water aerobics 90 minutes with an osteopath Walked from there...

Hi everyone ... after an absence of a week here I am logging on. My weight this morning was 332. (The scale, which is almost new, showed 337, then 332, then 337, then 332. Turned it off and on again and it showed 332 four times consecutively.) This is good news, shows a loss of 2-4lb in two...

Amazing transformation. Many congrats. "keep focused and put your mind to it"

What a small world! She's trying to hook me up with a Katie, who lives near me, but I cannot find her on FB.... is that your mate?

Yeah. How can you possibly know her, when you are hundreds of miles away? Great video about emotional eating. How To Stop Binge Eating And Emotional Eating Once And For All - YouTube

After six months of almost complete physical inactivity, punctuated by episodes of terrible asthma attacks, today I had my first (of 12) sessions with my newly-engaged personal trainer Serena! It was bloody hard to get started, but we walked a mile along the seafront in the brilliant sunshine...

Sole of feet hurt Knees hurt Back hurts Hips hurt Get out of breath really quickly, mainly because I always either have a chest infection or am recovering from one (like now) Chafing (creams make it worse) General feelings of desperately wanting to stop walking General feelings of desperately...

Thanks Susie darling for being proud of me. Although I am the independent, stroppy type who hates taking orders, for this 6 weeks I am going to do exactly as I am told, to the best of my ability. It's only 12 sessions, and if I don't like her I can switch to someone else after that. DO try the...

Yay! I have NOT gone back up to 26 stone 2. I feel better knowing that I am not the only backslider!

Wow. Moved to tears. <weeps>

Found this old pic of weighing machine printout showing me at 26 stone 2 (which is 366 pounds, how I got my username) and then down to 24-4 by August 2013. Sadly, I am today 24-4, same as in 2013. I had dieted down to 23 stone 8 (330lb) by Nov 2014. Fell off the wagon and messed up big time...

sorry duplicated

Cheers, Tracy, mate! I was just hunting for my weighing machine printout jpgs when I stumbled across some photos of you! Great motivational pics! Funny you should say that about water. I've just made myself my second pint of hot fruit tea this morning: Non-caffeine fruit infusion tea bags...

I just stole this from the b*i*t*c*h blog. I really wish it was not called that. It hurts me to call her that. Must find out her real name! "There are many reasons why it is important to drink water, especially if you are dieting: Initial weight loss is largely due to loss of water, and you...

Thank you Mandy and welcome to my page. Feel free to drop in anytime. Looked at your stats ... 28 stone ... a bit more than I was at my top weight of 26 stone 9 so I can totally relate to you. Many congrats on dropping your BMI by over 3 points. Please "friend" me and let's stick together. I...

Thank you SO MUCH for that! I have never heard of her! Bloody hell! The challenge she has taken on makes my weight loss problem seem like child's play. I expect I will spend all of today reading her blog, and not get any work done whatsoever! http://weightloss*****.com/about-me Re the smoking...

SATURDAY UPDATE Yesterday I had no chocolate. Just didn't feel like it. Illness is a great boon to slimming. (Every cloud etc.) Met personal trainer. She's dropped from 23st to 13st in 4 years. I am very impressed. And it makes me jealous, and it also makes me feel huge regret. If I'd stayed...

Nobody can argue that eating Real Food and no c-r-@-p is the perfect way. That't the standard set, which we start off aiming for. It's just that some of us find we can't stick to a diet for years without having a little junk treat every day. When it comes to weight gain, fructose and sucrose...

I have news for you. Apparently Wemitts means "We mean it this time" and now you've joined it, there is no escape. I found this out when I wanted to give up but the ladies would not let me. We are allowed a little stumble, to fall off the wagg now and again, but we are never allowed to give up...

Whoops sorry, just being humorous, did not mean to cause offence. When I lost 25lb a few months ago I was disappointed that my breasts shrunk, whilst my gigantic thighs stayed the same :-(

First part of Dr Berg's videos Why People Can't Lose Weight - Part 1 - YouTube one more http://youtu.be/BvCdGhj7zCI

Hi Essie and all .... watch this video, just received the link in my email. Good stuff for dieters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0p-PBF8qk

KRUPSKAYA Thank you Krup for your kind words. Yes, I am still in the game! I am! I am! No chance of aquafit for now, too ill. You are right - I did stop logging. I found it incredibly tedious after a few weeks. And I am so busy all the time with one thing and another that I'd keep putting it...

Dear Tracy I'm not sure of is the idea of going cold turkey on sugar etc. I've done that. Stuck it 18 months. It works if you can totally beat the addiction. With me it led to occasional massive bingeing. It is a valid way of doing things, if you are in the right mindset. At the moment I...

WOW. I am seriously impressed.

Sheer envy, Susie! I asked my 32AA lodger to mend my 46D bra (she's good with a needle) and she was openly envious! Enjoy them while you can, cos they will shrink along with the rest of you! Sorry for hijacking the thread :-) Helena

Because of being in A&E overnight I overslept and did not keep my scheduled hospital appointment so I was at least spared that ordeal. On the plus side, at my hospital they did all my stats, blood tests, chest xray, etc and everything is, again, normal. I am back on St John's Wort. That's it...

You are 100% correct, of course. Yesterday I was rushed off to hospital in an ambulance yet again, engulfed in an asthma-like attack and was in a cubicle in A&E for 5 hours. Got home 0230. So, yet another chest infection. Sixth course of antibiotics in 3 years. Lucky I eat live yoghurt every...

Really down in the dumps. Feel at rock bottom. In a rut. Fat and bloated and lazy and hopeless. Want to lose a shedload of weight, but zero motivation to keep me going day by day. Am keeping to about 1800 to 2000 a day, but the craving to binge is with me the whole time. Like an immense longing...

Not great news, is it? Depressed me. Welcome, Stackhead and many congrats on your amazing weight loss. I screwed up BIG TIME yesterday and am sitting here weeping tears of self-loathing yet again. Time to listen to Louise Hay - again! Helena xxx

"Both crash dieting and chronic dieting can and will wreak havoc on your metabolic rate, as is clearly demonstrated in numerous studies published in the prestigious research journal Metaoblism. For example, in a study conducted at Rockefeller University by world-renowned obesity researcher...

Thank you my lovely ladies! I am on max dose of painkillers and so am able to function normally now. It appears to be polyps or a tumour or something. Not cancer as there is no bleeding. When I left the hospital at 1030pm I had to go to Sainsbury for the pharmacy. Yeah, they don't have one at...

Apologies for absence, ladies, just got too tied up with other things... the days fly by, and I end up lying in bed thinking, whoops, forgot to do my food diary AND forgot to visit Minimins. So, bad news but with a silver lining. My last 5 days has been taken up dealing with terrific pelvic...

Thanks for all the tips, ladies. I've printed out GSP's post and have stuck it up near me.

I have good news at last! Yesterday, I kept within my calorie limit, AND ~ more importantly, I got through my first day of having ONLY a Slimfast Caramel and no other chocolate or treats! Phew. Dunnit at last! Now on to Day Two.

YES yes yes! That is exactly what I am like. Nail on head, Instant Karma! For example, I rarely go into the town centre but when I do, I always buy myself two split Belgian buns filled with cream, from Gregg's. I am in heaven when I eat them. Then, for the next few days, I can't stop thinking...

Ryan you put it all back on when you drink anything afterwards!

I'm like Lily. If it's too yummy then I want more. The Slimfast caramel bars really are the way to go. They are delicious and because they are so hard and chewy, you can make one last for ages, especially if you chop it into tiny dice then place each one individually on the tongue and make the...

Cheers, Jules. Yes, it is really hard. I long for cakes, pastries, chocolate .... feel like I want to sit on the sofa all day with 100 items and devour them with mugs of tea. Instead I am allowed ONE Slimfast caramel. Hmph!

Hi my ladies! I am not quite back on track yet. I am still being wayward but fewer times. Finding it hard to discipline myself as usual. I feel a bit like an adult fighting a naughty child. Thanks for the photos Tracy. I think you were very beautiful woman even before you lost weight. Its...

Tracy I would sooo change places with you if I could! You are my heroine. If you have any before and after photos I could have, I'd love to print them out and put them on my wall. Because I write and publish books, a few weeks ago, when I had lost altogether 3 stone, it crossed my mind that...

Yesterday was mixed. Bad: I ate all the rest of the treat bars, after saying I would not. I think there were 4 and so that's 500c, plus I also had two Special K Chewies so that's 600c wasted on chocolate. Good: There are now no more treat bars left. So that's that. Good: Because I got up at...

Hello Tracy Well it would certainly be useful to me, as a source of ideas for low calorie foods. I am still staggered by your amazing weight loss. You are an inspiration to so many people. If it wasn't for women like you, we could easily fall into the belief that this thing we are trying to do...

Thank you lovely ladies for all the messages. I have sent Kayleigh a PM. I've done OK the past two days with the meals, but I stupidly ordered a bag of treat sized chocolates with my Tesco order, that were meant to be one-a-day or at most 2-a-day treats, for about 80 calories each. However...

Thanks also to "Queen" Tracy and Kym and Claire... all lovely ladies :wave_cry: Honestly, I found the only thing that isn't a total chore is dancing to music. It also lifts the spirits generally. I will stick a Post It on my monitor to remind myself. It can be done in a chair to Youtube music...

I must confess, my Lady, when I read that list my kneejerk reaction is, how can you lose weight on unlimited pasta? However, you say you are happy and losing on SW. If it works for you then surely it must work for me? Is there a plan all laid out on a webpage somewhere or do I have to buy a...

Four. But I only have s*x with one of them. I did do it (once, a year ago) with one of the others, but I found it/him mediocre at best, so we've gone back to being platonic mates now. H x

Cheers Claire. No I didn't see that prog. I never really watch TV. I've got a huge heap of online tasks to achieve today so I doubt I'll be doing any quizzes. Plus I have to pack up by 4pm as b/f #2 is visiting. I am hoping for a nice long back massage whilst we watch a DVD. As for Leslie, I'd...

And you know what seagulls would do to a troll!

I really can't be bothered to march on the spot or anything. Aren't I terrible? The only thing that fires me up is a certain kind of wild rock music, then I cannot stop myself from getting up and jiggling about. Maybe I should try to remember to do that once or twice a day. I am just feeling...

Thanks Lou. I expect the SW thing is heaps of veggies and almost no fat or sugar. I made a good start yesterday by having a big bowl of steamed broccoli with some home made beef and vegetable stew on top, which was little beef and a lot of gravy. I also managed to get through the day without...

Hello my ladies, my girlies, my women/womyn/wimin! Please Sparkle don't worry about me, I am really fine now, hunky dory, I have stepped up, found my power and am telling em like it is! I don't want my thread to be invisible to new members as you never know, I might meet a new friend. I just...

Dear ladies... many thanks for all the messages. It really touches my heart to know that there are women out there, who I have never met, who care about me. I could write loads, but it's too risky on here. I thank whoever said move this to some private place by contacting someone or other but I...

Thanks to all my ladies, titled and otherwise. Discovered that Baby Steps are needed, as getting straight in 100% feels too much of a shock. Baby Steps Phase 1 ~ log food intake, so I can SEE the calories, which makes me come face-to-face with what I am doing to myself. I think not logging...

Hi Lou ... many thanks to you, my sister in slimming! Right, we are back together on an even footing, you lost 14lb and me only 10lb now :-( Thanks for the ideas. I'm feeling terribly shocked by the weight gain and strangely subdued today. All I have eaten so far is a bowl of live yoghurt...

I have gained 16 pounds (1st 2) in just 8 weeks. Lowest weight was 329 (23st 4) in November. Today 342 (24st 6). Which means I have now only lost 10 lb since the restart on 9th August (at 25st 2). That is 5 months. Just 10 lb in 5 months. Which means there is no hope at all that I can reach...

"INDEPENDENT" ARTICLE THAT WAS SENT TO ME Tell people to eat less? Yes, that

Panda. Don't be a sad Panda! 4lb at our weight is NOTHING. The fluctuations in water alone account for that. You have done amazingly well! I am pretty flabbergasted at how much weight you have lost. And my gast doesn't flabber easily! So you put on 2 stone.... it's not much as a percentage of...

Hershey: "I'm on citalopram...After 10 days on it now I am a new me. That's the ones I've got in the unopened box. You say they only tae 10 days to work? Well it's still an option. "thought possibly you had a corner bath of something. I wish i did." Oh me too! I used to absolutely adore...

Excellent advice, and, may I add, neon yellow means you've overdosed on the Vit C tablets! I know this because I once had a hypochondriac boyfriend who after doubling his Vit C tablets in the winter to "prevent a cold" went running to his doctor worried sick about his fluorescent pee! Oh...

Excellent advice, and, may I add, neon yellow means you've overdosed on the Vit C tablets! I know this because I once had a hypochondriac boyfriend who after doubling his Vit C tablets in the winter to "prevent a cold" went running to his doctor worried sick about his fluorescent pee! Oh...

Hello Hershey, my true friend! I have huge problems with seeing my GPs. We get a five-minute appointment and if you say the word "depression" it's just straight onto the drugs. I have resisted for many years now the easy slide into drug dependency. I've sometimes accepted the prescription to...

"The USA National Institutes of Health studies that linked obesity to heart disease and stroke were based on male subjects; when a study of females was finally published in 1990, it showed that weight made only a fraction of the difference for women that it made for men.[…] Female fat is not in...

Hi babe Have read your recent posts on here. How do you manage to feel satisfied with such small portions? I need to find a way. I long for huge portions... really massive, stomach-plumping portions. I crave them, dream of them. I have to stop eating so much. Helena x

I don't find it "helpful" to be mocked for having candida, to be ridiculed for trying to stick to the diet that cures it. THAT is what I found intolerable, NOT what you keep accusing me of - i.e. that I just don't like people disagreeing with me. When people come on here and say, "I've got a...

KittyBling and Theria if you dislike me, my venting, my personality, my posts, my journal then WHY DO YOU KEEP COMING BACK HERE AND POSTING? Felicity is a made-up anonymous troll poster who said that I would never succeed at dieting. Is that what ANY 300lb+ woman needs to hear on a diet forum...

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Yes I think that sounds like a good idea. I haven't heard of the nom nom paleo. I can cope with a bit of cooking... depends what it entails. I like making soup and curries, because half an hour's work gives you 10 meals, but when it involves baking I have found it terribly tedious to spend ages...

I have reported all your posts and told you to leave my page. So why are you still here?

I have reported "Felicitys" posts. Reason: she isn't a dieter, has only ever posted three messages on MiniMins, all of them abusive, and all of them on this thread in the last 5 hours. Click on her name and you can check out everything I have said is true. She's never done anything on...

It's the standard candida diet. Issued by nutritionists. Listed on all the candida sites and in the books (I have three). I didn't write this diet. If I did, it sure would contain bread, milk and pork, three of my favourite things.

Kitty I am EVER so sorry, I didn't think to write a list of things that the candida diet entails..... it is no grains at all, not just no wheat. I mentioned the bread because no grains covers that, but I am also not allowed rye bread, rice milk, etc, nor artificial sweeteners, nor any of the...

Thoughts about how I might start to get back on the wagon... Was heavily dependent upon sandwiches when I was doing really well on my diet. I loved everything about them and found they really filled me up and the calories could be controlled as everything in the sandwich had the calories on the...

Dear ladies I am in dire need of help. And yet I don't know what help I need, nor what anyone can do. I seem to be completely out of control. I'm not bingeing the time, but that isn't because I'm controlled, it's just because the monster within me doesn't choose to binge all the time. If it...

Hi there and many congrats, I see you have now lost 50lb and I am jealous as hell! Candida diet: no sugar, milk, mushrooms, vinegar, starchy vegetables, pickles, beans, fruit (including juice, dried,) breaded foods, bread, rice, all grains, carrots, parsnip, potatoes, smoked, cured, processed...

Well, the Bad Penny finally crawled back on here, head hanging in shame... well, kind of, except .... turns out I have systemic candida, caused by having had I think five rounds of antibiotics in the past couple of years. The overgrowth is now so serious that I feel "under the weather" 24 hours...

You are all so very kind, ladies... I am not very far off track ... not going mad... still keeping to my "usual" diet foods, just that some days I am a little over the top with chocolate.. not every day .... and I am definitely on the mend, so no more excuses.... keeping to about 1800 to 2200 a...

Thanks for the message Jo. I'm still struggling. I have been really ill for two weeks and also very worried about my health for all that time and not getting proper diagnosis or the correct treatment. I find that all the anxiety about it makes my eating very haphazard: I have been oscillating...

I've just read your news and I am speechless!

Thank you ladies for your kind thoughts. Hopefully I will be able to resume aquafit very soon!

It's many years since I've felt as depressed and miserable as I do right now. Been in floods of tears, cannot stop crying, since I woke up at 6am after just 4 hours sleep. Somehow you have to find a tiny little bit of something inside you that makes you want to keep on going. But at least I...

Soooo sorry ladies for not checking in for a week. It's been a really bad week and I have been ever so busy and a lot of misery and crying and I am injured (hip pain after moving furniture) AND now I am ill with terrible symptoms of allergic asthma. At the moment I am constantly and...

No bonk, too bloody knackered! Nice, long nude chat was all I could manage! Weighed yesterday at 4pm... 337lb. Weighed at 10am this morning ... 329lb. This just shows how much I can fluctuate overnight! In pain ALL OVER from excessive bending, stretching, lying down across the floor and...

You mean defer Saturday's bonk till next week? Yeah I can do that. I'm not at the pool today, either, as I am shifting furniture and painting etc. A bad day for chocolate yesterday. Impulse again! Waiting at the counter at the paint depot, there were "charity bags" of chocolates on the counter...

Thanks to all you loverrrrly ladies for your messages! It occurred to me that one of the things people do is promise themselves to start their diet "on the twelfth of never" but 31st April would also do .... LOL Theria ... I know that you are right. And I DO get obsessed with the scale. I do...

He's also my best friend. Up 4lbs today, so everything I lost since Saturday is back. I want to scream. 4 days out of 5 I did 1hr of aerobic exercise that I hadn't previously been doing, and I've kept to 1800 on 4 days out of 5, and on the 5th had 2,000. Not only is the 2,000 STILL a massive...

Princess... how did you begin this diet on 31st April? 30 days hath September, April, June and November... Thrilled to bits with your 74 lb loss. You are amazing.

Quite an active day, busy busy busy the whole time. Did not watch tv so no barbells, and forgot to dance to music. Oh well, I guess I should not worry about taking ONE day off in a week. Pool tomorrow morning. Quite looking forward to my "private disco".

Nope, I never have sex with lodgers... I have a 6yr LTR with a virile stud. It was he... I don't know HOW to calculate the calories burned in a bonk. I suspect on his side it must have been a thousand. :-)

THANK YOU both my hunni-buns for skipping in and leaving me the love :-) I have dragged myself out of the self pitying rut and I am gonna KILL it, ladies! I was really sad when my lodger gave notice, but listen to this .. a guy has applied for the room and he is a PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINER! And...

NOVEMBER BOOT CAMP Food On waking ~ vitamin pills plus water Before aquafit ~ up to 100c of sliced cold ham. After aquafit ~ 500 calorie lunch Afternoon snack ~ 300 calories (fruit, treats, cup-a-soup or a sandwich etc) Dinner ~ 800 calories comprising one big meal plus treats Thru day ~...

Thank you Princess :-)

Down another pound today, to 329. Over the moon! So much so that I just slid into a damp swimming costume ..eeewwwwww! because I am STILL in the mood to go to the pool! Excited as a puppy right now! ------------------------ edited to add (waiting for taxi to pool) A bit more good news! I've...

Day #2 Ever so proud of myself. A full 50 minutes dancing in the water, despite feeling aches and pains all over from yesterday's exertions. AND, what is more, after two paracetamol decided to walk part of the 1 mile home (I haven't walked home for about 2 years). If it hadn't been so windy...

I'm sorry but again I find I don't have enough time to respond to all those lovely, long, interesting, helpful, caring messages left on this thread. They require more than the 5 minutes I have before the cab arrives to take me to the pool. So, a quick update. My weight had dropped to as low...

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I am overwhelmed by the avalanche of LOVE posted on this board in the last few days and will reply to each message when I have more time than now. I'm waiting for my brother and sister in law' first visit in nearly 3 yrs so am keyboard bashing in haste. 1st November 2014 After waking this...

Lots to say. Will write tonight.. xxxxx http://blackgirlsguidetoweightloss.com/emotional-eating-2/ending-emotional-eating-and-the-transformative-art-of-self-care-part-i/

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Thanks, Cavey. Wish I had not told anyone outside of here that I am on a diet. Too late now ... they are still asking for updates. I will have to think of something to say... maybe tell them I am bored of emailing about it and talking about it and I'll let them know once I reach a size 8? Or...

Thanks ladies for ALL the messages.... In particular I want to respond to Jasmine's comment: Don't try to do any extra cutting back to make up for lost time - it doesn't work, it just makes you more hungry, more fed up and more likely to lose the plot! I had to laugh at that comment! After...

About 18 hrs ago I logged in and read the last few messages on this thread and burst into tears and was sobbing my heart out. So I could not see thru my tears to write a response. Just now I felt in a better frame of mind so I returned to this thread, read the most recent few messages and burst...

This time next year I will be... posting on here to say apologies for a year's absence and that I have gained yet another stone instead of losing 10 stone and asking everyone's indulgence whilst I start yet another diet at which I will fail just like I have for the past 36 years. I wish it...

Can I ask you ladies something about emotional eating please? I see it mentioned a lot and it seems to be perhaps the root cause of why so many of us are overweight. The way I experience emotional eating isn't usually "Ooh I feel upset, I am going to eat something to make myself feel better"...

many apologies. too ashamed to post.

Oh ladies I am SO SO SO sorry for causing you any concern. Don't fret, I am still alive, not ill or anything. I'm also very touched and grateful that there are people in this group who care about me. I'll come and write a full update within the next 24 hrs. Helena

Thanks for the tips. I have tried a few times now baking them in the oven. Broccoli, carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash and brussels sprouts. I tried with no oil but they were not good. They need oil, and lots of it, but at 120 calories a tablespoon it kind of defeats the object in a way...

Thank you so much, all you ladies, for your messages. It was lovely to log in and see so many people caring about me... MWAH! Those Knorr soups have an extraordinary amount of sodium on the MFP chart. And yet, to me, they do not taste all that salty. I'm peeved that there is a question mark...

Thank you for your kind words, Lily. And don't apologise for dropping by: I have very few visitors here now. Yes you are right, the bigger you are the more dramatic your losses ... and your gains. I guess I have been conditioned to want to see a reward based on the scale. Perhaps it is better to...

Count yourself lucky: I have gained 6lb this week, whilst eating 1,000 calories a day under my TDEE.

Well folks, for my angelic perseverance in keeping to 1800 calories per day, which included a day of 1400 to repay the 400 I went over the day before, I have been rewarded with a one pound GAIN. So, I've gained 6lb in a week! Of course "calorie theory" dictates that I must be eating 3,500...

Well this is how it is going to pan out today ... 1400 calories, to make up for going over by 400 yesterday. Morning Ainsley Harriott - New England Style Vegetable Chowder Cup Soup, 1 sachet 97 16g 3g 1g 0mg 770mg 2g 3g Glenryk Pilchards - 155g Can, 155 g 188 0g 10g 0g 0mg 1mg 2g 2g...

Hi Princess I'm afraid that berries won't do: they don't keep, which means both that chances are when I need them I won't have any or they will have gone off; and that I'll end up feeling obliged to eat them when I don't want them, to save waste. I really do think that Slimfast Caramels are the...

Wise words. Thank you. What I find is, if I am really busy, ESPECIALLY with something like house-painting, I forget all about food. I can literally go four or even six hours on a cup-a-soup when I am painting or gardening. The worst thing for me is sitting at the computer, working on a book or...

I suppose it's this compulsive eating and inability to keep ourselves under control that made us fat in the first place. :-( I didn't throw the chocolates away yesterday. Mind you, they are nearly finished now, then I will be safe, I shall have only the Slimfasts. Today I am craving a huge...

I spoke to my travelling companion again last night. We talked about where we are going at Easter and in the summer hols. The last three trips have been utter misery for me because of the terrible burden of my massive weight. Not only was it physically and mentally distressing for me, it was...

This is interesting! BBC News - Is reheated pasta less fattening?

Hello to everyone! Thanks for your posts. Thank you Krup: I don't feel quite so isolated when reminded that I am far from alone in having these behaviours ~ compulsions, addictions, lack of willpower. Did you keep putting the peanut butter away and then going back for it again and again...

Tracy, I am too ashamed to say. When I first started on this new diet I had trying unsuccessfully to do Atkins for ten years. I used to go zero-sugar for a few days then binge on one to six chocolate bars. When I switched to calorie counting in August, I was incredibly grateful and relieved...

I'd never tried mixed roasted veggies until last week. I find them delicious. because they are so low in calories one can afford to drizzle some olive oil or butter over them, which is needed to give flavour. My main problem at the moment is that I am eating far too much chocolate. I keep...

Today: home made chicken and coconut fat-free and rice-free curry. Made with freshly ground spices, grated fresh ginger, garlic, and fresh coriander etc. Served with lightly steamed fresh kale. Not sure it was worth the effort. Took ages and made an unholy mess and a lot of washing up. I'm not...

I have four calories left to spend today. What can I spend it on?

Done eating for today. 1800 calories. Dinner was something I've never had before: roasted brussels sprouts and sweet potato. A bigly portion for 400 calories.

Just stumbled across this photo of me, taken in August 2010, when I was 26 stone 2. The man in the photo is my ex. We split up 2002 but met up again 2010 (and 2011) when I happened to be visiting the town in which he lives. Standing next to him I look enormous! He's a superfit, daily-cycling...

Partly I think because in the 1960s because of the frauds of Ancel Keys fat became the "enemy" and, with the simultaneous push from the cereal producers, who began to peddle cereals as a "health food", high carb sugary cereals became popularised. I know people who still eat sugar-laden cereals...

Kedgeree (fish and rice) was very popular in the UK until about the 1930s....

Yes it's really curious isn't it, how we get hide-bound into believing we have to eat certain foods at certain times. It's completely without any rational, practical or logical basis. Reminds me of so many really zany discussions I had when I was on Atkins. People used to grimace when hearing...

Been enjoying my chicken soup breakfasts. Will recommend to others, esp my niece who is also on a diet (so I read on Facebook) and is eating cornflakes for breakfast, thinking it a "health" and "slimming" food and yet finding herself so hungry that she overeats later. Chicken soup: 300 calorie...

One of the greatest things about the internet is that we "meet" people around issues we share. Even if you and I were at the same party we might not have discussed dieting, for example. I was a bit taken aback when you said you daren't fly. To my mind you may be worrying unecessarily. I was a...

Bad day today. Thy seem to be alternating. I ate too much chocolate and must forgo dinner. I ate bacon sandwiches... too much. Felt depressed and miserable all day, and listless and bored. Still, it could have been worse: at least I didn't pig out with a takeaway like in the old days. Gotta...

Thank you ladies for your positive feedback. I know it's not much of an achievement, losing only one stone in four years of on-off-on-off dieting, but it's better than gaining and ending up at 30 stone. Funny to think it took 4 yrs to lose a stone, and yet in just 9 weeks I have lost almost 2...

Just wanted to remind myself of how far I have come. 5 years ago I weighed 366 pounds (26 stone 2) Here are two printouts from the leisure centre weighing machine from that time. Today 327 (23 stone 5)

Hello Tracy and PSP I did so well today! Really happy with what I ate. Soup and chicken for brekkie abt 9am, a pile of ham and piccallili sarnis for lunch abt 3pm, the rest of the soup and chicken at 7pm, and five little choc treats over the day. COULD have gone without dinner, as no...

Pleased to say I am doing a LOT better than yesterday. By this time yesterday I had scoffed down 1400 calories! Today only 400. Big BIG mistake, and I have made this one twice now, is thinking I can eat fruit for breakfast. This is now totally banned. Not only does it make me feel weak and...

Just had this for breakfast. Ingredients one 200g chicken breast, marinated for 24 hours in herbs, garlic, ginger and olive oil 1 packet Knorr chicken and leek soup 1 packet Waitrose chicken noodle slimming soup (I put this in because I just want to use it up - it's horrible on its own but I...

Also made this today: Veg soup 400g bag butternut squash and sweet potato 168 calories 240g bag cabbage and leeks 46 calories 3 Bisto chicken flavour cubes = 21 calories With another marinated chicken breast, this will be the basis of my food intake tomorrow. I am trying to get organised so...

Cheers, Kim... we've lost about the same. Well done, and good luck!

Breakfast. (Right) a (more than a) pint mug of tea (Left) a pint mug of chicken soup. Ingredients one 200g chicken breast, marinated for 24 hours in herbs, garlic, ginger and olive oil 1 packet Knorr chicken and leek soup 1 packet Waitrose chicken noodle slimming soup (I put this in because...

You are so right! 2lb down since last WI two days ago. 25lb lost in 9 weeks. Only need three more to make it two stone! Helena

Ended my eating day on 1437c. Have gone to bed early to avoid temptation. Thanks, S, for dropping by.

Well if you are not losing on 1400 then why continue to be so strict? You may as well increase at least to 1600 or 1800, maybe more, as others have suggested.

I am pleased with how the day is going so far. I have consumed 730 calories and it is now 4pm. If only I could manage this every day, I'd be home and dry. Have dinner planned: ham sandwiches. If I can stick to that and not weaken and eat anything else, I can stick on 1400. Or if I have two...

Yeah those damned wolves!

Ahhh you are being too nice. If we are not hard on ourselves we will never achieve anything. I am determined to lose 6 stone in 8 months and that equates to a tad over 10lb a month. Or 2.5lb a week. So far I have lost 22lb in 8 weeks (2.75lb a week) so I am not ahead and cannot rest on my...

I am feeling bad this morning. I have failed to keep to 2 out of the 3 goals I set myself :-( 1) I did not go swimming 2) I did not stick to 1800 calories every day On the plus side, I have cut back on bread. I cannot remember the last time I had a slice. It hasn't made me feel any different...

thanks Princess.... somehow i managed to restrain myself. I had two portions of my home made frozen cottage pie ready meal, a 56cal choccie bar and a cup of milk. 2200 calories. I'll see if I can cut back by 400 over the next few days. I was really very hungry. Helena

Cheers, Krup. Not doing so well today. Feeling exceptionally, desperately, gut-wrenchingly hungry. Feel like I could eat a horse. Only got 477 calories left for today and it's only half past four. I've been busy busy busy all day non stop and I am flagging, eyes heavy, stomach rumbling... Half...

So, the mystery has been solved. My friend passed his personal record the other day: his pre-bath and after bath weight differed by a massive five pounds! The man is, clearly, full of sweat!

Hi Bear and thanks! Princess: there is no swimming involved in dancing to music in the water. You need not even get your hair wet! Kahleesi: if your disability allows, do try the water exercise. You can make it as gentle as you like. The pace is entirely up to you. Down another pound today to...

another 2lb down... am now past the halfway point. 366to266 pledged 42lb - lost 22lb Autumn 500 - pledged 42lbs - lost 3lbs loulou83 - pledged 35lbs - lost 5lbs Joanne - pledged 70lbs - lost 21.8lbs littlemissnaughty - pledged 45lbs - lost 24lbs Upndown - pledged 40lbs - lost 21.5lbs newme763 -...

Welcome Mrs FatBum Hmmm.. there might be a problem with that name. Well, in a few month's time you will have to change it to Mrs SkinnyBum and lose continuity with your earlier posts! I'm wanting to lose about 6 stone 7 as well, for this tranche in my weight loss, so you have one buddy here...

Crikey! I just noticed you have lost nearly 8 stone since February! You have lost more than my lodger weighs. How amazing is that? 1400 is very restrictive. Can I see your daily food log, to see how it's done? Many congrats. You will be a legend one day on here! Helena

So here is the Aquabeat.... You attach it on the goggle strap just behind your ear (that way you can reach it to adjust volume, skip tracks, etc) So you see the man has it just behind his ear... Here is one in lovely girlie pink, you can see it has special waterproof earphones. You can go...

Haha I didn't mean YOU were like her, I meant SHE is the archetype of pizza and slobbing going together.... Also, CAKE! And FAGS!

Blimey Kahleesi I hardly know where to start in praising water-based exercise for fatties. OK let's start by saying that, in the water, a 20 stone woman feels 10 stone. Is that enough to tempt you? Because your entire weight is supported by the water, by your own buoyancy, in fact, you can...

Do you remember Waynetta Slob? If not, Youtube....

Yes, weight loss is a funny thing; it can be so easy at times; incredibly difficult at other times. So long as I am going through an "easy" period I get along fine.... but when I hit a rough patch, like for example I am craving to overeat (through stress) or am exceptionally hungry, then it's...