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I eat a lot of frozen fruit, it can be really good btu it depends what you're going to do with eat. I have fruit and fat free yoghurt for breakfast every day so every evening I fill a small container with yoghurt and whatever frozen fruit I want. Its defrosted by the morning and the juice...

When I make fruit salad I use diet 7up and it seems to work just fine, so if you don't like the flavour of the lemon juice try a diet lemonade of some sort.

Nothing, I've either given everything to charity or sold them on ebay (if they were nearly new). I've gone from a size 20 to a 14 in 6 months, and I'll be a 12 soon. Then I'll stop. I don't want to be reminded of how big I was, its embarressing and I won't be going back there ever ever again!

I've just put lots of size 20 and 18 clothes on ebay if anyone wants to take a look. see bev370 items - Get great deals on Clothes, Shoes Accessories items on eBay UK! cheers Bev

I agree and cannot praise bravissimo enough, I've been shopping with them for many many years - since before they had a high street shop, as they used to only be mail order and only for bra's. I try to get fitted every year as our boobs do change naturally, and always go to Bravissimo, and...

Excellent news, I was beginning to think I was odd - I genuinely believed everyone lost a substantial amount of their boobs when losing weight. I quite like my boobs so am really pleased that I haven't lost them. :-)

Good job I'm allergic to red onions! :-) (and cranberries so I can't have that one either)

Hello, I live in Penge, just on the Sydenham side so must be very close to you. Alas, I'm not looking to be a SW buddy but just thought I'd say hello and wish you luck. I've been following SW since June and lost 3.5 stone, I do it online as I didn't want/feel the need to go to the meetings...

I started healthy eating via SW (I've never thought of it as a diet as its not, its how I eat now) in June and have lost about 3.5 stone. I've gone from a clothes size 20 to a size 14. But, have still been wearing the same bra's - I've just been putting them on the smaller hook and eyes, and...

What's a mugshot?

My OH and I have been doing SW since June, he's lost 4.5 stone and I've lost 3.5 stone. He used to hate shopping and now he loves it, he comes back smiling and insists on putting his new clothes on to show me, its really lovely. :-) He's gone from something like a 44 or 46 inch waist to a 32...

I used to do a weekly meal plan, until we learned what we should eat and what we should stop eating from our previously unhealthy days. Plus we used to do 2 green, 2 red and 3 ee days a week so it meant we could manage that properly. Nowadays we don't bother, we've learned what we eat and what...

Since June I've gone from a size 20 to almost a size 14 (I have just a couple of 14's but should be a comfy 14 soon). I've always worn trousers and jeans, now I'm actually wearing skirts, and rather short ones too with thick tights and boots. I get lots of comments about my legs too which is v...

Gosh, you'd need one HUGE family to need a twin slow cooker! It's be rare that you'd want two different meals too. I've had a slow cooker for a few months and we use it a couple of times a week. I started off with stew type things but have now moved onto gammon joints, topside of beef, curries...

Thank you. :-) I'm quite proud of that photo.

Blonde8 - smoked salmon is free on red but smoked mackerel is 1 syn for each 28g.

Each week we do 2 EE days, 2 red and 3 green. I like red days best. A typical red day for us is..... Fruit and far free yoghurt for breakfast (but we have that everyday) Green salad with ham or smoked salmon or smoked mackerel or chicken Steak and SW chips (obviously spud is hex) Or A stew...

You can minimise the effect on the skin by losing weight slowly and by applying good moisteriser. Its well known that cocoa butter is great for helping the elasticity of the skins and reducing stretch marks. I would have thought that doing this would also help the skin be more healthy and heal...

A ticket to be a keeper at London Zoo or Whipsnade for a day. I've dropped a couple of hints, so hopefully this one might come true, although its a bit expensive at £270, although his pressie cost more than that so its feasible :D. I'd cry if I did get this.

Hello everyone, I've had a nother big clear out and have put all my nearly new stuff on ebay, I have moved through sizes so quickly that many things have only been worn a couple of times. So, lots of 20's and 18's, have a look at bev370 items - Get great deals on Clothes, Shoes Accessories items...

I have to say that I'm really very proud of them all. My older girlie bun can be quite stroppy but she's been just lovely with the cats. Even when they were kittens and used to attempt to pounce on her, she just nudged them away - although saying that, its although they know that she is in...

elb4160 and Fernx - people are always suprised when they see the buns and the cats together, it took some v careful planning and a lot of patience. When we decided to get cats (they're just 11 months old) we went to rescue centres and no one would give us kittens cos we go to work, but we knew...

I've been selling some of my clothes that are too big for me on ebay. I was ironing some jeans today - firstly a pair I need to parcel up and send, and then a pair to wear tomorrow. It struck me, how different they were in size. I put one on top of the other to compare them. Obviously I know...

They're house bunnies - Lavender (white/brown/grey splodgy one) who is 6 yrs old, and Darwin (big brown monster french lop) who is 2 yrs old. They live in our lounge and are litter trained, v friendly, like fuss, and like the cats. :D Ruby - sorry for hijacking your thread!!!:wave_cry:

Almost 100% of the time it comes from the vets but on the very odd occassion an animal is prescribed something that the vet doesn't have which is actually a human medicine, in which case you can get it from the chemist rather than wait for the vet to order some in for you. I have had bunnies...

I used to do this to get paediatric septrin for one of my rabbits (ie that banana flavour antibiotics we used to get as kids) and they used to charge me the actual cost of the drugs. Some chemists also charge a dispensing free as its classed as a private prescription (I don't think Boots do)...

I didn't set a target to start with but I think that was because i didn't expect to lose weight. I then started losing weight really quickly so decided I needed somewhere to stop. At that point I was a size 20 (June/July this year) so I decided that I wanted to be a size 16. I then decided...

I used to brilliant at getting myself to the gym, and lost loads of weight several years ago through exercise but then I changed jobs, couldn't fit the gym in and put weight back on. So this time I've done it through healthy eating instead. I have a good level of exercise on a daily basis as...

Ever since we started healthy eating back in June we seem to eat huge amounts of meet. We have steak once a week - preferably fillet as its the leanest but if the butcher has no fillet (or its too small which is sometimes the case) then we have sirloin or even rib eye - I just cut all of the fat...

Oh dear, as usual I am about to say something different to everyone else. HE has the right to eat whatever he likes. HE doesn't dictate to you when you can eat or what you can eat. HE might not like it that you're on a diet and won't go out for dinner with him etc but I bet HE doens't force...

My other half and I decided to eat more healthier, and that if we lost weight it would be an added bonus. We decided to use SW as a guide, it all seemed too complicated but their basic premise is to reduce the fat and sugar in your diet, thus making it more healthy. I thought that made sense...

I agree with your list as them all being healthy, but I'm trying to lose weight so therefore I substitute some things on your list for example, I don't eat any butter or spread (but I don't eat bread either), and I use fry light instead of oil. The only thing I'd add to it is fat free yoghurt...

cabbage soup diet - couldn't stand the smell (of me or the soup) atkins - too expensive, and I really don't like meat very much at the best of times. calorie counting - felt like I starved myself all day, would get stroppy and pissed off by evening and stuff my face late at night, I put on...

I think that I probably fit more into this camp too. I have been following slimming world, but the way we (myself and my partner) describe it is that we're not on a diet, we're changing the way we eat as we want to be healthier. We've used slimming world as a guide but we don't count syns, and...

This evenings left over slow cooked gammon joint with salad, a fat free activia yoghurt and maybe some fruit. So, all free.

Gammon joint cooked for 10 hours in the slow cooker in apple juice with cinnamon, nutmeg and studded with cloves (I know the apple juice is quite synful but you don't actually 'eat' the cooking liquor so I guess I'd count it as a couple of syns). Its really really yummy. Served with crushed new...

I like this idea, I rarely count syns as I just cut out all chocolate, crisps, bread, pastry, etc etc and basically anything with fat or sugar in. My theory being that then putting the odd splash of wine or something in my cooking will use up the syns. I'd be interesting to see how many I...

Same as every work day - fruit and fat free yoghurt, tomorrow I have mango. At the weekend, its fruit and porridge. I don't eat any bread so toast is out for me, plus I'd just want to put something bad on it and I use my syns in cooking rather than in sweet treats.

Right, I'm off to buy some melon. My rescue remedy is usually to stop drinking alcohol, have more green days and walk 45 mins from the station to the office instead of getting the tube. Worked last week, i'd had a heavy social weekend and a posh v unhealthy lunch out with work, but I still...

I totally agree with the baby thing, my problem is that out of my main social group of 7 couples, we're the only ones without a child or a baby on the way. This doens't bother me at all, what does bother me is that my other half is now broody and wants a baby. I don't. When we met we discussed...

Thats exactly what I was a bout to recommend. I've used it in the past for fleas and mites, and its works brilliantly. Someone mentioned the smoke bombs - these work but the entire room gets covered in a layer of dust so takes a lot of work after the bomb has gone off. Also, this is a problem...

Well, if I'm honest I don't see the point - you can make any of those things easy enough without the packet and also with it being completely syn free. Why waste the syns on it, and why eat all the additives which the packet no doubt contains? I make curry, tagines, casseroles etc all syn free...

It takes quite a lot for my to be unhappy, as I'm generally a happy person but my cat just made me smile cos he's flopped on my feet lying on his back, he's daft.

SE London near Crystal Palace (but I'm actually a Brummy)

Almost a whole human leg! (The way I look at it is when I go to the vets carrying one carrier with my 2 giant sized british short hair cats in, and one carrier with a giant bunny and a normal sized bunny in, then that horrendous weight that I have to carry from the car to the vets is about...

Banana custard. :D (although I'm allergic to all red and purple fruit so I don't have much choice!)

I went to Singapore, Sydney and Adelaide the year before last, and can defintiely recommend a few things to do. Singapore - go to the zoo, its just amazing. We just got the train and then a bus which was really easy to do and much better than doing an organised coach trip thing. Also, go to...

Right, I've got myself organised at last, I have just posted a load of stuff on ebay - it will all go live at 7:30 this evening so perhaps go to me - eBay My World - bev370 and then look at what I've listed. There are a few size 18 trousers, and a skirt, and lots of size 20 jeans. I also have...

Ooh, please post a pic. :-) Also, I am quite tall so can you tell me how long it is - as it might end up being a cropped top on me!

I picked a pumpkin from the allotment yesterday so put it (peeled and chopped of course) with onions, coriander seeds, garam masala, ground coriander, grated ginger, green chilli and stock in the slow cooker this morning to make soup. I'll whizz it up when I get home, put a spoonful of extra...

We have one and its great, but I prefer the dance mats. I got two so my friends can come and play too - we get knackered, its really good exercise. The dance mats are cheaper than the wii fit so maybe have a go at that first.

SW does work, as evidenced by a lot of people on this thread. The beauty of slimming world is the flexibility in what you can eat. However, there is one basic thing about all the people who it has worked for - they have wanted to lose weight, and put some effort in. If your wife doens't really...

Will definitely be off plan for a few days, we went to Sicily at the end of August and both put on a few pounds whilst we were there, and lost it within 2 weeks of getting back. I plan to do the same for christmas. :-)

1) See the animals that I did my PhD on (and discovered/named a new species of) in the wild, as so far I've failed dismally at every attempt. 2) Give up my job and own a coffee shop so I can just bake cool cupcakes and big cakes all day. 3) Go to Milford Sound in NZ. 4) Rescue 2 or 3...

sniff, that made me nearly cry, and now I want to give you a hug. :wave_cry:

I cleaned the house from top to bottom, made tomorrows dinner (OK, so I've put it in the slow cooker pot in the fridge ready to put on tomorrow morning) and made a huge cake. Its vanilla sponge with home made strawberry jam and chocolate ganache in the middle, completely covered with vanilla...

And now a bunny making strange slurping noises as she drinks.

One of my cats snoring.

Coffee, but oddly i can't stand the taste of it! Oh and port, but I'm horribly allergic to it. :eek:

Sushi (and luckily its fairly healthy :D)

Me too! This forum has its own language! I did just find a list of acronyms in the tech support section which some of us might find useful.

Keep going, you can do it. Even if you have the odd relapse, just carrying on quitting the next day. :D

I've just been sorting my wardrobe out, I have LOTS of clothes to get rid of. Lots of size 20 and 18's. I want to sell some (the ones that are almost new, or are Monsoon/John Rocha/Betty Jackson) but I'm happy to give some away too. Off the top of my head, in 18's I have: 1 pair dark grey...

Can you tell if the fluid is clear or cloudy? It helps if you sort of push upwards on the underneath the eye one the nose side as you might be able to see the fluid collect. If its clear then she probably just got something in her eye. If its cloudy then she's potentially got an infection. If...

Excellent, I did exactly the same this morning and was then really miffed when I couldn't find MiniMins in the app once I'd bought it.

Ah, good point, I hadn't thought of that! Although, I'm getting fed up of buying clothes and then them being to big for me two weeks later. So, I just bought a new coat for winter (a size 16, last years was a 20 :D) - and I deliberately bought one that was a snug fit so it would last all...

.....I'm constantly cold! Its only now that I realise the 2.5 stone of fat that I have lost over the last 4 months was what kept me warm last winter! I am sat in my office with my scarf on, and considering putting my coat around my knees. Anyone else noticed this!? :wave_cry:

Right, I need your help. I bake a lot, its my 'thing' and probably helped me to get overweight! In June I decided I wanted to have a healthier life so I joined SW to learn to eat a more balance and healthy diet - and if I lost weight then it'd be an added bonus. I made the decision to just...

I eat a lot of fish and monkfish is one of my favourites. I have a really great local fishmonger and he's great at suggesting alternatives if he doesn't have any monkfish, so perhaps you could talk to your fishmonger. Mine also stocks frozen monkfish (apparently all the local restaurants buy it...

Very wise words Emily, and thank you. :)

No need to rant. I'm here to learn, not to be shouted at. See my post above.

Thanks everyone. I do use healthy extras most days (especially now I've realised I'm only supposed to have one on an EE day and not two). I am going to make more effort to use more syns, and just start with getting to 5. I do use the odd few but mostly in cooking, like adding a splash of wine...

No, not rude or harsh at all. I don't pay to go to class (can't make it there due to work) but I do pay for online membership. I see SW as a healthy eating plan, and intend to do it for the rest of my life. On reflection I do eat syns (low fat dressing on salad, Alpen Light bars,) just very...

doesn't seem to need syns! I'm new to this forum and do SW online so don't have a group/consultant. I have been doing SW for 14 or so weeks and constantly lose weight but do not use my syns. I don't seem to need them. I have stopped eating chocolate, crisps, all bread, desserts and so on...

Have my syns. :D I rarely use more than one a day, so feel free to have them. (btw for all the people who seem to think you can't lose weight unless you eat your syns, I lose about 3lb a week).

You really don't HAVE to use your syns!!!!! As long as you don't feel like you are depriving yourself of food then just don't use them ALL. I don't routinely use any, I don't want them so I'm not going to force myself to eat things that I don't want to eat just to get my syn count up. SW is a...

What on earth is a pink and white!?

I don't routinely use my syns, I don't feel like I need to. On the odd occassions I'll use them in cooking i.e. tablespoon or two of mango chutney in a curry, glass of wine in a meat dish etc. I don't miss chocolate or cakes at all. I've stopped eating bread, and I don't miss that either. I...

I tend to only use healthy choices on the odd occassion, the same for syns and never actually plan then into my weekly menu. I just eat free food really. My plan being that if I do something wrong without realising then it can just be a syn or a healthy choice. Or if I have to meet someone...

I plan our menu's for the whole week and they're all done without any syns at all. Then we can use our syns how we want - almost without fail if I use any syns its on alcohol. Although I have swapped from lager to wine, and sometimes gin and slimline tonic (mostly so I can drink more without...

Hello everyone, I've been doing SW for 15 weeks now and have lost almost 2 and a half stone. I'm really pleased with it, and have about a stone to go to my target weight. We do a combination of Extra easy (3 days a week), original (1 days a week) and green (3 days a week). I've always...

I eat it with fruit, it makes a change to fat free yoghurt. Login to SW website and put it into the menu planner? Bev

fillet steak, SW chips and mushy peas. :) yum.