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Hiya karinna welcome to minimins :-) My name is Katherine and I'm new here as well (well come back starting today). I've got into some awful habits as well so it's time to draw a line in the sand and start a fresh x

Oh i'd love to live in the country (i'm assuming you do from your description?). I live on the outskirts of our city next to a blocked off lane which is so overgrown it is starting to look rural lol but thats about as much fresh air as I get on a normal day. The trip to the school is...

How much walking on average does everyone do everyday? I've heard its the best exercise and when I counted up the amount i'm charging up and down the school I realised I do about 2hrs and 45mins each day. At the moment I don't drive but am due to take my test soon and am worried that my walking...

Look hun i'll be honest. Falling off the wagon occasionally isn't what makes us put on weight, its giving up after we fall. If you get right back on the next day you'll probably put on 2lb but lose 5lb during the rest of the week. I'm on slimfast but I come off it every weekend because I know...

The only advice I can give you is that cutting out any main food groups is very tough and restrictive. It will work but if you can't stick to it then that is the most important time to not give up. If its not for you try something else but don't just give up the diet struggle if you see what I...

Hello ladies I don't know if anyone remembers me but i'm a old member that has fallen off the bandwagon and returned. Since I was last here I lost my job and it made me very depressed. Because of this my post baby diet just went out of the window. I'm signed up to start training to become a...

Wow thats really clever x

Yep it really is 100% true. The only time I ever really lost weight was when I got moved next to the water dispenser in work during a summer heatwave lol. My skin went lovely and I lost stones (really do think the water consumption played a huge part). Now that i'm home with the children though...

i lost a lot of weight last time i used sf. Hence why i've decided to start again lol. And i always used to have weight watcher / slimming meals with a slice of bread (also counted). Also beans on toast and big soups. The last time i tried to do sf i cooked the meals myself but didn't get the...

please don't give up. Think of it as a new start instead of a re-start. I'm a bit down as well at the moment :-( got on the scales this morning which i've been putting off, and within the last two months due to redundancy then holiday i've put on a stone of what i lost. It has to come off...

i think a trip to tesco is in order tomorrow :-)

yep i'm like that with coffee. I drank so much black coffee though that i found it started to stain my teeth?

try the new flavour choc mullers they are lovely :-)

i just had a cherry choc one aof it was lovely :-) really enjoyed it. I know its 2 syns but i might have another later as well.

Wow you look soo much younger in the recent picture. Isn't it amazing how losing weight can change your appearance so much. Aww and your nephew is a cutie x

didn't kate winslet then go on a strick diet and go super skinny? Thereby undermining everything she'd said. Its natural to judge and feel judged by nothing but appearance by a first impression, so its natural that self esteem is affected by appearance. The way that people socialize and interact...

4lbs too :-(. I was doing so well today but had to give blood so had a choc bar after for sugar.

good luck with slim fast hun. It really does work! I lost 5 st on it after having my daughter and went down to 8st. Most confident time of my life. Kept it off for 2 years as well until i got pregnant again. I found it harder to stick to for some reason second time around but her post has made...

oh yes definately breast feed its the best way to lose weight after pregnancy. Seriously i went down to 8st bf.ing my daughter.

I would recommend slimming world as a healthy eating plan while pregnant. Congratulations :)

I hope you lose the weight you want and have a happy and healthy pregnancy x x

Welcome :) I'm a bit of a lurker here as well. Don't really post much but still find this place a wonderful source of inspiration when I start to feel fed up.

I've decided that I won't bother trying to diet rigorously through the festive season. Doesn't mean to say I will completely undo all my hard work but I don't want to feed spoil Christmas for myself. Starting back myself on Jan 1st :)

Well I was 8 st when I got pregnant, but to be honest now i'd be just as happy getting to 9st. So thats another one and half stone to go.

Just today I spend about £80 pampering myself :) Mainly clothes and some jewellery (£1 per piece of jewerelly in the H&M sale I went crazy! Lol) So yes I think it helps with motivation if you feel sexy. The clothes I was wearing were the old inbetween size ones from the time I was trying to lose...

welcome back :-) its my first time on sw and i have to admit its the best diet out there long term (in my opinion)

I wasn't making excuses. Only putting forward another reason why 'some' also overeat. You are right a lot of slim people also have the same heartache and stress (feelings of lack of control) in their lives, and some will go onto become anorexic for the same reasons others will eat until they...

I think she's lost too much weight now though and its eaten away at her looks :( She doesn't seem happy any more for some reason.

Aww I would if I could. I did try once to turn myself into Jorden just for fun lol. But unfortunately i'm nowhere near as good as that guy is and I just looked ridiculous lol. I only do the basics in my job. Just enough to make me realise just how much PS can change people though.

I agree. The only tweaking I do to my pictures nowadays is whiten my teeth lol (because I drink FAR too much coffee) ;)

Because unfortunately mags want 'perfection' nowerdays and even the most beautiful person is not completely perfect. Also models nowadays are very underweight and being underweight means that she will have bad skin, dark circles under the eyes and a visible ribcage and spine, all that needs to...

I work in a newspaper as a designer on photoshop and they photoshop EVERYBODY. All the models used in mags are tweaked. Its sickening really and I refused to edit my sisters facebook pictures when she asked me because I really think that Photoshop is the evil of young girls body issues. And...

Congratulations on your weight loss :)

You have to have breakfast hunnie it really does set your metabolism up for the day. Women seem to think that stopping eating makes them lose weight but really it has the opposite affect in the long term if you then become so hungry that you pick at the wrong foods or eat a massive meal.

Oh mike i'm sorry its gone so badly for you :( I was going to have a TT when I lost the weight after my first. I've been left with such stretch marked loose skin thats only from my (you know ;)) to my belly button. The only thing that stopped me was that I wanted more children. I hadn't ruled...

Good luck hunnie. I've never tried ww myself but have known women to lose a lot with it.

I'm getting on ok hunnie. Its a bit slower than slim fast but I'm finding that its much easier to stick to. Weighed myself at home this morning and i'm 10st 11lb (however thats in the morning without clothes so i'll be 2lb heavier than that in club weighing in). It could be that you are due on...

i couldn't agree with babycake more. Its a known fact that a lot of people's weight reflects their emotional state. Therefore is it any wonder that in this country where family breakdown, depression and unemployment and the cost of living is rising there is a rising problem of emotional...

Good luck with the slim fast hunnie. It does work I lost 5 stone on it. For some reason though lately I can't stick to it and am getting on better with slimmfg world

Good going avoiding the temptation of biscuits hunnie. Keep it up :) x x

Oh I know what you mean about the doughnuts! 3 bags for £1 in Tesco. My mother bought some for the kids. So far so good I haven't touched them but i'm counting the days till they go stale and I can chuck em out! lol.

good luck hunnie you can do it. I know what its like :-( i got down to 8 st after having my daughter and felt great. However i put it all back on again when i had my son and this time it seems so much harder to shift. Although its finally started to come back off. I lost my weight first time on...

good luck hunnie x x

firstly welcome you'll find this a wonderful site with some lovely girls that don't judge so please don't be ashamed, we'll all been there at that starting point. Good luck with your new diet. If in the future though you wanted to try a main stream diet and don't get on with cal counting and...

yea its great when that happens. Its early days with this diet at the moment however i remember the reactions of men and women when i went out after having lost a lot of weight after my daughter and got down to 8 stone. All of a sudden everywhere i went i got compliments and i have to admit it...

Thanks hunnie. If I drink white wine then its dry. What about Rose and Red?

Um I was wondering what the exact syns are for a small glass of white wine? Its a ritual at the end of the day lol after running around the kids but am quite sure if it can be counted a syn or not? And if so how many is there in a glass?

ooooh I have to admit i'm not a chocolate lover so I use my syns in the form of 2 glasses of wine a night after the kids have been put to bed :) Helps the dinner go down nicely too.

Thankyou hunnie good luck to you too x x

Yes hopefully a size 12 by my birthday in late November. Eventually though I hope to become a size 10 again (one day lol).

Good luck hunnie. I'm starting slimming world tonight so perhaps you'd like to join me and we'll do it together. Try to ignore the boyfriend as he sounds like he's only going to smash your self confidence (no offense). Good luck hunnie x x

I'm currently a size 14 as well and my mum has offered to pay for me to attend slimming world classes. So we are in it together hunnie Good luck x x

I don't know to be honest. However I was reading somewhere the other month that had done research on fruit eating primates, and came to the conclusion that the sugars in fruit if consumed in too many quantities can cause you to become bloated and store fat around your stomach. I suppose it does...

Hi my mum and dad have been on slimming world for about a year now and my dad has lost 3 and a half stone and my mum 3 stone. I was feeling low because I couldn't stick to slimfast like I had before (lost 4 stone before on it but put it back on when had my son). So my mum rang me up and has...

my children are my no1 priority. I want to lose weight for complelty selfish reasons :-) but if i ever got to the stage where i felt my vanity the most important thing in my life then i'd start to sorry.

Just found out my mum and dad have both lost 2 stone in about 6 weeks doing slimming world. So i've decided to give it a try because I just can't muster the willpower for shakes ect anymore for some reason. I can't afford to go to classes but my mum is writing me out a eating plan and has...

I really should set myself goals I think. I didn't before but I'm finding it a lot harder to lose this pregnancy weight so I really should I think. I think they can be motivating (however as you said they can have the opposite affect if not reached)

I usually gain about 3-4lb. Its a pain isn't it.

Wow you all look great :-D I really hope to join you on here one day x x Keep up the good work ladies!

Well said mike I completely agree. When I lost that weight I had my main meal in the night as well. I wouldn't recommend ss'ing with SF if it doesn't completely contain all the nutrients a person needs.

Just thought you'd want to know that not all people are against sf. I know everyone says SF its crap but I lost a lot of weight on it (about 5st) and kept it off for years until I got pregnant again with my son. I don't know what people are talking about in regards to sf to be honest. I've tried...

Ok thanks icemoose thanks for the advice i'll remember that:) I don't really stuff myself over Christmas anyway. If I can just stay the weight I am while over christmas I'll be able to start from the same start point as before so i'll be ok with that. I suppose i'm just getting depressed...

I don't understand it :( Before my son I found it so easy to stick to a diet without ever cheating. It was just a way of life and chocolate was something I didn't even miss. Now however I can't just can't seem to stick to even the most basic of expectations of myself. I'm 3 stone heavier than I...

Ah thankyou hun. We don't have to leave though. The wooden beams in the ceiling are still in place, its just the concrete thats been removed so its not been completely taken down. The fans are drying them out before they can be repaired and the ceiling re-concreted back up though. Sorry reading...

Hi I realised something yesterday that was really strange. I am now the same weight as I was about 5 years ago before I had my children (slightly heavier in fact). Though back then I had a double chin and was 'puffy' everywhere. Now however even though i'm the same weight I have no weight around...

Oh hun i'm so sorry. We are in a bit of a bad pickle ourselves this year too. We recently had a leak from the upstairs bathroom, so and we called the house insurance out who told us that a pipe had burst behind the toilet upstairs and that water from the bathroom had been building up for ages...

Oh hun I know just how you feel. I haven't been good at all lately :( I went into town today trying to find a outfit to go out with on Saturday night and I 'just' managed to squeeze myself into a size 14. Its so depressing (big sigh)

I contacted a Counsellor in my area and they said that because I was only slightly overweight I wouldn't be able to do ss:cry: Even though I can do another programme I am quite gutted about not being able to ss really because it was the fast weight loss that had attracted me in the first place...

Wow well done you :)

Well I've just backtracked and read all the replies in this thread and it seems that I have gone against some of the recommendations for long term weight management. I did keep it off for 2 and a half years like this however. I think that at the end of the day it has to be up to the person to...

After I lost 5st after having my daughter I found that I had to continue dieting most of the time (by having a slimfast in place of 1 meal a day). I could never go back to eating what I liked all the time even after I'd lost all the weight i'd wanted to lose. It was depressing at first to...

Just enjoy him and stop worrying about it ;) Men are infact a lot less aware of a woman's weight than she is.

Yea it is. Legs really ache when I get back. Problem is though with the weather being what it is lately I really wish i could drive.

Yea i'm practically running lol because usually i'm running late for the nursery start-time ;) I thought it would get easier with practice but it still nearly kills me pushing that think up hill. It's only 20 mins to the nursery but since its only 2 1/2 hours I just carry on walking to Tesco do...

Good advice. I wonder if 3 and a half hours walking (a lot of it uphill) with a tandem pram everyday walking to and from nursery everyday would be classed as Aerobic Exercise?

Ok thanks for the advice :)

Oh ok so does that mean that actual sweetener is not allowed and adding a bit of shake is an alternative option?

If it makes you feel so sick have you ever considered doing slimfast instead? That allows you a meal in the evening, although I don't think its as fast working as cambridge from what i've read about it. That meal a day though might make all the difference for you however and allow you to stick...

Thanks everyone :) Thankgod for that! I can live without food but could NEVER live without coffee, cause I can't drink the stuff without a sweetner in it :)

but are sweeteners ok? I know this sounds daft but i'm um'ing and arh'ing about starting the Cambridge and just trying to figure out what I am and am not allowed while on it. Thanks in advance :)

Thanks Linda. He's 7 months old now. I haven't started dieting until now because I was breastfeeding him. I've decided to finish now and starting trying to shift the weight now however because i'm starting work in the new year. I live in south wales. Thanks for the URL to their site. I'll try...

Hi until I joined this forum a few days ago i'd never heard of the Cambridge diet. However reading up about it and its success's i'd like to attempt it myself. Up until this poing i've always been a slimfast fan because drinking shakes for weightloss have never bothered me. How would I go about...

There was once a time I looked in the mirror and felt good (about a year+ after having my daughter). Not any more though I have to say. I don't know whether its because i'm stuck at home with a post baby belly and recently having my son and getting stir crazy in the house. I hope that once I get...

OMG that is such a loss! Well done you :D Its wonderful to read this success stories

Congratulations on your pregnancy! :) I piled on weight with both my pregnancies (5 and 4 stone) but I was only a 18.5 bmi when I got pregnant so my midwife wasn't worried about the big weight gain and said that it was normal to put on extra weight if your weight is quite low to start with...

Only some basic advice from experience. You WILL get hungry on it during the first week or so. As long as you don't give it up however the shakes then do start to fill you up within no time. I know WW microwave meals are convience foods so not really as healthy as freshly prepared food, but they...

Oh I know what you mean. Second time weight loss seems to be even harder to lose than the first time. You can do it though x x

Hey I'm on slim fast. Its good to know i'm not the only one :) Its the best diet out there for me personally. I really wouldn't swap it for any other. I lost 5 stone on it after having my daughter 3 years ago and kept it off for a year and a half without any problems. Until I got pregnant again...

I'm doing slimfast. It's what I did last time to shift pregnancy so I know it works well for me. I love the shakes they are yummy so I don't feel like cheating on it :) I hear your on the Cambridge diet? I've just googled it and it seems pretty good and effective. Keep me informed how it works...

Oh hun you'll do I know you will (hugs) I WISH I was that size again. I've since had a son and put everything back on that I lost after having my daughter 3 years ago :( We'll do it together x x

I lost 5 stone 3 years ago after having my daughter with Slim-fast (although I did lose 2st of that through breastfeeding first) So I should say I lost the extra 3st through slim fast. I had 2 shakes during the day and a weight watchers micro meal in the night with a slice of bread and butter...

Ok size 10 is good but the feeling of finally getting back into size 8's after my daughter was fantastic (just got to do it again now) Knowing that you've got a better figure than a lot of the childless teenagers around now. Knowing that you can walk into any clothes shop and know that all the...

Welcome back hun. I'm a newbie too and have also let myself down over the past couple of weeks so we will do this together x x

Hi I've got a 7 month old son and have managed to put on 3 stone during the pregnancy. I'm due to start back at work in the New year and would love to lose at least a stone of that before starting back. I wouldn't say I am dangerously overweight because was only small. I was 8 stone before and...

I knew here so don't really know you. I'd just like to say though that i'm deeply sorry for your loss :(

I tend to think that Jordan said she was following this diet to avoid public criticism but was actually just starving herself and skipping meals as is usally the case with severe and ultra fast weight loss.