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  1. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    oooh, not long til your hols now! Sorry to see you weren't well over the bank holiday, what a pain, i hope you're all recovered and ready for the cinema tonight :) (I loved Snow White, lots to think about, too)
  2. wenchie

    Worse day ever! Need to change

    I'm so sorry that you had such a horrible day, but it's going to lead to something so positive for you - you'll likely end up looking back on it and being GLAD that it happened and that you felt so horrid, because it's brilliant motivation for you to get healthy (I say this as someone who BROKE...
  3. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    no cruella for the win! :D The shopping all sounds brill - such bargains, too, I'm well jel :D
  4. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Lol, Asda postively MAKES me want to hit people, glad it helped you though! What a nightmare with you being all over the place, hoepfully the provera will settle you down (and hopefully you won't have a settling in phase with it, uhrg, who needs the up and down hormones!) Have a fabby time...
  5. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Not hitting people seems like an admirable goal ;) The Beck stuff sounds really interesting, and if it gets your head in the game then that's absolutely brilliant, too :D
  6. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Well done on the 2lb loss, that's brill!
  7. wenchie

    No Bread

    Pleasure - I LOVE them (and it's an extra bit of superfree just stuck in there, too!) Sweetheart cabbage leaves are also good (steam them a wee bit if they're very tough)
  8. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Oooh, I hope you had a lovely time in Whitby, it's been such a gorgeous weekend :D
  9. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    mmmh, are you going to have a bbq?
  10. wenchie

    Where does it go?

    oh this is fascinating! I do pee a LOT, but I figured it was just the extra liquid content in the foods I'm eating....apparently not all of it :)
  11. wenchie

    No Bread

    I'm another determined bread dodger - I have issues stopping eating it and if I don't it sets off my IBS and gives me dreadful heartburn, and it DEFINITELY scuppers my losses, too. Bunless burgers, anyone? Lettuce wraps? Subway salads? (actually these are lovely and much more filling than...
  12. wenchie

    Why am I like this!

    Go and see your GP and see what they can offer you - sometimes they can "prescribe" SW and/or free council gym/pool membership, either of which could be a support to you, and the very least they should be able to offer is a regular weigh in with the practice nurse so that you're getting that...
  13. wenchie

    Weight Loss Sabotage

    I'm struggling a bit with this right now, actually, so this thread couldn't have come at a better time for me, thank you :) I'm currently at a weight (for the very first time in my adult life) where I'm not objectively FAT (I'm overweight, but I don't feel people are looking at me and judging...
  14. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Woo Hoo! No Cruella! Looking at your hungry day food (I had one of those yesterday, too, must be something in the air!) I wondered if you're getting in enough veggies to fill you up?
  15. wenchie

    I'm proud of myself today because......

    I'm proud of myself today (or, well, last night) because despite being RAVENOUS and having to walk home past NINE takeaways (all of which smelled amazing, except the chip shop...until someone walked out with hot vinegary chips *drool*) I stayed on plan and did not over eat, either :D
  16. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Lovely to see you (and the new addition) back Cap :D
  17. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    ooh, bbq roasted veggies sound delicious! I am SO glad the meeting went well and you're off monitoring - thank goodness for the union! (and the glass of wine sounds more than deserved!)
  18. wenchie

    I'm proud of myself today because......

    I'm proud of myself today because after two weeks away (with my volunteer job, where I had very limited food choices) I'm EXCITED to be back on track and eating properly! It's not a diet, in my head, it just makes me feel healthy ;)
  19. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I hope your meeting went okay today.
  20. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    awesome news on the trousers - that's always SO nice :D
  21. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    *checks in* Urhg, how frustrating that they haven't got your meds sorted out yet, it's ludicrous that you have to wait so blinking long between appointments, too *fingers crossed* that the next thing sorts you right out.
  22. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    woo hoo! for the week off, brilliant :D and WELL DONE YOU on all the exercise, I'm exhausted just reading about it :D
  23. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    hi hi hi! I'm not really about, but just a flying visit to see how you are, hope you're having a good tuesday
  24. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Congtratulations - he is a lovely boy and it is lovely to hear from you :D
  25. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    *g* - hopefully you're not much of a sleep mover so your glasses are relatively safe?! No wonder you're tired tho - all that work stress! I am v proud of you for standing up to her (what a silly cow she is! Imagine creating an atmosphere because you refuse to be bullied!). Have a cracking friday...
  26. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Hopefully your M-i-L will settle quickly, it sounds like it's a nice place she's in now and she shouldn't have to get used to anywhere else now, so that's a good thing - just got to let her get over the move I suppose...
  27. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    oooh - I am so jealous of all the fruit/herb/veggie growers! I've got no space (and black thumbs.... ;)). I do have high hopes for my friends who're moving to a bigger place and are VERY green fingered (they've given me chillies, tomatoes and lots of fresh herbs just from their windowsill!)...
  28. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Cheers :D Ooh! Good luck, can't wait to see your happy post! :D
  29. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Thank you! :) Isn't it a lovely club to be a part of? :D Hee! Mine too - I love the Sainsbury's clothes (thank goodness they're so reasonable and they have sucha frequent sales/promotions!). Cheers! :D
  30. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Thank you :) Still walking on air today :D - Thank you Cheers :D
  31. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Thank you, it really is :D Thank you! Thank you :D
  32. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Thank goodness you get a long weekend - you'll need it with all this ridiculous boss-induced stress. What a loathesome creature she is!
  33. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I agree with dubchick - definitely worth speaking to the union about it already, it sounds like you're being victimised here and that's unreasonable, grrr. So cross at your boss!
  34. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Cheers - and GO YOU as well, I've seen you all over the site in my time here and you're such an inspiration to me :) Isn't it NICE that we don't have to go there anymore! It's so overpriced and underqualitied! Thank you :D Thank you - I really do feel brill and it's (even with the slightly round...
  35. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Thank you all :D - I do feel fantastic (and I'm still walking-on-air happy this morning, too!), I'm still not used to not being the fat one (I keep looking at Evans and the "big" ranges in places and then have a moment of "oh, that's not me any more", it's lovely) and mirrors and windows are a...
  36. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    Good luck & thank you - I'm sure you'll be back with your own tales really soon :) Thank you, I've been at it a little under 14months at this point :) (feels like both a lifetime and five minutes, to be honest!)
  37. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I was on depo for several years - and I just piled on he weight with it (and got very depressed, too... it was, in fact, a brilliant contraceptive, because I felt rubbish physically and mentally and my relationship ended! I'm pretty sure that it wasn't worth it!)
  38. wenchie

    I've lost 1/3 of my body weight....

    As of this evening's W.I. I've lost 6st 2lbs, which is 1/3 of what I started at (and just over 1 1/2 st to target. Ish ;)). The last few months have been almost painfully slow (I've been gaining little bits, having sts and losing little more than 1/2 at most in a week since about october) but...
  39. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Well, if HR agree and the union are willing to come in and help if she DOESN'T sort it out then it basically sounds like she doesn't have a leg to stand on and is, in fact, discriminating against you. Make a list, maybe, of all your points and insist that she either takes you off it immediately...
  40. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I am so glad to hear the hospital appointment didn't turn up anything too serious, and I hope the new tablets help with the pain - I know my IBS is REALLY affected by my hormonal things and cramps, so I don't imagine it's helping yours at all, either *crosses many things*. And just to chime in...
  41. wenchie

    I'm proud of myself today because......

    I'm proud of myself today, because after pondering and planning and failing to do for MONTHS, I finally got my behind out of bed half an hour early today and did day one of the couch to 5k programme :D :D
  42. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Oooh, your outfit sounds lovely and nice and cool, too :Dboo for the upset digestive system, what a shame after a lovely BBQ - I hope the pain eases off soon.
  43. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Am sending all sorts of good thoughts that your scan results give you something easily treatable so you're better soon. Your weekend sounds fun - and that sounds like a CRACKING holiday to plan, too, awesome! No wonder you're excited :D I think the best part of my weekend was napping on...
  44. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    The food sounds utterly delicious - do you know what it is that's most likely to set you off or is it inconsistent? Hopefully your body will be kind this evening. You sound very pretty today (I've taken to kind of assembling my outfit the night before, because I'm very stupid in the...
  45. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    hope the film was good and that you're feeling better now. Your outfit sounds lovely - it's amazing the difference just making that teeny bit of effort makes, I think it makes one FEEL so much better and then other people pick up on that, and it becomes a really positive cycle of feeling...
  46. wenchie

    Good Morning

    Awh, this thread made me grin like a loon! :D Today really does feel like a new day (wi last night and it's actually, properly, warmish and sunny today!) and I am IN THE ZONE :D
  47. wenchie

    Things I want to improve on..

    I need to keep up my water intake - I get ludicrous munchies when I'm actually thirsty so I need not to get thirsty! :D
  48. wenchie

    Flylady......... Excited!!!!!

    I found flylady a wee bit overwhelming as well (I think it's a great idea, it's just a bit much for me when I'm out all day and the emails just stacked up. I also never wear shoes in the house, I have enough of that at work...) anyway, I found another site that's more my speed and has made a...
  49. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Uhrg, IBS is VILE - fatty things set mine off, too, which I suppose is a good deterrent from eating them, but still, it's miserable. £11.50 sounds not bad for magic mascara - it's such a quick thing to slick on and if it works well it makes such a visible difference (I am a mascara addict :D)...
  50. wenchie

    I'm proud of myself today because......

    I'm proud of myself because, despite having had a really frustrating four months loss wise, I've stuck with the plan and I've only given my body healthy foods to work with, so even if I've not lost much my skin is better and I've not been prone to all the colds that everyone in my office has...
  51. wenchie

    Trying to give myself a boost!

    I'm in a similar boat - I've been footering around with this stone bracket I'm in for MONTHS and it's doing my head in a little bit; I'm sticking with it and refoccussing, but it's heartbreaking to be able to say, hand on heart, that I've followed the plan to the letter and STILL had a half...
  52. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I hope the makeover was fun (I'm always amazed at what some people can do in that short amount of time :D) And you don't sound ungrateful, just realistic, that's all. Have a gorgeous monday chick.
  53. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    sounds like a lovely weekend - I hope you manage to get your makeover sorted, what a lovely pampering :D
  54. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    ooh the Raven looks awful good - and John Cusack's always a favourite, enjoy! :D
  55. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I could NEVER do the slimfast thing, too little food! So GO you for making the effort and GOOD LUCK
  56. wenchie

    what's a Cooking in Mumma's Kitchen

    ooh, the bunny looks DELISH!
  57. wenchie

    Diamond Member award

    Congratulations, that's fantastic! :D
  58. wenchie

    Major confusion?

    ooh, that's a really good idea Shirleen, thanks for sharing it :) (I'm trying to bring the 1/3 into my green days, too, and this will help enormously with that).
  59. wenchie

    what's a Cooking in Mumma's Kitchen

    *subscribing* Your omlette sounds GOOD, I must remember that I can shove capers in things like that, for they are magical!
  60. wenchie

    Wardrobe full of thin clothes?

    Me! I had two large drawers, a suitcase and a 1/4 wardrobe rail of things when I started - I've only got half a drawer left now :D and I've been donating the things that are too big for me now as I go - it is very, very motivating to know exactly what will fit me (and if they don't it's because...
  61. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I hope your birthday was lovely :D and HOW PRETTY are you?!?! Love the new avi!
  62. wenchie

    I hate evenings!!

    I've been having SUCH a hard time with munchies in the evenings (even if it's superfree it's still unneeded calories if I'm full!) so what I've done for the last week is swap my supper and my dinner around, so that I have a snack as soon as I get in from work (when I'm hungry but not starving...
  63. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    hey Liz, glad to see you're okay - look after yourself!
  64. wenchie

    Reasons why you chose Slimming World

    I joined SW just over a year ago because there was a meeting about 3 minutes walk from my house and I'd been walking home from work and seeing that banner tied outside the building for about 5 or 6 months and thinking maybe I'd lost just under 50lbs on WW about 8 years before but had...
  65. wenchie

    Obsessing Over Food

    It looks fine, although my first thought was that it didn't look like a whole lot of food (I'm a hungry sort, though) and that your breakfast would probably have made me hungrier - I find the fake sweetness of the hi-fi lights, coupled with the fact that they're not terribly substantial actually...
  66. wenchie

    My wii fit plus says that.....

    CONGRATULATIONS! (Isn't it nice when it stops saying oh-oh, cheeky thing!)
  67. wenchie

    what do you eat when your ill?

    If you're feeling lousy then there's a REALLY quick way to make homemade soup - get one of those bags of frozen casserole veg (swede, carrot, onion, celery, turnip usually) and add to a couple of pints of stock made with stock cubes, boil for half an hour and blend with a hand wand - it's a bit...
  68. wenchie

    Well that'll teach me!

    Yep, I had a couple of roasties on christmas day and ended up with a really upset stomach as a result - they were the only thing I wouldn't normally have had, and I didn't have them when we had a repeat dinner on boxing day (I had a baked potato) and was fine, so, yes... My "ibs" has been pretty...
  69. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Happy monday! Hope you've had a good weekend and are not so sore today.
  70. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    awh liz :( lots and lots of *hugs* for you, sorry you're feeling so blue and GET WELL SOON.
  71. wenchie

    Anyone else obsessed with food since starting slimming world???

    I USED to be, when I started - and any time I shake things up a little I go back to being obsessed, but I'd say now that I'm no more obsessed than I was before I started on SW (which was probably more than some, I'm a bit of a foodie and I love to cook), it's not anything new to me any more...
  72. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Afternoon Liz :D I had a look for the choccie philli, but no one has it here yet - I suspect we'll get it eventually and I will definitely pick some up (until then it's total 0% and options for me :D). Blast that annoying pound! at least it's obvious where it's come from, dratted being...
  73. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    your food sounds lovely (although I reckon I'd be ravenous if that's all I had!). I'm still swithering about the choc philli... I'm not sure I'd be able to stop... :D
  74. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Sounds like the PERFECT way to deal with them :D
  75. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Your food sounds lovely - how'd you do the pork? - and the plan looks to be sensible and easy, too, which is always nice :D Blast those nasties in the office though - it must REALLY suck to be them, being so rude and negative. GET WELL SOON! (lots and lots of water to flush the yuck out and...
  76. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    :D Scrambled eggs & smoked salmon (and then an apple) - was yummy
  77. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Ooh, food looks LOVELY (I'm glad I came here whilst actually eating my lunch or I'd've been hungry :D)
  78. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Morning lovely :D
  79. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    auch what a shame about your holiday! Blast the wee blip though, it happens; we've had YEARS of turning to food when we're unhappy, etc, so try not to beat yourself up too much.
  80. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I am always super nibbly when I've got a cold, too, if you think about it you'll be using a bit more energy to fight off the infection, so it makes sense that your body wants more fuel and you're still well on track to lose so try not to get too focussed on the cals! :D ooh, your hair sounds...
  81. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    It must be unpleasant, being so negative all the time really! Much better to be positive and try :D That said... I've not tried the diet coke chicken, no, I'm a little wary of cooking with sweetners as it alters the chemical make up of something that's already a bit biochemically dodgy.
  82. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    What a negative moo your boss is! Go you for doing the DVD and proving her wrong :) Food looks delish today!
  83. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I know what you mean about not believing it's only tuesday, this week's been unbeleivably long already! Anyway, GO YOU with the excercise, that's brilliant :D and foods look lovely, too, yum!
  84. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Colds always make me super dead pick pick picky, too. URGH. Anyway, sounds like you're not really eating enough? More superfree veggies and fruit needed in there to fill you up!
  85. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    A pound is GREAT. Well done! Right, Ryvita's good for the HExB (and you're already well up on the water anyway, so no worries there ;)) and peanut butter's about a syn a teaspoon (I think) so probably about 3syns? It's not a bad thing to spend syns on healthy fats like that, either. Might've...
  86. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Yes - I had it for breakkie along with a banana this morning YUMMY! I hope today is an easier day for you, and hopefully things with your M-i-L move quickly so she can get settled, that's all such a stressful thing.
  87. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Hee! :D it's a sachet of oats-so-simple or your HExB of porrige oats mixed with a muller light and left overnight to absorb in tupperware - it goes all kind of cakey, almost like a flapjack, but soft. I love it with the coconut one and then add pitted cherries and chopped banana in the...
  88. wenchie

    Blueberries

    I really like them with fresh pineapple - something about the tart fresh sweet of the pineapple just peps them up no end and they look very pretty together, too!
  89. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I like your thinking about triple coffees next week... hee! I've not seen either of the Holmes films - I've a friend who's pretty much addicted so I suspect it's only a matter of time - but I'm not sure I need the emotional upheaval of the "Falls" again so soon!! I'm SO glad there's another...
  90. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Happy (as much as it can be!) monday! sounds like a GORGEOUS anniversary meal and a dead nice weekend all round (bar the Sherlock weeping! Wasn't it GOOD though? And I'm glad they didn't leave that as a total cliff-hanger! I love how much John is his meter for appropriate normal-person...
  91. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I'm the same mrsLmc - I keep focussing on the fact that there's so much rubbish in maccy D's food that it's not really a hardship to avoid it (certainly it generally makes me feel so ill that it's not worth me eating it, so). You've done not badly at all this week Liz, it's hardly been a...
  92. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    glad the scan went well (and really, it was hardly a normal day, so McDs seems not unreasonable!) - how daft that they expect you to wait all that long time for the results though! I hope you can get something a wee bit sooner, but hopefully you can just forget about things meantime. It's...
  93. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Oh what a difficult thing work birthdays are! Hmm, samphire - seaweed, right?
  94. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    I'm at work, so I can't check your piccies atm, I'll try and remember to look tonight though :). GOOD LUCK at the hospital, sounds like it'll be good to get that over with, anyway, and then on to the lovliness of your anniversary :D Sounds like a good plan to move your WI day - I like having...
  95. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Awh, congrats, what lovely news! I'll haul out my recipe and type it in for you, it's pretty straight forwards, just more veggies (and to make it 1/3 veg for ee) to make up for the lack of thickening for the gravy and some changes to the mash topping to make it free
  96. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    mmmh, sounds totally lush.... Shepard's (or cottage) pie's pretty easy to make right for SW, give me a holler if you want a recipe :)
  97. wenchie

    ProPoints Liz's Healthy Diary (hopefully)

    Hey Liz! Found you *subscribes* :D
  98. wenchie

    What made you think ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

    It wasn't just one thing - I've been overweight for more or less my whole life and morbidly obese for a great deal of that - I guess it was just the right time? I'd noticed that there was a class on close to my house MONTHS before and I'd done a bit of checking things out on the internet for...
  99. wenchie

    From morbidly obese to 'just' overweight

    What a fantastic achievement! Well done :D I hope to get there myself on tuesday (1/2 pound to go!)
  100. wenchie

    Asda italian chicken Arrabbiata... help with syns

    Running it through the caluclator I get: Free per package/portion on Extra Easy Free per package/portion on Green 47½ Syns per package/portion on Original using the full 1.5kg as the portion size, although I suspect you won't be eating the whole lot!
  101. wenchie

    Struggling

    Hi Kirsty - Okay, a little bit of tough love: the plan won't work if you don't actually follow it and you're not following it. So, why not? I reckon we all know that physically eating the right stuff isn't hard, it's the mental aspect that's difficult, so what's your mental roadblock here...
  102. wenchie

    I've done it

    Congratulations!
  103. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    sounds like you're all well planned for the journey (one thing I really did like about driving through germany was the sheer number of public loos, very useful!) - it's never all that much fun to do, it's really all about making the best of it, I suppose, and you might find you doze more through...
  104. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    After an annoying wee gain last night :mad: (I know what it was, but it feels out of proportion when I'm in a room full of people who were "bad" but still lost) I really needed my NSV this morning. I was in the kitchenette at work this morning and a woman I don't know (she works in the next...
  105. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    sounds like it will be 175E very well and usefully spent - no stress over march out, no knackering cleaning.... yep, very good decision. How lovely that you're getting to go back at this new stage in your life and have your family look after you - I'll bet your hubbie's pleased that they'll...
  106. wenchie

    my story so far...

    What an amazing, inspiring story! Thank you so much for sharing and CONGRATULATIONS
  107. wenchie

    On SW, do you sometimes feel like a party pooper?!

    If you had allergies, etc, no one in their right mind would think you were a party pooper and not eating rubbish because you're on SW is pretty much exactly the same thing. It does rather sound like the party would be difficult anyway (I cannot abide cliquiness, what's the point!?) but at...
  108. wenchie

    Help me i am self sabbotaging!

    It sounds like you're self-sabotaging because you're afraid? Being fat is the BEST excuse in the whole world - someone doesn't like us? It's because we're fat. We're not well? It's because we're fat. IVF is difficult? It's because we're fat. If we're not fat and those things are still true...
  109. wenchie

    Shoppins not fun anymore

    It gets better - I've hated clothes shopping for most of my life pretty much (apart from that blissful 6 months after I grew 6inches in a year at 14) because I've always been too fat, but now, at nearly 5st off I'm actually beginning to quite like it. Things fit - and if they don't it's because...
  110. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Oh congratulations, what seriously wonderful news!:D
  111. wenchie

    Hair advice

    I'd reckon it's worth a go - and certainly it's covered in the full length book.
  112. wenchie

    Very excited

    :DCongratulations!
  113. wenchie

    Hair advice

    I have curly hair that's badly prone to frizz (it's usually to do with the humidity) and I started following the curly girl method about 3 years ago and haven't looked back. It takes a bit of getting used to (no shampoo!) but my hair doesn't smell and it always looks clean and it's SO MUCH...
  114. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    Well done everyone on your losses! 4pounds off for me this week (could've knocked me down with a feather!) Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (3lbs lost ~ 7lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs...
  115. wenchie

    Gave myself an hour off / now worrying

    What's done's done - please don't beat yourself up with guilt, just learn from it (that for you, that cake wasn't really worth it, you'd rather have had something else to enjoy), draw a line under it and move forward. Lots of lovely superfree food (try having the 2/3 that success express...
  116. wenchie

    I've lost a Quarter of my Bodyweight!

    Yes, that's exactly it! Thank you. And WOW - look at your loss, that's incredible, well done!
  117. wenchie

    Joining Slimming WOrld Help

    I didn't see any vouchers coming through in class last night - but I know the new members all just paid the £9.95 (joining + class fee), so that's what you'd pay if you joined this week (no need for a voucher). Good luck!
  118. wenchie

    I've lost a Quarter of my Bodyweight!

    thanks guys - I've got a reasonable bit yet to go, but I feel so much better than I did - I know my body's capable of all the NORMAL THINGS (getting clothes in the high st, WALKING to the high st, standing all day without wanting to remove my feet after a couple of hours, not having acid reflux...
  119. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    I shall absolutely pay it forward (hard not to when I feel so fabby, you know? the postive stuff kind of bubbles out!). I was utterly MORTIFIED, but what can you do :8855:
  120. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Glad to see you're alright, just the busiest bee in the universe! WELL DONE on the loss - given exactly how busy and up in the air your life is right now, that's FANTASTIC
  121. wenchie

    I've lost a Quarter of my Bodyweight!

    I am literally 3/4 of the woman I used to be as of last night's class :bliss::bliss::bliss: It's fantastic and wonderful and totally worth the slightly frustrating time I've been having recently. LOVE this eating plan. :D
  122. wenchie

    major pms!

    It's good to know it's not just me :D. At least I've worked out what the endless hunger comes from, I suppose! Maybe a plan of lots of bulky speed and super speed foods is the way to go? I might try that next month (in as much as I can know when it is...) Baked beans and strawberries, anyone?
  123. wenchie

    major pms!

    What a WONDERFUL idea - I love this! Thank you! I've written a postit note and stuck it in the front of my WI book so I remember for future.
  124. wenchie

    Gutted!!!!! Sort of sw related!!

    Oh no, I do hope it turns up.:(
  125. wenchie

    Getting back into it!

    good luck and welcome back on the wagon! :D
  126. wenchie

    To syn or not to syn?

    I had issues using my syns at first (for about the first 2-3 months I was on plan, I'd say), but I've settled into using between 4 and 15, usually settling around 8-10 every day, often on milk or cheese, or in recipes rather than on a treat (I don't need a treat every day, also cheese IS a treat...
  127. wenchie

    My sister is turning into a saboteur.

    I've had a similar issue with a friend of mine and was given some advice that helped me when I really couldn't take the negativity any more and that was to really make a big deal to her about how wonderful and supportive a different friend was - not saying anything about her own negativity, but...
  128. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    A colleague I work with sporadically actually followed me into the loo because she recognised my hair from behind, but not the rest of me and she had to check if it was me! She's a teeny wee thing and she's never had an issue with her weight and was amazed at how well I've done. I haven't...
  129. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    a nice 2pounds off for me this week, making me a stone into the challenge :) Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (3lbs lost ~ 7lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs lost ~ 29lbs to go)...
  130. wenchie

    major pms!

    Popping this thread back up, rather than opening a new one on the same topic. I've been looking into my diaries and I've finally noticed a pattern (my menstrual cycle's been a bit all over the place due to my weight loss, Dr says it's normal enough, so it's not been totally easy to see) - in...
  131. wenchie

    cans of gin & tonic

    I'd tend to take a wee bottle of gin and some of those wee cans of slimline? A too strong g&t's not pleasant and the finite number of cans means it's a bit more self limiting (plus they're always fizzy, unlike a bigger bottle).
  132. wenchie

    Whole life turned upside-down

    I didn't want to read and run - I'm sorry that things have worked out this way, it sucks, just completely and utterly sucks and you have all my sympathy right now. I'm glad you've probably found somewhere to live, that gets the basics sorted, and remember to really look after yourself right...
  133. wenchie

    Target!!

    Congratulations! :D
  134. wenchie

    Feeling Jealous

    I'd have been jealous, too - I have been in fact when my Mum started talking about a friend's son who'd lost 16st through WLS - I think it's only natural because they've taken the shortcut through something that we struggle with. It doesn't make us bad people to acknowledge that, I don't think...
  135. wenchie

    Recommend a sw book pleaaaase!!!!

    Lots of people do take their wee ones to class - would that be something you could do? Especially for the first night to get the books and the new members' talk?
  136. wenchie

    When you go to a coffee shop, Costa, Starbucks etc..

    A medium skinny latte from costa is officially 6syns (although if you run it through the calculator it's more like 6.5 ;)) and I've checked (I thought it would be but better safe!) and it's just coffee and milk, so the syns are coming from skimmed milk so it could legitimately be your HExA (I...
  137. wenchie

    Do Giving Up Alcohol help?

    I've never been a spectacularly heavy drinker and I've found those weeks where I do drink my losses are affected fairly badly - I think because it makes me hungry, both when I'm drinking and the next day and even with free/Sfree food it's false hunger so I'm over eating. It'd be worth trying...
  138. wenchie

    Erm's Photo Diary

    hey there, I've been pointed at your diary for the food p0rn and WOW. I may never leave, hope that's okay? :D The lentils sound really lovely (and useful) and if you can't have a feast on a sunday, when can you?
  139. wenchie

    Whats your next goal(s)?

    I've 1/2lb to go to get to 25% of my original body weight lost, and 6.5lbs to get to 5stone, so I'm focussing on those right now :D
  140. wenchie

    Club 20 achieved!

    That's fantastic - CONGRATULATIONS & well done :D
  141. wenchie

    wooooopppppeeeeeeeee

    Congrats, that's fab :D
  142. wenchie

    Colds etc

    Water, loads and loads of water to wash the bugs out of my system :D
  143. wenchie

    Just for fun - Whats your weighing in superstition

    I always have a red day on WI day (I did green once and EE a couple of times and the results were disappointing :rolleyes:) Wear the same clothes (I'm into my second outfit now, but I weighed it to make sure it was the same as the old one!) Go to the loo a billion times Make sure I've...
  144. wenchie

    Christmas party nibbles

    Oh - they sound good - is the recipe on here?
  145. wenchie

    New HiFi bars

    We got tasters of both of them in class last night and (like the wee butterscotch ones) I found them to be incredibly sweet (too sweet for me), the cranberry and yoghurt was mostly yoghurty rather than having a noticable cranberry taste (there are visible red bits in it though) and the...
  146. wenchie

    "All I want for Christmas.."

    All I want for christmas is to have no clothes left in my wardrobe that are too small :D - I don't have many left, and those that are are about half a size to a size too small, so it's more than doable (there's a really pretty red jumper that'll be perfect for Church on Christmas eve).
  147. wenchie

    Christmas party nibbles

    We've got ours, too, and I think I'm taking curry (a few of us are bringing bigger portions of things) but there's a 1/2 syn roulade on here that's very popular or maybe something simple like total 0%, figs and honey is very lovely and only a syn per tsp of honey (and figs are in season, unlike...
  148. wenchie

    might not want to know this but....

    Woo Hoo! That's awesome - mine went all to pot when I started losing weight (something about the estrogen stored in body fat apparently) but they're all back to normal now :D. It's lovely to feel normal, isn't it?
  149. wenchie

    Green Days Little girls room

    *g* thank you! :D - I'm definitely getting that now, but I may well not have been some days previously (my poor dehydrated body did rather complain about it, right enough).
  150. wenchie

    Green Days Little girls room

    I'm currently making a concious effort to up my water (I've been footering around losing slowly and STS and wee gains since July and it's frustrating) and the loo's turned into my second home! I do feel better for it (I've had a lot of issues with a grumbling kidney and things) and I suppose...
  151. wenchie

    Late night munching

    I'm a late night eater, too - I always need to have supper or I can't sleep - but if you're on plan then it's allowed! I tend to find that I need a bit of protein in that "meal" - rather than just fruit and a cuppa or a synned mikado or whatever - sounds like you do, too, given the cheese...
  152. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    that was me last week Saucy - it's horrible and I'm so sorry it happened to you. Stick with it and it'll come off next week (I upped my water, in case there was something going on with that, which I'm not sure helped any but made my skin look brighter, so that's something). Lots of :hug99: meantime
  153. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    New Diary: http://www.minimins.com/silver-members-diary/237051-im-downhill-slope-diarys-my-walking-pole.html (in the silver members bit, so you need 500 posts to see it. On the very unlikely chance that anyone wants to talk to me outwith that, I've still got this thread tracked)
  154. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    Back after a week off minimins. Put 1/2 last week but lost 2 this week, so 1.5 down in total :) Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (3lbs lost ~ 7lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs lost ~...
  155. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Half a pound ON. I am (a)gutted and (b)really p'd off because I stuck totally to plan last week (and I'm pretty sure my class don't believe that I didn't cheat. That I basically never cheat. Except last night when I went home via the chip shop and had chips and cheese. What I tasted of them...
  156. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    1. Yep, cheese and onion. SO GOOD - they have a wee bit of that quorn texture still, but the taste more than makes up for it! :D:D:D. Dead nice chopped into beans as well, proper comfort food. 2. *mwah* I am remarkably nervous about it - silly seeing as I'll get it eventually no matter what...
  157. wenchie

    Somebody please settle my mind

    Looks like a perfectly fine green day to me (actually, given you've had more sfree, it's probably healthier than the average green day, if anything).
  158. wenchie

    Avoiding Syns all week to drink at the weekend ?

    A lot of the people in my class (including my consultant) do the syn saving thing for booze at the weekends often and they're losing okay on it - my consultant's take is that it's not the reccomended way to work the plan but if it works and means you keep to it, then it's okay. That said, that...
  159. wenchie

    I reached target today!! I finally did it!!!!

    CONGRATULATIONS! And thank you for your lovely "speech", too, that was really motivating :D Good luck on your new maintainence journey!
  160. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    It's a lovely day here today - it POURED over night but it's sunny right now so the world looks washed clean (smells it, too). LOVE IT. Anyway, WI tonight (does anyone else get obessed about how many times they go to the loo on WI day or am I a total freak?) and I'd LOVE to get 1lb off and...
  161. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Glad to hear the hospital went so well, that is good news (and a medium gown and knickers! Awesome :D, just to think, you're NEVER going to have to worry that they won't have a gown to fit you :D:D) sounds rather like you've had a wee blip back to some of your old habits with food & stress...
  162. wenchie

    Lost

    How unpleasant of them! It sounds possibly as if they're unhappy with something in their own lives, so they need to "put you in your place" kind of thing? There's usually a reason for people to be so rude and it's usually absolutely nothing to do with you and all to do with themselves. Do the...
  163. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Girlie night on saturday went very well - I got really quite puggled b/c my tolerance to alcohol has gone through the floor but I was within syns (just, but came out at 15 for the day when I checked and recalculated yesterday :D) and no hangover despite it being red wine I was drinking :D. It...
  164. wenchie

    calories or science

    There's a certain amount of science about the saiety value of foods (not all calories are created equal...) but it's basically a eat fewer calories deal :D
  165. wenchie

    Who has a food diary that is mainly red days?

    I'm back to EE at the moment but I was a red girl for months and Capricorn's diary (you'll find her link on the first page of my diary if you need) is both heavily red and incredibly inspiring (and has a bunch of recipies in it, too)
  166. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I need to get a pic taken over the weekend for my class (my consultant wants pictures of her biggest loser for her inspiration board :D) so I might get some whapped up here (they'll definitely go up on FB, if only to counter the ones of me looking like a drunken maniac...). Anyway, I was...
  167. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    heh! They're like a very low-tech star trek... :D Ahh, even skinny minnies get their bags stuck, but it'll be lovely for you not to have to worry about that - it's one of the best things about shrinking, I think, not having to worry about fitting in/through things.
  168. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I had a fun lunchtime today, I work in a secure building and we've these tubes you go through to get in (so no one can tailgate you) and for reasons I've never really worked out all but two of them have a weight limit - I've never known what it is, just that I was too heavy for it and any time I...
  169. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    @Shirleen - Oh how wonderful! I've seen some of your frustration, so it's lovely lovely to see this for you :) I've a not-really-scales victory to declare today; I work in a secure building and we've these tubes you go through to get in (so no one can tailgate you) and for reasons I've never...
  170. wenchie

    Woohoo!!!!!

    CONGRATS! that's fantastic (don't you just wish you could bottle the feeling? :D)
  171. wenchie

    When did you start noticing the difference?

    Have you taken your measurements yet? I didn't until I was about a stone into the journey and I wish I had earlier because I still have issues noticing the difference even now (and I'm nearly 4 1/2 stone gone. There is a HUGE difference in me - I'm 5 sizes smaller) because I'm still fat and I...
  172. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Whee, it is a GORGEOUS day today, bright and fresh (and frosty, wooly tights are splendid) and I'm wearing size 16 head to toe :D happeeeeeeeee. Anyway EE again today: Breakfast Scrambled eggs with roast tomatoes Free (inc 1/3 SFree) HExA milk for coffee Snack Apple SFree Lunch Asda Eat...
  173. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    *twirls* Thank you :D And just for m'quick reference: Asda Fresh Tastes Chicken (per portion – ½ pack) EE G O Piri Piri 0.5 8.5...
  174. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    Urm, no, it's a kind of dress that looks better with something underneath it - I'd link the gap one but the site's blocked from work. Possibly it's one of those things where we use slightly different words to you English types.
  175. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Awh, thank you :D I've done WW in the past (I got to nearly 50lbs lost before the counting everything all the time entirely did my head in) and I find SW SO much easier - and much more encouraging of decent eating habits, too. The way I'm eating now feels both normal and natural (and vast...
  176. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    ...yes? It's not that weird, both Gap and New Look had very similar ones in over the summer.
  177. wenchie

    Emotional eating

    I'm an emotional eater, a boredom eater, an eater of all the things basically, but I've been dealing with a lot of that this year - and I am getting better. It can be done. I started journalling when I caught myself doing the emotional eating thing, or nearly doing the emotional eating...
  178. wenchie

    first time over target in a year

    I am so sorry for your loss - you've done incredibly to stay within target for so long, and you'll be back there very soon. I think it's understandable that you've not been focussed on your food recently (and, additionally, you've been pumping out cortisol - a stress hormone - which can do funny...
  179. wenchie

    Starting Slimming World tonight! Nervous!

    SW works SO much better for me than WW ever did - all that counting did my head in (I lost just under 50pounds on WW, lost the plot with it and put it all back on again). With SW I really feel that my eating habits and definitely my attitude to food has changed - the way the plan's structured...
  180. wenchie

    extra easy not so easy!

    I've just made a move back to EE after months on Red (which I love but can't really afford to keep on doing at the moment) and then Green (which is cheap but I don't do very well on) and it's taken me a couple of weeks to get over the HEx issue! What I did was make very definite non-HEx...
  181. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    Woop, woop! 2 off for me this week - I think I'm finally off that ridiculous hump I spent the summer in. Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (3lbs lost ~ 7lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs...
  182. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    Some lovely NSVs - well done everyone!:D I'm wearing a ring on my ring finger today that I couldn't even get on my pinky in January and that I really stopped wearing when I was about 22 because it cut in so much :D and I'm also wearing a pinafore that I've not worn since about then and I...
  183. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    *snorts* well, I kind of had the baby corn as a starter, but I needed to get the SFree in there somewhere...:D We have the best club, frankly. I think we should get hats :D Anyway, last night's WI was a success at: 2 pounds off woo hoo! I'm by far the current biggest loser in the class...
  184. wenchie

    Yay. Finally managed it.

    That's fantastic! Congrats (and well done you!) :D
  185. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    I really am - nearly a week later and I'm still grinning whenever I think about it :D Thank you!
  186. wenchie

    OMG Only 15 more weigh ins till Xmas!!!!!

    I knew it was soonish, because we were talking about pre-xmas countdowns and things last week in class, but that's SOON soon. Wow. I'm not too worried about xmas itself - I'm going to my parent's and my mum doesn't get much in the way of unhealthy stuff in (lots of brocolli, cabbage, fruit...
  187. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    @angelkitty thank you :D @bilsat well done you! And oh definitely! It's costing me a fortune :D:D
  188. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    It's still very ucky today, but it is at least not blowing a gale too (I nearly got lifted off my feet when I was walking up the hill home last night, several times, which was a touch scary). Ah well, I'm still fully expecting my wheelie bin to have been trundled across the road by the time I...
  189. wenchie

    Saving syns?

    there was a big hoo hah in my class about this when we had a substitue consulant for a couple of weeks and when my proper consultant came back what she said was that officially SW say we are to have between 5-15syns every day, and they reset when you're asleep, but that in reality the majority...
  190. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    I suppose, given that physical reactions to stress are very hormone related and your body (and therefore hormone balance) has changed so much that it's not so strange that your reactions have changed a wee bit? Not fun being an insomniac though (I tended just to get up and do some more packing...
  191. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    wagas is SO GOOD (and Edinburgh's apparently getting one before Christmas, too ;)) yum. They've got a new Ginger Beef salad (that I have without dressing or sesame seeds) that is AMAZING. I highly reccomend it! I picked up a whole load more of the chickeny things at Asda yesterday (because...
  192. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    Cheers :D
  193. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    Ha! Mine too... but I think that's a lot more to do with her issues around her weight than anything to do with me (a mutual friend says it's because we have an image of our friends in our heads and when we don't know to expect a change we don't see it, which may be true for some people I suppose).
  194. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Cheers Elaine :D Right, so I'm going out tonight for dinner at Wagas, but I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to have (chicken and mandarin salad, no dressing, no nuts/seeds and a side of plain rice, which is much nicer than it sounds) and I'm looking forward to it enormously (lots of...
  195. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    @Chookiehen - my feet have DEFINITELY shrunk a wee bit (I think they're maybe spreading less or something?) :D:D @Shellywelly68 cheers! :D - I'm still fairly shouty about it now :D @SlimmerGirl thank you! :D @giraffegirl heh! Cheers! :D:D
  196. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Ha ha :p Nah, it shouldn't be, it should just hang a wee bit better (it's really very simple and not terribly fitted so it mostly hangs from my chest ;)) I definitely don't eat enough veg on green, so I end up consuming more free food than I really need, so even if I run EE as very green it's...
  197. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    It's a glorious day today, all bright and sunny and washed clean by yesterday and last night's revolting weather. Hurrah. I'm wearing yet another skirt that's going straight into my donation box (once it's washed, anyway) once I get home because it's in serious danger of falling down every...
  198. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    @who_la_hoop - it really is! I don't know why it feels attainable this time around but it really does. We'll be all slinky before we know it!:D @Leapfrog I really want to! I will be fairly shouty about it on the phone to my mum tonight, definitely :D:D @WelshCake cheers :D @Sassia thank...
  199. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    Thank you :D - @krupskaya - I'm glad, I always find other people's "up" posts motivating and I'm pleased I can share that along :D @POPPYLU GOOD LUCK! (I'm sure you won't need it) - I lost 2lb my first week, and kept on plugging on and this is me 8.5 months later :D @LisaC cheers! :D I...
  200. wenchie

    I've lost 60Lbs!!

    Sorry, I'm really very excited by my numbers right now, I've never ever lost this much before and I've not been this light in my entire adult life (I was either 21 or younger the last time I was this size) :D:D:D:D and I'm having a really hard time just not shouting about it (I've not shared...
  201. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I'm still on a total high from last night :D (sixty stinking pounds that I'm not longer carting about with me. Seriously. Also, everything I'm wearing today is too big, must get rid) which is rather making up for today being cold and damp (and really windy) and all our trains being totally...
  202. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Sounds utterly knackering (but then moving is :D). I am rooting for you!
  203. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Woo HOOO! Three and a Half off for me :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D So that's last week's little undeserved rubbish well done and dusted, please excuse me whilst I dance around the room for a moment! Now, whilst it would be nice to lose the same again next week (which would give me another shiny), I'm...
  204. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    WEll, I put on 0.5 last week, had a humph about it and didn't update (because it really wasn't deserved) but I lost 3.5 this week :D so it seems just to have been an annoying silly blip :D Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs...
  205. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Well, I'm feeling practically healthy again now (I was so wiped out last night that I ended up going to bed early and sleeping for 11hours straight... I am wide awake this morning though, so that doesn't suck :D). I think I'm beginning to get my head around EE properly and I'm eating less...
  206. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    Oooh, lots of lovely NSVs :D Mine isn't really quite as lovely, but anyway, I had a bit of sugar free gum this morning (onions for breakfast, 4 for 1/2syn seemed worth it!) and it set off my IBS big style.... I'd never put 2 +2 together on the gum before because my IBS was a fairly constant...
  207. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Note to self: sugar free gum may be 1/2syn for 4 bits, but it also sets off your IBS worse than it's been since you started on SW. Hence no morning snack today and real issues eating lunch (the attack passed eventually, thank God, but given my entire digestive tract went into spasm there's no...
  208. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    So, monday again (I'm sure I didn't give permission for that) but I started it with a lovely cup of tea and a bit of bright happy sun, so it's not terrible. I am ridiculously anxious about WI tommorrow - I've had a bunch of disappointing weeks that I didn't deserve recently so I really don't...
  209. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Heya Capricorn - hope the carboot went and went well and that you're not totally knackered right now! Moving is such blinking hard work, marching out doubly so and then medical stuff on top of that! Phew - do remember to put your feet up a wee bit.
  210. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Just popping on quickly to track my eats for this weekend. Yesterday was a really fun day - out for lunch with a friend, then some thrift shopping (picked up a couple of jumpers in smaller sizes and a jacket for less than £10, they're drying atm and then I'll see how far I've got until they...
  211. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Baked potato and cheesy beans are a FOOD OF THE GODS frankly. YUM :D Yeah, funerals are never nice, but she had had a really good innings (she was 95) so, yeah. It is what it is. Anyway, it's Friday. HURRAH. Tommorrow I'm going to a Viking festival, culminating in watching a fireship being...
  212. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I didn't check in yesterday because I was at a funeral, and by the time I got home I was utterly exhausted - I'm glad I could be there for my friends but it was a hard, hard day. Anyway, I put half a pound ON on tuesday - I know it's mostly to do with my kidney and the fact that I came on that...
  213. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    I have to undo my jeans to get out of them today because they are a size 16 :D:D:D - I started in January in a very tight 22. I am now officially the thinnest I've been since I was 22 (I'm 35...) and everything from here on out is pretty much new territory!
  214. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Woke up this morning to discover water coming through my bathroom ceiling AGAIN (it happened on thursday morning, too. In fact I'm pretty sure it happens every time the tenant has a shower, but she keeps very different hours to me and I haven't been able to stay in and check and her landlord is...
  215. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Woo Hoo! Well done on another 2 lbs off - that's fantastic. I went for the Red Apple Wreath in the end - it's totally gorgeous and exactly right, thank you for suggesting it :D Good idea on swapping the herb/spice tubs - they are very annoying sizes, definitely, and I've already got a...
  216. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I had a really lovely weekend with my friend (and spent all my weekend's syns on haggis and wine. It was a worthwhile combination :D). Anyway, wine wasn't awesome for my kidney (which is why I didn't have much of it) but it didn't stop me being out and doing things (including wandering around...
  217. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    *snorts* - you know we could be twins... my spice/herb cupboard is a dangerous place because there's so much in it, things have a habit of falling out on my head :D I need to dissolve the meds in water and they taste utterly revolting and make me nauseous for ages afterwards but they do seem...
  218. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Hee - yep it's the Bonne Maman with the Red and White checked lid, but it's Mirabelle which is a flavour you can't buy here (it's a small yellow plum. SO GOOD, almost worth getting up out of bed for...). I can FB you my addy again, if you want? Remind me, I'm a bit slow :D Getting enough...
  219. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Thank you, I'm chuffed to bits, frankly :D. I pretty much use this recipe - but without the tom puree and I hex the cheese (and don't have tortillas. Rice is good, or cous cous and it's lovely with baby spinach, too). It is possibly the easiest thing in the known universe and super cheap. Oh...
  220. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Hee! Last time I moved I was all about numbered boxes (with their room destination written on them too) and lists... It's handy if you're packing up in advance and pack something you later need, if nothing else! It's useful to have a bit of a routine I think - especially when one's starting...
  221. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    morning :D - nope, this is a new fun and exciting thing... it's more achy than sore mostly, but it's not pleasant. Harumph. Anyway - thank you, I shall start with those (and bodyswerve the spiced pumpkin, how weird that is!) You are totally the exercise QUEEN! Wow. As soon as I'm better I...
  222. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    A wee half off for me last night, which I'm okay with. I suspect my dodgy kidney won't be helping with that... I am SO TIRED right now (and ruddy sore, but anyway). I'm trying to plan some easy eats for the forseeable future, maybe some more soups and things. BLAH. Today is green again...
  223. wenchie

    Summer challenge..

    another wee half off for me last night (I have a kidney infection, I'm delighted with that!) Alilou21- 30lbs (5lbs lost 25 lbs to go) anna_vixen 42lbs (9.5lbs lost - 32.5lbs to go) BeccaMB 20lb (0 lost, 20lbs to go) Beki 20lb (18.5lb lost - 1.5lb to go) Belfastbabybear 14lbs (5.5lbs lost 9.5lbs...
  224. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    A wee half off for me last night (given my kidney infection I'm delighted with that!) Alley1985 30lbs (9 lost ~ 21lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (2.5lbs lost ~ 7.5lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs lost ~ 29lbs to...
  225. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Grumbling kidney is still grumbling and I have to drink an inordinate amount of fluid to keep it ticking over. Anyway... lots of body magic from the trips to the loo, I suppose and I'll get to see how the curry yesterday and my kidney affect WI tonight. It's so chilly here right now - it's...
  226. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    I might be.... ;) I'm good, thank you. I've got a grumbling kidney, which rather sucks, but I figure I'm getting a bunch of extra body magic thanks to the volume of liquid I currently need to consume... Awh, how lovely that your hubby's able to be off right now - that'll be a big help (good...
  227. wenchie

    NSVs - Non Scale Victories

    This is my favourite thread on the whole forums :D Anyway, I've got a couple of wee NSVs to claim. I picked up 3 pairs of never-worn size 16 trousers (all different makes) from a charity shop this weekend, in the thought I'd get into them next month as my current trousers get too big. I'm...
  228. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Hey Carpricorn - CONGRATS on the loss this week, and especially on the 2" loss, that's FANTASTIC :D Sorry to hear of your medical woes though, I hope everything works out a ok and quickly for you (but not so quickly that you can't get packed up to where you want to be!). I hope you're not...
  229. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Urgh, I've been ill since last week, and now I have a grumbling kidney (boo) but ah well... back at work and trying to get on. I've had a couple of nice NSVs though - on Saturday I was dropping some of my victorian mental institution tunics off at a charity shop (I figured someone might be...
  230. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    ooh - do you have the recipe for your soup on here - I'll have to check :D I do one with roast squash and sweet potatoes but I could be doing with something a little new and squash does make such lovely soup. I am rooting for your stock check - I've ended up with some really lovely meals out of...
  231. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Well - I got another pound off last night which GOT ME MY 4 STONE SHINEY and I am now in the 100s, not the 200s :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D. I honestly, legitmately, haven't been this light since I was 22 and I am OVER THE MOON :happy036::happy036::happy036::happy036::happy036:- it was so sweet...
  232. wenchie

    Summer challenge..

    I lost the final pound I needed to make my target for the challenge :D:D:D:D:D Alliyah - 35lbs (9lbs lost 26lbs to go) Alilou21- 30lbs (5lbs lost 25 lbs to go) anna_vixen 42lbs (9.5lbs lost - 32.5lbs to go) BeccaMB 20lb (0 lost, 20lbs to go) Beki 20lb (18.5lb lost - 1.5lb to go) Belfastbabybear...
  233. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    As happy wee pound off for me this week :D Alley1985 30lbs (7.5 lost ~ 22.5lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost - 42.5lbs to go) Baby-belle (2.5lbs lost ~ 7.5lbs to go) Blue Bunny 31lbs* (2lbs lost ~ 29lbs to go) Bobsledwheels 32lbs* (7.5lbs lost ~...
  234. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Happy (soggy) tuesday peeps - it's been pouring down here all morning, blech. I kind of want to be at home, curled up on the couch under a blanket with a big mug of tea, but I'm in my slightly chilly office instead. Never mind, I've got on a lovely burnt orange top on today that I got from my...
  235. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Well, I had a delightful weekend - lots of time spent away from the computer doing stuff (and what time I was on it I spent doing stuff for my 2nd job which people seemed to appreciate so it's all good :D). I had a lovely lunch out at Wetherspoons (I definitely definitely highly reccommend...
  236. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Woo HOO! Another 2lb bites the dust - you're doing so WELL, congratulations :D I suspect this determination to swim in the face of a bunch of annoyances is probably something to do with how well you're doing :D. Sounds like you've got a really gorgeous day lined up - have a great monday!
  237. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Awh, I'm glad to hear my meanderings have inspired you - hello and GOOD LUCK :D SW is the EASIEST eating I've ever done, definitely (30 day shred, not so much but it definitely works, and at least it's quick! ;)). If you're going without the books you might find it useful to put up a food diary...
  238. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I did end up having the krisprolls and LCL last night and very nice they were, too :D. For tonight I've got Ryvita that needs used and more lcls, hurrah :D It's really horrid and soggy here at the moment (the trains keep getting stuffed up because of flooding and water-damaged points and...
  239. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    You are an exercise MACHINE Mrs. :D - good to know that about swimming targetting the parts other exercise doesn't really reach (and logical, actually). I shall have to investigate the local pools (I think the one a bit further away is easier to get to by bus and also has better lanes and...
  240. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    I ended up changing up last night's food a bit because I was knackered when I got home (and starving, too) - so I had cheesy beans (hexB), FFSnoodles (free), total 0% (free) w/options (2syns) and cherries (SFree) instead and then spent the remainer of my evening holed up on the couch watching...
  241. wenchie

    Summer challenge..

    2lbs off for me this week and only 1lb to go to complete the challenge - I'm so excited :D Alliyah - 35lbs (9lbs lost 26lbs to go) Alilou21- 30lbs (5lbs lost 25 lbs to go) anna_vixen 42lbs (9.5lbs lost - 32.5lbs to go) BeccaMB 20lb (0 lost, 20lbs to go) Beki 20lb (18.5lb lost - 1.5lb to go)...
  242. wenchie

    Six months to sexy for Santa team?

    2lbs off for me this week :D so hopefully that's me stopped footering around with being on holiday and our class scales being decalibrated (they've now been replaced, thank goodness!) Alley1985 30lbs (6 lost ~ 24lbs to go) Amy2249 28lbs* (1lbs lost ~ 27lbs to go) Anna Vixen 45lbs* (2.5lbs lost...
  243. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Whoops, I've been busy like a bee and I managed to miss checking in at all yesterday. Ah well. 2lbs off this week and I am delighted - I know I've still been losing (my inches have been coming down) whilst all this nonsense with the class scale being uncalibrated has been going on but it's...
  244. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    Glad to hear you didn't let a wee bit of rain beat you :D I hope hubbie's feeling okay - Lyme's disease is horrid, and it does rather seem to be one of those where the treatment also makes you feel revolting.
  245. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    ooh, cheers Capricorn - I'll put a reminder on my phone to PM you once I'm home (I can't do it from my work PC for some reason :confused:). We appear to have borrowed the sun back this morning, but did spend all weekend walking about in the pouring rain, it was quite nice to come home and stick...
  246. wenchie

    Baby Charlie has arrived so lets get on with shedding the rest of this wobble!!!

    WHEEE! 11STONE :D:D:D That's fantastic Capricorn - congrats! I love the dresses you've ordered - they're lovely and you're going to look lovely in them :D
  247. wenchie

    Heffalump to Slinky: Journey to Less of Me

    Uhrg. Early start today, Zzzzzz. I need to get better about going to bed at a decent time again. Breakfast LOVELY FRENCH Jam 1 Syn :D:D:D Scan Bran Part HexB Porridge Part HexB made up with 350ml Skim Milk HExA (drank balance) Frozen Fruit SFree Snack Costa latte 6syns grapes & strawbs...
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