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Hi Nicky, I want to wish you lots of good luck :) I can relate so strongly to the foodaholic thing and I've been all the same sizes you have. I hope it goes well for you :) A :)

Good Golly Miss Molly, time to get back on the wagon (*wagon creaks and collapses):eek::eek: My NYR is to be able to post the following status update on Facebook for NY2017:- "For the first time since I was three months old, I am the correct weight for my height :) Happy New Year from a skinny...

Hello Jo, Loving the username :D An excellent idea to learn how to alter your existing clothes. I once lost 10 stone (though never got to goal and have put it all back on again now, hence my appearance in this forum :rolleyes:) and found that shrinking through the sizes meant...

Hello Rozken, I'm sorry, I've never heard of the Leap Program (although it sounds very intriguing... What is it??) but I do VERY STRONGLY relate to your story of swearing never to get back here and then blow me down with a feather if I'm not over 20 stone again...

Husband:- (inspecting very small and ever-decreasing triangle of leftover birthday cake) have you been eating this cake? Me:- No. Husband:- who's been eating it then? Me:- I think it was you. And then you forgot. Husband:- *thinking I've married a monster :eek: Me:- *thinking Phew, that was...

:D:D:mad::mad::(:(:(:(:) Thank you Laura!! And to you too :) I didn't know WW had a new system... Googling now :rolleyes: I had a dreadful day today because there was leftover party food in the house (now in my tummy :oops:) but hopefully I can get back on the wagon tomorrow morning... Poor old...

Not for the faint hearted:- I had a rack of lamb for a dinner party last night and the butcher French trimmed it and gave me the trimmings in a bag (he said I'd paid for them so may as well find a use for them :confused:) so today I made stock for soup for dinner tonight. I boiled the trimmings...

Thank you :) I've never done SW - I'm a WW type - but I know a lot of people who have got on very well with it. I hope this time is an easy and successful one for you too!! A :)

Hello Everyone, I'd like to join in WeMITTS if I may, please :D Long story short, I started 300+lbs, got down to 185lbs (happiest 5 minutes of my life!! :rolleyes:) but then accidentally crept back up to where I started, weighing 303lbs on December 1st this year...

Thank you!! :D xx

Lol at "elbow deep"... I feel you Miss14 Excellent tactic re: not going in the kitchen. I'm forever pottering around in there late at night, checking if anything's changed since my last peek... Stay strong, good luck :)

Thank you for this lovely message Tracy... You are SO LITTLE now!! Congratulations to you!! I will head over to WeMitts, thank you - and hope to join you in the Little League soon A x

Ha!! Thank you very much both for your lovely messages :) Mini, good luck for December and yes, you're absolutely right about resetting to the heaviest... plus a bit extra I find... :mad: Tanya, you're absolutely right of course - and the thought of you being embarrassed about your mother...

Hello everyone, I wish I could say I'm delighted to be back :rolleyes: Long story short, started 300+lbs, got down to 185lbs (happiest 5 minutes of my life!! :D) and now mysteriously back to 303lbs... how did that happen?? In the news this morning they're reporting...

Ugh... I was afraid you'd say that :/ I was hoping for "yes sure, eat as many choco balls as you can on TS." Thank you anyway!! :D A :)

Hello all and happy new year :) Has anyone tried protein bites and choco balls? I am IN LOVE with them - although not totally sure if I'm really allowed to eat them on TS. Does anyone know the rules? A :)

Thank you very much for this Lara :) I am actually going to a group this evening where I think this is the focus. I'll report back if there's anything worth sharing!! A :)

*whole body - not "while body" :/

Hi All and happy new year!! That's it - I officially started at midnight!! Had the Baileys ready to pour myself a drop to toast with when the bells started chiming on the radio (thought I still had a couple of minutes to go - clock must be wrong) so I put the Baileys down and poured a fizzy...

Hello and happy new year :) I lost 10 stone with LL in 2011/12 and found that brushing my skin (while body) with a dry bath brush and applying a firming moisturiser helped to keep skin taught - and I used Bio oil in my bath which is meant to be clinically proven to help with stretch marks...

Hi Lara, Thank you for posting this - this is VERY interesting and I am going to look up that book. I struggle with compulsive binge eating myself (wow - never said that before!!) and have never found any evidence of ANYONE ELSE experiencing the same thing?! Fascinating to read your...

ALL BACK ON :(( But this time I'm armed with the knowledge that this can happen, so hopefully can take precautionary steps?! I did LL you see, and got to within a stone of my goal weight but never quite made it to the Route to Management part of the program, where you learn how to control your...

Aahh... Ok makes sense, thank you Blondcat. When u did LL 4 years ago (and lost 10 stone) I lost one whole stone in the first week!! I know a lot is water but it's still a stone off the old ones and spine :) Oh please please let me lose 10 stone again this time!! Why does it seem so much...

What is the clean 9?? A :)

Peony!! I do remember you!! I lost 10 stone too... And am back again with it all back on... Hoping to start again 01/01/15. You wrote this msg 6 months ago - how are you doing?? It's so much harder as a returner, isn't it? Like a magic spell is broken!! How did you get on? A :)

Ahh... target, I know that feeling!! Never mind. Next NYE we'll all be dancing on podiums in stilettos :)) A :);

Hi Kayley, How are you getting on? I have about the same amount of weight to lose as you. I'm gearing up to start again on 1/1/15. A few years ago I lost 10 stone on LL. I found that because I stayed on the programme so long, sometimes I'd really dislike a product, only to come...

Hello and congratulations :) Excess skin is quite common with VLCDs because the weight loss is so fast but body brushing with a dry bath brush and applying a firming moisturiser helps - or I used Bio oil in my bath which is only mildly perfumed, which could be good with a new baby. Your skin...

Hi Rachel, It's been a while since you posted this but I wondered how you got on?? When I was very successful on LL a few years ago, I used to find 4L of water plenty in a day - they told us to think if our body like a water wheel and sip slowly and continually over the day...

Congratulations!! I am re-starting for the new Year too and have at least 8 stone to lose... We can do it!! :clap: A :)

Hi girls, glad you're all doing so well :-) Snookiepuss, if you were thinking of having the implant out anyway then it makes sense to do it asap - crazy cravings won't help you diet!! I have had a hiccup tonight with some of the kids' leftovers... I'm on the evening of day three as well - if I...

Good luck!! Did you start today? How are you feeling? A :-)

Hey all :-) Have any of you done lighter life before? Are the chilli and shepherds pie on Exante the same as LL? Do they come in powder packs like the shakes? (They do on LL) A x

Hi!! Thank you both!! First day today :-) I know from my first go (successfull) and the next few (unsuccessful) that it's the first three days that are hardest :-) How are you both doing? A xx

Hello Everyone!! Great to see you all here :) I have ordered my first Exante pack - it's arriving on Monday. I lost 10 stone on Lighter Life in 2010 and have put it all back on again :( I've been reading all these posts about throwing away fat clothes.... Me too!! I'm squeezed into my last...

Hello and thank you for the advice!! Pudnpie, you're right - look at me focusing on the negative straight away!! :) Kik, that's exactly how I feel... I'd like to be normal. Ok, I'm on board... let's give it a whirl :) xx

Hello All!! Can I ask if anyone here has done WW after a VLCD and if so, how it's going? I have been on Lighter Life Total, lost 7 stone, fallen off the wagon, put 2 stone back on in the TWO WEEKS since I stopped :cry::mad::( and have lost heart with it a bit (and I don't think I can ever...

aaaaaaggghhh!! i didn't read that last post until after i'd eaten it!! too late now... LOL it smelled amazing when i opened the pack and i shall describe the taste as very.... interesting. that's all i'm saying. :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ok Weevikki, you want me to make you feel better? Got weighed last night after 2 weeks of proper meltdown... i gained 1 stone and 12 lbs (26lbs total) in two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could tell by my LC's face that it was a new record!! So be happy you nipped it in the bud at a mere 7lbs :)...

oh no... i've brought spicy curry to work for my lunch... haven't got an alternative... and now i hear that it's going to stink out the shop and give me gurgly-tummy all day??!?! great news girlies... LOL :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mags, look at your ticker!! So close!! We can do it!! (Although i will admit that after the last two weeks, my ticker is no longer strictly telling the truth but I can't bring myself to change it backwards :( Have decided instead just to commit 100% and get back to where I was asap!!) Let's...

Yup... I agree... today is a new day... new leaf. I went back to group last night after two solid weeks of MAJOR secret eating food meltdown. I put on 1 stone and 12 lbs IN TWO WEEKS. That's two months work undone in a fortnight!! But today I am totally back on the wagon (so far ;) ) So the...

Excellent plan Doves. Breathe, accept and move on. I'm going back to class tonight after THREE WEEKS of constant hungry-caterpillar-style eating!! Seven stone off without a single cheat and just suddenly got the food demon back in me?! Have to go back tonight, assess the damage and start...

i do hot water with water flavouring too. and fizzy water and soda water always make me more exited that flat. just a little word of warning though... i found that too much water flavouring causes quite a lot of digestive disturbance (i won't be any more graphic than that!! :o)

Oh!! I've been dying to ask someone to post the Lite rules but I've been too shy to ask in case it's not allowed!! I'm thinking of switching too and would LOVE to know what the rules are!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Oh you ladies are all so wise.... I made it nearly 6 months without so much as a whiff of a cheat and this last few days I have been in total meltdown... damn inner cookie monster!! I thought she was dead but she's still VERY MUCH alive, if i let her out!! :o Reading this is helping a lot...

Hi Ladies, How are you all doing? I feel like a bit of a stalker but I'm so interested in how you're all finding the move to Lite after Total. Spangly, how are you feeling now? Any better? xx

Me me me!! I used to be heavier than him and now I'm the skinny one!! Well... when I say skinny... :rolleyes: One alarming development though is that he can now pick me up!! I've been seriously obese all my life - a man has never been able to lift me before and now it keeps happening when I...

Hi Ladies, Could i ask your advice please? I'm a stone and a half off my target weight on Total and I've started going a bit mad :) I'd love to switch to Lite and felt really hopeful when I saw you'd all switched. But it looks like you're finding it hard? On Total, we're meant...

I think you're absolutely right about that - there aren't many things we do perfectly first time and expecting a lifetime's habits just to go away and die in 12 weeks is probably a bit unrealistic for a lot of people!! It's wonderful that you're back here and on your way back to where you want...

Thanks Twinny!! I think you're right - i'm going to just go back to normal 4 a day. That way, I can stop dwelling on it and move on. Do you mind me asking if you did the RTM programme the first time you did LL? Did you get to goal and then put it back on? I'm only asking bcos my LLC is...

oh!! and one more thing, spanglymum - are you going to eat one less pack today? or just draw a line and move on? i'm not sure whether to try to make up for it and eat three packs for four days, or whether to just carry on normal. what do you think? xxxxxx

Aaah, thank you for the hug!! Even though after my four extra food packs i bet you wouldn't get your arms round me :) how annoying is it that even after all this time in abstinence, we still turn to food?? the old behaviour is still there under the surface... but i do feel much better so thank...

oh for goodness sake... so here's what happened last night... all day normal... just one pack left for the evening... then at home, i was trying to make my coffee mousse but was distracted and my whisk broke so i did it wrong at got huge lumps of mousse mix... ugh. i had an EXTRA...

haha... this is hilarious... i've lost a newborn giraffe and two guinea pigs :) well done everyone!! i knew we were all making amazing progress but this just makes it even more impressive!! xx

Oh my lord... the new toffee bar has arrived at my group and is amaaaaaaazing... except for one thing... did anyone else notice a slightly sour, fizzy aftertaste?? a bit like popping candy?! :)

Lol... great news...:D Come on new toffee bar!! Come and jump in my mouth!! xxxxxxxxx

aaah... thanks very much all. am actually not in ketosis at all this week?! no idea how or why? or how this will be reflected on the scales!! bum bum bum...:mad: xxxx

oh sorry all - i'm posting like a nutter today!! just wondering how you all decided your goal weights, if you don't mind sharing? BMI? Body fat percentage? Clothes size? I'm 5'9" so just have to be under 12 stone for healthy BMI. If I started RTM at 11stone13lbs though, I might...

i know... that's the problem. i like all those things in real life so i've accidentally convinced myself they're all going to be amazing. my LLC said to think of the foodpacks not as real foods that taste good but as medicine to make you slim, which should be administered at regular...

hi all, has anyone had any news about the new packs? i'm so excited about them... possibly unnecessarily excited!! :D but LLC says they're not yet available for him to order (and that LL will expect him to use all his old packs before ordering more... sounds a bit fishy to me :mad:)...

this is amazing. how do you know this?? xx

hi all, my advice is NEVER attempt the shepherd's pie made with one chilli pack and one porridge pack under any circumstances!!! :D sooooooooooo horrible. the porridge has so much sweetener - it honestly made me gag and i'm normally very inventive and experimental with the packs!! it...

hello again all, thank you all very much - feel much better now and will be braver about posting in future!! a xxxx

Oh phew... thank you so much. I knew you'd all sort me out!! 2 litres of water really weighs 4lb?? I had no idea... Thanks again!! A xx

Hello everyone!! This is my first post but I'm not new - I've been sneaking a peek at the forum for a while!! I'm on LLT, 6.5stone gone, three more to go... I am having to be brave and write my first post bcos I am desperate from some of the wonderful advice that you all...