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Oh my days! I'm wearing a pair of trousers that say size 18 on the label. I suspect that they are comparitively generously cut - NOT Primark :) - but non the less I am pleased.

A positive start for the day. Today was the first time for weeks I haven't woken up to a horrible awareness of what I ate the previous day. Despite the usual family angst, I feel positive about myself.

Sorry about the disappointment X It is at times like that you find out who your true friends are, and it is good you do have some real friends. Enormous congratulations on your loss !!!

Thank you for your response! Thanks for sharing. PLEASE don't apologise, it's really good to know someone else is exploring their thoughts, ad going through some of the same issues. My mother said things to me that were meant to be thoughtful and considerate, as I can imagine your's was...

I had a rewarding and illuminating counselling session last night. It's relevant here so will use this space as a place to record it for myself. I went in, thinking that the benefits of a general approach to counselling was not helping me with my eating, and that I wanted to stop doing this and...

I do like a lot of Nancy Friday's work. Or did, I've not read anything by her for a long while now. It was she who wrote Our Mothers, Ourselves, wasn't it? I'll look out for that, thanks.

....nah, I lost it, been making stupid choices for about three week now :(

I#ve been in and out of focus recently, it was an old habit to get blips around moving down into the next stone, or coming up to a milestone of other sorts. Right now I'm approaching moving down a stone and losing my first stone plus having family worries. As usual. Ha! I got this email, and...

Binged this morning and last night. Dh has been very stupid over something. Of course, I recognised where the binging came from AFTER I had done it. We will talk about this issue tonight, he doesn't know this is what I have in mind when I said we need to discuss finances, or that I know, Ho hum...

27.04.2015 Woo hoo, I went for the WI, and left m'poor boy disconsolate at home. 1.5 lbs off - that's for two weeks, screw up salvaged thank goodness. So only half a pound to go for my first (this time, HA) stone.

I've been pretty much on track this week, had some blips and followed up with a low syn day so I like to think I'll be OK. Yesterday was a much much travelling and filling in Probate forms sort of day. I stayed on track, worked out I could have a third of the choccie bar I bought and shared.Got...

Oh goodness, I hadn't realised this thread was still going. Hello everyone. I do green all the way, it is still available on the SW website as a pdf but I'm miffed they've taken away the Green syn value from the website. Although, AFAIK, the green syns always were the same as the EE values.

Welcome back to the straight and narrow :) 1200 is LOW, it does sound sensible that you plan to up it the following week. Have a nice evening tonight, congratulations X

22.04.2015 Breakfast: An apple, a bowl of rice, tomatoes, gherkins and black eyed peas with a large mug of coffee earlier. It is strange, I am still in a stressful situation with my son but, I've kind of stepped back from it emotionally and am eating quite normally. Pasta with a few syns worth...

Hi Bee, good to hear from you again. Your post sounds decidedly positive, your quote about handling a chronic pain/illness and applying those same techniques to emotional health as well make a lot of sense. And, I'm sorry, but I did laugh a bit at your notion that the mirror had something wrong...

It was stressful today, my poor son has severe General Anxiety Disorder which leaves him quite unable to do things a lot of the time ... it's his story so I won't gossip but h's having a hard time atm and being his mum isn't easy either.But the desire to binge and squash the feelings with food...

.... and .... have got back into focus. Yesterday: Leak and potato soup, green beans and free sausages, 2 x HX B (wheat puffs - you get a decent sized bowl for your 35g) Melon, pear, banana, orange. Almond milk. I'm not sure why I flipped like that but all's OK now. Oh, I had a couple of...

Well, after all that sensibleness, I totally lost it and reverted to my old habits. Ho hum

Oh well, weight loss wise, yesterday was a total disaster. But I enjoyed what I ate, didn't gobble the WHOLE cake just because everyone else had fallen asleep and weren't there to see me or know about it and I didn't then getting out the stashed chocolate to punish/block out the guilty bad...

I've lost track of food, I'm so tired. I know I've probably had more than my HXs in violife and ryvitas, and a couple of choccies. But am having little snooze now. Such niceness here. My daughter is here. A flying visit, she's making a marathon treck from Belfast to Norwich by train and...

Don't worry about me, I'm fine. As I said to the psychologist who comes here to see my son, from my point of view things really are looking up. Not according to my OH, but he's a pessimistic and negative old so and so. In the future you too will be in a better place, and look back on this and...

16.04.2015 Oh dear (sort of) I found a nearby Tesco that stocks Violife. I've had loads with an own brand ryvita thing. 2 xHXB, and probably over my syns for the day, it was wonderful. However I am very tired today andneed to guard against making foolish choices because of that. It's nice, I...

15.04.2015 Today needs careful planning as I will be out most of the day and am bound to get hungry and possibly make some unwise choices. I shall start with a good breakfast, I think sausages and baked beans, with a grapefruit. Stamina for the day and all that .... and take fruit out with me...

The day continued with more soup, rasperies and strawberries and one banana. 2 Wheetabix to go to bed with as 2 x HXB Not a syn has passed my lips, I so want to get my first stone award next week.

I like it in coffee, not too keen on it in tea, tbh. I actually prefer the Alpro one but stock up with whichever one is on offer. It's a good addition to soups, makes them creamier and adds nutrition, my real favourite of the non dairy milks is hazelnut in coffee. It tastes like a fancy...

14.04.2014 It's a lovely day in the vicinity of Sunny St. Ratfords. I had breakfast in the garden. 3 free Linda M sausages with fresh tomatoes and mushrooms with a caramel flavoured coffee (+ almond milk of course) Lunch: I've made soup with courgettes, loads of parsley, carrots and tomatoes...

Sainsburys have both sorts of Blue Diamond Almond milk for £1 a liter atm. You can 875ml of the unsweetened one for an A choice.

13.04.2015 10 syns worth of fudge Water melon Carrot and butter bean soup with almond milk, smoked paprika and onion salt eta Later, no more than 6 syns worth of the alcoholic ginger beer and a few handfuls of criss from a big sharing bag, I'm going to allow myself a generous 10 syns for them...

You never know, with all that extra activity you might be losing anyway. Nowt wrong with a bowl of cereal in the evening anyway. I'm quite chuffed today, went to W! and lost 1.5lbs. Which takes me to exactly were I was the last time I went to that group on the first of September last year. I...

12.04.2015 Brunch, sitting in the garden. 2 small orangy things and 4 ryvita with homemade hummus. Now to improvise some fencing. The panels aren't fitting properly, I'm going to try nails and if that doesn't work, large screws and/or bolts. But that will need a big drill bit, maybe a drill...

Well, hello you ;) Thanks X Why wait till if/when you move? If you don't move you'll still be in the same house and the same body. If you start tomorrow you could be moving when your body is already closer to being how you want it to be. But, hey, I understand not being in the right place...

11.04.2015 Here's an interesting article about why we things that we know are bad for us. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/obesely-speaking/201504/we-break-our-own-hearts Food: Breakfast, 1 whole box (6) free Linda McC free sausages and a tin of mushy peas Lunch, 4 small slices of...

This was sent to me in an email today, and I thought of you. Probably all things you know already, but handy to have all these ideas clearly put together on one web page, I thought. Anyway, I hope today is better than yesterday, if not, hugs. Well, hugs anyway. Self-Soothing Techniques when...

10.04.2015 Prepared a large quantity of soup to keep myself going until this evening. Butter beans, tomato, chilli, stock, dill. About to also prepare other's food so will eat my own first. Nothing like a full tummy to beat temptation. ETA: Breakfast was melon and banana and pineapple, skipped...

09.04.2015 I have been so very very tired today. My son has a friend staying for a couple of nights and although it's been a holiday for them my boy still needs to keep to some sort of routine. Left to himself I could see it going on till the early hours of the morning so I stayed up till 1.00...

Oh dear. I started reading your post, and thinking, who is supporting you in this? AFAIK you live alone? So I was really really pleased to read at the end you have gone back to your therapist. No need for apologies for leaving the site when things get bad, I know I do, when it all seems so...

08.04.2015 I've stayed focused with food again 4 or 5 ryvitas (HXB) with a most marvelous sort of mexicanish dip - 1 tin of kidney beans, drained, some cooked broccoli, a tspn cumin. tspn coccoa powder, onion salt, tomato puree and minced chillies So a small amount of syns for the chilli stuff...

This has been me for many years now. When things got bad I'd have an overwhelming desire for every high calorie food in the house. I'd have a little voice telling me that this really isn't a good idea, how will I feel tomorrow? A much louder internal voice says 'I don't care' 'It doesn't...

07.04.2015 Oh the fence. My boy helped me get them through the house into the back garden, then later on we tried fitting some into the slots between the concrete posts. It was very hard as you have to lift the panels to the top of the posts and then slide them in. These things are far heavier...

Back on the veggie soup for a few days now. Assuming that my body responds well to a regime of high sugary fatty foods one day and a very limited calory and healthy foods for the next few days I gave myself permission to eat easter eggs and mucho other chocolate goodies. Aaaaagh, Tesco bourbon...

Pfffft, I come back, and you've disappeared. This was a week ago, how are you now?

I looked at my SW chaRt, I've hit my old Club 10 target, I was last there on 10.08.2014. I don't know what my Club 10 target is this time as I started from a lower weight this time. Woo hoo :) :) :) This feels very exciting. Edit. I have just worked out that my new Club 10 figure will be...

06.04.2015 4lbs off!!!!!! This should be tempered by the fact that it was a morning WI, and normally I get weighed in the evening and I was wearing lighter clothes as it is a lovely spring/early summer feeling day today. But still ... I'll have to be extra focused to keep that up next week. I...

05.04.2015 Mostly apples, tangerines and a big casserole of spicy cauliflower based stewy soupy stuff that lasted most of the day - no one else liked it. Finished up this evening with a bowl of my 2 x HX B porridge oats, almond milk and a chopped apple. 1 biscuit - 2.5 syns There is the option...

Hello, another vegan SWer, great news. Do I understand from your post that you've lost before and regained? I certainly have, I get my life sorted, and the weight goes down then something happens and I binge again. I too am hoping to lose it properly and finally this time round. SW really is...

Hi, slrayner, thanks for visiting. Have you a diary yourself? I've only ever done SW as a vegan so didn't have to adapt anything except my crap eating habits. Its funny how people tend to think of vegans as so healthy isn't it? Perhaps in the old days when you could hardly even find a vegan...

I got home to find a dhal made of spinach and lentils, salt and pepper. Lucky me, it's nice ;)

I've screwed up big time with chocolate. A sadly unpleasant learning experience. i got stressed, badly stressed but didn't admit it to myself or deal with it properly. I've had well over a weeks allowance of syns. Recovery plan for the WI the week after next (this week is a bank holiday) Light...

Aaaaargh, I let myself get hungry and saw the spring rolls no-one ate last night. 8 syns gone on something I didn't really want. Back to the kitchen to knock up some hummous with peppers and have that as a proper meal with a big salad.

I stuck to my soup all day, then went out in the evening and have just got back. Supper was a large plate of roast potatoes with pepper, lemon juice and olive oil on them. Seeing as how olive oil used to be a HXB I'm jolly well counting it as though it still is. I had baked beans and 3 Linda McC...

Have made the first batch of soup and despite it being a rather (very!!!!) disappointing day regarding my boy's acheivements, I am sticking very well to only having that and water to drink.

Last night I celebrated a bit too much with biccies and chocolate. So, back on the veggie soup today. I plan carrot and lentil with coriander and coconut milk. The coconut milk gives it an added extra but as you can have twice as much almond milk I'll look out for that on special offer and stock...

Monday 30.03.2015 1 punnet of frozen raspberries, a few boiled veggies, 2 small teeny teeny dark chocolate and ginger chocolate eggs - 4 syns? Note to self, get batteries for cooking scales, you silly woman. Large quantity of grapes, chocolate avoided, .... more later ... B U T 3 1/2 lbs off...

Sunday 9.03.2015 I had a liquidiser full of soup made of the koko milk, chick peas, tomatoes and pickled pepper for in the breakfast and lunch, just now I've had roasted courgettes with roasted tomatoes and burgers made of tinned lentils and instant mash. Meal times feel weird with the clocks...

No stupid extra eating after finishing my entry here last night. WI tomorrow, tbh I'm expecting a gain and need to get my head round accepting that. I hate seeing the numbers moving in the wrong direction, it can pull me off focus for a long time. So I'm waffling on about it here to accustom...

Today's food - compensating for yesterday. Green beans and lentils, then some more green beans and lentils. Tangerines. Almond milk in coffee. Evening. Soup made of chickpeas, pickled red pepper, tomatoes, and koko milk with some Philippine spice mix

Friday 27.03.2015 Breakfast: Half a melon Lunch: Ful medames (p) with broccoli (s), peas (p) peppers (s) and pasta Snack: 2 x HXB cereal and a bit of soya milk .... POSSIBLY A BIT MORE THAN X HXBS ... these things happen ... Supper: Spinach and haricot beans with orzo pasta. Tangerines It's...

Thursday 26.03.2015 Breakfast: 3 x Linda Mc sausages (free) half a tin of chopped tomatoes (S) Lunch: Green beans, scrambled tofu, ryvitas Snack: giant couscous with red peppers and carrots, 1/2 a Sainsbury's falafel. I couldn't find the exact ones on the data base but all their other...

Last entry of the day, tasters of other people's rice and chilli beans - free foods. A large bowl of sooup made from green beans and butter beans. I want more than 1 lb off next week!

And then we went out - 2 mugs of soya latte, goodness knows how much soya milk and loads of sugar as it was so bitter. No more synning for me today! It was a nice cafe in the park and good to get me and the boy out.

Lunch: Homemade houmous (large pickled pepper, onion salt, lemon juice, can of chick peas) salad of grated apple and carrot, 4 x ryvitas

2 biscuits (3 syns) 1 banana

I am soooooo tired, slept badly last night and T is stressed and unable to get in to school. Yet again. all I want to do is curl up and snooze, instead I'm having a breather online and getting back into being patient reasonable supportive mum mode. Breakfast: 3 free Linda Mc sausages and some...

Oh poop. Only one pound off. Still, it is another pound in the right direction. Perhaps my body is changing, I used to lose more than this. Or perhaps it's that I'm forgetting about overdoing it when I'm tired. I had a flashback to two bowls of rice with hazelnut milk and lots of squirts of that...

Thank you for dropping by :) You're so right about the admin and other people's needs. My son has all sorts of difficulties and has (yet again!) stopped going to school, and yet he needs to be preparing himself for college. next September ...in theory GCSEs and similar right now need to be...

Chuffing amazing. Well done you!

Last night I had more of the lentil and cauliflower curry with rice and was so tired after a full on day I didn't feel safe to drive. Plus hazelnut milk in coffee, oh yum. So WI will happen at the consultant's other group tonight. After another full on day ... ho hum Edit, oh yes, and two...

Ha, me too. i lose weight, life stays calm for a bit then something happens in my family and it all piles back on. I've tried CBT but maybe my head wasn't in the right place at the time or it just wasn't right for me I don't know. But I was too ashamed to keep a food diary even until I went onto...

Today: Melon, ryvitas, lentil and cauliflower curry with alpro coconut milk, coffee with hazelnut, 3 mini marshallows, red pepper and chickpea and cucumber soup

Lots and lots of mushrooms and butter beans in various combinations, bananas and nectarines

Yesterday I was tired and muddled, and can't remember what I ate. I know there were some less than good choices but that I wasn't eating like a mad thing. WI tomorrow, I promised myself I'd go for three pounds this week. Don't now how I have done but the jeans that had become uncomfortably tight...

I rather overdid the little chocolate and ginger mini eggs today, I had 9 but certainly was not out of control. But again, I've no idea of the syns as the battery in my scales needs replacing. Apart from them, 4 Ryvitas, spinach and lentil dhal, mixed with chick peas, cous cous with banana and...

Breakfast: Watermelon and coffee with almond milk Lunch: Dhal with spinach and broccoli and lettuce Snack: banana Evening meal: Soup made from a tin of chickpeas, a cucumber, pickled pepper, almond milk, a stock cube and Lebanese spice mix Snack: 4 HXB Ryvitas with Jam - 3/4 syns? Drinks...

Breakfast: 2 Ryvitas, large mug of coffee with almond milk Lunch: Mange tout peas, 2 slices of w/m bread, sliced from the loaf myself so I very much doubt that they were 2 x hxb so some syns of unknown quantity. Home made houmous- 50/50 pickled peppers and chickpeas with garlic...

Middle of the night woke up worrying munchies: 2 Ryvita and a banana

Lunch: A saucepan full of deliciousness made if a carton of passata with chilli and peppers, a tin of butter beans, onions and broccoli with LOTS of Dill all boiled up til soft and soggy with some almond milk. Plus 4 Ryvitas HXB Snack: Banana and a nectarine Tea/snack: 1 pot of chip shop mushy...

Hi! You've been doing rather well haven't you? Well done!

I'm back again and focusing on looking after myself. My mother died which leaves my brother in a very vulnerable position, so I've taken on more stress with worrying and supporting him, probate, flat to sell, brother to move as well as grieving. My husband's father also died which is a long and...

Hi Bee, I'm back. Life went a bit wrong but I'm trying to pull it back together. You were sounding positive three weeks ago, I hope you still are. I'm going to have a new start with a totally new identity, will let you know when I have - want to copy and re-read my old diaries first, don't...

Brooke is proud of what she has done with her body, this is her blog. She was going to be in an inspirational article in Shape magazine but they didn't like her loose skin. Brooke: Not On A Diet

If you are doing SW, nuts are a healthy extra so check quantities that are allowed of the different sorts and enjoy. I use pulses a lot as a protein sources and tofu, all nice and low fat. Hope it goes/has been going well well for you, I see this is actually a post from last summer!

Good to hear you sounding so positive, I've jsut popped back here for the first time in a couple of months and your's was the first post I read :) Brave you for going back. I've just gone back too, had my second WI the night before last.

Hugs. Have you stopped squirting now? That is crazy, the weight gain, I'd be giving those scales a seriously hard time over it. Did you ever find out if the SW scales needed calibrating after your other mysterious gain? I know you didn't stay but I've lost track of when it all happened. Maybe it...

Goodness, that sounds TERRYIFYING. Did you see what they took out? :( :( I've had a bt of experience of Moorfields, T put a sticker IN his eye when he was small, big sister was putting them ON her eyelids. the first time we went they didn't find anything and the next morning I saw a corner of it...

Oh, table and chairs! Lovely! Have you got them yet? I'm trying to do something in the kitchen so we have room for our table there to be used rather than be a decorative prop. Hopefully, dh will stick the new cupboards on the wall after I've cleared space for him to work, then I get on with the...

Thanks Lily, I'll keep on with these and hold off on any anxiety I might have felt

Oh, poor you. If the food hasn't stayed in you for long, does it count? You do it with your syns over the weekend don't you so it is important for you to work it out correctly? However you decide to handle this it is important that you keep eating nutritious foods to help you fight the...

You focused woman you :) No comment about the thickener, right now I prefer to remain ignorant and am not tempted to google. I will do next week though. Aubergine harissa? Let me guess, roasted aubergine mixed with a bit of harissa?

Enjoy what you can of the profiteroles and have a lovely family time together X Apps! Pah, at least you can cope with having an app and all that entails, my smart phone lies unloved and unused in a drawer as I never got the hang of it. One day ...

Well that's a disappointment, lets's hope your hormones settle down over the weekend. Don't know about you but for me I always used to have a bit of difficulty getting past different 'landmarks'. Changing the stone or the - don't know what to call it - going from 190 down to the 180lbs arena...

We'll just have to rabbit away on your diary then. Michelle and I had a brief chat on hers about peircings, and her essays and the Btiitty family and I've been whinging as usual on mine. BUT I'm feeling better for having let it all out lately and we have a new outreach tutor who seems good...

A good thing about weighing at home is being able to do it naked. In my case, just wearing glasses.

I like the high one particularly. Got anywhere else done apart from your ears? I used to have a few home made holes (mostly) in my ears and my belly. The belly button piercing went after my appendix adventure. They were wheeling me into theatre and asked several times if I had any more metal...

That's really good Lo, and I see it's bought you into the next stone down already. That got you a Mexican Wave at my last group, most embarassing. I see what you mean about the benefts of going to a group, particularly if it's free. Enjoy your smellies :)

Brilliant news, you didn't expect that did you?

Fun lunch break? I am on tenterhooks. Enjoy your butterfly project and lunch time, even if the planned fun doesn't happen. Poooooo to losing posts, it is such a nuisance and uninspiring. I've discovered more than once that accidentally pressing the backspace button loses mine in some as yet...

Rosieboots :8855:

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Yup, trees are wonderful. I saw a poster once showing different species that can live on an oak. I think it was around 400 different creatures. Amazing. Did you finish the poo power essay?

Your consultant is not doing her job properly by not responding, and not helping SW's reputation one little bit. If you have all the info you need now and are peed off with the group indeed why bother going back? Enjoy the birthday celebrations and hope the figures tomorrow morning are still...

How are you? Well done for getting to Zumba. You will have an interesting dancing style for the cruise, a mixture of zumba and Belly Dancing :)

Who needs certificates? You have the accolade of your Minimins friends :) Thinking ..... all the years I've done SW on and off and NO group leader (their collective noun escapeds me atm) has ever given me a bloomin' certificate. Still there are worse things to worry about .... some of them SW...

isn't an alpen light a healthy extra, you can have 2 as a b choice

No daddy :( :( I hope he is about and it's just that you haven't seen him. She will need him to get her food won't she, while she is sitting on the eggs? Or do they swap places so she can go and get what she needs? Have a good day Michelle X

Good :) What more can anyone say? I hope today is OK too xxx

GREAT BOOTS! How are you Lisa? Thanks for coming on my diary.

Lovely isn't it, all this new growth? Hope the childrens' bugs don't hit you too hard. It does sound like your immune system has a bit of strengthening to do. People used to swear by echinacea, in lozenges or tea but I've not researched it. Take care of yourself tonight.

You are indeed focused. I am inspired by your rissotto, do you use oil to fry every thing in first and count it as a B or can you get away with frylight? Congrats to the young couple in your garden, very exciting news.

Yay, that's the spirit. A quarter off isn't a lot but it is still going in the right direction. You can do it next week, you really can. 2.5 to make up for this week. good idea to plan ahead for the in laws, forward planning is the key to a lot of this - life in general too I think despite the...

You have a healthy perspective on all this. That you know that in a few weeks you will regret not sticking to plan. It is a choice you can make but don't beat yourself up over making choices you regret later. It sounds like day to day survival for you atm, so what if those lovely long DMs and...

Hiya Lo it's good to see you here and sounding positive. So good the plantar facci whatsit has eased at last too. Mine is good as well although I got struck down with sciatica nad was a tad immobile for a while. I might still have an op fr that, I turned one down a couple of months ago and will...

No effing money coming into the NHS, that's what it is! I'm off rampaging in the streets tomorrow about it all. Sorry, it's not the NHS any more it's NHS England, a commisioning body :(

Might it be worth asking for a referal to a MH specialist? A psychiatrist presumably as they are the ones who prescribe as oppposed to doing talking therapies. I've got all my spare limbs and digits in metaphorical knots for you that the side effects do ease off and you feel some benefits from...

Yes, forgive yourself and move on. How are the meds affecting you today?

Oh that is strange, like you said lots of possible reasons but I THINK that not eating much since Tuesday isn't quite long enough to kick 'famine brain' into action. I don't know the science but in my binge and fast days I could go for 4 days on a handful of apples and be OK. Not very good if...

It goes both ways - the support I mean. Like a the playtex 2 way stretch bra. Are you old enough to remember that bras didn't used to stretch? Good on you for going to class.

Right, I've read your post properly. Welcome back to SW, thank goodness you posted so many of your recipes here, at least you can go back and look at what you were eating on your diary. Congratulations on getting the childminding approval and getting your head into place. Thinking about 'body...

Did you finish it? Happy Friday

Did you have a think about what to do about SW tomorrow? M's suggestion was sensible, if you do feel up to just going for the WI (that abbreviation still looks like Womens Institute to me ) to help you keep a bit of focus for next week. Hope you feel a little better when you wake up.

You're on a roll too ... poo power and focused SW foods. Yay, hello comfortable fitting nice dresses for the cruise for you. My regards to Mrs B Titty and hope to hear the flutter of tiny wings soon.

Hark at us middle aged druggies swapping notes :) they made me seriously sick. When my sciatica was almost at it's worst I ODed on an accidental combination of them and strong co-codamol. I now view them with deep suspicion. Three a night is indeed a slippery slope. Gosh. Opiates do get less...

LO!!!!!!!! So good to see you back, no time for a proper read or response but it is lovely to see you here again XXXX

Eeeeeeek!!!!!!!!! you can take tramadol? Awful awful stuff that, (IMO) although after I'd been used to heavy opiates when I was in hospital before I was OK with them for a while at home. As it is now I've two packets in the house somewhere with 2 or 3 taken out of them and then I couldn't take...

I'm stalking you :) I know you've been here as you posted on El's diary - get back to your studying :nono:

Have you tried throwing the ball back onto management's court? Saying that X Y & Z are not getting done, that you are not prepared to work anymore unpaid (is my assumption right?) overtime and what are they going to do about it? Having said that I know everyone's job is vulnerable and the cuts...

And this is from you GP? S/he is aware of your previous history of bad effects with Anti Ds? In my experience, the professionals prescribe drugs and believe the written information, fully believing the side effects shouldn't still be there when the person taking them is still very much...

Oh the grandchild's scan!!!!!!!!! I was worried. What are you on now? I hope the side effects pass very soon 'cos that sounds as bad as severe depression. Sleep well and hope tomorrow is better.

Scan? I hope that's OK. I think you gave me some words of wisdom when I'd gone overboard on something because of stress - listen to what you said to me and apply it to yourself. Yeah, it's horrible feeling sick and hurting because of over eating, been there got the tee shirt etc. Last night in...

I am so glad you liked it, I was worried I had influenced you to buy something you wouldn't like. Pffft to that losing focus thing, I'm there too. I can put it down to stress but there is also the issue of having two sorts of motivation, the towards and the away from. I think we have both got...

Sheeeeet, that's a bit of a surprise for you? It is true though that is can creep up on you and you don't notice, it just seems normal. I remember doing an online CBT thingy a couple of years back and it said, a couple of pages in, go and seek professional help. I didn't take it seriously, and...

Aye, tis a nuisance and a disapointment to have to re-lose the weigth already lost. You do sound focused and determined, not defeated which is the most important thing. Food today sounds good.

More hugs ... I'm so glad they didn't find anything. Enjoy Tom Cruise

How are you doing? Ill enough to have to stay at home?

Thinking of you Lisa, hope it's over soon with good news XXX

But you've changed your habits. This is the new Michelle! Getting ready for her bikini summer. One pesky essay later and you will be soooooo glad you didn't deal with it the old way.

(((((((((((((((( LISA ))))))))))))) Hugs for you. That is so worrying of course, about the echoes with your endoscopy and what happened to your poor Mum. But it's not going to be the same, this is you - different story. Not wanting to deny your fears of course. We are here for any support that...

That's impressive, love the little feet!

yup, tis weird

In my Union days, the Personel people were good. Well, the manager was a bit of a letch but dealing with the women was generally productive. Going to management with a problem would be OK sometimes, depending on who it was but for approvement for a diffferent way to handle a situation they would...

Don't worry. If you didn't see it that's fine, and if you did and it was Ok, that's OK too :)

I've thought about what it will be like to me me but with a different body. When I did it before I actually had people not recognise me. One person walked past me in the park and when I shouted at her she turned back and did a double take and explained he didn't know who I was. That same summer...

I've just realised. Sorry. There was some stuff on my diary that could have been a bit triggering for you. It's edited out now, and sorry again.

Busy busy woman. Have a great trip.

Wow, amazing. And next week when you lose the water retention as well, hyperventilating you reckoned?

Sorry also to hear about your mate, not reading back all the way I can picture you doing everything you can to support her. A very worrying time for you for lots of reasons XXX

Hmmm, ex union rep speaking here. If you are not allowed temps there has got to be some provision for situations like this. In your situation I'd be going to HR, laying down the line about the hours you are working, point out that you are in danger of being ill yourself from the pressure. What...

This is water retention? What makes this happen? It sounds horrible. Still, any undesired numbers on the scales and we'll know what to blame.

Eeeek, don't lose any more than 3 then, I'll be worrying about you now :)

I saw, I said hello on my wall and am now signing off for a few hours. Bye .....

Haven't flipping found Michelle yet ... there are an awful lot of people who share her name. Will look for you, your name seems a little more unusual

Sounds good. You will have a wonderful result tomorrow, I feel it in my ... wherever people feel this stuff, bones? Water?

I'll come and see you too if that is OK. I don't do FB much now as I find it's constant emphasis on the now very irritating, I like to be able to look back for links I've been given and shared myself, to look for old conversations and I find it very difficult there as I have a lot of political...

If you really don't like soya milk there is of course the Alpro and the Blue Diamond ultra low cal almond milks, as you know, but also oat milk, rice milk, there are so many varieties, different makes of soya milk taste different too. In my experience, if they are made in this country they are...

Good for you. Perhaps a better way of looking at what you can eat then would be to think about the sorts of foods you do like, you know, do you like Indian food, or Italian, or whatever, or it is quite possible to live of Linda McCartney or Fry's sausages with SW wedges ond some veggies. How...

Mmmmm, something to be said for a Friday wi I see. It certainly is working.

2 whole weeks, well done you!!!!! Really, no sarcasm intended, you have saved a few lives already XXX There are so many recipe sites out there but I'm guessing you want SW friendly as well. Do have a good explore of this site, very little synning needed FatFree Vegan Kitchen | Sinlessly...

You are exactly right Patchwork Puss, I took it to the group this morning and had it pointed out to me. What a shame :( Still, it makes a nice pasta sauce, just a bit synnier than I thought.

Hi all, I discovered these Heinz Squeeze & Stir Soups - Mediterranean Vegetable Soup and worked out that as they have 39 kcals per 100g and the sachets are only 70g they are about 1.5 syn per sachet. Or definitely less than 2 and more than 1. Working it out at 1 syn per 20 kcals. Looking it up...

Happy Wednesday Lisa :)

Good morning :) Your evening sounds lovely, that is what this SW should be like, space to enjoy yourself as well as being more careful around food and losing the way you are.

Oh, well done every one. I'm bowing out for a short while until I get myself sorted with another group. Family difficulties mean I cannot get to my old group, the same difficulties mean I have lost it big time with foolish food choices, I'm expecting a big gain with eating and also a bit of a...

Y'know the piccies people sometimes post of 'just a pound'? It's more than a handful. Still, you said you're OK with this loss so I don't need to comfort you. You are SO consistantly moving in the right direction. Do you delibeately povide any nesting material for your guests? Maybe she wants...

Wow, well done you.

Ah, those boys lacking in tact :) Mine, surprisingly considering his diagnosis, does try very hard to take people's feelings in to account. He told me today that he is in awe of my strength and struggling to find ways of describing me without being offensive said 'Have you ever seen your...

Whatcha doing with that card? Someone send it to you? Or you have it for inspiration? Whatever, it is an inspiring sentiment. SO, I too will be eagerly on here for updates tomorrow; for your wi and that potential little btitty family.

Enjoy your BIL, the tits and the sunshine. Glad to hear you are feeling better now, it seems a few blips and less focused times are inevitable on this SW journey, the important thing is not to let yourself get completely thrown by them. I say, being in the throes of a bit of a wobble myself...

That Granose chicken stuff is good isn't it? Asda to a version very similar for a fraction of the price, and sosmix type stuff although I've not checked the syns for it all. In the same section they do a dry mince substitution. I've not tried the bolognaise vesion, just the savoury one which I...

Hi, I saw this on another forum and thought of you - probably nothing new The Panic Attack Prevention Program

What a nice surprise, loads off next week I'm sure X

Do you not find though, that the more you go to the group and find that the reactions are not nasty, and the wi experience is not awful, that the things you fear do not happen, then the anxiety lessens? Flooding isn't it? Anyway, brave you for deciding to go back X

Wishing you well for tomorrow at work and the bug disappearing quickly.

I wondered where you were - no internet! Wah!!! So good you've had a positive day, despite the frustrating lack of titty action. Ah how times have changed, I used to read Arthur Ransom stories with a character called Titty and no-one batted an eylid - lack of titty action sounds decidedly ...

You sound positive despite the disappointment, and what a lovely group you have found. It's so nice they've been texting you, and what a lovely thing for the consultant to say. Here's to facing up to reality this week, and then .... onwards and downwards :)

OK, you and me Trango (she says recklessly) I'll join you. 3lbs off next week, I'm sure I gained this week too. Go us :)

Couldn't be said that I spend a lot of time here, could it ?? :) You don't mind do you? My wi has been scuppered by family difficulties today. A shame, I've not had a good week and I wanted to go and get motivated for next week. They do have a group tonight but I don't like to wi in a different...

Oh no, that's awful. How sad for them and all the fans. Poor Lisa, I am so sorry, you were so looking forward to this.

Have a lovely time XXX

Hi Sarah, sorry about your emotional week, I hope next week is a lot better. I'll sort out the chart thingy as I don't think it went on. Or if it did it's got lost again. Great news on your earlier weight loss and the run, if you haven't lost this week I'm sure the running will help for next...

Two and a half flipping pounds !!!!! No stopping you now :)

Don't know, I'll see if I can see the nutritional data anywhere then we can compare thm.

This is the one sold in our Tesco, about £1.29 in the Asian section, I think in a big fried rice dish you'd only need one tin, cut it into very small peices and bulk it up with lots of rice and veggies, filling veggies like peas as well. It was quite salty, enough to worry my dh, salt is one of...

blimey woman, don't you know the meaning of the word 'rest'? It's good to hear you had such a good time away, not so good on the thumb front. Can you get some good painkillers, maybe just so sleeping is easier when you have finished the booze? (:p) You will do your 8 lbs I'm sure, the way...

eeeeeeek, I dunno !!!! If it's anything like the gluten based Chinese mock duck I used to get from the World Foods section of Tesco it's quite nice, very strong flavoured, I used it to make kebabs all summer long until everyone got totally fed up with it. Maybe with some chinesey spices or sweet...

Doesn't the sun make a difference! Great news about the trousers, hope London and all the rest of the travelling isn't too manic for you, you've said previously that you find it rather draining. Fingers crossed for a nice small number on the scales tomorrow.

How was Scotland, WI and your thumb?

Nice to know I'm not the only one then :)

I'll give that a try, it would mean a lot more getting eaten rather than thrown away. I think doing them longways means you get more of the tough chewy bits on some sections. Thanks.

That's a good idea. I don't know that I would like to be so public though. I used to do it on the paper SW sheets, and then online with the SW site but now I often don't bother. I did make a mistake yesterday because of this and accidentally had 3 HXBs, which was a nuisance.

NOOOOOOO, keep the birdy gossip going :) Dancing in the kitchen for you, cycling in the sunshine for me, my, we've moved on from last week haven't we? The chilli stuff sounds good too. Thanks Lisa. Wondering, do other people get sort of fixated on tastes? I get something I like for a while and...

Having a food diary is a very good idea, will you do it on Minimins? I'm sure people will flock to give you support and advice.

That is not enormous, you can make up for it in a very short time. So nice to see you have not given up. Brave you for stepping on the scales :0clapper:I mean it, it is so easy to run away and give up after a week like your's. I've done it many a time myself, only to have to start again at an...

Sounds nice, good night X

A quid in Tesco, off I go to Tesco on Monday. Thanks! A very milky coffee would be great with it, I've used it with barley cup like that and it's nice.

Adding you now, I want to lose 21lbs as well, lets motivate each other BritneyDean - 20lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost Belle -21lbs - 14.5lbs to lose - 6.5lbs lost Becimarie (17.5lbs) - 13lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost Rkmriddell - 24lbs to lose - 1lbs lost Micci - 21lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost sunlightbub...

Woo hoo, this group acheived 17.5 lbs off for this week. That's a lot! I've not been doing very well (oooooh too many crisps and chocolate and croissants ... too much :( ) this week but am trying to salvage my earlier errors of judgement. I had a phase of being peed off with not being able to...

Enjoy! Nice to see you back in the swing of things again.

The other way I do tofu is to marinade and then grill it, you can't really use the silken stuff in tetra packs for this, well, I have tried with putting it between kitchen towel paper stuff and pressing it but it's not very solid. Mix soy sauce with water, lemon juice, rosemary (just bung...

Bouncy :) :) :8855:

you are doing well :) That's great that you like soya milk too, you must have very open minded taste buds. Family OK? Antibiotics working at all?

Hi Tiggercat, how very wonderful to find another vegan here :grouphugg:for us all. I too have been up and down the scales mostly with SW and know what you mean about giving money to organisation that promotes the stuff that SW does. At least they don't actually sell stuff (I deleted the word...

Phew .... X And X for being so sensible these days. Enjoy the footie you sports crazy woman.

I get the unsweetened too, and if I want sweet in my drinks I use a sucralose based sweetener. I've no proof or research to back this up but my dh used to work for Tate and Lyles and they reckoned it to be healthier than aspartame and sacharine - not that that takes much. The unsweetened is good...

McDonalds? The girl I asked looked bewildered, gigggled, looked around and up to heaven for help. Just as my son had predicted. the supervisor however had heard of vegans. looked at the dietary sheet and showed it to me. My glasses were not strong enough to see but she reckoned a veggie burger...

I don't think I've put my scrambled tofu on here. Traditionally you are meant to fry it in marge or oil, I mix it all up in a pudding basin and heat it in the microwave. Ingredients: 1 portion of tofu. you can use the firm stuff kept in the chiller but as I have cartons still of the silken tofu...

That's great news about your skin :) I had another thought for you - for toiletries try Superdrug, they have lots of nice smellies clearly labelled for vegans, the coop do on a smaller scale and tbh not so nice. Having milk out is not a big problem when you get used to it. Many but not all...

Gosh how nice to hear you so cheerful, but what a poop about your wedding ring. How on earth can you be missing something that chunky that you take it off when going to bed? Fingers crossed and screwed into knots that it pops up tomorrow sometime when you are more relaxed and not actively...

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Hi, I read your sig and found you :) Cheese and dairy generally really are addictive and if you have managed to do without it you are doing really well. I think that being vegan on SW is pretty easy but I've been doing it for years, it's a bit of a nuisance that the vegan cheese alternatives...

PS Do you have a diary of your own yet? There is also a section in the healthy eating bit for veggies and vegans ETA: I read your sig and found you :)

Hi Clover, We've met on the summer challenge - I'm the one with a cat called Clover :) Do post on my diary for any support or advice, I've a couple . there is one hidden away on the Silver Section which you couldn't see atm, but there is this one that just has my food in it. I don't update it...

Words of wisdom from Michelle, heed them, OK :) If we are going to get competitive ... I once put on 7 lbs sin a week. Oh, the horror of that WI. You can shift it, look at it in the long run, you have added maybe an extra 2 weeks to your weight loss journey. How long do you reckon its going to...

It's nice to hear you are feeling so much better today. Don't let the London weather spoil it :) Wave to the birds for me when you go by them next time and tell them there are lots of people on line very interested in them.

Hope your day is good today, and your meditaion took you to where you needed to be. It peeing down here - but I'm still planning for a good day :) Catch - I'm sending you one too.

Thinking of you Lisa, and waiting for your news.

Hugs for you too. The sun is on it's way, have faith. Sorry your anxieties are kicking in so strongly, and hope that your counselling session is a good one tonight. Don't worry about posting 'down' stuff. This is your space to use as you want. And blow it, I'm sure every one on this board has...

BritneyDean - 20lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost Belle -21lbs - 14.5lbs to lose - 6.5lbs lost Becimarie (17.5lbs) - 13lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost Rkmriddell - 24lbs to lose - 1lbs lost Micci - 21lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost sunlightbub - 14lb to lose - 0lb lost Chunky miss - 16lb to lose - 2lb lost Cre84 -...

Oh bugger it ... (((((((((((((( Lisa )))))))))))))) hang on in there, all things change. But, if you can bear to hear this, it doesn't help anyone's emotional situation to be piling on the pounds as well as everything else. Food and booze don't solve anything. But hey, it's not as though I can...

Not even a dressing to prove you are injured. Pah :( I had a hairline fracture in my thumb once and I sympathise with you, I hope OH is being extra nice to you.

Amazing Belle! You are doing rather well :)

A pound off for me this week, aiming for more next week. BritneyDean - 20lbs to lose - 0.5lbs lost Belle -21lbs - 17lbs to lose - 4lbs lost Becimarie (17.5lbs) - 16lbs to lose - 1.5lbs lost Rkmriddell - 24lbs to lose - 1lbs lost Micci - 21lbs to lose - 4.5lbs lost sunlightbub - 14lb to lose -...

Another pound off this week, 4.5 lbs to go to scrape into the 14s

Wonderful wonderful, well done you :superwoman:

Well OK, the scales might object to what you've done, but hey, we've all got a journey in front of us, this changing of body and eating habits lark I mean. All journeys involve a break now and again and looks like you've had a week you could call a pit stop. No problem, you know what to do...

^^^^ What she said :)

Hi Sarah, welcome. Why not aim for 24? Ambition is good :) I've added you to the list. When you know your loss you can coppy and paste the list to change your details, or if you can't do that someone will do it for you. BritneyDean - 20lbs to lose - 0.5lbs lost Belle -21lbs - 17lbs to lose -...

Well done Clover! Strange co-incidence, one of our cats is Clover as well.

Pffftttt, I used to love Green Street. Asian wholesalers, cheap fabric shops both Western and Asian but I've only driven through for the last few years. Tbh, I've rather enjoyed eating there. Very rarely do you see another European in most places, used to live on takeaways from there. My dh has...

Great stuff Britney, 2 pounds (plus!!!) for you on Wednesday. I'm not quite so positive about my WI as I've a lot of ground to regain after some foolishness this weekend. It will still be a loss though as I'm veggie souping it all the way. That is, veggie soup plus either 1 or 2 a choices and...

Ha Lisa always says it better :) I came here thinking about the subject of sagging skin and had in my mind exactly ^^^^^^^^^^^ I have been lucky in the past, about 10 years ago I lost 4.5 stones, not down to 'skinny' but passable IYKWIM then twice since then I've lost over 3st, getting to a...

Not sure I believe in the mosturising against skin sag, it's nice to do it but tbh, I think it's the luck of the draw if you get it or not. But then I am generally skeptical of the claims of people who want to sell us stuff. However superdrug sell some face cream that is meant to boost collagen...

Getting under 200lbs is brilliant, a real landmark. Have you tried going to places that don't really cater for Westeners, like around Forest Gate and Brick Lane? Not that you are in London much these days.

Crikey, thank goodness that's over. somehow being different can pay off but I think I took it to extremes, rejected the good stuff as well as the bad. I hated school but only because I didn't fit in. A rebellious biker/hippy teen at WCH ... nah, I was different. Wish I had taken my education...

Too late, anyway I quite like the ritual of proper preparation. I forgot the fenugreek but tbh am not broken hearted about that as I don't really like it, mind you in the mix it could well be different. I did it with lentils and spinach and no chilli as I'm a wimp but what I had was VERY good...

With the help of the very wonderful Mr Bassi down the road and digging in my cupboards I have all of this and am about to look for my pestle and mortar. I do not joke about Mr Bassi by the way, he is a lovely man.

I'm trying to remember the year I was in the first year of secondary as we used to call it - non of this year 7 business then. It must have been 1968 so I doubt we have school mates in common. Don't bother looking for me on the honours board :) Where's Caterham then? I can't think of it.

Lots of hay and grass huh? I'm sure that is all free food although it's not in the book. Don't forget your healthy extras :)

!!!!!!! I went to Woodford County High

:) :) I do refer to it as my nature reserve :) We even have some fine stinging nettles .... ooooh, it's the right time of year to eat them isn't it. I have home grown veggies after all, if I dare eat them this year.

Vodka and chock and garlic bread - an interesting combination :)

I've just caught up with your news. You lost three pounds???? !!!!!! That is so very very good, and despite all your worries and the fish and chips, great news.

Sounds very focused, as for the editing, maybe I should do a tad more, I look back sometimes and cringe. I hope S's cough continues to improve and you've had a nice time with T being off for so long.

I'll own up. I have a big garden heading (heading???) towards being a jungle. Every year I do massive clearances but fail to keep on top of it. Some years I have grown a few veggies and had a (jungle) allotment where I grew a bit too. It is big, big enough for several teens to have camped out...

OK everyone, last week we lost a total of 13 lbs between us. With new people here and everyone feeling really determined, can we beat this next week?

Hi Clover, welcome to this challenge, it has been going well for everyone so far. Which reminds me, I said I'd keep a running total of the losses, better get on with it :) How has the weekend been for everyone? I'll admit to having made some mistakes yesterday. I went out to eat where my...

Busy woman! Wishing you a sucessful and fulfilling day - and some sleep at some point :)

Hasn't it been nice today! I was in the car earlier and out of the wind with the sun coming through the glass I was too hot. A very novel experience. Your garden sounds a lovely mixture of plants. What is your soil like? We are on heavy clay and starting seeds directly into it is a big mistake...

That all sounds refreshingly normal. I wasn't sure, you both got purple hair now?

Mmm thanks, lentils and potatoes and spinach is one of my all time favourites, I like what I do with it but I know I've got lazy with my spices.

Good you are re-hydrating, you need it after the wine, and colds dehydrate their victims and more liquids seem to help weight loss. It's one night (and it sounds like a lovely evening - lovely evenings are GOOD :) ) and I'm sure Ms Disciplined can sort it out by Tuesday. Having said that, you...

Thanks for the Bengali spice mix. That took me back, I used to live in an area withe lots of Sylheti people and inspired by them my cooking was very different, I used to love grinding spice mixes myself. I've not used onion seeds for ages. I'm puzzled though, to me, Nigella is a little blue...