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Mine also gets sweet itch and I had to heartbreakingly hog his mane this year, but it looks great and helped him immensely. Having a shorter coat should also help him when it comes to sweet itch season again. I keep my mare unrugged to the very last minute, though.

Don't want to clip George this year as his clip takes ages to grow out and, as I show him, I can't really deal with that. Both of mine get very hairy indeed (natives again), but I am rugging George at the moment to stop his coat coming through so much - just a suggestion from my instructor.

Zebedee :D :D :D

Aww, Laura, that's fabulous. Boofaloo hang on in there. I had the worst time of it for the first three or four months with both my welsh Ds but they do settle. And once his teeth and back are sorted, he should be fine. Chicken, you seem like you are doing everything right and sounds great...

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I've got an 06, fully accessorized, yellow peugeot 107.

I don't really know what to say, Chicken, but you seem to have good ways of working ways round things and finding what is best for you, which is the main thing in this game. As horsey people you will find we all have different opinions and different approaches to things. My horses, in my...

So sorry to hear about this. I once saw my cat knocked down in the road and saw the driver carry on. It's so awful. People think because it is an animal, they have no lawful obligation so why should they have a moral one? So sorry for you.

He looks gorgeous, boofaloo. He looks very settled and has a nice eye. I am only having one of mine clipped this year as I show the other one and, being welsh section d, his coat is still really thick and the clip doesn't grow out til about June time which is well after showing season starts for...

I can't wait until I have got a little boy or girl to come and share my horses with me: brushing them off and sitting in their stables with them when they are laid down sleeping. I used to be a nanny and Isabella used to love doing these things with me. I first sat on a horse as a baby when my...

I think it would be great to read a thread from CDCs about nightmare clients! Go onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn;) :D

Excellent stuff, Andi, you are doing so well; you echo what I was trying to get across: treat your body with respect and love (it should come from you first, not others), and you will see results. My loss may be slow but the fast loss I saw on LL when I was miserable and my eating disorder...

I use weightlossresources and just use slimming world for weigh-ins, as SW doesn't end up giving me enough calories to lose weight safely and consistently without going into starvation mode. I need 3600 calories to maintain and 2600 to lose 2lbs a week. I have been hitting 1500 with SW and am...

I'm noton CD but last week was my first week of SW after stopping SS on LL, and despite only doing it for 2 days cause of my birthday last Saturday and being ill all week and still ill, I lost 3 pounds, so I guess I will get good losses overall. I was meant to treat this week as my first week...

Sorry but your counsellor sounds like a bit of a div. She should put all her efforts into ONE diet plan which she can research fully and offer a top service on; that way she would get more custom and more profit. She will lose custom this way and people will find ways of losing weight without...

I'm going to see the two beautiful young girls I used to nanny for. Sadly I had to stop nannying for them earlier in the year because I have been very poorly, and I haven't seen then since June when I did a bit of shop work for the family. I am really excited.

Rowan Tree! (Sensitivity) -- full of charm, cheerful, gifted without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest, and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive. Some of it is a bit at...

Hi, yes, I feel a little better after some nice sleep. I've got a chest infection; I had pneumonia last year and have bhronchitis every year, but it always gets me down. The cold weather makes it worse, but I love going and seeing my horses and having a big cuddle under their rugs. Tonight my...

Hi darlin' I too have lots to lose, about 12 stone in fact, and as mini said, I have decided that the only way I will ever do this is in small chunks. On another forum I use there are lots of people who only need to lose a stone or two and that makes me very despondent; however, I now have to...

I'd do anything right now to have a break from it all. I'm so poorly but they keep me focussed. I could just do with a break from the cold.

Exactly. I often feel like shouting out at smokers, but as an adult I don't! I have seen people be heckled at in the street before.

So I was bullied at primary school and faced the odd torment from my brother, the odd comment about my weight from my dad and a doctor once said it was no wonder I broke my arm (when I was 9) cause I was so fat. This was when I was 7-8 stone and about 5ft tall and had been playing netball. My...

Was about to post saying about Duo but I see someone already has. I have loads of pairs of boots from them. I found them a few years back when I was slim and sporty!!!

However, I was outraged at the fatclass comment.

Hahahaha! That is so funny, I am crying laughing! Thank you! x I have funny dreams sometimes. I always dream or nightmare without fail, and according to hubby I sleeptalk and walk. I do remember one time worrying about whether my jods were clean for a horse show and my dreaming about it...

Awww, boofaloo, he reminds me of my George! I don't know how to add attachments so can't add a pic, but mine are all welsh section d cobs!

On the flip side, I am full of the cold and haven't had a lesson with Anne since before my holiday at start of September, when I took my horses with me and hubby, on holiday to Bodmin Moor where we go lots each year. The owners are good friends and she gives me great lessons. I usually have...

You have to remember that all horses have little quirks.... problems. If she is a headshaker she will probably never grow out of that as it is thought to be to do with the nasal passagesz or pollen allergies. There are other causes. She could just be a habit shaker though. Being young she...

My lighterlife lady told me I had to stop rowing competatively for now! I am no longer on LL, but I would still have continued. Because these diets are high % protein, they preserve muscle, so muscle loss should be minimal. Let's face it, 500 calories is much much less than we need without...

See, where I get confused is the fact that swimming and walking ARE cardio. Anything that raises the heart rate above its normal level through aerobic and anaerobic exertion is cardiovascular. Things like weights machines and yoga are resistance workouts and classed as toning. I have also...

Pass us the roasties... :D :D :D

Four jobs I have had in my life: 1. Payroll Clerk 2. English Tutor 3. Customer service in large supermarket 4. Student at uni, working as nanny almost full time at same time Four Movies you would watch over and over: 1. Dirty Dancing 2. Serial Mom 3. 50 first dates 4. Lion King Four places...

:D I love your driving analogy. Golly, you should see me on George when I am out on a hack, one arm on the very loose reins, legs out of the stirrups sometimes. LOL. Anne, my instructor, would kill me!

My boy gets very very bad sweet itch and it is hell to keep up with. The killitch costs about £35 a bottle and I get through about 6 bottles over the summer. Then I have just bought him a fly rug for next summer, from weatherbeeta, then there were the equimasks for riding and turnout I had to...

If they have republished it as well, I would recommend a read of 'the less than perfect rider' by lesley bayley, and looking at horse behaviour books is always very useful for horse owners.

I would love to do my BHS exams so I could be an instructor but it's just one of those things that takes hours and hours to complete, and I just don't have hours and hours. Worming varies in cost as it depends which programme you follow, but we do ours several times a year at £15 a go...

Just wanted to add to the already fantastic advice that what I actually meant when I said you won't be able to ride all horses to BHS standards, is that most horses that haven't had 5 hours of schooling every day, and even those that have, have the ability to be very difficult. I had been...

Yup, syns are not really related to the calorie value alone, it is to do with how much energy they provide in relation to their satiation value.

It's either lentil or lentils. It's the same as it was a few weeks ago!

In my syns list it says that low fat and very low fat flavoured yoghurts have a syn value. Only natural yoghurt (low fat) is free. But it doesn't list brands specifically so I am unsure whether muller light is very low fat (0.5 syns per 100g) or low fat (1.5 syns per 100g). I love them and...

(((cheryl))) Can you tell me whether SW consider muller light strawberry yogurts to be very low fat or just low fat? I despair of their lists!!!:mad:

karion, I didn't mean that she was stupid enough to do it for more than three days, I just meant it sounded amazing that you can lose that much in a month on it. I also read on the BHF website that the impression is given that this diet is endorsed by them but it really isn't. I have heard...

I've just gone and read up all about this diet, from the link you posted, and have to say I am astonished at its claims that you can lose 40 pounds in a month if you stick to it! :eek: Wow! Looks like you have found a great way to lose weight!

This week's password is lentil or lentils.

:cool: Hi there, I too came off LL diet after only a few days, but for different reasons to you. I've been very ill and LL just isn't for me at the moment. I started slimming world and I just can't believe how motivated I still am, even after having started. And I have eaten as they tell me...

:D :D Thanks, chicks! Hope all is going well with you all. By the way: I can see the crab!! :D :D

Does anyone know what diet coke is in terms of syns? I just had a 500ml bottle expecting it to count towards syns but cannot find it in my very comprehensive (NOT!) syns list! Help!:rolleyes:

Cheryl, what a fantastic outlook on life. Supergran, I start slimming world tonight, after, like you, trying lots of short-cuts. I have been so ill with bulimia and mental illness that I think the only way to do this is to treat my body with some respect and get healthy again. Good luck...

Ollie, sweetie, if you are struggling with the CD then, as I think has been said, it is perhaps better to do a diet like SW that you can stick to for months and lose weight gradually than to keep having another go at SS and losing stacks of weight, then getting disheartened at the fact you have...

Like you, Chicken, I would definitely not allow my horse to be used this much only for me to be restricted to one day a week. It is very unlikely that they will remove her from the peak time schedules as a good horse is bound to be used at these times. I also think that £1950 may be a bit steep...

To put it in perspective, Ollie (I know you from the pink site :D ): I lost 10 pounds in my first week of SW and 11 pounds in my first week of CD at start of year, so as first weeks go I don't think there's an awful lot in it, but then you do get those who lose over a stone on CD in their first...

Also, if you have done LL or CD and start picking at normal food again, you WILL gain initially because your body is replacing its glycogen stores without taking it from converted fat. Also, if you haven't done management, eating is going to be hard for a while. Many on WLR do WW or SW or GI...

Hi, I am a member of WLR and I have to say, it was my saviour after being so ill and becoming housebound, to a point where, at 22, I could bearly walk 10 yards without my back killing and getting very out of breath. This is not the same Carrie that played county netball, played hockey and...

Just seen Ger is going to help you out. Good luck! :D

I have 17 LL shakes and about same of CD shakes. I can send them to you tomorrow if you like? But knowing post round here it wouldn't get to you til about Thursday.

Atkins is great for weight loss and if you go to ediets where I have been a member for a few years, you can get a copy of the healthy atkins which includes good fats, rather than loads of fry-ups! My friend lost about 6 stone in just under four months on Atkins, and despite regaining a stone...

Hi guys and thank you so so much for the encouragement. I did eat last night - some cream crackers, sausage and stuff but felt very full after a few mouthfulls. My counsellor still wants me to go to stop-in today and she doesn't know I have eaten yet but she wants to discuss with me about...

Hi guys and thank you for your lovely encouraging words. I am still awaiting therapy after having been ill and I do need to learn new habits, not just with food, so my counsellor and I agreed tonight that we will wait a month or so and see if I am ready to start then. Thanks again, a very...

Hehehe! I remember. You were something like cisum on there? I remember the argument well and I remember putting my side of it in early, too, only to change my mind later on!

Aww, sorry to hear that,honey. Could you try eating low GI like Roche? I appreciate you can't afford CD but sometimes things happen for the best. Take care. Carrie.x

Oh, silly me, you're Lou, aren't you?

Ooooh TES! What were you on TES then?

Hehehe! I am on lighterlife so it is literally shakes, soups and bars. When I did CD I felt the thing I lacked was support/counselling, so I am trying LL. I did try the tomato soup and that put me off but at stop-in tomorrow I think I might try the soups and bars. I really want to do this...

Well done, Gem, that's great going. I am used to my trousers falling down, and it's not because I have lost any weight yet, it's because I have to get a bigger size for my legs so they are huge round the waist and then give in the legs after a while of wearing them :rolleyes: You are doing...

The shakes make me want to be sick. At first they were fine as I used my experience of having done the CD to make sure the shakes were made to my liking (lots of water so that it wasn't so strong), but as the days pass I just get more aware of how powdery and false the shakes taste. I know that...

Hi Lisa, Your heart is obviously working very hard. As you know, your weight does bear correlation to your blood pressure so your weight will come down and so will your BP. My resting heart rate is 63, but there again, despite having a lot of weight to lose I am a very physically active...

155/88 is not a mega disaster as you can and will reduce it. The other one is on the very high side, but my grandfather lived from having a heartattack at age 60 to dying age 71 from a haemmorage in his brain, with BP much higher than that. It's about reducing the risk factors where...

Suzie, The lower one is the most important one to think about, but it is obviously always a concern when any figure is raised. If you are allowed to do the diet, do it and trust that it will help your BP.

Yours is healthy, I'lldoit. They say normal BP should be about 120/80 or thereabouts, but healthier if you can get the bottom one down to around 75. I am usually an average of 110/55 or 60 when I have the 24 hour monitor. They usually say that anything over 140 for the upper is too high and...

Hehehe. I haven't flown since I was 16 so I don't know whether I would need an extender. I measure as below. I'm unsure how big seats are on planes but I remember watching 'f*ck off, I'm fat' and it being on there.

Your blood pressure and getting that sorted is more important for now, but as an academic, I have immersed myself in some of the academic research on VLCDs and can say that in some or many of the articles, people are reported to see an improvement in both systolic and diastolic BP and can come...

Also gives me chance to lose more weight so I don't need a three mile long seatbelt extender or to pay for three seats :D :D :D

What a fab idea!! I would love to visit Ireland and, more importantly, would love to visit this famous Mini :D :D :D When were you thinking?

Mine are welsh section Ds! I love 'em! Well done, chicken! Do be careful with working livery though because your horse, if a good horse, will be used for hours a day and not every rider will be as gentle and forgiving as you are! I pay £13 a week for DIY livery and the people at the yard...

Hi Linda, I am on day three of my lighterlife journey and I won't lie to you: it IS hard and day three, for me, is harder than day one! Day one I was all eager and anticipating a great loss at my stop-in on Saturday; day two I was moody and wanted to eat something... anything. Imagine my...

Hi, Day three for me :D I am feeling fine today. Last night was a sod cause I felt like I could have eaten wallpaper and been happy. I was so hungry! My husband had my favourite meal - cheesy mash pie - and I just wanted to cry. LOL. This morning I was a little hungry but that has gone down...

Hi, Chicken, Your pop-in is REALLY important and remember how much you are paying the counsellor. Even if it is only you that goes it will be worth it because she can check if you are in ketosis and you can check your weight, change any shakes you don't like and generally she will check how you...

Hi. yes, when we drink water the body uses a process called osmosis to get water through the stomach wall (same when it is taken through the gut causing constipation). The body can only do this process very slowly so it is important to sip the water rather than gulp it (ah, this is where the...

Hi there beenthere, I am also new around here and started the LLD on Wednesday after my meeting on Tuesday. As has been said already you're definitely in the right place, so good luck.

As someone who has a deep-rooted bulimia, I would say that I eat in secret as part and parcel of this but I think it does go deeper than that. If I am found out, I'll be stopped.... If I'm seen then it will validate people's assumptions of me as a greedy cow... that kind of thing!

Mike, I never fail to be astounded that you lost 12 stones in 4 or 5 months! WELL DONE, CHERUB!

Aww, honey, day two does get better... PROMISE! Having said that, today my struggle ahs been MAKING myself eat! I still have those internal voices telling me that one won't hurt and to do what I did when I did CD 10 months ago (put a piece of food in my mouth and suck til it's dry, then spit...

I was accepted on lighterlife and have had severe bulimia, depression (bipolar) and a personality disorder and self-harming/suicide attempts. It was I who was accepted earlier this week and my doctor did sign the LL form; the only yes I had ticked was 'is this patient about to undergo any...

I got a handheld blender when I was doing Cambridge and that works a treat. If you use ice then it is probably best to crush the ice in a pestle and mortar first, otherwise, like happened to me, the thing smokes and the blade breaks!! I can't stand the lumps so I always have to use the...

Also, have any of you tried breaking up a bar into one of your shakes? I did on cambridge at the start of the year and remember it being lovely.

Definitely chocolate and vanilla are nice hot; not sure about the others!

Hi madwife, welcome to minimins.

Hi and welcome to minimins. I am also new and started LL on Tuesday; I have a stop-in on Saturday and I am hoping for a good few pounds gone! You are in the right place and there seem to be a few new people around so you won't be alone :D

Well we are allowed as much coffee and tea as we can stomach and my counsellor loves her lattés made with vanilla shakes and coffee, so I would say it is fine. Check with your own counsellor if you are unsure.

I also use WLR

I did CD at start of the year so knew from the start that I can only bear two shake flavours from LL - vanilla and choc. They are the only two in my mind that resemble the proper flavour closely and they are the least overpowering. I got my measurements down to a T and any other things I had...

I do have a personal trainer that I did 12 weeks with til mid-august when we both had hols, and I have always played netball and gone swimming and gymming. But now, quite simply, I have three equines to run round after!

Hey, Jules uses another forum I use and I have seen her on DH.

LOL! Was gona be really rude and say I have one for pudding every night. Oops, just said it. Tuttut :p

And we complain about shakes....:D

Wow! See, I was really imagining losing all the weight and then eating dust for the rest of my life! It's good to see that you lost all your weight so very quickly and are still keeping it off. A real inspiration. Cheers!

... what do people who have maintained and who are leading a normal life, eat?

My three set us back about £500 a month in all, depending on when we take two of them on holiday with us and any extra expenditure such as a splurge on rugs like I had a few weeks ago. But we have no mortgage or rent to pay as we own outright, we have no children and only two other small pets...

My depression is actually bipolar and I have a personality disorder. If you would like specific advice please PM me.

Hi Happe, The fact I have been open about the bulimia and depression and self-harming and the fact I only had one yes ticked on the whole form and it was in section two; the fact I am being successfully treated medicinally and therapeutically, all mean I was able to enrol today! They spoke to...

Really make sure you are drinking enough water. I do know someone who did LL and ended up being manually relieved (I won't give more detail as I am sure your imagination is up to the challenge!). It's basically because your body takes water through the gut wall and leaves the contents...

icemoose, I just want to say: what a fantastic idea! I have tonnes of clothes, a lot already too big and more very small; I seriously have enough to fill the spare room to capacity - yes, I've tried it!! Some is designer, some high street, some worn and some with tags still on! I would love...

... and yes, I was able to enrol on the programme, despite my problems. She measured me and told me I have a perfectly proportioned hourglass figure! I was shocked but I guess I knew deep down that I am hourglass, it's just hard to accept that when you are 12 stones overweight. Anyway...

That's fab! Keep going!!! :D

Hehehe, daniel o'donnell is so annoying and my SIXTY-FOUR year old m-i-l has posters of him up everywhere!

Shania Twain.. mannn i feeeeeeeel like a woman. Care of Frosties... it's gona taste greeeaaattt. Anything by the nolans. ARGGGGGGGGGH

icemoose, I am really irritated because I know your face and I can't work out where from! I read a blog of someone who lost a lot of weight and you could be him. This was long before I knew of this or the DH sites. I also use cambridge dieters' forum and wonder if you are on there. Do let me...

Depends what you mean by move, but I cry when Evennescence immortan comes on.

Thank you so so much for your replies. I understand why I wouldn't be allowed to do it and from doing the CD back at xmas when I lied on the form saying that I have no health problems, I know what it does to me. My bulimia gets worse. It was the same when I was on Xenical so I do know what...

This is what I am worried about because, although my doctor seems happy for me to give it at least a try, she has written on the form that I am a severe depressive, a severe bulimic and a prolific self-harmer. These don't come up on the contraindicators list, but I am really worried what Ali...

I saw my dr the other day to ask her permission to do the diet and she as good as agreed but I had to have health check by nurse and then leave forms for dr to sign off. I just collected them and she has put on the form 'this lady has suffered with severe depression, self-harming behaviour and...

Well I am bulimic, have attempted suicide in the past 6 months, regularly self-harmed until recently when I got my meds right, been on and off a psychiatric ward and have a cpn and social worker, and I am a complete mess. My doctor said yes because I am stronger now (I have been bulimi since I...

Go for it!

The blokes at my info evening asked the same and the answer was, as I suspected, that men lose weight at a far greater weight than women so their foundation stage has to be assessed earlier. The reason men's sessions are half hour shorter is because they claim the dvds are not as relevant to...

I have two horses and a pony which I keep at a yard near here. I wouldn't be without them and riding burns hundreds of calories a day!

Aww! We all have to eat a pinch before we die. However, it is unacceptable that you should find this sort of thing in your food pack and I think your LLC agrees judging by the free week, which I would take.