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Hope everyone has had a good week. I'm on my first week and I'm happy with 6lb. Dunno what happened as when I did SW years ago I was so dissappointed I didn;t get a big loss. V odd. Sunday is the best day to weigh I think as it makes you behave on Fri and Sat.

Not done SW for a few years and wanted to go it alone as I can;t be doing with groups - but I might go online for a month to get the gist - it seems to have changed quite a bit. EE had just been introduced the last time I did it. Crikey it was a while. Thanks for this heads up.x

Hiya - just joined the thread. A nice and unexpected 4lb put me here. 2.5lb loss this week would be great for my club 10, my 2stone badge and my October mini target. Keep it together y'all

3.5lbs off tonight. I'm a bit slow and steady on Green so mixed it up with EE last week - so variety clearly does make difference. Well done all.

Slow and steady that's me. 1 off.

Love your avatar Big Snake!

Nearly in the next group - so near I can taste it!!!! (And it tastes of scan bran:0))

1lb off. A bit surprised for week two and was fabulously good - but a loss is a loss so pleased. Patience.....

I'm a newbie too - week 1 lost 3.5lbs. Sooooo relieved as haven't been remotely hungry. See you Monday.

Hiya all I've just started too and despite thinking I was in the 19s - am actually in the 18s thank goodness. Have a way to go and will be frequently this thread for a little while.

Well done babe. That must feel amazing.

Aw thanks for this Dee- I really appreciate it. Just had a look at your stats and you started off in a similar place to me. You have done so well!!! I would have been weighing in tonight but the leisure centre is closed because of the BH so my class is meeting on Wed evening. I am soooooo...

How much are these bars in class?

Hiya y'all Just wanted to say hello as I'll be weighing in here weekly.(Scared) I've done SW before - but from home and with very limited success as I just didn't have the support I think I need. I had never been to classes before - so made my first class with my 13 year old daughter on...

Well my daughter and I attended our first class on Monday - and it was fab. Thank you for your reassurance dudes.

Thanks Cornish. We're going to go tomorrow night ...deep breath!! I have heard that the consultant in my area is v nice and you are very, very brave if you started in a class with 30 women!!!

Hiya all I'm thinking very seriously about joining a SW class but have never done this before. I did SW from home a few years ago but realistically I think I need the discipline a class might give me. I don't want to use the online one as the local class to me is in a sports centre so I can...

Well done everyone - you guys are such an inspiration to everyone...:):):) Well back on here..and that's a step because I have really been hiding my head in the sand and generally feeling c%*p over the last few months....I am however coming to realise that if I don't take ownership of this I...

I am ...in short - nowhere...but very, very glad to be back.

I hold you singularly responsible for keeping me on the straight and narrow... that and me hitting people with my arse getting off of buses!!!!! Good to be back...

SILLY!!!!!!! I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D Honestly....that woman's never around when you want her.......

OH waving a box of Thorntons Continental around.... Get thee behind me DEMON!!!!!

;)But you're a very cute Shetland if it's any consolation....

Better late than never. STS this week although exercised really well until Wednesday and got a cold...sodding hell. Big day at work on Friday too and I was just dying... Have lost inches though and can see it and feel so much better and energetic than I have in ages so thanks JM. Gail - what...

Sausage and Mash - together at last!! 3lbs for me too!!! Get us! You said we'd lose this week - you are now my official guru..:worthy: I'm in the 17's again and STAYING there... All the best to those still to WI...:0)

Sausage and mash!!! I likes it! ...I'm sure there must be a sw recipe somewhere.... hawhawhaw....you naughty!!

Morning all. 3lbs on with totm. Having a restart from next week because I'm just so sick of the yoyoing - more than that - the documenting of the yoyoing!! I own it all. My head hasn't been in the right place for a number of weeks and we all know how hard it is to do anything when that is...

How strange. OH brought this home on Friday and we watched it....mein gott! When you can see AdrienBrody actively considering being attracted to the mutant - OH and I just looked at each other and said simultaneously "NO!" On the plus side, I haven't laughed so much at a film for ages...

A meringue nest with quark and wicked white options with strawberries..while my lot tucked into a welcome back to school carrot cake....I feel virtuous and FULL. QUARK is not your enemy.

I was in a bar with a friend once and a lad I vaguely knew came to chat....after the niceties... "Can I just ask...? When you're in bed at night do you sleep on your tummy?" Not..in my naivety realising it was a chat up...I said "em...no?" and looked puzzled. Then he said so very...

Go Sausage! Go Sausage!:happy096: 1lb for me this week. I haven't done ANY exercise since coming back from hols 4 weeks ago and can only blame this for my shockingly slow losses.... Must..move..arse...:coffee:

Later than advertised 1.5lbs lost.... Some fab losses this week y'all..nice one.

Boo. 2 on. Buggering hell.

Gail - happy anniversary. It is sometimes all those little things and they are things people take for granted and seem so insignificant. For me it's always buses....being able to get off a bus without knocking someone out with my ass would be great.... Well done. x

Well hello there. No I haven't been abducted (although that sounds vaguely like an exercise machine so it may have been useful) - just been on holiday and working etc...and also if I'm honest not on plan ALTHOUGH not put on a drastic amount so v pleased about that. I just felt that, not having...

Hey all you guys. Sorry I've been missing for the last couple of weeks. Hope you've all been going great guns. STS this week. The planning has gone to pot over the last two weeks and I have been off plan but I haven't gained. I think this has been to do with cal counting coming in as a...

Quickie WI for me today guys will read through later so all the best to all!! 1.5lbs off - amazingly. Been mega good for weeks and only losing small amounts so had a few more syns and a bit more exercise...who knows? x

Sodding hell!! What's it got in it to have a synnage that high!!! Jebus!!! Beans on toast for moi for lunch then! I thought that because it had beans and tomato in it it would be quite low. SOOOO glad I checked now - thanks you SOOO much!! x

Anyone around to give me the syn value for this please? My book's ancient and it's not in it! x

Morning...oh it's afternoon..I've had a very lazy day so far...isn't the weather amazing?!!! Well done to losers....HONEY!!!!! Yet another lb off - I'm am SOOOO gonna party when you hit 100lb babe! Commiserations to gainers...if we can just get the weather to stay half decent for a couple of...

Facilities!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Welcome Tabby...this lot are nuts...and very NAUGHTY!!!! All the best.. x

Spanx -I've got to say initially I found it quite difficult because I just wasn't drinking anything other than tea, coffee and Pepsi Max - very occasionally some squash. After about a week I found I wasn't going to the loo as much and I find it much easier now because I when I get thirsty I...

AJB 10lbs (0bs lost, 10lbs to go) babybuffy84 7lb (1.5 lost 5.5 to go) BeckyT 6lbs (2lbs lost, 6lbs to go) Beki - 6lb (1lb lost, 5lb to go) Bobsledwheels - 6lb (3.5lbs lost, 2.5lbs to go) Butt3rb34n (3lbs Lost - 5lbs to go) Catmonkey (4lbs lost - 6lb to go) Caroline82 (1.5lbs lost - 4lbs to go)...

Nice one Woodland Girl..lately ANY loss is positive for me!! 2lbs off for me this week thank god. I have been drinking 2 litres of water a day and have finally stopped peeing every two minutes - but get thirsty really quickly now. It can only be good. Good luck everyone. x

God it's like the Masons!!:D Is that the 7 day kick start thing?

Is this the guy? Not wishing to be rude but he isn't exactly slim is he? I hate that school of thought where some people just think that really overweight people just need to be shocked out of it by crass and rude remarks. It's just an excuse to be mean.:sigh:

Two litres is about five pints babe.

Filly ...Are you a secret agent for Microsoft?! Haw haw....never had any issues with Chrome...Strange...

I'm guessing she has a lot to lose?

Thank god I'm an only child....

I hear you Emma. +1lb.:cry:

BOGOF 6pk Mullerlights at Tesco 3.29 per pack. or 7 for £3 - which is rubbish..your choice.

As a snack before tea I have one with quark and white choc options mixed in. V nice. I got tempted to eat three the other week because I was hungry - never again. Could not face my dinner because it filled me up so much!! I've made the choc scanbran cake before and you do count it in the...

I bought a beautiful summer dress from debenhams for a friends wedding two years ago which I only wore once and I love. When I started 8 weeks ago I kinda said to myself that it would be great if I could get into it for my summer hols which is in 7 weeks. It'll be close but I've gone down a 1...

I'm sorry but "balls balls balls" is so funny. x

Tara what exactly do you mean by genuine people?

Scare.

Let it be The Beatles.

Always do. Yey...not. TPBM is going out for a drink tonight.

I remember this soooo vividly. I actually stopped watching spoons because of this scene. It was appalling.

Ha ha ha. Yes I did explain to her the reason why here friend couldn't stay...it was the continued attempts to get me to change my mind which was annoying. When I said I had nothing in...I had nothing suitable for her peanut allergic friend - which I explained...I generally have to buy...

Cathedral City Lighter is at Tesco for £3.00 for 350g block. It's £1.50 off dudes.

You sound like you've really got it together. Well done!

I manage this by wi Sunday mornings at home. I don't go to class. Doing this males me behave Friday and Saturday so you stay a bit more focussed.

It's a Japanese film about an man for a long time for no apparent reason - he then is released and seeks to find out the reason for his imprisonment. It is really not for the feint hearted and is really quite sickening..but not in a "Saw" sense...it is much more disturbing...

I used to get weighed at the doctors every 4 weeks and found that always kept me on track. I think there is a really good case for not weighing yourself weekly. Like Circes says you're in a much better place if you aren't constantly jumping on and off them. I get mine out only on WI day now...

Well as you know I have purchased my new scales after realising via Boots the Sadist that my mechanical ones were reporting a lower weight. DAMN IT!!! This morning I've weighed on my old scale and there is a 4lb difference so I have had to make allowances for this on my start weight etc.. I'm...

Well half a pound's better than nothing I suppose. All the best everyone!! AJB 10lbs (0bs lost, 10lbs to go) babybuffy84 7lb (0lbs lost, 7lbs to go) BeckyT 6lbs (0lbs lost, 6lbs to go) Beki - 6lb (0lb lost, 6lb to go) Bobsledwheels - 6lb (0lb lost, 6lb to go) Butt3rb34n (2lbs Lost - 6lbs to...

My daughter has just asked if her friend can stay for tea. I don't have a thing in the house as not been shopping yet so said no. My daughter who's 11 then kept asking and asking until I had to firmly say no. I hate it when they make you look the bad guy just for telling them no.

I wonder how many syns are in the fish mouths...I remember seeing tinned alligator in New Orleans...rank!

Phew....nice to hear from you gal. I thought my reputation as resident Mother Theresa was at risk then for a bit... It's not that I don't care I just make sarcastic and flippant comments on public forums that I can't retract...:479: xxx

Oh god I love marzipan - it is the devil's own food - along with custard creams...:D

Old Boy. I may be thick but REALLY didn't see that coming...

What is the worst performance that you have EVER seen in a movie/on TV? This isn't a reason to dis someone you just don't like (Nicholas Cage for instance..) but have to back this up with the performance that failed failed failed in your book (Nicholas Cage in Face Off...- That friend was just...

Actually I think poking dead things with stick is slightly more callous.... BRITTANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!:cry::cry::cry:

Hangs head in shame...

Oh god. What if she is....? Does that makes me officially the most callous cow on Minimins?

Brittany - it's been 4 hours. You dead yet? :D:D:D

I do it at home on my own too and this site is utterly priceless. No question is a stupid question and someone is always around to point you in the right direction. The SW lot are incredibly chatty and supportive - you've made a good choice!! All the very best. x

Do you leave the porridge soaking overnight for magic porridge - we are sooooooooooooooo having that in the morning! x

Totally - I'd much rather they were accurate. Lovely scales though. I was quite surprised they were tempered glass - plus they were dead accurate. Thanks again.:D

Roziee! My new scales are here...NICE! Very classy. Well I had to jump on them BUT just to compare the weight between my old and new scale and dah! Dah! DAH!!! The IS a 6 lb difference between them so the old scales are buggered and the new scales correspond with the Boots measurement (damn...

2 x weetabix with blueberries, topped with banana custard mullerlight with chopped banana on top. Nomnomnom....

OH bought 6 creme eggs for a £1 and offered me one after dinner. "No thanks" I muttered. I think he was just as shocked as me....:D 7 weeks ago I wouldn't even have thought about it.

Nicholas cage's version of the wicker man. Corner of wrong. Yes I an precious about the original but bees? Bees? Seriously?

I think you both make excellent points and I have noticed over the weeks I've been doing this sometimes I use them for naughties and sometimes just for additional items that have more nutritional value than choc and junk. I think you've both hit on it and that is choice. Sometimes I choose to...

Very interesting article about this here. This actually gives you the calculations of how many cals you can burn drinking cold water. There was another really interesting article about how when the kidneys are not receiving regular water, the liver has to help out - so has to do the kidney's...

Do none of you guys use Adblockers? I don't get any...:D:D:D Use this baby if you use IE and this if like me you use Firefox. x

I keep meaning to take my measurements so that I can see that on the weeks I gain or sts - I can still see inch loss. It's a real pain in the behind.x

Well had to take my daughter to Diary of a Wimpy Kid today. I was actually quite impressed. Usually U movies tend to be a yawn fest for an adult but it was naughty - like watching a looney tunes cartoon.

Oh no! I remember them from when I was a kid - if it's the ones in gravy they were really nice - like sloppy joes. I remember only having them at Xmas when my mum got the Xmas hamper - you couldn't buy them anywhere!! Haw haw.

I started this yesterday and I'm setting a target of 2 litres per day. I did really well yesterday and drunk the full2 litres. Only at 1 litre so far today but that is a vast improvement on nothing but coffee and tea and pepsi max. Baddddd. I'm already feeling much better - less of an...

Nice one Rosiee. I ordered those new scales btw. Can't weight....geddit? Oh dear...Richard Whitely is alive and well... Fi x

If you like a really well told story (stephen king) and a decent vampire story you might want to try The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Amazing from start to finish. You know when you take a book on holiday - it virtually ruined a holiday in Malta I had a few years ago because all I wanted to...

You gotta love DEXTER!!! - 17th June - not long now!!! The ONLY show where I would be seriously pissed off if I missed an episode....

The Others? Fab- so sad.

Throw Momma from the Train...classic!! I thought The Changeling was amazing - sorry you didn't enjoy it. I was so shocked that it was based on real murders around the time. I love Eastwood films though...Gran Torino - man - what a movie!

Me too babycakes..this site and the loverly people on it taught me everything I know without going to one class! All the very best!

Virtually every time I go to Manchester I see someone from Corry or the like - so strange...never see anyone when I go to Cleethorpes:D:D:D

I totally forgot to wi didn't I? Well after all that fuss and nonsense I've lost 2lbs on my scale getting me more firmly into the 17stones. Relief! 2lbs to my first stone I am sooo excited!! After my reeediculous rant last night I sat and drank a litre of water until I went to bed...talk...

Oh yum. Just had this mushroom risotto (thanks Deb). Totally worth it yumster. If you make it you may think that 450mls of stock is too much for 75g of rice (I've never made risotto before) but it isn't and it's gorge. Will deffo make again. Yum with parmesan too....

Well bugger me. I did it. Aislingb - 8lbs (0lbs lost - 8 lbs to go) Alilou21 - 6lbs (3lbs lost - 3lbs to go) Athens -7lbs (6lbs lost - 1 lbs to go) Babybuffy84 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Beki - 10lb (4.5lb lost - 5.5lb to go - didn't make it, oh well!) Berniegray242 - 7lbd (0.5lbs lost -...

We had them this morning for breakfast and my oh was really impressed - he isn't a veggie either so praise indeed!! They are very herby and juicy though. Worth the synnage!!

Rosiee - many thaks for this - they look just the job. I've always avoided the digital ones because back in 2003 when I was 23 stone I went into Argos and bought some - completely ignoring the fact they had a weight limit on them....well. First week on the diet...I got them home, put the...

Fab - count me in. Will have a look through.

Ishiguro is wonderful - really haunting stuff. I haven't read "Remains of the Day" because I avoid things that have been adapted into films. I might give it look. I haven't heard of Chang Rong - thanks for that will have a look. I'm reading Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka at the moment...

Welcome Queenie - you will get loads of help and support here.

I bought some pickled eggs the other day...seemed like a good idea at the time!!!

Food abuse..:giggle:

Nets - it sounds like you're doing so much so do try not to beat yourself up when you have a little blip. You're already doing all those things already...you will do this too!x

I'm in. Got to be better than May. I'm due a decent loss will increase to 8lbs target for this month. Good luck y'all. babybuffy84 7lb (0lbs lost, 7lbs to go) BeckyT 6lbs (0lbs lost, 6lbs to go) Beki - 6lb (0lb lost, 6lb to go) Bobsledwheels - 6lb (0lb lost, 6lb to go) Butt3rb34n (0lbs Lost -...

Babe I'm going through the same thing at the moment and I've lost count of the amount of posts now where I've said it's so disheartening looking at some people's amazing losses when it isn't like that for some people. I think there are many things to consider that could be slowing things down...

Nettie I'm sorry I'm so rude I was so wound up in selfishness earlier I didn't even read your post. Baby..hugs. If you have been drinking loads of water and eating lots of fruit I think you may surprise yourself. I got like this on my second wi. Just think about when you've eaten fruit...

Thanks for clearing that up for me Circes. You know when you just know something isn't right. That's fine though I'll just syn them. Tesco are trying to mess with my mojo again!! I hate waste ..although to be fair my daughter and partner like these ones so they would have gone to a good...

:rotflmao:Silly Saus - as a matter of fact I was just in my pants and bra....booooooooooooooooooo...seriously can you imagine ??!! My bloke said that - everything is relative. I haven't been keeping measurements but I really think I should to get me through these bits because I KNOW I've lost...

Tesco rather stupidly didn't deliver my loverly Quorn sausages this week and have given my Tesco Meat Free Lincolnshire sausages instead. Well I ranted that I'd have to go and buy some because per 2x sausages they were 185 cals and had 11g of fat per two sausages and there's no way that'd be...

You see I'm sticking to plan and seeing tiny losses over the last few weeks and I really feel it's down to not drinking enough. I jsut drink tea and diet fizzies and the odd glass of water. It's my weigh in tomorrow so from when I get up I'm going to do the water challenge. Is it 2 litres a...

Nettie babe hang in there. I'm having a crisis with it too and it's not for want of trying I just can't seem to get the weight to bloody budge. My first couple of weeks I had to relearn stuff and I can't say I didn't find it confusing sometimes..(It really pisses you off that some people have...

Oh man I am soooo not in a good place. I've been eating fine all week and everything's been great even had someone I used to work with comment that they didn't recognise me but...taking into my real slowdown over the last few weeks I decided to get weighed this lunchtime on the Boots...

Met a mum from school this morning I'd not seen for ages. Have you lost weight? You can really see it in your face. I strutted round work all day.

Totally agree.. and in addition to this you're ensuring how you eat becomes a habit and not just another "diet." That'll ensure that when you get it off - you keep it off. Keep on trucking hun.

Feeling good today. Really positive. Here goes Breakfast Weetabix x 2 Heb Mullerlight vanilla half a banana two tbsps blueberries Milk HeA(for drinks) Glass of water Lunch SW Pasta Quiche with leek, peppers and tomatoes (1/2 HeA) Cherry...

I'm trying to find out the syn value of Tesco Lighter Choices Cheese and Brocolli Pasta. Anyone any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Juls. It sounds weird but the lack of processed rubbish in my diet is keeping my moods on such an even keel it's scary!!! And with that I hope to keep chipping away at it...what have I got to lose?! Well today..I know I said I wouldn't have lunch but I had 2x scanbran (heb) Quark with...

Well I lost a pound thank god...hoping that our little challenge has something to do with it.. Orange Pearx2 Huage home made stirfry with courgette radishes savoy cabbage carrot beansprouts mushrooms red pepper yellow pepper yumty. And most stunningly I have no tum ache - which usually...

Meh. Aislingb - 8lbs (0lbs lost - 8 lbs to go) Alilou21 - 6lbs (3lbs lost - 3lbs to go) Athens -7lbs (6lbs lost - 1 lbs to go) Babybuffy84 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Beki - 10lb (2.5lb lost - 7.5lb to go) Berniegray242 - 7lbd (0.5lbs lost - 6.5 lbs to go) Bobsledwheels - 7lbs (4lbs lost -...

Hiya dudes and dudettes!! Looks like most of us have had a disappointing week BUT our bodies do need time to adjust don't they? After a plus 2 last week I've only lost 1lb but I'm fine with that. I'm been eating loads of the speed stuff but not been drinking water and I've decided to do a...

Thanks Rebecca! I do take splenda in my tea but it is yuck in coffee - I'm trying to wean myself off sugar in coffee - I just have one daily and it's my mid morning treat - I don't generally have two!!! I definitely have to drink more!! x

Well I guess at the beginning of week 7 it's a bit odd that I should start my weight loss diary now but I have to say after reading so many of them they are a real inspiration. I'm already keeping a diary on my pc but would really like some feedback from you guys about anywhere I can improve...

I've always been a calorie counter and once I got my head round it and chilled out with it I was fine. I'd alwasy avoided it in the past because I thought "No way" - the old calorie counting always creeping in. I looked into the food combining that the diet is based on though and it made much...

Hello lovely ladies and gents.. I've given myself a tummy ache today cos I've not had baked beans for ages... Baken Beans/Kidney Beans Toms Strawbs tinned toms It's my wi tom morning so it'll be interesting to see if this has helped!! How's everyone else doing? Any interesting losses? x

That's the problem isn't it...the getting on with it. Last week I put 2lbs on and it was really disappointing so soon in for me. I know it was totm but still..it's hard just getting on with it, ignoring the scale and keeping going...but I did so we'll see. Good luck everyone...we won't need...

LOL. I'm a veggie and this is my life!!!! Today I've had Melon Strawberries Carrot Toms Very uninspiring...going to the market tomorrow for some more exciting veggies!!!

Ooh. No quorn sausages in so have put the quorn meatballs in my stir fry with sliced radishes, dried noodles and Eat Smart Chow mein sauce. Yum.

So far I've only made the one with pasta in the base with veggies on top. I've not had a wet one either..

The more the absolute merrier!! I've really found I focus on making better decisions this way too! Melon Carrots Broccoli (??) Strawberries Orange

Boo..2lbs on... Acc - 8lbs (5lbs off - 3lb to go) Aislingb - 8lbs (0lbs lost - 8 lbs to go) Alilou21 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Athens -7lbs (6lbs lost - 1 lbs to go) Babybuffy84 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Beki - 10lb (2.5lb lost - 7.5lb to go) Berniegray242 - 7lbd (0.5lbs lost - 6.5...

I dunno whether I can save £5 per lb but I think I'll start saving £5 per week - what I would have saved going to SW! Cheeky I know.

Thanks all for this. I'm on week 6 and have about a third left so I guess that's about right. I deffo haven't been pouring it - yuck!

Oh god - now I'm worried...

LOADS OF MELON!!! People are beginning to look at me funny on the Co-op across from work - I walk out with two melons every day!! Strawberries too - yum. Tomatoes Stir fry veg Clementines Quite an uninspired day actually but not remotely hungry. I feel like I should eat something but I would...

Years ago I used to use it - but not all the time - the pump would sticky up - so I ended up throwing half of it away - so I never actually finished a bottle. Realising this time I'd be using it all the time - I've kept the pump nozzle rinsed and I've noticed in the 6 weeks I've been using it -...

When I reach my first target I'm going to have a trendy new do. My hair is an utter SHOCK at the minute and I know it sounds weird but I don't want to spend money on myself until I've achieved it. I'm thinking I want a fringe......Never had one since I was 16 and I'm 38 now....twill be...

Hollie - the week I started 5 weeks ago it was my birthday!! I knew I'd have a bit more on that day and just enjoyed it knowing I'd be back on track the next day. Try to enjoy your day - you sound like you have a lot to cope with there - don't add more pressure on yourself - just draw a line...

I walk about an hour a day M-F to work and back home. I have been using EA Active religiously but have found that it doesn't raise my heart rate enough for effective fat burning (I'm still out of breath at the top of the stairs) so have gone back to my old Rosemary Conley (don't laugh) dvds to...

Well done you lot!! Can I just stop everyone for a minute and ask all you losers today to step back for a minute and see what you have contributed to? You lovely Sunday weigh in dudes in ONE WEEK have lost an amazing 32.75lbs between everyone who has posted a loss today. :party0023: Now that...

Today I as been eated... Spring greens Baked beans Carrots Melon I am really not preparing well enough for all this and will try harder in the week. TOTM has not aided me this week.

BBC News Report After a bumper crop of strawberries, this year there seems to have been an unprecedented increase in demand. This has led to strawberry shortages everywhere and punnets of strawberries reaching an impressive £9.99 a punnet. We asked a grower how he felt about this sudden...

As predicted it's totm and 2lb on for me. I have felt v bloated this week however. I can't say in the past that this has ever affected me but to keep me sane and on track we'll put it down to that.;) Apologies if I've missed anyone and I'll pop in again later. Woodland Gal - Brilliant...

...der morgen:D

Welcome Nettie. Best weigh in thread this one - they're crackers!!! Good luck for toms everyone. I expect I'll be posting at some point as totm - so not expecting any great shakes from myself - although when I weigh myself at 8am - if I happen to have lost anything I'll be on here at 8.01am...

SW pasta quiche - cold with a big ole salad with gherkins and beetroot and silverskin onions and a l/cow blue cheese dip...yumster. Have just tried the pasta quiche - actually any quiche - recipe for the first time today. OMG! My oh and daughter are gutted they aren't having any (sending out...

Thanks Clareel. I've often wondered why things that were free are no longer free - strange I know - but it didn't occur to me that they changed the ingredients!!

Really? Have you never enjoyed a book so much you want to experience it again? :confused:

Gypsy have you read The Good Women of China ? If you liked Wild Swans you will love this - it's amazing. You have inspired me to re-read Wild Swans. Thanks! Just noticed how old this thread is!:doh:

Kirsty - draw a line under it and get back on the horse. It's done now. In short - we've all done it...me? More times than I care to mention but what I won't do this time is break my heart over it, blame myself, think "bugger it" and then eat some more ...doing yet more damage...feeling even...

Hiya mummy. I do it from home and agree that a fiver a week to get weighed is way excessive. This sight has been my total saviour though - there is always someone who knows..which I love as I was totally green when I started and have learned so much. Good luck!

I made my second one tonight and made the base much thinner than I originally did. I laid some cling film out on the side and put the smash "dough" on top (added herbs to it this time - lush!) I rolled it with a rolling pin for a more uniformed look and to get it really thin. I get more...

All the very best hun. You will be fine. x

Hiya all My speedys today are Pear Melon... loads of melon Courgette Tinned toms Onion I have a woefully pitiful capacity today. Will try harder tomorrow. My appetite's been all over the shop today - totm. So not looking forward to weigh in either!!!

I finally bought a white choc options to try in Quark. OMG! Now that is gorgeous. I could slice banana on that on top of a scan bran and it would BE cheesecake. Yum.

Yes do let me me know how you get on with these. I generally have little interest in these type of books but a colleague of mine was reading Women Food and God a few weeks ago and it suggested that she unload VERY personal stuff on someone who doesn't really know her. Needless to say we were...

I'll have a look at these..I love gripping. Couldn't put the Stieg Larsson stuff down.

Welcome Derbynanny - this thread's really helped me eat loads more speed stuff and I'm finding when I'm hungry I am now much more likely to eat superfree or speed fruit rather than make BAD decisions!! Today I have mostly eaten.... Strawberries Melon Pear Plum Beansprouts Stirfry veg Yum yum...

Wow Rambo - that's amazing. You would be a real asset to any group. It's great to see guys do so well on this too! Please stick around for our random questions!!

I have this amazing dress I bought for a friend's wedding two years ago when I was 2 stone lighter. I would DEARLY love to wear it on my hols this year.

I drop them whole into soups - really nice - not as peppery as when they're raw - kinda taste a bit like water chestnuts. V tasty. It's a speed food too. As Emmaline says they're lovely in a salad too. They're a bit much for me whole but it you slice them really thinly - they are really...

...every morning, over the sink, like a demented woman. Tea towel at the ready! I had to laugh!!! That's what I actually do!!! :8855: Have you tried the red ones? Yum.

Well there you go then. Thanks Shrimpy.:) My speed foods today have been Melon (ss) Pear Orange Plum Beansprouts Lettuce Tomato Woo-hoo!

Got to agree with the melon thing...Will resolve to eat more.

On the day I finally decide to have a go at SW Quiche I get home and only have one egg left...sigh... So decided to try to make two little ones anyway in ramekins with red and green pepper and mushroom and HeA cheese on top. Yumster. Had this with stir fried beansprouts and a green salad-...

I haven't been in Farmfoods for YEARS but was in last week and noticed a huge selection of quorn products all between £1 and £1.50.

Mmm. I know what you mean. I tend to buy everything fresh and prepare it myself becasue it's so much cheaper - but it's a good point. I have my shopping delivered so have just quickly looked on Tesco's website and the ingredient info is missing on quite a lot of prepared fruit. I was only...

Well guys the speed and superspeed's been totally fab for me. Weighed in this morning and 4lbs lost. I've got to say it really helped putting all my S and ss on this thread so I'm gonna keep going!! I also found I really haven't craved sugar...which is amazing. I didn't update yesyerday -...

:ashamed0005:I'm so sorry - I thought I'd killed this thread - I can be such a sarcastic sod.

4lbs off after my blip so v happy with that. Good luck y'all. acc - 8lb (0lb lost - 8lb to go) aislingb - 8lbs (0lbs lost - 8 lbs to go) Alilou21 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Athens -7lbs (0lbs lost - 7 lbs to go) Babybuffy84 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Beki - 10lb (0lb lost - 10lb to...

Well4lbs off for me after my blip last week. Thank god. My mini challenge (copyright Silly Sausage - who frankly as sausages go - isn't that silly!) for the week was to eat more S and SS superfrees - which I logged on another thread daily to keep me on track. Think I'll stay on it for another...

I was amazed I got it right first time! Got the flakes in a bowl and added boiling water by eye. I basically just added enough to bind it together so there was no dry bits - a bit like a dough. I lined my pizza tray with foil and sprayed it with 5x frylight. I put the potato mix in the...

I'm in the minority I think - really nice with a laughing cow lite deli and tomato - fab for snack attacks in the evening. x

I'm into week four and after years of calorie counting, I had a couple of of days in week one when I was just so stuffed I thought "I hope to god I'm doing this right." I think what happens in the first few weeks is that because your taking away the weighing, measuring and counting aspect of...

:drool:OMGOMGOMG!!! I decided that I would chance my arm with smash pizza. Delish. Funniest thing was that OH and DD are saying "Ewww....mashed potato - that's minging! Ewww!" You should have seen their face when I was eating it (I made them something else)..Then they were both begging to...

Fab - might give them a go.

Ooh - dat sounds nice.....

I don't generally have them but have two emergency packs in case I forget lunch..which I'm prone to doing.

Me too Mel!! I totally agree. Hopefully this thread will teach us a little too! Today mine are 1 x conference pear (S) 1x chinese pear (how strange!)(S) 1 x Orange (S) 1x Beetroot (S) portion mushrooms (S) Lettuce (S) Lemon juice (ss) tomatoes (S) Carrot (S) And oh boy my tum feels like I've...

Are they free Kieragh?

Will try the butternut squash tips lurverick -thanks. My speedy foods today were -Apple -Pepper -Pear -Lettuce -Oranges A bit boring for me today but didn't plan my ss and S intake really well!! Dunno about you guys but noticed that lemon/lemon juice is a ss. I know folks put it on salad...

Sue this thread is ancient BUT I totally agree we should bump it so I'll join in too if you don't mind!! Mine today were Strawberries (ss) Orange (S) Lettuce (S) Red onion (S) Will deffo try harder tomorrow - Melon here I come. Ew..must say ...tried celeriac for the very first time on...

Well now that the officer is off at Morrisons I sure as heckfire ain't paying 61p each for a mullerlight SO I thought I'd try the other options. Tonight I picked up Morrisons Eat Smart Banana and something called Pomona - which both appear in my SW directory as free. At 45p and 33p...

Thanks ladies as always for you're really useful advice. Think the Alpen bars and babybels may be worse a look.

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:cry:Omg - even this site thinks I'm too fat. I typed my height and weight in and it said it had readjusted me to the site's maximum BMI. So if you're 17st 13lbs or more it doesn't recognise..../runs off in tears. I am GUTTED it doesn't have a stretch mark function and a level at which to...

What a fab thread - off to Spain shortly so have familiarised myself with these things.....

Tea out tonight. Had a Tuna Nicoise - I succumbed to a little salad cream on it - I'm not a dressing fan. i removed the olives (yuk) and synned the tuna as on a green day. Bloody hell - just checked the dressing syns - wow. Just as well I'm not struck. Quite a good damage limitation meal -...

Thanks for that Theresa!! :8855: ...Must read posts more thoroughly. Must read posts more thoroughly. Must read posts more thoroughly.

Ooh I likes dem...

I'd love to know what you folks who have been doing this longer than me (ie everyone!) put in your bags for snacks when out and about. I have to take my daughter to a class after school on Tuesdays - have lunch at work at 12noon then don't eat until half seven ish - if ever there was a...

Choc cake - made from scan bran. It was nicer warm.:sick0019:

Suze you have done such an amazing job so far - and I really think you have to step back from this and recognise how well you've done. It's great that you and your friend have done this together and are there for each other. Do try to look at the positive things about it and not the negatives...

Hun - I would cook the mince in a little water before you use it - the fat will melt off and rise to the surface of the water - then you can just skim it off with a spoon. If you use just a little water it shouldn't hurt the flavour all that much...- just a suggestion. It's a pain in the neck...

Also found these if anyone is particularly interested in scanbran recipes.

It's 5 hun. I've just recently discovered the recipes people make with them so I'm really glad you've bumped this thread! My daughter and I made scanbran choc cake this afternoon - which has just come out of the oven and we are most impressed with. I mean you can obviously taste the bran in...

Just discovered the joys of scan bran! Oh boy.

:happy036:Oh nice one hun!! It feels amazing and let it drive you!!

I'm a salad cream fiend too and totally resent having to use my syns for it!! Someone did a tremendous tuna pasta salad and mixed 2 tbsp of extra light mayo (1syn)and 1 tbsp fat free natural yogurt. I tried fat free yog in my salad cream and it's dead nice!!!

Simple quorn sausages on a HeB roll with tom sauce (0.5 syn) Or poached egg, quorn sausages, mushrooms and tinned toms - which I have for my tea too if the two meat eaters I live with are doing just that!

I might just love your mum! Bless her.

Quorn sausage stir fry with synned rice noodles for me - yum.

:flowers:Congratulations - you both look glowing!! I am LOVING those booties. All the best. x

Well I've stayed the same. Boo. Well done to all the losers this week who are a true motivation to me. Particularly when it's so early in for me and I've bloody stalled already. However...I'm kinda ok with it because the trousers I currently have on I filled out 4 weeks ago and I know I've...

I made the error of not drinking sufficient water and by the end of week two was clogged up like a good 'un. An increase in fluids has helped loads. I find it difficult to drink water though so just sip hot water with a bit of lime cordial in it through the day. I wee longer that an Arabian...

Large salad, cottage cheese, sw chips and quorn sausages. Could not eat it all. Yum

Me too. My first weigh in would be tomorrow though so don't think I'll count that one. aislingb - 8lbs (0lbs lost - 8 lbs to go) Babybuffy84 - 6lbs (0lbs lost - 6lbs to go) Beki - 10lb (0lb lost - 10lb to go) Berniegray242 - 7lbd (0lbs lost - 7 lbs to go) Charlies_mummy - 8lb (0lbs lost - 8lbs...

...what everyone else says!!! I can add nothing else. I haven't followed a particular diet over the years but lost 7 stone about 6-7 years ago calories counting. OMG - It makes you a food nazi! - Can't have that - Don't have enough cals left to have that - Shouldn't have that cos it's bad for...

Oh my what a brilliant idea. I'm stunned at how many are nearby!

Arghhh! Down to my last two mullerlights!!!!

If you have no co-ordination and no rhythm - you need EA Active. There's a new one out but I've got the old one and the "More Workouts" add - on and it's fab.(You can use a balance board even though I don't have one.) It logs your weight weekly and your stats and keeps you going. You have a...

I have to say I am a republican but do think that William is probably the most "normal" royal we've ever had. They make a very nice couple and it was a lovely occasion. Just one thing...can someone explain to me why the minor royals have attended in minibuses?:8855: Now that was worth...

:wavey:Welcome. Everything you have heard is true. This bunch of people are so helpful and lovely. No judgement - just advice and fun. It's fab. (And I used WLR for some time yawn.....) All the very best! Go here. I didn't and couldn't figure out why I couldn't do some things for ages!!!

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Have you tried red grapefruits? They are about 35p each from Tesco and me and my daughter have one every morning (even before I started SW strangely). They are much sweeter than normal grapefruit but not sweet like and orange- worth a try - I like em.

Now THAT is forward planning - I like it! Creme egg for me- which I synned - but so worth it. I love with SW that you can still have these things and just not feel the guilt - plus you begin to appreciate how you want to use your syns more.

I think as long as they are dried they're ok - you have to syn them if they're fresh. Rice Noodles...drool:)

OMGOMGOMG! Found someone's tremendous recipe for Tuna Pasta Salad last night and must thank them because the whole family loved it and I will definitely make it again...delish.

Elizabeth - that's mean. I know for a fact that if my partner treated me the way my dad treated my mum - I'd be double my weight. If my oh said that, you don't want to know what I'd do. The problem is some people respond well to "tough talk" and some don't. It's not up to those doling out the...

Aw. You know It's so good that you're tuned into him this way. So many other people wouldn't be. I want more photos. I love goats!

It's so not geeky.

Misery - that is 20 years old and still a classic.

Oh yeah I hear you. Good times. Mine would have to be Beastmaster though - that had everything - drama - fantasy - fun - animals - pecks - nudity - horror - worship of supernatural eagles. No wonder I'm messed up.

You know how it is. You love an author and bought everything he/she's ever written..now you've got a book backlog on your beside table. (Mine is threatening to kill me whilst I sleep.) My pending pile includes but is not limited to: Sky Burial - Xinran Miss Chopsticks - Xinran (you seeing a...

I think that's fine if you are keeping them but frankly I have to have a clear out every so often or I would be one of those women who have a house FULL of books...and little paths to their bed and their kitchen..and their loo.. I used to buy everything in hardback but not now. I pick up...

OOH so many...in no particular order -Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro remains my favourite (I LOATHE that it was adapted) -A Pale View of Hills - same author (- he writes with a haunted, dreamlike quality that I love) -Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke -The Tales of the Otori...

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a much overlooked classic. It has the grime of Dickens with the class of Austen. It just takes me away....

The Good Women of China by Xinran for the second time. I let someone borrow it and didn't get it back. It is amazing. Xinran was a radio presenter on a woman's programme in China in the 80s. She collected stories from women who used to write to her and also phone in. The programme was very...

Have you tried the "More Workouts" extension? It's fab and has squash which I'm totally addicted to and (trumpet) Step aerobics - which is great. You can also use the two games together and upload progress to the newer one. I love it.:character00116:

Now that would play havoc with your BMI!

I know what you are saying hun. I had to double check that it wasn't me that wrote that. I have stopped hoarding clothes that once fit me now though and that feels much better. But I'm still and Ebay fiend. It'd be lovely to see something in a normal shop and just buy it.:o Like IanH mine...

Trying out a free chilli tonight. Believe it or not I've never had chilli before so should be interesting. It looks nice anyway. Do I have to syn a small tin of red kidney beans in chilli sauce though? (Couldn't find any normal ones in the cupboard and I usually add the chilli ones to baked...

Free range goat!:) Bless him - but you know what? He looks like he makes friends easily. I have a feeling he will be fine just a bit lost for a while.:o

Cool - I've just had a baby. That was a difficult pregnancy and I was eating all sorts of rubbish!

Ooh Carbs - scary!!:rolleyes: What are people like?!

OH and daughter each sitting here eating a cadbury chick with choc buttons inside. I'm not even bothered....what's wrong with me?!! \(*0*)/ <Baby chick.

Approx £85 pw for me, OH, daughter and dog. I eat toms on the vine too. A bit expensive but at least they actually taste of tomatoes and are soooo deep red and minty tasting! Just like the ones in Spain.

What Wii game are you doing babe? Always interested as I have a vast array of fitness DVDs but only recently started doing Wii stuff as a viable alternative. I'm just nosey.

What's shredding? Should I even be asking? It's not bloody snowboarding is it?;)

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Sounds scary.

Quite nice actually. I froze a plain vanilla one and it's turned out a bit like a more sour milk lolly - you know the little ones kiddies have? I'm not really a lolly person but come the hot weather - it's definitely an option.

:crazy:How can something so right be so wrong....? Off I go to the fridge to try my lollies..

Yummy 2x Quorn Sausages rubbed in barb seasoning, boiled mushrooms, 2x eggs fried in fry light and reduced tinned tomatoes with worcester sauce - yumster. I even got told off by my daughter (11years) that I'm "having a lot of cooked breakfasts lately - are you sure you're losing weight?" It's...