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Hello? Anybody home or are we all hibernating for the winter? XD I'm down to 14st¾lb now so I should be into the 13s by next week. Still need to lose a little faster if I want to reach my healthy weight by Christmas goal but I'm not far off that now with under 18lbs left to go and another 7...

I went back over the 200lb mark last week with a 3 ¾lb gain but now back under this week with a 5lb loss so now running the 14s out at 14st2 ¼lbs. Just as well really as I want to be carrying as little weight as possible for this 10k. Only a week to go now, eek! In related news, if anybody...

They sell them in Wilkinsons. They're quite nice I reckon. Not as nice as bueno but not far off.

Things in multi packs are usually smaller than the same things bought individually so that sounds about right for a single chocolate bar.

It'll be gone before you know it and then it'll start taking its friend with it!

Hope you managed a better week this week Nessa :) I broke the 200lb barrier at last! 14st3½lb now or 199½lbs

Well it may just be how I interpreted it in written form but the post seemed to suggest that because similar behaviour is exhibited with the influence of the same teacher, that the teacher must be at fault and the other common link (the child) is being disregarded as a cause. Aside from the...

It was aiming to express a contrary viewpoint to yours. You're perfectly entitled to let off steam as this is a public forum, I simply disagree with your opinion and stated as such, as is the nature of a forum.

So your son has misbehaved and you want to blame his teacher for that? I assume your son is in fact some kind of glove puppet and therefore not in control of his own actions?

Sts this week. I had a cold and was eating everything in sight until a mid week intervention from Madameleminx and my workouts have been terrible too so I'm actually quite pleased with not gaining anything. Hopefully I can shake this off and get my tempo back soon enough

Consider it from the point of view of science: A pound of fat is 3500 calories: that's more calories than in 7 Big Macs! Is it really so disappointing in perspective?

I gained a pound and a half this week so not under the 200lb mark yet. Not worried about it particularly, I expect to lose again over the next week so I'll get there shortly.

Looking good :) you should be proud

Pics or it didn't happen :p

So with just 1 pound to go to get under 200lb, this week I lost: Wait for it Drum roll please ¾lb! Sod's law, that was always going to happen!

One would assume they're unpacking and assembling flat pack furniture? If they seem quiet then they probably are bar the first few days after moving in. Your post was at midnight though, we're they still going at that time?

That's the plan anyway! Started the ball rolling with a 4 mile run on Sunday morning and planning on doing the same or more if I can on Wednesday.

Sinead- total loss to date 6st 1lbs, 3 stone 7lb to go JaneN - total loss to date 4lbs, 2 stone 3lb to go newgirl-x - total loss to date 22lbs, 1 stone 7lbs to go Blue Butterfly - total loss to date 6lbs, 92lbs to go Rigby - total loss to date 2lbs, 41lbs to go jules81 total loss to date 0lbs...

Nice one Sue and Nessa :) I'm 3¾stone lighter this week. Not quite sure how as I haven't really done anything different but still pretty happy with it. Takes me to 14st4¾ and under a pound to go before my weight goes under 200lbs!

Congrats girls, sounds like a good week all round. I lost another lb so down to 14st 9 1/2 now.

Morning all. First in the weigh-in thread today I see. I'll put the kettle on. Who's for tea? XD 14st 10½lbs this week. That's another 2 and a half pounds gone so I'm happy. I've also decided to notch the fitness drive up a level and entered myself in for the Plymouth 10k in November. So if I...

How much are they there?

Women don't gain muscle to any noticeable degree. If you're thinking "the gun show" that's only won't happen. Testosterone is a large factor in building sizeable muscles and with much less of it than men, women's muscle don't grow as much as a mans will (checkout some training regimes for female...

That's awesome! It's great to see non scale goals like that, really proves that you're having an impact.

Doubly happy today. Football season has stated again and I made it to 14st 13lb! I finally broke the 15st barrier. I can definitely feel the difference in training now too, had to put three machines up to higher weight yesterday as they'd got too easy at the lower weight.

I know the feeling: I think we all want to shift it as soon as possible, but I find it helps to break it down into little mini goals so you can see how you're achieving. 4 lbs is great so you should be proud of what you've achieved so far. Also, it's good to focus on things other than the...

ONLY? That's 14000 calories worth of fat in 6 days: over 2000 a day!

Recipes are here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/hairy_bikers

Hehe, hairy pie... Seriously though, they looked awesome!

Wraps in most takeaway place are generally unite high in points sadly. I've done the same at Sunway before thinking I'm having a healthier option and turning out I may a well have just had bread.

Still 15st1 I will eventually break that 15st barrier but it's remaining steadfast for now.

Why are you not succeeding? Is it that you're eating too much or not the right things? If its the wrong things, don't buy them. Shop online and leave out most of the stuff that's too tempting for now. Remember though that SW is about everything in moderation so you're teaching yourself...

Yes, poor show from SW. If they're regularly quoting the wrong value, they must be ruining millions of men's birthdays.

A teaspoon is slightly more than the average ejaculation. At a quarter syn per teaspoon, if the average was 9 syns, that would make the average 540ml! You could wallpaper a room with that much baby batter. Reminds me of a genuine fact on that note: dykt the band 10cc got their name as a...

Interesting development. Last week I ate really really ***** and did essentially no exercise and stayed the same; this week I ate within dailies nearly every day, only use about 10 of my weeklies and did about 6 hours in the gym and I gained a half pound!

Is that what you've been telling Mr Kimmie as an excuse? ;) If it's 5 calories it'd be 1/4 syn surely? Dykt if you laid all the arteries in your body end to end, you would die.

Definitely. I'm all about the visual measures I success and having an app to track instantly is great.

The lasagne looked awesome, I'll deffo be making that soon. This is pretty much the perfect programme for me too, I LOVE the Hairy Bikers. I'm fond of food programmes in general but they're my favourite TV cooks so I was really pleased to see them doing a weight loss show.

Yes, the M&S half fat butter is awesome. Actually tastes like butter rather than margarine.

You're only human, you will have days when you want to eat shortly. The key thing is that you know it's not the way to go on a daily basis because you've said as such. You've also proved that you CAN still lose weight after slipping off the rails a bit so don't beat yourself up. People won't...

There's definitely plenty to motivate you here. Welcome in, I hops you enjoy it.

Last week's weigh in went so well, I decided to repeat it this week. 15st ½lb again. I've eaten really quite badly this week so actually, I'm quite pleased as I was expecting a gain.

There's a few of us, but we talk less than the women so we're more difficult to spot ;)

Haribo ice cream lollies are 2pp! Totally worth it and you get some tiny gummy bears in the stick too.

Their desserts are generally pretty good. Yogurts there are generally 2-3 propoints for a start. Their ice cream is almost always lower than the Ben and jerrys or haagen dasz equivalent too and its just as lush.

It shouldn't be more expensive to eat on Propoints unless you're buying the WW products. If you are, sack them off, there's always a non brande cheaper equivalent. Shop at Aldi or Lidl to save a few bob too, they're just as good as the bigger supermarkets but much cheaper.

Has anybody else found they've developed a whole load of new annoyances now? For example, the following have been bugging me lately: Packet sizes that aren't a multiple of the portion size:Special K for instance comes in a 550g box but a portion size is 30g. 30 goes into 550 18 and a third...

British Heart Foundation charity shops have them from time to time I've seen. If you've got one of their big stores that sell large items and furniture then it might be worth a look. I know there's one in the Plymouth shop at the moment, but that's unlikely to help you XD

I think, to be fair, there's also the worry that you might go too far the other way and end up underweight to the point of risking your health, which is probably worse than being overweight in the first place. Certainly not suggesting that you would, but it does happen and your friends are going...

The reward for my first stone was a new tattoo. I'm not allowed any for the time being though so I'm planning a sleeve for when I reach my final goal. Glad I'm not the only one using Body art as an incentive!

There was a woman on there a few weeks ago eating everything as she cooked. I always used to do that before I started weighing everything. It turned out though that with little nibbles on bits of cheese and ham and stuff while she was cooking, she was eating nearly as many calories before the...

As you're in the UK though, you will want to get it from Slideme, it's not on Google Play over here. Get the slideme store here: SlideME | Android Apps Market: Download Free & Paid Android Applications

If you and someone else posted at the same time, their copy/paste may not have had yours in it (it wasn't there when they started writing!) If that happens, redo it with your updated weight again so the next person to copy has the right figure.

If you work in a desk based environment then a 2 litre bottle and a cup can help. I fill up a bottle at the start of my shift then drink from it throughout the day rather than going back and forth to the water cooler. It's definitely helped me keep hydrated enough.

Probably about time I actually posted some progress in here really! xSinead - total loss to date 4st 13lbs, 4 stone 8lb to go JaneN - total loss to date 4lbs, 2 stone 3lb to go newgirl-x - total loss to date 15lbs, 2 stone 4lbs to go Blue Butterfly - total loss to date 6lbs, 92lbs to go Rigby -...

I'm not overly worried about slow loss really. It took me years to put all the weight on so losing it all over 2 years is nothing in comparison! To be honest though, I did hardly any exercise at all last week as my partner's not been well so instead of going to the gym after work I've been...

Nice one Nessa, you're doing great, keep it up. 3/4 of a stone seems to be a recurring theme for me at the moment as that's this weeks loss too. Almost under the 15 stone mark now at 15st 1/2lb. Hopefully I can make next week 14stsomething

How are you with hot an spicy? I find if I put jalapeños on my salad I never get bored of it! I've eaten loads more salad since I started keeping jars of discovery jalapeños in the fridge at all times!

Lipotrim brings you down to 450 calories, so it will be a lot faster. WW is slower but it also teaches you good eating habits. The important thing is you ARE losing so keep it up and be proud of what you've achieved!

ONLY 2lb? Consider the amount of calories that amounts to is 7000. Is it so disappointing then? If you're on 27 points I assume that you're not too far from a healthy weight in relative terms so what does that equate to as a percentage of your body weight? It's unlikely you will lose huge...

Doctors generally believe what they believe about most things because of research and statistics. The fact is that most people on a VLCD put the weight back on so they won't be able to justify it statistically. The fact that it's working well for you is brilliant, but you are clearly more...

The points are accurate but because things are added by users the nutritional info isn't always right. I've seen quite a few things where people have listed per 100g as per portion for example and I assume a few thing have different recipes in different countries too. It helps to check stuff...

Sounds like you're in the right place to me.

3 lbs off when you only have 7 to go is pretty remarkable, well done Sue. I was on holiday half of last week and went way over weeklies, hence no weigh in last week. As we got back Wednesday I've had half a week of eating and drinking crap this week too and I expected a gain but somehow I lost...

Kind of. It has a "meal"builder. It doesn't make one recipe into a food, it divides the ingredients by the number of serving and adds them proportionally. It's not a massive difference, but it does mean some meals are slightly different. Never usually more than a point or two difference if...

I think it depends on what you like. I couldn't spend an hour listening to dance music 5 times a week so I couldn't get that running album. It should be up tempo though, I agree. Personally I got for stuff that's fast, loud and generally very angry sounding like Sepultura, Skindred and Slipknot.

I normally drink the twining ones. Quite fond of the one with pomegranate.

Bacon

Surely 50% off means it's half the calories, right? ;)

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Edited, wrong thread!

Thanks Em:) You're off to a great start too by the looks of it do well done!

It's that time again! This week I'm down to 15st 2 1/2lbs, another pound gone :)

( well someone had to say it)

M&S half fat butter is 1pp for 10g, the same as Clover lighter but it's actual butter rather than Marge. Also spotted some really nice looking Macarons in Marks that were 5pp for 3 Macarons, I thought that was pretty good considering they're supposed to be a pretty indulgent food. Didn't buy any...

Yea, I haven't replaced snacks with yea or anything like that, I'm eating to the WW plan the ordinary way and drinking green tea mainly instead of regular tea at the office I think the important thing is whether or not you like the taste of green tea! I drink it mainly because I like it more...

No matter how much I tweak it, I can never quite make the model look like me...

I didn't really care that much about my weight until about a year ago when my brother announced that he was going to be needing a kidney soon. I was at that point, too fat to be able to donate and that was the kick up the arse I needed. A year on now, I've lost over 3 stone. This will come in...

I'm not sure tbh. I started drinking it around the same time that I started eating healthier so I don't know if it's the green tea or just the better eating that's done it. I had a minor increase last week and I didn't drink it all week cos I'd run out and kept forgetting to buy more, so there...

It makes no sense to me to be honest. It's one of those phrases that just reinforces the concept of some food being "good" and some being "bad" which is, quite frankly, just plain bullshit.

Banana

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Death

Continuum

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Pomegranate

Kitten

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Nice one sue, getting closer! I went up quarter of a pound this week but that doesn't really bother me seeing as I lost more than average last week anyway. I'm still in the overweight zone so I'm still on track for healthy weight in the long run. Also, I'm starting to see more muscle...

It only shows you a whole number rounded up or down as appropriate so if something is 1.4points then it would be rounded down to 1 but 2 would be 2.8 so that would be rounded up to 3. On the calculator thought it's only showing whole numbers. Don't recalculate points yourself so you can eat...

I should probably feel sympathetic and all that ****, but that's one of the funniest things I've ever read so I'm finding that difficult!

I found bacon medallions seem to always be low propoints so we normally buy those rather than rashers now.

Weeklies DO stay the same whatever your weight

In the UK it's only on the slideme app store: http://slideme.org/

I've not seen any in any of the supermarkets down this way but they do seem to be listed in the food tracker as still existing. We normally buy Laughing cow light cheese triangles which are the same propoints (1 point for up to 2 triangles)

I do the majority of my tracking on my phone and I pretty much use very little else on the WW site. Occasionally I'll get a recipe off there but I have loads of other sources of recipes. I don't particularly like the forums on there, they're not laid out well at all and I don't find the need to...

Nice one Sue :) I reached a milestone today too, i reached 15st3.5 today so I'm no longer Obese and now merely "overweight" I'm about to celebrate this by lifting up some things and then putting them down again.

Hey dude! Welcome to minimins. Glad to hear they are writing together again, I always thought the best stuff was with both of them on board.

But you're the same weight so you can't be bloated. You didn't put weight on over a few days so don't worry if you're not losing it over a few days! You'll be fine, you've got the will and that's the most important thing.

Have you tried green tea? I had to cut down on tea and coffee after getting a minor kidney stone. I have switched most of my brews to that after discovering I really quite like it! It allegedly helps weight loss too, but I can't be certain how much if at all as I was already losing weight when I...

Not what I meant. I meant; did you arrive at your current weight after a massive 5 day food binge or did you put it on over multiple years? If you DID put it on over 5 days you can probably lose it in 5 days, if you didn't, then it's illogical to think you can.

Did you put the weight you want to lose on over 5 days? Give it more time.

Nice one Sue! I'm 15st6 and a half today after another 1 3/4lbs off so the extra activity seems to be working so far.

Sophia puts it perfectly there. If your aim is to eat a certain way until you lose the weight as so many people do, then you're probably already doomed to fail when you stop eating that way.

If you look below the numbers, it points out there that a 37.5g serving is 2 biscuits so you don't have to skimp in them :)

Funnily enough, I literally just posted the Rammstein Tshirt I want to get back into in another thread and then saw someone bumped this! So, yeah, bit of a fan here! Me and the Mrs were at teh greatest hits tour in Mac a few months back which was bloody awesome.

I absolutely love Red Dwarf, one fo the best British Comedies ever IMO. I'm really excited about the new ones coming back, especially as it'll be the first time we see it in HD. Am I right in thinking that Grant and Naylor are writing together again for this series as well?

I want to reach the "healthy weight" zone by BMI rating by Christmas. I do appreciate that BMI is fairly inaccurate, but I still think it's a nice guideline to go by. This means I need to lose another 39 1/4lbs by Christmas and there's 29 more weigh ins between now and then so that's an average...

I have a Rammstein Tshirt from the Reise Reise tour in 2005 that I want to get back into: Also, I have a grey shirt that used to be my favourite shirt back then and I haven't worn it for years. I've been using that as a marker of how much weight I've lost so far. So far I've gone from this...

Are you possibly reading the "per portion with milk" bit of the nutritional values? May be better to point them dry and calculate your own milk

Well don to all the Saturday weighers. I was down another 3/4 lb so took me to 30.4 BMI, closing in on the no longer obese zone for me now :) I also joined a gym so starting phase 2 of weightless where I try and replace all that missing fat with muscle.

Tesco Secret Centre mousse desserts. We've had these a few times recently and they're lush. It's a mint and chocolate swirly mousse thing with a chocolate sauce in the middle (there's a white chocolate and orange and a toffee chocolate version too but we prefer the mint ones) All the varieties...

15st 11.5lb today. Earnt a blue star and a gold star on my Weight Watchers chart thingy. Yay for stars!

16st11 today, so that's another 3lbs gone and means I've lost just over 5% of my body weight since starting Weight Watchers :) It also means I get a new tat! Booking myself in for the end of the month \m/

Rammstein tonight at the MEN. Starting to get excited now!

You're breast feeding chocolate? I always wondered how they make that Yazoo stuff. ;)

If the weeklies were a bad idea they wouldn't be there so don't feel bad for using them. It's calculated so you can eat your dailies and weeklies in full every week and still lose weight in the long run. in my second week I ate/drank through all my weeklies in one night (work do) and still lost...

Deadlock holiday - 10cc

How about a big comedy weight like in the cartoons with the amount you've lost written on it? XD

another 3lbs off this week so down to 17stone exactly now, that's a stone and a half since I started, 10lbs since I started really going for it with WeightWatchers 4 weeks ago. I promised myself a new tat at every stone I went under so just one more pound to go :) Gonna book myself in next week...

That's the problem with cats, they never make their own breakfast! ;) I've neglected my own thread for ages, how embarassing. This week I weigh 17st4, which is 3lbs less than this time last week. Hoorah!

1 lb of fat is 3500 calories worth which works out at nearly a day and a half of meals or about 6 hours of cardio so losing 1lb a week is a good achievement in perspective. The recommended amount my doctor gave me is 1-3 lb per week and no faster so I'very been aiming thereabouts.

Watched "Limitless" last night based upon recommendations from my GFs friends. Really really enjoyed it.

Well done all. I gained a lb this week so now 17st4 My body fat percentage is still the same so that may be water or muscle I assume. I gave blood this week and that usually throws my body sugar off a fair bit. I'm not overly worried but a more concerted effort is in order for next week for me.

Steps and Machine Head, that's a pretty divetse selection there! We're off to see Rammstein in March so I need to go down 2 shirt sizes by then if I want to get into my Rise Rise tour shirt again for it.

Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young

If you're hungry, it's usually because you need to eat. Clearly the shakes aren't giving you enough of particular nutrients that you need so your body is making you hungry to top it up. Find good sources of food to keep yourself topped up, fruit and the like. If you can't satiate your hunger...

The proper meaning of the word "diet" is the specific food eaten by a particular creature, ie "The Panda lives on a diet of shoots and leaves" so technically, everyone is always on a diet. But it's all in your perception I think. If you consider it a task with a specific short term end goal then...

If you can indulge and still lose weight, that's brilliant :) I lost another pound this week so I'm down to 17st3 now.

Nice one RR :) I'm down to 17st4 now, which is a 6lb loss this week, a bit more than I expected to lose to be honest, but I'm not going to complain about that!

Congrats Sue and RR! I'm weighing again after a lot of slacking. Drawing a line here to restart at: 17st10

Haven't done this in ages, I keep forgetting. Have made a milestone now though and lost my first whole stone! Down to 17st 5 today! I have snazzy new weight watchers scales though and they tell me I'm 38% fat so that needs to go down a little too!

Sorry to hear that losing, hope the lack of gain at least makes it a little better for what it's worth. It's clearly a binge week for the Saturday crew as me and Ms Don had a blow out on Sunday with Burger king whilst in Manc and takeaway when we got back. Still managed to lose 2lbs somehow...

Me inside - Slipknot

Crazy - Mark Morrison

Crazy - Aerosmith

Crazy - Payday Cline

Crazy for you - Let Loose. Is it bad that I really liked this song as a kid?

Don't worry too much about the size of your mii, it's pretty exaggerated to be fair!

off to a gig in Manc today so I weighed myself yesterday. Lost another three pounds this week so down to 18st1 now :)

Good luck :)

Future Proof - Massive Attack

Sex type thing - Stone Temple Pilots

You won't regret it. As well as being a decent way to get some exercise, it's also pretty fun too. Especially when you add on the fact that there's a few other games that can use it too. Including a survival horror game later this year I read about which looks intriguing.

I wouldn't really of course, but there's something about those monkey puppets!

I've got 28 that went astray earlier in the thread and another 19 this weekend, so that brings me up to 1hr22 so far

No, they don't cause constipation. But if you already have a condition that causes constipation then it may exacerbate it. But between me and my partner we get through loads of bananas and we've not had any problems at all.

Watched Bronson last night. That guy has major issues. Really good as a film, although from what I can tell it's not a massively accurate or detailed account of his life. It certainly shows just why he's spent so long in prison!

Coming from the Sun though, it might well just be completely made up. If it isn't though, that's just ridiculous. Aside from the health implications; she's 8 years old, she should have no reason to wax as nobody should be seeing the parts of herself she can wax anyway.

That one just makes me want to engage in animal cruelty!

18st4 - 3lbs lost so far :)

It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys

Dancing with tears in my eyes - Ultravox

Killer Queen - Queen

We're not far off Laira either too, Deer Park!

I have tickets for Roger Waters playing the wall in Manc next week, Sonisphere at Knebworth in June and Iron Maiden at Cardiff in July. Woo!

The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin

Doesn't that already happen anyway with certain foods? I remember hearing about scan bran being pushed a lot at certain meetings. Ultimately their primary motive like any business is to make money; if they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, it wouldn't cost to go to groups and it...

One last love song - Beautiful South

I did 18 inutes of Wii Fit and 10 of Wii Sports Tennis yesterday (I'm not counting time spent in menus and the like on tennis, only the time actually spent playing tennis) so that's another 28. Off to do some more soon. And Miss Mango, you'll certainly see me on more video game challanges; I'm...

Ooh, now I do love video game based challanges. I'm gonna set myself the not overly ambitious target of 10 hours form yesterday to the end of May as I'm new to this whole moving myself thing. I did 35 minutes yesterday though so that's a start!

Mine's not going anywhere yet as I only really started Saturday so I've not weighed myself again yet! I have managed to stick to a pretty healthy day so far and bought another bucketload of fruit vegetables today (there's never been so many green things in our house!) I'm sure he will get there...

Only You - The Flying Pickets (Number one the day I was born, woo!)

It sounds like he's admitted that he knows how big the problem is and how difficult it is going to be for him. That's brilliant. The hardest step is to stand up and tell the people you love "you know what? I'm really ****ed up right now" so it's awesome he's done that :) Best that he doesn't...

the key thing is he has to want to overcome it. You say you're sure he does but if you have to assume it, it probably suggests that he's never said out loud that he really does want to work around it. It does get like that. It's not that he's being lazy, but it's pretty hard to admit that...

That was pretty much the case for me for ages. I guess we're just more stubborn about change! Nice to see there's two of us with Rammstein shirts as an incentive. 3 if you count my gf who wants to get into the tiny womens shirts they do.

with the 20 calories/free foods thing; how can you tell when foods are counted as free? With the cheesecake for example, there's cheese involved, but that doesn't count towards a HE. So does an ingredient ever count in prepacked food or only if you bake it yourself?

It was diagnosed when I was about 17. I'd been bad before then but I'd never really had a name for it or knew why I just didn't want to leave the house sometimes. At it's worst point, I hadn't left the flat at all, even to the hallway or to take the rubbish out, for nearly 2 weeks, so my gf at...

Perhaps if you and your boyfriend WERE to live apart for a while while you were studying, it would help him overcome his agoraphobia? It gives him a stronger incentive to leave the house to see you. As a recovered agoraphobic I know how he feels, and it's all little steps to get there, but if...

Hold on Hope - Guided by Voices

I haven't ever tried anything to prevent it. Just antiseptic if I do get chafing. I'll try and bring some talc and moisturiser this year and see if that helps. thanks for the tips :)

I can't help noticing that there's a far greater number of Ladies than there are Gentlemen on this site and although it's a lovely place to be, I do feel a little bit of a minority! With not everyone having an avatar, it might be more even than I think of course, but it seems to be a general...

This thread is awesome! I just got back from the shops and it's a bit of an incline on the way back from our local co-op. Not really a hill, just a little but uphill, but nonetheless, I often find that I'm breathing heavily by the time I get back and sometimes I've even had to stop part way home...

Fair enough. I'm gonna carry on draining it but I'll be sure to count the syns. Once we've used up the stuff in the freezer though, we might as well look for extra lean. I'm assuming taste wise there's basically no difference?

I'm starting out with Slimming world at the moment and it all seems to be quite reasonable what I can and can't eat so I'm not finding the adjustment majorly hard for food, but I'm not so sure with drinks. I had thought in advance that fresh fruit juice would be generally OK with fruit beign syn...

So if we drain off the fat on lean mince, it's not cheating to consider it syn free? Or would you recommend counting it as synned just to be on the safe side? I've always done this anyway as I just don't like the texture it gives anyway so while I'm starting out and winding down our pre SW...

Wow, I didn't know avocados were so high in fat. They look so unassuming! I think I can quite happily live without them knowing that! There's plenty more fruit and veg in the sea (so to speak)

I find taking anti histamine just before bed helps stop you getting the symptoms in the first place. They say you should take them in the morning but it works better for me at night.

Smell

Wii Fit is pretty fun and if you're the geeky kind like me it gives you everything totted up and put onto graphs and the like which helps keep you motivated. But the woman telling me my posture is bad all the time annoys me. I argue back but she never listens.

The skittles ad with the guy that turns everything into skittles is awesome.

The reason I mentioned Mayonnaise was because I was looking at Guacamole as a replacement dipping food. Seems like that would be a bad idea then! What is it about Avacodos that makes them particularly unhealthy then? They seem to be the only veg item that isn't that good for you. I like the...

You've lost loads already so well done on that. It totally proves you can do it though so keep it up and you'll definitely get those last few!

Thanks guys. Btw - GIR riding a pig is the most awesome thing ever!

Google gave about 6 different answers Guacamole so I can't work out a general concensus. I was thinking of swapping Mayonnaise for Guacamole as I start slimming world, but it actually seems from some of the answers that I've seen that it's actually higher than mayonnaise! I was thinking of using...

Are you getting trimmer? Because that's usually the aim for most of us I think, if you feel that you look better, the numbers aren't as important. As others have said, it's likely to be either creation of stronger muscles or water retention for the purposes of creating stronger muscles...

I may well have just not looked hard enough, but I didn't see any sort of Saturday weigh in thread, so I thought I'd start one as I'm making Saturday my weigh in day. It's the day that I'm most likely to go out so potentially indulge in occasional treat and therefore it gives me a week after any...

I have a couple of pretty cool looking tats. And as incentive to lose weight, I'm allowing myself one (and only one) more for every stone mark I pass under!

So hi, I'm Dominoid. I got pointed in the direction of this forum by Hastalavegan and Madamelaminx, who've both been encouraging me to try Slimming World and take a proper approach to weight loss for a while now. I usually do EVENTUALLY listen to other people's advice, it just takes me some time...