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Another y for me. Could someone update me please?

Thank you! I want to get a star next week!

Hi, Could someone add a Y for last week and a Y for this week for me please? Well done all those who lost - way to go Carly!

Hi, Starting afresh post Christmas two weigh in's and I lost 1lb the first week and 1lb the second. Could someone update me with two y's please? (still not sussed how to do it on iPhone...)

Keep me on please. Had a bit of a break over Christmas. Damage assessment and fresh start tomorrow. Must finish the salted caramel sauce I made first tho...

Got to keep the colour! Thanks! Very pleased with the loss, but afraid it is due to a very stressful and upsetting week. It made me totally lose my appetite - something of a new experience for me. As a life experience I wouldn't recommend a week like the one I've just had - as a diet plan it...

6 lb off this week. A deffo Y for me. Could someone update me please?

Not happy that you guys will be living it up in Manchester this weekend whilst I'm working. Enjoy yourselves extra for me and post lots of photos!!! Will console myself with the fact that I've just lost another pound!!!! Could some one update me please?

Thanks Carly! Have a fab new Xmas top which looks good now but will be stunning if I get rid if a couple more pounds. It's proving quite a motivation!!

A pound off for me. Could someone update me please?

Forgot to post on Monday, but could someone update me with a Y please? 4lb off last week. Lots if good losses every one. We can do this!

Good luck for tomorrow! .... And if I were you I wouldn't even think about telling work about you PGCE plans until you have an offer in your hand. Until then it's only an idea, when you get the offer it becomes real. You'll have more than enough time to give them the notice you have too - and...

Been pretty good this week. 4lb off - and it's TOTM. Yesterday and today I've really not been too good. Still I will knock that on the head tomorrow. Hoping for 2-3lb off next week.

Well done! Keep going at this rate and they'll be nothing left of you!!

So I've just about got back to normal. Still over tired, but much improved. The bad news is 7lb on. Frustrating is not the word! I suppose it could have been worse. I'm getting my head back into diet mode from today. New start and hopefully a new low before Xmas. I just need to keep tracking...

I put on another 2lb, so ended up heavier than I started. :-) To top it all I went clothes shopping and the sales assistant told me they didn't really do clothes for people with my figure. It was Evans and she was insinuating I was too small to fit their clothes.

2lb on, so a big fat N for me. Could someone update for me please?

Thank you. Oddly enough I feel rather sick, it's an interesting combination of starving hungry but can't face eating. It's not like me to be off my food. Usually I crave carbs when ill - sweet or savoury. Not getting over worried about dieting, just tying to eat healthy stuff and rest when I...

5lb on so a big fat N for me. Could someone update for me please?

Weighed in today. Five pounds on. Unimpressed. Still feeling bad. Looks like I may have picked up a bug. :-(

Thanks. Doesn't look so good, does it?

Hi. Bad week this week. 5lb on. Hoping mostly due to me messing up my medication and that getting back on track this week will see most of that gone. Could someone update for me please?

Thanks. Will try the protein idea. It makes sense. Am feeling better than I did, but still tired. Not going quite so mad on the food front, but not good. Will see how we go tomorrow. Scales say 3 pounds on. Weigh in on Monday. Hopefully a good weekend will reverse some of that. Fingers crossed

The problem is the empty calories are usually the ones that taste the best....

Ok. Time for an update. Was delighted that I just managed a pound off on Monday. So delighted that I forgot to take my thyroxine. Cue absolute exhaustion like I've never known it before. So far this week I'm up three pounds. I'm still not back to normal yet - and need extra food just to keep...

Sorry, that should read "Very proud of this one"

Another y for me. Could some one update me please? Very prions if thudding - resisted muffins, croissants, doughnuts and my favourite cake shop to get it! Good luck everyone !

Morning all. Another pound off for me (grins). Thought it was going to be a pound on, but really stuck at it the last couple if days. Could some one update me please?

My guess is that it will be in the Dec magazine - as that comes out at the start of Nov. I don't think the weeklies will change. That would be too huge a change. Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

I read the magazine yesterday. Didn't see any mention of changes. I'm guessing they will make it kind of hard to miss when they do go public.

Tired and hungry. I want either my bed, chocolate or a carb fix. Fruit just not hitting the spot. My motivation. Seems to have gone out of the window. Will have to use sheer bloody mindedness instead.....

Absolutely exhausted the last couple of days, so, whilst I've not gone mad I've not exactly kept to plan. Oh well. That's life. I think a sts this week is about the best I can hope for - which is, I suppose, not exactly a disaster. Don't think ofsted paying a visit to my OH's school and...

A four pound loss, no matter how long it takes, is not pitiful.... You're doing do well. Keep at it girl!

I do seem to have my mojo back. It's welcome to stay as long as it wants! I have some good motivating goals, which helps. Out for dinner with a friend in three weeks. Want to shift another five pounds to take me past the lowest I got to before I fell of the wagon in the summer. If it manage it...

Thanks. And well done yourself. We're going to smash those October targets !

Yea!!! My first star! How could I have missed that!!!! Thanks Ruth

Despite the heat, totm and ASBO Magnum's I've managed to scrape a pound off this week. Absolutely delighted. I guess the running around was good for something! This week is a bit less manic so hoping for some time to do some good low point home cookery and catch up on some sleep in the cooler...

A pound off for me! Could someone update me please?

How could we forget our Carly! Hope you manage to find some time to rest.

A pound off this week. Could somebody update me with a Y please? Thanks!

I've been manic the last two days and the heat has made sleep impossible. No energy to cook properly either. Add in totm and I'll be delighted with a sts this week. Not sleeping does make you so much hungrier - and lowers your resistance to Magnum attacks. Still, by mid next week the heat will...

Those Magnums are very dangerous - especially when the temperature rises. I was attacked again yesterday....

That's great news twinmum07! Onwards and downwards for you. Had a slight accident with a white Magnum Yesterday, which was covered by weeklies. Apart from that, been sticking fairly well to the plan. Totm coming up again. Must not stress if scales misbehave. *repeat as many times as necessary*

Thanks Twinmum07, glad you found it helpful. It helps to write it, and it's even better when people comment on it. Hope the damage at weigh in wasn't too bad. Heave yourself back up on the wagon and keep trying. The cake was good thanks, but having been sticking so hard to the diet I actually...

I'll have a go! Could someone put me down for 6 pounds please - i'm on my iPhone. If I get there, it will be the lightest I've been since I put on the weight I lost for my wedding three years ago. Why does that seem so scary?

Two pounds off for me this week. I think i'm firmly back on the diet wagon! Could someone give me a Y please as I'm on my IPhone Thanks.

Feeling very pleased with myself - Two pounds off!!!! That's half a stone in two weeks. Cake shop treat for me today - and some dumplings with my stew tonight, the back on the wagon tomorrow. Lots of work stuff, and not much social stuff this week, so it should be easier to stick to the plan...

Well I avoided the cake, but there lunch out was a calorie festival. Not as bad as it could have been. It was rather hard to track, but I gave it a shot! I think I'm on track - a couple of weeklies still in hand. There were some really good days too. I think I'm pretty in track for a pond off at...

Thanks. I was pleased too - and glad to be back on the wagon. Food pretty much all planned out for today. I have a meeting in Starbucks. Must avoid the cakes. I think a banana just before I go should sort that. Wednesday am going out for lunch. Not much on the menu that's low in points. I'm...

So glad you had a fantastic time! Now you know it's for you don't you let anything stop you!! I think the amount of support you get in teach first depends on the school you're at and the people supporting you - the lucky ones get people who go the extra mile, others get people who only do the...

That should have said not good, not void! Auto correct on the iPhone sometimes over steps itself...

*takes deep breath and clears throat* Hi everyone. Went off plan for a while and ended up a pound heavier than when I started. Not void Back on the wagon again now, and thought I'd better face the music. Could somebody please give me nine N's and one Y at the end. Been on plan all week - and...

Five pounds off this week! The post weigh in treat - slice of cake and tart for lunch from the posh cake shop by the office. Sensible dinner and pointing stats again tomorrow. I'd love to drop another three pounds next week - but I think two is mire likely! We'll see

I've done some swooping - skimmed milk instead of full fat and low fat spread instead of butter. I've tried some of the WW desserts before and I just can't get in with them. I don't like the chemical feel of them. I have Petit Filous mini desserts. Really chocolately. It's just enough for a fix...

I have been doing well, but right now am working from home and starving! Real danger zone time. Have already raided the fruit bowl - but not helping. I am NOT going to hit the chocolate. I am NOT going to hot the chocolate..... Am going to have to come up with a filling lunch. No Idea what...

I always think there should be room for compromise - if you sleep and he gets on with the funny business does it count towards activity points? I mean technically you were involved in the activity....

Ps resisted the cake shop all week. If I hit the five pound target on Monday then I may have cake to finish off the weeklies!

Thanks! So, the last couple if days haven't been so bad. I seem to be sticking to plan fairly well and it's starting to show on the scales. If I can keep this up there ought to be a serious loss on weigh in day. Still going to have to work hard to shift what I put on on my, um "break" but I am...

Go Carly! Good luck for weigh in!!!

The soup I brought for lunch was terrible! Can't face any more of it - so am absolutely starving. I will resist the cake shop. I will resist the cake shop. Hunger is my friend.....

So I weighed in this morning and I'm two pounds up from last week - which means I've put on the two pounds i lost this week and another two in the last 48 hrs. I know I'd been a bit naughty, but I wasn't that bad. Am putting some of it down to totm. My target for this week is four pounds off -...

Sometimes I go for two starters and a pudding. You get three courses, but just smaller sizes. Almost all of the fun without the huge main portion. Often the starters look better than the mains to me, and you always have room for pud.....

Thanks for the reply. I have days when I crave chocolate cakes, biscuits and all things sweet. Other days I am good as gold. I tend to have tomatos on wholegrain bread for brekie, apple mid morning, lunch ( soup and bread, left over healthy dinner, type stuff) a banana mid afternoon and a...

Well, Thursday turned out ok. Only a point or so over my daily allowance. Friday was fine until about five at which point it all went to pot and so it has continued. I am blaming totm. I have big issues with totm and this month has proved very bad. Almost passed out and only recovered when i had...

And if the food isn't better than the company I hope the booze is at least flowing...

Well I was trying to think on the bright side if things didn't work out for you to start in September 2012, but I have my fingers crossed that it all works out for then. Hope the food tonight is better than the company....

P.s. An iPhone 4.... I may be too jealous to keep posting :-)

Although it may seem tough now another year may not be a bad thing. You could get more experience in schools, read up on educational theory and get ahead on that before you start, you can save up to make the finances easier and you can get yourself to goal. Just think how much extra energy and...

I'm so sorry they weren't more supportive. I hope, at least, you feel better for having told them and having it out in the open. If it's any help my Mum doesn't think much of my life choices. Not that she says much about them or gives me a hard time but deep down she thinks I did the wring...

How did your Mum and Sis react?

Yesterday was ok. Stuck to what I'd planned pretty much. Had a couple of biscuits that I hadn't planned . What happens if you work until 10pm! Still covered by weeklies though. So far today it's the same story. Working late again tonight so shall have to be very firm with myself. Currently...

Fingers crossed that your parents surprise you and are all for it. Are you thinking primary school or secondary?

Welcome Loads of good ideas and helpful advice in here. Good luck!

I'm in the same sort of boat. Keep trying - you only fail if you give up trying. Each day is a fresh start. Don't let what happened yesterday (and the day before, and before that) stop you from trying today. I'm just about getting my head back into it. I've got a mini target of two pounds off...

How very exciting!!! If it's what you want you should go for it if you want it badly enough you'll find a way. We all know how committed you are to losing weight and if your commitment to teaching is anywhere near the same woe betide anything that gets in your way.... Have you looked at the...

Managed to stick to a tea when my colleague took my to the posh new fish and chip restaurant by the office. :-) Couldn't resist the polish cheesecake. :-( small piece, but was delish! Bit over what I planned for dinner and polished off the last of the chocolate that was hanging around. Overall...

Thank you! Yesterday I managed to stick to what I'd planned - more or less. Dinner ran late and I ended up with a handful of doritos and four chocs after dinner. It's the closest I've been to on track for a while, so quite pleased. So far today is ok ish - I polished of the last bit of the...

Hi, Though I should fill you guys in on how I've been doing. Work stress and two week long holidays took me off plan for a month!! I've been struggling to get back on plan ever since and am getting there. The bad news is I gained weight. In fact * gulp* weigh in last Monday had me at a pound...

Come back or we might start to think you danced yourself away to nothing! We miss you!

I may be doing it wrong as I weigh in at home but I weigh in on a Monday morning use up any weeklies that day and start a new week on the Tuesday. That way I have a whole week to undo any damage....

I'm a Londoner too - and I'm friendly! If it's your friends first week then loads of that will be water. No matter how well she did you are doing stunningly too - and you've been doing amazingly for ages. Your friend has only managed a week. She's got along way to go to get close to you! And...

No need to be scared of the riots. I live in London - not far from Brixton and Clapham and I've been fine. It's all gone quiet now. Holborn's a very safe area. Just because you have to order three courses doesn't mean you have to eat them all. I'm sure you'll do fine.

Hi, I had a bit if a fall off the wagon and I haven't been around much. I'm back on track now and undoing the damage - and if course catching up on all the minimins news. Great to see you're still kicking ass and having fab times at festivals. Keep going. You're an inspiration! When are you...

Had a nasty dental operation on Friday and still not back on solid food. My mouth is so swollen it's hard to open it enough to get anything bigger than a teaspoon in. Made tracking and sticking to plan tough ( really couldn't face pointing baby food!!!) Unless the scales decide to have pity on...

Sounds perfect. OH dispatched to make some. Painkillers are kicking in and I think I can open the mouth enough to get a spoon in. Hoping that in the morning it won't be as painful and the sedative will have worn off Thanks!!!

Hi, I had a tooth extracted this afternoon and for the next 24hrs I can't eat anything hot and all my food has to be soft. I'm in quite a big of pain too. Have got yoghurts and it's probably going to be a smoothie for breakfast tomorrow. Other than that I'm stuck for ideas. Any suggestions?

Stop!

Hi Lost a pound by the skin of my teeth. Absolutely delighted (the full story is in my new "the ups and downs of the scales" diary in the weight loss diaries section - feel free to have a nose!!) I did shift weigh in day to get the loss, qhich may be cheating.... If people think it's fair...

Guess what - I got so excited by the STS I weighed myself again and this time the scales showed a pound loss!!!!! No idea how accurate that weight us but, hell, the scales showed it and I'm sticking with that LOL!!!! Absolutely delighted!!!!!

Thanks for all the support guys. Yesterday was another good day. Well within my dailies. Did my weigh in this morning - all the extra pounds have gone! So rather pleased to end up with a STS. Next weigh in on Monday. Hoping to stick with it and be down at least a pound. Thyroid medication is...

Thanks. So far today is going well. Very busy at work which helps. Some of the water retention has gone so scales are a bit better. Am going to switch weigh in to tomorrow for this week to see if I can shift the scales down another pound. Will get there!

So it was hard, but I stuck to the plan today. Total points used 29/29. No sign of any cheesecake -Not even a sneaky bit! Hoping that some of the retained water goes before weigh in tomorrow..... What I really want at the moment is chocolate - but sensibly made the OH hide it.....

Thanks unabel and Karen. Bad days are just so frustrating! So far today has been a good day food wise - and the fridge is stocked with good healthy food. I think I may be back on the diet wagon. I very much hope that there is a lot of water retention going on but I fear some may be due to the...

Thought it was about time I introduced myself. This is my story. I've always been on the large side but ballooned around 12 years ago (put on five stone) as I had some health issues. I managed to get rid of around two stone of that for good. Another two stone went for my wedding three years ago...

*hugs* We all have off days and days when we're just so cross at ourselves. This losing weight business is hard work and sometimes it gets to us all (says the girl who went off plan for three days and just didn't stop eating!!). Today is a fresh start and you can pound out all that anger on the...

I think that it may be Peas, sweetcorn and parsnips have high levels of natural sugars in - well more so many other veg - hence the pro points value

They were indeed delicious - and very more-ish! That was kind of the issue. Still, it was only the one day off the wagon and I've not been hugely well. Sticking to the plan was always going to be a tall order. Right back on it now. Got my three y's. I want my red star...

Good luck for weigh in tomorrow. Sure it will be a big loss. Fingers crossed.

Thanks Carly. I was quite surprised as I fell off the wagon for a day. Did you know a pack of sainsbury's Taste the Difference Billionaires Shortbread us 20 pro points? Neither did I till I demolished a packet in one sitting. Ops!

Carlylanky -YN Kiwidream - Laurenasha - NY Kellie mum of 4 - YY Little Romany - YY Jasonjupiter - NYY CheekyChick - Primegirl - YN Jackieb68 - YN Katie68 - NY Susan2603 - N Pinkbuttons - Dinx - Y N TheTrigos - Y Y Trefoil - NN CharlotteEve - NN Boo - NY Ikin29 - Chickiebaby -...

Just the one pound off for me. I did go a bit off the rails though. Dud you know that an entire packet of sainsbury's taste the difference billionaires shortbread is 20 points? Oops!

Serious dedication! Really hope you get a loss. I love watching your weight going down! Enjoy the shopping. Hope you find something stunning. Keep the old suit dress to remind you how far you've come. Good luck for tomorrow

CarlyLanky140 - Y Kiwidream - Laurenasha - N Kellie mum of 4 - YY Little Romany - Y Jasonjupiter - N CheekyChick - Primegirl - Y Jackieb68 - Y Katie68 - N Susan2603 - N Pinkbuttons - Dinx - Y TheTrigos - Y Trefoil - N CharlotteEve - N Boo - Ikin29 - Chickiebaby - Y Minxymoo -...

Brilliant Carly! You're doing so well.

Good luck for tonight. Fingers crossed for 2.5!

Hi everyone. Great challenge. I weighed in yesterday and dropped a pound - so week one done and dusted for me. Now to get a handle week two!! Good luck everyone!

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I was. Pretty much gave up the diet for three days last week. Went mad on chocolate and cake. Somehow I managed to drop a pound. I've no idea how!!! I wonder though if sometimes upping what you eat drastically for a day or two cranks your metabolism up. I'm not going to rusk experimenting to...

Thanks Carly. Weighed in this morning - one pound down! Does that count as my first week? (it took me to my first silver seven. One more pound and I hit five percent - that should be next week!!!!)

Hi I don't have a final target weight. I want to lose another two stone and see how I look then. Is it ok if I join the drop a pound a week challenge?

It is rather nice! Back to counting and body shredding today. One more pesky pound between me and 5%. it's days are numbered!!!!!! I'm rather proud of myself for knuckling back down to it. How's everyone else getting on?

Hi. I'm a pound down!!! Really pleased as TOTM and major mix up with medication meant I went totally off the diet rails fir three days - non stop cake, chocolate and pastries. Perhaps it kick started my metabolism? All rather odd but a result all the same. Well done legomom and Viking. Good...

I'm intrigued. Guy phones you at stupid o'clock suggesting a bit of action (you'll have to go to him - can't be bothered to come to you). Once you have got over his breath taking arrogance, lack of manners and his lack of understanding of women you decline with a few choice words. What exactly...

I get that just before my totm. It's awful.? Just can't stop eating - almost anything I can get my hands on. It's the immediate sugar rush I think I'm desperate for. It's an unstoppable force of nature!! Have given up on counting pro points for 24 hours. I eat anything I want and go back to...

My weight always seems to drop straight after weigh in then creeps back up again just before weigh in - if I'm being good or not. It's a conspiracy! Weight does fluctuate though, and as long as this scales are on a generally downwards path it's all good!

Curry was on Thursday, weigh in on Monday. Would have thought I would have been ok. Oh well. Plenty of water will be drunk this week, lots if shredding and fingers crossed for a big loss next week. Thanks for the suggestion and support.

The cycling has been going on for years. The body shred is new. Am not sure that just doing it twice before weigh in would have such an effect. Then again, by the amount of pain my muscles were in, maybe it is. Will stick at it and work extra hard and hope to see a large loss next week. Not...

It's creepy. It's basically full of dead stuffed animals. We went about 10 years ago. As I remember it didn't take long to do - but it was worth. I think there's a whisky distillery somewhere just outside Dublin.

Dublin castle, the bullet holes in the GPO, the natural history museum (known as the dead zoo)

Hi everyone. So I worked really hard this week. Cycled 40 mins to and from work three days, started doing 30 day shred. Even with the curry night out I still have weeklies left over -and haven't even begun to use the activity points. Really want to get my first silver seven. So I step on the...

Pretty much. I tend to use mine for the odd treat or extra helping if I'm especially hungry. This week I'm using the all (probably!) going out tonight fo a curry with a friend. It is 49 for everyone and what you haven't used by the end of the week you loose them. One good tip I picked up is...

My current small goals are Lose one pound more to lose my first half stone Lose three pounds more to get to 10% off Lose five more pounds to break through a stone barrier. Get into my fav dress Lose eight more pounds to be at the same weight I was when I had my wedding dress fitted Look...

Well done Carly. It'll be a loss next week. Sorry about fit chippie guy. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder!

Don't worry about asking questions. It's part of what the forum is for - and we were all new once! You can eat pasta - but it will cost you points. There is no ratio - eat whatever you want as long as you don't go over your points. Of course you'll want to bulk out meals with the free fruit and...

Makes sense. I try and leave a few weeklies untouched to cover such things - and mistakes in calculations!

Thanks ultrabluedress. I'll nail it next week. Silver seven here I come. All this weeks weeklies will be used on Thursday's curry and drinking night. Can't wait!

You'll soon get the hang of it nicnocks. Welcome on board.

According to my book the following veg aren't zero points. Avocados Parsnips Potatos Sweet potato Sweet corn / corn on the cob (baby corn is 0) Yams Peas (not sugar snaw or snow/mangetout) Beans (except runner, green, French style or bean sprouts) Lentils Cassava/yucca/manioc Olive...

Yum. Like the sound of veg fajitas. They are deffinately going on my menu!

Hi. Hope you don't mind me tagging into this thread. I'm doing Weight Watchers at home. I "officially" weigh in on a Monday - but am on and off the scales all week. Today was my third weigh in and I lost another two pounds. Total loss of six pounds now - a fifth of the total weight I want to...

I've set myself really muni targets. Another pound off and it's my first silver seven. Three more pounds and it's 5%. four pounds and I break the stone barrier. Eight pounds and it's a stone and I'm back to the weight I was when I had my wedding dress fitted. I have a dress I want to look good...

I thought stock cubes were 1pp each?

Hi Robin mcl. The individual daily and the weekly points are designed so that you loose weight eating them all. If you eat less than your daily allowance you risk your body going into starvation mode and your metabolism slowing down -making it harder to loose. Sounds counter intuitive I know...

Sometimes being short sucks.

The first week is the hardest whilst you work out how to "spend" your points to keep yourself full but also to have stuff you enjoy. That bit gets easier with time. Congratulations on the 10 pounds off. Really impressive!

Hi tweetyuk. How's it going?

I went clothes shopping yesterday. Got really downhearted because nothing looked good on me. Then I realised that a few years ago I could only shop in Evans and was a size 20/22. Yesterday I was sloping on size 16 in Primark. Ok, so they didn't flatter me at all - but they slipped straight on...

We all have those moments!

I've seen it to. My guess is butternut squash. I could be very wrong though!

Do you have a well woman/sexual health clinic you could go to. I had menstrual issues and the Dr attached to that clinic was a specialist and way better than my GP. Might be worth checking out. Weight effects your hormone systems so I hope that it turns out to be nothing more sinister than that...

30 day shred ordered. Due to arrive Monday. Am hoping that as I do a lot of cycling I'll be fit enough to cope. I'm not going to put money on it though!!!

Vijch I'm impressed. That's dedication!!!

Brilliant news. The first of many more. And supporting each other is the whole point. We're all in it together.

I have a tiled bathroom. The scales go in the same spit each time. Toes line up with the display. don't want to leave anything to chance!

It does take a while to see it. I had a stunning skirt I brought years ago at my heaviest. I lost weight a couple years ago -about a stone - so got the skirt taken in. A while later and another stone off the skirt literally fell off me a work (I mean literally one minute I was dressed and...

The 30 day shred sounds good. I need to do some more exercise. Let us know if it's any good. Where do you get it from?

Thanks Sonya. The problem with being short is the bit in the dress that goes in for the waist sit on my hips - which go out. Oh well. I think I might have to try something more tailored in debenhams. I will also have to remember that I went into high street shops and tried clothes on - and I...

I've been holding back on buying summer clothes to see if I could shift a few pounds first. I'm down six pounds and decided to hit the shops. Big mistake. Everything I tried on just looked terrible. On the plus size this time it was more because I'm short and not because I'm large. I'm going out...

When I was at my heaviest my OH took me to the National Gallery and made me look at all the voluptuous nudes, particularly one of the monet models who lolls a bit like me and told me "now that's a proper sexy woman, not these stick insects you get in the magazines". I'm lucky because since...

There are far worse things to binge on! I wouldn't get over worried - I doubt it has done that much damage! If it was me I wouldn't point them - but I might not leave the whole punnet within easy reach next time!

It's frustrating but it can take a while to make the programme work fir you. Keep at it though and you'll get there! It took a while for my weight to creep up to where it is now - and it's going to take a while for it to creep back down again. I've set lots of small goals which don't involve...

Wow. What you've done is amazing! Congratulations. Good luck with the surgery. I hope it all goes well and the scaring fades to nothing very soon.

Good luck. I've been doing Pro Points for almost three weeks. I'm hoping to reach 5% by the end of my fourth week. If you make it you'll prove to me it can be done !

Hi Cherrylips. That must be really tough when you've been working so hard at it. Now I've only been doing Weight Watchers Pro Points for three weeks (I'm doing it at home and weigh in on Monday) and I didn't lose anything the second week. I've stuck with it and I know (because I can't keep off...

I make my fruit smoothies with a hand blender. Works just as well as a smoothie maker. But if you really want to make them in a smoothie maker buy one- don't you deserve a treat after all the hard work that went into losing all that weight? Aren't you worth it?

I find lunches the hardest to get right. Any ideas are welcome!

I've been going it alone for three weeks. I brought the starter pack from eBay and I'm about sixpounds down. I use the forum for support and motivation (thanks guys!) and have set myself lots if mini goals and targets to keep me on track. You have to be determined but it can be done. Good luck!

I use a few of mine each day to top up my dailies. I also use them for a bit of chocolate when I feel like it. I'm out for dinner and drinks next week so will be holding back so I can relax a bit then.

Sainsbury's low fat garlic and herb cream/soft cheese. I worked it out at 4 pro points a pack- but if you melt half a pack you have an instant yummy sauce to go over all sorts of things - and it's more than enough for two. That's 1pp. I'm hoping someone won't post back and tell me I've got it...

Hi. I'm on 29 points as well. I've only been doing pro points for three weeks but I'm getting the hang of it. I use all my Dailies and normally a couple of weeklies a day to top up. I love the safety net it gives me, especially when the other half wants something with a quite high points value...

My OH can't believe the amount I can eat. He's sure I can't eat all that I do and lose weight. Six pounds off in less than three weeks says I can.

I've started looking up the things I like from places like Costa and adding them to the back of my recipie book. It means if I'm planning to grab lunch out a quick glance will tell me what I've got enough points for.

I made the jacket potato and beans mistake too! I also assumed that peas, because they are a vegetable, were zero points. Had planned on eating a lot of them until I checked my book. I've only been doing pro points two and a bit weeks - slowly getting the hang of it. One thing that's helped me...

It's still a good loss. Keep at it.

I find resisting treats easier if I give them to my OH to hide. Normally the craving isn't worth the effort of finding the chocolate/cake/biscuits. I have been known to tear the house apart searching on occasion though.

That's a scary amount of pro points. Well done for breaking the habit.

I weigh myself every day too - but always first thing in the morning. It's great if the scales go down, but not so good if they stay the same ( or heaven forbid, go up). I may have to get my OH to hide the battery. He can put it with the mini chocolate brownies and the other stuff I like too...

The mini flapjacks sitting in my kitchen. 4

Hi. I lost four pounds in my first week - but nothing in my second.