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You're sticking with it really well considering you're having to deal with the disheartening fluctuation you're going through. I am always in two minds about weighing: one part of me thinks weighing every day gives me accountability and whilst I accept there will always be anomalies it tends to...

Sorry forgot to update, mainly as my "big special fresh start with bells on"... ended up being a horrific weekend of giving in and being a general prat followed by a week of 'tomorrow' oops 'tomorrow' oops... and so on... so my new original weight became 13st3 :eek: I've re-started (twice ha)...

I am exactly the same as this, I don't know why it makes a difference weighing in public as really it's still nobody else's business how I did- but it does seem to make me more determined when there is a set weigh in once a week. Maybe as at home I can always weigh tomorrow instead, or make sure...

I'm weighing in for the first time tonight and have had a nightmare few days due to knowing it's coming (think last-chance-workout on Biggest Loser, but more last-chance-eat-crap!) so it's bound to be a bigger number than it would usually be. I have around three stone to lose and am really...

I've changed my mind about the mornings, only as I now remember that when I have a weigh in to look forward to in the evening it keeps me on track for all of that day. This is one day out of seven that I'm guaranteed to be good, whereas if I weigh in the morning I have almost 20 hours left of...

I'm a bit late to this but have joined online today after years away from SW and am trying to get motivated by getting involved with the forum as I have no group to attend. My target would be to get back in the 11s by the 01 Jun but I am not going to have my first 'formal' weekly weigh in...

I've restarted today, I lost just over 3st with Extra Easy about five years ago and kept it off for quite a long time, fluctuating half a stone up and down for a good year or more. Then it started to creep on again when I became complacent and oddly began a bit of a binge-restrict cycle pattern...

Hi downtownsuzie, I note your post was a while back but I've just rejoined SW online today and am also living in Dubai. Are you still on plan? How are you finding avoiding brunches and free cocktails on ladies nights!? :) x

Hi all, I rejoined online today as I moved abroad so like many others in the same position, I have no access to any groups or weekly weigh ins. Hoping to find some accountability by posting here :) I weighed 12st8 earlier this week but had a serious three day binge since so am reasonably...

Have to eat out after the gym with very limited options, so going for plain jacket potato (using vinegar to moisten it) from one restaurant with a big salad from the kebab shop next door, which should be tomatoes, shredded red cabbage, lettuce, cucumber, jalapenos and maybe some pickles?

Hi all! I just rejoined online after leaving the UK (and all healthy eating!) behind over two years ago when I moved to Dubai. I haven't weighed myself for about a week but was 12st8 then and must be 12st11 now.. I've always gained royally during mad binge episodes! Assuming I haven't found...

HAHA and THAT is why I'm not an accountant!!! Even better news though, thank you :)

I was really surprised to find exactly the same- I think because I booked it SO far in advance that I was thinking 'pah, I've only got to lose 1/2 pound a week and I'll be at target weeks before September'... fast forward to August and I was half a stone HEAVIER than when I booked it!! It's...

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Smoked cod fillets, salad & cottage cheese (which sounds like a gross combination but was actually really nice) and then every piece of fruit in my fruit bowl, which is extremely greedy but it is post-weigh in :)

I can't quite believe it, but I've actually weighed in at 10st13lbs tonight- so I am finally off to whinge and rant among those in the hallowed 10s :) I don't post so much in this thread, but I probably read it most of all the threads on Minimins as it's full of people who I seem to actually...

2.5lbs off last week and 3.5lbs off this week- I think I may be on my first mini roll since 2011!! Slimmer of the Week too (which does now mean I have munched through my body weight in fruit, but I figure the new weighing week starts at midnight!!) :)

Sorry haven't updated for two weeks- last week I lost the 2.5lbs I put on during the first week in August, then this week I lost a further 3.5lbs, so by my calculation that leaves me with 7lbs to go.... it almost feels doable :D

Haha at least I'm not the only mad one. I stop drinking at 4:30pm religiously, and even drive to weigh in (which is less than half a mile away) because someone told me that weighing straight after exercise can show a gain but it's false. As if walking for less than 5 mins will make a...

Wow, 4lbs- well done!! I don't weigh in until 7ish, so everything I look at until then just looks like weight on to me. I even ate an apple and thought 'wonder what that weighs', ha that sounds so dysfunctional- it's amazing how much the scales can end up mattering!! I'm SO desperate to do well...

If he doesn't like veg, could you not do the old 'mum trick' and just sneak it into pasta sauces and curries pureed? At least then you know they're going in!! Otherwise, maybe SW isn't for him? If he hasn't read the book and doesn't seem to want to- he's not going to know how to follow the plan...

Hi, thanks yeah 12.5lbs will be fine- it’s all feeling equally unachievable at the moment to be honest :) That will take me to 10st6.5lbs, which would be lovely for holiday actually, by the skin of my teeth if I can manage such!! I agree 1,100kcals is not enough, however I (whilst sticking...

Well, as for retaining my title- it's all gone HORRRRRIBLY wrong, and I managed to (despite sticking to plan without exception, religiously, and even counting calories as well for the last half of the week, staying between 1,100-1,200kcals) GAIN 2.5lbs. I now need to lose 13lbs in August, which...

2.5lbs ON for absolutely no fair reason. That's not 'oh maybe it'll even out next week', 'oh maybe you've lost inches', 'don't worry we all fluctuate over a month' or anything else. That is five packs of butter, quite visibly round my expanding waist. I am beyond woe, I am hateful today :D

I did that too and found the same. Saying that, it did set my daily allowance at 1,200, which is obscenely low in my opinion!! I think it's fair if you exercise lots and so 'earn back' the calories, as I suppose is the idea, but if like me you just don't, it's not realistic. I made an account on...

Planning on making my own 'baked beans' alternative, with butterbeans, passata, mushrooms and spices. Probably to put over a jacket sweet potato and have with some salad. And maybe a corn on the cob. And cottage cheese. It's weigh in day so I'm really hungry!! It's probably easier to list what...

No, only the ones that have 'Less than 1% fat' on the packet are, like spicy sweet and sour and tomato and herb. Ones with 'Less than 2% fat' are 1 syn, like the creamy Thai (I think, from memory) but definitely < 2% = 1 syn Ones with 'Less than 3% fat' are 2 syns, like the creamy cheese ones...

Hi, just a thought- you seem to have quite a lot more fruit than you do vegetables, have you ever tried a week of having more vegetables than fruit? As much as it's all superfree, there are still sugars in fruit which when you're so close to target and within your ideal BMI may be the difference...

That's the spirit :) I'm resigned to this week being a wonky one, but hereafter (today's been good actually) August is gonna be the one!! I'm now at the stage where it has to be, given I go away in 5 weeks- ahhh!! Last year I got Slimmer of the Month in August, so I'm going to retain my title...

I'm going away on 5th Sep so I'd love to join!! Not so optimistic about tomorrow night, but thereafter going to really go for it and hopefully aim to lose at least 10lbs over the rest of the weigh ins!! (if I gain tomorrow this will naturally have to be mega-upped!!) :) thanks

I had the greediest weekend of all time, and I'm supposed to be on this mad target by holiday countdown!! To try and claw it back by my WI on Thursday, I've been snacking on pickled beetroot (there's one in a carton at Co-op, pickled with sweetener rather than sugar) and it's 75kcals for the...

It's for that exact reason that I'm UPPING my syns to 5-10, what with my holiday looming. Everyone that's advised me the same as you here can't be wrong, but it does seem to go seriously against the grain!! My boyfriend bought me a Tuna Light Lunch to bring to work to make a nice change from my...

Hi all, Like I said, I've not got quite 21lbs to lose as things are now, but I've got a holiday in September which means I will be back with 100 days until Christmas day. That translates to roughly 14 weeks/WIs, and I should (all going to plan) be at most 14lbs away from target when I get back...

Haha really? That must be so inconvenient- vinegar has gotten me through many trying times of dry potato and bland salad when stuck out without FF dressing! I suppose we've all got our quirks... and there's not a lot quirkier than quark on plain scan bran :)

The tins that Jezzi mentioned above are really great I think (sorry to keep posting after you and agreeing, I'm not stalking you I promise!!) but they are really tasty and filling, and best of all free! Without trying to sound sickly-saintly, I actually got stuck in a cafe once when I first...

Well done!! It's amazing how much difference your weight can make in every aspect of your life, and how much you realise it has held you back when you start to shake off some of your old anxieties. When I got to a landmark weight for me last year (which I am much over now :sigh:) I finally...

I don't think anyone in the World would begrudge you shouting that at the top of your lungs anywhere, any time!! That's the best post I've read all week, and I'm so pleased for you. Hopefully this will mark the end of what must have been a really tough time, and marks the start of a bright new...

I've been looking for a team to join in on, somewhere to start at the same time as a group of other people and see if I/we can actually do it!! It's nice to see how everyone else is doing too, and I think that'd especially be the case if we all started together. I think all this Olympic action...

And, despite my earlier slagging them off, I did rather enjoy some ginger cake our Consultant's mum made and brought into group one week. I don't know how she made it though, which given my extraordinarily low will power towards anything sweet at the moment may well be for the best :) Where...

I absolutely agree, and wondered the same myself. My consultant says eat as much fruit and veg as you like, recommends mixing things up and always makes mention of 'ringing the changes' which from listening to others in the group seems to be the main component. When someone who goes along at 1lb...

I found them in Asda I think... haven't been over there for a few weeks now but definitely had them within the last 6 weeks. Hope they're not discontinued :( They're great they save you so much time!!

Had Snocreme ice lolly from ice cream man, then was pleased to learn it was only 3.5syns :) biscuits are calling me now I've got a more left than I thought. I never, ever have any syns when I'm on track, and do ok- but I've been recommended to stick to that part of the plan as much as I do the...

I may go into mourning over my oversight!!!! I am definitely wearing black tomorrow to mark the loss of a 'superfree' staple :D Butternut squash is another favourite of mine- don't tell me I've got that wrong too? :confused:

I agree with Jezzi, especially that tinned tomatoes are a godsend. I also chop onions, mushrooms, peppers & courgettes (or whatever else we have in, but onions/mushrooms/peppers are mainstays) and spread it over a baking tray with some Fry-Light and whatever seasoning fits with what we're eating...

At a rate of 2lbs per week it should take you to the end of April 2013 to lose 5stone 7lbs I can see you are only looking to lose 5st2lbs, but the above allows for a gain or STS at Christmas and whenever else, so you're well on track to be at target for your plans abroad... Good luck :)

Had a mini twister at 2.5syns and, after deliberating all afternoon, gave in to eat a whole packet of Asda spicy veg cous cous at 2syns (yep, the whole thing as a SNACK...ooops!!!!) But only 4.5 so far and both were delicious so not too sorry :)

WOW well done - I've just been reading your posts with great interest, your holiday next year should hopefully be such a lovely time of celebration, and with losses like that you'll be celebrating a whole new you too!!! Congratulations on your amazing loss and good luck going forward, sounds...

Those cheese straws look amazing!!!!! Some people are so inventive, I think I'm going to have to start looking at ingredients a bit differently so I can start getting the best out of what I have whilst staying within the rules. Also, that pasta looks pretty delicious for something called slop :)...

Hmm.. I'm not sure I've done this right as there's sugar in them however it's come up that they're all free on EE and green, but 3 on red. When I entered the free food information I did it on the green food allowance, dairy, yoghurt- is that right?? I think it should be the same as yoghurt is...

Hi, just been reading your diary here, your tastes seem really similar to mine and it seems you eat quite a lot of what I do too so it's really excellent to see how well you're doing with almost 4st lost- I'm suitably encouraged and inspired!! I hope you feel better, there's nothing like...

I agree, I plan something in my head but it comes down to what I fancy. I try to keep loads of backup 'free meals' in for times like that, like pasta'n'sauces and tins of Asda vegetable chilli- but when nothing will do it except for what's on your mind, I think you've just got to change the plan...

From what I can find just searching online: Crisps & snacks, basic, Popcorn, sweet, 28g 6½ but that translates as 70 syns for a large portion :eek:

I really like that too, but I had to stop buying it as I found myself eating it every day- that much fruit sugar was not helping my mission!! Really tasty though, and great that you can get it at the M&S garages too, just a shame it's quite so expensive as it ended up costing me as much as...

Well even if you took that away (which is not the case, as life will always mean slight gains sometimes I think take full credit for ALL the losses!!) then it'd still be 5.5 in three weeks, which by many people's standards is still highly respectable! Personally, I think after a gain it can...

I know it doesn't sound like that much of a big deal as it's minimal syns, so doesn't really compare to the steely resistance see here by some to irresistible luxuries like chocolates and biscuits etc, but I have got the right munchies today and all I want to do is make a massive bowl of lemon...

8 in two weeks?! That's really impressive, well done!!!

Lost 2.5lbs at WI on Thursday, which has taken me to 11st2.5lbs, so if I reach my weekly goal of 3lbs per week this week I'll be JUST back in the 10s at 10st13.5lbs. Feeling unlikely today as I have the mega munchies, but I'm determined to definitely be 10 something in a week and a half (so may...

Haha, I've heard it all now: PLAIN scan bran with QUARK?! Arrrgghhhh... you should be lighting the torch tonight, that is the bravest thing I've heard this year :) Quark to me is again one of those things that can be really useful as an ingredient, but in its raw form just shouldn't be...

I think Ryvitas are a complete luxury once you've tried to eat scan bran in their raw form. They're actually ok if you microwave them witha little water until they're pliable to make into a mash & mix in yoghurt and fruit, or make one of the recipes on the other thread, but on their own... wow...

Think I'll have jacket sweet potatoes with tuna, cottage cheese & salad. Or if the weather deteriorates any further that may turn into Linda McCartney red onion sausages with sweet potato mash & fake gravy.

Ended up having a sweet and sour mugshot with microwaved carrot batons & salad. Oh and THREE dessert pears as a post-weigh in sulk (well, semi-sulk as the biscuits were swerved, but there had to be an overindulgence of sorts!)

2.5lbs off, and not being ungrateful (or trying to undermine anyone else's loss) but I feel like I've tried harder than that. Last year, with minimal effort (just sticking to the plan with no extra tactics like the gym, green tea, more water etc) I'd move 4-6lbs, now I'm trying everything under...

As far as I understand it, you take the higher syn value, so the cous cous would be 9 syns and the ham 6.5 syns. I suppose if it's going to generate that many syns, that's where it must give you the boost from then!! I reckon you are meant to eat more things that are free on both plans, such as...

Aromat (according to Wikipedia not because I'd EVER heard of it either!!) is an all purpose seasoning, like a season-all I assume. And dinner tonight will probably be Linda McC red onion sausages with sweet potato mash & roasted veg, as it's weigh in night I have a big dinner on Thursdays :)

I think Tuesday and Wednesday are awful, you want to be the best you can (whether you've had the best weekend and want to see the maximum benefit, or had a crap one and are trying to make up for it) but Thursday is that bit too far away for you to have the last minute momentum. Every Thursday I...

Had grilled lemon/dill salmon fillet with tenderstem broccoli, corn on the cob and salad. Really nice :)

I've been putting lemon juice (and then the actual wedge) into lemon flavour green tea for the last two days- am hoping that it has some effect, however tiny!! It can't be bad for you regardless of weight, as I understand it, it is the best thing you can do to make your body alkaline (despite it...

Tomato & herb mugshot with microwave carrot batons, to pilates, then back to mixed berries and green tea. Mega lazy dinner but feeling rather saintly!!!!

I'm going to Crete for the first time in 6 weeks, slightly less realistically looking at 3lbs per week to get to where I had intended to be by then... oops!! Can't wait though :D just going to do everything I can now. Drinking green tea & even joined the gym (drastic measures by my standards!!)

I think have a goal in sight, or something to aim for in the short term. If you have ten stone to lose, but really want to lose one of them by your birthday and wear the dress you haven't worn for years on that night, then that's a more motivational goal than looking at the ten stone, or the...

Tin of mackerel in tomato sauce with salad & Frylight balsamic spray dressing Nice, but the tin-lid pinged off and splashed so my whole desk area smells like fish now :(

It's so disheartening when this happens- but I agree if you have a food diary it might help? Sometimes with the best will in the world you're just overlooking something really simple which over the course of a week can make the difference between 1/2lb and 1lb, which is already a start :) I...

Had 1/2 cheese & broccoli pasta'n'sauce, made without milk, with loads of veg added. Was surprisingly nice even without the milk, and I bet it'd be even better with creamy Primula Light stirred in as HExA :)

I started at 13st4lbs and got into the 10s with relative ease on SW and stayed there for ages last year, up and down within half a stone of target. Sadly, I then got complacent ("oh I know I can lose it again as soon as I want to!"), ate my way all the way back to the high 11s and now can't seem...

Well the picture's working for now (I think the site I used will delete the URL soon so I'll come back and delete the post when it expires) but it's also managed to highlight quite how old my coffee table is, and how old my work shoes are in the background- so apologies for the less than...

I don't know if I've done the image properly, but I just made a really quick tasty meal out of half a packet of Quorn chicken style pieces fried in a pan using frylight with peppers, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic powder and lots of chilli powder, it tasted like a cheap version of...

I want to be at target by November, so 2lbs a week (already not helped by Chinese last night!!)

I weighed in at 11st 11.5lbs last week, I weigh in tomorrow and I've not had a great week so I'm not sure whether I'll even still be in the 11s the way I put on weight!! Hopefully I'll have STS and will be starting afresh to hopefully get into the 10s before V Festival, which is 5 weeks away...

I'm sure the syns are part of it and important for a lot of people, and I know people still get great losses when using all of them, but to be honest I don't ever have more than 5 syns and I don't go hungry either, I eat loads I just personally don't see the point in eating food with syns when...

I weigh in on a Thursday and I'm glad I've got four days to make up for last night!!! I lost 5.5lbs last week (which I couldn't believe!!) but the week before the scales said I'd put on 1lbs and I'd really stuck to it that week, so I think it was just a funny WI last week, and a fairer 2lbs last...

Good luck, I only started in mid May so about 8/9 weeks in (I think, still too early for maths!!) but really enjoying it. 2kgs, isn't that about 4.5 lbs? (again with the maths...) that's really good- even when it slows down for a week, I always just think 'if I wasn't coming to SW and I wasn't...

I have a third veg on the same plate and then if I want something in between then and the next meal I have fruit as well, I think it's pretty important to have it on the actual plate, otherwise I'd just be eating massive pasta and potato meals like I used to, with fruit in between, which I don't...

That sounds really nice. I tried a couscous omelette, which was just a cup of plain couscous with boiling water which just sits until it gets soft (so no cooking Laura :D) then mixed in eggs, cottage cheese and loads of veg until it was thick but passable to pour and cooked it like an omelette...

Our group has about 20 that stay, though I've been lucky enough to win it 3 times in the 7 weeks I've been going, and everyone seemed happy for me. I do find myself listening to others' losses and trying to remember how they did the week before to see if I'll win it or not. It's more a bit of...

Reading your posts now, when I think back to when me and my boyfriend used to get a Pizza Hut it's no surprise that I was/am carrying all that weight. We were sent some 50% off vouchers but you had to spend over £30, so we'd get a large stuffed crust or cheesy bites pizza each, with breaded...

Think I might do a sort of kedgeree. I know it's supposed to be a breakfast but with home made curry rice, boiled eggs, smoked hoki (which tastes the same as haddock to me) and flat leaf parsley I think it will make a nice but quick late dinner for when I get back from my shift at the pub...

I think this is what they do with the Success Express of whatever it's called- there's a kind of fast track mini-plan for times like a couple of weeks before you go on holiday etc. I'm not entirely sure so maybe someone else knows more about that. I imagine it will still work fine so long as...

Yeah they're too restrictive I think. They're fine for some people, but I think why choose between cod and (SW) chips if you can have both on the same plate with EE! I know you get two HExs but I don't have them anyway so that wouldn't be enough of an incentive! How long have you been...

I do Extra Easy, but I don't eat meat so I probably wouldn't get on with red days. They weren't really explained on our first night so I just got told about EE and stuck with it from the beginning and now I'm used to it. Sometimes I look back at a day and realise I've had a green day by...

If you really can't cook then have a look at the HExB list of tinned soups, because even if you've already used up your HexB on other things then they're still low syns. I don't eat meat but our Consultant said that those shake the seasoning in the bag things for chicken (the ones with the...

I really want to lose 4lbs in the next two weeks, because I'm 12st3 at the moment, so I really want to get into the 11 stone bracket, and 11st13 is my Club 10 as well. I know it's not 2 stone but I started at 13st4 and so it's the difference between saying 13 stone something to 11 stone...

I think it's really nice to have a salad with both pickles and apple in. So there's the mixed leaves, cucumber, tomatoes (all the normal bits) and then you have pickled onions, beetroot, cauliflower, & peppers with it, the cauliflower, peppers and onions all come in the mixed pickle jar. Then...

I just had 3 cauldron lincolnshire sausages and put mushrooms, red pepper and baby carrots in the oven with them (with a spray of fry light) and had it with cottage cheese. It sounds weird but it was really, really nice. I love cottage cheese with cauldron sausages. I know they've got syns in...

Hi I've just started too and I find it much better than Weight Watchers, some weeks I've eaten loads but still lost weight because it's the right stuff. I found all my WW books and bits in a drawer last weekend, and I think I only lost 8.5lbs in about two months, with all the hassle of weighing...