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Thanks. I hadn't heard about that rule. I'll be reading this entire website tonight I think!

Hi everyone. I've just started SW from home and I could do with some help. I have a lunch meeting at Costa today and I have completely failed to find the magic form of words to search on the SW site for food at Costa so I can make a good choice in advance. (Is it just me or is the search...

Asda do a Chick Pea Dahl that comes in a tin and is free on Green and EE. It is absolutely gorgeous with a baked potato or if you are in a hurry have it with some cous cous. It is a great thing to have in the cupboard for when you want some proper tasty carbs.

I had linguine with Loyd Grossman's puttanesca sauce and some prawns. It is my weigh day treat even though it is only 6 syns! I used to have a right blow out on weigh day but that never really got me anywhere.

I was going to do it from a Jamie Oliver recipe but it called for 12 eggs and that freaked me out!

Hiya and welcome. I am quite new too and am really enjoying chatting and getting ideas from people. Nice positive name by the way!

Hi Old Boiler (funny name by the way :)) I had the same experience when I joined my class and spent the first four weeks sat alone whilst everyone else chatted. Each week though someone else joined and I would say hello to them to make them feel welcome and also make a point of asking the...

Oh and of course pasta bake has to be a student staple. Just cook some pasta shapes and then make a sauce with onions, chopped tinned tomatos, garlic, chilli powder and some herbs. Stir that into the pasta, put in a oven dish and then sprinkle over 42g of grated low fat cheese (as your healthy...

How about egg, chips and beans done the SW way? I had that for tea on Friday night and it was ace!

Yeah I agree with the majority here - restricting too much might make you feel deprived. I call it the "All or nothing approach" and I think that is the reason why I weigh the same as I did 10 years ago even though I have been on a diet the entire time (apparently)!

Hi Kazza and welcome to the forum. It looks like you have been doing brilliantly!

Evening all. I lost another 2lbs this week which got me to my first stone which I am really chuffed with. I now have 5 stone to lose rather than 6 and that feels ace! Hopefully after another 7 weeks I will be able to say it is only 4 stone. :)

Thanks for the recipes guys. I love the idea of just putting a whole chunk of meat in it Cherry-Pie so thanks for that idea. I am certainly going to give that a go. My next question is about syns. I don't really eat any of my syns but think I should so that I avoid the all or nothing approach...

That is pretty cool. It must feel ace. Well done.

Hi everyone I lost the 2lbs that I put on last week at my weigh in on Tuesday so my little slump has gone and I feel positive about it all again. If I can manage 2lbs again next week then that is me at my first stone bang on schedule to be slinky for Christmas! Now, does anyone have any...

Thanks. I do write it all down so I know exactly what worked. Perhaps I will try and recreate my best week for this week which starts on Wednesday for me. It is just hard staying off the booze now that January has passed!

Hello I know I am turning up a little late to the party but can I come in and stand in the corner for a bit? I started SW at the beginning of the year and did brilliantly but once the January abstention phase was over I had a week when I gained and got really depressed. I have just over 6...

Hi Serendipity I too am new although have been here before on Cambridge for a short and miserable time. Thanks for asking those questions as that was all very useful for me to know too. Zaccy

Hi everyone. I joined SW five weeks ago and had an amazing start losing 12lbs in the first four weeks. Then January ended and my halo fell off and even though the only real change was that I had 4 beers that week I gained 2lbs and got a bit stroppy about it. I even turned down a slice of my own...

Thank you! I can deal with getting hungry if it means I can still talk to people!

Hello I am on day three of CD now and everything is going fine. I can ignore the hunger pangs for now and I am sure they will stop soon. My only real problem is that I know I have bad breath and that is really, really bothering me. I would normally chew sugarfree gum when I am feeling less...

Hello I am new on here and have almost finished day two so thought I would say hi and maybe will pop past and see how the other new starters are doing as the days go on. Personally I have been starving hungry pretty much all day but I am not going to give into it as I am sure that it will wear...