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In London you are never more than 10m away from a rat and now I am never more than 5lb away from my next goal. I am trying to focus on just meeting the next one. One at a time - bang bang bang. All of them doable. Some of them are events - some just nice round numbers and some are very personal...

Decide if you want 3 or 4 packs per day. I decided on 3 as it meant I could establish a pattern of 3 meals, no snacks. That meant there were loads of different brands to try. I mix and match between them - they are all about 200 cals per pack and claim to offer 1/3 of the day's minimum...

Happened to me too. I found a whole bunch of out of date shakes. Some of them were clearly "off"- unmistakeable smell when i opened the pack. I'm using them up one a day with 2 in-date packs. And I smell them before using them and chuck out the ones that have gone rancid.

In August 2012 I found a lump..... One year on I have the all clear, but I put on 2 st during treatment- partly because of sitting around doing nothing as I felt too ill to move, partly because of the extreme nausea that only mashed potato and rice pudding would settle and partly because I did a...

Absolutely you can weightlift. Lyle McDonald - a real expert on body recomposition - recommends short workouts using heavy weights about 3x a week. And eating enough protein with a VLCD. He says heavy lifting and enough protein and *no cardio* are all the key to keeping your muscles while losing...

As you are based in UK - look at the total carbs. (if in USA subtract the grams of fiber from the total carbs)

I have a kitchenaid blender, with an ice crushing speed. Lots of crushed ice, a splash of water with some splenda tabs dissolved in it, and a sachet. Then turn it up to high speed and wait for it to come together - makes a bowl of soft serve ice cream you can eat with a spoon.

All we can do is keep on the programme and tell ourselves that bodies are strange. Eventually the weight will come off - that's only logical. When my weight loss slows, I try to increase my exercise - walk a little bit further every week. The only goals I give myself are ones that are 100% in my...

I don't think it matters while you are losing the weight. But, I want to have better habits this time after I lose the weight. I'm doing TS at the moment, but when I move on to WS and gradually introduce more food then I'm planning to try to regularise the times I eat. At the moment, I get too...

Everything Spanglymum said X 10. Obviously best not to snack. But if you do then keep it to lean protein and snack only when you are genuinely hungry. I let myself snack on lean protein in week one as a way of coping while my body was screaming "feed me carbs" . When you get into ketosis, that...

Tablets & capsules should be fine. You can get sugar free throat sweets and cough syrups. But, some people find that citric acid (eg lemon) can take them out of ketosis, so probably better to avoid anything lemon flavoured. The pharmacist will be able to tell you the ingredients.

It does depend on your starting weight, a lot. I'd say that roughly speaking it takes about 5% of your starting weight for you to see a difference and at least 10% before anyone else will start noticing.

Good luck with your plan! It sounds really doable. Re the cauli - I usually do it like chinese fried rice, with ginger, soy sauce and spring onion. Sometimes with egg as well. Honestly.... it still has a cauliflower flavour, but with a strongly flavoured sauce or seasoning it just tastes...

3 pieces of advice - especially if it is cramp in your calves. This is what works for me. Have a warm bath and stretch gently before you go to bed: stand facing wall, one foot forward with heel on floor and toes on wall. lean gently forward until you feel a stretch. If cramp is in upper calf...

Taking this conversation from the TS board. Some people on TS have one meal every week rather than a full week of AAM after 4 weeks' TS. I think you could go to your weekly Indian Cookery class, using the meal as your weekly AAM. The meals are meant to be ketogenic. So if you avoid the...

I've posted on the main Exante forum under "Indian Food query"

I weigh myself every day, because I like the randomness, sometimes up a little, sometimes the same. Sometimes down a little or a lot. It reminds me that "weight" is made up of true weight + retained water + retained digested food. It actually makes me less bothered about a week of STS. I think...

People's tastes vary so much. I much prefer the S&S bars to the Exante ones, but you will see a lot of posts here saying the opposite. The most important criterion for me is "what will keep me on the straight and narrow", and there are a few elements to that: Which ones can I stomach for...

umm without directly mentioning food...... Avoiding all the white stuff keeps it ketogenic.

It's fine to take it. Just be aware that it does cause water retention in some people, so don't be worried if the scales show a gain or no losses that week. You are still losing fat, and when the drug is out of your system you'll see the water weight disappear. (When I take it, I can temporarily...

I think you would be fine having one meal a week, provided you kept it ketogenic - ie avoid all the carbs. Also, keep the portions "taster-size". Whether that would work for you is something only you would know.

I think they say to do it because we aren't being watched by a counsellor (like in Lighter Life) - in case we get an eating disorder. I have one meal each week, instead. I'm training for the Moonwalk in May, so I eat my meal before my long training walk. Because of the exercise, I add in a bit...

I'm doing Exante total solution (3 shakes @ 200 cals each) I'm training a bit differently to the programme they send: 2 short walks and 1 long walk each week. On the day of the long walk, I multiply the number of miles by 80, to give the approx calories burned. I then give myself a meal, or...

Lovely advice, ladies. Thank you. I need to remember that I have choices while I'm there. I can eat the "healthy" (yeah right) cakes, and the icecream made with fructose (so that's alright - not), or I can eat lean protein and the amaaazing salads on offer. Mum & I both have coeliac disease -...

I'm doing Exante, rather than LL, so I hope you don't mind if I reply. It is a huge thing for him to adjust to. He has spent a long time as the "parent" worrying about your "child" overeating. It is a fundamental shift in your relationship, you have profoundly changed, he needs so change...

I am taking my mother to a spa for 3 days/2 nights. I know that they provide food that is low calorie with low carb options. I was thinking of eating salads/veg with lean protein while I was there. Sort of using it as different kind of food break. Has anyone tried anything similar?

Here is what I am hoping to do when I come off the shakes: Find out on a web calculator how many calories in theory someone at your weight and exercise habits needs to maintain. Decrease by 10% in case that was too generous. Subtract 600 from this to give you your extra calories over & above...

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All of the above plus exercise. I wrap up warm - hat gloves scarf etc and walk fast enough for my heart rate to go up and to be breathing fast. Once I start sweating I know my body thinks it is time to cool down for a change.

The Superdrug in Mortlake stocks them. Other Superdrugs might do as well. Nutritionally they are similar to Exante, but with many more varieties. They are more expensive.

Remember that your body weight includes: all the water you are carrying (affected by amount you drink, amount of sodium/salt you are taking in, effects of medication like nurofen). That can add up to 5lb for me. All the digested packs that you have had since you last went. (I'm not saying what...

I'm on week 2, this time, and not nearly as experienced as other posters, but maybe a better memory of week 1 :-) and I've read some great tips on this site that I'm repeating. 1. Drink lots. Have a glass of water in every room. Sip water constantly. Fill up every jug and coffe pot you have...

Is it thirst or a dry mouth? If your pee is almost colourless, then you are drinking plenty. Have you come across Biotene Dry Mouth Gel? You just put a little dab on your tongue and spread it around. The chemists suggested it because some of the pills I take cause a very dry mouth. Anyway, your...

Thanks! I just wondered whether that was true as well for dieters with less to lose. Week 1 has been a 6lb loss. That's mostly water, right?

I need to get my weight down from 11st to 9st (I'm short, so that gets my BMI down to 24.5) Any ideas on what a realistic loss per week would be? I know that the heavier you are, the more you can expect to lose each week. I don't want to start out with unreasonable expectations and get discouraged.

I would not take PH at the same time as a MR. Because it soaks up the liquid in your intestines, it can absorb some of the nutrients as well. For the same reason PH should not be taken at the same time as prescription medicines.

I've suffered with a coated tongue for years and it only gets worse with VLCDs. I always use a tongue scraper every time I brush my teeth. The other thing I found really helps is eating probiotic yogurt. So I put a desertspoonful of fat free Rachel's yogurt into the fruit flavour shakes. - It is...

I'm 5' 4", and aiming for about 133lb. But what I am really aiming for is to fit again into the mountain of clothes that I own that are size 10-12.

Atkins for up to a couple of weeks is a good way to ease into VLCD. You get into ketosis while being able to eat unlimited food. The hunger pangs at the start can be managed by eating yet another chicken drumstick :) When your hunger drops, which it will, it is much easier to move onto the...

Thank you! I'll try them. In case anyone else finds this useful, I'd add that I've just found out that Slim&Save Chocolate Truffle and Lemon Crunch bars are gluten free recipe (but have warning that they may contain traces of gluten). The other bars are not GF.

Can anyone suggest a gluten free meal replacement bar? I'm using Exante shakes, but it would be really useful to have a few bars for days out. Thanks!