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And I have forgotten to say what I'm eating!! Sticking with green. A choice - skimmed milk for tea and cereal. B choice- Oat so Simple, Honey and Almond...guessing at 2 syns? Breakfast- Oat so simple and skimmed milk, couple of cups of tea. Lunch- 2 Tesco vegetarian sausages (3 syns) Mashed...

Well weighed in....last time I weighed in at 15.3lb...I'm back up to 16.6lb. On the plus side I have maintained a 6lb loss....but my heart is saying Clare not again, read through my diary and it's the same old story, do really well for a few months, steady losses, exercising, then something...

I'm going to make a chicken style quorn cassarole with the SW cheese scone as a cobbler topping, delish!! x

Thanks lovely, nice to hear from a friendly friend!! How are you doing? xx

Well that was probably the most massive blip ever in blip history!!! Six months have passed and I'm back!! Weighing in later and back following SW. I have been going to the gym on and off but just cross that I still seem to follow the same pattern...really good, lose a stone or even two go off...

Well I'm very pleased to report a 4lb loss last week so back to where I was pre hols! Going to the gym most days or power walking with the dog along the beach for an hour and still loving that!! I am sticking to plan during the week, WI at gym on Friday morning and allowing myself a drink or two...

Well that was a massive blip wasn't it!! Haven't been on plan for nearly a month!!! But.....went back to the gym on Tuesday and have managed to get there every morning this week, feel so much better for it, really energised during the day and nicely relaxed at night. Have been back on plan this...

Well that was a massive blip wasn't it!! Haven't been on plan for nearly a month!!! But.....went back to the gym on Tuesday and have managed to get there every morning this week, feel so much better for it, really energised during the day and nicely relaxed at night. Have been back on plan this...

Hello Corky, I've been off on my hols and am struggling to get back into the SW groove, maybe this group might help? I wondered where you'd got to and here you are starting your own challange. I am still determind to lose the weight and get fit and healthy but I am going at a snails pace...

Back from my holidays, had a lovely week in Mallorca visiting family and then some time away with Mr PD in our bus visiting Oxford...very off plan...lot's of cocktails, wine, meals out and evenings eating cheese and biscuits and drinking good port!! I know WI isn't going to be good but I'm back...

Hello all, well I'm back from a lovely week and a bit of holidaying. Spent five nights in Mallorca visiting family and sitting around a lovely pool, having lovely massages and making full use of the spa and then when I came back Mr PD and I went off in our bus for a few nights to see Wilko...

Hello all, well done on some fantastic losses..only half a lb off for me this week, a little dissapointing but better than a gain!! I have been rubbish at keeping up with you all this week and I'll be worse over the next week as I'm off to Mallorca to see my Dad and my Brother, my youngest...

Hi Ellen, thanks for visiting...pop back as often as you like!! xx

Well I have managed a whole weekend without a drink!! I must admit I have synned more food wise than I would usually but I am pleased that I proved to myself I could do it!!...does that make me sound like an old lush? Have had a lovely pamper of myself this weekend, hair done and a set of those...

Hello Mandy love...here I am kicking you up the bum!!! You have been doing so well and you must not beat yourself up!! You have had a tough time of it lately with a health scare that would put anyone in a spin and what sounds like an upside down house and a family to look after, now you sound...

Ooohhh my goodness, what a busy weekend.....almost grapefruit gate all over again!!! Without wishing to drag it on, I have a dress in my wardrobe that I'm dying to wear and I do keep trying it on to see how I'm doing....I'm no were near it yet, the zip is doing up now .......but I can't sit down...

Just been given easter gifts from students, lovely egg cups and........chocolate bunnies!!!! will have to ration those!!! Luckly I'm in Mallorca for Easter so I miss the chocolate......just need to avoid the free bar and puddings!! xx

Hi all, the IT department at work don't like minimins!!! I got asked to change all my passwords because of a computer security breach which they traced to minimins!!! Has anyone else had problems with it? I'm still here though..obviously and pleased to anounce another lb off this week.....slow...

Hi Patsy, just had a flick through your diary, well done on a great loss so far, I'd love to be 40lb off already!! I lose slowly but that's o.k, don't feel deprived and it's taken me 20yrs to put it on...going to take a while to shift!! I'm off on my hols next week, going to Mallorca to visit my...

Purple Patsy it's nice to know someone is listening....sometimes you feel your just typing away and talking to yourself! I'll pop and say hello to your diary in a mo!! Yesterday Breakfast: muller and fruit and a weetabix (0.5 heb) Lunch:salad and a mugshot, muller greek (0.5 syns) Snack: apple...

Yesterdays food. Breakfast: Special K and chopped banana (0.5 Hea and b) Snack: Apple, banana, mugshot Lunch: Mixed salad and mackerel in tomato sauce, muller greek (0.5syn) Dinner: veggie bolognaise, muller greek (0.5syn) Snack: ham and chilli lowlow (0.5 Hea ) on left over pasta. Today's...

Going to try the Hunger Games next, the first film is out soon and I really like to read the book before I see someone else's idea of how it should look!! I see you have swithched to Voddie at the weekend...is it making a difference..i've had far to much wine in the last few weeks, I'm thinking...

Welcome back, I'm thinking about getting my bike out this week after work!! x

Mandy that is great news, I have had the lazer treatment, it wouldn't rank as one of my favourite days out....but equally it wasn't awful, a bit uncomfortable after and not very dignified.....but we've had kids so not much of that left anyway!! Just great they have caught it before it becomes...

Well what a mixture of things you lot have been upto this weekend, well done Corky 2lb, you really are doing so well!! and you and Emmey do make me laugh, which is lovely on a Monday morning..cheers!! And brosav a lb is good!!!, think how much that adds up to over a year!! Ellen the dress is...

The fajitas were fine, I had just the one with a side salad, 6syns for a small flour tortilla..not too bad...but, sat out in the garden around a lovely fire basket and ended up drinking two bottles of the low alcohol fizz, and three quaters of a normal bottle...another 40 odd syns!!! Saturdays...

Corkie what are you reading? All I seem to be reading at the mo is threads on minimins!!!.......if it stays as lovely as this though I might take the doggies to the beach tommorrow and have an hour lying on a rug reading while they have a splash about!!

Cheers me dears!! x

:rotflmao:......sorry Emmey I know you feel grotty...but the idea of your doggie being a drama queen just made me chuckle!!! Hope you are starting to feel better lovely. I noticed you are having naked fahjitas for tea....I'm off to a friends for dinner and he's doing fahjitas for us, I was going...

Yes Kath I am not to dissapointed with that...find it hard to get back on it though!! Got home at 9 o'clock to find the left overs from an indian takeaway had been saved for me, I had't had any syns yesterday so I had boiled rice and half a portion of rogan josh (6.5 syns for an avarage portion)...

Well done Mandy for sticking with it!! I know what you mean about the getting back into the swing of it after a blip, Mothersday was lovely, enjoyed a day of having whatever I fancied but it was so difficult to get back on it for the rest of the week!!...just popping things in my mouth without...

WI showed a 0.5lb gain, could of been alot worse!! Today is a fresh week!! Breakfast: Bran flakes with a chopped banana and a muller yog. Snack:Apple Lunch: Mixed salad with tuna and a jacket spud with a sachet of mayo (3syns?) Dinner:Not sure but maybe Quorn sausage, small jacket spud and veggies.

Lets hope so lovely....off to Mallorca in a couple of weeks time to see my family, the youngest and I are staying in an all inclusive Spa and hotel for five nights....back for one night then off to a gig in Oxford and making a whole weekend of it by staying in our bus and exporing Oxford for a...

Well I gained half a pound this week....as the kids so elequently put it....meah!!! I knew it was coming have syned and then some!! fully deserved...back on it this week!! x

Hi all, WI for me later and I know my off plan Sunday will raise it's ugly head and bite me in the bum, I know the gain will be of my own making so I won't winge about it here!! For thoses of you who stuck to plan and still gained...mother nature is a cow of the highest order!! I think there is...

Get better soon Emmey, ear infections are horrible, my eldest daughter suffers from them and they make her so poorly!! Look after yourself, sofa, film and lot's of green tea!!! xx

Kath I do often think when watching biggest loser or a year to save my life, there but for the grace of god!! at least I am doing something about it finally, before it becomes insurmountable....I am in awe of some of the lovely ladies on here that have lost so much more than I need to lose, the...

Well done on some great losses this week, I have WI tonight but I'm not predicting great things for myself!! Had an off plan weekend (celebrations on Fri and Sat and Mothersday on Sunday!!) which was lovely but have struggled this week to get back on it 100%, was planning on keeping syns and...

Ellen that dress is fab!! I am a vintage fan myself, I love having repro vintage dresses made, try some of these sites for 40's and 50's style dresses, some make beautiful bridesmaid dresses!! Vivien of Holloway, Big Beautiful Barbara Brown (makes up to size 28/30 I think!) Polka- Dot- Polly and...

Do you think the Mother might have been uncomfortable being on camera?...just a thought? x

I keep missing it Lucia!! you guys seem to be firm fans though..Corky and Emmy were talking about it earlier on the thread!....when is it on?

Mandy I have been terrible!! Drank Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, completely off plan on Saturday and Sunday, had a chocolate bar on Monday night and have just eaten a couple of sarnies in a lunch meeting (after I ate my lunch earlie so as not to be tempted!!)...I am half tempted not to go to WI...

Those prezzies I really don't miss, live frogs were a favorite of one of mine.....had a squirrel once as well...yeuch!!!

I would love to have a cat, when the kids were very young we had cat's....at one point I had 11 but that did include a litter of kittens!! we had one very naughty cat called Talluhlah and the name fitted, she had four litters of kittens!! Took her to be spayed twice and she was already preggers...

Why do I find it so difficult to get back on track after a blow out!! Ended up helping Mr PD with a bar of fruit and nut last night....more syns!!! probably had a strip of a large bar in total, not sure of the syns but guessing at at least 10!!! Today's food Breakfast: Dorset fruity porridge...

Your doggies are so cute, what breed is your boy, he's so hansom!! I have a lovely collie named Bill, we had his Dad, Beau, untill just before christmas when we had to have him put to sleep (he was 17 yrs old though!!) we also have a Westie names Izzy, she's my eldest daughters though. Glad you...

Go the Minxter!! You are an inspiration and I hope I'll have done as well as you in a years time!! I myself had a naughty off plan weekend, had a fantastic time and will be on damamge limitation for the next few days before WI!! Hope you enjoyed too !! xx

Naughty but enjoyable weekend, celebrating my friends twins first birthday after a very traumatic pregnancy and a lot of ill health in their first year, this was the first opportunity to celebrate now they are here and healthy!! had a lovely traditional tea party in the local church hall...

Hello all, well I have been off plan this weekend!!! First time in nine weeks, straight back on it today though! Managed to eat at least half a tub of proper creamy coleslaw with my gammon and sirloin steak for mothers day, followed by home made chocolate cake, mini eggs and caramels, home made...

Well once again I overdid it on the wine last night.....gonna have to be on the wagon this weekend now!!.....have a glass or three for me tommorow will you xxx

Managed to find a boxed tuna salad and a plain jacket spud in the refrectory last night...hurrah!!! Then went straight to the pub and drunk four large white wine spritzers....one of thoses mini bottles in a very large glass with ice and soda...then two glasses of fizz when I got home to wash...

Caught Mr PD reading this thread over my shoulder....he thinks we may have lost our mables!!....I think some of us didn't have any marbles to lose...me included!! Well I fell of the wagon and into a lake of spritzer last night. Parents evening followed by birthday drinkies for our housemate at...

Very pleased with a 2lb loss this week, just need to keep it together this week so my wine guzzling doesn't bite me on the bum next week!! Wednesday Green day. Breakfast: Oat so simple with skimmed milk (HEa and b) Snack:Apple, grapes, satsuma Lunch:Large mixed salad with cottage cheese...

Hi, managed to lose 2lb this week bringing me to 15st 9lb...very happy, 15st 7lb next week would be nice!! xx

Morning all, happy to announce a 2lb loss for me this week, my flabber was gasted let me tell you!! Need to be really good this week so last weekend's wine doesn't come back to bit me in the bum!!...right I'm off to show a bunch of teenagers boys how to put a condom on!!!....love my job!! xxx

Hi, I have another five stone to loose and am determind this time. This is my third time with SW, I always loose a couple of stone and then go off the boil.....probably because I'm so impatient. Rather annoyingly if I'd stuck to it either time round I'd be at target by now!! I am a slow and...

Hey Emmey....I love your relaxed attitude, I myself am not quite there yet, Wednesday is always a worry...trying not to eat to much before...obsessing about toilet function!!..I am trying to have a what will be will be facade in the hopes it might become true...but not managing this week!! You...

I think it might be, I was a chorus girl when I left school...lived in a leotard from the age of three...my joints have taken a bashing!! My Mum and Gran both have austio arthritis.....so it's only a matter of time. Might try the bracelet....can't do any harm can it! xx

Well I'm feeling inspired by some great losses...LisaMarie 4lb...brill!!...and Mandy I hope the colposcopy wasn't to horrible, I've had one myself and let's just say It wasn't my most favorite day out ever!!! So well done you for getting back on plan, I'm sure you will be fine, as I was! But...

Pleased that I managed to go without spuds last night!! Cassarole with mashed swede, cabbage and brussel sprouts. Today's food Breakfast: Oat so simple and skimmed milk with chopped banana Snack: Satsuma, apple and grapes Lunch: Mixed salad and cottage cheese Dinner: Left over cassarole...

I can't believe you and Corky haven't read the Harry Potter books...my guilty pleasure, I love them!! I am a big reader too, have been known to get through a couple a week when I'm on a roll!! I also loved the twighlight books and the Shopaholic books although I'm not sure I've read them all. A...

Feeling cross with myself after the weekend, ended up having a takeout on Friday night to reward myself for not drinking but stayed low syn, should have been 12 syns in total but it did seem rather oily!!......then ended up bloomin drinking on Saturday night!! Two bottles of low alcohol wine, a...

Failed miserably at avoiding the popcorn, shared a small salted with the youngest daughter whilst watching The Woman in Black.....alot of it ended up down our fronts....that film makes you jump!! really enjoyed it, a good old fashioned ghost story!! So (6syns) for the popcorn and then decided...

Well as it happens Emmey I didn't miss the butter because dinner became a very liquid affair!!! Lovely unexpected sunny afternoon and evening in the garden round the chimnea with friends....dinner was 2 bottles of low alcohol wine, a large glass of pink fizzy wine and a couple of vodka soda and...

Bless me for I have over synned!!! Mr PD came home with a couple of bottles of the low alcohol wine for me, then some friends turned up with a couple of bottles of fizz and it was a lovely warm afternoon/evening in our garden with the chimnea going....ended up drinking both bottles of the low...

My eldest daughter is a specsavers employee....we get a fab discount for family.....Romi now has half a dozen extra Aunties and Uncles....what do you say Auntie Corky....shall we get you tested?:flirt2:

Dinner turned out to be a mackrel salad with a jacket spud and a dollop of cottage cheese.........then just when I thought I'd been really good (no wine!!)......the takeaway menus came out!! Ended up having a Chicken Dhansak, boiled rice and a popodom with some raitha, according to sw book that...

Well done Corky, that is a brilliant loss this week, as my girls would say....I'm well jel!!!...enjoy your wine lake this evening young lady....don't forget...pint of water and a nurofen before bed!! xx

Just had a naughty curry...chicken danshak, boiled rice and a popadom...10 and a half syns according to my SW book!!...no wine!!! x

I am really going to try and curb my carbs this week!! I just can't afford to do a red week...meat is so expensive!! But trying to up the protein, yesterday I had an almost Red day, Small jacket spud with my liver and bacon cassarole and loads of veg with a couple of chicken breasts for lunch...

A dissapointing STS for me this week!!....could be here for some time...hope your all good company!!...Happy Friday all!! xx

Hi Kath....STS....how about you? I felt disappointed although I have gone over my syns this week, but I don't feel I was that much naughtier than last week and I lost 3 and a half!! Bodies are weird aren't they, *week may not help.......and drinking a bottle of wine when I came back from Wi...

poor you ellen....unfortunatly that feeling never goes away...my youngest baby is eighteen and she was thumped by a drunk girl outside a pub the other night...nasty cut lip and a lump on her head!!! Well WI last night and a STS this week...disappointed after losing 3 and a half last week and not...

Emmey that looks like fun....bit like one of those nicorette inhalers...but for fatties not faggies!!! Emmey who told you your green teas aren't green tea!! I have the Tetleys green tea with honey..it also comes plain or with lemon, and another brand of green tea with vanilla and I'm reliably...

Had my lovely liver and bacon cassarole last night...delish, with onion, mushroom, carrot and tomato hidden in it and a large portion on spring greens and a tablespoon of mashed spud. Had an activia rasberry fruit layer pot..not what I ordered, 3% fat so some syns I imagine and an options hot...

Hi all!! I have just moved out of the 16's and am hoping for some company and a few bum kicks from some fellow 15 stoners!! This is around the time that I fall off the wagon (this is my third go at SW!! usually lose around the two stone mark and then lose the plot!!) It is lovely to see some...

I understand what you mean about identity, I have always liked to be a little individual (little!!!...not so little!!) and have been more so as I've got larger....I am hoping that getting smaller will mean I can wear with confidence some of the styles I have hankered after. I really hope that...

I do hope that's not a pop at us southerners Corky!!..... I say!! we may have to roundly thrash you bounders, your caddish comments are an abomination!!!...although Mater did always tell one to turn the other cheek in such situations!so we may overlook it just this once!! xx

Hello all, Corky I am also thinking of having a drinkie free weekend....shall we do it together....just want to see how much difference it may or may not make to my loss......although I'm not sure it would persuade me to give up for the rest of the year!!! Stuck to the fizzy pop wine and G and...

Yesterday ended up being a strange food day!! stuck to green but was very light on super free...I'm blaming * week!! Dinner ended up being at 4.30pm and was a chicken and mushroom pasta and sauce with a bit of cheese grated on top. Then I picked at left over quorn roast, sliced and dipped in...

Well done on the restraint Kath...I think I would of had a small gin in that!! I bought the Banrock in Tesco's, a large one not an express!! They had quite a selection of the low alcohol, all 5.5%, I would recommend the Banrock or the First Cape Cafe as I've tried those, there was also one...

:asskick:Sarah consider yourself kicked!!! I can't believe how long it takes me to catch up on a Monday with this thread!!! Mandy love what a worry...I bet you have kicked alot of our bums into action though, I am going to book my smear today!! I have had a couple of abnormals that turned out to...

Just counted my syns...up to 98 already but am counting syns from Wednesday night after WI as well!!! May have to resign myself to a small gain or a STS this week...it's * week as well!!! x

Hi Roziee, yes I think the Linda McCartney burgers do have syns, I guessed at around three!! Will check on the syns calculator, but just wanted something easy at the time so it got eaten!! I have had a lovely weekend, more social than I had intended but I think I managed some damage limitation...

I finished off the First Cape on Friday...very nice...and cracked open a bottle of the Banrock Station, equally as pleasant!! and no hangover on Saturday morning!!I am a convert!! Stuck to G and slimline T at the wedding on Saturday....apart from the glass of champers with the toast's...but you...

Chin up chicken, and don't let the ******* get you down.....you pay their bloomin wages remember!! I love my job but during times of difficulty I remember that I work to live, I don't live to work!! Big love xxx

Hey Corky, just wanted to pop on and say I hope WI is to your satisfaction tomorrow!!! I am off home shortly and as I am now not babysitting my friends twins I may have a couple of fizzy pops this evening after all, lets see how the rest of the bottle goes down....may have to go and purchase...

Haha!! Just realised that I've commented on something that was mentioned a few pages back...just catching up with Jez's diary, only got half way through...glad it made sense to you Shirleen!!! My eyebrows are monsterous!!! would cover my entire face if I allowed them!! If I got left on a desert...

Style isn't always about what your wearing, it's about the finishing touches, makeup, hair and acessories, having a bit of flair and individuality....which you definately have!!....I would hazard a guess that you dress well for your size and carry it really well. I couldn't give a watsit about...

I agree Sarah it is odd isn't it how we can do pretty much the same most weeks and lose, sts or gain weight, I find I'll plod along losing a 1/2lb or a lb, even the odd gain for a few weeks then bingo next week I'll lose 3,4 or 5lb, then back to the lb here and there again. Lost 3.5lb this week...

Ended up getting home late, went to get my hair done ready for the wedding on Saturday, my Daughter is a hairdresser, she then went to her friends to book another holiday...Ibiza in June, alright for some. So that left me on my own for dinner, ended up an a'la what's in the freezer dinner. A...

O.k wine lushes, I have tried the First Cape Cafe 5.5% white wine and it was surprisingly alright!! Not too sweet like all those hidious perry things (Lambrini!!!yeuch!!!) tasted a little like a very light sauvinon blanc, I found it drinkable, nice in the summer with ice and a little soda...

Linda McFartney, quaterpounder with mozzerella, was ok but the egg on top made it a bit special!!....and as with all of lovely Linda's products it did make me McFartney...in fact I was Cheif McFartney of the McFartney clan!! .....got it all out of my system though before Mr PD came home all Beer...

Emmy I think you and I should start inappropriate conversations on Corky's diary, Sausage sizes on mine, pooping on yours.....I see she was asking about your gardening skills...shall we inquire about the neatness of her bush and how often she tends too it? You ladies do make me chuckle!! Good...

Well that cheered me up at my desk, you can commandeer my thread any day, I am terrible for the double entendre myself, always having a giggle and then realising I'm probably not in the right company to share.....I don't think I'd want a slender choice sausage, rather have a big and meaty...see...

Hello all, Mandy I can sympathise, Mr PD went to help his friend with a computer problem but whilst he was there he drunk several pints and got fed a very hot homemade curry with lime and chilli chutney and whole green chilli's (His friend is from Malowi and cooks to his mothers fab...

Well done Minky, I unfortunatly did not show such restraint on Saturday which is a shame because I really want to get 2lb off this week for my first stone, 1lb will get me down into the 15's though so lets hope my G and T frenzy didn't do for me!!.....well done lovely xxx

Wow...five inches, that's brilliant!!!.....trying not to snigger and ask if that's the female interpratation of five inches or the male....if it's the latter you could find you've not lost as much as you thought!!....sorry inappropriate!!!....seriously you have got to be chuffed with that!! Your...

Mandy you put me to shame with the amount of exercise you are doing my love, mother nature can be so cruel but you will out fox her eventually!! I am almost reluctant to do any extra exercise because I am worried about the effect on the scales but I know it's no use losing the weight without...

Soooooo dissapointed last night when my asda shopping delivery arrived and my syn free Linda McFartney's sausages had been exchanged for the original recipie one's....I'm not that keen on them and they have a higher syn count than my usual Quorn ones!!! Boo hoo.....It's all those other SW...

Yes they are!! They are a 'special' flavour (rosemary and red onion I think?) so I don't think they will be about for long, ordered three packs so I bloomin hope I like them!!! Some one described them as having a kind of stuffing flavour too them, I love a good dollop of stuffing with my...

I had the chicken and bacon salad without the dressing, I can't imagine it would be to high even with the salad dressing, the bacon was not at all fatty and the chicken looked chargrilled and fine for an EE day as the salad was at least 1/3. It would only be the oil in the french dressing a...

Paula it sounds like your doing a grand job, keeping them active is the trick I think and educating them so when they are older they can make the right choices for themselves, both of my daughters have put on weight since they left school and started being independent, one of them is a proper...

Well done Lucia, it's so difficult isn't it to know what to do for the best, I do it for a living but I still struggle with my own lovelies!! My eldest daughter is very very like me physically and in her attitude for food. She is almost exactly the same shape as me when I was her age, we both go...

Going for a green day today as shopping doesn't arrive till this evening and I'm sadly lacking in the SF department!! Breakfast: Shredded wheat mini's with skimmed milk (HEa and b) Lunch:Left over Quorn chilli and rice and a mullerlight Snack: Banana and green tea Dinner: Trying the...

Morning all, well only 10.30 and done in already!!! Have had two meetings in two days about students with eating disorders, it makes me so sad. I work in the Performing Arts Department of a college and am in charge of the pastoral care and the tutorial programe...bit like the old PSHE classes...

Well I'll give the old fizzy pop a go on Friday and report back, I really am quite fussy though with my wine (not so much with food...I just love everything!!) so I'm not holding out lot's of hope!! Applekath is waiting for me to try it too....lushes together!! I have a wedding to go too on...

Kath it was the spoons indeed....would of liked the chicken but had had my 2 healthy extra b's so had to stick to a green day....my god I'm am angelic!!!:angel:

When I've had a few drinkies the next day I just want to laze about and eat food....I am pleased to say I am sticking to SW friendly comfort food's these day when the alcohol munchies strike!!!:angel:Why don't you do the humous or the frittata you mentioned recently...the humous should be simple...

Corky, desperate time call for desperate measures.....and it's either that or drown in Gin!!!:party0036: So fizzy pop disguised as wine might on a subconcious level persuade my poor frazzled brain it's not being deprived.... trouble is I like quality...and quantity.....sadly I may have to...

Hello back stalker Emmy, nice to see you!!! Applekath I haven't tried the First Cape yet, have ordered some and will arrive with my asda delivery on Tues, saving it for the weekend so I'll let you know!! I see a few people on the other thread have tried the Banrock Station and liked it, wouldn't...

Hello fellow lushes!! Well after promising I would have a few drinkies on the Stag do I went to and scarper early...I ended up visiting eight pubs in twelve hours and consuming at least fifteen g and t's....stuck to singles even when asked if I wanted a double for a pound extra and a few times...

Hello all...I go away for the weekend and we've moved on pages and pages....and pesky students keep interupting when I'm trying to read what you bunch of nutters have been up too....but don't think saying "bloomin heck it's only your education...get a grip...I'm trying to lose weight you know!!"...

Hi Emmy, good luck with the 30 day shred, I'm sure it works because bit's of you you didn't know you had ache the next day!!!!....my advice, don't over do it the first day..especially the things that make your legs burn...the lunges and squats, My thighs were wrecking for almost a week, the rest...

Well Friday is here and I'd normally be looking forward to a glass of wine or two tonight but had a couple on Wednesday night and have a do on Saturday so going to be good, although I have heard about a low alcohol wine (5.5%) called First Cape Cafe, I understand from other Minimins that it's...

Have just googled First Cape Cafe and I'm not sure it is the one I've tried before....might take a trip to Tesco on the way home and try one!! I'll report back!! xxx

Mandy....Jillian is the devil in knickers!!! I Couldn't walk down the stairs properly for about five days.....the family thought it was hilarious!!! I will try again though but maybe modify the lunges for a bit.....the thighs were wear it got me....the rest of me ached but in a good way, so you...

Wow some of you have had some fantastic losses this week!!....what is your secret!!! Whatever your doing keep it up you clever lot!! Did I miss the bit where we show off our woofs? Well tough...here are mine!! Billy And Beau. We adopted Billy six years ago when some friends of mine bought a...

Well, checked out the noodles on the syn calculator.....9syns.....no thanks!!! Had a left over tin of lentil soup so had half of that and my salad for 5syns, a bit better but still not happy!!......especially when I found another packet of instant noodles in the bottom of my bag and they were...

Well done LisaMarie, I'd suggest power walking with your buggy, that is how I first shifted the pounds when my children were little. My daughter (who is now 21!!!) has two good friends with babies and they belong to a local group that go out as a group power buggie walking, maybe there is a...

Well WI last night and another lb off. Annoyingly another lb would of got me into the 15's and another two would of got me my first stone!! I would love to get my first stone next week, I'm aiming for half a stone each month to get me to goal by Christmas. So came home from WI made dinner, went...

Well ladies, I lost the best part of a guinea pig!! In laymans terms...1lb off...could say I'm disappointed to not get the extra lb to take me into the 15's...or my first stone...but a 21st birthday party or two and a meal out this week and still lost ....so smiling!!!! xxx

I just googled it Corky!!......and the countdown begins...less than an hour till weigh in and I'm doing the classic Clare internal dialouge...well don't forget you had Romi's birthday meal out and wine.....you really shouldn't of had that vodka on Saturday night though should you! Bet you've...

I have woken up in bed with a kebab!!....and thats definatly not the worst strange thing I've woken up with!!! xxxx

Don't forget this plan has to suit your life, you must allow yourself the odd day off....it's learning to get back on plan again that's the trick!! I know it's going to take me at least a year to get to a healthy weight, maybe longer....I know I couldn't not have a drink for a whole year so I'm...

That's one of these a week!!!! It's supposed to be a guinea pig!!!

Your doing really well Kissme.....I just wish I had your restraint when it comes to the drinkies!!!....once a bottle is open it has to be finished!! xxx

I just worked out if I lose 1.5lb per week untill Christmas...I'd be 11st.2lb!!! Woophee!!!.....haven't been that weight since I was about 17. The last time I got near it was in my late 20's when I got to about 12st...that seems so do able!! xxx Aiming for this but a lb a week would get me too...

I am rubbish at maths!!! I think I need to lose around 1.5lb a week to get there.....but am I right? xxxx

Hi Lily, I have seen you on so many threads and you are always so lovely, positive and motivating, just wanted to pop onto your diary and say hello and keep it up, your lovely comments really do help people. Big love xxx

Hello Corky!!! yes she started one just for us...avoid the girl who states the bloomin obvious though!!! Almost started a Lucia's grapefruit moment!!....would have like to rub her nose in your sucess so far...you old lush you!! xxxx

Sounds very similar to my bunch of lovelies....of whom I am the largest I might add!!! Could easily do that in a good sitting!! It's so hard though when everyone around you is having a lovely time. I have managed to sort out the food eaten after drinking.....tend not to want anything once I've...

Applekath I just found your wino's thread!! loved it....apart from the people who love to point out the obvious that alcohol is very syn laden, empty cals, will slow your weight loss ect ect!!!....yes we know...that's why we chose to spend our syns on that rather than cake or chocolate....if I...

Hey Applekath, found your thread!!! I understand now why my diary struck a chord with you!!! Socialising is my downfall too!!! I'm not one to drink on my own but I live in a large household with lot's of social people who enjoy a drinkypoo or five....and that's before friends popping in with a...

Morning girls, I tried the chocolate philly and thought it was the most vile thing I had ever tasted, really really bad, only good for rugby teams playing poo related practicle jokes......(not really just wanted to make you feel better!!).....and take my mind of the fact it's WI today. Why do I...

I too eat too early..gammon steak with an egg on top and a pile of roasted veggies!! Just started my own food diary on the food diary thread....hoping it will keep me on my toes!!! And Rozie I love you....yes the Avatar is me, last year at an old school friends 40th Indian theme wore a lovely...

Well I've decided to start my own food diary, I have run out of the paper ones...and as I seem to be spending more time on here and getting more support than group I thought this might keep me on track, please feel free to add any advice...I'm not easily offended!! This is my third attempt at...

Jengen you never know it may not be as bad as you think, try to eat as much SF as possible before anything else, I had a bad weekend last weekend and really stuck to it mon, tue and wed..managed a half pound loss, and if like us you have six stone to lose it is going to have to be a long term...

Good luck Mandy, I always feel the same on WI, and how frustrating is it that all that exercise doesn't always help on the scales, I am going to measure myself this week so I can compare......so did you manage to shred....must admit I didn't.....promised myself I'll do it this afternoon...

I was going to have Gammon Steaks with roasted veg....but now I have the baked bean lasagne recipie!!! x

My family refer to SW as Mum's "Dust Eating Club" !!! x

Well done Minky, five stone is a brilliant loss, you must be so chuffed!! I have decided to stay with group this time, everytime I think I can go it alone I just lose my way and put the weight back on!! My old consultant has moved on and my new one is not great (very new, only lost a stone on...

I feel the same Paula, I feel so much more supported by you lovlies than I do by my group...and we can do this together!!!! xxx

I too am a Jessie lover.....although to be completely perfect he would need an Irish accent!!! I don't know why but I find the american accent makes everything sound a bit patronising and somewhat false....I'm not saying they are, just that it sounds that way!!! Probably the whole.."have a nice...

Have you ever tried polka-dot-polly or Call me Betty....lovely made to order stuff, I am a vintage fan, 40's and 50's but these are great, some thigs as cheap as 35 sqids!! and go up to size 24 in some styles...the fabrics are great, some very Get Cutie style stuff but at a quarter of the...

I knew I'd read someone was going to start shredding!!...how did you get on Mandy? Perhaps we could try and motivate each other to keep it up...my thighs are still wrecking though from Thursday!!....felt o.k doing it but started to really feel it a few hours later!! xxx

Hello lovelies, I have been in hiding with the old fella, he's been working away for the last couple of months so we have been spending a bit of quality time this last week.....I do have minimins on my smart phone (Samsung Galaxy ladies can highly recommend, just as good as the ipooh and better...

Don't ever say the D word!! We are on a health eating plan!! xxx

Check out POLKA DOT POLLY - Home or Home - Vintage style for the modern woman for lovely hand made 50's inspired dresses in some fantastic fabrics...bit like Get Cutie but a bit cheaper!! Polka dot polly goes up to a size 26 I think in some styles, price range from 35 to 65 sqids per frock, both...

Hello all...finding it difficult to type...have just finished my first day of the 30 day shred and am feeling like Bambi on ice!!!! I must go and have a hot bath now otherwise I won't be able to move tomorrow morning......Lucia my love I am blaming you....all that talk of gym yesterday got me...

OOOO the green eyed monster has arrived Kally!!! The first album I ever bought was Spandau Ballet when I was about 11yrs old...spent much of my early teens with my bedroom wallpapered in Spandau posters although Steve Norman the Sax player was my favourite!! Bloody new romantics...they were...

Hey Lucia..you'll love it!! O.k firstly, breath deeply...in..and....out and remember us bigger girls are bloomin brilliant, if it wasn't for us cake botherers there wouldn't be the need for personal trainers!!! You are there so he can earn a living!! I was around 17stone when I first went to the...

Hey Rozie don't feel guilty, the fact that your recognising that you could get out of control is probably why your feeling so bad (guilty!) hands up girls who feels the same when they come off plan.....here that????? that was almost everyone on this thread raising their hands and shouting me...

That is a brave decision Corkey, not sure I can do a Fri without a drinky...Saturday is fine, if I've drunk enough on Friday I don't feel like it on Sat!!!!!...and if we are out on a Saturday I don't drink on Friday so I feel fresh and lovely and raring to go!!...and girls I'm sure I probably...

ooh no, I've got ten lb on you!!! Happy Friday!! x

Hi Jez, your diary has made me chuckle and get a bit teary in equal measure....I understand what you say about losing the way with looking after yourself, I too am a vintage queen.....bloody hard though when you get to a certain size.....and I thought all ladies were curvy in the 50's!!! Just...

Well done Lisa, I just avoided the cake and chocolate that was being passed round in an attempt to make a boring meeting less boring....people are always so keen to make you feel bad for looking after yourself.....you wouldn't force a drink on an alcoholic!!!....actually I have seen that tried a...

Well done, really motivating!! I'm a size 18/20 and would love to get down to a size 12/14 this year, pictures like yours really make me feel I can do it..thanks for sharing. x

Well done, what a fantastic acheivment....photo made me smile!! x

Made me chuckle, well done you!!! x

Wow, well done, such an inspiration for those of us just starting...you are going to have to change your name to Mrs Little B x

ooo I want some of that stuff that you spray on and looks shiny, and am going home after work and spraying the light bulbs with polish...the oh has been away working all week....he'll be very confused if he thinks I've been polishing...during the week!!

Corky...it Friday....only bloomin nearly wine O'clock isn't it!!!! Hurrah hurrah and my lovely Corky's maths allows me at least an extra glass!!!! xxx

P.S...you will have to forgive my slap dash spelling....should spell check but alway rushing!!!

Jemmsie and Roziee, I can sympathise....I have moved four times in the last six years!!!...it is the down side of renting, one landlady returned from Australia after 18 months after deciding it wasn't for her, the next one died after we had been their a year!!! Hoping we can stay put for a bit...

Lucia are the explination marks about my dreadful spelling or the theme of the miss spelling? You will have to forgive me I am terrible and must try to remember to use spell checker..although I'm not sure it would have helped me today!!!

Ha ha...found you!!! Can you tell I'm having a quiet day at work...been on here on and off all day!!! I am impressed that you get up so early to walk your woofs...I have a dog walker in the winter months to walk mine.....just can't do going out at sparrow fart..in the dark....also one of mine is...

Well done Emmy....I think I might give it a go....my daughters and I were contemplating getting a Wii and doing Zumba, Just Dance that kind of thing for a laugh but my eldest daughter has unfortunately inherited my thunder thighs and ample bottom...along with my magnificent bosom so not all...

Emmey...are you alive....can you walk to the computer? I've been thinking about doing the shred....or going back to a dance class....feel a bit more fairy elephant than sugar plum fairy at the mo though....and not sure my ankles will support all 16st of me on pointe!! When I was very young I was...

Wht thank you Corky.....years of over wine wisdom....and advice is what I do for a job.....do all of the pastoral care in the performing arts department of a college.....every year I deal with another batch of dance students with eating disorders....just need to heed my own advice aye!!!....nice...

I know, it has taken me to my fourth attempt to get my head around this being a long term plan, at least a year to lose the six stone I need to lose to get to a healthy weight....and longer if I take the booze cruise!!! It has taken me a life time of bad eating habits and twenty years of wine...

Dory lovely I did exactly the same thing last week....although in my case it was an extra bottle of red that evaporated right in front of my nose on Saturday night!! Usually I'd go, bugger it all is lost and go off plan BUT,,,dum dum dum and a big drum roll, I reigned it in, tried to eat mostly...

Ohh tit's and bum...when did oat so simple become so full of syns? I have justbought a load because they were on special offer, couldn't find them mentioned in the suggested healthy extra's in the new book (I'm sure they were in my old one!!) Checked online.....between six and ten...

Hi ladies, another 1.5 lb loss for me this week....happy with that...the superfree couple of days worked!!

I have put on four stone in the last ten years but have only gone up one dress size, from a sixteen to an eighteen....twenty if I want to be really comfortable. I am 5ft 6 and last time I was 11 and a half stone I managed to get into a size 12 pair of trousers....once I get into the 12/13 stone...

Hey Moonstruck, I know how you feel, my weight loss isn't constant either, I'll lose 5lb one week, put on a lb the following week then lose half a lb to a lb for a week or two, then another 5/4lb loss...and I do't do anything different each week I just think some people's bodies process weight...

OOhhh briliant, just before WI my bloomin * arrives!!!!

Welcome Danigrace, your right this is the chattiest group...some times takes me a quite a while to catch up once I've signed on....hope the boss isn't looking at my internet record!!! Lucia sometimes we have to have a blow out, the difference is we aren't damaging ourselves by eating like that...

I know what you mean about the other half, mine can eat and eat and never put on a pound.....he's like a young Iggy Pop..minus the see through trousers!! But I do often feel like a shire horse stood next to a shetland pony!! We have been together for 11yrs and he is supportive of my weight loss...

Have been slack with keeping my food diary this week, just checked the syns on a few things I was unsure off....and could cry....Innocent lentil dahl vegpot is not so innocent at 9.5 syns!!! And also some of the mugshots I've been so excited about have also got the odd syn in too!!! Oh we'll got...

Oh bugger...that's just cruel....what an evil woman!!I had the same trouble this weekend with people opening bottles of wine around me...there is no more boring company than that of drunk people...when you are sober!!! But I did manage to just have a few on Friday night and just one on...

Hi, I lost 3 and a half in the first week, put on one and a half in the second.......and then lost 5 in the third week!! We all lose at different rates and can weigh different amounts at different time s of the day....different by several pounds!! Honestly this works if you stick too it, you...

I'm off to the theatre with my youngest daughter tonight to see some of my students perform tonight straight from work, won't be home till late so bought a large cheese and coleslaw white baguette for my skinny daughter and had planned on having a wholemeal egg sandwich for me but stumbles and...

Well I managed to lose another 1 and a half lb's....happy with that as have stayed true to the plan....but had some massive portion sizes this week......and a whole bottle of wine last Friday. Have just tucked away the left overs from last night for my lunch, quorn peppered steak with a large...

I am feeling the same about group, I have a new consultant who is only just finding her feet I know so feel mean moaning but not as charasmatic as my last consultant who was good fun...but like paulabeard's ladie was putting on weight weekly although had lost four and a half stone with SW before...

Have so enjoyed reading your diary, I have also suffered from depression, well post traumatic stress syndrome but same symptoms, blue low moods, very negative and down on myself and the occational delightful panic attack.....what fun they are!!! You really are an inspiration and I so hope I'll...

Mandy boys always lose weight quicker than we do....bloody unfair!! But you can feel smug in the knowledge that if he isn't cafeful to re educate himself it probably won't last....I think I'd be a bit ashamed to admit I wasn't following the diet....Mummy/Woman guilt thing I'm sure!!! x

I have just had a sneaky peek at some of the VLC diaries and were shocked to see that many of them are having similar loses to us. I tried one of these for a couple of weeks, I lost just over a stone....but I felt awful!!! I was off work on holiday but had no energy to do anything. There are...

Thanks, I have really loved reading your journey so far, I thought I was positive but you are McPositive from the clan McPositive of Positives Town in the county of Positive!! I'm just restarting for the third time...lose two stone, go off the boil...spend six months putting it back on....if...

Hi everyone, well done on some great losses again and best wishes for all Wednesday WI's..like me!! I know a few of you have really struggled this week..but when you feel down remember you are already winning by starting this process and taking control....those of us here with six stone or more...

So frustrating being a newbie and not being able to quote!! I just wanted to say I agree about the level of support provided on this thread. I am finding it more motivating than my weekly meeting, which is a shame. I have a new consultant, she is very new but just doesn't have the charisma of my...

Pleased to report a 5lb loss this week. So witth the 1lb gain last week and tge 3 1/2 lb loss in my first week thats a lotal loss of 7 1/2 lb...could you update me please Rosie.....so chuffed!! Well done us all whatever we lost...we are all here and trying to take control and improve our...

Well third weigh in for me this evening, I so want a loss, have been so good and stuck 100% to plan, had a couple of glasses of wine last Fri but virtually no syns the rest of the week. I had a 1lb gain last week but it was the time of the month...does this effect weight loss, I have read lot's...

I used the cheese scone's as a topping for my quorn cassarole last night, used plain cottage cheese, tesco's value smash (20p a go) and added some mixed herbs....yummy....just the thing after a dissapointing gain in WI....almost felt guilty after eating, it was that good how can it possibly be...

Well felling so dissapointed with myself...gained a pound this week and its only week two!!I know it is likely that its the red wine this weekend as i have stuck 100% to the plan. I know I need to stick with it as this is a lifestyle change and Im in it for the long haul. I have also got a...

Well off to WE this evening, have stuck to plan...didn't let a free lunch at a meeting scupper me, had an egg sandwich, counted the bread as a b choice and some fruit for afters!! Did have quite a few glasses of red wine on Saturdat though. To be honest I would struggle to obstain completely but...

Hello all, Well failing miserably with my water intake, not exercising....but I do have a broken ankle so I can be forgiven..and have not been brilliant with my SF either!! I also drank rater a lot of red wine on Saturday night, other than that feel like I am keeping on track....even with a...

I do this with left over veg from Sunday lunch, mash the veg with mashed potato put in an oven proof dish, spray with fry light to crisp the top and bake for a while untill brown. I serve it with a couple of eggs fried in fry light and baked beans.....never thought of adding cottage cheese...

Hello all, Lost 3.5lb this week, happy with that, had a drinky or five at a party last Sat and another party to go to this Sat! I have eaten well and never been hungry, getting into the habit of eating super free with every meal, haven't done EE before I'm a green girl usually and will still...

Quorn cottage pie, with a swede and potato topping...after my first weigh in...wish me luck, I'm sure the comfort food will make me feel good either way!! Clare xx

Hi this is my first post and I wondered if I could join your challenge. This is the fourth time I have re:joined SW, I love the plan and always manage to lose 1 and a half to 2 st but never manage to stay the distance. I have some people around me who de:rail me...it's usually opening a bottle...