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Thanks for the reply - I really appreciate it. I'm also thinking about going it alone ... something I never thought I would do. I'm going to see how I get on this week on my own, and make a decision on Tuesday, which is my next weigh-in day. I'm continuing with the SW plan, but I've started...

What I tend to do with fruit like rhubarb, plums etc. is just cut into pieces and 'stew' until soft in a pan over a gentle heat in a little no added sugar squash (preferably not orange or lemon anything too citrussy, but apple and blackberry, forest fruits etc. any of those sorts of flavours...

Yes definitely, I should have made that clearer - it does depend on what you're selling. I've mainly got what you'd probably describe as kitchenalia items - old enamel biscuit tins and pottery jugs, candlesticks etc. - arty farty shabby chic type stuff as well as slightly wacky vintage type...

Weighed in tonight only to discover that despite being 100% and then some every day for the past week ... I have gained half a pound. :mad: I went the whole of Easter without so much as a whiff of chocolate despite there being Lindt eggs and bunnies and allsorts in full view in the kitchen...

I used to do car boots regularly a few years back and could make good money - £100 quid plus on a Sunday morning selling bits and bobs, including clothes, which I hang on a rail alongside my table where I can keep an eye (I have had stuff nicked at boot sales sad to say). More recently I...

If this had happened to me I'd have told her 'you've just lost yourself a sale' ... and walked straight out of the shop. Then I'd have gotten on the phone to their head office and asked to speak to the area manager or whoever and told them they'd just lost a customer and why. How dare she...

Sorry to hear you never found your rings. Read all through this thread and it reminded me of the time my son left his wallet in the kitchen. It was his 13th birthday and he'd got a lot of money - from grandparents etc. - had about 150 quid in there. One of his friends had been in the house...

Half a pound on for me .. and to say I am absolutely gutted is an understatement. I am so cheesed off I can't tell you. I have not put a foot wrong I swear ... and am racking my brains to try and figure out how this has happened. I've gone right through Easter without even sniffing a bit of...

I know I couldn't do it without going to group each week. It's an essential part of the whole thing for me. As good as the plan is .. I know I wouldn't last five minutes on my own. Plus my scales (although brand new and digital) seem to make it up as they go along. Weight is all over the...

Actually Paul you make an excellent point - even though I got a bit carried away and practically wrote 'War and Peace' as my answer :D ... I missed that one out lol!! I have actually lost weight before - at the start of last year, I gave up wine, bread, pasta etc. - got a pedometer and started...

it's called “menstrual edema” (premenstrual weight gain peaking at the onset of flow). It's only fluid, not fat - and nothing to worry about ... it will disappear as quickly as it came (until next month) but I agree, it is disappointing when it shows up on the scales.

I can only endorse what everyone has said here. Slimming World is brilliant! I have tried numerous ways to reverse the weight gain that has been slowly building up over the past five years - about three stone in that time. Nothing has worked and I was so depressed and down about my weight...

Fantastic!! Well done.

I'm a veggie too .. and I do green days every day. Haven't even looked at Extra Easy if I'm honest. I like the green because it allows me to have both milk AND cheese (not either/or) and as I don't eat eggs ... dairy is my main source of protein. I eat loads and loads of veg and fruit (always...

Absolutely fantastic! Well done. You look amazing.

Yep I definitely get days like these. I could honestly eat non-stop and some days it hasn't been far off that. So far I've managed to avoid going off plan - but I do end up eating loads and loads of food on plan ... and it doesn't quite satisfy the 'hunger' or whatever it is that drives...

Congratulations, that's just fantastic!

Thanks you so much to all the posters who congratulated me. Everyone on here is so nice. I'm sorry I'm leaving you now lol!

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Haven't had pasta for a while ... so I cut up some red pepper, aubergine, red onion and mushrooms and 'roasted' them under the grill with a few sprays of 'fry light'. Meanwhile I made up a tomato sauce of crushed gariic, canned tomatoes, dried oregano and ripped up fresh basil leaves with salt...

Howdy! I've just come over from the 12 stone department ... at tonight's weigh-in I have lost another 2lb which takes me down to - 11stone 13lbs! I'll likely be around here quite a while - I'm averaging just under 2lb loss per week at the moment, so I'll be here for a few weeks.

2lb off for me. That's my first half stone gone, and takes below 12stone - so two milestones passed this week. Plus, I wasn't able to get out for my walks this past week (I do the 10,000 steps a day thing) ... so with that as well I might even have lost a little more. Anyway ... another loss...

Well ... I'm gonna have to love ya and leave ya! Lost another 2lb at tonight's weigh-in and am now ......... 11stone 13lbs! :angel09:

That's good to hear. I must admit she doesn't look 'botoxed' for want of a better word, so it's good to hear that maybe she has kept it natural and just aged well. It's just that so many of these celebrities deny having anything done ... when it's so flamin' obvious. It would be wonderful if...

I was reading an article by Joanna Lumley (who is 66 years old!!! :eek:) ... and she was saying that she watches the wine - never drinking more than a couple of glasses every now and then because she thinks it 'goes straight to the face'. At the time I thought 'what a load of old cobblers?'...

A few months ago I purchased a beautiful full length leather coat off Ebay for the princely sum of £15. I was over the moon. When it arrived it was even better than it looked onscreen. I'm a bit of a retro chick :D and the style of it, everything is right up my street ... not to mention it...

Here we go again ... 4th weigh in for me tonight. I feel like I've lost weight but then who knows? Fingers crossed.

I'm 12 stone 1lb - weigh in tomorrow (Tuesday) and no offence, but I'm hoping I'm going to be leaving you lot lol! If not, you will have to put up with a very miserable and disgruntled 12 stoner - as I have been as good as gold this week.

What a brilliant quote!!!! I must remember that one.

Excellent - gonna give this a go!

That's me with wine!

You girls doing it on your own have my utmost admiration. Like today ... for the first time in ages I'm having a 'bad' day in the sense I don't fancy any of the stuff we can eat (can't even think what I fancy for my tea despite running a dozen options through my head) plus I keep dipping a...

I stayed the same my second week as well. Lost 2.5lbs first week, nothing second week and 2.5lbs third week, so you've almost lost as much as me already!!! I know that feeling of being completeley dishearted (I was exactly the same) but the fact is there will be other weeks when it stays the...

Yep I'm in. I know I have to cut out booze on this plan to lose weight. Just having one little glass now and then doesn't work for me and I'm better off just cutting it out altogether. I lost 2.5 lbs first week, second week I had quite a few glasses of wine watching the Rugby (when Wales won...

Uh Oh! One of the things I've 'discovered' since I start doing SW is (no added sugar) fruit squash. I've never been a squash drinker ... but my daughter has always had it in the house. It's just one of those things I've never really bothered with, and have bought exclusively for her. However...

Yes, I really like it too. I like the format, the live band especially, and I like the banter between the coaches. My daughter is feeling the love for Danny as well ... I'm a bit old for that lol, but I do like him. Talented guy and has a great personality. As for the singers, I thought the...

This is one of the most valuable and informative things I've read on the site so far and I am so glad I clicked on this section of the forum. I'm a long way off target, but my thoughts are already turning to what happens once I get there ... how do I stop myself putting it all back on? I'd...

No I didn't. Can't understand the mentality to be honest - they are creating the shortage they are trying to avoid? If I haven't got any petrol then I'll walk, take the bus, cycle, do whatever .... but no way will I sit in a great long queue in a petrol station.

I just bought two sweet potatoes in Co-op when I got my lottery tickets .. so I might make them into 'chips' and have them with veggie burgers and some 'roasted' veg - red onion/red pepper/mushrooms/cherry toms etc, plus a big rocket salad on the side.

I think you're right Catherine. It's the 'visual' effect and the amount of munching I do .. I think is making my thinking skewed. For breakfast today I had two weetabix again with skimmed milk. Normally I'd have semi-skimmed milk and a spoonful of sugar or two on that, and maybe a bit of...

Anna, my comment wasn't in reply to your post, which I am very grateful for and have 'liked' - thankyou :). It was the comment from the poster I quoted in my post i.e. 'I wanna know where this chocolate bar is that has the same amount of calories as a banana? Cos its one seriously low calorie...

Me either. I'm a lifelong vegetarian and every week I get items from the veggie frozen section and I haven't even seen these?!? They sound delicious!

I never said there was a chocolate bar that had the same amount of calories as a banana. What I said was - a calorie is a calorie wherever it comes from. If you read my post again I made the hypothetical comparison of 12 bananas equalling two chocolate bars and I also stressed that I was...

I know it works ... but I still can't figure out how it works. I started on this plan three and a half weeks ago and although I 'think' I understand the logic and the science of it ... I'm still getting that nagging voice in my head all the time, that says calories are calories whether they...

Quorn Sausages and SW wedges with baked beans and a pile of homemade SW coleslaw. A plum, and a bowl of raspberries for pud followed by a cup of coffee.

It's an amazing site - so glad I found it, and a big thank you to all those who put in the work behind the scenes. I also prefer the new look .. but then I was only on the old site a few days before it changed. I just find this clearer and easier to navigate.

I finally quit in September last year after decades of smoking. I had given up before - through both my pregnancies, once for almost a year, another time for six months ... and I could also go several days without smoking but I'd always go back to it. As soon as life got stressful (which of...

I've only been doing this for three weeks but if I can lose 2lb by my next weigh in I will have gone from the 12stone bracket to the 11 stone bracket plus I will have hit my first half stone loss. I really hope I can achieve this as it feels rather slow going at the moment. I know patience is...

Very boring today .. but I had such a craving for a bit of toast - I had two slices of Nimble wholemeal toasted with a tablespoon of marmalade and my usual mug of coffee with milk from allowance.

Such a lovely post and very true. I've only lost 5lb over 3 weeks - but I 'feel' different. My jeans are definitely looser, I'm walking a bit taller, taking care over my make up and so on, exercising every day - only a little 20 minute workout I devised plus walking .. but all these factors...

Two weetabix with mixed berries and a fat free vanilla yoghurt poured over and popped in the microwave for a minute to 'warm up. Goes all gooey and the fruit releases all its juice. Yum!

I'm 12 stone 1lb at tonight's weigh in and hoping next week to get into the 11s. Haven't been under 12 stone since August 2010.

I had the opposite experience. Going into the railway station to buy my daughter a ticket and they had this wall of mirror glass. I saw this little round dumpy person walking towards the ticket booth .... and it took me about a minute to realise it was me! Talk about getting a shock .. but it...

I've only lost 5lbs and already my trousers and jeans are getting loose. The pair I am wearing at the moment were really tight and if I wore then out I'd have to get them off as soon as I got in the house because they'd be digging in around the waistband. I've worn them all day today and am...

Just wanted to add my congratulations to those already given. What an absolutely wonderful and inspiring story! So glad I clicked on this thread.

I'm exactly the same. I seem to have been eating loads and when I didn't lose anything last week, I thought this can't be right?? However, I lost 2.5 lbs this week, and as I lost 2.5lbs in my first week - that 5lbs total over 21 days. It's nowhere near as impressive as some of the weight loss...

2.5lbs off! That's 5lb loss in three weeks. Now I need to figure out how to change my ticker?

Greetings fellow Tuesdayers! I'd like to join this thread as well. It's my third weigh in tonight and I haven't put a foot wrong this week. :innocent0002: Last week - I lost nowt (due to a wine drinking/Cadbury's creme egg incident) but I have been back on the straight and narrow ever since...

I just ate the same but drank coffee instead of the green tea.

A 3 egg omelette filled with mushrooms, red pepper, red onion and peas, with my daily cheese ration grated over the top and put under the grill to fluff up. Served with a portion of noodles cooked in veggie stock, and loads of soy sauce.

I'm a Welshie living in the south of England. Originally from Pembrokeshire ... also lived 13 years in Gwynedd.

I can honestly say my hip hasn't hurt for weeks since I started doing my exercises regularly. In January I had flu (proper 'flu - not a bad cold). I know it was flu because I'd had it before - about 14 years ago. Just awful. Anyway ... I was in bed for the best part of a week (and it took...

This sounds kind of like the class I joined two weeks' ago. My third weigh in is on Tuesday. First week I lost 2.5 lbs, second week I lost sweet F.A. (on account of what henceforth shall be referred to as the Wales winning the Grand Slam and me 'over' celebrating incident :eek:) and if I don't...

I know this is a thread for the fellas .. but I had to respond to that - 900 calories in an hour's Badminton?!? That's fantastic. I used to play years ago ... I might try and persuade the daughter to see if she'll come with me if I book a court. Even just going once a week would be worth it...

I recently started volunteeing in a Charity shop - one session a week. Rest of the time I work from home as a graphic designer - I literally walk down the hall to my 'office' and sit here ... get up and walk around to stretch my legs etc. and of course I can go down and make myself food/drink...

I just had the BEST afternoon snack since I started SW two weeks ago and it sort of came about by accident. A big juicy Jaffa orange was about to 'go' in the fruit bowl - it was either eat it right then or chuck it, so I cut it up into segments, then sliced a banana and a green crunchy apple...

Hi there ... can't you just unclip it when you are cycling? I wear a pedometer all the time and I must admit I keep mine on when I'm cycling (so it counts towards the steps lol) but if I don't want it to register, I can just unclip it and pop it in my bag. The one I use is the Omron HJ-151...

Once again, can't thank you enough for this. I'm hearing all the right things and I'm so glad I joined the forum last night. :)

Thanks so much for this and for the other replies. I really appreciate them and don't feel so alone now. To be honest .. I did drink a lot of wine - red and rose :eek: and as Mrs Thunderbolt said - it does play havoc with fluid levels etc. I am doing the Green programme every day with the...

Thank you so much everyone for the replies. I really appreciate them. I'm going to try and stay on the straight and narrow this week and if there's no loss when I weigh in next Tuesday, I will maybe start posting my food diaries on here. I didn't mention that I'm a (lacto) vegetarian and...

Thank you very much for the replies - really appreciated. I spent most of last night checking out any hidden 'syn' extras I might have had .. but it looks as though I was pretty accurate in logging them correctly. So it seems my weekend blowout was enough to prevent me losing any weight last...

I'm sure this will sound like a daft question, but as I'm new to all this I hope you will forgive me. Long story short I have been gaining weight steadily for the past five years or so (3 stone in fact) and have tried everything to shift it on my own, but to no avail. Signed up to SW a...

Hi everyone. Finally got the courage to sign up having been lurking here reading for the past couple of weeks I'm a middle aged female who has slowly but surely been gaining weight over the past five years or so - three stone in fact. So fed up of it, and seem unable to shift it myself...