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The tube of cheese comes in at 150g, which is twelve syns, or six syns plus healthy extra a. I made the fajita spice mix myself, I used a spoon of powdered mash (which might be a tweak and considered synful), recipe could be made without it though, in place of the cornflour, and substituted the...

Had this last night from: Slimmers Nacho Style Feast | Primula It was lovely.

i made this a few days ago, and polished it off today. Wow is all i can say. It gets the consistency of curry just right! Recommend you put a bit of tomato puree in as well, it gives a deeper colour and a touch of sweetness. Second only the synfest that is mayflower curry!

Male example of benefits: After nine stone loss, there's less, shall we say 'padding' around certain areas, making a difference of several inches.

Ive had loads of these, they are delicious.... Too many in a packet though. I end up eating them all.

Hmm, that sounded a bit bit like me at my class when i was losing. I got just short of thirty slimmers of the week, I won slimmer of the month nine months in a row, missed the next one, and got the one after as well. It was a running joke, but i havent won any for some time since...

Never heard of these. Just ordered some!! thanks :)

Its ultimate in pseudo hoax health scares. There isnt a shred of evidence that aspartame is bad for humans within the recommended maximums not a single shred. It has been investigated repeatedly by both US and EU food and drug experts. But still there is a almost a pathological obsession by some...

I said ten pounds week after new years... I lost 13 and a 1/2 ;)

if you are a big guy you can lose two pounds fairly easy, week in week out. Your consultant is there to stretch you. If you have five stone to lose the expectations are different than if you have only a stone. Some people respond to pressure and targets, usually though, its men who respond the most.

When you put your figures into the nhs bmi calculator, they come out at 22.8, which is right bang on for healthy weight. Every single pound you lose at this weight is going to be gut wrenchingly hard, quite simply because there is nothing else to lose. I too have lost loads of weight, nine...

Weigh in today, lost 13 1/2 pounds of the 14 pounds i had gained at christmas...

I didn't think I had been that bad. Though I wasn't good. A slight shock...

I gained fourteen pounds.....................

It would be quite difficult to gain weight by only eating pasta and veg. Pasta is not high in calories and is very filling, it does have a tendency to make your digestive system very slow though, and it can hang around for some time, but gain weight? Not a chance, unless she was carb restricting...

You are really Baroness Jenkins in disguise!!!

Asda all bran and their value bran flakes. I cant tell *any* difference between them.

EE every time... It's straight forward and very flexible. When you get the hang of all the different aspects of the plan, then think about different red and green days. But to be honest EE is so darn easy to follow...

I went for about 150 days solid without breaking the plan. Now i have difficulty with 150 minutes.

they said it was 'old packaging'.

If anyone hasnt tasted these, you should they are utterly delicious, i mean really really good! So good i was suspicious. I understand they are classed as half a syn each from slimming world, obviously based on accurate nutritional content. The nutritional content puts them at 5% fat, and 153...

i find im calorie concious rather than counting calories. I have certain floors and ceilings for different foods. But them im at target and can be pretty flexible.

Just checked my weight loss spreadsheet. It took me 22 weeks to lose 5st.

I found after eating lots of refined bread every day for most of my life, I cut it out entirely joining SW, a month after starting I tried some wholemeal bread. It made me feel awful and bloated.

You like them? i found them quite poor. For those supermarket style sausages, definitely sainsburys and tesco, then weightwatchers. i found the NUME once quite awful.

theyll almost certainly be a local butcher who knocks up some very lean sausages. Ask at your local group. We have a couple and they do a roaring trade. They arent allowed to officially market them as syn free..

I started on 15 syns a day and I kept to that. I don't think much of your consultant to be honest. if you have coped on 15, you should keep to it.

The club 10 and the diamond awards are the most important of them all imho. The club 10 tells you are well on your way, and diamond that not only have you got where you wanted to be, youve stayed there for 12 months....

The badge is great. It has what looks like a diamond in...

A lot!!!! Free meats usually hover around 120 to 170 cals per 100g depending on the meat, with lamb a bit higher. Here is a link to the nutrional content: Calories in Dulano Pork Frikadellen and Nutrition Facts Calories 290cals per 100g, with 22% fat content. Anything above 5%-7% fat level...

For chicken, you find great value at Aldi. Their pair of chicken legs are down to about £1.10 at the moment. Take the skin off before you cook. Syn free.

Well done! Welcome!!!

Thanks all.

I did a lot of length strengthening and stretching... My muscles ache like a bi*ch today though!!

A couple of years ago I managed to run 5k on a tradmill, but my knee got sore, and only managed to do it a couple of times. Over the last two years, every time ive reached a certain point my knee has started to hurt. This time i was determined it was going to be different! Ive been running on...

So thats a thousand sausages ive lost?

Turkey mince is not necessarily lean. Yes, leaner than beef, but it isnt all free. Unless it says lean, or turkey breast, it probably has been minced up with all the unused skin in the processing plant, making it very fatty.

Dont worry, i had about 250 syns in one day last week..... We all mess up now and then. Just get back on the horse, forget about it and move on.

How about a big bag of potatoes? Pre prepared food is not cheaper. It is a myth put about by people too lazy to cook.

Well my mammie always said i was precious. Or was that precocious?

I was visiting another group last week in a different town, as i missed my weigh in. It was kind of embarrassing (but i love the attention). I was 'recognised' from the magazine last year. That group didnt have any diamond members. When the consultant read out my loss, the gasps where there. She...

if you cycle on an exercise bike instead of a real bike it becomes a chore. Do it with some friends on some nearby cycle routes and it becomes fun. Three hours passes and its entertaining, even when it rains!

900 calories is a lot for a meal. Are you sure it was that much? Are you maybe getting your dried and your cooked weights of rice mixed up? SW is just like every other diet, its about controlling calories. But the calorie control is done through following the rules of the plan, not counting...

not sure, not a food im familiar with.

Its really easy to cycle fifteen miles, and that burns off 700 calories, at a nice leisurely pace 11mph. Find someone to go cycling with Home Page - Sky Ride

I eat loads of saurkraut. I would want to eat all the delicious cold sausage though, which most certainly are not free! You have inspired me to have a little wander round mine now.

I promise you the plan works. If you do have six stone to lose, you will be surprised how quickly it works. But you must be honest with yourself. Many people who come to slimming world have a very poor attitude to food, and to be honest it can make you more obsessed, as you encountered with...

on our facebook page we all just chip in with whatever, occasionally we get things wrong... But there are some old hands on the page who can spot if someone is wrong.

It's their products that put me off. They arent particularly healthy in an abstract sense, and they are barely an improvement on the regular product that they are modelled on. When i have ever checked the calories of weight watchers vs normal food, the calories per 100g is usually no better than...

Wow, im wrong!! It must have changed with the new books. Never noticed that!!!

No you misunderstand me. If you are going to gorge, doing it on super free is *always* better than free food, super speed versions of super free even better. Im talking about going to the extremes.

IIRC watermelon is *not* superspeed, but is super free. I love watermelon, as with all super free food, its always better to eat that than many other things. But watermelon is one of those fruits thats really easy to over eat. Its so sweet and juicy, that gigantic watermelon can quickly be...

Some weeks you'll lose a pound, some weeks you'll lose four, and you've eaten the same stuff. What's important is that you keep it off. 2 1/2 last week, 2 this week. If you got two next week, would you really be disappointed that in three weeks you had lost 1/2 a pound short of 1/2 a stone...

That is not true. Unless there has been a change in policy.

9 stone in thirteen months on extra easy....

I have a philips airfry. I absolutely love it. I make chips with it all the time. It is used as often as our oven. Check out this chip review: The Gadget Show | Episode 9: Scotland - Healthy Fryers video from The Gadget Show

It sounds like maybe your consultant made a mistake (though it is suppose to be automated, ie the pda tells her). The rules are very simple. The person with the highest weight loss, as long as they didnt gain the previous week or it isnt first week in.

it sounds like next week you might get it. Check with your consultant, it will say on her pda. Remember, you needed to have stayed within the target, with three pounds either way. If you go over or above, you still get your weeks grace, but after that, the clock is reset.

I think consultants probably find those who swing one way then the other to be the most frustrating. The vast bulk of people who come to these kinds of classes only need/want to lose a couple of stone. 28 pounds. If you lose a pound a week, in six months you'll be there. Six months seem a long...

Yes, i know some people can be made to feel hungry from it.....

Thanks :)

hit target in april of last year, got my diamond award this year, and voted group diamond member :) The only downside is thats really it. There are no more awards that i can do! Got them all. I used to put all the stickers on my book etc. I'll try to remember them: Club 10, all the 1/2 stones...

Par for the course for weightloss im afraid. Sometimes its jealousy, sometimes its genuine concern. We associate instinctively, weightloss with illness. The flabby flesh can make your face look puffed hiding the wrinkles. Your eyes can sometimes look more drawn following weightloss. I got it...

Sustained weightloss.... the people who lose three and four one week are often the ones who put two or three back on the following week . A pound a week, week in and week out soon comes flying off.

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Unless you are one of the rare people who has an issue breaking down aspartame there isnt anything to worry about it. It's the most tested food product on the planet. Not only has the US FDA found the product safe, its european counterparts have done the same. Pure conspiracy moon howling.

Going very well, still going to class. Diamond Member (being at target for more than twelve months). Target can sometimes be tough. Im a lot happier with myself than i was a couple of years ago. I feel a new man :)

im still here :)

And all totally free on our eating plan....

Hehe Got Diamond member of the year for my group :)

Love it!!! Sounds like an ideal meal :)

My delivery came today. Exceptionally well packed.

Just did a buy for my group. £300 of sausages are on their way.

Taken yesterday. One on left taken in May 2010 One on right taken in May 2012 after losing about three stone, having joined SW in March 2012.

I think its a body dis-morphia thing. Some people possibly never adjust. Its the glances out of the corner of your eye which get you. Walking along and you see your reflection in the glass, and it aint how you think you look. I find it hard now to visualise myself as that 21 st 9 man! It will...

Every time i put on a 34 inch waist pair of trousers, every time i put on a medium t shirt. The motivation is there. I am used to what i look like now (it takes a long time to adjust). I can look in a mirror and i like what i see (not the oldish face though)... i like the flirting i get with...

:)

I made a mistake, it was thirteen months not eleven, i have edited the original post :) Start from first principles. The plan *does* work. The more you have to lose the more it will work, the more you up your exercise the more it will work. I found that making my favourite meals but in a SW...

I think thats your lot....

It has its own challenges. You obviously cant return back to your old style of eating because you will return back to your old weight. I dont want to be that person who lost loads of weight and put it on again. Ive read so much on here, and heard about it from others. I really love being the...

It's the award you get for keeping three pounds within target for twelve months :)

Expecting my Diamond Award next Wednesday. :)

PS. Loads of people acquire gb problems when they go on very low fat diets.

I had mine out about fifteen months ago. It was not a problem for me. Read so many horror stories. I continued losing weight. It did take over a month for me to get completely better though. It hurt if I laughed for ages after. if your gb was diseased (like mine) it had stopped functioning...

Aspartame is perfectly safe (as safe as any food group can be). Aspartame is the sweetener used in most fizzy drinks. Some people have a very low tolerance to aspartame, it's something to do with them not being able to break it down. But, just because some people. Have a nut allergy doesn't...

Man of the mag :)

Yes. I was :)

If you dont add fat and sugar to your food, you can eat an awful lot before you exceed your daily requirements.

Personally i try to ensure every meal has third super free. Where possible i incorporate it into the main part of the meal, or at the very least i add things like beetroot, pickles, saurkraut, chopped tomato, onion etc.

These are two pics i came across a few days ago. One on the left was taken late 2010 the one on the right a couple of weeks ago. Nine stones gone.

thank you daisy dolly :)

I was tongue in cheek... But it would work.

I think youve maybe had a sense of humour failure.

Yes, get on the wagon and you'll knock it out no problem.

On the last weigh in of the month eat and drink as much as you possibly can on the day of weigh in, eat tons of free and superfree food. That should enable you to have a six to eight pound gain, which if you keep to plan every week for the next month, at 2 pound a week loss, you will manage an...

People can get irrational about it. To be successful sometimes it does require you to be obsessed. But thinking about what you eat in general is not an obsession. It can be too easy to shove everything and anything into your gob and not think twice about it.

It gets complicated then though.... i wouldnt have won it 28 times if that was the case!

loss of muscle mass has caused me issues in my shoulders and knees.....

Tremendous start!!

1% of your body weight is a safe amount to lose if you are on plan. First week weight loss is more about your body using up its first stage energy reserves (glycogen), it uses that up first when your body begins to eat less than it needs to sustain itself. This is often referred to as 'water...

Good idea! When i was in doubt, i would compare myself watching shows like Biggest Loser (US), I would look at the contestants who started at a similar rate to me, and how different they looked having lost a similar amount to what i had lost. When they showed the pictures next to each other it...

I've lost nine stone.. so close. Dont worry, it took ages in the mirror for me to feel different. I would look at the five stone gone, but still see me in the mirror. Its just a time lag thing. Be absolutely sure most people are noticing. From 10% onwards of body weight it becomes pretty...

well, I object to many things in life. But please accept the comments in the spirit they are given. A bmi of 20 is *approaching* the kind of levels in which a medical professional would be considering an eating disorder. While bmi is a useful tool, I have concerns about the bandings. At bmi...

ha whenever I've gained I've claimed the excuse of men having a 'star week'. The other month though I was in the queue, the people in front of me where discussing their new HRT, the others behind their star week and the woman sitting adjacent about her painful nipples from breast feeding.

Men do get fussed over it, I love it, but some don't. Also,,there is less money to be made from men. You don't get many 'I need to lose ten pounds for my holidays' members, which is the bread and butter for weight loss groups. Instead you get the 'oh my god I'm 5/6/7/8/9 stone overweight and...

True it can. Healthy eating lessons.... But I still hold that weight loss can be quite exhilarating, and it can become obsessive. Knowing when to stop is not as easy as it sounds.

Are you going to be honest with yourself though? When you reach the bmi of 20 are you going to stop? If you are at 22 and feel you need to lose more it might be worth assessing how you feel about yourself. Unless 20 is a level your body naturally feels happy at, it is approaching that of an...

I lost nine stone in thirteen months. I have a bit of lose skin on top of my legs, no folds or anything though. My tummy is wobbly but not such it is a problem, again no folds. If i am on all fours though my tummy hangs down. None of it is even remotely a problem though.

Glad I can help in a small way!!!!

Thanks :)

I lost 9 stone in fourteen months. My BMI was close to yours when i began. Now being maintaining for almost a year! It can be done :)

Sometimes the problem can be caused by a low functioning gall bladder. When you go on a very low fat diet, your gallbladder can end up developing gallstones as a result of inactivity and changes in your body chemicals. The gallbladder stores bile which gets squeezed into your digestive system...

I noticed those losses, well done!

I have about 30 to 45 a day. Depending how I'm feeling. To maintain....

Actually, you probably won't go over what would be your max calorie intake. You don't just eat a 1lb of chicken, you eat super free food as well, a third of your plate should be made up of it. Meats fill you up and keep you feeling full. Yes, it is calories, it's always calories. But if you...

Keep an eye out for promotions. They are often knocking around for no joining fee etc, go and get the latest books.

Yes and no. Has what you have eaten resulted in two pounds of fat? No absolutely not. When you go on a weight loss diet/plan. Your body adjusts to continuously eating a calorific deficit. It does this initially by eating up its stores of glycogen, the notoriously high losses you get in your...

When i had lost four stone, i looked in the mirror and couldnt notice it..... Your mind takes a long time to adjust to what it does see instead of what it thinks it should see.

Thanks... SW changed my life :)

Another before and after

It is *not* a poison, but a small number of people do have an allergic reaction to it.

Aim for 1% of your body weight on a consistent basis, 18 stone is 252 pounds. = 2 1/2 pounds a week, obviously as your weight drops that will drop down accordingly.

You see a picture of yourself on the front page!! Welcome to Slimming World I hit rock-bottom in a broken chair - Success stories - Slimming World ha!

Loose skin is often more a case of pot luck of your genes. Some people have stretchy skin that snaps back, and some dont. Age and scale of course all impact on what hand God has dealt you.

I have to say with all honesty, a couple of bad weeks at the beginning would have thrown me right off also. I remember the first week i had a gain, it shook me a bit, but it was in week 40. I couldnt complain!

without any numbers to see where you are, in terms of healthy weight etc, it's hard to say. It might just be that your body is really happy at where it is....

"I feel that I'm probably the most committed member of my group" I feel you fully deserve those awards... Dont feel guilty about success. Probably the majority of attendees dont follow the plan on a sustained basis. Those that do lose it week in week out. There's a thread on here "Honk if you...

No it wont!! Honestly, if you keep to it, dont try to over do it, ie be too strict and not have syns and healthy extras, you should continue to just keep losing. It gets hard as you get to target, when your body only has a bit to lose. Of course you can have the plateau, which can happen to...

it's the psychological. I find it very frustrating that i cant switch off the plan. Of course i dont need to keep to it, as im just eating to stay the same, not lose a pound or two a week. So i have more treats etc. But I can put a couple of pounds on really easily, and thats not returning to...

some of us look better though

I had lost between fourteen pounds and sixteen pounds and a customer was the first person who noticed it. I gave her a big hug. At 30 pounds however, loads of people noticed. At about 100 pounds a woman who knew me came up, looked at me and said 'there's something different about you'..

You are 6ft 3, what youve eaten there wouldnt sustain a small child!!! When you weigh yourself after a meal you arent weighing your fat etc, just what you are eating, it could be a pound of chocolate or a pound of turnip, it would make you weigh the same.

I did have a lot to lose, not quite 14st though. I lost nine and it took me just over a year to get to target. Now I'm just managing to keep within target. About six months now. (PS. my biggest worry is that i will put it all back on)

More than i lost in my first week! How does it feel to get a half stone award at your first proper meeting?

When you have loads to lose you can cheat left right and centre and still get stonking losses. As your weight drops this reduces though. If you cut all visible fat off then that should be enough as far as plan is concerned, but if you hit a brick wall in your losses i would take more effort to...

Thank you for this. Just made it. Delicious.

Same here, while ive seen a pattern of drinking more fluids in general improving weight loss, drinking calorie free drinks, even in large quantities has not hindered me. There are a few people that get a nasty reaction to aspartame, the sweetner in diet coke.

It hasnt and it isnt.

there's a lot of variety out there with the amount of sugar that different brands put in their pickled foods. I keep an eye on the calories per 100ml. Anything over 60 cals per 100ml/gr and I no longer treat it as superfree, but free and treat it as such. I eat lots of pickled cabbage, pickled...

I would suggest cooking it on some kind of stand to allow the grease to drip off. Lamb is very very fatty, even when you cut all the visible fat off, but the fat will drip out through cooking.

I found eating on plan in general was more expensive in groceries, but i saved a fortune not buying fast food and meal deals etc from shops and take aways.

It can be depressing just how much rubbish is added to ready foods, even the 'healthy' ones.

i had my first egg today for ages, a lovely fried one with a couple of rashers of bacon for my breakfast. Lovely. I tend not to eat that many, not my thing. A friend at SW though goes through loads and she's lost six stone and at target... Cant be bad.

Things change. Sometimes it's the ingredients, but it might become apparent that people are eating too much of the tinned foods. Remember, SW plan is a calorie controlled diet like very other successful diet out there. They have created a series of rules, which if followed make it unlikely that...

It is a fair comparison, the OP has an almost identical BMI to what i started with. However I do agree about setting a target that is going to be extremely difficult to attain is setting yourself up for failure.

it is perfectly possible, i lost about 12 to 13 pounds a month for six months. But this required dedication on my behalf, it involved learning, understanding and following the plan religiously. i had no slip ups! You are putting a lot of pressure on yourself though.

Thanks Talisha. :)

People who 'take a break' usually end up putting back on what they lose and come back six months later even bigger than they started. The plan is for the rest of your life. When you are at your target you dont need to be an angel, lots of deviation etc. But, if you go back to your old ways...

The text was sent before the birth, Kate was overdue. By the time you get to day three of the scan bran challenge you feel very bunged up, lets say...

And the fine looking content :)

If the figures on your profile are right, you are bang in the middle of the healthy weight bmi, losing even a few pounds is going to be very very difficult.

A friend just texted me this: "I know how kate middleton feels with that baby... I'm on day 3 of the Scan Bran Challenge"

If you are retaining water, its just, well, water, it will leave the body. Remember what we want to lose is fat. That's what's important. It might be a 'ladies thing', i hear that it can have an impact. Maybe you have not monitored your weight so keenly before, so you notice it. It isnt unusual...

it will impact your weightloss if you try to eat too much of it. The point of it been super free is that you tend to fill up on it, therefore you arent eating, as you say, chocolate.

Why dont you think you can do it by your 30th? I lost nine stone in a year, a different class i attended on friday, the lady there has lost six stone and got to target. It was funny because she did the entire loss within one school year. She started SW in september when school started and hit...

Have you been on plan this week? If you have, dont worry, you might get a bit of bounce back from the six pound loss, which is a pretty big loss. You say you are feeling light headed, are you eating regular? Are you eating lots of fruit? You might be having blood pressure related issues. Go to...

Thanks, i would have never have being so willing to let people see pics of my tummy before.

Just had my local newspaper wanting to do the spread. The journalist is married to an old school friend of mine, she said that her mum is doing SW and got the mag early, she couldnt believe the pics and said she wouldnt have recognised me in the street.

I have real trouble, i cant stop eating them all if i buy them. They are too delicious.

Good for you :) Gyms can be intimidated, full of fit people doing fit things.

Good for you. You dont need them. Be focused :)

Is that in the books? I havent opened them after my first couple of weeks, but i dont recall that information.

But fifteen syns a day still allows a safe weight loss for men and women. It gives anywhere between 1200 and 1600 calories. Another ten syns adds an extra 200 calories to that.

It was clear that the fifteen syns rule results in a substantially quicker weight loss for men than women. Our metabolism is higher. I kept to the plan and repeatedly had the highest weight loss in my class, by quite a margin. The reality is that we are all different, some people will need a...

yeah thats fine, just try not to get into the habit of having your superfree *after* your meal... Remember, it's there as a filler food. So, eating it immediately before hand is fine.

No loose skin on the arms: And a mini muffin top on my waist. From 21st9 to 12st9 in twelve months and no skin oils used.

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Yes, i can see it myself now, its like i have two...

Ive lost nine stone, i have a bit of a loose flabby belly, the way a woman who has given birth might have. If i get on all fours, and gravity does its work it looks quite loose, but standing up its really pretty much ok. I dont think there is really much you can do, some people seem to have...

Not for long though, you'll be dropping through those stones!

thanks... My sister did wonder why i put a photograph of some other man as my profile pic ! (i scanned in the pic).

:) yes!!!!

The Special K Chewy Delight are by far the most delicious. Incredible.

The pre weigh in poop. There's been a few close calls with blowing a blood vessel squeezing one out!

lol. Ive stopped eating at 10pm the day before and neither ate nor drank until 7pm weigh in the next day. I find i can manage fasting no problem. The most extreme version of the above involved me getting up on weigh day, having a morning drink, and then not eating or drinking a thing. At 4:30 i...

Its weird, as im maintaing i switch between calorie counting and SW, because i find SW too restrictive, but the bizarre thing is i enjoy myself on slimming world more. I dont obsessively write everything in myfitnesspal, I just eat to plan, keep an eye on my syns and have lots of free foods and...

Wow, about six or seven pounds more than me first time. Remember, as i said, your body really wants to lose that weight. It can melt off at a surprising rate. Follow the plan, and you will see big numbers every week for months and months to come. Good luck, and once again, congratulations!!

i searched for chair, i see it now!!

Hehe, the pressures of being a pin up!

Congrats club 10 is one of the best awards. It's the point where people genuinely notice, no matter what size.

:) ha

Thank you, thats very kind of you to say :)

I havent heard of her, i just checked out her blog, but i cant see any reference to the article... unless i am missing something very obvious!

Thats a great start... It is not unrealistic to see yourself lose a stone a month.. Good luck to you.

thanks I enjoyed the trip down to Kent and the fashion shoot :)

lol, no i didnt.. but she seemed ok about, ive been back many times since....

I lost nine stone in a year. Because you are so big your body will be willing you to lose it, you can comfortable lose 1% of your body weight every week and be safe. If you stick to plan you can be losing three to four pounds week in week out. It can melt away.

now no drooling over me, ladies.

the one that launches this week, they'll be in group now.

Guess what, in one month you have become no longer 'morbidly obese'. An horrific term to describe people over 40 bmi. From what it sounds like your family dont want you to succeed. It seems strange that they are so cruel. Since all the other issues you have, the low self esteem and agoraphobia...

YES, i certainly can :) Got pretty darn vain about it now..

Ah yes, the Dengue Fever plan... Even when i had lost six stone, i would look in the mirror and wonder where it had gone. In terms of your earlier comments about your clothes. Here is the timeline for my waist sizes: 54 inch waist 21st9 initial weigh in 52 inch waist 20st wk 6 50 inch...

Im going to tell you with complete confidence of its truth. Almost everyone you know has noticed. You have lost 15% of your body weight. A lot of people wont mention weight loss either because of their own jealousies, or even that they think you might be ill. Sometimes it is true our nearest...

I do tell people i am just maintaining (which, i actually am!), but I have been doing that from when i dropped under fifteen stone (30 bmi). It got tiresome, but it wasnt from spite, by most people, but genuine concern. As I have said earlier on, remember we are not always the best judges of...

Thats really sad. Im sorry to hear it. Weight can be the one thing in peoples lives they cant control. It doesnt matter how rich you are, how successful, how many people you have under you, how talented you are, none of that helps you control your weight. All the riches in the world cant make...

Thats amazing weight loss Siggy. It took me five and a half months to lose six stone. I was completely focused, once i got to that loss i did relax back a bit, but i lost another three stone in the following six months. I loved the plan, it was so dooable for me. Like you, i loved to look...

Some pics: http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-inspirational-photos/296733-what-100-pounds-looks-like-7.html#post6530621

groups should get it next week.

And some more!

Thank you :)

Hi Rosie, i started out a similar BMI to you, and like you it all fell off me fairly easily. I used the continual success to keep me motivated and on plan. The closer you get to to target the harder it gets, once i crossed bmi of 28, it became a lot tougher.

From the new edition of SW magazine!

Many of the free foods are actually quite high in calories. If you need to use strict proportion control you arent really following the plan either, so i suppose it makes no odds. You will not lose weight eating free foods such as rice, pasta, potatoes, noodles, lean meat, baked beans etc until...

i have a third superfree with pretty much everything.. It's my golden rule. You wont lose weight only eating free foods.

I have the mag in my hands. Boy, do i look good!

you can see a difference in your face....

lol.. Dont worry, hit your club 10 and people will be falling over themselves to mention it!

Congrats, and done in a great time frame. I remember when i was about your bmi, be prepared for the fact that your next stone you will see a big difference. The closer you get down to the normal weight, the more of a difference each couple of pounds makes.

There is a truth in it though. When you are focussed with an end goal in mind, collecting all the different awards, the accolades of success. It can be easy, you are on a roll, and then you reach your target. Now all you are doing is the less exciting and mundane staying where you are.

Yeah a bit. My sister and her family call me anorexic now, yet my bmi is 24.5 to 25. On the very top end of normal. I got the "you dont want to lose any more now" after about five stone. You'll get the "you are starting to look gaunt" as well. I am sure a bit of it is jealousy but some of it...

Damn it gillybops, i was going to roll out the "I lost nine stone" on this diet that will never work... You trumped me! For the original poster, SW works for a number of reasons, one, the diet essentially removes any added fat and sugar to our diet except that which is syned and controlled. It...

I had that same buzz and excitement when i first joined!!! It propelled me to lose over nine stone!

afraid not.... good luck though!!!

If you think about it, it represents an unhealthy relationship with food. It's something pretty much all of us on here have. We see food as a reward when we have done well, and a comfort when we have done bad. Forget about the impact of the doughnuts, as previously said by another poster, draw...

First question i asked my consultant. She was very clear, skin off *before* cooking. The most syns by the OP though is the cooking of the roast potatoes in the run off fat from the chicken. Might as well have deep fried the potatoes. The point about removing the skin from cooked food when out...

It's been a week of saintly goodliness. I have eaten about 15 lbs of strawberries this week.... I love them, so cheap as well :) Anyway, this weeks weigh in should be good and make up for the two 1/2 pound gains i have had!

I disagree, it isnt easy. You would need to have about 200 tea spoons of say, canderal, in your coffee a day to exceed the limit.

Here's a great before and after... It is only now i can look at the old photo of myself and realise I was in a pretty bad place.

Generally no, its total energy consumed. There are arguments that you can marginally improve how your metabolism speeds up and slows down in response to how frequently we eat. Ordinarily the longest gap is between the last thing we eat at night and the first thing we eat the next day. It can be...

mine is showing a pound off... Which makes up for the two 1/2 pound gains i had last week and the week before.

I wasnt meaning that i did drink that... Just from an acceptable intake of aspartame level, i could....

Just checked, you would need to drink 7 litres of diet coke a day to exceed the acceptable intake level of aspartame, and that assumes you are of average weight. Its 40mg of aspartame for every kg of body weight. A diet coke can contains between 120mg and 180mg depending on different reports. I...

Almost anything can be considered an 'extract'. Just because it is natural doesnt make it good, just because it is artificial doesnt make it bad.

I think you should all read next months magazine though, i cant vouch for the number of red and green recipes, but there is going to be a very handsome looking 'Man of the Mag' this coming edition.

Thanks for that..

I only watched my portions as i got close to target. Its proportions... not portions... Follow the rules, stuff up on superfree and lose weight!

i think that hits the nail right on the head. If i jumped from my bad eating to calorie counting, i would have just eaten the same foods, but less of them. The result would have been me not lasting very long. SW has shown me how to prepare your foods in a way that still allows you to eat lots...

This is probably not about you being fat, but about you being unhappy about you being fat, in his eyes he sees them as the same thing.

There are a few if us who have discussed the unexpected advantages of us men losing lots of weight :)

I have lost 20 inches off my waist... Love it :)

Im with lolacola. If you have lots to lose it can fall off pretty darn quick. Nine stone in 13 months for me.

I understand you care deeply for his health, but it is up to him. If he isn't in the mindset then it isn't going to really happen.

So come on, who completed the online questionnaire? as tedious and long as the greatest loser one!

Just fluids.

Man of the year 2012 and man of the year 2013, with my lovely consultant...

Well done. It's now all in your hands. You can control who you are and who you want to be. I was a similar bmi to you when i started a year gone march. Im now nine stone lighter, and all i did was follow the plan.

Ha... It was about six months before i gained... The first one throws you, but after that its fine. I gained 4 1/2 pounds this week. I blame the buffet that slimming world gave me at the weekend event i was taking part in. Not SW friendly...

I think sometimes its a lot to take in, the body magic is something you can get to grips with once you learn the plan. Disappointing that the consultant was so flippant about it though. Good regular exercise is more than just losing weight.

Some people's bodies react differently to diets, but if you have kept religiously to it for your first week, you might be surprised just how close you get to that half stone award today!! Let us all know.

I suppose its all about how realistic someone can keep to the diet. Some people had got them selves into the habit of eating huge amounts of fast food, crisps and chocolate. It might be by being a touch more flexible it makes it more likely that they will keep to the plan. In all honesty...

If you have a lot to lose your body needs far more to do its work, therefore you can get away with more syns. The plan is a one size fits all though. To be honest its your first few weeks on the plan that you are likely to be most motivated and not need the extra syns. Try to stick to plan, it...

Quite. By no definition could rice be considered generally low in calories. It simply isnt, neither are noodles or pasta. They are free not because of the calories, but because they absorb lots of water and give you the sensation of feeling full when you eat them, and that fullness lasts quite a...

Low? How would you define low? A 100g of white rice has about the same number of calories as 100g of sugar.

All in time for my Slimming World Magazine photoshoot on Friday :)

4 1/2 off....

I dont consider 'choice' to be trivial. It is a choice, but that doesnt mean it is easy. We choose to do many difficult things and many easy things. Just because we really really really like to do something and find it close to impossible to resist doesnt mean it isnt a choice.

It does work, if you follow the rules. Those high carb foods you mention are full to over flowing with calories, but they also fill you up quickly and for a long time. As long as you third superfree and only eat until you feel full its ok. If you hit a brick wall in weight loss, or you only...

But is there anyone honestly, who cant claim that times were more difficult when we were children and always told we had to clear our plates? My wife is from nigeria, she was told as a child she must clear her plate because of the people starving in China...

It's a weakness, not an illness, as is alcoholism. It is due to lack of self control. Its not pejorative to say so, I think it does more harm than good in dismissing our ability to influence our behaviour as something we have no control over. We choose to be the people we are, some times those...