Alex_1978
Gold Member
Just thought I'd pop in and say hello properly! I've been lurking here for ages but rarely, if ever get around to posting!
I started on my VLCD journey, back in September with my boyfriend (AKA The Man) We decided on Exante as our VLCD of choice, ordered the bumper pack, but quickly leaned that he only liked the shakes, I only liked the soups, and neither of us particularly liked the bars!
So we remedied the bar situation by getting some of the Tesco Ultralim ones, but it still left us both in the situation of having two soups (me) or two shakes (him) per day.
So I did a bit of research on minis and came accross Slim and Save - this was back in the early days when the only two meals were the cottage pie/spicy spaghetti, and the range of shakes/bars was nowhere near as good.
We couldn't really afford to have 4/5 S&S products each per day, but we decided to mix and match their meals with our Exante procucts for a bit of variety, and that's what we've been doing ever since.
So...as time's gone on, and S&S have released so many gorgeous new products, I've become more and more tempted to take the plunge and do S&S 'full time'. Bearing in mind that I was only having the Exante mushroom and vegetable soups, it didn't really seem like much of a sacrifice.
The only thing stopping me before was that I don't really like the S&S soups, but I've recently tried the new S&S meals (and love most of them) so I feel like I've got enough variety to ditch the soups.
So I placed a BIG order with S&S on Sunday, which arrived today, and the plan is to have a S&S meal at lunch instead of my Exante soup, and a different one in the evening. I like the fact that I can have the allowed veg too, and that I don't need to feel guilty about having a dash of milk in my tea, which I've been doing all along anyway!
I'm going to leave our diary in the Exante section, as it's a joint thing, and The Man will still be having Exante products, but I expect I'll be posting here as much as I do over there.
Exante must be losing so many customers to S&S at the moment! It seems that people are flocking over here at the moment from the Exante forum!
Anyway, that's enough rambling from me now!
Hope to get to know you all better soon x
Forgot to say, I've lost just about 5 stone so far (although had a gain last week during my planned break) and The Man has lost about 6.5 stone
I started on my VLCD journey, back in September with my boyfriend (AKA The Man) We decided on Exante as our VLCD of choice, ordered the bumper pack, but quickly leaned that he only liked the shakes, I only liked the soups, and neither of us particularly liked the bars!
So we remedied the bar situation by getting some of the Tesco Ultralim ones, but it still left us both in the situation of having two soups (me) or two shakes (him) per day.
So I did a bit of research on minis and came accross Slim and Save - this was back in the early days when the only two meals were the cottage pie/spicy spaghetti, and the range of shakes/bars was nowhere near as good.
We couldn't really afford to have 4/5 S&S products each per day, but we decided to mix and match their meals with our Exante procucts for a bit of variety, and that's what we've been doing ever since.
So...as time's gone on, and S&S have released so many gorgeous new products, I've become more and more tempted to take the plunge and do S&S 'full time'. Bearing in mind that I was only having the Exante mushroom and vegetable soups, it didn't really seem like much of a sacrifice.
The only thing stopping me before was that I don't really like the S&S soups, but I've recently tried the new S&S meals (and love most of them) so I feel like I've got enough variety to ditch the soups.
So I placed a BIG order with S&S on Sunday, which arrived today, and the plan is to have a S&S meal at lunch instead of my Exante soup, and a different one in the evening. I like the fact that I can have the allowed veg too, and that I don't need to feel guilty about having a dash of milk in my tea, which I've been doing all along anyway!
I'm going to leave our diary in the Exante section, as it's a joint thing, and The Man will still be having Exante products, but I expect I'll be posting here as much as I do over there.
Exante must be losing so many customers to S&S at the moment! It seems that people are flocking over here at the moment from the Exante forum!
Anyway, that's enough rambling from me now!
Hope to get to know you all better soon x
Forgot to say, I've lost just about 5 stone so far (although had a gain last week during my planned break) and The Man has lost about 6.5 stone
