Getting fit/slim without paying

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I've been doing sw, and c25k. Slimming world is 4.95 a week though - that is a lot.

I like the plan - it is easy and I don't feel hungry. DH thinks it ridiculous that I couldn't get my head around eating healthily, but, for example, I would have thought a slice of black pudding was about the same healthiness as a boiled egg, and a glass of orange juice the same as an orange. Ok, I'm thick, but sw spells it out to me, and the free foods make me stick to it as I don't feel deprived. Plus getting weighed and talking about it weekly keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Still, nearly a fiver a week is a lot.

Would online chatting, on here or on facebook, be just as good, do you think?

I spend the money on books - if you really don't know that black pudding is less healthy than an egg or that orange juice not same as orange then you do need it spelled out. In a nutshell best to eat unprocessed food that grew on tree / ground in natural form (orange) or that had mother (egg).

I love "Escape the Diet Trap" by John Briffa he sets out what should be eaten and what not, plus I like the strictness of Dukan when I want to go through strict phase.

Chatting online good, also forums on myfitness pal (which is good for logging what you eat but not good for what you should eat).

Are you "thick" (I hate that word) or just not informed?

I think that it's just getting into the habit. Until about four years ago, I had always been underweight, getting told off by doctors etc, and so were my sisters, so our mum used to try and feed us up with really stodgy stews etc. Till recently, I knew that black pudding is fatty, but so is an egg, and I thought the iron in the black pudding would make up for being slightly more fatty. If that makes any sense. I didn't see juice as processed, because squeezing something doesn't feel un natural, iyswim.

It never really mattered when I was size 8, but then I had to take medication after dd1 was born and with six months was a size 16/18 and being told my cholestorol was high. Since then, I have yo yo'd between size 10 and 16 without really feeling that I had much control. I'm really really unhealthy too, but have been pushing myself - I can now walk to school in ten minutes or so, when it used to be half an hour if I really really had to do it and couldn't get the bus. I c25k'd to the local shopping centre and back today - only a month ago I wouldn't ever have thought to walk there. Things are improving :-)

I've never done Slimming World so can't comment on that but it sounds like you're doing well with regards to exercise so keep it up!

i read the detox diet by jane scrivener and did that for a month and it taught me about chaging my eating habits and i've been doing the 30 day shred dvd. i've been really good with it but it's hard not to slip back into old habits - me and ds made a victoria sponge yesterday and we polished it off today and if i don't to my dvd session for a week, i really struggle with it. but i'm a lot thinner nowadays and it took about a year and now the incentive is there to keep up with it.