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3 stone to lose - would like some company....

976 replies

lulu41 · 04/01/2008 20:23

would anyone like to join me. I am going to start on Monday.

I am not joining any clubs but will be loosely following WW.

Need to cut out the alcohol, crisps, cheese and chocolate (not totally) .

I would love some company. Will try to log on everyday to keep up with anyone who joins me but I do work full time so please dont be cross if I dont reply quickly!!!

I am really down right now about the way I look and would love to share my joys/lows with others - speak soon x

OP posts:
Ags · 05/02/2008 23:50

Sorry you are feeling crappy VVV. 2008 has been a bit rubbish so far health wise for you. Was the curry delicious though? Had a friend round on Friday night who was looking through my ww eating out guide. He looked at the Indian section and worked out the points for a post pub meal he would normally have. Worked out to be 80 points! So I think you have done quite well to be only 11 over for the day!

Welcome Gill and wow at your weight loss.

Well done Colditz. You are doing rather brill! Nice that the dreadful day didn't stick.

Well done Fio. Didn't do pancakes either. Had to pick ds up from nursery after they called to say he was feeling ill. He spent the day lying on the sofa. He had a raging temp, very shivery and very swollen glands but no other symptoms. So had to keep Ma-in-law for longer as I pick her up (from East London, I live in Kent) and drop her back and didn't want to cart a sick boy around in the car for hours on end. Waited until dh home before I could bring her back so pancake day was sadly ignored in this house.

silkcushion · 05/02/2008 23:53

i'm having pancake day tomorrow - you are welcome to join me int rying the recipe listed below

Am sitting here just thinking of food - wanting to munch and munch and munch and munch.......

off for a shower and bed!

Shizaru · 06/02/2008 00:01

I'd like to say it was Ags, but I couldnt taste it.

I have had a run of bad luck healthwise. Still, onwards and upwards

(tis vvvqv btw)

Ags · 06/02/2008 00:06

Thanks Silk, might just do that. I really fancy a pancake. Yes, best to go to bed now. Another day over and breakfast to look forward to!

VVV, boo! Hope you feel more perky tomorrow.

yiota · 06/02/2008 00:15

DIET? Never helped me.Every morning I'm positive I'll get thinner, every night I'm filled with crisps and chocolate.I really need to lose weight cause I was always the thin in the family and now that I'm married with a man whose mind is always in the fridge I became fat.HELP!!!

Eddas · 06/02/2008 07:30

yiota, does that mean you're joining in just keep coming on here and hopefully the ladies losses will inspire you, they have done me. Am still waiting for my diet to make an impact though

Ags, I'm in Kent too!

Well done on the losses everyone, so brilliant and as I said above, inspiring. Just wish I was as successful

I had normal pancakes with syrup last night was veyr nice BUT it gave me a sugar headache my body must not be used to all that sugar that's never happened before

UniversallyChallenged · 06/02/2008 08:46

Eddas that's good your body is telling you when you've had enough - wish mine would

Have been swimming/bike riding and exercise class all since monday so am determind to keep it up - cold buttered toast aside (please join me in the daft things you cant resist thread i have just started!!)

Right - off to burn those calories!!!

mammyjo · 06/02/2008 09:43

Morning! Had my choc pancake last night and it was bloody gorgeous. Was very restrained too and stopped after one!

VVV, really hope you feel better soon. It really pulls you down when you get a run of feeling unwell. Dont worry too much about the curry, 11 points over is not too bad, and there are still plenty more days left this week to make up for it!

Welcome Yiota

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moodlumthehoodlum · 06/02/2008 11:00

Yiota - I married a man like that. His culinary repertoire uses only the ingredients of bacon or sausage, (with any kind of carb as long as there are two of them..) so I am literally quite porky now

Ags · 06/02/2008 12:08

LOL Moodlum! I think I would love your husband's cuisine but then, that has me where I am! Porky too!

GillL · 06/02/2008 14:10

Dh offered to make me a pancake last night. He just laughed when I told him I only had 2 1/2 points left. He does make very thick pancakes though and wouldn't thin it down with milk. He had the rest of the batter himself. Oh well, I guess it was for my own good anyway. I ended up with 1/2 left to use today.

Well done on the exercise UC. I really must make more of an effort.

mammyjo · 06/02/2008 14:36

Well done Gill on being so restrained. Dh made our pancakes too, but I told him to make my skinny one first before he started putting butter in the pan!

Lol Moodlum, am of the porky variety here too! I just got into the routine of sitting with dh, in front of the tv in the evenings, and munching on sweets, choc etc. I dread to think how many calories I was packing away every day.

Have had a munchy day today and have eaten 3 bags of crisps. They are the light ones, but still take up 4.5 points. Have also eaten ww cookies and a pack of fruit pastilles (not my healthiest day ever). To attempt to redeem myself I have made veg lasagne for dinner which works out at 5 points a portion. No garlic bread for me! After that I still have 3 points left so at least I can still have my hot choc!

mammyjo · 06/02/2008 14:38

Does anyone else think about food constantly? I feel like between planning, shopping and cooking it, it seems to be all I do in a day (except for looking after the children of course!).

silkcushion · 06/02/2008 14:39

Have just made the weight watchers pancakes and tbh they weren't that nice - so I didn't eat that many

Bit concerned about tomorrow - first day back at work and I'm attending an all day meeting. Will include a working lunch (provided). Do I whip out a salad brought from home (and get laughed at) or eat sensibly whatever is there and have a v low point evening meal? Am going to make spinach and potato soup this afternoon (1pt per serving) - hopefully will be tasty. Don't really want to tell people in rl that I'm dieting (other than dh and mum) - you lot are my secret confidantes

Exercise points v disappointing this week - 9. Will get up off fat arse and walk to the shops with dd. Bought spinach earlier but forgot the potato! Omg and I have to return to work - my hv told me my brain had dropped out after the placenta - she was laughing I was - would be funny if it wasn't so true.

silkcushion · 06/02/2008 14:45

x posts MammyJo

Yes constantly thinking about food. But I was beforehand in very similar ways - what can I eat, when can I eat. I read an interview with Paul McKenna where he said fat people think about food all the time apart from when they are shoving it into their mouth. I think that was certainly true of me.

I think about how I can eat healthily now and stay within points. Also try to anticipate where it might go wrong. Yesterday I didn't plan that well and a huge percentage of my points went on a packet of hula hoops, a crunchie and 2 lots of ww biscuits. I think now is something nice enought o warrant the points. For example in Tescos earlier I was looking at some light choices hot cross buns - 2.5 each and I didn't buy them cos I'd want 2 or 3 and it wasn't worth the points imo.

I posted the other night when I was sitting there just wanting to munch.

Ags · 06/02/2008 15:02

Oh Silk, good luck for tomorrow. How do you feel about going back? I hope it all goes well for you. I would just eat sensibly what is provided. I know what you mean about not standing out like a sore thumb, so for me that would be the best option. Thanks for testing the ww pancake mixture. Think I will not bother. Might have a crunchie instead!

Mammyjo, yes I do think about food a lot more when I am dieting. I'm hoping that this way of eating will eventually become 'natural' and I won't have to think so much about it but for now, yes, I am obsessed!

mammyjo · 06/02/2008 16:20

Silk, I would go with making sensible choices at the lunch tomorrow. Taking your own, especially healthy, kind of makes it obvious that you are watching what you eat IYKWIM. Hopefully there will be salad type stuff that you could pick at. Maybe take some fruit/low point crisps/cereal bar in your bag to nibble on if you are starving! Thats what I would do anyway.

Glad I am not the only one who is constantly thinking about food. Agree with the Paul McKenna thing too!

mammyjo · 06/02/2008 16:21

And good luck for your first day back tomorrow

Shizaru · 06/02/2008 18:52

Hello everyone.

Had a better day today. Although DH is still poorly. Had to drop a specimen of his at hospital earlier on request of the GP

Cuppa soup and bread for lunch (apple for breakfast), and did lasagne for dinner with lean mince and mushrooms - 9.5 points in total so not bad. I might make pancakes later - only 1.5 points each and I have 10 points left.

moodlumthehoodlum · 06/02/2008 19:10

SC - good luck tomorrow good luck good luck. Never good a working lunches (plates of infinite sandwiches are a weakness of mine) so I would try and eat sensibly and have a low point supper.

I have done really well today, done proper counting of points and have ten points left. And some chicken for supper that I don't know what to do with.

Just had mixed parents evening dd is being teased by two nasty boys (its only nursery fgs) who apparently are the "worst" the nursery teacher has seen in 20 years. Great. Resisting temptation of white wine is very hard in these circs.

Ags · 06/02/2008 21:24

Shizaru (why the name change?) hope dh feels better soon. Great day points wise though. What do you use for white sauce on your lasagne? Just wondering as bechamel is a bugger for points.

Moodlum, poor dd! If you are not sworn off alcohol completely, a glass of white would not be terrible given you have 10 points left!

Had a good day but did demolish 6 points eating 2 multipack crunchies (that is 2 crunchies from a multi pack not 2 multi packs of crunchies!). Weetabix for breakfast, beans on toast for lunch and sort of colcannon (mashed potato, carrot, onion and parsnip) with gammon for dinner. With my 2 crunchies am completely pointed out but satisfied.

Shizaru · 06/02/2008 21:37

Oh I was just larking about last night and havent got around to changing back. It means "do no evil"

I'm afraid I cheated with the lasagne and used jars of dolmio sauce for both tomato and white sauce

I only had a small portion though, which I suppose was about 3 inches by 2 inches. More than enough for me with a huge leafy salad to have with and a glass of diet lemonade.

silkcushion · 06/02/2008 21:42

Thanks for all the well wishes for tomorrow - feeling a bit apprehensive now. Don't want to leave little dd (especially as she's been so unwell) and worried that I have become braindead!

Mood - poor little dd

VVV - you and dh are having a nightmare healthwise aren't you? Hope tests on specimen are ok.

Ags - I totally thought you'd eaten 2 multipacks of crunchies and were kidding yourself they were only 6 points

moodlumthehoodlum · 06/02/2008 22:06

Evening all. Had chicken cooked with wine (all cooked down to nothing, so surely doesn't count), with chilli, garlic, creme fraiche pasta and sugar snap peas. Yogurt. Cup of tea with a teeny bit of sugar.

All points eaten and accounted for. And no wine. Altho I did have a diet tonic water which almost felt like a v&t without the anaesthetising effect!

Night all. Well done us.