NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING SLIM FEELS

[BariatricObama]

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oh god GREAT WEDDING, just fantastic. am off out for more celebrations now... but it is not reading well on the scales.

thanks reshape, have had cheese! ( a dice sized piece)

(For a Giant's game of snakes and ladders)

Glad you had a good time at the wedding Aitch. I take it carbs were consumed? Thought of you today when I discovered that insomniac DS2 is cutting a molar...

i need the ILS to go
and the kids to go back to school
today at ok apart form

1. brie and cranverry parcel thing wiht drinks( left over form xmas)
2. fruit brulee portion ( although not much)
3. erm - i dunno but it seems i ate a lot

greek salad for lunch
couscous for tea

me too re: kids

off piste today I have had

ahttp://www.daveshelton.com/packshots/PS003a.jpg tunnocks teacake

109 cals so not all bad. PLUS a teensy bit of easter egg choc GAH

don't know why i ate it though, I ripped open the foil and just jammed it in BUT have done hard core gym and mucho gardening today

I'm thinking of tring to cut out sugar, i'm getting constant headaches.

I haev either cooked o rsat on arse chatting while dh was on blardy laptop.

coco despite tunnocks teackae an da smidge of Easter egg I reckon virtaully cuttting out sugar has done me the world of good. The shadows under my eyes are MUCh less pronounced, I wake up refreshed instead of knackered and have loads more energy

Just off to put my jim jams on

I'll have to give it a go tbh, I was reading the aspartme (sp) thread as well. I drink pints of juice a day. I've been under awful mental strain since November, DD has had very serious MH issues, so the stress isn't helping. But I think I need to get mentally and physically better.

[looks forlornly at wotsits]

you will be doing your body a favour if you cut out sugar as much as poss.

It is hard at the start, but only for about a week.

I am finding anything with sugar in soo sickly sweet which is amzing as i used to be Mrs Sweet tooth.

But I cant afford to be that anymore, for my gnashers or my waistline.

we can support each other! Lets have a sugarholics anonymous meeting. you can email me anytime you feel the urge

I've done it before so I need to steel my resolve. Would fruit be ok? I'm the same as you, I stopped all sugar once and the dentist told me off [. There's no way she believed I wasn't eating a quater of bonbons every night.

I have dark circles and I've noticed my eyes have got puffy, and I'm retained loads of fluid. I'm a catch and a half.

i think the reason my loss has stopped is because my picking had increased.
the odd tiny tast of eomthing - even if ti is tiny its still NOT diety#

am resolving to be stricter tomorrow at a balrdy rugby festival ALL DAY from 8 am

htink of me, donwwind of burgers

I am stuck in mid wales listening to my tp my mother saying to my my SIL "kids are lovely, no offence NDP, but grandkids are different"

Christ

Have biffed out on curry and wine.

dh is snoring next to me.

haVE HAD
6X massive VODKA &tonic
2x halves of cobra
2 small white wines

am a leetle tipsdy

dh is still asleep

lol at 'tipsdy'! You need it with PIL sometimes. Especially in the face of such sterling support from one's DP...

LOL Nom! Hope head is ok this morning!

Morning everyone! Chop chop! Up and at it! I was up with the sodding dog so you lot should be too.

Weighed myself and down 2lbs on yesterday!!! Getting rid of the poundage that I put on while in Croatia. 4 of the 5.5 pounds now gone. I think some of it must have been fluid retention due to period from hell.

I am flying to Dublin tonight though. So there will be some temptation but I will resist. Don't want to spend next week trying to shift the same few pounds as I have already shifted this week and two weeks ago! And I want to get under 16 stone. 5lbs to go.

I was good all day yesterday. Breakfast was slice of rye bread with a small amount of peanut butter, a Babybel and an apple. Lunch was home made carrot and lentil soup and a few falafel with low fat yoghurt and a half teaspoon of mint sauce mixed in. Nibbled on a few more falafel in teh afternoon along with some soya/flaxseed tortilla chips, some grapes and a handful of peanuts. Dinner was spag bol but I only had the bol. Had 3 or 4 white wine sodas.

Def feeling more in control of my eating which is good. Don't feel deprived. No cravings for anything really. If i feel hungry I eat but something sensible rather than 6 or 7 biscuits or a sandwich or some crisps.

I think you are all having an effect on me. I went out for lunch yesterday and had chips and sweet potato cakes. It made me feel bloated and yeuky I had to come home to do a MamaG to flush it all out.

So for supper I ate mushrooms then melon. Yes coco real melon.

Next thing you know I'll be buying scales.

Off for a picnic today in the national park with the lions and rhinos.

Morning all. Another glorious day here - off out for lunch with the kids near Coram's fields today -DS1 desperately wants to go to strada to have pizza (one of the very few foodstuffs he willingly eats - that and bread). Sigh. May need to stick to a couple of slices of margharita and a vat glass of wine.

Coco - bet you'll find your skin looks tonnes better if you cut out the sugar. I think fruit should be ok - certainly healthier for you than processed sugar - and saves you from going totally sugar cold turkey. Sorry to hear about your worries about DD though - am a comfort/emotional eater so I sympathise totally with seeking refuge in the wotsits and doubledeckers when times get tough.

Master - where on earth do you live? I'd be slightly concerned about picnicing in a lion and rhino infested area...

TheMaster - just be sure you don't become the picnic!

ach don't worry, all you need to do is outrun the kids.

We had a picnic yday but the only wildlife we attracted was a very badly trained dog who was after DS's sausages.

Picnic was approximately healthy although I did gobble three sweet potato falafels. Today - roast chicken lunch, I'll have celeriac mash although increasingly tempted by Aitch's bean mash. Do you need any oil in that?

if you're low carbing then go for it with some olive oil. put a fair slug in a non stick pan and veeeeeeeeeery gently poach some thin slices of garlic in them, then beans then mash 'em.

oh, and some sea salt and a squish of lemon.
actually i make this often but barely mash it, just knock it back with the wooden spoon a bit, then serve with nibbly things and tuna salad for a lunch. it's very moreish. italians often serve it with their fried fish, their version of fish and chips.

Must try that mash. It sounds yummy. Another nice mash is cauliflower. Totally yummy but you do need to do it in a food processor. I have had it on Atkins when I was using unlimited butter and cream but haven't had it recently. Must try it again with less fat. Some nice olive oil and salt and pepper and maybe some low fat cream cheese might be nice.

is it really yummy? i might give it a try, i can't say i'm convinced but the more i'm cutting back carbs the more i'm thinking i want to make these changes for the girls as well. there will be no harm in their not having potatoes as often imo.