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alyssa_mae

I was making our tea today. s/w chicken tikka. when it came to adding the yogurt i realised it wasn't the fat free one it was normal. for the past 2 days I've been dolloping this on strawberrys thinking it was free and enjoying every mouthful. now I feel really guilty. do you think it will make a big diffrence and how many sins do you think it is. I have now replaced it with the fat free.

consultant31

alyssa_mae wrote:

I was making our tea today. s/w chicken tikka. when it came to adding the yogurt i realised it wasn't the fat free one it was normal. for the past 2 days I've been dolloping this on strawberrys thinking it was free and enjoying every mouthful. now I feel really guilty. do you think it will make a big diffrence and how many sins do you think it is. I have now replaced it with the fat free.

Don't worry. Yogurt is naturally low-fat anyway, so although it will have more cals/syns/points than the low-fat or very low-fat, it still won't fatten you up. Forget about it, but read labels carefully - they try their best to confuse you :rotfl:

loopy-loo73

Hi All,
Just a quickie ... lost 1lb this week :T
Not got time at the mo to read everyone's posts but i will ... promise!
Work been chaotic so i've only just been managing to stick to my points ... also still decorating which makes life more difficult!
Hopefully will have a good weekend tho, going to my mums tomorrow for a family bbq :eek: but i am driving so that will help :A
Have a good weekend everyone.
Lou.

Ciara111

Thanks to you all for making me feel welcomed... Weigh in last night... a little worse than I feared 12st 5pds. But I am carrying a bit of cyclal weight at the moment. Anyway day 1 was a breeze. Stuck to my points and even had some left over. I am going to do the shop tomorrow and instead of driving I am going to walk. Which ensures two things.. that I get some exercise and that I dont buy any rubbish as I have to lug it quite far home.
Have a good weekend everyone...

WelshWoofer

Well done loopy!
Ciara - hope your first proper week is going well.

Weekend has started quite well - took dog for a hour long run/walk in the park - it's a beautiful day here in the North.
Have decided to chuck out all of my clothes that are too big, too small, out of fashion etc ready for a new bedroom makeover (saving up for this at the moment). Also am having hair cut and dyed this afternoon as it's rapidly descending back into a mad grey bush! (and I'm only 34!)
Also am going to clean whole house today - bedding already in the washing machine (OH not too chuffed as he was in it until about 5 mins ago).
Car also needs cleaning inside and out - I'll probably run out of steam by about 10am and sit on the sofa watching telly instead but my intentions are good!

Have booked a 5 day break in New York in October and am determined to lose another 7 lbs by then (20th). Will have a week in work in Japan to help (I hate Japanese food) otherwise its the gym and SW to rely on.

Have a great day everyone!
Rachel.

faithless

I went back to my old kickboxing class on Tue and again Thur, because I really enjoyed that, and although they work you bloody hard, it's fun. That means I might put on weight as muscle, thus making the weighing even less relevant to how fit I am, so I think I will stop weighing myself. Thanks to Consultant and Lois for suggesting measuring instead, I think that might be better for me. I think I'll still post my measurement losses and gains on here to give me some incentive.

So here goes: Bust 37", Waist 30 1/2", Hips 41 3/4".
(Thanks to mum who did the measuring, lol!)

When I said I want to lost inches, the bust is fine, I just want to lose some of my waist and hips, lol.

madauri

I'm maintaining this week. Considering the monthly bloating (feel like tying a string from my ankle just in case), the terrible meals I had last week and the lots of extras this week, it is not bad at all.
I might try JennI's pasta lunches. I get bored of spaghetti cans or cous-cous or salads - gorgeous as they may be, I simply get tired of eating the same every day, but can't cook at work (or heat up my food), and when I come home from work the last thing I want to do is spend the whole evening cooking... it feels as if I do! By the time I finish eating a properly cooked meal it's near bedtime!
But the roasted vegetables thing went fine. I had enough for two days and I can add different things to them every day to make it varied: boiled egg, passata sauce, tuna, whatever is quick to prepare and easy to carry. And the vegs only have to stay on their own in the oven while I do something else, which is the sort of cooking I like to do.

consultant31

rachelmk wrote:

Have booked a 5 day break in New York in October and am determined to lose another 7 lbs by then (20th). Will have a week in work in Japan to help (I hate Japanese food) otherwise its the gym and SW to rely on.

Have a great day everyone!
Rachel.

Ooh you lucky thing, I love New York. I went with a friend in April this year and despite the huge portions of food we were offered, we did so much walking that we both lost weight over the week.
I hope you have a wonderful time there, though it's hard to see how you could fail to.
A week in Japan sounds very interesting too, though I know nothing about the food they eat. Is it all sushi type stuff?

Madauri If I see a female shaped balloon passing overhead, I'll give you a wave :rotfl:

Good on you Faithless, exercise you enjoy is going to do you far more good in the long-term. Unfortunately I have problems with my pelvic bones and the very thought of kicking out at an angle makes me cringe :eek:

Loopy Well done with the 1lb loss - perhaps it was the quickie wot did it :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

moiracm

Sorry not been on the past couple of days - computer problems - but all sussed now lol.

Well weighed myself on Friday (its ok suggs the kitchen isnt overlooked lol) and I maintained - bit fed up with this as I really thought I had lost. Maybe I am just a week behind with my holiday etc. So now have 5 1/2 weeks and I would like to have lost another 7lbs by the time I go back to scotland again - must try harder this week.

Suggs - hope the stag do is going well - congrats on the 3lb loss.

Lois - glad you had a lovely time - my little one and I probably waved to you on the steam train as we go down to the beach most days for a walk to coincide with the train as he loves it!!

Welcome to Swizzle

Well done to everyone who has lost, and better luck next week to those who have gained or maintained in the past couple of days.

Sorry havent done individual posts to everyone but would end up a mega post to catch up!!!

Lois_Lane

Hi all - back again!

Had a fantastic time in London - went to see Chicago, which I thoroughly enjoyed, then on to Benihana's, a teppenyaki restaurant where they cook the food on a grill right in front of your table - I'm sure the main course was probably quite healthy as it was lean meat and vegetables cooked with very little fat, but the chocolate pyramid I had for dessert probably wasn't. And neither was the birthday cake that I was presented with, completely out of the blue - well it would have been rude not to eat some! And I'll just gloss over the alcohol - but hey, it was my birthday, and in my defence, I did burn a few calories off, dancing at the nightclub.

Well that's the holiday over, so back to reality, and back to losing weight!

Anyone interested in knowing how long it is until Christmas? It's exactly 106 days, 3 hours and 11 minutes as I type. For an update on that click here!

As you can probably guess, Christmas is going to be my next target date, and I'm going to set myself an 'easy' target - or should I say acheivable and realistic? I plan to be one stone lighter by Christmas, which is an average of one pound per week.

I know the idea is to lose 2 pounds a week, but I've convinced myself that using reverse psychology is the answer, i.e. if I set myself a target that I don't really believe I can achieve, I don't go for it with as much enthusiasm as I do if I believe I CAN achieve it. Also, I'm quite happy to take the scenic route. My weight has followed the yo-yo pattern all my life - I lose weight, then get complacent, and end up weighing more than before I started, but now I really believe I've taken control, and as long as the line on the graph is vaguely following a downward trend, I'll be happy.

The way I plan to achieve this target is to go to Rosemary Conley twice a week, walk to work as often as possible, try to increase the amount of exercise I do each week, and eat healthy, low fat food.

Anyone else want to join me in setting themselves a Christmas target?

LL