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Vixstar

FRED please count me in for the 5lb challenge

Right so haave just sat my final Spanish exam and resisted the temptation to celebrate with a pint and junk food (helped by the fact that I think anyone I would go to the bar with is studying for their exam tomorrow morning). Was getting quite stressed about the exam as I thought I wouldn't have anything to say and would be loads worse than the rest of the group but fingers crossed I've done enough to pass (give or take the dodgy accent) and had a bit of a revelation today that i know more than I thought. Anyway stop rambling go make dinner...

vixarooni

muy bien vixsta!!

mazza111

I'm all set to give the naughty northerners a good kick start for next week. Is there a way to overeat on veg and not be able to go to the loo? Usually as soon as I eat veg, you can't get me out of the loo, but cabbage, cauli and swede seems to have had the opposite effect on me Hence the poor result this week!!! Hopefully when it goes so will the weight :rotfl:

Plan A: Having a chinese tonight. Not brilliant for a diet, but we will be MSE and have a meal between 2 of us, and probably something healthy (ish) like noodles. And should be guaranteed to go by morning!

Plan B:Hmm beer is another thing that makes me go to the loo, maybe I should just go out and get sloshed!!!!


Welcome aboard CheapDate. Plenty of advice on here, some you will take, some you will ignore completely. Some of us are following a plan, whilst some are making it up as we go along just with healthy eating.


Had interview for a job in the care sector yesterday, and it went really well. Should have a couple of weeks to decide what I want to do, and if i've heard any more about the medical retirement by then. I don't think I want to let the company off the hook by not paying me a wee bit for my injury, but because it's wear and tear and not an accident, medical retirement is the only way to go. So dilemma is, do I take the care job, which I will enjoy, even tho the money is pants, or stick it out where I am and get them to give me a small payout and go for another job in care when I'm unemployed.... decisions decisions. I had actually applied for this job before they mentioned medical retirement. But the small payout should come in handy (probably about £5k)

almond

please count me in for the 5lb weight lose for this month
do i post on here or send the weight lose to fred ?

bettyB_2

mazza - sounds like a complex dilemma, dont think I can help but good luck with it and fingers crossed whatever you chose will make you happier in the near future!

vixstar - hope you're exam went well, and well done for not reacting to the stress and binging! dont worry about weighing more than you thought right now, think of it as the most you will ever weigh again!!

puddings wrote: »

Betty, I have beans on toast 5 times a week, quite yummy and filling and feel like its a good compromise from the old fry ups that i used to eat too many of. Adding cheese sounds nice, just so long as it isnt loads of cheese, would probably need to be some extra strong flavoured cheese maybe so can get the taste without the quantity maybe??

well on SW you get a cheese allowance (28g of normal fat cheese or 42g of low fat) so i use that for my cheesy beans on toast.
Yes it would be agood idea to use a really strong cheese so that you dont use as much - but I usually use the whole 42g of low fat mature cheddar!

Love the team uniform pictures! Not so sure I like being 'in association with ginsters pasties' though! they are minging!

vixarooni wrote: »

I cant share my southern status with cornwall.

agree - I'm pretty sure they say 'bAth' there anyway, so they are technically northern!!!


Welcome Cheap Date
Hope you find this group helpful - we are all on our own weght loss journeys here and it's a fab place for advice or a kick up the butt when you need one!
Do you have a specific diet plan in mind?? Or just 'eat less move more'?
We have two challenges at the mo - the north versus south 'biggest loser' challenege, which fredsnail is helping with by calculatnig our group % loss (she is lovely and does all the charts -i think without her none of us would be half as enthusiastic!) and we also have the 5lb challenge which is simple - lose at least 5lb in 1 month! you are just in time for the Oct challenege if you fancy it! just let fredsnail know and then post your losses/gains on a weds in big bright letters

I have got my leek and potato soup simmering away - having a low fat day today with no SW 'syns' as I am going to use them all tonight at a chinese buffet for my friend's birthday. Glad it's a buffet so i can pick and chose the veg/lean meat options tho. No fried rice or crispy beef for me today - I wanna make sure the Southern Stunners do even better next week!!!

quick update - eating the soup now and it is a.m.a.z.i.n.g!!! YUM! can't belive i always thought i dont like soup but really i dont like tinned soup - HM soup is lush!!!

mazza111

Betty HM soup is the dogs....well it's the best! Not to mention very low fat, and packed with all the good stuff! I can't give u a recipe for my soup, cos if it's in the house, it goes in the pot but basically, ham/gammon/veg stock, loads of carrots, onion, swede, leeks, tatties any other root veg that's around the house will work, handful of lentils, handful of rice. All bunged into a pot and left to simmer. As i said, can't give u exact measurements cos it's different every time I make it, but the more carrot you use, the better the colour of the soup, and doesn't look like those yellow lentil soups that you get in some cafes.

Potato and leek soup sounds rather nice too, maybe a kwik recipe for it Betty?

Think that's going to be the way forward for me this year, to make lots of soup and eat that when I feel peckish!!!

puddings_2

mazza111 wrote: »

I'm all set to give the naughty northerners a good kick start for next week.

nice one mazza :-)

and you'd have to do a lot of hours working to catch up the 5 grand if you take another job early, so if it was me, I'd pass on any job offers until i got the payout in my pocket.

:rotfl:cornwall's not in the south , eeeee you are funny Vix:rotfl:

vixarooni

well it is, but kent is south, everything past brighton is the west. Thats just how it is! Everything above london gets more northern, untill you hit the midlands which is semi nothern but basically northern. I hate how they classify oxford as the south east!!!!!!! what a laugh.

puddings_2

fredsnail

almond wrote: »

please count me in for the 5lb weight lose for this month
do i post on here or send the weight lose to fred ?

You can post it on here before Wednesday evenings and I'll make sure it goes on the chart. :j