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Annie6

Nessie . You have had a hectic few days!! Hope your husband is ok. Did the ECG settle?
I wouldn’t worry about food or weigh in for this week. Let things settle.
Sorry but I did laugh about the bite even though I know how sore that can be!!
I could just hear you saying it in a frustrated temper – It was the last thing you needed this weekend.
Oh and good luck for weigh in today

Annie6

Piglet . I am going to have to start walking!
Since I retired I have become very lazy. It is a catch 22 situation. I want to walk but I want to be lighter before I go out – if you can understand me!
But reading your losses is making me determined so walking I shall go.
I also have 3 to 4 stone to lose!

piglet74

Annie6 wrote: »

Piglet . I am going to have to start walking!
Since I retired I have become very lazy. It is a catch 22 situation. I want to walk but I want to be lighter before I go out – if you can understand me!
But reading your losses is making me determined so walking I shall go.
I also have 3 to 4 stone to lose!

it does get easier, my mum has been at SW for A-G-E-S...and was fiddling around with the same weight...1lb off...2 on...2 off...1 on..u know..

then i started with her and we started walking together.....her looses have almost matched mine...she has 27lbs off since i started also....bringing her losses to 3.5 stone!!!!

she is now walking quicker and further than ever!!

2 months ago we were stopping and starting for wee breaks and rests...now we are just powering on home full steam ahead...going further all the time,

i think everyone is dif. and some folk will loose 2 / 3lb a week just food optimising, but we need to be walking, its just our genes i think,

when i had my holiday week, i ate like a horse, and drank like a fish, but i walked the legs of myself....and when i come home, i had my biggest loss to date, (5lbs)

we just started off with 10 / 15 mins, few times a day, and built it up to 4 miles in one go, or 8 miles a day broke up into 2 / 3 walks,

good luck with it all, i love walking, i have to say, i could not do the gym, getting ready, and all that, but with walking you just need a pair of runners and away you go,

maman

:grouphug: for nessie and Mr nessie too. I did laugh when I read about the insect bite, fancy coming back twice, greedy bu**er!! Maybe yesterday's indulgences won't have caught up with you yet. Hope WI is ok and :Tfor going!

Annie6, I think there are two issues about not having breakfast. One is that the body starts to conserve fat because it's not been fed for hours so eating regularly keeps metabolism going. The other is that sometimes if you haven't had breakfast you can feel starving mid-morning and grab all the wrong things. I'm not sure about the first, it's just hearsay but there may be evidence to back it up. The second is logical but it all depends on your will power! Most (some?all?) of us tweak the plan a little over time, that's why going 'back to basics' is recommended so often.

piglet, walking is my preferred exercise too. I like urban walking (that's nosing at people's gardens, curtains etc to the uninitiated). I used to have a few 30 minute walks planned in my area but now I'm lighter, I walk faster and I keep having to take detours to make them longer.

EE day today:
B: NAS squash, scrambled egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, HEB toast, HEA milk for teas
L: Marmite & salad sandwich, pear
roast chicken, carrots, green beans, roast potatoes
Syns: gravy and maybe a couple of HM stuffing balls

copperjar

Thought I'd pop in with a happy post rather than my usual "I can't believe I only lost..." ones!
2lb loss this week, and that was with a couple of meals out as well. Best loss to date after weeks 1 and 2.
I think the gym is finally starting to pay off - just about to start week 5 and I certainly can tell my shape is changing and the weight is coming off faster. So it looks like my body just needed to catch on to what I was doing rather than panic and store emergency fat (in my bottom!!).

I'm not going to be one of these 3-4lb a week just by following the plan people, but I do feel better now I'm fitter anyway. My friend has also noticed so is, for the first time in her life, considering trying out the gym as well!

bettyB_2

I lost 2.5 lb this week! Just having a raw carrot for a snack then off to gym

bettyB_2

EE today:

Breakfast - chopped strawberries, raspberries and banana with Total 0% and a crumbled up Alpen light bar (3 syns) This was incredibly yummy!
Lunch - cold pasta with 1/2tsp oilve oil (1 syn) salad, including spinach, cucumber, tomato, red pepper and onion, 21g feta (1/2 HEA)
Snacks: 3 cups of tea with semi skim (1/2 HEA), 2 Alpen light bars (HEB) 1 carrot and 1 banana
Dinner: Stir fry with noodles, chicken, leek, onion, red and orange peppers, baby corn, courgette and thai sauce (90kcal, so going to count as 5 syns)

Total syns = 9.0

bikini-body?

hi all

Red today:
B: Porridge, milk, honey, blueberries (B, A, 1)
L: Tinned tuna, cheese, mayo, bread, muller, blueberries (B, A, 1)
S: Small slice cake (10?)
Tuna steak, veg, total yog, honey, blueberries (1)

Very tuna-ey but tinned and steaks taste so different it was ok!

Tomorrow's menu will be much the same. Then Thurs am our for sushi so not sure how I'll play that! Not sure whether green or red would be best..?!

xxx

blackberry-rum

confused57 wrote: »

HELLO - I'm rubbish at the moment. I can't seem to stick to it and put another 2lb on this week. I feel a terrible fraud cos I help with the weigh in at our group and everyone says how helpful I am to them. Any advice or any very long legs with boots on the end for a mighty kick up the rear?

Well done all you losers. x

I'll kick you if you'll kick me, Confused. I go up/down/ up/down, and get no nearer my new target. However, I've managed to sneak in 4 (well 3 if you knock off travelling time) days in the sun of the Algarve this week, got back today in time for class :cool: 1 lb on. I've walked loads (and sweated loads, cos I cannot walk slowly) and tried to eat sensibly/SW-ly but today was a nightmare spending the day in airports, on planes and on railway stations, I honestly think that accounts for the pound :rotfl:

bettyB wrote: »

...I like having green days for the HEA allowance, but I really struggle having my HEB, especially as I'm trying to cut down on bread. I think I'll get some alpen lights/fibre plus bars so I can top up my HEBs - any thoughts / advice????

Weekdays will be EE I think as I like meat for dinner. For work, lunch will probably be pasta salad, couscous salad, or ryvta with cheese and salad. Luckily I'm already in the habit of having fruit for breakfast, and I like a couple of nuts for energy so can syn them or have a cereal bar instead for free!!

If anyone has any thoughts or advice for me it would be greatly appreciated - I'm not new to SW but it's hard to get back into the right mindset!! Thanks

Others have mentioned nuts Betty, but you can also have some dried fruit as HEB which can be a nice change, or stewed or tinned fruit if you enjoy it that way.

bettyB wrote: »

I lost 2.5 lb this week! Just having a raw carrot for a snack then off to gym

Ha! carrots! I took a bag of them on my outward journey, kept people awake scrunching on 'em. They weren't bad but you never say "Yum yum" when you've eaten a raw carrot do you. Anyway, I really really hate cooked carrots. But on hols a little pre-dinner dish was brought to me containing olives in one side and slices of cooked carrot in the other. I thought "Well I'll try the carrot cos olives are syns". They were NICE. Cold cooked carrot tossed in (I imagine) olive oil and lots of crushed raw garlic. They werent oily that's why I'm assuming there was olive oil but if there was it was minimal, a spray would do it just to get the garlic to stick I might try to make it if I can be bothered cooking a carrot for hours. Unless anyone knows what the dish is called?

Annie6

Where is everybody hiding???