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TakeItEazy wrote: »

Well!!! Where to start? I have a recurring condition that is incurable but manageable and when it flares up its usually not a problem. Its flared up BIG time so have just spent a night [early morning through to late afternoon] in hospital being 'managed' [was Fri-Sat] . Food was terrible and after the week i've had have gained 2lb :mad: mostly my fault so can't complain,closest I've been to target since getting there though. Hopefully will get back on track when 'everything' settles down, can't cope when in pain

blimey, TIE, you don't do things by half do you? Big big big hugs for you, take care of yourself. You're at target anyway so a 2 lb gain really doesn't matter - when I was in hospital I lived on fruit and Thornton's Continentals that people brought me, the food offered looked awful. Anyway, do as the doctors tell you and I hope you will soon feel well xx

fluff1987

well since im off for may day, my plan for tomorrow is to go to the shop and buy the slow cooker - bought bits and pieces to make a casserole for tomorrow night (for a family of four total cost about 5 quid inclusive of meat.) so hopefully should be tasty

looked at 2 in tescos and one was far too small and the other far too large lol! it was the two extremes

having to try hard to stay away from the jaffa cakes... will power is waining slightly lol

kandfs_mam

A good day food wise here - I was gagging for a glass of wine earlier but it's WI tomorrow morning so Sunday boozing is a no-no.
Looks like it was an unintentional green day today:

B - mullerlight; banana
S - satsuma; pear
L - homemade tattie & leek soup (tatties, leeks, onions, veg stock cube); babybel light (HEA); mullerlight; grapes
S - grapes, satsuma, banana
D - 2 boiled eggs, tatties, green beans, lettuce, spring onions, tomatoes; laughing cow light triangle (HEA)

confused57

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Well!!! Where to start? I have a recurring condition that is incurable but manageable and when it flares up its usually not a problem. Its flared up BIG time so have just spent a night [early morning through to late afternoon] in hospital being 'managed' [was Fri-Sat] . Food was terrible and after the week i've had have gained 2lb :mad: mostly my fault so can't complain,closest I've been to target since getting there though. Hopefully will get back on track when 'everything' settles down, can't cope when in pain

Sorry to hear you've been in hospital, hope you're feeling well now. x

maman

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

Sorry for the rant but I'm really fed up with myself at the moment.

Sending you a big hug mm, I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling fed up.

Someone asked me the other day for my best tip and I'll repeat it; PLANNING, PLANNING, PLANNING!! I do a week at a time. I plan evening meals alongside my diary. That means some things from scratch and other nights HM ready meals. I buy plenty of breakfast ingredients and a mixture of lunch things depending on whether I'm at home or need something portable. Invariably my HEXs are milk and bread (occasionally cereal) so there's minimal measuring involved. It's not as regimented as it may sound as the meals can be swapped around as needed so it gives me choice. Two posts I read tonight come to mind. I have a slow cooker which helps. For me it's mainly for batch cooking to prepare the ready meals for the freezer but it could be to have something suitable ready for after work. Also, it stops me obsessing about food. Once I've planned the menu and done the shopping for the week then it's sorted. I don't need to keep thinking about what to have or what will fit in with SW.

I know it's hard to begin with and particularly at first when you feel the little you've lost is so easily put back on by a few 'bad' weeks. Please persevere because it does get better. You get more used to the plan and a few small gains or STS are relative to the overall losses.

Believe me I've been there and now been at target for 9 months and loving every minute!!!!! It really is worth it for so many reasons, probably your health number one (but a bit of vanity and self esteem too:)).

Mediterranean_Mum

gettingthere54 wrote: »

Gettingthere and Piglet - seriously jealous but sooooo proud of you both and please please please don't leave the site.

Medmum,
Worry not! I won't be going anywhere
This site has given me more inspiration and help than any SW class could ever do.
Don't get me wrong, I have had good support from fellow members, but on here there are more hints, tips and real support, its absolutely fab!
I will be here for a long time to come.
Yours and others support has been invaluable.

I'm sorry your feeling a bit low, and hope you are able to overcome your feelings of negativity.
We all get fed up at some point and like you, think Oh! bloody hell, more veg etc.
But it's being able to overcome these feelings and try to stay on the straight and narrow.

I can't speak for others but when I have dieted ( many times in the past ) and here and now I find it's all or nothing.
I cannot go for any grey areas in between.

If I had a slip up ( previous to this diet ) I would think oh what the hell, I have done the damage so I might as well carry on regardless. So I would continue to eat very greedily as if it was my last meal until it was time for WI the following week.
I was in a cycle of self destruct.
So this time because of my health issues with my heart I can honestly say I have NEVER cheated in the 46 weeks I have been on plan
I am not saying that I have not thought of jacking in, I have, when I knew I was 110% on plan and "ONLY LOST 0.5 " but somehow I was able to hold back because I knew that I only had to have something to set me off and that would have been it.

Please don't give up medmum, I resisted and look where I am now!
I am still hoping to get into my 11's this week although I have got to target.
It's a mental thing, I know I'm mental but this week I am allowed to have an extra B choice, and you know what?
I darent!
Cos if I put on next week I will feel a failure and may struggle with the consequences.
So it's a psychological thing, just summat to get your head around.
It's supposedly maintenance but I am not sure I can handle it. Do you or anyone else have any wise words of wisdom for me?

Well done on your walk, that's all positive, and you medmum are an inspiration to us all, you always have some words of wisdom for us, always have great recipes, a wonderful woman, so snap out of it ( I know that sounds harsh but you know we all love ya ) and carry on regardless, and before you know it you too will be at target!

Artytarty wrote: »

I know! and I am a spoon licker/ just let me try yours type too.
Has anyone else found that they have become slightly obsessed by food?
I'm not actually hungry but this whole SW thing has got me thinking about it all the time!
I am either busy preparing (yet more) fruit and veg, writing a shopping list, looking at swrecipes or just reading recipe books generally, even watching cookery on TV if I can.Or my mind is on the next WI.
I'm sure it isnt meant to be like this, I think my personality is a bit odd, it's all or nothing for me.

maman wrote: »

Sending you a big hug mm, I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling fed up.

Someone asked me the other day for my best tip and I'll repeat it; PLANNING, PLANNING, PLANNING!! I do a week at a time. I plan evening meals alongside my diary. That means some things from scratch and other nights HM ready meals. I buy plenty of breakfast ingredients and a mixture of lunch things depending on whether I'm at home or need something portable. Invariably my HEXs are milk and bread (occasionally cereal) so there's minimal measuring involved. It's not as regimented as it may sound as the meals can be swapped around as needed so it gives me choice. Two posts I read tonight come to mind. I have a slow cooker which helps. For me it's mainly for batch cooking to prepare the ready meals for the freezer but it could be to have something suitable ready for after work. Also, it stops me obsessing about food. Once I've planned the menu and done the shopping for the week then it's sorted. I don't need to keep thinking about what to have or what will fit in with SW.

I know it's hard to begin with and particularly at first when you feel the little you've lost is so easily put back on by a few 'bad' weeks. Please persevere because it does get better. You get more used to the plan and a few small gains or STS are relative to the overall losses.

Believe me I've been there and now been at target for 9 months and loving every minute!!!!! It really is worth it for so many reasons, probably your health number one (but a bit of vanity and self esteem too:)).

thanks girls - the support is much appreciated and you know Artytarty your post really spoke to me - that's exactly it, I'm totally obsessive and it's all or nothing - so if I'm on plan, I plan, plan, plan obsessively but OMG if I have one slip it's like OMG I've messed up and I go completely the other way. I'm obsesses with food and recipes and food shows and food blogs and everything else food related until I make myself so sick of it all. But I've just been standing at the window watching my DH hang out the washing - I can't be bothered so he does it whereas just a few weeks ago I was totally obsessive about it but to the point that everything had to be hung just so and then brought in and folded just so (I know, I'm a raving loony!) I was exactly the same with walking a couple of years ago - I couldn't just walk every other day - I had to walk every single day, come rain or shine and I did that for 8 months!

I'm not like that this time with the walking but have been trying to walk every other day. I walked early this morning and trying to plan for the rest of the day but have a course this afternoon and into the evening so I'll have to think seriously about what I'm going to take with me otherwise I'll eat the sandwiches that I know they'll supply.

redmel1621

Morning I had my first WI this morning and have lost 3lb14oz:)

The last two days have been red so I am thinking I will have a green dsy today

B - porridge
L - marmite pasta
D - not sure yet?

I need to nip the little local shop so will decide on dinner and syns xx

CH27

redmel1621 wrote: »

Morning I had my first WI this morning and have lost 3lb14oz:)

The last two days have been red so I am thinking I will have a green dsy today

B - porridge
L - marmite pasta
D - not sure yet?

I need to nip the little local shop so will decide on dinner and syns xx

Fantastic :T

My first weigh in is later this morning.

gettingthere54

Well done redmel1621The only thing I don't get is 3lb14oz?
Our sw scales don't give oz 0.5 is the lowest, just wondering?

czerniacha

morning

my own scales gave me a boost this morning as they showed that I lost all the weight I put on since the 'bad patch'
so I am very motivated to carry on being good and maybe maybe I'll get my first stone sticker(if I'm really where I was I need another 3lbs for it)? LOL However every loss will be good and I'll just stick to it anyway

Today I will do EE as I fancy a fry up and SW chips, so:

B coffee with 200ml ss milk, banana, mullerlight, melon
L LMsausages, baked beans, egg, salad, some fruit
D salmon, SW chips, salad/veg, fruit
snacks might be another coffee(with some synned milk), alpen light, fruit
no syns planned except for maybe 100ml ss milk=2.5syn

Hope you have a nice Monday! (I love BH Mondays! LOL)