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Coxy11

He's applied for halls but you put 4 choices, so no idea which he will be allocated. Think he'll receive an email in the coming days. Most expensive choice was £205 a week! We are an hour by train from Canterbury so away, but not too far. He has a student rail card to get home a bit cheaper as can't take his car as nowhere to park on campus. 

Jellybaby

Congratulations to your DS @Coxy11 exciting times ahead for him

Vegastare

Great news @Coxy11 ...... just close enough for the weekly laundry.  Sorry but where are they expected to get £820 per month from!!!

Well my loss was just 1 lb still did rather blow things last Saturday with the barbie and one too many for MIL coping stratergy 

B bran flakes ff yog sliced apple
L  2 eggs omelette mushroom ryvita x 2 babybel lite
D  Baked cod sw chips green beans mushy peas hmade tart sauce

HEA Milk cheese
HEB branflakes ryvita

Syn 2 low fat mayo 3 hifi bar

bubbs

Afternoon all

Coxy , yes was like a Dalmatian 🤣 i wasn't laughing yesterday but got it cleaned yesterday so least it looks decent now, was all up the doors as well 🙄

Well done to your DS as well

Vegastare a 1lb is a good loss, 1lb a week you will soon be at target!

Welcome back abbafan, i feel your pain, but least not going up and up.

I Bought some lovely British plums in tesco this morning had them and some ham , SP

Lunch i had 2 ryvita, part hexb or 3 syns, 2 cheese triangles , part hexa, pickles, beetroot and cherry vine tomatoes, SP

Tea is not going to be SP as consultant told me LM sausages were ok, but now i have learnt there not! so fry up 😋 but still syn free

 

Coxy11

Well done @Vegastare on your 1lb loss!
Agree - £820/month and minimum maintenance grant! We will be supporting both him and DD for the next year so belts being pulled in very tight. He's just gone off for a shift at the golden arches to given himself some funds before he heads off next month!

maman

Many congratulations to your DS @Coxy11. I expect some celebrations are in order. 😊

It's a loss @Vegastare and you know what derailed you a bit but it is (sadly) normal for losses to slow down a bit. don't let it dishearten you. Well done on your pound! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Good to see you again @Abbafan1972. I put on 6.5lbs on my holiday and it's taken me over a month to lose 2.5lbs of that so I know exactly how you feel. Fortunately I was below target before I went to had some leeway. Keep posting. It does help. 😊

Not long until your holiday @ruby_eskimo. Sounds like you may be counting the days.🤣 Where are you going?

I've never really got my head around SP @bubbs. I think you're not supposed to have free food. Logic tells me that it's a low carb form of SW so any reduction in carbs is better than nothing but as you have very few carbs anyway then it's no hardship for you.

It's back to being hot and sunny here today, 26 degrees. I had my weekly walk with friends this morning. I wore leggings for the first time in 2 months and wish I'd stuck to my floaty dresses that I've lived in recently.  

Today's EE plan-
B- HEB porridge, HEA1 milk, berries (S), banana (F)
L- JP (F), cottage cheese, ham (P), salad bits and pickled cabbage (S)
D- corned beef hash (P,F,S with HEA2 cheese topping), cabbage, cauli, broccoli (S)
Syns- 3? corned beef, 1 horseradish

bubbs

Maman yes i ballsed up having spaghetti , but she is still saying they are SP and she uses them as such but is happy to be corrected as they are  62%protein , but at the end of the day it's an on plan meal and 1 out of 21!

joedenise

Are you talking about spaghetti in tomato sauce @bubbs?  If so then it's OK to have in small amounts on SP as you have to syn then but it's not actually particular SP friendly, IYKWIM.  No idea where she gets the idea they're 62% protein!  Far better not to have it. As far as I'm aware spaghetti is carbs and I doubt the tomato sauce is 62% protein!  You're right though it's still an on plan meal.

maman

Yes @bubbs and SW advise only doing it for a couple of weeks (on website in FAQs). I didn't know you ate spaghetti? 🤔

bubbs

joedenise said:

Are you talking about spaghetti in tomato sauce @bubbs?  If so then it's OK to have in small amounts on SP as you have to syn then but it's not actually particular SP friendly, IYKWIM.  No idea where she gets the idea they're 62% protein!  Far better not to have it. As far as I'm aware spaghetti is carbs and I doubt the tomato sauce is 62% protein!  You're right though it's still an on plan meal.

Not the spaghetti the LM sausages 🤣