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  • Hiya, Can I join too please? Have got several stone to lose and have lost before with SW. Would like to start with a target of 8lbs by the end of Jan.
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,610 Forumite
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    Hello, forgot to weigh myself yesterday but did today and I seem to have lost five pounds! weird but I haven't been feeling very well so I suppose I haven't really eaten much over the last week or so... still that makes a stone now so I'm well chuffed!
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  • rugbymum
    rugbymum Posts: 984 Forumite
    Hello, forgot to weigh myself yesterday but did today and I seem to have lost five pounds! weird but I haven't been feeling very well so I suppose I haven't really eaten much over the last week or so... still that makes a stone now so I'm well chuffed!

    :T :j :T :j
    Well done skinty
    Welcome aboard
    Elsie, Rainbow and Payback.
    If you have any questions feel free to pop on any time. If you're going to a group then we are more of an additional support if you're not going to group, feel free to live on here! I tend to when I want to avoid eating. Classic displacement activity!
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  • mickey_mouse
    mickey_mouse Posts: 1,441 Forumite
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    Gooooooooood Morning all :D

    well done on the weightloss skint_spice :beer:

    welcome to all new people joining the thread

    Today for brekkie I had

    - cuppa and 1 x shredded wheat with semi skimmed milk
    for lunch i will go with the onion omelette as that sounded yummy :D

    just done a session of Wii- Fit . Tonight i am going back to my old Taebo class which i haven't done in over a year so it will hurt:rotfl: I will prob eat when i get back as I remember that eating before that class is not a good idea as i woudl look like:p

    good luck everyone
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  • retiredlady
    retiredlady Posts: 2,187 Forumite
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    Good morning everyone:j This is a flying visit as I am off to SW in a minute to get weighed. Not expecting good news again:o Yesterdays eating was ok but had to change the menu at the last minute. I was going to make a beef casserole cooked slowly in the oven. Took the meat out of the freezer the night before and left on kitchen counter to defrost. When I went to prepare it at noon the next day it was still frozen solid! My kitchen is as cold as the fridge I reckon! So I made a pasta bake and will be having the beef stew tonight instead!

    Todays eating plan: mix2match

    Breakfast - fruit and yogurt - (free)
    Lunch - Left over pasta bake (free)
    Dinner - Beef stew with vegetables cooked slowly in the oven plus mashed potatos (free+2heb)
    Milk in coffees will be hea

    Will report my weigh in results in about 3 hours - wish me luck!

    Love
    Marion
    ps - and the knob on my dishwasher is broken - I pushed it in and it went in completely and fell down somewhere inside the door:eek:
    When life hands you lemons, ask for tequilla and salt and give me a call!!!
  • mickey_mouse
    mickey_mouse Posts: 1,441 Forumite
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    goooooooooooooood Luck retiredlady:D Wouldn't your meal plan be all free on an Extra Easy day?
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Good luck with the weigh-in!

    First proper day for me today, I was going to start yesterday but the dinner I had planned would have had syns in it, plus I had half a bottle of red wine crying out to be drunk! So I decided to just be as healthy as possible yesterday (other than the wine) and start guilt-free from today.

    All going okay so far....I didn't get time for breakfast which is a bit rubbish but I'm having an early lunch so I don't get hungry and start snacking. I've made a big bowl of couscous with some salt, pepper, chilli powder, a dash of soya sauce and a squeeze of lime - it's really quite nice. :)
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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  • retiredlady
    retiredlady Posts: 2,187 Forumite
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    goooooooooooooood Luck retiredlady:D Wouldn't your meal plan be all free on an Extra Easy day?

    oh yes - it is :j:j:j:j
    Thanks for that!

    Marion
    When life hands you lemons, ask for tequilla and salt and give me a call!!!
  • retiredlady
    retiredlady Posts: 2,187 Forumite
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    WooHoo!!:beer::j:j:beer::T:T:T

    I love ExtraEasy:T!!! I lost 4.5 pounds this week! I was so bad on New Years Eve and again on Saturday night that I thought I had really blown it! I am so happy right now and feel totally inspired to be extra good this week!

    Love
    Marion
    When life hands you lemons, ask for tequilla and salt and give me a call!!!
  • BigMog
    BigMog Posts: 22 Forumite
    Hi,

    Can I join please. I have a huge amount of weight to lose - I actually look like I've eaten myself at the moment lol. I have quite a few SW books from when I attended their meetings several years ago, which was a complete disaster cos the meetings were held in a pub next door to a chippy!

    I also have a spreadsheet thingy which tracks your weight loss progress and makes a pretty little graph if anyone is interested. new to the forums so I don't know how to post links or anything yet but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

    I haven't had a chance to plough my way through the whole thread yet so I've no idea if I need to submit (embarassing) details or anything yet

    Mags x
    “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
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