Hi! I already posted this before I discovered this community, absolutely perfect for my purposes!

This may appear desperate to some but I have run out of options! Here is my advertisement: could really do with a diet friend in the UK!

(My friends are either overweight & don't care, I certainly don't want to shove my dieting desperation in their faces or lucky naturally skinny ladies who will just tell me " you look fine as you are ,eat it" Neither is helpful!

Just someone I could text when I feel like those cravings are going to stop me & I  could reciprocate!  I have tried finding people at the gym/exercise classes & weightwatchers meetings but people are mainly of a totally different generation.. (I'm 26)

So if you are in the UK (I gather you must be if in this community) & this idea appeals to you, leave me a msg on my journal or email me, my email is on my profile page!

good luck to everyone!

Been quiet in here for a while, how’s everyone doing??

Weight loss is going ok, had a 3lbs loss 3 weeks ago the sts the next week then only lost half a pound on Tuesday.
I was a bit disappointed cos I’ve been really good but still its coming off so I have to be happy about that

Going out to do 5k tonight to see if I calibrated my nike+ correctly. It told me I’d ran 7.4k when I did a 5krun at the weekend, would have been ok if I didn’t know it was definitely 5k since it was an organised charity run (race for life) hehe

hii i'm new :]

i baked some ww brownies this weekend.
it was from a packet and you just had to add water, very simple but it kept my 8 year old cousin amused for a while.

i thought they were delicious and very low in points,
so i was just wondering what your favourite ww products were and which supermarket do you think is the best for them?

i picked the brownie mix up in sainsburys, but i'd never seen it before and i find they have some stuff but not the full range of options. for examle they had the brownie mix and a lemon muffin mix but they didn't have any of the other mixes that are meant to be available.

xx

Nesquik Magic Straws - what a great way to get your calcium intake up!

One straw in 1/2 pint glass of skim milk is only 1.5 points!

HURRAY! Favourite new office treat. :)

I put on 1.5lbs this week.
Was expected after a hen weekend in Leeds but still disappointing.

I have 4 weigh ins left until my cousins wedding and a dress that is a little tight right now so its 4 weeks of no excuses.
On a positive note my auntie has joined weight watchers and is coming to the same class as me. I really want to help her and be positive and motivating for her so I’m hoping by trying to be good for her its going to help keep me motivated.

I'm at my wits end with my mum. We are both following the points diet, yet she seems to think it's fine to eat when she pleases without making a note of the points.

For example, my mum bought a packet of fig biscuits and a packet of chocolate covered digestives to put in the biscuit barrel for if we, or any visitors, want the occasional biscuit. That's fair enough, I hear you say!! I know for a fact I haven't touched the biscuit barrel since she got them yet when she asked for two fig biscuits last night, I went to get them and there were only two left! All the digestives were there but there were no fig biscuits. We haven't had any visitors who could have eaten them either. I asked her in a very roundabout way where they had gone. She didn't admit that she'd had them all, but also didn't deny it. I asked if she had been writing them down (we have this pad we both share and write all our foods/points down on). She said yes, but I checked later and she hadn't.

There's been many occasions of this sort of thing, and I just don't understand why she's kidding herself! She has 18 points a day, very rarely eats breakfast or lunch and instead binges on a night (yesterday, she had two cups of tea all day...We then had pasta and vegetables for dinner. She had a mullerlight after, then FOUR scoops of ice cream, then a cup of tea and the two fig biscuits)!!! I've tried telling her to eat proper meals through the day and that should hopefully curb the binge eating but she doesn't want to know. Then she complains when she doesn't lose any weight each week....or just loses a pound.

I've just made some delicious soup for the dinner tonight and she was going on about having to eat the remainder of the bread up otherwise it will go off. I sat there and (jokingly) said "oooh be careful of your points" and she was very quick to snap and say "well we need to eat...we can't starve just because of this". And that is what it's like anytime I try to talk to her about her food intake.

I KNOW she can do it though. She was once on WW many many years ago (before the points diet) and lost a great deal of weight. She has got into bad habits since then though and is  now of the mindset that she needs to be eating all the time on an evening (she's fine in the day...) I suspect it is because she's bored and needs to be doing something with her hands while she's watching TV. I've tried to keep her occupied and stop her thinking about it, but it doesn't work

So what do I do?! The easiest thing would be just to leave her to it and concentrate on myself (and i'm VERY tempted to do that), but I want to see her succeed on it as well!

Hey, hope you don't mind, but I'm curious:

How much weight have you lost and what length of time did you lose it in?

I'll go first:  lost 3st in about 8 months.

[Since put some back on but I'm WW-ing again :)]

I just want to hear some success stories!!
xx

Do you divide up your points throughout the day and always aim for a set number of points per meal? Or do you just divide them up depending on what you fancy?

For example the kickstart plan gives 3 for breakfast, 5 for lunch, 8 for dinner, and then 2 for your extra dairy (which I guess you could use as snacks if you were having the dairy as part of your meals.

So, what do you do (and how many points are you on)?

Just a quick note at the moment to say I weighed in last night and in my first week I lost 12 lbs.  I now weigh 24 st 12!  

So funny, when I first looked down, I only looked at the lbs, and thought to myself "I've put on 2lbs - how on earth!?!" - then I glanced at the stones and realised, lol.  

Does anyone else find that entries from this community DON'T appear on their friends page?

I have it set to be on them, and I do occasionally get one, but the majority do not appear at all. So I am so sorry for not commenting on people's posts or weighing in for the challenge (I forget when the post doesn't appear on my friends page). :(

I couldn't resist buying and chomping my way through a small 45g bar of Divine Orange Milk Chocolate when I was in Oxfam today...


Does anyone happen to know the points value for this? Google hasn't helped me :(

 Well, last night I joined Weight Watchers.

I have been referred from my doctor, so at least I don't have to pay for it, but slimming is never the cheap option.

I weighed in at 25st 10lbs and in my first 12 weeks they want me to lose 24lbs.

I'll be posting my weigh ins here to help keep track.  All I can say so far is - I've had 8 points from my Kick Start 22 points so far today.  So far - so good.

I lost half a pound last night.

I’m a little disappointed because I only had 2 glasses of wine at a BBQ I went to at the weekend and didn’t eat any of the food. I also started running again this week and went out for 3 x 15minute runs after not doing any sport for about 2 months.
I know from past experience when I start exercise or up my exercise I struggle to lose weight for a week or two so I should be happy with the ½ off and I’ll see the benefits in a few weeks time.

I know this and yet I was still disappointed.

This might be a bit of a long shot but i'm wondering if anyone knows the points value for the following dishes from Wagamama:

-Yaki soba (Pan fried soba noodles with chicken, egg, fishy prawn things (that weren't actually prawns but can't think of the name :-\), beansprouts and various other vegetables
-Yasai gyoza (Vegetarian Japanese dumplings. I only ate 2 and a half out of the 5)

I've looked in my eating out book but there isn't even a section for Wagamama, and the dishes aren't in the general Japanese section.

Does anyone know? Or hazard some kind of guess?

Thanks in advance :)

So glad I went back! I only gained 2lbs in all that time, which is a miracle (though I do walk non stop for my job, and was working 7 hour shifts 6 days a week). Left the meeting feeling lucky as hell, and stocked up on healthy treats and things from Asda on my way home. Just had a turkey butty for dinner, with some WW tortilla chips which I covered in jalapenos. Finish work at 7pm so no excuses to not cook a healthy tea either. It feels great to feel in control again. At the meeting they were talking about emotional and psycholoical reasons for overeating. My main problem is I just love lagers and take aways! So, a beer and take away free week is my aim this week.
Shel
x

I fell off the wagon pretty seriously over the last 8 weeks. Well, if I'm honest since Xmas really. I've been eating crap (not literally, but not far off), drinking crap and generally pretending WW didn't exist. I haven't been going to meetings as I've been working from all hours til all hours so I ain't a pretty sight.
Today I woke up and decided to go to my meeting. I'm going to claw my way back on track. I don't want to be fat forever, and I don't want to feel this way forever. They are the only two things in my life I AM sure about!
So, from today, I will probably be posting a lot. Every time I feel like 'I'm too tired to bother', 'I've worked all day so lets just get a chinese', 'It's been a tough day so lets get drunk!' etc etc etc I'm going to re read this post.
Here's to a better week starting from today.
Shel
x

I’ve had a hard couple of weeks with moving house, having a lump removed from my side (The doc it was nothing to worry about but I did) and a hen weekend away in Blackpool that resulted in a 6lbs gain over 2 weeks. But to be honest I’ve not really been following the plan for a while. The only think that had kept me from putting all the weigh back on is that I do a lot of sport.

Last week was my first back on the plan and it was hard after months of little cheats but I got through it and lost 2lbs. I wasn’t 100% good but only went 3 points over and still lost weight even though I did no exercise.

This week I want another 2lbs off.
I’m going out for my first run on Friday since the operation and I’m a little anxious. The scar looks great and has healed very well (its only about an 1 1/2 inches long) so I’m just going out for a little 20min run/walk and see how it feels.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

The holiday was awesome :) I am rested, relaxed and...

wait for it....

WEIGH LESS THAN WHEN I WENT!! I actually lost weight on holiday! Only 2.75 lbs but I am well chuffed. I was careful with my food, I exercised with walking and swimming a lot and I sweated a ton but it's staying off now I am home so that's a good thing :)

I feel really good actually. I am still taking my medicine for my acid reflux but that's okay. I tried coming off it at the weekend but it was a total mess. The day after it was out of my system I had the worst acid attack. Will have to keep taking it for now. But I am okay with that. :)

Oh also - with my new weight loss I have now lost 2 stone 1 lb and got my 10% loss with weight watchers and my 25lbs star. All of which I am extremely proud of. This is made of win :)

I'd also like to say that Torrid is brilliant. I spent waaaaaaaay to much money in there but it's worth it because I have to some stuff to shrink into. It'll last me :) And I am going to start ordering from them internationally as well. Their shipping rates aren't too bad and obviously I save because of the exchange rate :)

So yeah - am back and ready to get on with this dieting again. Back to tracking, exercising and making healthy choices. All of which is a Good Thing.tm hehe!