you need to look at crisps french fries and sq crisps are lower in calories than normal walkers which i love grrr

you can have plenty of stir fries, ive bought loads of tescos ready made ones, jacket pots are filling and not too bad, salads we have arent normal lettuce and tom salads, i add fruit too, pot salad, waldorf salad, lots of different types of lettuce etc, low fat balsamic dressing,pasta etc i do hot chicken and bacon salad too, try to lots of different things so i dont get bored lol and mores the point the family dont lol, my hubby is enjoying this healthy eating plan, hes lost his beer belly

Lost a total of five pounds since last monday, I'm on a roll!!!!!!

Hey, Hey, Hey it's weigh day Gained 3lb on my weekend away I knew I shouldn't of got weighed today as I was very bloated but, oh no, Little Miss Addicted to the Scales just had to climb aboard to punish herself

8wks to lose at least 10lb.

Great to see so many new summer dieters!!

Hi Joolz
A lady after my own heart- I need to see the evidence on the scales!!!!
Started WW seriously today was doing well yesterday and then I got home and something happened and it all went to pot. I will weigh myself in a couple of days - can't wait a week and if I have lost a pound or 2 then that is the incentive I need even though I know it might only be fluid.
Does anyone know if it is true that weight gain shows in the fingers in the first place - what I mean is I can't get my wedding ring off and it bothers me!!!!
Thanks Irene

Hello all
Irene I cant get my wedding ring off either. But it is a lot looser than it was especially because I lost another 2½lbs last night. Weigh hey !!! . Sorry, pretty chuffed about that one. Joined Slimming World and this is my second weigh in. Have lost 6½lb in two weeks.... and it shows Its amazing to admit that even when I was trying to be good, I was actually still being very naughty and this was why I wasnt losing any real weight.

The diet is pretty good actually (I never thought I would hear myself saying that about a "proper" diet). Not been hungry at all and eating lots of fruit and veg and meat or pasta/potatoes/rice depending on whether im having a green day or red day. Its brilliant. But not to be too complacent, we will see what happens next week.

Good luck all
Sarah

I think everyone is different when it comes to where weight gain shows. I see plenty overweight people with slim fingers, ankles, wrists etc. but I seem to grow all over rather than in one localised place like bum/thighs/stomach.

Ive put weight on all over but even losing a small amount of weight (did I mention that I had lost weight ) ive noticed that my face and arms are a lot thinner. I do measure regularly and ive have already lost an inch from the top of my arms.

For me, it will make such a difference when wearing vest tops in the summer and for when I go on my holiday in September. I can hear the distant call of a dress in my future !!

Just by losing a small amount of weight, my attitude has changed and I feel confident that I can continue losing weight. I think I am in the right frame of mind now and I WILL reach my goal for my holiday this year, drop 2 dress sizes and wear all those clothes that I couldn't fit into last year.

Sarah

Hi everyone,
Had a so so day on my WW plan. must admit did feel quite hungry before lunch time!!!!!- great to hear how everyone else is doing.
I mentioned about my wedding ring to see if anyone knew whether the weight goes to your fingers, suppose it goes everywhere -does with me anyway
A fireman has told me how I could remove it but didn't fancy his idea and no it was not chopping it off or my finger for that matter!!!
Sarah can you tell me is the'Slimmers World' good for veggies? Wondering whether you body gets used to one plan and if the weight doesn't move maybe I should try another - early days yet though,
Speak soon
Irene

irene

have you tried getting your finger cold ie holding it under cold tap etc or ice pack then putting loads of either washing up liquid, butter etc all over it and then trying to get it off. i had the same problem but this worked then i had it made bigger and now im losing weight oops bet it will be too big again and ive not been married 2 years yet lol

Irene wrote:

Sarah can you tell me is the'Slimmers World' good for veggies?

My answer to that would be yes. There are two options with SW. A "Original" option which would be for meat eaters - you choose unlimited meat, fruit and veg and then a very small portion of potato, rice or pasta. Then there is a "Green" option which I would say would suit vegetarians - you choose unlimited potato, pasta or rice, unlimited fruit and veg and there are small portions of meat if you so require. Quorn products and Tofu are what are called free foods. No fat or calorie content and you can eat them unlimited on either day. There is no weighing or calorie counting other than if you choose meat on a green day (which you wouldn't!).

At the moment, I am finding it brilliant. Still early days I know but I have not once been hungry. A young chap joined SW the same time as me, having left Weight Watchers because he was continually hungry. He is now loosing weight on this diet and said he hasn't once been hungry.

Hope that helps.

Sarah

Re the ring problem I've found the following tip, given to me by an ex-nurse, to be pretty good but your ring needs to be not so tight that you can't even get some knitting wool under it between your finger and ring. Threading it through a blunt eg tapestry needle/bodkin first and then working that under the ring does it for most people unless the finger is really swollen and the ring is digging in deep.

Once you've got the wool (or fine string will do just as well) under the ring, have a small tail of wool on the side of the ring facing up your arm and then right up against the ring, tightly wind the long end down towards your fingertip for about half an inch, this will compress the flesh on your finger. Then by pulling on the short tail of wool back towards your finger tip, the ring will rotate round your finger and travel down over the part of the finger covered by the wool wound round it. You can keep repeating this process until as you gradually work the ring down your finger until it's past the knuckle and onto the thinner part of your finger.

She said that when she worked in A&E they always tried this first before getting a ring cut off and that it always worked unless the ring was really embedded into a very swollen finger and I can believe her. My fingers sometimes swell up a lot in the heat and I don't always notice and take my rings off before they get too tight to easily slip off but this trick has always worked for me. It sounds more complicated than it actually is - once you actually try it the above instructions will make more sense - honestly! :-)

SM

Hi, Regarding the WW diet I am finding myself quite hungry (could be all 'in my mind' - not sure ) so will give the SW some thought - I know there is a class locally.
Regarding my ring I have the added problem of having large knuckles and that is the part I can't get my ring over, don't think either of your suggestions will work - a little scared that if I get it stuck I would panic, my finger would swell, will stick with the 1st plan of losing weight. When I do eventually get my ring off (and I will) I am having my nan's wedding ring put with it, so I aiming for that.
Speak soon.
Irene

Just the 1lb this week, but still heading in the right direction

Irene as an A&E nurse I can confirm that the technique for ring removal can work , but another way (tho less effective) is to simply thred the wool through the ring, leaving to ends about 2 inches dangling nail end down and spin like fury. This frequently raises the ring up and off !
Lally

I have large knuckles due to Arthrhitis when I head my ring made bigger the jeweller told me to slightly bend the finger wearing the ring then push the ring from underneath and slide over the knuckle works every time for me ! though my ring is a little small ! Good luck Irene with the ring and the diet

Hi there,

I haven't posted for ages, but have lost 5lb in the last 2 weeks using Chatdiets online. It's really good as it's not a diet as-such. You just enter what weight you want to be and it tells you how many calories and grams of fat you should have per day and you keep a food diary to moniter it. It's brilliant as you can enter what you've eaten from your mobile so when I'm at work it's not a problem. Really would recommend it! So I'm off to Primark on a big shopping trip on Friday and hope to shift another 2lb by then! teeny tiny bikini's here I come!

Getting there!!!!

hi Becki85star, welldone, that sounds good might have a look at that site myself. doing ww at the moment (dont attend the clubs, just do it from home myself) and im up and down with it. did it last year and lost a stone and a half over a few months. but put half a stone back on over christmas but like i said im up and down with it at the moment.

another monday weigh day (myself) and another 2lb shifted so thats 16 lbs in 6 wks, slow progress now think i will have to up my exercise, might join the ladies circuit style gym a few doors away so no excuses for me as to transport there lol

Well done Ellie-Meg :pele. You are doing brilliantly. Hopefully a good weigh-in for me as well tomorrow.

I think we are on the same wave length here too. I was waiting until the lb loss started slowing down and then kick start the exercise plan. I have an exercise bike that is just being used as an expensive clothes hanger at the moment. Plus I have several DVDs for work outs although none are up to date. I have been recommended the "Pump it Up" DVD which is supposed to be brilliant. Good assortment of music to work out to, but it is hard work as well. I may invest in that one. Will see what tomorrow brings first though ...
Good luck all :gluck:

Sarah

good luck sarah, it made me smile when you mentioned the exercise bike and out of date dvds as ive got the same here, infact the bike is quite hard to peddle so i cant cope with it, needs oiling lol, i have a tread mill too but again cheap one so not great,weight bench and weights etc bought all these items a few years ago and havent used them oops !!!