Yeh I know, workplace is dangerous, there are lots of ppl here too that bring stuff in, but I just don't get anything. Got two other girls on SW here, so we can keep an eye on each other.
Chinky is one of my favorites as well, could live of it lol.......and its not too bad synwise, as long as you stay away from the deepfried stuff....
I know, and I have another hour until lunch, think I'm going to war my soup up just now and eat it while I work.....ate all the fruit I had...hmmmm oh there, I still have some carrots and cucumber, going to nibble on that till I'm allowed to go......
Going to have some sweetcorn, syn free chips and grilled chicken for dinner tonight...yummmy
Hi there I have been lurking in this thread for a little bit and I thought I would introduce myself and say hi. I'm originally from Chicago but have been living in London for the past 5 years - in fact I just had to take my UK Citizenship Test last week for my permanent residency visa!
Anyway I have been on sooooo many diets (usually WW) lost a bit and gone off track, but a friend of mine at work recommended Slimming World and I joined last week. So far I am really liking it - seems really easy and I don't feel deprived at all! Doing Green most days - just seems really easy and I love that you can as many potatoes and pasta as you like! (I am a carb fan!)
Didn't have a massive weight loss the first week but I think that's because my best friend from work was leaving and we must've visited every pub we'd ever spent time in over the past 5 years lol! I was happy with my 3 pound loss and hope I keep it up.
One of the reasons I decided to give losing weight another go is because I went on a lovely holiday/family reunion in June. We stayed a really nice condominium on the beach in Florida and we had a family photo taken on the beach. When we got the pictures back I was amazed at how big I looked!
My partner (he's British) and I are going to Chicago for Christmas and I want to look good in the photos this time! My goal is to be 40-60lbs thinner then than I am now. I'm feeling very determined but I'm just hoping I keep it up!
Anyway enough of my life story lol! Nice to meet you all.
welcome to the forum ...I think it's a fab place to come along -spill your stuff and get great ideas and support.
And well done on you 3lb loss - that's fab and exactly what I lost in my first week - I was hopelessly disappointed as i hadn't lost 2 stone like all the stories in the SW mag seem to do but hey a year on and I'm 4 stone down so just hang in there and keep going.
I still haven't got the hang of this losing weight and still have to try and stop all my bad habits... but It's haping just slowley - I've stayed the same the last 2 weeks and to be honest it's because I haven't done it properly - I'm such a kidder...then i realise I'm only kidding myself!
I'm off to france on Monday for a couple of weeks which is going to be hard - french bread yum yum!! but I'll do what i can..see how it goes and most importantly enjoy it ..I can always start again when I get back.
So keep posting and reading... the girls will be back on after the weekend to keep you going!!
It's 07.05 and I'm at work...and soooo tired!!!! Went to one of our fav italians last night and really indulged ourselves, it was lovely. Just gotta watch my syns this week to make up for the creamy sauce I had with my chicken lol.
Mel, welcome to the forum, it's always good to meet new ppl joining the plan. And you've come to the right place. Lots of support and ideas here. And well done on your loss, 3lb is a great loss....thats what I'm hoping for this week.
Bubbly, I hope you have a great time in france. Try to watch what you eat but don't deprive yourself too much. Just get back on Track when you get back....you are getting closer to hour half time mark after all......
Well, I'm going to have some strawberries and pineapple now and kickstart my metabolism....maybe that will wake me up.
Hello and welcome Mel, good to meet you. I'm posting at home on ps3 today so its ough to make a decent post but I'll update you all on my weekend when I'm in work tomorrow, oh and the return of the evil mouse, ewwww, needless to say I didn't really sleep last night.
Just off to town to buy a Birthday pressie for somebody.
Moonchild, hope work hasn't been too tough this weekend, glad you enjoyed your meal out.
Bubbly, I do that whole kidding yourself thing too!
Mel, welcome again, and I look forward to getting to know you.
Have a fun Sunday everyone.
If anyone knows any good ways to get rid of mice quickly please let me know lol, I wanna sleep!!!!!
Getting rid of mice quickly: last year before my boyfriend and I moved in together I lived briefly in a flat share that had mice. A very easy way to at least repel them is to get peppermint oil and sprinkle it on some cotton wool which you then put around the baseboards and any place where you have seen the mice. I also got a little plastic spray thing and made a mixture of water and peppermint oil which I then sprayed the baseboards with. Never saw another one! The smell of peppermint oil repels them. So as long as you don't mind your house smelling like a giant candy cane (I didn't - boyfriend did though!), I would try that!
Ok, thanks Mel, I'd read that on a couple of websites, and although some people said it didn't work others said it was really good so I might give it a try. Our local council comes out for free but apparently they have so much on at the moment it won't be for at least 5 days, and I know even if they do come out they'll use poison, I think the worst thing about that is finding a random dead mouse and the smell! Anyhow my husband has pursuaded me to get some snap traps (we've been using the ones that don't hurt them, and don't work lol), and I although I hate the idea I have to agree. Its disgusting they've been in our bed eww. Sorry I needed to rant its been a horrible weekend, and I have been on the verge of tears for most of it, not helped by my TOM.
Anyway to more plesant things, my eating isn't too bad, although I drank quite a bit on Saturday night. I'm eating very little though, mostly because I've been upset about the mouse, and I'm retaining water because of TOM, so I'm thinking its going to be a hard week, oh well we all have them.
Oh Helen, I hope you catch that mouse soon...I can imagine how horrible it is for you. We came home saturday night and there was a huge spider in our bed room. Eventho my other half got rid of it, I was still worried about his cousins coming for revenge....brrrrrrr.
You're right, hormones definetely don't help in a situation like this either. I'm due next week, so I hope going to boxercise 3x this week will help my weightloss, so I lose the 2lb I gained last week (all fingers crossed). Eating has been ok over the weekend, besides saturday night in the restaurant. But it should be ok synwise. Going to try and stay as low as possible with my syns this week...but the week before TOM is always difficult...and I'm off tomorrow and home alone.....going to keep myself busy with preparing food for the rest of the week.
Right, I popped home this morning, and gave Chris some traps to lay, really hope we can shift them. I'll go and get some peppermint oil later. I think its just that fact its been in the bed that's worst, I could cope more if it hadn't been in there.
Urgh I'm so tired.
I've been researching boxercise classes, and I'm hoping to start going to one soon any tips? You wear just normal tracksuit and trainers etc?
Keeping my fingers crossed for you that these wee things leave you alone soon.....
Im just wearing a Tshirt and trackies and trainers....nothing special. They should provide gloves if needed, we bought some yesterday, cause usually your hands stink after wearing the gloves, so always take some babywipes with you lol.....
any tips? You wear just normal tracksuit and trainers etc?
