;) hi there, Tizme2000, I think the whole dress size thingy is fantastic - because I get so depressed when I stand on the scale and nothing has dissappeared. Your little dog sounds like such a treat, think of how fantastic it is that you have lovely fresh sea air all day long, i am in London and the air is awfulllllllll!!!! I am currently trying the GI diet and Callanetics and feel really sore but good for it - I feel like a new person and cannot wait to fit into a size 16 jeans!!!!!!!!! I am getting there slowly but am motivated by the people on this forum and by seeing an awful photo of myself that shows every lump and bump immaginable. If you are interested I would love to be your buddy and we can motivate each other!!!! Hope to hear from you soon. ;)

hi, im new (well an old lurker deciding to start posting again) im 21 from manchester at uni studying business management. I have bin dieting since nov(but if you count on and off dieting since i was 11) ive followed the weight wathcers plan and have managedto loose 1 and half stone (or 21lbs). I current weigh 9st9.5 (at least i hope so after easter) and am tryingto shift the last few poundsto get to my goal weight, which have bin the hardest pounds to shift. Last week i joined the gym, and have bin going low cal rather than ww to give my body a bit of a mix up and hopefully start loosing weight again.
what else... i own far to many self help books, and a little dog called keeks, shes a chihuahua, but i must stress i dont want to be paris hilton/legaly blonde/britney spears i just love the breed
http://www.chihuahua-people.com/files/keeks12rs.jpg dawww!
nice to meet you all
mia
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Another new one here :D
I'm Karyn from London and have been constantly on a diet all my life that i can remember [ thats life ]
currently at one of my very fat stages and am following The You are What you eat diet [ UK tv diet programme ] ;)
have been doing it for the past 6 weeks haven't a clue about weight loss yet
as I will not weigh in untill week 10
but clothes do feel a lot looser the only moan I have about it at the moment is the cost


anyway hope to be around a fair bit :wave:
so a warm hello from me

~~Karyn~~

Welcome back Mia and hi to Karyn. :wave:

Michelle McManus has apparently lost 4 stone on the YAWYE diet. Is it expensive then? All those beans and butternut squash. ;)

Thanks for the welcome Veggie,

I didn't know that about Michele Mcmanus :D learn something new every day

So far finding it very good health wise have noticed
my heartburn and bloatedness has completely disappeared
but yes it is incredibly expensive especially when you first start out with all
the lentils beans and miso soups, most of these things you can only get at health food shops and the price does add up

~~Karyn~~

It was in Now mag about Michelle. It will be on tv in next few months I think.

thanxs for the welcome :)
Ive bin trying to get hold of the you are what you eat book, i watched one of the shows once and she does give some great advice
mia
x

asda has the you are what you eat book........but try amazon.co.uk or ebay and you may save some money

I've ordered the new cookbook one from the library. Just to have a flick through.

Hi, i'm susan, i've not even looked at the boards since last year but i'm back again and back on a diet. I joined weightwatchers (again!) a couple of weeks ago and i want this to be the last diet i ever go on. I know that's ambitious talk, and i've probably said it before, but this time i mean it.
I've had a lot of stresses over the past 12 months - i was diagnosed with the early stages of endometrial cancer last year but after radiotherapy it is now clear (the normal treatment would have been a hysterectomy, but because of my weight that was out of the question). Then in january this year my younger sister died of cancer. I know from things i have read that being overweight puts anyone at greater risk for a number of cancers and i want to get myself out of that risk catagory.
My daughter who is 26 and married, is very supportive and hopes that this time i will succeed.

Susan welcome back :wave: Sorry to hear about your illness and your sister. :( I understand about the last diet ever I thought that last year and now I am trying to lose the same pounds I lost then!

welcome back susan..just a quick hello as im off to work

hi my names katie, i'm 33 (well for another 2 mths), i live in wisconsin usa, i've been here for 8 years, i'm from essex. (hubby was usaf)

i've been exstatically happily married to jim for 12 years, we have an 8 year old boy and a 6 year old girl.

i've always considered myself overweight, when i met my hubby i was 156lbs and thought i was fat ... now i'd kill to be that weight !!!

i had a great childhood, guess i put a little weight on with the children, i think i eat for the sake of eating, just for something to do, i'm currently the heaviest i've ever been in my life 235lbs (16st 8lbs) it never really bothered me until i got a double chin, and have to shop in the womens section instead of the misses.

we have a family picture coming up was supposed to be at the end of april, and i refused to be in it looking like this, (don't wanna be the hippo in the second row !) so as one of my sister-in-laws feels the same way we managed to get a stay of execution until the end of july, so my goal is to hopefully lose 20lbs by then, (although fingers crossed a lot more) this could prove really hard as i'm going home to england for a month mid june-mid july, yeah .... sausage rolls, jaffa cakes, aero's, galaxy chocolate, cream cakes, biscuits ..... all the stuff i've been home sick for !!!

but i can at least attend the slimming world meetings, i'm working out of one of my mums old books that she sent me =)

~kate~

Hi Kate :wave: welcome to the forum.

hiya kate :wave: join in with us all, cant guarantee any sane conversation mind you, but you will get support and a shoulder when required