Superfree for the win! :8855:
ermintrude said:Awww thanks so much jaylou :bighug: I never thought Id do it either! Ive tried to lose weight a gazillion times, sometimes Ive lost a couple of stone and fallen by the wayside again for whatever reason, but most of the time Id just give up after 2 or 3 weeks. I did used to go to group, I lost 3 stone at group when I was about 14 (and put it all back on), the same all over again when I went to uni, then I lost 6 stone at group about 8 years ago, but then I had a bit of a breakdown and put it all back on again. My C was AMAZING there though, it was her that got me to do it (Hennie, if youre out there you're fab, come back! x).
This time I tried a few groups, some were crap, some were OK but nothing special, nothing like Hennie :cry: and in the end I thought it wasn't worth the effort or money so started doing it at home.
I think what has saved the day this time around is partly this new love of cooking, but mostly this board! Ive just never tried food like this before, its a new world, even before when I was on SW it was never a 'diet' but at then same time it didn't get me *excited* about food, and I still looked forward to a MaccyD's after WI, or a pizza at the w/e or whatever, whereas with all these new recipes its so exciting to try new stuff and make it look and taste amazing! I think its the veggies that have done it tbh, I never knew a vegetable could be so fabulous!
But you lot have really done it for me I guess, youre better than any group, you keep me under control by having this diary going really! :bighug: If people are expecting a photo then it better be summat decent
Now maybe I should start taking pictures of the vino... :hmm: :8855:
:8855: tbh I wouldn't have been able to do this if Id been working full time so I am a bit er 'lucky'? (in a somewhat perverse sense of the word luck ) Gets me outta the house and a bit of exorcise!
ermintrude said:Yeah I think it was Denis Cotter that instilled that in me. I was trying this black bean soup and on its own it was ok, a black bean soup, but just adding the coriander & spring onions it went O - M - G soup! :drool: The OH doesnt eat coriander and I kept saying to him he wad entirely missing the lushness of this soup. The salsa thing was easy, you gotta simmer the soup for 30min anyway, so I just chopped a coupla peppers, 2 garlic, 4 chillies and squeezed a lime, chuck it in a pan for a coupla minutes. Done! 25 min left til the rest of the soup's ready anyway!
Anyway I think half of the fun is in making it and how it looks, you feel like you're having something extravagant even if at the end of the day it is just, ah, potato & leek soup
Anyway Im on a good day today so lots of positive thinking, Im off on a treasure hunt later! Who was it that mentioned geocaching? I went and looked it up, I dont have a GPS but I've found out this cache is in a field at the end of the road from me so Im gonna go find it and then Im heading off to the shop to look at Androids to replace my defunct dinosaur phone. Then I can go treasure hinting every weekend!
Woooo where ya bin moonwatcher? Yay I just started on anoither DC book, Paradiso Seasons. Seemed very different to FTLOF at first, and it is a bit fancier in general but its more the layout I dont like. The colour/pictures seem a bit dated but mostly its just less clearly written so it took me a while to read through it all and pick stuff Id like to try, but my first recipe out of it was a success and would be equally at home in FTLOF! Starting on Isa Chandra tomorrow!
I'm saving it to open later when I can sit down with a cuppa and drool over it.
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xTuesday 26th June Green
Breakfast: Coffee & fruit 1 HEXA
Lunch: Cheese salad 1 HEXA for cheese, 1.5 syns for mustard
Tea: Chickpea, leek & rosemary soup with hot pepper salsa 2 syns for oil & wine
Snacks: Snap peas, baby corn, tomatoes, Quorn slices
First day Ive eaten properly in quite a few days
New one today, from Paradiso Seasons. Went down very well with the OH!
Aaaand finally it's official:
Id put on about half a stone by the time I got back but its all gone again so Im a STS this week, water retention from the vino I guess.
Right, positive thinking is the goal for today
I have never 'met' anyone who has lost that amount of weight before. FANBLOODYTASTICO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am bowled over, you GOOOOOO Girl! IDK when you took that picture but you don't look like you need to lose weight in that shot, normally it goes on my face first. You are at target now I see too! How long did it take you? x
arty0019:
Thanks for that, my info is a couple of years out of date. How do you get access if you don't go to class, do you pay for online access? I always thought you went as you know everything
O.........M....................GEEEEEE I am speechless and that's a first
Not by miles! Im still 17 and a half stone, long way to go yet! Oh I always forget to update the profile thingies when I achieve my next mini-goal, must go do it now. Think the piccie was about a year ago, I still look like a lardass Mmm I dont do piccies... might try and get a new one done when Im feeling OK
It was this one. I dont have a phone with GPS yet but I saw this one said West entrance to the park, its only a tiny park so I figured I didn't really need the GPS. When I got there I find theres two entrances on the West side, but theyre less than 100 yards apart so I tootled round looking. It said it was held by 2 magnets so Im looking at all the metal things, fence, signposts etc, but pretty much everything there is made of metal! Kept having a feel between metal plates on signs and stuff. No luck at the first entrance so I tried the second, then this guy who looked like he might be a security guard seemed to be following me round and I started to feel a bit ill so I went for a sit down. Not sure if I was being paranoid, was having a bad day yesterday in the afternoon. So I gave up, might go back with the OH when the park's shut so no muggles watching Someone found it at midnight once so its definitely outside of the park. The clue said it's brittle so be careful putting it back together But its also metal and one part silver one part black. I need geocaching lessons! 
