Getting to know you!

[Flopster]

I was thinking, I have received so much support from people on here but hardly know anything about you all, so thought it may be fun to have a "getting to know you" session! I also thought it may help some inspire some of us to see your successes and share your secrets. So here's some questions:-

1) How old are you?

2) What part of the country are you from?

3) What diet are you doing?

4) When did you start this diet?

5) How much do you want to lose in total?

6) How much have you lost so far?

7) What is your favourite flavour?

8) What is your favourite recipie?

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?

10) What is your top tip?

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?

13) What is your worst habit?

14) What is your favourite quote?

That is all - nosey, me - nah!

 

[Russiandoll]

1) How old are you?

I'm 44 - will be 45 in January.

2) What part of the country are you from?

A town called Gosport in Hampshire, on the South coast.

3) What diet are you doing?

Cambridge

4) When did you start this diet?

March 24th 2006

5) How much do you want to lose in total?

On CD .... 9st but in total it will be 12st

6) How much have you lost so far?

On CD .... 5st 3lb - in total 8st 2lb

7) What is your favourite flavour?

Cranberry crunch bar

8) What is your favourite recipie?

I don't cook any of the packs

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?

Butterscotch

10) What is your top tip?

Keep coming onto Minimins and NEVER take your eye off your goal.

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?

I went out with Toyah Wilcox's bodyguard.

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?

I'm about to start Chichester University as an English undergraduate.

13) What is your worst habit?

Money burns a hole in my pocket!

14) What is your favourite quote?

"I came into this world with nothing and I've managed to hang on to most of it!"

 

[Flopster]

My answers (duh), thanks Debbie for starting it off!

1) How old are you?
37

2) What part of the country are you from?
Lancashire

3) What diet are you doing?
Lighter Life

4) When did you start this diet?
26th June 2006

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
5 stone

6) How much have you lost so far?
22 lbs to Monday although I think it has been at least a couple of more since.

7) What is your favourite flavour?
Chocolate and Veg Soup

8) What is your favourite recipie?
Crisps

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?
Thai Chilli it made me sick!

10) What is your top tip?
For me the most motivational thing ever is my slim photo from www.seeyourselfslimmer. Already today it has stopped me pigging out on pasta leftovers!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
Deep down, I really am quite shy although nobody believes me!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
I run my own business

13) What is your worst habit?
Sitting at the computer reading forums instead of working

14) What is your favourite quote?
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle (Maralyn Monroe)

 

[Cheb]

About me!

1) How old are you?
36 but my kids still believe me when I say I'm 30

2) What part of the country are you from?
East Sussex

3) What diet are you doing?
Cambridge, well these days I'm trying to do CD

4) When did you start this diet?
Started LL a year ago, swapped to CD November

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
6st10lb

6) How much have you lost so far?
5st6lb

7) What is your favourite flavour?
Girly pink!

8) What is your favourite recipie?
Frothy coffee (a pack really frothed up then poured into 1/2 cup black coffee)

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?
Vegetable

10) What is your top tip?
NEVER EVER TAKE A BREAK UNTIL YOU GET TO TARGET.

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
Don't have secrets, I'm a blabber mouth, check out my diary all my secrets are there

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
Dispensing Optician

13) What is your worst habit?
Spending too much time on here!

14) What is your favourite quote?
Life's not a rehearsal

 

[Ajax]

Great Idea, Love being nosey!

1) How old are you? 30 - but everyone thinks im 26 (honest)

2) What part of the country are you from? Born In Dulwich, London, Live in Andover, Hampshire

3) What diet are you doing? CD

4) When did you start this diet? 3rd August 2006

5) How much do you want to lose in total? 9stone and 0.5 a pound!

6) How much have you lost so far? 10 pounds

7) What is your favourite flavour? Banana with Coffee

8) What is your favourite recipie? Haven't tried any yet, only my 2nd week

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? Chicken & mushroom Soup and FOTF Shake

10) What is your top tip? Quite new, but measure everything too! I have seen results in my first week, and take photos every week to compare later!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? DH and I have been caught by the police having s*x ! Years ago, in a drunken teens!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? I work in the MOD and was promoted today!

13) What is your worst habit? Eating for the sake of it and falling asleep when a film is only 10 minutes into it!

14) What is your favourite quote? Always kiss goodnight, because one day the one you love won't be there anymore. Not really a quote but what my parents said to me before they died!

Cant wait to read more! More questions too me thinks!

 

[Flopster]

Hey Angela congratulations on the promotion!

If you want me to add more questions let me know and I will edit the original post and add them.

 

[Isobel1965]

1) How old are you? 41 going on 14

2) What part of the country are you from? Born in London, live in Newcastle upon Tyne

3) What diet are you doing? CD1000 on a good day!

4) When did you start this diet? October 28th 2005

5) How much do you want to lose in total? Another 13lbs

6) How much have you lost so far? Lost 5 stone, put on 10lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour? Of CD? Chocolate Mint

8) What is your favourite recipe? Toffee & Walnut muffins

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? Cappucino

10) What is your top tip? Stick to the plan 100%, no matter what!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? I worship the Devil - no, not really hahahahahhaahhah

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? CDC, single mum of 3

13) What is your worst habit? Interrupting people when they're boring me and I have really interesting things to say lol.

14) What is your favourite quote? "Trust in God but keep your powder dry!"

 

[icemoose]

1) How old are you? - 32 going on 10

2) What part of the country are you from? - Great Yarmouth but originally near Milton Keynes

3) What diet are you doing? - I did LighterLife and then moved over to Cambridge Diets

4) When did you start this diet? - October 2005

5) How much do you want to lose in total? - I wanted to lose 11.5 stone

6) How much have you lost so far? - All 11.5 stone

7) What is your favourite flavour? - Peanut Bar / Spicy Tomato

8) What is your favourite recipie? - Choc Mousse

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? - Vegetable!! YUK!!!!!!

10) What is your top tip? - Water is the key to this diet!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? - I was the Weakest Link!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? - IT Manager

13) What is your worst habit? - I have none!

14) What is your favourite quote? - Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.

 

[Piper]

Well you know a fair bit about me but lots of others dont so:

1) How old are you? 31

2) What part of the country are you from? NE Scotland

3) What diet are you doing? CD (did LL earlier in the year)

4) When did you start this diet? Monday!

5) How much do you want to lose in total? I want to lose another 4 stones which will mean 6 in total.

6) How much have you lost so far? Not weighed since Monday yet but I had lost 4 stones and gained back 2.

7) What is your favourite flavour? Still trying them all! On LL it was raspberry.

8) What is your favourite recipie? Only do the shakes straight up so far.

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? Hated caramel on LL and dont like Cappucino on CD

10) What is your top tip? Dont cheat ever as you can't get back into it!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? Can't think of anything juicy!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? Dont work atm - stay at home with my two gorgeous kiddies though am going to study Nutritional Therapy soon (provided little one settles into nursery okay).

13) What is your worst habit? I drop my disposable contact lenses all over the place when I pop them out !

14) What is your favourite quote? I dont really have one.

Lynne x

 

[Dom1979]

OK, i have to ask. Question 12. What is sahm?

 

[Salsalass]

Dom, I think it's Stay At Home Mum.

Oh what a good idea this is....

1) How old are you?
46

2) What part of the country are you from?
London

3) What diet are you doing?
CD

4) When did you start this diet?
8th August 2006

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
About 10 stone I think

6) How much have you lost so far?
Not weighed in yet

7) What is your favourite flavour?
Strawberry

8) What is your favourite recipie?
Havn't made anything yet

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?
Toffee and walnut

10) What is your top tip?
Drink more water and when you think you've drunk enough...drink another glass

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
Flip, I have no secrets, I'm an open book

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
Systems developer

13) What is your worst habit?
Judging people the moment I meet them


14) What is your favourite quote?
Each to their own

 

[KD]

1) How old are you?
50

2) What part of the country are you from?
Bournemouth, Dorset

3) What diet are you doing?
Maintaining now but did CD

4) When did you start this diet?
Sept 2004

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
Wanted to lose 5 stone

6) How much have you lost so far?
8 stone

7) What is your favourite flavour?
Toffee malt bars

8) What is your favourite recipie?
Didn't do recipes

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?
veg soup

10) What is your top tip?
Head down, eyes in and don't compare yourself to others.

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
I was a nun. Not really a secret though, but most don't know in my offline world

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
Teacher

13) What is your worst habit?
Buying sheet music

14) What is your favourite quote?
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

 

[Curvy_Chicken]

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
I'm about to start Chichester University as an English undergraduate.

Ooooh Russian Doll I am sooo jealous I did an English degree at Chichester and I totally loved it - Chichester is a wonderful place to study english - it's such a creative fun environment. And the some of the male lecturers there are lovely - me and my friends from uni used to drool over them.

If only I could go back...

 

[Curvy_Chicken]

Hi Flopster I'm not doing a VLCD but doing this anyway!

1) How old are you?
27

2) What part of the country are you from?
Hampshire orginally - now based in Brighton.

3) What diet are you doing?
healthy eating and exercise

4) When did you start this diet?
Monday

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
Five stone five pounds

6) How much have you lost so far?
Only week one...

7) What is your favourite flavour?


8) What is your favourite recipie?


9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?


10) What is your top tip?
Stay positive and look at the all clothes you will be able to wear when silm - kind of torture but motivating too!!!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
I might be moving to London soon

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
I'm an Administrator

13) What is your worst habit?
Squeezing and picking spots...

14) What is your favourite quote?

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde

Luv Curvy_Chicken xx xx xx

 

[Bellybee]

1) How old are you?
22 but look older coz of weight

2) What part of the country are you from?
Basildon Essex

3) What diet are you doing?
CD

4) When did you start this diet?
I started 25th June on LL then swapped about 2 weeks later

5) How much do you want to lose in total?
When I started 9 stone odd now 6 stone odd

6) How much have you lost so far?
2 stone 8lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour?
At the moment choc mint

8) What is your favourite recipie?
Cant make them

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?
any soups and all LL flavours

10) What is your top tip?
Look at it 1 day 1 hour 1 minute at a time that gets you through

11) Tell me one secret about yourself?
I dont think I am a nice person and I am a bad wife

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm?
Work in a call centre dont like it but good money

13) What is your worst habit?
Being a lazy biatch

14) What is your favourite quote?
It's from a green day song but its rude so I wont post it

 

[princessfiona]

1) How old are you? 38

2) What part of the country are you from? Scotland

3) What diet are you doing? CD

4) When did you start this diet? 12July06

5) How much do you want to lose in total? 5 stones

6) How much have you lost so far? 1 stone 4lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour? Cranberry bar

8) What is your favourite recipie? Choc mint mousse

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? All CD Soups YUK!!!

10) What is your top tip? Don't Cheat

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? If I told you it woudnt be a secret!!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? School Administrator

13) What is your worst habit? Leaving dirty mugs on my desk at school

14) What is your favourite quote? ???

 

[MrsSkint]

1) How old are you? 47

2) What part of the country are you from? Isle of Wight

3) What diet are you doing? LL

4) When did you start this diet? 11 July 06

5) How much do you want to lose in total? 6 stone 7 lbs

6) How much have you lost so far? 16

7) What is your favourite flavour? Mushroom Soup

8) What is your favourite recipie? Lemon Meringue (Lemon
Bar, Baked)

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? Toffee Bar


10) What is your top tip? If you fall off the wagon, jump
back on ASAP

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? I was addicted to online bingo

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? Administrator


13) What is your worst habit? Shopping online

14) What is your favourite quote? Change your thoughts, and you change your world!

 

[c2b]

1) How old are you? 49

2) What part of the country are you from? Nottingham, originally Herts

3) What diet are you doing? PMcK

4) When did you start this diet? Mid June 06

5) How much do you want to lose in total? 4.5 stone

6) How much have you lost so far? at last weigh in 11 days ago.....18 lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour? Lemon

8) What is your favourite recipie? Fruit smoothies

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like?

10) What is your top tip? Be nice to yourself

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? I always wanted to go line dancing

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? No longer work. Used to work for national childrens charity as a counsellor


13) What is your worst habit? Being obsessed about my horse

14) What is your favourite quote? Just because you can doesn't mean you have to

 

[Tash86]

Hello!!

1) How old are you? Just turned 20

2) What part of the country are you from? From York, moved to London now living in Norwich.

3) What diet are you doing? CD (switched from LL)

4) When did you start this diet? 9th May (95 days ago today!!)

5) How much do you want to lose in total? Originally 5 stone but it'll have to be more like 6 I think.

6) How much have you lost so far? 51lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour? Love the chocolate mint - but tetra chocolate ice cream is the best!

8) What is your favourite recipie? T & W Muffins

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? Veg soup

10) What is your top tip? Cut a wedge off your bar and chop it up into really really small pieces (miniscule so you have to squint to see them ) then put them in the freezer - leave for about an hour then mix into a bowl or a tetra of ice cream - its like eating ben and jerry's or something with really nice chewy bits in it! Also works if you chop a wedge of the bar and cook the bits - then its like having cookie ice cream!

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? I am a shoe addict - I have no control!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? I'm a student but I also work as a website editor (in fact I should be working now!!)

13) What is your worst habit? I buy, read and listen to what they tell me in magazines even though I know its rubbish!!

14) What is your favourite quote? 'Do you love me because I am beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?' Rodger & Hammerstein.

 

[jazzy]

1) How old are you? 30

2) What part of the country are you from? Hampshire

3) What diet are you doing? CD

4) When did you start this diet? March 17th 2006

5) How much do you want to lose in total? 15st & 5lbs

6) How much have you lost so far? 7st & 9lbs

7) What is your favourite flavour? Peanut Bars

8) What is your favourite recipie? Chocolate muffins

9) Which flavour(s) don't you like? All of the soups

10) What is your top tip? Drink more water than you think is possible

11) Tell me one secret about yourself? I really do like all of those cheesy songs i.e barbie girl, ketchup song etc, even though I tell everyone how much I hate them!!

12) Do you work/what do you do/do you sahm? Mental Health Support Worker

13) What is your worst habit? Smoking

14) What is your favourite quote? There's a light at the end of the tunnel..... and it's usually a train coming in the opposite direction!!