Moo's year - 24 st start and restart

Hi all, Rita you and Hez both amaze me and really put my feeble efforts to shame. I am stuffing myself with salad and fruit snacks. Currently am heavily into cherry toms. Sadly we got blight on our home grown toms so got very few. I love toms and spinach I go crazy for. Not sweet things for me thank heavens!!
Hope we all have a good day. Bev x:)
 
Hi all, Rita you and Hez both amaze me and really put my feeble efforts to shame. I am stuffing myself with salad and fruit snacks. Currently am heavily into cherry toms. Sadly we got blight on our home grown toms so got very few. I love toms and spinach I go crazy for. Not sweet things for me thank heavens!!
Hope we all have a good day. Bev x:)

You should not feel this way Bev :) You are strogner then you think. After all that stress you come through you still on plan. Few days off is not a problem :) Im glad you like your salad :) you doing well and dont think for moment youre not :)
 
Morning all. Thank you Rita and Bev for your very kind words. Rita you are correct, i will stick with my totally, amazing, satisfying, delicious shakes as long as i can! I am looking forward to munching on something the day of the wedding though! And really looking forward to my week away all that lovely food and drink :drool: - heaven lol
You both are such strong women, i dont stand a chance of slipping up with you keeping an eye on me - for which i am eternally grateful :) xx
heres to another great day X
 
Day 7
Glad to say that scales have started to move and let me see 117,5 this morning :D
Feeling happy. Last night I saw backed beans lasangne pic online and will do one today. Will let you know how it turned out :)

Breakfast
Salad and beef (1 syn) sw with cheese ( he+he). Coffee 1 syn

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Have a nice day everyone :) hugs
 
Looks yummy :) x
 
Helen the foodstalker!! LOL!!

The food does always look pretty awesome though! I am cheering myself up tonight with a night out with 4 of my very best girlfriends. So needed after the upsetting man situation. But as my good buddy at work said this morning: "Dancing shoes on and fin up"
Hahhahah. I have an outfit planned - just hoping I feel comfortable in it!
 
Ladies, ladies, may I call order! lol. Have spent 3 hours sorting out an online order for a pair of trousers OH wanted. Jeez, I am exhausted! To get all my clubcard points which I could double up I had to spend more so I have ordered myself a poncho/wrap with fake fur collar and cuffs in anticipation of horrid weather this winter. I love ponchos as they hide the middle bit which is my worst, then again the upper is not so good. I am really a peanut shape with legs that never really change!!
My daughter is away this weekend with a guy she met at the Edinburgh Festival. What a relief, she woke us up last Saturday morning at 3.30 a.m., I think she has lost her front door key, and she got my OH a bit the worst for wear Saturday night and they rolled in at 1.20 a.m. Enough, I shall have to read her the riot act!! And him for that matter. It's amazing how well he is doing since finishing chemo and he is becoming a real pain in the a**!
Timmi and Blondcat, love to you and of course my beloved friends Rita (our leader!) and Hez. Big meet up next year maybe? Where is Meloncollie? Love and hugs Bev x
 
Ooo pics of the poncho please, it sounds delightful! Sounds weird but I'm quite excited about colder weather. How the hell did you manage to spend 3 hours online sorting out trousers?! That must be some sort of record! Feeling kinda jealous of your daughter going to Edinburgh, I've always wanted to go!
 
Hey …

When I slip I slip 200% :p
Why the hell they chose to make walnut chocolate brownie today …
25 syn or more.

Oh well … but was worth is , right ? Right ?

:D had syn free yogurt for my dinner and if I want something to eat later I will have melon. I can do it .

Im wondering how my bean lasagne turned out. Will know when I get home.

Yesterday I was speaking to my friend from estonia. We worked together for 8 years. And she have seen me on diet 100 and 10 times. I have sent some photos them but yesterday she saw me on web-cam. And was amaized how well I look. She was asking how I manage to lose so much weight now and not before. Only reason in UK. Food is not expencive here. Its silly but thats one big reason. Im able to buy low fat meat here but never in back home. Im able to buy fresh fruit here but back home I could have only apples. Thank god that we chose to come here.
You may ask why did we chose to come here. We could go to finland. Its close and the salary is better there( minimum for for chefs is 11€ an hour ).
But not me or my hubby wanted to go there. To be honest my hubby wanted to go either Australia ( too far and way too hot). Canada ( too far and too cold). Norway ( too cold. God too cold :p )
I wanted to come to UK. I needed to explain why is UK best for us, but the truth is England was "meant to be" for me. I did not know it at the time, only that this is only place I would be after home. Had strong feeling about UK. That its time to come and see. Keep in mind not me or my hubby had been here before.
I choose Birmingham. Because one of my online friend lived here. And Im so happy that I did.
We got here without place to stay. Without job
Or friends to stay with or ask help from.
My Birmingham friend told us areas where we should look place to stay. We had an hotel for 5 days and a rental car for 7 days. And so we started.
In 2 days I found us a room we still live there and love it. And then we started to search for job. I did not want any job. I wanted good job. And got lucky. But my hubby had bad news. He cant work here. We did not expect that. Hes been searching for job but being electrician for over 20 years and not be able to do this job here was shock. He is power enginer and he can work as power enginer but not as electrician. Not many places for power enginers here.
Anyway :) even tho we have little trouble and money is tight I still so happy to be here. I love that UK is so warm. I love flowers. I love that people are nice and polite. I love that no one is looking at me like I have no right to live because of my weight. I love that I found slimming world. I love rain. I love this forum and I love all you.
One day we will go back home and I know I will miss UK. I wish to come back in next life and live in UK. I know there is problems with immigrants in here and Im sorry. But this is only way for me to lose weight, get in shape and have a baby. Thats really all I want.

And I really want one more brownie … lol, not today Moo, not today :D
Weight in tomorrow and I must behive. :)
 
Rita, love you so much and so glad you chose UK. What would we do without you.?! You are not an immigrant, you are one of us. My lovely lady I cannot say how much you mean to all of us and I am sure I speak for all of us. So much love. I sense a little down feeling which I can't have, I want happiness for you! My happy lady is so important! Hugs and love to you and everyone for that matter. You are number one on this your thread and I wish for you all that is good. I hope husband gets a good job soon.
Timmi, I am not very good at all things technical, so have a look on Tesco Direct womens wear. I like the big fur collar. It is charcoal fleece. The furry stuff looks fab. with my lousy eyesight it took ages to sort it out as I had double clubcard points to sort out! I must go to bed as am knackered!
Love to all and massive hugs Rita, love you so especially. Bev x
 
Rita, love you so much and so glad you chose UK. What would we do without you.?! You are not an immigrant, you are one of us. My lovely lady I cannot say how much you mean to all of us and I am sure I speak for all of us. So much love. I sense a little down feeling which I can't have, I want happiness for you! My happy lady is so important! Hugs and love to you and everyone for that matter. You are number one on this your thread and I wish for you all that is good. I hope husband gets a good job soon.
Timmi, I am not very good at all things technical, so have a look on Tesco Direct womens wear. I like the big fur collar. It is charcoal fleece. The furry stuff looks fab. with my lousy eyesight it took ages to sort it out as I had double clubcard points to sort out! I must go to bed as am knackered!
Love to all and massive hugs Rita, love you so especially. Bev x

Aww :) Thank you dear Bev :) you are one special lady and Im happy to meet you here :) And everyone else too. Im big believer that everyhing happens for reason. And you all must be the reason I started this diary. Honesly - I would never had diary like this in estonia. One more plus to UK :D and you my friends :)
 
Hey honey. If you had said "coffee cake" instead of walnut chocolate brownie lol i would have been demolishing the whole thing with you :eat: that would have to be one of my favourites. And i think god nor man could not stop me lol i don't know how many times i have said to myself, i deserve a slice of coffee cake!! Your only human, i have stayed away from coffee cake. Today i cooked dinner at home, 1st time in a very long time. They requested homemade cream of mushroom soup! I had the spoon so close to my mouth i could almost taste it (i was smelling it lol). Roast beef, carrots, and mash (with butter and milk). I had to throw parsnip in with carrots as i detest them, that way i didn't look at the carrots. And a ton of onions went into the gravy! (i hate onions in gravy) Thats how i got through the whole process. Tomorrow i will be cooking something i don't eat at all, that way it wont bother me (i cant be doing this all the time, its torture)
But I cannot wait until the day i can eat again. And when i do, i have like a million things that i want to be the first thing i try!!! I cant make up my mind what my first proper meal will be :)
Also i think we should all meet up at some point. The friendships made on this are special to me. Its not very often you meet someone and have an instant connection, and i have been fortunate to have many connections on this :)
And Rita, you played a huge (no pun intended ;)) part in that. :grouphugg: xxx
 
Rita you're wonderful. You've made slimming world and minimins such a joyful and positive place. The UK needs more people like you!
 
Hey honey. If you had said "coffee cake" instead of walnut chocolate brownie lol i would have been demolishing the whole thing with you :eat: that would have to be one of my favourites. And i think god nor man could not stop me lol i don't know how many times i have said to myself, i deserve a slice of coffee cake!! Your only human, i have stayed away from coffee cake. Today i cooked dinner at home, 1st time in a very long time. They requested homemade cream of mushroom soup! I had the spoon so close to my mouth i could almost taste it (i was smelling it lol). Roast beef, carrots, and mash (with butter and milk). I had to throw parsnip in with carrots as i detest them, that way i didn't look at the carrots. And a ton of onions went into the gravy! (i hate onions in gravy) Thats how i got through the whole process. Tomorrow i will be cooking something i don't eat at all, that way it wont bother me (i cant be doing this all the time, its torture)
But I cannot wait until the day i can eat again. And when i do, i have like a million things that i want to be the first thing i try!!! I cant make up my mind what my first proper meal will be :)
Also i think we should all meet up at some point. The friendships made on this are special to me. Its not very often you meet someone and have an instant connection, and i have been fortunate to have many connections on this :)
And Rita, you played a huge (no pun intended ;)) part in that. :grouphugg: xxx

Lol Helen , thats an idea to cook something you dont like - to bad I cant use this trick at work. Thank you hun for all =)

Timmi , you are so sweet and Im happy you are part of this threat =)

On my way home I was thinking what could I wear for our little meeting :p Lol - anyone else thinking of that ? heheh - Have a nice weekend everyone =)
 
Well done my lovely :) another week down xxx


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Good morning. Just got back my WI. Pound off this week :) Im so happy with that as all week long my scale did not move. Will do Challenge this week. No bread at all. And back to Extra Easy :) life is beautiful :))
Hugs to all
 
Hi all. Trouble here! Daughter has been living in London all week and coming back here for weekends, and bringing her laundry with her!! I thought she would go straight to York to be with the Scotsman she met in Edinburgh but she spent the night here and then went off for a train early. She has not been booked back in for the job in London so says she will go back to teaching around here. Meanwhile she is off to Cape Town on Thursday to spend 2 weeks with a friend there. She is here for Christmas but going to Cambodia on 27th. She spent last Christmas there helping to set up a school in a chicken shed (still had chickens in it she said). She is talking about stopping off on route to Cape town via Nairobi which we are not happy about as there has been extremist activity and a bit too close to ebola virus. Like her father she is dynamic and can't keep still. Although I love her to bits I find her tiring!! She has been talking about adopting a 4 year old Cambodian girl. I have said to her you cannot pack up a child in a suitcase and go globe trotting. She spent years working in London, then Dubai, then Australia (she is now a citizen). She travels a lot. It's going to be very wearing if she is living here full time. What can I do? Dunno! Grin and bear it!! :sigh:
 
Oh Rita, during my rant forgot to say hoorah another lb is brilliant. I can tell you are so excited. It is thrilling how the patience is paying off. What to wear for the meeting? Hmm, I think it will be new outfits all round!!
Bev x Love and hugs :)
 
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