Slimming World
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Hi, just wondered how many people are trying, or have tried, slimming world? I can't afford to join but am picking up tips from the internet and avoiding bread (my own choice as it has always stopped me losing weight). I am a little unsure about syns, well a lot actually, and healthy extras. I did have a book from a few years ago but cant find it now.
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chris03990 sandy67
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chris03990 sandy67
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Sounds like you are eating some tasty stuff but watch the pasta quantities and if you can eat the contents of the sandwich without the bread you would be far better off. I think it's def better not to skip a meal or you just end up eating more at end of the day coz you are starving! Take a look at Scarsdale after christmas, it's tough at first without the carbs but now I just don't want or need them much.
sandy67 chris03990
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i have literally only just had my tea (02.15)! I just have not been hungry since that butty! Thats what bread does to me, it bloats me and I know its not good but when we go to aldi if we havent eaten we usually buy a ham and cheese butty from there and ai have got quite a liking for them! Tut I know!! I am rather pleased with myself right now as I have just done all my wrapping! I had about 80 things to wrap so I am exhausted and my back is breaking (I have RA) but I am so pleaseed it is done and sid all the foid shopping for christmas day earlier too and got loads of sorting, tidying and cleaning done with a lot of help from my mum and dad! Feeling a lot more positive now. Didnt think ai was going to get anywhere near ready yesterday and my car just died too but I got someone out today and it was just the battery. He came to the door with a card machine so I said 'oh great that will help loads' (I am skint! Lol) and went off to get my card. When I came back my mum was counting out the cash for him! Things have been very difficult since I have been off sick for last 15 months. So it has been a very uplifting day today and I am now happily exhausted and hope to be away within a few minutes of light out. Up early as. Have to take a wee sample to docs. I have ecoli water infection that i just cannot get rid of and ai am really hoping I will not be in hospital before christmas day. It will be very soon after though as I have to have IV treatment over about 5-7 daystel:291313168392
sandy67
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chris03990 sandy67
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good luck with the ivf anyway
sandy67 chris03990
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well what do you know, a friend of mi e lives in neston, is there more than one neston on the Wirral? I know she always says just neston, not little or lower or any such. We lived near warrington before we came out here so not a million miles away, small world. My arthritis is osteo and is getting a bit worse with age but I think the dry mountain air here is good for me. I expect I will need hip roa cement in the future as my dad did and I get hip pain now , but you have to be getting old before they show any interest so at the moment I'm being fobbed off with pain killers like codeine. I try to manage with as few as possible as I don't want to become a serial user. I'm 58 so hopefully have a bit to go before they consider me old enough!! You sound younger as you have kids so it's a shame you are already suffering such pain. To you have any pain avoidance techniques?
well five days to new year so it's back on diet for a few strict days before our New Years eve dinner. I go alcohol free jan fen and arch each year and it usually loses me about two stone with little change to diet so I am hoping with both, i mightlisr a bit more. I'm not tempted with alcohol during the winter as sociL events. Are few and far between, unlike dimmer here when there are weekly fiestas and barbecues etc. no oranges and lemons growing here unfortunately as we are up on the mountain plains , it's too high but my sister has those and we are al ones and olives so we can always do our swaps. Food quality here is wonderful, bathe markets are full of cheap and fresh fruit and vegetables , they tend to be seasonal but you can buy other stuff that's imported to fill in the gaps. Much stuff is organic and production methods very rustic and traditional. If you have never been to spain, you must give I land spain a chance it's so beautiful and unspoiled by progress like the coAst. We love it and plan to live out our lives here, if the time ever comes that we need care, there are plenty of neighbours without employment so we can rent our own carers locally. It's part of their culture to give good care to the elderly so I would feel in good hands. Are your kids old enough to be of help to you when you are feeling at your worst?
well I hope you are getting ready to get back on your post christmas diet, we will have to encourage each other once the new year is underway and all the goodies have gone!
sandy67 chris03990
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yes. Little Neston is in Neston! Small world! We are close to the marsh and also to the Wirral Way so lovely walks nearby. Thurstaston is lovely too and Royden Park, heswall dales, really lovely and very close to North Wales too.
it does sound wonderful where you are! I will definitely have to explore some parts of Spain, skillfully avoiding the 'brit' takeover parts that sound like blackpool in the sun. Some of the documentaries about how young brits are when they get over there put us all to shame! Its dreadful
sandy67
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i do take more pain medication than I would like to! I have to take quite a few co-codamol and tramadol to get through the day and oramorph now and again. I also have to take lansoprasole, cetirizine, calceous vitamin D, atorvastatin, citalopram and fenofibrate as I had very high cholesterol and triglycerides and i struggle breathing during the night if I dont take cetirizine. I think the depression comes with the RA. I would so love to be off meds though I hate them so much.
how are you getting on? X
chris03990 sandy67
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i am a bit inactive in the winter as long walks are not so attractive lol, come spring I go on long walks with the dogs and in summer I try and swim in my pool for at least a kilometer every day just to keep the joints going. From the weather forecast it's going to be freezing here in the next three days in fact we may be breaking ice on the pool tomorrow as its going to be minus four during the day. ' living in the sun'. Haha don't believe it there is snow on the mountains across our valley through most of the winter. Had anything nice for Christmas?
sandy67 chris03990
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Wow you have a pool! How wonderful, I love being in water! We have just left my partners mums with two boxes of thorntons! And a bottle of rioja and spiced rum! Will save for a while though! Lol my oartner bought me a gorgeous new set of tarot cards and a beautiful pendulum, with some lovely jewellery. My daughter bought me a beautiful bottle with boots royal jelly bath foam in and a lovely candle. My son has apparently ordered tickets for a show but I dont know what! Lol my mum bought a dvd with alistair sim and margaret rutherford and a cd of Mercedes Sosa which has gracias a la vida on it, which I love and her voice is just wonderful so I will listen to that when I get a chance to relax! Did you get anything nice? X
sandy67 chris03990
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did you get anything nice? X
sandy67
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chris03990 sandy67
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right now it's good winter food we need here, it's freezing, down to minus 4 again tonight. Did you get snow the othe r day? I saw on TV how bad it is in some places. Well I had a good day diet wise today, another to orrow and then a day off for new year. Back on track with
no excuses on 1st jan! I plan to do it once and for all this year! With the help of the Scarsdale diet
sandy67 chris03990
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Well I will be starting very strictly on 2nd Jan with porridge or fruit for breakfast, home made soup, or salads for lunch with no bread and then our normal healthy meals, but less rice/pasta. I lost ten pounds so quickly last time it seemed so easy. I can quite happily snack on carrot sticks or celery or slices of peppers, I love them! So really when I get in the right mindset it should be easy! Lol yeah right! X
chris03990 sandy67
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Im looking forward to snow here, we don't get a lot but usually one day at least. The year before we moved over they had a meter one night and were snowed in for a couple of days before the tractors got together and cleared a way out. I keep hoping there will be a repeat but so far only a few inches. Living out in the sticks we always have plenty of supplies in so we could survive easily for a few days, would be a bit of fun!
my sister arrives tomorrow with her husband and two of their friends, we are all going out together new ears eve. I'm driving to avoid temptation. Not much fun driving a car load of drunks home though.
well if I don't have time to check in in the next couple of days....happy new year!!, onward and upward as they say and will catch you very soon.
sandy67 chris03990
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happy new year to you too! X
chris03990 sandy67
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well good luck with your new year regime, let me know how you are doing, perhaps we can support each other's efforts!
sandy67 chris03990
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why do people there treat their dogs so terribly? That is so sad, your description of that poor dog, i do hope he survives, minus 7 must have been just so dreadful for him.
Yes it would be great to support each other with our new plans. I wrote out my plans for the year yesterday and basically I want to get back to work very soon, get healthy and lose weight, (Yes it must have some bearing on arthritic pain) and get my boat back in the water! I do miss it, but actually i now feel like selling up and moving to Spain! Lol it sounds idyllic x
chris03990 sandy67
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lets have a Monday weigh in and we can rejoice together or otherwise!
sandy67 chris03990
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i had lost ten pounds a couple of weeks before christmas but 7 has gone back on! :-( never mind I know I can get my mind back on it! I have about three stones to lose altogether. The first will probably be easy, the next a bit more difficult, but getting that last one off is always the toughest! I just had an urge for some chocolate somthe thorntons is open and I had just a few, will be glad when it is all gone. I will be very strict when I out my mind to it! X