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Thanks for explaining. That makes a lot of sense. You can stick with the diet knowing you can still have small portions of what you really crave, and not have to give them up entirely.

I was really pleased with myself today for passing my second assessment of eight for my coding qualification. I got 96%. The bad news is I treated myself to a cake to celebrate and now I am cross with myself!!
Oh well, tomorrow is another day!

woo hoo i lost another 1.5 lbs 1 lb left till i have lost 3 stone!!!

Well done, Kazzi, that's brilliant news!

Liz, I do exactly the same - treat myself to naughty food if I've got good news. We should try and tell ourselves to get a stash treat instead!

Well done Kazzi, that must be an amazing feeling, to be so close to a 3stone loss! That's fantastic.

Congrats on your assessment mark Liz, that's such a good grade!

I love your stash treat idea Sarah. Must admit I think of chocolate first everytime, but stash sounds good to me!

I went and got weighed and I've lost a lb would have been more if it had not been for me falling into the pringles and chocolate boxes

I've been thinking and I've decided to start a money box and put one pond in for every lb I loose Should have a nice little haul by the time I'm finished.

That's great Dawn! You must be pleased to still have a loss. well done!!

Dawn wrote: I've been thinking and I've decided to start a money box and put one pond in for every lb I loose Should have a nice little haul by the time I'm finished.

As long as we can all throw our frogs in your ponds!

No, that's a great idea. It's good to have the motivation of a treat.
I'm saving £2 (well, hubby is ) for every week I lose. That way I hope to have a nice little amount if I'm successful and lose 2 stone at the end of it.

I have a moneybox too, it's one of those camper van ones with a surf board on the roof!

Another thing I find which often helps me is that if I'm tempted to go to the shop and buy something naughty to eat, I think, well a bag of crisps would cost me 50p or an Iceland pizza would be £1 or whatever, so I put that amount in the moneybox instead and promise myself stash or a new top or a DVD or something like that when I have saved enough.

yes a stitchy treat is so much better than chocolate....it lasts longer too!
i have still got a long way to go but im finaly starting to think im getting some were!

well done Dawn and Kazzi!!

right then - ive managed to get on the computer so while i remember:

here's my before (19/08/06 - i only remember this because the very first time i tried my wedding dress was my birthday! ) :



and here's the after ... (09/12/07)



in the first picture, i was a size 18 (UK) and wanted to fit into the shop's example dress - a size 12 (UK)

in the second picture, not visible, but the ribbons at the back were done up as tight as they could go and i ordered a size 10 (UK)!!!!

i joined ww 6th feb 07, and got to goal 30th Oct 07 ....

.... i figure i need to get married again so i can have the same motivation!!

Oh I can't see the pictures. It says they've been removed.

I weighed myself this morning and I lost!
Not alot, but at this time of the month I usually gain, so a loss is a loss and I'm happy.
Half a pound.
One and a quarter pounds in total after 2 weeks doesn't sound great I know, but at least it's going in the right direction!

should be ok now - i hadnt made the album public!

well done TB!!

Last time I weighed myself, which was before Christmas, I was around 18 stone.

Today, I weighed myself at a friend's house and I'm only just over 17 I have had two takeaways this week so imagine what I could do if I really put my mind to it!

Well done to you all.

Nice work TB! 1/2 a week is 26lbs a year - almost 2 stone.
Don't lose heart, as Tesco say "Every little helps!"

wow twinks you look like a totaly differant person....i love your dress too!!!

thanks kazzi

the helper at my WW meeting didnt recognise me in the 'before' picture - and she met me when i looked like that!!

so much for first impressions!!

ps : here's a picci of the back : CLICK ME )

What a unique dress - I noticed the splash of red in the top band - but to see the back - wow. Love it!