wow just looking at the chart everyone is doing absolutely fantastic great losses its great seeing it on the charts hope everyone had a great pepping day and evening i,m trying to be so good with my weekend away looming good luck to all still to bw weighed keep up the good work xx meg

Julie - whats happened to your eats chart?

I went into chart 2 looking for some inspiration for new foods and noticed yours is blank for the week?

xxx

I asked her the same Jaci.

The challenge chart is looking fab well done everyone, lets keep up the good work.

Good luck with weigh ins today...mine is tonight

On nights till Sunday, and TOTM...not expecting a loss despite a good week.

Well done on saving 8 chx Flick

Have a good day everyone

WOW the combined weight loss (and not everyone is posting)
current total is a whopping 62 lbs - as of 8.20 am this morning
This is FANTASTIC
Where could we be at the end of the 10 weeks
Good luck to all approaching the scales at class or at home today - would'nt it be great to break through the 70lb barrier by the end of week 3
I had a lovely night - lots of chat and looking through and at knitting patterns, objects and boy has the wool / yarn changed since I was last a knitter - only had 1 piece of caramel shortbread (still managed to save a few checks )
Have a good day - catch up with you all later

HELP!! I had a disaster last night ...

after posting saying I was full (had my dinner) I went and ate 3 packets of crisps!! Yes I said 3 packets of crisps!!! They were quavers and skips so only 300 cals - but that is over and above all the rest of my eating!! I am disgusted with myself but then if it was all plain sailing I would not be here asking for your support and advice and I would not have met such lovely people. I'n groveling now!!!!

I have until next Wednesday morning to redeem myself and it starts NOW!!

Hope you all have a great day and good luck to anyone that has WI today.

J xxx

Morning All

Good Luck tonight Paula, fingers crossed for you...

Well done on managing those checks LF, I hope you enjoyed the caramel shortbread. Have you decided what your first knitting project will be then?

Oh Jenny dont worry hun, 12 checks between now and Wed is do-able. Get a pot of check free soup on the go, have it for lunch one day and your sorted - back on track.

Bit miserable here today so just going to get caught up on some housework this morning and go to the gym this afternoon then make dinner quite early cos Russ is going out. Then its just me and the babe for bath, bed and storytime - lovely.

Have a great day xxx

Morning all how are we today . Ethne im glad you had a good night last night and well done at stopping at one piece of caramel shortbread and saving checks too.

Jenny dont be too hard on yourself draw a line under it and start afresh im sure you will be fine by Wednesday as Miss Broxi says some no check soup and sugar free jelly and you will be back on track


Had a good day yesterday food wise but was up all night as my wee staffie Broxi ( no relation to miss broxi) who is 11 years old was up all night ill so didn't get to sleep until 3.30 this morning and had to get up at 6.30 for work so a wee bit tired today but i will still stay on track

well better do some work i suppose , catch up later hope eveyone has a good day and good luck to anyone who wi today

Oh what was wrong with Broxi Lorraine? Nothing serious I hope?

You never know we might be related, Russ would tell you I have a bark worse than my bite.......only cos I have never bitten him - YET!!!!!

Morning everybody!

WOW!!! What a FANTASTIC loss so far...well done everyone!!! You are doing great...unfortunately, I'm not managing to pep very well at the moment....OH & I are in process of moving in together and to say everything is in chaos would be a bit of understatement!! I will use the eating charts to record what I'm eating and will aim to start peping properly at the beginning of Feb when everything should be a bit more settled at home!!

Hope you all have a great day and good luck to anyone weighing in today

Hello Northern Star!

I see you are my new eating chart buddie! That is great!! I am have been a bit lonely

Have a good day and I look forward to checking out your chart in February. We can keep each other on the straight and narrow (roll on the narrow!!!!)

I am behaving so far today!!

J xx

Just popping in briefly - have the tennis on the net in the background - come on ANDY
Ms B- I've knitted a Drops pattern headband - looking for a scarf pattern or two to work up as presents (wanting to build up a stash of these) - and I've a pair of socks (1st ever) underway for Dad for his birthday - the knitting on top of the patchwork and quilting should keep my hands busy and my mouth free from naughty things
JB - if you find that you keep turning to crisps and have to have them at home - buy flavours you DON'T like then you won't be tempted
Hope all goes well for those jumping on the scales and I look forward to see the accumulated total get bigger and bigger as we all loose more and more

Afternoon all

How's everyone doing? Not long till the weekend now, the time I always dread

So far so good for me today, although I have no idea what food is going to be on tonight at the ceilidh. Hopefully I will be able to stay away from it all. Good thing though the other worker I am going with is a good friend and will drag me away from the buffet if need be.

Been to the gym this morning and I have also been for a walk on the inch too.

Off to get tidied up and have another shot on the wii fit if I get a chance before I pick the kids up from school.

Catch you all later.
Laura xxxx

Afternoon all,

Jenny can't really add much to the others advice - it is excellent as always! But if you sometimes have probs in the evening try making your own NC veg crisps - cut carrots, parsnip, etc (any NC veg that you can slice) into really thing slices and spray with a few sqirts of sprap oil and put in hot (ish) over. You will need to keep an eye on them to make sure the don't burn though. They wont go completely crsipy but they taste good and you can add salt, pepper, chilli, garlic etc to change the flavour. I don't have an oven at the moment and I can't remember the exact temp or length of time so I hope that is enough detail. Another good snack food it popcorn - you can get air poping machines so it would only be the checks form the corn you need to add you can add some salt or spices to make it bit more interesting...

Lorriane sorry to here about Broxi. Hope it is nothing too serious!

I've nothing much to report... peping away ok. Saving checks for friday as I'm going to my folks for dinner as the bf is in london for work. Going jogging after work today so hoping the weather holds okay and we don't have snow! Then this evening I've got a script to read so I can try and come up with a set design for this year musical for the drama group I'm in... And it should keep my occupied and out of the kitchen!

Hope everyone else is having a good day, take care xx

Have a good time tonight! Maybe fill up on some NC soup if you get the chance before you go so you won't be so hungry... Just think of all the exercise you will get dancing about!

Evening All

Just popped in to update food chart and say hello...

Been to they gym this afternoon so thats my 4 sessions done for the week - yay!!!! One more day til WI, lets hope its a good one.

Good luck at WI tonight T- Bird Audrey and Kop Queen

Happy Pepping Peeps xxx

hi all how,s everyone tonite hope all going well just going to fill in my eats chart i might take laptop with me at weekend so that i dont lapse tooooooooooooooo much will pop on maybe at nite away to perth for weekend tomorrow yoo hoo so looking forward to it see what the nite life is like happy pepping everyone xx

Right!!! enough is enough. WI tonight was terrible 5LBS ON___________________________________we all know what this is

No looking back, whats done is done, only looking forwards and downwards

Good luck for WI's

and good luck to us all for the journey ahead

Evening all how are we tonight. Thank you for all the well wishes for my dog broxi, she is much better now she had an upset stomach but seemed to have perked up a lot and ate her tea too

Had a good day pep wise and stayed on track so far, just made a potato toastie for supper then going to have an early night.

MB well done on getting to the gym 4 times this week and good luck at wi tomorrow

Audrey and Paula how did you both get on tonight.

Ethne have you got plenty of knitting patterns as there is a few good knitting sites with patterns

Laura have a great time tonight and im sure you will be fine food wise.

Away to eat my toastie, have a great night everyone



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Reporting in with a 4 pound loss...thats 10.5 in 2 weeks

That is amazing!!! You must be over the moon - going to check out your eating chart and follow it !!!

J xx

Well done Paula, great job........here's to another great week xxx

Paula - Just realised you don't have an eating chart - d'oh!

I have just completed my 15,000 steps - my calves are killing me - bet I can't walk 2moro

Hope you all have had great evenings.

Look forward to hearing from you all 2moro.

Night, J xx

Just a quickie to let you know I have another, yes another, pep perfect day under my belt, woo hoo!!

Thank you for those kind words of encouragement people

Hoping for a good sleep today, 1 night down, 2 to go

Enjoy your Friday

Ah Audrey - come on get back on track if those 5 went on quickly they should slip off the same way - get the books out and start back TODAY
Paula - what can I say - WOW - good for you - it's great when you break through that plateau - but don't do a me and slip keep fighting on and you'll have that stone barrier in no time
TWB - I'm using up stash wool at present and making a scarf - ruby and black - its a wonky pattern so should look good - and I've joined Ravelry so 1000's of free patterns there to tempt me - better than sweets (maybe)
Off now to check the O/A total - have we broken the 70lb mark?

OOPS the chart is back under the 60lb level

There are a few missing from logging into the chart - and who haven't been posting on the thread - anyone know what's up
DonaldK, Cheekymonkey - on WI results posted for challenge to date
LynMech and Mini-Maz - nothing posted in recent weeks
We will leave their sections on the chart for another week then if there isn't any action next week we will do some chart housekeeping - everyone agree
Oh and Looby please PM me with your direct email address and I'll add you to the chart and eats chart 4 just as Miss Broxi 'said'
Anyone else wanting on an eats chart PM me

Morning All

Nothing planned for today at all - Russ is working til 4.30 and he has the car so dont know what we will get up to today. I was going to take the wee man swimming but just looked out his swim shorts and they are too wee for him He has had a cold for so long that we haven't been for ages.

I have gone on line already and ordered him some new ones so next week we will hit the pool..........

Its quite a nice day so we might go for a walk later, get some fresh air but better go and get showered and dressed first lollll.

Good luck for all the weigh ins tomorrow I think there are at least 3 maybe 4????

xxxx

MOrning all

Wow this thread is going strong. Yay!!!

Hope you all have a good friday, I am sitting at work feeling a wee bit tired we didn't get back to Perth until after midnight last night, but it was a good night and not one piece of food passed my lips, only a can of dt coke.

I guess thats a bonus of being fussy their was hardly anything I like there well except these wee mini cheesecakes which my colleague said she wasn't having as it wouldn't be fair on me, so I couldn't then possibly munch one as she was trying to help me.

Anyways hope you have a good day. I was planning to go to the gym this afternoon but I have a banging headache so will wait and see if I can get rid of it. Otherwise it will be the wii fit for an hour to try and make up for some exercise.

Anyways best get on, catch you all later.
Laura xxxx

Good Morning Ladies!

Managed to claw back 10 of my 12 'naughty' checks yesterday and have really increased the exercise! I am a determined Lady this week!

Paula - Well done again for a great weight loss

CBx - Congratulations on a PEP Perfect day - I feel a good result next week

Megygogs - Have a great w'end and enjoy every minute of it

TWB - Hope you enjoyed your toastie last night? I hope you had a better night with Broxi.

Laura - How was your dance-a-thon? Did you dance your butt off?

Audrey - I am sure you will get a better result next week cause when it goes on fast it comes off quite quickly!

I need some advice:- I am going to be PEP and exercise perfect this week (I weigh on Wednesday). It is my birthday on Thurs (29) so I am having a birthday 'tea' at my Mummy's house on the Wed night, then a birthday lunch on Thursday (at Monster Mash) and then I am off to London for the weekend with my BF! How on earth do I make it thro next week? Or do I just work as hard as I can this week and then take the penalty at the scales the following week?? I will make soup and jelly and have loads of chopped veg for scoffing on the days when I can behave. Will that suffice??

Have a great Friday everyone!

J xx

Sorry all - 0.5lb on for me, that could have been alot worse!

Morning all and what a great morning to be logging in seeing all these threads is brilliant.Had a good day myself yesterday so still on track Itake that back i have just filled in my food chart and have went over my cks, thats a lesson to fill it in regulary

Paula - Wow well done on the loss, keep up the good work

Laura -I'm glad you had a good night, and well done on the great will power, only a can of coke and what a great friend you have supporting you

Audrey - Well done on drawing a line and dont get too downhearted, as Ethne says it will be off soon enough

Ethne - you have put me in the mood to get my knitting needles out, i used to knit along tme ago when i stopped smoking, but might take it up again, i have always wanted to crochet but never got round to learning

CB - Well done on your perfect day, keep up the good work

away to have a look at my book site, catch up later have a great day everyone

CCx - 0.5lb is nothing! If you had worn less clothes,not had a drink of water or gone to the toilet first you would have been fine! You will shake that off no problem! Anyway, today is a new start and the sun is shining bright in Edinburgh. I feel that *this* week is going to be a good one for the Musketeers!!!

J x

Afternoon all

Well I took Mackenzie to the swing park this morning, instead of his buggy we took his wee ride on car he got for xmas, he thought it was great - but what a palava!!!! Who knew 8 month old babies would steer against you?

Anyhoo, he had his first go on the swings and loved it.

But the best bit was I dug a jacket out of the wardrobe I haven't worn since last June cos it was too wee and didn't zip and guess what it zipped up and fitted fine - yay!!!!!

Hope you are all having a lovely Friday, lazy afternoon planned and Russ is cookinh tonight so happy days xx

Afternoon all . Just had lunch and feeling good
Well done Miss Broxi on getting th jacket zipped up, it shows you how far you have come I used to love taking the wee ones out on their bikes but it took the whole day to get anywhere

Really quiet at work today i am so bored and cant wait for the weekend to start, not doing much just the footie all day sat then chilling out with a couple of books i got from the library and the same again sun,


What is everyone else's plan for the weekend

Aftternoon everyone
Hope you are all having a good pep day so far

Paula fab weight loss bet your well chuffed with yourself.

Audrey it will come off again so don't get down just keep trying

Jenny sounds like your going to have a great birthday all you can do is save as much as you can before each birthday bash

Miss Broxi there's nothing like that feeling of trying something on that was too wee to find it now fits well done you, bet your

now even more determined to keep going

Flick your friend sounds just like mine, yesterday I arrived at work which is a 12 hour shift so you need to bring your whole days

eating in with you. I found out I had forgotten my low cal frozen dinner. I could have just went up to canteen, but my friend

insisted I go to Asda to buy another and she covered for me to let me go. She is a real star!!

hope you all have a great weekend

I'll pop on later I'm away to watch the Swan which I've recorded this week

Shona x

Dont worry CC, you will shift that in no time, stay positive !!!!!

Jenny if I was you I would save what I can between now and then, as you say be as good as you can be when you can be. When you are out try and make the best choices possible (without denying yourself too much) ie have grilled instead of fried, tomato based pasta rather than creamy etc AND/OR have what you fancy but try not to finish the portion. Whatever approach you take have a very Happy Birthday

xxx

Afternoon everyone

Mood is a lot brighter and feeling a lot more positive today Just filled in the chart, I have still 20 checks to use, might just double up the fish cakes, but 4 seems greedy

Ethne, about the chart, is there a "quick way" of adding/changing things in a particular box or have you just to re-write it all again

Hope you are all having a good Friday

Thanks everyone Been to Asda and planned my whole week of food out. Back on the wagon tomorrow. I must stay away from plain fizzy water, I think that is bloating me up aswell (as well as all the crap I am eating )

Just want to say well done everyone, this is a fab challenge and thread, it fair brightens up my day....

Evening all
Let myself have a treat tonight sausage mash and veg - - all checks accounted - still under for the day
TWB - it's easy to get sucked into a craft again, with great gusto - check out ravelry and see what freebies you get - and as for yarn / wool check out the bargin buckets there is plenty on offer at present
MsB - it's amazing how quickly the wee man is growing up - watch out it will be walking next - then you'r weight will drop off as you chase him around the house
Those (like me) who put on last week don't fret - work at it and we should have positive input (the right way) on the chart next week
Those who are loosing well - keep going
Audrey - if you double click a box you should be able to over write what was in it originally
Have a great night tonight - I'll not be back on probably till evening tomorrow - off to play at a friends - dyeing fabric for patchwork and such like

Evening everyone,

Sorry not been on forum for a while as have started a new business with a good friend and am so busy !!

Never have time for a morning break or dinner break Not good but hoping this will change as we find our feet.

Business is going good very busy and a challenge everyday which is good.

Just read through the posts and everyone is doing fantastic. Lots of motivation and encouraging messages to each other which is just brilliant.

Think I'm starting with this stinky cold that everyone is getting Taken tablets and hoping I can keep it at bay !!!

Keep up the good work and will catch you all soon.

Lila.

Evening all

Its quiet here tonight, but hey it's the weekend, maybe you all have a better social life than me

Nothing exciting planned for me this weekend meant to be going out tomorrow night with OH, a couple of his mates and their partners. But I am off the drink so no reason to be naughty.

I am feeling pretty rotten tonight like I am getting a cold, TOTM appeared yestarday too. Hopefully will be ok tomorrow and I will get to the gym in the morning.

Anyways enough ramblings from me.

Have a good weekend, good luck to all of those who are weighing in. Remember let us know how you get on.

Laura xxxx

Hi everyone

sums up me at present !!

Have a good weekend everyone, me...I'm working as per usual lol

Good Morning Everyone,

I overate yesterday so decided to have an early night - don't really feel the benefit for it tho! Why is that?

Have drawn a line under yesterday and started today fresh! I am hoping that my exercise will pull me thro to a weight loss this week. Fingers crossed!!

Going to see Singing Kettle this morning - not sure what we are doing after that. I also promised to take my daughter ice-skating at some point. She has talked about it non stop - she is obsessed with Dancing on Ice! She is 4 and neither of us have been skating before so that should be interesting! At least it will keep me away from the fridge!

Hope you all have a great Saturday and super pepping days!!

J xx

Morning Troops

Happy, Happy, Happy here - 4lbs off this week!!!!

Delighted - just a flying visit for now, off to Body Pump for the first time since I was pregnant - yay!!!

Good Luck to those weighing in this morning. Enjoy Singing Kettle Jenny, cant wait til Mackenzie is old enough, we already have the DVD's.

xxx

Morning everyone

Miss Broxi - Blinking fantastic, you are doing brilliant!!! Enjoy body pump, well done on getting back to it.

Jenny - enjoy the Singing Kettle, we went at Christmas time, kids loved it. Good luck with the ice-skating too, I loved this as a kid, but kind of out of practice now...

Paula, hope you haven't worked too hard and have a nice sleep when you get home.

Pleased to report a wee loss of 1lb this week. I did hope for more, but I can definately feel clothes getting looser so Curves must be working.....hopefully losing inches.....

Have a good day everyone. The suns shining here for a change, lets see how long it lasts..

Afternoon All

Hope you are enjoying your Saturday.

Well done to Jaci and Leigh on there losses. Hope you enjoyed body pump Jaci.

I was at the gym this morning but only lasted 45 mins as I am feeling rotten. Did 20 mins on the cross trainer, my usual 200 sit ups 10 mins on the treadmill and 5 mins on the bike.

Still not feeling to great but have a night out with Hubby and a few others tonight. Will not be drinking though but I am a bit worried I will end up bagged up on soft drinks and not get a loss tomorrow. Have TOTM too so it's not looking good.

Anyways enough moaning, off to get tidied up and then see if I can kick the kids off the wii so I can get a shot on the wii fit for 20mins.

Have a good weekend.
Laura xxxx

Afternoon everyone

What a lovely day, felt absolutely brilliant this morning when I was walking down the street, really confident in my first pair of jeans (bought in the sale) my bargain cowboy boots (£3 from Tesco) and my new top - a size 22 definately "walked tall" and felt slimmer, with a big smile on my face. Think the sunshine helped too

Nothing much planned for the weekend, just away to put on some washing, and have a bit of lunch, not long back from grocery shopping, much prefer the new Tesco in Keith to the big one in Elgin.

Very well done on the losses, and good luck to those still to WI.

Have a great rest of Saturday

Evening all
MsB - another great loss well done
What a mixed bag of things we've planned or had planned for us all this weekend - I hope you all enjoy what you'r doing (or have done)
I enjoyed today - dyeing fabric etc - got it all home soaking overnight ready for finishing off tomorrow - then we'll see what I've got to play with - only downside was the lovely food we had to eat during the day - a just made scone - curried parsnip soup with homemade bread and a slice of coffee cake ( I couldn't resist) - so it looks like all checks saved are now GONE
Enjoy the evening - catch up with you tomorrow (after the gym and shopping)
Looby - off to add you to the charts now - welcome

Hello Ladies,

Had a good day today. Think I will need to go to bed soon to keep me out of the kitchen tho. Tv is rubbish and is not holding my attention.

Well done MsB, Jaci and Leigh - great loss and very encouraging!

Audrey - Great to hear you are feeling so good and positive - keep that feeling

Hope everyone has had positive days.

'Chat' with you all again tomorrow.

J xx

p.s. Not going ice-skating tomorrow cause my little girl has been VERY naughty today and I have taken the treat away from her!