I think that the change in points is more advanced. It's better to give food point values on protein, fat, carbs and fibre than cals and saturated fat.

I love the new points system, im finding it sso much easier to live with. That extra 49 points is like a safety net! You dont have to starve yourself all week just so you can eat at that family meal out later in the week.

I bought a recipie book last night too. For breakfast we had eggy bread with bananas...it was lovely and only 4 points....yum yum

I didn't make it to the weigh-in this week :( Oh well, there's always next week...

By the way, why has this thread been sunk?

Good luck hun

well done everyone, and good luck for weighs in.

Well i got weighed this morning and i lost 4 and 1/2 pound, got my 1 1/2 stone award and club 10 award!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im so bloody chuffed with myself!!!

Im doing slimming world

It's going so slowly! I only lost 300g this week! I can poo 300g! but I'll take any loss over stayign the same or putting on. It's just agonisingly slooooowwwww. I'm sure it went on much quicker

Yay I'm finally catching up 2lbs this week well happy xx

does anyone know why this thread has been sunk ? x

Hi, havnt been on in a few weeks, as of the 8th januaray i was 17st 2lbs it is now the 5th february and i am 16st 9lbs... its a start, just hope i can keep it going and congrats to everyone who is doing well :)..

Managed to eat most of my extra 49 ww points in two days so having to be good till Wednesday now lol. Didn't help eating half a tub of phish food one evening, several glasses of wine on a few evenings, indian takeaway friday night, bacon and eggs for breakfast at the weekend and sharing half a packet of tortilla chips with salsa dip lol. Sigh - wish I could eat whatever I liked and not put on weight, problem is I LOVE my food too much!! Have just bought the new ww cookery book so will try to make some of the recipes in there. We had carrot and butternut squash soup yesterday which is only 1 point, and turkey meatballs with pasta last night - it was lovely :-)

Lol, it's so frustrating isn't it! I try to be good during the day and usually have fruit for breakfast which is 0 points, or a slice of toast with low fat marg & marmite and a banana as that isn't many points. After my 1st cup of tea when I get up (with skimmed milk), I try to drink fruit tea the rest of the day (0 points). For lunch I either have salad with ham, chicken or tinned salmon, or home made ww soup (butternut squash soup or veg - 0 points). If I snack in the day I try to eat fruit, but sometimes have tesco light snack crisps (3 points), or a biscuit. The hard bit is trying not to eat more than one lol. If I am good during the day, I then have most of my points left for dinner when I eat with my h2b as we don't always eat healthily lol (as you can see from my last post). My weight is dropping very slowly but at least I'm not gaining! The secret is sticking with it and not cheating as you are only cheating yourself at the end of the day lol. Also, if you write down everything you eat you can keep track of the points you've had as it's easy to underestimate what you've eaten. Keep up the good work Abi, you can do it xxx

P.s if you like cooked breakfasts, it's much healthier to grill bacon rather than fry, and I usually do poached egg rather than fried :-)

PEED OFF wanted to loose 1/2lb to get my 1st silver 7 but instead i put 1lb on not appy as i have followed the plan have never gone over my daily allowence let alone over my extra weekly allowence or exersie points :( no i wish i gave into my chocaltte tempations couldnt of been any worse

bumping this as it got unstickied and sank to the the bottom (apologies mods if it was supposed to stay sunk - feel free to resink if that's the case).

Update for me - finally lost some more inches. Stopped measuring myself when I got disheartened at nothing happening, but went to try my dress on again and it was looser everywhere :-)

Now I have to maintain this size with 8 months to go! - eeek!

by the way i ahve a chart here that tells you 5% and 10% of your body weight if anyone wants to know it as im working towards small steps at atime then 1 set one i want to lose my 5% then my 10% then i will work my new 5 & 10% of my new weight like that

well my diet starts 2moro wish me luck!!

don't think i have lost anything this week. don't officially weigh in till mon but haven't lost any yet.

well done to all the ladies that have lost weight, and good luck to all those that are trying to. i got a shock yesterday when i stepped on the scales as i weighted 16st 13lb on monday but have been ill and i am now 16st 5lbs, not that i want to ill again but what a bonus side effect from it, am feeling better now so think it was just a 24hr bug xxxxx

i am not sure that i have lost this week, but the proof will be in the pudding tomorrow at weigh in, stuck to it all week except Friday where we out for a pub lunch and i had chips, but i had not had many syns all week, so hopefully will still managed to have lost or maintained at least :) x

I weighed myself when i came home after giving birth to my daughter in october and i was 14 stone 7 pounds and as i was breast feeding i was steadly loosing weight because of it as i wasnt doing any excercise then xmas came and i put on 4lbs which i suppose isnt bad considering it was xmas but now ive started to watch what im eating and cutting out snacking in between meals and ive started loosing 2 pounds each week since the end of Jan!! Im hoping to get down to a size 12 at least as im currently a 16 on the bottom half and i really want to get down to my target weight of 10 stone at first and then i'll see what i look like and if im not happy then maybe loose another half stone. Im 5ft 6? What does everyone think? Is it too much or ok?

Nothing lost for me this week but have stayed the same so glad I haven't put on after all the beer I drank at the rugby and our Valentine's meals this weekend. Will have to try extra hard this week.

Hi Clarabella

Im similar to you in weight (but with out the excuse of a baby!! ) id love to be a size 10 but i can't remember ever being that size, i have allways been a size 12/14 (i have a hourglass figure so the top and bottom are usually similar in size) the diet is now on!! and would love to get back to a size 12/14, the point i am trying to make is your bodys shape i think defines how much weight you should loose i know if i get down to 11 stone (i have done once along time ago lol) i look a bit poorly i had a big a*%e and big boobs a tiny waist and a thin face it looked all wrong very odd and people commented that i looked gaunt so depending on what shape you are sometimes a little weight looks good monitor the way you feel and ask your mum or dad they will usually tell you the truth if they say ur looking a little to thin then you can eat more of those choccies lol Good Luck!!!

how is the cambridge diet working, are you managing to lose and not be hungry :) x

i have just ordered the zumba wii game, but it doesnt come out till the 4th march, but cannot wait to get it, going to be zumbering everyday :) x

Update

Gemzy24 - 5ft 1
start:182lb
was:163
current:161
Lost this week:2bs
lost in total: 21lbs

i love zumba, very tiring, i just couldnt afford to go each week, so thought the game would be a good idea, but wont get it for a couple of weeks yet :) x

yes its released on the 5th march i think it is, i have preordered mine so i get it as soon as it comes out, you get a belt with it too that tracks your movements :) x