 jackiee 12 years ago | Good evening (Saturday) all, well it is here. Love reading all the posts tonight, help me wind down from the day. Hi Jan, welcome aboard, don’t worry about the kilo, I lost weight, put it back on the lost it again all in the one week. Keep at it, it a great energy booster too, why don’t you take your menu planner into the prison kitchen, ask if they have the healthy option if no why not, you hard working staff need healthy eating served up 🙂 ….Norunyan, glad your on board, your need to adjust your personnel menu planner to you own needs but if you have any problems, post something on here or contact Trim Down Club for help, Ossie (one of the Trim Down Club Nutritionist regularly replies to questions on here and other are great at helping too….Premanj pleased your aboard too, all I can recommend is you too adjust your menu planner to things that are easier for you. I have porridge as a breakfast options and love it, as it’s easy and I can add nuts etc. I also do a lot of bulk cooking to help during the week to make it easy to get lunch together quick…..Lpayne – 2lbs is great if you ask me, we are all different and will lose at different rates, some slow and some fast depending on how much we all weigh and have to lose…I personally think slowly is better as more chance of it staying off then…good luck to you all. Kelz, glad your slowly moving away from white bread, wish my man would. Hope your wraps turn out to be more fulfilling that the ones you were having already made up. Good luck on embarking on your second week. I’m like rye crispbreads now too Seaborn, so easy to get ready with half a banana or lightly spread cheese for a snack ect I have the same problem cntwall with the green beans\haricot\parsnip option but I either mix them with one of the free veggies (listed at the end of the menu planner) or just change for another veg. Might not be giving you your correct ratio of veg as the meal planner is designed too but better than leaving it out. How are you getting on with your meal planner Chai? All you cruisers in UK, Brrrrr, hope you are all wrapping up warm there, thinking of you all. Snow can be very picaresque but its also a nightmare getting about in. I’m wondering if you have now booked up to go awayagain4 next year to Spain all ready! Rebeccadors, just think how much calories you burned clearing all that snow, well done. Hope you have fun when your lad comes back tomorrow too. Have you haven’t got much time to go before your move Dawnrosie? It must be a nightmare especially with the deposit, soooo expensive in London area, Did you manage to get out with you camera anywhere today then? Thinking of you and hope it gets easier soon. Routing for you to reach your goal before summer Radisson, R2b2 you sure are a lady of many talents, your Palace sounds wonderful, hope you get if finished soon. I did see someone post information about swg etc for Aussies but can’t remember now. (sorry) WOW Annaleeramos, way to go girl, that a great achievement, so chuffed for you. Just think turning the soil will also go towards your exercise plan too. Keep up the great healthy living 🙂 I too have tried encourage veggies etc with my little girl, she hates soup but everyone is amazed at how she loves her raw carrots, fennel and red peppers. Cheeky little monkey stole my red pepper lunch potion I had put aside in the fridge today, I nearly never noticed until I heard a strange noise. I look round at the sofa and there she is using the last piece, like a pen, drawing on the walls (white may I add), now I know you can’t get on to a kids for eating veggies but I sure gave her a wee lecture either way 😉 Seaborn I think its great your grandsons are going to school now, you much be so pleased, but what a dilemia with your granddaughter also starting, shame it wasn’t different times. Hope you manage to get all your meals, snacks fitted in today but can understand how easy it is to miss a sitting with all this food. My minds a frazzle constantly trying to find time to do other stuff in between eating….Oh and thanks for making me smile, just thinking of you and your family out during the night to have fun in the snow, did anyone make a snow angel? 🙂 Well, I had to replace my afternoon snack as we were at a little girls birthday party today, I had 1\2 wrap with cheese salad and NO CAKE 🙂 ( I didn’t have cake because I don’t like cream and it was covered in cream!!! so don’t start thinking I done well) Hope everyone else is ok on the cruise, think of you all and routing for you all, take care and Goodnight, or Morning or Afternoon whereever you are 😀 |
 Justjan 12 years ago | Hello ladies, I’m Jan from North Queensland, Australia. I am 63, casual worker at a Prison and can not take food of choose in too often. This will be a chalenge. Started the program on the 18th Jan, dropped 1 kg mid week and back to start weight today Sun 20th. Hopefully I will smile again next weekend. |
 r2b2 12 years ago | annaleeramos – Congratulations – that is amazing. Will have to try that omelet – it sounds yummy.
I have eaten most of these foods for years but I think the difference is the snacks to keep your metabolism fired. |
| r2b2 12 years ago | Kelz1973 – Lovely to see your photo. Great to get that shopping sorted. Makes it easier to prepare meals. Did you find the SWG bread. I cannot get it anywhere. I asked at 3 places when I went to Adelaide last week. Everyone just looked at me strange. I notice that one of the others posted a website for UK – wonder if there is one for Australia.
Seaborn. I hope you enjoy walking the boys to school. My little grandsons have to be driven to school due to the distance. I am so lucky though because they live across a paddock and quite often come over for sleepovers. We go for walks around the adjacent wetland and to the playground. It is certainly a special time in our lives to be able to share with them.
I hope your garden building is going well. I am also building as my husband is too frail. I am building a huge shade house which is actually an outdoor room – my friend calls “the palace”. We will have breakfast out there most of the year. Can’t wait to finish it.
WELCOME to all the new passengers on our cruise. |
 premanj 12 years ago | Hi! I just started today. I am 18 years old. I workout and run 7 miles a day. I can’t get the weight off. Also, because I am so busy, I find the menue meals too time consuming. Any quick and easy breakfast and lunch ideas? |
 annaleeramos 12 years ago | Welcome Radisson. You are going to love this program. Keep us updated and we are here for you if you have any questions. We will all try our best to help you out. Anna |
 Radisson 12 years ago | Hi everyone! I just joined this week. I have been watching my weight forever. Last year I stopped drinking beer because I had a Gout flare up. Also, I stopped drinking orange juice. I was able to bring my weight down to 185 pounds from 203 pounds. My BMI is still too high and I need to bring my weight down to 173 pounds. I learned last December that my cholesterol levels are too high. That’s a bad combination since I am already being treated for high blood pressure (2 pills a day). Thanks Ossie for your advice for simplifying the menus. It’s much easier to manage now. Also I find that I can substitute some snacks and even lunch with dinner. I hope to reach my goal before the summer. I hurt my right foot several times and that hinders my exercise program. However, I am confident that I will reach my objectives in 2013. So congratulations to all of you and keep up the good work. |
| annaleeramos 12 years ago | Hello everyone. Great news. I have lost one more pound. This is great. I am having so much with this program. I gave my daughter a serving of squash omelet this morning and she liked it. I don’t think it is going to be too hard to switch the family over to eating the right way. I have already taught them at an early age to like fruit and vegetables. This makes it more acceptable for them when I use these ingredient for there meals. I have always liked the healthy food, I just never new how to put them together in a healthy way. Thank you Trim Down Club. And thank you all of my cruise members. This truly is a tight ship. Take care everyone and I will keep you up dated. Total of 13 pounds lost in the first two weeks. |
 Rebeccadors 12 years ago | Off to do some marking now, catch you all later. |
| Rebeccadors 12 years ago | Hi folks, I have also started to move away from bread, I have half a bagel and an egg for breakfast – these take me through to 11 M rather than being hungry at 9 am. I have found the rice cakes are good, i even have them with homemade vegetable curry.
Today I have been out with my husband clearing the snow off the drive and the lane. Hopefully I will be able to get to the main road tomorrow as I have to collect my son from his dads.
Welcome bizzylizzy,.
Hi awayagain4′, I’m in Berkshire now, but grew up in the midlands, my family still live there, I was catching up with my sister yesterday about the snow there
Hey Seaborn you just keep posting, I find your posts really motivating and put a smile on my face.
This is the first diet/ healthy eating programme where I felt yes I can do this, and I know I have people out there who will help me, so thanks for just being there you lot! Lets do this together. |
 Norunyan 12 years ago | Hi everyone, I am new to this .I am type 2 diabetic.Have started this two days ago.Think I may need to watch my fruit and bread on this.I have to be pretty rigid to keep my sugar in control. |
 Ossie-Sharon 12 years ago | Yes, it will be slow, and that’s a good thing! It means the results will last longer. |
 hpayne 12 years ago | Hello all! i am new to this diet too and have been on it for two weeks. I have only lost 2 lbs. Is it going to be this slow or is it just me? |
 Seaborngirl 12 years ago | Hey Kelz1973….meant to comment to you before. Glad it all worked well with the shopping…I have gone away from bread altogether…eating Ryvita crispbreads instead, sometimes a wrap or pita bread when the grandkids are here for a meal. They love chicken wraps!!! I am eating lots of salads too….instead of hot vegies…to hot at present for them…and tuna and chicken. I’m finding it quite easy, except fitting the everything in…timewise I mean…today I ended up with no lunch, and didn’t realise!!! Ah well! Anyway, it is good to have so many people around us (in cyberspace) to cheers eachother on! Keep up the good work Kelz…Bev. |
| Seaborngirl 12 years ago | Hey Dawn…good to see you. Glad you are okay…the news here was that south of London was copping it, but then I was in the kitchen and my husband was no help with the info as he was falling asleep in front of the TV!! Been working the garden most of the day in the heat…poor fella. Hope you can sort those finances out Dawn. When do actually move in? |
