It's delicious. I get it from Amazon in 1kg boxes. The brand is Joris, it's Belgian. Very hard pastille-type salty liquorice. My mum gets their round unsalted ones. I bought 2 boxes in November and even though I was over liquoricing over Christmas, I still have about 1/3 of the first box left. I now have a max 4 per day.
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Oodles' Weekly Weigh In
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beepbeepcat
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I've ordered Joris from ebay so should be here later in the week....excited. I think I have a slow loss due to coffee intake at cafés I log it as a meal as it fills me up very naughty I know but I will cut this out soon when weight loss slows down. Still nibbling on cheese too, I open the fridge and break a small amount off! Again naughty and will make an effort to stop
I don't think it's naughty is it? If it's a skinny one? We have a costa at work and I used to go and get one every Friday as a treat 
skinny latte, yum. I read though that cappuccinos are lower cals so next time I go (haven't been for ages as I'm all about tea at the mo) I'll have a cappuccino.
skinny latte, yum. I read though that cappuccinos are lower cals so next time I go (haven't been for ages as I'm all about tea at the mo) I'll have a cappuccino.
beepbeepcat
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Fab loss x
niccie
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sorry that was predictive lol!Puddles a brilliant loss
beepbeepcat
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Well done that's flippin fantastic news. I'm so excited for you I cant wait to hear all about it when you come back.
224 as of this morning!! My last weigh in on my own scales will be Saturday. Then onto my parents' and then *gulp* no scales for 2 weeks. Hope I don't freak out! It will be a real test of my willpower. I've researched which yoghurt etc to buy from Walmart with the lowest carbs and highest protein. I'll also get some ham and stuff to keep in the fridge to nibble on. I'm not going to splurge on sweets and crisps and stuff obviously but I'm also not going to miss out. If we go to an ice cream shop I'll have frozen yoghurt, etc. It'll be very interesting. A real test.
I think since the op I've been uber determined with my food and hopefully have taught myself enough good habits to get by. I know I wouldn't have stuck by it without the bypass but I can't think why not. The bypass doesn't change willpower, I did stuff myself full of biscuits and chocolate one day over new year and no ill effects. I could easily slip into old ways. But I haven't and I think it's just because the small stomach is just a constant reminder to keep on this path.
I haven't found this a huge emotional journey, or painful in any way. I wasn't an emotional eater before this, I just wanted volume and now I realise I was eating all carbs which obviously wasn't helping.
Worrying slightly about the two days I'm at the office whilst I'm there. Usually I chug tea with skimmed milk all day, but a) tea is vile in America and b) they only have that disgusting half and half in the office (half cream half milk) so I'm a bit scuppered. I'll have to fill myself up at breakfast at the hotel, but it'll be all cinnamon buns and muffins, or breakfast potatoes and sausage. I'm really going to struggle. I'll have to bag myself some yoghurt and take it into the office or something. Also I'm going for dinner with some friends one night to my favourite Chinese place. Hopefully they'll do a steamed dish, but I reeeeally want my fave chicken and aubergine in garlic sauce, which I can't get here. I'll have to see what's available I guess.
I'm so grateful for this bypass! I have 4.5 stone to go to target of a healthy bmi. Hoping it will take about 6 months. My sister just booked her wedding for March next year and I can't wait to buy a beautiful dress and feel amazing.
I'm still getting comments at work which makes me feel awkward and angry. One person calls out across the open plan desks: "you keep shrinking! You'll disappear!" Or calls me a shadow. The cleaner stopped me at the lifts yesterday and 'congratulated' me. He doesn't know my name. They don't understand it makes me feel bad. It's like me saying: oh I love your new hair! It's such an improvement on your old haircut, it was hideous! No-one would say that to anyone, and yet all these people say how good I look now. I wasn't hideous before. If anything I look worse now because my hair has fallen out and I'm so wobbly (I now wear Spanx every single day). Someone's size is not a measure of that person and I'm not a different person now. Well perhaps I feel different in myself, happier, have nicer clothes, but people who have always ignored me and made me feel worthless have no right to consider me worthy of conversation now I'm smaller. I'll never be warm to those people and they'll never know what kind of person I am. And to the people who I did speak to before, some can only talk to me now about my weight loss. They never ask me about my weekend.
My work crush is visiting the UK office next week and I'm not there. I've never met him but we speak most days. He's so dreamy *swoon*. I'm so happy I'm not there. Only because I will officially fall in actual love with him, and he lives in another country. Or I will embarrass myself and giggle incessantly. But if I was in the office? I no longer feel I would have to hide. I could choose a nice outfit, put my hair in a donut for volume and feel attractive and confident. That is a massive change in comparison with when I met my previous work crush a few years ago. I felt I'd kind of misled him with being all chatty and sparkly for months and then he turned up from Australia and I was just a giggling blushing blob. He must have been disappointed. He did send me a box of Tim Tams afterwards though and phoned me on his last day before he left the company to say goodbye. *sigh* I love work crushes lol.
How did you find the liquorice Beep? Did you get salty or the plain round ones?
I think since the op I've been uber determined with my food and hopefully have taught myself enough good habits to get by. I know I wouldn't have stuck by it without the bypass but I can't think why not. The bypass doesn't change willpower, I did stuff myself full of biscuits and chocolate one day over new year and no ill effects. I could easily slip into old ways. But I haven't and I think it's just because the small stomach is just a constant reminder to keep on this path.
I haven't found this a huge emotional journey, or painful in any way. I wasn't an emotional eater before this, I just wanted volume and now I realise I was eating all carbs which obviously wasn't helping.
Worrying slightly about the two days I'm at the office whilst I'm there. Usually I chug tea with skimmed milk all day, but a) tea is vile in America and b) they only have that disgusting half and half in the office (half cream half milk) so I'm a bit scuppered. I'll have to fill myself up at breakfast at the hotel, but it'll be all cinnamon buns and muffins, or breakfast potatoes and sausage. I'm really going to struggle. I'll have to bag myself some yoghurt and take it into the office or something. Also I'm going for dinner with some friends one night to my favourite Chinese place. Hopefully they'll do a steamed dish, but I reeeeally want my fave chicken and aubergine in garlic sauce, which I can't get here. I'll have to see what's available I guess.
I'm so grateful for this bypass! I have 4.5 stone to go to target of a healthy bmi. Hoping it will take about 6 months. My sister just booked her wedding for March next year and I can't wait to buy a beautiful dress and feel amazing.
I'm still getting comments at work which makes me feel awkward and angry. One person calls out across the open plan desks: "you keep shrinking! You'll disappear!" Or calls me a shadow. The cleaner stopped me at the lifts yesterday and 'congratulated' me. He doesn't know my name. They don't understand it makes me feel bad. It's like me saying: oh I love your new hair! It's such an improvement on your old haircut, it was hideous! No-one would say that to anyone, and yet all these people say how good I look now. I wasn't hideous before. If anything I look worse now because my hair has fallen out and I'm so wobbly (I now wear Spanx every single day). Someone's size is not a measure of that person and I'm not a different person now. Well perhaps I feel different in myself, happier, have nicer clothes, but people who have always ignored me and made me feel worthless have no right to consider me worthy of conversation now I'm smaller. I'll never be warm to those people and they'll never know what kind of person I am. And to the people who I did speak to before, some can only talk to me now about my weight loss. They never ask me about my weekend.
My work crush is visiting the UK office next week and I'm not there. I've never met him but we speak most days. He's so dreamy *swoon*. I'm so happy I'm not there. Only because I will officially fall in actual love with him, and he lives in another country. Or I will embarrass myself and giggle incessantly. But if I was in the office? I no longer feel I would have to hide. I could choose a nice outfit, put my hair in a donut for volume and feel attractive and confident. That is a massive change in comparison with when I met my previous work crush a few years ago. I felt I'd kind of misled him with being all chatty and sparkly for months and then he turned up from Australia and I was just a giggling blushing blob. He must have been disappointed. He did send me a box of Tim Tams afterwards though and phoned me on his last day before he left the company to say goodbye. *sigh* I love work crushes lol.
How did you find the liquorice Beep? Did you get salty or the plain round ones?
beepbeepcat
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Omg....flipping awesome news Hun... You have done so well and I'm sure the choices you make will be informed ones however if you slip up don't panic it's not a disaster. I'm so envious of your trip your going to have a great time.
I totally understand what your saying when people comment I hate it too especially when your not close friends with that person. I had someone comment to me the other day whilst at work I'm wearing a 6xl top and it's hanging off me but I can't change it as they have to be made to order. The lady said (aggressively) you've lost weight! I said oh I've been trying to be good, yes you defiantly have your face is thinner! She was shouting this out whilst turning to a friend saying look at her look...., just look at her.....I felt like a blinking chimp in a zoo. Everyone was looking at me, I just died. I felt like saying your gob could do with a rest!
Yes I got the diamonds single zault like yours and the double which is in the bin as its flipping awful.
I totally understand what your saying when people comment I hate it too especially when your not close friends with that person. I had someone comment to me the other day whilst at work I'm wearing a 6xl top and it's hanging off me but I can't change it as they have to be made to order. The lady said (aggressively) you've lost weight! I said oh I've been trying to be good, yes you defiantly have your face is thinner! She was shouting this out whilst turning to a friend saying look at her look...., just look at her.....I felt like a blinking chimp in a zoo. Everyone was looking at me, I just died. I felt like saying your gob could do with a rest!
Yes I got the diamonds single zault like yours and the double which is in the bin as its flipping awful.
Well as of yesterday I was 223.6 lb which is 2.8lb down on last Friday. Amazing since it was totm this week.
However.
Last night I finished off the last of the carrot soup! I couldn't bear to throw it away; I had defrosted it for my mum to take back home with her after a visit this week and she forgot it. Plus the salmon I had defrosted was too oily and I didn't have anything else to eat, as I haven't been shopping or cooking due to me going to my parents' tomorrow. And this morning it was back to 224! I only log my lowest weights though and I don't really believe I've put on 1lb in a day, I do understand the scaled fluctuate so I go for the lowest lol. I must get some food for tonight and tomorrow morning or else i'll stuff myself with gherkins! And, whilst yum, they are not protein foods. And have been pickled in sugar. All the food in the freezer was purchased before my carb epiphany and looking at calorie content only. So I have frozen risotto, veggie fingers, quorn goujons etc. I'll get a packet of ham or sommat. I've no idea what food my parents have got in for the next few days so perhaps my holiday feasting may have to start a bit early.
Ugh I got a text from my aunt yesterday reminding me of Sunday dinner. I struggle so much with meat these days, unless it's minced. I'm not going to be able to eat any of it am I? Another awkward Sunday roast. I wish I had an excuse not to be there. Perhaps I will just eat the veg and then have a protein drink later. If I attempt the chicken or beef or whatever it is, I will be full in 2 bites and I really want to make a proper dent in the plate this time. Perhaps I should announce I'm going pescitarian or something, and then secretly eat mince and stuff lol.
Saying that, I've not attempted to eat a roast since Christmas dinner, so perhaps I will be able to eat more of it this time? I doubt it. I think I build up the Sunday dinner so much in my mind that the stress stops me eating sometimes.
which is 2.8lb down on last Friday. Amazing since it was totm this week.However.
Last night I finished off the last of the carrot soup! I couldn't bear to throw it away; I had defrosted it for my mum to take back home with her after a visit this week and she forgot it. Plus the salmon I had defrosted was too oily and I didn't have anything else to eat, as I haven't been shopping or cooking due to me going to my parents' tomorrow. And this morning it was back to 224! I only log my lowest weights though and I don't really believe I've put on 1lb in a day, I do understand the scaled fluctuate so I go for the lowest lol. I must get some food for tonight and tomorrow morning or else i'll stuff myself with gherkins! And, whilst yum, they are not protein foods. And have been pickled in sugar. All the food in the freezer was purchased before my carb epiphany and looking at calorie content only. So I have frozen risotto, veggie fingers, quorn goujons etc. I'll get a packet of ham or sommat. I've no idea what food my parents have got in for the next few days so perhaps my holiday feasting may have to start a bit early.
Ugh I got a text from my aunt yesterday reminding me of Sunday dinner. I struggle so much with meat these days, unless it's minced. I'm not going to be able to eat any of it am I? Another awkward Sunday roast. I wish I had an excuse not to be there. Perhaps I will just eat the veg and then have a protein drink later. If I attempt the chicken or beef or whatever it is, I will be full in 2 bites and I really want to make a proper dent in the plate this time. Perhaps I should announce I'm going pescitarian or something, and then secretly eat mince and stuff lol.
Saying that, I've not attempted to eat a roast since Christmas dinner, so perhaps I will be able to eat more of it this time? I doubt it. I think I build up the Sunday dinner so much in my mind that the stress stops me eating sometimes.
