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You're welcome. Let us know how you get on with the doc, it might take a bit of trial and error. One thing I forgot to mention is that products like Activia etc make me worse! I'm just weird. There are also the obvious things like beans, cabbage etc but I find those to be 'short term' influences if you catch my drift! Take…

Hey everyone, I hope you're all ok? Nice and sunny here, but am stuck in the office! Hopefully it will be nice over the weekend so I too can get in to the garden! Tanya - I've responded to your bloated post. PM me if you want to know anything else, or if I can help. Hope you all have good weekends! Erika x

Oh dear, that sounds horrible. I suffer from IBS and can get really bloated (imagine pregnant with twins about to pop kind of look) so I can sympathise. I feel that you do need to tell your doctor everything. They can only help if they have all the info. One thing they may suggest is keeping a food diary - which you…

Well, I've gone and booked the appointment. 10.30am on 8th May. No wimping out now.....

Hey everyone, welcome to you Paul. Your pictures are amazing, and I'm sure that now you're tracking your food again you'll be back to where you were in no time! Plantpot - I'm sure some of that weight will be water retention from the alcohol and sodium, it won't all be real weight. I too have to take my lunch to work, and…

Hey everyone, sounds like you all had great weekends...if only we could have a four day weekend every week! Sunday as feared was pretty disastrous for a number of reasons. Lunch at Dad's was great (not for the diet). Homemade bread, salami, cheese....lovely....followed by pudding AND cake. All washed down with a couple of…

Hello UK people! Just thought I'd check in and see how you were all getting on with your long weekend. I had a bit of unplanned drinking on Thursday night. A friend of mine was leaving work, and I was going out for one...you know how it goes! :drinker: So, last night was my friend's 30th and I didn't do too badly, kept the…

A 'stone' is 14 pounds. Erika

Just saying hi and tagging for later... Erika

Hello everyone, I’ve not got any tattoos, but I am thinking about getting one. It is something that I’ve thought about for a while, but I am a true wimp and have never got up the courage. However, I realised recently that I never thought I’d be able to lose weight, and I have…! It’s made me think that maybe I can do it…

Hi Katherine - Sorry to hear that you're feeling miserable. You will come out the other side, even if it doesn't feel like it. Try and be strong, but don't beat yourself up if you don't manage it. :flowerforyou: On Friday I think we're starting at the Whitehouse, but don't know where we'll end up. If you spot me, come over…

Hey everyone, Sounds like you all had good weekends, for one reason or another! I didn't do too badly...we did end up eating in the pub on Saturday night. I had a steak as it was flamegrilled so hopefully not too much fat! I was also able to swap out the chips for roasted sweet potato wedges, so I think it was probably not…

Gillian McKeith scares me to death...I want to be healthy, but I don't want to look like a bag of bones! Her methods have been more or less debunked in the UK...having said that it is scary what a lot of the people eat before her intervention.

Marmite is the most disgusting substance known to man...IMHO! I'm completely addicted to American TV - CSI, Criminal Minds, Fringe, House (MD), Bones, NCIS, Trueblood, Medium etc! Erika

Hello everyone - hope you're all doing ok? It's sunny here today :smile: What are you all up to this weekend? I've got a concert today, so lots of running around sorting things out and then playing this afternoon/evening. No time for the gym today, which is a bit tricky as we usually end up eating at a pub closest to the…

Squash is like cordial, but not as strong. It's normally blackcurrant/orange/fruit based concentrate that you dilute with water. Doesn't taste like fruit juice though. http://www.britvic.com/Brand.aspx?id=55 Robinson's and Ribena are big brands, but all the supermarkets do their own. Erika

You look great, and the outfit is lovely! You look amazing in it! Erika x

'Taking the piss' is making fun of someone, or also 'taking the mickey'. My dad says sodding a lot, but I use slightly stronger language! E

I don't know about Lortab specifically, but I do know a lot of painkillers an cause constipation. I think drinking more water can help. I'm sorry about your tooth, an abcess is a horrible thing. Take care, Erika Edit: Beaten to it!

Stuff like lettuce is also really easy to grow and does fine in pots. E x

Start them off on a window sill inside and once they're big enough they'll do quite fine outside. You can even start them off outside in another couple of weeks, but they'd be slower growing. Courgettes work the same way. If you were closer you could have some of my seedlings, I've planted too many! Peas like cooler…

I'm not sure where you are based, but I'm in the UK and grow nearly everything in pots. Tomatoes are always good for a first time, and easy. You can get varieties of cherry tomato that grow in a bush shape and need less looking after. I even plant mine in hanging baskets! Courgettes are dead easy, but can take up a bit of…

I don't know about in the US, but in the the UK Compeed make these special blister plasters. You have to warm them in your hands, and then you put them over your popped, cleaned blister and you leave it there till it falls off. It's made from a special material which is breathable and helps the blister heal. I find if…

I drink a lot of tea, but my husband drinks a lot of coffee!

1600 before exercise...beginning to wonder if it's time for a review as I'm now in the 'healthy range'...going to have to start crunching numbers again... Erika

It's probably to do with how soy milk is made. In summary, they grind up the beans and mix them with water...so the particles of the bean are in suspension in the water (rather than dissolved in it), and they can settle from or split from the water really easily...which is why you have to shake soy milk so well before…

You can also see if there is a 'the gym' in your area http://www.thegymgroup.com/ Open 24 hours, and generally a bit cheaper. The one near me is too far away, so I go to the 'subsidised' council gym, which is actually run by DC leisure (Kinetika gyms) and that costs me £42 a month which includes gym, pool and classes…

Hello everyone :happy: Lee - Happy Birthday! :drinker: I hope you have an excellent day and a great night out on Saturday. Steve - Glad to hear that the lasering went well. Sorry to hear you can't go to the gym. If it's any consolation, I find when I take a short break from the gym, it all seems to go really well when I…

Well done Lady C, that's a huge loss! I've made it to the gym and burned 800 calories before the girly evening later today. Should take care of some wine and some pizza (home made). Hope you all have a good weekend. Erika x P.S. Katherine - the lasagne was gooooooooooooood!

Oh dear, hope you're feeling better. Seems to be a lot of it going around. My mum is on her 3rd round of antibiotics for a chest infection at the moment. Well done on going to the gym, did you make it last night? I've not lost anything this week, but no great surprise there what with all that lasagne etc! To be honest at…