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Well I may seem I am talking to no one perhaps i am, but if anybody from either the nutrition board or the eating disorders board finds my space welcome on board. It would be nice to hear from some of you as retiring from the nutrition may be difficult at first. But would be nice for any of you to drop by for a chit chat. Chow for now Love Diane

Hi Diane - u may or may not remember me, I lurked around the nutrition board for some time as CP but have become fed up with the atkins bias on the board! Who needs the arguements when we are all effectively in the same boat anyway - just helpful advise would be nice rather than worrying about what to say incase someone jumps down your throat!! Anyway, just wanted to say well done with ur loss so far, you are going great guns and are an inspiration to many!!

I've just recently reached my target weight having shed just over 8st so if you have time for any advice on weight maintenance it would be greatly appreciated!

Anyway, take care and keep up the fantastic work with ur weight and of course your advise giving to so many people :o)

Claire xx

HI Diane,

I am looking for old H & N board users too .

Its Tree Jones from the H & N board. You probably don't know who I am, and thinking who is this daft cow responding to me, but I did use to contribute quite a lot on there until it started being the same old stuff time and time again. Hope you are well anyway and hope the diet is going well.

If you ever fancy a natter pop over .
see you for now.
T

Hi Claire,

I use to use the boards as well called Tree Jones, just wanted to say fantastic weight loss . I bet your dead chuffed with yourself.

T

Hi Claire, yes of course i can remember you honey. Gosh well done what a fantastic weight loss!! I couldn't agree with you more with regards to the nutrition site, it was starting to really annoy me, others ramming stuff down peoples throats and being unkind and unjust just because we were not on their eating plan!!! I feel sad that it came to me coming off that site but i could not allow myself to get all tangled up with wrapped minds any more!
Of course if you want help that is no problem, but first you will have to tell me how you have lost he weight so far, what type of eating plan have you been following?
Maintence can be really exciting, i always say its like finding out what you can and can't get away with. You will have to have patience, and allow for the odd small gain and loss to find out how your body can cope. Well be nice hearing from a fellow slimmer, take care love Diane xxx

Thanks Tree! I remember your posts :o) Thought u had been quiet for a while so now I know where you are!!

Hi T, wow this is fantastic, i wondered if anybody would beable to find me, this is great. I am going to call this site the ANTI SLIMMING RAGE.COM ha ha. really nice of you to pop in, hope you are ok love Diane xxx

Thx Diane. I am a Rosemary Conley chick, so I have a calorie allowance of 1500 cals and can eat anything below 4% fat. I know that I have to increase this amount as I do an awful lot of exercise but don't really want to lose too much more (am 10st 11now) as although I probably could lose a bit more to be honest I think I need to try and maintain this weight for a while first! I don't want to drop more weight and then put it on again if my body goes into some kind of shock or something - does that make sense? I think I'm probably rambling!!! I do realise however that I will probably gain/lose a few lbs here and there until I find a way of eating that suits me for good.

One problem I have found with the RC way of eating is that if I do now indulge in something naughty/high fat, it doesn't stay down for long - almost as if I can't absorb the fat?? I mentioned this on the nutrition board and an atkins person told me to drink apple juice and something else that would probably make me sick but might help - hmmmmm! I think not! Aside from this tho, I can't complain about RC - for me it has worked wonders and hey, it's all about finding what works for you!!

Hope you can help and thanks again!

Claire xx

ooh, and how are you guys doing those cute little faces?!?!

Claire, point your curser at one and see what comes up, say for example i want to do the scream one i have to do an insert like this < and then one after to close it > i witre scream and it comes up like magic, but you will need to look at what you want first. You know ho we do smiley faces on the board well try it now and see what happens!!! good luck try to avoid gosh wouldn't life be boring though! now hopefully love Diane x

You thanks!!

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Claire, think about what you have denying yourself whilst you have been losing weight, and what you really would now like to include in you diet now. Have about 125 cals of it per day, now that is a total of 875 cals per week, which at most would make you gain about 1/4lb, if you were that unfortunate. It takes a consumption of 3,500 cals to gain a pound. But also remember that if you are having a lazy day you wont burn off as many cals so the gain could be more due to what you expend on effort through out the day love Diane x

Ooh, perhaps I should have a few bevvies then - Mind you I may end up in a heap on the floor just by smelling the stuff - hehe. Or perhaps the more sensible side of me might have a teeny weeny bit of butter on a crumpet, or some cake, or chocolate..........the list is endless!! Lucky me, all this food that I can try again (in moderation of course

Thanks Diane, keep us posted on ur losses - I thnk i read in a post somewhere that you have an op coming up (sorry if I've got that wrong) so hope all goes well with that.

Take care and please keep in touch

Claire xx

Boo!!!

Hello diane sweetie, its me clara off the eating disorders board! I feel a bit of a stalker joining on here just so I could say boo to you

Love Clara xxxxx

Hi Claire,

I am on the maintenance the moment too (well I say at the moment I mean forever ), I am finding it quite tuff, but really exciting at the same time. I have lost 3 stone 9 pounds with weight watchers(not as impressive as yourself), but never admitted it on the F & N board (whatever it is called), as, as you say there is a lot of people on there trying to convert you to their way of thinking, dieting is hard enough without getting mixed messages .

Oh my god Clara, hi honey I am soooooooooooooooooo glad you have found me, i would love others to do the same like Val etc. This place is alot more relaxed than the others. How long have you been on h2g2 or have you just joined honey of wow this is great yippee yippee yippee xxxxxxxxxxxx Diane xxxxxxxxx

Hi Diane,

I love this site there is so many people you feel you already know from other message boards, I have a feeling most people will leave the other board to come here, it is so much nicer here .

Well Done |it seems all our great minds think alike!

Clara honey, don't ever feel as if you are butting in, i am so excited now. If you would rather us go on our own that is fine, as i would never forgive myself if anything you may read here would trigger you off honey. See how you feel, I am sure the friends on here would never try to upset you anyway honey, but if you want to i know they will understand. Just let me know and i will try to see if we can get a message of our own