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It's just a mind game really, mind over matter. I found that if I totally distracted myself, physically or research a topic, it did seem to help. You have probably heard this like a million times but be assured all this lark does pass, honestly it does. I'm sure others will be along to post tips that helped them.

Happy Birthday Doreen, another year behind you (smoke free) have a wonderful day xx

Don't ever think that it won't happen to you because it can, and does. Seriously if you're still smoking free yourself....you'll be so glad that you did.

Sadly you do have to syn alcohol Babs. My neighbor likes a glass of wine so she syns her's I use mine on things I do enjoy. I will say I won't be counting a single cocktail syn in July, Tenerife time, that's for sure..lol My friend, who likes a glass each evening, she has lost three stone still having her glass each night. Really pleased for her. My downfall was salted nuts and crisps (chips) mind you, a bag of chips is only five syns (if I pick the right ones) so that leaves me ten syns for cooking treats (love butter and olive oil) or a fun size bar of chocolate..five syns. I can imagine eating this way for life now, I find it very easy and so simple now. Been quite an education that's for sure.

mmm. That does sound a bit like me, in a crisis..lol... will take it as a compliment then.

Yes I thought the bullet hitting the bat was a bit corny too. I don't read the comics so I've struggled a bit this season, it all being a bit disjointed. Although in truth, after what happened, I can see why they all had their own stories/episodes to get us to last nights point. Yes, as you say could even be Dwight as it surely can't be long before he turns and thinks enough is enough. I was talking about this series to a customer today. It's funny because in the life I lead I have never shot a gun, don't own one, and honestly could not imagine killing anybody. Yet, if I was living through what they are I can see how that could change, what choice would you have. I,, at times, find the the characters far more scarey than the actual zombies. Just reminds what an actual easy street life I have. No violence, no threats, no gangs and come and go as I please. I take it for granted if truth be told. I laughed, as my customer then said "oh if the apocalypse did happen, you'd be just like Carol. I didn't quite know if that was a compliment or not..lol

Been on that diet a few times in the past..lol

Tiff I hope you come back, I'm sure you will once you calm down. I don't know what you posted but from the replies it sounds like your friend has got some bad news, health wise. I hope everything will be ok for your friend. Then I got the gist about do we ever doubt our quits? Not now as now it's hard to imagine that I actually ever was a smoker. During the first six months of the quit though..yes..often if I'm honest. Although I was actually doing it, I'd quit, it took my brain quite a while to catch up with the fact and I think I still felt like a smoker that just wasn't smoking. Kept going though, trusted that feeling would eventually go..which it did I'm very pleased to say, so much so as I keep saying I find it hard to imagine I ever actually was a smoker. What kept me going was trust and time, once I'd got past a month I just knew if I could manage a month I could manage forever, as I know my own self well enough to know that. I didn't want to actually stop smoking, was huge pressure from my non smoking husba, you have the advantage that you actually do want to be done. So just trust and time really...both will pay dividends in the long run. Come back once you've calmed down Tiff, no one will bat an eye lid. Take care until you do.

I was doing exactly the same Doreen. I wouldn't have breakfast, sometimes would skip lunch too as I just wasn't that hungry. When I did eat I can see now I wasn't having big enough portions. Sounds crazy but since eating a lot more the weight has dropped off me. Mind a lot more of the right foods.

I'd got up to 10 stone, 7 pounds, after my last Tenerife getaway..too many cocktails no doubt. One of my customers had lost 6 stone following SW plus my neighbor wanted to lose three, so I spoke to her and we signed up. I wanted to get back to 9 stone, my weight after stopping smoking. I joined, followed the plan and it worked. Hubby was obviously eating what I was, and started to count the syn value of any treats, and lost 2 and a half stone in ten weeks. Works for us because we make it work, we are not fans of low fat so we just syn any full fat yogurt and cheese we want, where obviously many folk just purchase the low fat brand. It works for us because we can have carbs..bread my favourite food...I can have two pieces of wholemeal a day (made up) So have hit my target weight, four weeks ago, so I still make good food choices and maintaining my target weight. Had a few extra treats over the last few weeks, Christmas treats are out, but have not put any weight on. If I do though I'm not worried as I know how to lose it now. So..am 9 stone (5 ft 2) yet am thinking I might lose another 7lbs after Christmas and that really is as low as I want to get. Don't know if anybody else follows SW, or is considering it? All I can say is it has worked for us. We don't attend meetings and pay money each week (only did that for four weeks) you really can go it alone and save the money.

Just enjoyed the season finale. Really enjoyed it, very much, as a viewer I felt empowered when I saw that final shot...of them all back together. Who do we think helped Daryl, was it Dwight's wife? I did laugh, a few times, at some of Negan's one liners not that what he's doing is a laughing matter of course. Roll on February.

Not stupid at all, love is love, no matter if it's for a human or pet..feels the same. Great news about you planning your quit date.

I haven't read any of the comics Joe so it's all a surprise to me. Mid season finale, will be watching that Tuesday, have no idea what's going to happen...on the edge of my seat. We watched the box set of Game Of Thrones, have nearly caught up, however I much prefer TWD.

Not at all surprised and very well deserved Doreen xx

So you're the same as me then Joe? Lee can't get over how he would make me a cup and I'd even forget to drink it, in the past I'd have been on my third cup by then. Yes, I'll let you know how we get on with it. Purchased some pods from the supermarket yesterday and then some, from them direct, online. Megan loves tea so got her them and then some Oreo ones for Lucy. When I stopped smoking a stone dropped off me, felt quite unwell to be honest. I used to read about folksinger putting weight on yet it was the total opposite for me. I then had a couple of holidays and my two cocktails, a day, and fine dining caught up with me..mind I enjoyed every mouthful..lol Feel better to have got back to what I was, back to 9 stone, glad I did something about it. Thank you Nancy...will look forward to my post dinner one tonight.

Thank you, yes I'm very pleased to have got rid of the excess weight. Lee lost two and a half stone too, he's made up. It was only following Slimming World, but yes, I will do a post tomorrow.

Not at all happy when I saw Negan holding Judith, then he gave her a little kiss! Great tv though... Can you imagine being Carl, sat there with your eye hole exposed, singing You Are My Sunshine, while some crazy man is swinging his bat..at the side of you. Dear Gawd...I imagine I would have fainted mind chorus.

We have watched this, brilliant show, really enjoyed it very much.

To a Tassimo coffee machine. We don't really drink much coffee to be honest, I found since stopping smoking I didn't reach for coffee much at all, for some reason. Still, it will be nice when I do reach for one to have one of these. I notice they do hot chocolate and English breakfast tea pods too...great for the girls who are not coffee fans. I've lost a stone and a half since my last Tenerife holiday so will make sure I limit myself to just one a day, don't want to pop it back on. I know it sounds silly but I'm really excited that I've purchased this, I love me a gadget or two.

Oh no! I know how much you love, and cherish, your pets. Hope that you're ok.

Where I have money to fund it due to not wasting it on cigs. Where I'm not bulk buying as I worry I might run out because I might/did smoke more. Where I'm not Billy no mates, stood outside in my garage on my own...every 30 mins or so puffing away. Where I'm just free, free from the whole ruddy mental and physical slavery of it all. Where once it hits the first of January I can say I'm off to Tenerife this year, again, because no longer being a slave to cigs funds the trip. If you're going to stop smoking, and are reading this, do it..seriously...as this time next year this will be you.

He must have given her a different kind of gun, as you say no accidents here. I don't know the name of the the song he put on, when she shot him, but he told her he would help her...the song was part of helping her. It was the same song playing as she shot Ford. They wanted Ford out as they wanted the code and to make the host more simple. I can see now why he got Bernard to kill Teresa, as she was always on about making them more simple. That would have been the opposite of his aim for them, as they would not have become self aware...then free which was his end game. I wonder what they wanted with the code? Maybe to make a host army? Maybe season 2 will give us an idea, mind you Dolores shot the board didn't she, so who's left? I read the actor who played the Man In Black is in season 2 though. I was saying to Lee and Megan tonight I really need to watch it again now. I will be honest I really didn't get the first four, or five, episodes and nearly gave up on it. I imagine it might make a lot more sense if I watch it again.

Hello and welcome Gypsy.

I had to read a few articles too Beacon, to help me try and understand it better. I will be looking forward to season 2.

No Arnold realised that the hosts had reached self awareness and would be aware of what was happening to them, take Dolores for example..stuck in a loop of rape and her parents being murdered. So he wanted to destroy them rather than subject them to the awareness of their reality. Meant he would have to die too, as Ford didn't agree believe him and wanted the park to still open. I found it fitting that Dolores killed Ford through choice and not programmed to do so like she was for Arnold. I found the William story very sad, what a waste of a life. I know he spent a few years, searching for Dolores, then once he realised she'd been wiped why go back? Maybe he was searching for something real in there? He kept saying to Logan ;(BIL) that Dolores was real, was different. He seemed a very sad unhappy man. Was he already a sad unhappy man? I suspect so as Logan made the point, on the opening episode, that this place reveals the real you. Now I know what I know I'm going to watch the series again, it might make more sense to me. I was shocked that Ford had been on the hosts side, afterall, and wasn't the baddie I first thought he was. In turn I thought William to be a goodie and he turned out to be the baddie...good twist. Then I think was William really a baddie? After all his whole journey was about helping them reach self awareness too...as he saw that in Dolores at times, and in Mauve when he killed her daughter in the barn. I loved that Dolores dragged William through the church, in the exact same way he had dragged her by the scruff of her neck into the barn. Have you watched Person Of Intrest Bakon? Same folk behind that...excellent show. Am enjoying the Affair too.