Spring into Spring with Slimming World
shala_moo
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Shiny new thread, with all the info carried over as follows:-
Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.
You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.
You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.
If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.
You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.
Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!
If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-
Extra Easy:
1: Choose your Free Food
Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy!
And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!
2: Choose your Healthy Extras
Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.
3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day
If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-
1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free
2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)
3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted
4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured
5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........
A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate
OR
B: switch to more Speed Foods
And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
Red and Green plans can still be followed, however information/syns for these are no longer available in your main 2015 booklet.
Link to old recipe thread:-
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3032236
New Recipes
Loaded Potato Skins
Homity Pie
Minestrone Soup
Lentil & Bacon Soup
Pulled Pork
Red Pepper Houmous
Cheesy Chilli Fries
Lamb Tagine
Campfire Stew
Uses for Quark
Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.
Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=4853
We have a Facebook group open to anyone joining us on this thread; to join please mention it in your post or drop Lushlifesaver or Durham_mim a PM and an existing member can send you an invite.
Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.
You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.
You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.
If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.
You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.
Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!
If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-
Extra Easy:
1: Choose your Free Food
Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy!
And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!
2: Choose your Healthy Extras
Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.
3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day
If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-
1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free
2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)
3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted
4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured
5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........
A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate
OR
B: switch to more Speed Foods
And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
Red and Green plans can still be followed, however information/syns for these are no longer available in your main 2015 booklet.
Link to old recipe thread:-
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3032236
New Recipes
Loaded Potato Skins
Homity Pie
Minestrone Soup
Lentil & Bacon Soup
Pulled Pork
Red Pepper Houmous
Cheesy Chilli Fries
Lamb Tagine
Campfire Stew
Uses for Quark
Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.
Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=4853
We have a Facebook group open to anyone joining us on this thread; to join please mention it in your post or drop Lushlifesaver or Durham_mim a PM and an existing member can send you an invite.
Mortgage amount at 31/12/2011 £166,050 now £0 as at Sept 21 - 15yrs 4 months early.
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Brief Overview of Extra Easy SP - this takes over from the old Success Express for speeding up your weight loss or kick starting your loss if you've hit a plateau.
Please note that this is only a brief overview as we are not allowed to copy things off the website. Please refer to your books or the SW website for a list of free foods.
Extra Easy SP concentrates on Speed foods and Protein-rich foods
1 - Choose your Speed Foods and Protein-rich foods, ensuring at least half of your plate is speed foods where you can
2 - choose healthy extras - you can have 1 Healthy Extra "A" and 2 Healthy Extra "B" choices
3 - Choose your 5-15 syns as normal and enjoy
SW recommend following the Extra Easy SP plan for a week, if you continue with it then either add some normal Extra Easy days into the plan or add an additional Healthy Extra A choice to ensure you are getting enough calcium.
Speed foods are mainly vegetables and fruits (however, those high in natural sugars are excluded)
Protein-rich foods include lean meats, poultry, fish, meat substitutes, eggs, beans and pulses.
Here's a visual representation kindly provided by Tweets
And some links provided by kim kim - the fopperholic one is most helpful I found.. the lady who runs it is a SW consultant/manager so her's will be accurate information.
https://fopperholic.wordpress.com/tag/slimming-world/
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/348340-extra-easy-sp-plan.htmlMortgage amount at 31/12/2011 £166,050 now £0 as at Sept 21 - 15yrs 4 months early.0 -
List of Speed (S) and Protein(P) foods kindly provided by Tweets
Mortgage amount at 31/12/2011 £166,050 now £0 as at Sept 21 - 15yrs 4 months early.0 -
Woo hoo, first one to post after Shala
Thanks for the lovely new thread and for all the useful information Shala.
LL
Start BMI - 38.7 Current BMI - 31.2 Target BMI - 26.30 -
I have put the kettle on so will make the :coffee:
All sit down on this wonderful new thread (thanks shala) while I make them
Welcome to the newbies :hello:0 -
OoOOh fabby a shiney new thread. Thanks shala0
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Thanks Shala. Didn't take me too long to find it.
Not away for the weekend now - some stupid lorry driver hit our wing mirror so had to return home. DH now got to try and sort it all out.
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Cool new thread!
As for the difference between brands being lower syns, I noticed my old book always said things like "or own brand equivalent" so I've always took a similar own brand to be the same syns, but the app never agrees. Normally only a syn or so, not the end of the world.0 -
Oh I love a new thread!
My internets been down for nearly a week so I missed last week's weigh in. It was -0.5 for last week please Shala Not an impressive number, and this week isn't looking too good either. I've been exercising everyday and was very good food wise, but I feel like I've gained :eek:Back on the slimming world wagon 04.01.18
Total lost 1st 3.5lbs :j Week 40 -
thanks for the new thread shala
hugs to all that need one, hope things get better soon :grouphug:
hauled my lardy backside to a keep fit class this week, have to start getting active again, hopefully the weather will get a bit warmer so I can go walking again.. am too soft when its cold!
tried a new recipe from lifeline online tonight, beef goulash with tagliatelle, was very tasty.. https://instagram.com/p/0dZk_MmjWg/?taken-by=mich6611
will definitely do it again, would never have thought of serving cabbage with tagliatelle! here's the recipe.. http://group.slimmingworld.com/recipes/beef-goulash-with-tagliatelle.aspx0 -
Shala I was majorly disappointed by the eclipse me and him stayed in the car by nursery incase a zombie apocalypse occurred so we could grab mini n race to put safe place
we may watch the walking dead too much and have a little plan thought through including who is in and out of our family group
Mini currently has 3 Easter bonnet options I'm creating as I have competitive tendencies at times oops
Sw is on back burner I'm gonna go on Monday just to weigh in and try to reign it back in x
Me and my online by are today on 6 months since our very first proper date go me Started sw 02/09/13 - total loss so far -5st 1lb
New Year New You Challenge - /6lb0
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