Make 2013 a year to remember with Slimming World

Flat_Eric · 28 December 2012 at 6:36PM

Hello and welcome to the brand new shiny sparkly 2013 Slimming World support thread :wave:

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Flat_Eric · 28 December 2012 at 6:36PM

Here is the text posted previously which I have copied over from the older thread :j

and HERE is the link to the previous Slimming World thread.

Dear all, as the last thread grew so long here we have a new one. I am simply copying all that Consultant31 put in the introduction to the pre-Christmas thread for you here. There have been a few changes on SW in the past couple of months - cereal allowances have gone up slightly (but very slightly - by a gram or two, don't get too excited) and some of the Muller yogs now have syns, but the basics remain the same - eat lots and lots of healthy food and treat yourself to a few syns each day!

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!

The Original (Red) and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the Extra Easy plan. If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.

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! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

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

And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!

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!

Link to recipe thread:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...4#post40936144

Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments. Oh, and also try to remember not to quote wholesale from books or the SW website as there are copyright laws and we don't want Slimming World seeing us as nasty rivals, this is more for support :A

Flat_Eric · 28 December 2012 at 6:40PM

Awards achieved ..... :j

welshdreamer71 · 28 December 2012 at 6:42PM

Am I too early to come in and plonk big bum down lol>?

Im an avid slimming world fan lost 6 stone was 7 stone but have another 9 to lose hopefully a blooming chunk of it in 2013 xx

frogga · 28 December 2012 at 6:47PM

WOW fab, I need a new thread to get my motivation back and keep me going, thanks Eric.

I joined SW for the first time in May 2011. I went for a few weeks until I got the hang of it and then I decieded to go it alone. I've lost 7 st and I've been the same weight for over a year now but would like to lose some more and get down to 10 st.

I'm not sure wether to hop on the scales or not because I find it very upsetting? I fell off the wagon a week or so before Christmas but I've been back on track as of yesterday, and I've been good again today so feel like I'm OK now.

I aim to post daily to keep in the zone.

SO today I've had

B ~ Flat mushrooms on leaves with Baked Beans and cheese (A)
L ~ carrots, pickled onions, cucu, beetroot, toms,
T ~ Mash pot, broc, sprouts, cauli, peas, french beans, spicey beans

and a free Shape yog oh and an apple, 2 satsumas and a banana

Good o

Owain_Moneysaver · 28 December 2012 at 7:37PM

Flat_Eric wrote: »

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! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

It was eating pasta, fish and chips and curry and rice that made me somewhat less slender than my trousers wanted me to be.

So I'm sceptical of a diet that lets me eat more of it.

welshdreamer71 · 28 December 2012 at 7:55PM

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

It was eating pasta, fish and chips and curry and rice that made me somewhat less slender than my trousers wanted me to be.

So I'm sceptical of a diet that lets me eat more of it.

So was I but It works but it isnt magic its portion control is the key of all evils lol x

beanielou · 28 December 2012 at 8:24PM

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

It was eating pasta, fish and chips and curry and rice that made me somewhat less slender than my trousers wanted me to be.

So I'm sceptical of a diet that lets me eat more of it.

It works ~ believe me

Thank you Flat Eric for the shiney new thread

I am struggling big time to get back on the waggon.
Too much tempation lurking & I find not being in a routine doesent help at all.
I will keep plodding!

stef240377 · 28 December 2012 at 8:31PM

Having been ill before xmas and gaining and the xmas gain i have seen on home scales - no weigh in for us until next thursday as the 6th form academy will not allow SW to open for the evening this week i am being extra careful now to try and shift it all before next week.

Todays meals have been EE-
b, bacon, mushrooms, beans and eggs.
L, mugshot, apple, 2 apricots.
S, apple.
T, SW chips, roasted veg and salmon. Pineapple and melon.
S, 2 nimble toasted with 2 tsps of honey (HEB + 2 syns)
hot choc and squirty cream 3.5syns. Hea milk in coffee.

SMITHYCAT · 28 December 2012 at 9:35PM

I sat down ready to join the group and noticed the room empty.... do I smell lol

Now that I found you all again I wanted to share the lidl deal this weekend. I am on a budget so this is brilliant

250g Flat Mushrooms 42p
Branston beans 4pk £1
Twin pack back bacon (fat needs removing) 400g £1.14

Available this weekend only

I will be heading there in the morning and thought some of you would be interested also :T

kjmtidea · 28 December 2012 at 9:57PM

Evening Ladies

After a lovely week off of slimming world I am definitely ready to get back on it! My scales are saying a 4 1/2lb gain which isn't as much as I was expecting to be honest and I know that I can easily get that off as soon as I get back on the plan.

As lovely as all the Christmas food was, doesn't it leave you feeling disgusting? I just feel so bloated and revolting, sticking to plan leaves me feeling amazing compared to this!

Make 2013 a year to remember with Slimming World

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