Slimming World Support thread

4li5on

Well, 10 days back onto the plan properly, and I’m feeling quite pleased with myself. Had the blip over New Year and put 2lb on, but this week I’ve lost that and about ½lb extra aswell. Back on track again.

I’m really enjoying reading the other posts to see how other people are getting on and how people approach the diet differently. I’ve only been using this forum for about a week, but it’s been quite inspirational, in a weird kind of way. Because I’m doing it alone, I don’t have anyone or anything to compare to. Although I set myself targets and I am really pleased with how I’ve done so far, this thread has been good to see how I’m doing in respect of other people.
From Day 1, I got the starter pack and the big directory and I’ve followed it religiously. There have been days where I’ve really screwed up but I suppose that’s what happens when you don’t tell the world you’re on a diet. As a rule though, 98% of the time, I have stuck to the plan. To me, if I cheat, I’m only cheating myself. I plan my day in advance to I know what day I’m having, what I’m eating, how many sins will be used up. I religiously keep a food diary every day (which I crafted up on the computer and made into a note pad) and at the end of each week I calculate how many sins out of the 105 maximum I’ve used.
What has baffled me with this forum is that very few seem to plan in advance then get into a mess. For me, when I go shopping, I take my directory and syn everything in the shop as it goes in the trolley. Obviously, things I get regularly don’t have to be done. I found a couple of times you think something will be low in syns and it isn’t. Once it’s in the house, it’s a temptation. When I get the shopping home, I write the number of syns on the packaging so it’s easy to work out when it comes to time to eat. Do I assume that not many users on here have a directory and rely on using the online calculator? It also bemuses me that lots of people will happily eat something THEN ask how many syns.
I guess everyone approaches the diet differently, but some diaries don’t seem to have much in them (either small meals or meals missing) or meals that seem to be ‘thrown’ together, if you know what I mean? Not a meal you would normally eat if you weren’t on a diet.
Anyway, that’s where I am at today, still plodding and feeling better by the day. The visible changes are becoming more noticeable and I’m getting lots of compliments, which gees you up a bit.
Good luck to everyone for their weigh ins this week – keep up the good work! :T

junior_j

Hello all!

I am not purposely not eating , believe me i love my food (hence being so overweight lol) Its just i hardly eat breakfast as im not a morning person by the time i can eat anything its lunch.. but i only want some thing breakfast sized... lol but i do eat big dinners and a couple of muller lights a day , today has been a little bit better

Breakfast - 1 alpen light cereal bar.
Lunch-Nothing (went back to bed lol lazyness)
Late snack - 1 bananna , 1 apple , 1 babybel light.
Dinner will be - 1 small jacket potatoe with loads of tuna and salad.
Desert will be melon and vanilla muller yoghurt (free)

Its my first red day this week. I get weighed tomorrow! :eek:
x

retiredlady

NOSONDDU wrote: »

I have never eaten sausages on SW diet. I understand quorn ones are free. (I tried unsuccessfully to find them in Tesco this morning. Are they fresh or frozen?) I've searched the books but can't work out which other ones are free.

Please, Please, Please, Please, which sausages are free?

This is a list of sausages which have less than 5 syns which was posted my some one else on this group. I am so sorry but don't know who it was, if they let me know I will edit this post and give them credit for it! Don't forget now that these sausages can be eaten on the EE plan with real mashed potatoes!!:T:T


Tesco

Cocktail pork sausages, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns
Finest, Aberdeen Angus beef sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns

Finest, pork & herb sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Finest, pork & sweet chilli sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns
Finest, pork chipolata sausages, 10 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns, green 5 syns

Healthy living butchers choice half fat pork sausages, 454g pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns
Healthy living half fat pork sausages, 700g pack, frozen, each – red 3 syns
Healthy living lincolnshire pork sausages, chilled, each – red 1 syn, green 3.5 syns
Healthy living smoked salmon sausages, chilled, each – red free, green 3.5 syns

Light choices, low fat pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 3.5 syns

Meat free, hot dog sausages, 10 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Meat free, spinach & ricotta sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red free, green free
Meat free, cheese & leek sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 4.5 syns, green 4.5 syns
Meat free, lincolnshire sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 0.5 syn, green 0.5 syn

Mediterranean pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns

Mini American style hot dog sausages, 120g pack, chilled, 2 sausages – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns
Mini hot dog sausages, 15 pack, chilled, 2 sausages – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns

Pork chipolata sausages, chilled, each – red 2 syns, green 3.5 syns
Pork sausages, organic, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 2 syns, green 5.5 syns
Pork sausages, skinless, chilled, each – red 2 syns, green 3.5 syns
Pork sausages, thin, 40 pack, frozen, each – red 3.5 syns, green 4 syns

Specially selected, half fat pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 5 syns

Thick pork & beef sausages, 20 pack, frozen, each – red 5 syns
Thick pork & beef sausages, 40 pack, frozen, each – red 3 syns, green 3.5 syns

Turkey & chicken sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns

Vegetarian cheese & leek sausages, 4 pack, chilled, each – green 4.5 syns
Vegetarian lincolnshire sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 0.5 syns, green 0.5 syns
sausages under 5 syns

Sainsburys

Basics, thick pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
BGTY, extra lean pork chipolata sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 2.5 syns
BGTY, extra lean pork cumberland sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 4 syns
BGTY, extra lean pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 4 syns
BGTY, extra lean Lincolnshire pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns
BGTY, extra lean pork sausages, 20 pack, frozen, each – red 2 syns, green 4.5 syns
Butchers choice, large beef sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns
Butchers choice, large pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns
Butchers choice, pork cumberland sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Butchers choice, pork sausages, 50% less fat, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns

Cocktail sausages, party bites, 70 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1.5 syns

Extra lean beef sausages, british, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 4 syns

Free from, pork chipolata sausages, 400g pack, frozen, each – red 2 syns, green 3 syns

Meat free, Glamorgan leek & cheese sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 5 syns, green 3.5 syns
Meat free, hot dog sausages, 10 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Meat free, lincolnshire sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns

Pork cocktail lincolnshire sausages, 40 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1.5 syns
Pork cocktail sausages, 40/60 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1.5 syns
Pork cocktail sausages, reduced fat, 30 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 1 syns
Pork sausages, skinless, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 3.5syns, green 4.5 syns
Pork sausages, thick, 20 pack, frozen, each – red 4.5 syns

Taste the difference, Lincolnshire pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Taste the difference, pork & apple sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5.5 syns
Taste the difference, pork, basil & garlic sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Taste the difference, sicilian sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 6 syns
Taste the difference, Toulouse sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 6.5 syns
Taste the difference, ultimate british pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Taste the difference, ultimate pork chipolata sausages, 12 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns




Morrisons
Cumberland pork sausages, 30% less fat, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 4 syns
Eat smart diet, lincolnshire sausages, less than 3% fat, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 4 syns
Eat smart diet, pork sausages, less than 3% fat, 8 pack, chilled, each – red free, green 3 syns
Eat smart reduced, Cumberland pork sausages, 25% less fat & salt, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syn, green 4 syns
Eat smart reduced, lincolnshire pork sausages, 25% less fat & salt, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syn, green 4 syns
Eat smart reduced, pork sausages, 16 pack, frozen, each – red 5 syns
Eat smart reduced, pork sausages, 25% less fat & salt, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 5 syns
Eat smart, extra lean, pork sausages, 454g pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 4.5 syns

Meat free sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Pork cocktail sausages, 30 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1.5 syns
Skinless pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns, green 4.5 syns

The best, Lincolnshire cocktail sausages, 16 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns
The best, Lincolnshire pork sausages, 400g pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
The best, pork chipolata sausages, 400g pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
The best, pork, lemon grass, chilli & lime leaf sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 2 syns
The best, thick Toulouse pork sausages, 454g pack, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns

Vegetarian sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 0.5 syns, green 0.5 syns
Sweet chilli sausages, surprisingly sizzling, 5 pack, chilled, red free, green free


Quorn

Bangers, surprisingly hearty, 6 pack, frozen, each, red free, green free
Bangers, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free
Bramley apple bangers, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free

Cheshire cheese & leek sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each, red 0.5 syn, green 0.5 syn

Cumberland sausages, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free
Cumberland sausages, surprisingly succulent, 6 pack, frozen, each, red free, green free

Pork style & apple sausages, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free
Pork style & leek sausages, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free

Red Leicester & onion sausages, 5 pack, chilled, each, red 0.5 syn, green 0.5 syn

Sausages, surprisingly hearty, 6 pack, frozen, each, red free, green free
Sausages, surprisingly succulent, 6 pack, chilled, each, red free, green free

Sizzlers, Branston, surprisingly juicy, 6 pack, frozen, each, red 2 syns, green 2 syns
Sizzling bangers with a hint of branston pickle, surprisingly juicy, 5 pack, chilled, each, red 2 syns, green 2 syns

Spinach & Gruyere Cheese sausages, surprisingly succulent, 5 pack, chilled, red free, green free
Sweet chilli sausages, surprisingly sizzling, 5 pack, chilled, red free, green free


Linda Mccartney

BBQ sausages, 8 pack, frozen, each – red 2 syns, green 2 syns
Sausages, 8 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Vegetarian sausages, 8 pack, frozen, each – red 1 syns, green 1 syns


Walls

Lean recipe pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 3.5 syns

Mini bangers, pork sausages, 10 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 2 syns

Skinless pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns, green 3.5 syns

Thick pork micro sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Thick pork sausages, 12 pack, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns, green 4.5 syns
Yummy little pork sausages, 18 pack, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 1 syns

Cauldron

Cumberland veggie sausages, 5 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Cumberland veggie sausages, 6 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Glamorgan sausages, organic, 4 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1 syns
Lincolnshire veggie sausages, 5 pack, chilled, each – red 2 syns, green 2 syns
Lincolnshire veggie sausages, 5 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Mushroom & herb sausages, 5 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1 syns


Richmond
Cocktail sausages, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns
Irish recipe, thin sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns, green 3.5 syns
Pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 3 syns, green 3.5 syns

Bowyers
Mediterranean style pork sausages, 95% fat free, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 3 syns
Pork chipolata sausages, 95% fat free, chilled, each – red 0.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Pork sausages, less than 5% fat, chilled, each – red 1 syn, green 4 syns


Asda
Butchers best, british cumberland sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Butchers best, british Lincolnshire sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Butchers best, british pork & mustard sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Butchers best, british pork & onion sausages, gluten free, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns
Butchers best, british pork & tomato sausages, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Butchers best, british pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns
Butchers best, british turkey & chicken sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns

Cocktail sausages, ready to eat, 360g pack, chilled, 2 sausages – red 1.5 syns, green 2.5 syns

Extra special, lamb & mint sausages, 12 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 3 syns
Extra special, pork & haggis sausages, 454g pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Extra special, pork & leek sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Extra special, pork, bacon & cheese sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns
Extra special, pork, cranberry & sweet chilli sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Extra special, premium pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Extra special, smoked pork sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns

Good For You, Cumberland sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 4.5 syns
Good For You, lincolnshire sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 4 syns
Good For You, pork & apple sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 3.5 syns
Good For You, pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 4 syns
Hot & spicy cocktail sausages, ready to eat, 360g pack, chilled, each – red 1 syns, green 1.5 syns
Irish recipe sausages, thick, 454g/908g pack, chilled, each – red 4 syns
Lorne sausages, sliced, frozen, slice - red 4 syns

Meat free, apple & rosemary sausages, 5 pack, frozen, each – red 1.5 syns, green 1.5 syns
Meat free, Lincolnshire sausages, 5 pack, frozen, each – red 1 syns, green 1 syns

Pork & beef sausages, thick, 454g/908g pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Pork & beef sausages, thick, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Pork & beef sausages, thick, 8/20 pack, frozen, each – red 3.5 syns
Pork sausages, jumbo, rotisserie, each – red 7.5 syns, green 11 syns
Pork sausages, skinless, 10 pack, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns, green 4.5 syns
Pork sausages, thin, chilled, each – red 2.5 syns, green 3.5 syns

Scottish beef sausages, thick, chilled, each – red 5 syns
Scottish pork cocktail sausages, 24 pack, chilled, each – red 1.5 syns, green 2 syns
Scottish pork sausages, thick, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Scottish thick pork sausages, 454g pack, chilled, each – red 5 syns

Smartprice thick pork sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 4.5 syns
Smartprice thin pork sausages, 12 pack, chilled, each – red 2 syns, green 3.5 syns

Thick lincolnshire sausages, 30% less fat, 1kg pack, frozen, each – red 3.5 syns

Turkey sausages, 8 pack, chilled, each – red 2 syns, green 5 syns

Vegetarian Glamorgan sausages, 6 pack, chilled, each – red 3.5 syns, green 3.5 syns

debsthe1

Thank you so much retired lady for posting the sausage list! I do love a good sausage (IYKWIM) but had resigned myself to just eating the veggie ones for the rest of my life..
Bet you can't guess what I'll be doing tomorrow!!

Life is worth living again!! LOL

angie_loves_veg

Catt - Re 'light' oil, it is light in taste and flavour, not calories, so I'm afraid it is the same quantity for the same syns as ordinary oil.

Skint_Catt

Thanks angie, just thought I'd ask. Might buy it anyway as its on offer - its useful sometimes!

angie_loves_veg

4li5on wrote: »

Well, 10 days back onto the plan properly, and I’m feeling quite pleased with myself. Had the blip over New Year and put 2lb on, but this week I’ve lost that and about ½lb extra aswell. Back on track again.

I’m really enjoying reading the other posts to see how other people are getting on and how people approach the diet differently. I’ve only been using this forum for about a week, but it’s been quite inspirational, in a weird kind of way. Because I’m doing it alone, I don’t have anyone or anything to compare to. Although I set myself targets and I am really pleased with how I’ve done so far, this thread has been good to see how I’m doing in respect of other people.
From Day 1, I got the starter pack and the big directory and I’ve followed it religiously. There have been days where I’ve really screwed up but I suppose that’s what happens when you don’t tell the world you’re on a diet. As a rule though, 98% of the time, I have stuck to the plan. To me, if I cheat, I’m only cheating myself. I plan my day in advance to I know what day I’m having, what I’m eating, how many sins will be used up. I religiously keep a food diary every day (which I crafted up on the computer and made into a note pad) and at the end of each week I calculate how many sins out of the 105 maximum I’ve used.
What has baffled me with this forum is that very few seem to plan in advance then get into a mess. For me, when I go shopping, I take my directory and syn everything in the shop as it goes in the trolley. Obviously, things I get regularly don’t have to be done. I found a couple of times you think something will be low in syns and it isn’t. Once it’s in the house, it’s a temptation. When I get the shopping home, I write the number of syns on the packaging so it’s easy to work out when it comes to time to eat. Do I assume that not many users on here have a directory and rely on using the online calculator? It also bemuses me that lots of people will happily eat something THEN ask how many syns.
I guess everyone approaches the diet differently, but some diaries don’t seem to have much in them (either small meals or meals missing) or meals that seem to be ‘thrown’ together, if you know what I mean? Not a meal you would normally eat if you weren’t on a diet.
Anyway, that’s where I am at today, still plodding and feeling better by the day. The visible changes are becoming more noticeable and I’m getting lots of compliments, which gees you up a bit.
Good luck to everyone for their weigh ins this week – keep up the good work! :T

I have read, and re-read this post several times, and I'm afraid I find large parts of it quite patronising and upsetting.

There are many people on this forum, all of whom approach the SW diet in many ways. Some are planners, some have the support of their family, others not. I am not 'bemused' by peoples differing attitudes or 'baffled' that other people do it differently to how I do.

In response to a direct question, I do not take my directory to the shop. (I do own one, and have found it to be a complete waste of money as I fail to find my way around it). I menu plan the whole week, three meals a day for all members of the family (one of whom had complex dietary needs) in advance, then write a detailed list. I therefore have no need to take my directory to the shop, but am not 'baffled' as to why you do.

Perhaps 4li5on you would like to post your planned daily menus - I am sure members of this forum who find planning less natural would find them interesting as you are doing well following Slimming World.

We would all welcome your positive comments and contributions, but perhaps with just a little less criticism?:o

zavarony

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

I have read, and re-read this post several times, and I'm afraid I find large parts of it quite patronising and upsetting.

There are many people on this forum, all of whom approach the SW diet in many ways. Some are planners, some have the support of their family, others not. I am not 'bemused' by peoples differing attitudes or 'baffled' that other people do it differently to how I do.

In response to a direct question, I do not take my directory to the shop. (I do own one, and have found it to be a complete waste of money as I fail to find my way around it). I menu plan the whole week, three meals a day for all members of the family (one of whom had complex dietary needs) in advance, then write a detailed list. I therefore have no need to take my directory to the shop, but am not 'baffled' as to why you do.

Perhaps 4li5on you would like to post your planned daily menus - I am sure members of this forum who find planning less natural would find them interesting as you are doing well following Slimming World.

We would all welcome your positive comments and contributions, but perhaps with just a little less criticism?:o

I'm with you on this Angie - I have done the same thing but am not sure I could have written it quite so eloquently:rolleyes:

I do a similar thing to you - decide roughly what meals we will be having during the week and shop based on that, but dont necessarily always know which meal is for which day - cant always tell with the kids who's here for tea and who's not:D anyway - well said, this is a support thread and thats what we should be doing - supporting each other rather than criticise each other

angie_loves_veg

OH has just got home (well, to where we are, which is away from home right now) after a really long day at work with two cans of gin and tonic from M&S.

Lovely thought - but anyone know the syn value?!

Jammygal

I agree that we all have different priorities with our menu planning. eg My
DS has severe nut/seed/egg allergy therefore he comes first in my meal planning as I would never have nuts and seeds in the house! Also every product I buy must abide by this!
I always plan meals for my kids first ;sometimes we eat the same sometimes; sometimes different. But I think a rigid plan for me would be impossible to stick to due to them always taking priority!