Slimming World Support thread

naturally_2

lo_bush wrote: »

Ok you'll probably need to enter contortionist mode to achieve all this so good luck.:D
Put your head down, blinkers on, tunnel vision, focus, nose to grindstone, put your back into it. Give yourself a kick up the backside and have a word in your ear, but also a pat on the back for sticking with it
HTH;)

I now have visions of myself in contortionist mode wearing a lycra body suit and dressed in a driving horse's bridle complete with blinkers

The best thing is that vision is about a size 10 and therefore looks good in lycra... I wouldn't like to see the current me in full lycra body suit :eek:

naturally_2

Co-eee, Angie!! :hello:

Maybe you could be so kind as to add to your smashing post on page 1 a bit about obtaining books and learning about the plan even if you can't afford to go to class? Just because this is a really common question.

How about:

FAQ

I want to get the books but can't afford to go to class, should I buy them on ebay?

The cheapest and simplest way of getting hold of the books is to join a class for 1 week. Typically the joining fee is £9.50 plus a class fee of £4.50 but there are often offers on for the whole lot for just £9.50. Included in this will be a pack containing all the free foods and healthy extras, full details of all the plans and a list of syns too. You will also get the chance to buy the additional books at class, which include the food directory (a thick book of syn values for most products sold in the shops) a handbag sized book of free branded foods and low syn snacks, as well as recipe books etc. Your consultant will also talk you through the plans in more detail and answer any questions you've got, so the joining fee is well worth it for all that, even if you don't go back.

estherina35

how many healthy extras are we allowed per day?

mummy_dumpling

estherina35 wrote: »

how many healthy extras are we allowed per day?

2 HEA and 2 HEB on a red or green day and 1 HEA and 1 HEB on extra easy

hth

estherina35

thank you..but what does HEA and HEB mean apart from healthy eating......bit!!sorry guys...

Flat_Eric

estherina35 wrote: »

thank you..but what does HEA and HEB mean apart from healthy eating......bit!!sorry guys...

HEALTHY EXTRAS
The Healthy Extras will vary depending on whether you are following a red, green or extra easy day.
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]your Healthy Extra A choice is your calcium (milk or cheese),[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]your Healthy Extra B choice is your fibre. (bread / cereal etc)[/FONT]
The food optimising book lists the different healthy extras you are allowed according to which day you are following i.e. on a green day, you might have a Healthy Extra portion of ham but if you were following a red day, you might have a healthy extra option of a 227g weighed jacket.

angie_loves_veg

naturally wrote: »

Co-eee, Angie!! :hello:

Maybe you could be so kind as to add to your smashing post on page 1 a bit about obtaining books and learning about the plan even if you can't afford to go to class? Just because this is a really common question.

How about:

FAQ

I want to get the books but can't afford to go to class, should I buy them on ebay?

The cheapest and simplest way of getting hold of the books is to join a class for 1 week. Typically the joining fee is £9.50 plus a class fee of £4.50 but there are often offers on for the whole lot for just £9.50. Included in this will be a pack containing all the free foods and healthy extras, full details of all the plans and a list of syns too. You will also get the chance to buy the additional books at class, which include the food directory (a thick book of syn values for most products sold in the shops) a handbag sized book of free branded foods and low syn snacks, as well as recipe books etc. Your consultant will also talk you through the plans in more detail and answer any questions you've got, so the joining fee is well worth it for all that, even if you don't go back.

consider it done hun

Flat_Eric

LilacLillie wrote: »

Thanks Flat Eric, what sensible advice, just wish I could have used it instead of grabbing everything I could and stuffing it first.
No forward thinking or planning, that's where I'm losing the plot nowadys.
I had good food choices in the house but wanted instant fill full food.
Its WI tonight and I am truly feeling depressed about going. I think I will say whatever tonights weight is will be my target for a couple of weeks, will give me time off for being scared of WI ............... I think??
See how it goes???
LL

Just to mention I have been on SW for 15mths and had 4 st to lose, lost 2st and have put back on (God knows how) 5lbs. Have been feeling really low about diet, even though I know it works, seen Dr's and specialists and its all down to me, nothing is wrong.
This support thread is really helping (believe it or not from how low I sound) and every day I struggle through but think I may have lost some of the plot since I stopped losing.

I feel you are being too hard on yourself. Your achievements so far are fantastic and you should feel rightly proud. You have lost 28 pounds and ok 5 of those pounds have crept back on but you have still lost 23 pounds :j ! have you tried popping to the supermarket and filing a basket with 23 l/b worth of beans ? and carrying that round for 10 mins?

SW is a healthy approach to eating for life, not a diet. Thus being on the SW plan doesnt mean all you can eat is carrot sticks and lettuce leaves for the rest of your days.

I PM Angie for some advice recently and one comment she made in her reply was that she plans SW around the foods she wants to eat. This was like a lightbulb going off for me. We all lead different lives and have different priorities.

I dont know what Im trying to say to be honest other than no-one can be an :Aall of the time and thus if you try to be too good, you will lose motiviation and the desire to stick with it. Allow yourself the odd night off, the odd treat and see what happens. Try to be relaxed about it rather than dictating to yourself each day I can't have this. Instead think, I can't have that (domino's pizza) but I could have homemade pizza using a base that I would have to syn (passata - free) and lots of superfree veg

angie_loves_veg

Occasionally (OK, twice in 10 months... ) I have made a pizza 'fit' with SW. I *know* that this isn't 100% on plan, but for those "I have been :A all week, and fancy an after WI pizza without using a weeks worth of syns", I do this:

I make a bread dough using wholemeal flour. I use a standard bread recipe for this, then weigh out 115g of the dough. I count this as 2 HB.

I stretch it like there is no tomorrow, and this can cover a 12" tray if you like it really really thin and crispy. I spread 2tbs tinned tomatoes, sprinkle some dry oregano and crushed garlic and then add some cooked chopped spinach, 42g torn mozzarella (HA), some slices of beef tomato.

I cook this in a very hot oven for 10 mins, then crack an egg and cook for another 5 - 10 mins.

Hey presto, Pizza Express Fiorentina, 2HB, 1HA, no additional syns.

Big salad on the side.


edit - I have posted this as an illustration of how if there is something you reeeeally fancy, 9 times out of 10 you can find a way of fitting it to one of the SW plans, even in this case where it used all my HE's for the day (other than milk in tea).. but, because I planned it I was extra careful to be a :A all day, and indeed I thoroughly looked forward to it

V.Lucky

angie loves veg - I just love pizza and could eat it for every meal quite happily, so that recipe is great using the bread dough as a base. I must try that if I ever get the pizza munchies again really badly.

I have never posted my menu on here and I always do green as a veggie, so here goes for today:

Don't eat brekkie

Mid morning snack 2 x satsuma's - free

Lunch - 5 x corn think (HEB) with tub of low fat cottage cheese with pineapple (free) plus a mug shot (free), Wholegrain Aldi Yogurt (2.5 syns - used to be free last year, bought them last week and found out they were now syned, so having to use them up)

Dinner - wholewheat pasta and sweetcorn (free), with 56g brie cheese (HEA - I know brie's not on the list, but surely cheese is cheese?? Cheddar and blue brie are both 6 sins in the foot optimising book) 7 black olives (1 syn), 28g sundried toms in oil drained (2.5 syns).

Snacks tonight - packet of Pombears (5 syns) and Lemon Hi-Fi bar (HEB)

Total Syns - 11