New Slimming World Support Thread

BradnJanet

Morning,
Can you help me please?
I've been looking for help on the new Alli medication to find out if it's of use with SW. I can't see any discussion on this. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thank you
Liz

sw_mina

BradnJanet wrote: »

Morning,
Can you help me please?
I've been looking for help on the new Alli medication to find out if it's of use with SW. I can't see any discussion on this. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thank you
Liz

I've been wondering about this too, as it's supposed to be used with a reduced calorie diet but SW is NOT a reduced calorie diet.

Also, it has some unpleasant side effects : http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/article2197903.ece

redmel1621

My understanding is it should be combined with a low FAT diet, not low calorie! Does Slimming World come under the 'low fat' category? I might be wrong and the best people to ask would be your gp or maybe a pharmacist would be able to clarify it for you....

Mel x

redmel1621

boddy wrote: »

I made the baked bean lasagne yesterday and really enjoyed it.

Aaah how strange, I have just been trawling around trying to find this recipe, I know it is about somewhere! Could you share please:)

Mel x

boddy

nic2075 wrote: »

sorry to quote myself but I found the recipe, here it is if anyone fancies it. The whole family loves it and it freezes well. hope judds doesnt mind be reposting it

.Servings | 4
Syns Per Serving | Green – Syn Free*
* Add 6 Syns per serving if not using the Cheddar cheese as a Healthy Extra option



Ingredients
-Fry Light
-2 large onions, finely chopped
-2 red peppers, de-seeded & chopped
-mushrooms (optional)
-2 x 400gm cans baked beans in tomato sauce
-2 x 400gm cans chopped tomatoes
-salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste
-2 cloves garlic, crushed
-splash of Worcestershire sauce
-splash of soy sauce
-dried lasagne sheets
-168gm (6oz) reduced fat Cheddar cheese, grated*

Method
1. Pre-heat oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6.

2. Heat a large pan sprayed with Fry Light and cook the onion, peppers, mushrooms and garlic for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until soft.

3. Add the baked beans, chopped tomatoes, salt & pepper and the Worcestershire & soy sauces & mix together.

4. Layer the tomato mixture alternately with the lasagne sheets in a large oven-proof lasagne dish, starting & ending with the tomato mixture.

5. Cover with foil & bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes. Uncover, sprinkle with the cheese and bake for a further 5-10 minutes until the cheese is golden and bubbling.

You can of course vary the contents - I add much more garlic than the recipe suggests and also add several splashes of Hot Chilli Sauce (please note this is likely to incur some Syns)
It is very easy to make , quick and tasty


Judds

Here it is.

sw_mina

redmel1621 wrote: »

My understanding is it should be combined with a low FAT diet, not low calorie! Does Slimming World come under the 'low fat' category? I might be wrong and the best people to ask would be your gp or maybe a pharmacist would be able to clarify it for you....

Mel x

The leaflet I picked up in Tesco (where, by the way, it's on offer at £20) says 'when you take alli along with a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet, you can lose about 50% more weight than by dieting alone' and 'alli is for adults who can adjust their eating habits to a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet'. It also says your BMI should be at least 28.

redmel1621

sw_mina wrote: »

The leaflet I picked up in Tesco (where, by the way, it's on offer at £20) says 'when you take alli along with a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet, you can lose about 50% more weight than by dieting alone' and 'alli is for adults who can adjust their eating habits to a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet'. It also says your BMI should be at least 28.

Yep, just been having a read....Low Calorie AND Low Fat is needed:D

I suppose you could combine it with Slimming World, but really it is a different way of eating isn't it...I mean slimming World is all about not having to calorie count etc. whereas you need to be quite strict on limiting calorie and fat intake whilst taking Alli so that's not, really, the SW way.:cool:
Although SW does mainly promote healthy eating, ie. fruit, veg, meat with minimum fat.....

Mel x

Ps Thanks Boddy:)

pariskate

SW is not a calorie counted diet - you don't need to know how many calories are in every bit of food to make it work.
If you look at what the free foods are and how you encouraged to eat lots of superfree food then these foods are much less calorie dense than the fatty, sugary stuff that's limited as syns. Even higher fat dairy foods are limited by being Healthy Extras. So overall you must eat less calories following SW because the free foods are all filling but not too calorie dense and you wouldn't lose weight if you didn't eat less calories than you burn up.
So I think that a good SW plan with plenty of free and Superfree foods would qualify as low fat and low caloire?

Anyway, we know SW works when you stick to it so why take the pills as well (especially if there are bad side effects!:eek:)

tiamaria

Found this online-

Q: Can I use my favourite diet in place of the eating plan?
In many cases, yes. However, for best weight loss results, you should follow the reduced calorie, lower-fat diet in the alli programme. alli can work well with diets that emphasise balanced meals containing moderate amounts of fat. It does not work well with diets that encourage you to 'save up' fat and calorie allowances and then splurge on a high-fat meal or dessert. You would not need the capsules with a very low-fat diet because they would have little effect. However, many people find very low-fat diets difficult to sustain because of severe restrictions on the food they can eat.
They're also likely to feel far hungrier when there is little fat in the diet. The alli programme allows you to choose from a wider variety of foods, and to eat enough fat to feel fuller.
At the other end of the spectrum, low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets tend to be very high in fats. Don't use the capsule with these diets. Not adapting to a lower-fat diet can increase the chances of diet-related treatment effects.

It also says that you have to limit meals to no more than 15g fat which seems quite high to me following sw.

I'd be interested to hear how anyone's got on using these pills alongside SW.

Princess_kate

I have tried these pills, not while doing SW but a SW type of eating & I would tell anyone not to do it! I only ended taking them for about a week & found the side effects so horrific I stopped taking them!
They stop vital vitamins being absorbed by your body which can make you unwell, not exactly what SW is about!