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sali_mali

thankyou i'll try that. just had another revelation - didnt realise squash/cordial was a syn! that might be it :mad:

consultant31

sali_mali wrote:

thankyou i'll try that. just had another revelation - didnt realise squash/cordial was a syn! that might be it :mad:

If you use the sugar-free ones and only add a splash it's ok to use squash. I like warm water with a slice of lemon. I know it sounds boring, but it's really rather nice, and my Gran swears by it - and she's 104!!!:j

tw1nklestar

sali-mali you arent having a lot of free food are you???? fill up on muller yogs and fruit - wafter thin ham on a red day and jacket or new potatoes on a green - and have a grapefruit - i find them very beneficial - i can quite honestly say that i have never eaten so much as i have since starting slimming world and have lost 23lb since march - and i have some choc or a glass of wine each day so i dont feel i am missing out - infact sat here now having a gin and diet coke :rotfl: - bad week at work lol

consultant31

tw1nklestar wrote:

infact sat here now having a gin and diet coke :rotfl: - bad week at work lol

Ooh and the sun isn't even over the yard-arm yet (never did know what that meant, lol) :rotfl:

sali_mali

i have been eating loads because my mum was on slimming world years ago and told me i had to. i've been making enough pasta for three people at about lunchtimethen picking at it whenever im hungry on a green day. which is why i thought it was such a marvellous diet, i was neer hungry! i'll see how ive done next wednesday, maybe green just doesnt suit me

honey28

Keep your chin up Sali mali - at least it hasnt put you off going back, quite the opposite by the sounds of it and thats the main thing. I know that the weeks I ate more I lost more. I haven't been eating enough of the right things (plenty of the wrong) for a few weeks. This week I have tried to but I do feel very bloated this week, dunno why

MrsYatesy

sali_mali wrote:

Well i promise you i was a model dieter, not putting a foot wrong all week. i didnt even have my syns most days, although i did go on a pretty big bender over the weekend!

Hi Sali_mali,
Sorry for the late reply, the sunshine keeps me away from the computer!!
I wonder just how much of a bender you went on at the weekend? I also do SW and have had a lot of success so far, but this week I was a model SW girl until Saturday when I too went on a football inspired bender! It was enough to make me stay the same this week even though I wasn't as bad as I would have been if I wasn't on SW!!!! :beer:
My consultant tells me that SW are advising against using all your syns in one go (i.e. use 7 days worth on the bender and have nothing more all week) so I wonder if this might be it too? :rolleyes:
Just a thought anyway - keep it up, SW works really well, I bet next week you will see some progress, and if you dont then maybe your consultant could look at your food diaries to see what's what if you are going to class?
Have a lovely weekend,
MrsYatesy

MrsYatesy

Sali_mali - and you said no-one answers you :-)!! ;-)

Lois_Lane

Aahhh Sali-Mali - I feel for you, you must have been gutted. Hopefully this won't sound like 'onedownmanship' but when I first went to a SW class, I'd been doing it for six weeks and had already lost one stone, and when I went back for my first SW weigh in, I'd gained half a pound! I put it down to hormones, but did I feel silly when there were three other newbies all losing 3 or 4 pounds each. I went on to lose 6.5 stone, so don't give up.

Last Christmas, the SW class I was attending had a party and I won a prize in the raffle - the Little Book of Slimming, by Margaret Miles Bramwell. It is a very inspiring book, full of comments about weight loss, self image etc, and there's one particular one that I use as a personal challenge:

'Would you like to know how to lose so well in just one week that you'll be hooked? Try your hardest to prove Food Optimising doesn't work.'

My SW Consultant once started her weekly talk by asking us all if we had been following the plan 100% - everyone was nodding enthusiastically, of course we had all followed it 100%! Then as she went round the room, if she came to someone who wasn't happy with their weight loss, she asked them individually - did you follow the plan 100%? Only then did she get the truth - responses that started with, well apart from the drunken night out, or the chinese takeaway, or the pizza .... and so on....

The point is, that it works, if you follow the plan. (I'll get off my soapbox now - lol.)

I think I might start a thought for the day, when I come back from holiday - the Little Book of Slimming is just as inspiring for people following other weight loss plans (purposely avoiding the use of the word diet - it's the worst four letter word, and stands for Dare I Eat That!)

While I'm away I'm going to do my best to prove that Rosemary Conley doesn't know what she's talking about

LL

dellybelly_2

Hi all MSE slimmers,

I've been lurking for most of this week as DH has been downloading all kinds of crap and it's just been too slow to post anything in.

Rachie, I know exactly what you mean, I haven't counted a single point all week (AGAIN!). I'm dreading my weigh in on monday night. If I have more weight on again I'm in for a telling off.... I like the WW plan well enough because I really feel that I need to learn self discipline where my favourite (high cal, high fat) foods are concerned, but as inspiring as my WW leader's success stories are, I've heard them all before and I don't like being told off for putting on weight. My MIL did that once (she told me she thought I was getting fat!), so I deliberately put on another 2 stone to spite her... it ended up that I was the one who had to lose the excess weight in the end but I didn't want her to take the credit for my weightloss. (I know, I'm weird).

I might try the no count plan for a couple of weeks. Has any weight watchers out there any interesting ideas for lunches? Dinner and breakfast is easy but I miss my sandwiches at lunch time and there's only so many baked sweet potatoes and salad a girl can take.