New Slimming World thread part 2

nic2075

Ive decided to start a new thread as our old one was getting very long.

Thanks Flat Eric for this info from last thread.

Slimming World is a healthy approach to eating for life.

All the information you need will be given to you when you join in the form of your food optimising pack.

If you are not sure whether Slimming World is for you then pick up a copy of the Slimming World Magazine from your local newsagent. Each issue contains a week's menu and also contains fabulous stories on how well some people have done. Once you have joined a class you will be able to buy your magazine from your consultant and will save (I think) 90 pence on the retail shop price.



Also have a look at the Slimming World website. See here. http://www.slimmingworld.com/

By entering your postcode, all your local groups will be displayed and you can then pick the group that is most convenient for you.

Also available from the Slimming World website is a free 7 day trial menu

see here
http://www.slimmingworld.com/healthy...rial_menu.aspx

SW has proved a revelation for me and after 18 months or so, SW is ingrained in me so I have taken the liberty of hijacking the first few posts of this thread so that I can share my knowledge and help you begin your journey.

I am not a SW consultant nor am I employed or paid anything by SW. The following is my own words and is not endorsed by SW. It is just my own take on things having attended class for so long.

There may be the odd spelling mistake or obvious error! so please forgive me in advance! For those members that spot any - please shout!

FINALLY WELCOME:D

nic2075

Why wont anyone share the password for the Slimming World Members site Lifeline Online?


It may seem unfair that those members who attend class each week and therefore know the password do not share it! The simple answer to this is that the sharing of the password will get this invaluable forum shut down.


I can say no more on the subject as the following letter sums it up perfectly. This letter was posted by another member on our previous SW thread. I understand the letter was sent by SW in respect of another SW support forum.


Dear Administrator,

I’ve received a letter from a Slimming World member who is very disappointed to see that the password for LifelineOnline is being shared on your forum. Whilst I can see that your forum is a source of mid-week support and motivation for many members – and possibly non-members too – I would appreciate it if you could ensure that the password isn’t published on your pages.

Group members pay a weekly fee which includes exclusive access to the site. LifelineOnline is an extension of Slimming World, rather than a support system in itself, by passing the password on to non-members it is depriving them of experiencing for themselves the unique support of a Slimming World group and Image Therapy. We are the only slimming company that allows members free access to a member’s website via a password (other companies charge for this service); if the password continues to be made available to non-members on unofficial forums, we may have to review LifelineOnline ‘free’ status.

We do take this seriously because we want to offer our members the very best online support and help for free. I hope you can appreciate that and are able to action this on your support forum as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

Nicola Slack
Slimming World Assistant Website Editor


How much does it cost?


Students / persons over 60 weekly fee of £4.25
other members weekly fee of £4.50


missed weeks have to be paid for. It is therefore important to inform your consultant if you will not be attending the following week. A quick phone call or e-mail to your consultant is strongly advisable if you have left class and then find out you can't make the following week. As the classes go digital, the computer is too clever for its own good and will know if you didn't attend the previous week and if holiday hasn't been booked you will be asked for two weeks money.


If you miss too many weeks, it will be cheaper for you to rejoin rather than pay all your back fees.




What is a countdown?


You can purchase a 6 week or 12 week countdown. Simply you either pay for 5 weeks in advance (£22.50) (and get 1 free) or pay for 12 weeks in advance (£45.00) and get 2 weeks free.


A countdown is not suitable for shift workers.


If you are still attending a paper based class then it is sensible when you request your countdown to note with your countdown request that you require (at least) 2 weeks holiday. When SW issue your countdown, it will only be for the specified number of weeks (starting with the week you requested it). Therefore if you miss a week then that week is lost and your consultant will not be able to let you off as the little vouchers have expiry dates on. Your SW consultant could lose her job if she was to accept countdown vouchers that have expired.


Even if you don't have any holiday planned, requesting some will give you a couple of weeks grace should something crop up.


If you have gone digital then you need to inform the team member who takes your money of any holiday PRIOR TO them making the countdown request on the computer. The computer throws a wobbly if the countdown is booked and paid for and you then try to book holiday for any weeks during the countdown period.


Attending class isn't for me? How can I get hold of the books?


You have two options: -

1. Join a class, attend for your first week, pay your joining fee/ first week subs, collect your food optimising and never go back or;
2. take out a bank loan and buy on ebay!

I don't advocate either of the above but for some of you, this may be your only option.


Ebay is good for the slimming world magazine – I buy duplicates and cut one up which I then put in my recipe folder and retain one so that I can re-read the success stories / useful articles.


It is not good however for the books particularly the food optimising pack which members get when they join SW. They change hands for extortionate sums! So be warned! A friend of mine recently paid £9 just for the extra easy book.


It makes me cross when I know how reasonable the recipe books are to buy at class and I see them for sale on ebay for stupid sums.


Attending class each week is not cheap and I also appreciate that with family / work commitments, it just might not be possible for you. Therefore my preferred choice is option 1. Attending class for just one week will at least give you the opportunity to see what it is all about, will mean that the plan is explained to you and will mean you can ask any questions you may have and also see how well other members have done on the plan.




What can I expect when I go to my first class?


Rest assured you will be made to feel VERY WELCOME. I am pretty sure that to be a SW consultant, you must have previously been a SW member and lost weight with SW. Thus your consultant will at some point have started the journey you are now embarking on.


Your consultant will more than likely have a “social team” i.e. a team of 2 or 3 SW members who will look after the collection of subs and the weigh in of existing members. Please be rest assured that if a fellow member is on the social team, they will have signed something to say that everything will be kept confidential.


This then frees up the consultant to look after you !


Your consultant will give you your food optimising pack and will spend some time explaining about the plan, how it works, red / green / extra easy days. And answer any questions you may have.


Image Therapy will then follow.

This will no doubt vary from class to class but typically will involve the consultant reading the news i.e. advising of the password, advising of the accumulative weight loss for your group, informing you of any promotions, freebies, money off vouchers that she has received, any new cookbooks that might be out etc / any slimming world promotions i.e. the current promotion that is running for slimming world being in its 40th year.

She will then speak to each member individually. She will report on how well you have done i.e. how many pounds you have lost. She will ask you how you are getting on with things and whether you have anything cropping up during the following week that might throw a spanner in the works, such as a meal out, a weekend away at a wedding. Any problems you have will be addressed either by the consultant or by the other members.

If you have had a gain then your consultant will typically say ????. little gain this week, how do you feel about that? In our class, my consultant does not typically report on the exact gain just that there has been a gain. Everyone wil be supportive and you will not be judged.

What is / why do I have to complete a food diary.

When you join SW, your food optimising pack will contain 4 weeks worth of food diaries.

You should complete food diaries for your first four weeks and hand these to your consultant. This gives her the opportunity to see how you are getting on and whether your understanding of the plan is correct. She will therefore be able to offer any comments or suggestions to enable you to get the most from SW.





What is FAST FORWARD?


FF or Fast Forward is for want of a better explanation, a secret plan that SW consultants have up their sleeve for those times when it just isn't working for members. As I understand it (having not followed it personally) its very restrictive and EVERYTHING has to be counted.

What is Extra Easy?
Extra Easy is another plan you can do as well as red and green days. You can mix these days up any way you like during the week, or you can stick to the same one all the time. Variety is the key.
On an Extra Easy day (EE) you can eat any food that are listed as free on red and green days.
You can have one healthy extra A, and one healthy extra B
You should aim to have between 5 -15 syns a day.

an example of an extra easy day is as follows

Breakfast - cooked breakfast with eggs, lean bacon, mushrooms and beans, 2 slices of toast (400g loaf) HEB
Lunch - Jacket potato with tuna, 28g cheese HEA)and salad
Dinner - Lamb curry with boiled rice

To lose weight at a slightly faster rate on extra easy its is recommended to fill your plate with 1/3 super free foods.


Abbreviations
EE - Extra Easy
HEA - Healthy extra A's
HEB - Healthy extra B's
SW - Slimming world
ML - Muller light
FF - fat free or sometimes fromage frais

Anything else I can think of or is suggested we can add as we go along.

nic2075

Ive changed this post so we can post up our favourite recipes, life savers and must try's. If you want to post something here please let me know and Ill edit my post so we can add it, we could maybe even try a recipe of the week. We can direct people to post #3 if they want to know Marions rice recipe etc.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1948340&postcount=3

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=3412194&posted=1#post3412194


:DHere is Marions famous breakfast rice which is an absolute lifesaver . :D

Cook 1/2 cup of pudding rice in 1 cup of water for about 20 minutes (I use my remoska). Remove from heat put into a bowl, add fruit and a complementing muller yogurt and mix together! ie rice with sliced banana and toffee yogurt, rice with frozen blueberrys and a blueberry yogurt, rice with mandarin segments (chopped) and mandarin yogurt. For best results eat straight away while it is nice and warm! Tastes really nice and is very very filling! Also free on SW green and EE so can be made any time you fancy it really! Marion


Syn free curry sauce (the best I've ever tasted)

1 Onion
2 cloves Garlic
1 tsp finely grated ginger
1tbsp hot or med curry powder
400g tin chopped tomatoes
57ml/2fl oz veg stock
2 tbspn sweetener
57g/ 2oz natural yoghurt or Quark/fromage frais
1 tbspn chopped mint (optional)
1 tbspn chopped coriander (optional)

Chop onions and crush garlic. Spray frying pan with fry light and place on heat - add onion, garlic, and ginger and fry for 1-2 mins before adding curry powder.
Stir and cook for another couple of mins then add tomatoes, sweetener and stock.
Bring to boil and reduce heat to simmer gently for 12-15 mins.
Blitz sauce in food processor or with hand blender, and return to heat. Heat gently and add quark/yoghurt/fromage frais and herbs.


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Cous Cous Cake:A (total of 3 syns - around 6 large servings)

4oz cous cous - cover with boiled water 5-10 mins

2 eggs beaten
2 tablespoons of lemon curd (3 syns I believe)
4 tablespoons of sweetner
1 x mullerlight yogart
Rind and juice of 1 lemon

When cous cous ready, mix all the ingredients together, put in a microwavable container and cook on high for 10-12 mins. When cool turn out onto a plate.

As I said above the texture is odd - may be nice with sliced strawberries and kiwi fruit on the top or served with another muller or fat free yogart. I liked it warm or cold.

Hope you like it.

Skint_Catt

Thanks Nic, I've been thinking for weeks the other was getting a little big!

Can anyone help with something for dinner? Want something easyish and just for me as OH doesn't land until 10pm. On a red day and have in the fridge; gammon, free sausages, bacon, eggs, stirfry (but don't fancy it), broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, some new pots I think, bread and have 2 HEb's still left to use. Just fancy something more exciting than gammon & egg or cooked brekkie

nic2075

Thanks, I might need to add a bit about Extra easy though. i dont think theres anything about it, need to double check, and the recipe links not working either :rolleyes:

How about making a cooked brekkie fritatta? Filling but slightly different than just all on a plate.
Im doing extra easy and having chicken stuffed with garlic and herb quark, broccolli and SW chips. Sorry I cant help more, ive been stressing about links for the last 20 minutes.

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Thanks Nic, I've been thinking for weeks the other was getting a little big!

Can anyone help with something for dinner? Want something easyish and just for me as OH doesn't land until 10pm. On a red day and have in the fridge; gammon, free sausages, bacon, eggs, stirfry (but don't fancy it), broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, some new pots I think, bread and have 2 HEb's still left to use. Just fancy something more exciting than gammon & egg or cooked brekkie

Liz3yy

nic2075 wrote: »

This is a link to the recipe index.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...40&postcount=3

The link doesn't seem to work?

Skint_Catt

We know hun, see Nic's post above!

S'ok I had a bowl of leftover beef curry instead - maybe have a snack later of summat before going to airport.

I have a thing about Jelly Beans at the mo - does anyone know how many syns?

Thanks!

nic2075

sorry Liz im a bit rubbish about techie stuff like links, i thought it would be a simple cut and paste job but it didnt work, i was hoping someone could come along and advise me and ill update it.

Liz3yy wrote: »

The link doesn't seem to work?

nic2075

I just used your link how did you do that? im I just being a thicky?

missty25

First Weigh in tonight lost 3 1/2 lb's, but was wearing Jeans last week and in light work uniform this week so wonder if at all or how much this could affect weight loss? Does anyone know? not got scales in house. Cheers

mummy_dumpling

jeans will weigh heavier than lighter clothes - maybe make a 1lb or so difference? its always best to try and wear the same weight clothes to weigh in for consistency. well done on your loss