Slimming World support thread for 2010

jenniflower

karen23 wrote: »

Hi jenniflower, I am also wheat intolerant and find sw great. I don't eat any of the wheat free substitutes apart from the pasta and that is also considered free on green/extra easy days I'm not sure if you can use the bread for heb but will check in a minute - I do know that most wf substitutes are quite high in syns I only found out I was WI last July and I really struggled because I used to live on microwave meals, but doing sw has really encouraged me to cook from scratch and I now eat a much better variety of food.

Ok have just checked and there are several different wf breads/rolls listed as heb that weren't there when I started a couple of months ago! The genius bread which is the only one I've tried and liked isn't listed as heb but is listed as 5 syns per slice.

Thank you very much for that information:D. I do enjoy the genius bread but it is expensive and quite hard to find sometimes.

When i go on tues I will be able to have a look online at the syn values for the rolls etc.

blackberry-rum

BarmyCow wrote: »

Morning all
Can I ask, does anyone else's group do a SoW "prize" ? At our meeting, everyone brings something for the hamper and this is the prize - so it could be a tin of beans, some fruit or veg, tin of tuna - anything really, as long as it is either free or low-syn and the consultant always enjoys going through and making suggestions for what we could make/do with the ingredients and advises on syn values for the less obvious items. It's just an added incentive really and lets face it, when you are buying bananas by the bag load, does it really hurt to donate one to the hamper ??:D Apologies if this is standard SW practice, this is the only group I've ever been to but I really like this hamper business (although have only won the once - so far - now I'm hooked !!! )

M. x

M: both groups I've attended do the SoW hamper prize. I won it once and (honestly) hope I never do again, and it was full of fruit (I'd already bought my week's worth of fruit, I buy tons of it) and packets of dehydrated stuff like Ainsley's couscous (6 packs of various stuff) that Id never use. The fabbest thing in there was six fresh eggs, yum! The girl sitting by me had won the hamper the week before and had brought back all the dried stuff, so I did the same the following week. It looked as if it had gall one to and fro quite often . The FOLLOWING week after that, there were all the packets again and the teacher was looking thru for syn values etc and noticed the "use by" date on one of the packs was three years before! :rotfl:

Now, I try to take things that aren't fruit but might be useful. I think I took a Spanish onion one week, and last week I took one of those little boxes with salad actually growing in it. I thought next time I'm at Lakeland I will buy a couple more of those tiny measuring jugs too as they are handy, though not food. And I thought of buying a little pot of spices or some growing coriander or something. I just feel having an extra 20 oranges and apples in your fruit bowl, especially for singletons like me, is a bit daunting :eek: - and I still sit there praying it's not me that's slimmer of the week

bright_side

Oh, I soooo want to be slimmer of the week Not much chance of that in my group though, especially after my little blow out last night lol. I know what you mean though, our basket is often full of apples and they'd only get used if stewed fruit was free :rotfl:

TakeItEazy

I find Sundays the most challenging day of the week food wise as I just LOVE my roast dinner. Today hubby is cooking roast pork and he does a wicked crackling which I do try to resist but often fall down on then theres his awesome yorshire puds which I do limit to 1 and weigh it. Then theres his fabulous gravy from meat juices and flour thickened. I should have married a rubbish cook .
I do have about 60syns left from the week so hopefully will be ok and not undo all the good work this week.
Wish me luck

cuddlycarol

Hi Carol - could your motivation simply be "I've got 4 1/2 stone to lose"? I just left the pub after a big glass of sparkling mineral water, leaving my friends heading for their third pints to be followed by a (yummy yummy) curry. I was internally murmuring "I'd rather be a size slimmer than have a curry; I'd rather be a size slimmer than have a curry ...etc". And don't anyone tell me I can have tandoori chicken and boiled rice, I wouldn't eat that on or off a diet!

It was hard, but I've come home, got a glass of my own lovely wine (6 syns) , much nicer than the pub's, and am cooking dhal with rice, absolutely syn free and to my delight Asda wholemeal pitta bread is now a healthy extra so I will warm up one of them to scoop up my food. I shall just be boring :cool:until I lose a stone, then have a little blow out, then be boring :cool:for the next stone, etc. That's what I've decided.

Do you measure yourself as well Carol? I stayed the same this week but my measurements were half an inch down (6" overall lost) which eased the blow.

And you will get lots of support on here.

Haven't tried the measuring thing - basically because the initial measurements absolutely horrify me!!:o I promise to give it a go...

Just taken my children to the cinema, and took along a tupperware of bran flakes as a HEB to snack on while they had popcorn. :A
Have an evening out planned for 22nd May so plan to be really good until then (and after of course!) I'm hoping that's a fairly short term goal I should be able to stick with.

I generally stick to green days, but thinking maybe I should add a few red days in too. Does anyone find either red or green is better for weight loss?

bright_side

How do you decide how many syns to have each day? i tend to try to stick to between 5 and 10 but does anyone here have 15 a day and still lose well? I have about another 1.5 stone to lose so thought sticking to 10 max would be better? However if I could actually have 15 a day then yesterdays blip would fit in with that for the week overall

TakeItEazy

BarmyCow wrote: »

Have to say blackberry-rum - your new avatar is completely revolting - but what an incentive, I can't stop looking at it even though I don't want to....:rotfl:

M. x

Why can't I see any avatars?

Inazuma

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Why can't I see any avatars?

I was just going to ask that!!! Anyone help?

blackberry-rum

Inazuma wrote: »

I was just going to ask that!!! Anyone help?

Dunno. I cannot see anything by yours, but there's a little baby face by Takeiteazy's.

off to the pub now, walking the long way round to get a bit more exercise one glass of wine, then sparkling water and NO scratchings or dry roasted peanuts I vow I vow I vow.

JenIttels

BarmyCow wrote: »

I used to do Rosemary Conley (I loved the exercise but after a while I did feel a little deprived so lost interest)

I used to do RC too. I followed the SW eating plan whilst doing it though since it fit in much better with my life and just never told anyone at RC that I wasn't doing the cals/fat thing! My RC class was fabulous though and I feel it's good money spent on exercise rather than a weigh in at SW. I sometimes find that SW classes are so established when I join them that it can be impossible to get a word in edgeways as the new person which meant I was less inclined to go to class(!)...it doesn't help that I can be pretty shy in those situs though! RC was much easier: arrive, WI, chat with friends for 15mins (easier to make friends in a less hectic group than SW I think), listen to leader congratulate the losers for 10 mins, exercise!

I miss any class now though. I miss the fact that even though I think I'm going to lose weight this week that I won't get a chance to be SoW or get a little sticker on my book. I loved that stuff even though they seem like small things at the time!

Edit to say: I also really miss HiFi bars and the magazine. I think I'm going to join a class, just for one week when I'm in the UK on hols, so I can get the books, mag and stock up on a few hifi bars!