Slimming World - Extra Easy weight loss!!

blackberry-rum

Just out of interest, do you know you can cook onions to opaque or brown-and-tasty stage in your microwave without any oil/frylight at all. It takes a little longer but the natural sugars will cook the onion slices and it will also (if browned) make a yummmmmy onion gravy

cooking-mama

cooking-mama wrote: »

I successfully lost just under 2 stones on slimming world years ad years ago(in the days when things like,Canned macaroni cheese were free),I realise the plan has changed massively,especialy with the introduction of Extra Easy etc,but im wondering if it would be just as effective now i want to lose around 10lb...I read somewhere the SW is ideal for bigger weight losses(hence my speedy result when losing 2 stone),but would it be just as effective with less than a stone to lose or would calorie counting be more effective for losing smaller amounts...anyone have any ideas?

Posted this on page 49,but didnt get any replies,tho, 3 thanks,so looks like other people maybe have the same question,Anyway Sorry to post again,but does anyone have any idea? Also,
I did "try" to join a class on Thursday but it was a bit of a disaster,the class had around 20 members staying after weigh in,plus 4 new members(myself included)joining.it seemed to go well initialy.the first 3 new memebers got weighed,but Consultant didnt have time to weigh me cos she had to give us our "new member" talk...then it turned out because the other ladies hadnt paid any fee,they shouldnt have been weighed either.!!,anyhow,the new members talk went Ok,then we joined the class.But one and a half hours later we were still there,and it all consisted of being told a story about someone who didnt count their syns properly and ended up having 70,then it was reading off the weigh in leaflets..
Mary has lost 2lb...well done,clap clap clap
Jean has lost 1lb,..well done,clap,clap,clap.
Sarah has had a small gain,well done,clap clap clap.
And so it went on and on,from 5.30pm till 7.05pm:eek:
Meanwhile,the lady who had been helping the consultant was busy in the background packing up the cash box,and the scales!!,These were taken out to the car at 6.45,and so after 1.5hrs of well doning and clapping so much i was expecting someone to throw me a fish,i didnt get to join and i never did get weighed:(....couldnt go through that every week,thinking of searching for another class,or are they all the same now?

Inazuma

zippychick wrote: »

I genuinely don't know the answer to that Lyns! Might be worth running past a medical professional? I genuinely don't know. I'm all into reading ingredients which is a bit of a curse to be honest! Have you read a low fat spread carton to see what's in it?

I don't pretend for a second to understand all the labels, but I do know I prefer a more natural substitute. I think to myself - if i don't have it in my kitchen, do I really want to eat it? Of course i do eat things with additives etc, i just try to limit them as much as possible (or make better choices):o

Incidentally - I see you drink a lot of diet coke - have you ever researched Aspartame ? I also used to be hooked on diet coke!

Sorry for the off topicness - it's something I am learning about, and I don't think it's wrong to encourage people to read labels like this, and be aware of the choices they make. Like my low sugar juice has aspartame - that's why i use enough literally to slightly colour the water - if i have some, although I am trying to cut down.

Am trying to sprout some alfalfa seeds which i see are free!:j Yippeeeee! Am off to stay in the boyfs tomorrow night, so will need to take dinner, snacks, and breakfast for the next day, to make sure I don't deviate! He suggested take out pizza, but I knocked that right on the head.

I try to avoid aspartame, too and I believe the only company that doesn't use it is Sainsburys, although they do use another one, Sucralose.

Also want to agree with the thanks to Consultant31 for giving us the reality of SW! Really useful.

blackberry-rum

cooking-mama wrote: »

Posted this on page 49,but didnt get any replies,tho, 3 thanks,so looks like other people maybe have the same question,Anyway Sorry to post again,but does anyone have any idea? Also,
I did "try" to join a class on Thursday but it was a bit of a disaster,the class had around 20 members staying after weigh in,plus 4 new members(myself included)joining.it seemed to go well initialy.the first 3 new memebers got weighed,but Consultant didnt have time to weigh me cos she had to give us our "new member" talk...then it turned out because the other ladies hadnt paid any fee,they shouldnt have been weighed either.!!,anyhow,the new members talk went Ok,then we joined the class.But one and a half hours later we were still there,and it all consisted of being told a story about someone who didnt count their syns properly and ended up having 70,then it was reading off the weigh in leaflets..
Mary has lost 2lb...well done,clap clap clap
Jean has lost 1lb,..well done,clap,clap,clap.
Sarah has had a small gain,well done,clap clap clap.
And so it went on and on,from 5.30pm till 7.05pm:eek:
Meanwhile,the lady who had been helping the consultant was busy in the background packing up the cash box,and the scales!!,These were taken out to the car at 6.45,and so after 1.5hrs of well doning and clapping so much i was expecting someone to throw me a fish,i didnt get to join and i never did get weighed:(....couldnt go through that every week,thinking of searching for another class,or are they all the same now?

I think all classes are much the same; our Consultant said she was told by Head Office what she had to do. It is a bit tiresome, I usually take some knitting along and after a bit you get to know one or two people to chat to.

aliscrapper

BarmyCow wrote: »

I love the swiss roll, so try not to make it very often !
Quick question though - I use baking paper and still end up losing half the cake to it - what am I doing wrong ? Should I spray the damn paper with frylight ? I am removing the paper when the cake is hot/warm and cold and makes no difference - grrrrr.:(
Or should I just shut up and put up ?
thanks

M.

Did I miss the swiss roll receipe?? Sounds yummy!:D

Bluefire

HopePray wrote: »

Thanks so much Bluefire, Im off to Turkey in two weeks for a fortnight 5* Ultra AI : ) Been before and its out of this world.
Now I will have to try to beat your pancake & dessert tally, if I double up on what you had do you think I can lose a whole 1 lb???:rotfl::rotfl:

Let me know if you do - we could be on our way to producing a new pancake & dessert based diet plan! We'll make a fortune

In other news, I'm still managing to stay on track and am feeling very 'with it' at the moment when it comes to counting syns etc. I know I'm never going to be completely perfect, because on days when I'm constantly hungry/craving sweet things food will go in my mouth & I'm automatically thinking of what I can have next meaning I tend to slip... but using SW principles as a base thankfully I'm still losing In fact I've never STS or gained since I started (fngers crossed this continues!)

Something that's really helped me this week is making a list of all the foods that are my favourite 'snacks' and writing down the syns next to them. This way when I am craving something I find I'm making more informed choices ie, if I want chocolate and am tempted to steal my OH's banana chocolate flake crunch corner for 7 syns, why not walk into town, get some exercise & buy a Freddo for 5? The logic might sound strange, but it's working for me so far!

It's WI on Monday, and I'm really hoping I can shift the last 1/2lb needed to get to my club 10. More would be better of course! My aim is to try and get another stone off by the time I go to Glastonbury - will make all that lugging camping gear for miles a lot easier! After this week I'm also thinking of switching groups. For one thing, I'm fed up of being weighed in the evening & feeling like I need to starve myself all day. But also since our consultant left a few weeks ago things aren't the same. Personally I like our new lady, but attendance has dropped from 25+ to maybe 10 a week if we're lucky, and there's no real 'talk' as such, just going through the weights/awards. Generally we're out the door after 30 minutes. The weekly raffle has turned into a shamble as well - last week only 2 people brought tickets & our consultant couldn't understand why... I think if she heard herself talking about how the strawberries on offer had only cost her 75p when people pay £1 for a ticket she'd soon figure it out!

All this makes me wonder if being a consultant is something I'd like to do in the future. There's just so many things that could be talked about during the session, it's such a shame to hear some groups are getting nothing more than being weighed & hearing the weights of others. I even asked if we could do a taster session soon & basically got told what's the point with so few people? Personally I think maybe more would stay if there was food on offer! I'd love to have a part where we can talk about any offers we've seen on SW goodies as well - our consultant actually works at Tescos yet the £1 Alpen lights didn't even get a mention.

Anyway next week I shall be changing to our local group that weighs in a morning (currently I travel about 30 minutes to attend the same one that my Mum does). Thanks to whoever mentioned that the Cygnet pub in Shropshire was going to be doing SW reciepies a few pages back (I can't find the post now) - I've told my OH about it & he's going to take me to give it a try

lynzpower

Hiya all :

Re the oil/frylite debate. I have asked OH to ring his GP later to find out if its fine but Im imagining it is fine in any case. He has been told he has to have v- low fat marges and spreads.

UNlike Lynne, I really dont like the flavour of cooking with oil- I cant bear even the smell of olive oil, although we have it in the house I cant remember when we last used it! I find frylite a revelation as I dont have to wrap each chip or roast potato in loads of kitchen paper to dry all the oils off before serving up. ( ps I havent had any real probs with my oven trays, I just chucked them in the DW and they are fine)

I do however love those cholestrol-raising hard fats like lard, duck fat, goose fat, and cooking potatoes in the roasted chicken fat. :eek: And pork scratchings! But these are choices I just shouldn't be regularly making not only for OHs health but for mine too.

We already have VLF mayo, again we had to make this choice a few years ago when he was diagnosed with cholesterol. In saying that its my feeling that quark and FF could do the same job, I just need to get creative, but so far I haven't really "needed" IT If I make a coleslaw cant see why LF yog wouldnt work for example.

Some SW stuff, like using cottage cheese instead of sour cream is a revelation, there is hardly any difference in taste or feel, so I cant see me ever going back to buying sour cream again.We are already skimmed milk drinkers, again, he was told he couldnt have fatty milk.

In a way, SW hasnt adjusted massively from our usual diets, but the reduction in use of oil is part of it as is the removal of sugary carbs.

like many the biscuit tin calls me, biscuits, crisps, cakes, peanuts and scratchings, generally empty snacking and the lure of the "crunch" is what appeals to me about snacking, generally not because I am hungry. the problem is the more you have the more you want as your blood sugar fluctuates making it very difficult to stop, ( after all you dont get full up from eating a cadburys finger- nay not even the whole box!)

I agree it is just so useful to be having these discussions, especially for those of us who dont attend a group. :beer:

Anyhow:
Today has been mixed:

Left the house without so much as a cuppa as the dog was desperate to go out so we went for a really long walk which was 4.5 miles.

Almost there I came over particularly starving about midday so stopped at a caff and had the poached eggs bacon and beans combo- they clearly fried the mushrooms so I left most of them but did eat some so there are sysn there, Im saying 2 for the oil used.

They gave me a slice of brown toast with it as well how many sins is this. I haven't had HEB today, is brown bread on HEB? Just one slice? I didn't eat all of it as wasn't sure how to syn it. ( as ever I felt tired as hell after the bread so wont be doing that again in a hurry!)

Otherwise since Ive got back Ive had a huge bowl of berries with FF yog and some cottage cheese and half pack of rice cakes ( 2.5)

For whomever was asking about Quark recipes, there is a quark fanpage on facebook where people put recipes on? Also I found this on mumsnet, pork in mustard sauce using quark instead of cream , as Ive got a bit of porkj in the freezer and some quark deperate to be used, will try this this weekend!

Pork with Mustard Quark

Prep and cook time: Up to 30 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients
15ml spoon olive oil
454g pork fillet, sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4 salad onions, chopped
125g button mushrooms, quartered
2 x 15ml spoons German mustard
200g carton Quark
2 x 15ml spoons freshly chopped thyme
2 x 15ml spoons freshly chopped parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 x 5ml spoons cornflour blended with 15ml spoon water

Method
Heat the oil, add the pork and garlic and cook for 4-5 minutes until browned.

Add the onions and mushrooms and cook for a further 3-4 minutes.

Stir in the mustard, Quark , thyme, half the parsley, seasoning and blended cornflour. Cook for a further 2-3 minutes.

Spoon into a serving dish and sprinkle with the remaining parsley.

aliscrapper

Bluefire wrote: »

Let me know if you do - we could be on our way to producing a new pancake & dessert based diet plan! We'll make a fortune

In other news, I'm still managing to stay on track and am feeling very 'with it' at the moment when it comes to counting syns etc. I know I'm never going to be completely perfect, because on days when I'm constantly hungry/craving sweet things food will go in my mouth & I'm automatically thinking of what I can have next meaning I tend to slip... but using SW principles as a base thankfully I'm still losing In fact I've never STS or gained since I started (fngers crossed this continues!)

Something that's really helped me this week is making a list of all the foods that are my favourite 'snacks' and writing down the syns next to them. This way when I am craving something I find I'm making more informed choices ie, if I want chocolate and am tempted to steal my OH's banana chocolate flake crunch corner for 7 syns, why not walk into town, get some exercise & buy a Freddo for 5? The logic might sound strange, but it's working for me so far!

It's WI on Monday, and I'm really hoping I can shift the last 1/2lb needed to get to my club 10. More would be better of course! My aim is to try and get another stone off by the time I go to Glastonbury - will make all that lugging camping gear for miles a lot easier! After this week I'm also thinking of switching groups. For one thing, I'm fed up of being weighed in the evening & feeling like I need to starve myself all day. But also since our consultant left a few weeks ago things aren't the same. Personally I like our new lady, but attendance has dropped from 25+ to maybe 10 a week if we're lucky, and there's no real 'talk' as such, just going through the weights/awards. Generally we're out the door after 30 minutes. The weekly raffle has turned into a shamble as well - last week only 2 people brought tickets & our consultant couldn't understand why... I think if she heard herself talking about how the strawberries on offer had only cost her 75p when people pay £1 for a ticket she'd soon figure it out!

All this makes me wonder if being a consultant is something I'd like to do in the future. There's just so many things that could be talked about during the session, it's such a shame to hear some groups are getting nothing more than being weighed & hearing the weights of others. I even asked if we could do a taster session soon & basically got told what's the point with so few people? Personally I think maybe more would stay if there was food on offer! I'd love to have a part where we can talk about any offers we've seen on SW goodies as well - our consultant actually works at Tescos yet the £1 Alpen lights didn't even get a mention.

Anyway next week I shall be changing to our local group that weighs in a morning (currently I travel about 30 minutes to attend the same one that my Mum does). Thanks to whoever mentioned that the Cygnet pub in Shropshire was going to be doing SW reciepies a few pages back (I can't find the post now) - I've told my OH about it & he's going to take me to give it a try

What a brilliant idea of writing down all your favourite snacks with the accompanying syn values next to them!:D I think I'm going to do that with all the sauces I use (nando's sauce, Hellman's extra light mayo, etc) as I get confused as to which has which syn value! :rotfl:

Sounds like you would make a brilliant consultant!;)

lynzpower

cooking-mama wrote: »

Posted this on page 49,but didnt get any replies,tho, 3 thanks,so looks like other people maybe have the same question,Anyway Sorry to post again,but does anyone have any idea? Also,
I did "try" to join a class on Thursday but it was a bit of a disaster,the class had around 20 members staying after weigh in,plus 4 new members(myself included)joining.it seemed to go well initialy.the first 3 new memebers got weighed,but Consultant didnt have time to weigh me cos she had to give us our "new member" talk...then it turned out because the other ladies hadnt paid any fee,they shouldnt have been weighed either.!!,anyhow,the new members talk went Ok,then we joined the class.But one and a half hours later we were still there,and it all consisted of being told a story about someone who didnt count their syns properly and ended up having 70,then it was reading off the weigh in leaflets..
Mary has lost 2lb...well done,clap clap clap
Jean has lost 1lb,..well done,clap,clap,clap.
Sarah has had a small gain,well done,clap clap clap.
And so it went on and on,from 5.30pm till 7.05pm:eek:
Meanwhile,the lady who had been helping the consultant was busy in the background packing up the cash box,and the scales!!,These were taken out to the car at 6.45,and so after 1.5hrs of well doning and clapping so much i was expecting someone to throw me a fish,i didnt get to join and i never did get weighed:(....couldnt go through that every week,thinking of searching for another class,or are they all the same now?

Im absolutely not an expert as Im doing it at home with support from my sister who is a consultant over the phone. I also have knackered scales lol.

I dont have a lot to lose, I was 9 stone 13 when I started and I was 9 stone 3 yesterday ( few weeks) but I am just not convinced on my scales. :rotfl::rotfl:However, I do now need to buy a smaller belt :j

My sister was a 14-16 and is now size 8 and maintaining. She has been still losing weight tho so she is now upping her syns to cope with her increasingly busy lifestyle.

aliscrapper

lynzpower wrote: »

Hiya all :

Re the oil/frylite debate. I have asked OH to ring his GP later to find out if its fine but Im imagining it is fine in any case. He has been told he has to have v- low fat marges and spreads.

UNlike Lynne, I really dont like the flavour of cooking with oil- I cant bear even the smell of olive oil, although we have it in the house I cant remember when we last used it! I find frylite a revelation as I dont have to wrap each chip or roast potato in loads of kitchen paper to dry all the oils off before serving up. ( ps I havent had any real probs with my oven trays, I just chucked them in the DW and they are fine)

I do however love those cholestrol-raising hard fats like lard, duck fat, goose fat, and cooking potatoes in the roasted chicken fat. :eek: And pork scratchings! But these are choices I just shouldn't be regularly making not only for OHs health but for mine too.

We already have VLF mayo, again we had to make this choice a few years ago when he was diagnosed with cholesterol. In saying that its my feeling that quark and FF could do the same job, I just need to get creative, but so far I haven't really "needed" IT If I make a coleslaw cant see why LF yog wouldnt work for example.

Some SW stuff, like using cottage cheese instead of sour cream is a revelation, there is hardly any difference in taste or feel, so I cant see me ever going back to buying sour cream again.We are already skimmed milk drinkers, again, he was told he couldnt have fatty milk.

In a way, SW hasnt adjusted massively from our usual diets, but the reduction in use of oil is part of it as is the removal of sugary carbs.

like many the biscuit tin calls me, biscuits, crisps, cakes, peanuts and scratchings, generally empty snacking and the lure of the "crunch" is what appeals to me about snacking, generally not because I am hungry. the problem is the more you have the more you want as your blood sugar fluctuates making it very difficult to stop, ( after all you dont get full up from eating a cadburys finger- nay not even the whole box!)

I agree it is just so useful to be having these discussions, especially for those of us who dont attend a group. :beer:

Anyhow:
Today has been mixed:

Left the house without so much as a cuppa as the dog was desperate to go out so we went for a really long walk which was 4.5 miles.

Almost there I came over particularly starving about midday so stopped at a caff and had the poached eggs bacon and beans combo- they clearly fried the mushrooms so I left most of them but did eat some so there are sysn there, Im saying 2 for the oil used.

They gave me a slice of brown toast with it as well how many sins is this. I haven't had HEB today, is brown bread on HEB? Just one slice? I didn't eat all of it as wasn't sure how to syn it. ( as ever I felt tired as hell after the bread so wont be doing that again in a hurry!)

Otherwise since Ive got back Ive had a huge bowl of berries with FF yog and some cottage cheese and half pack of rice cakes ( 2.5)

For whomever was asking about Quark recipes, there is a quark fanpage on facebook where people put recipes on? Also I found this on mumsnet, pork in mustard sauce using quark instead of cream , as Ive got a bit of porkj in the freezer and some quark deperate to be used, will try this this weekend!

Have you got a link to the Quark Facebook Group please; as I searched Quark and it came up with 500 groups!:eek: Thanks!:beer: