Brand new thread for Slimming World support

shazbo

Good morning all, its taken me ages to catch up :rotfl:

Good luck everyone who has their WI today, mine is tomorrow morning :eek: and then im off on holiday for a couple of weeks on thursday, im going to try and stick with it as best i can but will also not lose any sleep over the odd treat either

my meal plan today is

Breakfast - yogurt and banana

lunch - undecided

Dinner - jacket potato, cheese (HEa) and beans

snacks - fruit x 5

HEb - not sure yet

syns - not sure yet

Inazuma

blackberry-rum wrote: »

thanks, really looking forward to that, Inaz!

Sorry, TMI!!

Betty, that is really interesting I wonder how many confident on the outside people feel like you. Well if you can be confident when you are fat, think how amazing it will feel to be confident and slim, you lovely egg!

trixietoes

bettyB wrote: »

Thanks Trixie. I am feeling like i'm ready to do SW properly. I am going to buy the magazine for myself as a payday treat today.

I do feel a bit like maybe I am self sabotaging because i dont really want to lose weight. I think I'm scared my life might change if I lose weight. Realistically I know it will only change for the better, but I am quite a shy person deep down, even though my friends think of me as the loud confident one, and I often worry that the layer of fat is my shield (psychologically) that protects me and gives me the ability to be as confident as i seem as I can hide behind the layers as some sort of protection.

(that's what I get for doing a psyc degree and over analysing myself!)

I often feel like I am a scotch egg (strange analogy but bear with me!) - lovely healthy egg inside a layer of horrible fat. I want to be just the egg without the meat but the meat protects me.

You sound a bit like me in lots of ways... outwardly people would say I am confident and outgoing... but when it comes to the crunch I am nervous and shy and feel everyone is much better than me at everything.. I am my own worst critic. I've noticed this more living away as I am mute most of the day :rotfl: I have a tendency to put things off too... which is why I didn't catch my expanding waistline until it was 4 stone overdue . I am doing a Psych degree with OU at the moment ...so I'll come to you when I can't do my essays :D

Yes your life get better and better every step you take to getting where you want to be. I am more confident in my clothes and how I carry myself after a few lb's.

When I was thin I think I was confident on the inside too and you will be too. You sound such a lovely person, you don't need that protection of the sausage meat I am sure.

lynzpower

I do feel a bit like maybe I am self sabotaging because i dont really want to lose weight. I think I'm scared my life might change if I lose weight. Realistically I know it will only change for the better, but I am quite a shy person deep down, even though my friends think of me as the loud confident one, and I often worry that the layer of fat is my shield (psychologically) that protects me and gives me the ability to be as confident as i seem as I can hide behind the layers as some sort of protection.

I sometimes feel a bit like that.

When I have been slim,I have often had the white van man beeping and the comments. When Im larger, I dont get that sort of unwanted attention. NOw Im slimmer the van-men have started up again

I find wearing sunglasses in all weathers helps ( plus I have weak eyes *bright light, bright light*) and that is my new shield

bettyB_2

Thanks for your kind words. Nice to know I'm not alone. Feels wierd trying to convince myself that I will be ok if I let myself lose weight. I need to reprogramme my brain!
Good luck with your OU course Trixie! Loved my course, psyc is so interesting, only problem is it's allowed me to over analyse a lot!

(Hehe 'sausage meat protection' sounds a bit dirty :rotfl:)

Sian_the_Green

Morning all!
My bro is getting married on September 24th and now I want to have lost half a stone by then (ideally would love a stone but that it half of what I want to lose in total so may be a little over optimistic!). I am so up and down that I haven't really lost anything since starting with this whole SW thing, it is just making up for the times I really overindulge! If I ask do you think my consultant will not say my total weight loss because it is stupid that people know I have been coming along for a while and haven't really lost anything. I know I shouldn't care but I do and whilst they don't say your weight I still think I don't want people to know...

So, had some breakfast couscous this morning and am having a diet coke now. I am determined now but the feeling wears off when I am confronted with popcorn or pastry!

Hope everyone else is doing well x

bettyB_2

Is popcorn particularly bad on SW? (I mean homemade from kernals, as it is, no butter or anything) It's usually reccommended for diets but I dont know the SW stance on it.

yoemma

Inazuma wrote: »

And me too, although living in exile on the south coast. Just eating my porridge as I write.

haha hope you can still catch some haggis in the hills down south? actually, best leaving those pesky haggis alone, not v SW friendly!!

mumoftwo

bettyB wrote: »

Thanks Trixie. I am feeling like i'm ready to do SW properly. I am going to buy the magazine for myself as a payday treat today.

I do feel a bit like maybe I am self sabotaging because i dont really want to lose weight. I think I'm scared my life might change if I lose weight. Realistically I know it will only change for the better, but I am quite a shy person deep down, even though my friends think of me as the loud confident one, and I often worry that the layer of fat is my shield (psychologically) that protects me and gives me the ability to be as confident as i seem as I can hide behind the layers as some sort of protection.

(that's what I get for doing a psyc degree and over analysing myself!)

I often feel like I am a scotch egg (strange analogy but bear with me!) - lovely healthy egg inside a layer of horrible fat. I want to be just the egg without the meat but the meat protects me.

I so know what you mean, I hide behind my fat. It is like I have two totally different personalities; the one who really longs and wants to be slim again,and the other one who constantly sabotages it and make me binge. I have self analysed and I comfort eat. We have had a lot of stress with my daughter's disability from birth and I find it hard to cope.

But no more! This is enough now. I don't want to get any bigger and become a recluse like you see on tv. My family needs me around for a long time and I am so scared of getting diabetes or heart disease.

trixietoes

After all this talk of confidence .. or lack of it in my case... for the first time in 3.5 years of living away I have booked to have my hair cut (I usually wait til I go home). I actually rang a hairdresser :eek: And you know what ... it was a piece of wee.... I spoke English.. they spoke English back. New haircut tomorrow at 10.30am. I have been putting this off for months as I didn't want to call them even though OH has his hair done there!