Lose Weight 31

puddings_2

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

2/3rds of the weight loss in the first week is retained water and pooh (MRI scanning has shown that morbidly obese people can carry 40lbs+ of it ...)

sometimes eric, you're so full of !!!!!!

lolly101

neilersmc wrote: »

Weight loss for this week is a whopping - 9.5lb - all on the SW extra easy plan and 5 1000cal cardio workouts at the gym.

Wow, that is amazing! Congratulations! :T

I'm almost embarrassed to put my loss in the same post, lol. I lost 3 lbs this week; it could have been better, although it's still a good loss considering my big breakfast yesterday, and pizza the day before.

I was worrying whether I'd lost anything this week after my little 'incidents', although I think that they have pushed me to do more exercise than I would have done without them.

Today started well. I had a BL bar first thing to keep me going through the school run, and am just heating up a bowl of sausage and veg soup to tide me through until lunch.

Well I started watching BL last night, I've never really watched a series before, only the odd episode here and there. I found it quite inspiring, especially watching them on the bikes - I was actually on my bike when it came on so decided that I wouldn't get off until I had burnt 1000 calories - it took forever!!!

bettyB_2

teecee and neil yes you guys are lucky with your group. I think I was unlucky and unfortunate to go at such a busy time, with a sub consultant, but to be frank it just wasn't my 'thing' - I can't afford to keep going back anyway.

victory wrote: »

betty I am so glad you feel the same, they will never see me again there either:rotfl::rotfl:

Right so, SW lovers out there help me please, if fruit is all free why at the back of the book in the syns bit is it syned? As is rice and pots and pasta when it is all free foods but syned?

fruit is synned if it is dried fruit, cooked fruit, tinned fruit or fruit covered in something (ie yoghurt coated raisins). Fresh and frozen fruit is always free.

Rice is synned on the red plan (syn number is in red) but is free on all other plans (it says free in orange and green)

Pasta will be synned if it's the 'fresh' not 'dry' variety.

Once you have chosen what kind of day you are having you stick to that one colour for the day - so if you're having an Extra Easy day you only look at the orange numbers. Does that make sense?

I always have cereal for breakfast but according to the syns if I have shreddies or weetabix that is 6.5 syns already and it is only breakfast? My fav rice cakes have 3 syns per cake so if I have 4 that is me syned for the day? Ryvita has 2 syns and crackers have 3 to 4 syns each so 3 of them I am syned up?

you can have weetabix and other cereals as your HEB choice, which means you dont have to syn them. If you had some more on top of the HEB allowance, then you'd have to start synning it. (pages 23-24 have HEB cereals listed - 2 weetabix is in the list)


If shreddies and skimmed milk is usual that is 28g for 6.5 syns, lunch say soup is 3 syns, I am synning all over the place here when with WW I was pointing and well withing it!!

the skimmed milk can be your HEA choice, you can have 350ml of it. (pg 21) As for soup, homemade soup is free (if made without oil/fat) and some soup is a HEB choice (p25) but then you would have to chose whether to use soup or weetabix as your HEB and then syn the other thing. (I know it sounds confusing sorry I am trying to be as clear as possible!)

I asked the leader about subway as it is not in the book she said she did not know and made no effort to find out either

Don't know about subway either sorry, think you could probably get the nutritional info from the shop though and put it in the syn calculator online.

Here's another sample menu (my day today) - Extra Easy:
Brekkie:
2 clementines (superfree) 2 weetabix (HEB) with 125ml skim milk (This is 1/2 the HEA allowance but I measure 250ml into a jug and then use the remainder for cups of tea during the day)

So in one sitting i have used both my HEB and HEA choices, which means the rest of the day has to be free food and superfree food.

Lunch:
pasta (free) with canned tuna (free) and 2 tbsp extra light mayo (2 syns) with onion(superfree), green beans (superfree) and sweetcorn (free)
Then an apple, to up the amount of superfree food eaten for that meal.

Dinner:
2 reduced fat sausages (2 syns), lentils (free), tomatoes (superfree), carrot (superfree), onion (superfree) and potatoes (free)

dessert will be a shape delight yoghurt for 5.5 syns.

total syns = 9.5

bettyB_2

lolly dont be silly a 3lb loss is really good!! well done

vixarooni

Ok so after my two meals yesterday, in which i paid for it big time and spent all evening feeling sick. Its the most ive eaten in a day since before christmas though, so my stomach has obviously got used to me eating less.

But, the scales still say im on for a -1lb!! So excited. Im off to the gym in an hour too. Which reminds me, i might tune up my ipod to see me through the dark times on the cross trainer!!

margaretclare

I don't go to any club, but just as well - I don't think I could cope with all the talk of 'syns'. What on earth are they?

I'm sticking as closely as possible to 1100 calories a day. I don't get told by anyone else what I can eat and what I can't, but obviously, quality rather than quantity - there's no room for rubbish foods. I also find that any highly-refined foods - white flour, white sugar etc - are a no-no.

Eric_Pisch

puddings wrote: »

sometimes eric, you're so full of !!!!!!

i seam to be

i weighed in pre and post pooh yesterday and lost 2.1 lbs :eek::eek::eek:

Ironically eating a high fibre low fat diet makes me constipated, a medium fat diet and I am fine, seams to go against what all the nutritionists say ?

sarymclary

*ramble alert! This post is mainly for Victory, re. the Slimming World plan*

Victory & Betty, what a shame your groups weren't good ones.

The consultant that runs my group is very overweight too. It's my biggest gripe with SW that they seem to be happy for you to set your own target weight, and if that has you still obese and in a high BMI, then that's fine, so long as you stay -/+3 of that target. I'd say my consultant is at least a size 20/22, although she tries to cover it up with floaty long cardigans, and has physical problems due to her weight, and is about to have knee operations this year. She's 61, and has been a consultant for 10 years. She said last night that she became a consultant at very short notice, without much training, but has enjoyed it since. Her style of presentation is poor, she's got a somewhat grumpy demeanour, and is a very 'me, me' kind of person, so we hear a lot about what she's done. I was unfortunate enough to have had a stand-in consultant on the first 2 weeks I attended, who was great. Really chatty, lots of tips etc., and had really walked the walk, so she could talk the talk. She'd been a successful slimmer in the mag, featured in local papers, and was still fighting the flab. She's had to have 2 operations now to deal with her excess skin (tummy, and legs), but she really did come across as someone who knew how we were all feeling. She gave lots of hints and tips, such as if you leave the fat on your bacon you're looking at an average of 11 syns - there were a lot of guilty faces at that news!

Victory, you have the books now, read them over and over, to familiarise yourself with the plan. The basics are this:

The premise of Slimming World's plan is that you fill up on foods that satisfy your appetite, but are lower in calories. Eating a whole orange is less calorie dense, more fibrous and more filling, than drinking the juice of 5 oranges in 1 glass. If you eat all the free/superfree foods, you can realistically eat as much as you want, as often as you want, provided you are only eating to satisfy hunger. We all know the difference between over-eating and gorging until we're uncomfortably stuffed, and just feeling peckish and needing a snack or meal. In reality you don't have to even have portion control... the only exception being that on Extra Easy 1/3 of your plate has to be superfree veg/fruit. The fact is, that if you eat pasta for breakfast, dinner & tea, you're not going to feel hungry between meals anyway, so you shouldn't feel the need to eat constantly eat biscuits or snack foods that might be calorie dense, and in my case where all the weight was coming from.

Each day you have to choose what part of the plan to follow, so that's either Green/Original(red)/Extra Easy (orange)
If you choose Green or Original you can have up to 4 of the Healthy Extras (2 x A, 2 x , so you can have milk & cheese, bread & carbs/meat (remember that Green is veggie based, so you'd have to syn any meat or take it from your HeB allowance (quorn is free, so use that as a meat substitute), Original is focussed on meat, so high carb foods have to be synned, or taken from your HeB).

So, if you were on a green day, but wanted to have some ham, chicken, bacon, etc., then you could use one of your HeB choices (look at the Healthy Extras on the green pages p. 28-31) but if you have more than the weights allowed, you'd have to syn it.

You're reading the syn allowance directory at the back of the book, and taking all those syn allowances at what might be over your Healthy Extra allowances, or not within a Green/Original plan.

My suggestion would be to start off on Extra Easy, because it is much easier to get into the swing of things that way. You will have to limit your Healthy Extras to 1 each of A/B, but it will get you onto the plan, and make life easier. I think the 1 thing you are going to struggle with is that you do rely quite heavily on pre-prepared snacks/foods, such as snack-a-jacks, ryvita, WW ready meals, etc. What Slimming World really, really promotes is cooking from scratch, eating natural, wholesome foods. You're going to have to get back in that kitchen and be creative!

If you do Extra Easy to begin with, then you get to eat all lean meat, all veg (fresh/tinned/frozen), all fruit (not canned/cooked/puree'd fruit), any dried pasta/noodles/rice. The fresh & ready packs of rice/pasta/noodles have added oils, to help keep them fresh, so they have to be synned. Your store cupboard staples like oxo, worcestershire sauce, Marigold stock, soy sauce, etc. are all free. Tinned soups will have added oil & sugars, so they have to be synned too, so make your own would be my suggestion. You can make a larger batch, portion it up into bags and bung them in the freezer, and they'll also be much healthier... mine are tastier too, so the kids actually prefer my soup to Heinz. It sounds like a faff, but with a bit of planning, it just becomes routine. It takes 10 mins to bung on about 3 litres+ of a mixed veg soup, using all the dodgy looking veg in my fridge & some stock.

So, here are a few ideas of what I eat, and the rest of the family tend to eat the same as me, at main meals, the only difference they have is at breakfast when they'll have white bread, or unhealthy cereals.

Breakfasts:
eggs on wholemeal toast [HeB](1 slice from 800g loaf, or 2 slices from 400g loaf)
28g porridge [HeB], 1 banana chopped up, or strawberries (or even frozen mixed berries), fat free yogurt
Muller light or FF Activia, satsuma, grapes, banana
2 x Alpen Lights, fresh pineapple & strawberries, FF yogurt (my son has this most days now)
Bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans
2 slices wholemeal bread, with sliced banana inside, satsuma & apple
Boiled eggs & soldiers [HeB]
BLT using w/m bread from [HeB]
Quorn sausages, beans, mushrooms, tomato.

Lunches:
1 pack of Batchelors Chicken & Mushroom Pasta & Sauce (made up with water only) (free!), added chopped mushrooms- this is one of my lazy lunches, but scrummy. Either eat with a side salad, or have a couple of pieces of fruit after.
bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans
bacon, eggs, quorn sausage, side salad, low fat coleslaw (2 syns)
baked potato, baked beans, side salad, l/f coleslaw (2 syns)
Mugshot noodle/pasta snack (most are free, or 1/2 syns), fruit & yogurt - I have this when I'm short on time or dashing in/out, coz it's quick.
SW quiche: made using base of sliced potatoes, chopped lean bacon, eggs, cottage cheese, onions, peppers, low fat cheese (using HeA or synned)... very, very tasty, and guaranteed to have you snacking on it too!

Dinners:
beef casserole, done in the slow cooker using: lean beef (shin is a cheap cut), carrots, onions, swede, parsnips, tin of mushy peas, potatoes, pearl barley, oxo/bovril stock, seasoning. If you need to thicken it with cornflour/flour/gravy granules they will be synned as per book, but it works out at about 1/2 syn per portion. Slow cooking does make it thicken up nicely anyway, if you have starchy foods in it, like rice/pasta.

Pasta & chicken, with h/m tomato sauce & mixed veggies: courgettes, onions, mushrooms, carrots, leeks, etc. If you want to make a creamy sauce the recipes recommend using low fat fromage frais, or quark.

Roast dinner: lean beef/pork/lamb/chicken (fat/skin removed), roast potatoes cooked in frylight spray, mashed spuds (no fat, milk from HeA), carrots, broccoli, peas, sweetcorn, etc., 2 x h/m yorkshire puds (6 syns), gravy (2 syns), and if you have a big enough joint, you can have cold meat and salad the next day, or put it in to a casserole in the slow cooker.

Low fat sausages (4 @ 1/2 syn each), mash, mixed veg, gravy [2 syns]

There are loads and loads of recipes on the website, although if you aren't attending classes, I presume your PIN number you've got now will not work in a week or so. I suggest you copy and paste as many of the recipes over to your PC, or print them off, ASAP, so you have some ideas. The recipe books are apparently available at bookshops too, I read somewhere online this week.

I have had to change radically the way I ate, so that means less bread, and processed foods, and not having to endure the usual 'diet' focussed foods like low fat snacks such as rice cakes, etc., but it means I am eating proper meals, in decent sized portions, so that I am not totally focussed on when I can next eat again. If I want to eat all day long, I can do, it just has to be healthily. If avoiding all the winter flu/vomiting/cold bugs for the past 2 months or so is anything to go by, I'd say it's done me the world of good health wise, my skin is much clearer, I'm sleeping better, and I feel more energised (and I've not lost enough weight yet I'm sure for it to be that).

My son lost another 3lb again this week, that's just by him getting back into the plan, after having Christmas off, and not snacking on rubbish again. It's incredible that he's now lost almost 1 stone, and the difference in him to look at, and emotionally is remarkable. He's not so tearful anymore, which I'm sure was him feeling down about his size, and is feeling confident and proud of himself, which means he's holding himself more upright, not hiding under big, baggy sweatshirts & tshirts, and not pulling the front of them constantly, to hide his tummy/chest. He said this morning that he can't wait to break through the stone barrier, which he's only 1lb off of doing now, and just be in his healthy weight range. He's practically there now anyway, so we're going to go by his clothes sizes, to work out when he needs to stop. I don't think they'd accept your son under 11 years old, and unless you were intending to go each week to class, i cannot really see how he would benefit? My son really enjoys the classes, he finds some of the ladies there quite funny, and I think he likes to hear other's gossip. People his age don't talk openly about having weight issues, and most are not overweight, so he probably found it good to know he's not alone, and that there is no shame to be had in facing up to it, and choosing to tackle it. He's by no means become some anti-food kid, but he has accepted that he was making very bad choices, and does have a weakness to gorge himself on food. The fact that he can now eat larger portions of healthier food has definitely tapped into that part of his personality.

As for the scales, they weigh me about 7lb heavier at class than mine do 1st thing in the morning, naked at home, but then if you remember that 1st thing in the morning your body is dehydrated anyway, it may be a baseline measurement, but it's not a true reflection of your proper weight. I'm a good few lbs heavier at home, dressed later in the day, and the class scales are within 1lb for both me and my son (we've tested them week in/week out). I'm sure that slimming classes have to have the scales calibrated, so SW and WW alike have to play fair. If they were weighing you 7lb heavier, the rest of the class would have been weighing 7lb heavier too, which wouldn't be good for group morale, or for the consultant's figures to submit to her area manager, so I can't imagine that tactic is ever going to be used. I was gutted I have to say after my 1st weigh-in, but I also saw it as a reality check too. The fact that the next week I then lost 6lb made me much happier!

I agree with BB that the meet & greet, tea & coffee person, product seller, weigh-in/take money people are all volunteers, who also pay their fee to attend each week. Only the Consultant is paid to be there. I did WW years back, and it was the same there, that volunteers, who were pretty large ladies too, took your money & helped with weigh-ins, did refreshements, etc.

I you follow the healthy eating plan, it will work. If you try to cheat it, or tweak it to your own way, it won't. If you stick to it 100%, have your treats and keep your syns between 10-15 per day, you'll find you lose weight, no matter how much free/superfree food you eat. I have no idea how it works, but all I know is that it does. My OH cannot believe that I've lost almost 1 stone now, and have eaten more food than he's ever seen me eat in the 8 years we've been together. I've only done a few visits to the gym, so it's not that, and most of the time I'm sat on my bum getting distracted by stuff online (like here), so I'm not a whirling mass of activity by any stretch of the imagination, so even without exercising, I've lost weight, as have the ladies at class. Most of the ladies at my class are in their 50/60's, and one has lost over 5 stone, with a couple or so more to go, and they're just normal middle-aged ladies, with normal lives, no exercise plans, but they stick to the plan, and it just works. Having done WW, I found that after so long you got bored of sugar free jelly, and the meals were too small to satisfy me, so I'd always slip back. I love eating large amounts of meat, and can forego bread in favour of that on SW, and my meals haven't really changed much, apart from buying lower fat meat, and not adding lots of oils while cooking. I struggle to reach 10 syns a day because I'm just not hungry enough to eat them, that's how well it works. Give it a try, but don't expect it to be Weight Watchers, with their rules, because it simply isn't, however, you may just find a good healthy eating plan, that you can keep for life, and that will benefit your health issues too.

Sorry for the ramble everyone, but this was a post for Victory's benefit.

puddings_2

Blimey Sarah, that was more of a trek than a ramble!
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Nutritional info on subway can be found HERE then select "read more" against the sub that you want the specific info for. (You'll have to do your own syn conversion though)
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Lolly - 3lbs is a great result well done you
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betty wrote:

pages 23-24 have HEB cereals listed - 2 weetabix is in the list

page 23 heck!!! Any diet plan that has 23 pages of instruction is going to be too complicated for me. I'd rather keep things simple with instructiuons no longer than will fit on say 2 very small pages! Something like this would be ok: Page 1...Eat food add calories. Page 2...Turn off tv, move backside ;-)

bettyB_2

Fab post sary

Must admit i have copied and pasted it and saved it in my 'sw' folder! Very handy to look back on. thanks