Slimming World - a Christmas countdown!

calamityclare

Hi All

I lost 2 and a half pounds yay :j im well pleased with that. Only got two pounds to go to my club 10 which was my christmas tree wish. Two weighins till christmas so completely do-able

TakeItEazy

Well done Clare, a great loss. Good luck for your club 10 x
Well done to anyone else whos a loser

Hope Dizzy got off ok.

Still haven't recovered from the stress of yesterday but at least the chest pains have stopped. Am still a bit tearful though :o

Food today:
B - weetabix milk [a] coffee
L - mugshot, quiche [a+b= cheese+ oil], toms, melon, activia
T - sw chips, quiche [a cheese], toms, onions, egg, spag hoops, t/sauce [1]
Snacks - fibre plus B]b[/B, banana, melon, pineapple, onken, meringue [2.5]
Syns - 3.5
3a's & 3'bs still doing ok do have to make a conscious effort to have extra HEs though.

Good luck all :A

Irishmummyof2

lisa26 wrote: »

Hi Irish Mummy, just wanted to check something....you have put your an 'a' next to your lunch so I assume you mean that is your HEA? If so, what are you using it for as nothing you mention is and A choice!

I've managed to get to work today, albeit a little late!!! We're going a different way at the minute as we normally use the back roads and they'll still be bad, the traffic was terrible on the main roads though!!! We're going to attempt to get to my mum's for tea tonight so hopefully I'll get some birthday cards and pressies.....only a week late!

I'll be having either a green day I think but, not entirely sure yet as it depends what mum does for tea!!

Brekkie - porridge (HEA&B), banana
Lunch - confused dynorod soup (2), crackerbreads (4), laughing cow (part of other HEA)
Tea - Don't know but will probably use other HEB for meat
Snacks - fruit

Hi Lisa, I have cheese in my salad, because I don't really like milk.
Tonight is weigh in night and hopefully I will get because I am excited to see if it works for me.

bettyB_2

Hi all,

Well done on your loss calamityclare!:j

I have let myself slip pretty badly over the last 3 days, so not holding my breath for weigh in tomorrow. Feel a bit silly now, not long til xmas.

Need to go low-syn for the next 6 days to keep under my weekly limit.

Today I am doing EE:

Breakfast -
herbal tea, activia 0%
1 slice wholewheat toast (HEB) 1 egg, tomatoes, mushrooms and onions (Huevos rancheros)

Lunch -
leftover lean beef curry with lentils (1 syn for any remaining cooking oil) with plain boiled rice and low fat yoghurt

Dinner -
Chicken leg (skin off) cooked with smoked paprika, mixed peppers and a bulgar wheat salad (tabouleh) with feta (HEA)

Dessert - Options hot choc (2 syns)

snacks - grapes!

Wootball

consultant31 wrote: »

I almost didn't bother replying to this post as it's a typical response from someone who so obviously knows better than the expert nutritionists employed to work out a method of losing weight, keeping it off forever, and eating balanced meals throughout.

However, for those who are new to Slimming World ....please ignore Wootball - he's a man out to prove something!

Either follow the plan or don't, as I said before you can lose weight any number of ways, but they're not all healthy ways and I know that food optimising is healthy and sustainable. Syns are there for extras so use them, don't try to find ways to make everything syn-free.

Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist, you don't need a qualification to do that. Had you said that Slimming World employed dietitians I would be more inclined to see your way of thinking. I'm a nutritionist too, if it helps. There is no magic way of losing weight. It's not a formula, and nobody has had to work out a method - it's scientific fact. If you burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight, end of story. All a 'free food' and a 'syn' is, is a buzzword designed to make it easier for people to keep track of their calories without counting them. If anything, that's why coming off the plan completely and leaving SW may well lead to weight gain - because people have never been aware of their calorific requirement because Slimming World have never told them. It's designed for people without restraints who don't know their limits. It's designed to make money.

My point is that you still haven't explained to me exactly why a chickpea cake would need to be synned - the only thing you have said is that it's because we can't be trusted to only eat it in moderation and we may end up eating a lot of it, and that it's not balanced, etc etc - which I think is totally the wrong way to be pushing this plan to people and at a very high risk of alienating Slimming World members just because they have a question about the plan. Remember, we can eat a lot of rice, mugshots, super noodles etc - they're only free as long as you don't overdo it. Unless you're telling me that anyone here can eat 20 packets of savoury rice per day and lose weight - in which case I bow to whatever voodoo you've invested in. I could stick to the plan 100% to the absolute letter and gain half a stone in a week, and you know it.

It is not as though the cake becomes infinite just because it tastes great - it's still only ever ONE can of chickpeas, combined with THREE eggs and a flavouring. Say I use three spoons of coffee - on an ordinary work day I would easily get through three coffees with sweetener. Three eggs in a meal is absolutely nothing, a lot of people here whip up an omlette as a quick snack in the evening. And the chickpeas? One can is roughly equal to one potato, and I bet a lot of us have a spud for lunch. You say I'm trying to make everything syn free, which is an absolute lie and you're attempting to turn people in this thread against me by saying so.

I'm not a man out to prove anything, and you may want to re-evaluate the tone you take with me. Whether you believe I'm following the plan or not, I'm still paying for it like everyone else here.

My rant is over, if you or anyone else here doesn't like what I'm saying feel free to add me to your ignore list, but don't attempt to ridicule or alienate me just because I'm trying to inject some real world logic and fact into your Slimming World full of magic dust and fairytales.

nickynoo08

Morning,

Well we got more snow again! So i'm stuck in with the kids again as the pushchair keeps getting stuck in the snow so we never made it to nursery. Thankfully OH is off tomoro so we'll be able to get to the shops to stock up.

Having a green day today

B - rice pudding and a large cuppa (hea) Still wasnt too keen on it tho not sure if i'm doing something wrong, maybe i'm not cooking it for long enough
L - soup with 3 wholegrain ryvita crackerbread thingys and philly (heb)
T - steak and chips and loads of veg (heb and 3syns)
S - satsumas, ww yog

2nd hea will be used in cuppas and have still got 7syns to play with.

Will do some more wii fit today too, did 35mins yesterday while baby was sleeping, will have to have break from the hula hooping tho my stomach is aching today.

susan6780

Wootball wrote: »

I'm not a man out to prove anything, and you may want to re-evaluate the tone you take with me. Whether you believe I'm following the plan or not, I'm still paying for it like everyone else here.

My rant is over, if you or anyone else here doesn't like what I'm saying feel free to add me to your ignore list, but don't attempt to ridicule or alienate me just because I'm trying to inject some real world logic and fact into your Slimming World full of magic dust and fairytales.

you're still on my 'friend' list Woot,because you speak your mind,that HAS to be respected in a world where we're all too scared to say what we really think,I tend to alienate folk by my forthrightedness too!

SW works for me mostly,I only have a stone ish to lose and so dip in and out of it,gradually losing 1lb here and there,although i don't try to get hung up on food and if i want to eat the Danish,i do!

antonia1

Wootball wrote: »

My rant is over, if you or anyone else here doesn't like what I'm saying feel free to add me to your ignore list, but don't attempt to ridicule or alienate me just because I'm trying to inject some real world logic and fact into your Slimming World full of magic dust and fairytales.

Prior to starting SW I probs would have agreed with you Wootball, but I think you are perhaps misunderstanding the point of syns and free food. Of course it isn't about magic, but SW also isn't just about eating low calorie food. It also about how full the food makes you and how long you still feel full. Let me give you an example:

I eat two apples, some strawberries and a banana. I then feel full for a couple of hours, so I don't snack on anything else.

or,

I have a glass of smoothie containing all of the above. I feel full for less than half an hour and start snacking again.

In the second case I consume more calories. Not because the smoothie magically has more calories than the fruit, but because I start snacking again sooner.

Besides all of that, I'm not sure I really care how SW works, as long as it is a healthy plan than helps me lose weight.

bettyB_2

Wootball wrote: »

Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist, you don't need a qualification to do that.

Although this may be true, it does not mean that SW's nutitionists are not qualified.

http://www.slimmingworld.com/health/policies-practices/experts.aspx

You can see here that they have Masters degrees and Doctorates. and some ARE dieticians.

Just because you dont need a governed degree to be a nutritionist doesn't meant that those who do it for a profession dont have any qualifications - clearly, they do.

antonia1

Back to the important stuff, my food plan for the day:


B - apple, banana, muller light
L - cajun chicken soup + bread (HEB)
D - chilli, rice and cheese (HEA + 1syn)

Snacks - blueberries, kiwi and plums
Syns - dinner (1 sysn), red wine (6 syns)