**Happy New Slimming World Year**

lisa26_2

Morning all, lots of new faces appearing here, welcome to all!

I'm having an EE day today:

Brekkie - porridge (HEA&B), banana
Lunch - HM veg soup, leftover sw chips, chicken .....wierd combo again!! Pineapple and yogurt with mixed berries for pud.
Tea - HM chilli, jacket potato, salad of veg (lots of superfreein the chilli too)
Snacks - apple, fibre plus bar (5.5)

I've not really got much to say today so I'll shut up lol!!!

sarymclary

ihategossips wrote: »

HI all

I'm hoping to start SW again after a couple of years break! I don't have any of the books from the first time and I see from the mag that there's another option of Extra Easy now too. Is this something you can follow everyday or just have a certain no of? I wanted to join online but it's just too expensive for me at the min as I'm on extended Mat leave with no income. I'm looking on ebay for the books so if anyone can let me know which book has the actual plan in it it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi, Welcome!
Read the 1st page of this thread for the low-down on SW from our resident (now retired) Consultant.

The idea of Extra Easy is basically:
You get 1 Healthy Extra 'A' (250ml semi/skim milk, 42g low fat cheese, etc), and 1 Healthy Extra 'B' (fibre such as 2 x alpen light bars, 28g porridge oats, 28g bran flakes, etc.)
On the Red/Green days you would get to choose 2 from each groups.

The rest of your meals should contain any extra-lean meat, rice, pasta, noodles, potatoes, pulses, etc., but 1/3 of your plate should be what SW term 'superfree' veg or fruit. So green beans, broccoli, carrots, aubergines, asparagus, cucumber, garlic, onions, passata, tomatoes, turnips, apples, blueberries, oranges, kiwi, berries, peaches, pears, etc.

The theory behind it is that you can have a more 'normal' diet, exluding nothing, but you're filling up each mealtime on healthy, fibrous, low calorie foods, so you're satisfied for longer, and the need to snack is less.

There are so many offers on now (Bella magazine and Womans Own had vouchers in them a week or 2 ago) so that you can join for £10, get all the joining pack, which has the books you need to follow the plan fully, and you need never go back to class again. Probably cheaper than books on Ebay, and you're guaranteed to get all the booklets. If you can't find any vouchers, I have a pamphlet I got through the door, that I could post to you, that you can take to a local group to join for £10. PM me if you luck out on the magazines.

Ali660 wrote: »

What's with the 'Options' girls? Do you drink it like a hot chocolate or is there another way of using them??

Ali
x

They can be mixed in with quark to make a chocolate cheesecake flavour dessert, but they get used in lots of SW recipes too, such as the roulade.

Skintslimmer

Pennylane - I agree with the person just above me who thinks you need to up your superfree food at each of your meals. Your breakfast was probably ok with that banana (haven't got my book handy to check if that is superfree?) but for example you could improve lunch with doing some mushrooms and tomatoes to go with the egg and bacon, and dinner with some more superfree foods.

nessie216 wrote: »

I am totally gutted - i can say hand on heart i had a 100% week and at last nights WI i put on 1lb! :mad::eek::mad:

I know last monday after WI i had over 15 syns but every other day since then i have not had more than 15 syns a day! Maybe i should cut down to 10? I have been back on my green days as they suit the budget better!

I did have antibiotics last week for wisdom tooth which caused troubles with my toilet habits, but the course ended on saturday and things have been back to 'normal' since then! :rotfl:

Maybe i need to up the exercise?

Am seriously gutted! :mad:

Food for the day (green)

Any other suggestions?

I don't want to do fast forward - would blow my budget & it is too strict!

I have put some sentences in bold so that hopefully you will see some reasons you have told us why your week wasn't the success you thought it coud have been. Synning the night of weigh in is nice, but it has got to count somewhere, so it depends if you're talking 5 syns over, or 95 We had a lady at my last group who couldn't understand why she wasn't losing weight - I popped to Tesco after class one night and saw her buying a pack of 4 cream cakes - apparently she eats them all after a disappointing WI, so she was constantly putting herself at a disadvantage for the following week! :eek:

Antibiotics - even though the blockage has cleared, you might still be holding on to water this week.

What was your food consumption like last week - were you suprised to lose? If so some of our bodies work a week in arrears - mine certainly has a couple of times

If you suddenly went from all red or EE to green, it can take your body a while to adjust - and you should see this week's loss catch up with you soon.

I don't know what's on the fast forward plan, is it the strict eating weighing everything one? you could try upping your superfree and speed foods - there used to be a plan called success express, which was like EE but you had 1/3 of your plate red/green foods, 2/3 superfree. I find when I eat like that (by choice or by coincidence!) my weight drops off :T HTH.

sarymclary wrote: »

Remember how I was saying how big our Consultant was, and not a good advert for SW a few weeks back? Well I feel soooo guilty now, because at the end of class, she sat there, almost in tears, and said that she felt like a failure, that she thinks we must all sit there and think what a state she looks, and how can she inspire us? That she really struggles to stick with the plan 100%, .... Well these lovely ladies in my class were marvellous to her,

It still didn't stop her choosing one of the usual 3 who get SOTW, who lost over 7lb due to gastroenteritis... which isn't really being successful with the plan is it? I'd lose 7lb if I couldn't keep anything down for the next 6 days. God I sound so bitter, don't I? hahaha I'm not really, I don't think I should be getting it, but do think if it would be more valuable a tool if it were to be awarded to a variety of worthy slimmers.

Aww how nice that they all pulled together My best consultant of the past was huge when she hosted our group - yet she was so brilliant. Is it worth suggesting to her she attends a class somewhere else as a participant? That's what SW suggests its consultants do, because being your own consultant can lead to lax habits

If she is on the electronic system, SOTW should be calculated by the little palmtop, so the computer won't know the 7lbs was due to gastro.


Gosh how I can waffle I am pleased to report that there are only a miniscle amount of chocolates left, as housemate and a friend helped polish off the choccies yesterday, so unless I splurge on cheese, alpen bars, tomato ketchup or straight oil I SHOULDN'T go over my syns, and MIGHT actually have a very low syn day, oweing to a lack of things to syn with! :rotfl:

I think I'll go [STRIKE]EE[/STRIKE], green, and really concentrate on getting superfrees in today.

2 x Alpen light (b)
satsuma
apple
HM veg broth
Cous cous with interesting saladey bits in it
more satsumas and apples
[STRIKE]NO MID AFTERNOON [/STRIKE]CHOCOLATE MUNCHIES! (14 syns :eek:)
Courgette tagletelle, (courgettes slices with a peeler, cream cheese (b) bacon
Jacket spud
salad
milk in t&c (a)

If I get sweet cravings, a) its tough or b) I'll have a yoghurt - thanks to whoever recommended the weight watchers desert ones, mmm!

Happy slimming everyone - and remember - glue yourself to the waggon firmly, and feel free to take a shot at any food faries who are following us!

bettyB_2

Skintslimmer wrote: »

If I get sweet cravings, a) its tough or b) I'll have a yoghurt - thanks to whoever recommended the weight watchers desert ones, mmm!

Argh i knew i forgot something at MrT's last night!! darn

Skintslimmer

bettyB wrote: »

I want to make soup with beans/pasta in, like a minestrone or something 'hearty' - can anyone reccomend a SW minestrone recipe please, I am sure it exists but I can't find it... thanks

I don't know about an official SW recipe, but I use cubed veg, whatever I have in, but typically:
carrots,
onion,
swede
courgette
peppers
mushrooms
Parsnip
turnips
celery
celeriac
etc

and cook them invegetable stock, with a tin of chopped tomatoes, (and/or passatta and tomato puree), a tin of mixed bean salad or whatever beans I have in the cuboard, some mixed herbs, seaoning to taste, and add the pasta shapes in about 20 mins from the end of cooking.

No exact figures as I just use it by eye

tracey12_2

Hi everyone

It is my first week back on the wagon and I lost 4lbs so I am really happy with that :j

Tracey

bettyB_2

Thanks Skintslimmer

I have these:
green beans
carrots,
onion,
courgette
peppers
tin chopped tomatoes
chicken / veg stock
mixed beans in a tin
pasta spirals

will that be nice do you think??

I am a bit wary as i am generally rubbish at making soup unless it's only one or two ingredients - ie I can make carrot and coriander - but the last veg soup i made looked, smelt and tasted a bit like it had already been eaten....

Dontknowanymore

Ali660 wrote: »

What's with the 'Options' girls? Do you drink it like a hot chocolate or is there another way of using them??

Ali
x

I stir the white choc one into some Total 0% greek yogurt, tastes like cream x

Skintslimmer

I'm going to cautiously say that sounds okay, but sometimes for no apparent reason some of the veg cocktails I use aren't very nice, so don't rely purely on me! You won't get a very thick base to it with just the stock and tinned tomatoes, that's the only thing - whether or not that matters is up to your tastes! If you want the liquid thicker, then ingredients which help this are: potato putting the pasta in earlier, and using some dried lentils

Oh, and I would prob leave out the green beans, cos they're not traditionally included in minestrone I don't think.

If once you've made it you're in doubt, before throwing it away try adding another stock cube, more seasoning, and/or a teaspoon of sugar.

Good luck -I'm quite nervous now because it'll be my fault if yours tastes horrible! :rotfl:

sarymclary

SW Chunky Minestrone Soup

Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Syns per serving:
EE : FREE Green: FREE


1 onion, 3 carrots, 2 potatoes, 3 tomatoes and 2 parsnips
113g/4oz each spinach and cabbage
Fry Light
1 litre/1¾pt stock made with 2 level tsp of Bovril or Vecon
3 tsp Italian seasoning
7 tbsp passata
142g/5oz dried pasta
400g can butter beans in water or 100g/3½oz dried butter beans made up as instructed
Freshly ground black pepper
Freshly chopped thyme

1. Roughly chop the vegetables. In a pan saut! the onion in Fry Light. Add a little stock and the Italian seasoning and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the remaining stock, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips and passata and simmer for about 1 hour (add water if you want a runnier soup).

2. Add the pasta and cook until almost tender. Stir in the spinach, cabbage and beans and cook for a further 3 minutes.

3. Season with black pepper and serve garnished with thyme.

Tip: You can vary the vegetables, beans and herbs you use when making this soup... or blitz it in a blender at the end of the first step for a creamy alternative.

This recipe is suitable for freezing.

Personally I'd add some bacon or ham to the soup to make it tastier, but I think SW were aiming for a lower salt version of minestrone.