**Happy New Slimming World Year**

Wootball

Skint_Catt wrote: »

I'm slightly concerned about all the peeps drinking excessive water - 1-2 litres is recommended daily unless doing high physical activity & sweating a lot. Excessive water can cause brain damage, kidney damage (as they have to work harder & you damage the tubey things in them), and it increases your blood volume so your heart has to work harder. Don't forget that you actually take in a lot of water from fruit & veg already. Yes it is good for you, but please be careful!

1-2 litres is nowhere near enough for me, I've usually had more than 1 litre before breakfast. 6 litres is not excessive if spread throughout the day, if I was drinking that in 2 hours I would expect not to live until the evening, but that isn't the case. 6 litres in 24 hours is a litre every four hours - absolutely fine and well below a normal kidney operating amount of 1 litre per hour.

Not to mention I run 5-7km per day and sweat quite a lot. Even if I didn't, 6 litres is quite safe if spread out.

The notable examples of people dying from water intoxication (Leah Betts, Jennifer Strange, Matthew Carrington) they were drinking upwards of 14 litres of water without peeing - essentially drowning themselves. We are not doing that. We are allowing our body to function normally whilst keeping it thouroughly hydrated and aiding fat loss. Besides, there is absolutely no medical reasoning behing '8 glasses of water' or '1-2 litres of water' per day aside from stopping dehydration - those amounts aren't an upper limit, they are a prevention for dehydration.

trixietoes

Hello everyone.

Just a quick report in on my 1st WI today since my 7lb increaseas I was off the plan in December.. I have lost 4.5lb :j:j:j:j So nearly back to normal.

Just 2 more WI till Mexico!

My new slow cooker arrived yesterday as it is having its 1st testing as we speak. Chicken Paprikash so some syns for the sour cream but I won't use as much as the recipe says and just have steamed veg with it (new steamer too!!!)

Off to work early so will have no plan today apart from paprikash.

Have a good day everyone, speak to you all later

xxx

p.s. I agree with Wootball about the water... you won't die from 1-2 litres of water a day it is no where near enough to kill you or cause damage.

bettyB_2

Wootball wrote: »

Although I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it, you picked the busiest meeting of the entire year, didn't have the usual consultant, and were then surprised by it not being as good as it should be! I would say you haven't given it a fair chance, at least see what it is like once the numbers drop a little and the proper consultant is back in place.

And I would recommend going by what the SW scales say - not just ignoring them because they said you were heavier than you thought you were.

If we all gave up after one attempt, none of us would ever ride a bike, drive a car, or get into a relationship.

thanks for your feedback and I know it was a busy time of year and i know, like i said, it wasn't the usual consultant and that would have made a big differencen to the organisation of the group.

But I dont think it would have made any difference to the people themselves, who were not chatty or friendly, and didn't inspire me to go back. It was just a bit boring and unfriendly. However, I am in no way saying 'SW meetings are rubbish' I know loads of people have good meetings and have great time there - I just didnt enjoy mine.

On top of that I can't actually afford to go back every week and I dont really have the time (had to cut work short yesterday and it still took up half my evening)

Honestly, I'm not 'giving up' i'm sticking to it, with the books, at home. I know it works for me. I get loads of support on this thread and on the LW thread and I have support from my OH at home so I don't really think I need to go.

The reason I am ignoring what their scales said is not vanity (slightly offended by that) but because I know what I weigh and I also know that people weigh a lot more in the evening than in the morning and I always weigh myself first thing in the morning at home to get a true reading without water/food weight.
So if I were to take their weight for me as fact and then weigh in tomorrow morning at home like usual it would show a very large, and very inaccurate, loss and I don't want to kid myself I want to be honest and accurate about this with reliable and consistent measures.

bettyB_2

EE for me today - i worry that i dont have enough SF food on an EE day though...

Brekkie: 2 clementines (superfree) 2 weetabix (HEB) with 125ml skim milk (1/2 HEA - other 1/2 for cups of tea during the day)

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

Does that look like enough superfree??

lisa26_2

consultant31 wrote: »

See and I thought you a perfectly normal person Blackberry........I can't believe there are people who don't like ice-cream :eek:

ETA: your picture is fab, well done you. Forget the age thing, you're only a wee bit older than me and I feel 18 a lot of the time (and probably act it too)

I don't like ice-cream much either. Most of it is yuk yuk yuk!!!!

shala_moo

Morning all.

bettyB - i also don't feel comfortable at meetings, even though our consultant is lovely, i just do not have enough self esteem to openly chat to people and am always the shy one sitting on her own - this doesn't make the meeting enjoyable in my eyes. I decided not to go back to class this year and continue to work at home in getting to my goal. Do what you feel is comfortable and makes you happy, you do not have to justify this to anyone, and we'll be here to support you all the way.

So today is a green day :

B - apple, yogurt, ryvita (HEB) 1 x mad cow light (part HEA)
L - spaghetti hoops, satsuma
T - pasta bake (HEB for chicken, HEA for cheese)
S - crisps(4.5) satsuma, fruit salad (melon, grapes, apple, mandarin and grapefruit) milk (rest of HEA) skinny dipper (3.5 - not worth IMHO:()

have a good day all x

bettyB_2

thanks shala_moo

susan6780

bettyB wrote: »

Well I've just got back from my first SW 'fat club' and have to say i'm sorry but I hated ever minute of it.

I know that it's busy cos it's Jan, and cos of the Bella vouchers, and also I have to start by saying it wasn't the usual consultant apparently it was a sub cos she was ill.
However, it was truly dire.

At the new joiners table the consultant explained the plans really badly, hardly went into any detail about Healthy Extras, what you can have etc. Only talked about EE but didn't explain what superfree is so everyone was saying potato was free veg, etc.

Also offered no 'tips' - just read out how many syns is in chocolate and crisps to shock you, didn't offer ideas for low syn treats or anything. I tried being chatty and everyone just sat there with faces like smacked bums!

Then they went round the group and it was just 'you lost 1lb, how was your week' then everyone clapped and it went on for ages. And they did a raffle. There were loads of bits where people were just chatting among themselves and it was just a bit boring to be honest.

It was a bit of a shambles with people coming and going and talking in the background.

are there any other groups near to you that you could try? it took me a few 'goes' to find one that i like,it really is down to the consultant,i went to one really close to me and she read out a recipe,including the method! its ok love,i CAN read! give it another try if you want to,or don't and we'll clap here (another thing i hate about groups) :T:T:T

bettyB_2

thanks susan. I dont really have the time or money to go every week anyway so i'm not too devastated that i didn't enjoy it.
But I'm glad I went once to see what I am (or not) missing out on. The clapping was a bit awful, lol, I much prefer these little guys :T:T:T :T:T:T

h007

bettyB wrote: »

thanks susan. I dont really have the time or money to go every week anyway so i'm not too devastated that i didn't enjoy it.
But I'm glad I went once to see what I am (or not) missing out on. The clapping was a bit awful, lol, I much prefer these little guys :T:T:T :T:T:T

must admit my group is abit to happy clappy too. and because it is a very large group it takes all the meeting just to go round the group getting people losses and clapping them. oh but she always makes sure we have time for the raffle!
i am going to leave my group once i have hit my club 10 and then carry on at home.
only reason i still go is because some of my friends also go to that group

well i am annoyed at myself as i left my food bag at home today. so had to run around london bridge train station buying food this morning which wasnt very sw or mse.
am just going to flexi syn the whole day as i am going out for a meal tonight anyway

b - wholemeal bagel with marmite, small apricot flapjack
l - ham and mustard sandwich with oatmeal bread, fruit salad
snack - small bag of pretzels

dinner - zizzi's