The Slimming World "Countdown to Easter"

lynzpower

Hiya all

Skint, I am deffo not over emotional eating and it is worse since I gave up the fags ( again!) OH said he just wanted to eat a whole packet of biscuits with a cuppa - he has work stress- I said I know what you mean. But we didnt. It is just one day at a time for us I think!

OK have decided to go for a green week to try to keep prices down a bit, today is

Banana, mango and yog
Beans, mushrooms quorn sausage ( was not overkeen on this!) and egg
Dinner is pizza using HM flour with mushrooms onions sweetcorn spinach cherry toms (HEB mix) ( have jsut checked with OH who makes it, its 1 HEB)
Snack HEB 2 alpen lites 2.5 WW fake cheddars and cottage cheese

Also going to do batch cooking of tomato type sauce with veg in as this is a cheap lunch food with pasta plus of course plenty of onions mushrooms and chopped toms and cherry toms that need using up

Ainsley twin pack of Spice sensation CC in farmfoods for 65p today - I got a few! :money:

Also got lots more of the usual gear that we need yogs, fruit and veg etc, potatoes and the like.

I was hoping to make a ratatoille pie type thing using filo pastry, not sure yet how to make it but it will involve OH having aubergines which he claims he doesnt like . He only lost 2lbs this week ,so I think he needs to try a bit harder and eat more SF as I dont think he has enough. Although in saying that he is almost at target he is a lot trimmer.

Im also acutely aware that I have oversynned both of the last weeks and I have lost both weeks. So I need to be 100% on it this week to make sure I don't put on. OH is getting the cases out in a bit and Im going to try on my bikini :eek: When I did it 5 weeks ago I looked like a load of chopped lard in a sock Hope to work it a bit more this week lol

Happy Sunday and a massive well done to those losers out there :j

lynzpower

dizzyk wrote: »

Skint...... do you eat your food quite quickly? do you sit at a table to eat? Im just asking as I've found that I find eating slower I give my brain time to register with my stomach that I am actually 'full & satisfied' rather than just carrying on eating for the sake of it. I dont overfill my plate just for the sake of it......I will wait a while and see if I really am stil hungry (I read somewhere it takes 20minutes to register that you're full when you've eaten??) so the slower you eat the less chance you have of 'over stuffing yourself' x x

I eat like this too. And if Im still hungry afterwards, then ita n opportunity to have yet more SS fruit and yoghurt

MRSMCAWBER

Miss Piggy
I don't think it is mumbo jumbo -I had that disc years ago when it first came out I think and I listened to it for quite a while before I gave it away and I really do think he talks sense

Skint -you can come and stay with me and see if its contagious

If Im honest I have always been plain greedy - I can't blame my childhood as I never heard anyone ever utter "you must clean your plate" -as I never needed telling :rotfl: .. and for years I have had real issue with leaving anything on my plate. I got around that by putting out much smaller portions and telling myself that once I had eaten it and sat for 20 mins then if I was still hungry I could go and get more -and I have never had to -I must have read the same thing as Dizzy

At the start of SW I sat myself down and was brutally honest about myself and why I ate the way I did -and it was quite cleansing *oooh that sounds all happy clappy* one of the biggest things for me was that I lost my dad on my 16th birthday -now everyone else couldn't eat with grief ..somehow my brain registered that if I was to show everyone else that "I was fine" then I had to eat... and EAT I DID -I just never seemed to stop ......
I think now that what I did was decide that if I was going to "cut down what I ate" then I was only going to eat things I enjoy ...
Now I had to go cold turkey on :-

• crisps
• pastries -savoury ones
• bread
• chocolate
• take aways -not that I ever had many

I never could do moderation and I haven't touched them since and I really don't miss them. I won't eat things just because they are good for me either.... I have to like it (luckily I like most things ). oooh and I won't eat what Im supposed to when Im supposed to if I don't wan't to either -If I want porridge for dinner I will and if I want leftovers for brekkie - I do .. it really seems to help.

finally -to finish my waffle -I think losing my sis to cancer and then mum having a mastectomy has also helped me to rewire my thinking - I do now like to make sure Im "feeding my body" and not just my tastebuds - so Im happy to spend 7.5 syns on half and avocado but there is no way I would spend that on "chocolarte etc" ...
The longer I have gone, the easier it has got and now its just a natural thing... Im hoping it lasts

You have done so well to get to target -so don't be disappointed in yourself -heck these habits have been with us all for so long it takes some time to figure out how to reverse them.... you WILL do it -just think how determined you had to be to get to target :T

maman

minimad1970 wrote: »

Hello everyone, I've got a tub of Asda GFY fromage frais in the fridge which I opened on monday. It's got a use by date but no info for how long it keeps once opened. I want to make au poivre sauce tonight, should it be ok? I can't taste it or smell it as I've got a cold:( Thanks:)

:wave: I use the sell by and the sniff (which you can't because of your cold) test for cottage cheese, yogurt and fromage frais and I haven't poisoned us yet! Would like your sauce au poivre recipe please. Is that for steak?

All this talk of Toby does make me so delighted I'm having a big roast later (well, I will if I put it on to cook:rotfl:). As I find it so hard to eat out with SW then carvery does give another option. If I can afford the syns then I have roasts and cauli cheese and horseradish. I don't mind foregoing the mahoosive yorkshire but you are right that it's easier to do a roast at home. I thought the advice about not choosing things you wouldn't really enjoy is good but (as MrsM said) it gets easier. I don't really want loads of bread or greasy things any more but I do miss my cheese (but obviously not enough to give up my wine syns for:o).

DH and I have been out for a bit of Body Magic. It was going to be a quick walk but we stayed out for a couple of hours.

EE Menu today:
B: NAS squash, boiled eggs and HE toast, tea with HE milk
L: haven't had any yet, will eat an apple just to say I've had something
roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots, cauli, cabbage, gravy (may syn a bit of cornflour)

If I need to snack I'll have some cottage cheese with an apple chopped in plus wine syns.

Flat_Eric

I finally feel ready to get back on the SW wagon. I am so fed up of having my weekly syn allowance daily:eek:, being put to shame by other members at my group who stick to the plan 110% (and have the results on the scales to prove it). I have no energy to do anything and generally feel rather rubbish SO

Things have to change. and change NOW!

I have been giving a lot of thought to it all and as a target member (but 10.5 pounds over target) I have stuck my target certificate on my pin board directly in front of my computer to remind me of what I want to achieve.

My actual aim is to lose 15 pounds from where I am now - this will take me to target - 3 pounds.

It can be achieved and I will do it.

To help keep me on track and to help motivate me, I need to plan my meals and control my syns. I need to prepare food in advance eg my fruit for work. I need to make sure I have breakfast and that I have variety. I need to limit my syns and perhaps adopt the syn curfew that someone mentioned on here. I should try to base my meals around superfree/free foods rather than syns.

I need to limit a naughty lunch at the pub to just that - no, sod it now, Ive blown it and eating for england the rest of the day.

Back when I was trying to get to target, I stuck some fluorescent stars on my pinboard - these stars have different weights on them, from half a pound - to three pounds. If I lose weight then I remove a star - if I gain weight, a star goes on the board - eventually there will be no stars left....

TakeItEazy

WI today for me and I knew it would catch up with me sooner or later so a 2lb gain isn't so bad after what I have eaten the last few weeks. Especially this week being my Birthday and pizza, chocolate AND a chinese last night, I think I got away lightly.
Anyway a line has been drawn under it and its back on the wagon tomorrow.
Well done all the losers, onwards and downwards :T:A

TakeItEazy

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I finally feel ready to get back on the SW wagon. I am so fed up of having my weekly syn allowance daily:eek:, being put to shame by other members at my group who stick to the plan 110% (and have the results on the scales to prove it). I have no energy to do anything and generally feel rather rubbish SO

Things have to change. and change NOW!

I have been giving a lot of thought to it all and as a target member (but 10.5 pounds over target) I have stuck my target certificate on my pin board directly in front of my computer to remind me of what I want to achieve.

My actual aim is to lose 15 pounds from where I am now - this will take me to target - 3 pounds.

It can be achieved and I will do it.

To help keep me on track and to help motivate me, I need to plan my meals and control my syns. I need to prepare food in advance eg my fruit for work. I need to make sure I have breakfast and that I have variety. I need to limit my syns and perhaps adopt the syn curfew that someone mentioned on here. I should try to base my meals around superfree/free foods rather than syns.

I need to limit a naughty lunch at the pub to just that - no, sod it now, Ive blown it and eating for england the rest of the day.

Back when I was trying to get to target, I stuck some fluorescent stars on my pinboard - these stars have different weights on them, from half a pound - to three pounds. If I lose weight then I remove a star - if I gain weight, a star goes on the board - eventually there will be no stars left....

Good luck, we're all behind you on here. I know how you feel after having a few bad weeks myself. Get yourself firmly glued to the Dizzy Tank as I intend to and fingers crossed its onwards and downwards. :A

Skintslimmer

Well done to flat eric for being so determined. If it helps, be determined that you don't do what I did: get to target, then stop going to class and put it all on plus more! :eek: If I could change things I'd go back and carry on going to class, regardless.

Its funny but this time around I feel like I'm going to get there, and although I am taking a VERY scenic route, I'm determined not to stop going to class if I have a bad week - or even many in a row.

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

HI Skintslimmer. Hope you don't mind me bargeing in on this one. I'm like you, I can eat until somethings completely gone, rather than eating till I'm comfortably full. I find what helps a lot is Paul McKennas weight loss CD and book. Part of what he focuses on is eating until your full and I think it does work (whilst doing his CD religously every day I once left about half of a mcdonalds quarter pounder with cheese because I was full!!:):rotfl:). I know some people think its mumbo jumbo so please feel free to completely ignore me if you want. I just know it works for me (when I DO do it!!:D):)
Miss P
xx

Its not bargeing in at all MP, I'm so glad you and others have replied! :T I did his CD a while ago, and I can't recall if I lost weight on it or not, but I did get to the point where I sucked a square of lindt chocolate and threw away 3/4 of the square that was left becauseI was satisfied! I don't know if thats :A or just plain barmy! :rotfl:

I'm definately the Skint in skintslimmer at the moment, but will look up second hadn copies of his CD, as I don't still have it. Thank you. :T The only thing is he is big on eat what you fancy, so not sure if that's compatible with SW? Mind you, I do genuinely love eating the free SW foods... its just the chocolate too...

dizzyk wrote: »

Skint...... do you eat your food quite quickly? do you sit at a table to eat? Im just asking as I've found that I find eating slower I give my brain time to register with my stomach that I am actually 'full & satisfied' rather than just carrying on eating for the sake of it. I dont overfill my plate just for the sake of it......I will wait a while and see if I really am stil hungry (I read somewhere it takes 20minutes to register that you're full when you've eaten??) so the slower you eat the less chance you have of 'over stuffing yourself' x x

Hi Dizz, thanks for replying too. I don't sit at a table, and I eat like the fastest cowboy in the west! I've tried slowing down in the past (its part of Paul McKenna) but old habits and all that...

I can fill my plate up or only half fill it, I always "want" seconds. I think the big thing is, I like the taste of food (who here doesn't?) and I've got it into my head that I don't want to stop just because I'm full... now where does one go with that train of thought?

I'm also an impatient b*gger who doesn't like to wait 20 minutes, so lasts about 5 then pigs out! :eek:

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

If Im honest I have always been plain greedy - I can't blame my childhood as I never heard anyone ever utter "you must clean your plate" -as I never needed telling :rotfl: .. and for years I have had real issue with leaving anything on my plate. I got around that by putting out much smaller portions and telling myself that once I had eaten it and sat for 20 mins then if I was still hungry I could go and get more -and I have never had to -I must have read the same thing as Dizzy

At the start of SW I sat myself down and was brutally honest about myself and why I ate the way I did -and it was quite cleansing *oooh that sounds all happy clappy* one of the biggest things for me was that I lost my dad on my 16th birthday -now everyone else couldn't eat with grief ..somehow my brain registered that if I was to show everyone else that "I was fine" then I had to eat... and EAT I DID -I just never seemed to stop ......
I think now that what I did was decide that if I was going to "cut down what I ate" then I was only going to eat things I enjoy ...


Now I had to go cold turkey on :-

• crisps
• pastries -savoury ones
• bread
• chocolate
• take aways -not that I ever had many

I never could do moderation and I haven't touched them since and I really don't miss them. I won't eat things just because they are good for me either.... I have to like it (luckily I like most things ). oooh and I won't eat what Im supposed to when Im supposed to if I don't wan't to either -If I want porridge for dinner I will and if I want leftovers for brekkie - I do .. it really seems to help.

finally -to finish my waffle -I think losing my sis to cancer and then mum having a mastectomy has also helped me to rewire my thinking - I do now like to make sure Im "feeding my body" and not just my tastebuds - so Im happy to spend 7.5 syns on half and avocado but there is no way I would spend that on "chocolarte etc" ...
The longer I have gone, the easier it has got and now its just a natural thing... Im hoping it lasts

You have done so well to get to target -so don't be disappointed in yourself -heck these habits have been with us all for so long it takes some time to figure out how to reverse them.... you WILL do it -just think how determined you had to be to get to target :T

MrsM, you give me so much hope, because you have obviously been the same place as I have (and am at the moment!) I've always been a piggy, never a fussy child, and I think the only thing I can blame my parents for is genes (we all have or have had weight problems) and snacking - I was brought up on balanced meals.

I don't think I know the source of my overeating, I think its always been there... I can remember losing my horse (read soul mate) at 16, and knowing it was worse than anything I had experienced before, because I had to force myself to eat, when I normally comfort eat. Since then there have only been an odd occasion the same: normally subconsciously I comfort eat, like last week because I was worried about my operation. Its like my head gets so busy worrying that I simply don't have time to register anything other than what is going in isn't great, and I definately don't devote ANY time to resolving that until the problem is gone and my stress levels come down enough for me to notice the empty chocolate wrappers! I have had some success in the past chewing chewing gum as a displacement, so will try that again, as it seems to be a need to chew (I do weird teeth crunching stuff subconsciously when I am stressed), and I tried this again this week and it occupied me. In fact, tesco have just text me about my delivery and i'll add some more to that list. :T

I have noticed this weird need to "always have food in" - I'm most uncomfortable today because I don't have much in. I think that combined with an attitude of eating it all at once must be relevant to something in my past, but I don't remember ever going hungry. I'm quite spiritual and believe in past lives, so I think its a strong possibility that I went very hungry in a past life (self confessed tree hugger here ).

I have considered giving up chocolate (its my biggest problem), but I'm not sure if thats a proper answer to resolving things for good (which I'm very keen to do) or just masking things. I gave it up for 2 months a couple of years ago, and didn't much care for the taste for a while afterwards, so there must be something in your continued success having given them up, MrsM.

Thanks all for reading my waffle. Its good to discuss it.

pollysg

Hi there you all!

We went to the pub for lunch, the only thing I could find on the enormous menu that was anywhere near healthy was the jacket potatoes, with butter(!), beans and cheese. No salad, not even a stray tomato on the side. Very disappointed really. But I had it, hopefully, as I asked, they had left off the butter, and I shall over syn the cheese.

It wasn't even hot when it arrived! But it was food, and I was starving. Frees and superfrees only for the rest of the day, no 2-syn hot choc at bedtime even! But I have got a HEB left - Alpen lights? Shame Hot choc isn't a HEB!

Well done MrsM, you are doing so well.

Skintslimmer, persevere - can you remove the unhelpful stuff from sight, I even used to go out without ready cash or a card? Is there something you really really like that it's ok to 'binge' on if you have to?

We all understand the awful feeling of letting yourself down, of feeling so low that you might as well carry on and at least get a chocolate 'high' (and the awful sick feeling afterwards). But I think MrsM's point of being real with yourself and identifying just why you started is valid. In the end however, it's not the end of the world if you need emotionally to eat, though we will try to give you as much emotional support as we can, because you matter to us.

I know that feeling will eventually get round to visiting me (like the food fairies), and I don't really know how I will react. In the past I have always given in to it and got back to worse than when I started. I so want this time to be different, but I have to acknowledge that I may always have a problem around food. I have made a decision to be in control and I will do the best I possibly can to carry on feeling good about myself, and if reminding myself how good that really is does the trick - wonderful.

Lots of hugs, you will do it.:T

PS I always feel safe when I have got a houseful of food, and very insecure if not. I have got part of a 500g bar of CDM, a tin of Roses and a few other bits and pieces 'just in case' stashed around the house, but they have been untouched for 3 months now!

WelshWoofer

Evening all!

Had a poor day today foodwise - not too bad with syns etc but not very good food.

Breakfast - Hifi bar
Lunch - cheese toastie (A and B choice)with brown sauce (1 syn)
Dinner - pasta and sauce (1 syn and 1 A choice)
Snack - turkish delight (9.5 syns!)

Had a banging headache all day (I get them sometimes) and just couldn't be bothered:o

I usually have about 7 or 8 F&V a day so I suppose 1 rubbish day won't give me scurvy!

I'm making my lunch for work now and it involves grapes, banana and kiwi so back to normal tomorrow!