A Slimmer Summer with Slimming World

autumnflower

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

so Im off for a long cool bath and then I will get back to jillians book "master your metabolism" -which arrived this morning and so far is verrrry interesting , ooh and some of it is confirming what I already believe :j
Right -off I go again.... have a good afternoon all!!

Oooh, I'd love to hear more! What stuff is mentioned ect.?

Had another uni work filled day, therefore a limited food day.

Green day today:
Breakkie - 2 weetabix, ss milk (hexA) tsp sugar (1)
Snacks - mullerlight and apple
Lunch - smalls beans on 1 slice of WM toast (1/2 Heb2)

Thats all i've eaten from 8:30am - 6:30pm :eek:

Having a quorn spag bol for tea later with courgette, peppers and onions in. Going on a friends birthday night out, so saving my syns for some alcohol later on.

save_up_ya_pennies

Hi guys well at last I went back on Wednesday (with a friend who is new to SW) I have put on about 1/2 stone since the last time (about 6 months ago) I went :mad: I really want to get a stone off. I still cant get my head around EE but Im happy with green days for now until I get stuck again.

I was really very shocked to learn at the meeting that a Weatherspoon's Jacket Pot is 23 syns:eek: because they fry them!! Got me to thinking how many other places cook things in strange ways, whilst we think we are picking the best thing on the menu???

Good luck to everyone - I hope the weekend is kind to you all :rotfl:

confused57

Welcome SAVE UP YA PENNIES - good luck to you and your mate. x

TakeItEazy

Well done losers, some fantastic losses there :T:T:T
Had a good day so far:
B - weetabix hot water, splash of milk [part a], coffee
L - left over pasta bake [a+b], fruit salad, onken
T - sw chips, 2x quorn sausages, spaggy hoops, egg, splash olive oil [2], bbq sauce [1]
Snacks - 2x chunks chocolate [5], banana, apple
Syns - 8
The banana I had was yuk, ate most of it then found a hard bit, made me gag [tmi sorry]. Hope I have a good day tomorrow then WI sunday.

I try to stick 100% to plan mon-fri then have weekend off but have been over doing the last couple of weekends so will try to be 100% tomorrow as well. I also try to have extra HEs to help maintain but don't always fit them in. I don't go down the extra syns route [intentionally ] as has been suggested as thats what got me in trouble in the 1st place :rotfl:. Notice lots of 'trys', I do my best :rotfl:.

confused57

Hello all,

Hope you don't mind as this question is not SW related but I have got some Best Western Tesco rewards vouchers and have just realised that I have to book something up before the middle of this month otherwise I will lose the lot! I thought I might book OH and me a 2 night break Harrogate (I fancy Bettys Tea Rooms and I WILL be back in target range by September when we go) Just wondered if anyone knew any decent hotels that take the vouchers? Thanks in advance. x

consultant31

lizzie_b wrote: »

the one thing I have noticed that I refuse to budge on is my full fat milk, so how will this count as allowances?? will it just be syns or am I just being very naughty??

xxxxx

I can almost guarantee that within a week of using semi-skimmed you wouldn't go back to full fat milk. I drink skimmed (after years on the ff stuff) and to me now, the full fat tastes really greasy.

You still get 175mls of full fat as a HEA if you want it, any extra and you'd need to syn it at ½ syn per tablespoon (which doesn't go far).

consultant31

minxtress wrote: »

Well I need not of worried! 3lb off today.....7.5 in two weeks so got my half stone and slimmer of the week! Tempted to wear my sticker on my cardy lol!

I think that's a brilliant idea - we should all do it then we'd recognise each other in the street :rotfl::rotfl:

TakeItEazy

consultant31 wrote: »

I think that's a brilliant idea - we should all do it then we'd recognise each other in the street :rotfl::rotfl:

Wouldn't that be great, can you imagine MrsM though? She'd look like a pearly queen with all her stickers :rotfl:

juliejim

Billie-jo wrote: »

Planning to have Staffordshire oatcakes tomorrow - does anyone know the syn value please?

6 syns each

consultant31

WelshWoofer wrote: »

Had a phone call from my consultant out of the blue today asking me whether I would be interested in going to a potential consultants meeting on Sunday - not sure what to make of it really.... I think I may be interested but its a big commitment to other people and with teaching all day it may be a bit much - depends on what the money is like I suppose (anybody know?)

It's a while since I became a Consultant and it cost around £400 then. I believe it's more like £800+ now for you to get the franchise and the bits and bobs you need to get a good looking room layout.

You are told where and when you run the group, it's not like you can say oh I'll do a Tuesday group in my local village. SW prefer there to be several groups in any one area so that members can move from one to another if the timings are more convenient.

I loved it for the first few years but the Sunday meetings (from 10am to 2pm - just on family lunch time) and the Friday night meetings began to get me down. The leafletting is outrageous.......3000 per group every Bank Holiday, and it had to be done on the Sunday and Monday so as not to clash with any other mail :eek:

You get 25% of takings if the group is small, 40% for a group over about 30 members and 50% for a big group. The commission on biscuits is only 10p per pack so not really worth counting. You need a spare room as the amount of stock and paperwork you have to carry is enormous.

Re-reading this, it looks as if I hated it, which isn't so. I still see many of my members around town and they are so nice and I still care about how they're doing, but I'm glad I finished.......maybe I'm just getting old but I found it took sooo much of my time away from the family. Anybody who tells you it takes 15 - 20 hours a week is either super-organised or telling porkies IMO. There's loads of planning for each weekly group and then the support calls etc during the rest of the week.

Hope that helps - if you're a really hard worker and enjoy putting in the hours promoting your group (winter and summer alike) you can make a healthy living but you can't afford to ease up at all.