A Slimmer Summer with Slimming World

sophieschoice

Thank you so much!
No, I know one meal a day isn't enough but I work very odd shifts. I'm either up at 5.30am or arriving home at midnight so it's terribly hard to follow any kind of diet which includes three meals a day. I had a lot of success with Celebrity Slim before I stopped smoking because I don't always have access to food during my working day or, rather, don't have access to somewhere to eat it and have no means of carrying it about. A sachet was ideal.
Apart from all the free foods the only things I ate last week were 2 handful of cashew nuts (on different days) ten small wine gums, 2 bottles of Smirnoff Ice and 2 Scotches, no more than 3 hot drinks a day that I would have milk in, 2 tiny portions of butter (to cook the omelettes I had twice last week in) and 4oz of cheese. I don't appear to be anywhere near the syns allowed. I had two slices of bread (wholemeal) in the whole week and not a crisp, cake, biscuit or chocolate passed my lips.
The odd thing is that, although I only lost a measly pound which nearly made me cry, I can now do trousers up that didn't even meet round my middle last week.
How I didn't hit the snack cupboard last night I'll never know!
I decided on SW because my friend is losing weight easily on it. She eats free foods and uses all her syns on 3 bottles of wine at weekend.
I think the main problem I have is work (although don't we all!) and the inability to fit 3 meals a day into my life.
Whoever could come up with an ideal diet for shift workers who spend the majority of their time outdoors would make millions!

lisa26_2

sophieschoice wrote: »

thanks for all the suggestion ladies!
Today went something like this:
Didn't manage breakfast as prefer to sleep in later when I'm on afternoon shift.
Actually, I think I forgot to have lunch too!
Dinner was a large salad with smoked salmon and prawns followed by a punnet of blueberries and punnet of blackberries and an Activia yoghurt.

A more typical day is:
B Yoghurt
L Salad with either fish or chicken. Fruit for pudding
D A 2 egg omelette cooked in a tiny bit of butter and 2 oz cheese grated in it. Fruit for pudding.
2 cups of tea, one cup of coffee (with sweeteners not sugar) diluted reduced sugar lemon squash and diet coke during the day to drink.
Horlicks Light at bedtime and a couple of times a week a Scotch which I include in my syns.

Is this not enough to make me lose weight because the only solution I can think of is that I need to eat more!
Any help most welcome.

You definately need to eat more....unless you're about 2 foot tall!!! Even your menu with 3 meals in is nowhere near enough!! Your lunch is ok but you should add some sort of fruit to your brekkie, a banana would be ideal. Lunch looks fine. With your dinner if it was me I'd have an omlette with a jacket potato and some sala, just an omlette on its own, even with cheese and butter is not enough for an adult!!! Also, as others have mentioned, you MUST have your HEA & HEB but make sure you measure them. you may well be going over your HEA allowance at present, any extra should be counted as syns. You're not having you're HEB at all most days by the sound of things. The HEBs are included for your health so its important to remember them. Have a look below and see how much I eat!!!

MY DH is a shift worker and I have been in the past but we've both always managed 3 meals a day!

We had tea at MIL's last night.......steak pie :mad: !!!!! I made a point of giving DH most of my pastry!

WI for me tonight, not been for a few weeks so hoping I'm still within 3lbs of my target so I don't have to start paying again!!!

Food today is EE:

Brekkie - porridge (HEA&B), banana
Snack - Pear
Lunch - half a pack of cous cous (1), tomatoes, cucumber, onion, beetroot, ham. Yogurt and nectarine for pud.
Tea - chilli, rice, salad. Maybe some melon for pud.

cyclingyorkie

Well the 'poo fairies' failed to visit yesterday:mad::mad::mad::mad: and I put on half a pound:mad::mad::mad::mad:

So I am distinctly miffed!

Going to keep a very close eye on things this week - I want my 4 stone award!

well done to all th 'losers!'

Breakfast - porridge (A+B) and banana, blueberries, strawberries and a plum...

Lunch - chicken salad and scan bran

Tea -S/W chilli + baked potato and salad.

Snacks - fruit (lots) and Activia FF yogs...

moonsa70

First weigh in last night and 5lbs off....:j

AnnieG

Morning.
I'm amazed that I'm not stiff this morning after that spin class yesterday, my legs must be in better shape than I thought.
Having a green day as ever:
Fruit and yog for breakfast
Toast at about 11
Pasta salad for lunch
Quorn cottage pie
And fruit n yog for snacks
I'll use my a choices on some cheese later and maybe a cup of tea or two and will shoehorn my other b in somewhere too.
Will update later as it helps focus the mind!
Have a lovely day all

juliejim

Congratulations moon

gunsandbanjos

Thats a great loss Moonsa well done.

Green for me today! Surprise, surprise.

Just had breakfast - coffee(A), weetabix(1/2B), milk(A), 1/2 a banana - it was going soft and i hate soft bananas!
Lunch will be HM lentil soup with WM bread(B)
Dinner 2 egg cheese(A) omelette, SW chips and salad

Got some strawberries that really need eaten, plus melon and yoghurts.

Syn total for week 7.5/105

garys_missus

Well had to change my WI to last night instead of this morning as I had to leave home at 6.30 for work today, only to get there and be turned away as my booking hadn't been passed on!!!! Not a happy bunny. :mad:
I managed to lose 2.5lb last night which means I'm still .5lb from my 3st shiney.............who knows, if I had gone this morning as usual I might have got it?
So I have one more week until my hols, and if I don't get that shiney next week I think I'll cry.
At least this should keep me on the straight and narrow.

h007

had a naughty chinese last night - it was tooooo hot to cook lol

no idea of the syns!! - grilled dumplings, egg fried rice, sweet and sour chicken


anyway going to be good this week i promise!!

green today;

b - starbucks frapacino (a), 2 alpen light (b), grapes
l - pom bears (5), grapes, cherry toms, cheesecake muller (1)
snacks - apple, satsumas

dinner - baked bean lasagne from the freezer. cant remember the exact ingrediants but i know i put veg in it

maman

sophieschoice wrote: »

Thank you so much!
No, I know one meal a day isn't enough but I work very odd shifts. I'm either up at 5.30am or arriving home at midnight so it's terribly hard to follow any kind of diet which includes three meals a day. I had a lot of success with Celebrity Slim before I stopped smoking because I don't always have access to food during my working day or, rather, don't have access to somewhere to eat it and have no means of carrying it about. A sachet was ideal.
Apart from all the free foods the only things I ate last week were 2 handful of cashew nuts (on different days) ten small wine gums, 2 bottles of Smirnoff Ice and 2 Scotches, no more than 3 hot drinks a day that I would have milk in, 2 tiny portions of butter (to cook the omelettes I had twice last week in) and 4oz of cheese. I don't appear to be anywhere near the syns allowed. I had two slices of bread (wholemeal) in the whole week and not a crisp, cake, biscuit or chocolate passed my lips.
The odd thing is that, although I only lost a measly pound which nearly made me cry, I can now do trousers up that didn't even meet round my middle last week.
How I didn't hit the snack cupboard last night I'll never know!
I decided on SW because my friend is losing weight easily on it. She eats free foods and uses all her syns on 3 bottles of wine at weekend.
I think the main problem I have is work (although don't we all!) and the inability to fit 3 meals a day into my life.
Whoever could come up with an ideal diet for shift workers who spend the majority of their time outdoors would make millions!

I haven't done the sums but you may be right that you were under the syns total for last week. Although it's not the 'official' way lots of us average out syns over the week (like your friend does) so that isn't the problem.

Lisa has given you a few ideas of how to fit 3 'meals' into your day and I'm confident you can do it too. If you had fruit chopped into yogurt for a quick breakfast before leaving home that would be one meal. You could hardboil some eggs and just scoff them with the fruit as an alternative. If you used to be a smoker, then you must have an odd break during your shift. You could make a sandwich(using your HEB) and with an apple/pear/satsuma that could fit in your bag/pocket for a quick 'lunch' then you could have something like your seafood salad and fruit when you get home. You do need more freefood so a jacket with the salad would be great. If you only have a few splashes of milk in a day then get something easy to measure to ensure your HEAs. Laughing Cow cheese triangles are good becasue they're easy to measure.

I'm pleased you can now fit into your trousers:D! Perhaps this week when you go to your group you could sit in again at the new members talk. You'll soon get the hang of it!