Heading for winter with Slimming World

maman

Preparethehome, I wouldn't like you to think I was ignoring your question but Ditzen came out of lurkdom and gave such super advice before I could reply. (Thanks Ditzen). I'm sure the answer (for us all) is in preparation and planning which for you means doing it when you feel up to it to make it easier for when you're not. It's similar to the people on here who do huge cook-ups on Sundays to set themselves up with lunches for work through the week. Stick at it!!!

piglet, I know the consultants and books say fill up on free food but that doesn't seem logical to me. I don't do portion control either in that I'll have a load of potatoes or pasta or whatever with my meals. What I am careful with is that if I have a load of free foods I make sure I match it with a third of SF. Not always at the same meal but through the day. So this morning I had baked beans for breakfast and no SF but lunchtime I'll have a plate of stir-fry veg and maybe just a few noodles. If eaten together (Yuk!) it would be an EE meal (probably success express) with at least a third superfree. It makes sense to me and I think part of SW is getting your head in the right place.

evilsquid1603

piglet74 wrote: »

i know i can cut AWAY back on portion size, at the mo, i dont exercise any portion control, our consultant keeps saying "if its a free food, its unlimited", so i find myself eating 4 / 5 potatoes, 4 slices of bacon (fat off of course), 3 SW Sausages, mugshot soup, 3 muller lites, (thru the day...not all at once ) etc...so i know i can cut back here if the losses remain slow.

the most important and often completely overlooked part of the whole "free food" thing is it is free but only to the point it satisfies a genuine hunger/appetite. it actually annoys me when consultants encourage people to just eat and eat and eat rather than tell them to recognise if its hunger or just boredom and decide if its food they need or if they need to get out and do something to occupy their mind instead.

one of my old consultants used to advocate a whole 6 rasher pack of bacon on a bacon buttie "coz its free!" and another admitted to eating a mugshot as a snack whilst cooking her dinner! i just think thats completely the wrong way to go about it.

if you are hungry (genuine as in tummy rumbling, not just thirsty/bored/tired/feeling down) then by all means eat whatever it takes to stop that hunger but going beyond it is just over eating and does nothing but set you back. any food you eat past what you need is just more calories that need to be burnt off one way or another, whether that be by having another day longer on SW or time doing the "shred" or dreadmill.

i got to the point where i forgot what genuine hunger was so i forced myself to have much smaller meals to feel the sensation of real hunger again so i can recognise the times i really am hungry. i used to confuse hunger with being thirsty and just wanting/needing something to do.

macpep1

Morning All :wave:

Thanks for the warm welcome, I dont get a lot of time at night to come on so usually I have a wee sneaky peek at work
A wee quick question before I list today’s menu, I love HM soup, (dont we all) the one I made the other day has the following

Smoked Lardons (180g)
Carrots
Parsnips
Leeks
Red Lentils
3 pints HM veg Stock
1 veg stock cube made up with 1 pint water (run out of HM stock)
TBSP Tomato Puree
Juice of 1 orange squeezed in
Salt
Pepper

We prob get around 12 portions to freeze after 4 bowls fresh from pot, how many sys do you think as I have some in with me for lunch today. TIA

Todays Plan

B - ¼ Melon stuffed with summer berry fruits & FF Yoghurt
L - HM Lentil Soup, grapes & an orange
Snacks - 3 x Ryvita (HEB) & 3 Laughing Cow Light (HEA)
D - Baked Potato, ham Beans, salad, kiwi & apple

If I get munchies, I will use rest of HEA with some cold meat J

piglet74

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piglet, I know the consultants and books say fill up on free food but that doesn't seem logical to me. I don't do portion control either in that I'll have a load of potatoes or pasta or whatever with my meals. What I am careful with is that if I have a load of free foods I make sure I match it with a third of SF. Not always at the same meal but through the day. So this morning I had baked beans for breakfast and no SF but lunchtime I'll have a plate of stir-fry veg and maybe just a few noodles. If eaten together (Yuk!) it would be an EE meal (probably success express) with at least a third superfree. It makes sense to me and I think part of SW is getting your head in the right place.[/QUOTE]

thanks,
i dont always have 1/3 of a meal SF, but i will have 1/3 of my day superfree

like today, in my work lunchbag, there is 2 oranges, 2 apples, a banana, a tub of pineapple and grapes, 3 muller lights, 2 SW Cereal Bars, and a mugshot, and i will graze my way thru that all day,

then tnite i am having homemade shephereds pie (extra lean mine) and it will have carrots and peppers in it (but i will eat it, until i am full):o

then tnite i will have around 10 syns in the form of WW Cookies, or a WW Cake bar, if i have room.

in between the shepherds pie and the syns, i will walk for an hour, then i will do some resistence band exercises,

then bed, then start all over again tmara

sarahs999

My DH is doing very well on this plan. He's lost a stone already this month and has gone from being very cynical about it to being really energised (he simply couldn't get his head around the 'unlimited' bit, didn't see how it could work). Typicall he hasn't read any of the theory or followed the books, just asks me and copies what I eat. GRRR! Meanwhile I've only lost 5.5lb, but then again I am much closer to goal than he is. Also men just seem to be better generally at losing weight, I've found. Perhaps because they are less prone to fluctuations in hormones and therefore less at risk of emotional eating.

I am wearing my size 12 jeans today but they are really tight. I have forbidden myself from ever buying a size larger than 12 again (I was a 20 at one point) so either I knuckle down or I'll only be able to wear stretchy dresses!

Minihauk

Well done Sarah - from a size 20 to a 12 is a great achievement. (I am currently a size 20, but don't think I could ever get below a 16!)

Prepareathome - I can't offer any advice. I still struggle and am expecting a gain tonight at WI, but didn't want to ignore you.

To all the other losers, well done, keep at it. To everyone else - we are all in this together. Tomorrow is another day, let's try again.

ammonite

Re: portion control, although I haven't mastered the "eating healthy bit" yet I think I've mastered portion control. When we got married we had enormous plates with no "border" on them. Worrying about being a bad wife, I filled the husband's plate with food and didn't want to be too left out so made myself a similar portion. Over time, i realised, our portions were huge and that was down to the plate! I bought new plates with a massive border on them and fill them up now, it is about 1/2 of what we used to eat.

Secondly, after doing WW for so long (measley portions), I began to realise that I was full after 28g rice krispies in the morning, so why have 50g. Give me 198g of potatoes and I think that is a normal portion. A friend of mine said she couldn't do SW as if someone told her food was free, she would just pig out on potatoes and free food as she has no control over portion.

I'm a little and often type though so if I had a huge lunch, I'd still want to graze through the afternoon, so I have a small lunch and graze anyway.

I must admit, I add 3 slices of bacon to a butty now, would only ever have had 2 max. on WW but on the whole, I'm not sure why but I seem to have mastered the portion control thing. I do generally only eat when I'm hungry (except for the evil evenings - that is just a bad habit). Although, I'm not that fussed on savoury food so I couldn't take pleasure from eating lots of potatoes for example. #

(PS - Hope that doesn't sound preachy or anything, just trying to say what worked for me in case it helps anyone! Piglet/maman whatever you have been doing already has obviously worked really well! )

So why do I need SW? Cos I love sweet foods and cannot resist sweets, biscuits, cakes and chocolate. They are the work of the devil. I have DEFINITELY not mastered portion control there, but working on it!

piglet74

Although, I'm not that fussed on savoury food so I couldn't take pleasure from eating lots of potatoes for example. #

ohhh i love potatoes....love them...i dont know if its an Irish thing...being reared on spuds...and bread...and paying for it now..:o

i always said.."i could not do WW.....one wee tiny spud....is that all ur allowed..."...so the fact that they are free on SW...:D

saidan

mmmmm

i am already excited about having the inside of a jacket potato for myy tea - sad or what!

ammonite

I used to while the hours away when on WW, couldn't think of anything except my grumbling hungry stomach. Lost weight of course but very easy to put back on. Perfectly sure I've damaged my metabolism



Anyone (but saidan I'm looking at you!) know if sweet potatoes have a lot of fibre in them? I haven't eaten them for years but remember liking them. Are they more in the same family as a carrot than say cauliflower? I can't eat cauli and such like due to fibre content.