Heading for winter with Slimming World

maman

I was wondering when your interview was evilsquid, so I'm wishing you a very early 'Good Luck'. I haven't ever seen any SW managers in suits or anything. Lately I've been wearing a dress/skirt with opaques and a jacket for business clothes and it feels good. You could try something like that, and take your jacket off and put it over the chair if it feels wrong. That's a bit like Blair and Cameron like to do to show their getting down to the job! I liked your ideas about marketing your group for students as it's often featured in the mags how people put on weight at university. Also they'd be interested in simple recipes with limited money and kitchen facilities. I'd like to think you can talk about specific problems at Image Therapy. My own consultant isn't up to much and it can get sooo formulaic and predictable. She's started asking me to answer some of the questions lately, so I just tell people about the pearls of wisdom I've read on here:D:rotfl:

evilsquid1603

thank you Maman!

i know what you mean! the constant "well done you lost a pound! what did you eat this week?" gets boring after about 10 people. i would have thought that SW would give them hints and ideas about how to fill up image therapy week after week rather than just say what they all lost and ask if they had SW chips.

also id rather if i gained have the consultant say something to the group as a whole like "if you've gained this week and aren't sure why, you can ask the group for support now or if you'd rather, feel free to speak to me afterwards in private". it was so embarrassing walking into a new group and admitting in public to a gain mainly because id had a week that involved a few meals and drinks out. i felt like a right alcoholic! I'm now seriously considering not staying to group next week if i go back to that one. i don't see what i can gain from it at all. i think theres one that the second consultant i had runs on thursday morning but i don't know if id feel up to it right before an interview. on the other hand, it might put me in the right frame of mind!

jennyjelly

Thanks for the moral support all - I'#ve stayed on plan today dn I'm not going to let a little disappointment derail me. As you say, it's a long term lifestyle change, not a quick fix. Any I have to say DH and I both feel healthier for it.

Evilsquid, you seem very knowledgeable so I'm sure you'll be fine at your interview. I'd say smart but comfortable is the key, if you wear something you are not relaxed in you won't give your best. I speak as someone who NEVER wears a suit and have usually got the jobs I've been interviewed for.

If you are planning to change the "well done you lost a pound! what did you eat this week?" idea of image therapy I want to come to your group please!

On the passata/philly sauce, could you substitute Quark and make it syn free?

evilsquid1603

jennyjelly wrote: »

Thanks for the moral support all - I'#ve stayed on plan today dn I'm not going to let a little disappointment derail me. As you say, it's a long term lifestyle change, not a quick fix. Any I have to say DH and I both feel healthier for it.

Evilsquid, you seem very knowledgeable so I'm sure you'll be fine at your interview. I'd say smart but comfortable is the key, if you wear something you are not relaxed in you won't give your best. I speak as someone who NEVER wears a suit and have usually got the jobs I've been interviewed for.

If you are planning to change the "well done you lost a pound! what did you eat this week?" idea of image therapy I want to come to your group please!

On the passata/philly sauce, could you substitute Quark and make it syn free?

thank you

you're all welcome to it if i get one! might be a bit of a journey for some of you thou :rotfl:

you could do, the SW recipes for cheesy sauces seem to be either a quark and stock mixture or using philly as a HE or a low syn sauce. i always found that quark was just a bit too watery for me so i don't really use it much.

if you have books, in the 7 days 7 ways on pg 19 the recipe there uses quark and eggs to make a carbonara sauce.

poet123

The first week I went I lost 3.5lbs but my friend only lost 1lb, the consultant went round everyone who was a new member and publicly asked what their loss was, my friend was mortified and she hasn't been back, some people had lost 7lbs and she felt such a failure.

evilsquid1603

poet123 wrote: »

The first week I went I lost 3.5lbs but my friend only lost 1lb, the consultant went round everyone who was a new member and publicly asked what their loss was, my friend was mortified and she hasn't been back, some people had lost 7lbs and she felt such a failure.

my first WI when i went in september was a loss of 1lb and the consultant treated it like a gain! i got the "oh dear, were you expecting this?" in front of the whole group. you could almost hear the cogs in her brain churning out "not been doing it properly have we? still been eating normally then? been drinking too much? FAR too many syns eh?". i felt SO bad explaining that i was on jobseekers and much as id love to eat fresh food, we had a kitchen full of things i couldn't afford to just chuck out and replace and that i had no choice but to eat my way through it all first and stick to SW as much as i could afford to.

its never really explained to members that everyone looses at different rates and those with loads to loose will initially waste away while people with say a stone to loose will be on 1 pound or even half pound losses and its got nothing to do with how "good" you've been.

laurachick

Hi all,

Late post today, due to 12.5 hour shift at work with 3 more days to go. This means all meals to be eaten at work-so not exactly what I would like. Quality will decrease over the days as I use up homemade stuff and resort to convenience.

Today was good-

B-FF activia
L-HM leek and pot soup. 1 slice of quite thick wholemeal bread (HEB) with tiny scraping of butter (2/3 syns?)
S-Watermelon
T-Pasta with HM tom sauce

When I (finally!) get home will spend 2 syns on a low fat hot chocolate and use HEB on cereal bar. Have resisted biscuits, crisps and cakes offered by smiling colleagues all day so v pleased to have stuck to this.

saidan

hi all

here is the soup i made earlier - best home-made soup ever - tasted great

1 onion - fried in frylight
3 cloves garlic - chopped very small and thrown in pan
1 red pepper - chopped and thrown in pan
4 small carrots - peeled, chopped and thrown in pan
added salt & pepper
stock - made with 1 veg stock cube and 300ml water - pour in pan
bring to boil and simmer for an hour.
used hand blender to blend till there was no bits

had big bowl full - was delicious! next time i'll make more to have later in the day or the next day

TakeItEazy

WI this morning with .2lb loss so recorded as STS. Been on plan today then pigged out on chinese , oh well tomorrows another day

debsjc

Beki88 wrote: »

Hi all, just signed up to SW last night, had a read through the books and I am a little baffled by it all.
We have a little boy with autism so I have a 4 week "rota" for food (go back to week one after week 4) so I would like to keep that as close as possible but trying to figure out what will need changing is confusing me. I've forgot most of what was said in the new member talk like about pasta sauces, noodles, muller lights, etc. Hope it gets easier! Haha anyway nice to meet you all.

My first week was hard, but now I am finding more things I like and it's great.

Useful 'Free' food for you, that is quick to prepare

Batchelors Pasta and sauce in these flavours (made using water, or milk from your allowance) - Bolognese, Chicken & Mushroom, Chicken & Roasted garlic, Chicken & Herb, Creamy Tikka MAsala, Mushroom & wine, Tomato onion & Herb.

Batchelors Savory Rice in these flavours - Golden, Chicken, Beef, Garlic butter, Chinese, Muchroom, mild curry, mild mexican, pilau, sweet & sour, Tandoori, thai sweet chilli, sweet bbq chicken

Mug Shot - Noodle in Chicken, Chinese or spicy sweet n sour--- Pasta in roast chicken, tomato & herb or spicy tomato.

Mullerlight - banana & custard, cherry, mandarin, mango & passionfruit, peach & pineapple, strawberry, rhubard, raspberry & cranberry, vanilla, toffee, orange sprinkle with dark chocolate, vanilla sprinkled with dark chocolate.

I think the important thing is to have at least 1/3 of each plate on your superfree fruit & veg.
My lunch today only took 15 mins to prepare, it was a pasta & sauce, 2 rashers of trimmed lean bacon, and stir fry veggies.

Good luck