Heading for winter with Slimming World

maman

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

Sarah, you have every right to be sad and lacking in motivation after what you've been through. Don't beat yourself up - be good to yourself. You'll get back into the way of things but maybe you just need to give yourself some time and space to "recover". Hugs to you.

Totally agree with what mm says sarah. I'm convinced the answer to your motivation has to be in planning. If you have all your meals planned for the week and shop to that plan then it should be much easier to stick to. Try to choose a week when you don't have difficult choices over meals out. Try and have syn free meals (and even HEX free if poss) during the day so you ca 'pig out' on your syns and HEXs in the evening. Plan nice things for that too and try to just not buy things you shouldn't be eating. I was just googling and a recipe for sweet potato wedges with mint and yogurt dip came up. Sounds yummy as a snack and that could be absolutely free!!

gettingthere54

jennyjelly wrote: »

I had some blueberries that had been in the fridge too long and had gone a bit soft and not nice to eat, but not gone over enough to bin IYSWIM. So I put them in the blender with some FF yog and a banana and had a lovely smoothie for my lunch.

But something keeps niggling at the back of my mind about having to eat fruit whole, not liquidised, and I can't find anything about it in the book. Has anyone else heard this or am I making it up? Too late now cos it's all gone, just wondering if I should be synning it. Any ideas?

Hi Jennyjelly,
Your right to think that, our consultant told us that all fruit is free, but if you change the consistency of it then it will have to be synned,
I found out through experience as I got given some apples off a friends tree, so I dutifully cut them up and washed them and cooked them and put sweetener in, when cooked I then put them in a ramekin dish with a plain digestive biscuit crushed on top and had it for a pudding, yummy I thought, until I was told different.
Thats why smoothies are a no no unless synned for the same reason.

gettingthere54

piglet74 wrote: »

:j at weigh in number 33 last nite I...:j

1. Lost 2.5lbs
2. Got my 5 stone award (grand total of 5 stone 1lb)
3. Got SOTW
4. Got SOTM
5. Am now 16lbs from target

Wow! Piglet, an amazing achievement, very well done.

I too am hoping for my 5 stone award tomorrow night, 1.5 pound I need to get off to achieve it. So fingers crossed , if not this week deffo next week.

I dont know about you, but the nearer to target I get, it gets harder to lose, I have been having a few weeks lately losing a couple of pound and then staying the same the week after, it really does nothing for the confidence :rotfl:
Ideally I would like to get to around 11 stone which for me seems to be about right, although the wii says 9 stone 3 pound :mad: I have not been that weight for decades, I need a comfortable weight that I feel I could maintain, and I know that if I got to 9 stone 3 then I would definately be a candidate for the belsen camp!
Keep up the good work x x

jennyjelly

piglet74 wrote: »

no it was me, well....i take Xenical (is that the same?) perscribed by my GP...Next appointment is Friday.

Piglet and anyone else who is using these, would you mind giving me the benefit of your experience please?

I've been looking at the possibility of getting Orlistat (Xenical) on prescription and from what I can see I would be a suitable candidate as my BMI is 39 and I'm not able to do much in the way of exercise due to health problems. As I see it the Orlistat would give me the extra boost that exercise would if I were able to do it.

Does it work? I'm going to ask my doctor before looking elsewhere, but if he can't or won't prescribe it (we seem to come off very badly in the NHS postcode lottery down here) is it worth buying?

mimi2020

Hi, would it be alright if I joined this thread as I am right at the end of my weight loss journey? (But then I’ve been there before and always put back on, typical yo yo dieter). I do slimming world online and I’ve always thought that the website was missing a forum as online members don’t have that support network of group, and sometimes you just need that extra support from people who understand.
Just over 2 years ago I went up to about 11 and a half stone after I took a gap year, which I know isn’t a huge weight but I’m only 5ft3 and in my early 20’s. I’d been enjoying my gap year in denial that I’d put on any weight until we got a wii fit for Christmas and I couldn’t deny it anymore. I lost 1 stone in the first year I was back at work, I think just the physical activity of being a childcarer helped me do that.

Then in April last year when I was 10 and a half stone I started on a calorie controlled diet. I lost half a stone but it was too difficult to keep up that diet as it was just too restrictive. In June I discovered slimming world. I was 10 stone when I joined and reached my target of 9 stone just before my holiday in August. Well let’s just say I decided to have 2 weeks off plan while I was away and never really got started again. I restarted properly in the new year and had miraculously only put on 5lbs (I’m a nanny soam on the go most of the time which is the only explanation I can find for not gaining more).

Since new year I set myself a new mini target of 8 stone 10,which I probably haven’t weighed since I was about 12! I’m 1lb off that and my WI is tomorrow so fingers crossed. Would like to get down to 8 stone 7 but as I said I find it really hard to maintain targets when I reach them. (Sorry about the super long post.)

debsjc

Hello everyone, just back from WI and lost 3.5 pounds and got my stone off award. 1 stone 2.5 pounds lost in 5 weeks. :j

I went down to Dorset for a long weekend. Usually I eat more 'bad' foods when I go there, so this was a mini achievement for me. I did have some fish in batter from the chippie (10 syns), but I had it take-away and had it with home made SW chips and a salad.

sarahs999

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

Sarah, you have every right to be sad and lacking in motivation after what you've been through. Don't beat yourself up - be good to yourself. You'll get back into the way of things but maybe you just need to give yourself some time and space to "recover". Hugs to you.

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Thank you Med Mum. Appreciate it.

Weirdly shortly after I wrote that I went to my yoga class and my teacher said she is considering putting me back up in the top group again (I had to drop down after a shoulder injury). Just that little bit of encouragement made me feel totally different about the day adn I had a much better day food wise (though DH had bought champagne when I got home because he 'couldn't resist it as it was on offer in Lidl'!) Nice it was.

whamfanuk

signed up for slimming world today, looking forward to chatting

evilsquid1603

mimi2020 - im 5ft 2, early 20's and my old target was 8st 10lbs! haven't been that in a while though. i wanted to go lower to 8st 5ish but my old consultant wouldn't let me hoping to get back there asap on my own.

it was hard when i hit target too. i was in a weird situation where i got differing losses/gains regardless of how many HE or syns i had.


I'm off on my first proper attempt at an outside run tomorrow in preparation for my sport relief 3 miles. dreading it tbh, I've lost so much of my fitness.

will WI at the gym too, i know its on a different day and time but until I'm back at my parents full time (moving in a month), i cant really commit to a dedicated time/day. my parents have scales at home but the gym ones will prob be more like the SW calibrated ones and will stop me doing cheeky midweek weighs as these were a massive downfall last time. i got into the extremely bad habit of checking and if it was a good loss thinking "oh i can let go a bit" or if it was a gain/maintain going mental over it and eating virtually nothing to try and get a loss.

maman

evilsquid1603 wrote: »

it was hard when i hit target too. i was in a weird situation where i got differing losses/gains regardless of how many HE or syns i had.

will WI at the gym too, i know its on a different day and time but until I'm back at my parents full time (moving in a month), i cant really commit to a dedicated time/day. my parents have scales at home but the gym ones will prob be more like the SW calibrated ones and will stop me doing cheeky midweek weighs as these were a massive downfall last time. i got into the extremely bad habit of checking and if it was a good loss thinking "oh i can let go a bit" or if it was a gain/maintain going mental over it and eating virtually nothing to try and get a loss.

I think that's a great idea evilsquid, I've always avoided weighing at home for much the same reason. When last scales went i decided not to replace them. It is difficult maintaining. Strangely, my problem has been that I've got so used to eating on plan that I went under target. I've now had two weeks with lots of flexi eating out so I hope that'll be sorted at my next WI on Thursday. Good luck with your training for the run!

:wave: newbies, welcome aboard.