Heading for winter with Slimming World

kandfs_mam

My EE food diary today:

B - mullerlight; pear
L - Kallo rice cakes (4.5syns :mad:); pear; banana; alpen light bar (HEB)
D - homemade tattie & leek soup (tatties, leeks, veg stock cube, onions); shepherd's pie (lean beef mince, onions, peas, 2 oxo cubes, tatties)
s - 2 pears, satsuma, dry highlights choc powder (2syns)

I should probably have done without the highlights but I had a horrendous chocolate craving and this has killed it completely!

blackberry-rum

well that wasn't too bad, I rejoined (£9 approx cos I get old lady rates) and got the new book. Last time I was weighed (prev book) I was 9st 10 lb and tonight I was 10 st 6 lb so I've gained just over half a stone; if I take it seriously for a few weeks that should soon be GONE! It was nice to see some of the old (but slimmer) faces

For a sweet snack I always enjoy either a frozen yoghurt (1.5 hrs in freezer) or some frozen fruit mixed into a yoghurt & then popped back into the freezer for 10 minutes.

Does anyone have any news of MrsM (I think she goes onto Minimins), I wonder if she's had her baby yet? And Dizzy, has she popped in lately?

Annie6

gettingthere54 --- I was reading about your meds and some are similar to mine. I decided to do more exercise and ended up having a bigger heart problem(meds control heart rhythm) pushed too hard. Now on extra heart tabs and warfarin. My main problem now is I am not allowed to eat too much of SW staple food – green veg and all berries. So slowly slowly losing weight. Meds can slow weight loss.:cool:

Well done piglet and all you other losers. And hello to all newbies (and new oldies:D) Another 1 and ½ off for me this week.

Mrs M posted about 2 weeks ago on minimins. All well with herself and bump! :T
today
b-- melon and yogurt
l-- hm soup and oranges
d-- pork chop/sausage /cauliflower/ tomatoes/ beans/ 1potato
sn-- fruit/hifi bar/plums

psychopathbabble

2.5 off tonight

Does anyone know any syn values for Zizzis? I went for the pesche risotto, which is rice, prawns, salmon and squid as I thought it might be the better option? I've tried searching everywhere and can't find anything

got-it-spend-it

Morning all. Well done on the losses. I weigh in tomorrow after work. I'm not feeling confident even though I've stuck to plan 100%. I'm a bit paranoid that I eat too many carbs, but I don't eat meat do tend to stick to Green Days.

Can't decide what to have for brekky. Might have SW breakfast of toast, beans, mushrooms and tomatoes, but then I could have toast with 2syns of chocolate Philadelphia and sliced banana...decisions!

cyclingyorkie

Well after a week of being angelic on food choices ( I've given all the rubbish up for Lent) and totally committed on the exercise front I sts :mad::mad::mad::mad:.

Fed up isn't an accurate description, but this is a family forum!;);)

So I came home and had tea ( baked spud and veg with chicken which had been marinated in ff natural yoghurt and curry paste) and then got out the size 22 jeans that I have kept from when I started!:eek::eek::eek: DD1 and DD2 can stand in a leg each....

We have a new leader and she is keen that I bring in some 'before' pics, plus the aforementioned jeans, next week.....

i have agreed, but I am going to be a bit embarrassed as the pictures are awful....

* looms on the horizon, meaning the PMT fairies will be around too.... but it's head down and battle on - I will see a loss next week....... This is the week when DD2 gets lots of lie-ins ( school runs a 2 week timetable) so I have already decluttered 4 miles this morning! I will keep going!

czerniacha

:hello:

mind if I join you?

Since yesterday I took time to read back 22 pages :eek: and now I'm ready to come and say hello
Been directed to this thread from the Tesco Elite one(which I blame for my weight problems ) and it's nice to see familiar 'faces'
Brilliant advice and support here and it's just what I need right now I took a look at the minimins forum but I guess I just prefer MSE
(sorry in advance for a long post but I just feel I need to present the 'history' ) So there it goes:

I joined SW for the first time in my life last week Saturday Read and heard a lot about it and thought I give it a go since I'm bored with starving myself impossible and the binging on chocolate :eek:
I always was 'big' a chubby child, the biggest teen in class/school been only thinner twice in my life, first when I was about 15/16 years old and got obsessed with stomach crunches(we had some PE 'exam' at school and you got the highest note for 60+/minute so I was training hard to get it as it would mean my first and only highest note in PE in my life ) and also going out with friends, never at home, forgetting to eat... wasn't really a 'diet', it dropped off by accident and I didn't even notice until I balooned again (I started running school cafe and was constantly munching on whatever was there )
The next time was 'on purpose' and quite complicated and very unhealthy... A few years ago I saw my good friend loosing lots of weight very fast with some prescribed slimming pills so I went to my GP to get them too. And I guess the thought of it being possible(as I saw it with my own eyes) made it possible... I lost ca. 3 stones really fast but I also kind of changed my eating habits at the same time... I wasn't starving/depriving myself I just had 3 meals a day and no blow outs...
That was when I met my current boyfriend over 4 years ago
I then continued to loose weight without the pills but it was taking longer and was sts lots of the time... however I managed another 20lbs or so... then I went on holidays with bf and seeing all the slim girls around made me desperate to loose even more(never go to Ibiza if you're self-concius(sp?):mad:), I was size 12/14 then but when we came back I decided to go on my 'own' diet which was only having liquids 5 days a week and eating/drinking what I wanted on the weekends :eek: Ok, I lost another 12 lbs or so quite fast and was a size 10/12 it felt amazing and I was really proud of myself but then it kind of went out of the window :o:o I didn't watch what I eat anymore, had more and more chocolate which is my downfall, and the weight was coming back ALL of it and more
I just looked down at the scales terrified every morning but couldn't get a grip and do anything

Until NOW :j I am really motivated and positive about SW and I really enjoy the food... A little worried about the carbs(pasta!spuds!rice!on a diet?!) but I'm following the plan and I am loosing I am on the scales every morning as I NEED to know, it motivates me...

I'll post my last few days diary and other 'blubber' later as I'm running off to see Mr T now
Sorry for the long post
But there is lots more I want to say :eek:
I'll do it later

Hope everyone has a nice, SW friendly day! :A

cyclingyorkie

welcome - we're a very friendly , supportive bunch here!

sarahs999

Well ladies (we have no gentlemen here do we?) today I am starting some medication whose known side-effect is weight gain (they're steroids) which rather !!!!es me off. But my body needs it in order to be able to have a baby, so it will only be a short term thing, hopefully.Still not looking forward to it. Will be watching my food intake very carefully over the next few weeks.

piglet74

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

Well after a week of being angelic on food choices ( I've given all the rubbish up for Lent) and totally committed on the exercise front I sts :mad::mad::mad::mad:.

Fed up isn't an accurate description, but this is a family forum!;);)

So I came home and had tea ( baked spud and veg with chicken which had been marinated in ff natural yoghurt and curry paste) and then got out the size 22 jeans that I have kept from when I started!:eek::eek::eek: DD1 and DD2 can stand in a leg each....

We have a new leader and she is keen that I bring in some 'before' pics, plus the aforementioned jeans, next week.....

i have agreed, but I am going to be a bit embarrassed as the pictures are awful....

* looms on the horizon, meaning the PMT fairies will be around too.... but it's head down and battle on - I will see a loss next week....... This is the week when DD2 gets lots of lie-ins ( school runs a 2 week timetable) so I have already decluttered 4 miles this morning! I will keep going!

come on now, chin up;)

look at my sig...

you remember how i STS a while back...then my first ever gain....you remember how encouraging you were to me...

and look...a kick start....now i am 5stone 5lbs lighter

it happens....the human body is a strange thing....you be MEGA good...and STS...then u be a bit bold...and you loose 3lbs...

just keep on being good.....it will start again...

i took my mum 3 weeks to get rid of 0.5lbs for her 5 stone award....and she lost 3.5lbs then!:j

the first week i STS i went home and dug out my outfit from my first WI, and i was ashamed to see that i can now fit MY WHOLE self into one leg of the trousers of that outfit!!!:o

but it spurred me on, help me stay on track and break thru the plateau and now i am only 12lbs from target, if i had given up then, i would now have the guts of a stone back on, and b 2 stone from target.....

you can do it......try a few (i would recommended not more than 3) success express days this week,

keep on doing, what you have been doing that got you this far:A