Spring into Summer 2012 with Slimming World

Becks81

S31 wrote: »

Hello Slimming World'ers

It has been two weeks since I joined SW so thought I'd share my 1st 2 weeks with you.

1st week I lost 2lb & at todays wi was -3.5lb :j So although I've got a long way to go, it's going in the right direction.

I must confess that I am a Coca-Cola addict so giving that up has been hard & diet coke is just not the same. I was going to have a Coke using syns but don't want to get a taste for it again.

Good luck with your weigh-in's

Hi there :wave: another coke addict here!

I love my coke, but despise diet coke, it tastes flat to me. Have you tried Pepsi max? This has been my saviour since I started sw. It is syn free and I know it does not have the same health benefits as sf juice or water, but every girl is allowed one vice huh! :rotfl: Its usually on offer at one of the big supermarkets, I would hate for you to 'waste' syns on the normal coke.

beanielou

Talking of coke/pepsi anyone any theories on loosing weight if you massivly cut down on diet coke?

Artytarty

I lost 1 and a half pounds.
I was a bit disappointed but then I was handed a tin of tomatoes and something else which together weighed that. It was quite heavy, so I feel spurred on to try hard this week. Someone hit the 10st loss marker!

gettingthere54

snoopy58 wrote: »

Thank you so much for your kind words and advice gettingthere54. I have such a long journey ahead of me that it feels pretty daunting at the moment. I have set my self a mini target - 2 stone by mid June (daughter's graduation) and would love 3 stone by 14th August - wonderful holiday. I haven't set my final target as it seems like an impossible dream but feel that I have similar scale start and finish numbers to your good self.
At the moment I am very motivated to keep going but know that I am only a Crunchie away from the slippery slope to choccie heaven.

My daughter graduated last July with a 1st class honours degree 6 weeks after I started Slimming World.
My weight loss to that date was 1 stone 4.5 pound off and my weight was 16 stone 4.
I felt really great that day, it was a wonderful proud moment when she got on stage and was awarded her degree, 3 years of continual hard work.
My thoughts at the time were that she had put so much effort and hard work into getting to her goal ( it was always going to be a 1st class degree for her ) because she had always been motivated to do her best. My thoughts then were that if she could do her best and get the results then I could and would, do the same.
So I carried on regardless, had some good losses, a couple of STS, 2 x 0.5 ON but mostly a loss, and all because I believed in myself and had the support of a wonderful partner and 3 great kids.
We had professional photos taken on the day and they take pride of place on my walls, ( much to the dismay of DD as she hates being on show ) :rotfl: but when I look at those pictures and look at me now, less than 12 months later, look what I achieved! It's so worth the effort for anyone struggling.
She is now doing her Masters Degree and so will graduate all over again, and you know what?
The photo's will be even bigger this time, with me being SLIM :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Your journey is now as mine was then, daunting, but with grit and determination YOU CAN AND WILL DO IT.
Good luck xx

lalamb

beanielou wrote: »

Talking of coke/pepsi anyone any theories on loosing weight if you massivly cut down on diet coke?

I used to drink between 3 and 4 cans of pepsi max a day, I drink 1 at the most now because I think it bloats you. I have only had small losses of weight. I'm drinking approx 6 pints of water a day, 2 cups of hot water with fresh lemon juice and a wedge of lemon, and at least 2 cups of herbal tea. I don't think I could put any more fluids into my body lol

arsenalbarnie

gettingthere54 wrote: »

Arsenalbarnie, well done on your loss, great to see.

Everyone raves about baked bean lasagne in group. Me and my mate always laugh at the thought of it, anyway I made it for us both for lunch yesterday, truly scrummy delicious.

Can you please tell me what you put into it? Sounds scrummy !

Sure finely chop an onion, 2 cloves garlic, 100g mushrooms and 1 red pepper. Fry in fry light for 5 mins. Then add two tins baked beans, 1 tin chopped toms. Add worcs sauce, dash tabasco, chilli powder and mixed herbs to taste. Heat up then add to dish in layers with lasgne sheets. Cover with foil bake 200 deg c for 35 mins, take off foil and top with grated cheese. Put back in oven for 10 mins til cheese bubbling. Makes enough for 4 portions so I added 4x 28g cheese and used as HEX A choice. So then free on a green or E easy day. Nice with salad and SW chips;)

arsenalbarnie

Whoops just saw the recipe posted earlier already.:o

evilsquid1603

blackberry-rum wrote: »

I'm with Evilsquid on this ... I buy low fat plain yog and count it as free for what I use. Fat free is vile, though not as vile as quark which is the food of the devil, tasteless and white, what's the point! Really, you aren't missing anything!

even the devil would probably claim quark wasn't his doing! its awful stuff, i tried it a few times and it ruined a perfectly good lasagne when i tried to make the quark white sauce. never again!

Becks81 wrote: »

I have also decided that I would like to try some running, now the nights are getting lighter I feel I could manage to squeeze this in to my daily routine. I love the free jogging on the Wii and can quite happily jog my way through an episode of Eastenders :rotfl: I thought I would try the real thing.

Does anyone else run/jog or even walk? I will be following the couch to 5k on the nhs website. I am looking for running shoes this weekend, and feel that if I commit to buying a pair it will be very un :money: if I don't put them to good use.

I'm doing the 10km round manchester in a months time :eek: when you start out don't go mental with it. you are much better off taking it slowly and do running and walking in intervals and start walking for a bit way before you get the stage where you def have to. if you do too much too fast you'll end up hating it with a passion. what i did when i started was run one block, walk one block. if that was too much, then walk two run one. one of my ex bfs who got me into it always used to tell me to just make sure that i altered my pace so my breathing was the same so if i was going uphill or finding it hard then to slow down until i was breathing right.

beanielou wrote: »

Talking of coke/pepsi anyone any theories on loosing weight if you massivly cut down on diet coke?

id say it would def help. it is full of sweeteners and caffeine, the sweeteners in it give me horrific sugar cravings and make me feel like i'm starving and the caffeine makes your body stressed so it releases cortisol which basically has the effect of dumping a load of fat around your middle if you don't burn it off in some way like exercising.

confused57

Becks81 wrote: »

Evening all, well after waiting over 45 minutes to be weighed in this evening I can report a loss of 3.5lbs :j Was very pleased with this as I thought I had blown it after eating the treat bag of chocs.

I have also decided that I would like to try some running, now the nights are getting lighter I feel I could manage to squeeze this in to my daily routine. I love the free jogging on the Wii and can quite happily jog my way through an episode of Eastenders :rotfl: I thought I would try the real thing.

Does anyone else run/jog or even walk? I will be following the couch to 5k on the nhs website. I am looking for running shoes this weekend, and feel that if I commit to buying a pair it will be very un :money: if I don't put them to good use.

I'm thinking of the couch to 5k as well. I shall also need running shoes, any suggestions as to some decent ones that are not too expensive.

Yours must be a very large group for the weigh in to take 45 miinutes, ours is a large group but we have it sorted in around half hour.

maman

Just wanted to thank gettingthere for lovely, thoughtful posts this evening.:T:A