Spring into Summer 2012 with Slimming World

Elfgirl

Morning all

I joined the board last week but apart from a quick hello I've just lurked in the background. Haven't told anyone closest to that I am doing slimming world as this is the latest in a long line of attempts to shift some weight. My weigh in isnt until Friday but I had a sneaky look this morning and I've lost almost 5lbs!!!!!! Can't believe it but I'm still not telling anyone until I have stuck with the plan a bit longer.

I am so over the moon tho, this plan is soooooo easy to stick to I'm actually enjoying it. So thank you for the support and helping keeping me motivated with all your chat, think I will be a much bigger contributor from now!!!!

Today

Brekki: Muller light yog, banana and slice of toast (HEB) scraping of flora (1syn)

Lunch: Crustless Quiche, Baked Beans

Dinner: Lentil soup with loads of veg to bulk it out and fruit and yog

Snacks: Snack a jaks s&v (4.5syns) treat sized choc (3-4syns)

Blodwen

Morning all,

Pennylane wrote: »

I made a big roasted pepper, bacon and red onion SW quiche today and we had some for our meal tonight.

I also made a massive pot of vegetable soup which is now all neatly labelled and in my freezer for days when we need a quick SW lunch.

I am feeling very housewifely.:rotfl: WI for me tomorrow night.

Strange, I made quiche and soup last night as well - feel like it should be winter! Good luck with WI

shellieholly wrote: »

Though blending veggies etc negates their “Superfree” status so don't be fooled – you get hungry sooner when you mash, mush, pulp or squash

Really? I know that is the case with fruit but haven't heard this for veg and thought it was the other way around? Either way, I blended the soup I made last night so s*d it, it's done now :rotfl:

Fluff- menu looks good

*small tangent* Oh no, I am such a clumsy idiot - wearing a nice coordinated outfit today and thought I looked ok, had breakfast in work about half an hour ago and just realised I have spilt some weetabix down my top and it has gone hard! Now I look like a hobo who can't feed herself! *tangent over*

Anyway, EE today:
B: Weetabix (what made it into my mouth) (B), milk (A), banana
L: SW quiche, salad, nectarine
T: Lentil and bacon soup, L/O quiche, salad
S: Pitta bread (6), Freddo (5), Shape yogurt

Have a good day folks

ETA - my mum started SW last week and lost 3.5lb at WI last night. She's made up and I'm so pleased for her

SwipernoSwiping

Charmed - Welcome aboard.

Elfgirl.
Mind those scales they can lead to a real disappointment come WI day. - According to mine one week I lost 8lb:eek: only to be told I'd lost 1/2lb on the day. :mad:

Beanielou.
A couple of ladies at our group freeze either Curly Wurlys or Fredo bars. More of a lasting chocolate sensation, or crumbled into a vanilla yoghurt. One lady even dips it in her tea for a biscuit fix.

More shopping for me.. all the fruit is gone already :eek: and I need bacon for my quiches, yoghurt for my sanity and milk for my tea:D Breakie was a weetabix and a banana. lunch will be a jacket potato i think, tea will be ..ummm not sure yet!:rotfl:

kandfs_mam

Morning everyone. Did 45 mins at the gym last night and boy do my legs ache today! My 1 month session finishes next Tues and I get measured again then so we'll see if there's much difference - Sept sees me having a busy month with work so I probably wont renew the membership but will walk and track it on endomondo instead - that's quite motivating cos it's reported on facebook!
It's our 15th wedding anniversary tomorrow and I think we are going to go out for a meal at some point over the weekend so I'll watch the syns until then and then choose wisely - I only need 1lb off to get to 3 1/2 stone award and 9lbs off until I'm only overweight instead of obese!! I'd like to hit that by the kids October hols on 15th Oct.

gingerfurball

Morning all - all going well for me I think! A wee bump in the road is that we have an unexpected night out - our sister in law is over from America (her mum is dying ) and normally I'd love a good old nosh up but as this is only my second week I don't want to lose momentum...could you lovely people have a look at the menu and tell me what is the best option...plus what would your plan for the day be if you had a meal out>

Here's the menu:

http://media.wix.com/ugd//31b820_c204905b948374a1b23dcbd69a4a7588.pdf

maman

Elfgirl wrote: »

Morning all

I joined the board last week but apart from a quick hello I've just lurked in the background. Haven't told anyone closest to that I am doing slimming world as this is the latest in a long line of attempts to shift some weight. My weigh in isnt until Friday but I had a sneaky look this morning and I've lost almost 5lbs!!!!!! Can't believe it but I'm still not telling anyone until I have stuck with the plan a bit longer.

I am so over the moon tho, this plan is soooooo easy to stick to I'm actually enjoying it. So thank you for the support and helping keeping me motivated with all your chat, think I will be a much bigger contributor from now!!!!

Today

Brekki: Muller light yog, banana and slice of toast (HEB) scraping of flora (1syn)

Lunch: Crustless Quiche, Baked Beans

Dinner: Lentil soup with loads of veg to bulk it out and fruit and yog

Snacks: Snack a jaks s&v (4.5syns) treat sized choc (3-4syns)

Strangely I didn't tell anyone about joining SW except my DH. That was essential as he does about half the cooking here so I had to get him on board. When people first started to notice I just said things like 'healthy eating', 'common sense like keeping fatty, sugary things to a minimum' or 'trying not to drink during the week'. All of these were true. When I got closer to target I did tell a few people about SW. I know some people find it helpful to tell people for support or have a diet buddy but that's not the way I am. I like to keep things in my control, maybe I'm strange that way.:o

elfgirl, I'm no expert but if you're doing Green you seem a bit short on HEXs. I'm guessing as I don't see any meat. Perhaps you've got cheese and milk in your quiche?

I'm having a very off week. I'm so pleased I did my meal plan/shopping as usual last Friday. I've not been feeling great since Saturday but once the weekend was over I still made the meals and hoped I'd fancy them.

Today's EE plan:
B: scrambled egg, HEB toast, ham, squirt of sauce, HEA milk for teas
L: LO casserole
spaghetti bolognese
Syns: sauce, no others planned

Looks a bit short on SFs but I have a melon that needs eating up. If I chop it up I'll maybe graze on it.

On the liquidised/cooked down veg comments: this seemed to crop up earlier in the year when many consultants came back from training with this message. It's a similar argument to the one that your bolognese can be all veg (except for the meat and stock) but should have a salad on the side. I've never seen this written down aywhere. I know this sounds very preachy but it worked for me with mashed veg and counting the SFs in bolognese and I've no plans to change it now. I suppose it's one of the extra bits of 'strictness' that you could introduce if you hit a plateau but then you'd never know whether it was the extra superfree that did it.;)

fluff1987

maman wrote: »

Strangely I didn't tell anyone about joining SW except my DH. That was essential as he does about half the cooking here so I had to get him on board. When people first started to notice I just said things like 'healthy eating', 'common sense like keeping fatty, sugary things to a minimum' or 'trying not to drink during the week'. All of these were true. When I got closer to target I did tell a few people about SW. I know some people find it helpful to tell people for support or have a diet buddy but that's not the way I am. I like to keep things in my control, maybe I'm strange that way.:o

Only a few of my friends know that im in SW. Its not like im ashamed, i just wanted to do it for my own benefit, and if it didnt work, then i wasnt disappointing anyone but me, and they wouldnt be any the wiser . Family still dont know, and i dont intend on telling them tbh. but you are certainly NOT strange.

Mediterranean_Mum

Friends have gone back to England today so we're back to some kind of normalcy here but we're going away for the weekend to a nice hotel full board. There should be lots of salad and meat choices so hopefully I'll be able to keep to plan to some degree.

SwipernoSwiping

gingerfurball wrote: »

'd love a good old nosh up but as this is only my second week I don't want to lose momentum...could you lovely people have a look at the menu and tell me what is the best option...plus what would your plan for the day be if you had a meal out>

Here's the menu:

http://media.wix.com/ugd//31b820_c204905b948374a1b23dcbd69a4a7588.pdf

One thing I would suggest is to pick something you will enjoy. Flex syn it. Stick to the plan right until going out, and from the minute you return. Syn free for as much of the day leading upto, and on the day will also help you relax at the table a bit
Don't think you have to stick to boring foods. The idea is you can enjoy yourself and still lose weight/maintain. Pasta sauces are often heavy in oil - ask if you can have it on the side.
Starter perhaps the seafood parcel, Chicken Chilli noodles (though allow for syns on the oil fried noodles 4 perhaps as the packet bought self fry ones are 2) Smoked Salmon or Baked Cod are good choices too if you like your fish. The veggie Thai Curry is also worth a thought.

MM - Normality helps, unless you are like me with two very overly spoilt kids now whining and moaning as there is no money left and mum says "No" all the time.

maman -preachy yes! and i don't do a salad with my spag-bol or pasta either

maman

shellieholly wrote: »

One thing I would suggest is to pick something you will enjoy. Flex syn it. Stick to the plan right until going out, and from the minute you return. Syn free for as much of the day leading upto, and on the day will also help you relax at the table a bit
Don't think you have to stick to boring foods. The idea is you can enjoy yourself and still lose weight/maintain.

maman -preachy yes! and i don't do a salad with my spag-bol or pasta either

I'd completely agree with that as a way to approach eating out. I remember sitting in a restaurant in central London at Christmas. We'd been to a show and were in high spirits. Everyone was having a good time and I had a very mediocre omelette, dried up JP (left from lunchtime?) and basic, undressed salad. It spoiled my day out and I vowed never again. I'd say, don't go absolutely mad and have all the deep fried stuff and a massive pudding but, choose a meal that will be a treat. If you're as syn free either side as you can manage, you may STS or have a small gain but it'll all get sorted very soon. You need to build SW into your lifestyle not the other way round.

preachy, moi?:o