Make 2013 a year to remember with Slimming World (Part 2!)

Paulie'sGirl

Hi all,

Great losses guys!!

Today was a mixed day, we went out for tea before going to see the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibit in Durham, and they sabotaged my order a bit

B - magic oats in 0% Greek yog with strawberries and apricots [HEB]

No real lunch as had a late breakfast, snacked on plums and apricots

D - sirloin steak, grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, mixed salad, chips and a glass of wine. They'd drizzled the steak with EVOO, dressed the salad (I asked for without) and I could taste lovely butter on the mushrooms! The chips and wine were budgeted for, but not the others. Ah well, live and learn!

HEA was milk, and I've syned some sugar in tea as well.

Tomorrow is a new day, and although I'm having folk over for dinner, it will all be free and superfree, so I have high hopes of a better day

Good luck to all with WIs tomorrow

PGxx

maman

jill36 wrote: »

woohoooooo!!

After my first weigh in - Ive lost 7½lb, extra easy is just that. I'm in to the lower stone.

That's fantastic jill, you must be ecstatic!:T

h007, if I were you I'd just draw a line under the lunch and try to rein back the syns as much as you can until WI day. We all have those blips on SW, the secret is jumping back on that wagon.:)

:wave: MrO you've come to the right place for support. The good news is that men invariably lose more and more quickly than women. My advice would echo a lot of what you've been told. I would try to avoid airline food at all costs. If, at all possible, take SW friendly food with you to eat on the plane. If you can't, then I find Pret a Manger's salad nicoise very good which you should be able to pick up airside at the airport. It's totally SW friendly except for the dressing which comes in a separate pot and I just add a drizzle. Hotel breakfast is easy to make SW friendly. Boiled eggs are good as well as the fruit. If there's anything like a full English then baked beans and bacon or cold ham (removing fat) helps to fill you up. Before I started SW I used to drink daily. I trained myself (with difficulty and the help of a thread on here) to cut back hugely. I still use most of my syns on wine but that's my choice at the expense of chocolate, cheese etc. Good Luckl and keep posting.

I've had a good EE day today. It's still been warm here so lunchtime appetite still not returned:
B: NAS Ribena, 2 boiled eggs, HEB toast, HEA milk for teas
L: chopped apple & pear, 4 cold potatoes, 1 laughing cow light (not all at once, just grazing)
2 sausages, mash, onions, cauli, broccoli, peas, gravy
Syns: 1 on sausages, a couple on gravy and a splodge of spread in the mash

hollowhead

Hi can I join in? Been doing 5:2 but everyone hates my moods on a fasting day so it's stop it or a divorce
First meeting last night and I am struggling with lunch today and was wondering if anyone could tell me are warburtons sandwich thins a healthy extra or a syn? If a syn how much ? Thanks in advance:)

frogga

Hi HollowHead and welcome. I wouldn't know syn values but someone will, give them a little time and watch...

I've been tempted to do the 5;2 and the Juice Fasting (after watching Fat Ill and Nearly Dead) but SW is by far the best way to lose weight and it works, and you don't feel cheesed off because you're going without.

I've done every diet under the sun, and they all do work, but none of them are sensible ways of eating, and none of them are sustainable. It may not be a quick fix, but stick with it, and retrain your brain to do what's best. Good Luck

cherie1122

Warburtons sandwich thins are 5 syns on all plans (all the thins are the same number of syns)

lantanna

Raging with myself as fell asleep last night on the settee at 7.30pm - woke up at 9.30pm and ate a Freddo and 2 small packs of Haribo - I'm always starving when I wake up after sleeping like that.

Didn't go for my walk as planned yesterday either.

Tonight I will be walking without fail

Lunch is a big tuna salad and 2 Baby Bel Light
Not decided about dinner yet - might make a rice salad dish

MrOrchard

Thank you for the warm welcome.

I suppose an update wouldn't go amiss.

I tend to have HEa&b at breakfast time in the form of weetabix and milk.

Lunch is a prawn and be good to yourself cottage cheese salad, with spinach, toms, carrots and cucumber.

Dinner so far has been a quorn bolognase (with parmesan for a couple of Syns) and the SW Chicken Curry for 0 syns.

How important is it to actually eat the syns? Cheese, bread and booze are my downfall and I'm pretty much just avoiding them, which is giving me zero syns most of the time.

Am off out for dinner tonight at a french place, so no doubt it will be oil/cream laden and therefore use a gazillion syns. The menu is online and I've been trying to find the lowest syn options, but I'm struggling! I thought Iberico ham and figs was a winner, but the ham is fatty and loads of syns. On reflection, it's also not French.

I guess the green salad is the way forward!

Mamam, which was the thread that helped you cut back on the drinking?

maman

MrOrchard wrote: »

Thank you for the warm welcome.

I suppose an update wouldn't go amiss.

I tend to have HEa&b at breakfast time in the form of weetabix and milk.

Lunch is a prawn and be good to yourself cottage cheese salad, with spinach, toms, carrots and cucumber.

Dinner so far has been a quorn bolognase (with parmesan for a couple of Syns) and the SW Chicken Curry for 0 syns.

How important is it to actually eat the syns? Cheese, bread and booze are my downfall and I'm pretty much just avoiding them, which is giving me zero syns most of the time.

Am off out for dinner tonight at a french place, so no doubt it will be oil/cream laden and therefore use a gazillion syns. The menu is online and I've been trying to find the lowest syn options, but I'm struggling! I thought Iberico ham and figs was a winner, but the ham is fatty and loads of syns. On reflection, it's also not French.

I guess the green salad is the way forward!

Maman, which was the thread that helped you cut back on the drinking?

It was this thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4409761

They're a good bunch on there, supportive but non-judgemental. It's quietish at the moment because of holidays. It's a bit like a star chart for grown-ups!:rotfl:

I think having Weetabix is a good idea, saves faffing about with measuring. You could even take some with you when you're travelling.

The point with syns is that if you don't have them you'll be depriving yourself of all your treats. If you don't use them then you'll likely give up. Like you, I all but gave up cheese until I got to target. I do use a few for sauces and gravy but in the main I save them all for the weekend to have something to look forward too. Others like a treat every evening. You'll soon find what suits you best.

If you want to post the link to the restaurant then we could have a look at the menu for you.

lantanna

MrOrchard wrote: »

Thank you for the warm welcome.

I suppose an update wouldn't go amiss.

I tend to have HEa&b at breakfast time in the form of weetabix and milk.

Lunch is a prawn and be good to yourself cottage cheese salad, with spinach, toms, carrots and cucumber.

Dinner so far has been a quorn bolognase (with parmesan for a couple of Syns) and the SW Chicken Curry for 0 syns.

How important is it to actually eat the syns? Cheese, bread and booze are my downfall and I'm pretty much just avoiding them, which is giving me zero syns most of the time.

Am off out for dinner tonight at a french place, so no doubt it will be oil/cream laden and therefore use a gazillion syns. The menu is online and I've been trying to find the lowest syn options, but I'm struggling! I thought Iberico ham and figs was a winner, but the ham is fatty and loads of syns. On reflection, it's also not French.

I guess the green salad is the way forward!

Mamam, which was the thread that helped you cut back on the drinking?

Cheese, Bread and Booze are my downfall as well - although I have pretty much given up on the bread.

Since starting slimming world I only buy Nimble Hovis Loaf - sometimes I get through a loaf a week - some weeks I don't bother. I'm not even tempted by other bread now.

Re Cheese - I don't drink milk so nearly every day I have my cheese as my HE - sometimes I have even more and syn it

Babybel Light are good as is Tesco reduced fat Mature cheese slices. Again I don't buy a lot of it so that I don't have much temptation in the house.

Re: Alcohol - wine was my tipple of choice before I started and now I drink gin. I've had 3 bottles of wine since starting SW 16 weeks ago. I drink nearly every Friday and Saturday night and its been fine. Probably would have bigger losses if I gave it up but I need to have a life too as it needs to be something I can maintain when I get to my target weight or else I'll put it all back on.

I've 2.7 stone off in 15 weeks and certainly haven't been deprived on the above.

Hope this helps you :beer:

Skint_Catt

I've given up bread & alcohol completely. The bread slows my weight loss so I'd just rather not bother & I want to spend my syns elsewhere than on alcohol - I don't miss it at all