Be Fab not Fat in Fourteen! (welcome to the Slimming World Support thread)

2ba3c

Just caught up - congrats to those that have lost, I've marked you down on the spreadsheet, I hope

This is my first week doing SW, weighing this Thursday and I've been bloated and really crampy. If anything I feel heavier?!

Anyway, I've been weighing every morning - to have a sneaky peek (I know, I know), and the scales aren't going down. Whats going on?

I am dedicated to doing this long term, but it has to work for me! boohoo

xx

frogga

Just very quickly hopped on and felt compelled to post ~

DON'T HOP ON SCALES ANY MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK!

SW does work. I've lost 10st 5 times. It does work, if you stick to it! DO NOT get on the scales 2b because you'll give up if you see a gain or not a loss. Others will assure you, some DO gain in week one, I did the first time. But STICK to the plan. Keep the faith. It WILL WORK!

MrsE_2

frogga wrote: »

Just very quickly hopped on and felt compelled to post ~

DON'T HOP ON SCALES ANY MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK!

SW does work. I've lost 10st 5 times. It does work, if you stick to it! DO NOT get on the scales 2b because you'll give up if you see a gain or not a loss. Others will assure you, some DO gain in week one, I did the first time. But STICK to the plan. Keep the faith. It WILL WORK!

You've lost 10 stone on 5 seperate occasions?

Trow

2a, could it be totm? I always get a little heavier then.

Alternatively, have you changed the type of things you eat? Sometimes the digestive system seems to need a little bit of time to get used to the changes. I found myself very windy (as others did) for the first couple of weeks on this diet. But itsp deems to be settling down now.

Trow

2b, not 2a! Sorry...

nessie216

frogga wrote: »

Just very quickly hopped on and felt compelled to post ~

DON'T HOP ON SCALES ANY MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK!

SW does work. I've lost 10st 5 times. It does work, if you stick to it! DO NOT get on the scales 2b because you'll give up if you see a gain or not a loss. Others will assure you, some DO gain in week one, I did the first time. But STICK to the plan. Keep the faith. It WILL WORK!

Completely agree - stepping on the scales more than once per week can cause depression when it appears that you haven't lost or have gained - they give false results if you weigh at any other time during the day or week due to water etc.- take out the batteries, get the OH to hide them - donate them to charity!

STEP AWAY FROM THE SCALES!

Trow

I'm sure I read somewhere that a daily moving average is a more accurate way of guaging true weight loss than weighing weekly (which is still open to the water etc fluctuations that daily weighing is).

mumoftwo

Trow wrote: »

I'm sure I read somewhere that a daily moving average is a more accurate way of guaging true weight loss than weighing weekly (which is still open to the water etc fluctuations that daily weighing is).

I have read that too. It works like this: You weigh every day and after a week you take an average (you add up the 7 weigh-ins and divide by 7) and then do it again for the following week etc. and then you can compare week to week.

I don't know if it's a good thing or not, I suppose it depends on the person, some people like weighing every day, others don't


my EE day yesterday didn't go so well. The pasta bake I made for tea didn't turn out very nice although the rest of the family liked it, I couldn't eat it and as a result I picked at the wrong food all evening :mad:

so doing red again today, it seems to keep the carb cravings under control.

B: eggs and spinach
L: tuna with lots of salad, cucumber, tom, beetroot etc
T: not sure yet.

Have a good day :A

joedenise

Becks81 wrote: »

One of the best raffle prizes I got was all the ingredients for a tomato and red pepper soup (including the recipe) Its one of my favourite soups to make and had I not won the raffle that evening I would be none the wiser! A lot more interesting than a bowl of fruit in my opinion. HTH

We often have similar things - ingredients to make a particular recipe. We've got quite a big group and usually have 3 prizes; sometimes the same but usually similar types of things.

As well as various low syn/free food, such as crackers & philli; beans & loaf of bread; jacket potatoes & tin of tuna; we also sometimes have things like measuring jugs, measuring spoons, small chopping boards etc.

Haven't won anything for about 4 months - think I'm about due another win:rotfl:.

Denise

joedenise

Really glad to be going shopping today - didn't think I'd ever say that, LOL!

Having a Green day today:

B - porridge (HEB1) made with water & a little milk (part HEA); honey 2 syns, frozen raspberries
L - egg mayo (0.5 syn) & salad sandwich (HEB2)
D - macaroni cheese (HEA2) from latest magazine

Rest of HEA 1 will be used in tea throughout the day.

Snacks - fruit (don't know what yet, depends what I can get at the market today);

Syns - honey 2; mayo 0.5; may also have a pink 'n' white 2.5

Hoping I can lose a bit before WI on Thursday am, after gaining a bit whilst on holiday.

Denise