Slimming World support thread 2

consultant31

As requested, a shiny new thread 😊

shala_moo

Wow they locked the old thread fast!

I thought I'd copy over the information about Slimming World from one of the old threads, we seem to have lost it along the way and it's quite useful.



Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.

You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.

You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.

If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.

You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.

Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!

The Original (Red) and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the Extra Easy plan. If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.

If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-

Extra Easy:

1: Choose your Free Food

Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!

2: Choose your Healthy Extras

Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.

3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day

And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!

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If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-

1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free

2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)

3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted

4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured

5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........

A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate

OR

B: switch to more Speed Foods

And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!

Link to recipe thread:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...4#post40936144

Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.

Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=65518830&postcount=2857

alwaysonthego_2

Old thread

Mildredd

Posting a marker

Consultant - yeah I read its 4 holes x hope it went well and no more pain though must be a good thing xxx

lantanna

Well 0.5 lb off for me. Happy enuf. Proper post tomorrow!

beanielou

2 1/2 off this week for me, 2b for the challenge.
Pleased with that.

beanielou

consultant~hope you are on the mend really soon.
Take care

Mildredd

Wooooo well done Lantanna and well done Beanie - resisting the choccy biscuits where worth it then xxx

greentiger

HI consultant - hope you make a speedy recovery.

Review of Thursday's plan

Breakfast: French hexb toast & blueberries & raspberries
Lunch: scrambled eggs[COLOR="rgb(0, 100, 0)"](ditched these when I realised - yes I was a bit slow - that I'd be having eggs at breakfast, and had Batchelors pasta with leek, cheese & ham instead for 1 syn using hexa milk and no butter[/COLOR], banana
Dinner: golden cutlet poached in hexa milk, new potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, beetroot
fresh pineapple & WW yogurt
[COLOR="rgb(0, 100, 0)"]Snacks - 2 werthers originals (2) [/COLOR]
total for the day - 3!!!!!

Friday's plan

Breakfast: cereal with hexa milk and fruit
Lunch: out - will try to be careful, honest!
Dinner: chicken kebabs, SW chips and dip, ML yogurt with pear and apple

That's all folks. Have a happy and sveldt(er) Valentine's Day.

Becks81

Hey all! Thought I'd lost you all there!

I am all packed up and ready for my holiday, have to be at the airport at 4am so this is only a quickie, I'm sure I will check back in and see how you're all doing whilst I am sunning myself


I am very very happy to report a loss of 7.5lbs tonight. Was 110% on plan all week, and feel completely ready for my holiday now. I am not going to go too crazy and undo all of my hard work, but I am going to be looking forward to a drink, I had a dry January that ran into February and boy have I missed my wine.

I want to thank you all for being so supportive and encouraging me when I was down. This thread really does lift you and keep you going when things get tough.

Hope everyone is doing well, I will read through the rest of the thread soon and get back up to speed.

Mrs_Ryan

Ooh my first post in a shiny new thread
I've had to switch to a Free2Go day as munchies struck big style
I had chocolate after lunch, made an SW trifle (just 1 syn for the jelly) after tea, had mayo on my veg, and I've just had 2 lots of Weetabix (that's 4 ) however I've also had loads of fresh rasps (in my trifle) superspeed beans and mushy peas in my mushy pea curry and a peach so hopefully that will help! Boots scales indicated I had gained 1/2 a stone but I'm not panicking as they must be wrong- I honestly don't think 1 Boots Shapers Wholewheat wrap (the only really naughty thing I've had this week) would put 1/2 a stone on me so I don't think they were entirely accurate! Going to try a different branch tomorrow.
Night all xx