Slimming World support thread 2

maman

SwipernoSwiping wrote: »

I need your help to keep me on track.
Thank you.

No problem, just shout anything we can help with. A stone is very do-able!:)

greentiger

Evening all.

maman re stovies - there are so many different variations! originally it was just potato & onion I believe. Now they usually include meat. It can be leftover roast bits, or corned beef or, like mine, sausages. My mum, God bless her, always used the cheapest of the cheap round slice sausages. Adding carrots is sacrilege, according to some. You can google assorted versions. It is supposed to be a cheap meal, so not much meat really required.



Anyway I put a couple of onions, about 1.5kg ptoato, a couple of big carrots (all sliced, potatoes about 1 cn thick) and about 500g round sliced sausages from the butcher (quartered) into the slow cooker with about 200ml beef stock. I cooked on low for 8 hours. This was the first time I'd done it in the sc and it was fine. Alternatively cook it, with just enough water to cover the ingredients, on the stove top and simmer for a couple of hours, adding stock if it's drying out too much. I serve mine with beetroot.

That's it - dead easy! Depending on what meat you use, you'll have more/less fat in the finished dish, but I think that's what gives it flavour. And you don't need to eat ALL of the juice you get.

And my football team is Falkirk (unofficial motto is "expect the unexpected") and they won today, undeservedly I must say, with a very soft penalty in the last minute. So cheesy, get-out-of-jail grins all round here. Ah well, I'll take the points anyway.

SS - I am an online member and after the first lot of joining fees, if I forget to do anything about my subscription, I get charged £20 for a month. Maybe, if you can manage the initial outlay, that'd be a way to go.

Now for Saturday's review - not great, could have been worse, I suppose. I had a 7.15 phone call to help with a family emergency, so just banana for breakfast, threw stovies in sc and remembered to switch it on. Out the door by 8.00. Nibbled on (well, more like gobbled) choc bisc and fern cake mid morning as banana wasn't doing its job. (I say, "it wisnae me! The banana made me do it!") Had the planned soup at lunch time with a slice of HM pesto & pine nut bread and butter. Did not have anything at football, despite OH asking before match and son offering at half time - :A. Stovies for dinner, followed by choc bisc and 2 Werther's sweets.
Didn't count syns, so can't have used any!

Sunday's menu

Breakfast: scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, maybe toast
Lunch: hexa cheesy bean jacket
Dinner: steak & salad, SW toffee apple ice cream (1.5)

Let's go for it tomorrow!

frogga

Morning All :j My lovely chubby human friends, except those of you who I won't single out who are not chubby at all

Was lovely to hear how pleased you were to see me

I'm with you Swiper ~ I weighed in this morning too. Last Sunday I was 15st 11lb and this morning I'm 14st 13lb. No need to shout about what a brilliant loss, because it was a disgusting gain in the first place that enabled such a quick loss in week one I guess at least it wasn't 16 something which it would have been if I'd have carried on the way I was :eek:

So hard to believe I was 12st 13lb on the 1st December.

Anyway anyway can't dwell on that. I'll just keep trying. Like Mrs M said, I've done it before (5 times!) and I've always thought 6 was my lucky number Actually, it's not, it's 9. Oh my God......

SwipernoSwiping

Thanks guys. :grouphug:
Ok so, done the scales thing. Dubious if it was telling the truth. 1 stone over where I was this time last year, and another 6lb to get back to target and in the stuff I was so chuffed to be in.

Silly isn't it, when I first turned up to group I considered a stone or two a trivial amount to my own size 24 backside that I needed to lose. Didn't think I would lose it either.
Now one dress size looks like a mountain to deal with.
That kind of thinking really isn't productive.

Now. Food planning, suitable for a wishy washy family that's stuck in a rut with ideas. Lets see how this goes.
Happy Sunday everyone.

SwipernoSwiping

frogga wrote: »

Was lovely to hear how pleased you were to see me

Lovely lady, like so many here an inspiration to the insanity that is life.

frogga wrote: »

I'm with you Swiper ~ I weighed in this morning too. Last Sunday I was 15st 11lb and this morning I'm 14st 13lb. No need to shout about what a brilliant loss, because it was a disgusting gain in the first place that enabled such a quick loss in week one I guess at least it wasn't 16 something which it would have been if I'd have carried on the way I was :eek:

So hard to believe I was 12st 13lb on the 1st December.

That's a stone, nearly a stone in a week. OMG.
My body goes in to freak out mode (extraordinary amounts of temper) if I lose more than 3lb in a day. How did you stay sane?

Trow

I've been not very sw this week. I've had two meals out, and on my days in I have generally been sticking to sw food - but having way too many hex b's.

I have a lunch out on monday, but they do fab quiche, so the plan is to have that and salad, but leave the crust. And today I am going to get organised - as i know that's why I have fallen down this week. I don't think I have done too much damage, but weigh in is tomorrow so well see!

MaddyWaddy

I shouldn't have a problem keeping up with the thread however my tablet isn't the best for typing so I might have to leave that til when I'm at work with pc

I rejoined slimming world in January with the aim that I want / need to lose about 8 stone. I have lost 8lb so far and I took up jogging around November time

I hope I am in the right frame of mind this time I have previously struggled with a reasonable loss followed by a tiny gain I am hoping this week is the one that breaks the cycle

Today is EE
Weetabix with milk HeA and B
Roast chicken, mash, roast potatoes and carrots, cabbage and cauliflower
Not decided for tea yet
Snacks fruit and yogurt.


Blew my syns yesterday but have 50 left until Thursday which is my wi.

frogga

SwipernoSwiping wrote: »

That's a stone, nearly a stone in a week. OMG.
My body goes in to freak out mode (extraordinary amounts of temper) if I lose more than 3lb in a day. How did you stay sane?

That would imply I was sane in the first place in order to stay sane. And we all know that's totally not true :cool:

gallygirl

round slice sausages.

Nooooo :eek:. Slice sausage should be square :eek:.

I serve mine with beetroot.

Noooooo :eek:. Serve with HP brown sauce - and more stovies :T

fern cake

Aw. I want one now (even if you can feel your teeth rotting on the icing :rotfl:).

Oh dear, this post brought back memories. My mum was a rubbish cook but her stovies were great. She cooked with mince - I think she had precooked it - and little cubes of potato :T. Mmmmm, stuck to your ribs . As opposed to food nowadays that sticks to my hips. And backside etc .

SwipernoSwiping

I think I might do the online thing, like Greentiger has suggested, I have spent all morning trying to organise my food, so much easier with the online food diary. (all morning being figurative as much of the world is still deciding to wake up)
Could someone please confirm that the Aldi low fat cottage cheese,(Cheese emporium) are (all versions ) syn free? I use that stuff in everything, and the biggest change this year was switching where I shop. Having to go through the fridge with a permanent marker, so I can keep track.