Slimming World support thread 2

please-let-me-be-lucky

Cheers Beanie and Meg

Mrs_Ryan, I suppose the Morrisons is at the junction between North Shields and Tynemouth! It was the one you've described opposite the pool I was thinking of. There is also a Sainsburys local not far from the Sea Life Centre Xx

shala_moo

Right proper big catch up with you all.. really struggling to get on here at the moment!!

Some great losses :T:T

welcome to any new peeps, everyone's very friendly and helpful on here ( although some of them are a bit mad - you'll soon see )

pink poppy hope your feeling a bit better..

Beanie x big hugs.. you're a strong lady, hope your little challenges are now easing up and you're getting some relaxing times!

Topgirl - hope you're more comfortable today x

Mildredd - I didn't see you post after weigh in, how did you get on?

Meg - loved hearing about your 85 yr old car boot lady, what a big step to take at any age in life. Glad she's got to do what she wanted to do and never have any regrets!

HDK - brill losses as always :T if you want to share any recipes (for research purposes of course ) for your actifry then we don't mind! Glad you're enjoying it, I love ours. Meg, glad you've managed to get an airfryer, chip eating can resume..nom nom..

lantanna wrote: »

There is a thing doing the internet at the minute – one of our consultants was photographed in her SW plastered car going through a KFC drive through

Loved this.. what a numpty :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:



Can anyone tell me about Quinoa on SW? is it free? I made the nicest porridge with it the other day.


I don't think it's food abuse as there are a lot normal recipes for quinoa porridge and it's only cooked in water and mixed with yogurt like the breakfast rice is. *fingers crossed it's free*:D


Anyway i'll try and keep up with all from tomorrow..

beanielou

hostie wrote: »

I'm wondering if slimming world really works?

Can you really eat that much food and lose weight? And eat that many carbs?

This was my first week (just weighted in) and I lost 1 1/2 lb but I did MASSES of exercise (28 mile cycle, started jogging, walking). Thought I would have lost a bit more

My two friends didn't really follow the plan but both seemed to really cut what they were eating and both lost 4 1/2 lb.

Feeling a bit dispondent. I am bigger than them (12.12) but I do drink a lot of alcohol and neither of them drink.

Did you syn the alcohol?

please-let-me-be-lucky

hostie wrote: »

I'm wondering if slimming world really works?

Can you really eat that much food and lose weight? And eat that many carbs?

This was my first week (just weighted in) and I lost 1 1/2 lb but I did MASSES of exercise (28 mile cycle, started jogging, walking). Thought I would have lost a bit more

My two friends didn't really follow the plan but both seemed to really cut what they were eating and both lost 4 1/2 lb.

Feeling a bit dispondent. I am bigger than them (12.12) but I do drink a lot of alcohol and neither of them drink.

Firstly, well done on the weight loss. Even if you are disappointed with the amount, you have still lost weight.

What did you eat last week before you joined? If you had a heavy syns week that may still be showing on the scales. How many syns did you have this week? What kind of alcohol did you drink, can you swap to something lower in syns?

Don't be disheartened, you might have a big week two loss Xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Shala, Quinoa is free on Green or EE Xx

Annie021063

Evening all
Running in to report 1.5lb loss tonight which I'm really happy with
Soooo busy, hopefully will have time to catch up later this week

beanielou

Great loss annie.

shala_moo

please-let-me-be-lucky wrote: »

Shala, Quinoa is free on Green or EE Xx

Great, thank you!!


Hostie -
Lots of people say that exercise slows down their weight losses especially if you haven't done any exercise before you started SW, something to do with water retention to protect your muscles, it may be this.


Feel free to post your daily food menus up if you feel comfortable doing it, we may be able to give you some pointers.


1.5lb is a good loss, btw, keep going. :T

meg72

hostie wrote: »

I'm wondering if slimming world really works?

Can you really eat that much food and lose weight? And eat that many carbs?

This was my first week (just weighted in) and I lost 1 1/2 lb but I did MASSES of exercise (28 mile cycle, started jogging, walking). Thought I would have lost a bit more

My two friends didn't really follow the plan but both seemed to really cut what they were eating and both lost 4 1/2 lb.

Feeling a bit dispondent. I am bigger than them (12.12) but I do drink a lot of alcohol and neither of them drink.

Ah bless, yes it does work if you do it properly you must have done something right to lose 1.1/2 lb, that's a good loss. it maybe that the exercise has worked against you a little bit, as apparently you can carry more fluid to protect your joints.


Just keep going it will happen, look at some of the amazing losses
people on here have had.


Alcohol is very high in syns, not sure what you mean by a lot, but if you keep it under or at your syn allowance it will work.

hostie

Thank you for replying to my little distress call.
I had a bottle of sparkling wine on Friday so did go over my syns, then yesterday went over again with 3-4 glasses of sparkling wine.

I made masses of fat free hummus today and ate about two tins worth before I went to the weigh in so maybe that made a difference. Or maybe it is just harder for my metabolism to lose weight.

Interesting point about muscles retaining water. I haven't really done much exercise before so that might be something.

It is inspiring to see all your losses. I guess I just wonder if people really are sticking to the slimming world plan and eating unlimited amounts of things and still losing weight.

Today I had:
boiled egg for breakfast
soya milk in coffee at work hea
cherries
beans on one slice of wholemeal toast heb
banana
massive tub of home made fat free hummus (chick peas, water, lemon juice, garlic)
Thai mug shot
Muller light vanilla
Alprosoy choc d!sert (5 syns)
Sparkling water

Does that sound ok?