Slimming World support thread 2

lantanna

macpep1 wrote: »

Hi All :wave:

Just popping in to say bye for a wee while, I am off to Manchester tonight, fly out to sunny Spain in the morning. I will be as good as I can be on 2 weeks all inclusive :eek: but I am not going to undo all my hard work, last time I was all inclusive for 2 weeks I lost 2lb???

Good luck eveyone & see you in a few weeks :wave: xxx

Enjoy!! I need to go on your sort of holiday if I came back with a loss of 2 lbs lol xx

Jellybaby

Morning lovelies

I've lost nearly a stone and have noticed my feet are slimmer! Considering I've another two and half stone to lose and have troll feet, I'm fully expecting them to be model like beautiful by the end of this journey:rotfl:

And if my hands, especially my podgy fingers, shrink along with everything else I'm on a right winner. Not painting a very good picture of myself haha

Meeting a friend for lunch today and going out with my SIL for an Indian tonight so desperate to stay as low syn as I can.

Breakfast - pineapple, strawberries, nectarines and Muller Light.

Lunch - hopefully chicken salad without chips, diet coke.

Dinner - Indian buffet so hopefully plenty salad, spicy mushrooms, loads boiled rice and whatever I can find and think is low syn!

Will drive so no alcohol:A Does this mean I'm growing up:eek:

Have a good day all x

lantanna

Mildredd wrote: »

My feet have shrank!




I'm really struggling with what I want to look like?
I think what I'm chasing is an unachievable tone and look truthfully so I don't see how I can call target anytime soon.


Couldn't agree with you more. I think when you get all this weight off your like omg now I want perfection coz you never thought you would get even this far with it - so now you want to be super woman coz your astonished that you've done it - so now you think you may as well go the whole hog.


I hate my belly- actually hate it - its needs to go - until its gone I won't be happy!


This weigh loss journey is a head melt really it is

Totally agree again!! SW should tackle the mental health aspects of losing a lot of weight instead of just expecting people to dance round naked shouting yes I've lost all the weight everything in my life is perfect - all my problems are solved. Which is what they would project from the stories in the Magazine!!


You see if you had of made and eaten that Hot dog in the Magazine you might have lost weight this week :rotfl: What a recipe!!


I'm going to be thrown out of Slimming World if I continue ..............Sorry folks :rotfl:


Just does my head in the lack of emotional support from SW and the fact that it is never embraced in anyway, shape or form how losing a vast amount of weight can affect you other than your meant to be over the moon and loving life ..................

Mildredd

A hot dog is not a bloody recipe!!!!

Cook sausage put in bun
Next month beans on toast!!!

Seriously my head is a mess how can I lose so much weight and have more body issues than I started with. I refuse to run round shouting wooooo I'm thin as I have so many issues I would never say on thin
I say less fat

People at group look at me like I've 3 heads when they say how amazing I look etc and I go no look at my stomach its gross.

lantanna

Next month baked spud lol


Open oven door fire him in - release - slice his little coat - eat


I'm sure all those people in the Magazine can't have perfect bodies and no excess skin - though its never mentioned funnily enough : /


Maybe their on prescription drugs and we've not been offered them yet : /

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Hello everyone :wave:

lantanna and Mildredd's last couple of posts have prompted me to delurk. I have always had issues with my weight, I have been skinny, I have been massive and all stages in between (and up and down and up and down, I'm sure that is a familiar tale to some of you!) The skinny years were a result of obsessive weight loss in my teens and not by being sensible (binge eating, bringing it all back up again, not eating, liberal use of laxatives and so on) I was absolutely obsessed with every single lb and trying to lose weight became my sole focus. I would set myself what I now know are totally unrealistic weekly goals then would torment myself when I did not achieve them.

By my mid 20's I was at my biggest, a size 26 (Oof, that actually hurts to type that!) I managed to get down to a size 22 by following various plans but found myself acting obsessively again so curtailed the active weight loss and just tried to be sensible. When I turned 30 I had a lightbulb moment - I was fed up of not being able to walk into a "normal" high street shop and buy what I liked. I was fed up of feeling deeply unattractive and worthless (and no matter how much the lovely Mr Buffy Bat tried to convince me otherwise I could not be swayed in my perception) I realised that although following a specific weight loss plan clearly works for a lot of people, for me the way forward was to rewire my thinking, slowly but surely. A couple of friends lost a lot of weight with Slimming World and looked great but I felt that although Slimming World was helping them to lose weight, the issue of why they put on the weight in the first place was not really addressed. I was worried that if I signed up with Slimming World (or Weight Watchers, Rosemary Conley etc) I would lose the weight but not address my issues if that makes sense?

So I set about making small changes. I originally cut really right down on the carbs and dropped a dress size in a couple of months. I cut out the fruit juice in the week (just having a small glass at the weekend). Although already a big vegetable lover I upped my veg intake, and cut out the majority of high fat food stuffs. I cut down on the wine, steering more towards gin and slimline tonic. After about a year I decided to up the carbs a little bit - small servings of wholemeal pasta, a small amount of homemade bread once a week, small servings of potatoes, couscous, and rice once in a blue moon. Slowly but surely the lbs have come and continue to come off.

When I was at my obsessive worse in my teens I was on and off the scales like a yoyo and feared that if I started weighing myself again I would return to my obsessive ways. So I measured my weight by my clothes. And shoes. And rings. No one told me that I would also drop a shoe size and as a result all my favourite pairs of shoes would no longer fit *sobs*. Mr Buffy bought me a new wedding ring because the original just falls straight off my finger now (I could not bare to have the original cut and resized - my engagement ring is in a box now because it is too big, again not happy about having it resized)

I totally get the basic principles of SW - how it works and have lurked here for some time for inspiration, not just for food ideas but for your lovely success stories too I guess I could argue that I kind of follow SW but have never contributed here because I thought it would be rude of me to when not actually a committed SW member and that you would all pelt me with Muller Lights as a result for being an interloper!

My journey is not finished yet. I am currently a size 16 in most shops (sometimes a 14 in generous shops ) and am working my way down to a 14 everywhere. I am just a smidge under 6ft tall so I will see how I look and feel when I get down to a "proper" 14 and see what to do next. I know for some a size 14 probably sounds big but from a 26 to a 14 I don't think is a bad journey. One of the things that has worked for me is I guess what I might call my version of syns/banking syns. I tend to be pretty strict in the week, but at the weekend I may share half a bottle of nice wine with Mr Buffy, or have a piece of Cornish chocolate (just a piece though, not the whole block as I once would have done), or a nice piece of squidgey brie, or a couple of slices of homemade olive and sundried tomato bread. I find if I have these treats I look forward to them and enjoy them, and am then less likely to go off the rails.

On the whole I do feel a lot happier, although despite doing lots of walking and steps and being pretty active at work I still have a belly which I HATE. It is obviously a lot smaller than it was otherwise I would not be slipping into jeans that are 5 sizes smaller than I was when I started, but to me it still looks the same. I know it isn't but I find it hard to understand/see that I am a lot slimmer. So no, losing weight is not an automatic magic wand that suddenly makes things all rosy, clearly my self-perception is something I need to address.

Wishing you all well on your journeys, perhaps if you won't throw Muller Lights at me for not being an official SW member I could pop in more often?

P.S. Oops, sorry for the essay

Mab2009

Hi all,

Hope you don't mind me saying but I know someone who was in the mag (not mentioning names) and she had to have her excess skin removed. This just shows that losing weight isn't the end of your problems.
Having said that I'm someone that has a lot to lose (10st ish):o so I'm just going to concentrate on that problem at the minute and deal with the other issues when they happen.

Today's menu
B: scrambled egg, 2 toast (HEb)
L: Pasta salad, light mayo (1)
HM burgers with bacon and salad
Snacks: Banana, Grapes and apple

My son is 11 tomorrow so going out for Dinner. I was thinking I could have chicken with a jacket potato or something along these lines?? It's a sizzler restaurant that we'll be going to if anyone can think of anything that I can choose.

Have a good day

mummyroysof3

Been for my jab today and nurse weighed me and said I lost 1 stone 2 in 12 weeks yay.....having an eat what I want day but I have had my heb and melon and strawberries too lol

lantanna

Thank you BuffytheVampireBat, I really enjoyed reading that.
You are more than welcome anytime!
I was fed up of feeling deeply unattractive and worthless (and no matter how much the lovely Mr Buffy Bat tried to convince me otherwise I could not be swayed in my perception).
I can totally empathise with this and sadly still feel this way. I have such low self esteem I don’t think I’ll ever feel good about myself and it affects my whole life.
I cut down on the wine, steering more towards gin and slimline tonic.
I too did this - gin & slimline or vodka lime & soda is all I drink.
After about a year I decided to up the carbs a little bit - small servings of wholemeal pasta, a small amount of homemade bread once a week, small servings of potatoes, couscous, and rice once in a blue moon. Slowly but surely the lbs have come and continue to come off. Think I’m at this stage now where I need to hit the carbs to get rid of the last bit and my belly! I for one will certainly not be pelting you with Muller Lights!! I am in total agreement everyone is different and there is no fool proof method that will work for everyone. You have to find out what works for you and adapt to it.
You’ve done fabulously well – so if its working for you why fix it. Pop in anytime – the more the merrier xx

meg72

macpep1 wrote: »

Hi All :wave:

Just popping in to say bye for a wee while, I am off to Manchester tonight, fly out to sunny Spain in the morning. I will be as good as I can be on 2 weeks all inclusive :eek: but I am not going to undo all my hard work, last time I was all inclusive for 2 weeks I lost 2lb???

Good luck eveyone & see you in a few weeks :wave: xxx

How on earth did you manage that on an all inclusive, I put on weight everytime I go on holiday, usually self catering with a few meals out, You must have incredible willpower. Have a really lovely time.