Slimming World Support for Summer 2014

corrag

Hi all, can I join please?

I joined Slimming World at the end of 2012 and lost almost 4 stone. I won woman of the year last year for my group and then hit a wall. Sounds mad but I felt pressure to motivate the group and keep losing weight as I was the one always pointed out to the new joiners. I started to find the group demotivating and with lots of new starters each week I found we covered the same old ground often and was I paying each week but not getting anything from it. I slowly let a stone creep back on whilst in group and decided to leave which I did a couple of months ago.

I haven't put more weight on which is something, but I really really want to keep losing and get my mojo back. I'm looking forward to being part of a thread like this and think it will really help.

I haven't read all the posts but wondered if anyone had the Mushy Pea curry recipe?

Thanks for reading

frogga

Morning All,


Hi Corrag ~ Really interested to read what you wrote about going to group, and very timely as I was just about to ask how people felt about the whole 'paying to go to a proper SW group 'thing?


I had big plans for this summer, but I blew it big time. I was ok until Tadpole 1 did so well in her A levels, then I got so excited I just wanted to celebrate with food, and once I'd started...


I've been thinking about going back to a proper group in desperation. But I just don't know whether to or not? I've done it on my own before and successfully lost 8 stone. I've also been to group for a while and lost about 4 stone, then went alone and lost another 3 stone on my own. To be honest I hate the group thing. I like to be anonymous. I don't like 'real people' knowing my problem with food and having to admit it. I'm not an 'out and proud' fatty, I'm totally ashamed and embarrassed about my food issues so the last thing I want is to be in a group with a load more fatties! There's nothing worse that a fat person being 'fatist'.


I do know that some people find going to group , even when at target, really helps. The biggest problem I had with it was seeing people I knew. There were parents of some of the children at school and the children mentioned it when I saw them in the corridors. Also the whole thing I find very boring and samey and do I really need to pay someone £5 a week to tell me what I already know??


I think I've talked myself out of it again now! There is no helping me. I see you are all planning another challenge, but I join every one, and I always make big promises, and then never actually do it. It's embarrassing to be so useless.


Term starts again next week. 1st September on Monday. A good day to start again. Start of Autumn, Fresh starts and all that. Might just do it quietly with my pal Mildredd.


Would be interested to hear from those of you who have successfully done it without group, especially anyone who's struggle for years, but has finally done it?


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lantanna

Hi Corrag!


I know exactly how you feel as will Mildredd!


I went through a period of being totally fed up with group - feeling pressurized and not respected as a person - just a weightloss machine - about 2 months ago.


It is difficult being the person that it always pointed out in group and you become known for your weightloss only and for a while there I felt like I had lost my entire identity.


Well done for your loss and only regaining a stone whilst away from it. Definitely time to grab the horse by the reigns as such and get back on it. You ll find plenty of help and support here.


I think I am out the other side of my frustrations with it all now and I know that no matter how fed up I get with it I have to go and get weighed every week. Going backwards is not an option - I really have to keep on top of this.


I'm going to be featured in my local rag next week and this is something I never would have wanted to do before. Now I'm like you know what it is flipping hard to lose weight and keep it off. If people laugh at me they laugh but they won't be anybody worth knowing. If it helps one person then it can only be a good thing. Anybody that is prone to putting on weight knows how difficult it is.


I've never had the mushy pea curry but I am sure someone will be along that has


Good luck and welcome back to this crazy world :rotfl:

flea72

Joined SW recently and im struggling. As a vegetarian who can only eat small amounts of quorn as i feel ill if i eat it regularly, im stuck as to what to eat.

like meat eaters i tend to have vegetables as an accompaniment to a meal, so to be eating them for the whole of my meal its getting bland. So far im using my sins to give substance to mealtime, which means theres no allowance left for treats.

I spose as a vegi, ive got used to cheese and fat being the staple of my diet for flavour, with bread my fallback to fill-up on.

Just wondered what other vegis ate, that doesnt resemble just a plate of veg, or revolve around quorn

shell_belle_2

I am really annoyed that at my group that I can't buy my magazine until its out in the shop.

Not really sure about my meals today but I think its something like this.

B- bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and beans
L-Salad
D chicken kebab and salad (yum yum)

corrag

Thanks for the warm welcome and for knowing what I mean I wasn't sure if people would have felt the same so I'm glad I posted now.

I totally agree about being made to feel like a weight loss machine and not being seen as a person. I still have a good few stone to lose and really needed someone to say 'ok, its going to get harder but you can do it'. When I struggled I used to get shrugged off and told I must know what I'm doing by now so just keep going.

Sometimes you need a different opinion or slant on things. I'm sure some groups have a great dynamic and really do push people on but I didn't find that and found I'd dread going.

Instead I'm going to use the £20 I save each month by not going and treat myself to the magazine (I love the recipes and the stories) and the rest will go on buying Super free food.

For Newbies I would say that it does work and keep going. Before I started I struggled to get up the stairs, this year I completed the 10k Race For Life - ok I walked it but I couldn't have done that before I lost the weight

frogga

flea72 wrote: »

Joined SW recently and im struggling. As a vegetarian who can only eat small amounts of quorn as i feel ill if i eat it regularly, im stuck as to what to eat.

like meat eaters i tend to have vegetables as an accompaniment to a meal, so to be eating them for the whole of my meal its getting bland. So far im using my sins to give substance to mealtime, which means theres no allowance left for treats.

I spose as a vegi, ive got used to cheese and fat being the staple of my diet for flavour, with bread my fallback to fill-up on.

Just wondered what other vegis ate, that doesnt resemble just a plate of veg, or revolve around quorn

Hi Flea,


I've been a veggie since I was about 5 or 6 (old enough to know what it was and guess how it got there!) so I don't think I really relate to the 'missing meat' dilemma? I have beans, beans and more beans in all their forms. Baked, butter, spicy etc. then potatoes, rice and pasta and heaps of veg.


I don't eat 'fake' meat. I don't eat the real stuff so I don't want to have a meat tasting substitute?? I don't get that at all? Although loads of my veggie friends do? I made my Mum and Step father a vegetable lasagne once, and she cooked him a sausage to go with it because 'a meal isn't a meal without meat'.

frogga

lantanna wrote: »

Hi Corrag!


I know exactly how you feel as will Mildredd!


I went through a period of being totally fed up with group - feeling pressurized and not respected as a person - just a weightloss machine - about 2 months ago.


It is difficult being the person that it always pointed out in group and you become known for your weightloss only and for a while there I felt like I had lost my entire identity.


Well done for your loss and only regaining a stone whilst away from it. Definitely time to grab the horse by the reigns as such and get back on it. You ll find plenty of help and support here.


I think I am out the other side of my frustrations with it all now and I know that no matter how fed up I get with it I have to go and get weighed every week. Going backwards is not an option - I really have to keep on top of this.


I'm going to be featured in my local rag next week and this is something I never would have wanted to do before. Now I'm like you know what it is flipping hard to lose weight and keep it off. If people laugh at me they laugh but they won't be anybody worth knowing. If it helps one person then it can only be a good thing. Anybody that is prone to putting on weight knows how difficult it is.


I've never had the mushy pea curry but I am sure someone will be along that has


Good luck and welcome back to this crazy world :rotfl:

You are such an inspiration xxx I would NEVER be brave enough to be in the paper. My God that is really something. DO you still go to group?


I sort of know what you mean because I got a little of that at group. The leader kept telling everyone how much I'd lost but I hated it. She also kept asking me if I felt better, and if Mr Frog was happy. The implication being that now I was thin we were 'doing it' more and he'd be relieved not to be 'doing it with a fatty'. I find the whole thing SO mortifying.


I'm just not proud of myself for getting thin. I'm disgusted for getting fat in the first place? But I'm impressed that you and people like you can do it? And I don't think you are disgusting for getting overweight? Odd?

tweets

corrag wrote: »

Hi all, can I join please?

I joined Slimming World at the end of 2012 and lost almost 4 stone. I won woman of the year last year for my group and then hit a wall. Sounds mad but I felt pressure to motivate the group and keep losing weight as I was the one always pointed out to the new joiners. I started to find the group demotivating and with lots of new starters each week I found we covered the same old ground often and was I paying each week but not getting anything from it. I slowly let a stone creep back on whilst in group and decided to leave which I did a couple of months ago.

I haven't put more weight on which is something, but I really really want to keep losing and get my mojo back. I'm looking forward to being part of a thread like this and think it will really help.

I haven't read all the posts but wondered if anyone had the Mushy Pea curry recipe?

Thanks for reading

corrag :hello:welcome to the thread

All recipes are here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/40936144#Comment_40936144

corrag

tweets wrote: »

corrag :hello:welcome to the thread

All recipes are here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/40936144#Comment_40936144

Wow that's so great thank you! I'm in heaven with so many new recipes to try. Woohoo! I have 6 weeks till I hit 40 and I am DETERMINED to lose 10lbs at least. The recipe treasure chest will really help.

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