Slimming World Support for Summer 2014

frogga

wizkid1 wrote: »

Is it ok to have SW chips in the afternoon or in the evening on a green day?

Yes that's all good, but not on a Tuesday so you're ok today

pink_poppy

Top_Girl wrote: »

I suspect as a gobby, intelligent, Northern, feminist, liberal single mother who is carrying a couple of extra stone, I'm as far removed from their ideal woman as it is possible to be, and I couldn't be happier about it

And don't forget the good sense of humour

Top_Girl wrote: »

T - Superfart soup, maybe some SW chips too.

This still makes me giggle every time I see you post it

Happy Holidays, joedenise

money, you could always syn a little butter or olive oil to have with your veggies??

It's another [STRIKE]Groundhog Day[/STRIKE] Green day for me:

B - Banana. 2 x chocolate Weetabix (HEB1 + 2 syns), raspberries, blueberries, unsweetened almond milk (part HEA1)
L - baked potato, cottage cheese, salad
D - HM veggie pasta, cheese (HEA2), wholemeal pitta (HEB2), salad

Victoria plums, fresh pineapple & a clementine for snacks.

Wine & Mackies haggis crisps for syns

Have a lovely weekend.

frogga

Do you think we could have a new thread on Monday morning to start off the autumn and the new challenge? Then nobody would know I'd been rubbish because there would be no evidence?


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mummyroysof3

Breville halo fryer has arrived....made wedges at lunch and kids want me to make nuggets in it for tea lol. Anyone else got one?

maman

wiz, you can have chips for breakfast if you want. As many as you like on Green and EE but not on Red or you'd have to syn them!

pink_poppy wrote: »

money, you could always syn a little butter or olive oil to have with your veggies?

First money, welcome. And then SW is not a diet it's a healthy eating plan!!;) Theres' no reason you can't carry on exactly as you are with your veggies if that's what you'd like to use your syns for (or your HEB for olive oil if you want). The veg I'll have this week will be either with gravy or a cheese sauce or in my jumbalaya, curry and Bolognese in a tomato sauce. As well as that I'll have pickles (beetroot, cornichons). Some I have to syn, others I don't. I think the best way to approach it is to eat what you'd normally eat and adapt it.

lantanna

Thank you for your kind comments!!


Have a good weekend everyone. I will try and behave myself over the weekend and try and concentrate over the positives.


Speak to you all on Monday - be good!!

SwipernoSwiping

frogga wrote: »

Morning All,




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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WB Frogga. And well done to tadpole 1. Food is a luxury best used for celebrating. I don't think you did wrong, but it is usually what derails me too! Usually. Most times I'd get back on the wagon after a day or two, this time around I got flung so far from the path I messed up.

I can't afford the groups any more, but moreso, I wouldn't go for the judgemental gossip I felt - at times - I was the centre of. There isn't any help for those that reach target at group like I did, is there? You get to listen to the new starters and are put up on a pedestal, but (perhaps as it should be because the groups are a business after all...right?) the attention goes to those learning the ropes, looking for ideas etc. .... I enjoyed offering my side of the story, my short cuts, and helping others see that the plan does work, if you want it to, but there wasn't any further support. Like you I lost plenty - 6 and a half stone through the group, though I shifted around a few toward the end. For a year I kept that off, but stress and life got a hold of things and so the lbs started to resettle about the hips. Desperation nearly had me return, just after Christmas, then just after Easter this year. Depression sunk in as nothing I seemed to do made a difference, depression - in my world - leads to comfort eating, which we all know is only going to make matters worse. I didn't want to go on meds. I didn't want to put the rest of the weight back on - I see to many people from group in my day to day life, never mind at group! Oh the shame.
I've only been back here a week, but I'm sure as hell not starting 2015 heavier than I was in Jan 2014. Habits are hard to break and last time it took me about 3 or 4 weeks to settle into routine, baby steps. One problem at a time. 6 days in, I am feeling a hell of a lot more positive about things. As others have said, being here is the first step in the climb.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Can I nip in with a question please, as I have done the Slimming World diet successfully twice before:o and could do with doing it a 3rd time:o.

My quick query is:

What suggestions has anyone got please re what to put with side veggies with dinner?

Usually, I either put a little butter on them or some fresh lemon juice and olive oil. I certainly wouldn't fancy them with nothing on them.

Has anyone got any other suitable suggestions as to what I can do instead to add a bit of "taste" to my veggies (as both my standard accompaniments don't fit in with dieting)?

Add a little herbs (Taragon for that lemon/peppery zing, for example) in with the water as you boil.

Ok for me it's weigh in tomorrow. So. In hope of a loss I have abused my £5 off at Aldi and bought their version of Baileys. I always would treat myself to a glass or two if I had lost weight before, and this way I get to relax at the weekend, instead of in the middle of the week.

Question: Does anyone know the syn value of a Mokate Latte sachet?

tweets

SwipernoSwiping wrote: »

WB Frogga. And well done to tadpole 1. Food is a luxury best used for celebrating. I don't think you did wrong, but it is usually what derails me too! Usually. Most times I'd get back on the wagon after a day or two, this time around I got flung so far from the path I messed up.

I can't afford the groups any more, but moreso, I wouldn't go for the judgemental gossip I felt - at times - I was the centre of. There isn't any help for those that reach target at group like I did, is there? You get to listen to the new starters and are put up on a pedestal, but (perhaps as it should be because the groups are a business after all...right?) the attention goes to those learning the ropes, looking for ideas etc. .... I enjoyed offering my side of the story, my short cuts, and helping others see that the plan does work, if you want it to, but there wasn't any further support. Like you I lost plenty - 6 and a half stone through the group, though I shifted around a few toward the end. For a year I kept that off, but stress and life got a hold of things and so the lbs started to resettle about the hips. Desperation nearly had me return, just after Christmas, then just after Easter this year. Depression sunk in as nothing I seemed to do made a difference, depression - in my world - leads to comfort eating, which we all know is only going to make matters worse. I didn't want to go on meds. I didn't want to put the rest of the weight back on - I see to many people from group in my day to day life, never mind at group! Oh the shame.
I've only been back here a week, but I'm sure as hell not starting 2015 heavier than I was in Jan 2014. Habits are hard to break and last time it took me about 3 or 4 weeks to settle into routine, baby steps. One problem at a time. 6 days in, I am feeling a hell of a lot more positive about things. As others have said, being here is the first step in the climb.



Add a little herbs (Taragon for that lemon/peppery zing, for example) in with the water as you boil.

Ok for me it's weigh in tomorrow. So. In hope of a loss I have abused my £5 off at Aldi and bought their version of Baileys. I always would treat myself to a glass or two if I had lost weight before, and this way I get to relax at the weekend, instead of in the middle of the week.

Question: Does anyone know the syn value of a Mokate Latte sachet?

Says in my syn list that SW sent when I joined online.

Instant latte coffee 18g sachet

3.5 on green , red and extra easy HTH

tazzyb

greentiger wrote: »

I've given up my online membership too, so I'll need you all, more than ever.

I have stopped mine to. I was only using it for the weight loss chart, to buy books and lock up syns.

Welcome carrog - this is a great group in here and there is no pressure.



Breakfast - 2 x soft boiled eggs and wholemeal toast, water melon
lunch - jacket with beans, apple, banana

Working till 8 so not sure about tea.

Plan on using my syns on a curly wurly and hot chocolate tonight.

My week of superspeed aka superfart soup has been interesting to say the least. Gassed hubby on an hourly basis. Will know the success on Sunday when I put the dress on!

frogga

SwipernoSwiping wrote: »

WB Frogga. And well done to tadpole 1. Food is a luxury best used for celebrating. I don't think you did wrong, but it is usually what derails me too! Usually. Most times I'd get back on the wagon after a day or two, this time around I got flung so far from the path I messed up.

I can't afford the groups any more, but moreso, I wouldn't go for the judgemental gossip I felt - at times - I was the centre of. There isn't any help for those that reach target at group like I did, is there? You get to listen to the new starters and are put up on a pedestal, but (perhaps as it should be because the groups are a business after all...right?) the attention goes to those learning the ropes, looking for ideas etc. .... I enjoyed offering my side of the story, my short cuts, and helping others see that the plan does work, if you want it to, but there wasn't any further support. Like you I lost plenty - 6 and a half stone through the group, though I shifted around a few toward the end. For a year I kept that off, but stress and life got a hold of things and so the lbs started to resettle about the hips. Desperation nearly had me return, just after Christmas, then just after Easter this year. Depression sunk in as nothing I seemed to do made a difference, depression - in my world - leads to comfort eating, which we all know is only going to make matters worse. I didn't want to go on meds. I didn't want to put the rest of the weight back on - I see to many people from group in my day to day life, never mind at group! Oh the shame.
I've only been back here a week, but I'm sure as hell not starting 2015 heavier than I was in Jan 2014. Habits are hard to break and last time it took me about 3 or 4 weeks to settle into routine, baby steps. One problem at a time. 6 days in, I am feeling a hell of a lot more positive about things. As others have said, being here is the first step in the climb.



Add a little herbs (Taragon for that lemon/peppery zing, for example) in with the water as you boil.

Ok for me it's weigh in tomorrow. So. In hope of a loss I have abused my £5 off at Aldi and bought their version of Baileys. I always would treat myself to a glass or two if I had lost weight before, and this way I get to relax at the weekend, instead of in the middle of the week.

Question: Does anyone know the syn value of a Mokate Latte sachet?

Hello Swiper ~ you hit the nail right on the head there. We seem to be very similar in our experiences of the group. I hate to be cynical, but you are right, it is a business, and the lady that runs it is trying to earn a living. I don't need to go to group because I can and have done it on my own. I'll post my losses on here, and if it's ok with you all ask any 'syn' questions that I any have used the online site for.


I do feel I've wasted this Summer Holiday. I told myself that I'd only enjoy it if I ate what I wanted. I wanted ice cream, and chips on the beach, and treats as we were on holiday. The truth is though, that because I over indulged on everything, I felt rotten, and so it spoilt the holiday because I've felt too 'bleugh' to do anything. Like I said to Mildredd earlier, I've been 'food drunk' for weeks. And then in the mornings I've had a 'food hangover'. I've not wanted to go anywhere or do anything so I've been blobbing around the house watching the days tick off the calendar, and next week we're all back to school and it's over.


Kate Moss said 'nothing tastes as good as being thin feels'. But I say 'nothing tastes as good as feeling fit and healthy feels'. I could have been walking around arm in arm with Mr Frog in the lovely summer sunshine that we've had, wearing nice clothes and 'glowing'. Instead I've been sitting indoors in my nightdress watching carp on the telly. So was it worth it Frogga? No it wasn't. I shall remember this on Monday morning when I start to sort it out.