Be Awesome in Autumn with Slimming World

shala_moo

Shiny new thread, with all the info carried over as follows:-

Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.

You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.

You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.

If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.

You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.

Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!

The Original (Red) and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the Extra Easy plan. If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.

If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-

Extra Easy:

1: Choose your Free Food

Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!

2: Choose your Healthy Extras

Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.

3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day

And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!

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If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-

1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free

2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)

3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted

4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured

5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........

A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate

OR

B: switch to more Speed Foods

And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!

Link to recipe thread:-

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3032236

New Recipes

Loaded Potato Skins
Homity Pie
Minestrone Soup
Lentil & Bacon Soup
Pulled Pork
Red Pepper Houmous
Cheesy Chilli Fries
Lamb Tagine
Campfire Stew


Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.

Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=4853

shala_moo

blue_eyed_girl

Thank you Shala :T


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Rummer

Count me in this time glad to be in from the beginning!

I really need to focus on getting this weight off!

32b3in2013

Thank you for the new thread Shala_Moo.

I feel very motivated. Can't wait for tomorrow to start

TakeItEazy

Thank you Shala for the shiny new thread and the new chart :T, :A

A HUGE for Annie for all the work put in to the last chart/challenge :A

We really appreciate all the hard work you both do to keep us on track

tweets

Thank you for the new thread Shala_Moo :T

Feel part of the SW team now I am on the list

Annie021063

Thanks shala :j
Been off since last might as it's really hard to stick to anything when you are in a house that's not your own and there is no food about!
Meals out last night and tonight, a few naughties but I'm ok
Back on it tomorrow

shala_moo

Rummer wrote: »

Count me in this time glad to be in from the beginning!

I really need to focus on getting this weight off!

Have you got a target for the first 8 week challenge Rummer? I'll add you on if you let me know...

Also Greentiger - I've added you too.. I saw your post on the other thread

SwipernoSwiping

Ah ha. New shiny, no cobwebs. Yay. Thank you Shala, (and Annie too).

:beer:

Saver-upper

Thank you Annie for looking after us up to now.
And thank you shala moo for taking over the reins.
I am on the list :j.
Bring it on!!