New Year, New You with Slimming World

joedenise

Just done a post and lost it:mad:

Agree about some of the Free food anomolies with branded goods. However the plan works so don't question it too much.

Having a Green day today for a change:

B - scrambled eggs on toast
L - jacket potato with beans
D - HM butternut squash, lentil & chickpea curry/rice
S - 4 Dark Rye Ryvita/cheese

HEA1 - milk in tea throughout the day
HEA2 - cheese
HEB1 - bread
HEB2 - Ryvita

Have got loads of fruit to snack on if needed, having won the SOTW fruit basket in the raffle as the SOTW didn't stay to group. I actually gave quite a lot of the stuff in it to my DD2 who popped in as there is no way DH and I could get through the amount of stuff there was in it before it went off! DD went home with a good half carrier of fruit and veg so that'll save her a bit of money this week.

We're away for the weekend again so unlikely to get on line for a few days.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Denise

Crabapple

Morning All

Congrats to all those with losses and everyone getting into smaller sizes, it's a great feeling

I also find it odd that certain brands are promoted. Activia 0% yogurts are also free (in the main, exceptions for a couple of flavours) but they always talk about mullerlights at group. I hardly eat any yogurt and gave up buying the things because I'd always end up chucking some past their date!

Exercise must be addictive, but I guess as addictions go it's a pretty good one to have

I'm getting about 8k steps a day at the moment and building up, but almost every day I'm going out for a walk and am going to be building the C25K sessions in so eventually that will be either a walk or a run every day with any luck!

Eaten too much flapjack the last couple of days. Hope that exercising will burn it off at least a bit My mum often cooks with my daughter on a wednesday and she comes back home with yummy stuff. Wish she'd cook things I don't like - I was alright the week they made cheese straws cos they don't call to me like sweet stuff does

Smedley

Crabapple wrote: »

Morning All

I also find it odd that certain brands are promoted. Activia 0% yogurts are also free (in the main, exceptions for a couple of flavours) but they always talk about mullerlights at group. I hardly eat any yogurt and gave up buying the things because I'd always end up chucking some past their date!

Muller
Well most yogurts are just that (fatty, less fatty, no fatty), many larger companies make yogurts for other companies, i.e. White label products, so compare the nutritional values.
The larger pots are much better value, who really wants to pay 50-80p a little tub?

I like natural low fat yogurt now, I have gotten used to yogurt without the after taste of sugar, in the flavoured yogurts.
I would really recommend natural flavour, apparently Bio yogurt is better for the gut, something to do with the cultures.

At least this group is awake not so susceptible to SW brand brainwashing techniques.

shala_moo

Smedley wrote: »

At least this group is awake not so susceptible to SW brand brainwashing techniques.

I don't think it's just this group, but we are the best - i think it differs dependent on the consultant you have, as with a lot of things.

Our consultant never really pushes mullerlights and mugshots etc.. she always asks what recipes people have made from scratch instead and always tells us about what she has cooked and advocates fruit and veg as snacks.

She hasn't pushed the ready meals or SP really either and pulls a face at some of the flavours of the hifi bars :rotfl:

Smedley

shala_moo wrote: »

She hasn't pushed the ready meals or SP really either and pulls a face at some of the flavours of the hifi bars :rotfl:

Haha, looks like your consultant has her own mind, is a bit of a rebel, and very down to earth.

I was involved in discussions with various groups before joining SW, and they all commented on brand promotion.

I guess if people are bright enough, they will see through the marketing attempts.

Never tried a SW hifi bar, so I'm the lucky one!

CountingPennies

Morning folks! Haven't posted, but been reading and "thanking". Still having a rubbish week, but I've woke up thinking I might try a SW day today. Weigh day today and haven't been to the gym once! Need to either go to gym to get weighed, or try some different scales to get a rough idea of the damage. The dust from the work in the house is really getting on my chest (I have a chronic lung disease and a very poor immune system) so I don't fancy trailing to the gym before work.

I'll see how I get on today. But gonna try and have a "better" day.

Well done to all the losers, keep plodding to the STS and all those like me.... we can do it!!

CP xx

Lois_Lane

Morning all

Reporting in this week with -2.5lbs. What a difference a dump makes! . Still 3.5 to lose to achieve my mini target by next Friday so I'm focussed on the goal.

Re the branded food debate, after watching the programme about how much sugar we eat, I'm planning to pay much more attention to sugar content in the foods Sw promotes. For example Muller light, baked beans, some of the so called 'healthy' breakfast cereals that may be low fat but are unnecessarily sweet. I used to have a sweet tooth (it's actually addiction) but over the years I've got less so and now I often find foods are too sweet.

Since I started doing SW again in November, I've been in Spain so it's a waste of time trying to keep to the branded products that SW promotes, which proves it can be done just using some common sense. I haven't lost a huge amount but considering the social lifestyle I have here, I'm quite pleased. At the golf dinner someone asked me if I'd lost weight and couldn't believe I'd done it while I was here, most people go home heavier than when they arrived!

I've been noting your ideas on fooling the scales Jock as I'm thinking of joining a SW group when I get back to the UK. So the trick is to time a big loss for the 3rd week to get SOTW?

Is there a maximum number of holidays you can take at SW? I ask because I won't be able to go during the school summer holiday - we open 12 hours a day, every day and I don't go anywhere for 6 weeks. Would I have to rejoin in September?

Good luck to everyone still to weigh in this week and welcome to the new people.

LL

Smedley

Amazing loss Lois? Had the same problem!

Fooling the scales?

joedenise

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Morning all

Reporting in this week with -2.5lbs. What a difference a dump makes! . Still 3.5 to lose to achieve my mini target by next Friday so I'm focussed on the goal.

Re the branded food debate, after watching the programme about how much sugar we eat, I'm planning to pay much more attention to sugar content in the foods Sw promotes. For example Muller light, baked beans, some of the so called 'healthy' breakfast cereals that may be low fat but are unnecessarily sweet. I used to have a sweet tooth (it's actually addiction) but over the years I've got less so and now I often find foods are too sweet.

Since I started doing SW again in November, I've been in Spain so it's a waste of time trying to keep to the branded products that SW promotes, which proves it can be done just using some common sense. I haven't lost a huge amount but considering the social lifestyle I have here, I'm quite pleased. At the golf dinner someone asked me if I'd lost weight and couldn't believe I'd done it while I was here, most people go home heavier than when they arrived!

I've been noting your ideas on fooling the scales Jock as I'm thinking of joining a SW group when I get back to the UK. So the trick is to time a big loss for the 3rd week to get SOTW?

Is there a maximum number of holidays you can take at SW? I ask because I won't be able to go during the school summer holiday - we open 12 hours a day, every day and I don't go anywhere for 6 weeks. Would I have to rejoin in September?

Good luck to everyone still to weigh in this week and welcome to the new people.

LL

Well done on your big loss (even if it was helped by nature:rotfl:)!

You are allowed 6 weeks holiday in a year. If you are a shift worker and tell the consultant that you are I think you can get round it a bit (depends a bit on what hours you do outside the summer period) but I know that shift workers can book a day off due to working - definitely worth talking to a consultant when you get back and explaining your situation, they may have a workaround.

Denise

psychopathbabble

Morning all, thank you for the welcome

Those of you struggling to 'go'... I find having an actimel every day (syns though) helps and I often eat something with fibre in it as syns ie cereal bar on top of my usual he's.

I've managed to be on plan for most of the week, it's so much easier when OH isn't here! We are eating out tonight and I've already said that it's nands0s to save arguments. I don't think I ate enough yesterday but I didn't have time to have the dinner I planned.

I have bought homemade soup with me to work for my lunch, but it's the first time I've frozen and defrosted it, and it looks gross.... I hope it tastes better! :rotfl: