Spring into Spring with Slimming World

TakeItEazy

joedenise wrote: »

Jock - good decision calling target. If you enjoy going to group there is no reason why you can't go but arrive in time for Image Therapy and don't bother weighing. I sometimes don't weigh although I go most weeks as I'm on the social team. You just need to weigh once a month to keep access to the online site. I also think it helps keep you "sort of" on plan.

Saver - your food for yesterday doesn't look very substantial to me - it looks like an SP day so you could have had another HEB. Don't think I'd have felt full on all that fruit and not much else during the day! You really need to have some syns which of course you know! I sometimes don't really want any but I always make sure I have a few, a bit of gravy, a spoonful of mayo, some butter. If there is nothing I want like that then I'll often syn a Ryvita or 2 and some butter.

My EESP plan today:

B - scrambled eggs on 1 slice of toast (0.5 HEB)
L - 1/2 pack of SW chicken tikka ready meal (hope it's better than the sweet potato curry!); slice bread (0.5 HEB)
D - scallop & prawn stir fry - will include celery, carrot, spring onions, baby sweetcorn, tenderstem brocolli, mange tout & pak choi.
I'll add egg noodles for DH once mine is dished up.

HEA - milk in tea throughout the day
HEB1 - 2 slices of bread (1 for breakfast; 1 for lunch)
HEB2 - 2 Ryvita; butter 4 syns

Denise

There was potato in the soup so not a SP day me thinks

Lois_Lane

Morning all

Its 8.30 and the shop is quiet so I'm taking the opportunity to post - no doubt a pile of customers will arrive and I won't actually finish it until late morning!

Maman - interesting about the SW consultants. Have you considered becoming one? You give great advice here. I'd like to do it but I don't think they'd be interested in someone who wants to go off to Spain every winter! :rotfl: It's a big financial commitment though, and you'd have to invest in stock too so it's quite risky, but a good group can be very lucrative. When I was going to group the consultant had 3 big classes and she gave up her day job as she was making more money from SW.

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Haha - its now 11.55 and this is still waiting for me to finish it! Ah well - better being busy (rubs hands together Arkwright style :rotfl:).

Catch you later.

LL

lushlifesaver

I've had a terrible few days; probably everyday since Friday to be honest Not looking forward to what the scales have to say tomorrow


Today:
breakfast: shake (protein, 250ml almond milk, banana, kiwi, apple)
snack: heb oaty bar - hoping they are still a heb!
lunch: chicken salad, 3 syns of light salad cream, milky way bar 6syn
tea: pasta and meatballs plus 1 slice garlic bread
slightly over my syns but I have managed almost 2lt of fluid - it's my first day in a week without a dehydration headache!


My problem has been lack of effective planning so to beat that:
Thursday will look like this:
breakfast: shake (protein, banana, apple, kiwi, 250ml almond milk
lunch: ham sandwich on great white (heb + 5 syns? as it will be on 2 whole slices from a medium loaf - not sure what to syn the extra at) will also bring in a salad to have on the side
tea: chicken and extra lean bacon. will do myself a jacket potato with mine, baked beans, salad, peas and sweetcorn


I actually managed to get out on lunch today (treated myself to 2 new dresses for my holiday next week to the caravan...hope the weather is nice now! It also meant I did a 1mile walk so same again tomorrow for sure

joedenise

TakeItEazy wrote: »

There was potato in the soup so not a SP day me thinks

You're right there - missed that when I skimmed through!

Lush - I think the Great White is HEB + 2 (my consultant says if you cut off the top crust you can count it as HEB - or if you cut off all crusts you can have 3 slices:rotfl:, although I found without crusts the sandwich seems to fall apart).

Denise

shala_moo

:wave: hello.. well after a 4.5 hour drive we're back and knackered, but at least we have milk in for a nice cup of tea:coffee:

Just jumped on the scales and initial indications show 4lb on :eek: but i'll do official weigh in tomorrow night (although not at class!)

We have had some lovely food, bagels, ribs (all you can eat - I had 1.5 racks :drool::eek:), pizza, nuts, crisps, chips, pancakes, nachos, burgers, sweets :rotfl: we also walked over 12,000 steps each day so i'm hoping that will have helped somewhat!

So I am off to collect your results, I hope you've all done well otherwise and for you bad uns!

xx

shala_moo

:wave: hi to all the new people that have joined us.. feel free to join in our challenge if you want, we have 4.5 weeks left...

Joint SOTW* is.... :T:j:TCANDYAPPLE and DJENKS:T:j:T with a loss each of 2lbs!!

Congratulations!



*SOTW is the person who has lost the most weight this week, but also had a loss or sts last week.

lushlifesaver

joedenise wrote: »

You're right there - missed that when I skimmed through!

Lush - I think the Great White is HEB + 2 (my consultant says if you cut off the top crust you can count it as HEB - or if you cut off all crusts you can have 3 slices:rotfl:, although I found without crusts the sandwich seems to fall apart).

Denise

Ooh thanks Denise; in that case I may bring 100g Easi-yo yogurt (banana flavour, no idea on syns but all the other flavours I've had have hovered around 4/5) in for lunch as well Salad will be: lettuce, cucumber, baby plum tomatoes, beetroot, pickled onion and boiled egg me thinks
Looking forward to tomorrow's food actually. Always feel a hundred times better when I've planned.


Holiday next week so won't weigh in for two weeks after tomorrow Shala. Food plan is basically: cereal or bacon sandwich for breakfast (maybe one day we will go to our favourite caf! in town and have a cooked breakfast) then I'm generally busy so not thinking about food so much during the day - I have a stash of mug shots and noodles over there in 'd have soup/similar. If out wonder bairn and I generally share, though only naughtiness planned for a lunch time would be fish and chips and that will only be the once! Tea times are a bit harder; generally as we graze through the day or aren't fussed (obviously we do make sure wonder bairn eats though!) we will have a slightly bigger, and earlier, tea so more likely to be off plan.


I'm not too worried though in fairness; mostly because:
1) I think if you worry too much everything seems worse even if you get the desired outcome
2) plans include swimming (at least once possibly twice) with wonder bairn
3)plenty of walking round town/the beach/other local towns
4) I have to take the dog on a walk at least twice a day so I'm guaranteed some decent exercise
5) I have lots of distractions there (gel nails set, 2 jigsaws, new house plans, cooking, washing up etc)

maman

TakeItEazy wrote: »

There was potato in the soup so not a SP day me thinks

You're right tie but it has to help to just be low carb now and then. Since EESP was 'invented' I've been leaving potato out of my soup in case I wasn't to use it on a SP day. I always make at least 5 portions at a time.

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Maman - interesting about the SW consultants. Have you considered becoming one? You give great advice here. I'd like to do it but I don't think they'd be interested in someone who wants to go off to Spain every winter! :rotfl: It's a big financial commitment though, and you'd have to invest in stock too so it's quite risky, but a good group can be very lucrative. When I was going to group the consultant had 3 big classes and she gave up her day job as she was making more money from SW.

Thanks for the compliment but I really don't want a job, SW or otherwise!!:D My consultant said she's started doing some alongside her day job when she first set up home. Now she has children she just works for SW but she's built up 3 good groups plus she does a bit of cover when needed.

shala_moo wrote: »

:wave: hello.. well after a 4.5 hour drive we're back and knackered, but at least we have milk in for a nice cup of tea

Wow!! That's a long way to go for a pint of milk!!;)


Glad you had a good time.


You're 100% right about the planning lush. It's definitely the way to go. The banana yogurt is 3 syns for 100g. With my Speed cop hat on I did notice that lots of the fruit and veg on tomorrow's list isn't Speed food. I suppose you don't want to buy in much before you go away but try to up the salads instead of too many pulses. Do hope you don't mind me nagging.:o Love your list of things to do next week, sounds so restful.


Good NSV today when I went for lunch with former colleagues. Loads of compliments about how good I was looking by which I know they meant slim;). So back on plan tonight.

wizkid1

Hello Hello Hello, everyone, I am feeling much better.today Although I still have a very painful right arm and shoulder. I have stopped taking the Amitriptyline which was making me off balance and dizzy. I am waiting this week to let it wear off before I drive again.

So, this will be my Thursday menu plan...

Breakfast. Porridge A/B blueberries strawberries.

Lunch.. Mushroom soup 2 ryvita 3 Syns Orange.

Dinner. Fish B s/w wedges peas, 4 green beans, beetroot. Pear

Supper/Snacks. 2 finger kit Kat 5 Syns.2 Gullon digestive 4 Syns,f f yoghurt

A milk A milk B porridge B fish
12 Syns
Water, NAS Vimto lemon and hot water.

meg72

shala_moo wrote: »

:wave: hi to all the new people that have joined us.. feel free to join in our challenge if you want, we have 4.5 weeks left...

Joint SOTW* is.... :T:j:TCANDYAPPLE and DJENKS:T:j:T with a loss each of 2lbs!!

Congratulations!



*SOTW is the person who has lost the most weight this week, but also had a loss or sts last week.

I Love to see the chart Shala, its coming on nicely just sorry I dont seem to be doing my bit re the losses but hey ho will keep plodding.