Get Slinky for Santa 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!

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, fruit and vegetables – is totally Free on Extra Easy!

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

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

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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 Speed Foods to half of your plate

OR

B: switch to more Speed Foods

List of Speed foods here - Fruits & Vegetables

And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
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Red and Green plans can still be followed, however information/syns for these are no longer available in your main 2015 booklet.

Link to old 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
Uses for Quark
Austrian Ham and Potato Hash
Chilli Bacon Pasta Bake
Patatas Bravas
Pulled Chipotle Chicken Buns
Lamb Kebab



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

We have a Facebook group open to anyone joining us on this thread; to join please mention it in your post or drop Lushlifesaver or Durham_mim a PM and an existing member can send you an invite.

shala_moo

Brief Overview of Extra Easy SP - this takes over from the old Success Express for speeding up your weight loss or kick starting your loss if you've hit a plateau.

Please note that this is only a brief overview as we are not allowed to copy things off the website. Please refer to your books or the SW website for a list of free foods.

Extra Easy SP concentrates on Speed foods and Protein-rich foods

1 - Choose your Speed Foods and Protein-rich foods, ensuring at least half of your plate is speed foods where you can

2 - choose healthy extras - you can have 1 Healthy Extra "A" and 2 Healthy Extra "B" choices

3 - Choose your 5-15 syns as normal and enjoy

SW recommend following the Extra Easy SP plan for a week, if you continue with it then either add some normal Extra Easy days into the plan or add an additional Healthy Extra A choice to ensure you are getting enough calcium.

Speed foods are mainly vegetables and fruits (however, those high in natural sugars are excluded)

Protein-rich foods include lean meats, poultry, fish, meat substitutes, eggs, beans and pulses.

Here's a visual representation kindly provided by Tweets



And some links provided by kim kim - the fopperholic one is most helpful I found.. the lady who runs it is a SW consultant/manager so her's will be accurate information.

https://fopperholic.wordpress.com/tag/slimming-world/

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/348340-extra-easy-sp-plan.html

shala_moo

It's new target setting time for the Xmas challenge:T

If you are just joining us you may not be aware of the bi-monthly challenge that we run to motivate ourselves which you are welcome to join. It isn't a competition, just a way of setting ourselves mini targets if your total loss seems a bit overwhelming.

The new challenge will run from week commencing the 1st November and finish on the 26th December - this gives us 8 weeks.

If you wish to join in with us then please post your target loss for the 8 weeks in red* or bold or massive or all of the above so that I can see it really easily!

I will post the results chart each week on a Monday showing the prior weeks losses and singling out the person who has lost the most so we can make a great big fuss over them :T

Any questions please let me know - it doesn't matter which day you get weighed just let me know your loss on the day you get weighed and i'll add it to the correct week (maybe, if I don't get confused!)

Thanking you...

Target List - sorry about the formatting
056dillonl1381 -8.00
Arkers -8.00
B17c -14.00
Beanie -7.00
BEG -7.00
candyapple -7.00
counting pennies-8.00
Daisy2014 -14.00
djenks -14.00
greentiger -8.00
horseykaz -10.00
jpscloud -14.00
June89 -14.50
Lois Lane -8.00
Lushlifesaver -10.00
maisie m -8.00
matron midge -6.50
mildredd -5.00
orlao -14.00
queen of cheap -10.00
rebster -10.00
shala_moo -8.00
tweets 0.00
Total loss -213.00
Total loss 15s 3lbs

Wiz, Meg - have I missed your target setting? - apologies if I have

Link to last challenge chart for Halloween challenge below - BEG was our SOTW :j

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69459667&postcount=1622

joedenise

Can't believe it - first to post on the new thread!

Thanks Shala for starting this new one for the Xmas Challenge. Good luck to everyone who's taking part.

Denise

056dillonl1381

Hello All


Thank you SHALA for the new thread well done every one on the last challenge we all did really well let see if we can all keep it up for Christmas


Had a hit and miss week this week but still managed to lose 1.5 Shala which I am really happy with especially after a big loss last week which I didn't really deserve such a big loss so to keep it off I'm happy. The problem I had last week that I didn't plan so this week I am going to plan which I usually do and hopefully get a loss next week

tweets

Thank you for the new thread shala :T:T:T

Well done BEG SOTW :j:j:j

june89

Yay, shiny new thread! I shall don the proper smileys... :xmassmile :snow_grin :rudolf:

Carried over from old thread, I ended up changing my day from SP to standard EE because I was making mash for DH to go with the navarin stew (which was very nice!) and couldn't resist some. It was only a tiny spoonful, more used as thickener than a side, so I probably could call it a tweak. But I haven't used my second HEB yet and don't really feel the need to so I'm happy to call it EE and done.

This is the recipe I used, but I just used a small amount of mixed spice instead of the individual ones. Wasn't sure how DH would react to "sweet" spices in his food, so didn't want to make it too strong. And no courgettes in the house, so added green beans instead.

Having a very slow week, feels like ages since I weighed in on Saturday. I want to post an update! :rotfl:

beanielou

shala~~Thanks as always for your hard work with setting up the thread & running the chart.You are a wee star :T

Dizzy_Ditzy

:hello: and thank you

kaymarie35

Hi, i have wanted to start back at slimming world but have not been able to afford to go. Will you have me? I would like to lose 10lbs by Christmas (and many more to follow!)

beanielou

Welcome kaymarie to our lovely thread :wave: