Getting Slimmer in 16 with Slimming World

shala_moo

Princes wrote: »

I find fasting on one day a week helpful.

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Don't know that I would ever want to starve.

I find Zumba great fun and have began trying a fat loss supplement already this year which has dramatically helped reduce the everyday snacking alongside SW.

No with Slimming World you can be to too good and see no difference. That happened to me one week walked miles, really watched what I eat and didn't lose anything, next week I do Zumba and get stuck with the unavoidable takeaway and actually lose.. will always believe there is a science to it somewhere all down to body types

Thanks both for your posts.

Fasting has been proven to be beneficial to people's health in more ways than one so Princes is probably very healthy from it I'd love to do it but unfortunately it starts me on a slight binge cycle...

I imagine you may not have lost the first week due to water retention or hormonal issues.. Better to monitor weight loss patterns over a few weeks. We all have weeks where we stick to plan but that water builds up a bit too much.

Good luck with your Zumba and supplements though x

maman

greentiger wrote: »

Sorry, tweets, “craw” is a Scottish pronunciation of “crow”. To eat crow means to acknowledge that you made a mistake.

I think craw tastes very much like humble pie tweets!:rotfl:

wizkid1 wrote: »

Good morning everyone I have lost 1lb much better after last week . Ohh! It's much much harder when your not far away from your goal it feels miles away, and I am getting despondent.

:T to all losers including wiz, and no despondency allowed!!


abbafan, the lowest syn mains at the Indian are the tomatoey ones rather than the creamy so a lamb rogan josh or perhaps a bhuna, jalfrezi or madras. A large portion of any of those would just about be within syns for the day. What piles it up is having poppadums or bhajis or samosas or naan and stick to plain rice as it's free. Alternatively just eat/drink whatever you fancy and then get straight back on plan afterwards. It's only once a year.;)


belsy, it is hard to break habits. I've only started having Crunchie at football since I got to target. before that I was saintly with HM coffee and 2 satsumas.:(


Yesterday was better than expected. We were running late so had JP in Debenhams instead of meeting friends at the pub. For dinner I had a lamb shank and bruschetta to start. I left the (few) fatty bits and wine syns were fairly modest.


Today's EE plan:
B: NAS Grapefruit, HEB porage with HEA milk
L: 2 fried eggs, mushrooms, tomato, ham, pickles
roast beef, SW roast potatoes and parsnips, cauli, broccoli, carrots, cabbage
Syns: gravy, squirt of syrup and probably horseradish, and wine syns!!:j

tweets

maman wrote: »

I think craw tastes very much like humble pie tweets!:rotfl:

Did you hear all United fans boo at the end of the match :rotfl:

I was booing before then and telling them what I thought :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

june89

mary_hinge wrote: »

Today:

B: banana pancakes with raspberries and youghurt
L: lasanga with lots of veggies (A for cheese)
ham salad and roast new potatoes (1 mayo)
melon, apple, pear chopped up

options hot chocolate (2) sk milk for teas (2) Kitkat (5.5)

So far so good!

How do you make your pancakes? If the bananas are in the batter, all pureed (pretty sure this includes mashed) and cooked fruits have syns with bananas being quite high from memory. Don't have my book to hand to double check, but maybe 4 or so for an average sized banana?

Still don't understand why this rule applies to fruits and not veggies. Particularly starchy ones like mashed potato! Guessing it has something to do with the sugar and fibre content must break down more in fruits, but SW never explain why they restrict something very well.

beanielou wrote: »

Have to say that I quite often buy prepared fruit. It is expensive but I am not good at cutting it so it is what it is.

I have no problem with people buying prepared products btw, especially if you have difficulty preparing them yourself. Was just the first example I thought of where I can see a lot of money going when someone switches to SW, in some cases unnecessarily.

If I wanted a really sweet fruit, I'd rather have a 10p banana over a £2 pot of mango but that's me!

shala_moo

Gosh Mary, It must take a while to menu plan for you.. My friend has tummy issues and has found out she shouldn't be eating garlic/onions, from following the FODMAP must be difficult as it's in so many things!

Hope you're feeling better mummyofroy...

Batch cooked a few things today so I would be more prepared for the week, unfortunately most of it was a disaster so ended up in the bin :mad: I did manage to salvage some pizza pies (using the stand tortillas) and the sweet potato bhajis (although I've not tasted them yet so who knows:eek:)

I give up making SW falafels, I just can't get them right they just crumble as soon as you touch them!

Anyway stuck to plan today so that's an improvement from yesterday.. Didn't eat our tea in the end so we've got it tonight..

B - pancakes (3) strawberries, yogurt, choc shot (0.5)
L - pizza pie (4 and 0.5 hea)
T - SW chicken tikka, rice, poppadum (2) sweet pot bhajis
S - milk (0.5 hea)

Doesn't look like much speed but there was lots of onion and pepper in lunch and I'll add extra veg to the curry this evening..

Off to make a batch of chicken soup for the week, fingers crossed its ok :rotfl:

greentiger

Well done, Abbafan and Belsy.

mary, that’s a lot of meals to manage – you’re a miracle worker!

I don’t have the [STRIKE]will power[/STRIKE] inclination to go without food for even a bit of a day, Princes!

tweets, I was booing at our match too!

Been on track today. WI tomorrow, but again I’ll be lucky to sts, I think. I can only live in hope.

Tomorrow is Burns’ Day, so I’ll make DH some haggis. I’m not that fussy on it so I’ll have sausages instead.

Monday
Pre Breakfast: banana
Breakfast: yogurt & fruit
Lunch: mackerel on hexb toast, salad
Dinner: LMc roro sausages, bashed neeps and champit tatties, pickled onions
Snacks: shortbread finger (5) and grapes, cherry tomatoes, Walkers French Fries (4 ½ )

mary_hinge

june89 wrote: »

How do you make your pancakes? If the bananas are in the batter, all pureed (pretty sure this includes mashed) and cooked fruits have syns with bananas being quite high from memory. Don't have my book to hand to double check, but maybe 4 or so for an average sized banana?

Still don't understand why this rule applies to fruits and not veggies. Particularly starchy ones like mashed potato! Guessing it has something to do with the sugar and fibre content must break down more in fruits, but SW never explain why they restrict something very well.



I have no problem with people buying prepared products btw, especially if you have difficulty preparing them yourself. Was just the first example I thought of where I can see a lot of money going when someone switches to SW, in some cases unnecessarily.

If I wanted a really sweet fruit, I'd rather have a 10p banana over a £2 pot of mango but that's me!

The reason they syn mashed/cooked/pureed fruit is that it can lead to "over consumption" the line of thought is that if you make a smoothie with 2 bananas, punnet of strawberries and a couple of apples/oranges your taking in alot of fruit in a very small space of time where as if your actually eating and chewing it you would become full/bored/satisfied and would eat much less......nutritional sugar/fibre does not change.

I mash my 1 funsized banana with 1 egg and some sweetner, after alot of reading the ins and outs of why mash/pureed/cooked fruits are syns I decided that as I would happily eat 1 banana in one go then by mashing it I am not "over consuming" so happy to not syn it.

mary_hinge

shala_moo wrote: »

Gosh Mary, It must take a while to menu plan for you.. My friend has tummy issues and has found out she shouldn't be eating garlic/onions, from following the FODMAP must be difficult as it's in so many things!

The next step for Missy Hinge is FODMAP, it has been a big hit amongst people with EDS and gastro dismotility disorders but at 11 Both myself and her dietitian are hoping to avoid it as she is still growing and it is hugely restrictive. Thankfully if she does eat any of the things she "shouldn't" it doesn't cause her long term harm but does give her horrendous stomach pains and a few days of hugging the loo and "pondering time in the bathroom" as she calls it :rotfl:

Lois_Lane

Evening

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I've been pretty active having walked about 6 miles in total over the 2 days. You'd think I'd have a good appetite as a result but for some reason I seem unable to finish a meal at the moment.

We ate the Romanesco (spiky green thing) a couple of days ago and it was alright - a bit harder to cut up than a cauliflower, and it tasted much the same. I won't be going out of my way to have another one. The purple carrots weren't much different to ordinary ones either but they looked pretty on the plate.

Well done to everyone reporting in with losses and hugs to anyone struggling.

LL

greentiger

Well, I'm scuppered tonight.

Put on my potatoes and veg to cook, Then went to get my lamb leg steaks - and they were off! No other food in house as tomorrow no shopping trip until tomorrow.

DH went out and got takeaway - a chicken tikka kebab for me. I ate one of the tortillas and threw the other in the bin and I had just a little of the chilli sauce. At least it came with a decent portion of salad.

Well, that's me well and truly messed up any chance of a loss tomorrow.