Get in the swing for Spring - Slimming World support thread 2017

beanielou

THank you Denise & Maman

kathrynha

joedenise wrote: »

:Katheryn - if you can manage to pick up a wholemeal sandwich you can knock 6 syns off the total as your HEB.

Unfortunately wholemeal bread is not allowed. Any bread I eat must be white.
Was speaking to my SW consultant after weigh in about struggling to have HB more than twice a week because it's all on my banned or severely limited list and she says if I am replacing bread with the same quantity of white and I am having it with speed food, then not to stress out if it takes me over on my syns if I am still managing to lose weight.

piglet6

Wow, its amazing how quickly this thread moves when you take your eye off it! :whistle: So...

Congratulations to WJN222, Kathryn, candyapple, Maisie M, Lush, Denise, bubbs, jayII, pixtotts & beanielou - some fab losses there!! :j

Hugs to all those who have gained :grouphug: - keep going...

Well done to all those who have maintained - that's practising for when you get to goal!

Ali-t and Pixtotts - sorry to hear that you are struggling at the moment. Please don't give up. You've both got really inspiring signature lines - maybe re-read them as if they weren't your own, but somebody else's, and follow the advice that you would give others (not sure if that makes sense, but its not meant in a patronising way - I guess I'm trying to say "give yourselves the encouragement you would give others here, and try not to be too hard on yourselves"! :kisses3:).

Welcome back, Gingerfurball. Congratulations on your 30th wedding anniversary. :T

Moonlustie - enjoy your Easter weekend with your brother. Maman - enjoy your Easter weekend away. :easter:

Debtfreeatlonglast - welcome to the thread. :hello: You'll find lots of support here!

Apologies to anybody I've missed - its not intentional, I promise! :grinheart

P x

piglet6

Lois_Lane wrote: »

There was an interesting thread on the Pinch of Nom Facebook page yesterday asking what made people decide to lose weight, the main reason for me was having to walk with a stick because my knees were so painful, although I also want to avoid some of the other health issues that are linked to obesity. It's good to remind ourselves why we're doing this - what made you all decide to lose weight?

LL

That's a really interesting question, Lois... For me, it was a couple of things.

Practically, I work in a job where I stand for most of the day, from 8am to 6.30pm, and I was just gradually getting bigger. But recently, I had noticed that I had really bad pain in my ankles - almost like they were ready to snap, if that makes sense. This feeling was happening earlier and earlier each day, but by the end of the day, I could hardly bear to put one foot in front of the other, and was beginning to need to take painkillers to try and numb the pain and just get through the day. (On the plus side, I suddenly realised a couple of weeks ago that I no longer get ankle pain any more - sure, I get sore feet after a long day, like anybody, but my ankle pain has gone!! :j)

From a vanity point of view, I have booked a holiday with a friend this summer. My friend is lovely, but tiny. Whilst I am never going to be as small as she is, I didn't want to look like a beached whale beside her. I don't mind being the larger friend, but I wasn't going to be the massive one! :rotfl: (Plus, we are going somewhere warm, and I know that I cope better with heat when I am a bit smaller! ).

P x

piglet6

Right, menu plan for tomorrow:

B: Cheese (HExA) omelette with mushrooms & tomatoes
L: Mushroom soup
Smoked haddock fishcakes with salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, pickled beetroot/onions/gherkins)
HExB: tbc...

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Saver-upper

Ali-t and Pixtotts,I am sorry you are both having a hard time at the moment.
I am just getting back ontrack with SW this week,but I have been going to SW on and off for 6 years,I have reached target twice :eek:,and am ready to start again now.
I have found that sometimes there is no rhyme nor reason as to why we don't lose,and sometimes we aren't even sure how we lost so much!I have experienced both ends of the spectrum.It seems that sometimes the weight-loss just "catches up".

Pixtotts,don't give up.As maman says,what will you do instead?As I said,I have only been back ontrack since Monday.My children are suddenly very interested in the SW plan.Tonight at tea,my 10yo daughter,who can remember coming to SW meetings with me occasionally,asked "Mum....if you want to lose weight,but don't go to Slimming World,how do you do it?".I explained that you have to go through the drudgery of weighing every carrot,every piece of brocolli,every mouthful of meat,then do a bit of mathematics (fractions!) to work out how many calories you have eaten.
# I shuddered at the memory #.

I have had a good day SW-wise today:

Brunch: lean bacon,eggs,tomatoes,baked beans,slice wholemeal toast (HEB)

Tea:casserole (clean plates all round :j:j.There wasn't even any grumbles when I confessed to the family that not all the potato in it was potato-some of it was swede :rotfl:.)This is the 3rd time I have served this meal.The first time nobody noticed the difference,the second time one of the kids questioned it and I explained away the different colour (potato Vs swede) as being different cooking times (!),tonight I 'fessed up :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.
So casserole contained beef,potato,swede,millions of carrots,mushrooms,onion.I served with rice, lots of mange tout and butternut squash.

HEA was skimmed milk in cups of tea. (A very high proportion of it used in ONE cup of coffee as 10yo kept pouring it in trying to get it the same colour as if it was semi-skimmed milk :rotfl:)

Abbafan1972

Good morning all.

I am at work today, but have Monday and Tuesday off.

Well done Beanie on your weight loss!

I need to get to my target! I was only 1lb away at WI last week, but I have star week approaching and feel bloated!

Does anyone have problems with friends/family making comments about your weight loss or making obvious gestures? My own Mother looks me up and down when she sees me. I know she's probably used to me being 17st plus but she will will have to get un-used to it eventually! People at group tell me I look happy, attractive, slim etc and it is uplifting. My Mother tells me I look "better".

I do still have confidence issues and it is getting better. I am reading "Confidence" by Katie Piper (the girl that suffered the acid attack) and I'm hoping that is going to give me some good tips.

Have a good day all - I will try and report in over the weekend. x

Tete_en_l'Air

Morning all, I haven't been around (on the thread) all week so you can imagine how weigh in went this morning

1.5lb gain for me please Shala.

It's been a busyish week with long-lost rellies coming and a funeral yesterday, but mainly I've been eating badly because I'm getting to the point where I'm fed up of thinking about food and Syns and Speed and healthy extras. Anyway, I've no plans for next week after Sunday so I'll get my head screwed back on and hope to do better next week.

I bought a cooked chicken last night to make a salad for tea (trying damage limitation) so I'm going to strip what's left and make up a curry this morning, but I'm out for lunch and tea today, lunch tomorrow and lunch on Sunday

piglet6 wrote: »

That's a really interesting question, Lois... For me, it was a couple of things.

Practically, I work in a job where I stand for most of the day, from 8am to 6.30pm, and I was just gradually getting bigger. But recently, I had noticed that I had really bad pain in my ankles - almost like they were ready to snap, if that makes sense. This feeling was happening earlier and earlier each day, but by the end of the day, I could hardly bear to put one foot in front of the other, and was beginning to need to take painkillers to try and numb the pain and just get through the day. (On the plus side, I suddenly realised a couple of weeks ago that I no longer get ankle pain any more - sure, I get sore feet after a long day, like anybody, but my ankle pain has gone!! :j)

That's a brilliant NSV, Piglet!! :T

From a vanity point of view, I have booked a holiday with a friend this summer. My friend is lovely, but tiny. Whilst I am never going to be as small as she is, I didn't want to look like a beached whale beside her. I don't mind being the larger friend, but I wasn't going to be the massive one! :rotfl: (Plus, we are going somewhere warm, and I know that I cope better with heat when I am a bit smaller! ).

Yes that is an interesting question Lois, and something we should try not to lose sight of. For me, I was never overweight (and am not now tbh, just on the verge) but started overeating when stressed doing my teacher training, then when my dad died. I put on three stone in all and I just don't recognise myself anymore. I just want to feel like myself again.

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Does anyone have problems with friends/family making comments about your weight loss or making obvious gestures? My own Mother looks me up and down when she sees me. I know she's probably used to me being 17st plus but she will will have to get un-used to it eventually! People at group tell me I look happy, attractive, slim etc and it is uplifting. My Mother tells me I look "better".

I don't have that issue per se, but I do have a friend at running club who has just lost a lot of weight doing one of those extreme bootcamp things (two stone in about three months). She does look great and it's made a real difference to her shape, and everyone keeps telling her so and I don't know whether it's gone to her head or what, but I keep getting little digs from her. Obviously my own weight loss isn't going great at the moment and she knows that. But little things like at that race we did last weekend she said "What size t-shirt did you get? Large? Oh I'm in Mediums now!", and discussing our finish times: "Yes you beat me last year and I beat you this year heehee!". I don't know, it's almost as though she's trying to 'get me back' now that she's slimmer than me when it's always been the other way around, but I've never spoken to her or compared us the way she does. Sorry that turned into a bit of an essay - I guess it was bothering me more than I thought.

*I've just read that back and realised I'm coming across really jealous, perhaps like your mum Abbafan, because I'm upset that she's slimmer than me now. It's not that at all and I've been really supportive of her, I just feel like she's putting me down sometimes and don't really know how to react without coming across like this


Anyway, have a lovely Easter weekend all, and I'll see you on the other side :beer:

beanielou

Tete ~~. I don't think that you sound jealous at all. Do you think your friend may have some issues though.
Sounds like she was jealous when she was slightly bigger than you and he's playing tit-for-tat. I could be wrong.
The joys of our friends :rotfl:

Matron_Midge

-1/2LB at weigh in today. I didn't stay to the class but wanted to weigh in before Easter and then I can miss next week if I over indulge.
We have the in laws staying this weekend, shouldn't be too bad food wise. Fish planned tonight, BBQ tomorrow and roast lamb on Sunday.
You may remember that I gave up bread and booze for lent so from Sunday I will definitely be using all my syns and probably more!!
Happy Easter everyone xx