Sun, Sand, Sea & Slimming - Slimming World support thread 2017

Merlin139

Sunshinemummy I live in Yorkshire and I am a Frugal Southerner! Although as I have lived her for over 15 years which is 12 more than anywhere else I have lived I guess I am on the way. Although my Grandmother had lived in a place for 2 months short of 50 years before she died and she just missed out as being classed as a local!

Abbafan Congratulations! Hope you win.

dawyldthing Well done on your Loss. Your starting weight was the same as mine. Would love to get to your target weight but I wonder if I would look like a stick insect. Hope all goes well with your mum's procedure.

kathrynha Welcome back.

Drank a whole bottle of White wine yesterday it was to die for! Hazel had one as well! Sat in the back garden in the sun smoking a joint of Beef and Pork on the BBQ. We had been busy in the morning doing some gardening and a quick 5 mile walk made room for it!

shala_moo

Hi ladies and gents, :wave: hope you're all having a wonderful bank holiday!

Belated birthday wishes Beanie _party_ hope you had a fab day x

Been to a lovely food festival today and had some lovely breads, half a hotdog with OH and found some wonderful german teacakes for 70 calories each so calling them 3.5 syns, unfortunately I've had more than 1!!:o fingers crossed I've done enough walking to offset it somewhat, although I think I was pretty well behaved considering there were so many delicious things everywhere!

Welcome back Kathryn :wave:

So the chart this week, we're missing a fair few people, hope you're all off enjoy lovely holidays x

SOTW this week is dawyldthing with a loss of 4lbs!!! :T:T:j:j

kathrynha

Thanks for the chart Shala, and thanks for managing the group whilst I was away. I hope they all behaved

bubbs

Welcome back Kathryn, glad you had a good holiday:T:T
Well done for SOTW dawyldthing:j:j:j
Thanks for the chart Shala , i have failed miserably this challenge
Well done to all the losers:T:T:T:T
Merlin, i was wondering what joint you was smoking:eek::rotfl::rotfl:

shala_moo

Well I've been keeping an eye on them from afar.. You may want to watch a couple of them, they've been showing off their purple pants :rotfl:

dawyldthing

Motivated - same for the swimming. I've had gym membership for years, go to Aqua class on a Tuesday but don't use it that much - haven't had my monies worth for a while. I am determined to start going.

Merlin - no I know, same here. I think I was 12 when I was last at the weight as mum used to enthuasitically put the keep fit DVDs on and encourage me to do it before a school trip to Germany - it did work but never kept it up sadly. I honestly can't imagine what I'll look like but I'd love to get there

Thank you for star of the week - I thought I'd struggle to get to the -10lb but happy with how it's going.

Sunshinemummy

Merlin139 wrote: »

Sunshinemummy I live in Yorkshire and I am a Frugal Southerner! Although as I have lived her for over 15 years which is 12 more than anywhere else I have lived I guess I am on the way. Although my Grandmother had lived in a place for 2 months short of 50 years before she died and she just missed out as being classed as a local!

There is a difference between living in Yorkshire (achieved status), and being born in Yorkshire (ascribed status).......but given you were not born here, your are as perfect as could be!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

tweets

shala_moo wrote: »

Well I've been keeping an eye on them from afar.. You may want to watch a couple of them, they've been showing off their purple pants :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Thank you for the chart. Well done dawdlything :j:j:j

Mrs_Ryan

Hello again everyone! Long time no post.

I have to admit I have been lurking. The reason being is that only a few of my nearest and dearest (very few- partner, mum, sister and best friend) and of course my Group have known that I have been doing SW this time. This is because I start off with such good intentions then i might get to a stone (sometimes not even that) and then just get disheartened and give up. And of course because I have gone on about it on social media everyone gives me a hard time.

So this time I decided to just get my head down and get on with it until after I had my stone award which is what I have done! I really badly need to lose 2 stone before my graduation, which is on November 16 at the Sage in Gateshead.

I started SW 6 weeks ago on a six week countdown. I joined a totally different group as a fresh start- after someone made an insensitive comment about my alopecia in my last group I no longer felt comfortable there. I've also switched to a morning group which works so much better for me. I religiously filled in my food diaries for the full four weeks and always as I ate, I've had no cheat meals at all (I always used to have a cheat meal after WI and my mum said that was probably what was wrecking my weight loss and I didn't believe her but I think she was probably right- my new consultant warned us about that and it really hit home) I haven't done a lot of Body Magic I will admit- I sprained my left knee about 8 weeks ago and it has been slow healing, plus I had a nasty fall on Friday and really hurt my right knee so movement has been limited- I just made sure I ate masses of speed- and it's paid off. I have lost 15lbs (1 stone 1lb) in 6 weeks.

I have 13lbs left to lose and 11 weeks to do it in, and I am quietly confident. I lost a very unexpected 3.5lbs today- my usual WI is Wednesday morning but I've got an appointment on Wednesday so I went today instead. I got my 1 stone award, Slimmer of the Week (that's twice in the space of three weeks!) and Slimmer of the Month which is something I never got before. I've been trying loads of new things- I bought some scales and asked my partner to help me weigh out Oats to make overnight oats, I also ordered some of the Skinni range- burgers, meatballs, black pudding, haggis, square sausage- which were all amazing!

I'm already seeing NSV's- I went away to Liverpool in the week and met up with an old friend. They met me pretty much straight from the train so I got changed before I got on the train- I had packed my bag pre SW and the only top I had absolutely drowned me and wouldn't stay up luckily, there was a Yours Clothing right next to the train station so I dashed in and found a gorgeous pink strappy blouse in a size 22 which fitted like a glove- in a top like that I would have needed at least a 26 before so I was thrilled

Anyway enough of my ramblings

Today's menu was:
B: HEXB HiFi light (x2) apple, peach, can of NAS tropical crush
L: Ham, pastrami, pasta, huge mixed salad (lettuce, onion,tomato, carrot, cucumber, celery, spring onions, pickled onions, gherkins) easy peeler, HEXA Alpro choc soya drink + 1.5 syns, sparkling water
T: Spaghetti bolognaise (made with 5% fat mince, passata, onions, peppers, mushrooms, mixed herbs) wholewheat spaghetti (I had courgetti but the other half had dished up the spaghetti before I could tell him I didn't want any!) Fab ice lolly (4 syns)Litre of sparkling water
S: Crisps (6.5 syns) peppermint tea
Syns: 12

Love to you all xx

Saver-upper

I had weigh-in tonight,and have reached my target range,for the first time since October 2015.I lost that final pound,and,actually,I thought I would be feeling more excited :cool:.
I had reached target (for the second time ) in October 2015,and because Christmas was coming,and we were about to move to inlaws' while our house was being extended (5 months),I stopped going to group,started eating badly again.
When I started going back to group in April 2017,I had regained 2.5 stone :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:.I felt awful,looked awful,and knew it was time to do something about it.
I am thrilled to have had a loss every week except 2 maintains,but now,tonight,it all feels a bit meh,and "Now the hard work starts".Also,my partner and 2 (of the 4) kids are away at the moment,so there is nobody really in real life to share it with.
I can't remember why I stopped going to group after reaching target the first time,because I do enjoy group,but this time around I think I must make it a vow that I will keep going to group every week.
This week I hit the top of my target range ( a little disappointment there-I was expecting to lose a bit more to get comfortably into target range).The aim is to have lost about 2 more pounds so I have a bit to "play with" while celebrating my 50th birthday in the middle of next month.