'Lose pounds more in 24 with Slimming World'

NornIronRose

Longwalker thank you. That is exactly what I needed to hear. 
It really is all about mindset and usually mine is not in the right place. It doesn't take a lot to knock me off track. 

Was on a high a couple of weeks ago. People were noticing the weight loss, had a great pb at parkrun, was looking forward to a few days away with work then my sister coming. 

Then it all came crashing down when I was feeling cocky. But could be an awful lot worse I guess. 

I do need to change things long term. I work in the care sector and dread needing care one day but being the fat one that needs extra help to move. Recent bloods were all good so no worries about cholesterol or diabetes. But I'm heading to 57 now and it is so much harder to shift any weight at all than when I had a big loss in my late 20s. 

Menopause has played a big part, but it's just my lack of self-control that has always been the problem. I do need those long-term health benefits. 

I have decided now that I will give this a go for another 12 weeks. Will go and get weighed and bite the bullet. Hopefully no more than a few lbs gained. 

I genuinely can't express enough how an online community really helps. I've been a member of MSE (previously under another name) for maybe 20 plus years now and it has been a rock for me. 

I want to run another marathon. Actually run one. Last one I did with bilateral sciatica and almost crawled round it in 8 hours 20 mins and 31 seconds! I don't want to be the fat one that everyone is waiting for. I will probably always be a slow runner but I want to be better than I was. 

My last half marathon took me 3 hrs 30 mins exactly. But I ran the whole way (slowly but I did it). I'm looking to do a half marathon in Northern Ireland if possible this year. So any guidance on that would be great Longwalker. Are you doing Belfast? I swore I would never do another marathon, but if I do one, it will be Belfast. 

Sorry for rambling on. Just feeling new determination and absolute grateful thanks to you all.
Curled up with the books again to help the motivation too. Then out to see how I manage a walk. 

maman

Delighted that you've decided to stick with it @NornIronRose. Just ask if there's anything at all we can help with. The thing about target members is that we've been where you are so can empathise. 🤗

Thanks for your profound words @Longwalker. I remember how I felt before joining SW. I'd taken a day off from work as it was my birthday and took myself off to the shops. I felt like a bag lady. I had no interest in rummaging down the back of the racks for the large sizes and decided I just had to do something about it. I started by giving up alcohol Monday to Friday which, although a healthy move, didn't result in weightloss. That was probably because I was still  hitting the cheese and crackers in the evenings, pasties and crisps from service stations between meetings etc. I'd always been slim and being tall (5ft 9) I could get away with carrying some weight.  The weight had crept on over a number of years because of lots of lifestyle changes like a more sedentary and stressful job and rewarding myself with wine when I got in from a long day.

I'd never been on a 'diet' before but I'd read about SW in magazines and liked the idea of not counting calories or excessive measuring or  having milkshakes (which I loathe) or starving yourself and that treats were part of the plan. I decided to 'cheat' from Day1 and keep my syns for weekends as I like something to look forward to. I've been at target now for 10+ years and that good feeling of fitting into size 12 clothes and the self confidence it gives has never gone away. 😁

I'm convinced that planning is key to success  with SW (and as much Speed as possible🤣). That wasn't new to me as I like to shop just once in a week with the list from my meal plan and know that I'm only buying what I need and what I'll use. That saves time as I'm not dithering around the supermarket and it's very mse as I don't waste anything. 

I portioned up the veggie chilli for the freezer (5 x 2 meals) and kept some out for my lunch today. 😋

Today's EE plan-
B- HEB muffin, HEA milk, eggs (P), baked beans (F)
L- JP (F), veggie chilli (P,S), cottage cheese (P), pickled cabbage (S)
D- roast beef (P) SW roast potatoes (F) , many vegetables (S)
Syns- HM gravy 4, horseradish 2? weekend wine😁

VALM

Well done on your loss @MrsPorridge. I went to WI yesterday and maintained. Was a bit miffed becsuse I thought I had a good week. Never mind, it shoukd show next time.

Stii doing dry January.

maman

VALM said:

Well done on your loss @MrsPorridge. I went to WI yesterday and maintained. Was a bit miffed becsuse I thought I had a good week. Never mind, it shoukd show next time.

Stii doing dry January.

That's the best way to think about it @VALM. I understand that it's convenient for SW to have a weekly WI but our bodies don't know that! 🤣

🤞you'll have a good loss next week.

As you're not drinking 😇, I hope you're using syns on something else?? 🤔

Longwalker

It will show @VALM, it sometimes takes a week but as long as you dont have a sod it day or three, it will show. And well done on Dry January, Im sorry but I must have missed you saying you were doing it - apologies. 

@NornironRose, Im so glad you are having a rethink and giving it another stab. I know exactly how hard it is, Im 59 and I used to be spitting rage when I felt I had worked so hard and lost a measly 1/2 lb and some wee slip of a lass, 1/2 a stone !!. I still get a bit of a gunk when someone gets their stone in 3 weeks - took me 3 months !!! BUT and heres the but, Im learning to turn around those thoughts and say to myself its not a race, Ive lost the weight I intended to lose and I haven't been a miserable go without  Everyones journey is different but we all want the same end result, to get healthy and have a healthy approach to food moving forward, which is slowly coming, I still have beige days. Also keeping those no scales victories to the front of the mind, this weeks was putting on a size 12 dress and it fitting  

There is a lass who goes to the mid week meeting. I used to sit behind her and think "!!!!!! are you still coming to group when you lost it all 10 years ago" and Im now that lass. I know why she goes every week. Her fear of putting the weight back on, and I am the same. I dont want to be buying bigger clothes and burying my head, I want to be active and enjoy my later years. Like you, the fear of needing care and having to be turned using a hoist or being taken out and about in a wheel chair  

Ive been on three "diets" in my life, two were restrictive and totally unable to maintain long term so the weight came back with a vengeance. WW, who's program is near enough the same as SW, I kept it off for years and whilst when I realised things were getting heavy for me again and went back, I didnt like the group, didnt fit there so fell by the wayside and then covid. I need the accountability. I need my weekly weigh ins. I dont think I can see myself doing every 8 weeks, Id go completely off the rails. But Ive always been the same in everything, at school I excelled in subjects where the teachers were on top of you the whole time, no excuses for not getting homework done etc. I knew going to college was going to be a waste of time, id have never kept up left to myself.So SW isnt a diet, its learning how to eat healthily. I wont say normally cos what is normal, but healthier then what I was eating before, even though I had convinced myself there was nowt wrong with what I ate, I barely eat a thing etc etc 

Anyways we are always here for you and for anyone else that needs us

Sorry to hear you have covid, hope you arent too poorly. As for the Belfast Marathon, its something me and Carol have talked about in the past but haven't bothered entering. We are walkers so prefer the hikes , the walk into light and such. We haven't ruled a half out though. If you do come over, let me know and we can meet up if you want, put a face to the name  

@maman, I hear you re the clothes shopping , I stopped doing it and just picked up bigger leggings from the supermarket. in 22, we climbed a mountain and I needed a lightweight, waterproof, warm jacket - I had to buy a mans because they didnt go to my size in ladies and even that was a struggle to do up. I donated it to Mr L last summer, hes a builder so was grateful for it I got a new skirt there in the sales, 12, now needs a belt and its such a buzz being able to go into a normal shop and buy off the rack without it needing ordering in ( Marks etc only hold in stock the smaller sizes, you need bigger they order it in for you because of the cost of transport here and warehouse space. Even the wee privately owned department store I work in carry only 2 or 3  each of the small and medium sizes - 10,12 and 14, and 1 of anything bigger or smaller ) 

So changed weigh in for Wednesday. Went to lidl and stocked up on veg and salad veg - I prefer salad veg - and will be planning a good week ahead. I had a very beige lunch there not so long ago so whilst Im making steak and veg pie for tea, I think Ill stick to eggs and tuna and salad. Isha is really battering us here and its really comfort food weather but I dont want the pastry ( I adore pastry ) and I hate sprouts so Im not feeling hard done by

NornIronRose

More wise words LW. Interesting to see your choice of words when you talk about eating normally and it becoming a way of life. I think that has been my fear with SW. All the 'experts' say that it doesn't work because it isn't a sustainable lifestyle change. 

But I know that the only thing that really works for me is the weekly WI and accountability. So if that ends up having to be my new normal then so be it. When I lost 6.5st before that was with Rosemary Conley when a guy I fancied brought the first franchise to NI. I went from size 24-26 down to a 12 and looked and felt good for only a couple of years until my first pregnancy and a very controlling marriage. 
A lot of the weight went straight back on and have been yoyoing since. Perimenopause saw 2 stone gain in 6 months and I've been hovering at the same weight since. 

Had an omelette with veg and 1/2 hexa RF cheese. Had an apple and went for a walk. Feeling strangely full even though I ate about 5 hours ago and am asking myself if I have eaten another meal that I'd forgotten about! Having been off SW with covid my app has suddenly stopped working but I'm logging in my mind. 
Made a dessert with quark, cocoa, canderel and a broken up Skinny Dream bar. Tasted rank so added a bit of honey. Hopefully it'll be edible. 

Any dessert suggestions welcome please. 

bubbs

Evening all

Longwalker, you are so good with the written word 😁 but i like you could not weigh in every 8 weeks i said this the other day, i need accountability, i have been at target since 2017 and unless on holiday and through covid of course i have weighed every week 😂😂

I see what you are saying about Scotland but don't think we will be going , when we are away we prefer to be out all day and then go "home" and chill, if we eat out we have in the day and a snack at night.

Rose, glad you have decided to stay with it, slow and steady wins the race.

Valm will be your week this week.

Maman i looked in my book i am actually 3 1/2 below target so only 1/2 out the bottom now.

Well i must have been tired i did not wake up till 9..20!! 😱 that's not like me at all , as you know i am always up and about early.

The wind is really howling here now, they reckon 80=90pmh winds here tonight 😲

Food today

Egg wraps with ham and about 1/4 cheese spread, tomato, 2 satsuma

tea
roast pork, tonnes of veg, roast potatoes and parsnips, 4 syns gravy

Having jelly with strawberries in and ice cream ontop for pudding, 1 syn, actually might have a syn of maple syrup ontop too 😋

MrsPorridge

@NornIronRose I used to love making cakes and puddings but have now had to change.  I don't want to use canderel or any sweetener, if I'm doing a pudding then it has to be with proper sugar as I don't think it works - well I've never had any success.

I make an apple crumble and instead of the usual sugar, flour and marg topping - I just use porridge oats and scatter a teaspoon of sugar on top.  DH actually said he preferred it to my "normal" crumble and so did I.  So now that is my new crumble recipe.  Other than that I have bought shop bought cakes and just syn them.

Tonight's pudding is sugar free jelly and before it set I put loads of frozen berries in the bottom of the glass and the jelly on top.  We will have that with a topping of FF yoghurt.

maman

Hope you get to put that half pound back ON this week @bubbs. 🤞🤣

If you haven't been to WI and haven't booked a holiday while you were absent then that will be why the app isn't working @NornironRose. 

I don't understand why 'experts' would say SW isn't sustainable. It's balanced between the healthy food groups of protein, carbs and fruit/veg. It's got the healthy extras to ensure sufficient calcium and fibre. It encourages you to drink lots of fluids. Syns make sure that treats aren't excessive and you can eat as much as you want provided it's of healthy food so no giving up because you're hungry. 

I'm not really a pudding person myself @MrsPorridge but you and @bubbs show you can have them and follow the plan. That's brilliant that your DH prefers the oats version of crumble. It really helps when everyone eats the same. Much less work. 👍

NornIronRose

I booked a holiday for the previous week then had covid this week. Had got to the end of my 12 weeks and need to block pay again this Wednesday. 

I do really miss the app though already!