Slimming World Support Thread

nuttyrockeress

Help me just had WI and maintained for the 2nd week running - I am devestated. Really been good this week too.

I have changed from all red days to all green days which I think will be easier for me - means I can get a jacket potato and beans for lunch and beans on toast for breakfast (both in the restaurant at work.....)

Really felt like i'd lost today as well which I think is why i'm so gutted.....

Just had a bowl of pasta, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, chillies, peppers with spices - I also have this for tea so that would be all free

I will have a bag of Ryvita minis after tea as a HEB and some catherderal city lighter as my HEA (a-la cheese and biscuits)

I'm working in our London office tomorrow so have got him indoors to get me plenty of fruit.

I just don't know what I can do

16011996

nutty,

are you having jacket potato & beans & beans on toast every day (or monday to friday?) cos thats the first thing that stands out is your not eating a lot of variety if thats the case, and i've foudn you do need to eat a lot of variety. do you have a microwave at work where you could have homemade soup some days maybe, or access to a kettle so you could try a mug shot or something like that which would break up the monotony.
do you eat pleanty of different things at tea time? and do you vary your HE's?
also, another thing, do you drink plenty? i find this helped greatly after i'd maintained one week.
hope some of that helps, i know just how frustrating it is to maintain when you know you been really good. i went home and cried when it happened to me, felt like a weeks worth of effort meant nothing.
a big big hug to you,

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16011996

just rang syn line for something else, and ovaltine hot choc "light" is 5 and a half syns per sachet. (thought i'd ask while i was on the phone) oh and in caes anyone is wondering a mint viscout biscuit is 4 syns, and decidely yummy after your lunch!!!!!

hth

Flat_Eric

nuttyrockeress wrote: »

Help me just had WI and maintained for the 2nd week running - I am devestated. Really been good this week too.

I have changed from all red days to all green days which I think will be easier for me - means I can get a jacket potato and beans for lunch and beans on toast for breakfast (both in the restaurant at work.....)

Really felt like i'd lost today as well which I think is why i'm so gutted.....

Just had a bowl of pasta, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, chillies, peppers with spices - I also have this for tea so that would be all free

I will have a bag of Ryvita minis after tea as a HEB and some catherderal city lighter as my HEA (a-la cheese and biscuits)

I'm working in our London office tomorrow so have got him indoors to get me plenty of fruit.

I just don't know what I can do

Hello sorry to hear you have maintained for the second week running. A work colleague who joined slimming world recently. She had a gain the other week of 3.5 pounds so I wrote the attached for her (she only works part time). I am sorry I waffle on for so long but it might be helpful? One thought, what did you wear to WI? If you wear jeans - these themselves can weigh 2 pounds. I have scales at home and I am always amazed at my varying weight depending on what clothes I wear....

Questions you need to ask yourself…..


1. Are you eating enough?

If not then your body will complain and either you wont lose weight as your body will be holding on to everything it can. This seems to be a familiar complaint in our group.

2. Are you having mainly green days?

Another familiar complaint in our group. We have Members who have stuck to the plan 100% but put on or maintain and they often say they have done mainly green. Our consultant says of green days that it takes longer to digest green day food and comments that you will still lose the same amount of weigh over the same period, it will just happen differently?!



3. Are you drinking enough water?

If not and you are having lots of green days then you are not enabling your body to digest the food properly and you will probably feel all bunged up and horrid. I am having more green days now than before as I love my jacket chips and there are more foods that are free that I can have on a green day than a red so on a green day I can help keep my syns down. A typical green day for me would be beans on toast for lunch (beans free and bread HEB) with Jacket chips (potatoes cooked on jacket potato setting in my microwave then sliced up and put on a baking tray, spray with fry light and wait for skins to crisp up). Yum yum yum! I have this with either fried eggs (cooked with frylight) and mushrooms and ham as my other Healthy Extra B – you can get about 4 or 5 slices of ham for 85 g! or those quorn cracked pepper fillets (which are free on both green/red) All of these food items are free or using healthy extras meaning I can have a glass of wine and some sauce with my meals and still stay within 10 – 12 syns

4. Are you having enough variety?

I try to vary my menus each week and try different / new things. I think this is important as if you eat the same all the time (you and your body will get bored!) It is also important to treat yourself and allow yourself naughty things occasionally.

5. Are you weighing your healthy extras?

Another familiar question asked by our consultant and not often answered by the member! I religiously weigh my cheese and other bits and pieces but I think it is common fault to just guess the 28g once you have been doing it a while.

5a Are you consuming hidden syns?

It seems the same product i.e. a Sainsurys packet rice can have more syns or not be free as compared to the same product made by Batcherlors. One of our members put on 4 pounds this week and said one of the reasons for this was that the Crosse and Blackwell Pasta is more syns than the Bathchelors and she hadn’t appreciated this.

For example, I have been devouring those Heinz Mean Beanz but had not appreciated that some of them (the Tikka flavour for example) were syns (I haven’t had any but would have done if I had been able to find them! And I would have thought they were free until I looked). The Italian beans for example are free so it can get very confusing…..

6. Are you having the correct healthy extras?

I think the Nimble bread is disgusting and wont buy it again. It doesn’t even toast well and the nimble I have frozen breaks apart when you try to get a slice so a total disaster!! I really like the Hovis Seed Sensations but this is not on the list in the book or on the website so I have to syn it – 1 slice = 4 or 5 syns. If I was being really ignorant, I could pretend it was my HEB although all I would be doing is cheating myself as I would then be having those extra 5 syns.

The slimming world website gets updated all the time with the new healthy extras both A and B so it is worth keeping an eye on. Also the Slimming World Magazine is a good point of reference for food news including new healthy extras and products which are free or what their syn value is etc.


7. Why not try some Mix to Match

I am really liking Mix to Match because it means I can have a substantial lunch (Beans on toast / jacket potatotes) and a red tea. Each meal (breakfast lunch and tea) you treat as either a green or red meal and you snack on superfree foods (i.e foods that are free on a red or a green day such as Muller light yogurts as your snacks)

8. Superfree fruit / veg

Grapes are not a speed food. The book reads “speed food are foods that are low or extra low in energy density compared to others in the same food group”

So if you ate 100g of grapes and 100g of Mulberries then you would consume less calories eating the mulberries than you would the grapes.

9. Don’t forget ….

Your eating habits are changing for the better and when I have a day when I syn overload I don’t worry about it as I know that overall I am eating much better now than I ever have done.

10. Don’t beat yourself up about it



11. Have what you want ….

As I said it is important to have variety and if that means having one day a week when you don’t follow the plan then so be it. If you go out for roast dinner on a Sunday then have the Yorkshire pudd and the gravy - just say I will have one Yorkshire pud unlike me who would want half a dozen! As I said before xmas, I was synning lots at the weekends and still losing weight. It was only if I was really bad (3 xmas parties in one week) that I would put on. Overall it might take me longer to get to my target weight but I don’t want to be miserable doing it and so I will continue to enjoy my treats and you should too.

Please don’t be dishearted that you have put on so much there may be an innocent reason for it and you may find you have a really good loss next week.

12. Was it your Star week?

This can be a factor and you should let your consultant know when it is your star week so that any pattern can be picked up on. Even if you are not actually having a period you might still get all the symptoms. Isn’t being a woman wonderful?!

13. SAS Log

I am attaching these which I have photocopied on to A4 for you. You need one for each day and I think it should be self-explanatory how they get filled in. These are for you not your consultant. I haven’t done one yet but will let you know how I get on with them.

14. Food diary

I have food diaries at home (I think). I had to do a food diary last week and find that when I am keeping one, If I have to write it down, I don’t eat it!! Although I do slip up occasionally.

nuttyrockeress

Hiya 1601 Yep, I vary lots!

I made home made butternut squash and celeriac soup at the w/e which I have had warmed up at lunchtime.

I have had quorn at tea time - as a curry, I have had pasta in sauce, super low fat super noodles

I drink at least 1.5litres of water a day - plus squash at home.....

My HEB's vary from bread to ryvita mini's to pork mince etc......

Last year i lost just over 2 stone at SW - doing red days though but I excercised loads - which is what hubby says is my problem is this time - haven;t had much time this year so far to do any more (We got married last year which is why I was so motivated!)

peachyest

i felt the same i'd been good and put on 1/2 a pound , i was so upset , but 160 is right drink plenty of water , when i phoned yesterday the syn line to ask about couscous cake , i asked why i hadnt loss and she said you could be holding water and it will come off next week , at lease you,re not put on , the first time i did this diet for the first three weeks i never loss anything and on the forth it kicked in ,:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: big hug nutty , your get there

Skint_Catt

peachyest wrote: »

thanks purplestar :A , has anyone heard how skinn-catt is ? , on monday i had such a !!!!!! night , went to weigh in got weighed was embarrased by the lady who weighed me , put on 1/2 pound got home really fedup ate a chocand my filling came out , so ive got a big hole in my touth:mad: , so i picked myself up brushed myself of and ill start all over again ,bom bom.
I know this not for a quick fix this diet its for life and thats why im sticking to it it works and i feel better when im eating healthy

:hello: Hi peachyest! I haven't been hiding for a reason! Picked a freezer up after SW last night from Freecycle (woo hoo more space to cook and freeze!)and then had an early night and have had someone working with me today so couldn't get on net!

I put on 1/2 same as you last night - so afterwards got a (small) indian takeaway as it was late, had a (small) vodka and coke and a (small) piece of leftover birthday cake. I could have gone big time over and had a binge but I was pretty controlled.

Don't understand why I put on but hey ho another day. :j I've had poached egg and baked beans for brekkie, grapes and a Lasting Satis yoghurt for snack and a jacket pot with baked beans for lunch with a Diet Coke. Have Shepherds pie tonight (I normally make it with Quorn but this has lamb courtesy of my mum) with loads of broccolli, carrots and maybe soya beans too. YUM!

16011996

flateric, i hope you don't mind, i have copied that and printed it and will put it in my sw folder ready for the next time i maintain etc, its really quite inspiring.

thanks
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peachyest

thanks for that :A :A i will go through what you,ve but down and study it thanks

Nessa56

I have copied and printd it as well flateric thank you for that.

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