Slimming World Support Thread

popsy20

Hi :hello: I've just joined Weight Watchers and lost 7lb in my first week so am well chuffed - of course I prob won't lose that much next week but I'm finding it okay - I'm just eating what I normally would and once you've worked the points out it's not too bad - it really helps writing it all down cos it makes you realise how much you eat without even realising :eek:

PS: wish I was 12 stone and size 14 sounds great to me !!!

alyth

Wow, well done popsy - i'm surfing sites at the moment getting health & diet & fitness info, and it's not until you actually sit there thinking about what you eat and drink that you suddenly realise why you're 12 stone (says alyth pouring another glass of wine!).

it's more the massive lump of fat round my middle that's annoying me, if I put on a pair of trousers then I literally look like a sack of spuds tied in the middle! It's not helped by the fact the dog had an operation so I've not been out walking for 2 months, but I think I've had the shock to motivate me to join a club and take more exercise, as well as stopping gorging!

sw_mina

consultant31 wrote: »

I don't make the rules, I just try to explain them as best I can :rolleyes:

Food Optimising is a healthy eating plan. It's aims are to teach you how to eat in a way which will help you to maintain your new slimmer figure for ever (once you've lost the excess weight). In order to do this, you need to eat food in the way everyone else would eat it, not made up into some bizarre recipe which you find enticing - naturally slim people don't spend their time looking for ways of making cakes out of everyday foods.

I admit to not being able to explain myself well on this issue, but I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that food optimising works if you follow the rules. Tweaking them will eventually result in weight gain!

I'm still not understanding - I don't think 'everyone else' (those pesky so-called 'normal/average' people I've never managed to find?) would put rice or pasta into a quiche, yet this is free. But add couscous to the same mixture, and it's not okay. I can cope with rules - rules are good, they help make my goals specific, measurable, acheivable, realistic and time-managed - but here I don't see why there is a different rule for pasta and rice compared with couscous.

Apologies if I sound like I'm banging on, but I really want to follow the rules, but struggle when they seem to contradict one another. I appreciate your input, really.

jay11_2

popsy20 wrote: »

Hi :hello: I've just joined Weight Watchers and lost 7lb in my first week so am well chuffed - of course I prob won't lose that much next week but I'm finding it okay - I'm just eating what I normally would and once you've worked the points out it's not too bad - it really helps writing it all down cos it makes you realise how much you eat without even realising :eek:

PS: wish I was 12 stone and size 14 sounds great to me !!!

Yeah to me to, but it's how you feel, I know that when I was 9 stone I thought I was huge, thanks to my mum who had issues cos I wasnt 8 stone or less any more! (She's lovely really but thats one of her blind spots). Now I'm, ahem, 13st...mutters, and she says not a word--go figure .
good luck

shanleypink

starjumper wrote: »

Shanley, it is time we accepted that there are some strange people in this world.:D

Loving this empty thread, it's like taking the Christmas decorations down and realising how big your house is all of a sudden.

There is strange and then there is strange... lol... wish I could find something that is too sweet for me!! Still looking though...

skintlass

Oh the joys of body dismorphia - I used to think I was fat at 7.5 stone when in school as my friend and sister were thinner than me. I really struggle with my weight now and realise how lucky I was when I was younger

shanleypink

Ditto...I was nine stone wet through til I was 18... and got teased for being skinny!!! God, how things change!!

starjumper

skintlass wrote: »

Oh the joys of body dismorphia - I used to think I was fat at 7.5 stone when in school as my friend and sister were thinner than me. I really struggle with my weight now and realise how lucky I was when I was younger

Okay, I get cross at people thinking they are not amazing just because they are a bit spotty or have lumps around their middle (I know that's not your point but it has led me on to this).

Ladies (and Gents) you are NOT ugly or any less of a person, no less deserving of love or joy than anyone else just because you are carrying a few spare pounds, or spare stones.

Read back through this thread, and the previous closed one, are we not all full of humour, love and compassion for one another, is this not one of the most supportive places you've got to blow off steam and have a moan and make new friends. Why is this? It is because we are all actually pretty damn amazing.

Yeah I may not get the wolf whistles I once got, but is that because I'm a bit older, a bit cuddlier or it is because I don't walk past building sites - who knows, who cares. I've a husband who worships me, a family that love me and friends who are supportive and of course everyone on here, all helpful and funny.

So your jeans are a bit tight, so you bum looks lumpy- who cares, you are all brilliant people and don't let anyone tell you otherwise (and if they do, let me know and I'll give them a good thumping for you).

alyth

if only I did have body dismorphia, I'm the kind of person who doesn't care about these types of things, but you know sometimes you hit a point when you can't do up a pair of trousers you bought only a couple of months ago? That's me - the problem's in my middle - nowhere else is particularly fat or flabby.

And I'm slightly flattered in being compared to a manatee - they're the cutest things in the world - but I do unfortunately share their shape at the moment!

terrigrunshaw

starjumper wrote: »

Okay, I get cross at people thinking they are not amazing just because they are a bit spotty or have lumps around their middle (I know that's not your point but it has led me on to this).

Ladies (and Gents) you are NOT ugly or any less of a person, no less deserving of love or joy than anyone else just because you are carrying a few spare pounds, or spare stones.

Read back through this thread, and the previous closed one, are we not all full of humour, love and compassion for one another, is this not one of the most supportive places you've got to blow off steam and have a moan and make new friends. Why is this? It is because we are all actually pretty damn amazing.

Yeah I may not get the wolf whistles I once got, but is that because I'm a bit older, a bit cuddlier or it is because I don't walk past building sites - who knows, who cares. I've a husband who worships me, a family that love me and friends who are supportive and of course everyone on here, all helpful and funny.

So your jeans are a bit tight, so you bum looks lumpy- who cares, you are all brilliant people and don't let anyone tell you otherwise (and if they do, let me know and I'll give them a good thumping for you).

:T:T :T :T :T well said honey, well said :T :T :T :T :T i think im gonna like it on here xxx