Slimming World Support Thread

Choccie

Good luck for tomorrow MelHas and thank you for your support x x

Flat_Eric

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

terrigrunshaw

thanks flat eric for that maybe im not drinking enough water or somthing ill have to keep eye on it.

rialooney

Vegetables
Acorn Squash, Alfalfa Sprouts, Artichokes, Asparagus, Aubergine
Baby Whole Sweetcorn, Balor beans, Bamboo shoots, Bean sprouts, Beetroot, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Butternut Squash
Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celeriac, Celery, Chicory, Chinese leaves, Chillies, Chioca, Choko (Custard Marrow), Cluster Beans, Courgettes, Cucumber, Curly Kale
Endive
Fennel, French Beans
Garlic, Gherkins, Green Beans
Karela, Kohlrabi (Cabbage Turnip)
Leeks, Lettuce
Mangetout, Marrow, Mushrooms, Mustard & Cress
Okra, Onions
Parpi Beans, Passatta (Sieve tomatoes), Peppers, Pumpkin
Radicchio, Radishes, Runner Beans
Salsify, Savoy Cabbage, Seakale, Seaweed, Shallots, Spaghetti Squash, Spinach, Spring Onions, Sugar Snap Peas, Swede
Tomatoes, Turnips
Vine Leaves
Water Chestnuts, Watercress

rialooney

Fabulous Fruit
Amla (Indian Gooseberry), Apples, Aprictos
Babaco, Bananas, Bilberries, Blackberries, Blackcurrants, Blueberries, Boysonberries
Carambola (Star Fruit), Cashew Fruit (not Cashew nut), Cherries, Clementine’s, Cranberries, Custard Apples (cherimoya)
Damsons
Elderberries
Feijoa, Figs
Gooseberries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Greengages, Grenadilla, Guava
Jambu Fruit, Jujube (Chinese Date)
Kiwano (horned melon), Kiwi Fruit, Kumquats
Lemons, Limes, Loganberries, Loquats, Lychees
Mammie Apple, Mandarins, Mango, Mangosteen, Medlars, Melon (all varieties except watermelon), Mulberries, Mectarines
Oranges, Ortaniques (honey tangerines)
Papaya (paw paw), Passion Fruit, Peaches, Pears, Persimmon (Sharon Fruit), Physalis, Pineapple, Plums, Pomegranates, Pomelo, Prickly Pear
Rambutan, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Rhubarb
Sapodilla, Satsuma’s, Strawberries
Tamarillos, Tangerines, Tayberries
]Ugli Fruit
Watermelon, Whitecurrants
Yelow Plums

rialooney

Drinks
Bovril (from Jar not cube or granules)
Coffee *use milk from H/E
Low Calorie fizzy drinks
Low Calories Squashes
Mineral Water
Tea (Inc Herbal Teas) *use milk for H/E
Sweetner
Herbs, Spices, Seasoning

Dressing & Accompaniments
Agar agar
Bovril (not cubes or granules)
Fat Free French Dressing , Fat Free Vinaigrette Style Dressing
Gelatine
Marmite, Mint Sauce (no sugar added)
Soy Sauce
Tabasco
Vecon, Vegemite, Vinegar
Worcestershire Sauce

gpuss

Thanks so much FlatEric and Rialooney for going to the trouble of putting up this info. It's really helpful and useful to know:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

Skint_Catt

Choccie - my fave mug shot is Sweet n Sour!

dlb

Hi everyone.
Need your lots expert advice, im off to the inlaws on the east coast for easter, the food part isnt a problem as iv phoned and explained that myself and dh are following the plan and mother in law has been great and has planned her meals around us, the big problem im worried about is we only see them 2 a year and tend to have alot of wine whilst we are there, i dont want to not drink at all and i have been really good and had 2 no syns days so far, what i want to know what is the lowest alcoholic drink in syns, i like white wine and plan on taking diet lemonade to mix it with or would i be better with vodka and diet coke?

Skint_Catt

The lower syn drink is a PUB measure of vodka and then you can have a big a glass as you want topped up with diet mixer for 2.5 syns, but it has to be measured (25ml?). Freehand is going to be as bad as the wine (although most home poured wines are well over a pub measure too!)