Slimming World Support Thread

peachyest

consultant31 wrote: »

Well done on your stone award:T

Sadly couscous cake can't be counted a syn-free (neither can chickpea cake, polenta muffins, lasagne crisps etc) as it is regarded as misuse of the couscous (polenta, chickpeas etc)

Some people were eating the whole cake and then wondering why their weight loss had slowed (or even reversed itself) which made the nutritionist re-examine the rules on the use of such foods.

please read this and the next two :eek:

peachyest

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!

hope this helps:eek:

peachyest

consultant31 wrote: »

No they're not syn-free. However, syn them and they're only 3½ syns for 28gms which should make quite a few crisps (far fewer than a bag of crisps).

I'm a big believer in moderation in all things, so a few of anything like this is not going to have much effect on your weight, it's when you get to making loads of them and eating them in preference to 'proper' food that the problems begin.

hope this helps you understand:rolleyes:

sorry i don't know how to put the three together i'm new to all this:o

peachyest

16011996 wrote: »

well done to you too lady v, every half pound counts, its a step in the right direction

here's the top ten tips we got last night, see if they help anyone

• Drink water or sugar free juices, the more the better, but don’t gulp it down as this can lower your blood pressure and make you feel faint.
• speed foods, go through your book and pick out all the ss foods you like, and eat as much of these as you can combine in your meals, they are called “speed” foods for a reason
• Drink a glass of water and/or juice if you still feel hungry after a meal, quite often thirst is mistaken for hunger. Even better drink one before a meal, to fill you up quicker whilst eating
• eat breakfast – there is nothing better for getting your metabolism going than a good breakfast
• vary your heb, your body gets fed up of eating the same all the time, sometimes a change to these can really boost your weight loss
• vary your foods on each day – i.e. on green don’t always have baked potato and beans, on red don’t always have chicken, variety is the way to go, no one can face the same meals for the rest of there lives!!!!
• get you magazines out, make a file of recipes, (I know this was posted earlier) and then rotate them so the same ones aren’t always at the front.
• batch cook, put aside a couple of hours a week, to batch cook, then freeze recipes in meal size portions, ready meals for when you have one of those days you don’t want to cook, and if you do extra’s (say make 4 portions instead of 2) you start to build up a stock. This works well with veggies too, peel a big pan of potatoes and mash them at once, then freeze in portions, also with soups etc. Apparently the people who suggested this reckon they now hardly throw any food out, as its all used before it goes off, and also its reducing there food bills.
• walking, its free, it’s easy to do, and it’s great for toning up you legs and bum. walk to the corner shop, or anywhere else you could really walk instead of using the car.
• had a maintain/gain and don’t know why? Go back to basics, do a food diary, and be honest, you may find there is something there you haven’t been counting, or you are not always weighing your healthy extras like you should thinking you can estimate it well now cos you’ve been doing it so long.

For everyone to read for this weeks push to scare the !!!! out of the scales :eek: :T :T :T :T :T ,160 WERE IS SHE .
Sorry to be sticking lots of threads on at once but i'm off to work in 40mins

shazrobo

reading this thread is great as i joined sw originally in 2006, and a lot of things were free then, such as macaroni cheese, and chickpea peanut, etc, as i cant really afford to go to meetings right now, this thread is helping me loads
thanks again
shaz xx

Choccie

Well back from wi and I have stayed the same, so much for my walking.

I am going to do a food diary this week, now the question is do I just have a blow out tonight?

Have told other half I need to do more excercise (:rolleyes: wonder what he will come up with!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: )

Need to lose this weight in 7 weeks what are my chances??

MelHas

Evening all

Sorry to say, i've just been to wi and feeling rather depressed:( and fed up . Thought I had done really good this week but just don't know whats gone wrong. I've been getting weighed in my jeans each week and this week didn't have time to change from work so went in a flimsy skirt. Thought this would mean I'd weigh less. Got on the scales and only lost 0.5 lb so hate to think what i would have put on if I was wearing the jeans.:huh: Feel like going out and buying a big fat cream cake.!!!!!!!!!

charlies_mum

Choccie and MelHas, don't get depressed. Don't blow out or have a cream cake, that will just be even more weight you have to lose.

As I said before, your weight can change by a couple of pounds within a day, water retention, hormones etc. Just try to stick to the plan, and I bet you will have lost next week.

Choccie

Mel shall we share a big cream cake, and a bottle of wine? I really dont like either but would have it in a flash right now! x

charlies_mum

Choccie wrote: »

Mel shall we share a big cream cake, and a bottle of wine? I really dont like either but would have it in a flash right now! x

Damn, you've hit my weak spot now. I can give the cream cake a miss, but would love a glass of wine. Ok, Choccie, I will join you in a glass of wine :beer: