Slimming World Support Thread

sampa99978

Hi guys,

Been working away for the Grand Prix weekend, so haven't been eating great - all the food is prepared for you. But back on it again today, just made a lovely filling soup from the bottom of my fridge.

I'm another one who bloats up on a green day, which is a shame as its so much cheaper! A tip for those who find themselves maintaining for a while: if you've got a food diary from a week where you did really well, try and follow that. I've got mine left from my very very first week where I lost 7.5 pounds (equivalent to a baby as I like to think ) ready to use when I get stuck.

I don't want to do it too often though in case it stops working

lexa34

Hello,

How nice to find this thread. I rejoined SW after humming and haaring for about two months last Wednesday and nw dreading my first weigh in as it all went out the window yesterday at a family buffet thing!!

Any tips of which number posts to read on here re SW and saving money!

I must make myself go to WI...hello to all!!

Lexa
xx

kellybigboobs

:j :j :j well i'm pleased to report that my o/h is now officially doing SW with me!:j :j :j

i really really think this will help me stay focused.and i'm much less likely to have anything unsuitable in the house.i feel astonishingly optomistic considering i've gained 3 lbs:p !

i also weighed myself at boots today and their scales seem to agree with mine so at least ny gain was accurate!:rotfl:

sampa99978

Welcome Lexa, I think you can forgive yourself one day of the week, it's so hard to be good at those kind of things.

Generally greener days are cheaper to do than reds, drink plenty of water (free!), and it's easier to lose weight and save cash if you plan your meals before you go shopping.

angeleyes

hi
left my class before got given this weeks password
can any one pm me it please:beer:

UKTigerlily

Well, I joined for the first time last Tuesday & have done all red days (Does that matter?) . . . then I had a slight mess up today where I had a cheese & ham sandwich (Bought not made myself) & thought the ham would be free, the cheese probably would be under HEA & any extra wouldn't be high in sins & the bread would be HEB, turns out it was 20 syns! Which takes me to 118 for the week!!!!

I did WW 5x before this & bought a 12 week countdown course & if i'm like this i'm never going to lose. Also, eating all I want like muller lights seems to good to be true? So, meeting tomorrow & i'm dreading a gain :!!

I did drink 2litres of water each day tho!

trishaa

Hi everyone, just wanna say good luck to everyone with their weigh in this week

peachyest

kellybigboobs wrote: »

WELL!i've put on 3 pounds!:eek:i have been more evil than darth vader all week and i'm premenstrual so i suppose i can't complain too much.to be honest it's probably the kick up the jaxsy i need.gonna try and stick to one of the SW menu plans this week and see what happens.



good for you PEACHY.get backon your bike and peddle like mad!!!!can't wait for your progress reports....:beer:


TG - 1/2 A POUND,well done as always!:rotfl:

kelly your only human and your like us all in it for the long hall not just a quick fix hun, its a healthy living diet and thats what counts .
And now your o/h is doing the diet it will be the focus you need to spear you on :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: , hit the superspeed foods and drink lots of water mate ,peachy x

peachyest

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

oh yes!! I know that feeling, I have been 0.5lb away for two weeks, and it is unlikely to be this week either :rolleyes: (just tooooo many meals out at the weekend due to DD's b'day weekend, I made very good choices, but a meal out aint as 'good' as a meal at home)

Angie don't beat yourself up over trying to get this 0.5lb as we all do it :wall: and sometimes its just a mental block , we all get it .
Sit down and attack the diet as if its your first week , hit as much superspeed foods as you can , mix up your h/b - don't have the same things all the time ( say if you have yogurt & fruit for brekkie everyday , have beens on toast ) scrambled eggs & quorn sausages and toms .
Go over the check list i'll post again and just see your get there hun don't worry , peachy x

peachyest

Flat_Eric wrote: »

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

HOPE this helps angie , peachy x