Slimming World Support Thread

Emma37

A few in my class who'd lost were all saying they'd had melon too. Someone said they're 20p each at Tesco at the moment. I think I'll get some when I go shopping later. Not looking forward to that in the rain.

beachbeth

The yellow melons are £1.98 at Sainsburys but Buy one get one free - which is why Ive got two!

2cats1kid

I am wary of swimming for weight loss. I use it for fitness and to help keep my asthma under control, but studies have shown that people that swim tend to put on weight, rather than lose it.

The reasoning goes :
if you do other exercise, you get warm and sweat and your metabolic rate goes up sufficiently that you continue to burn calories beyond your normal basal rate for a significant time beyond your actual exercise time. So even if you then get hungry to make up the calories you have burned off, you will be satisfied with fewer calories than you have burned, leading to a net loss (obviously depending on what else you eat!).

if you swim, the water keeps you cool, so your body temperature doesn't rise, so you only burn off the calories you have actually expended by the act of swimming. You tend to be hungry after to make up the calories and not only do you then consume the calories you have used, the study concluded that swimmers actually then ate MORE than they had expended leading to a net gain (obviously assuming everything else equal yadda yadda).

I found it quite interesting because I am always ravenous after a swim, and there is a KFC and a McDs right next to my health club, so it is a major temptation to pop through the drive thru for a McFlurry or something!

Skint_Catt

I was always told that you would need to do several hours a day every day (i.e. like bodybuilding) for muscle to become heavier than fat. Light exercise like swimming and walking and aerobics won't make that sort of muscle.

Are you using your book to check your free foods/HE's? Are you measuring all your HE's (guesstimating is always lethal!). Are you synning EVERYTHING you should be? (I always used to forget to syn butter/spread/tom sauce!)

angie_loves_veg

Hi all

Just thought I'd share my plan for today, as I am having a (very rare for me ) green day, and a bit of a treat myself day too.... keeping control of those syns though!:cool:

Breakfast: Yog as normal
snack - banana
lunch - found a lovely looking paella in M&S Gastropub range - on half price offer at only 2.99 (they have quite a few lines on half price at the moment. Get home to check the syns:

Marks & Spencer Gastropub, Prawn & Chargrilled Chicken Paella, 800g pack, chilled 400g serving


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Very glad I didn't buy this:

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Hurrah!:T Glad I got that right!

Dinner is curry night,

starters will be the chickpea patties from the curry feast book (free) dipped in hm vlf raita served with salad
main will be Basmati rice with roasted onions and spices (free!) with lamb rogan (again, curry feast using only a HEB of meat) and dhal

yummmmmmmmy:D :T

With only the 5.5 used for lunch, that gives me enough for a G&T (2.5) AND a nice glass of red! (6) :beer:

Hope everyone else has yummy mealplans for today to - what are you all eating?

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lo_bush

Glad to see a few more people posting on here lately, it went awfully quiet for a while there! Welcome back peachy and Hi to all newcomers, this site is such a great help and so supportive. Well done all losers and STS, chin up to those not so happy at the moment. I had my WI last night and managed to shift another 1lb taking me to 3st 1lb in total and we had our 'vote' for woman of the year. I can't believe it .............. ........... but they actually picked me!!! I'm not very comfortable with too much attention so I did squirm a little whilst taking my applause, wearing my sash, plastic tiara and having my photo taken but at the same time I was chuffed to bits, if you see what I mean, it gave me a mega boost.

Raapunbird

Skint_Catt wrote: »

I was always told that you would need to do several hours a day every day (i.e. like bodybuilding) for muscle to become heavier than fat. Light exercise like swimming and walking and aerobics won't make that sort of muscle.

Are you using your book to check your free foods/HE's? Are you measuring all your HE's (guesstimating is always lethal!). Are you synning EVERYTHING you should be? (I always used to forget to syn butter/spread/tom sauce!)

Exercise advice always seems to contradict itself and I never know what to believe. I guess there are a lot of variables in the swimming debate, I always have a banana and MullerLight before I go so that I’m not ravenous afterwards. It’ll be good for toning I guess and coupled with extra cardio I’m sure I’ll get some good results after a while. I like to go from my body fat % because I want to see where the weight is going from and if the fat mass goes up.

Someone once told me that if you have a weight loss of over 2lb a week then you are losing purely muscle…someone people say its water. I guess everyone is different!

I check all my free foods (I eat a lot of fruits though, maybe I need to eat more vegetables). I mainly stick to green days as I’m a carb junkie I use the SW website for syns I’m not sure of and also measure my HE’s. In my first couple of weeks I didn’t always write down my syns as I was over synning in a big way! Maybe it’s caught up with me but the past couple of weeks I’ve been good and writing everything down and measuring everything.

I’ve set myself a target this week to only have 5 syns a day and to walk to and from work every day instead of getting the bus.

We’ll see if it’s better next week!

Raapunbird x (Sorry for the long reply!)

2cats1kid

OK, today I have had

breakfast - two (dry) fried eggs and a half slice of toast (weighed it and I reckon was 4 syns) with the merest smidgen of ketchup (1 syn)

lunch - homemade lentil soup (free) with 57g wholemeal bread (B)

dinner - leftover chicken from yesterday (B) with pasta. DH will have pesto with his, as there is some in the fridge needing used up, and DD and I will have homemade tomato sauce (FREE) thereby breaking my "same meal for everyone" rule - although since this is a leftovers day I'm technically OK LOL.

So somewhere along the line I need to fit in some cheese or summat (on top of the pasta, probably) and I'm using my milk in coffee and tea.

So far I have had a litre bottle of super-dilute squash and 2 x coffees, so I need to go and get a bottle of water.

Then for snacks I've got kiwi, grapes and melon. And that leaves me enough for a glass of wine later. I might even make it a glass of my homebrew, just to see how it's coming along.

BTW for a crisp addict, I haven't let one pass my lips for 10 days now, so I'm feeling very pleased with myself.

Skint_Catt

I overdosed on syns on Wednesday (day after WI) so I'm cutting down - yesterday I only had 4, today I have a max of 2 (which I won't need)

Brekkie - 2 dry fried eggs and half a can of tinned spaghetti
snack - fat free activia, apple and mug shot (hungry today!) diet coke
Lunch - tesco value golden veg savoury rice - yummy!
Dinner - spaghetti and quorn if we're at home, if not then I'll have to pick carefully at FIL's

Given up wine for afew weeks to get ahead with my weight loss so will have to sit and listen to FIL and OH talk carp after a bottle or two.

C xx

Raapunbird

Today I've had

2 x Weetabix with 250ml SS Milk
200g of Strawberrys

About to go out and buy some lunch but not sure what to have. All week I've been having Baked Beans with 2 x brown dry toast for lunch and couldn't face it again today!

I'm going to Wagamamas for tea tonight so not sure what to have that is low in syns. I need to check out the menu! Any ideas?

Raapunbird x