Slimming World Support Thread

Flat_Eric

dux001 wrote: »

This is always my problem...trying not to eat too much, even of free foods, and yet trying not to eat too little as well.

I have given up Mullerlights and bananas. I was eating far too many of both and don't believe they were really helping. I am also trying to cut out 90% of my potatoes because being free on green days (I've given up meat so I don't do red) I seem to eat too many - 2 large jacket spuds today. I'm just being greedy.

I'm being 100% "syn free" this week...none at all so far. I have no great need for them, my willpower on this is still stronger than any craving for particular foods.

So now being 100% on free foods, my only remaining issue is amounts. I know they are theoretically unlimited, but I am still doing "free food binges" and it's not helping - besides leaving me feeling bloated and unwell.

I've solved half the problem (eating unhealthy things) now I need to solve the other half (the amounts) and I'm not there yet.

When we had a male in our class, most weeks he had much better losses than us girls and he was also allowed more syns :mad: You need more calories than us so dont be too hard on yourself.

Yes it is possible to eat too much free food, our consultant has said that just because its free, you cant eat endless endless amounts (like 10 bananas in a day!). You should have a look at the front of your book because certain free food items are speed foods (they are marked in the food op. book with "s" or "ss". The book says of these foods that they are low or extra low in energy density and so can speed your weight loss. Bascially you can eat less but fill just as full as if you ate lots more of a none speed food. grapes and bananas are not speed foods but raspberries are.

Perhaps you should try to eat at least 6 - 8 items of speed foods each day (fruit items and veg items).

If you dont eat meat then that certainly makes it more tricky for you as there isnt the meat choice for you to have but why not pick up the 100 green recipes book from your class for some green day options. Also the Slimming World website is very good for recipe ideas.

Dont starve yourself ! Perhaps sit down and plan a week's menu with plenty of variety and see how you get on.

Lois_Lane

dux001 wrote: »

This is always my problem...trying not to eat too much, even of free foods, and yet trying not to eat too little as well.

So now being 100% on free foods, my only remaining issue is amounts. I know they are theoretically unlimited, but I am still doing "free food binges" and it's not helping - besides leaving me feeling bloated and unwell.

I've solved half the problem (eating unhealthy things) now I need to solve the other half (the amounts) and I'm not there yet.

Hi Dux - SW recommend that you eat enough free food 'to satisfy your appetite', so I think you need to tune in to your body to eat enough so that you avoid being hungry, but not so much that you end up feeling bloated and ill. You may find eating little and often helps. Have plenty of free food snacks available between meals, which will give you a buffer and avoid a rumbling tum.

You may be one of those people whose brain doesn't send out a message when you've had enough to eat - apparently it's genetic and could be the cause of weight problems for some of us.

You've done really well to change your eating habits to eat healthily, now you need to relax a bit and try not to worry about bingeing.

LL

dux001

Flat_Eric wrote: »

When we had a male in our class, most weeks he had much better losses than us girls and he was also allowed more syns :mad: You need more calories than us so dont be too hard on yourself.

Yes it is possible to eat too much free food, our consultant has said that just because its free, you cant eat endless endless amounts (like 10 bananas in a day!). You should have a look at the front of your book because certain free food items are speed foods (they are marked in the food op. book with "s" or "ss". The book says of these foods that they are low or extra low in energy density and so can speed your weight loss. Bascially you can eat less but fill just as full as if you ate lots more of a none speed food. grapes and bananas are not speed foods but raspberries are.

Perhaps you should try to eat at least 6 - 8 items of speed foods each day (fruit items and veg items).

If you dont eat meat then that certainly makes it more tricky for you as there isnt the meat choice for you to have but why not pick up the 100 green recipes book from your class for some green day options. Also the Slimming World website is very good for recipe ideas.

Dont starve yourself ! Perhaps sit down and plan a week's menu with plenty of variety and see how you get on.

Thanks Flat Eric.

You are right of course, and I certainly don't want to starve myself. However, after some experimentation, it *is* going to involve me leaving myself "feeling hungry" for a bit, until I get used to the idea that I've actually eaten enough. I thought at first that just eating the SW way might be enough to cure these "eat more" urges, but if I'm honest I knew that wasn't ever going to be the case and I need to sort it in my own head.

The plan is working for me, but I've GOT to eat substantially less free foods than I do, or else it'll be worthless and I might as well have stayed as I was.

I shall investigate the speed foods to see if that helps. But also if I simply STOP EATING when I have eaten what should be enough, instead of having more, then that will help too.

I've also ditched Mullerlights and bananas, and am going to cut out nearly all the potatoes. I don't need them.

judderman62

weigh in tonight - lost 2 lbs - that's 5 and a half in last three weeks.

got slimmer of the week for second week on the run and fifht time overall :j:j

dux001

Lois_Lane wrote: »

Hi Dux - SW recommend that you eat enough free food 'to satisfy your appetite', so I think you need to tune in to your body to eat enough so that you avoid being hungry, but not so much that you end up feeling bloated and ill. You may find eating little and often helps. Have plenty of free food snacks available between meals, which will give you a buffer and avoid a rumbling tum.

You may be one of those people whose brain doesn't send out a message when you've had enough to eat - apparently it's genetic and could be the cause of weight problems for some of us.

You've done really well to change your eating habits to eat healthily, now you need to relax a bit and try not to worry about bingeing.

LL

Thanks. I think you've hit the nail on the head with that.

I don't feel bloated and ill *every* day, and it's certainly a lot better than when I was just eating what I liked. But it does still happen.

The only snag with eating little and often is that at work I'm forbiden from eating anything at my desk....though it's been suggested that I get a doctor to say that I have to for dietary reasons. After all, it's not like my work could claim I don't need to lose weight! I was 20 stone!

Of course, I mustn't lose sight of the fact that in the three weeks I've been on the plan, I have lost a whopping 11 lbs....it's just that last week's small gain mustn't be repeated, at least not at this early stage. Later on, occasional small gains won't worry me as I know I will fluctuate and if I'm still overall much lighter than I was, I won't get hung up about it.

I just need to make sure I change my eating habits TOTALLY. I've done WHAT I eat, now I must do HOW MUCH I eat. Believe me, before I was about the greediest, fattest, worst-eatingest PIG you have ever seen.

dux001

judderman62 wrote: »

weigh in tonight - lost 2 lbs - that's 5 and a half in last three weeks.

got slimmer of the week for second week on the run and fifht time overall :j:j

That is completely brilliant! Well done!!!

You can be really proud of that. A real achievement.

judderman62

dux001 wrote: »

That is completely brilliant! Well done!!!

You can be really proud of that. A real achievement.

thanks very much :beer::beer: Yeah pretty chuffed - lost in total approx 2 and a half stone (lost about 1 and a half before going to the classes)

Hope everyone is doing well too :beer::beer:

Flat_Eric

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Right. Finished dinner so this is what I've had today (drunk diet lemonade, diet coke and 1litre of water);

Brekkie - fruit salad (HM so I know whats in it) and low fat natural yoghurt (F)
Snack - Banana (F)
Lunch - mushrooms (F) and scrambled egg (F) with a splash of milk (HEa) done in frylight with 2 sausages (F)
Snack - yoghurt (F)
Dinner - Chicken (F) stuffed with quark (F) and garlic (F) wrapped in bacon (F) with mushroom stirfry (F) and jacket potato (over HEb weight so not sure how to syn it )
Just before bed we'll probably have our usual cup of tea splash of milk (HEa) and Hi-Fi Bar (HEb) Whaddya think?

I think your choices for yesterday sound fab. especially your tea. I have never thought of adding quark to chicken. Think I might try that!! on the potato point, ive looked in my food op book and it says of a potato - baked flesh and skin weighed cooked 28g = 2 syns. I try to have a jacket thats the "right" weight but if its slightly over then I dont lose sleep over it (even though I know its hidden syns) because Im still eating heathier than I was before! I look forward to seeing your menu choices for today. Which do you prefer, green or red?

Today will be day 3 of my sticking to the plan, pretty much 100%. Ive made a potato salad for my lunch today and i am having jacket chips for tea using my two HEB for my gammon.

Its Friday so thats going to mean a treat of some sort - I just dont know what yet!!

Skint_Catt

Flat Eric, I prefer green but have done a week n a half of red (which hasn't made the slightest bit of difference) so I'm doing my favourite green today

Just had the last of my fruit salad with yoghurt this morning. Its soo yummy.

I've just done what dux is talking about. I used to take a mini picnic to work every morning in case I got hungry between 9am and 1pm - yoghurt, banana, apple, babybels, Hi-Fi/Alpen bars etc etc. Then I realised I was eating all this every morning for the sake of it. Now I do keep keep a yoghurt in the fridge at work, but only take a banana and a bottle of water. I don't eat between lunch (1pm) and dinner (7.30pm) unless I pick on a few grapes if I'm really starving and other than a cup of tea and a Hi-Fi (if I have a HEb left) I don't eat after dinner. Sometimes by the time I'm in bed I'm peckish (but not starving hungry) but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I was almost scared of 'feeling' hungry before, now I quite like the feeling (but make sure I don't get too hungry otherwise I reach for the bread and other bad stuff).

C xx

Flat_Eric

Ive been invited to the weatherspoons pub at lunchtime and am keen to go but want to have a meal that is healthy as possible ! also what is the best thing to drink? other than diet coke?