Slimming World Support Thread

angie_loves_veg

Todays food - red day

B - strawberries AND pomegranate and pot of Aldi wholegrain LF yog (all free) tea (HEA for milk)
500ml water during morning
L - leftover turkey kebab meat, baba ganush, tomato and cue salad AND rocket. HEB w/m bread roll.
500ml water this afternoon
D - lamb, onion, carrot and swede casserole (Free) serve with HEB potatoes and cabbage AND broc, Gin and slimline (2.5 syns), glass of wine (6 syns) and might have 1 piece baklava as a treat later (4 syns)

lots of tea throughout the day.

all yummy

I am keeping with my two aims - lots of water and an extra portion of veg with every meal compared to what I would have done before.

sethsgran

I go to a daytime group Missty and I love it generally they are older than me, 54 today!!, and I have never laughed as much as I do when at the class. We recently got a new consultant, previous one fine just had to leave for personal reasons, she is fantastic and each week she organise the raffle prize. The prize is always great, shame I don't do raffles!, always a recipe idea from a magazine plus ALL the ingredients to make it. She is so supportive and always finds a nice remark to make no matter how good/bad a week you've had. I have been to plenty of classes over the years, so much so that if I had kept off all I had lost in the past I would be a severe anorexic, but this class on a Friday morn is just great. Keep looking till you find a class that works for you.

Quick meal my daughter likes is prepare some boiled brown rice then serve with a tin of Asda Chick Pea Dahl sin free on green.

consultant31

pegginout wrote: »

Really Sorry about that, not a good start when joining a new board.
I can't find my post so it must have been removed.
Sorry

Not to worry, you don't know until someone tells you

consultant31

missty25 wrote: »

My SW consultant is not the best, she wasn't even there on Tues evening we just done a weigh and go(no charge) but it was one of the class members thats only been coming to class for a matter of weeks(as far as I know and I suspect that she works beside consultant at her day job), that done the weighing. Anytime I have a gain consulant asks the same questions what have you done? my answer been out for meal(once) her reply is usually "well you must have done something else, it doesn't go on that quickly", it's really hurtful because I wouldn't lie about being bad also the one time when I lost 2 1/2 lb's she asked what I had changed that week, my answer was nothing, I had french baguette with butter, crips, cooked chicken, a tonne of cheese, numerous Vodkas and genrally been overall quite bad and she could't give me answer as to why I had better loss taht particular week. I'm going to have to go to a new class during the day as I'm starting new job in evening soon, so hopefully this will give me more motivation to keep going.

We all get members who have the same problems as this and often there is no satisfactory answer we can give. Our bodies (specially women's) are very complicated and sometimes there's no rational reason why we lose or gain in any particular week.

Fat really doesn't go on that quickly, but weight can - it will almost certainly be water retention and therefore it will go away as quickly as it came. Having a 'naughty' week and losing weight is less easy to explain, but for sure, if you have another 'naughty' week, the weight will pile on.

To put it into perspective.......it takes 3500 calories over and above the normal 2000 we need to maintain our weight, in order to gain a pound of fat.

Have just noticed you suffer from PCOS - this is well known for making losing weight difficult, but not impossible. You may well find that it comes off slowly, but a steady loss of ½-1 pound a week means a 2-4 stone loss over a year.

Flat_Eric

If you are struggling with the plan and things are not going as you want then here are some questions that if you answer might help....

1. Are you eating enough?
If not then your body will complain and your weight loss will slow down/ 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:D

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.

Flat_Eric

missty25 wrote: »

:mad:I'm sad to say the last 3 weigh ins I have gained as follows
09/09 I did lose 1 1/2lb's
16/09 1.5lb's
23/09 0.5lb's
30/09 0.5lb's
I have had a really good week this last week before WI, lots of healthy home made soups for lunch. But I have had mostly green days and been eating a lot of past/noodles/potatoes, I think because I suffer from PCOS I need to have more red days but find that meat is so expensive for decent stuff. Since I started SW in April my weight loss comes in peaks and troughs, sometimes I am a bit naughty and lose 21/2 lb's(the most I've ever lost, even more than 1st week), then others like last week I'm really good and put on. My sis suggested some gains could be due to "star week", but don't have "star week" as such coz of contrcaeptive pill taken.

Please, please can some one give me a shake, I actually burst in to tears when OH asked how I got on at WI, and sis jokingly said "you must be eating in secret" quite gutted that she would even suggest this even in jest.

Sorry for the rant just needed to get it off my chest and I am right back to plan.

Well done ALV, did you feel hungry when you done FF, if so how'd you cope? Well done everyone else too!:j
Cheers
Missty xx

Hello there

I dont have much time as Im due to go out in 20 mins! but I wanted to reply to you as soon as i could so I may update this when I get more time.

One thing that strikes me immediately is that you say you have lots of green days. Your body will take longer to digest those types of foods and its important to drink lots of water to aid the process.

your sister was very unfair in her comment and I would tell her to mind her own business.

I promise I will come back to you properly. I want to offer the best reply possible which I cant do in a rush!

Flat_Eric

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Misty hugs to you :grouphug: I cried this week too as I put on 1.5lbs after weeks of trying so hard and only losing 0.5lb a time. Sometimes peoples comments can really hurt. My OH knows that last time I did SW I lost 3.5stone in 5 months - he asked me the other day 'why can't you do it this time then?'. That really stung. I don't know why I can't do it this time

Do you want to post each days food for us here to have a look at (good or bad days) then we might be able to suggest slight changes, or things you might be missing?

Have you spoken to your consultant yet? Mines always too busy (three classes one after the other) but she did text me this morning. I text her back saying I don't know what I'm doing wrong and its really getting me down but she hasn't replied There may be something through my door when I get home (hopefully not fast forward!) as she only lives a few houses up)

C xx

HI skint catt. one thing that strikes me is are you eating enough? I think I remember you mentioned in a previous post that you were cutting down on portions. If you were previously eating lots and you have cut down then your body will complain and your weight loss may cease or slow right down as your body will be thinking, not sure where my next meal is going to come from or how much I'll get so I will hold on to what ive got. It is also worth seeing the doc to see if there is any underlying medical problem you dont know about.

Will come back to you again - got to go out now. its raining so I would much rather sit here all night but friend is back from london so would be rude not to go.

reddeb

Well just back from my WI and happy to say lost 21/2lb, so my birthday weekend wasn't to bad, plus I had that slight gain last weekend when I had been really good. Another 1/2lb for 2 stone award, pray with me everyone!! Well done to the lossers, STS's and good like to those with a hic-up it will come off, I know was there last week!lol.

Skint_Catt

Flat Eric, thanks, have a good night. I'm cutting down (not drastically) because eating what I was wasn't working so I have to try something else. I'm just trying to stick to three healthy meals a day - lots of veg/fruit salads and liquids.

beachbeth

Can someone explain mixtomatch to me? I understand that you pick green or red for each meal, is that right? Do you still have the healthy extras and the syns? How do you calculate these if you are mixing your day with red and greens?