Slimming World Support Thread

fitzygirl1969

I joined slimming world 3 weeks ago and lost 3lb the first week, 3lb the second week and after a bad week this week i gained half a pound. I am back on track now and it has been great reading some of your ideas and am off to the supermarket tomorrow to get some lentils.:j
Hoping to get my half a stone loss this WI on tuesday.
Jenny

angie_loves_veg

reddeb wrote: »

Well just back from my WI and happy to say lost 21/2lb, so my birthday weekend wasn't to bad, <snip>.

I read that as 21 lb:eek: :eek:

Well done on your great loss Reddeb

angie_loves_veg

fitzygirl1969 wrote: »

I joined slimming world 3 weeks ago and lost 3lb the first week, 3lb the second week and after a bad week this week i gained half a pound. I am back on track now and it has been great reading some of your ideas and am off to the supermarket tomorrow to get some lentils.:j
Hoping to get my half a stone loss this WI on tuesday.
Jenny

Hi - lovely to meet you - great to hear you are back on track this week - what are you planning to do with the lentils?

dux001

Well done to all those who have lost weight.

To those who have had gains and don't know why, I would say, remember the body is very complicated. You might not lose weight every single week, but the SW plan is basically little more than healthy eating, so firstly take heart that you are eating well. And secondly, take heart that overall you WILL lose weight. Just because you have a couple of little gains sometimes, that happens. Look at the bigger picture. I know it's horrid to have a gain, it's happened to me, but try to see the bigger picture and think of how much healthier you are.

sethsgran

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

I read that as 21 lb:eek: :eek:

Well done on your great loss Reddeb

Think that loss reads as 2 & half pound.
My weigh in tomorrow morning had quite a good week so hopefully will do fine

Flat_Eric

beachbeth wrote: »

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?

Mix to match means that you treat each meal as a red or green option.

so you could have a red breakfast
a green lunch
and a red tea

you still have the healthy extras as normal and your syn allowance. the idea is that "your snacks" are superfree i.e. foods that are free on both days such as for example, eggs, mullerlights, fruit etc and you base your individual meals on either a red or green meal as you fancy. this is a typical mix to match day for me: -

Breakfast (red)
bacon medalions
mushrooms
fried eggs

Lunch (green)
Jacket chips
fried eggs
85g Ham (HEB)
28g cheese (HEA)

Tea (red)
Roast pork
Baby potatoes (HEB)
Veg

or

Breakfast (neutral)
Hi fi bar

Lunch
Jacket potatoes
beans
cheese (HEA)

Tea
steak
roasted veg
jacket (HEB)

as for your syns, the syn value appropriate to your meal is the value that should be counted. for example, if you were having a green lunch and decided to have a tin of chilli (see below) then you would count it as 4 1/2 syns.

If you decided to have the chili as a snack mid afternoon then the syn value would be counted as 11.

does this help?

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beachbeth

Thanks so much for that, flat eric. Im going to give it a try as from Monday and will probably be coming on here for advice as to whether Im doing it right!

sethsgran

WOW just got back from my WI I needed to loose 1/2lb to get my 4st and I lost 6 so that means I only need to loose 1 & 1/2 to get 4 & 1/2 stone award. So pleased with that. If only these losses were more frequent!!

missty25

Hi All,

Thanks for the advice, info and comments. Last week I had mostly green days so this could be the problem there, I am going to try to get back to alternating days again as this does seem to work a lot better. I start my new job as of Monday so am going to go to class thats been highly recommended on Thursday morning so hopefully this will give me a boost of motivation.

Here's my food diary from yesterday. My syns were over but yesterday was not a typical day as I had cat to go to vet and then was in a rush to get back out.

Breakfast - 2 weetabix(HEb) with milk from HEa, cup of tea with sweetner and milk from HEa

Lunch - 4 boiled eggs(free) with 2 sliced toast(HEb), 1 tsp flora extra light(0.5syns), coffee, 1 Alpen light summer fruit cereal bar(3syns)

Snack - Apple(free)

Dinner - 2 quorn crispy fillets(7syns), 3.5oz Tesco steakhouse oven chips(2.5syns)

Snack - 1 choc finger(1.5syns), 2 Tesco rough oatcakes(4syns), 1oz Tesco Camambert Normandy cheese(4syns) and 2 wafer thin slices of cheddar don't know what syns to give this).

Total Syns = 22.5

I normally try to stay under 10 syns, but yesterday was not a typical day but I would much rather be honest as it won't do me any favours if I'm not.

Today is much more structured and am sticking to menu plan, so will post again tomorrow.

Thanks
Missty xx

lo_bush

sethsgran wrote: »

WOW just got back from my WI I needed to loose 1/2lb to get my 4st and I lost 6 so that means I only need to loose 1 & 1/2 to get 4 & 1/2 stone award. So pleased with that. If only these losses were more frequent!!

Thats fantastic!! Please do tell us the secret of such a phenomenol (did I spell that right?) weight loss, when you've already lost such a large amount, were you on fast forward?