Slimming World Support Thread

naturally_2

That's exactly how I felt and what I did (substitute slimfast for WW). Good luck to you and pleeeease keep in touch on this thread (as I see others have begged you to...)

Skint_Catt

LOL, I will! I would be grateful of this weeks password too is anyone has it so I can still check things I'm having for dinner! :rotfl:

nic2075

naturally wrote: »

Hello - tail between my legs - mind if I join you all again? I am trying yet another tactic after I failed to stick to either WW points or core. I did however learn two very important lessons. :rolleyes:

1) I feel like I have got more of a control on portions, or more accurately stopping eating when I am full. I had gone waaay overboard with SW, doing silly things like cooking enough for 2 meals and ending up eating the lot in one go. I feel like Points taught me what a realistic potion size was, and Core taught me to look for the signs of satisfaction and stop eating when I was full,

sorry to snip but im worried im doing wrong, can anyone answer, I thought you could pile your plate high of free foods and eat 2 huge portions if you wanted?!?
ie on a red day if you felt like eating 3 chicken breasts (could never actually do that) then you could.
I dont actually go to a class at them moment so I cant check with anyone, but the consultant at my last class had quite often commented to people that they hadnt lost much as they hadnt eaten enough.
Last night i had a HUGE bowl of free pasta on a green day and had bunged in SW chips as I was starving when i started making dinner, by the end I was stuffed but because they were free I decided to eat the chips too.

by the way im not having a go at naturally as I understand when you come to a standstill have have to try new things, I am just concerned that I shouldstill be watching my portion sizes (obviously I still weigh healthy extras etc)

tia

consultant31

Kandipandi wrote: »

I never did have Mix 2 Max explained - or success express for that matter - so in my ignorance I only stick to what I know - anyone know where I can get a decent description of how these work?

Mix2Max

At each mealtime, choose whether you’d prefer an Original meal or a Green meal.

Focus on Free Food power – at each meal enjoy as much Free Food as you like (either Green or Original) from the choice you’ve made for that meal.

Add three or four Healthy Extras each day, as usual. You can select from the Green and Original choices!

For snacks, starters or desserts, choose Superfree Foods (or count the Syns).

Finally, enjoy 5-15 Syns each day!
You can have three Mix2Max meals each day. If one of your meals is Superfree (including Healthy Extras), you can still enjoy three Mix2Max meals that day as well! E.g. if you enjoy Weetabix, milk and fresh fruit for breakfast (HEs + Superfree foods), you can have a Mix2Max lunch, a Mix2Max dinner and a Mix2Max supper if you choose to!

Keeping track of Syns
If you use your Syns within a meal, e.g. a thick pork sausage with an Original breakfast, count the Original Syn value (6 Syns for 28g).
If you enjoy your Syns as a starter, dessert or snack, use the highest Syn value. E.g. on a Mix2Max day, if you’re enjoying the sausage as a snack count the higher Green Syn value – 8½ Syns per 28g.

Day 1

Scrambled egg, tomato & chive toastie:
Tuck into 2 slices of wholemeal toast*, topped with a mountain of scrambled egg, lots of baked beans and grilled tomatoes. Serve sprinkled with chopped chives.
Tuna, feta & mixed green salad:
Enjoy unlimited tuna (fresh or canned in brine) served with a large mixed salad (tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, boiled egg, beetroot, pickled onion, gherkins, peppers, apple) with 42g feta cheese* crumbled on top. Plus a very low fat yogurt, any variety and unlimited fresh fruit.
Roasted vegetable couscous & fruit salad:
Place chunks of mixed peppers, courgettes, red onion, mushrooms and aubergine on a roasting tray with some cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle over some chopped garlic and herbs and spray with Fry Light. Bake at 200°C/400°F/Gas 6 until tender. Pile it on your plate with loads of couscous.
Follow with a lovely big bowl of Superfree fresh fruit salad made with chopped pineapple, mango, starfruit, kiwi and pomegranate.

Day 2


Grapefruit/grilled bacon:
Start your breakfast with fresh grapefruit followed by a plateful of grilled bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms served with 2 slices of wholemeal toast*.
Pasta salad:
Make a mountain of pasta salad with cooked pasta bows, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions and sweetcorn served with mixed salad leaves and sprinkled with 12 cashew nuts*, plus a pear or two.
Prawn stir-fry/yogurt:
Enjoy a big bowl of stir-fried prawns, bamboo shoots, baby whole sweetcorn, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, pak choi, mixed peppers and mushrooms in soy sauce (Chopsticks optional), followed by a very low fat yogurt and unlimited fresh fruit.
In between times: munch on Superfree boiled eggs, quorn sausages, vegetable sticks dipped in very low fat cottage cheese (throw in some garlic and herbs for extra oomph!), fresh or frozen fruit, your Healthy Extra ‘a’ choices and Free yogurts.


Success Express
Basic rules

Every day enjoy 3 meals following the 2 to 1 plate principle.
Fill two thirds of the plate with super-free foods (those free on both plans) and one third with foods that are free on green or red or you can have green and red together.
You still get your 3 or 4 HE’s and 5 - 15 syns a day as part of a meal or snacks. (BUT where syn values differ on Green or Red, you must count the higher syn value).
Snacks, starters or desserts that are not super-free or HE’s are counted as syns. For example smoked salmon as a starter must be synned because it's not super-free. A starter such as melon is super-free.

DAY1

BREAKFAST: A pile of strawberries, kiwi, melon, pineapple and grapes with vlf natural yogurt.
LUNCH: Roast chicken and potatoes (1/3) served with piles of carrots, broccoli, cabbage and green beans (2/3).
DINNER: Tuna and boiled potatoes (1/3) with green beans, 7 black olives (1 Syn), boiled eggs, Cos lettuce, tomatoes and red onion (2/3)
SNACKS
415g can Baxters Healthy Choice minestrone soup* with a wholemeal roll*


DAY 2


BREAKFAST: Dip 2 slices of wholemeal bread* into beaten egg then
fry in a non-stick pan lightly sprayed with Fry Light. When cooked,
sprinkle the French toast with cinnamon. Serve with lots of mixed berries.
LUNCH: Ham and pasta quiche…..Make the quiche by mixing 150g vlf natural cottage cheese, 3 eggs, chopped peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms and baby sweetcorn (2/3) together. Add chopped sliced ham and cooked pasta (1/3)
to the mix and place in an oven-proof flan dish. Pop in a medium oven for around 30 minutes, or until the quiche is set and golden brown.
DINNER: Beef casserole…..Enjoy a whole casserole by placing diced, lean stewing beef (1/3) in a casserole dish with chopped celery, carrot, swede and cabbage (2/3). Pour Bovril stock over, seasoning to taste. Cover and cook for
2½ hours at 180ºC/350ºF/Gas 4 until the meat is cooked and tender.
SNACKS
71g dried apricots*

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Hope this helps - both plans are very good and once you're used to them will be as easy as the more usual Original and Green plans.

Skint_Catt

nic2075 - I think the idea of SW is that you should never be hungry, not just eat for the sake of it. A lot of us have come to the reality conclusion that portions are there for a reason. If you're hungry then there are loads of free foods to eat, but eating them 'because' they are free isn't the SW idea. (takes some of us (read 'me') a while to realise this.

Half the reason I've opted to go for Slimfast for a short while is so that my stomach shrinks so when I go back to SW I need less (will still have a good balanced diet though).

I'll be the first (well ok second) to admit that I have eaten huge plates of SW chips, aswell as a bowl of pasta for dinner and even when I'm on my own of a weekend I'll have a bowl of Savoury rice AND a Pasta n Sauce. Well that's not 'normal' eating is it and I've come to realise that maybe SW is doing me more harm than good at the mo. Slimfast will also help me 'eat to live' not 'live to eat' which is what I've done for years.

Am I making sense????

nano84

Hi All....

Ok so I have gotten over the fact I had a small gain and realise it was due to the fact I have gotten used to the diet and have taken a few shortcuts, but I have been extra good today and now have some SW chips in the oven.

Hope everyone has got on ok today

xx

kellybigboobs

Hi All,

Sorry I've not been on for a while,just been catching up with the thread.....

Hello to all newbies,and Jess:hello: and TG - nice to have you back,:T well done all losers,and to anyone who had a couple of squaters this week just stick two fingers up at the little blighters:p

Catt - I know exactly what you mean.There is nothing wrong with having a healthy appetite but eating to excess (of any type of food) is anything but healthy!Good luck with the shakes,hope they help shift your gears,so to speak.I don't envy you though:D

Can't wait for all the results tonight....and the SW ones!

Kandipandi

Thanks for the explanation Consultant - when I was at class my consultant just skimmed over it very quickly and promised to explain it proper some other time..... but didin't. Thanks again that does make sense now !

x

LouiseJ

I have had my first weigh in tonight and have lost a grand total of....................wait for it...................half a pound:o

So dissapointed with myself, I think I need to up my activity levels to give me a kick start.

Skint_Catt

hi Louise, also don't forget you can post your daily food diary up here and we'll check it out - its easy to make mistakes. The first time I did SW I didn't realise peas weren't free on red. Ok thats not going to make a huge difference, but all the little ones add up!

Plus don't forget - half a pound a week is nearly 2 stone a year!!!! :j