Get Spooking & Slimming for Halloween - Slimming World support thread 2017
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Shiny new thread, with all the info carried over as follows:-
Slimming World and Food Optimising is a plan for life, it's not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.
You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you've been doing in the past hasn't got you to where you want to be.
You can't use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.
If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.
You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising books again and again.
Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!
If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-
Extra Easy:
1: Choose your Free Food
Most of the food you eat should come from the free foods list – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish, fruit and vegetables.
And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Speed Foods!
2: Choose your Healthy Extras
Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread, nuts and cereal.
3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day
If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-
1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free
2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)
3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted
4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured
5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........
A: increase the proportion of Speed Foods to half of your plate
B: switch to more Speed Foods
or
C: try Extra Easy SP - details are on this link - https://www.minimins.com/threads/extra-easy-sp-plan.348340/
And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.
Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=4853
List of Speed foods here - Fruits & Vegetables
We have a Facebook group open to anyone joining us on this thread; to join please mention it in your post or drop Lushlifesaver a PM and an existing member can send you an invite
Slimming World and Food Optimising is a plan for life, it's not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.
You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you've been doing in the past hasn't got you to where you want to be.
You can't use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.
If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.
You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising books again and again.
Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!
If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-
Extra Easy:
1: Choose your Free Food
Most of the food you eat should come from the free foods list – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish, fruit and vegetables.
And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Speed Foods!
2: Choose your Healthy Extras
Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread, nuts and cereal.
3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day
If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-
1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free
2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)
3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted
4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured
5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........
A: increase the proportion of Speed Foods to half of your plate
B: switch to more Speed Foods
or
C: try Extra Easy SP - details are on this link - https://www.minimins.com/threads/extra-easy-sp-plan.348340/
And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments.
Link to the List of Healthy Extras as at April 14
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=4853
List of Speed foods here - Fruits & Vegetables
We have a Facebook group open to anyone joining us on this thread; to join please mention it in your post or drop Lushlifesaver a PM and an existing member can send you an invite
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To help you on your way, here are some tried and tested recipes that we all enjoy and are Slimming World friendly.
Link to old recipe thread:-
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3032236
New Recipes
Loaded Potato Skins
Homity Pie
Minestrone Soup
Lentil & Bacon Soup
Pulled Pork
Red Pepper Houmous
Cheesy Chilli Fries
Lamb Tagine
Campfire Stew
Uses for Quark
Austrian Ham and Potato Hash
Chilli Bacon Pasta Bake
Patatas Bravas
Pulled Chipotle Chicken Buns
Lamb Kebab
Hairy Bikers Braised steak with gravy - BBC recipe low syn - a favourite here
Ratatouille - a great way to get extra speed food
Katsu Chicken Curry
Falafels
Philadelphia Fish Pie
Low Syn Lemon Curd
Vegetarian Scotch eggs - Using Linda McCartney Sausages
Potato Salad DressingZebras rock0 -
This a list of all our lovely SW-ers that have reached target!
They have a wealth of knowledge, having been there, done it, and bought the smaller t-shirt so please feel free to ask them (and us) questions!
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Maman - target member since Aug 11
JoeDenise - target member since Jul 12
Take It Easy - target member for 10 years
Meg72 - target member since Aug 15
Tweets - target member since Aug 15
Blue_Eyed_Girl - target member since May 2016
Arkers - target member since June 2016
MrsP1987 - target member since August 2016
Debjay - target member since August 2016
Beanielou - target member since October 2016
Matron Midge - target member since October 2016
Orlao - target member since October 2016
rjhammond - target member since November 2016
Emmylou - target member since November 2016
Abbafan1972 - target member since May 2017
Saver-Upper - target member since September 2017
Shiprob - target member since September 2017Zebras rock0 -
If you need to get back on track, or need some extra motivation then give this post a read, thanks to Tete for taking the time out to help
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Originally Posted by Pickle29 View Post
Hello everyone
How do you start again? I was going to sw, lost half a stone in a month - really into it! ....... then messed about, new kitchen, family christening, stress with work, comfort eating, dog died, weekend away, you name it I've got an excuse why I went off plan and put it all on again!
Last weekend went away and couldn't believe how awful I looked in my clothes and in the fotos!
Need to get Back on plan, hoping to rejoin on Saturday - but how do you get back on plan when you have been grazing all day every day and appear together constantly hungry. I'm so down and want to do it but know it's going to be soon hard!!! Help!
Originally Posted by Tete en l'Air
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Hi Pickle, I'm sure we can all relate to your post and I've certainly had a few blips in recent months when life was throwing lemons thick and fast.
I'm not an 'official' paid up member of SW, nor am I really a veteran as I've only been doing it since September, but for me the trick is to really go gung-ho, at least at the start. Find a couple of weeks where you have no big social engagements, weekends away, or stressy work times (ones you can predict anyway), so you can really get in the groove. Spend a day clearing out your kitchen of all temptations, go through your recipe books, magazines and the website, and make a full meal plan for the week. Think also about the kinds of snacks you'll eat and factor in Syns (I love meringue nests for a sweet treat at 2-3 Syns dep. on brand) then make a list and go shopping, sticking religiously to it.
Make sure you measure and weigh your HEs and write down everything you eat - often we'll pick at something small and forget we've had it but it all adds up.
Cook in batches where possible and make use of your freezer - that way you'll always have something ready-made to hand in a pinch. Make use of the SW ready meals from Iceland too - I always have a couple in the freezer just in case.
Make sure that 1/3 of each meal is Speed as this is the real key to weight loss - the Speed stuff is what fills you whilst being low in calories and high in nutrients.
Make sure you eat enough to feel satisfied. The whole point of SW is that it doesn't deprive so you shouldn't feel hungry. I'm a grazer too, especially at my desk at work, so think about the kinds of things you can have in your situation. Muller lights are free and fill a hole, and another of my faves is to chop raw carrots into 'crisps' and munch on those from a bag.
Think about your Syns too. How many are already accounted for in the meals you've planned and hot drinks with sugar etc? For this reason I try to keep my meals free and drink fruit teas through the day instead of sugary coffee, which I'd much prefer!
Make sure you're eating stuff you enjoy!! I'm not a fan of most fruits for example, so I don't bother buying them anymore (took me a while to have that epiphany!) and only get the ones I know I will eat - apples and my beloved passion fruits basically
If you're not enjoying what you're eating and looking forward to each meal, then it isn't going to work as you'll resent the plan.
Most important thing to remember is: If you DO have a blip, let it be just that. The best analogy someone told me was: If your car got a flat tyre, would you then get out and slash the other three in anger? No, because it would make the situation worse. So if you have a bad day, don't turn it into seven bad days.
And stay accountable. Write everything you eat in your book, report in here each evening, keep going to group. There are loads of facebook groups and you can post your meals on Instagram and Twitter... Everyone's watching!!
Sorry that came out a bit long and rambly, but I hope not preachy, and I hope I haven't missed anything fundamental Good luck!!Zebras rock0 -
If you are just joining us you may not be aware of the bi-monthly challenge that we run to motivate ourselves, which you are welcome to join. It isn't a competition, just a way of setting ourselves mini targets if your total loss seems a bit overwhelming.
The new challenge will run from week commencing the 5th September and finish on the 30th October - this gives us 8 weeks.
If you wish to join in with us then please post your target loss for the 8 weeks in red* or bold or massive or all of the above so that I can see it really easily!
I will post the results chart each week on a Tuesday morning showing the prior weeks losses and singling out the person who has lost the most so we can make a great big fuss over them :T
Any questions please let me know - it doesn't matter which day you get weighed just let me know your loss on that day and i'll add it to the correct week (maybe, if I don't get confused!)
Thanking you...Zebras rock0 -
Good Morning and lovely new thread thanks kathrynha :hello:0
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Thanks for the new chart Kathreyna :j :j
7lbs for me this time.
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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Thank for starting us off again kathrynha. It's very much appreciated.:)
I've been sorting out some clothes to go away this morning. I needed to try things on to check that because I'm out of target range I wasn't taking anything that didn't fit. All is well even if a bit snugger than usual. It'll do me good to be reminded.
I'm not hopeful of being on plan much for the next few days. We'll have hotel breakfasts so they are usually fairly good (hope we don't suffer merlin's experience as we're at a Premier Inn). After that I'll just have to go with the flow and choose as wisely as I can. The trouble is that as it's my friend's birthday she's chosen the restaurants, including a lovely looking tearoom.:eek:
I'm doing my best today although scratching about a bit for Speed with dinner.
Today's EE plan:
B: NAS grapefruit, baked beans, HEB toast
L: fried egg, fried LO veg, beetroot
HM pork burger, SW chips, fried onions (heaps!), BNS, courgettes, peas
Syns: none planned0 -
Hope you have a nice time away MamanZebras rock0
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Enjoy your break Maman I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0 -
New thread! Thanks Kathrynha!
As I mentioned on the last one, I really fell off the wagon there in August and got up to my highest ever weight - a new PB! This coming Friday will be my first weigh-in since climbing back on the wagon on 1st Sept.
My overall goal is to lose 20lb by the new year so I'll halve that and aim to lose 10lb by Halloween please!
Today's menu:
B - Skipped as I slept in after staying up late reading
D - Bacon, sweet potato, onion, mushroom and cherry tomato hash thing
T - BNS, sweet potato and carrot soup from freezer with toast and butter
HEA - SS milk in hot drinks
HEB - 2x WM crustless
Syns - Sugar in hot drinks (3), butter (3), hot choc (2) = 8
Can't remember whether I mentioned it on the other thread but I'm also having a Sober September (I'd got into the habit of a glass of wine or two on too many evenings and I hate waking up with a foggy head when I haven't even had a night out!) - so hopefully that'll help!
Have a lovely break Maman!Weightloss: 14.5/65lb0
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