Slimming World

[Beccarollover]

Post about all things slimming world here......

[CountessDracula]

OK, can someone explain it to me as am thinking of joining

[LadyCodworth]

no do ww

[CountessDracula]

Done that. Bored of it.

Want to try Slimming World

[LadyCodworth]

lol

just eat less?

[CountessDracula]

No want to eat lots and lose weight

Anyway why don't you bog off to the WW thread if you're so keen

[CountessDracula]

ps tried Atkins too, very succesful but hair fell out

[CountessDracula]

Oh shite maybe weight loss was just due to hair loss

[LadyCodworth]

am off cd
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[lilibet]

If you put it in as a search there's a fantastic thread on it and if you can be arsed reading thru 300+posts there are some great recipies adn tips and the whole thing explained. Its so much better than ww as you get to eat as much potatoes, pasta, rice as you wnat - no more crappy measuring and points!

[Kayleigh]

here here lilibet.
Go for it CD. It really is a good eating plan (hate the word diet - immediately start thinking about food)

[Skara]

What intrigues me about SW is that you can do it when pg (which appeals to me atm as I am gaining weight at a rate of knots) but I just can't imagine walking into a meeting complete with bump and going 'hi, I'd like to lose weight' without being laughed back out of the room Or is it more about watching what you eat when pg so you don't gain excessive amounts rather than losing when pregnant?

[Kayleigh]

Skara, I don't think they'd expect you to lose weight. I think they want you to stick to the recommended weight gain for pregnancy (and if i had a brain i could tell you what that is). A while ago in my class a pregnant lady put on just under a stone the whole pregnancy. She had a really neat bump and she lost the weight within a few weeks after having the baby.
I think many of us, especially those who like their foods, use pregnancy as an excuse to go a bit mad. I know i did. No-one actually "needs" two white magnums a day. Even if it was the hottest august for years

[fairydust]

countess do you know the basic's of SW

[Skara]

Hrmm, Kayleigh, are you implying I don't need 3 creme eggs in one day either? I think I'll go and have a look at their website, maybe I can do some damage limitation or else I'll gain 4 stone by the end of this pregnancy. Eek!

[CountessDracula]

fairydust I know you have some days where you eat certain things and some days where you eat others. That's about it!

[Crunchie]

OK Here goes, Crunchies definative guide to Slimming WOrld.

It is not food combining, it is 'food optimising' if you want to believe the hype. Basically it has Red and Green days and they work as follows:

Red Day

Free Food - eat as much as you want cooked without added fat (also trim all fat off before cooking, although you can leave skin on poultry, just don't eat it)

• All Red Meat
  
• all Poultry
  
• all Fish
  
• all shellfish
  
• Bacon and some sausages
  
• eggs, very low fat Cottage cheese, VLF natural yoghurt, VLF Fromage Frais, Quorn
  
• all vegetables, excluding potatoes, sweetcorn, parsnips
  
• all fruit, including bananas
  
  Healthy Extras - measured quantities of foods designed to give you added calcium, vitamins etc. You can choose one milk option, one cheese option and two others.
  
• Milk, for instance 250 ml of semi-skimmed
  
• cheese, approx 28g of most cheeses or more of low fat ones
  
• bread, 57g of wholemeal bread (2 slices of SMALL loaf, or small roll)
  
• breakfast cereal, 2 weetabix or approx 30g of lots of high fibre cereals
  
• 8oz potato (jacket), or 7oz new potatos (in skins)
  
• 2oz of wholemeal pasta
  
• various different crispbreads, cooked fruit, soups etc.
  
  Lastly SYNS
  EVerything else has a sin value and you can eat approx 10 sys a day
  
• 2 small glasses wine (10 sins)
  
• small chocolate bar (10 sins)
  
  Now you can try Green days, BUT YOU CANNOT MIX THEM IN ONE DAY!!
  
  Green Days - Free food as before cooked without added fat
  
• All Fruit
  
• All Veg, inc potatoes, sweetcron, parsnips
  
• All Pasta (dried not fresh)
  
• All Rice
  
• All Grains like couscous, polenta etc
  
• Legumes like Kidney beans, lentils etc
  
• eggs, very low fat Cottage cheese, VLF natural yoghurt, VLF Fromage Frais, Quorn
  
  Healthy Extras - measured amounts as before, milk, cheese, cereals, bread PLUS
  
• 3oz red meat
  
• 6oz chicken
  
• 6oz prawns
  You can have one milk choice, one cheese choice and 2 others such as cereal and a 'protien'
  
  Syns
  As before everything else!!
  
  
  Thats the basics. However on top of this load of free food there are loads of other things that are free like Baked Beans on a green day and certain susages on red.
  
  Lastly to help you understand I will give you a red day and a green day
  
  RED DAY
  Cooked breakfast of bacon, free sausages, eggs, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes (remember ketchup/brown sauce is sysn, a good dollop is about one syn)
  2 Slices wholemeal toast - from small loaf.
  Lunch - Large salad with Tuna or Prawns or chicken, with dressing made from yoghurt and lemon juice, or low fat dressing (about 2 syns)
  Supper - Huge steak or roast chicken with small jkt potatao or new potato, loads of brocoli and carrots.
  Snacks
  Muller lite yoghurts (free)
  Low cal jelly (whole pack 2 sins - serves 4)
  Wine - small glass 5 syns.
  5 laughing cow light triangle cheeses (healthy extra)
  Milk for tea/coffee (healthy extra)
  Total syns - 10
  Ketchup - 1
  Salad dressing - 2
  Wine - 5
  Jelly - 2
  
  
  Average Green day
  Cooked breakfast - Quorn sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, fried eggs (fry light), home-made hash browns (grated potato/onion/spices - fried in fry light)
  Lunch
  Massive Jacket potato with cottage cheese or veggie chilli, and salad
  Dinner - Pasta with vegetable sauce, parmesan as healthy extra
  Snacks as before
  could add in meat or chicken into pasta as Healthy extra or have Tuna in luchtime jacket. Or have Ryvitas and low fat cream cheese as snack
  Syns
  2 glasses wine or small pack low fat crisps (5 sins) and 2 jaffa cakes (5 sins)
  
  
  Have you all ogt bored yet??
  
  Does it make sense??
  
  Go buy the magazine which gives a week of red and a week of Green menus and more ideas!!

[Kayleigh]

Wow, crunchie, impressed !

[Amanda1]

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[Kayleigh]

I think that's great too Amanda1. Well done
I find i have more red days as i tend not to lose when i have more than one or two green days in a week. Had two green days last week and put on a pound And i really hadn't been bad at all - mostly stuck to around 10 sins per day. Maybe i'm not eating enough veg on a green day?

[Amanda1]

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[CountessDracula]

OMG Crunchie thank you so much! I think I will def give it a go as am so whale like that I need something new!

Will sign up asap

[CountessDracula]

Oh and Amanda1 that's fantastic weight loss. Only time I managed anything that good was in the 6 weeks before my wedding!

Who else has encouraging tales from SW for me?

[Skara]

thanks for that Crunchie, it looks pretty healthy stuff so I can see how it'd be ok in pregnancy. Think I'll give it a go...

[willow2]

CD - are we on for it then?

[Crunchie]

Skara a friend of mine started SW when she was breast feeding (as I did too) and lost weight, she was about 1st from target when she got pg again, went all through her pg, and has just had No2. 1 week after birth she is just 1st more than when she concieved. It helped her so much as 1st pg she put on 4 - 5 st. It is very safe when pg as you are not limited in quantity, so you can eat when you need to. You are limited in other ways. Also when you are pg I think there are extras you are allowed to include, do check