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Slimming World Diet

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Girly · 30/06/2003 12:48

Am going to bite the bullet and join a SW class, first is on Tues evening..

Is anyone else on this diet and does it work?

Anyone care to join me for an online support group? Please someone....

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Girly · 25/07/2003 18:26

Thanks Lilibet!

The other thing I miss is crusty bread, garlic bread.....

Why am I torturing myself

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lilibet · 25/07/2003 18:32

Oh yes, bread, I was a six or seven slices a day girl, each one smothered with butter, I haven't had one since I started as I know that it would never be just one. I made some really nice potato and leek soup at lunch , one sin for 2 great big bowls, and of course what was missing was a great big chunk of bread

kayleigh · 25/07/2003 19:34

Can I bring anything lillibet ? How about pudding - some warm waffles with mounds of dairy vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Ooohhhhh that would do it for me.

I'm sure we shouldn't be doing this, but it's so much more fun than swapping recipes. Don't think we'd get away with it in a real sw class

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Girly · 25/07/2003 20:33

now now girls, behave, remember we are on a diet, (she tells herself, while the flake bars are calling from the fridge)

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Girly · 25/07/2003 20:39

I got a big shock today when i weighed myself, had put on 3 pounds in 1 day!!!!! Then remembered all the change in my jeans, took off jeans and was 3.5 pounds lighter, pheweee! Amazing how much jeans weigh, must remember never to wear them to class

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kayleigh · 25/07/2003 21:36

Oh girly. bet that gave you a shock !
There were people in my old class who,if they'd had a bad week, would take off their watch and earrings. I mean, for goodness sake !!!

lilibet · 26/07/2003 10:45

Good morining all

Food for yesterday
Breakfst, yoghurt and banana
Lunch 2 bowls of leek and potato soup (1 sin)
Tea, Rice cakes, new potatoes, peas and carrots
and half a bottle of wine, yes I know I said I wasn't having anything but I needed something to see me thru the final of BB.
Its my bring and share tonight, the problem isn't what to take, its staying away from what everyone else has brought! I imagine no variety, just having a plate of rice salad and as I said below, I don't like people knowing that I am on a diet. Have a good weekend everyone.

kayleigh · 26/07/2003 14:23

Well i weighed myself this morning and had stayed the same. Can't say i'm suprised after my slip up yesterday. I also think I need to cut down on sins generally. I think i should probably stick to 6 or less per day so i'll try and do that this week and see what happens.
Enjoy your evening lilibet.

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Girly · 27/07/2003 10:46

Can someone tell me how long it takes from eating to the gain showing on the scales?

Was a bit naught last night, had takeaway curry, but did stick to the right day IFSWIM, so sins would be the fat that they were cooked in and the naught but scrummy paratha, god knows how many sins for last night, maybe 20?

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Teletubby · 27/07/2003 12:53

I think the weight gain is almost instantaneous. I'm no expert but i now from experience that if i weight myself in the morning as soon as i wake i'm usually a good 3lbs lighter than i am if i weigh myself later on in the day - even as soon as after breakfast

kayleigh · 27/07/2003 19:19

I agree with Teletubby. Because i was bad Friday (at least an extra 20 sins) my weigh in on saturday showed no loss. Whereas when I'd done my weigh in on friday morning (before being bad) I had lost 1lb. I was extra good saturday and when I weighed myself this morning I had lost the 1lb again. So I think it does go on pretty quick. but if you're extra good the following day I think you can negate the gain.

If anyone's interested I found a cereal bar this morning in sainsburys which has nearly as much fibre as the sw hi-fi bar. It's the Jordans BREAK, breakfast in a bar. The fruit & nut one has 3g of fibre per bar (sw hi-fi has 3.5 and is 6 sins if not eating as a healthy extra), a few more calories and is 7 sins. The sultana and honey one has 3.2g of fibre per bar and is 6.5 sins.
I'm going to use them as a healthy extra and just add the extra half or one sin to my daily total. I think they are near enough in nutritional make up to be a reasonable substitute.

Lillibet, how did you go at your bring & share ?

kid · 27/07/2003 23:02

I'm so sad but I love this thread!!!
I have decided to adit defeat (for now!) and stop this diet until I get back from holiday. I still read the posts though as I find them brillint.Everyone is doing so well and we all keep each other going.
By the way we are going to Lanzarote. Will be back on 14th august and fully intend to be back on sw by the monday at the latest.
I will try not to eat too much chocolate and other yummy food!
speak to you all soon

kayleigh · 28/07/2003 09:13

kid, you are not sad at all. Altough what you are doing up at that time of night beats me !

Have a lovely holiday. See you back here in two weeks all bronzed and sylph like from all that swimming !

lilibet · 28/07/2003 13:13

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Not quite sure where tostart, to say that its all gone pear shaped is a bit of an understatement, but let me state here and now that it was the vicars fault!!
For those of you non veggies, you have to appreciate buffet tables for the veggies amongst us, at my do on Saturday night for non meat eaters there was rice salad, cheese sandwiches, cheese and onion quiche, cheese and tomato pizza, cheese stuffed jacket potatoes, and a very creamy potato salad, oh and loads of pringles and nuts!!
So, I started off really well, loads of rice salad and a very little bit of everything else, then I started on the punch (9 litres of red wine, a bottle of brandy and not very much else) when that was half gone our dear vicar tipped everything that he could find in the punch. so that was it, I was legless and hitting the nuts and cheese sandwhiches with a vengence. I did dance a lot(don't like to picture what I looked like tho' and was very ill the next morning, as were half of the congregation! So I have had more sins on Saturday night than in the other three put together, Yesterday i wasn't off my food,and was invited for a pub lunch, ordered veg curry and rice, but then was seduced by a bowl of onion rings. So I start again today, going out shopping now and am going to be really soooo good.

kayleigh · 28/07/2003 15:00

oh shame lilibet. Never mind. Put it behind you and start again.
I must say the picture I have in my mind of you being "seduced" by a bowl of onion rings is an interesting one. Were they good !!!

luchar · 28/07/2003 16:00

Hi! I'm back at work again. I've more or less stuck to the diet while I've been off and have maintained. Started again today so fingers crossed. I do find that I have more willpower these days though as I know what I should/shouldn't be eating and even when I decide to have a diet break I don't pig out very much at all. I've very good at maintaining but really need to lose another two stone so am going to cut back on the sins and go back to fruit for breakfast (instead of weetabix) so that I can have my B choices later in the day. Tea time is my worst time so on a red day a bit of carbohydrate keeps me going. I'm going to try the tortilla chips too - yummy! I love green days but feel slimmer on a red day IYKWIM.

kayleigh · 28/07/2003 20:18

welcome back luchar. I also prefer to keep my B choices till later in the day. It means I can have a sandwich while the kids have their tea and last through till 8 when i eat with dh and i have still got a 2nd B option for potatoes with dinner (i do mostly red days)
I tend to have mixed fruit of some description with yogurt for breakfast and then a couple of pieces of fruit through the morning to keep me going till lunch.

Today has been a red day and i've had :-
Breakfast - Fresh Fruit & from frais
Snack - 1 apple, 1 banana
Lunch - tuna, cheese (A) & hard boiled egg salad, dressing (2 sins), yog
Snack - 1 nectarine, 1 plum.
Supper - sausages (sin free) with grilled toms & mushrooms, jacket pot
Milk in tea - 1 sin
Daily sins 3

I intend eating some cherries and a mini-aero later - so total daily sin count today will be 6. I'm trying to stick to six as a max per day as so far on an average of 8-10 sins per day I've lost 4 lbs in 4 weeks and I'd really like it to move a bit faster.

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Girly · 28/07/2003 20:40

Welcome back luchar, me too! I also tend to do more red days and save the carbs for later in the day. I am hoping to lose 2 pounds per week over the next 2 months so am going to try and stick to 6 - 8 sins a day.

today i had

Breakfast yoghurt and fruit
lunch marmite sandwich 1 sin(b) and chicken tikka pieces
banana for a snack
Then grilled lamb steak with veg stirfry and a jacket pot(b) with cottage cheese (A)
snack size flake 4 sins
milk in tea 1 sin

So much the same as Kayleigh

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Girly · 28/07/2003 20:41

Bet those onion rings were tasty Lilibet

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kayleigh · 28/07/2003 20:47

girly, I just checked my sw book and if you're using very low fat cottage cheese it should be free food on a red or green day and not an (A) option. That at least frees up your (A) option for something else - you can go mad now and eat 2 babybels !!

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Girly · 28/07/2003 20:48

Kayleigh, this cottage cheese is 5% fat and had pineapple so not sure if its is a free food?

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kayleigh · 28/07/2003 20:51

girly, even so it won't be an (A) option as cottage cheese isn't on the list of (A) options. What make was the cottage cheese - I have my trusty food directory on my lap as we post !

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Girly · 28/07/2003 20:53

Sainsbury's 5% fat cottage cheese with pineapple, thanks Kayleigh, would appreciate you clearing it up for me as its lovely in a jacket spud!

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kayleigh · 28/07/2003 20:59

It isn't that bad ....sainsburys cottage cheese with pineapple is 1.0 sin per 100g
sainsburys be good to yourself cottage cheese with pineapple is 0 sin per 100g and if you go for sainsburys be good to yourself cottage cheese with mango & pineapple is 0.5 sin per 100g.

I would imagine yours is the first one -so you need to add a sin or whatever depending how much you had. Next time go for the be good to yourself version and eat as much as you like.

lilibet · 28/07/2003 21:02

Not sure who it was further down, who said that they love this thread, well so do I, I look forward to my daily fixes of what everyone is eating and how much weight everyone is loosing. So far today
Breakfast, yoghurt and banana for a change
Lunch, Pasta Salad
Tea, Jacket potato and Cottage cheese
Supper, a slice of SW quiche.

I do have a challenge for everyone, I have invited some friends round for a meal a week on Saturday and need to some ideas of what to cook, I am talking posh nosh here!
Its a bit of a challenge meal as they come round for meals quite often and last time they came round, one of them declared it was the best meal they had ever tasted - the b**r was that DP cooked it!! So we are having a 'cook off' a decider, only in a jokey way obviously, but I've got my reputation on the line here and would love a few low sin ideas and some inspiration. Three courses, with no meat ot aubergine!!