SLIMMING WORLD #2

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Blondes arranges cushions and sw friendly snacks :)

welcome one and all and

Hi everyone and well done on your losses. I think I've finally got my head around the EE plan at last and lost another 2lbs in my second week, so feeling good about that. Just about managed to get through the Easter weekend - my kids are older now so not so many choccy things around the house! Having a couple of nights away from home in hotel where my DH is on business - enjoying SW cooked breakfasts which I'd probably never do at home.
I've found myself doing a silly thing I saw in the previous SW magazine - setting 2 glass jars out, with shells in them. I put 14 in one jar (although I am unlikely to lose a stone) and am transferring them over to the other jar, one shell per pound lost - so now 10 in one jar, 4 in the other. Have even tied pretty ribbons round them (am I sad?). But they are on my kitchen window ledge and so very much in the line of sight when preparing food and drink! Have drawn the line though at putting "motivational" labels on them - my family would lay into me!
Hell, I'll be making my own quilts next....
Anyway, wish you all a good week - still finding all your posts a huge support xx

Welcome to Huff and Frying - I'm sorry to hear of your losses.

Managed a 20min run again this morning - I promised myself this year that I wouldn't do the whole January 'go crazy on a diet and fitness campaign and then give up after 3 weeks' and that I would try to sort out my eating habits first. Three months in I do think I need to introduce some regular exercise as I have a job that involves spending most of the day sitting on my rather large backside

B - Yogurt and fruit
L - Jacket with veggie chilli (did it in the slow cooker yesterday - really good)
D - Pasta and tomato/veg/tuna sauce

Well done Double and Shelly - fab losses

shelley and double - well done on your loss's

furball - im the same 'sighs'

b fruit
l spah bol and tons of veg
t pork, sw sweet potato chips carrot/swede mash (butter 2)

Afternoon all,
Just a quick message to report my second weigh in resulted in a 3 lbs loss and a slimmer of the week award.
I'm really pleased as thats 8.5 lbs in 2 weeks :)

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Well done Cupcake.

Tonight's tea - ginger & soy salmon stir fry. Was supposed to be with noodles but we'd run out so we had rice instead. V tasty & only 1/2 a syn.

Well done to all with losses

B: 2 fried eggs on wholemeal (heB)
L: chicken and peppers with salad cream (1)
T: chicken curry and rice

Now enjoying a large cool Pinot Grigio

I'm now 1 stone 8 down in 8 weeks which I'm really pleased with but I've hit my brick wall were I start thinking ill be better off doing ww so I can eat more bread.

My main problem is lunches I'm at home but its driving me mad that I'm having to cook every lunch time and struggle with the super free.

I shop for me dh and dd and we eat fruit and veg but theirs only so much my budget will allow I struggle with fruit as I only like strawberries nectarines grapes peaches which aren't cheap to keep restocking.

So what do you all eat at lunch were your not doing a full meal.

I use my B option for breakfast so no quick sandwiches which is what I'm missing

Any help appreciated

Evening! Piggy chocy robo reporting in - sitll got some choc left - not sure whether to pig it all or ration it out!

Struggling this week as kids off and out and about and snacks and lunch out is taking its toll. The cold wather is not helping either as i dont want salad!

Anyway - drawing a line under it and starting a fresh tomorrow as back to work.

I hate Mars Confectionary!!!! They've only gone and made a Teaser bar.....the Celebrations malteaser in a bar!!!!! I need to work out how many Syns, a couple of pieces are

Had a good day, food shopping done and all meals for next week are all planned.

Well done Spotty - what a great result! Don't give up on us now!?

Do you like jacket potatoes as that's my standard lunch with either beans, cottage cheese, extra light philadelphia (heA)? Also those pasta/sauces that you make up with water that are free? Mugshots?

Make a SW crustless quiche and have it sliced over a few days?

I'm also getting better at cooking a bit extra in the evening so that I can just microwave it for lunch - pasta, chilli etc. all work well.

Ryvita are also fairly low in syns and good with cottage cheese or those laughing cow triangles (especially the blue cheese ones)

I can't wait for some better weather so that I can have a lot mre salad at lunchtime with tuna, prawns, cottage cheese etc. I just don't feel like eating salad in this weather.

3girls can you share your menu for next week - I could do with some inspiration?

Ok here goes, I tend to use mince and chicken for a lot of the meals, as you can see, but I find it makes for happy dh and dcs, who haven't complained yet about what they're being fed, and dh has lost 2st since Jan!!!

F- chicken and veg stir fry for me and dh. Pizza for kids
S- SW chicken tikka masala
S- Greek Style Lamb (from the mag, looks scummy) Will do sweet pot mash and roast spuds
M- Tomato and Corgette pasta (firm favourite in the 3girls house)
T- Meatballs (another mag recipe with pork mince)
W- Spag Bol
T- Homemade burgers

Since doing sw, I've not used a shop bought sauce for anything, and everything tastes so much better

I love it when the new mag comes out, new ideas for dinners and puds. The new one has lots of lovely looking deserts!!!

I'm the same with regards to salad!! I love it with tune, prawns, chicken. But it's so flipping cold, and it was snowing here today! This weather is bonkers

Well done spotty and cupcake

I like salad but it doesn't fill me up :(

Can you syn breakfast and then use b's for lunch if you want bread

Or have fruit and yog
Fried breakie
Porridge /cereal and syn it (6)

I'm gonna gain tomorrow as chocolate attacks - def a yoyo at the moment :(

How did you do blondes?

Today
B: Dippy eggs and soldiers (marg 0.5)
L: Jacket with beans and cheese (hex a)
D: Chicken tikka massala, rice and poppadoms (2)

Syns: Chocolate 4, wine 6, milk 1

altogether 13.5 syns.

duh thought i had been on here today

gained a lb

b fruit
l salad, potato, eggs and mayo ex lite(2)

s crisps (4) grapes, kiwi, strawberry

Hello everyone. Well done for the losses and don't panic Captain Mainwaring about the gains.

Has anyone's SW consultant suggested "success express". It seems to be a new variant of SW. Basically 1/3 of your plate free, 2/3 super free for each meal but you are allowed 2 heas and hebs, and the usual 5 - 15 syns. The complicated bit is that the free food has to be free on either red or green days .

Anyway, I have done it for 2 days, will go back to EE for the weekend, then do it on Monday as I WI on Tues. will report back. Am doing plenty of walking and swimming just in case not to burn off

Evening all!

Don't be too hard on yourself Blondes but please don't give up - sounds like you've have a good day today, just keep plodding on...

Tiger that sounds interesting about 'success express'. I don't really understand red and green days but I'm guessing it's a variation of food combining so you don't mix protein and carbs at the same meal?

I have to WI tomorrow and can't help thinking it'll be a gain but I'm trying to be positive. I made the mistake of mentioning to my mother that I was following SW and she now tries to subtly ask how it's going everytime I call her which is driving me bonkers. I know she means well but I almost wish she'd just come straight out and ask how much I weigh instead of dropping hints.

Moan over, pretty good day today although I do have .

B - banana and yogurt, Alpen light bar
L - enormous jacket potato with cottage cheese and salad
D - seafood paella

S - fruit, a bit of leftover pasta (free!) and wine

Hi bean. No I don't understand the red and green days either, but basically it's lots of fruit and veg and small portions of meat, egg, spuds etc. so for example today:

B: lots of super free fruit, a muller light and a banana. Plus two alpen light bars (HEb).

L: chicken and some potatoes for 1/3 of my plate, salad of various types for the rest, fruit salad for pudding. The salad included enough Stilton to be an hea.

D: veg soup with a few mushy peas stirred in(sounds vile, tastes great)

Snacks. Bits of fruit (good). Lots of . Bad.

I have actually missed out an Hea and a HEb today. But I sort of think that the will cancel that out....

Evening everyone.....

B- muesli (heb) with blueberries
L- tuna salad
D- chicken stir fry

Syns- couple of pieces of choc, half a mini pork pie, and 3 pot wedges from the kiddies dinner....I think about 15 Syns. DH says I should keep track of them by writing them down, that way I won't have more than I should!!!

I also bought myself a cheap ab trainer from Argos today. Doing Zumba is trimming my bums and legs, but the ole belly is still wobbly. Going to need to thousands of sit-ups to get rid of 4 babies worth of stretching

My mum does that bean.... Specially on wi day. I get an email about 8.30

3girls. Do write them down. If you are guessing, and not looking up, you might be having more than you think, if its more than 15 syns then you won't lose weight. My mum needs to lose 2 stone. She is disabled and elderly and can't get to a group, so I've gone through the plan with her. She likes the idea and is all enthusiastic. She eats like a sparrow, but she had kept a food diary for a couple of weeks. When we went through it she was having about 20 syns a day, so with no exercise at all....

Thanks tiger. When I first joined I kept the food diary, and it really helped. I'm going to start tomorrow x

Hi ladies stayed the same this week not surprised with all the crappy choc iv consumed . My only saving grace is all my dinners where good so I seem to have pulled it back a bit. I am 12.9 I really hope I can shift another stone before 6th July when we go away. So many people have started to compliment me so it must be working .

Keep going everyone xxxx

laughalot. You've lost over 1.5 stone so far ( not that I'm checking up on you!). You can definitely do a stone for 6 July, that's 3 months away and less than 1.5 a week, in fact not much more than 1lb a week. Go for it!!!

Now please can someone give me a boot up the whatnot. I have 2 stone 10 lbs to lose. I'd like to lose 1.5 stone by the summer (say 1 Aug). Please chivvy me along.