Starting Slimming World today

[2fat4that]

Hi,
I hope it's okay to start a new thread here. I have followed Slimming World in the past, but in the past year have put on 2 stone, so I'm going to start again and try to lose the 2 stone and maybe even get to my ideal weight by losing another 7 lbs. That would put me at 10 stone and I'm 5 foot 7 - if I weigh less than 10 stone I look gaunt in the face.

I've got the books from last time and I don't like attending the meetings, I'll see how I get on, might join online if I think I need to.

Today I've had 2 slices of rye bread with a little butter and cheddar for breakfast (as my healthy A and B), a baked potato with a little grated cheddar and butter for lunch and dinner will be one sausage with a pile of mashed swede and some brussel sprouts. I had a snack this afternoon of an orange Club biscuit and 8 grapes. I might also have a ryvita - I need to get to grips with counting syns, as I can't remember how many syns things have so will have to look them up.

I'm going to try not to eat after 7 p.m (we have our evening meal when dh gets in at 6.30).

I've also done 15 minutes of exercise dvd (breaking myself in gently!) and walked the dog for half an hour.

50 staying would make the session a bit well done, clap onto next person. I can see why that would be no fun. Below about 20 and you lack variety in where people are in their journeys. You gain from everyone I find.

My group has 130 facebook members from three classes. I know some, probably about 1/3 members aren't on facebook though. My current class has about 30 stay to group now - momentarily it was a ridiculous 60 with no chairs in the January rush. Almost led me to stop going. I couldn't be doing with all the queueing to pay, queueing to weigh, waiting an eternity to start just to state yes I'm happy or i'm a bit disappointed. Now about half the session is going through weights and journeys and half talking about meals and plans.

Just had a lovely dinner - SW carbonara, made with 0% Total yoghurt. It was lovely, quick and very satisfying. I do find it hard to believe I can lose weight eating like this though

I had chicken and roasted veg. Had homemade oat SW friendly cookies for a snack. Having a late tea of jacket potato, tuna, slices of bell pepper, onions and lettuce

Ooh do you have the recipe for the oat cookies?

I sort of make it up as I go along, I use the porridge sachets and add milk, sweetner and flora and a blob of peanut butter but here's a recipe

vicki-kitchen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/oat-cookies-slimming-world-friendly.html

Thanks Grays, I might try them, although I think the smell of freshly baked cookies would make me scoff the lot!

Didn't have a great day foodwise yesterday, as visited my mum who is just home from hospital. We took easy food with us, an M&S Cottage Pie that we could just shove in the oven and a trifle. I didn't have huge portions, but I did have a thin slice of lemon cake that a neighbour had made for my mum and also 2 M&S chocolate teacakes Lunch however was just a very small chicken and pasta salad.

Today I've had poached eggs on rye bread toast with baked beans for breakfast and baked potato with cheese for lunch. Dinner will be corned beef crispbakes, but I'm going to have just one and lots of veg.

Hope you're all having a good weekend.

I've been really bad this weekend. I made sw friendly spicy beef soup yesterday, and a sw curry today but in-between I've had wine and lots of those bloody Minion Haribos which i seem to have developed a very strong liking to

Midget gems are my weakness!

Dh went to band practice this afternoon and came home at 7 with a Chinese takeaway! Couldn't really throw it away ..

Been a bad blondes - too much wine last night. Hangover from Hell today and ate stodge pie mash and beans. Not even going to try and syn it so writing today off and start afresh tOmorrow

Ooh another place to post!!

Try SYNSALLOWED on fb. Great help.

Thanks for the welcome, 2fab (I don't want to call you the other f-word)

Well, as predicted I quaffed a shitload some wine on Friday night and also had a couple of glasses with lunch yesterday- small dry white with loads of soda.

However, I still managed to lose 4Kg last week! I know most of it is probably water, but still feeling very motivated this morning.

I entered my starting weight incorrectly on the SW site (am only doing the online plan) and have twice asked them to change it. They still haven't, therefore it is showing a massive gain for me! But it looks ok on MFP. Sort of. A massive gain from when I started with MFP three years ago, but showing a loss from when I re-started last week. I would like to be able to erase all past data in MFP without starting again. Does anyone know if that's possible?

This thread is really helpful. Thank you for starting it, 2fab

Aw, bless you London , you made me and If I manage to lose weight, maybe I could change my name to 2fab4flab?!!! [grin[
I forgot, I also had a small glass of wine on Saturday whilst out, a very nice red.

I'm due to weigh myself tomorrow, but am terrified I won't have lost anything, I ate so badly over the weekend and can't see how I'll have lost, especially because even on a good day I feel like I'm eating a lot of food.

I'm doing the online plan too.

Thanks calzone, I'll have a look at Synsallowed on FB.

Blondes, hope you're feeling better today.

I've had 2 poached eggs, half a tin of bakes beans and 2 small slices of rye bread with 1 tsp of butter for breakfast, a Mug Shot and an Alpen Light cereal bar for lunch, a tiny Kinder chocolate bar as a snack so far. For dinner we're having corned beef crispbakes, I think I'll have one and a mound of vegetables as planned yesterday

Can I join in?

I am starting at a group this Thursday, I've never done sw before so it's all a bit confusing

Getting some good ideas on here though

2fab4flab is a great name!

Hello Christina I thought about joining a group but am too much of an introvert!

Oh, I meant to say... I contacted SW via the online chat thing and they sorted my starting weight out there and then. So if you're doing the online plan and you need help/ advice/ information, use the chat function rather than the email contact function for a much quicker response.

I still have a looooong way to go, but feeling ok about stuff this time. Hope I can stay motivated

Hi Christina and welcome

I've registered online too, didn't fancy attending a group. I found it confusing at first too, but you get the hang of it quickly. Basically you can have as much of most fruit and veg as you like (called "free"), then you pick one thing from healthy extras A and one from Healthy Extras B (one is dairy for calcium and one is for fibre, so bread and similar). Anything else (things we should be cutting down on) has a "syns" value and you are allowed 5 to 15 syns a day. You'll have a booklet that lists the syns for different foods, there is also an app for Android (not sure about iPhone, sorry) or the website. Lots of good tips and recipes on minimins website

Do you get sent the books if you register online?

The books lead you through step by step.

Essentially you can eat as much free food as you need pasta, potato, rice, lean meat - less than 5% fat, vegetables and fruit as you want. Other things like low fat cottage cheese, fat free yogurt, eggs, oyster sauce are also free.

You seriously limit fat but you can use frylight for cooking.

1/3 of each plate of food should be speed foods which are most vegetables (not peas or baked beans)

So for breakfast you can have bacon medalions (back bacon with all the fat trimmed), tomatos, baked beans, mushrooms, potatos, eggs cooked in
Frylight.

For lunch jacket potato, low fat cottage cheese, prawns, tuna, spicy chicken are all good choices but watch out for fats.

At some point you can have your healthy a (calcium allowance) of milk/ more semi skimmed/ even more skimmed milk or cheese/ more cheese if you choose light cheese.

You also get a fibre allowance (wholemeal bread/ roll or cereal bars or ryvita type crisp breads or cereals/ oats).

So one meal can be something like beans on toast or homemade lean mince burger and salad in a wholemeal roll.

There are a selection of easy free foods that you can have in for convenience like 1%fat mugshots and most muller light yogurts.

What is important is to feel satisfied on the vegetable/ lean meat/ fruit element of the eating regime and then enjoy your choices from the syn element of it.

Its your choice whether its crisps (from 3.5syns/ bag for hoola hoop puffs) or chocolate (4 syns for a green and blacks mini bar) or alcohol (4 syns for a small black tower b light bottle of wine). 15 syns/ day or 105/ week is the recomended max with most people tending towards 10/ day or 70/ week on average for a slightly better/ faster loss. Sauces are another addition I enjoy be it mint sauce with roast lamb, ketchup with a burger or extra light mayo (1/2 syn/ tablespoon) with spicy slimming world fries.

Any new eating regime is going to take a bit of getting used too. I do believe this plan can work for life. Its very forgiving. If you have a bad meal/ day, just get over it and back onto plan next meal/ day.

Thanks so much, I bought the magazine yesterday so going to have a read at that today

I was hoping the group would motivate me a wee bit!

Yes much better now thanks :) Tho won't be drinking wine for a while pmsl

A mugshot and b bar isn't a lot for lunch - you can eat more - I would add protein to that and have some hard boiled eggs or some Chicken or ham etc

B cereal (b) fruit and almond milk (1)
L chicken Stir fry and noodles and beg
T SPag bol and added veg and cheese (a)

And Prob crisps for syns

I am going to be a pest..sorry won't ask anymore today....what noodles are free fro stir Fry?

Thanks

Christina, ask as much as you like! You're not a pest - we're new to this, so hopefully someone experienced will come along and advise ...

Blondes I know that wasn't much of a lunch yesterday - I didn't have anything suitable in the house really Same today unfortunately, my online shopping is coming tonight and my car is in for its MOT, so I can't nip to the shops for something suitable. Not sure what to have. I have salad and veg, but no protein .. I really need to plan better! I could go to the local shop for a can of soup I guess.

Anyway, I weighed myself this morning and I've lost 1.5 lbs, which is ok, given that I had a bad weekend and also it's that time of the month, so possibly some water retention?

For breakfast I had poached eggs on rye bread toast with baked beans and 1 tsp of butter.

I could have pasta with cheese for lunch I guess ..?

For lunch I had a cheese salad with my healthy A and low fat dressing. For dinner I'm having ham and boiled egg with new potatoes and sprouts. My syns today were 3 for a tsp of butter, 4 for midget germs, 2 for an Alpen Light.

normal dry noodles that cook in 4 mins

not fresh as they have oil

and avoid canned soup, rem had think heinz soup for lunch one day thinking it would be ok and sure was about 10syns was gutted

make your own soup with veg and stock

or the heinz version which i think is tin of toms/beans/carrots/stock and picked onion

Thanks. I thought I'd seen somewhere that some canned soup with chunky veg was syn free, but can't remember where now