Slimming World Support Thread (3)

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Shiny new thread for us all.......😀😀😀

kim I have a few food intolerances so do a few SP days naturally.

Half of your meals should be speed food and free food that isn't speed is synned. From what I can gather. Your consultant will be able to help or there is a page on it if you are online.

The only days I don't do it is if I have had sweet potato. That's 2-3 days a week.

I wear the same clothes and the same shoes every week so I don't have to take them off DH thinks this is hilarious

I hoping to start this online next week but it sounds horrendously complicated!!!

Please tell me it's not! I have at least a stone and a half to lose...

Oh yes, I wear the same clothes every week. I don't understand people who wear jeans one week and not the next (and then wonder why they've had such a good loss that week rather than the week before).

Still snottier than a big snotty bag of snotty things here, but GirlKitten is attempting to purr it all out of me right now (I can just about move my hands but she is on my arms!)

Today's food:

Brunch: Bacon (with the fat on), mushrooms, fried eggs (done in oil by DH and I don't care)
Snack: Satsumas, apple
Dinner: Roast beef, roast potatoes, carrots, broccoli, runner beans. Proper gravy
Snack: Hifi bars (HEB)

wips it's really not complicated. The book explains it all really well and if you are going to group, the consultant will go through it.

Wips......it's dead easy.

Free foods which you can eat as much as you like.....
All lean meat, fish, lentils and pulses, eggs, salad, most vegetables, all fruits.

HEA....healthy extra A.....
Needs to be counted but cheese and milk

HEB....healthy extra B
Needs to be counted but bread and cereals

On your plate have a third as vegetables.

Very low fat so switch to Fry Light.

15 Syns a day to use in meals or as treats.

hello! Im back on plan today and hopefully back on plan for the rest of the week as the kids will be back at school and I can have 5 minutes to myself!!
Its been crazy couple of weeks, lots of stress, littlle one at home full time and had cabin fever.

b: toast, laughing cow light triangle (1), eggs, tomato
l: chicken tikka pieces. Yoghurt. Apple. Satsuma.
d: Gammon, baked potato, butternut, asparagus, peas, brocolli, gravy (2). Yoghurt.

Hi, busy few days here so just caught up.

I've been on plan all week, making sure I have loads of speed food with my meals, apart from last night when I made the SW tikka masala. I just didn't fancy the veg. Husband loved it, in fact he's loved all the meals I've cooked so far.

Took my daughter on a day out today, lots of walking. The lifts in the block of flats I live in have been out of order all weekend, so having to use the stairs. I'm on the 13th floor! My knees do not like this, they're not used to the stairs! But it's all good exercise I suppose.

Today's food has been:

B - porridge (HEB) with half my HEA milk (I make porridge with half milk/half water), with frozen summer fruits. No honey or syrup now, managed to go without. Black coffee with sugar (2 syns)

L - jacket potato with beans (no cheese!) and salad from cafe. Cup of black tea.

D - roast chicken, new potatoes, green beans, carrots, peas, sweetcorn and mushrooms, with gravy (2 syns)

Been having an Options hot choc each evening, using the rest of my HEA milk and topped up with water. Is so much better than when made with just water - I always felt it tasted very insipid, and now it feels like a real treat.

Got my first weigh in tomorrow. I don't feel like I've lost anything. I feel less lethargic though, which is good. I'm back to college this week, so hoping my brain is less lethargic too. Need to be good at taking lunch with me, and not getting tempted by the vending machine or panini counter.

Ohh what's this 600lbs programme? Where do I find it?

Basin....will check in a minute.....

Need help!!

How do I keep my motivation :(

today's food:
B - poached eggs on toast HEXB (spread 4 syns)
L - weetabix and skimmed milk
D - roast chicken, SW roasties, cabbage, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, swede, stuffing (not sure but say 5 syns), gravy (not sure, say 4 syns).

So within syns but high syns.

Weighed myself this morning too and I'm 1st 2lbs. Did a happy dance about that!

I wear the same clothes to weigh in too, and go to the loo as much as I can lol!! My sister used to wear the same shoes, even after the dog ate a chunk out of the heel!!
Did an SP day today, apart from that I forgot about yogurt in my breakfast until just writing this up, but not going to worry about it! Its cos I cooked it last night as running early this morning.

B baked oats with berries HeB
Apple
L Soup, Toast HeB2 with HeA melted cheese
D beef and lentil bolognaise with carrots, served with loads of cauli mashed with quark and some cabbage.
Curly wurly 6 syns, wine 6 syns, milk in 3 coffees 3 syns

Ran 10 miles! impressed with myself that haven't stuffed myself all day to make up for it... the hunger may hit tomorrow though!
I'm doing a half marathon in 6 weeks time, would be good to be 6 pounds lighter by then!

Impressive work running 10 miles, maygirl - I walked 8.6 today and I feel like I'm dying haha!

That 600lb programme is on YouTube, I just checked - 19 episodes!

Charley......visualise yourself in the summer in smaller clothes.

Remember how rubbish you feel going off plan.

Remember why you wanted to lose weight in the first place.

Have a bath
Paint your nails
Colouring book
Meal plan

Distract yourself.

Dinner was roast chicken with roasted potatoes and parsnips, carrots, sprouts and broccoli, stock for gravy. Syn free.

Syns

Nakd bar 4.5
HEB hifi
HEA milk

Also made quinoa porridge for tomorrow which is lush meaning I can have HEB elsewhere.

Have you a recipe for quinoa porridge calzone?

90g quinoa
200ml water
Sweetener
Cinnamon

Cook quinoa in water adding the other ingredients. Cook til soft. Add berries and yoghurt.

Thanks!

Usually have porridge/ overnight oats for breakfast and uses up my hexb too early in the day! Will definitely give these a go

I cooked loads of it and am going to eat it all week.

Buckwheat porridge next!!!

I have a question - is there any way on the online food diary thingy, to put in your hexa as 15g of cheese and 100g of SS milk (or whatever half and half would be)? Or do you not really use the diary once you get going?

I did SW meetings last year and lost a stone and a half, but since I went back to work after mat leave it's all gone to pot. I haven't put any weight ON, but am still a couple of stone overweight, so thought I'd try online. I am finding that I really need the diaries to keep me focussed. Might just have to print some out

I use this thread as a food diary......

Revisiting my meal plan for the week......

Breakfasts.....
Quinoa porridge with fruit and yoghurt x 3
Fruit, yoghurt and crunchy bran
Bacon, sausages, eggs and beans

Lunches.....
Leftovers from Nandos chicken and vegetables
Lentil soup x2
Pastrami salad
Savoury rice with prawns

Dinners.....
Spicy chicken cauliflower rice
Heck sausages with sweet potato fries and mashed cauliflower with quark (cabbage as speed)
Beef noodles stir fry
Jacket potato cheese and beans
Butternut squash pizza

It would be easier to write it here! Online diary is clunky...

Breakfasts all week are eggs with baked beans, sometimes omelette with spinach and my hexb cheese, sometimes with ham, sometimes scrambled with bacon. Sometimes a coffee too - with frothed milk so I don't use too much - hence half milk/half cheese being quite common. Smoothie of fruit and greens - I know I'm supposed to syn these, but I'm never going to syn fruit in any guise, even if it slows down weight loss. I could happily eat the quantity I drink, probably in the same timeframe, and it's not juice, all the fibre is still in there.

Lunches at work - homemade soups on a syn free theme. Veg, pulses, pasta bits etc. Sometimes with added cheese or yoghurt or ham or harissa paste. Two thin slices of bread made into a chicken or ham salad sandwich, syns for dressing of various descriptions. Fruit.

Dinners:
Monday - prawn and cod fishcakes, Thai spiced noodle stir fry. Syn coconut milk (tiny bit in my share)
Tuesday - borlotti bean and pepper chilli with brown rice and salad, will probably chop avocado into the salad, which is another thing that is fundamentally good for you and I'll never syn.
Wednesday - homemade beef burgers (2 syns for cracker crumbled into the mixture), no bread but corn on the cob, SW chips and salad - might also make a coleslaw with syn value to the dressing
Thursday - lightly smoked salmon fillets, horseradish mashed potato and green veg - some elements of the mash will be synd
Friday - spaghetti and 'meat' balls (made with tofu, some cheese and walnuts - there's a syn value, but it's not big) with tomato sauce. Friday night is vice night, so definitely a G&T, possibly some wine, probably some icecream, but I'll have the syns for it.

I went to group for the first time in about 6 months last week. I bought a 10 week pass so I don't back out!

However, I have been kicking myself for picking this week to start. I had no children this week due to half term and them being off staying with their dad so I crammed my entire social life in one week and have eaten out/round friends every night. I did make good choices and didn't drink either though. Then I did two 9hr coach journeys in one day to pick the kids up so ate rubbish snacky things to cheer myself up.

Add to that working 12hr days and I am exhausted.

Not expecting a loss on wednesday but hoping to really get on plan for the next three days and at least avoid a stupidly huge gain in my first week.