Slimming World Support (5)

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Hope Calzone doesn't mind me starting the new thread- we've run out of room- eek!

Me new thing for this week has been cauliflower rice. Filling, doesn't taste too bad with strong flavours like chilli or curry but boy does it stink!

Notso I was really similar to you when I joined dc4 was four weeks old, I'm 5"7 and I weighed just under 15 stone. I've lost 3 and a half stone and I've got 1 and a half to go to get me to target.
I've done it really slowly though I refuse to do it when I'm out (which is not so often!) and I've got a bit stuck recently. It is a really good plan though and I found it easy to do even with four young children, I batch cooked a lot and bunged it in the freezer so I always had something I could throw in the microwave if the baby was having a clingy day.

Weigh in for me tonight I know I've gained but time to face the music! Me and my friend I go with have decided we aren't going to stay tonight and go and sit in a beer garden and meal plan instead

I've done so much walking the past few days. I hope I get my stone award tomorrow. Need to have lost 2lb.

Well done on your stone award Helen.

The how weather is certainly affecting my eating, lovely salad weather.

B: bacon, mushrooms, scrambled egg with a splash of milk
D: ham and pease pudding roll, giant orange, pear
T: SW chicken Kiev, jacket potato, corn on the cob and salad

Buttwing that's fantastic!

I hope I do as well as that.

I called the consultant up earlier just to introduce myself. She sounds lovely and let me know where to download a 'one you' voucher to get free membership with a 12 week countdown when I sign up tomorrow.

Good luck tomorrow lemony!

Today
B grapenuts heB, yogurt 3 syns, berries. HeA milk in drinks

Banana and free yogurt

L Jacket, prawns, marie rose sauce made with low fat mayo and ketchup, 1 syn. salad.
Freddo 5 syns, grapes
D fish pie, loads of veg

Maygirl I had a freddo for my treat tonight. Didn't go with the planned meal tonight either, had a bbq instead. Veggie kebabs, a hache steak and a pork steak that said 2 Syns on the calculator but I cut the visible fat off so hoping that made it free or lower Syn. Either way only 9 Syns maximum for the day, not too bad.

Good luck notso.

Emily a loss is a loss, every one counts! 

Good luck Lemony, fingers crossed!

Slow cooked lasagne, was delicious and would recommend. Forgot to take a pic of it plated up with broccoli and carrots though

Hello - can I rejoin? Got to 2lb from target before Christmas when I decided not to worry about what I ate over Christmas however this attitude has continued through to May...

So after building up to it for the past few weeks, I've finally got back on plan!

Breakfast - fruit and yoghurt
Lunch - ham salad
Tea - SW chicken curry, rice and peas
Milk in tea
2 Allen light bars

Last time I had porridge for breakfast but I really miss having something sweet mid afternoon in work so thought switching to a free breakfast and using heb in the afternoon would help..will see how it goes!

Looks good Basin!!

True Helen - am just hoping it's a bit more as I'm challenging myself to lose 1.5lb a week to hit my holiday target! I have a habit of getting overly competitive with myself...

Weigh in for me tomorrow morning, need to lose 2lb to get my 1.5 stone certificate. I had been good all week but today is hubby's birthday & ive basically eaten a HUGE slice of my homemade, very tasty, definitely not sw friendly chocolate cake. I wonder how much it will have affected it. Oh well, time will tell!

Basin that looks lovely!

Wonder, hello and welcome back.

Emily, you sound like me. I get so mad with myself if I don't think I've lost enough. I am also like that with exercise, every time must be longer or faster. And I wonder why I keep injuring myself! 

Glitter, you will be fine I'm sure. I had a massive afternoon tea with cocktails the weekend before last and somehow still lost 2.5 lbs that week!

A miracle has occurred...I've kept within syn allowance today I've used all 15 but for the first time in ages/forever I've not gone over. Annoyingly a couple of mid afternoon biscuits dented my syn allowance but I turned down strawberry mousse for pudding tonight and just had the strawberries to make amends. Feeling very proud of myself.

I tried an SP day today and it seems to have focussed my mind

B - bacon, beans, egg, mushroom (mostly P rather than s&p - is this OK?)
L - leftover chicken in bbq sauce & salad, satsumas
T - bolognaise , butternut squash spaghetti, strawberries
Snacks - 2 ryvita with cheese, prunes (2nd hex b), mini Milky Way, biscuits.

May try another SP day tomorrow.

Yesterday

B.....fruit and yoghurt
L.....melon
D.....lamb curry, rice, apple, tangerine, banana

HEB 2 weetabix
HEA milk

1 hifi 3 syns

Good luck Glitter!

It's frustrating isn't it, Helen! In a way, though, I guess it means we're motivated to keep going...?!

Well done just! I need to get on the SP days! I think half of each meal is supposed to be S foods and half P foods but I'm not sure...I'm not great at carb-free days so don't really do them

Two hours till weigh in...!

Good luck with weigh in Emily! I thought you weighed in yesterday though??

I am going to try an SP day this week. You get 2 HEXB's too don't you? And still get your syns?

DS was a nightmare last night = no sleep, I had to get up at 5am to take DH to the airport and I'm on my own with DS until Thursday so it will be a miracle if I don't eat at least some crap this week. Just hooping he does to bed before 10pm tonight.

Today should look like this:
B - porridge with almond milk (about 1 syn I think)
L - leftover slow cooker lasagne with broccoli and carrots (HEXA cheese in there)
D - smoked haddock, potato Rossi, spinach and a poached egg (will be 2 hash browns instead of rosti if DS is still up and I can't be arsed to make it, which would be 4 syns I think)
Sn - orange, banana and pack of sun bites (6 syns)

I'll be well happy if I stick to that.

Thanks Basin! No, I cheekily weighed myself at home yesterday! Now I just need to pluck up the courage to head out in the rain...going to blame soaked through clothes from walking to group if the result on the scales isn't what I want, haha!

Yeah, you get two HexB choices and your syns as normal on sp days!

How was the lasagne?

The lasagne was delicious. I think next time I'd leave the cheese off of the top as it doesn't need it and then I'd still have a HEXA to use that day. The pasta was very well done though so might be an acquired taste in that respect. I chucked peppers and mushrooms in to up the speed content too.

They have some interesting recipes on 2 chubby Cubs don't they?! Will have to try some more

Well yet again my fucking assessment was cancelled last night. They called us all between 10.30 and 11.30 saying that it was definitely on, they'd worked out the problem that was meaning the college couldn't run the required software, we all get there for 6 pm (which meant me getting home, bolting down a bowl of leftover meatballs and sauce from Saturday night, then just as the cats got comfy on me, leaving) and then the software wasn't working. We are hoping it will be on Thursday FFS, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery at times

Yesterday's food:

Breakfast: Breakfast muffins
Lunch: Ham salad, apple, pear, satsumas
Pre "assessment" snack: Meatballs in tomato sauce (leftover from Saturday night)
Dinner: Cajun chicken breast, rice, salad
Syns; Bag of Pufts
HEA: Milk
HEB: Hifi bars

Having an SP day today:

Breakfast: Breakfast muffins
Lunch: Ham salad, apple, pear, satsumas
Dinner: Salmon fillet, portobello mushroom, some other vegetable (depends what's in the fridge, really, and I can't be arsed to look right now!)
HEA: Milk
HEB: Hifi bars

I also get really disheartened with my slow loss Emily - I average about 0.75 lb a week (usually a lb a week, taking into account the weeks where it's a maintain) BUT I have only gained on two occasions since Christmas (the week after my birthday and the week I celebrated my birthday) and only 1/2 lb each time, which was off the following week. I am 2 stone 8 lbs lighter than I was in June last year; if I hadn't been doing this I would definitely be heavier. I am on medication that causes an average of 40lbs gain in the first six months (I've been on it 8 months and lost 28 lbs in that time, so I'm 68lbs ahead of the game) so hopefully when (if?) I come off this in the next couple of months, things may speed up. I have gone from bursting out of a size 18 bottom to comfortably in a 14. I own two pairs of skinny jeans, FFS which I never thought I'd do.

When I did SW last time (lost 5 stone, but stopped when I got to the point I am now...in fact, if I lose more than another lb, I will be at my lightest for at least 6 years) I worked out that if you lost 1 lb a week, every week, you'd be 3 stone 10 lbs lighter after a year. I'm keeping that in mind....every lb off is a lb off, and it's a lb nearer my target (which is still a moveable feast, I know I've got another couple of stones to go but don't want to say where I want to be yet!)

Ok so I gained 2lb in 2 weeks of being totally off plan and eating my own body weight in chocolate.
I've decided to do ee this week and not worry about speed foods or anything just back to basics with lots of carbs to ease me back into it, feel like if I cut back too much I will cheat!

B-coffee (felt really sick couldn't face food)
L-not sure as have a hair apt over lunch
D-spal Bol

Hmm that's not much, maybe I need to take something with me to hairdressers!

em what an achievement when you are on that medication! Inspirational.

plus three...this week....ah well back to it!

Wi this morning and lost 3.5 making a total loss of 10.5 in 2 weeks. Really didn't think I was going to lose this week as had a couple of days where I couldn't stop eating and had too many syns.

I logged it all though and tried to pick better choices whereas previously I would have thought bugger it lets pig out so really pleased. I am breastfeeding so think I have a bit more leeway even with having my extra healthy extras and syns.

Onwards and downwards for another good week.

Well done thelion!

Well, weigh in today is proof that I shouldn't weigh myself at home - and definitely not the day before weigh in. Somehow lost 3lb this week and got my 3 stone award!

Yay congrats Emily

Today's menu is the same as yesterday's for me. Hoping for at least a small loss tomorrow at weigh in. Fingers crossed...

Yay Emily! Well done that's amazing!