Slimming World Support (6)

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Welcome everyone! Lots of support and advice on this thread so we can all help each other.

Although there is a meeting just across the road from me on a day that would suit, i decided to not join and attend meetings. A friend who lost two stone recently told me about what happened at hers.It was enough o put me off for life
Apparently the meeting lasted two hours, the same two people every week made excuses for why they didn't lose weight, and the leader had a little squad of people who she let dominate the meetings every week, and talk for ages.
I decided to save my money, and weigh myself at home.
There is loads of support on various forums on the internet without having to attend meetings.

Thanks Frouby I'll be mindful about the speed food.

You still have to go through pay...instead of trying to be early, if I'm in a hurry I get there 5 minutes before weigh ends instead, that way the queue has gone through already.

A countdown is just a 6 or 12 week pass, where you pay for 5/10 week and get 1/2 free. Saves a bit money, and keeps you at meetings rather than missing one as you've already paid.

I used to do WW online, never went to meeting, but I find was getting complacent and giving up midweek, whereas if I have to go on the scales I front of people, it keeps me on track.

Hi all I'm not even sure if this is the pox, both the pharmacist and the hv seem to think it is though. They are not itching, ds is tired and grumpy though maybe the itching comes later. I suppose i will just have to wait and see.

Frouby my dd has febrile convulsions every time she has a temperature it's truly terrifying the first few times especially if you don't know what it is. I'm keeping a close eye on her temp at the moment but there's not really much I can do by the time I realise she's got a temp she's usually had a fit, it usually happens to her on the the first spike of temperature.

Anyway food stuff-

B-water didn't even get chance for a coffee
L- pineapple, carrot sticks,mango and ham (totally random fridge picking!)
D-roast chicken and salad

Thanks ALemon - I tried WW online too and it didn't work. In fact although this current weight loss is taking an age I'm still glad it's working as I just can't get to meetings at the moment :(

Butt DS was covered when he got it but otherwise you wouldn't have know he had it as his temp didn't really go up and he was completely happy in himself. His best friend who had it at the same time (so same strain) was really ill with it. Itching comes when the scabs are ready to come off, but it's obviously important not to to reduce chance of scarring. Both my DCs scarred even though they didn't really scratch!

L I was craving carbs so have a small portion of pasta with 3 heck sausages, FF cottage cheese and salad. 1.5 syns.

Wing- it seems to really affect different children in different ways doesn't it? Dd is fine with just a few spots, ds is asleep in bed and has been for the last 3 hours, dc4 is whingy and not sleeping well so I'm sure the spots will come soon!! Dd1(11) is completely traumatised by the idea of a single spot on her anywhere so god help her if she gets it!!

My chicken fajita pasta salad was delicious. There is loads left over, so going to have it tomorrow as well.

Put fajita seasoning on chicken breast, cooked in oven for 25 mins and allowed to cool
Cooked pasta, allowed to cool
Chopped up loads of salad leaves, cucumber and red and yellow peppers
Mixed paprika into some low fat yoghurt

Chucked it all together and added HEA cheese to today's portion. Divine.

Help! I cannot stop eating today. Had my normal breakfast of porridge and fruit. Went to a meeting and resisted the croissants and buns. Had lunch (leftover spag bol, 2 apricots so well on plan). Had a walk/jog after lunch and since then I've had a mugshot (free), 2 slices of ham, 2 crackers with butter (8 bloody syns for two piddling crackers with butter!) AND i took a couple of bites of dd's leftover sandwich! So I'm not anywhere near using my syns but I thought I'd cracked the bad afternoon habit of having about 3 lunches! I work mornings so the afternoon is my danger point. Trying to make a healthy dinner now bit we are out this evening at a school event where I shall have to avoid any syns. I'm so cross with myself.

You haven't blown the day though nomoreheroes - keep going and enjoy yourself tonight but make good choices?

Sounds delicious -ALemon. DH made fish pie tonight and whilst he's been cooking the SW way since I started (we share the cooking) it's hard to syn what we had when he guessed how much flour to use for the white sauce and stuck cheese on top "but hardly any on yours Wing!". Have completely overestimated the Suns and because the only others I've had today are those heck sausages I am sure I'm well within my allowance. Just means I probably won't have a glass of wine later...

Thanks Wing, you're right I know. Just cross because I had planned the day carefully then had too much that wasn't on plan. Onwards and sideways then I guess! !

Has anyone got an idea how I could lower the syns for an enchilada recipe? The actual filling is free (or low syn depending on what kidney beans I use) but it's the wraps and extras that add. I'm tempted to do it on sweet potato/ butternut squash wedges, but wondered if there was another way?

I used lettuce leaves instead of wraps, was lovely last time we had fajitas.

Or you could use the BFree wraps, prof - one of those is a healthy b choice - and if you do a SP day you could have two of them!

I was thinking about buying a countdown as I thought I could skip the never-ending pay queue - oh well!

Some people do a really really thin omelette and let that cool down and use it as a wrap. Or I use lettuce leaves as wraps too. You could have 1 heb wrap and then a couple of lettuce leaves maybe.

Hi

I am restarting slimming world tomorrow and I am bricking it! But I want to lose a stone and no other diet (apart from starving) works for me.

Any tips for a socially awkward person about the meetings?

I made a pasta/enchilada hybrid a while ago. Filled cannelloni with enchilada filling, poured over some passata with a little chilli to give the pasta a sauce to cook in. Topped with enchilada sauce and cheese and cooked in oven. Was lovely!

Or you could put your enchilada mix inside roast peppers, I do that when we have tacos. Well I usually have one real taco then my pepper ones.

kooki - feel the fear and do it anyway? After the first couple of weeks you kind of get into the swing of things and it's not so nerve-wracking (although a year on I am still really nervous when I get on the scales!) and you get used to how a meeting flows. Most people at SW are really nice, at my group there is one lady who makes sure the newbies have a cuppa in time for the new member chat, and then the next week looks out for them after they've weighed to make sure they're not too nervous!

Re weigh: I really wish there was a way that countdown members could skip the pay queue, but there isn't. I was doing weigh today and there were times that we had no one to weigh because everyone was still in the pay queue - the queue is giant at 9.30, the best time to arrive to just run in, pay, weigh and get through without queueing is 9.58! (Or, as I said, join the social team, skip the queue and get a free magazine ). Our consultant takes card payments so sometimes that holds the pay queue up a bit. She did mention today at the start of group that people should make sure they have their SW card and payment ready because we need to process 60+ people in half an hour, so that's really only 30 seconds each. Sometimes people want to give you their life story when all you want to do is take their money/weigh them and get on to the next person!

I really like the journal, btw. It seems to be really well set up to work throughout a 12 week countdown, with lots of focus on the loss over the whole period, and how you feel about yourself etc. There's a couple of bits in there that I'm really looking forward to using, such as the meal planner - I plan the week's meals anyway (DH is aspie and it works for him to know roughly what we're eating on which night) so it'll be nice to have somewhere to keep it rather than on scraps of paper floating around the kitchen!

So, after that giant essay, WI today and lost 1.5 lbs. Quite happy with that, but not sure what the next week's going to be because I've got a couple of meals out that I can't do on plan (one is fish and chips, one is a curry) but I'll be extra-good the rest of the week to try and minimise.

Today's food:

Breakfast: Breakfast muffins, cherry tomatoes
Lunch: Ham salad, apple, pear, satsumas
Pre-college snack: Pufts, melon/mango/pineapple
Dinner: Jacket potato and bolognaise sauce. Satsuma.
HEA: Milk
HEB: Hifi bars

At last I have some bling for my book. It's taken 12 long weeks however with 1.5 lb off this week I have my half stone award. Thank goodness!

Sadly, I have eaten non stop and non SW friendly since WI so no doubt the weight is already back on.

The nacho-style feast recipe on SW website uses primula light cheese for the topping on the beef chilli, on top of potato wedges, its lush! Mini wraps are only 4.5 syns if really want to use the soft white ones. The bfree ones are really brittle cold out of the packet, you might need to warm it to soften it to be able to roll it up!

B eggy bread, berries, maple syrup 1 syn. Heb + 2 syns as bread over 60g
HeA milk in coffee
L pasta salad with loads speed veg
Ryvita minis 4.5 syns
Grapes, cherries
D smoked haddock kedgeree with brocolli, peas, carrots
Fat free yogurt

Well done em and just - brilliant!

I was doing pay this week - the countdown members seem to find it useful for me to tell them how many weeks they have left...we had 2 of us on pay this week, one lady putting cards in and doing the laptop stuff, and me sorting the money. Got everyone through a lot quicker than normal that way!

Well done on the bling justamo!
Bought a 6 week countdown and it runs out on the weigh in before my 1 yr SW anniversary! Have decided to lose as much as I can then call target at the end of the 6 weeks, as I'm pretty much maintaining.

Thanks for the ideas, has anyone tried the bfree wraps themselves? They have rather poor tasting reviews on Morrisons. Interestingly, I was searching through all the wholemeal options at Morrisons and checking on syns, and white wraps were coming in at lower syns than wholemeal?

Anyway, I will try the peppers idea (have done a similar recipe in the past as it's an ideal way to use up green peppers) and also the cannelloni, that's something I have never tried to cook before but fancy it. If I don't use the tubes for enchiladas, I fancy a slight change on a bolognaise route.

I was debating about quark a for 'topping' and salsa is good value, might even make my own.