Slimming World Support 8

[EmilyK83]

Brand shiny new thread - old one was full!

Hello everyone, my very first post! I've been looking for a friendly online support forum for SW and I think I've found it. I'm doing SW online as can't always commit to regular classes. Only been doing it one week and have lost 9lbs but I have a long way to go!

Welcome Bronte, and well done on your great first week loss.

Hi newbies!
Back from weekend away and back on plan

B yogurt
Apple
L tuna salad
Nutri-grain bar 6.5 syns
D chicken and eggy rice with veg and salad. HeA milk in coffee, no heB - baked oats ready for tmr to make sure I have it!

Hi, I'm new too, started online about ten days ago as I can't get to groups. I'm going to bookmark and read through the thread, but I have a question.

Why are you allowed potatoes, pasta and rice freely but bread has to be a HE or syn? This really could be a dealbreaker for me, a lot of our family meals use pitta bread, wraps, chapattis etc as the carb as they are the only one we all like. Only DD really likes potatoes, neither DC likes rice, DH doesn't like pasta, I'll eat any of them but would choose breads every time if I could.

Whoknows it's to do with the filling capacity of the food. So although some carbs are free it's because they will fill you up for longer. So 2 slices of bread and a bowl of pasta might have similar calories/fats but the pasta will keep you fuller for a lot longer.

todays plan

B. Coffee
L. Probably left over mackerel pate and ryvitas with salad
T. chicken breaSt wrapped in parma ham, parmineter potatoes, veg and some kind of sauce.
Syns will be decided through the day. Or kept for a g and t later.

Thanks Frouby. Not sure how I am going to deal with this, I picked SW as it seems to work best with family meals but there will be a riot if I start serving up potatoes or rice more than once a week each.

I think I sabotaged my week yesterday. So I went to a friends house For lunch and she knows I am doing slimming world. She really wants to lose weight herself also. She made a meal which was basically pork with fat (I cut it off), sliced potatoes all cooked in cream!! I couldn't really avoid the cream. I had lots of salad with it. Then she gave me lemon cake which was bought so looked online and syned it. I hope this hasn't ruined my week 😞

whoknows some wraps count as your heb choice so you could use that. Or just cook rice or whatever for your self and give the rest of them the normal wraps etc.

I just say I don't fancy bread or don't have enough syns for it if the dcs ask. Sw is pretty family friendly and it's easy to omit the bread part if necessary.

We are having meat and potatoe pie later in the week. I can have the filling but not the pastry so will just remove my pastry. If I really wanted pastry I could eother syn it or try and find some heb choice that would work as an alternate. Or make a mashed potatoe or swede/carrot mash topping and have it as a kind of cottage pie.

Thanks, that's sort of what I'm doing, saying I don't feel like it, but it's hard when I would far rather have the bread product myself as well. One of my DCs has food issues with his autism and it's hard enough planning round him as it is (won't eat potatoes at all and no more than a grudging forkful of rice).

I am already using half my HEb choice for breakfast, I can't get through the morning without some carbs, so any bread I eat later has to come partly from syns.

The thing is, losing weight does mean changing what you're eating...it has to, because how you have been eating is what's caused you to need to lose weight.

Anything you do is going to limit bread or make you choose to limit something else to keep the bread, because bread is quite high in calories.

Could you switch your breakfast to e.g. fresh fruit and yoghurt, or breakfast muffin or omelette and save the half HEB for later?

If you can't get through the morning without carbs you could try a ready prepared pasta salad, potato salad, or rice salad that you could have a bit of mid morning?

Or do you mean you can't get through the morning without carbs for breakfast? Fried potatoes (in frylight)?

I would look at what you can swap around for breakfast then. A banana is free and quite carby. You could have other speed fruit, a banana and some ff yoghurt. Or bacon and eggs, or even a cooked breakfast.

There are loads of things you can hAve instead of bread it's just a case of being organised. And I try and limit bread as my heb as it does mean I don't have as much speed.

So a ham salad sandwich doesn't have aa much salad as a ham salad. Or beans on toast might be free, but it has no speed. So I would try and have bacon, egg and tomatoes instead.

I am swapping my big shop over from tescos to ocado next week. Sadly I am excited by this lol. Never had shopping delivered and don't have a waitrose locally so any tips for sw friendly stuff is appreciated!

Mummy, it's only one meal, so try not to worry about it too much.

Welcome Whoknows. Could you still do the foods and serve with bread stuff for everyone else and pasta/rice/potatoes for yourself? Maybe syn some of the bread if you want it. Cloud bread is syn free, maybe look at makingnhat for yourself?

3.5 lb loss this week, got my 4.5 stone award and slimmer of the month. Feeling amazing.

B: fruit and hifi bar at group
D: ham and egg salad
T: sausage, SW chips, mushrooms and onion, beans

I have made a lot of changes (and have lost 5lb in ten days so far) but I've tried all sorts of non-carb breakfasts in the past and they all just make me feel unsatisfied and greased out, I have never liked cooked breakfasts apart from poached eggs anyway. It's not a question of being disorganised. Bananas might be worth a try but the thought of sweet stuff that early in the day is pretty unappetising too, I don't have a sweet tooth. I only have a small piece of toasted rye bread with marmite and two poached eggs but it really works for me, satisfying and tasty (previously would have had two slices of 50/50 toast with butter and peanut butter, so this is a big improvement).

I should add, sorry for just crashing into your thread and whinging, I didn't mean to. On the whole I think this is a really good system that will work for me and it's great to read about how others are doing with it.

"sorry for just crashing into your thread and whinging"

Oh god - sorry if I made you feel like that, I just meant...sometimes I have to remind myself that I joined for a reason and that reason is that (for me) unlimited cheese and chocolate do not lead to a healthy BMI.

Sometimes there are foods that it's hard to work round, but usually there's a reason for that food having to be limited...

No, it wasn't you Tabulah, it was me taking a hard look at myself. I think the issue for me is that while I am prepared to give up the bulk of my bread, it seems harsh not to be able to eat limited amounts as part of a main meal without it using up all your Hexs of syns. I'm happy to go without most sweet stuff and virtually never drink though, so I think syns of bread might be the way to go.

Whoknows would SP plan work better for you if you tend not to have much pasta/rice/potato? As you get 2 heBs on SP

B baked raspberry oats 1 syn, heB
L homemade baba ganoush with 3 syns tahini, with crudités and pack m+s healthy snacking mini tortillas 5 syns, yogurt
Grapes, pineapple, half heA cheese as a snack. Other half heA milk in coffee
D steak, SW chips, salad, mayo 1 syn
Evening dance class, fruit and yogurt after if hungry.
Feeling a bit fed up with it all at the moment and wondering if need to take a break from class.
Feel as I never lose much and end up back where I started months ago if have a holiday or weekend away like I did this weekend. I know I'm in for a gain and haven't lowered my overall weight for months, just go up and down by the same 1.5 pounds. I'm perfect at maintaining really! Don't feel I'm getting anything from group, just wasting the £ss!

Whoknows I have 1 night a week off plan. We have a takeaway every Friday. It keeps me on track and I don't feel deprived.

As a compromise could you do 1 night a week where you have the bread you want ad 6 nights on plan?

Yes, I was thinking of SP too. Maybe it would work best for you, WhoKnows

You eat 50% of your plate foods marked with an S, and 50% foods marked with a P (no "free" food unless it has one of these symbols - so no potatoes/rice/pasta/bananas; no yoghurts but you can have quark or cottage cheese). You still get your HEA for milk/cheese and you can have two HEBs (for your fibre) so you could have up to six slices of wholemeal bread, if you go for the Kingsmill crustless. And of course you get your 5 - 15 syns a day on top.

I am totally craving a double decker. I have been craving a double decker since last Thursday and I don't know why. I have tried substituting lower-syn chocolate (hifi bars, kit kats) but I am still craving a bloody double decker. If I lose 1.5 lbs on Thursday and get my 3 1/2 stone award, I will treat myself to one for lunch

SP day today:

B: Eggy muffins
L: Beef salad, apple, pear, satsuma
D: Salmon fillet with roasted veg (courgette, red onion, peppers, cheery tomatoes, baby button mushrooms)
HEA: Milk
HEB1: Apricots
HEB2: Hifi bars

maygirl have you spoken to your consultant about how you feel? I was like this, and did a food diary - which identified that maybe, now I'm a fair bit smaller than I was, I needed to look at portions as well as free food. I downloaded My Fitness Pal so now eat the SW way but track my portion sizes and everything through MFP (saying that I want to lose 1 lb a week) - and it's been really good for me. I'm learning what is a normal portion size, learning where I can definitely overeat, learning where it doesn't really matter (eg with vegetables because they are so low in calories anyway, it doesn't matter that I have LOADS), learning what is low in syns but ridiculously high in calories mugshots I'm looking at you for what it is.

There are other options, my consultant said that if looking at portions and being properly accurate with a food diary for a couple of weeks hadn't worked, she would help me out with Fast Forward which is apparently so restrictive you have to even measure your lettuce leaves but definitely gives your weight loss a kick start.

Hello everyone.

I've been absolutely terrible today. Stressful morning at work (they are all stressful recently) so absent mindedly ate a couple of biscuits the children had made (they were tiny though).

Then had a slice of chocolate cake with lunch because it was a colleagues birthday and I have no self control.

Then I went to the gym and spent ages making a healthy stew thing for my lunches for the next 3 days (some redemption) BUT by time it was cooked I was STARVING and all the pans were dirty and I had barely any food in and was too scared to walk to the shop because I would have ended up buying something terrible so I made marmite pasta with 2 table spoons of butter and a handful of cheese (had already had HExA today). So syns through the roof and seriously annoyed at myself. Dreading weigh in tomorrow.

(And I just posted this on the wrong thread so I'm also mortified)

Hi all and welcome to the newbies.

Ninny tomorrow is another day, I always seem to post random things on wrong threads too

I've had a so so week, but realised that I can't get to group in the morning as I've got a hospital appointment. We are having an Indian tonight I've been reasonably good in what I've ordered apart from the chapati my youngest two aren't sleeping well at the mo so I'm exhausted which always makes things tricky. I will have a spare hour tomorrow so I'm going to make some nice things for the freezer to try and keep me on track this week.

B-coffee and fruit
L-hifi and 2 chocolate hob nobs and a maom
D- Indian takeaway

Hmm looking at that I really need to pull my finger out!!

May definitely do a food diary. And definitely look at your portions.

If I need a boost I find doing 1/2 speed and 1/2 free foods helps just as much as an sp day. But actually eating the speed first before the free food.

Also for lunch I usually do sp meals. So a ham or tuna salad so probably 80% speed.

And conversely I find my losses are better after a holiday. So we had a weekend away. I was off plan completely for 4 days. St's at 1St Wi then lost 3 lbs over the next 2. My usual loss is about 1lb a week so was an increase.

Also measure everything that isn't free. It's easy to put too much on and not syn enough because we become complacent.

Thank you all for your comments, I hadn't heard of SP (I'm online, not going to a group and I haven't got the books, haven't got the hang of speed foods properly yet), it does sound as though that would work for me. In the meantime I bought some pouches of ready cooked rice so that I have no excuse to just grab bread products with evening meals, shared one with DH tonight while the DCs had naan bread.