SW Support Thread #1 of 2018

[Groovee]

New thread to see in 2018. Everyone welcome.

Having lost 4st in 2017... I'm looking at target by Valentine's Day if possible.

Look forward to welcoming everyone back and welcome to those embarking on their journey x

B....cooked breakfast syn free

L....butternut squash soup
Cereal with yoghurt, apple and banana
Grapes

D.....some veggie syn free extravaganza made by dh and 35g halloumi.

Lunch: Beans on toast (B) w/ frylight fried mushrooms
Tea: butterbeans, LM roar sausage, baby cucumbers and multi colour tomatoes - v filling
10 cal jelly (0.5)
Also had a mocha, syn free and using a bit of my heA, probably 1/6

finishing on 2.5 syns
ate a teaspoon of sugar, just allowed 2 syns, then had another mocha to quell the craving
5 meals to go

Have you tried the Halo ice cream?

It’s fabulous

2.5lbs off this week. A very slow start but I've hardly done any exercise. Puppy is finally allowed out this week, so walking will commence.

Food has been fine all week. Did have Chinese tonight but stayed sensible.

Well done Kinky, was it your first weigh in? I'm on my second week.

Everyone is raving about that ice cream in my group Calzone. I want to try it but it doesn't really feel like ice cream weather at the moment.

The speedy soup I made yesterday was absolutely delicious. I'm going to have it again today for lunch and freeze the rest.

I rejoined last week.

Some of you may remember me complaining, last year, about a group I went to that seemed unfriendly and not motivating. My friend and I made an effort to speak to people there and they would speak back but nobody ever initiated talking to us and the group leader did nothing but go through the losses and gains. Friend gave up but I persisted and lost 2 stone over 6 months. I finally gave up in disgust when I found out the leader had a Facebook support group but had never told us about it!

About 2 months after I stopped I had a text message saying she noticed I hadn't been to group and was I ok so I replied thanking her but saying I felt I needed more support and motivation and just got back "Good luck on your journey"

Anyway I heard locally about another group, it's further away but I can go on my way home from work and the leader is a bit of a maverick, doesn't do everything by the book but gets good results, so I have rejoined. I've put back one of the stones I'd lost but am ready to give it another go

Onwards and upwards downwards

Good luck @IvorHughJarrs

I made cheeseburger pasta tonight from Slimming Eats. It was amazing x

I'm rubbish. Can't seem to get in the swing of it. I can't go to meetings Cos of work. So do it from Home. Manage to be organised and cook meals each night but then at the weekend I mess up with a takeaway. So then I think bugger it and eat for England 😩help

That sounds nice Groovee, I'm wavering about the shepherds pie I was going to do tomorrow and thinking I might try that now. Did you put any veg with it?

Had onion in it and we had salad.

Looks gorgeous. I might just make that instead for tomorrow now

I'm going to work out a meal plan and go shopping tomorrow morning. The new consultant sent a welcome text the day after meeting and one today saying he hopes the first weekend has gone well and don't forget to join the FB group for extra support and chat. What a difference to the last one, the only message I ever got from her was after I left!

argh, had to call today a day off.
but, a 'positive' step is went to asda, ww wraps are only 75p atm. stocked up on speed and hex's.
expecting a gain tomorrow, but focussing on my WI result for mon 29th jan, which I want the result to be 10st11.5.

Made scotch eggs with Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary sausages tonight. Delicious, filling and free.

I love linda Mc ROAR sausages

@loverofcake983 how about planning your weekends. You could make Indian or Chinese or pizza and still feel like it's a treat?

@Groovee yes. That's a good idea. I guess I need to be more organised at the weekends. Just seem to be piling on the weight at the moment 😢

What day do you WI? I find (when I'm on it) if I have a cheat meal post WI (530/730 Monday) it keeps me going enough. If not the day you WI a planned one meal off, always with boiler rice ? 😂 I usually get Chinese, sometimes within syns sometimes not. I allow for that, and the weeks I'm on it, it doesn't affect my losses. Just an idea xx

I am currently eating a very weird but lovely bfast of asparagus w/ tbsp of houmous (2 I think) and an Alpen Jaffa bar (3)

Boiled *

Well done for finding another group, Ivorhughjarrs. A good consultant makes all the difference.
I've STS this morning which I'm ok with. Had a bakewell tart at a garden centre café on Saturday and digestive biscuits on Saturday evening. I felt really fat and bloated yesterday which I haven't had for ages so I half expected a gain.
I've set myself a new goal of 2 stones by the end of February. In August it will be our 30th wedding anniversary so I'd like to have lost 3 stones by then.
Hope everyone has a good week!

Hope everyone is OK, you all seem to be doing really well.

Am still ill, this bloody virus is knocking seven bells out of me, had to leave work early on Friday and am not in today, having spent literally the whole weekend in PJs on the sofa binge watching Grey's Anatomy.

Only lost 1/2 lb last week but was happy enough with it because it's better than a gain, and because losing weight when I'm feeling rank isn't necessarily the easiest thing for me. I'm not the quickest of losers anyway (the 4 stone I lost to get to target went at an average of 0.75 lbs a week) but my Christmas weight is gone, and I have just 11 lbs to get to target range (and therefore 1 stone to get back to target).

Well done to the losers I’m ashamed o day I gained today although expected went off the rails including a huge Indian takeaway I don’t know why I sabotage myself like this
Back on it today hopefully with my head in right place, no breakfast as was at work earlier tuna salad for lunch with yoghurt and apple for snacks and making spiced lamb burgers and wedges&salad for dinner wholemeal roll as hex b burgers and Tzakki(?!) are stunned at 8 suns for the day . Food shop tomorow so nothingbin to tempt me tonight just done Dacian workout to do hopefully see a loss next week.

Sorry for spelling it’s my fat fingers meant to say davina workout

Weighed in today and another 2.5lb off! If I can manage another 1 pound off next week I'll have lost half a stone. Really quite pleased with myself.

Well done testarossa1