What the bleep

[justneedtogetstarted]

So I joined SW last week. Never been a member before. Am very overweight but feel like I have reasonable knowledge of nutrition etc. So week one I didn't really follow the plan to be honest, never got around to properly setting up the app etc. today I weighed in- no change, kick up the backside to download the app and do my research. I have now used the app to track my food intake. It wasn't a great day food wise but honestly I don't know how I will ever stay at 5syns! I am currently on 65!!!! And I am still hungry. Mind blown.

Swap your coconut latte for soya or cows milk then you can have it as part of your HEXA.

OP, you need to open that book you were given and study it.

Short version - most fruit and veg are excellent. Avocado is about the only real exception, so just don't eat it. 1/3 of your plate to be covered in fruit and / or veg.

That salad - soft goats cheese isn't syn free. Nuts are not free. Salad dressing is high in fat unless you pick a v low fat one or make it from scratch and measure the ingredients. Look at your daily portions of dairy / calcium and plan them in advance. Same for fats, grains etc.

At the moment you're wasting all that money for being a member. Absolutely pointless joining a weightloss club if you're not going to even try to follow it!

Meal planning and calculating is the key to any diet IMO.

Thank you everyone for the stern talking and supportive comments. I do have a habit of not really committing to diets. In my defence, I think some of that comes from wanting changes to be manageable, lifelong and sustainable. So wanting to avoid going super epic healthy and then falling off the wagon hard. But on the other hand, SW is not extreme, you can eat lots of food, and without change, I will see no change in weight!

Anyone who has read the thread may be pleased to hear that I have finally cracked it with day 3! 12.5 syns only!

Breakfast
Crunchy bran, milk healthy a and b
Coffee
0 syn

Lunch
Chicken potato pie. Cut out most of the oil, switched the creme fraiche for 0 fat yoghurt (didn't work out that great to be fair).
Broccoli. Carrot. Beetroot
30g hard cheese healthy a
Breadcrumbs
Garlic
5.5 syns

Free energy drink

Dinner
2 Fried egg in low kcal spray
Baked wedges - no oil
Carrot
Baby corn
Peas
Broccoli
Celeriac
Sriracha sauce

Snacks
Punnet cherries
Few picky bits (should cut out)- spoonful granola, 1 ryvita, spoon of salted caramel sauce
Diet Coke
6.5syns

Just lots more days to go but hope I see a difference at least!

Watching thread.

Well done OP. Use creme fraiche next time, just get the light stuff. Onwards and upwards!!

I had a huge roast dinner this evening- beef, roast potatoes and parsnips , swede and carrots, sprouts and cabbage, 2 Yorkshire puddings ( 4 syns) and gravy (2 syns)

What a load of nonsense
Your 'bad day' sounded super healthy and like nice proper food. This is a nonsense diet with bullshit tips like put granulated sweetener on a bread roll and pretend it's a doughnut and don't mash a banana or it becomes nutritionally devoid
Plain weird

No, only idiots who aren't following the the diet think that's how SW works. At no time does they get recommended by anyone who works for SW.

Clearly OPs diet isn't healthy if she's "significantly overweight" and eating 1300 calorie of excess treats and empty calories in a day (which is what 65syns equates to).

Show me the SW book, webpage or consultant that recommends you do this ...

Why would an adult need to mash a banana to eat it?

In a banana sandwich!

Where’d you get that bread roll thing lol. Definitely not part of slimming world plan

There's good reason not to puree fruit, look it up, there's a good explanation, that's why dentists don't recommend fruit smoothies as bad for the teeth too.

If you want a banana sandwich you can slice it.

Don't do it, it's a cult.

@Sletty it was 7 years ago I heard the bread roll, along with several other questionable subs that makes me wonder how I believed this shit and ate it.

Calorie deficit or diet and exercise works for weight.

OP I think it might help you better if you keep a slimming world tracker. Instead of writing what you for breakfast lunch and dinner just write what food you had as part of the plan. This is a really good way of getting to fully understand the plan.

So here’s mine for today:

Speed food
lettuce, onions, tomatoes, peppers, spring onions, celery, runner beans, mushrooms, spinach, pak Choi, gherkins, garlic, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, beetroot, broccoli, cucumber, carrots, chillies, strawberries, blueberries, orange

Free food
Baked beans, 2 boiled eggs, noodles, fat free yogurt, quark, sweetcorn,

Healthy extra A x 2

1. 250 ml semi skimmed milk
2. 30g cheddar

Healthy extra B
45g bran flakes

Syns
Pesto (4)
Quorn sausages x2 (3)
Options Hot chocolate (2.5)
Freddo bar (5)
Total syns 14.5

Here’s the actual tracker slimming world give new members to get into the way of the plan. If you do this tracker for 4 weeks you will know the plan inside out honestly

There’s no a slimming world consultant advised that????

You heard that from the slimming world consultant as a genuine part of the plan?

Hi Op
I feel your pain but once you get into the swing of it, SW really is good! I'm doing the online version as I really can't stand classes...I like the eating plan but never found a class that I actually liked. But that's just me!

I think prep is everything. If you don't prep, you'll grab whatever and that's where it all goes wrong. For me, I also try to eat the stuff that I really, really enjoy but do a SW version. I don't really have a sweet tooth (which is a bonus) but I do love a big stonking sourdough sandwich with allllllll the cheese. But I'm just learning to make adapted versions and also find new ways to cook food that is so tasty, I actually look forward to it. I also spend extra on things I consider 'treat food'.

So today's menu will be something like;

Scrambled eggs with beans & mushrooms on 2 slices of Warburton medium

Prawns, smoked salmon with chopped cucumber and lots of extra light mayo (love this!!)

Quorn burger, seasoned wedges, loads of broccoli and homemade cheese sauce. Frozen yogurt (the Danone Go Protein blueberry ones are delish) plus frozen raspberries.

It all comes to about 7 syns.

In between I drink about 2.5 litres of water (with no sugar lime squash) and usually have a Diet Coke in the afternoon).

I'm rarely hungry and if I am, I find something like a Babybel to snack on. I think the secret is planning in advance and having lots of good snacky things within easy reach.

@justneedtogetstarted try an egg, or just the yolk, to mash potatoes. Syn free.

Thanks @towering your day sounds fantastic and I'm suprised you can eat that in budget! I need to study how to get my meals rocking! The good news is that I lost 1.5 pounds today (in a week), though still 50 or so to go . I need to really commit. @Wilma55 egg tip is a good one. I love eggs so very happy that they're syn free!

I did a tesco order last night and lots of veg and protein arriving later. Along with the odd other new item like low fat vinaigrette. Still need to plan meals though.

Is anyone else here on this journey at the moment?

I’m nearly a year into the plan and am roughly 8lbs away from target - when I reach it I will have lost 5st 1lb. I am already thinking ahead to when I reach target and will continue regularly attending group to make sure I stay on track.

Always been a lot of misinformation about SW. The pureed fruit thing is indeed very simple. And whilst I don't think some of the products SW pushes are great, or that anyone should be eating sweeteners or Frylite, I do think many of the people signing up for it are starting from a low nutritional base anyway, and that the general advice of protein plus plenty of fresh fruit and veg is pretty excellent.

@whatsthatbloodycatdonenow wow that's amazing. Have you really lost over 4 stone in one year?!! That is very inspiring to me. What's the secret?

Meal planning is key. Knowing what I am going to have for evening meal each night helps with weekly shop. Plus making sure I have plenty of free foods / low syn quick fixes for lunch and breakfast. I batch cook once a month for microwave meals for those nights when I am not feeling it and want to resist takeaway, I also have a supply of SW own meals in the freezer as well.

I go through my SW cookbooks and mags and have a list of new recipes to try to stop me getting into a monotonous pattern of eating, I love to be adventurous in the kitchen and get bored with same meals week in week out.

Finally I keep my syns for treats like a gin and tonic with slimline, some low fat crisps to snack on, Options hot choc. The remaining syns I use for olive oil or ingredients that would otherwise be synned. Sometimes frylite just doesn’t cut it 😂

Veteran here.

Start by using free foods for your meals. Vegetables and lean meat, basically.

Bread and cheese are tightly rationed, but actually more than I’d allowed myself in previous weight loss efforts.

If you can get your meals free, that gives you bread or cereal and a massive chunk of cheese available for snacking.

Then you still have 15 syns for wine/chocolate/crisps etc.