Sashaying into a svelte 2025 with Slimming World

[Wilma55]

New thread for 2025, wishing you all a happy, healthy new year.

Well done @IlovetoKnitandRead that’s great and @birling16if you haven’t already done one, get yourself off here and make a plan for the week. You can be flexible with what you’re eating on any given day but make sure you know what you’re having for breakfast and then 7 lunches and 7 dinners to pick from. Then get the food in and don’t divert! Easier said than done I know but so much easier if you have the plan & food in place. My weigh in I tomorrow just got to get through my mum’s full on roast dinner tonight (avoiding the sticky toffee pudding and cauliflower cheese ) and weigh in tomorrow. Would like a loss but 2 dinners out excluding this one so I’ll take StS this week.

Well done on those losses, all great. I was totally off plan last week and lost the same as in the first week, which makes no sense to me but I'll take it! Another 3lbs. Even squeezed in my favourite takeaway. Given that before we were having 3 takeaways a week and most of my meals at work were bought from a shop, I think that's made a big difference.

Well done on those losses, all great. I was totally off plan last week and lost the same as in the first week, which makes no sense to me but I'll take it! Another 3lbs. Even squeezed in my favourite takeaway. Given that before we were having 3 takeaways a week and most of my meals at work were bought from a shop, I think that's made a big difference.

Nice result!

Had to change my name but it's still ,me.

Here is todays food.Last night totally fed up had wine, cheese and a Kelloggs square.
Today Fruit and Muller Light
Home made soup
Cous cous with salad and chicken and potatoes.

Might have slapped a bit fat into the pan.

You download the app from playstore or equivalent. You need your membership number and code from inside the booklet given at group. Think it takes a day or so from joining to work.

Eta oops don't know who asked or when! Sorry.

So fed up how?

Why are you still reaching for the wine?

You dont need to answer here, just questions to ask yourself

Im being honest here. Not only am I an active alkie so use all syns for drink, Im also ND and whilst Im not OCD, those tendencies creep in, in times of stress.

I cant talk a great diet, I know what to eat and I will encourage others if asked, Yet I struggle

I can eat a great Diet, I know so much about nutrition and a balanced diet, Im not stupid - when life is rolling along smoothly, I do it all - even adding fermented foods

Right now Im dealing with a 12 week wait for a breast lump diagnosis , and daughter ( step ) is in hospital with sepsis and now liver is the worry. So Im stressed, Im working, rushing pillar to post, and meal times are not happening and Im reaching for the biscuits. And because I reach for them. I eat nothing else for the day . Because my head is telling me - biscuits - I gained - so I cant eat biscuits and eat proper food, the biscuits are in me already, so I go without the good food

Before I would just do the biscuits and bread with impunity. However with my totally ND brain and having set the target of never gaining again, Im struggling during high stress times

Right now my eating is a mess and my need not to put on is stronger then ever ( that's the ND, when the going gets tough, the rules get tighter )

Yet I do know what's happening and I do know it can change tomorrow

So do look as what's happening for you, what's stopping you and address it

Just to edit, all the recipes, food ideas etc, that I offer up on here , are things I actually do, fine helpful and tasty and are my usual way of life. Its just when the stress is just so high I struggle juggling everything and its usually the meal plan that goes

@suki1964 , what a shame, really be a bit kinder to you maybe. Yes the biscuits are in there but you deserve the good stuff as well. And you can't run on empty with all that going on.
For myself, wine once a week is such a massive improvement. We can only do what we can do.
Better days ahead, I hope.

Hi everyone

Here, Life gets a tad tough at time and shit eating and drinking habits come back ( litre of scotch in two nights and not a meal in be since Sunday ) BUT, I know I sound like a flipping convert, going today for a weight in, has grounded me again

Yep, weight has piled on this week - not eating proper meals and then inhaling cakes, biscuits and bread - I knew it would. Because even though I knew missing meals would really mess me up, I missed them to counter balance the carbs - it does not work

So, weighed in today then came home and cleared the clothes out . I didnt have a scale win but I had a clothes win. Ive been holding on to clothes 1 & 2 sizes bigger - JIC - they are now all gone. Im this size, I intend to stay this size and the minute Im needing to undo a button or go sit in my nightie for any other reason then Im getting ready for bed, I shall go back to the basics and start again. However I dont think that's ever going to happen as I know what and what doesn't work for me

I still go every week , mostly for the craic and the pure friendships, but mostly to keep myself focused on me

1lb off this week. So 6 1/2 lbs in 4 weeks. I am sure it would have been 7 if not for the constipation!!! I keep forgetting to take the fibre capsules or take them at odd times of the day which is not always conducive to a good night's sleep.😂
I am finding lunches easier now, breakfast is still Alpro yogurt and frozen berries that I do cook in the microwave and not syn 😮. Dinners are still bit hit and miss as a family. We are enjoying pasta and pesto, baked potatoes, spaghetti bolognaise and sausages and mash. I can't get low fat sausages anywhere so far so may have to go to Iceland next for the SW ones.
I have seen the GP about my cholesterol this week too and it has come down to 6.6. We have agreed not to have statins
but continue with the diet and exercise and I now have a nifty little HRT patch too to help my heart health and hopefully my cholesterol.

Nice result @IlovetoKnitandRead . I have lost 6 and a half in a lot of weeks. I can feel myself wandering off it now. Ate cheese and those Kelloggs crunchy bars last night. Damn it was good!

Husband and I starting tonight , rejoining... again. I need to lose 3 st something and dh has to lose about 8 st. I resent it though, I hate rules for food, The syning cooked fruit even if its the same small portion i would eat defrosted, not happening lol, either is a mashed banana... but it works, my mum has lost close to 3.5 stone on sw.

Sorry it's a hard time for some of you. It's really hard to stick to a healthy plan when you're dealing with stress. I am so guilty of reaching for snacks then. And takeaways.

This week I managed 1lb off. Not much considering I stuck to the plan most of the time and exercised loads. Brings the total to 7lbs though, so that's good. If I hadnt started i definitely wouldn't be here now.

If I hadnt started i definitely wouldn't be here now

Exactly. The cooked fruit thing is a load of old rubbish along with the mashed banana.

Husband went i didnt manage.

I think of it as the rules give me a "starting point "

I can put hand on heart and say - although I go SW and have been going for 30 months - Ive never followed the rules to a tee. Ive lost the weight I needed to lose and Im maintaining .

I follow the "rules" of a third, third, third and I certainly do not count nuked frozen fruit as a syn - its still whole fruit - just a tad mushy - who really has the time to remember getting the fruit out of the freezer 6 hrs before hand?

I dont count syns either. Ive read the books, have the apps and understand chocolate, crisps, sausage rolls, take aways and cakes arent really a great idea - high syns I assume. But veg , protein and fibre are low syns or zero

So now its ingrained in me - avoid those high syned foods and chomp on the speed - veg and some fruits, the free - most everything you buy that's not processed

It means a lot of work - cooking from scratch every meal - but that's not really a bad thing when we learn more and more about the ready meals, jars and packets

Last night I pigged out on a fresh stuffed pasta packet , syned it - off the scale, I ate it and added parmesan and a dash of oil. No way was it a high fat , high calorie meal , a lot of these high syned foods are syned so high to stop you reaching for them daily and eating a piss poor diet over all - remember the days when muller lights were syn free? People desperate to lose weigh just ate them all day - not healthy

For me SW is the support.

I learned in AA - the only support out there for over drinkers - take from the program what works for you and leave the rest behind .

Go to group, weigh and stay. You would think with 30 months under my belt Id be grand doing it alone , but Im not. Left alone the weight creeps back on, same as the booze crept back when I stopped going AA

Well done on the loses everyone. I agree with certain rules I don’t follow. Things like syning avocado and smashed fruit etc.

Last week I weighed in and lost a pound. This week the MIL is staying and so far been copious amounts of bread, cheese, crisps and wine. I could beat myself up about it but I’m not. To me life is worth living and if for a few days I go off plan then that’s fine, so long as I’m not doing it everyday. If I look back to where I was when I started in July to now it’s such an improvement.

Weigh in tomorrow. I shall take whatever the scales throw at me. But will be sorting out the healthy meals for the week ahead and swimming, walking as I enjoy doing those things regularly now.

Weighed in today with a 3 pound gain. To be expected - more than I thought it would be, but have been off plan.

Bought the countdown offer last week with the book bundle included so just looking through those for some new Autumn / Winter dishes to try. Anybody else buy the countdown offer?

@Mash88feel your pain I also have MIL staying and really struggling to stay on plan with 2 meals out and she also has a few dietary needs that preclude some of my go-to SW meals. I did lose 3lbs last week but have a feeling that might all be back on after this one. Half term is always a tricky one so onwards and upwards.

@Mash88, I so hate having family stopping for long periods, no matter that I love their company, it's the snacking and nibbbles all the time that are the problem lol. But I know its only temporary and back on track the minute the door closes behind them

Weighed in this morning, last weeks gain plus more gone and Im now spot on target again. I managed a few more days this week of proper eating, only skipping one day , and I got two decent nights sleep which I think really helps

I froze at weigh in this morning, its turned baltic up here and cos I first weighed in in leggings and a tee shirt, that's what I always wear - so not a good idea today

Well done @suki1964 you are really good at getting back on it!

I've been off plan and over eating, out of routine once I got out of target zone. Was up to 7 over target.

Soup maker is back in action and I'm feeling more in control. Weighed in yesterday and lost 1.5 lb.

@Wilma55 , Id love to say its easy, but its not. What cinches it for me is I dont want to go back to how I was

I know I can not buy certain things, I know if mother brings them in, I have to get DH to hide them

SW say nothing is not allowed, but that's bull. I can not have white bread and butter , I can not resist . So I have weigh in day off plan, I buy bread rolls and crisps ( and suffer lurpack ) and I get my carb fest out of the way . If we are having breakfast or lunch out - that's the day. I eat everything I have to deny myself daily - and I have to deny myself because Im talking trigger foods

So I dont care on weigh in day

Following day Im back on plan

Im a pound below target at the moment , and this morning I woke totally hanging. Went to weigh in only wanting a cheese chip and curry sauce, and the day has followed that mindset . Ive eaten more bread today then Ive eaten in a month . I feel like carp .

But that's today and tomorrow I bounce back and get back on plan

Im not getting to the size I was ever again. I was never happy being a fat person and I dont care how shallow I sound wanting to be slim

Does anybody have a good curry recipe or a decent curry paste recommendation that’s worth the syns. I’m all for using my syns on meals instead of snacks. Tried several SW curries now and all very bland, they seem to absorb the flavour so it’s just meh.

How has everyone coped with half term and family staying??

Weighed in on Wednesday and lost 4lbs, pretty sure the 3lb gain the week before was all the bread weight from the night before so actually only a pound loss. Scales on a Wednesday seem to favour me, it’s the same consultant and set of scales just a slightly different time and location.

My last 2 weeks have been a disaster and I have gained 3lbs. I succumbed to binge eating. When I start a diet I convince myself I will never binge again, yet when it happens I am unprepared. So this morning I weighed in online and recorded my gain, made a healthy breakfast and started again!