Sashaying into a svelte 2025 with Slimming World

[Wilma55]

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

https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/chicken-katsu-curry

The sauce is so good 😃

For those who like Katsu in their ready meal range Slimming World do a Naked Katsu lunch bowl which is lovely (and free) and has the recipe on the inside of the label. I've made it and it's brilliant!

Oh no! Will your house be knocked down, or left to be right by a railway? We’ve had a lot of developments of roads and railways (and more to come) and it’s horrible :-(

Oooh I will bookmark that seasoning! Love a good seasoning!

I eat fruit carbs and yogurt carbs in morning, and veg at lunch, but I think it’s the pcos which makes me respond better to no bread and less starchy carbs. And my ibs is almost non existent as well which is lovely, I’m off almost all my medication

today was fruit and yogurt, red pepper soup, 2 x hi fi, 2x satsumas, and 3 x baby bel light. Dinner tonight is steak and mini potatoes with salad and veg. My favourite dinner of the week. Followed by a frozen muller light which takes me half an hour to eat, love the Turkish delight or vanilla and dark chocolate ones!

its so hard with all the chocolate! Mine are late teens so they’ve hidden their stashes thankfully and I made dh eat his 😂

Huge welcome to everyone ☺️

@ChocolateTea thankyou so much 😊 I can't say how great I feel.

That is good. My leader is great like that too. I love my group that's why I travel so far to it 😅 although I have spent a few weeks at a time away when I've not been feeling it, rather than wasting the money. That was 100% on me though.

Overnight oats are lovely. But I think overnight Weetabix are even better 😋

@suki1964 may I ask how you make your own yogurt? Is it easy?

@Sosocold honestly 2 lbs is brilliant. My leader has a 1lbs of fat made out of silicone (I think) and it's massive.

@Wilma55 nothing to feel guilty about there! If you enjoyed it that's all that matters 😊 sorry to hear about the railway situation though.

I feel rather rude and very unobservant, I have just paid attention to the title of the thread. I love it!

@Fatloss , theres no official forums online. Theres a lot of unofficial FB pages, usually run by BOTS, and tbh, very dodgy ideas bandied about , mostly people posting "hacks" so they can carry on eating badly whilst following the plan. Only they are kidding themselves because they arent learning how to move from a high sugar diet to a more healthy and sustainable diet thats based around home cooking

@LeftyLou I make my yoghurt in my ninja - it has a yoghurt function - and its so easy and cheap as chips. I take three litres of skimmed UHT milk - 68p per litre in Lidl and a starter. The first batch of starter you need to buy - a fat free natural yoghurt with live cultures - Yeo Valley for example. I use lidl, theres no mention of live cultures on the pot but not had a fail yet.

For every litre of milk you add a tablespoon of starter.

Put it all in the Ninja, quick whisk, then set to ferment. 8 hours later - yoghurt. That should be basic thick yoghurt and its fine. However the magic of a good thick stand your spoon up in it yoghurt comes from letting it strain. I line a colander with a muslin and let it strain over a deep bowl for between 6 and 8 hours. I like it so thick that the yoghurt rolls clean off the muslin.

I keep in an air tight container in the fridge and it seems to last forever - well it gets eaten within a week and its never gone off. But then again yoghurt is already a soured milk :)

Once you have your first batch, you just use that as your starter

The strained whey can be used to make bread /scones/pancakes. Gives a slight tang, rather like making a sourdough

Making it that thick means its ideal as a base for dips and pates . Its that creamy I use it as you would cream, a dollop on a pudding , stirred into soups and curry etc

I put my batch on before bed, put it to strain before work.

If you dont have a ninja or other commercial yoghurt maker, you can make it in a slow cooker or oven or even a flask - but it is a flaff. I make it only because I have the ninja and its easy and I can make large amounts in one go which make it economical

Is there not a forum on the SW app for online members? There used to be

Just adding to say PON curries are fine and not watery if you overdo the spices and cook a bit longer to thicken. I do the beef madras (without chilli because I'm a bit of a wuss with heat), leave it in the slow cooker for about 6hrs and it's absolutely delicious. We are a real curry household as well and I also do a lot of Madhur Jaffrey curries leaving out oil and ghee and they're syn free then too 😊

There is - I think it's only accessible to online members. It's under "community" in the app.

ive just looked through my app and can’t see anything?

I hate all the “hacks”. But you see them with every diet - just look at posts/groups discussing weight loss jabs and even surgeries. Some people want a quick fix whilst still eating crap.

There should be an icon to the right of the planner, at the bottom?

YY about the stupid hacks and people who selectively read the plan details to fit what they want to do (eg people who think that SW hate avocados).

@LeftyLou the thread title was suggested by @jeezypeepz but they dont seem to be on here yet.

@ChocolateTea I think the chat (?) on the app is only for Online members which is why I love having a thread on mumsnet.

Re the railway it could mean 2 extra tracks on the playing field opposite us and then not enough room for a football pitch, so potentially housing. Nothing will happen for years yet but it means it's hard to sell if people want to move.

Beef casserole tonight in slow cooker, no recipe just bunged it all in!

I had crustless quiche for lunch today, so so good. I had quark to use up so I used half to make a mackerel Pate and half for a quiche. I put ham and broccoli in the quiche and then had it with a Massive Salad 😉

The family are all having burgers for dinner tonight, not sure what I am going to have instead, sadly I've not got any mince in or I'd just make my own! Maybe syn free Linda McCartney sausages in a bap.

To the right of my planner is success stories and nothing under the additional menu either? How weird.

Ah that makes sense! Being a group member maybe that’s why I don’t have it!

i feel for you re the railway, it’s so bloody hard!

we’ve got gammon egg and chipped potatoes with beans for dinner. Comfort food because it’s not got over -1 today and I’m cold and tired from a really heavy week! All sin free, just no speed. But I just had a snack of fruit and fat free Greek yogurt as we don’t eat until 7

Ive been so good all week, even though its weigh in tomorrow morning, Im having air fried haddock and chips - chips hand cut and sprayed, the haddock is breaded. Im also going all out with the mayflower curry sauce :)

And theres not going to be any speed whatsoever !!!

Im tired, Im sick of the ice cos I cant get out to walk, havent had a drink all week, kept syns to a bare minimum - some days none, never getting to 15, and Im just wanting something absolutely treat - ish :)

I hear you! It’s cold and miserable, I’ve also given up the alcohol, and my sins are usually so low I rarely hit 15. I think sometimes we need warming comfort food, and it’s not like we are eating slabs of fresh bread with loads of butter or warm chocolate fudge cake!

Those silicone pound of fat cost about £85 on Amazon.
Her is a poem for you all.

Hello, do you know me? If you don't you should. I'm a pound of fat, and I'm the happiest pound of fat that you would ever want to meet. Want to know why? It's because no one ever wants to lose me; I'm Only One Pound, just a pound. Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds or fifteen pounds,
but never only one, so I just stick around and happily keep you fat. Then I add to myself ever so slyly so that you never seem to notice it, that is until I've grown to ten, twenty or even more pounds in weight.
Yes, it's fun being Only One Pound of fat, left to do as I please. So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying "Oh, I only lost one pound." ( as if that were such a terrible thing!) For you see, if you do this you are encourage others to keep me around because they will think I'm not worth losing. And I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you. Happy Days!!
After all, I'm Only One Pound of fat!!!

Just catching up with this group. Things going well so far. Today I've had wheatabix with banana and for dinner chicken with salad and rice. Finding it a bit hard to get my head around the not having to weigh everything. Hopefully week one will show some result on the scales.

Does anybody have any snack suggestions? Running out of ideas for at night. I usually have fruit with greek yoghurt or cheese and pickles using my hea.

Weigh in for me this morning at group. 4lb down.

SW 14st 2.5lb
GW 11st 2.5 - 11st 8 (somewhere in there I think)
CW 13st 12.5lb

Wrote everything on a food diary. So will do that again this week, along with using Syns in my meals and my HEB as hifi bars after tea as a treat.

Going for a few drinks and a curry with friends later, but I'll just get back on it tomorrow.

Hi does anyone have any preference to online or group?

That sounds like my snacks tbh! But I’m freezing and hungry so my snack has just been two scrambled eggs with some baked beans!

I prefer group

You get an hour for yourself, no demands from the rest of the family, its my time to work on me

Plus you get to make friends in group, we really support each other, laugh and cry with each other , cheer each other on

And most importantly , for me, I NEED the accountability. I have very good scales here, I could jump on those and record the weight myself, but if I didnt like what the scales were telling me, Id ignore it, give myself a couple of days and try again, no loss again and it would be sod it - and back to where I was within weeks. I cant lie or ignore whats happening if someone else is recording the weight

So every Saturday morning Im up at 7 and at group at 8am. If I cant make the Saturday I pop into a Friday one fun by someone else to get weighed and accounted for