Starting slimming world today, anyone else starting to lose weight today want to join me for some moral support?

[ElizabethWakefield]

So today is D day! Diet starts today, I have my first slimming world class tonight and i am feeling quite motivated. I think I probably have around 3 stones to lose, but i would be happy to even lose 2. I just feel fat and unhealthy and have never been this big before!

So today is day 1 of sorting myself out! Just wondered if anyone else was starting today too, not just slimming world, but any thing, and wanted to have somewhere to chat, swap ideas, or get some moral support?

hi all ! great to see the thread so busy, but it is hard to keep up, but well done to everyone/commiserations as appropriate

went out for dinner last night

had prawns in chilli m tomato and garlic to start

rare steak , just chargrilled , no sauce, with tomato & onion salad and green salad, no potatoes or chips

did have two small white wine & sodas and 2 slices of garlic bread with cheese though but had no syns the rest of the day and eaten fewer syns this week anyway

really hoping fora loss on monday

Lulu, just think of it as a flexible syns day. I think that Pizza Hut garlic bread with cheese is 7 1/2 syns. So, around 15 for that (although I think its more if its the pizza style garlic bread) and 6 for the 2 white wine spritzers.

Thats around 21, so not too bad really overall.
And the rest of the meal looks lovely and better still free.
If the rest of your week was ok, then you should be fine.

I say go red tomorrow. 2 HEBs and 2 HEAs, just easy on the carbs. HEB your spuds or syn them for sunday lunch.

Dita, I was thinking of stopping going to the group and going to get weighed at the GP's by the practise nurse. I did this before a few years ago when I stopped going to WW. It may work for you, its free and you still have motivation of being weighed and it being recorded and they are encouraging (in my experience). My SW leader hasn't been doing it long and doesn't really offer much advise, just the thing of going round the group and reading out the losses etc. I normally just get weighed and leave so finding this thread has been great and really supportive!

Kungfu, just thinking, you said you lost 7lbs with a bug. It normally takes the body a little time to recover.
Most people would regain all that 7lbs straight away. If you are maintaining, then I suspect that you are just getting to where you should be by carrying on the healthy eating.

Have you gained or are you just stuck?

thanks melty

even though i hd the garlic bread and spritzers, i resisted bread rolls and piles of chips , so that's a really big thing for me

tonight we're having syn free egg fried (frylight) rice and prawns & veg with oyster sauce, which is v low in syns. so today i will have had 6 syns only, which will make up for last night , i've also cut right back on potatoes this week as i think they contributed to my gain last week

keep telling myself, it's only half a pound, so it's not a huge fall backwards

I was stuck but gained 2 lbs overnight, that could have been a big dinner eaten late and not going to the loo etc. I had been doing really well - I started end of July and have lost 2st 9lbs (I have a lot to lose) and I am really desperate to get beyond the 3st mark so I am probably putting way too much pressure on myself. What is so annoying is the amount of exercise I have been doing but it hasn't made any difference to the weight, but hopefully has had toning benefits!

2 stone 9!!!!
Wow. Fantastic!
Thats 74 packs of unsalted butter.

I think being stuck was only your body getting back to normal but not allowing you to gain/lose until you got to where you would have lost that 7lbs.
Ignore it. It will be gone next week.
Keep eating well, and add more superfree foods. Eat that first before the free red/green stuff so you fill up on the v good stuff and top up with the good stuff.

If you are exercising a lot, are you losing inches/cms? Sometimes we lose inches but it doesn't seem to show on the scales for a couple of weeks.

It's all going horribly wrong round here. Combination of feeling ill = no exercise, and literature festival = eating out, and I dread to think what is going on with my weight! I missed class on Tuesday, and have horrible doubts about just how wrong it can go over two week.

We are going to Brasserie Blanc tomorrow, and I think DH will divorce me if I don't share a baked Alaska for two with him ... :o

Oh well, I'll get back on the wagon afterwards!

DCMB just choose wisely as best you can. Baked Alaska, well you just have a teaspoon and let your DH have the dessert spoon!

am struggling here too. I seem to have developed a really bad reaction to baked beans (not the expected one - had a small amount of beans and HEB toast for breakfast and by lunchtime had killer stomach cramps, dodgy tummy, and the pain moved into my lower back and is still there), whether my stressed-out morning contributed I don't know

I really need to get that enthusiasm and commitment back.

Do you think you might just have a tummy bug, unrelated to the beans, but aggravated by the fibre in the beans?
Just try to eat healthily if you can. Pick foods that are colourful, plenty of vitamins and minerals in.

And maybe a good sleep..

Melty, thanks for the wise words. I haven't been measuring myself but I wish now I had been! I am starting EA Personal Trainer on the Wii so I'm hoping that the change in exercise routine will kick-start the loss too.

Rial, hope you are feeling better today

Kungfu I am in complete awe of your weightloss, that is completely amazing.

Ria and Dontcall me, so sorry you're feeling grotty. Dontcallme, enjoy your Baked Alaska then draw that line tomorrow and get back on it. Two weeks will not undo all your hard work unless you let them turn into more and more weeks of clinging on under the wagon instead of sitting on it!

Lulumaam, your meal out sounds lovely and leaving the rolls and chips is a big success. Fingers crossed for you tomorrow.

Melty, the hypnosis has been making me sleep very well ! It has been helping a bit with feeling full though I think and a bit with cravings. I would never trust it to work without following SW but think it might be a handy aide, will see how it goes.

I realised today that I'm no longer morbidly obese as my BMI is under 40 and DD said she can get her arms right round me now when she gives me a hug. We're half way through October now, how is everyone doing with reaching their October target? I've done 3.5lbs of 6lbs. Next week is my funny week where I stay the same or gain so I need a good result the week after, fingers crossed. I've also set myself a Christmas target of 1 stone from last Thursday's WI, so that's 11 weeks.

ria sounds like you are poorly, hope you're better soon

thanks , girls, for all the encouragement

I was very concerned that slimming world would not be the best choice for me. I overeat and have done for ever, and choosing a diet plan that allows oyu to eat unlimited quantities of certain foods could have been bad, but i also know that if i had felt deprived or restriceted, i would not have stuck to it

so I am amazed at myself, that in just 5 weeks, i have gone from hoovering up everything in site, eating everytime i'm bored, fed up, tired, under the weather, i'm still sticking to a good healthy eating plan.

and i've lost a decent amount of weight and eaten much better food. i've also resisted so much that i thought i would struggle with

had a rotten cold yesterday, felt really miserable, really fancied some crisps, instead of chomping through the massive bag of doritos the kids had opened , i made myself some syn free crisps, which took 40 minutes to do.

but every time i manage to steer clear of the quick junk food option, i am strengthening my resolve that i am going to eat/live like this for the longterm

nothing bad happened when i didn't eat the biscuits/chips/roll & butter.. something positive happened instead !

so forgive the essay, but i am really pleased to have come this far in such a short time and a lot of it is the support , not just in the group, but from you guys !

thanks guys. Am really bored of all this poorliness now. I think maybe I do need lots of sleep, and will try very hard to eat better this week, then hopefully I'll absorb some vitamins and start to feel better, I think I am maybe still run-down from my bug being quickly followed by the boys being poorly.

Am not doing well with the October target

that was a lovely motivational post lulu.

am feeling a bit deflated tonight - don't you just hate it when a planned day out turns out not be as good as you had hoped? DS1 had a great time in 1943, but it wasn't as good as lastyear. I didn't do the wartime menu either, so I am going to do that in half term when DS1 and his friend go to the WWII museum for a day out.

lulu, I must have missed the recipe for syn free crisps, I've done the chips though and roast spuds. How do you make the crisps thin? I'm guessing with a potato peeler? Crisps are one of my 'things' so I'd love to try them

Lulu - I like your post, thanks

I have got my BMI down to start IVF next week, so am hoping during the injection phase to maintain my weight, not sure is losing possible with injections or advisable.

Well, I was quite good at lunch. I had steak. And a green salad without dressing. Andchipsbearnaisesaucealglassofwineandthebakedalaskatofollow.

Back on it properly tomorrow, in the meantime I'm also NOT going 'oh well, that's screwed today, might as well just settle down with an industrial sized portion of cheese on toast ...'

I've had a fab time at the literature festival, despite having to excuse myself from one event as I was hacking up a lung in what was no doubt a rather annoying fashion. I got books signed by two of my most favourite ever authors today!

Oh that's really made me laugh. Glad you enjoyed yourself DCMB. Its not meant to be torture!
But whatever you ate or plan to eat, the important thing is that you say, that was lovely, now lets plan a healthier week. And I am doing the same thing. Had that lush Thai meal a couple of weeks ago, but got straight back on track and still lost.

Who are your fave authours by the way ?

Keziah, fingers crossed it goes ok.
Just keep eating healthily, A nutritious diet is important when ttc. And if you maintain, well and good. You can still make the best choices.

Lulu, that was a lovely post

There's a really nice atmosphere on this thread. Its just so supportive.

would a veggie soup count as the third of superfree at a meal? spicy butternut squash and yellow pepper for example.

Melty you always make me feel motivated reading your posts like no matter what happens i can still get back on track!
Lulu that was a lovely post and really glad you've come so far in so little time!
Ive been sticking to the plan for the most part this week. The only thing im doing wrong is not measuring my porridge in the morn. A. Because i dont own a scales and B. I need more than 28g :-( then most evenings i have made apple crumble. With candarel and heaped tablespoon of light butter, flour and cooking apples. Thats between me and dp and we eat it with toffee mullerlight. Dont think it would be that bad syns wise. Really need to invest in a scales!

Thank you for those kind words.
Can only pop in for a minute, as have to go in to work early.
Just weighed myself.
have lost another 2.5 lbs

I have now lost 14 lbs, or a whole stone in 4 weeks.
I feel like dancing round the room!!!!

yay melty dcmb sounds like a lovely meal (and made me giggle), keziah good look, rial heres to feeling better this week, I am amazed you have been able to be so good with how bad you have been, I have had a week of slight offness and I have really struggled.
Right Monday morning, back on track. have a good one everyone.

Lulumaam, that's a lovely post. I've found it makes a big difference being able to log on here in between group and knowing that if I'm struggling you'll all help me.

Rial, forget the October target, make it November's instead or ignore it totally, I think targets only help if things are going well. If not, not undoing all the good work you've done is a huge achievement by itself, another step along the path to being and very importantly, staying thin. Hope you are feeling better soon, huge pat on the back for still being here despite everything. I think veggie soup does count as part of your third superfree, sounds lovely btw !

Keziah, good luck next week, fingers firmly crossed here for you.

Dontcallme, well done ! I'm sure if there are no spaces between the words the food becomes syn free, I shall carry a notepad round with me I think the not sitting down with mega cheese on toast thing is hugely important and a massive step forward.

KKfairy, do you have any measuring cups ? I've just been trying to work out 28g for my Mum as she's starting to try it this week and hasn't got any scales. She uses a third of a cup measure. I've found it goes from 26g to 34g depending how much you pack the oats down. 28g wouldn't be enough for me, I'd either need to have more and syn it or have loads of fruit and yoghurt with it. For your crumble a heaped tablespoon of light marg will be about 2 level tablespoons so roughly 5 syns depending on which one you use, 28g of flour is 5 syns, 340g eating apples are 6 syns when cooked so it could add up a bit depending on how much you are using. Apple crumble sounds lovely though

Melty, a stone in 4 weeks is absolutely totally brilliant. Can I be very cheeky and ask you to post what you eat one day, I think I could do with upping my game a little and would love to know what you've been eating to drop that amount of weight in that time. The receipes you post look delicious and I must start cooking some.

Dita, good luck with this week, it is hard when you've had a few days of struggling. I blame the cold weather myself !

Melty well done you thats a fab loss!
Wynken thanks for that info. I thought thr apples were free! Whoops! think il just buy a scales cos its never going to work by guessing. Tried bulking up the porridge with berries but dont like it. Suppose il either syn it or eat loads of fruit afterwards and just have the 28g.
By the look of things thetes a lot that im not doing right. Like the third superfree and im not dpending enough time looking up syn values. From today im going to read the book again and be alot stricter about everything. Thats my resolution for this week. Weigh in 2moro and im not feeling confident at all