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?

surely as the consultant's DD she is best place to get the best advice so am a bit she's not getting it ifyswim?

anyhoo, am throgouhgly enjoying my turkey and egg sandwich !

re frozen fruit - according to teh book frozen fruit is free. so you'll be fine x

I will read that article on WW over the weekend. I was wondering about crossing back over as I havent' lost anything this week, despite upping my exercise by about 99% over the week, and there is no way I've overeaten to that extent. Have got to the end of the week worn out and sick to death of planning meals, cooking meals, thinking about meals IYSWIM.

Have a bit of a busy and full-on weekend, so will be looking at sensible choices rather than on plan...

Have a great weekend guys

if you're excercising more, then muscle weighs more than fat...?

anyway, you have to do what works for you

daren't count what syns i had last night at the dinner i went to.

leek & potato soup with double cream & bread ( small portion)

veggie lasagne with garlic bread, salad & green beans ( no dressing , 2 small pieces of baguette garlic bread)

then sticky toffee pear & pecan pudding and double cream

but it was lush ! absolutely gorgeous, and I didn't think sod it and have seconds and thirds , even though the pudding was to die for. i'd saved all my day's syns and been having a low syn week generally so hopefully should balance out !

I think her Mum does try to help, she was asking her if she'd cooked the curry she'd given her the ingredients for but I guess when it's your Mum you don't always do as told ! She did say in class I'm talking to you as your consultant not your Mum. They've both lost shedloads between them but the DD struggles with maintaining. Interesting to watch the dynamics as an outsider.

Your meal sounds gorgeous Lulu, my mouth is watering!

Ria, a friend of mine joined SW two weeks ago and is gutted as has lost 2lbs the first week and 1lb the next week whereas friend who joined at same time has list twice as much. However 3lb friend has just started exercise with a vengeance and people have been saying it is to do with that. I have read that your body retains water more for a bit when you start exercising, don't know how true that is.

Went to a little firework party yesterday and was very good just had grapes as am trying to stick to 5 or 6 syns a day, just trying to take each day as it comes. Cooked breakfast kept me full until gone 2pm yesterday which was good. Had a jacket spud and cottage cheese plus cucumber salad for lunch then chicken stirfry for tea. Sat down later and had two Alpen lights with a latte from milk allowance plus 2 cadbury light choc mousse to use some syns and felt like I was having a big treat.

Lulu, that meal sounds divine (especially the pudding, yum), good for you for restraint, that has to be the way forward. Wynken, well done you for just having grapes at the fireworks party!

This is the mindset I am not getting at the moment, just haven't had that click.

I had a lovely veggie frittata which was filling and DH said was delicious and was all free/superfree. So that will be on the menu more often.

I have upped the exercise as well, though not to the extent that I was doing last time I did SW. I was losing so quickly last time, but I was running 20-25miles per week, I couldn't do that in a month these days.

yes, i think if i was a 'regular' person, rather than someone struggling with over eating etc.. if i knew i was going out for a big dinner, i'd eat carefully and lightly for the day , and enjoy the big meal and then go back to eating 'regularly' afterwards rather than gorging and then eating tonnes of junkj and rubbish after because it's all ruined.

let'ss ee what the scales say on monday

am out again tonght ! but i am going to eat before i go, have one white wine and soda and then soft drinks

Oops, thread fell off my I'm On! Just making it for later. :)

Hi I would love to join your weigh in, how do I join???? I am doing slimming world from Monday friend gave me books but I dont understand how many syns you can have. Does anyone know???? I am a mam of 2 girl 20 months and 7 week old little boy so want to lose pre pregnancy weight.

Hi Masie,
5-15 syns per day.
If you are breastfeeding, you need to have extra healthy extra calciums.

My week turned into a disaster zone.
Have now officially become single.
On Thurs Shitbastard accidently let slip what a relief it was that his 'friend' told him her pregnancy had nothing to do with him. He was on the phone and I was in the hallway not exactly eavsedropping but couldn't help hear him.
So hes gone, and I have been eating pizza, nachos with cheese, cereal and cold full fat milk, and white bread cheese toasties with butter.
Much better off I know, and to be honest knew that it couldnt last, deep down too many differences...but my eating has gone to pot.

Have been out shopping and filled the fridge with lovely veg and fruit.
Am veering between rage and despair. And torn between the desire to stuff my face with chocolate and toast (although there is neither bread or chocolate left in the flat now.) or become so skinny that he will forever kick himself for being an arse.

Hi Maisie, welcome and congratulations on your new arrival.

Melty, I am so sorry I think you have to do what you want to do but what about a combination of both - another day of bread and chocolate then get back on that wagon and turn skinny and glamerous. You've done so brilliantly so far it seems wrong for SB to sabotage that on top of everything else he has done. What you've eaten won't be any where near undoing all those pounds and won't even if you eat pizza for a week. As I said, do what you feel you want to do but revenge definitely is a dish best served cold and a new glamerous body has the dual purpose of making you feel good and him weep into his pint so is pretty attractive way to go if you feel you can.

Hi Maisie, exclusive breastfeeding is 4 extra healthy extras and you are supposed to have all your syns, not that I do, but that is what the book says. I've got a 19wk old and 21/2 yr old and found sw very easy, apart from when my willpower fails. I've eaten loads and frequently had a supper when finally ds2 stopped feeding in the earlier days. Big breakfast helps loads.

Melty, I'm so sorry he turned out to be a sb, please keep posting you have been a source of inspiration and many nice reciepes on this thread. You need comfort at the moment and if food has been your comfort for as long as me it is bloody hard not to fall back on it. Maybe you could write down all the pros and cons of losing weight, like our leader had us do a few weeks ago then you could see how many of them are about loving yourself. I shall share my shallower/more embarressing ones; want to go swimming with kids ( requires buying dreaded swimsuit) , shop in Primark, wear skirts in summer without my thighs chaffing

melty what an utter bastard, he will be so sorry when you live your life without him and become evan more fabulous than you already are because he was holding you back.

awww, melty
stick with us, chick, we'll support you, how ever much white bread and chocolate you eat > what an arse!

i had an epic fail on the SW front last night, out for dinner, the menu was not SW friendly really, i ended up having grilled seabass -fine- green salad - fine.. but the tempura onion bhaji, scallops with cheese and mash to start - not fine and neither were the two gin and (slimline) tonics !>> hangs head in shame>>

weigh in tomorrow

I was up early today. I have had a big clear out and have texted SB that if he doesn't come and collect 3 bin bags of stuff he didn't take with him while I am out today, that it will all be put in the v. large communal bins for the council.
They are currently outside the front doors. I hope hes too late.
I have binned everything he ever gave me over the last year.
I feel a big sense of relief actually now its done.

I made him give the keys back (Flat and bills are in my name only) so he cant get in.
I am going out for lunch and will case the joint before I get back so I dont have to see him later. Do not want to talk to him or see him.
Have had a healthy breakfast. I choose not to let his idiocy ruin all my hard work.
So there!

Oh and thank you for your messages of support.

Melty so sorry to hear about SB, what a complete and utter arsewipe

Not been too bad this weekend, apart from total lack of discipline regarding a certain Pinot Grigio

I am still considering going to WW this week. I have given it quite a bit of thought - I know that I don't use all my syns and I have got to a point where I am getting stuck, perhaps if I'd used them daily I could of reduced them now but don't have that option. When I was at WW (late 90's lost 3.5 stone) I used all my points and had the odd curry etc. so I think I may have a (mental!) problem with the idea of syns being bad IYSWIM?! Having said that, if its too similar to SW there is no point changing apart from getting a consultant who doesn't just read out losses and gains and actually offers advice. Have a good week everyone

melty, and good for you for what you've done today. take the time you need with the comfort food, then take the "caring for yourself" option when you are ready.

I still haven't read the WW link. Is the points plan a thing of the past then? or will you be able to choose between that and the new way (like when they did no count?)

DH has been sent home from work today as he is in so much pain, and has another week off (I know his job pisses me off SO much, but just now I am glad he has so many lieu days owing as we couldn't manage on SSP), will bugger the food and the housework though, I can't focus when he is wandering about all day making coffee and playing bejewelled.

our guinea pig died yesterday. had a nice time at thr bonfire party though.

Well, surprisingly, maintained.
Ok, onwards and upwards.

Had a text from SB saying he misses me, he didnt mean to hurt me, he values my friendship so much (Friendship WTF?).....doesnt want to lose me. Ignored it.
That ship has sailed for sure though. Am way ttoo mad with him to go backwards.
Bit of a thing with him, he is friends with all of his exes. In fact, the majority of his friends are women, and I think he has shagged most of them at some point or other. And I was never that comfortable with him meeting up with his dear friends x y or z (all girls) but people have friends, what can you do....
I should have trusted my instincts and walked away ages ago, but I didnt want to be that girlfriend, the non trusting jealous type.
But I dislike being taken for a mug much more than I dislike being the jealous one.

Sorry for the rant. I really dont normally spill much about my personal life online.

Ria, can you get DH to do some little non stressful jobs at home, or take bejewelled to the next room?
I had a look at the WW one, but I have always been a SW woman, and it works for me. I tried WW online once, but I was starving, and had generally used my points up by lunchtime. This one looks better, but there seems to be loads of counting. Wheras I know whats free and whats not on SW..

That's good you've maintained Melty. Dignified silence best way to go in my opinion and you will get to him big time by doing so by the sound of it, dent his pride that someone thinks he is too much of a SB to be friends with. And to rub salt into the wound you will be looking even more gorgeous in the very near future.

I have a two week free trial online for WW. Have decided I'm going to do SW until weigh in on Thursday morning as am 5 syns a day and want to see if that does give me a 3lb loss. The week after that is my stay the same week so I will do WW from Thursday and see if I can shift any weight that week on it. If I do I might do it for 3 more weeks after that as the hype says most people lose 8-10lbs the first month they do it and I average 6lbs amonth at the moment, would like a boost before Christmas. Not looking forward to counting points again but I'm at the stage where I'll do what it takes (within reason). My daily point allowance is 35 v 24 on the old plan.

wynken, you are very dedicated to cut to 5 syns a day. my willpower would not cope with that.

am feeling pretty rough today - DS2 is not sleeping and gets hysterical as soon as it gets dark, my lovely pushchair broke so I had to push DS3 round town in the spare, and it has irritated my back, and I have a cold... but DH got the lie-in because he took a strong painkiller last night PAH!

well done on the maintain Melty, good luck with everything x

Wynken it will be interesting to see what we lose in the first week of WW and whether doing SW has an effect on that. I lost 5 pounds my first week of SW and 8 when I started WW, but not expecting anything like that. I will be lucky to lose any this week as we had a chinese after fireworks last night I am going to a WW meeting on thursday morning so will report back on how many points they give me etc. Not going to my SW group as don't want to pay twice.

good luck with WW.. will be interesting to see what's what!

i've just got some peppers roasting in the oven for tomato and red pepper soup later

anyone got any idea about making a white sauce with creme fraiche or something? for a veggie lasagne

WI later... fingers crossed after last week

melty.. he's a knobber. friendship if he wants a f*buddy, that's fine, but not when the other person is led to beleive it's a relationship

well done on maintaining x

Sorry Melty, forgot to say well done

Lulu, last time I made lasagne I used 0.5% fat natural fromage frais and mixed in a bit of parmesan from HE, worked ok and I can't remember getting that yoghurty 'tang' that you get when you make a carbonara etc. with it. Easier too as no sauce to make!

ok, that sounds good, will try that

just made some soup

roast red peppers in the oven. halve and deseed them first. spray with a bit of olive oil fry light and use some garlic salt, roast until starting to blacken slightly

put some garlic cloves in a pan , with a bit more fylight, then add the pepper and heat up, add two tins chopped tomatoes and heat and blend.

add chilli/tabasco if required

yummy !

I dont use a white sauce when I do lasagne.
I use ricotta, mozarella and parmesan.
Layer of meat, layer of cheese, layer of pasta. Easy Peasy.
You could do it with quark instead of ricotta, and have mozarella as HE, and syn the parmesan.
I usually spoon the ricotta (or pipe it but its such a palaver, I mostly spoon it) I dont have it joined up, just spread out a bit. Layer the mozarella over the ricotta and sprinkle the parmesan.