Starting slimming world today *Part 2*

[Melty]

Wynken broke the other thread!

Have been so busy at work, only in the door a few minutes. Haven't eaten yet, but weirdly not hungry.
Must have something otherwise will suddenly get ravenous.
Looks like everyone is doing ok though.
Am actually looking at Shred DVD (Still in its cellophane wrapping!)but too wrecked to start doing it today.

The consultant said I hadn't eaten enough for my meals. So then I'm snacking inbetween and get fed up with fruit, muller lights and have a packet of crisps or some icecream.

I'm having weetabix for breakfast, either soup or an omlette for lunch, then salad and fish/chicken/pork chop for dinner. I did SW curry and rice one night but it was awful, did eat it though.

Hi all can I join in?
Rejoined 2 weeks ago having lost 2.5st with sw 3 years ago.
I have a stone to lose to get back to target (which will
Just about put my bmi at the upper end of healthy range).
First weigh in was last Thursday and I lost 3lb which was better than expected as I didn't trust the extraeasy plan. Am not expecting this week to be as good. I've had my full 15 syns every day and went over today as I succumbed to a hot cross bun with butter.

Well lost 1lb, am quite dissapointed. thought I would have lost more, I have been really good, last couple of days though I had a migraine and have barely eaten anything, think that must be why. still can't get my head around the fact that hardly eating anything stops you losing weight.

I've maintained this week, so back to writing everything down and weighing my HE again, as have gotten a bit lazy

Welcome Viva and Bras. Viva I do find filling up at meals does help a lot with reducing snack cravings.

Ria , hope all goes well for fracture clinic tomorrow.

Dontcallme and Dita, well done on the losses. Know where you are coming from Dita with the 1lb, I was expecting 2.5-3lbs last week and was pretty shocked with 1lb. Thinking back on it I didn't eat as much as I had the previous week when I lost 2lbs.

Think I am back on track, whether it is enough to avoid a gain tomorrow remains to be seen. Yesterday ate 1 plain oat so simple, 350ml skim milk, melon, bacon and mushroom omlette with tomato, chicken, new pits, green beans, latte 4.5 syns, options hot choc 2 syns, meringue nest with berries and total yoghurt 3 syns.

Am hopefully going swimming today for the first time in years.

Sorry to hear about your Mum Riven, hope she's better soon.

Feeling optimistic this morning, my friend joined slimming world and rang me this morning to say she is going to study the book today and work out a menu for us both which is brilliant as she is so disciplined and will take the diet seriously and force encourage me to do the same!

Hope your mum is feeling better soon Riven. We had soup night SW last night. Came home too full for tea, which I'm having now! One of the other ladies made a roasted butternut squash and sweet potato with cinamon and nutmeg which was gorgous and my morrocasn chickpea soup got eaten, though I was afraid it was too spicey as was rather heavy handed with the spice mix

viva, the key is superfree....load up with fruit and veg.. i find veg soup of all varieties great for using as superfree if don't want another salad etc..

rivem also hope you're mum is beter x

Advice on Menu for Day 1 needed! Can you tell me what you would add or take away from this:_
Brekkie
Scrambled eggs, 1 slice brown bread toasted, 2 rashers, and tomatoes

Lunch
Chicken breast (no skin), pasta, tin of tomatoes, small salad

Dinner
4 lean rashers, baked beans, potatoes, mushrooms, fried egg

Would really appreciate your input on this make-shift menu.

Thanks in advance!

Just want to mention that I have to watch the pennies as well as what I eat

Sounds fine Desire, you'll just need to make sure the tomatoes for breakfast and mushroom for tea make uobacthird of your plate. Maybe snack on apples and carrots in between to add more superfree.

I've been looking more in the freezer section for fruit and veg. A big bag of frozen french beans is about a pound and goes a long way. Egg noodles are good, quick to cook and come in portions so the packet lasts longer though is more than a normal pack of pasta. Add some stirfry veg bulked out with beansprouts and the bits left after a roat chicken. Veg chilli from tin of toms, kidney beans, carrots , onion, garlic and any veg lurking in the fridge. DH is hooked on the frozen fruits of the forest fruits with yoghurts, 3 packs for a fiver but lasting ages. Cous cous with a tin of mixed beans and some veg. Big sacks of spuds work out much cheaper, Makro or a farm shop if you have access to that.White cabbage and carrots fairly cheap to make up coleslaw and gets in superfree at the same time.

I, as in me Wynken, went proper swimming this afternoon and swam 64 lengths which I think is a mile. Plus 20 mins on step plus on the wii and got 640 and 5 of those star things, roaring fire or whatever.

well done on the swim Wynken.

DH dropped me at the top end of town at 9.30 when he went to the hospital, and met me at around 1pm, at the other end of town, and we had to walk back up again halfway to where he'd parked. Wish i'd had my pedometer on. Not fast walking by any means, but I had the spare buggy with me and it is awful to push, so upper body workout too?

He is back at the hospital tonight for physio. Doesn't sound like great news, though working isn't (probably) going to cause any more problems, it is very painful, so not sure what he's going to do a few more days off hopefully...

Today I've had;

2 weetabix with a small spash of milk (healthy extras a and b).

raspberries

lamb cutlet, new potatoes and peas

mullerlight yoghurt

hifi bar and mocha (10.5 syns for both)

satsumas x2

Just had a lentil and butternut squash bake for dinner.

I may have another mullerlight later.

Hi everyone, hope your Mum gets well soon Riven, and your DH Ria.

Got a text earlier from my SW consultant saying I'd been nominated for Miss Slinky and to dress up and bring food! All the more reason to do my WI in WW! No one in their right minds could describe me as slinky, fat goth yes but slinky

Kungfu my observation from last night is that being nominated for Miss Slinky is an indication that people can remember who you are. Our nominees were the girl who's lost LOADS of weight (fair do's) and both a couple - she's, erm, outspoken, and he's one of a very small number of men, so stands out.

They didn't get warned in advance, so weren't dressed up and didn't bring food!

Hopefully it must be done on loss then as I never stay to the meeting! I'll never know now What is it all about then DCMB?

here's my menu from yesterday and today, I only do EE and so far lost 25.5 lbs ovr 9 weeks

Tuesday

Fat free yoghurt, pineaplle and carrot sticks for breakfast with black coffee & sweetener

Baked beans, 2 poached eggs , 2 nimble & laughing cow light and 3 turkey rashers (HEX a &B) followed by 5 pieves of fruit

Beef chill stir fry with red onions and peppers, no rice as really full.

Fat free yoghurt with sprinkle of pomegarante seeds and 8 jelly babies for pud!

lots of water/deit coke and black coffee in the day

Wednesday

2 x scanbran & laughing cow light and peach yoghurt (2 syns for scanbran)

3 pieeces of fruit and more coffee

2 x poached eggs on 2 slices of nimble with laughing cow light (HEX a &b)
tomato and roasted pepper soup

teaspoon of pomegranate seeds (dried)

2 x mini chicken fillets and more soup

then chilli, no rice , and a dollop of fat free yog instead of soured cream

might have a crucnhie later as not had many syns the last cople of days !!

Kungfu ours were nominated last week (I wasn't there) by the group - bit of a popularity contest, not on weight loss as one has been coming since the beginning of time and lost 12lb from start to finish (and to be fair, this is a timescale during which personally I put on 3 stone, so I'm not knocking her).

The girl who won got a bottle of wine, but has given it back to the consultant for safekeeping as she's put on and maintained the last couple of weeks and had just declared her intention to go back to basics!

Anyway, food and stuff ... I've got extremely slack with actually ensuring I eat the right stuff. I will try to remember (uh oh) what I ate today:

No breakfast (naughty)

Cup of tea and ten Mikado sticks that were supposed to be part of my lunch

Lunch: 3 x black pepper Ryvita, 2 x Babybel light, 2 x slice of ham, approx 10 cherry tomatoes, cup of tea

Shortbread finger (damn those generous colleagues), cup of tea

1/4 melon (this was supposed to be part of my lunch, but I forgot I had it with me)

Dinner: chicken and butternut squash curry made with Patak's korma paste and fat free yogurt, plain rice, half a big naan; M&S Count On Us chocolate mousse

As an aside, this evening I have learned that while losing weight might make pratting about your living room waving a Wii remote easier, and it might make running up the stairs easier, it does NOT make swimming any easier.

sorry Riven, I forgot to say I hope things are OK with your mum.

get you Miss Slinky, it sounds embarrassing.

Have had 2 awful days.Started off each day with decent breakfast, decent lunch and it went to pot when I got home.
Have at least worked out why I have been a miseryguts, I am in the throes of riproaring PMT.

I dont get it badly most months, but then every now and again, I get sidelined by a deep blackness and have no insight whatsoever as to why I feel so bad.
Then it goes away and I am all sweetness and light again.
Bloody hormones.

Oh, and well done to the losers/Miss Slinkies, and hello to the Newbies.
Am usually not such a miseryguts!

Its really very helpful on here. Would probably have given up after the first couple of weeks if not for the support, as am not going to group. [trying]

It's really useful seeing what people are eating.

Melty, huge sympathy, I get PMT badly and it is vile. Hang in there and focus on how well you have done so far. A few bad days doesn't blow it.

Ria, hope your DH feels better very soon.

Kungfu, congratulations on the nomination.

Dontcallme, I'm very worried about whether I will be able to move tomorrow. I haven't done proper swimming for 9 years and I think I might well have over done it. Between swimming and ferrying DC's around I have spent the day being very wet and I have red eyes.

Food today: oat so simple, 350ml skim milk, grapefruit for breakfast, bacon and mushroom omlette with tomato salad for lunch, chicken, egg noodles and stirfry veg for tea. Syns are 16 mikados and options hot choc, so 10 for the day.

Have to facethe scales tomorrow and have probably put on.

melty, big hugs and virtual chocolate. I get PMT and also random "black dog" days (who was it who said that? - off to google) and it is SO hard.