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Slimming World...can you REALLY eat that much and lose weight?

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MumPotNoodle · 05/06/2011 10:04

Lovely mner sent me loads of SW info and I've just been looking at their website. Strikes me that you can eat tonnes and they still claim you can lose weight, so how have the SW ladies on this site done?

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ohsolonely · 05/06/2011 10:17

Yes lost the best part of 6 stone over several years on and off the plan. 3 stone in the past 7 months.

Its a fab plan and yes I do take the food to the max as I love food - you dont get to be a size 24 because you eat like a sparrow - you know.

The only thing I would say is that if you follow the Extra Easy plan which is newish to the SW plans - the please please please make sure you stick 100% to the plan. Loads of people follow EE and in my experience weightloss slows down (more than on original and green) after a few weeks because the 1/3 Superspeed food you MUST have with your Extra Easy meal is not always being met. It is actually quite hard to eat that much Super Speed food with every single meal. Some people think that having peas and sweetcorn pad out the 1/3 is fine as its still veg - it is not as they are Green day veg. IMO - Extra Easy is bloody fab but there is alot less leeway for error and still get a weightloss than there is with Original and Green day plans. That said - stick to any of the SW plans 100% every single day and OMG the weight will just fall off.

I love SW. Its transformed me and my life. I have lost 3 stone in the past 7 months and eaten a bar of chocolate (my weakness) most days (except when saving my syns for wine)!!!! It can be done and there is no need to ever feel hungry on the plan.

No I am not a SW consultant - just a very happy customer!!

MumPotNoodle · 05/06/2011 11:16

Wow, that is amazingl....you must feel fantastic. Think this has spurred me on to delve deeper, will be doing a lot of printing at work tomorrow Grin.

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ohsolonely · 05/06/2011 11:38

I would recommend trying a few recipies and when you find one you love spend a day bulk cooking and freezing. This helps me stay on plan when I cant be arsed to cook.
Most sw meals need to be cooked from scratch, which can get a bit "meh" on days when you're busy or working.

I would also sit down and make a shopping list and meal planner for the 1st week, just to help you get into it.

Things like certain curry powders spices, fry light, oxo cubes/bovril are worth investing in as they seem to be in alot of SW recipies.

Think about what plans you intend to do and what you want to snack on in between meals when you are hungry. Be realistic - if you normally sit down and eat 10 a few biscuits with a cuppa mid morning, is an apple really going to fill the void? I stock up on Muller light yogurts (most of them are free which means you can as many as you like) for snacks. I also have ham in the fridge for snacking on, on Red/Original days.

I find evenings are my weakness and when I want to pick and eat. I am not fussed on breakfast, so Inow eat a banana and a yogurt for breakfast and save my Healthy Extra B choice, in my case Weetabix for on an evening. Filling up on weetabix at 8.30pm stops me getting the munchies for the biscuits etc. There are ways like this to adpat the plan to suit you. Another thing I do is pad fruit out with fat free greek yogurt (Total 0%). Its more filling than just a bowl of strawberries. Some people in my class mix the sugar free jellies in with their muller lights for more filling power.

Another easy quick meal I make is turkey/chicken breast wrapped in bacon (cut the excess fat off) and stuffed with a laughing cow light cheese triangle. Served with veg. Thats the basic version for when I cant be arsed but you can add chillis and garlic and whatever you like to make it more interesting.

Another regular of mine is SW chips, eggs and beans. Par boil your chipped potatoes for 10 minutes. Place on a baking tray sprayed with frylight, spry chips with fry light and put in hot oven for 20/30 minutes. Serve with poached and eggs and baked beans. Yum!! And really satisfying.

Wedges made the same way but sprinkled with some spices like paprika or 5 spice, serves with a fat free nat yog dip or low fat mayo (count the syns for the mayo).

Buying the mag, looking at the website and attending class is great for all kinds of ideas.

Good luck!!

dwpanxt · 05/06/2011 11:38

ohsolonely
You seem just my sort of gal . Chocolate is my weakness and I am heartened that you wrote;
[I have lost 3 stone in the past 7 months and eaten a bar of chocolate (my weakness) most days (except when saving my syns for wine)!!!!

Please could you share a days menu so I can understand how it works.I have started SW loads of times but get so muddled I go back to my comfort zone within days. I have the books and recipes but don't understand how to put it together .

ltathere · 02/06/2014 15:25

The more muscle you have, the more calories you need per day, hence even though you eat a lot as compared to others, the calories intake might still below what your body needs, hence results in weight loss.

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