Slimming World

[Beccarollover]

Post about all things slimming world here......

yep!

i am contemplating signing up to the bodyoptomise thingy. it is an online version of SW powered by SW...... wat dya think?

Personally, if you could join a class, you should. I'm not sure how long it's possible to stay focused for without the class support. I suppose it depends on how much you have to loose. I'm really rubbish at trying to stick to anything. Even though I believe that SW is the best diet going, because of the quantities you can eat and I really do test that!

If you want to do the 'old SW' diet. ie, what was done before all the changes this year, you could have my old book and food directory, it's looking for a new home and the old plan would obviously still work.

wow... yes please, if you are sure

If you 'contact another talker' options at the top of the page and e-mail your address. I'll get them posted.

I've just been and weighed them - just over a kilo, which is £4.27 parcel post. Probably easier if you could send me the postage first? Mail me and we'll sort something out.

ok... thanks

Can I just ask - what has changed about the slimming world diet in the new book?

Apparently they have a syns calculator, rather than hazzarding a guess. So the syn value of things changed, my curry I enjoyed which was 3 syns on the old was 13 on the new other things that were free like say Macaroni cheese on green and corned beef on red are now synned. They've also discovered that extra calcuim is good for weight loss so you are now allowed 2 x 'a' options instead of 1. The old plan obviously still works - It's just a case of sticking to it.

i think I better look at hte new stuff instead.... It would work if I used all the old or all the new..... But i think maybe a combo wudnt wrk so well.

for instance.. if I had the curry and thought it was 3 syns and then had chocolate or a biscuit to ad up to 10 syns, and the curry is infact now 13 syns, I would have had nearly 2o syns!!!

Thank you for your kind offer though.

Anyone around to advise the best choices for a chinese on a green day?

Not sure if I'm too late Beccarollover, but you can have loads of boiled rice, most vegetable dishes (stir fried) and noodle dishes. Probably high on syns as most dishes will be cooked in oil but those are your best choices.

Enjoy !!

kaylieh-- does that mean noodles are free on a green day ( no oil?)

yes champs, plain dried noodles are free. Just checked in my book amd blue dragon and amoy dried noodles are both free. Some made up packs with a sauce have a small syn value. If you want me to check just let me know make and size of pack.

Can you all please tell me your favorite

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for Green and Red days
Favorite free foods

I am starting it on Monday!

OK just had my favourite green day breakfast.

Potato cakes (fried onion smash, shaped into patties and frieed with fry-light), baked beans, and fried eggs (with fry-light). Could also add quorn sausages and mushrooms to this!! ALL FREE FOOD

Lunch SW quiche and salad as a packed lunch at work. Or weekends roast dinner (bear in mind I am veggie), so roast veggies - butternut squash, parsnip, sweet potato etc sprinkled with herbs and fryliht, then roasted. Roast potatoes, I often d baby new potatos simply spay with fry light and roast (no precooking!!!) loadsof broccoli, carrots, mashed swede etc and gravy (2 tbsp = 1 sin) I usually have 1/4 pint = 4 sins

Dinner - some kind of veggies casserole, sometimes with added quorn. I use loads of seasoning like the spice mixes you get from Seasoned Pioneers (Nigellas fave brand, get it from sainsburys), these really jazz up a basic passata based sauce. I make up a bucket load then have over a cfew days with pasta, jacket potato or rice.

Hope these help. SW magazine always has good menu ideas too

Im on a red day today and having...

Breakfast - 2 rashers of bacon (free) and 2 slices of nimble bread (healthy extra)
Snack - very low fat yoghurt (free)
Lunch - tuna salad and a banana (free)
Tea - cod in parsley sauce (1 sin) and vegetables (free)

Thanks all. Can anyone tell me how many sins a Cafe Nero low fat blueberry bran muffin is? If not that then the Starbucks skinny blueberry muffin. It's my fave thing with a cup of coffee!

CD Starbucks Skinny Blueberry Muffin is 15 1/2, the best option is the Sunrise skinny muffin at 13, worst is Double chocolate decadnce at 27 1/2 EACH !!!

oh bugger No more muffins for me then

Thanks Crunchie! Can you see that sins online thing then? It won't let me in (there is no class near me and haven't joined the postal or online thing as they are so expensive!)

I can get in because I am a class member and get a password, which changes every week!

oh-oh, thats nearly 3 days worth of sins!!! Dread to think about all the stuff I ate pre diet. And all on one day too

Help, help, help, was a target member and gues what?..... yes I am now 6lb over target weight. How did it happen? Where did I go wrong? me thinks the dipped flake, and bourbon biscuits might have somethinkg to do with it!

That's it from today I am going for it. Going on holiday in July and want to be soooo much lighter.

Staying for the rest of the day on green, and going shopping tomorrow to stock up on sw foods.

ddegward-- i know you will do it, buy yourself a lovely bikini/ swimsuit and look forward to being a beach babe BTW, where do you get SW food from?

Right then, I'll come clean! I was inspired by Crunchies plan and printed it off, bought magazine and have lost 1 1/2 lbs since Monday. Feeling pretty chuffed, but am usually crap at maintaining stuff like this, so may need to dip in and out for support!?

Is there a SW veg or meat curry? Already getting the pangs for a takeaway!!

There are lots of vegetable curries you can buy from all the major supermarkets that are free on green days - there may well be meat ones too available that you can eat freely - Ill have a look and try and get back to you...