Slimming World- re-group and re-motivate! LET'S GET SKINNY TINY BUMS!!!!

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Oh come ye oh come ye! All who are following slimming world! All who have lost their way and who have taken the scenic route, re-join and rejoice! Together we are stronger! Oh, and those of you who are on-plan PLEASE join this thread too, you're needed here!!!!

Oh lecture over

I think what's difficult for me is that I'm only 4lb from my target weight - I feel like now that I've lost almost 2 stone, I can go back to eating how I used to - totally illogical I know! I think I'm going to find it really hard to maintain the weight loss (if I ever get to target that is!) and not go back to my old eating habits. I guess I've still not come to terms with how my metabolism changed since I had DD seven years ago! I used to be one of those really annoying skinny people who could eat whatever they wanted and never put on an ounce.....

Rocking, you are only 2Ibs off your target..you want to reach that, or is there a reason why you may just try to avoid to do so? If there is, then look into what the reason is...are you maybe still not happy with the way you look....or, on the other hand do you feel really happy, but for some reason you don't deserve to feel thatr way?

Remember, once you reach your taRGET, YOU WILL GET MORE FREDOM....but obviously within reason...

Hello! Can i gatecrash and join in please? I started following SW this Wednesday just gone, ive got 3 and half stone to lose! Im not actually going to group but my mum does so i use the website to look up stuff when needed. So far so good. Today i made the syn free ketchup from the magazine, its nice but thankfully i used less than half the vinegar as i suspected itd be too much!

Im really determined to stick with it, i am so unhappy being this big, i struggle to hold my dd for any length of time she is 3 and weighs less than i want to lose!! So i keep picking her up and thinking im carrying more than this around daily!!

Hello kilty, of course you can join, the more the merrier. Well done on your good start

Hiya kid thanks for the welcome, i think it will really help to have some support from people doing the same thing as i always start with good intentions then inevitably have some emotional crisis like pmt, row with dp, kids wearing me out and then eat a whole family pack of revels, 3 slices of buttered toast and everything else in sight! but something changed this week, i dont know what but something has finally clicked and doing SW is just seems right and normal now, i think i definitely reached that point of its got to change now!

That aside Asda's Chick Pea Dhal is without a doubt the nicest thing i have ever eaten out of a tin in my whole entire life and its free on green! As good as anything from an Indian! Seriously!! Chopped red onion, tomato and cucumber on the top served with rice, oh my word!

I will have to try that kilty, sounds nice. (can someone find me a free food alternative to chicken in satay sauce and fried rice, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease) welcome to the thread]. I need to drop the "emotional" things and get on with the damned diet! weigh in tomorrow

sorry what I meant there was what you says about emotional crises is just what I do, and I need to move past that as you have done. One day...

I am going to try the one day at a time thing this week though. Last week I made it until Thursday teatime with only a tiny blip on Monday teatime - unheard of for me!

hiya rially it is hard when your eating is linked directly to how you feel but as you say you really can only go one day at a time when its like that! I went to Asda for the first time in ages yesterday as theres not one too near me and the mullerlight yoghurts were 5 for £1, that is a bargain! I put them in the freezer then it takes ages to eat one, it takes about 10min before you can start scraping with the spoon but it stops you thinking about chocolate, the toffee is the nicest i think! The Dhal is in the section with the tins of bombay potatoes etc, i promise if you like indian food you'll love this! i felt mildly disappointed when id finished eating!

Good luck with the weigh in tomorrow! Im weighing myself in Wednesday, at least in my kitchen theres noone else there except dp who's almost as obsessed with my weight as me!

Do any of you worry about what your DCs might pick up in terms of weight loss? Ever since I started with Slimming World, my DD, aged 7, has picked up on the terminology - Green Days, Red Days, what's healthy and what are syns. Whilst she doesn't seem to be affected in any way, I do worry about how she might perceive food in light of body image. It probably doesn't help that I moan about my stretch-marked stomach and say that I wish I could afford a tummy tuck

I definitely don't want DD to develop a weird attitude to food or store up a potential eating disorder for her in the future, god forbid. How do you all deal with slimming whilst encouraging children to eat normally?

I do fancy trying the chick pea dhal thing but don't have an Asda near me. I wonder if Sainsburys do an alternative that is syn free? Does anyone know?

Sainsburys do tins of vegetable curry. They are 6 syns a tin but I do it with couscous (syn free) and that one tin does two meals for me. I love it, really delicious and hard to believe its part of any diet!

Today didn't go so well for me, infact the weekend was a bit of washout. But, I won't let that deter me from getting back on track. I was going to have a bag of crisp earlier but a couple of oranges instead. Hows that for will power!

Eating has been v.ropey this weekend thanks to a bottle of red wine and a bar of green and blacks. Am hoping that the daily spinning classes and twice weekly body pump will cancel it out.

Both DS6 and dd4 know that 'mummy goes to fat club'. But they also know that I go so I could learn how to like healthy food best and come home and teach them. Putting the healthy eating spin on it seems to work as they get that constantly drummed into them at school anyway.

I am very aware of what I say in front of the kids as I grew up in a family where food is love and the solution to all of one's problems. Hence the fact that I developed anorexia and bulimia in my teens and didn't shift it until I was 22.

I work on the lines of constantly telling the kids how beautiful and special they are. I read somewhere in my baby books that the greastest gifts you can give children are the ablity to love and be loved and confidence. So that's what i'm aiming for.

Ria you're not the only one, tail between my legs day today, I had a complete emotional binge friday night that carried on over the entire weekend - man trouble! Dreading getting back on the scales, and didn't do all the exercise I was intending to do to even partially cancel it out. I also think I am probably hormonal, just had a new implant in and ever since then I've had a sneaking suspicion I'm a bundle of hormones, which I don't think is helping! Crying at the X Factor is SO not normal for me

On the other hand I had words with myself and pulled myself together a bit by meal planning and shopping for it all yesterday. This week's menu includes things like Spaghetti carbonara, Spicy rice and Quorn tikka masala. it did also include little kinder hippo things but I ate the whole packet last night

oh well. New Week for All!

Lurking - do you have problems with your implant (if you don't mind me asking)? I have put on 2 stone since I had mine last Sept, and haven't had proper AF (sorry if TMI), just wondering if I should really think about finding an alternative.

Re kids, I had the devils own job with DS1 when they did intensive healthy eating at school, he wouldn't eat anything sugary, questioned eveything he put in his mouth, felt sick after eating etc. It's taken me two years or more to reinforce "a little of what you fancy" and "all things in moderation". I think they watch my dieting with interest but don't take too much notice as it's fairly short-lived (as you know), I am trying to push (esp. with DS1 who is 11) that 2 hours on the DS is fine, but he needs to be doing half an hour activity, and if he eats in excess a little walk is a good idea.

oh, no loss but no gain.

Hi all. I'm back from two weeks in Portugal and have gained a lovely 6lbs . Gutted but not unexpected.

I enjoyed it but am now actually craving fruit and veg!!

So the battle is to get this 6lbs back off and get properly back on track.

Gutted I let it go so wrong though

Ho-hum, nothing I can do about it now eh!

Ria - I've had the implant for 3 years before no problems, left it in for another year (a dry spell ) and had it replaced a couple of months ago. Sorry I don't know what you mean by proper AF? Afternoon Farts?

I don't think its supposed to be related to weight gain as much as the combined pill because its progesterone only, but then I don't really think they know that much about it. I didn't have hormonal issues with my last one but I have been pretty yo-yo recently so I'm wondering if it is anything to do with it. Don't know what else I would do if I didn't have this, as I have it because 1) I am terrified of an unplanned PG on condoms alone since the doctors always go on about how unreliable the are, and 2) everything else is hormone based and requires you to be organised enough to remember it!

Auntie Flo I believe (never heard it before Mnet) star week... lol at afternoon farts

Lol oh ok gotcha now Ria! Don't worry about no AF, I had about 1 a year, and haven't had one for the last 3 months I've had the new one. Apparently it just comes when and if it needs to, most but not all people who have it don't have any or have them less regularly and its ok apparently. Good riddance, I say!!

Have just had a gorgeous carbonara for lunch - used 1/2 a packet of cheese sauce (6 syns but I'm using it as an A, hope that is ok) and my HEb for ham and added peas and sweetcorn with spaghetti. Was bloomin' lovely!

Hi there, just thought id check in and say hello! Still on the plan, but then i think the first week you tend to be fired up dont you?

Ria Sainsburys do a chick pea dahl but its full of syns and is actually nowhere near as nice, the chickpeas i found to be still quite hard in it while in the Asda one theyre nice and soft, I managed to quell my need for cheese on toast/pizza by putting laughing cow Xtra lights on some dark rye ryvita, covering with chopped tomato and spring onions covering with reduced fat mozzerella and grilling then covering in black pepper, it was soooo nice, used two A HeB but was defo worth it, yummity yum!

I know the real struggle will be the time of month which i just got over before starting the plan, i turn into some demented psycopath that eats like a rabid dog! how i wish i was joking!

Hope youre all well, weigh in tomorrow!

well I lost the grand total of half a pound today! At least it's going in the right direction and it means I've got less than a stone to go

tommy. good luck for tomorrow KCB.

whispers I mgiht go to the dark side and do WW for a bit. I think both my body and my mind needs a change from Slimming world.

don't desert the thread though keep us posted!

whats the password this week guys? have forgoten completely.

it was mustard last week and it worked last night