SLIMMING WORLD - The Red and Green plan that is Extra Easy to follow!

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Ooh thanks for that shortandsweet. I'll give them a call later then as was planning to join tomorrow. If they don't do it I'll still happily join, but I can't deny saving that money would be good, plus I think the knowledge that the NHS were paying for those 12 weeks would make me feel I HAD to stick to it, IYKWIM!

Ooh, free rice pudding.........

Hi everyone!

Not been on here for a while, I put on 1lb last week but was due on (still am but I'm sure AF will appear soon!!
I haven't been particulary good this week! Had cakes on Friday (well 1) a curry on Saturday night, a bit of birthday cake (very small slice) on Sunday although did play 2 games of hockey at the weekend! and last night I was late back and got a chicken kebab for tea I didn't have any sauces on it and I didn't eat the pitta bread either

As I type there are several yummy looking cakes in the kitchen and I am resisting! I will be good for the next few days and hope that I at least lose that 1lb!!

I am also hoping that AF will appear and loss will appear too!

I am in Hampshire and asked my GP about the slimming world gp referal thing and they didn't do it

Thanks for all the yogurt help, will check out sainsburys tomorrow.

I'm making rosti for tea, can I make one massive one in a frying pan, or do I have to make little ones? Was wondering if one big one would cook properly?

I thought that might be the case with the rosti. I shall just make loads of smaller ones then. Thanks.

I've just had a bowl of veggie slop, one of ourhouse specials! Left overs from last night, in other words! Fills a little corner until teatime, which is about 8/8.30 for us. Green day today, with sausages, beans and rosti. Yum!

I just made the cornmeal chocolate muffins and they taste terrible.

Oh that's so disappointing shortandsweet! Horrid when you've gone to the trouble of baking something and it's not nice.

Waiting for GP to ring back - receptionist didn't know if they did the referral programme and I figured a ringback was less of a waste of their time than taking up an appointment. Hoping they ring back today as, if they don't do it I'll just join my local group, which is tonight.

Do you all find you lose equally on red and green days? Or are you all doing extra easy or whatever it's called? I went to a meeting a couple of years ago (didn't go back, consultant was dreadful, but has since changed) and so the book I have doesn't have all the new programs...

I prefer green days, so that's what we have most of. DH prefers red, but I don't feel so full after a red meal as after a green one. I don't do extra easy, as you still have to use a modicum of portion control really, and I have none. I want a big old plateful! Also, I like to have the 4 HE's, which you don't get on EE.

LOL Beth! I'm exactly the same, have done all green days so far.

Well, the GP rang back and they don't do the SW referral scheme so I'm off to my first meeting at 7. I felt really emotional while I was talking to him - felt like I was wasting NHS time just because I can't get my eating act together He was really lovely and didn't make me feel bad at all, but I still did. I think just admitting that I'm overweight really upsets me even though at a size 16-18 it's blatantly obvious!

So, anyway. Off to get weighed at 7. Just had a big green dinner though so that won't help, will it! Ah well.... at least it'll make next week's loss look even more amazing (hopeful emoticon)

Good luck for your weigh in, let us know how you get on.

And [wistful sigh] at being size 16-18. if only........

LOL

It still counts as 16-18 if it's all in stretchy clothes with extra lycra, right? I'm not sure I qualify otherwise!!

Right, I'm off.

Good luck casserole!!

Thankyou! Well, I've been and it was fine. I weighed pretty much what I thought I did, if anything a pound or two less, especially as it was the evening and I usually weigh starkers in the morning! So I'm signed up.

The meeting bit was a bit dire, but I met a nice, funny girl who lives just down the road and who was also new tonight, so that was great - I said a secret prayer on the way that I might meet someone there who would actually encourage me to go in order to see them, so that was great.

They totally pushed the extra easy, explicitly encouraged us not to do the red and green... I wonder if they're phasing that out.

I'm glad you made a friend! It's lovely when that happens. (I imagine it is, I have no friends!)And good you didn't weigh 3 stone more than you thought!!

I wonder about the red and green/extra easy thing. I always thought the whole point of sw was separating carbs and proteins. But, obviously, I know nothing! I shall be sticking with red and green.

Well, I think you sound lovely

The extra easy does look, well, easy, I guess, although I'm not sure whether the trade off of being able to eat as much meat as I like is worth giving up 2 healthy extras for - I'm not a massive meat person. BUT it does make going out for curry much more acceptable, and it's my birthday at the weekend so we're doing just that! In fact this week I have 2 meals out, a Mother's Day sunday lunch and a girly dinner with friends tonight. What a stupid week to start!! Ah well....

Speaking of girly dinner tomorrow night, has anyone made the baked chocolate cheesecake on the SW website? We're each taking a course and I'm on desserts... it looks lovely but I'm nervous about trying a new recipe right before a dinner. All my dessert recipes probably have a syn count with at least 5 zeros though so perhaps I'll have to just bite the bullet!

I've been to the leisure centre today to see the woman about joining the gym. I've got an appt for tuesday for my induction! I'm surprised at how much it costs to go though, DH is going to sign me up for a monthly DD. Then I have to go!I thought I would go 3 or 4 times a week, but it's £3.05 a time. And that's half price! It's a lot of money. Much cheaper, according to DH, to pay a monthly fee.

Casserole, have you thought about a pavlova type thing for your dessert? Or eton mess, if your meringue isn't reliable. Eggs, splenda, fruit. Sorted. Have a good birthday though, don't do without because you've started sw, you can always cut out syns for the rest of the week, and up the exercise.

Cass - glad things went well

Beth - I am at a gym and it is £27.50 per month and I can go as much as I like, is there no others you could check the prices on and compare??

I have had a bit of a binge already so pissed off with a bloke at work and came home and ate dark chocolate, pitta bread and crackers.

Afternoon

I've made the mango and orange mousse from the SW website - looks nice and it's only 1.5syns a portion. But thanks for that pavlova tip; I will definitely give that a try. I think Quark may be my new best friend, having trailed around Sainsburys trying to find it as I wasn't entirely sure what food group it belonged to!!

Just as well as went out to a friend's for lunch and ate 30 syns!! Baguette, houmous, salad and a chocolate eclair - she'd bought them as a birthday treat which was really kind.

Beth I think you're right. Just going to do the best I can this week on the meals I DO have more choice over, and make sure I keep my cardio exercise up. Did 30 mins on my cross trainer yesterday, and walked the dog for 45 mins too - not v fast though as had a stroppy 2 year old with me!

Sorry S&S, misread your post, thought the bloke at work was eating those things.

Don't beat yourself up. What's done is done and all that. If this is for the rest of our lives then there's just going to be days like that I guess - don't give up! x

DH has found out that we can have joint membership for the gym and it's loads cheaper. So that's good. Stupid woman this morning didn't tell me anything about all the deals that they do.

Am very jealous of your lunch, baguette, houmous, salad, YUM!!! Not so fussed about a choc eclair, but wouldn't be rude if somebody offered me one!!

Thanks cass - I ain't giving up just a bad day

Beth glad you are getting some good deals.

Roll on the weekend eh!

LOL! I hate the weekends, find it much harder to stick to the plan. Plus, DH is going away for 2 weeks on saturday morning, so I shall be lonely........

BUT, at least he won't be here to lead me astray, as he tends to do!

My friend is at fitness first and I think she pays £24 a month.

Had a very yummy dinner tonight.

Piece of topside steak that was on offer in Morrisons cooked blue with the SW peppercorn sauce. With it I had roasted tomatoes, peppers and carrots, sweet potato wedges and green beans. Sweet potato wedges are handy cos they only take 20 minutes to cook and no par boiling, I always find syn free chips/wedges take aaaaaaaaaaaages does anyone else?

I've not made the SW chips yet but I did think they would take a while!

Well my dinner last night turned out to be pretty syn free, we must have all been on a health kick! About 2 syns total I reckon so at least that curtailed the damage from yesterday's lunch. Today I have a day where I can have a bit more control over stuff. Tomorrow's my birthday so going out to eat again.

Beth - that's rubbish about your DH, I'd find that really hard.

S&S - hope work is better today. Hit the knobber over the head with a superfree courgette and make a run for it

Cooked some rice this morning and mixed it with a vanilla fat free yog and some nutmeg; almost rice-puddingy... think a toffee yoghurt would have been better, was in a sweet mood this morning. Sliced a load of fruit on top which helped. Still not convinced all these carbs will work but I guess all these people can't be wrong!

Have a good day all x

The sw chips do take a while, but once you've boiled them a bit and stuck them in the oven you don't have to do anything with them. We have them a lot, having them tonight in fact. With beans and veggie sausages. DH asked for something simple, as he's flying tomorrow, so doesn't want to risk an upset tum!

I've been to the Dr's this morning, and have to cancel my interest in the gym for the time been. I have to have an ECG, and loads of blood tests, so the doc said wait until the results are through. Typical! I'm going to try and make more of an effort to walk instead of using the car, and go on my wii fit more. See if that achieves anything.