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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,666 ✭✭✭deisemum


    I'll be getting weighed tonight, I think it will be my first gain. I've lost 18lbs in 9 weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Weigh in day has arrived for me, I am not too hopeful but hope to be pleasantly surprised... I did arm exercises in the park which in turn left me with very sore arms :( and star week arrived grrr... but I live in hope...

    I have lost 5 stone 1 lb in 10 months with Slimming World (6 stone 12.5 lbs lost overall)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭StillThinking


    Lost 2lb at weigh in today which brings my total to 3 stone 0.5 pound in 27 weeks, averaging at 1.5lb a week so pretty happy with nice steady weight loss!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    I've lost 25.5lb in 12 weeks, through what honestly feels like no great effort. I started with the attitude of "it'll take as long as it takes" so I'm surprised it's been so quick! I have a few stone to lose overall so I'm happy to keep plodding along.

    I'd say the key is consistency, i.e. have a meal off plan not a whole day, enjoy parties and meals out but try to be mindful of your choice. Staying for group every week if you can is also well worth it IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    m'lady wrote: »
    Thanks neacy, they are 23 kcals so 1.3 syns! Cheers

    SW usually round down/up so that would be 1 syn on the app. When a food does not have a free food allowance such as chocolate, minerals, biscuits, ice pops/creams etc then you divide the kcals by 20 to give you a syn value...dosent work on food stuff like chicken and meats and the likes. cos they get a free food allowance


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    neacy69 wrote: »
    SW usually round down/up so that would be 1 syn on the app. When a food does not have a free food allowance such as chocolate, minerals, biscuits, ice pops/creams etc then you divide the kcals by 20 to give you a syn value...dosent work on food stuff like chicken and meats and the likes. cos they get a free food allowance

    SW rounds to the nearest half so it'd be 1.5!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭m'lady


    Yeah but it does contain 87% carbonated natural mineral water, so would that not go towards 'free' .. It's confusing as you can't work out syns of a drink on the app!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Actually 23kcal wouldn't be 1.3 syns, it'd be 1.15 (so rounded down to 1)

    It's not much anyway ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    Dolbert wrote: »
    SW rounds to the nearest half so it'd be 1.5!

    I didnt want to correct the posters maths but it was only 1.15 syns rounded down would be 1....

    (I see now that you added that aswell)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    I've lost 4 stone 3.5 in, I think, 45 weeks... since September 2014 anyway.
    So averaging a bit under a pound and a half a week (probably doesn't sound like much but that's within the recommended weekly weight loss guideline).
    To be honest, joining Slimming World was the best decision I ever made for myself. I'm under a stone from target, still unfit but much happier about my relationship with food and about my body... much happier in general actually.
    Can't recommend the plan highly enough, and I know there are lurkers on this thread wondering whether or not to take the leap - I say go for it, give it 4 weeks (I think that would be an investment of €45?) and see how you go :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    m'lady wrote: »
    Yeah but it does contain 87% carbonated natural mineral water, so would that not go towards 'free' .. It's confusing as you can't work out syns of a drink on the app!

    The calories dont come from the water...They come from the stuff thats added to the water. That added stuff contains the calories...but has no free food allowance therefor all 23kcals get synned...

    same for potato waffles...they have a 120kcals (or so) and should be 6 syns each but because the contain potato which has calories but is a free food these calories get taken away from the total calories and the remaining calories are synned...

    Hope that makes sense....it did in my head anyway!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Monife


    how much have you lost in slimming world and how long did it take , if you want to put starting weight great , it will show others what can be done

    Your post made me think back and I've only lost 10lb in 22 weeks :( For most of that time, my rheumatoid arthritis has been quite severe so couldn't exercise and also think my cocktail of meds hinders my weight loss chances because I never remember it being this hard to lose weight when I was in WW (and pre-rheumatoid). My mum has lost the same amount but in double the time (44 weeks) and she has a perfect diet but likes a couple of glasses of wine a few times a week, but that's all she has, so I am amazed she hasn't lost more, she hasn't a lot to lose, think she's 12 stone 8lb now and set her target at 12 stone.

    I started at 19 stone 2lb and weigh 18 stone 6lb now. Set my target at 14 stone as the lowest I ever got to in my adult life (I'm 27 now) was 14 stone 8lb so think I'd be very happy with that and then might revise it after.

    Hopefully now that I have found the right cocktail of meds and they are working and I'm starting to feel a little better, I can get out and start exercising because with previous weight loss journeys, I never lost weight in the weeks I didn't exercise.

    Well done to everyone else, you have all done amazing :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭m'lady


    neacy69 wrote: »
    The calories dont come from the water...They come from the stuff thats added to the water. That added stuff contains the calories...but has no free food allowance therefor all 23kcals get synned...

    same for potato waffles...they have a 120kcals (or so) and should be 6 syns each but because the contain potato which has calories but is a free food these calories get taken away from the total calories and the remaining calories are synned...

    Hope that makes sense....it did in my head anyway!

    Thank you neacy, that makes perfect sense. For the record those drinks seriously aren't worth it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭mejulie805


    So how many syns are waffles?? I LOVE waffles!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Weigh in over and as I was expecting did not see a great response on the scales :(

    I put on 1/2 lb and it could have been worse. Back to basics now for me, upping the water and focusing on the simple things! No more arm exercises for me lol :D

    Hopefully next week I get a much better result! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Hi

    I reached a loss of 2st on Sunday. Which was 28lb In 27 week. :). I'm over the moon as I have always been over weight. I was 15.7 starting this after Christmas now I'm 13.7.

    I would like to loose another 1st maybe 1.5st before this Christmas, and then where last years Christmas clothes.

    Just a quick question, can you use the Irish pride slimsters range as a hexb.
    Also when you buy salad bowels on tesco and the like for lunch, are they free ? As in there is no dressing or anything added in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Slimsters aren't on the list but there's an Irish Pride loaf recently added to the list of healthy b choices, I can't link it but have a look on the website. There's a full list of a and b choices there, you can find it by clicking on the 'food optimising reminder' thingy.
    Well done on your loss, you must be so proud!
    Edited to say, if it's just undressed veg, no croutons or avocado etc you're good to go. Steer clear of anything with pre cooked noodles as they are almost always dressed with oil to prevent sticking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    dee_mc wrote: »
    Slimsters aren't on the list but there's an Irish Pride loaf recently added to the list of healthy b choices, I can't link it but have a look on the website. There's a full list of a and b choices there, you can find it by clicking on the 'food optimising reminder' thingy.
    Well done on your loss, you must be over the moon!

    Thank you :)

    And yep I'm definitely over the moon. SW is the best thing ever :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    I edited my post there re the salad bowl things.
    I brought a rocket salad to work today and it was disgusting, I don't know what chemicals they use to preserve it but it looked perfect and yet smelt and tasted like death :(
    I like rocket because it's so peppery but I can't even begin to describe what this particular pack tasted like!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    dee_mc wrote: »
    I edited my post there re the salad bowl things.
    I brought a rocket salad to work today and it was disgusting, I don't know what chemicals they use to preserve it but it looked perfect and yet smelt and tasted like death :(
    I like rocket because it's so peppery but I can't even begin to describe what this particular pack tasted like!

    I think I might just buy one for the bowel and then make my own at home to bring for lunch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,317 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    I used Irish Pride slimsters as burger buns. Well worth 5 syns. I try not to eat a HEX B on those days to double up on bread too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,666 ✭✭✭deisemum


    I had my SW class on Thursday and was up 1.5lbs though I expected to be up more. I had teenage nieces staying with me for over a week and I took them out most days so ended up having an extra treat most times but think it was mostly down to not writing down exactly what I had to keep an accurate track of everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Anyone recommend a nice chocolatey cereal bar under 4, 4.5 syns? I'm nearly out of hifi bars and won't have a chance to get them til Wednesday so might as well try something new, not really a fan of the Aldi Benefit bars, anyone tried the Alpen light bars?
    Edit: doesn't need to be a B choice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭highly1111


    Are baked beans in tomato sauce not a speed food? Doesn't have the S beside it online! Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭StillThinking


    The Alpen light Chocolate fudge and double chocolate bars are fab, I quite like the weetabix oaty bars too, especially the toffee dazzler and they're only 3.5 syns, the Alpen light are 3 syns each as far as I know


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭StillThinking


    highly1111 wrote: »
    Are baked beans in tomato sauce not a speed food? Doesn't have the S beside it online! Thanks

    Think they're a P food, loads of protein in beans but there wouldn't be enough in the tomato sauce to make them an S food


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,186 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    The Alpen light Chocolate fudge and double chocolate bars are fab, I quite like the weetabix oaty bars too, especially the toffee dazzler and they're only 3.5 syns, the Alpen light are 3 syns each as far as I know

    Thank you! I like my little chocolate hit of an evening :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    This is day 3 of attempting to drink 2 litres of water a day. Yesterday I managed a 5K run in a time of 33 mins 17 seconds. Hopefully the more I do it, the faster I will become.

    I will go out for another run tomorrow and do another 5K :) I am still trying to fine tune my running schedule since finishing the couch to 5k... figure out how many days to do etc.

    How are we all doing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭highly1111


    I'm down 6lbs this week!! That's 9.5lbs in two weeks!! Utterly amazing!! I'm delighted - I would have been happy with 2lbs this week. However I weighed in at a class this morning before breakfast as I'm working tonight. I also couldn't stay for the meeting as I had the 3 kids with me and they were kicking off - gutted because I got slimmer of the week too - but that's just a small cloud around a huge silver lining!!

    Also, if anyone has any idea how many syns are in sushi? We're heading for sushi this weekend. Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    highly1111 wrote: »
    I'm down 6lbs this week!! That's 9.5lbs in two weeks!! Utterly amazing!! I'm delighted - I would have been happy with 2lbs this week. However I weighed in at a class this morning before breakfast as I'm working tonight. I also couldn't stay for the meeting as I had the 3 kids with me and they were kicking off - gutted because I got slimmer of the week too - but that's just a small cloud around a huge silver lining!!

    Also, if anyone has any idea how many syns are in sushi? We're heading for sushi this weekend. Thanks

    Well done!!

    It's 1.5 syns per 100g :) I have some diy sushi for my lunch today lol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    highly1111 wrote: »
    I'm down 6lbs this week!! That's 9.5lbs in two weeks!! Utterly amazing!! I'm delighted - I would have been happy with 2lbs this week. However I weighed in at a class this morning before breakfast as I'm working tonight. I also couldn't stay for the meeting as I had the 3 kids with me and they were kicking off - gutted because I got slimmer of the week too - but that's just a small cloud around a huge silver lining!!

    Also, if anyone has any idea how many syns are in sushi? We're heading for sushi this weekend. Thanks

    That's amazing, well done! Super result! :eek::)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    highly1111 wrote: »
    I'm down 6lbs this week!! That's 9.5lbs in two weeks!! Utterly amazing!! I'm delighted - I would have been happy with 2lbs this week. However I weighed in at a class this morning before breakfast as I'm working tonight. I also couldn't stay for the meeting as I had the 3 kids with me and they were kicking off - gutted because I got slimmer of the week too - but that's just a small cloud around a huge silver lining!!

    Also, if anyone has any idea how many syns are in sushi? We're heading for sushi this weekend. Thanks

    Half stone award and slimmer of the week, nice!

    And to think you were disappointed last week! :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Monife


    Damn the person who brought celebrations and heroes into work today!!! 45 - 57 calories each!! Should have checked before I wolfed down 10 of them!!! :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Monife wrote: »
    Damn the person who brought celebrations and heroes into work today!!! 45 - 57 calories each!! Should have checked before I wolfed down 10 of them!!! :(

    The person was no hero as their were no celebrations to be had :):)


  • Registered Users Posts: 22 Jo33


    Enjoying this thread. Have bit the bullet and signed up for SW. I had previously tried on line member ship but I need to be weighed in and be under pressure I think. Have a lot to lose but going to aim for 7lbs at a time. Thanks to everyone for their excellent contributions to this thread which is so informative


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Jo33 wrote: »
    Enjoying this thread. Have bit the bullet and signed up for SW. I had previously tried on line member ship but I need to be weighed in and be under pressure I think. Have a lot to lose but going to aim for 7lbs at a time. Thanks to everyone for their excellent contributions to this thread which is so informative

    Welcome to the thread and best of luck with SW :) That is what I did, have mini targets and focus on those, helps keep you on track!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Monife wrote: »
    Damn the person who brought celebrations and heroes into work today!!! 45 - 57 calories each!! Should have checked before I wolfed down 10 of them!!! :(

    Funny we had a few visitors overs today and none of them brought sweets! We were giving out at the time but it was probably for the best!!

    Down 2.5 this week but I'm having one loss a month the last whole so don't want to get too excited!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭okiss


    I have not been posting here for a while. In the last 2 weight in I was up 5.5 lbs.
    To be honest the 1st week I had 2 days that I was away. I was eating a lot of choclate, crisps ect. The 2nd weight in I had my star week and I had been eating a lot of the wrong foods.
    So after I decided to plan what I was going to eat this week and did some shopping. I have had a good week so hopefully I will be down at weigh in time.

    I had lost a little over 3 stone before this so I don't want to go back to where I was.


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭dcfc91


    Made cauliflower pizza today as I have really been missing pizza a lot. It was actually pretty good, I put plenty of herbs and spices in the base and for the most part I wasn't even really able to taste the cauliflower. Only cost me 2 and half syns for 30g of Mozzarella! Really filling too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    I am really going to have to be more adventurous with my meals, I have slipped in to the routine of having the same foods... I will have to make a list tonight of meals that I can cook and start putting some order into lunches & dinners. I am not the best cook so I like simple meals. I have got so lazy :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭highly1111


    dcfc91 wrote: »
    Made cauliflower pizza today as I have really been missing pizza a lot. It was actually pretty good, I put plenty of herbs and spices in the base and for the most part I wasn't even really able to taste the cauliflower. Only cost me 2 and half syns for 30g of Mozzarella! Really filling too.

    Can you please tell me what you did? I love pizza and have been missing it.

    Off to a bbq tomorrow night. Texted my friend and asked her if I could bring some steaks and baked spuds. I'm also going to put some baby tomatoes on the bbq - use them with the spud so its not dry. I've some gorgeous steaks in the freezer. I'll then have some wine which I'll use today and tomorrows syns for.

    Plan for today is - fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. A large ham salad sambo for lunch with more fruit and then tonight I'm going to have sw carbonara which will be 2syns for the cheese - with lots of veggies.

    Was at a work thing last night and despite eating before it went on hours and I ended up having a tuna mayo with cucumber sambo (brown) and about 6 crips. There was butter on the sambo so no doubt it was my daily syn allowance (and more!) I hate not been in control of my food - however much of a freak I may sound - I love a glass of wine and would much rather have had access to fruit then a sambo! I'll loosen up when the time is ready but this is all so new to me I want to really get used to seeing what works and get into habits and more organised before I go back to work full time in sept (I'm a teacher). I've also made the ham and mushroom muffins this am for syn free snacks and I've loads of fruit it. Off to aldi now as out of slimline milk and I need a few other bits. I still haven't figured out yet if I'm saving or spending more on our food shop. Buying a huge amount of stuff I never bought before but then also not buying loads!

    Sorry for the long post!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    I've made "pizza" out of a Healthy B wraps before, either the B Free gluten-free or the purple WW ones are suitable. Tomato purée with herbs and spices, Healthy A light cheese, peppers, ham and mushrooms. Delicious!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    I tried a pizza before made from wraps, utterly horrible so I have learnt to live without it lol! It was so thin and just tasted nothing like one lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    I'm trying an egg pizza tonight!

    Lightly whisk three eggs, and pop in the pan as if you were going to make an omelette.

    Once cooked, put some tomato puree on top, your desired toppings, some mozarella or cheddar (healthy A choice or syn it), pop under the grill, and grill til the cheese melts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭mejulie805


    dcfc91 wrote: »
    Made cauliflower pizza today as I have really been missing pizza a lot. It was actually pretty good, I put plenty of herbs and spices in the base and for the most part I wasn't even really able to taste the cauliflower. Only cost me 2 and half syns for 30g of Mozzarella! Really filling too.

    Good on ya, I love cauliflower pizza :D
    Made it myself last night, but couldnt get it off the baking paper. So it became a calzone :pac:
    Yummy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Vahevala wrote: »
    I tried a pizza before made from wraps, utterly horrible so I have learnt to live without it lol! It was so thin and just tasted nothing like one lol

    I'm not a mad fan of doughy pizza base so I thought it was grand, the fakeaway book has a recipe for low-syn pizza base which is more like the real thing

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Monife


    A pitta bread could be used as a pizza base if you want it a bit thicker or you could get the gluten free bases in Tesco (http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=260606024), 11.5 syns for half the base and have it with a big salad if you have a real hankering for pizza.

    Or Goodfellas delizia range from 18-22 syns, again, half with a salad would be nice for a treat or SW chips and SW coleslaw :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Thanks :) I think I have just decided to go Pizza less for ever more... I can't eat cheese so I can't buy packaged ones.

    I am quite happy with my homemade burger, sw chips & steamed veg.. I have that after weigh in every week and love it :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Hi guys,

    Could someone explain the S/P days to me. Can you sue your syns on these days, or is it just your SP foods.
    What do people eat on these days.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭2013Lara


    I cheated last weekend and had a real pizza.Enjoyed it but so wasn't worth it. I had a pain in my stomach for two days after . A pain I haven't had since starting slimmingworld. I won't be doing it again any time soon. Weigh day tomorrow, very nervous this week, don't feel like I've lost an ounce. I'm down 2st3lb now, and with a wedding next weekend I'd say I'll still be this weight in two weeks time lol. Any tips for surviving a wedding without blowing it?


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