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Got my 3 stone award tonight and to say I'm delighted is an understatement! I was expecting a little gain after a big weekend so was very pleasantly surprised! I have never felt better and I still can't believe it has been so easy with slimming world.
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Hello all.. Well done on all your weight losses.. mind boggling how quickly some have lost a great amount.. well done is what i say!! you motivate the rest of us!!!
lost 1.5 lbs last ni in sw.. 9.5lbs in 3 weeks! Delighted with myself..
) did a SAS this week to help with emotional eating.. helped somewhat! 0 -
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Just had a disastrous holiday, up eight and a half pounds! Back on the straight and narrow now, though!
It's great that you're open about it though. Couple of people in my SW class - when they've gained, they ask the consultant/tutor/whatever the title is, to not call them out to the group.
I think it's a bit silly, myself. It's good that you're acknowledging you've put on a few pound. Personally, if it were me, I'd rather come back from holiday a stone heavier and after having a great time, than a pound lighter and miserable thinking of all the food I wanted to eat but restricted myself from.
Always make the most of a holiday. You'll get the 8.5lbs off soon enoughStarting weight was 26 stone 7 pounds.
Some people cannot hack the success of others. Don't hate......Congratulate....!!
That's an enormous loss and if it's accurate, I both thoroughly applaud your effort but also feel a bit sorry for you cos I know that's going to be extremely difficult to maintain.
Sometime last year, or the year before, I dropped a stone in a week. Needless to say it took a lot of very hard work. Of course, such dedication wasn't feasible to maintain, so when I started relaxing my exercise and diet, the stone was back in the following 2-3 weeks.
I can completely understand where Eircom Sucks is coming from. It is a bit of an over-the-top loss, but you're obviously putting the work in, so fair play.
I weighed in tonight, and I was down 4.5lbs. This brings me to my current weight of 15st 13.5lbs. So I'm in the 15's by the skin of my teeth.
I started keeping an eye on my weight about 5 years ago (random bursts of exercise and dieting here and there, but always kept an eye on my weight, just out of curiousity, even when i wasnt doing anything about it). I'm pretty certain that this is the first time in those 5 years that I've seen 15 on a scale. so I'm pleased with that.
My history of SW so far is;
(I started my weight loss efforts 4 weeks before joining SW, so my 1st week of SW was my 5th week of eating right and exercising):
Weight 4 weeks before SW: 18st 11lbs
SW Week 1: 18st 2lbs (Start Weight)
SW Week 2: 17st 6lbs (-10)
SW Week 3: 17st 2lbs (-4)
SW Week 4: 17st 0.5lbs (-1.5)
SW Week 5: 16st 9lbs (-5.5)
SW Week 6: 16st 12lbs (+3)
SW Week 7: 16st 4lbs (-8)
SW Week 8: 16st 3lbs (-1)
SW Week 9: 16st 4lbs (+1)
SW Week 10: 15st 13.5lbs (-4.5)
So if I was 18st 11lbs on the 21st of April. So that's what... 13 weeks? And in that time I've lost, despite the odd gain here and there, 2st 11.5lbs?
My mathematical abilities are atrocious, but I think those numbers are right. Works out at an average of 3lbs per week?
Crappy maths efforts aside, I'm a relatively happy camper, all in all.
I'm intent on trying to get 4.5lbs off this week, to get the 2.5 stone award (meaning I'll weigh in at 15st 9lbs). I'd be thrilled with that, but I think I'd be getting too optimistic.
However, I have put my name down for a 10k run that I know I'm not able to physically do, so that's in a month's time, which means over the next 4 weeks, I should be working out for that, which will hopefully help me out with my weight, too.
As an aside, I know I haven't posted in this thread in a while, but I'm still reading it and enjoying it. Ye guys are greatHi
I'm thinking of joining slimming world. I wanted to loose weight just doing it myself but that's not working for me I can get a stone down but then I just get lazy and put it back up again. I would like to loose about 6 stone altogether.
I find I eat little during the day and go over borde at nite and I have such a sweet tooth I love chocolate and crisps and we always have takeaway Saturday nite can I still have this in moderation of course. Also how much butter and mayo can u have I use low fat all the time? Thanks any advice ??
Personally, I find the eating plan a bit too simplistic, with SW. I calorie count, but i use the SW system as a food pyramid of sorts (as SW does encourage healthy eating, to be fair).
I find that the best thing you can do is bite the bullet and join a class. Stay, get to know the faces and go from there.
I find that having a weekly weigh in, publicly, makes you a lot more accountable and responsible for your eating actions. But that could be just me.
If you do join up, don't worry about butter or mayo. Keep using them and work on the takeaways, chocolate, etc first. If you strip everything you like away at once, you won't stick it cos you'll get fed up of it overnight. Tackle the bigger issues first and keep the smaller treats, and work on them over time. That's what I'd do, anyway. 0 -
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auldgranny wrote: »My first weigh in after starting. I lost 2 pounds. I was a bit disappointed. I thought I would lose more somehow
Try not get disheartened. Just think, in less than 2 months if you had 2 off every week that's a stone.
We all want big losses, but sometimes our bodies don't lose loads in one week.
It can also take a while to really get to grips with the plan and you might need a bit of time to get your head around it, but just think of how much 2 lbs of fat looks like or two lbs of sausages, its quite a bit when you look at it that way so be proud of your loss 0 -
Try not get disheartened. Just think, in less than 2 months if you had 2 off every week that's a stone.
We all want big losses, but sometimes our bodies don't lose loads in one week.
It can also take a while to really get to grips with the plan and you might need a bit of time to get your head around it, but just think of how much 2 lbs of fat looks like or two lbs of sausages, its quite a bit when you look at it that way so be proud of your loss
Well when you put it that way it definitely sounds way better 0 -
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I'm thinking of starting slimming world! What are the pros and cons of it? A girl in work lost fpur stone in 9 months! That's amazing!
This is all just my opinion:
Cons:
You pay a tenner a week.
You spend an hour each week listening to the same tired old recipes, comments and questions.
You get an eating plan that lets you eat as much food as you want so long as it falls within a certain category (fruit etc.) (I disagree with this part of the plan).
You are expected to blindly follow the plan and not question aspects of it.
It's mostly women.
Pros:
It's a weekly public weigh in, so the 'impending doom' each week, makes you a more responsible eater.
You get an eating plan that carries with it a solid food pyramid that can be used to improve your diet fairly swiftly.
You get 'awards' for your progress to keep you on track. Although I initially didn't care about these when I joined, they actually do motivate you.
You get a SW pack (books on different things, food, exercise, etc. in a transparent plastic casing). It's really professionally done, not at all tacky, and worth the joining costs alone.
It's a decent social circle to spend an hour or two in each week. Obviously it varies from group to group, but the class I joined is full of people who are very pleasant and welcoming.
It's mostly women.
All in all, I would highly recommend joining. Definitely try get someone to go with you when you join, as it can be a bit daunting, but once you're there for 2-3 classes you start getting to know some of the faces and can fall in and out of conversation that bit easier.
It also opens you up to a social circle of people looking to lose weight. So if you're looking for someone to go walking with, for example, you can always put the feelers out at a meeting and see if you can nab someone (probably not too difficult).0 -
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Does anyone else find that they get an enormous urge to binge-eat all kinds of crap foods every now and again?
I gave in last night (not very wise, considering my SW class is this evening). But at the time there was just no stopping it. I feel annoyed at myself, but at the same time, I didn't really enjoy the sweets and stuff as much as I'd have liked, so maybe it's a good thing (maybe i'll start to associate sweets and crisps with pains in my belly and underwhelming tastes and ultimately be put off such foods... or maybe I'm just being too optimistic...) 0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Does anyone else find that they get an enormous urge to binge-eat all kinds of crap foods every now and again?
I gave in last night (not very wise, considering my SW class is this evening). But at the time there was just no stopping it. I feel annoyed at myself, but at the same time, I didn't really enjoy the sweets and stuff as much as I'd have liked, so maybe it's a good thing (maybe i'll start to associate sweets and crisps with pains in my belly and underwhelming tastes and ultimately be put off such foods... or maybe I'm just being too optimistic...)
If you try and cut out everything, yopu'll get that. best way is to allow yourself a small amount and then you're far less likely to have that build up, mentally, that ends up far worse.0 -
Deleted User wrote: »Does anyone else find that they get an enormous urge to binge-eat all kinds of crap foods every now and again?
I still get that. More so I'd be sitting there craving for a Dominos or KFC bucket. But I just fill myself with free foods instead and remember the target I'd set for myself that week.
I've come too far to let it slip. When I need to stop losing weight, I'll relax that mindset but for the time being I am being very disciplined.
Also, if you don't have them in the house, you can't binge! 0 -
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I weighed in last night, with a 4.5lbs gain
Looking back, I can see why (got a bit of work on with a chap in a van.. spent the whole week sitting and not moving, and eating lunches out on the road). Probably thought i was gonna have a 'maintain' week, but 4.5lbs is a bit more than I had thought!
So this week I'm aiming to do things a bit more health consciously. Will aim to get a run in in the morning before heading off, bring some of those Tesco fruit pots as a lunch and do some light enough resistance training in the evenings perhaps (haven't done weight training in quite some time).
Will keep a tab of everything I eat and all the exercise I do. Will hopefully all combine to get a loss of more than 4.5lbs off (i know you usually do lose a little more weight on a week after you've had a fairly big gain).
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i have joined sw online (i am very self conscious) so looking for any hints or tips people got from the meetings?!
i have about 5 stone to shift...so any hints would be great
Hi! I don't do SW but like to read these threads for motivation etc. since whatever programme you're following, we all have the same goal at the end of the day! So I don't have any SW specific tips for you but I have one major suggestion that came to me when I read your last sentence there and which I think is super important:
Do not focus on the 5 stone you need to lose.
I've lost over 5 stone so far so I know where you're coming from and sometimes it seems insurmountable. If you constantly think about the "5 whole stone" you need to lose it can be very de-motivating. So what you should do is break it down into smaller goals. Start off by aiming for a half a stone loss. 7 lbs. You can do that in no time at all (especially when starting your journey!). Have a reward planned for when you hit that first goal (preferably something totally unrelated to food like buying yourself a new game/book/gadget/purse/whatever or planning a day trip somewhere or whatever floats your boat). Once you've achieved a 7lb loss (or whatever amount you decide), don't think "right, 4.5 stone still to go" just move straight on to the next 7lb goal and focus on your next reward.
This is of course a lot easier said than done but I think most people will agree that it's a lot easier to focus on smaller increments than the big picture!
The other thing you should do is take pictures and measurements straight away. I know that's hard cause I certainly did not want any reminders of how big I'd gotten when I started but the scale is not the only (or best!) indicator of progress. I often read people on here and other forums etc. who drop dress sizes (i.e. lose inches) without the scale budging much. It's good to have several measures of progress so you can see how far you've come
Best of luck and make sure you check in here plenty - for the good and the bad! Sometimes I feel stupid writing out my struggles and feel like no one wants to read that crap but it does give me the kick up the arse I need sometimes. Weight loss is not a straightforward journey and there will be many ups and downs - you just have to learn to accept that and make sure you keep moving upwards.
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