Slimming World

deisemum

Vahevala wrote: »

I am so happy to report that I lost 2.5 lbs last night at Slimming World, that means I have lost 5 stone 4 lbs, so 3 lbs away from my 5 & 1/2 stone award!! I have lost 7 stone 2.5 lbs in total!

Can you believe I have lost 100.5 lbs! Unbelievable really :eek:

Well done, that's some achievement.

I went yesterday but went to the 11.30am class instead of evening as I had something on. I was down 1.5lbs

tickingclock

Vahevala wrote: »

I am so happy to report that I lost 2.5 lbs last night at Slimming World, that means I have lost 5 stone 4 lbs, so 3 lbs away from my 5 & 1/2 stone award!! I have lost 7 stone 2.5 lbs in total!

Can you believe I have lost 100.5 lbs! Unbelievable really :eek:

Wow. Fair play for sticking at it. Congrats

Vahevala

Hollister11 wrote: »

What do you ear for Breakfeast on a SP day.

I usually eat cereal and usually have a slice of Melon & piece of fruit afterwards. I love the two healthy B's. I have developed an addiction to Country Kitchens bagel slims. I have one of those for lunch! Delicious!

Thank you so much everyone!

pracky2k10

Was up 1.5 lbs this week, seem to have stalled the last couple of weeks :-( I also adore the bagel slims!

Hollister11

Vahevala wrote: »

I usually eat cereal and usually have a slice of Melon & piece of fruit afterwards. I love the two healthy B's. I have developed an addiction to Country Kitchens bagel slims. I have one of those for lunch! Delicious!

Thank you so much everyone!

What cereal is good ? I find alot of what i like is high in syns

dee_mc

Hollister11 wrote: »

What cereal is good ? I find alot of what i like is high in syns

All Bran all the way for me - tart it up with some fruit and it's great, so filling.
If you like something sweeter you can have 35g of frosted or raisin wheats, fruit and fibre, sultana bran or bran flakes, or 30g honey nut shredded wheat, honey, coco, caramel or original Shreddies, or 35g blueberry wheats, or 30g all bran golden crunch... way more cereal choice than there was this time last year when I started!

Hollister11

dee_mc wrote: »

All Bran all the way for me - tart it up with some fruit and it's great, so filling.
If you like something sweeter you can have 35g of frosted or raisin wheats, fruit and fibre, sultana bran or bran flakes, or 30g honey nut shredded wheat, honey, coco, caramel or original Shreddies, or 35g blueberry wheats, or 30g all bran golden crunch... way more cereal choice than there was this time last year when I started!

Is that the same as bran flakes ? Sorry for the questions

dee_mc

Hollister11 wrote: »

Is that the same as bran flakes ? Sorry for the questions

No, All Bran is different, it looks like little twigs (!) and it's texture is similar to that of Scan Bran, if you've tried that. It's mildly sweet. Obviously full of fibre which can be, ahem, helpful It mushes up a good bit if you leave it in milk, less so if you use yogurt instead. I have it with raspberries and blueberries, yummy with banana too.

hbonbr

Hollister11 wrote: »

What cereal is good ? I find alot of what i like is high in syns

I am guessing the cereals with high sysns contain a lot of sugar. I use weetabix, no syns. Maybe you should try a no sugar cereal and if you wish to, add sugar, eg honey and syn it yourself?

Hollister11

Are speed foods all free ?

m'lady

Hollister11 wrote: »

Are speed foods all free ?

Yes!

Penny Tration

m'lady wrote: »

Yes!

And you should be eating lots of speed (1/3 minimum) with every meal

Dolbert

Just ask the local speed heads, skinny as rakes they are :pac:

highly1111

In the car on the way home from Kerry after a weeks hols. Absolute nightmare and feel like utter cr@p - I went completely off plan - wasn't too horrific food wise but a nightmare alcohol wise - I never want to see alcohol again!!! I'm looking forward to getting back on plan. A big error was not planning properly and not eating enough. I'm weighing in Monday - dreading it - but I know (fingers crossed!!) that I can expect to lose a bit next week once I'm back on plan. However, can you guys let me know what an SP day is?? I think I might need a few of these - do you lay off the white carbs and have no syns??

Dolbert

Your meals are 50/50 speed/protein with no rice/potatoes etc. You get your healthy extra A and 2 healthy extra B, so you can have cereal and bread in the same day. You get your full 15 syns but you don't get "free" food other than the speed/protein in your meals. I've never done it because I much prefer having my free foods throughout the day.

Vahevala

Dolbert wrote: »

Your meals are 50/50 speed/protein with no rice/potatoes etc. You get your healthy extra A and 2 healthy extra B, so you can have cereal and bread in the same day. You get your full 15 syns but you don't get "free" food other than the speed/protein in your meals. I've never done it because I much prefer having my free foods throughout the day.

What free food do you eat throughout the day out of interest?

I am enjoying SP and finding the no pasta & potatoes working out well I eat cereals like Bran Flakes, Blueberry Wheats, Fruit & Fibre, Weetabix & Shreddies. I have a different one every morning

Pacing Mule

Runner Mojo wrote: »

Well, I can't stand closed minds.... but hey - enjoy spending your money to be part of a club that would lose the money if you weren't in it

I've heard this line or similar trotted out before. Makes no sense at all.

66% of Irish men over 20 are overweight or obese, 50.9% of women the same. There is a virtually unlimited customer base out there. What's the smarter better business decision ? Sign up people, string them along a bit, lose a little weight, not too much, keep them coming back etc keep them until they eventually say hey it's not worth it and leave ? Or prove time and time again the results that happen for members ? These members recommend to friends who come along and join. More business growth / more footfall / more revenue. (Those who reach their goal weights become free members btw and don't pay)

Take the same view point over to other services dealing with fitness / the body. Physios for example. Do they encourage injury to keep their business up ? Do they deliberately sabotage your treatment to keep you coming back ? Of course they need people to be injured to require their services, doctors need people to be sick etc but that doesn't mean we should distrust physios and doctors or anyone who makes a living servicing something that has gone wrong. Fact is there is heading for 2 million overweight people in Ireland alone. They are there already. There will be more overweight people behind them over the years. Same as people will get sick and people will get injured. Slimming World "treats" the obesity, it doesn't cause it or encourage it. And the better it treats people the more business it will get.

dcfc91

Vahevala wrote: »

What free food do you eat throughout the day out of interest?

I am enjoying SP and finding the no pasta & potatoes working out well I eat cereals like Bran Flakes, Blueberry Wheats, Fruit & Fibre, Weetabix & Shreddies. I have a different one every morning

Where do you get the Blueberry Wheats? I want to start incorporating quick breakfast foods into my diet cause the summer is nearly over and I will be heading back to college. Those sound nice, I've never seen them before.

dee_mc

dcfc91 wrote: »

Where do you get the Blueberry Wheats? I want to start incorporating quick breakfast foods into my diet cause the summer is nearly over and I will be heading back to college. Those sound nice, I've never seen them before.

Aldi and Tesco used to do them anyway, I've resisted buying them in the past year because I would eat them dry! They're lovely!

Vahevala

dcfc91 wrote: »

Where do you get the Blueberry Wheats? I want to start incorporating quick breakfast foods into my diet cause the summer is nearly over and I will be heading back to college. Those sound nice, I've never seen them before.

You can get them in Lidl & Tesco, they are really nice.

Skintwin

I'm going to be starting Slimming World tomorrow...I got an old book off a friend as I just don't have the money/time to be going to the classes at the moment. Any tips or advice? I think I'm going to try the extra easy plan and see how I go with it...it's the plan that seems to have most of the food that I eat anyway as free foods so I reckon that even if I only do that for a few weeks to get into the swing of things, I can maybe move to the original plan for a boost!

Hollister11

I found out why i wasn' loosing weight. I was eating the wrong bread!! Instead of 400g wholemeal, i was eating out of a 800g brown.
And i have frys 3/4 times a weak!!

dee_mc

Hollister11 wrote: »

I found out why i wasn' loosing weight. I was eating the wrong bread!! Instead of 400g wholemeal, i was eating out of a 800g brown.
And i have frys 3/4 times a weak!!

Eek! Easy fix at least! I had terrible cravings for bread yesterday, probably because it was cold and I was tired and had to work unexpectedly - thank gawd for fat free Greek style yogurt at times like that!

Vahevala

Skintwin wrote: »

I'm going to be starting Slimming World tomorrow...I got an old book off a friend as I just don't have the money/time to be going to the classes at the moment. Any tips or advice? I think I'm going to try the extra easy plan and see how I go with it...it's the plan that seems to have most of the food that I eat anyway as free foods so I reckon that even if I only do that for a few weeks to get into the swing of things, I can maybe move to the original plan for a boost!

Best of luck with SW. I would ensure that you are measuring your healthy extras and make sure you drink enough water. Keep it simple with EE for now and hope you do really well!

Skintwin

Vahevala wrote: »

Best of luck with SW. I would ensure that you are measuring your healthy extras and make sure you drink enough water. Keep it simple with EE for now and hope you do really well!

Thanks a million! I'm quite good with water and recently got onto green tea too! My main problem is that I find it quite hard to exercise as I tore ligaments in my knee in February and recovery is slow. I was going great there for a while (crosstrainer and cycling as well) but in the last week I've hardly been able to walk. Hoping that slimming world will help me get rid of a few pounds while I'm getting better. Going on holiday in September too, so I want to look my best! :pac:

Wesser

Hi there! Thanks for all the reminders re water etc!! How many Syns in knorr quick lunch spaghetti bolognese? Does anyone know? Thanks

2013Lara

Wesser wrote: »

Hi there! Thanks for all the reminders re water etc!! How many Syns in knorr quick lunch spaghetti bolognese? Does anyone know? Thanks

If you are on Facebook, the page "syns allowed" is great for finding out syn values of foods.

Claude Burgundy

Weigh in later.................gulp

tk123

My friend went and nominated me for woman of the year (I've only list 1 stone) and I'm supposed to say a few words later etc etc. ....eh.... ME?!?!?!
I could kill her - I know she'll do a runner after she weighs in too! :rolleyes:

Wellyd

Weigh in this evening after a week off for my holidays to Paris! Definitely dreading it but I had an amazing holiday so whatever damage is done will be ok! Food wise I wasn't great and had a few drinks which I had almost eliminated in the last few months. But on the plus side I did walk 61 miles in the 5 days I was away!