m'lady wrote: » If you give me the brand of the soup I'll check the app for you whiteroses.
WhiteRoses wrote: » Your a star! It's the avonmore feel good tomato soup. Thanks so much.
Ms2011 wrote: » First weigh in tomorrow. Have this dread of being the only one who doesn't lose anything in their first week!! I know I didn't keep to my syns the first day cos I hadn't gone shopping so didn't have the proper food in, the second day I miscounted the syns in a roll I had. Tomorrow will tell if it was all worthwhile :-)
m'lady wrote: » Sorry I didn't see this until now. Is that soup nice? Not bad in syns if you were stuck.
FizzleSticks wrote: » Going into week 2 of "star week"/time of the month and still half a pound away from my 2 stone award, frustrating or what, maybe I'll get it tomorrow fingers crossed, I've been busting my ass off all month for it.
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dee_mc wrote: » 'Star week' came about because people used put an asterisk or star symbol on their food diary on the week of their period or the week they ovulate just to keep track of whether their weight loss was effected by the hormonal stuff etc In some groups people would be embarrassed to say the word 'period' maybe in front of male members but having said that, in my group I've heard people saying period from hell, yokes, bits, munster playing at home, monthlies etc so I think it depends on the person/group!
Walter H Price wrote: » one lad in our group didn't fully understand what it meant at all , had never been explained like he thought it was a week where you had stuck to plan but just had lost much. anyway long story short he had a week where he only lost a 1/2 lb our leader cam to him in image therapy and he said , look i did everything right guess it was just a star week . needless to say everyone nearly died laughing our leader included, poor chap was beyond confussed.
SarahMollie wrote: » Oh the poor fella - kinda hilarious all the same, but still....see, this is why people should be just grown up enough to say period! Anyway, question for you experienced SW folk. I'm trying my best to food optimize but with some meals I'm struggling to make sure I have the speed, mostly at breakfast. For example, this morning I made the baked oats recipe for the first time. For those who are unfamiliar, its basically your 40g oats (HexB), 2 eggs, a 175ml muller light of your choice (I also added some baking powder for half a syn and some vanilla essence, free) Anyhoo, it was huge meal and really hot so took me an age to eat. By the time I'd finished I basically had to run out the door for work, so I grabbed a punnet of strawberries to have as my speed, but didnt eat them until I got to work, so probably 45mins later. How bad is this? I've found this a few times, that I've eaten my speed either before or after (usually not 45mins - this morning was particularly bad!) but since we can't cook fruit without synning it, I tend to eat it either before or after my meal, rather than necessarily incorporating it. Thoughts?
hole in my lovelywall wrote: » So is that the crux of slimming world-that a third of every meal should be speed? Another frustrating week for me. 1 out of plan meal over the weekend and I'm up 3lbs!!! WTF. I had decent sized meals of free, speed and protein, and calculated and kept within the syns for anything out of plan. I don't know where I'm going so wrong.
Walter H Price wrote: » thats the aim its should be easy enough because loads of things are speed e.g in a homemade bolonaigse the pasata , canned tomatoes , onion in the sauce are all speed i usually add some spinach and that. 1 bad meal shouldn't have you up 3lbs i was up that much after 5 days in Disneyland. I'd say give a 777 a shot , have 7 servings of speed a day and only allow yourself 7 syns for a week i've always had great weeks doing that .
hole in my lovelywall wrote: » Thanks for the reply. I snack on speed. Only meal I don't have speed with directly is breakfast. Would have speed fruit soon after though. I'm literally going to have to start measuring stuff with a ruler!
SarahMollie wrote: » Have you spoken to your SW consultant or maybe even your GP? I'd try the consultant first to make sure that you're not overlooking something obvious, and if not the GP.
