Slimming World

I got tempted by ice cream today - everyone in Galway seemed to be eating a cone!
Anyway I managed to resist a cone (8 syns, or 12 with a flake!) and had a Solero Exotic instead - yummy, and only 4.5 syns
And a Marks and Spencer Sweet Chilli Chicken Noodle Salad which worked out at 4.5 syns too, it was gorgeous though!

Up again for no reason - 3lbs this time. I'm going to give it a few more weeks but almost ready to quit going to group and continue on plan myself at home and save myself a few €€'s!

Wellyd wrote: »

Up half a pound after a week 100% on plan. It's going to be hard week to come especially because I didn't see what I wanted on the scales. I filled out a food diary so hopefully She'll be able to see something I'm doing wrong. I'm feeling really disheartened now.

I didn't take any sweets in work all week to be extra good!! I feel deprived now!

Can I ask if you can save your sync? I didn't have any today as I love a few glasses of wine at the weekend. Is it ok to "save" syncs? Sorry, just new to this - only joined last night. Had a great first day though - feel like I've eaten loads!!!

I did it! Got my stone award!! Delighted with myself. I was half a pound away for weeks so for anyone in the same situation it will happen. Stick at it!

Weigh in for me tomorrow evening, so nervous already. My losses have stalled, praying I have a decent loss (well at least 1.5 lbs to get my award)

Down 1 pound tonight, half away from my 3.5 stone, next week!!!

dee_mc wrote: »

The low fat vanilla comes in at 2.5 syns per 125g. I can't see a fat free vanilla variety on their website at all?
As far as I can see only their fat free natural (unflavoured) yogurt is free.
The Greek yogurts come in at 3.5 to 4.5 syns per little 125g pot.
Can't speak for the table at all groups but at my group, there's all sorts of stuff on it, for example 8 or 10 different yogurt pots with varying syn values. I think it's supposed to just highlight how much they can vary -for example, the fat free natural Greek yogurt is free, while full fat is 20 syns per 450g pot!
Also bear in mind that everything is 'ok to eat', I suppose you just have to decide whether you can justify spending 4.5 syns on a yogurt!
Welcome to SW

Yeah our groups table is the same - everything has syn values stuck to it to highlight the difference. My new fav is Liberte Greek style 0% natural - so thick and creamy!

Great to see so many doing well recently. My own discipline has gone to pot. Up a little 2 weeks, maintained this week. We were all over the shop at home so had nothing really prepared. It showed

Kinda back to normal now but still haven't got the head for it. I blame the sunshine and wanting to be outside all the time

dee_mc wrote: »

I'm loving all the fruit and veg since ive been doing SW buy why is it so hard to get nice strawberries in the supermarket!? Eating some here, Keelings brand (so not cheap and not imported), they are so crap!! Watery and chewy and quite tasteless
I'm going to have to start buying them from the guys on the side of the road -I'll have to remortgage the cat

I gave up with the strawberries, too expensive so I stopped!

Weigh in looms for me in a few hours... If I don't get this 5 stone award, I will cry... I can't do much more!!

Congratulations all on doing so well!

dee_mc wrote: »

I'm loving all the fruit and veg since ive been doing SW buy why is it so hard to get nice strawberries in the supermarket!? Eating some here, Keelings brand (so not cheap and not imported), they are so crap!! Watery and chewy and quite tasteless
I'm going to have to start buying them from the guys on the side of the road -I'll have to remortgage the cat

I feel the same about the Keelings raspberries, although they do taste lovely, but 8 out of 10 of them have some sort of mould growing on them despite them being in date and they are so expensive for such a small amount.

Can anyone help me? It says online that a Nestle fun size milky way is 3.5 syns However, when I put the values in for the Lidl Mister Choc Milky Way, it's coming up as 1 syn ???

The dietary information says per 100g - 450Kcal / 17g fat / 9.9 which saturates / 70 carbs of which 63g sugars / 3.6 of protein and then 0.47 salt.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Apologies. 17g

3.5 off tonight so that makes up for the 2 I had on last week! 1.5lb to go and I'll have my 3 stone award, got the new Magazine so looking forward to sitting down with a cuppa and reading through that tomorrow morning

Down 2.5lbs tonight, delighted as I was away for a 4 day break and had dinner out with friends before I went away. I got slimmer of the week. 18 lbs down in 8 weeks. 2st 4 1/2 lbs in total.

To stop soft fruits going off dip them in 10 parts water with 1 part vinegar for a few mins. This kills the mould spores and the fruit lasts much longer. It doesn't taste of vinegar either.

dcfc91 wrote: »

I personally only buy strawberries that are in the salmonella corner fridge. Got two family packs of Keelings Strawberries in there the other day that were meant to be €4.50 each, got them for like 62c each or something. They are pretty good and it takes the sting out of getting a few bad ones in the pack when you aren't paying stupid amounts of money for them. Berries are so expensive. Keep an eye out when you go in to your local Tesco, I get loads of fresh fruit that is usually expensive, like those prepared fruit cups for super cheap when I go in.

Anyways down 3lbs this week, making it 6lbs total in two weeks, really happy cause this week was a star week too.

Thanks for the tip! I usually get my berries in Tesco and pick up quite a lot of the 'iffy' fruit and veg at vastly reduced prices, it's great! Gave Tesco a miss this week as I was tired and Dunnes was easier, hence the crap strawberries - it annoys me that Keelings don't state the variety on their packs (or if they do I can't find it) but these guys must have been Elsanta or similar... the type I try to avoid.
Well done on the loss

sarah37 wrote: »

Hi everyone, i hope you dont mind me posting here. I joined slimming world last night and im a bit overwhelmed by it all. Dinners i think i can manage but lunches im very unsure about. 5-15 syns sounds like a lot but today i had 22! Any tips would be welcome and suggestions for alernatives for breakfast and lunches in work.

Welcome Sarah.
During the week
I have toast, spread with some honey (2.5 syns per tblsp) and a banana sliced on that. I use the Aldi GF brown roll as my bread. I'd often have an apple, some grapes and/or a yoghurt with that.
At 11 I have some fruit and yoghurt - apples, oranges, pears, nectarines, grapes etc and a yoghurt. I usually have syn-free yoghurts, but sometimes have ones that 1/2 to 1 syn - if the yoghurt is nice I consider that good value.
My lunch is usually leftovers from dinner the previous night. This particular week has been bad for leftovers so I picked up a salad bowl in Aldi and added an egg and a tin of tuna - incredibly filling.
Dinner. I have different things. Tonight will be SW chips and syn-free burger and I'll have some onions with that and see what other veg I can add. Last night was chicken and pasta - lots of peppers and onions and passata and herbs. Night before was SW chips and a mince dish - mince, passata, herbs, onions and peppers. Night before was same meat dish but with pasta. Monday night was steak and baked potato and onions. We'd also have chilli on a fairly regular basis and I try to have fish some night in a week.
I tend to use my syns on my morning honey, maybe a nicer yoghurt and some ice-cream later in the evening. I don't use all my syns every day but I do use some every day. They don't have to be for treats, sometimes we'd had some chorizo in a pasta dish. I know when OH cooks steak he uses some oil so I know I have syns for that.
At the weekend I tend to have something cooked for my breakfast. Sometimes I'll use a few syns to have sausage. I'll always have eggs - love eggs! And usually baked beans. I might or might not have toast with that. I'm definitely not as good for snacking on fruit at the weekend! Saturday night dinner is nearly always steak and a baked potato and I'd have a glass or two of wine with that a lot of Saturdays. My tip on wine is find a small glass! Sunday evening dinner is whatever is in the fridge and will be fast.
I drink a lot of water every day. I've probably had 2-3 pints already this morning and will sip away for rest of day. I have discovered I can drink it easily by topping a glass with hot water.
The key to it is preparation and having food in the house. Try to have things like tuna, beans etc in your press for those days when you just don't have a lunch. I always have frozen peppers and onions in the freezer and we always have loads of passata in the press - at a push that'll make a fast dinner with some herbs added. When you cook something it's as easy to make extra and either freeze it or have it for lunch the next day or dinner the next day.
The hardest thing to get your head around is the amount you can eat and what it is you're eating so much of - we all have pasta, rice and potatoes in our head as being bad! Effectively I have 2 dinners every day and sometimes I'll have a 3rd as I go home starving and throw on some SW chips to keep me going.
Best of luck with it!

Vahevala wrote: »

I weighed in last night and I lost 2.5 lbs so that takes me to my 5 stone award (well I have lost with SW 5 Stone 1 lb to be precise!) and 1 lb away from having lost 7 stone in total!

I am so delighted. I am now 11 lbs away from the target I set. Who knows if I will leave the target there or will alter it. I am close to fitting into a size 12 top (I started as size 24 top) and I am still size 14 trousers (I started as size 26)

I was trying to consider if I wanted my final size to be size 10 or 12... decisions decisions

I have been wondering since you posted yesterday before your weigh in how it went WELL DONE. That's as a result of work and is well deserved

deisemum wrote: »

Well done on your hard work, your posts give such inspiration for those of us who have a lot to lose.

Thank you so much, I am glad I can help, this plan really does work and as long as you chip away each week, it all adds up!

tickingclock wrote: »

I have been wondering since you posted yesterday before your weigh in how it went WELL DONE. That's as a result of work and is well deserved

Thank you so much!

Turns out the person weighing me put the wrong figure in the book so I did indeed lose 2 &1/2