Make 2013 a year to remember with Slimming World (Part 2!)

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Welcome to the 2013 Slimming World support thread Part 2....!

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• Hello all and welcome to the new Slimming World support thread. This is a continuation of the fab previous SW thread which you can find HERE!!
• The link for the most recent Slimming World thread can be found in the post above. Click here for the older thread and HERE for the thread before that !!
  and finally, a copy and paste of the text from before...
  Dear all, as the last thread grew so long here we have a new one. I am simply copying all that Consultant31 put in the introduction to the pre-Christmas thread for you here. There have been a few changes on SW in the past couple of months - cereal allowances have gone up slightly (but very slightly - by a gram or two, don't get too excited) and some of the Muller yogs now have syns, but the basics remain the same - eat lots and lots of healthy food and treat yourself to a few syns each day!
  Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss.
  You need to commit to making changes to the food that you buy and how you cook it, because what you have been doing in the past has not got you to where you want to be.
  You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest.
  If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.
  You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
  Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.
  Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can (and should) be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!
  The Original (Red) and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the Extra Easy plan. If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.
  If you fancy having a go at EE, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-
  Extra Easy:
  1: Choose your Free Food
  Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!
  And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!
  2: Choose your Healthy Extras
  Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.
  3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day
  And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!
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  If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check:-
  1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free
  2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)
  3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted
  4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured
  5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........
  A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate
  OR
  B: switch to more Speed Foods
  And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!
  Link to recipe thread:-
  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...4#post40936144
  Remember we are all here to support each other, and to have fun, and to share in any little disappointments. Oh, and also try to remember not to quote wholesale from books or the SW website as there are copyright laws and we don't want Slimming World seeing us as nasty rivals, this is more for support
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• Thank you Flat Eric for our lovely new thread
  Hope all is well with you?
• Oooh good thing I spotted this!
  Just had a lovely jacket potato with a tuna mix on top - fat free fromage frais, tuna, tom puree, dill & lemon juice (& salad of course!) scrummy!!
  C xx
• Thanks for the new thread! x
• Hi everyone I'm back on track have been a little bit poorly. I hope it hasn't stopped the weight loss. Just been living off mug shots n water.
• ohh, lovely new thread :-)
  1lb loss for me this week, 4lb to go for 3 stone so am gunning for that now.. hope everyone is well x
• I am reposting this as I didn't see that a new thread had been started!
  I talked to my SW consultant about not being able to have as many veggies as the plan states ( can't digest due to no colon) and she has said to just experiment maybe trying to gradually increase until i get to my limit and have the fruit that seems to not affect me ( melon, apples, peach, strawberries- yummy !)
  Anyway today attempting EE and my plan if ok is:
  Had beans on two small whole meal bread (HEB) followed by melon for breakfast.
  L- Jacket potato with tuna and large mixed salad.
  D- homemade quorn spag Bol with onions, garlic, celery, mushrooms and toms. Wheat free fusilli pasta ( I am trying to use up 5 bags of wheat free pasta bought earlier this year when I went on a wheat free diet for 2 weeks!)
  30g chedder on spag Bol ( HEA)
  Strawberries melon and grapes
  Syns 4 ( 8 cups tea with dash of skimmed milk)
  Want to have a yoghurt with my fruit after dinner but I'm still unclear which ones are ok? I have some weight watchers ones in the fridge I have been too scared to eat. I also have two large cartons of fat free greek yoghurt as I have in the past used it to replace breakfast or ,lunch because it is quite high protein ( over 9g in quite a small amount)Are there any free ones?
  I don't want to use all my syns up in advance as I am still finding my way!
• I'm feeling very focused at the moment so that's really positive! My menu today (red day):
  B - Wholemeal roll (HEx B), ham, cheese (HEx A), piccolo tomatoes, muller light yoghurt
  Snack - banana, hi-fi Light (3 syns)
  L - bacon, onion, cheese and tomato (HEx A) SW quiche, salad leaves
  D - Steak Pie with puff pastry (Pastry - 6 syns; gravy - 2 syns), boiled potatoes (HEx B), carrots, green beans, baby corn, yoghurt and strawberries
  Total syns = 11
  NYD
• Hi all
  Thanks for the new thread flat Eric so have had an awful week food wise where I have been more off plan than on. I will keep trying though. Expecting a gain at next WI but I am sure that *week will contribute to the gain. I will have a very busy week this week as I am moving. Very apprehensive as moving back to a share house.
  I feel sad that I am sharing again as I like living in my own place but as the cost of living gets higher & my wage doesn't i am finding that I am on a smaller & smaller budget each month. I am sick of being very skint & not being able to do anything unless I save up 3 months beforehand. I am really looking forward to having some extra cash & I plan to start saving for a good holiday ASAP!!
  Really making an effort today though so am doing a green day -:
  B - fruit & yog plus 2 hi if light
  L - 2 x ww sandwich with hex a cheese , carrot & beet root (yum)
  D - new potato salad with spring onions, mushrooms & sweetcorn mixed with FF fromage Frais
  Snacks - strawberry & passionfruit meringue (3) , options (2)
  Have a nice evening all
• Looking good mich
  Hope move goes well rainbow
  Have had the scan bran.
  Did not enjoy it at all.
• But think of the good it's doing you beanielou
• If I remember correctly it did get more palatable the more you ate - I think I just kinda got used to it & I'd go there again when I need the boost
  I wonder if using them as croutons in soup would work well as they'd get really soggy then