A question about : Spring into Summer 2012 with Slimming World
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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- Do I get second post?
- yup! Now where is Czerniaka? Her question about latte - I think they have sweetened milk or something in, also remember it's full fat milk they use and it is mostly milk, just a shot of espresso then the steamed milk, plus if you shake chocolate over the top, you can see how it adds up. I (Miss Perfection) keep a little tupperware tub of dried skimmed milk in my bag then when I go out I ask for an Americano and add my own milk. of course, I usually have a chocolate covered caramel slice with it ...
- I was going to say, I thought normal black coffee was free, americano etc.
- Hi here I am all 16st5lb of me Will next weight myself on Sunday and then weekly on scales at work til I have Ј to go to club
- Can someone please tell me how many sins in a 200g tub of plain Philly
Thanks - I have had gastric flu and am still not eating much which is not good for SW. I haven't touched any fruit or vegetables or protein since last week. So far just managing on rice and fruit teas. I don't feel as though I have lost any weight either.
Just wondering how to ease myself back into SW eating whilst being extra careful and not really feeling like eating at all. Any good ideas? Or links that might help? - Seeing as it's a shiny new thread, I can't help but hop on and say hi
I'm 38, 5ft 5 1/2in and on May 5th last year I was 20st 1 lb. I'm now 13st 4 lb All thanks to SW.
I've been as heavy as 21 stone and as light as 6 stone something (I didn't look, the doctor just told my mum he wanted me to get up to 7 st). I've had a go at all sorts of diets. I usually prefere the "Go mad and starve youself silly" diet, which means the weight comes off really quickly Then I go on to the "stuff yourself silly with all the things you've missed" diet which puts all the weight back on again ~ Oddly enough But after getting desparate I tried SW last May.
I had heard from Taplady how sucessful and easy it was and I was getting to the point where I had to do something! And oh my god how easy is it??!! Never before have I coped so well, as I've just filled myself up with all the Free Food and factored in any extra's with HEA and HEB's. It's so easy, even for a frog to understand. I joined a local group and I went for several weeks but I just felt like I new what I was doing so it was a waste of time and effort. I didn't gain much from the group and tbh in just got on my nerves a bit. I felt sure I could carry on on my own so I left. Each to his own, I know others find the group invaluable.
I don't weigh weekly. It's too traumatic! I can only cope with every now and then. I usually do it every half term, or at the mo I'm seeing how much I can lose between pancake day and Easter so I weighed half way through, and will weigh again on Good Friday morning.
I had a little wobble around January as I didn't lose anything for a month. I hopped on the scales on Jan 1st and I was 14st 4lb. Then I hopped on the scales on Feb 1st and I was.... 14st 4lb That would usually have made me binge but I just changed things around a bit. I was actually eating too much fruit ~ a serious amount I can tell you, and at least 4 yogs a day. So I cut down on the FF yog and too much fruit, and I lost 11lb in the next 3 weeks.
I won't highjack the thread too much, I'll just hop on every now and again if I may? Just wanted to let any strugglers or doubters out there know that if I can do it ~ anyone can! I was fed up, fat, and miserable, and now I'm back into my size 12's (yes, alright they are REALLY tight but I can get them on!) my bones don't ache, I don't get headaches anymore, I'm really looking forward to the summer and I feel really happy again!
I've suffered with eating dissorders since I was 14, I've lost at least 8 st 4 times, but now, thanks to SW, I really think I've got my food issues sorted. Just got to keep going .... - oh nice shinny new thread!!! well just found out it's my graduation from uni on week commencing 12th Nov, (I'm a mature student ) so this plus a wedding in october gives me a spring into summer incentive!!
poor planning yesterday meant that I was so hungry at placement, I had brekki at 6am so my lunch at 10.30 I was starving by the time I got home so need to take some snacks with me Have a good day everyone, btw I'm going to order a pair of size 12 pink jeans and were them on my 45th birthday in July is this a bad idea???? - Morning loosers!
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got my voucher for free 1 week fitness first pass so going there in a bit
had my coffee with 200ml ss milk and now munching through a bowl of strawberries and melon
when I come back from the gym I'll have some eggs, bacon and veg and then go for another Mr T trip (I know it's my obsession but I recon running round supermarkets is kind of exercise too, right? )
will prepare another mackarel salad to take with me and some snacks...
dinner will be stuffed peppers(with extra lean turkey mince, salad onions, sweetcorn, mushrooms and chives - I don't really fancy rice in them but might bake a potato to go with it)
got some muffin tins yesterday(yes, from Mr T! LOL pyrex ones 75% off ) so might try the breakfast muffins receipe soon
also want to get some scan bran, is it just H&B who sell them or does Mr T as well? want to make a SW cake(got a pyrex tin for that too ), anyone got a yummy receipe please?
wish you all a great SW friendly day! - Good morning ladies.
Another newbie here and I would love to join in too please.
After many years of up and down weight I have reached a new high this week and having read a lot on this forum about the success people are having with SW I have decided to give it a try.
There is a meeting near me at 9.30 this morning so that will be my first WI. I think I have about 2 stone to lose and if I don't do something about this soon, it will be 3 stone before you know it.
I am really looking forward to being slimmer and having more of a spring in my step as we move towards summer (I'm feeling quite frumpy at the moment) and I will be pleased to cook and eat better as this will set a good example and be helpful to my teenage daughter. She is slim right now but it is never too early to learn good eating habits and I worry that she will inherit the fat gene which seems to plague the women in my family. - WI and I've lost 3.5 pounds so I'm officially at my first half stone off
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Am just popping my head round the door, I have been awol, dealing with a lot of personal Sh!t just now which is probably contributing more to my weight loss than SW at the moment. Feel as if someone up there doesn’t like me. I hope to be back in full force soon, hope you are all doing well on your losses.
MP X - Morning all - happy new thread!!
I've having a bit of a funny week. I've started doing a wee bit more exercise - tried the jogging on wii fit and nearly died after 5 mins! - but the damn wii fit tells me I have put on 2lb And this is with me cutting back on syns for my night out this weekend - I'm really apprehensive about going out now as I don't want to ruin the weight loss momentum but I have been looking forward to going out on the lash with the girls for so long!
I have read with interest a lot of you restrict bananas in your diet - I eat loads of bananas and pears as they are easy to take in the car with me for work and aren't a lot of faff to get into like oranges or grapefruit. Apples don't do much for me other than hurt my teeth.
Any hoo, here's to a fab journey towards a slimmer summer with my new found cyber friends. x
PS Any sign of Med Mum - not seen her for ages
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