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Rubybubbles said:
I'm going to be joining you all very soon on slimming world:) I join on Monday ekk!


2 years ago (28th Dec 08 in fact haha) I was 15st3lb:0 and a good size 20! I am now 12st 2lb this morning8... It's been a long journey and think joining a group will help me finish my journey! I am only 5ft 3 so still a good size 14:(
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How did you lose all that weight! well done, it seem's good at group i can't believe people lose weight on slimming world but i weigh in wednesday morning i've been eating load's more than usual but better thing's and a bit of exercise so well so finger's crossed:{
 
On 5 January 2009 I weighed 16st 4 3/4lb. On 30 November 2009 I weighed 13st 2 1/2ib. A loss of 48 1/2lb. I was following the Scottish Slimmers plan on my own.

On 5 January 2010 I weighed 15st 2 1/4lb so now only 1st 2 1/2lb less than I was two years ago. I am so annoyed with myself. Anyway, so far I have had 3 good days and weighed myself this morning. (I always weigh myself in the morning at the same time of 6am and on a Monday morning). I woke up at 6 this morning so got on the scales, I was 14st 13 3/4lb so a loss of 2 1/2lb. I haven't recorded it though, will record Monday's weight. I would like to have a stone off before I go on holiday on 4 March.
 
I was 15 st 10lbs when i started,
June 5th 2008 14st exactly,
weighed myself yesterday January 7th 2011 14st 2lbs 6 oz.

I'm wanting to get to 11st 10lbs .Fingers crossed.
 
I had a lovely welcome letter come through post today from my consultant.
Ive been eating loads of scan bran and speed soup and it aint half got the bowels moving lol!
That can surely only be a good thing right? {:|
lol x
 
Thats nice of them
Iv just had the most gorgeous tea. I make Potato, cheese and onions cakes.
Made 5 decent sized ones, had 3 for tea so 2 left for a snack later.
Served them with 1/2 packet of Ainsleys Harriet Roasted Veg Cous cous and some mixed veg.
If anyone would like the recipe for the cakes let me know yum yum.

Anyone know the syns for Chutney at all? Might have a little later with the other two
 
Those sound nice - wonder if I could 'veganise' the recipe as I have my soya cheese in - does it have eggs in as can't have those but might be able to adapt!

I met a friend for a late Christmas meet up today - she had been ill with flu so we had to put things off until now.

Went to the Chinese restaurant Cafe Soya that does do lower fat meals. I had a started of tofu kebabs with salad and chilli dipping sauce, then the lunch deal which is a smaller version of the mains - had veggie sweet and sour soya chicken with steamed rice, then the tofu pud which is virtually fat free. Had water and a diet coke too.

It went rather 'whoops' later - a glass of rose in the pub and friend had made me some beautiful homemade lemon star mini cookies - have had one no more.

Too full for tea but am eating a small jacket and beans now to stop me feeling hungry later (and away from the cookies)

Been good rest of the week so am sure a slightly flexi day today wont hurt, just been reading Cook Vegetarian' magazine - will be trying the vegan recipes that are Slimming World ones.

Nice you are getting letters/messages form the consultants - ours sends us a weekly text and then If I don't go to his meeting I always text him with my loss as he loves to hear how it's gone. Be glad when he is back from sick leave after his tummy tuck - have had a text to say he is ok but got to take it easy for a bit - am missing his meetings.
 
Nope no eggs in sight
Cheese & Onion Potato Cakes
Free on Green & Extra Easy! This recipe is also really nice with bacon too.

1 large onion
3 medium sized potatoes
42g of low fat cheese (HEA)
a handful of chives
fry light
salt & black pepper

Chop up potatoes into chunks and boil for 10-15 minutes on a low light, making sure they are not too soft.
In the meantime cook the onion in a pan of frylight.
Grate 42g of low fat cheese.
Once potatoes are cooked, leave for 5 minutes to cool off, then grate them gently.
Once grated add the onion, cheese, salt & pepper and chives. Mix together and mould them into round shapes.

Cook in a pan of frylight for 2-3 minutes either side to give them a nice crisp.
Yummy!
 
Day Three: Sat 8th Jan 2011
GREEN DAY

BREAKFAST:
Poached egg, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, onions, potatoes with ww toast.

LUNCH:
Speed Soup (mixed bean salad, red/green lentils, tomatoes, baked beans, leek, onion, carrots, peppers, chillies, oxo)

DINNER:
Quorn southern style burger with cajun sw chips, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion, spring onion.

SNACKS:
Vanilla mullerlight yogurt with 2 pieces scan bran, honeydew melon.

HEALTHY EXTRAS:
A: 42g low low cheese. A. 2 slices light cheese B. 57g wholemeal roll. B. Hifi bar

SYNS:
Weight watchers malted danish 1 slice (2.5) 2 pieces of scan bran (2) Quorn southern style burger (2.5) medium white wine, 175ml (6.5)

TOTAL SYNS: 13.5
TOTAL SYNS FOR THE WEEK SO FAR: 26.5
 
vicky1804 said:
Nope no eggs in sight
Cheese & Onion Potato Cakes
Free on Green & Extra Easy! This recipe is also really nice with bacon too.

1 large onion
3 medium sized potatoes
42g of low fat cheese (HEA)
a handful of chives
fry light
salt & black pepper

Chop up potatoes into chunks and boil for 10-15 minutes on a low light, making sure they are not too soft.
In the meantime cook the onion in a pan of frylight.
Grate 42g of low fat cheese.
Once potatoes are cooked, leave for 5 minutes to cool off, then grate them gently.
Once grated add the onion, cheese, salt & pepper and chives. Mix together and mould them into round shapes.

Cook in a pan of frylight for 2-3 minutes either side to give them a nice crisp.
Yummy!
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Sounds nice thanks, and can make that with my soya cheese, got vegan bacon style rashers in too!
 
Hiya! Well I joined you on here a couple of months ago and then all hell broke lose! I lost my internet access first, for ages. The my daughter was very ill, then me. Turns out we had swine flu! I went down with it on a trip to London and it turned into acute bronchitis and acute tracheitis. I have never felt so ill in my entire life. It has taken some 6 weeks to begin to feel well enough to sit at the pc again.
ANYWAY, I never went back to SW with all that was going on but I have lost some weight since I've been ill. Suffice to say that was pounds when I have stones to lose. So I phoned a different SW consultant yesterday and I'm going back on Monday. Monday is a good day for me psychologically and the consultant is really nice. So wish me luck and keep your fingers crossed for me on Monday!
 
I hope you don't mind me posting on here, I'm not following any plan as such, just trying to eat better and watch the calories. I've used a couple of slimming world recipes this week and will definitely be trying more as they all look lovely and like decent meals unlike what I used to get by on doing weight watchers!

Well I've been healthy eating for a week now and have gone from 11st 5 to 10st 13.5! So 5.5lbs lost in a week which I'm over the moon with :) I know that now the loss will probably settle down as you always tend to lose more the first week.

Whats nice is I also have felt full and not like I've missed out on anything this week. Yesterday morning I had a full english ( 1 grilled sausage, 2 rashers grilled bacon - trimmed of fat, grilled mushrooms, poached egg, slice of toast and a glass of orange juice ) which filled me until the evening ( though I did have a banana in between ) and I made a lovely roasted veg lasagne for dinner ( 350 calories per portion ) with some low fat garlic bread.

Today I'm doing a roast chicken dinner ( I'll be having mainly veg with a couple of new pots and the chicken ) and Steven will be having roasties and yorkshire puds with his as, unlike me, he needs to put on weight!
 
I've been given a voucher for Graze - snack boxes inside a late Christmas gift from a friend - it's for 2 boxes but looks like they keep taking £3.49 unless you cancel straight away so not over keen.

It looks healthy but is all seeds/nuts/dried fruit so would be high sugar/fat so not very SW friendly.

Might see if anyone else wants it, too high syn value for me:{
 
alisont said:
I've been given a voucher for Graze - snack boxes inside a late Christmas gift from a friend - it's for 2 boxes but looks like they keep taking £3.49 unless you cancel straight away so not over keen.

It looks healthy but is all seeds/nuts/dried fruit so would be high sugar/fat so not very SW friendly.

Might see if anyone else wants it, too high syn value for me:{
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I also had one of those as i joined Graze a few months back and had a few free boxes and then christmas time they sent me two gift vouchers to give to friends which allowed them to have 2 free boxes, so i opened an account in my OH name as we dont live together yet and have the 2 boxes free. :)) If you cancel your account as soon as you have received your second box you wont get charged, thats what i done on my account.

The snacks you have are quite tasty and i think you can have some of the nut ones on SW? I think.

I was wondering on SW is there a recipe for low fat gravy and are all quorn meats free? Or is it just the mince and chicken pieces?

:)
 
It recommends changing to Bovril which I just cant do. I think (dont quote me) gravy is 1 syn per tablespoon? Mrs Wilsoncroft - can you confirm or correct me pretty please? :)
 
vicky1804 said:
It recommends changing to Bovril which I just cant do. I think (dont quote me) gravy is 1 syn per tablespoon? Mrs Wilsoncroft - can you confirm or correct me pretty please? :)
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Just been looking on some post about SW on minimins and they say that on SW you can now have stock cubes FREE, i found a recipe for gravy which said use one stock cube and add some smash powder to thicken it. This is free and has no syns etc.

What about Sunday lunch? I'm mainly doing Green, so does this mean all veg and gravy will be free, just the meat would be a syn? Or if you use quorn is your cooked dinner free, as i seen quorn roast joint today and was wondering if these were free too.

I'm trying to turn veggie too, so i dont mind having any quorn products.

Thank you. :)
 
I'm not very up on quorn as vegan but a lot of the products are syn free - unless coated in breadcrumbs.

I still have the frys products and count those like quorn as nutritional info much the same and Frys vegan. If I do a veg roast dinner which I dont have often I do SW roasties, loads of vege and tend to make gravy with stock or vecon - a vegan stock in a jar that I know is free. Otherwise I use syns for gravy.

If I'm cooking I cook for Mum too who is veggie but tries to be vegan as much as possible Mum loves nutroasts so I make those but am not keen on nuts so have a tiny slice sometimes - think a slice of nutroast is around 11 syns so not good.

Got about 5 nutroasts in the freezer too, and 2 boxes of grassingtons root vegetable roasts.

Might do a roast dinner tonight but I can have a frys sausage instead of nutroast or maybe half slice nutroast as not had any syns today.
 
Right time to sit down, spent 2 hours kitchen cleaning then cooking after that!

Tea tonight for me and Mum is nutroast, tons of veggies, SW chips and a tomato sauce homemade for the nutroast if needed, rest can go with pasta tomorrow.

Also made a huge pan of butternut squash, red lentil and potato soup for lunches and a rice pudding with my milk allowance.
 
Joey&Gizmo said:
What about Sunday lunch? I'm mainly doing Green, so does this mean all veg and gravy will be free, just the meat would be a syn? Or if you use quorn is your cooked dinner free, as i seen quorn roast joint today and was wondering if these were free too.

I'm trying to turn veggie too, so i dont mind having any quorn products.

Thank you. :)
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If made the way mentioned then gravy if free along with veg. For meat you can use a Heathly Extra b, Just check the amount you can have or check the back of your book and syn it
 
vicky1804 said:
It recommends changing to Bovril which I just cant do. I think (dont quote me) gravy is 1 syn per tablespoon? Mrs Wilsoncroft - can you confirm or correct me pretty please? :)
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Sorry I've not been on much I have not been well.
Granuled gravy is 1 syn per teaspoon. I have the Onion bisto and really like it. x
 
I was looking through some old photos of me when I was bigger to keep me motivated to get back to target. I hate xmas time its the only time of year I go off the rails with my sw lol! I now need to lose 9lbs to get back to it.

So here I am at almost 10 stone & the second pic was taken in June 2010 after losing 7lbs on my own before starting sw & then losing 1 stone 3lbs with sw :) I cant believe the difference in my arms just from looking at these photos.

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And here is a photo I took back in the Summer when I was trim & in shape holding up my old pair of work trousers

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Day Four: Sun 9th Jan 2011
EXTRA EASY DAY

BREAKFAST:
1 Honeydew melon

LUNCH/DINNER:
Potato Skins with bolognese. Extra lean minced beef, onions, mushrooms, garlic, tomatoes, passata, red & yellow peppers, oxo, lea & perrins. Served with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion & spring onion.

SNACKS:
1 vanilla mullerlight yogurt with 2 pieces of scan bran.

HEALTHY EXTRAS:
A. 42g low low cheese
B. Kellogg's fibre plus bar

SYNS:
2 pieces of scan bran (2)
Highlights hot chocolate (2)

TOTAL SYNS: 4
TOTAL SYNS FOR THE WEEK SO FAR: 30.5
 
Haha my guinea pig Reggie ain't daft....he always knows when I'm making a salad & wheeks really loudly. I think he knows it's because I can't resist giving him a treat everytime I'm making food....Looks like I'll have to share my cucumber & tomatoes then! LOL! x
 
Monty's always the same heads to the front of his cage when I'm sat eating salad and does this awful raspy sound he knows works as whoever is nearby rushes to feed him!

Craving comfort food tonight so got SW chips in the oven a veggie sausage and will have mushy peas, will do a side salad too - don't want salad but need some salad or vege with it I guess.

WI tomorrow after work and really don't think I've lost any, just hope i've not put on. Am stuck in a rut at the mo after the Christmas spell - only put half a pound on but had expected it to start falling off again nowrolleyes

Am a grumpy one tonight as craving stodge/comfort food and choc, will go in a few days but it's a struggle:{

Oh for lighter nights and more motivation to excercise, a gym nearby would be good too - it's 2 trains to get to/from the one in the next town so I don't go!
 
Day Six: 11th Jan 2011
EXTRA EASY DAY

Breakfast:
Nothing. Woke up feeling unwell again & had a bad throat so just drank water.

LUNCH:
Ham Salad with roasted new potatoes, beetroot, Batchelor's savoury rice, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion, spring onion, pickled onion, red peppers, boiled egg.

DINNER: Lasagne. Extra lean minced beef, onions, mushrooms, garlic, tomatoes, passata, red & yellow peppers, oxo, lea & perrins. Served with sw chips, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, red onion, spring onion.

SNACKS:
1 vanilla mullerlight yogurt, 2 scan bran, honeydew melon.

HEALTHY EXTRAS:
A: 21g low fat cheese & 125ml semi skimmed milk.
B. Hifi bar.

SYNS:
French fries (4) Balsamic dressing (0.5) Colman's cheddar cheese sauce (4) 175ml white wine (6.5) Scan bran (2)

TOTAL SYNS: 17
TOTAL SYNS FOR THE WEEK SO FAR: 60
 
Thanks for posting your meal plans, it's been useful to give me some ideas and get my head around it all!

Your pics are great too, you've done so well
 
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lost 3lb first week still getting my head round it tho but i do like the plan i just have to be more imaginative and use my syns!
 
Well done hun that's fab :)
I have got weigh in tonight at 7pm. I feel nervous already lol x
 
I was nervous tonight but am back on track as lost 1.5lb:)

Hope that is the motivation I need to stick to plan and feel I'm going somewhere again (as in downwards!)

You know If I stuck to this SW plan 100% and went to the gym or did some excercise I'm sure I'd lose a lot more and get to my targets quicker but guess I'm happy enough shuffling along at my slow but steady pace!

Once it goes lighter and I start my walking a lot more plan, it might speed up!

I'm in a phase of thinking that nearly 2 stone Sept - Jan is a bit slow but am pleased I've lost it and it is staying off, last time I dieted (many years ago) I lose 4 stone in 4 months and piled it and more all back on after:x
 
I went zumba, gym and played dance central for 3 hours this week so expected more but i was hoping to lose 2lb a week till end of may so i guess 3 is a good start tho i did just have a chocolate bar rolleyes
 
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