Search results

Hello everyone. I am not new with Minimins or WW but it's been so blooming long since I've been a WW member that I may as well be a total novice! I've been dipping in and out of SW for years but have come to realise that I need some portion control in my life, so I've signed up online. I am...

I haven't been on for a few weeks and just popped on to post something very similar. I joined SW in February and did so well, I stuck to it 100% for a few months and lost 1.5 stone... but not I seem to have lost my way and I can't seem to get back into it. Luckily I'm still hovering around my...

1lb off for me, regaining my 1.5 stone after an iffy couple of weeks. I know it was undeserved this week but I had a chat with my consultant this evening and I'm feeling motivated for the coming week. I just hope it lasts!

Thanks. I had a word with my consultant and she said I could do one but really it's for people who don't know where they're going wrong, whereas I do know where, just maybe not why. She suggested that I go back to basics, read my books again, keep a paper food diary instead of using the online...

I can't stop self sabotaging and I don't know why. I lost 1.5 stone with relative ease and no cheating and now it's all going to crap. My motivation has vanished despite still having 3.5 stone to go. I've heard mention of the SAS log and if I can get hold of my consultant tonight I'm going to...

I finally feel like I'm back on track after changing groups. 2.5lbs off this week and I got my 1.5 stone award :)

At my old group it was 50p for one ticket. When our consultant passed away, his replacement was quite taken aback to find the 50p was not for the strip! I've recently changed groups and my new consultant explained that the raffle money went towards the prize and refreshments.

I often have weetabix or porridge with a sliced banana or some raspberries on top. I am finding that I'm having fruit salads with a dollop of Total 0 more and more often though.

Another one who uses the mobile site as an app here.

Original day HexA: 40g reduced fat cheese in my lunchtime omelette 250ml semi skimmed milk (won't use it all as just using it for tea and coffee since it's "there") HexB: 60g wholemeal roll for tonight's fakeaway burger Salted caramel hifi bar

Hello! I used to be a Saturday weighed but due to my husband now working on Saturdays and there being zero chance of my children sitting serenely through image therapy, I've had to change groups. Had my first Tuesday WI last night and had my first gain so far. Only 1lb though which I'm happy...

The Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary ones are free, and bloody gorgeous they are too. I'm not aware of any other free ones though.

Well done! That's exactly how I started out and even though I still have walking intervals, they are tiny and my breathing recovers really quickly. I noticed that I was suddenly able to run much further once I was dragging a stone less around with me as well, so this bodes well for my future...

I can't do it from my phone (iPhone, not sure if it can be done from other phones) but from the laptop I right click and copy the award from the SW website (the my awards section) and literally just paste it into my signature).

I need to investigate this curvy Gapness. I am also a short leg and finding jeans that are the right length and fit is the bane of my life (hence every pair of jeans I have owned since I can remember coming from Next).

I always buy high waisted to avoid the builders bum look. But I have two pairs of (high waisted) skinny jeans from Next. Identical apart from the colour. The blue now hang off me and have been "rested". The black used to be far too tight and now fit me nicely.

I've only just got my husband to understand that he needs to pick up extra lean when he does the shopping (same with fat free yogurts). It's taken years to sink in. This may actually melt his brain. I think I'll just pick up the bloody mince myself :D

I've just seen the update on the SW website about mince being relabelled as lean, reduced fat and standard. It seems that lean is the new extra lean and (possibly) still free, although so far only Asda's lean mince has been confirmed as free. Apparently all due to EU regulations on...

Exactly the same, Ive lost 1lb shy of 1.5 stone in 3 months doing mostly EE. I think I've done one red day and one green day in that time, only because I realised I had actually eaten those days towards the end of the days and thought YAY more healthy extras lol. 99% of the time I stick to EE...

I've done both (several times) and have lost a decent amount of weight on both. Personally though I prefer Slimming World, which it what I'm following at the moment. I find having to count points (or calories come to that) makes me obsess about food and crave it all the more, whereas although...

I've not had a gain so far, I did sts one week. This is unprecedented for me, usually I have a gain in the second or third week and give up lol.

I love a nice fruit salad (made of whatever I happen to have in but often includes some combination of raspberries, strawberries blueberries, kiwi, melon, grapes, pineapple, mango and pomegranate seeds - not all at once lol) topped with a dollop of Total 0 for breakfast.

I understand completely what you mean about not being able to stick to something for long, for the past few years I've tried various plans (some several times, including SW) but given up after two weeks. Something just clicked this time and leapt me in the zone. I had my 12th weigh in today...

It's my last Saturday WI - I need to change to a Tuesday group after this week as my husband is starting a new job and will be working Saturdays (my 2 year old will not sit nicely through image therapy lol). But it it was a good 'un - 2lbs off and got my Club 10 :)

I bought my hoop this evening but didn't have chance to try it out. My husband's out with work tomorrow night so I shall try it out when the kids are in bed and my spud is cooking :D I'm glad to hear that people are getting to grips with them even if they've never been able to hula hoop in the...

My lunch is my own. My colleagues can sod off!

I always Hex them and add 2 syns for chocolate and 1.5 for banana.

Someone brought banana and cinnamon into work yesterday. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised, it sounds minging but is actually quite nice.

And as if by magic.... Back in stock everywhere lol. I've reserved one to collect tomorrow.

I really want a weighed hula hoop but they're out of stock in all our local Argos stores and I don't want to spend too much in case I end up never using it. My hat I have any money until payday so I shall keep an eye on the stock.

I just looked back to see when it was I sts and yes, it was week 4 (so far the only week I've not had a loss). Maybe it's cursed for us! I was pi$$ed off because I didn't deserve it at all and my consultant told me not to look at it by each week but by blocks of weeks, and that I would probably...

I went for a run this morning so I feel slightly less guilty about my 38 syn not-even-that-big-really Easter egg now.

I've been relatively good by having just the one egg of my own and one of my 5 year old's creme eggs today (she doesn't like them, not sure she's really mine). Then I looked up the syns in my egg and thoroughly depressed myself. Ah well it's one day. Well one week if I count my diet...

I had an undeserved 1.5lb loss this week - I'm going to be mega careful this week in case it catches up with me next week.

I was the same pre-EE. I just couldn't get my head properly round the plan until they brought in EE.

Well I don't know how the hell I managed it but I had a 1.5lb loss! I'm going to be careful now in case my crap week catches up with me next week. I am thinking lots of speed and super speed food for me over the next week - I am 1lb away from my Club 10 and I don't want to balls it up!

This is my Harvester staple! I also have the peas (requesting no butter).

I prefer EE as it feels more like a way I could eat for the rest of my life. However, if I suddenly realise I have had no green food that day (and don't plan to) then I have no qualms in declaring it a red day and having my extra hexes :D

I vaguely remember pacers. Were they square chewy sweets?

Weren't they just called Spearmint chews? They were lovely! I have also seen spearmint tea somewhere. ETA: Yes they were :) http://www.greatbritishsweets.co.uk/spearmint-chews-2477-p.asp

I hear you, I've been feeling the same over the past week or two and it worries me, as I recognise this as my usual slippery slope xx

Last half term I was absolutely fine, I was just a week or two into SW and it was all shiny and new and I was full of enthusiasm. This one though - and involving copious amounts of chocolate - is a mare. I swear I'm inhaling crap food. I have come to the conclusion that I simply can't have...

Good call. I recently changed my Twitter handle because I didn't want to "be" my old one any more :)

Another 2.5lb will get me my club 10 and I'd really like to get it before I have to change groups!

I suspect I have found a reason for the extreme aches, and it's not to do with the running! I've been getting shooting pains from my right hip right down to my knee, along with discomfort that long ago was diagnosed as muscle inflammation that I get every so often. It never hurts when I run...

I got my copy yesterday. My 5 year old has requested the chicken korma this week.

Another 1lb off for me. 2.5lbs to go until my Club 10 - I'd love to get it before I have to change groups :)

I can't drink plain green tea, for me it has to be flavoured to take away the bitterness.

Hello! I've only just discovered this thread. I started running (again!) just after new year and it's only now that I've started to feel like I'm enjoying it. I'm sure that heaving a stone less around with me these days has played a part in that! At the moment I run two lunchtimes a week with...

The gingerbread green tea went down a storm at work today. We were impressed that it didn't have that bitter green tea taste, even if the tea bag was left in too long. I'm going to try a salted caramel later.

So there is light at the end of the tunnel? Wonderful, and thank you for your response x

I thought the policy was, if you arrive after the meeting starts, they weigh you at the end. My old consultant was relaxed about it and was happy for latecomers to weigh during the talk but a few weeks ago he had a supervised meeting and warned everyone the week before that if they were late...

Does there ever come a point when you don't ache like mad? Granted today was my best effort yet but I feel like I've broken myself tonight lol. I should also probably actually start filling out those body magic forms now I guess (I don't really understand them!)

Thanks, everyone was a bit in shock last week, I have no idea what to expect come next meeting. Apparently it was his funeral today.

I bought the gingerbread and salted caramel tonight. I very nearly bought the buttermint as well but started to get nervous of the mounting cost lol.

Yes, where are the stories like mine - my meals were healthy but I ate too much crap in between and didn't move my bum often enough? I find it hard to identify with the success stories.

I'm desperate to start making recipes from this book. I'm due to get it on Saturday but I have no idea what will happen to pre-orders now.

And I'm sitting in bed drinking my chamomile and spiced apple tea right now. It's my bedtime tipple. I'm so rock n roll!

Mmm I love the blackcurrant and rhubarb! I'm also very fond of the mango and lychee :)

*knock knock* Can I come in this room now? :)

Breakfast: Fruit salad Total 0 Greek yogurt Skinny latte - HexA Lunch: 60g whole meal roll - HexB 1tsp light spread - 1 syn Lettuce Cucumber 1/2 tin salmon Packet of snack a jacks - 4.5 syns Mullerlight Pear Dinner: Stir fry veg Straight to wok noodles - 1 syn Salmon fillet griddled with fry...

I thought it was on the SW website but I can't find it. Maybe it was in the magazine... I'll try to look it out!

Insulting Scientologists is one of my favourite pastimes. Having to explain what it was to my mum last weekend was such a treat - I got to dust down my soapbox and everything :D A few weeks ago a new lady joined my group and on her first image therapy she said to another member "not being funny...

I saw the gingerbread tea in Tesco tonight and was tempted to buy it (our little group at work make it our mission to find weird and wonderful teas to try) but I thought it might be a weird too far in the beverage cupboard. I may pop in again tomorrow for some since it comes recommended. (I do...

My husband is off with the smalls this week, I am off next week. I have spent this week stocking up my synful treat drawer and at the weekend I'll stock up on nice fruit and natural yogurt and hope that my 2 year old doesn't scoff all the fruit first (they've already located, pleaded for and...

The very first time I joined SW I found it very difficult to get out of the WW mindset, but I did join literally a week after quitting WW, which until that point I had been doing for two years lol. I couldn't get my head around certain things that were low points being ridiculously high in syns...

I love this idea! I'm going to do this and keep them where I can see them as soon as I walk into the kitchen lol. I find focussing on mini goals helps as well. I know my ultimate goal (I set my PAT last week) but I focus on my next mini target rather than the finish line. My first was half a...

Breakfast: 2 banana weetabix - HexB + 1.5 syns 250ml ss milk - HexA sliced banana Lunch: Large salad Slices of cold beef Hard boiled egg Dinner: Baked cannelloni (SW recipe) - 1 syn Salad Muller light Snacks: Options indulgence choc brownie - 2.5 syns Pear Curly wurly - 6 syns Extra milk for...

I got a sticker for my half stone and got a certificate and sticker for my first stone. What are the magnets for, not seen them? As I said before, our consultant never used the PDA and although it was the bog standard "go round the group" thing, he did invite opinions from the rest of the...

Well, it's now been just over 2 months since I rejoined SW and it's been my most successful membership yet. However, over the weekend I noticed a bit of complacency sneaking in and a few unsynned nice things found their way into my mouth, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a diary on...

You should be proud. Look what you lost :)

We usually do our Sunday meat in ours, then with beef we chuck it in the oven with the spuds for the last 15 minutes or so to brown off. Chicken usually falls apart so I'm not game to move that around any more than I need to lol. Other than that I tend to do spag bol and chillies in it so I am...

And I bet I've bloody jinxed myself now!

Sometimes you can factor SW into eating out and sometimes it's simply not possible, but it's healthy eating for life and unless you plan to eat in for the rest of your life then it's going to happen. Sure it's a pain that it all happened in your first week but it's all the other weeks and months...

Yep x

His name was Steve x

1.5lb off for me :)

Our consultant passed away unexpectedly this week. I've only been a member of this group for a couple of months (this time) but was really upset to hear this news. He was a nice bloke. People were weighing in silence and leaving. It's so sad :(

The way I've always understood flexi syns is that you decide your upper syn limit for that on-off day (be it 30 or 70 or even more) and then stick to that. Sure you may maintain or gain next WI but it's a means of still keeping yourself in check without having a massive out of control blow out -...

When I say what plan I'm following so many people sniff and declare that they don't understand how anyone can eat so much (especially including pasta) and lose weight. Well they may not, but clearly it does work so NERR to them :D

I run two lunch hours a week and will be starting at the gym (when it opens at the end of the month - I've already joined). I'd love to cycle but am scared of the busy roads between home and work and scared of the cycle track because of the muggings that tend to occur on it. Maybe one day I'll...

I've pre ordered a copy too, it looks really good :)

Whenever I've lost weight in the past, it's always gone from my face first. Now I am noticing that my thighs, hips and bum have the noticeable initial loss. Running definitely changes your shape!

I have long said I don't want to be fat and forty but when 2014 finally arrived, so did my deadline! So I think that has focused me in the zone for the first time in years. I had been flirting with slimpods for quite a while towards the end of last year and all I achieved was putting on an...

I would get rid of SOTW/M altogether as I really don't see what it achieves apart from a bag of on the turn fruit for the winner. So far I haven't gained once since I joined but have never and probably will never get SOTW since I am losing steadily at the recommended amount each week, yet week...

1.5lb off and got my first stone award :)

I've done both and lost 2 stone with WW years ago but I don't like the new format. For me the constant "visual" of how many weekly points I had left was off putting. I am the type of person who lets a bad day become a bad week, plus I don't like being hungry, so I frequently ate into my weeklies...

I often have a treat on WI day, but so far it's always been a within my syns treat. Yesterday my husband bemoaned the fact that we haven't been to our favourite Italian for lunch for ages so we've decided to go weekend after next and I was planning a post WI "cheat" pizza but I'm scared that...

Hello! I'm a "runner" too. Well walk/run but the run is gradually getting more than the walk part. I've noticed recently that I can suddenly run a lot further than I used to and my recovery walks are getting shorter. I'm not sure if this is down to my stamina improving or dragging nearly a...

Well I managed the next stone bracket, but not the one stone, so that is officially my next mini goal :)

My next goal is 1 stone (fingers crossed for this in approximately half an hour :D) and then I'll be chasing my Club 10. ETA: Actually getting into the 12s comes before the stone - fingers crossed for that this morning too!

Thank you :) Yes I'll be telling him, but I've got another month until I need to switch yet so I'll make the most of it.

Sorry to jump in, but I'm going to have to change groups soon as my husband is starting a new job and will be working on Saturdays. I am gutted as I like my group, but my 2 year old is unlikely to sit nicely through IMAGE therapy lol. I will be mid-way through a countdown when this change...

I think it depends on where you're going. We went to the Harvester a couple of weeks ago, I pre-planned and had a 'free' meal. Next week I have a works team bonding afternoon, including dinner at a nice restaurant in the evening. It is a set menu and nothing on it is SW friendly. I rarely go...

My consultant doesn't use a PDA but just goes around the old fashioned way - when I joined there was a temporary consultant who also didn't use one because the members has said they prefer the way it works that way. I go to a Saturday morning meeting and whilst there seems to be a lot of people...

I have joined SW about 4 or 5 times in the past and have NEVER got a sticker until this time. I am dreadful at sticking at anything, I let a bad day become a bad week and generally as soon as my brain cottons on that it's "on a diet" I start to rebel against it and crave crap. I couldn't even...

1.5lbs off again this week - would have preferred an extra half to take me into the 12s lol but next week I'll be aiming for the 12s and my first stone :)

I agree - I've always said that I love the concept of the SW plan but the WW meetings lol. I do quite like my current group as it's small and friendly, my consultant doesn't do the whole PDA thing because apparently the members said it makes the meeting too long while he taps through all the...

Hat trick! Well done :D

1.5lb off for me this week :)

Hi! My evening meal plan for this week goes something like this: Quorn chilli (going to syn a grated babybel) Salmon fillet and stir fry veg Burger with SW chips (HexB roll and going to syn a babybel inside the burger) Lamb rogan josh from the SW website Fish, spuds and veg (ran out...

On Saturday my consultant recommended making them with a mini babybel inside so it oozes cheese when you bite or cut into the burger. This is on our meal planner for Wednesday :)

I didn't follow SW (or any plan) during either of my pregnancies and I didn't put on any excess weight both times. I didn't lose any of my existing surplus 4 stone either mind, but I didn't gain any more lol.

I agree about the bloating. Just two weeks in (6lbs lighter) my work trousers felt a little looser and my skinny jeans felt a bit baggier around my bum and thighs. I am certain that this was debloating as a result of not eating the mountain of bread every day that was my previous life. When I...

Step away from the scales! Mine told me I had put on 2lbs this week but I actually lost 3. I have learned my lesson. I have started running ( well walk/run but it's becoming more run than walk finally) and it's not affected my weight loss so far. In fact the week I didn't run due to a heavy...

I second the green tea. I've always had issues of the wind variety when I've done SW before but not this time and I think it's because I've been drinking green tea for quite some time before I rejoined. My favourite is Twinings mango and lychee - I was a bit wtf on first taste but it grew on...

Amen to that. Star week reminds me of my school friend who would always refer to her period as "women's problems" in a whisper. Or TOM as it's known in our office. Blames a bloke into the bargain :D

It looks like a good week for most of us! 3lbs off here and I got my half stone award - I'm so pleased after sts last week when I didn't deserve to :)

Breakfast: 2 chocolate weetabix (HexB + 2 syns for extra 1/2 biscuit) 250ml semi skimmed milk topped with raspberries and blueberries Lunch: BBQ beef mug shot Clementine Dinner: Syn free chilli and rice Muller light Snacks: Kit Kat (5.5 syns) Options Indulgence, cherry (2.5 syns) Total syns...

Breakfast: 2 chocolate weetabix (HexB + 2 syns for the extra 1/2 weetabix) 250 ml semi skimmed milk (HexA) topped with raspberries, blueberries and grapes Lunch: Bacon Mushrooms Egg Baked beans Fat free Activia yogurt Dinner: 2 low fat sausages (2 syns) Potato mashed with quark Green beans...

My Consultant says the free ones are the ones where the 1% (or whatever) is in an black circle. Red and orange circles are synned. Something to do with some of them being bulked out with more flour. I generally just check online anyway.

HexA - 35g of halloumi HexB - bag of Ryvita minis

My first attempt at SW KFC :)

Right then: Breakfast: Banana Muller light Lunch: Bacon Flat mushroom topped with halloumi (HexA) Egg baked in scooped out beef tomato Spaghetti hoops Dinner: Fakeaway KFC (chicken, egg, smash granules) Corn on the cob Big salad Snacks: Ryvita minis (HexB) Milk in tea (0.5) Curly wurly (6)...

Excellent stuff, I have bought some choccie ones :)

I maintained this week. I'm actually quite disappointed as I've followed the plan 100% and was hoping to get my half stone this week. I'm going to make more of an effort to put my food on here this week to see if anyone can see if I'm doing anything wrong.

I stayed the same. I don't really know why :( I've been 100% since I joined and the only differences I can think of this week is I haven't been out running and I've been having all my syns - the past couple of weeks I've averaged 10 a day. Maybe that's what I need to try and stick to.

They are on the HEB list??

Really?! Oh excellent I can use the hummus my daughter nagged me to buy this week and then didn't want.

I find a lot of SW stuff a bit cock-eyed. For example we are told that losing 1-2lb a week is the healthiest and most sustainable way of losing weight. And then they award slimmer of the week to the person who has large losses.

Hello! Off the top of my head, if your Tesco sausages are the ones I got at the weekend (I think mine were light choices ones) then they're 1 syn each. All teas (without adding sugar, milk, etc) are free.

2.5 weeks of honks - I'm up to speed!

I've just been having a muller light and a banana before I weigh in, although my group is at 10am on Saturdays. Then I generally have a nice big (whilst still on plan) lunch when I get back, usually involving bacon and eggs.

Hooray!!

Hello! I'm into week 3 at the moment and have been keeping it fairly simple so far with meals that I would normally eat anyway, just tweaking them a bit to make them SW friendly. For instance, tonight we're having our usual Nigella's quick chilli in the slow cooker, only leaving out the chorizo...

Good luck!

Our cover consultant said when I joined two weeks ago that a piece of fruit for pudding can count as your one third superfree. She then reiterated the point by saying "so if you don't fancy some salad on the side or something, just have some fruit after and that's fine".

I'm 1lb away from my first half stone so I'm hoping to get that next week.

Clearly I am supremely crap at updating my own diary but for once it's not because I've given up, just a combination of busy and knackered. I've stuck to it 100% for the past two weeks and lost another 2.5lb this week despite being poorly with man flu (which usually means comfort eating). I'm...

We don't really do Valentine's Day but since it also happens to be Friday, we're getting a takeaway. Chicken with black bean sauce, loads of boiled rice, Muller light for puds. Might even go mad and pop some crushed meringue nest in to fancy it up. Sorted. Plus my WI is Saturday morning lol...

I had this today, with added chicken left over from yesterday's lunch.

I have been members of several SW and WW groups over the years and there have always been men there - nowhere near as many as women admittedly. There are two men who stay to my current (smallish compared to my old group) meeting - plus our Consultant is male - and they are both pretty active...

I've started drinking a lot of green tea, although I always have to start the day with a proper cuppa and sometimes have another later in the day. If I'm having cereal I use milk as my HexA and generally have enough milk left for a cup of tea, otherwise I syn it by the dash.

Hello, I'm a noob as well - well returnee, both to SW and Minimins. I rejoined last weekend, first WI yesterday and lost 3.5lb. I'm really enjoying it this time as well, I was a bit half arsed with it this time last year but I am feeling really motivated now. Good luck!

Incidentally I've always struggled to find quark but went into Sainsburys today preparing to struggle and found THREE different brands. I got the Be Good to Yourself one.

I found these online

I hear you and in the past I have totally messed up my day by caving in to whatever badness my husband has brought home. Just to make it worse, I'm the type of person who let's a bad day become a bad week. I am totally in the zone at the moment so it's not been bothering me if he sits there...

I'll have the odd muller light and an occasional diet coke but I refuse to add spoonfuls of artificial sweetener to recipes generally. Partly because when I'm cooking for the family I don't really like the idea of my children having it. But also because last time I joined SW (about a year ago) I...

Well I've either not had time to come and update my food diary, or been too knackered, this week thanks to various curve balls but I've stayed on plan and lost 3.5lb at my first weigh in today :) I also bought the new recipe book at my meeting today so will be seeking some inspiration later...

Breakfast: 35g porridge - HexB 250ml semi skimmed milk - HexA Sliced banana 1/2 tbsp maple syrup - 0.5 Lunch: Homemade SW burger - 5 syns for bap Ketchup - 0.5 syn (was all I could get out of the flipping bottle) Side salad Dinner: Slow cooked beef Potatoes roasted in fry light Broccoli Peas...

Weeeell long time no see Minimins! I've spent the past year or so piddling about thinking I can go it alone, it's all common sense after all, but have now conceded that I can't. So here I am, having rejoined SW yesterday, 12lb heavier than the last time I posted :( I will be turning 40 in...

I've been round most of Minimins over the years but I've never poked my head round the healthy eating door before. Basically I keep trying different plans, mostly this means switching between Slimming World, Weight Watchers and calorie counting using MFP, with the odd Slimpod chucked in for...

Pasta or rice salad here. My WI is on a Tuesday evening, I run on Tuesday lunchtimes and my running guru advises a carb lunch afterwards. Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

My distraction thing has always been a soak in the bath with a book but we moved a year ago and only have a shower cubicle here. We ordered our new bathroom yesterday, including A BATH *happy dance* so I am looking forward to resuming evening distraction soon. Otherwise I have Options on...

I never used to get on with red/green as I'd forget which plan I was doing and invariably scoff loads of bacon on a green day or forget to weigh my pasta on a red day so EE suits me down to the ground. However, if meat was taken out of the equation altogether then I would go green all the time...

I fell off the wagon last weekend during my first week and still lost 2lb. In the past I have allowed a bad day to become a bad week and THAT'S when I've started gaining. I've gone off plan again today but I'm just going to acknowledge that the devine brie and bacon tart I had at lunchtime was...

First WI for me tonight and 2lb off. Very happy because I had a pretty huge slip up on Saturday (oops). Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

I think there's an expectation of a huge first week loss and disappointment if it doesn't happen. Personally I aim for a loss of any size and if it happens to be big then great, but even a pound is a pound in the right direction x Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

I am going to try this, it sounds gorgeous. I am also a big fan of frozen curly wurleys. OMG my predictive text came up with something that totally wasn't wurleys and I'm not sure I'd fancy frozen and curly, in a toffee muller or not - now amended :D Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

Yes, although with my eggs, asparagus and egg timer gadget all in there, I think I need a bigger pan lol. Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

I chuck them in the pan with the eggs :) Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

I'm sure I must already have one on here somewhere but fresh start and all that. Porridge (HexB) made with water Vanilla Activia yogurt, fat free Banana Tea with a dash of semi skimmed milk (0.5) Soft boiled eggs Asparagus spears for dipping 3 mini babybel lights (HexA) Roast beef, slow...

I always have bags of frozen veg in the freezer and just sling things into whatever I'm cooking. I do enjoy cooking from scratch but I have a 4 and 1 year old demanding attention and more often than not my little boy follows me around and hangs on to my legs, so the quicker I can chuck a meal...

Thank you. And Sod's law, that's the one I often buy lol. Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

This pretty much sums up every SW class I have ever been to. I loathe them but love the plan so I am tolerating them for now. It's the sheer length of them that gets on my nerves. Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

I joined a new meeting this week and during the new members talk our consultant said "processed meat needs to be synned, so that's your burgers, sausages and wafer thin ham". I've always had wafer thin ham when I've done the plan before - have I been doing that wrong?? As an aside, during...

Hello, can I join you? I've been flitting between various plans for months but SW is the one that works. Unfortunately I don't like the meetings and the only one I can really get to these days has a dreadful consultant anyway. My old group had a fab consultant but was too big, even just...

Thank you for the welcome ladies :) It's been going well this week so far (I think!). I had a wisdom tooth out this evening though, it doesn't particularly hurt so far but I'm wary about eating anything, so I'm a bit hungry. I hope I don't over compensate tomorrow lol.

:wavey: Hello everyone. I have been here before but not for ages (my last foray into SW was two weeks before I found out I was pregnant again and I instantly abandoned all serious efforts at weight loss for 9 18 months. I've been trying to go it alone in a half arsed kind of way with various...

Hello everyone! Can I come and join you in here? I have been doing calorie counting but I really can't be fuffed writing everything down so thought I'd give SW another go. I'm on maternity leave so can't afford the meetings and anyway I really don't like the format of them, so I'll be flying...

I haven't done it since because I'm still aching LOL

Dying here :faint2: *tells self it will all be worth it*

Hello! I have only just started CC properly. I'm using My Fitness Pal and it's brilliant, so easy to use and there's not a food I've haven't been able to find in the database yet. And it's free :D

Am I too late to join in? Let's make it a nice round 2 stone :) Morgenmuffel - 56lb (0lb lost, 56lb to go) Conlou. - 23lb (2lb lost, 21lb to go) Carrie1980. - 31lb (2lb lost, 29lb to go) Betterforever - 23lb (2lb lost, 21lb to go) Chestergal - 56lb (0lb lost, 56lb to go) Toni007 - 52lbs (4lbs...

Hello everyone. I am a noob to calorie counting, although not to Minimins. I have tooed and froed between the WW and SW forums for a long time but now I am back on the wagon and being on maternity leave I cant afford to go to a group, so I resurrected my long dormant MFP account a little while...

My leader mentioned filling and healthy to me at the scales and mentioned it again during the meeting. It sounds like essentially it is the Core Plan, only you can chop and change daily if you want to now, instead of having to pick a plan and stick to it for at least a week.

Thank you :)

Hello everyone, long time no see :D I am planning to rejoin WW on Saturday after a falling off the wagon followed by another baby and now being fed up with being forced to continue wearing maternity clothes because everything else is just that little bit too snug lol. I have been having a look...

Fab idea! I might do the same tonight. My problem is that in my head I'm not as big as I am, so it is generally a shock to see myself in changing room mirrors - I need some visual focus I think. I don't think I'm as brave as you to post them though lol.

Second WI today and I lost 1.5, despite TOTM and feeling like a baby elephant when I walked in. I feel more on track now, 2lb in 2 weeks sounds much more respectable that a 0.5lb first week loss :D

Oops double post.

Thanks again everyone. Yes I think you're all right about concentrating on what you can have and I think I need to have a good look at syns because currently I think I'm concentrating too much on free stuff and not thinking about what low syn treats I could have in the house too. On the plus...

Also risotto (I do a cheats version that literally takes 15 minutes) and we usually take a bag of pasta shapes and then get some of those fresh pasta sauce pots.

Thanks ladies. I guess that's it, even if I'm not sticking to it 100% just yet, I am at least aware of it and reigning it in slowly. Between leaving WW about a month ago and joining SW I put on half a stone through just not caring what went into my mouth. Juliet, I was exactly the same the...

I rejoined a week and a half ago and lost 1/2lb on my first week. I know this is because of my willpower issues, even in my first week I couldn't stick to it 100% lol. I have had a few moments this week where I have sod it moments, but it's getting better. I am hoping it is an adjustment...

Do you have a slow cooker you could take with you? Just bung it all in in the morning and forget about it. Or salads (ready prepared stuff natch) and some tins of tuna, etc. Incidentally, Asda have 6 tins of John West tuna for £3 at the moment.

Can someone remind me how much is it to subscribe? Is is shop or group prices? I think I'll do that because there are never any left at my group - the meeting before snap them up so there are only a few left for us. I tell you if I ever become a SWC and do back-to-back groups, I will be very...

It was my first WI tonight and I lost 0.5lb. I know it's not a loss to shout about for a first week but I did lose the plot somewhat over the weekend so I'm just relieved it wasn't a gain.

I usually have a sliced banana on my weetabix. Sometimes I go crazy and have some berries instead. Last week I did have a fruit salad for breakfast which filled me up (melon, pineapple and mixed defrosted berries) but then I had more fruit during the day and got really bloated. Note to self...

I'm starving tonight too. Blooming weigh in night, I don't get home to eat until 8.45.

This is the very same picture I post on another forum I use whenever someone says they only lost 1lb - it is now mostly referred to as losing a mug of fat lol. It is disheartening on your first week though when you see other huge losses at that first WI. You might get a good loss next week...

Garlic prawns on pesto pasta. I was introduced to this by a friend a few months ago and omg it's gorgeous!

Are you eating too much fruit? I felt bloated yesterday and I think that was why.

That pretty much sums it up - also with EE your meals need to contain 1/3 superfree as well. My consultant recommends sticking to EE for at least the first week to ease yourself in, although I tend to stick to EE most of the time as I find it does what it says on the tin. If I realise that...

I have done both a few times now. Overall I have lost more weight (so far) with WW, that was 2 stone about 5 years ago but once I went off the rails I have never since managed to get back into it. I have kept the 2 stone off though, so some good principles have stuck with me. I prefer the...

I alway plan my weekday meals and then see what I fancy at the weekends. This week I have: Monday - chicken and sweetcorn pasta bake Tuesday - SW quiche, SW chips and corn on the cob Today- spag bol with side salad Thursday - turkey meatloaf with veg and mash (leftover meatloaf for lunch on...

Not read the whole thread so sorry if I repeat what has already been said. I thinks its a great idea, but I wouldn't like to see them do the whole microwave meal thing. Jarred sauces for occasional use would be fantastic though - especially on WI night when I don't get home until nearly 9...

I have decided to approach my weight loss journey differently this time, as I am fed up with losing a few lbs and then giving up. I am not setting my ultimate target, even though I kinda know where I would like to be. I'm not going to focus on it because I always aim for that and it always...

I'm boring and nearly always have 2 weetabix with sliced banana and milk. Sometimes I'll go all rock n roll and have strawberries instead. I keep meaning to have something less samey but weetabix is so easy to grab to have at work. Must make more effort!

I am rejoining my old group on Monday and for me it's lots of little things that individually don't motivate me as much as they should, so maybe I need to bundle them up and look at them as a whole. 1. My little girl deserves a mum who has the energy to run around with her without needing a...

Can I ask how much it costs per month after the initial 3 months subscription? I am not being very good at sticking to it alone. Knowing there are two weeks of bank holidays and then going on a weeks holiday straight afterwards is not helping matters much either. Therefore I am considering...

You can have it as a HEB though.

I found my handbook this morning so started there and then. Today has been good, as luck would have it the meals I had planned for today were all EE friendly anyway! I had forgotten how easy to stick to SW is when you're not itching for cake (which touch wood has not happened today lol)...

I have always found that if I'm in the zone, I can lose weight with a class or alone. Years ago I lost 2 stone by myself just by cutting out crap - I didn't touch chocolate or crisps for 6 months and after a while I didn't miss them - and much later on (after I had rediscovered chocolate and...

I always have loads of veg in the freezer these days, something I didn't do before. I have embraced the art of chucking a meal together out of whatever I have in the house and frozen veg is so handy for this. I have also now discovered our local greengrocer and the fact that their fruit and...

The first time I joined was in the days where your choices were red or green and I found it so confusing. The second time, extra easy had just been launch and oh god what a difference! It really is extra easy. I think the key is to just concentrate on EE for a good few weeks and don't even...

In all honesty I gave up last time because I was finding it expensive to keep buying all the fruit and veg, I'm not mad keen on the meeting format and finally, sheer nosiness and wanting to see what the new WW plan was like. I love the concept of SW, all that fruit and veg has to be good...

I am going to attempt doing it at home for starters. I really hope I still have my old books hanging around somewhere! Good luck :)

I started in the WW forum, came to SW, back to WW, a brief flirtation with calorie counting and now I am thinking of returning to SW. I really tried with WW this time but we just don't gel anymore. I think I am going to go it alone for a few weeks, until the bank holidays and then our...

I wasn't offended by what she said, after all I know I'm fat and I am also very aware that I carry it round my middle (classic apple shape here). It was quite funny actually, the more she tried to backtrack the more she dug herself into a hole lol. My mate was more outraged than me, she said I...

Again!! I am really pants at the whole willpower stuff. And this week my nan has been very poorly and won't be around much longer so counting points has largely been put on the backburner. However I have been propelled back into WW action after a colleague yesterday rubbed my tummy and...

I would like to say a tortoise but I fear I am a hare. I can be really motivated one week, but the next it just goes. Ho hum.

I was like this with Fruities. Farties I used to call them. I don't buy them anymore.

A bit late I know, but I love the salmon en croute recipe in the Quick & Easy cookbook. It's basically a salmon fillet topped with a mixture of pesto and lf garlic and herb soft cheese and a strip of ready made puff pastry wrapped round it. It is delish! It was 6.5p on the old system and 5pp now.

Homemade soup of some variety? I got the Your Week mag today and it has a pea and ham soup recipe which I intend to try. I LOVE pea and ham soup.

Now I know it is probably just her being supportive, but I can't help but wonder if my leader is being a bit over zealous with her in between meetings contact. Since I rejoined I have had a text every single week. They are clearly generic though - one set of wording for gainers and one for...

With the weeklies, I think it is a case of finding the right balance for you maybe. Some people need to eat them all to lose weight, some people perhaps not as many. In theory you should be able to eat all of them regularly and still lose though. I find that I eat every last one if I don't...

I was recently introduced to the idea of garlic prawns on pesto pasta by a friend - I have worked it out to be 9pp and it is gorgeous! I fry some crushed garlic in Fry Light, then add some king prawns. Meanwhile, put 50g per person of pasta shapes on, then drain and stir in half a jar of green...

I've to-ed and fro-ed between WW and SW in the past and always come back to WW. I love the concept of SW but sadly it doesn't love me. I also suffer from IBS and I have always found it improves hugely when I'm doing WW - the complete opposite on SW with all that veg and fruit though lol. I...

Sounds good to me FB :)

I will be ditching my iPhone in favour of a BB at the end of the month, so once I have figured it all out I wouldn't mind WW/BB buddies.

It's not just for monthly pass members at all. It is included as part of monthly pass, and it works out cheaper, but you can pay for the meetings each week and also subscribe to esource for £6.95 a month with the access code available from your leader. Personally I wouldn't switch to esource...

It almost sounds like jealousy to me - a competent leader won't go trying to humiliate their members during the talk surely. Even if they do feel the need to say something, then that is what the pre-meeting bit is for, to take someone aside for a chat. What a muppet this woman sounds.

After a couple of weeks of losing the plot a bit, putting on and ending up last week at only 1lb off since I joined, I finally managed to stick to the plan, still feel full, not use every single weekly point available to me..... and I've lost 4lbs :bliss: I feel raring to go now :)

Yes Cosmic Star, it is pretty much everything you get on esource, so all PP motivated.

I made some earlier this week - I will be making them again :D

As an aside, my leader told us today that if you don't particular want to be BMI 25 or lower, you can get your doctor to sign a WW note stating the weight he/she would like you to be and when you hit that, your leader will award you gold membership, even if it isn't near what WW say you should...

I used to use iWatcher

So did I :D Further investigations indicated "non-scale victory", I could be wrong though.

We never bother with Valentines other than cards. However I will be making my new favourite dinner - garlic prawns and pesto pasta on a bed of rocket - and have just bought some of those WW mini vienetta things for puds to make a change from yogurt. And that is about as romantic as I get :D

I swear by planning all my meals a week in advance, writing them down with points and then fitting everything else in around them with the points remaining. You can always tweak it during the week but I find it helpful to have a core menu to go by.

Also, you can still have your jacket spuds. Yes, they are more points now but you also have a higher points value to play with, plus your weeklies. Back in the old days I would have considered a 10 point dinner outrageous, but it's fairly typical for me now. It has taken me nearly a month to...

Every WW meeting I've ever gone to have 2 sets of scales. At the meeting I used to help out at, the scales looked slightly different and a few people would only use either one or the other after trying both and finding a slight difference. They didn't get shouted at for trying though...

I have just adapted a recipe given to me by a friend ages ago and put it into the recipe builder. I was pleasantly surprised to find it works out as 2pp per serving :D 2 onions, chopped and softened with fry light 1 clove garlic 2 tbsp plain flour 500g mushrooms 1L chicken stock, made...

Thanks everyone. Well it could have been worse, just 0.5lb on today. I am going to do my damndest to find something to do this Wednesday that doesn't involve plonking myself in the chair with the laptop, a cuppa and a mountain of food. I think you are right rachluvsbhg, maybe I am associating...

That's the thing though, I have healthy alternatives in the house, but I pass them over in favour of something rubbish. It's boredom I think, and really I should do some cleaning or something when Miss goes for a nap - nothing like scrubbing a toilet bowl to make you not want to pick up that...

My meeting is on Saturday mornings, and every week I leave full of enthusiasm. This lasts until Tuesday, and I am really good a track everything. I don't work on Wednesdays and that is when it goes wrong. Once my little girl goes down for her nap and I can chillax, I crave bad food and I always...

Have you tried eating all your weeklies as well as your dailies? According to my leader, the full whack is calculated so your body is getting the correct food deficit, so maybe by not having the full 29 daily AND weekly 49, your body is going into starvation mode.

My WI is at 9.30 on Saturday mornings, which I find a huge help. I used to go at 6.45 on Mondays and not eat masses during the day. As I clerked at my meeting, I wouldn't get home until 8/8.30 and would be ravenous, so would blow the points budget in one evening.

I eat chicken and beef, but I wouldn't be too fussed about giving up meat in the main. I have to be in the mood for roast pork/pork chops and I can't abide lamb - just the smell of it makes me heave. I have always said that my love of bacon sarnies is the only thing coming between me and...

These are similar to my wellies (mine are a different print that I can't see on the website though) Matalan - Floral Wellie and these bikers - they seem to have been discontinued now, but they are so comfy, they not only go round my calves, but there is even a bit of room to spare! Black...

I have always had chunky calves and they have never got any smaller when I've lost weight. Mind, I do a lot of walking and I can feel that this is little or no excess fat on them so they're not likely to. Over the past couple of months though, I have FINALLY found both a pair of biker boots...

I have done both WW plans and SW and I am loving the new propoints plan. I am currently in my third week and to me it is the best of both worlds - the healthy eating emphasis of SW with the flexibility of old WW. I especially love the weekly points allowance. I keep forgetting I have it and...

I have ordered this DVD this morning. It sounds like my muscles aren't going to know what hit them! If it only makes it out of the cellophane then it will be doing better than my Claire Sweeney WW one...

Hey everyone! I'm a Saturday weigher. I had my second WI this morning and have lost 1.5lb again. At least I'm consistent :D

I am so glad I found this thread - our SC has been gathering dust because we only ever make casseroles in it and I was getting bored stupid with them. I feel inspired now :D

I have done both WW and SW more than once. I love the concept of SW but I need the flexibility of being able to pop a pizza in the oven or a ready meal if needed at the last minute without feeling like I've failed. Feeling that I've done wrong sends me off track until my next "diet week" begins...

Mostly cinema popcorn. I've not tracked at all today so I have no idea how bad it potentially is. This is why I need to track - I could well be feeling naff for nothing!

I've been so good all week (first pp week) and it all went to pot today. It would have to be the day before my WI too :rolleyes:

I would love to but the only one locally that isn't on when I'm at work clashes with my WW meeting!

I am afraid to use too many of mine. I am 5 days in and (provided I stick to my meal planner for today, might go up a pp or 2 yet), I have used 21.

I just found a recipe on BBC Good Food - a serving of that one works out at 19pp. So I reckon I'll work on the basis of that and fit my other meals round it. I have plenty of weekly points left over if I need them anyway.

I haven't signed up to MP yet, so I've not got it. But I will be signing up at my next meeting so I might ask her for the recipe afterwards (like I said, I don't like to before) and do a retrospective check on Saturday and hope I didn't blow the budget. Thank you guys :)

I could just ask in passing what she's put in it I guess, and try to work it out roughly and add a bit extra on just in case - I don't like to ask exactly for details because I always feel like I might offend the cook lol. I did reply to her message saying I'd save some points especially, so...

My friend has asked me to hers for lunch this week. She has told me she will be making a creamy pasta bake. How do I even beginning guesstimating how many points to allow for that? In the old days I would have a rough idea, but propoints are still so new to me. I don't want to bugger it up...

IIRC they will let you join after your 6 week postnatal checkup, and if you are breast feeding you are allowed extra points - or at least you were on the old system. They won't allow you in as a member when you're pregnant but I know people who have followed the plan loosely on their own...

Oh I have no problem sitting there with my eating out guide open along the menu either. I used to have a friend who would take it into the loos to read so nobody would see.

At the risk of TMI, I used to eat loads of fruit on Mondays before my evening class just so there was a fighting chance of having a damn good poo before I left the office for my meeting. I am kinda glad I now go on Saturday mornings so the pre-meeting pressure is off a bit lol.

They still do the shopping and eating out guides. I plan to buy these next week. I know we have esource too but sometimes it's handy to just be flicking through and finding something unexpectedly rather than looking up specific items.

I find the new calculator a bit faffy. It's okay for using at home but I can't see me pootling round Sainsburys working out points on it like I did my old one. I'm going to get the shopping guide I think, so I can get an idea of what I'm looking at pointswise before I go shopping and then use...