Search results

Wow, that's fantastic. I'm well jealous. How long were you on a VLCD for?

Hello :) How much of a hurry are you in to lose those last two stones? Are you struggling to stick to Cambridge or are you still finding it quite easy? As Abz says, if you come straight off Cambridge and go on to SW, you'll almost certainly gain weight, maybe up to half a stone or more...

Thanks Deb. :) Yasmine, I'm still feeling your pain hun, though maybe not so acutely as you, as I have at least lost 4 pounds since I started on SW four weeks ago. But I've stayed the same for the last two weeks now :sigh: (and the week before that I gained a pound back after losing 5 pounds...

Um... That's not actually true. For some reason, some consultants say this - but Head Office have never said this is the case. In fact, the FAQs quite clearly state that you don't even have to have your HEXs at all, just that it's advisable to have them for good health. {runs away and...

It must be completely and utterly frustrating. :hug99: And like many of the others here, I've seen your other posts and know that you're following the plan to the letter. I have no doubt that SW would work for you... eventually. But it sounds like 'eventually' isn't soon enough - you simply...

Ah, but... Exercising does cause water retention (and therefore, a small amount of temporary weight gain), particularly if you're not used to exercising. It is the body's way of allowing the muscles to recover after exercising and provides a means for the body to flush away lactic acid. So...

If I remember rightly, you were on Lipotrim before you started SW, weren't you? I have a similar problem in that I switched from Cambridge to SW - and in fact, the last time I tried SW, what you say is happening to you happened to me - I too did the diet 100%, lost 5 pounds the first week then...

Per the SW FAQs, this is the answer: Q: Can I mix and match my Healthy Extras by halving the portions? A: Yes, if you like - you’ll still lose weight beautifully! The downside is your speed and fibre symbols would have to be ignored unless your two halves had identical symbols. However...

Day 25 - green day Breakfast Quorn sausages and eggs Lunch Roast chicken 142g (both HEX Bs), SW roast potatoes, carrots and peas. Tea Jacket potato with beans Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), pear Syns for the day = 0 Syns left for the week = 4 - ??

227g of potato is 6 Syns. 57g of potato (raw weight), flesh and skin is 1.5 Syns. So 227g potato (raw weight), flesh and skin = 6 Syns. I think you may have been looking at the Syn value for cooked weight. :)

Day 24 - red day Breakfast Bacon and eggs Lunch 2 pears and an Aptivia fat free yogurt, Oatso Simple (HEX B) Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns), 35g dry weight wholewheat pasta (HEX B), carrots, broccoli and cauliflower Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), apple, raspberries and yogurt...

Wouldn't that be because it's supposed to be 28g porridge plus a Scan Bran? That's where the additional Syn disappeared off to, I think. And the potato is 1.5 Syns per 57g raw weight (flesh and skin) - so 227g potato is 6 Syns.

Seemed to have missed a day - stayed the same at weigh in yesterday, sigh. What I must confess to is consuming 50 Syns worth of chocolate. Big whoops. Ah well, the show must go on... I did at least do a 5.3 mile walk today, so maybe I walked some of that off! Day 23 - extra easy day...

Aw, that's brilliant! :clap: Well done!!!

Don't forget that you can have a jacket potato on red days too - okay, so the one cook puts in for you might be bit bigger than 227g but you could always Syn the extra bit, if you know what I mean. :) Every extra 28g would be 1 Syn, I think. I do this a lot on red days and stuff it with very...

Nah, no need to count the oil as a HEX. :) Eggs fried in oil are half a Syn each on all plans.

Yes, I lost 5 pounds the first week, gained one back last week and STS this week. But hey, I'm still 4 pounds down in 3 weeks - I'm determined to keep seeing the bigger picture, LOL. Thanks for the encouragement though! Yay, well done. :clap: :cross: Here's hoping!

No need to apologise, Pesty - I think it's actually quite good that this sort of thing comes up here on the forum. It seems that some Consultants say very different things to others - at least this way, we've got a chance of bashing out what should be the right thing to do. This is one of the...

Well... My frozen yogurts do taste like, well, frozen yogurt when popped in my ice cream maker. But the consistency is right, that's the thing. If you use the stirring every 20-30 minutes method (i.e., don't use an ice cream maker), you still seem to end up with ice crystals - well, I did...

Wow - that's fab! Well done! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Grrr... :sigh: Stayed the same despite being 100% and not going over my Syn limit. Never mind. Better than putting a pound on, I s'pose. And maybe my body's still sorting itself out after doing Cambridge. Maybe :)

One new ice cream maker (Magimix 1.1 litre capacity) + 2 toffee Mullerlights + minibag of Maltesers (smashed with a rolling pin, LOL) (5 Syns) = 1 very very happy Fleur... :D Yum yum yum! Who knew that slimming could be so much fun!

Day 21 - extra easy day Breakfast Banana and Mullerlight Lunch Jacket potato, very low fat cottage cheese and an apple Tea Pasta bolognaise (3 Syns) with carrots, cauliflower and peas. Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), toffee and Malteser (5 Syns) SW ice cream (made with...

Most of us here have got that message, loud and clear, it's true. But my Mum used to have a saying about thinking that you can credit everyone else for having the common sense you've got. The truth is, not everyone has got that common sense... I think, hand on heart, we can all think of...

Day 20 - extra easy day Breakfast Mullerlight yogurt Lunch Jacket potato, very low fat cottage cheese, salad and an apple Tea Beef stroganoff (4 Syns), rice, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower, SW Syn-free ice cream (made in new ice cream maker - yum yum!) Extras 250ml...

So when will the BodyOptimise site and the magazine 'catch up' with this thinking, I wonder? I think I'll go on following the BodyOptimise stuff for now...

Day 19 - extra easy day Breakfast Apple and Aptivia fat free yogurt Lunch Oatso simple (HEX B), melon and yogurt Tea Spaghetti bolognaise (2 Syns) and carrots Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), Curly Wurly (6 Syns), Aptivia fat free yogurt Syns for the day = 8 Syns left...

LOL, it never even occurred to me to freeze them... :D Can you really do that? :doh:

Day 18 - green day Breakfast None - got up late! :) Lunch Roast chicken (HEX B - 71g cooked weight), dry roast potatoes, peas and carrots Tea 71g canned salmon (HEX B), pasta and mixed veg Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), 2 x Curly Wurly (11.5 Syns), Aptivia fat free...

Thanks to all of you :) I'll give it a whirl and report back, LOL.

When you've lost a lot of weight (as you have :clap:) it can be really hard to find that same level of motivation. You're coming at it from a completely different place to where you started. When you started, you probably didn't like what you saw in the mirror very much, your clothes were...

Both look really good - and I'd say you could do just as well with either one of them. The only day I'm not sure is right is this one: You'd have to Syn the chicken, wouldn't you? :confused: You've already got 2 HEX Bs.

If you cook say 4 jacket potatoes in the oven so that you can take them to work to zap in the microwave at work at lunchtime, how long do they keep in the fridge? I should know this stuff - but I don't. :o What would a potato cooked on Sunday be like by Thursday lunchtime (if kept in the...

I didn't know that about tinned fruit. :) You live and learn. I'd be very happy indeed to treat pre-prepared fruit as free food. I guess it would work out very expensive to eat way too much of it, anyway - that'd put most of us off! :D :D

I'd like to know the answer to this one. My mate, who's lost more than 5 stones on SW in the last year, seemed to chomp loads of ready-prepared and chopped fruit during her weightloss phase - she worked on the basis that it's free (and it's clearly been fine for her). But then again, isn't...

Day 17 - green day Breakfast Oatso Simple (HEX B), banana and Aptivia fat free yogurt Lunch Jacket potato with baked beans Tea 71g canned salmon (HEX B), pasta, mixed veg and 1 tbsp double cream (3.5 Syns) Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), frozen Mullerlight and fromage...

Day 16 - extra easy day Breakfast Oatso Simple (HEX B), apple and Aptivia fat free yogurt Lunch Ham salad with 1tbsp Heinz Extra Light Salad Cream (1 Syn), Count On Us yogurt and fruit Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with rice Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), SW ice cream made...

LOL, no - neither had I until I wrote it. :) Gonna have to give it a whirl in the next day or two, methinks... :D

Aw, thank you. I'm trying very hard to see the bright side. I fell off plan the last time cos this happened and ended up back on Cambridge - but now I know to expect this and I'm really optimistic that I can do this right this time. :) Yay, well done! Sounds to me like Flexible Syns might...

Put on a pound. Never mind. :rolleyes: Day 15 - extra easy day Breakfast Aptivia fat free yogurt and an orange Lunch Aptivia fat free yogurt, Oatso simple (HEX B) and grapes (2 Syns) Tea Beef stroganoff (6 Syns) with rice and carrots Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A)...

HEX B allowance for wholemeal bread is 57g - so I reckon you should weigh it. :) I reckon it might be just over a slice - maybe not much though, LOL. I guess it might work out to be an extra 'soldier' to dip into your boiled egg!

Well done, Goingtobe*fab*at40! :clap: I managed to put a pound on :sigh: Never mind. I kind of half expected it (1) cos I've just come off Cambridge - and this happened the last time I did this (I lost several pounds the first week of SW and somehow put them back on over the next couple of...

Well - they're called Syns now. Which as Jaylou says, is supposedly short for 'Synergy'. But way back when, Syns were indeed Sins (as in naughty things, LOL). The change in spelling is a relatively new thing. The fact I can remember means I'm getting old, of course. But my Mum (again, way...

Day 14 - extra easy day Breakfast Strawberry Mullerlight yogurt and an apple Lunch Jacket potato with cottage cheese, salad and an orange. 1 quality street (2 Syns) Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with rice and carrots Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A) Syns for the day = 4...

Day 13 - red day Breakfast Apple Lunch Grapes, Aptivia fat free yogurt and Oatso Simple (HEX B) Tea Jacket potato (HEX B) with beef stroganoff (4 Syns for wine and butter) and carrots Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), chocolate (35 Syns - whoops :o) Syns for the day = 39...

It's all about the journey with so many diets, isn't it? The emphasis is so much on the weight loss that how you'll keep those pesky pounds away when you reach your destination (i.e., goal) really doesn't get much consideration, IMHO. I've noticed (cos I lurked over there during the...

Day 12 - red day Breakfast Apple Lunch Ham salad, orange, Aptivia fat free yogurt and Oatso Simple (HEX B) Tea Jacket potato (HEX B) with lamb curry (1 Syn) Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), Aptivia fat free yogurt and an apple, chocolate (19.5 Syns), ham Syns for the day = 20.5...

I thought I'd give the 'countdown from 70 Syns' a whirl this time around, and I have to say that so far, it's working out really well for me. I know that I could have 105 Syns, but I like keeping it at 70 just so that if I occasionally go over my HEX A milk allowance a little bit, or my jacket...

Oh yum - just tried this and it was fantastic, thanks Brightonrosie. :D I used a forest fruits Aptivia fat free yogurt and a teaspoon full of sweetener and it was gorgeous!

Thank you hun - but yours is truly an awesome loss! On to day 11... Day 11 - red day Breakfast SW 'pancake' - eggs, vanilla essence, lemon juice and pretend sugar Lunch Roast lamb, roast potato (HEX B - dry roasted with skin on), carrots and broccoli Tea Oatso Simple (HEX B) with 2...

Do you like cooking? What's your favourite takeaway meal? How about experimenting with some low Syn recipes - there are hundreds of them out there. Who knows - you might even find you get to prefer the taste of your own 'takeaway'. :)

Day 10 - red day Breakfast Oatso Simple (HEX B) and 2 apples Lunch Ham, 2 pears and Mullerlight yogurt (x 2) Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with jacket potato (HEX B) and carrots Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), Cadbury's caramel (20.5 Syns), Aptivia fat free yogurt, more chocolate - 2...

You're welcome hun. Glad it meant you stayed within your Syns :)

With the free food allowance, I make that 24 Syns for the lot (all 4 of them). So 6 Syns each.

Are they the Eat Smart ones then? I think Sarah Jayne asked about these ones? If not, I'll have a bash at the calculator for you on the Lifelineonline site. But I need to know the calories per 100g the fat per 100g the protein per 100g and the carbohydrate per 100g oh - and the...

LOL, I'll quote myself - is it these?

I guess if they made flour a free food, we'd all start making a lot of cake. And bread. And biscuits. And, ooh, all sorts of things that might tempt us too much. :D Whereas pasta - well, it's harder to overeat pasta, isn't it? We don't add sugar or sugar substitutes to pasta to make it...

Do you mean these: Morrisons Peppered Beef Grillsteaks, twin pack, chilled 170g each 9 Syns on Extra Easy, Original 9 Syns, Green 18 Syns

Day 9 - red day Breakfast 1 apple Lunch Ham salad, Oatso Simple (HEX B), Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with jacket potato (HEX B), carrots and an Aptivia fat free yogurt Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX A), an orange, some grapes and some ham Syns for the day = 2...

The scales were indeed kind - 5lbs off! :D And so to Week 2... Day 8 - red day Breakfast 1 apple, 1 orange Lunch Cottage cheese salad with jacket potato (HEX B), Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Beef stroganoff (6 Syns [smaller portion than yesterday]) with jacket potato (HEX B), carrots...

Is it okay for me to just join in? :) It's been my first week so I was hoping for maybe three or four pounds off. But... I lost five! :bliss: Very happy!

Day 7 - red day Breakfast 2 apples Lunch Ham salad with 1 tbsp of Heinz Extra Low Fat Salad Cream (1 Syn) and Oatso Simple (HEX B), Aptivia fat free yogurt and an orange. Tea Beef stroganoff (7 Syns) with jacket potato (HEX B), Aptivia fat free yogurt Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEX...

As I understand it, it's not so much the medication that messes with your weight loss as the infection itself. Any infection may cause water retention - it's one of the body's natural defence mechanisms to help heal itself. The good news is, everything sorts itself out once the infection's...

Aw, thank you! :o I'm sticking to mainly red days cos me and carbs have a love-hate relationship - I love 'em and they hate me... :D I'd forgotten how much fun SW could be. I'm loving doing all this cooking! :eat:

It certainly isn't the 'official line' that you have to Syn your HEX B if you don't have the full amount, more something that some well-meaning but misinformed Consultants tell their groups. If this was true, it would be in the book and in the information online. It isn't. :) I think the...

Surely though if a food has a free food allowance, it'll work out as less than a Syn per 20 calories? At least you'll have an idea of worst case scenario - that 220 calories of whatever it is will only be 11 Syns at the very worst. 220 calories worth would never equate to 20 Syns, unless...

Day 6 - red day Breakfast Orange Lunch Cottage cheese salad with 1 tbsp of Heinz Extra Low Fat Salad Cream (1 Syn) and jacket potato (HEX B), Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Chicken curry (2 Syns) with jacket potato (HEX B) and carrots, Aptivia fat free yogurt Extras 250ml semi-skimmed milk...

Day 5 - red day Breakfast Oatso simple with 1 Oat Scan Bran (HEX B) Lunch Ham salad with 1 tbsp of Heinz Extra Low Fat Salad Cream (1 Syn), Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with jacket potato (HEX B) and carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Aptivia fat free yogurt Extras...

I agree about seven pounds actually being a really good loss. Scales lie. They don't mean to. It's not personal. :) But they can't tell the difference between your lean muscle mass, fat, bone and water. So they can't tell that you've actually lost fat, but for whatever reason, you're...

Hmm... :) Did a bit of research and found this: http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/95766-correct-2.html#post1640401 Would seem to suggest that the Synning thing is wrong in this case. But you should consume the full portion of whichever HEX you choose in order to maximise...

I know I'm going to set the cat among the pigeons here, but I've noticed this one coming up a lot here on the forum - and it seems to be very much of one Consultant saying one thing and another saying something quite different. Is there definitive guidance from Head Office that you have to...

Think it is because the ones in the new packaging are bigger, yes. Thanks for your replies, all. :) I'll count the ones I've got as half a Syn each for now then.

This is probably a daft question, but never mind... :o I notice from Syns online that Scan Brans are now 1 syn each. But I bought some from Waitrose today and the packaging says that they're only half a Syn each. Old stock, maybe? But should I count the ones I bought today as half a...

Day 4 - red day Breakfast Oatso simple (part of HEX B) Lunch Roast chicken with carrots and broccoli, roast potatoes (done with skin on SW Syn-free style using HEX B 227g potato) Tea 1 oat bran (as part of Oatso simple HEX B), ham salad with 1 tablespoon of Heinz extra light salad cream...

Well, you could always eat that cow - so long as you cut off the fatty bits first... :D As for my syn-free snacks, pretty much what everyone else has suggested - fruit, chopped veg and cottage cheese, VLF yogurt, cooked meats. The omlette idea's a good one - that'd be quite filling I...

Day 3 - red day Breakfast Didn't really get around to having any - it was 11.30 before I sat down this morning... :) Lunch (at 11.30...) Cottage cheese salad, Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Beef chilli (2 Syns) with large jacket potato (2 x HEX B) and carrots, Aptivia fat free yogurt Extras...

With you on that one, Wannabeelovely. :) For me, when I'm in a rational state of mind, I know that SW is a fantastic diet plan. On my rational days, I can see exactly how it works and why it works and I really enjoy planning my menus for the day. On irrational days, I quite literally fight...

Day 2 - red day Breakfast 28g porridge oats made up with water (haven't got any Scanbran in at the mo so I'll have to fudge that bit for now) HEX B Lunch Ham salad, Aptivia fat free yogurt Tea Bolognaise sauce (1.5 Syns as yesterday) with jacket potato (HEX B), cauliflower and broccoli...

Congratulations! :clap: You must be so chuffed!

I've found this a fascinating thread to read as this is my first day back on SW. I've tried SW several times before but must confess that I'm one of those people who can take the idea of 'free' food to extremes, LOL. On this restart though, I've had stern words with myself about that. :)...

Day 1 - Red day Breakfast Strawberry Mullerlight yogurt Lunch Jacket potato (HEX B) with cottage cheese (Sainsbury's BGTY pineapple) Tea Jacket potato (HEX B) with bolognaise sauce (1.5 syns for splash of red wine and tbsp of tomato puree) Extras 2 apples, packet of ham, 250ml...