Maggie_Sak
Silver Member
Hi guys, just want to share with you a few things. Today I had a bit of a revelation with how I have been handling Slimming World. A few points I want to put across and there will probably be a few people who will relate to this and hopefully find it helpful enough to lose weight quicker.
1. I always have 2 slices of hovis wholemeal as my HEb when i'm having a fry-up, but today i decided to weigh the bread and it came up as 46g
. Before the new book, the allowance was 57g so I realised that I was not having the correct amount of my HEb and was off by 11g. Obviously in 2012 that has gone up to 60g so that's 14g less than what I should be having. This made me look at other ways I have not been doing this the right like having my ready brek without the ryvita duh!
2. When I first started SW in may, I was measuring everything, my milk, mayo, ketchup, butter, cheese. But the few weeks before Christmas I kinda became lazy and would estimate my measurements. A squirt of ketchup here, dollop of mayo there, a tiny bit of butter for my Jacket potato, little things like that. Not measuring means extra syns.
3. EE is the bane of my existence with SW right now. That 1/3 rule is very important and even though I always have my veggies and fruits, it's never quite enough. Also having 1/3 means eating less of free foods rather than having the same portions as before and adding 1/3 superfree. The whole point is to eat less of free and more of superfree. I have learned that the hard way.
4. Green days are fabulous as you can have all those lovely carbs without measuring anything but...I got carried away with my HEb, not doing it the right way. For example, when I prepared bolognese sauce for my family on green days, I would measure out 71g or 142g of the prepared sauce to have with my spaghetti. Wrong wrong wrong! What I didn't realise is that I should have been taking into account the onions and tomatoes in the sauce so 71g is cooked mince and not cooked bolognese! and that means I was having far less than my allowance, so embarrassed even thinking about it same with a lot of other things. The only day I have gotten right is red, but unfortunately I have only done red about 3 times .
5. Syns 10-15. If I'm honest I have been having way more than that on any given day. When you have a twirl which is 11.5, a tsp of sugar with porridge, 2tsp of sugar with tea, that leaves me with nothing else to play with the rest of the day. And if my sister does the cooking on that day, I end up having way more syns than I should.
6. I'm from Zambia so most weekends means traditional Zambian food and that means ground maize meal, ground peanuts with leafy veggies, oxtail which is extremely fatty, etc. Generally Sundays I flexi-syn for that reason but then I might find myself eating the same middle of the week.
Sorry if this is too long but just a few things I needed to get off my chest. I am doing SW at home and I am happy with that but tomorrow I am taking advantage of the Daily Mirror offer and taking myself to a meeting. I'm getting the new books for 2012 and doing this the right way and hopefully lose a good amount of weight before summer. I have lost 2st so far, it's been slow but this is my way of life, not a diet. I don't want to deprive myself of anything but at the same time I have to be reasonable with the way I eat.
People saying SW is not working for you, really sit down and be truthful to yourself. There might be a lot of factors that could be preventing you from losing weight. SW really does work and it's really easy, just read the rules. And I know that there are people that do lots of tweaking and still lose weight, but what if you are not one of those people that can get away with that?
Sorry for the grammar, I'm not much of a writer
1. I always have 2 slices of hovis wholemeal as my HEb when i'm having a fry-up, but today i decided to weigh the bread and it came up as 46g
. Before the new book, the allowance was 57g so I realised that I was not having the correct amount of my HEb and was off by 11g. Obviously in 2012 that has gone up to 60g so that's 14g less than what I should be having. This made me look at other ways I have not been doing this the right like having my ready brek without the ryvita duh!2. When I first started SW in may, I was measuring everything, my milk, mayo, ketchup, butter, cheese. But the few weeks before Christmas I kinda became lazy and would estimate my measurements. A squirt of ketchup here, dollop of mayo there, a tiny bit of butter for my Jacket potato, little things like that. Not measuring means extra syns.
3. EE is the bane of my existence with SW right now. That 1/3 rule is very important and even though I always have my veggies and fruits, it's never quite enough. Also having 1/3 means eating less of free foods rather than having the same portions as before and adding 1/3 superfree. The whole point is to eat less of free and more of superfree. I have learned that the hard way.
4. Green days are fabulous as you can have all those lovely carbs without measuring anything but...I got carried away with my HEb, not doing it the right way. For example, when I prepared bolognese sauce for my family on green days, I would measure out 71g or 142g of the prepared sauce to have with my spaghetti. Wrong wrong wrong
! What I didn't realise is that I should have been taking into account the onions and tomatoes in the sauce so 71g is cooked mince and not cooked bolognese! and that means I was having far less than my allowance, so embarrassed even thinking about it same with a lot of other things. The only day I have gotten right is red, but unfortunately I have only done red about 3 times .5. Syns
10-15. If I'm honest I have been having way more than that on any given day. When you have a twirl which is 11.5, a tsp of sugar with porridge, 2tsp of sugar with tea, that leaves me with nothing else to play with the rest of the day. And if my sister does the cooking on that day, I end up having way more syns than I should. 6. I'm from Zambia so most weekends means traditional Zambian food and that means ground maize meal, ground peanuts with leafy veggies, oxtail which is extremely fatty, etc. Generally Sundays I flexi-syn for that reason but then I might find myself eating the same middle of the week
.Sorry if this is too long but just a few things I needed to get off my chest. I am doing SW at home and I am happy with that but tomorrow I am taking advantage of the Daily Mirror offer and taking myself to a meeting. I'm getting the new books for 2012 and doing this the right way and hopefully lose a good amount of weight before summer. I have lost 2st so far, it's been slow but this is my way of life, not a diet. I don't want to deprive myself of anything but at the same time I have to be reasonable with the way I eat.
People saying SW is not working for you, really sit down and be truthful to yourself. There might be a lot of factors that could be preventing you from losing weight. SW really does work and it's really easy, just read the rules. And I know that there are people that do lots of tweaking and still lose weight, but what if you are not one of those people that can get away with that?
Sorry for the grammar, I'm not much of a writer
