Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Slimming World
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
Just joined Slimming World and am struggling.. First two days and I went way over my 15 Syns. I found it so difficult to stay in my limits but I'm hoping that's just because it was the weekend.
Any tips at all to keep me on track? Also, any Syn free snacks you could recommend?! (Apart from fruit of course) Thanks
0 -
Melisandre121 wrote: »Just joined Slimming World and am struggling.. First two days and I went way over my 15 Syns. I found it so difficult to stay in my limits but I'm hoping that's just because it was the weekend.
Any tips at all to keep me on track? Also, any Syn free snacks you could recommend?! (Apart from fruit of course) Thanks
If you're struggling, eat more free food! If you're full, you won't snack too much. What have you been eating (including syns)?
Syn free snacks - most Muller lights are free if you like yogurt, chicken pieces, make up batches of soups, make extra (smaller) portions of dinner for seconds, etc.
If you use your syns in a smart way, they go a long way. For example, did you know you could have a Curly Wurly and two packs of Hula Hoop Pufts every day and still have 3 syns left over?0 -
Melisandre121 wrote: »Just joined Slimming World and am struggling.. First two days and I went way over my 15 Syns. I found it so difficult to stay in my limits but I'm hoping that's just because it was the weekend.
Any tips at all to keep me on track? Also, any Syn free snacks you could recommend?! (Apart from fruit of course) Thanks
What foods have taken you over your 15 syns, and maybe we could suggest good alternatives?
Have your 3 main meals of the day stayed within the SW guidelines, i.e. eat til you're full, 1/3 speed foods, no or very low syns?
If you're hungry between meals look to the meals themselves first and make sure they are good and filling - make sure you're getting enough carbs at mealtimes. In terms of snacks, try eating some free foods as well as speed fruit and veg to fill you up. Packets of ham and fat free Greek yogurt (Liberte) keep me out of trouble.
Making a plan and a shopping list is so important too - have you planned your meals for the week or at least for the first few days?0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
What foods have taken you over your 15 syns, and maybe we could suggest good alternatives?
Have your 3 main meals of the day stayed within the SW guidelines, i.e. eat til you're full, 1/3 speed foods, no or very low syns?
If you're hungry between meals look to the meals themselves first and make sure they are good and filling - make sure you're getting enough carbs at mealtimes. In terms of snacks, try eating some free foods as well as speed fruit and veg to fill you up. Packets of ham and fat free Greek yogurt (Liberte) keep me out of trouble.
Making a plan and a shopping list is so important too - have you planned your meals for the week or at least for the first few days?
Alot of what seems to take me over my 15 Syns is snacking on things like chocolate. I find I'm really hungry in between meals and become bored of fruit after a while
I did better today though, only 12 Syns, but I'm starving again and not sure what to snack on. I guess I need to prep more, snack wise? I'm really missing bread too!0 -
Melisandre121 wrote: »Alot of what seems to take me over my 15 Syns is snacking on things like chocolate. I find I'm really hungry in between meals and become bored of fruit after a while
I did better today though, only 12 Syns, but I'm starving again and not sure what to snack on. I guess I need to prep more, snack wise? I'm really missing bread too!
If you're always hungry between meals, you're not eating enough! I believe people who say you should never be hungry on sw are wrong, because I'm regularly hungry, but certainly not that frequently!
You can make things like egg muffins to keep in the fridge to snack on, and chicken drumsticks (skin off), extra portions of dinner, soups, crustless quiche, etc. you obviously need something more substantial than a piece of fruit, and all of what I've listed is filling.
For chocolate, find the things that last the longest and are low in syns. 6 syns for a curly wurly, which will last ages, as opposed to 5 syns for a freddo which is gone in two bites! Options hot chocolate with 10 mini marshmallows thrown in is 2.5 syns and will cure sugar/chocolate cravings. At your next group, look at the bars! They do hifi bars. Two for healthy B or 3 syns each. chocolate orange tastes like terrys chocolate orange, and the Rocky road is lovely too.
If you're struggling with bread and chocolate, use your bread for healthy B. If you want more bread, two slices of Brennan's be good wholemeal is 5.5 syns.
So two extra slices of bread, plus 2 chocolate hifi bars (6 syns) plus an Options hot chocolate with 10 mini marshmallows (2.5) all works out at 14 syns and should easily cure cravings for chocolate and bread.0 -
Melisandre121 wrote: »Alot of what seems to take me over my 15 Syns is snacking on things like chocolate. I find I'm really hungry in between meals and become bored of fruit after a while
I did better today though, only 12 Syns, but I'm starving again and not sure what to snack on. I guess I need to prep more, snack wise? I'm really missing bread too!
One thing that worked for me was to have 4 or 5 scheduled meals a day. 4 or 5 smaller, balanced meals rather than 3 meals plus a few snacks of fruit, which just wasn't filling enough on its own. So for breakfast I'd have had All Bran (healthy
and low fat milk (healthy A) with a banana (free), berries (speed) and an apple or two (speed). Then 2.5 or 3 hours later I'd have a smallish salad of cous cous (free) with spices (free) and grated carrots (speed) and peppers (speed) dressed lemon juice or Worcester sauce etc. Then for lunch I might have some cooked pasta or noodles (free) cold with some ham or salmon (free) and speed veg, and some free yogrt and speed fruit (usually apples or melon). Dinner would be lean meat or fish with lots of speed veg and some SW chips or pasta and homemade tomato sauce. Then before bed I'd have more free yogurt, sometimes with fruit, sometimes not, followed by some chocolate - no syns used during the day, so if I wanted 15 syns worth of chocolate, so be it.
Make sure you're drinking water - it really is the case that we can misinterpret thirst as hunger, particularly during warmer periods like what we're currently experiencing.
Can you put up what you're eating, meal by meal, so that we can help you trouble-shoot and come up with some workable solutions?
Also have a good think about why you're doing this - have you set short term goals for yourself? Dropping a jeans size, seeing collar bone, losing 7 pounds, fitting into a particular piece of clothing - you need to decide what you're working towards before you can motivate yourself to get there!0 -
So I suffer with bouts of depression and right now kind of slowly coming out of am unexpected dip.. this is due to a lot of changes within my life, a lot of self discovery and working on myself a lot. I have am issue with food in that I seek comfort, company and a whole other lot of emotions that I experience through food. One of the reasons why I joined sw is because there is an element of freedom and I am sick and tired of weighing everything and counting everything. However there are bigger fish to fry at the moment and healthy eating is definitely taking the back hand. I get overwhelmed thinking about the changed I need to make in order to lose weight so I'm looking on advice or ways that I can make small regular changes that can impact Mt overall health as well as weight loss. I am working through a lot at the moment so sorry for the long post! 0
-
So I suffer with bouts of depression and right now kind of slowly coming out of am unexpected dip.. this is due to a lot of changes within my life, a lot of self discovery and working on myself a lot. I have am issue with food in that I seek comfort, company and a whole other lot of emotions that I experience through food. One of the reasons why I joined sw is because there is an element of freedom and I am sick and tired of weighing everything and counting everything. However there are bigger fish to fry at the moment and healthy eating is definitely taking the back hand. I get overwhelmed thinking about the changed I need to make in order to lose weight so I'm looking on advice or ways that I can make small regular changes that can impact Mt overall health as well as weight loss. I am working through a lot at the moment so sorry for the long post!
Welcome!
Sorry to hear you're having a hard time. You're dead right to take the approach of small, regular changes towards a longterm goal - if you're feeling fragile in general, I can see how a big change all in one go could be a massive upheaval.
What do you think would be a good place to start - maybe a week or a month of incorporating one third speed foods into every meal? Or start with a basic like having three balanced meals each day, if that's not something you normally do?
For some members, getting into the habit of keeping an accurate, honest food diary is a big help. No guilt for the times when you're not 100% on plan, more so a written record of what works for you on the good days and where you fall down on the bad days, so that you can see patterns if they exist and tackle them one by one.
I used to be a desperate comfort eater and emotional eater so in that respect, I feel your pain. I hope it helps you to know that I've overcome that, to the point that now I just occasionally find myself slipping into the habit of 'boredom eating' but now have the awareness to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem again!
Changing the way you think about food is a big thing. My number one tip is, don't reward yourself with food. The idea of rewarding yourself for losing x amount of weight by having a big meal off plan or going on a session just doesn't sit right with me for an emotional or pattern eater. I went down the road of rewarding myself with a nice new piece of clothing or a small bit of jewelry or a massage etc when I reached my own milestones, and that went a long way to changing my mindset.
Take it at your own pace and you will see great results. Some SW members lose their weight really quickly while others take 'the scenic route' - I was somewhere in between, the key is finding what works for you.
I hope that helps some bit and I wish you lots of luck with it all!0 -
-
Penny Tration wrote: »If you're always hungry between meals, you're not eating enough! I believe people who say you should never be hungry on sw are wrong, because I'm regularly hungry, but certainly not that frequently!
You can make things like egg muffins to keep in the fridge to snack on, and chicken drumsticks (skin off), extra portions of dinner, soups, crustless quiche, etc. you obviously need something more substantial than a piece of fruit, and all of what I've listed is filling.
For chocolate, find the things that last the longest and are low in syns. 6 syns for a curly wurly, which will last ages, as opposed to 5 syns for a freddo which is gone in two bites! Options hot chocolate with 10 mini marshmallows thrown in is 2.5 syns and will cure sugar/chocolate cravings. At your next group, look at the bars! They do hifi bars. Two for healthy B or 3 syns each. chocolate orange tastes like terrys chocolate orange, and the Rocky road is lovely too.
If you're struggling with bread and chocolate, use your bread for healthy B. If you want more bread, two slices of Brennan's be good wholemeal is 5.5 syns.
So two extra slices of bread, plus 2 chocolate hifi bars (6 syns) plus an Options hot chocolate with 10 mini marshmallows (2.5) all works out at 14 syns and should easily cure cravings for chocolate and bread.
This is really helpful, thanks. 0 -
One thing that worked for me was to have 4 or 5 scheduled meals a day. 4 or 5 smaller, balanced meals rather than 3 meals plus a few snacks of fruit, which just wasn't filling enough on its own. So for breakfast I'd have had All Bran (healthy and low fat milk (healthy A) with a banana (free), berries (speed) and an apple or two (speed). Then 2.5 or 3 hours later I'd have a smallish salad of cous cous (free) with spices (free) and grated carrots (speed) and peppers (speed) dressed lemon juice or Worcester sauce etc. Then for lunch I might have some cooked pasta or noodles (free) cold with some ham or salmon (free) and speed veg, and some free yogrt and speed fruit (usually apples or melon). Dinner would be lean meat or fish with lots of speed veg and some SW chips or pasta and homemade tomato sauce. Then before bed I'd have more free yogurt, sometimes with fruit, sometimes not, followed by some chocolate - no syns used during the day, so if I wanted 15 syns worth of chocolate, so be it.
Make sure you're drinking water - it really is the case that we can misinterpret thirst as hunger, particularly during warmer periods like what we're currently experiencing.
Can you put up what you're eating, meal by meal, so that we can help you trouble-shoot and come up with some workable solutions?
Also have a good think about why you're doing this - have you set short term goals for yourself? Dropping a jeans size, seeing collar bone, losing 7 pounds, fitting into a particular piece of clothing - you need to decide what you're working towards before you can motivate yourself to get there!
Thanks for that.
Ok, here's my meals:
Breakfast
Scrambled eggs on toast (Healthy
Coffee with milk (2, 3 cups a day with milk, using my healthy A)
Lunch
3 Ryvitas with tuna, mayo and Tomato (Was still starving after this)
Dinner
Chicken Tikka Masala (SW recipe) or I might have chicken veg and potato.
Then I try to have fruit too.
But in between these meals I'm starving, particularly after lunch because I usually always have bread for lunch and am stumped for what to make that will fill me, because I'm not big on salads either. So I end up eating chocolate and then having more after dinner too and cursing myself. Is there anything I can do better here?0 -
Advertisement
-
Melisandre121 wrote: »Thanks for that.
Ok, here's my meals:
Breakfast
Scrambled eggs on toast (Healthy
Coffee with milk (2, 3 cups a day with milk, using my healthy A)
Lunch
3 Ryvitas with tuna, mayo and Tomato (Was still starving after this)
Dinner
Chicken Tikka Masala (SW recipe) or I might have chicken veg and potato.
Then I try to have fruit too.
But in between these meals I'm starving, particularly after lunch because I usually always have bread for lunch and am stumped for what to make that will fill me, because I'm not big on salads either. So I end up eating chocolate and then having more after dinner too and cursing myself. Is there anything I can do better here?
Dude, it's no wonder you're starving between meals!
You need to add speed fruit and or veg at every meal - not just for vitamins, but to add bulk to your diet to keep you full. Chop a tomato or two into your scrambled eggs, fry off some mushrooms in Frylight, and there's you're one third speed at breakfast.
Are you using all of your healthy A choice in your coffee? Dairy is filling (as well as being important for calcium etc) - make sure you use your allowance!
The Ryvita at lunch could be seen as a waste of syns - you could have some cold pasta or rice or noodles as part of a big filling salad with your tuna and tomatoes. Are you using the lightest possible version of mayonnaise, and synning it? You could go syn-free by making a dressing from Quark, fat free fromage frais, or fat free Greek yogurt mixed with lemon juice or herbs, or stretch your mayo by mixing it with any of these. Crustless quiches are fantastic and filling, lots of protein, there's hundreds of syn-free recipes online.
I know it's difficult this weather but could you try a hearty, syn-free soup for lunch, or a portion of last night's dinner that you could reheat?
Are you having enough veg with your dinner, and eating a good, big dinner?
I think you need to make a plan and a shopping list!0 -
-
-
Down 1.5lb tonight, happy enough considering I had about 35 syns on Saturday
My go to emergency shop lunches are a microwaveable sachet of rice/beans with some sort of a salad bowl and a rake of cold meat or a slice of HE cheese. If I've no chance of microwaving I'll just get all of the salad options in a deli in a take away tray with some chicken or ham. Not very exciting though.0 -
-
-
-
-
Melisandre121 wrote: »Would having a cheat night totally derail my weight loss plan? Say if I stuck to my daily Syns rigidly and then had a dominoes on a Saturday? I'm struggling a bit and would love to have something like that to look forward to!
It's up to yourself. it's your body. Eating a pizza (with gralic bread. wedges etc) won't help you lose weight for that week.
However if you enjoy yourself on Saturday, start back on the good food on Sunday and keep going at it for another few weeks, the overall harm is neglible.
Ask yourself "why do I want to lose weight"? If you look at it as a long term thing that will lead to you having a more healthy lifestyle which will allow you to enjoy yourself more, then go for it. Loads of skinny people have a take away every now and then
Just don't eat pizza on Saturday and expect to see a good result when you weigh on (eg) Monday0 -
Advertisement
-
Smash pizza is a great replacement imo. I actually prefer it now to regular pizza I keep my HE allowance for cheese and add another 4.5 syns worth on top. Some nice spicy homemade wedges too and a homemade syn free garlicky dip. I know smash used this way is considered a tweak, up to you. I love it though. 0
This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement