Slimming World

Sandy I follow slimming world but I have never been to a class I buy the magazines off my friend who is a member  she gets them cheaper than in the shops. I get the mags for motivations as reading other peoples success stories really gives me more motivation plus I like to try the recipes. I don't have any treats during the week then I might have a treat at weekend but nit over do it. When did you start the tablets?? X

Hi Sandy, check with your GP as a lot health authorities are giving

Patients who are over weight free 10 week vouchers to attend either

Slimming Work, Weight Watchers or Rosemary Conleys slimming

Classes.

I know Slimming World syn allowance is between 10 - 15 syns a day.

They now do three plans. Red in which meat, fish and most veg are

Syn free but you have to count rice, pasta and potatoes. Green rice,

pasta and potatoes are free but you have to syn meat and fish.

Amber where rice, pasta, potatoes, meat and fish are free.

I hope this is of some help to you and wish you all the very best.

You are very welcome and I wish you all the very best on your weight

loss journey.

Hi, I bought he whole pack from ebay for just a few pounds, i am going to give it a try in the new year. Good luck and please post any tips you have

I can empathize. With you as I gained a lot of weight during a long term illness and found it was more difficult to lose as I got older. As a nutritionist and serial dieter most of my life, some contradiction eh?  The best advice I can give you is try to keep motivated, once weight loss starts it usually comes off quickly at first ,the difficulty is keeping up the enthusiasm as it becomes a steady one pound a week. The main things to observe however is do not cut down further when this happens ats it is counter productive you must  eat the red amount of calories each day for your age and size. Cutting outbreak works well for mos people and in some cases may be all that is needed. Watch you eat enough good lean protein, at least 80 grams a day is rec. don't skip meals, even more small meals may work for those that get hungry.  Make yourself do some exercise, even if it's just housework or going for  walks, you can find that as you get used to this and lose weight you can increase the intensity too. The diet you are trying to work , works well for a lot of people and. I'd it for a time but I have always found that changing the diet now and then us the best long term policy, it seems to shock the body out of  its indifference to a diet , which seems to occur eventually and it avoids the boredom that you may feel on some diets. I like ones that tell me what to eat each day, as with advance shopping it avoids having the wrong things in the house  and when you know what you will be having for dinner  it saves you making a wrong decision based on how you feel during that mid afternoon energy slump. Your current diet allows great variety and for carb lovers it's good as they are not banned clement. For short term use the carb and fa free diets are very effective but quite strict so I would say. Stay on for only two weeks at a time. I can lose ten pounds on the Scarsdale diet which over the years has been the best for me, but that is strictly two weeks on and two weeks off. At the end of the day , to maintain your healthy weightless you have to build into your life style the good eating habits that come with most slimming diets , if you don't then obviously it will creep back on. A friend of mine kept her weight off indefinitely by more or less dieting during the week and letting herself go a bit at the weekends. If you can do without alcohol, that works wonders for weight loss. Without booze I can eat more liberally I find! Well good luck in finding what us right for you.