[Smiling Sal]

Well done Cathy, just stick with it, I remember when you were doing this before and it worked then so it will this time too

[cat90]

Carol..this is the first time i've tried Slimming World..it was W.W that i lost all the weight on..i did cheat a lot though so ultimately it was calorie counting and exercise that did it

[SandieB]

Hi Melissa

I've been on SW plan for a while now. Only lost 7.5 lbs so far as I'm still trying to "undo" Christmas Although I'm not vegetarian I do green days nearly all the time as I don't eat a lot of meat anyway and the amounts you can have a B option are enough, but in practice I eat even less meat now than I did before. Some of my favourite microwave meals have had to go by the wayside as they aren't totally red or green and are too many sins to fit in otherwise, but other than that I find it really easy to follow.

It took me a couple of weeks to really get the hang of what to buy when I went shopping, but I now have the SW booklet of Free Branded Foods, which is an absolute life saver.

Well done on your first weeks loss.............that's fantastic!!!

[MelissaA]

Thanks Sandi, I was disappointed this week because I didn't lose anything...I had hardly any sins at all so I was pretty horrified...My meeting leader went thru my food journal and it seems that I was not eating enough, so the optimizing was not working...Hopefully this week will be better...As recommended I am using all my allowed sins so we shall see...

[cat90]

Oooh..Melissa are you sin free i'm not..in fact i have way to many but i'm tracking the cals so hopefully it will all work out, this Friday's weigh in will tell the truth..i must confess i'm a sinful

[MelissaA]

Being sinfree was the problem...I was not eating enough for the optimizing to work...I am sure you did great and this week I have been a brazen sinner and utilizing the food I can have...Hopefully I will have lost this week...

[SandieB]

One of the things our group leader always says is to eat a wide variety of foods, not the same thing day after day, she says that eating a variety of foods helps your body to metablise more efficienly!

Sandie

[Mini Gem]

A woman in my class went a bit crazy the other week and ate nothing but fruit and yogurt (perhaps she should have asked to go on fast forward instead!) and lost 1lb. Of course she was disapointed, but it was clear she hadn't been eating enough to lose weight properly.

Our consultant got her to go back on the regular SW plan, and she lost 4lbs the next week!

I'll second the advice to eat a wide range of foods. Your body doesn't get used to what you're eating, and of course it means that your less likely to order in takeaway or go out for a rich meal one night because you got so bored with what you were eating you just couldn't bear it any longer.

[MelissaA]

A variety is pretty much what I am trying to do this week...I think my mistake was thinking that since I lost six pound having my sins, I would lose tons having no sins...Totally misguided in retrospect, but this is where having the meetings helps...If I were on my own I probably would have given up...

[cat90]

You're doing great Melissa i can't wait to hear how much you have lost this week i'm sticking with my exercising faithfully and i'm enjoying this plan even tho' i can't buy any of the sinfree branded products that i read about in the mag i'm going to compile a list and the next time i'm in the U.K. i'll be able to eat lots and still be on plan instead of putting weight on like i usually do

[MelissaA]

Thanks for the encouragement Cat!!! I will be sure to post when I get home from the meeting on thursday...*fingers crossed*

[MelissaA]

YEAH!!!! I just got home from SW meeting...I lost 2 1/2 pounds this week!!!

Yippeeee!!!

[cat90]

Yaaaayyy! Melissa..who'd have thunk that eating more would help you lose Well Done !

[cat90]

Melissa..forgot to ask...what did you do different? i know you had to use your sins..how many and what on

[MelissaA]

I had my full 15 sins every day...I don't know why, but it worked!!!