Slimming World #4

[thepantsqueen]

I have to say, I lost 3 stone on slimming world and eventually gained it all back through the pandemic and tried to lose it again beginning of the year with calorie counting but it all ducked up my head. I realised I was burnt out by dieting...and growing up with a mum who was always doing slimming world and eventually just barely eating anything. For some ducked yo reason i wanted to be like her.

but this year I began feeling so exhausted from years of these diets I just decided duck it all off and not in a "I'll get back to it Monday" kind of way.
My life is far too short to go back and forth between slimming world and CC, it's so tiring.

I stopped dieting. I started cooking food I liked and eating what I want within reason and I started running 3 times a week for my mental health alone. I'm pretty sure I've dropped some weight since but I've completed couch 2 5K and I'm now running 5K 3 times a week and drinking more water than ever and I feel SO free from counting calories or syns. It feels incredible.

I genuinely forgot what life could be just seeing food as food and exercising and doing things for your mental health not your weight. It's genuinely joyous.

I could be slimmer (14) with size 16 hips ha but I think this is my happy weight.
Sorry for the ramble!

 

[Damocles]

I have to say, I lost 3 stone on slimming world and eventually gained it all back through the pandemic and tried to lose it again beginning of the year with calorie counting but it all ducked up my head. I realised I was burnt out by dieting...and growing up with a mum who was always doing slimming world and eventually just barely eating anything. For some ducked yo reason i wanted to be like her.

but this year I began feeling so exhausted from years of these diets I just decided duck it all off and not in a "I'll get back to it Monday" kind of way.
My life is far too short to go back and forth between slimming world and CC, it's so tiring.

I stopped dieting. I started cooking food I liked and eating what I want within reason and I started running 3 times a week for my mental health alone. I'm pretty sure I've dropped some weight since but I've completed couch 2 5K and I'm now running 5K 3 times a week and drinking more water than ever and I feel SO free from counting calories or syns. It feels incredible.

I genuinely forgot what life could be just seeing food as food and exercising and doing things for your mental health not your weight. It's genuinely joyous.

I could be slimmer (14) with size 16 hips ha but I think this is my happy weight.
Sorry for the ramble!

Congrats, I'm glad you managed to find the balance and step away from SW. I have to say, I've lost 13st in 3 years and kept it off and I want to step away from slimming world because I have grown to despise it, but I'm scared to. There are so many that stop it and pile it back on and I am determined that I will not be one of them. It's funny cause I dont see foods as bad or good, I've made some good friends in my group and I've known my consultant, who has helped me so much for more than a decade and I feel like I'd be letting her down if I stopped going.

I'm honestly at a crossroads with it.

 

[princesspoppy96]

Congrats, I'm glad you managed to find the balance and step away from SW. I have to say, I've lost 13st in 3 years and kept it off and I want to step away from slimming world because I have grown to despise it, but I'm scared to. There are so many that stop it and pile it back on and I am determined that I will not be one of them. It's funny cause I dont see foods as bad or good, I've made some good friends in my group and I've known my consultant, who has helped me so much for more than a decade and I feel like I'd be letting her down if I stopped going.

I'm honestly at a crossroads with it.

You have done fantastic and I know how it feels to not feel able to step away from SW. Perhaps you could try going every other week and wean yourself off and find something to do as a hobby or interest in that time you would have gone?

 

[Damocles]

You have done fantastic and I know how it feels to not feel able to step away from SW. Perhaps you could try going every other week and wean yourself off and find something to do as a hobby or interest in that time you would have gone?

see, I do the social team (another term I absolutely bleeping loathe) in my group, so even when I dont get weighed as a target member I still go to help out,I already know how sad that is so I dont need telling

as Elvis once sang...I'm caught in a trap...

It's about time I left the bleeping building.

 

[mee43]

Congrats, I'm glad you managed to find the balance and step away from SW. I have to say, I've lost 13st in 3 years and kept it off and I want to step away from slimming world because I have grown to despise it, but I'm scared to. There are so many that stop it and pile it back on and I am determined that I will not be one of them. It's funny cause I dont see foods as bad or good, I've made some good friends in my group and I've known my consultant, who has helped me so much for more than a decade and I feel like I'd be letting her down if I stopped going.

I'm honestly at a crossroads with it.

That’s absolutely brilliant. It’s really nice to hear of someone losing it and keeping it off
As princesspoppy says, maybe you could find something else to do in that time so you’ve got a genuine reason not to go?

 

[Monkey47]

The account I tried to remember was Lucy Wharton, she lost a lot, I think she became a consultant but she became strange and then very erratic. I hope she is ok. I didn’t always like the content but deep down she was probably a nice person just a little self absorbed.

She posts now & again but very random when she does

Fopperholic??

She don’t look after her kids pre-school, gym crèche & mad Mazza do!

 

[ScrambledEggs]

She disappeared after gaining all her weight back and having her twins

Forever telling everyone to eat the rainbow, shoving veganism in your faces and eating ridiculous amounts of Pink Lady apples .

 

[Mab1994]

Congrats, I'm glad you managed to find the balance and step away from SW. I have to say, I've lost 13st in 3 years and kept it off and I want to step away from slimming world because I have grown to despise it, but I'm scared to. There are so many that stop it and pile it back on and I am determined that I will not be one of them. It's funny cause I dont see foods as bad or good, I've made some good friends in my group and I've known my consultant, who has helped me so much for more than a decade and I feel like I'd be letting her down if I stopped going.

I'm honestly at a crossroads with it.

I understand how you feel, stepping away is the hardest thing ever. I am still battling it and trying to find a balance.

If you can start calorie counting your SW meals. That first, get used to it, then slowly start letting go off syns.
It took me nearly 10 months on and off but I am finally free and starting to enjoy the freedom.

I am planning on ditching calorie counting as well by December or sometime next year once I build a good relationship with exercise.

I'd been dieting since 2016 and I am fed up.

 

[Damocles]

I understand how you feel, stepping away is the hardest thing ever. I am still battling it and trying to find a balance.

If you can start calorie counting your meals. That first, get used to it and then slowly start letting go.off syns.
.it took me nearly 5 months but I am finally free and starting to enjoy the freedom.

I am planning on ditching calorie counting as well by decema

syns havent ever been a problem for me to be honest, I've only ever followed it as the book says and not as these insta dickwads do like cooking your bacon with the large on and then cutting around the large as one award winning consultant does...bleeping shameful behaviour. thats where, in my eyes anyway, where a lot of people fail. They see harry pickard putting so much chocolate inside half a bleeping easter egg you can hear willy wonka furiously being wanked off by oompa loompas in the background and they think they can do it too....

 

[Thank(space)you]

Ellie_sw21 gained 17lb by being off plan on holiday for 2 weeks. Shows how easy it is to put back on

 

[Lurkeryaar]

Ellie_sw21 gained 17lb by being off plan on holiday for 2 weeks. Shows how easy it is to put back on

Surely that would involve eating all day every day to put that much on?!

 

[princesspoppy96]

Ellie_sw21 gained 17lb by being off plan on holiday for 2 weeks. Shows how easy it is to put back on

I have done the same thing myself many times taking a week or two ‘off plan’ with the mindset of ‘getting back on plan’ once back and I never really lost the weight and in fact tended to gain more. My relationship with food has never been dealt with.

Surely that would involve eating all day every day to put that much on?!

As I have just posted; I have done this myself and found it incredibly easy and quick to gain weight even from eating out and the occasional ‘treat’. I didn’t eat all day every day at all. I think some people gain weight easily and and then you get back to group and you get shamed and have to explain yourself. I was never helped at group with gains.

 

[uokhun92]

Looks like Loving Lauren is going ahead with SW just find it insane how this is being allowed to happen given what happened I think less than 2 years ago and she was on death’s door

 

[anonymous1221]

Looks like Loving Lauren is going ahead with SW just find it insane how this is being allowed to happen given what happened I think less than 2 years ago and she was on death’s door

I’m terrified for her. I’m absolutely astonished her partner and family are letting her do it!

 

[iamme3]

see, I do the social team (another term I absolutely bleeping loathe) in my group, so even when I dont get weighed as a target member I still go to help out,I already know how sad that is so I dont need telling

as Elvis once sang...I'm caught in a trap...

It's about time I left the bleeping building.

Your consultant is breaking sw rules there we where told if a member be target or paying member
They have to weigh
Consultants need social team to run group its bloody impossible to do it without so they do treat them special etc
And do make members feel like they are letting them down if cant make it as they need you more than you need them

Ellie_sw21 gained 17lb by being off plan on holiday for 2 weeks. Shows how easy it is to put back on

The problem is normal calories are so low that when they eat a few more on holiday it piles on

I’m terrified for her. I’m absolutely astonished her partner and family are letting her do it!

She doesn't seem to think there is a problem with it thats the scarest thing
She was nearly dying about 18 months ago and will end up like that again sadly

 

[NokiaRingtone]

Ellie_sw21 gained 17lb by being off plan on holiday for 2 weeks. Shows how easy it is to put back on

Going by the pics of food she posted there likely is a weight gain, but most of it will be water weight from carbs, salts, dehydration etc.

I doubt it's 17lbs, despite what the scales say.

 

[princesspoppy96]

Going by the pics of food she posted there likely is a weight gain, but most of it will be water weight from carbs, salts, dehydration etc.

I doubt it's 17lbs, despite what the scales say.

I think the issue with SW in situations like this is the whole ‘on plan’ and ‘off plan’ statements that are always made. The mentality is wrong immediately when someone says they are going to be off plan as it tells your brain you can pig out when really there shouldn’t be a distinction and you are just having a holiday.

It has taken me years to realise this and I did the exact same things when I was with SW.

 

[NokiaRingtone]

I think the issue with SW in situations like this is the whole ‘on plan’ and ‘off plan’ statements that are always made. The mentality is wrong immediately when someone says they are going to be off plan as it tells your brain you can pig out when really there shouldn’t be a distinction and you are just having a holiday.

It has taken me years to realise this and I did the exact same things when I was with SW.

Absolutely! I did SW for a few years and looking back I was the same - 'on plan' 90% of the time (weigh day was a Mon so starved myself all weekend) and then booking two weeks off for a "holiday" in the summer. It was like giving myself two weeks to enjoy whatever I wanted, when really food should always be enjoyable, 365 days a year!

I've always lurked on this thread but never posted. Hi!

 

[JillZarin]

Back in my SW days me group in South Dublin was sooooooo cliquey and the leader used constantly say "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" I used sit there aghast that she was allowed say that she was a complete twit

I will never forget a consultant once sayingto a whole group, "don't you just hate being large, people going around spitting at you" WTAF. I'm still so mad at myself that I didn't say anything at the time

 

[Freckledredhead]

Anyone seen Ross smiths IG? He's been beaten to a pulp. He won't go into details but says he did nothing