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miss_katie169

miss_katie169

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Hello - I'd like to introduce myself, I'm Kate, I'm 25 and I'm from Broadstairs in Kent! Oh dear I sound like I'm on a game show.

This is my first ever post on MiniMins. I started Slimming World (again!) on Thursday. There are a variety of reasons I'd like to loose weight - firstly my health, then of course I'd like to look better and finally I'd like to be smaller as being my size gets in the way physically and mentally. I'm a serial Slimming World joiner. I think it's become one of my hobbies to join and then stop going after a few weeks but this time (fingers crossed!) I can really try and keep going. In the past I've had good results with SW but I get to the two stone point and then something happens like Christmas or I just loose interest. This is the first time I've tried doing a anything like this though. Maybe with this support in between meetings I can finally do it. One of my problems is that when I am bored I eat so maybe when I get tempted I can come on here and read some posts or threads or post something myself. I just need to change my attitude towards food, enjoy it but see it for what it really is - a source of energy and nutrients. I shouldn't be using food to occupy me when bored or to comfort me when I'm down. I still want to go out and enjoy it but not let it take over my life.

So anyways, I've set my target at 13st or 182lb but overall I'd probably like to get down to about 11st or 154lb. That would mean loosing 8st0.5lb and so I'm doing it in little bits. When I get to 13st I think I'll feel and look so much better and I'd like to maintain this for a month or so then maybe loose a little more. I think it'll be good to post my journey on here :)

I hope this hasn't been too boring! ;)

 
Hi Kate!

I'm new too and have also just started a diary. I hope it will become an invaluable place to offload everything, rather than using food to deal with issues! Same as you, and probably a good percentage of everyone here, boredom is when the dieting goes off the rails for me too. A habit my daughter has also picked up on. :( I hope to be reading about your successes every week! (we have a similar goal weight) x
 
Hi - yay I got my first reply! :happy096: Thank you, same with you :eek: Already this evening I have distracted myself with this site instead of eating rubbish and watching TV. It's inspiring, I like the Slimming World magazine stories because they're inspirational but when I've read them I have to wait a whole month until the next magazine. With this site I don't have to :talk017: I like the smilies on here to (if you couldn't tell :D).

Good luck to you, hope we can support each other :clap:
 
LOL tell me about it, I'm browsing here and eating an apple. I don't even enjoy apples...

Distraction...I do lots of 'weightloss before and after' searches on google.:giggle:

Ooh what else, oh yeah I download lite versions of games on my iPhone to play, anything to distract! (particularly like the hidden object games)
'They' say it takes 30 days for something to become a habit. Hopefully it won't be long before we can both stop boredom eating!

*goes back to hideous apple*

See you around the forums!
 
Good morning!
Today is the fourth day of the campaign against being a fatty! :happy036: I made a meal plan for this week and today's breakfast was meant to be egg and beans on toast. However I felt sick at the thought of having anything savoury this morning so decided on porridge with sweetener and cinnamon. I know this isn't much and maybe I should have bulked it up with fruit but I tried fruit with porridge the other day and it went a bit soggy which wasn't very nice! So I'll have a bit of fruit separately in a little while. I also had a giant cuppa in my giant Man U cup :giggle: I'm not a dedicated Man U fan but my family are and they went to a match the other week and brought the cup back for me. It's a good cup, fulfills all my tea drinking needs for the morning. I'll take a picture later and post it for everyone to see.

For lunch today I am going to make my first ever soup! I'm using a recipe from a SW book from 2009 but I'm sure it'll still be fine. It's going to be pea and ham, the ham will be the lean, healthy kind and the soup only has superfree and free food vegetables and stock so it'll be syn free :innocent0002: I'm gonna have that with SW fat free natural cottage cheese and cheddar and onion Smash scones and some fruit and yogurt. Nice and healthy :D Making the soup will involve using the new food processor so I'm quite looking forward to it. Sad life I lead! ;)

Running with Scissors (sorry I don't know your name :)): That was funny about the apple :giggle: We've got Granny Smiths at the moment and they're a bit sour, I had to force one down yesterday. I'm not a big fan of fruit really, would much rather eat a giant bag of Doritos but they don't contain the vitamins that fruit does and fruit doesn't have loads of calories and fat like Doritos so unfortunately we have to settle for fruit! Sometimes I enjoy it but to be honest it doesn't do the job like crisps do lol. I've thought about this an awful lot :ashamed0005: I suppose it just comes back to the fact that I rely on food for comfort and to cure boredom. Trying to change!

Anyway I've rambled on far too much, can anyone tell I'm avoiding doing an essay ;)

Have a good day! (I'll probably be back in an hour :D) x
 
Well............I have had a day of cooking today. I only made two things but still for me that's good! I made pea and ham soup for lunch which was lovely if I do say so myself! It was very sweet but the ham was a nice savoury contrast. Here it is:
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It doesn't look very appetising but it tasted nice!

Then I made the sweet and sour pork from this month's SW magazine, I also made egg fried rice to accompany it.

What can I say, I'm not really much of a cook, I live with my folks and they do all of the cooking. However I thought that I need to take more interest so I've been looking up recipes and decided to try one out. In my mind I thought it'd be exactly like the sweet and sour pork from the Chinese takeaway but of course it wasn't :doh: I found it difficult to time manage and some of it was a bit overcooked. I didn't really like the sauce as it was a bit too tomato-y for me. So overall it wasn't really a success and I feel a bit disheartened now :confused: However I shouldn't be too hard on myself, it was a learning experience and I'm not going to binge on loads of naughty things now. That was the old me.

Food Diary: Breakfast: porridge with sweetener and cinnamon and a big cuppa with skimmed milk. Lunch: pea and ham soup. Dinner: sweet and sour pork with egg fried rice. Snacks: Walkers Stars and an orange and I've had a few drinks of low cal flavoured water and low cal squash.

I need to aim to drink a lot more tomorrow and maybe eat a few more superfree and free foods. I don't want to be disappointed on Thursday.
 
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Good morning!

I was trying to upload a picture so started this post and now it won't let me delete it so I thought I'd say good morning. I'll come back and write a little more later.

Have a good day!
 
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Hi Katie, Good luck on your journey! You should try and set small goals instead of focusing on the end game..and then reward yourself when you reach them. For example, when I get down to the 10's, Im going to book myself a massage..For snacks, I have bowls of berries covered in yoghurt, I don't know if that would satisfy you, but I find I just need to be eating something at night, doesn't really matter what it is. My sister actually halves her dinner in the evening, so she has one half at about 19:00, and the other at about 22:00! I personally can't do that, but it works for her!!
 
Hi Catxscotch, thank you! Yeah I think you're right, I was looking at how much weight I aim to loose and felt a little overwhelmed! :help2:

I do like fruit with yoghurt but like I said sometimes I feel it doesn't satisfy. I think I just need to save my sins for the evening so I can have some crisps (my weakness :eek:) and sometimes I find if I eat some fruit and then some crisps I get the nutrients, a satisfying snack and I feel fuller. It's all about tricking the mind. Plus I need to stop comfort and boredom eating. What your sister does is a good idea, I think maybe if I ate later in the evening I wouldn't get as tempted to snack at night.

At the moment I'm doing great with following the plan because I'm just starting but I know in a few weeks the novelty will wear off, this is the time I need to be strong and carry on, one day at a time :fingerscrossed:

Food diary (so far): Breakfast: grilled bacon (fat cut off), fried egg cooked in Fry Light and canned plum tomatoes with a little dollop of HP sauce and a lovely mug of tea. Twas very nice :checkmark green:

Back in a little while, have a good day everyone :) x
 
miss_katie169 said:
I know in a few weeks the novelty will wear off
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Oh I so hear you on that! Might try your pea and ham soup soon, on the contrary, it looks delish! Really trying not to get stuck in a rut and have the same things day in day out.

What day do you weigh in? My first one is tomorrow. :eek:
 
Yeah you should do, it's easy pea-sy (excuse the pun lol) 600g frozen peas (which is an awful lot!), 1 onion chopped up, 1L vegetable stock, 2 celery sticks - put all together in a pan, bring to the boil, simmer for 20 minutes and whiz in the food processor et voila - pea soup. Add ham and you have yourself a nice lunch. It makes more than one serving too.

That's the trick, keep it varied and exciting (well, interesting anyway lol).

My weigh-in is Thursday, good luck for tomorrow, I'll look forward to seeing how you do x
 
Hi Katie,

I'm in a similar boat, just starting afresh again as well after a year off sw. I love this site as like you say you're never at a loss for more inspiration or ideas :)! And i'm with you on the boredom eating, i save most of my syns for the evening and am trying to plan what to have so i've something to look forward to. Otherwise it'd easily be a family sized bag of sensations gone before i knew it!:eek: looking forward to seeing your successes and pinching a few meal ideas!
 
I was on and off SW for 3 years, but since starting again in january, I have only gone off track once for 2 weeks other than that the whole 19 weeks i've been back on have have stuck to it, depite my weight loss being slow. Good luck for weigh in on thursday :)
 
Hi Katie,

I'm in a similar boat, just starting afresh again as well after a year off sw. I love this site as like you say you're never at a loss for more inspiration or ideas :)! And i'm with you on the boredom eating, i save most of my syns for the evening and am trying to plan what to have so i've something to look forward to. Otherwise it'd easily be a family sized bag of sensations gone before i knew it!:eek: looking forward to seeing your successes and pinching a few meal ideas!
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Hey! Thanks your comment :wavey: Do you have a diary. Good luck to you :cross: x

I was on and off SW for 3 years, but since starting again in january, I have only gone off track once for 2 weeks other than that the whole 19 weeks i've been back on have have stuck to it, depite my weight loss being slow. Good luck for weigh in on thursday :)
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Hey! Thanks for your comment :D I had a look at your weight loss diary the other day, well done for your losses so far :clap: Hopefully I'll do as well :fingerscrossed: Take care x
 
Good evening everyone!

If anyone is reading hope you've had a good day! I have :D Got my new car :happy036: I'll post a pic in a bit. Also been good today in terms of not eating bad things but naughty in terms of not eating lunch or drinking enough # Gonna drink a load tonight and have a few bits of fruit as well as my crisps (SW friendly of course!)

Food diary: Breakfast: lean grilled bacon, fried egg (fried in Fry Light) and canned plum tomatoes and a cuppa with skimmed milk. Lunch: not much :ashamed0005: glass of flavoured low cal fizzy water. Mid-afternoon: SW scone (2 eggs, fat free natural cottage cheese and Smash cheddar and onion - baked in oven - very nice ;)). Dinner: SW burgers (extra lean mince, onion, spices - fried in Fry Light), SW chips and salad and a glass of water.

It's a lovely sunny day, I'm meant to have done an essay for tomorrow and haven't :busted: Not proud of myself for leaving it until last minute and now I can't face it :ashamed0005: I feel like I can only do one good thing at a time. For example if I'm doing really well with SW I find I don't do anything else very well and vice versa. Need to balance my life out.

Two days until my first weigh in! Cannae wait! Although I'm worried I'll :scale: and won't have lost as much as I've hyped myself up for :( but then any loss is a good loss.

Anyways I'll stop typing before I wear the keys out! Have a good evening! xx

 
Good evening :wavey:

What a beautiful day it's been! I've been at uni today so didn't get chance to come on this morning. That's probably a good thing anyway, don't wanna be getting too obsessed :character00148: Another good day in terms of sticking to the plan:

Food diary: Breakfast: strawberry Mullerlight and a cuppa (I was running late or I would have eaten more!). Mid-morning: an orange and a cuppa. Lunch: cold, lean roast beef, salad and light mayo wholemeal mini pitta, a SW scone, an apple, a vanilla Mullerlight and some water. Dinner will be: SW chicken curry with rice and probable water. Later on I'll snack on crisps, fruit and I still need my HEXB as I syn-ed the wholemeal pitta. Maybe I'll dip some bread into the curry. I'm starvin' Marvin' now, dinner will be very soon :eat:

Weigh-in is tomorrow at 7:15pm, I'm really excited but worried I've built myself up for a big loss and I'll be disappointed. I just need to remember any loss is a good loss. I've been quite productive, I changed my car insurance over to my new baby (who's called Penelope by the way ;)), renewed my RCN membership, tried to cancel my Love Film membership and they gave me a free month and told me to ring back just before it finishes to cancel and I rang my placement to warn them I'm gonna be joining them in a few weeks! Sorry, not very interesting really! Now I need to do some uni work, fun fun fun!

Have a lovely evening everyone xx
 
Good afternoon!

Today.........is weigh-in day! Club is at 7:15pm and I'm hoping I will be pleasantly surprised :fingerscrossed: I'm a bit worried I've built it up too much but we'll see. At least I've followed the plan for a whole week, no cheating. And I've written a full week's food diary on paper, on the SW website members part and partly on here.

When I was doing SW before, after weigh-in I used to get a takeaway on the way home at around 9pm then I'd snack on crisps and chocolate. Basically I would binge because it was treat night and then go to bed and get heartburn because I'd overeaten. Today I'm having a healthy dinner before I go to the weigh-in and I'll get a treat on the way home but it won't be anything too much, just some naughty crisps or something. I'll enjoy it more and I need to stay in the SW mindset. The only thing I'm worried about is that if I do loose anything it may be affected by eating before the weigh-in, but thinking realistically I can't see it affecting things much.

Food diary: Breakfast: Orange (running late again!) Mid-morning: a cuppa (made with whole milk - part of HEXA) and a Mullerlight. Lunch: sandwich made with two slices Nimble wholemeal (HEXB), two Laughing Cow Light cheese triangles (part of HEXA), and a slice of lean ham, an apple and a Mullerlight and some water. Mid-afternoon: Walker's Stars and more water. For dinner I will have: barbecued lean lamb steak, a jacket potato and salad. I need to drink a load more water too. In fact I just got up and got a bottle of water.

Anyway wish me luck! I might check in later with an update after the weigh-in. x
 
Hi, I lost 2lb. To be very honest I was a bit disappointed because I've tried very hard :sigh: but I think there are numerous possible reasons I didn't have the big first week loss I wanted:
1. I ate before I went to the weigh-in. It was a healthy meal but it may have made a difference. Maybe I'm being silly though?
2. I didn't eat enough superfree and free foods or drink enough water and fluids this week.
3. I need to exercise more.
4. I've yo-yo-ed up and down with SW in the past and maybe I'm just not able to loose like I used to.
5. I'm not sure if I'm following Extra Easy exactly right, for example I have porridge for breakfast sometimes but not any superfree or free foods with it. My other meals I do though. And I have one HEXA and one HEXB a day.
6. I've had over 10 syns some days (not more than 15 though) and in the past I never used to have more than 10.

I dunno! But still, I'm no longer in the 19s, I'm in the 18s!!! If I loose 2 pounds every week for 7 weeks I'll have lost a stone!!! Got to keep going, onward and downward!

How's everyone else doing? xx
 
Aw Katie, 2lb might be disappointing when you were expecting more, but it's still good! Like you said, it all builds up and all the experts say the slower it comes off (recommended 1-2lbs per week) the longer it stays off!

Did you hand in your food diary to your consultant to check over?

I also agree with you, I'm sure weighing in the evening has an impact depending on what you've eaten throughout the day!

And you've reached another stone bracket, that must feel brilliant! Xx
 
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