Wednesday 27 June 2007

What is Slimming World

Nancy an answer to your question...

On the Slimming World diet you have red days and green days.

"Red Day" On a red day you have unlimited ("free") amounts of meat and fish (all visible fat removed) a limited amount of carbs (i.e. pasta, potatoes) "A & B choices", "superfree" foods and "syns"(will get to those in a min).

"Green Day" On a green day you have unlimited ("free") amounts of pasta and potatoes (carbs) a limited amount of meat/fish.

"A & B Choices"

In addition to this you have 2 A choices and 2 B choices.

A's are milk, cheese etc.

B's are cereal, crispbreads, nuts etc.

The amounts you eat are again limited i.e. 28g cereal, 250ml milk etc.

"Free Foods" You really can eat as much as you want i.e. 2 large steaks, a packet of ham slices, 4 chicken breasts, 2 jacket potatoes, a plateful of pasta etc.

"SuperFree" Foods. The free foods are the bulk of the diet, apples, oranges, bananas, pears, plums, carrots, lettuce, cucumber, kiwi etc etc basically all your fruit and vegetables. Some veg can be had on a Green day but not a Red day like peas and sweetcorn (due to the digestion or something!).

"Syns" You can have between 70-105 syns a week. The syns are your naughty foods/alcohol or cooking sauces. You should aim to have 70 syns a week therefore approx. 10 a day.

Sample:-

Red Day

Breakfast - 2 weetabix (B choice) with 250ml semi skimmed milk (a) choice and a banana.

Lunch - 6 (or as many as you can eat) slices of ham with carrots, cucumber, lettuce, onions and 3 babybel lights (a choice). Muller Light yoghurt, kiwi, apple, orange.

Dinner - steak, 198g new potatoes (B choice), swede, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower. Followed by a Skinny Cow ice cream lolly 4 1/2 syns.

Green Day

Breakfast - 2 weetabix (B choice) with 250ml semi skimmed milk (A choice) and a banana.

Lunch - Jacket potatoe with cheese (A Choice) and a salad (carrots, cucumber, lettuce, onions etc) and 7 hi-fibre crackerbreads (B Choice) with flora light (syns) followed by a muller light yoghurt and fruit.

Dinner - Quorn lamb style grills, mashed potatoe, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower. Followed by a Skinny Cow ice cream lolly 4 1/2 syns.

Its basically eat as much as you want and lose weight! It obviously works as I have lost nearly 3 stone (42lbs Nancy!). I am NEVER hungry and I never go without either.

Think thats about it!

4 comments:

Em's way said...

Hello Gemma ! Another one from dans world here lol, good luck with slimming world , I joined and lost loads of weight but then got pg so that symied that !! I am now appalingly overweight again and dieting but doing it alone this time as can't afford SW again !!

You are doing great losing so much !! How much more do you need to lose ? I need to lose about six stone :(

gemgems said...

Hi Emma :o)

If you want to get onto the slimming world on-line website I can give you the password weekly from my meeting. It has menu plans, recipes etc etc. Let me know if you want it.

I have about 6 1/2 stone to lose so nearly halfway there! I hope that when I get to target we can start trying for baby no. 2 and I will be a bit more sensible about my eating habits next time!

Nancy Jensen said...

oooh! oooh! I want to check out the slimming world online website too! I am so impressed with how well you are doing, Gemma, and it looks like you can eat a lot of food! Of course I only understood what 1/2 of that food was. hehehe... Speak ENGLISH girl! Ok, granted... you did speak English. Then speak AMERICAN. hehe... Personally, I sometimes speak Spanglish.

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