Week 12: More Loss, Less Waist & Slimmer of the Week & Month

Hi again and welcome back to my Slimming World blog. As with every week, Thursday is my weigh-in day, this week was no exception. So my girlfriend and I went to Nicci's 7:00pm group, I lost a good 3.5lbs, which takes me to 3 stone and 9,5 pounds. This means I get my 3.5 stone certificate and takes me to 16 stone 7.5 pounds in weight, meaning I've got another 2 stone 7.5 pounds until I get to my target weight of 14 stone.

This week as been a week of scale and non-scale victories, thanks to my 3.5 pound loss, it meant that I got Slimmer of the Week this week, which is amazing, next nearest was a 3 pound loss. I also got Slimmer of the Month for the third month running, having lost a total of 1 stone 3 pounds in March. The non-scale victories included a measuring yesterday, I lost 6 inches off my chest, 9 inches off my waist and 8 inches off my hips since I began Slimming World. It was becoming more and more obvious that my jeans and trousers were getting more and more bigger on me, it lead to me finally listening to my girlfriend and buying a new smaller pair of trousers. Most of my jeans and trousers have 48" or 50" waists, the trousers I bought today have a 42" waist, which I think is great. I did try on a pair of trousers with a 40" waist and while I could get them on, they were a bit too tight for my liking right now.

Here are some key pics from this week:

And now the new trousers:

All I can say, is that I'm amazed that in 12 weeks, these are the results. I am going to continue with the weight loss until my target and maybe go a bit more. Thanks to everyone for the support people have been giving me, all the comments and even the likes are all spurring me on to continue with it and keeping me motivated, so a big, big thank you to you all.

Week 11: Another Week, Another Loss

Hi again, another week and another loss for me. On my week eleven weigh in, I lost another 3 pounds, meaning that I've now lost a grand total of 3 stone 6 pounds, another pound and I'll have my 3 1/2 stone certificate and 4 pounds to 16 stone 7 pounds, which was my consistent weight when I worked for Sainsbury's.

All of that is great news, and I was considerably pleased when I weighed in, especially when you consider that my girlfriend and I went to Comic Con last Sunday and didn't exactly stick to plan. By that, I mean, we both had a 6 inch sub from Subway, a packet of Doritos and a cake each. The cake I had was a Creme Egg Brownie, which in itself was plenty of Syns, but have a look at it:

It tasted as good as it looked, and I really enjoyed it. I will point out though, on Sunday, I worked out that I consumed a grand total of 64 Syns, which was a big deal for me on Slimming World. But in an attempt to make sure I lost weight or at least maintained, I restricted my Syn intake between Monday and Thursday, so I didn't go over my weekly Syns, which I managed to do, even though it was quite hard to do, but it was worth it.

The thing I like about Slimming World is that it's easy to do. I know that might sound like a contradiction compared to what I said in the previous paragraph, but as long as you're honest with yourself, you can lose weight, if one day during the week, you do have more Syns than you're supposed to, you just adjust the Syns you're allowed each day, you should be alright to still lose weight. It was only a bit hard for me because I had 3 times the amount of Syns on Sunday than I was supposed to have had.

If you keep a food diary and keep track of the amount of Syns you're having, it should be easier to make sure you don't go over. Just think, in the 7 days between weigh ins, guys can have 140 Syns and women can have 105 Syns, keep that in mind and you shouldn't go far wrong.

Thanks for reading and if you're doing Slimming World yourself, keep at it, keep motivated and remember how easy it is to do and to lose weight.

Welcome to my Slimming World Blog

I know this blog is a little late to the game, I've been doing Slimming World for 10 weeks, but from now on, I'll try to post a blog every week after I've been weighed, so people can follow my weight loss journey.

I did a blog post in my main blog a 10 days ago, entitled "Slimming World: A Lifestyle, Not Just a Diet", which can be viewed at http://danielcollins1980.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/slimming-world-lifestyle-not-just-diet.html - So please, have a read, there's a couple of pictures of me on that post, to show you the difference between me last year and at the 9 week mark.

In 10 weeks, I've lost a grand total of 3 stone and 3 pounds, averaging a weight loss of 4.5 pounds per week, which is no mean feat. On my very first weigh in, I was very sceptical that Slimming World would work, but 10 weeks in, I can honestly say, YES! This week I lost 3 pounds, which I wanted to get myself rounded off to 17 stone, 3 stone away from my target weight of 14 stone. I will point out that you'll never be asked to reveal your weight to the group, the reason being is that a lot of overweight people are embarrassed about their weight, the only thing that will be revealed is how much you lose each week and how much you have lost in total. I'm not embarrassed about my weight, so I'm OK with sharing it with you here, on my blog.

My girlfriend Fliss and my step-son George are also doing Slimming World and have both lost a good amount of weight each. I won't talk about them much on my blog as this blog is about me, we all support each other and I think that helps us all with our journey.

The food is great, which is one of the great things about Slimming World, you can have as much or as little Syn Free food as you want and a lot of the meals that we eat are Syn Free, so we still have the same size portions of them as we used to. There are a lot of recipe books with all your favourite meals in them, from Spag Bol to Chilli Con Carne and from Burgers to Fish and Chips, so you can still have the food you used to eat, difference is that the Slimming World recipes for them are healthier, sometimes a lot healthier. I might add that the food might taste different from the full fat/sugar variants of them, but in my opinion, it doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the meal, which is another great thing about the food. Anyone who knows me will know that I love my food, so being on a diet that allows me to eat as much as I used to is an amazing part of this diet.

I know I've referred to it as a diet a couple of times, Slimming World is more of a lifestyle than a diet. What diet lets you eat huge portions of food and still lose weight? Exactly! Fliss, George and I get weighed in every Thursday evening at the 7pm at the Old Meeting Place in Bedworth with Nicci Montgomery as the consultant, she's really nice and really supportive, so if you live in the Bedworth & Nuneaton area and you want to lose weight, get yourself down there, join up and see your weight come off.

Another thing to have a look at is Tom Lawton's Syn Bin blog and group on Facebook, he's really entertaining, take a look: https://www.facebook.com/thesynbin/?fref=ts