Sunday 30 October 2011

Texas pulls the reins on HCG diet

Weight loss clinics in Texas have been stopped from advertising HCG injections, following action by the state's attorney general's office.

The HCG diet is a weight loss programme that requires participants to receive injections of HCG in conjunction with a daily caloric intake of just 500 calories a day.

The contraversial diet - which has never been approved by the FDA as a weight loss drug - is typically used as a fertility drug. 

Supporters of the diet claim that regular HCG injections keep hunger at bay while assisting with the body's fat storage. However, there is no research to support this to date.http://www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com/breaking-wls-news/weight-loss-clinics-offering-hcg-diet-under-scrutiny.html/

What example are we setting?

A third of girls between the ages of 10 and 11 are said to be skipping meals in an effort to stay slim. Not only will this damage their health prospects, sense of self worth and their likelihood of maintaining a healthy food/life balance... it will leave them distracted and irritable making school success problematic.

Something needs to change or we will just see the generation after this one worse still with girls as young as 5 worrying about thier figures and feeling unworthy. Argh.

Monday 10 October 2011

Does Slimpod work?

Forget the pills, the shakes and the diet pills, according to a report in today's Sun, Slimpod download helped one dieter lose 4 stone. Impressive results really!

Through the Slimpod website, you can order a range of specific Word Weaving weight loss downlooads.  Whether you want to drop a dress size or two, glam up for a wedding, say no to chocolate or simply keep your weight loss going, there is a weight loss download available for you.

Compared to the cost of 1:1 sessions with an NLP specialist who uses a Word Weaving for weight loss technique, the price is very reasonable at under £30.

Tuesday 4 October 2011

Syn-tastic: Low syn snackbox


One of the keys to Slimming World success is maintaining a good intake of syns. Too little and your body will go into starvation mode... Too many and you undo the good work you've been doing. Losing weight depends on striking this balance... and it's sometimes easier said than done with so many temptations around us!

Some slimmers find that creating a snackbox which contains all their favourite treats and doesn't exceed their weekly syn level is the trick. So, how do you create your box?

The most successful dieters have at least 5 syns of their 15 syn daily allowance each day.  If you were to have 5 syns available for day-to-day eating to cover things like oils, cheeses, etc, you would have 10 syns available per day. So your snackbox could contain as many as 70 syns! And that's a lot of snacking!

Your box could contain any type of snack - sweet or savoury. The only rule would be that it contains no more than 70 syns for the week. This way you could dip in when and as you please to meet your body's needs.

Low syn snacks - sweet

Hartley's low calorie jelly - .5 syn
Mini milk ice lollies - .5 syn
Quality Street (per sweet) - 2 syns
Celebrations (per sweet) - 2 syns
After 8 (1 square) - 2 syns
Cadburys Heroes (per sweet) - 2.5 syns
Mini Wall's Twister lollies - 2.5 syns
Terrys Chocolate Orange - 2.5 syns per segment
Jaffa Cake - 2.5 syns
Oreo - 2.5 syns
Pink & White wafer - 2.5 syns
Snack A Jack Jumbo 3%Fat Caramel 2.5 syns

Chocolate Snack A Jacks - 3 syns
Mars bar - fun size - 4 syns
Skinny Cow ice cream lollies - 4.5 syns
Sainsbury's Be Good To Yourself Toffee Popcorn - 4.5syns
Toffee Crisp - 5 syns
Snack A Jack Popcorn Butter Toffee 23g 5syns
Curly Wurly - 6.5 syns
Walnut Whip - 8.5 syns



Low syn snacks - savoury
French Fries All Varieties 19g 4syns

French Fries All Varieties 22g 4½ Syns
Walkers Baked Crisps All Varieties 25g. 5 syns
Quavers All Varieties 17g 4½ syns

Walkers Light Mutipack 24g 5½ syns
Wotsits All Varieties 21g 5½ Syns
Squares Mutipack All Varieties 22g 5syns
Potato Heads All Varieties 23g 5½ Syns
Monster Munch All Varieties 25g 6syns
Salt N Shake 24g. 6½ Syns
Walkers Crisps All Varieties 25g 6½ Syns
Walkers Crisps All Varieties 34.5g 9syns
Walkers Baked Crisps 70% Less Fat All Varieties 35g 7½ syns
Doritos Dipping Chips Lightly Salted 28g 7syns
Salt N Shake 30g 8syns

Doritos Dipping Chips Lighty Salted 175g 43syns