Successful Slimming @ Filey 25 stone in January

Hi everybody, I just thought I would start the New Year, making sure everyone gets to know how successful the two Filey groups have been. We have had quite a lot of new members and I welcome them all. To what I can only describe as, the most positive, supportive groups in the area. I am sure you will find, staying to group and joining in with everything, you will soon realise everyone knows what it is like, to join something, that can be life changing, and at first daunting. Seeing how well existing members are doing and believing those great weight losses they have already experienced, this will soon be you. And to prove my point this month the 10.am group has lost a whopping 204 lbs – more than 14 stone. and the 6.30 group has lost 155 lb approximately 11 stone.  So 25 stone of weight loss, already gone in the first month after Christmas. Now anybody out there who made a new resolution to lose weight and have already given up, then take it from me, nothing beats having  the support of like-minded people and the knowledge that each week, you are going to be weighed, and encouraged to keep going.

This week some of you might have seen in this Saturdays Evening News/ Mercury, the great piece about Gemma Benson, who has decided to join in the cycle  ride across Kenya for the charity Woman v Cancer. She now has loads of confidence after losing, since she joined last March 3st. 6lb. She is building up her fitness in time to take on the grueling 248 miles, while at the same time, losing even more weight.  Not only to reach her personal target but to achieve finishing the whole 248 miles and raise loads of money for the charity. Please support her and go to wwwjustgiving.com/gemma-benson and look out for other ways she has planned to help raise the money she needs. 

I would like to say a big thank you to Tesco for allowing myself and the Hunmanby Group Consultant Kaye, promote our groups all day one Saturday after Christmas at  the new Filey Tesco. We sold raffle tickets for the Clic Sargent children’s Cancer appeal the prize was a basket of Free of Extra Easy Food. We raised a fabulous £207.20 thank you to all those generous people.

Hope to see you at either of my groups.

Irene x

Filey Slimming World Woman of the Year

Andrea Hammond Rita Beckitt winner Irene Cowling Consultant and Kairen Sellers

Filey has two winners because there is two groups in Filey every Thursday 10.ooam and 6.30pm members from each group voted for who they felt was the most inspirational or in their opinion deserved to win.

The morning group winner was Rita Beckett who joined at the beginning of February and has now lost 5stone she joined because she was told she was to overweight to have a knee operation now 5 stone lighter the problem with her knee is solved and she no longer requires the operation. I am very pleased that she found the food optimising Extra Easy plan as easy to follow as it’s name implies, she has kirbed her sweet tooth by eating loads of fresh fruit salad and low fat yoghurt, but still has a full English breakfast every morning and plans her entire family’s meals round Slimming Worlds Extra Easy plan. Other members nominated and therefore runners up were Kairen Sellers and Andrea Hammond.

Brenda Rand, Gaynia Chat,Mary Stringer Gemma Benson being presented with the certificate by Irene and Julie Teahan

The evening group winner was the lovely Gemma Benson who has lost 2stone 10.5 lb since she joined in March and the runners up are Gaynia Chatt, Mary Stringer, Julie Teahan and Brenda Rand all have done extremely well and have been nominated for Woman of the Year the final vote for Gemma was well deserved. Everyone gave an account of why they joined Slimming World and how losing weight had changed the way they feel as well as how they look.

Gaynia Chatt and Mary Stringer watching Gemma Benson accepting her star paper weight and pen from IreneGemma Benson and Rita Beckitt

Gemma and Rita

Filey Slimming World Target Member of Year

Jacqui MaCauley Filey Slimming World Target Member

Filey Slimming World  Target member for 2010 competition held in August was won by Jacqui McCauley with  a fabulous weight loss of  4stone 7lb. When Jacqui joined Slimming World she never believed she would lose so much weight in less than 12 months or that she would join the crew of Filey RNLI this wonderful vivacious Grandmother has now got a new lease of life and joining in with the other members of her family on board the Filey lifeboat.

Filey Slimming World – Cake Break MS Society fund Raiser Photo’s

29th May 2010 – Morning Group St John’s Parish Hall Every Thursday @ 10.am

Karen Day joined my Slimming World group to help her manage her condition Multiple Sclerosis, she knew that if she could lose a few stone then maybe getting about would become a lot easier than it had been. I don’t know anything about MS all I do know is that it quite debilitating and to tackle anything at all must be quite an effort. But what I do know a lot about is how to lose weight healthily,with enjoyment and fun and in a group of  like-minded people who only want to feel better about themselves look good and be as healthy as they can.  So when Karen asked if we would at our group join in with the MS Cake Break and raise money  and at the same time come up with some Slimming World scrumptious cakes, well we all like cake,so there was no problem (scan bran to the ready) we made loads of lovely delicious cakes buns muffins tea cakes and biscuits, it goes to prove you can have cake while at the same time lose weight. We managed to raise £74.26 on the raffle plus donations, we all had lovely time, so I wanted to share the photographs with you. It has taken me quite a long time to be able to transfer them onto the posting as they were  taken by mobile phone (Thank you Norma and Granville) my lack of technological knowhow has delayed things a bit, so here they are at last. Oh! and by the way Karen has now lost  3 stone  8 lbs and is already up to her Gold Body Magic Award.

Karen and Me

Lots of nice cakes

Rita & Kairen

Mary& Marian

 Sue Sally and Diana

Filey Slimming World Happy New Year

Hi every one, Happy New Year I am sorry it has taken me so long to update this but I have been really busy with promoting our fabulous group for January 2010 season, writing and encouraging people back after they have rather over indulged, during Christmas holidays, hey we are all human, I put 4lb on over Christmas and New Year! I knew what I was doing when I put that extra mince pie into my mouth and that cheese with large slabs of Christmas cake, nobody forced it down me and I knew I would regret it after but I enjoyed every single mouthful. No guilt no shame no problem, I can get it off again, now is the time in 2010 to start focusing on food optimising 100%  and I am very pleased to say that I decided to go all out and follow the Extra Easy plan and I lost a fab 3½lb so even though I have always been more into the original plan (red) the joy of having Steak and Chips (SW syn free chips of course) together on the same plate and a large side salad was glorious, as you are probably realising I like my food!  Basically that is the problem for quite a lot of us, love hate relationship with food, how many times have you started a new diet on a Monday morning only to have blown it by the middle of the afternoon, making yourself more depressed and feeling disgusted with yourself for being so week willed and unable to resist the foods you crave. Does that sound familiar well it’s this constant battle with one’s own emotions that makes us feel so negative and allowing food to control our lives to the point of being so unhappy you either starve yourself or binge, so I can understand when people first join Slimming World they don’t believe me when I tell them about the power of “free food” yes you can eat as much of the free foods as they want no counting no weighing no kidding. So come on everyone lets start the New Year being positive and upbeat knowing this is the year you are going to be healthier fitter and slimmer, you deserve it. Oh! And on the way you can enjoy and relish every mouthful knowing it is ok to enjoy your food.

If your still thinking about coming back or joining for the first time and want to talk about it first give me a call on 01723 515507 or 07814642277. Or just turn up; walk into the group where I and the rest of the group will make you feel very welcome.

Woman of the Year District Final Competition

Jacqui and Irene at Woman of the Year

Jacqui Macauley who has lost a magnificent 4 stone 7½lb in 51 weeks attending the Filey Methodist Group every Thursday at 6.30pm, won though to the district Final held in Selby last Saturday she was the only finalist through from the Scarborough Bridlington Filey Hunmanby area and one of only eight through from the whole of North East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

So it was a great achievement even though she didn’t actually win through to the final.  She is a winner regardless whether or not she won a

Jacqui before the Weight Loss

competition because of the amount of weight she has lost she has now found she has more energy feels and looks years younger in fact has been mistaken for the Mother of her grandson rather than the Grandmother.

She now loves going of on trips on her bicycle and frequently joins her husband who is a keen cyclist on trips round Dalby Forest . She now cycles at least twice a week to work from Filey to Scarborough .

Super Slimmer Jacqui On Her Bike, Cycling Dalby

 If anyone is inspired by her and would also like to lose a bit of weight, then join me Irene Cowling at either of my groups every Thursday 10am at St John’s Parish Hall or the Methodist Church 6.30pm Slimming World Food Optimising Plan is a healthy sensible and sustainable way of eating, most of us know how to do this, but don’t follow it through, all it takes is 1lb a week to lose more than 3 stone a year and a lot of encouragement from me and the other group members.

Motivated Successful Jacqui on a Coastal Walk.

Our groups are at: St John’s Parish Hall, West Ave., at 10.00 a.m or the Methodist Church on Station Ave 6.30p.m every Thursday.

Filey Slimmer Target Winner of the Year, Weight Loss of 2st 12lb

Chris Gill joined the Filey Slimming world group September 2008 and reached her target in May 2009 and was voted the Target Member of the year in June of this year having lost a fabulous 2st 12lb. The runners up were Bill Jesson who has lost 3st and his wife Sue who has lost 4st 6lb and Mr Bronniman who has now been a target Member for 3 years has lost 1st 13lb all four gave a small presentation as to how losing weight had changed their lives.

Welcome to the Filey Slimming World Blog!

Our groups are at: St John’s Parish Hall, West Ave., at 10.00 a.m or the Methodist Church on Station Ave 6.30p.m every Thursday.

Welcome to my new Filey Slimming World blog, if you know me and are already a member of one of my groups then you will know that I have only just mastered the technology on my mobile phone – so to start a blog  is quite a big thing for me, but if you want to keep up with with everybody else then this is the way forward. And I thought it would be good to share with as many people as possible how great the  Filey groups are.

Marion Wright, Filey Mayor, Starts the Event

We have had a fab 40miles for Smiles walk which raised for the Childline Voice Appeal £340 everybody that took part did extremely well and also while raising pounds for a good cause walked off some extra pounds in weight and every body achieved the silver bodymagic awards.

This Thursday we will be at the groups celebrating all the members who have reached their target weight so calling all Target members, come and join in with the fun we will be having a buffet party with lots of syn free food, it doesn’t matter if you are out of target, this is a chance to sign in again for free and then regain that lovely figure, and that wonderful feeling of success.

The weight losses for May have been phenomenal, absolutely fantastic – the St John’s group lost 8stone 4lb  and the Methodist church group have lost 9stone 6lb so that’s a total of  17stone 10lb for Filey Wow!

If you have just read all this and have been thinking you might like to join in and lose weight with  Slimming World, then join me at either of my groups St John’s Parish Hall, West Ave., at 10.00 a.m or the Methodist Church on Station Ave 6.30p.m every Thursday you will be made extremely welcome.

You can contact me, Irene, on 07814 642277 and IreneCowling@f2s.com