Coundon & Balsall Common Slimming World with Rebecca

01/05/2026

I'd popped into TK Maxx for some coffee syrup & raffle prize inspiration when I totally fell in love with this flask/tumbler. It is just so cute 🥰. I decided I deserved a treat to help me drink more 🤣

30/04/2026

I love groups for inspiration 🥰. Celeriac & butternut squash chips in the airfryer 😋 Boiled eggs in the airfryer (there was a second one that got eaten before the chips had cooked 🤣) & some chicken. Not forgetting my nice big glass of water to drink before I ate! Was lovely, tasty & filling. Plus all free food & my food diary is being filled in! Am aiming for a good loss this week!

27/04/2026

I feel like I've been AWOL from this page for a bit as real life has taken priority over social media, which I know the algorithm will hate but I never regret.
Had a wonderful weekend with my eldest. Was it as perfectly on plan as I had intended? Quite simply, no. Did I make a large number of good choices? Absolutely, yes! Am I beating myself up? Not a chance!
We headed to NT Attingham Park on Sunday which is one of my favourite places. I had breakfast on plan before hand, jacket potato at lunch but we did have ice creams whilst walking in the sunshine round the estate (delicious no idea of swips & turned out to be too much dairy so gave me stomach ache 🤣 but I enjoyed the ice cream at the time!). Dinner at Wagamamas where my mains choice was Chicken Teriyaki Donburi at 10.5 swips but we shared a starter that was free with my stamps on the app & had the bao buns that were 11 swips each (I stupidly didn't look them up before hand or I'd have had the gyoza 🙈).
Trampoline competition on Sunday was a very early start, needing to be at the arena at 7:45 so I'd taken breakfast pitta with us (2 heck sausage rashers (1), bacon, egg, hash brown (1.5), pitta (fibre choice)). Lunch was homemade hummus & veg sticks (free), strawberries & blueberries. I had taken a Biscoff egg (9) as my treat & did also end up having a biscuit (6).
However, back on plan properly today, no guilt, no stressing just focusing on today. I can't change the past but can make better choices today 😁. Plus, it was a truly lovely weekend & I love spending time with my eldest & appreciate that at 17 I probably don't have many more years of him spending days out with his mum!
I'm in group this morning in Balsall Common which I love & I am excited to see what the members have achieved this week ❤️🥰

22/04/2026

🧀 SAY CHEESE! 🧀

Something NEW is joining the Slimming World food family! 🧀🥰

Introducing, Cheese Toastie Bites… our first ever savoury Healthy Extra calcium snack!

They’ll be available exclusively from the Slimming World Kitchen from Monday 27th April as part of a small pilot.

If the pilot goes well… who knows, they might make their way into group too 🤞🥰🥰

Light, baked, cheesy‑toastie goodness. 😋

If you’ve never tried the Slimming World Kitchen boxes then you can use my code to get 20% off your first four boxes 👍🏻 I will pop my code in the comments.

13/04/2026

Thinking about giving Slimming World a try? 🤔 Our 7-Day menus are the perfect way to see how it works and get a taste of the meals you can enjoy as a member.

Click here to pick from our classic, vegetarian or vegan menu 👉: https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/blog/discover-get-set-for-healthy-eating-week/ and come along to one of my lovely groups see how simple, satisfying and flexible it can be ❤️.

❤️ Balsall Common. Monday 9:30am. Blessed Robert Grissold RC Church, CV7 7FX.
❤️ Coundon. Thursday 9:15am. Avenue Bowling Club, CV6 1GZ.

Our helpful hints will take you from Monday to Sunday in Slimming World style – including delicious dishes, activity ideas and more

12/04/2026

A new experience for me today as a group of us from our team headed to Buzz Bingo! It was fun with an ink explosion & generally not having a clue which random sheet we were on, but we had a good time with great company, lovely jacket potatoes & all on plan drinks 🥰. Was a great opportunity to wear my Newland Graphics sweatshirt too ❤️. A fab Sunday afternoon!
Oh, & between us we won the grand total of NOTHING 🤣🤣🤣

09/04/2026

Any guesses on today’s tights colours? 🤔
Pop your guess in the comments!

06/04/2026

We are lucky to have such a selection of days & times of fabulous Slimming World groups in our area 🥰❤️
If you’re ready to ditch the pounds ready for summer, head along to one of our supportive, friendly groups! ☀️🕶️

28/03/2026

Meet Hazel & Eric 🐰🐰. We lost my little boy in January leaving Hazel alone. She is historically not the easiest bun for bonding & it has taken meeting 5 different boys this time to find her a husbun! They're home now & we are gradually increasing their space to support their new bond (they'll free roam our lounge once they're ready).
Hazel is proving that perseverance pays off & that needs applying to our weight loss journey! It won't be a smooth road, but if we stick with Food Optimising then good things will follow! ❤️

26/03/2026

It’s group day in Coundon ❤️ 😃. Which means I am in crazy colourful tights! I love colour & my Coundon group are used to me expressing this in my tights 🤣. Today is turquoise tights from Snag Tights with a pair of fluorescent pink fishnets over the top 🩷.
Maybe next week I should get you all to guess what colours I will be wearing 🤔🤣.
Head over to Avenue Bowling Club, Gaveston Road, CV6 1GZ if you’d like to join us this morning. It is a wonderfully friendly & supportive group & you will be made very welcome 🥰.

EDITED to show a better colour pic of them outside!

25/03/2026

Gutted. Have had a another great week & have maintained on the scales this morning 😭. I was feeling so positive.
Now the challenge is to not hit the self sabotage button. I am feeling focused, am going to keep doing a food diary & will try to just keep doing what I'm doing. I've got 12.5lb to go to target (still!) & the self sabotage button won't help me get there.

21/03/2026

I was thinking about how important planning is in my weight loss journey so thought I'd share my thoughts 🤔.
Last weekend Aidan was competing in the National Schools Trampoline Finals in Derby. He finished a brilliant 2nd place 🥈 in the Years 10-14 Elite Boys category but that meant we had a 3 hour wait until presentation 🙈. We are also now heading into competition season so next weekend is English Qualifier 1.
It would be so easy in these circumstances to just grab something like a meal deal from a shop in passing but realistically that is never going to help my weight losses. For me I need to look at the timings, plan snacks & meals to take, know what I will have when I get home or what I'm having at the Premier Inn if we are staying over, etc.
It's not always easy, particularly as I take lots of bits for Aidan to graze on throughout the day & also as I often need things that don't require a fridge BUT I can Food Optimise any situation if I choose to. Simple as that. So I choose to! I plan, I prepare food before we go & if like last weekend we end up in Costco with Aidan getting a tub of mini cinnamon rolls, I get a tub of strawberries!
Ultimately, if I want to lose weight then I need to make the choices that facilitate that. It's my choice, no one else is deciding for me.
So that is my thought 💭: You can Food Optimise any situation, so think about what choices you make & what outcome you want 🥰.