Slimming World Support thread

Skint_Catt

Extra Easy is the perfect introduction to Food Optimising and, for existing members, brings even more choice.
There are 3 Extra Easy steps:
1
Choose Free Food – anything that’s Free on Green or Original. So pasta, rice, potatoes, meat, fish, poultry etc are all Free.
2
Choose Healthy Extras – Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice. (No need to choose chicken, new potatoes or wholemeal pasta as Healthy Extras – they’re all Free with Extra Easy!)
3
Enjoy 5 -15 Syns each day – And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns list, count the lower one!

Lauri254

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Extra Easy is the perfect introduction to Food Optimising and, for existing members, brings even more choice.
There are 3 Extra Easy steps:
1
Choose Free Food – anything that’s Free on Green or Original. So pasta, rice, potatoes, meat, fish, poultry etc are all Free.
2
Choose Healthy Extras – Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice. (No need to choose chicken, new potatoes or wholemeal pasta as Healthy Extras – they’re all Free with Extra Easy!)
3
Enjoy 5 -15 Syns each day – And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns list, count the lower one!

Thank you very much for explaining that for me, I really appreciate it.

Now as if I wasn't confused enough about the amount of food I could eat last time I did this, now i don't have to pick between red and green but can have any free food but have one less HE A & B.

I don't think i'll ever work out how this makes us lose weight when we eat so much :rotfl:

Can I ask if people are finding that doing EE days provides similar weight loss to the red/green days?

Skint_Catt

Yes it sounds like it Lauri - my old SW consultant lost 7lbs in two weeks and my new one lost 5lbs in a week doing nothing but EE. There have been some good losses on here (Retired Lady for example) :j

Flat_Eric

I discovered the new mullerlights in my local tesco on Friday :j I enjoyed them so much that the very nice man from asda delivered 4 packs of 6 to my door this afternoon so I now have a total of 24 yogurts to munch to my hearts content

I have used the syn calculator which says the syn value for each is: -

vanilla sprinkled with dark chocolate and a black cherry underlayer is 2 syns per portion (165g)

Orange sprinkled with dark chocolate free

Vanilla sprinkled with dark chocolate free

I have enjoyed the most yummy desert this evening and If I hadnt already used my HEB then this would have been free.

One alpen light chocolate fudge bar (3 syns) chopped up into very small bits served with (mullerlight vanilla yogurt sprinkled with dark chocolate) over the top
Today has been a strange day. I am meant to be following extra easy -

breakfast was a hi fi bar but lunch was not SW friendly as I had a friend round so we munched on biscuits and had new covent garden soup and
crusty bread rolls for lunch followed by more biscuits and a treatsize crunchie! I forgot how moreish biscuits can be!!!

Tea has been a lovely beef casserole - thank you angie loves veg. (wont mention the wine!!)

Will need to keep fingers and toes cross if I am to see a loss on Tuesday evening but am having my hair cut on that day so that might help :rotfl:

Lauri254

Oh that is very interesting.

I think I might do green days for a week or two to get myself back in the SW way of thinking then maybe try a week of EE.

I dunno the EE days just looks too easy IYSWIM with the choice of all the free food regardless of red or green!
(well except for the milk/margerine/cheese conundrum with the HEA)
Ah well sure, I'll give it a bash

Thanks again for your help :j

And I will have to go shopping to look for these new Mullerlights!
I got myself stocked up on the normal flavours yest, but was disappointed they were sold out of the rasberry & cranberry!

Liz3yy

I hate to think how many syns I've eaten today....

I was doing great until dinner!

We had roast beef which was basted in its own fat (thanks to OH!) plus roast potatoes. I made yorkshire puds with skimmed milk and had two of them, plus I had 8 tablespoons of gravy with a little of the beef fat in it. I made sure my plate was stuffed full of mixed veg too to try and balance it all out!

Maybe 100 syns?! lol

Oh who cares as it was soooooo yummy! OH was over the moon with it! and he can be a fussy sod

sw_mina

JemmaBe wrote: »

Really? I always thought SW were really bad with salty foods, namely super-noodle, pasta n sauce, savoury rice etc. I was going to eat a sweet chilli super noodle pot one day because they were free and I thought it sounded really tasty.. it had something like 3.5g salt in it :eek:

Hmmm, good point - my consultant always says it should be low salt. I don't have my books here to check. I think it makes sense to keep it as low salt as possible because its so easy to replace the flavour lost because of not using fat with salt!

Skint_Catt

Lauri254 wrote: »

Oh that is very interesting.

I think I might do green days for a week or two to get myself back in the SW way of thinking then maybe try a week of EE.

I dunno the EE days just looks too easy IYSWIM with the choice of all the free food regardless of red or green!
(well except for the milk/margerine/cheese conundrum with the HEA)
Ah well sure, I'll give it a bash

Thanks again for your help :j

And I will have to go shopping to look for these new Mullerlights!
I got myself stocked up on the normal flavours yest, but was disappointed they were sold out of the rasberry & cranberry!

Well you can take the margerine conundrum out - there is no spread/butter/margerine that is a HEa or HEb on SW - they are all synned!

zavarony

Skint_Catt wrote: »

JemmaBe - please don't drop out of Uni - I did and I regret it immensly. ! :grouphug:

Hi Jemma - I left Uni earlier than I should have - finished the degree but left half way through my professional qualifications - if I had stayed I would have not only finished it by now but would have only spent a year doing so - as it is I am back there now (10 years later) and have 2 1/2 years to go to finish and am finding it really hard to get back into the studying!!!

If you can batch cook and freeze youll be fine
xx

Lauri254

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Well you can take the margerine conundrum out - there is no spread/butter/margerine that is a HEa or HEb on SW - they are all synned!

Oops! Thanks for pointing that out, i've not even lifted my SW book since the start of June so i've clearly forgotten important bits