Slimming World Support thread

Kandipandi

Im loving this EE plan - I was quite dismissive of it at first as I love my HEB's I found that the hardest area to stick to (apart from not shovelling chocolate in my face!!). I just didnt see how I could lose on of them, but I have done it for a few days and I'm converted!
It means I can eat with my family more instead of cooking different stuff. Tonight they all had steak pie, mash, baby boilers, broccoli, carrotts and gravy; I didnt have the gravy and substituted the pie for a griddled chicken breast (which i seasoned and stuffed with purple laughing cow cheese and herbs), it was fab, more like eating 'proper' food IYKWIM.
Happy bunny here

JemmaBe

I didn't succumb again XD

Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: Jacket potato and cottage cheese
Snack: Muller, satsumas, 3 jaffa cakes (oops... 7.5 syns)
Dinner: I'll call it risotto but only because it used risotto rice, it had no butter, oil or wine as you would normally get! so it more was more like risotto rice with a stock cube (1 syn, didn't use it all) and carrots, peas and sweetcorn. Topped with 28g cheese (HEb, seeing as it's a green day). Grapes for pudding.
Supper Later: 2x weetabix (HEb) with milk (HEa)
Hot chocolate (HEa, 3syns)

This takes me up to 11.5 syns, fairly high but there have been days this week where I have had <5, so I might sneak in another couple of Jaffa cakes, possibly subbing the hot chocolate.

Scotsgirl

Evening everyone

Just back from 1st WI & lost 6lbs :j

Having been sticking to mostly red days but had first green day today

Am really getting into this now and so glad I joined last week

zavarony

Scotsgirl wrote: »

Evening everyone

Just back from 1st WI & lost 6lbs :j

Having been sticking to mostly red days but had first green day today

Am really getting into this now and so glad I joined last week

WELL DONE :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Just keep up the momentum and you will soon be on your way to your target!!!

zavarony

Kandipandi wrote: »

It means I can eat with my family more instead of cooking different stuff. Tonight they all had steak pie, mash, baby boilers, broccoli, carrotts and gravy; I didnt have the gravy and substituted the pie for a griddled chicken breast (which i seasoned and stuffed with purple laughing cow cheese and herbs), it was fab, more like eating 'proper' food IYKWIM.
Happy bunny here

Thats the beauty for me too, no more cooking something different for me :j it fits in soooo well with family life

sw_mina

consultant31 wrote: »

I can't find the post I saw about choosing extra cheese as a HEB on an EE day, but just to clarify...........you can use any HE from the Food Optimising book as a HE on the Extra Easy plan. They were not put into the EE booklet in order to keep it as simple as possible, but I think it's likely they'll be listed on the next reprint as it's a question which keeps coming up.

So - if you want to use cheese as your HEA on the EE plan and again as the HEB (as it's listed on a Green day) then you can, so enjoy

You don't know how happy you've just made me... woooooooooooooooooooooo! :T :T

Kandipandi

Scotsgirl wrote: »

Evening everyone

Just back from 1st WI & lost 6lbs :j

Having been sticking to mostly red days but had first green day today

Am really getting into this now and so glad I joined last week

BRILLIANT NEWS - well done :T :T

Skint_Catt

Thanks Zav. I do meal plan and I am filling in food diaries because I've 'restarted' SW at a new class. Meals are fine, its just when I get home before OH and I feel down I'll just grab bread, biscuits etc

Having an EE day tomorrow and Saturday :j

angie_loves_veg

Great news about the HB on EE being cheese friendly - sorry sw mina for passing on mis information..

As for me, well for the first night in aaaaaaaaaages, I went off plan. My daughter (age 6) has just done a really important school entrance exam, and whilst being one of the youngest there, she came in the top 10 children - yay! - so we took her out for a meal to celebrate, so today's (revised!) plan reads as:

B 0% yog and strawberries, blueberries and banana tea (milk HA)

L huge veg stir fry, only superfree veg, soy sauce (free) based sauce

D starter of mussels in a creamy sauce (not eaten like soup!),
a main of aubergine timbales filled with goats cheese and roased almonds, on a tomato sauce with large salad,
a 'taster' desert of (1" sqaure) sticky toffee pud with a ball (2tsp?) of ice cream - yum!
One low alcohol becks beer (3 syns I think)

I love this restaurant, they obviously do 'normal' puds, but also do miniature 'tasters' of them for only £1, so you can end with a sweet, but not blow the diet :T

So, not a bad day considering, two superfree meals, and a (fairly) sensible meal out - I can do this!!!

Burlesque_Babe

consultant31 wrote: »

Weetabix cake

If you're a fan of fruity malt loaf, you'll love this.
Serves 10
Syns per serving: 3½ Syns + 1 HEB and part of a HEA

2 Weetabix (HEB)
113g/4oz sultanas (16 syns)
142ml/5floz skimmed milk (from HEA)
142ml 5floz water
113g/4oz self-raising flour (18 syns)
1 teaspoon mixed spice
14g/½ oz artificial sweetener (optional)
1 egg, beaten

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC, 350ºF or Gas Mark 4
2. Put the Weetabix and sultanas in a bowl. Pour the milk and water over the top and leave to soak up all the liquid.
3. Stir in the flour, mixed spice, sweetener and beaten egg.
4. Spoon the mixture into a 454g (1lb) lined/non-stick loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 1¼ hours until cooked.
5. Cool on a wire rack, then cut into 10 slices.

Can I just double check this - I'm just about to make it. The SW website doesn't mention any HE's? It says

Serves: 12
Syns per serving:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3½ Syns on Green, Original and Extra Easy [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 Weetabix [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]113g/4oz sultanas [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]142ml/5floz skimmed milk [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]142ml 5floz water [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]113g/4oz self-raising flour[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 teaspoon mixed spice [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]14g/½ oz artificial sweetener (optional) [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 egg, beaten [/FONT][/FONT]

Followed by the method. I'm going to make it in muffin tins so I have it already portioned up and take a couple to work each day. We have a coffee shop which sells biscuits and cake slices and I really don't want to get back into my pre SW habit of 2 Jammie Wagon Wheels a day!