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Skint_Catt wrote: »

Thay are free CWM.

Yay!! Good news!! :T (I am feeling an unordinary amount of relief over a yoghurt?! )

Hopefully some more fat busting on the way then!!

xx

Burlesque_Babe

you can breathe again!

Danone Activia Fat Free Yogurts, all varieties 100g[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

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The non-fat free ones range from 0.5 syn for the red cherry up to 3.5

peachyest

Tiggerlilly wrote: »

I had a nice suprise at weigh in this evening 4.5lbs lost. :j
So in two weeks I have lost 9lbs.
I got my 1/2 stone award and slimmer of the week but the best bit is I am really enjoying making great home cooked meals and I can already feel the benfit of more fruit and veg in my diet.
I am less tired and my recent period was far less difficult than normal (my hubby did not have to get me down from the roof with my machete :rotfl: ).

Well done to all the other losers and stay the samers, have a good week everyone.

well done tiggerlilly :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T , thats a great loss

peachyest

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

morning all........wel, after my 50+ syn fest yesterday afternoon (whoops!) ........I've weighed in and lost 2 pounds ,

That also means I've lost 1 stone and so got


that was my first mini target........so now I need a new one. I know things will really slow down and I need to be realistic. I go on holiday 7 weeks today, so my next target is to lose 7 pounds for my holiday.

I am also exactly the top weight recommended for a wii fit now, not that I can afford a wii or a wii feet (sob!) but I was a stone over the top weight limit for the board - now I'm exactly the limit so that's another incentive - keep going and keep getting under the limit!

Have a good one everyone!

big well done b/babe :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j , keep it up xxx

retiredlady

amyfopink wrote: »

Hi can anyone ket me know marions recipe for these syn free pancakes please? i cant find the recipe. thanks x

Here you go - enjoy!

You could add cinnammon, strawberries or fruits of the forest as an alternative once cooked.

1 Egg per pancake
2-3 Teaspoons sweetener (depending on own taste)
3-4 Drops of vanilla essence

First separate the white from the yolk and put into separate bowls, Whisk the egg white until fluffy and add the sweetener, In the other bowl add the vanilla essence then fold the yolk into the egg white
Heat a frying pan with frylight, add the mix and spread as you would a normal pancake after a few mins flip over (But do be careful they are much more delicate than a regular pancake) And then Hey presto scrummy syn free pancakes

Marion

peachyest

Originally Posted by Flat Eric
Hello sorry to hear you have maintained for the second week running. A work colleague who joined slimming world recently. She had a gain the other week of 3.5 pounds so I wrote the attached for her (she only works part time). I am sorry I waffle on for so long but it might be helpful? One thought, what did you wear to WI? If you wear jeans - these themselves can weigh 2 pounds. I have scales at home and I am always amazed at my varying weight depending on what clothes I wear....

Questions you need to ask yourself…..


1. Are you eating enough?

If not then your body will complain and either you wont lose weight as your body will be holding on to everything it can. This seems to be a familiar complaint in our group.

2. Are you having mainly green days?

Another familiar complaint in our group. We have Members who have stuck to the plan 100% but put on or maintain and they often say they have done mainly green. Our consultant says of green days that it takes longer to digest green day food and comments that you will still lose the same amount of weigh over the same period, it will just happen differently?!



3. Are you drinking enough water?

If not and you are having lots of green days then you are not enabling your body to digest the food properly and you will probably feel all bunged up and horrid. I am having more green days now than before as I love my jacket chips and there are more foods that are free that I can have on a green day than a red so on a green day I can help keep my syns down. A typical green day for me would be beans on toast for lunch (beans free and bread HEB) with Jacket chips (potatoes cooked on jacket potato setting in my microwave then sliced up and put on a baking tray, spray with fry light and wait for skins to crisp up). Yum yum yum! I have this with either fried eggs (cooked with frylight) and mushrooms and ham as my other Healthy Extra B – you can get about 4 or 5 slices of ham for 85 g! or those quorn cracked pepper fillets (which are free on both green/red) All of these food items are free or using healthy extras meaning I can have a glass of wine and some sauce with my meals and still stay within 10 – 12 syns

4. Are you having enough variety?

I try to vary my menus each week and try different / new things. I think this is important as if you eat the same all the time (you and your body will get bored!) It is also important to treat yourself and allow yourself naughty things occasionally.

5. Are you weighing your healthy extras?

Another familiar question asked by our consultant and not often answered by the member! I religiously weigh my cheese and other bits and pieces but I think it is common fault to just guess the 28g once you have been doing it a while.

5a Are you consuming hidden syns?

It seems the same product i.e. a Sainsurys packet rice can have more syns or not be free as compared to the same product made by Batcherlors. One of our members put on 4 pounds this week and said one of the reasons for this was that the Crosse and Blackwell Pasta is more syns than the Bathchelors and she hadn’t appreciated this.

For example, I have been devouring those Heinz Mean Beanz but had not appreciated that some of them (the Tikka flavour for example) were syns (I haven’t had any but would have done if I had been able to find them! And I would have thought they were free until I looked). The Italian beans for example are free so it can get very confusing…..

6. Are you having the correct healthy extras?

I think the Nimble bread is disgusting and wont buy it again. It doesn’t even toast well and the nimble I have frozen breaks apart when you try to get a slice so a total disaster!! I really like the Hovis Seed Sensations but this is not on the list in the book or on the website so I have to syn it – 1 slice = 4 or 5 syns. If I was being really ignorant, I could pretend it was my HEB although all I would be doing is cheating myself as I would then be having those extra 5 syns.

The slimming world website gets updated all the time with the new healthy extras both A and B so it is worth keeping an eye on. Also the Slimming World Magazine is a good point of reference for food news including new healthy extras and products which are free or what their syn value is etc.


7. Why not try some Mix to Match

I am really liking Mix to Match because it means I can have a substantial lunch (Beans on toast / jacket potatotes) and a red tea. Each meal (breakfast lunch and tea) you treat as either a green or red meal and you snack on superfree foods (i.e foods that are free on a red or a green day such as Muller light yogurts as your snacks)

8. Superfree fruit / veg

Grapes are not a speed food. The book reads “speed food are foods that are low or extra low in energy density compared to others in the same food group”

So if you ate 100g of grapes and 100g of Mulberries then you would consume less calories eating the mulberries than you would the grapes.

9. Don’t forget ….

Your eating habits are changing for the better and when I have a day when I syn overload I don’t worry about it as I know that overall I am eating much better now than I ever have done.

10. Don’t beat yourself up about it



11. Have what you want ….

As I said it is important to have variety and if that means having one day a week when you don’t follow the plan then so be it. If you go out for roast dinner on a Sunday then have the Yorkshire pudd and the gravy - just say I will have one Yorkshire pud unlike me who would want half a dozen! As I said before xmas, I was synning lots at the weekends and still losing weight. It was only if I was really bad (3 xmas parties in one week) that I would put on. Overall it might take me longer to get to my target weight but I don’t want to be miserable doing it and so I will continue to enjoy my treats and you should too.

Please don’t be dishearted that you have put on so much there may be an innocent reason for it and you may find you have a really good loss next week.

12. Was it your Star week?

This can be a factor and you should let your consultant know when it is your star week so that any pattern can be picked up on. Even if you are not actually having a period you might still get all the symptoms. Isn’t being a woman wonderful?!

13. SAS Log

I am attaching these which I have photocopied on to A4 for you. You need one for each day and I think it should be self-explanatory how they get filled in. These are for you not your consultant. I haven’t done one yet but will let you know how I get on with them.

14. Food diary

I have food diaries at home (I think). I had to do a food diary last week and find that when I am keeping one, If I have to write it down, I don’t eat it!! Although I do slip up occasionally

This is really great just what people need

peachyest

Originally Posted by peachyest
( BUTTERNUTSQUASH SOUP)


1 BUTTERNUTSQUASH
1tsp LEMON JUICE , 1tsp CHILLI POWDER
1 VEG STOCK CUBE
5 LAUGHING COW
SALT & PEPPER

1) P-R-I-C-K THE BUTTERNUT ALL OVER PUT IN MICRO 10MIN

2) MEANWHILE MAKE UP VEG STOCK PUT IN PAN ADD LEMON,
CHILLI POWDER ,BRING TO BOIL, THEN SIMMER

3) TAKE OUT BUTTERNUT FROM MIRCO , THEN CUT IN HALF ,
TAKE OUT SEEDS, THEN SCOOP OUT INSIDE ADD TO SIMMER
PAN, MIX WITH WHISK ,
TAKE OFF HEAT AND ADD LAUGHING COW AND WHISK ,
RETURN TO HEAT AND SIMMER :j :j :j
this is really creamy thanks to the cheese

peachyest

quote=findingmeownway

I make a lovely sausage casserole which i reckon should be quite low syn. Can anyone advise....

sausages (i can use quorn)
1 tin tomatoes
400ml gravy (i could use bovril to make free?)
mushrooms
peppers
onion
mustard seeds
coriander
2 red chillis

Fry mustard seeds, chillis and onions. Add mushrooms, sausages, peppers and cook for a few minutes. Add tinned tomatoes + gravy. Simmer for 20mins or so, add coriander near end of cooking time.

I reckon this would be free on a green day so could serve with jacket potatoes and veg??[/quote] It sounds nice

peachyest

Originally Posted by TractorGirl327

Quorn & Veg Lasagne
Serves 4
Syns per serving: Green FREE, Original 7.5

Ingredients:
Fry Light
300g/11oz Quorn mince
1 red pepper & 1 courgette, cut into bite size pieces
1 onion peeled & chopped
4 cloves of garlic peeled & chopped
1 x 400g can chopped tomato with herbs
2tsp dried herbs
salt & black pepper
400g/14oz very low fat natural fromage frais
110g/40z Quark
1 egg lightly beaten
pinch of nutmeg
12 lasagne sheets

1. Spray a large pan with Fry light and place over high heat. Add Quron, red pepper, courgette, onion, garlic, stir-fry 6-8 mins
2. Add tomatoes & dried herbs, season well, cook 8-10 mins, stirring often
3. Put fromage frais, Quark, egg, nutmeg in a bowl & mix until smooth. season well
4. Heat oven to 200C/Gas 6. Spray making dish with Fry Light and spoon in half the Quorn mixture. Top with half the lasagne sheets, then half the egg mixture, then the rest of the Quorn, the rest of the Lasagne and top with the remaining egg mixture.
Bake 25-30 mins or until top is golden.



Vanilla Pannacotta
Serves 4
Syns per serving: Green FREE, Original FREE

Ingredients:
200g/7oz Quark
5tbsp artificial sweetener
1tsp vanilla extract
2 x 200g pots Mullerlight vanilla
1 x 10g sachet gelatine
1 egg white
Mint leaves to garnish

1. Whisk Quark, sweetener, vanilla extract and yogurt in a bowl until smooth
2. Put 2tbsp hot water in a small heatproof bowl and sprinkle with the gelatine. Stand the bowl in a saucepan of hot water and stir until the gelatine has dissolved. Cool slightly then whisk into the yogurt mixture.
3. Beat the egg white to soft peaks. Gently fold through the yogurt mixture then spoon into 4 individual moulds. Chill in the fridge 3-4 hours until set.
4. When ready dip moulds in hot water for a few seconds the unmould onto individual plates. Garnish with mint leaves.

I didn't use the mint leaves, I had some lovely frozen summer fruits in the freezer (from Asda I think) so I thawed some of them out and had them with it. Well worth the effort, it was lovely :T

Hope you enjoy as much as I did!
many thanks

JemmaBe

V. helpful peachy!! I don't think I am drinking enough water as I do all green days and uh...definitely do feel a bit 'bunged up' as you put it :p
I wish I could find quark!! I was in asda the other day and spent a good 5 mins looking for it :@
I am getting hideously bogged down with complicated maths that I am terrible at, but I am resisting the biscuits/haribo that used to accompany these hard study sessions!!
I am also getting very worried about weigh in, I don't know I just don't think I've lost weight even though I've stuck to plan 100% and tried really hard, but I suppose there is no use worrying, will just have to wait and see and whatever the result I have made positive changes - eating more fruit and veg and just generally being healthier.

Green day:
Breakfast: 2 cups of tea + apple
Breakfast/snack after my first lecture and I'd woken up a bit -Weetabix and milk (HEA + HEb)
Lunch: Jacket potato and cottage cheese, clementine
Dinner: Quorn spaghetti bolognaise with HEb of cheese, brown pasta, peas, sweetcorn and broccoli. Muller and grapes for after

so HEAs = Milk on cereal and in tea
HEb = Weetabix and Cheese

Syns later will inevitably be 2 ginger nut biscuits (4 syns) and a jaffa cake (3 syns) OR hot chocolate and milk (11 syns)