Slimming World Support thread

V.Lucky

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Tesco normal Ravioli is free on green even though it's got 2.5% beef in it. I have that for lunch sometimes.
All dried pasta is free and you can get some 'flavoured' passata's like onion and garlic and basil which make a good sauce.
What else do you like and I'll look in my branded foods book.

Anything without meat really as I am a veggie. I already use passata. I have just got back from shopping and things like couscous, tinned veggie things, chilled veggie things, anything really.

Thanks for the correction about the branston ravioli, I must have misheard at the meeting. It's still in the cupboard to try.

Lol at the "better than sex pie", it's really nice. I must admit I did "doctor" it a little bit and put in mushrooms and some passata as it was a bit dry as I made half the quantity and that was loads. I forgot to put the cheese on before I put the mash on, so the cheese went on the top and made a nice crusty brown topping.

Tiggerlilly

Ok, so I need you guys, I have totally fallen off the slimming world wagon, it is mostly due to family stress and my longterm battle with anxiety and depression. I was quite bad last week and still managed to lose weight, but since weigh in I have eaten only junk, 2 huge Mcdonalds, and a large pizza express meal tonight, I am defiantely self sabotaging and feel very low about it as am totally fed up with being fat and greedy. I am crying loads at the minute and just want comfort food all the time. How do i get going again without feeling upset when i have gained next week ? Has anyone got any really good low syn comfort food ideas ?, I love savoury and sweet things but not spicy. Any help will be very gratefully received, as feeling very lost right now.

rainbowfizz21

npsmama wrote: »

Help!
I'm finding that I'm not enjoying many of the SW recipes.
I just had free rice pudding and really it's nothing like the real thing at all. It tastes to artificial. I can imagine doing this for life.

Sorry to hear this - I was so excited when I realised I could make free rice pudding by using the milk as my HEA and I find it tastes almost the same.

What other ones have you tried?

northernlass_2

V.Lucky wrote: »

I wish the SW website was easier to use and you could type in Tesco and free food on green and it could list what you could have. I saw there was a book like this at the meet last week, so it looks like I might have to splash out on this. I am sure they do it on purpose.

The consultant told us this week that Branston veg ravioli is free, and it's that sort of thing that I am looking for. Can anyone give me any others that are meat free and quick and easy, ie tinned or dried or whatever!

For lunch I have made a recipe off the SW website for chilli Quorn sausages and bean bake, topped with mash it's fab. Really enjoyed it and feel suitably full now lol.

Have a good weekend all.

This is my favourite book, (branded free foods book) i call it my bible, i take it everywhere with me permanently in my handbag, you cant go wrong with this book it is all free foods. I think it costs £1.95 tho it may have gone up 20p or so since last year but it is worth it.

angie_loves_veg

npsmama wrote: »

Help!
I'm finding that I'm not enjoying many of the SW recipes.
I just had free rice pudding and really it's nothing like the real thing at all. It tastes to artificial. I can imagine doing this for life.

Sorry to hear you are struggling. I think that there are several ways you can approach SW, and at the moment it doesn't sound like you are doing it the right way *for you*

I happily use low fat yog, mullers and occasionally sweetner in my cooking now, but there is no requirement that you eat anything you are not happy with. Food can be as simple or as complex as you wish, personally I started to do well on SW when I started to match the plan with what I wanted to eat, not the other way around.. I don't enjoy being told what to eat, and I certainly have never felt happy eating 'light choices' or 'diet meals'.. but maybe that's just me. I would far rather eat less of the real thing than more of something 'fake'.

I use virtually all my B choices on 'enhancing' my main meals. I use syns predominantly for alcohol. I do not have toast or cereal for breakfast and do not eat snack bars (etc) as B choices between meals, I am happy to have fruit instead. I have not eaten quorn more than once since starting SW.

I menu plan my day starting with dinner, then plan lunch, then finally breakfast. I am happy to have a free breakfast

One evening, if I fancy a risotto, I will have a green day, use frylight rather than oil to start it off, syn my vermouth, keep to mushrooms / parsley / peas / asparagus etc and finish with a very generous HA of parmesan - frankly, there is no compromise there at all.

On a friday night I might fancy a curry, so I will choose EE for the day allowing me both meat and rice for dinner - cook a tomato based curry, have rice (etc). I know that I can still have one B choice for the rest of the day.

Fish and chips? Green day - lots of chips (SW style), mushy peas, a HB of haddock maybe even with a HB of breadcrumbs on. The rest of my day will be limited by my evening meal choices - so for lunch I may have jacket and beans, cheese (HA), keeping breakfast superfree as usual...

Gammon or steak? Red day, chips or potatoes as a HB, free veg / pineapple / egg / grilled toms etc etc.

Complex recipe from book, Aunty Marjories famous casserole, homemade scones and jam ..... I look and work out how it can fit - there are 5 plans on SW, and more often than not, one of the plans will work for the meal, and I will fit the rest of my day around it..... if you want something enough ....


On one hand, SW IS limiting - I needed it to be.. I was overweight and had to be taught how to make healthy choices. If I have everything I want, I will not lose weight. I see SW as a plan where I can still have a lot of what I want, I just have to plan it carefully, and accept that if I fancy a blowout for dinner (or pudding!), then lunch and breakfast that day are going to be :A

On the other hand, SW is very freeing - I really do have choice to eat what I want to eat, I do not have to give much up (although I may need to learn to limit it)whilst losing weight and feeling great.

npsmama

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Sorry to hear you are struggling. I think that there are several ways you can approach SW, and at the moment it doesn't sound like you are doing it the right way *for you*

I happily use low fat yog, mullers and occasionally sweetner in my cooking now, but there is no requirement that you eat anything you are not happy with. Food can be as simple or as complex as you wish, personally I started to do well on SW when I started to match the plan with what I wanted to eat, not the other way around.. I don't enjoy being told what to eat, and I certainly have never felt happy eating 'light choices' or 'diet meals'.. but maybe that's just me. I would far rather eat less of the real thing than more of something 'fake'.

I use virtually all my B choices on 'enhancing' my main meals. I use syns predominantly for alcohol. I do not have toast or cereal for breakfast and do not eat snack bars (etc) as B choices between meals, I am happy to have fruit instead. I have not eaten quorn more than once since starting SW.

I menu plan my day starting with dinner, then plan lunch, then finally breakfast. I am happy to have a free breakfast

One evening, if I fancy a risotto, I will have a green day, use frylight rather than oil to start it off, syn my vermouth, keep to mushrooms / parsley / peas / asparagus etc and finish with a very generous HA of parmesan - frankly, there is no compromise there at all.

On a friday night I might fancy a curry, so I will choose EE for the day allowing me both meat and rice for dinner - cook a tomato based curry, have rice (etc). I know that I can still have one B choice for the rest of the day.

Fish and chips? Green day - lots of chips (SW style), mushy peas, a HB of haddock maybe even with a HB of breadcrumbs on. The rest of my day will be limited by my evening meal choices - so for lunch I may have jacket and beans, cheese (HA), keeping breakfast superfree as usual...

Gammon or steak? Red day, chips or potatoes as a HB, free veg / pineapple / egg / grilled toms etc etc.

Complex recipe from book, Aunty Marjories famous casserole, homemade scones and jam ..... I look and work out how it can fit - there are 5 plans on SW, and more often than not, one of the plans will work for the meal, and I will fit the rest of my day around it..... if you want something enough ....


On one hand, SW IS limiting - I needed it to be.. I was overweight and had to be taught how to make healthy choices. If I have everything I want, I will not lose weight. I see SW as a plan where I can still have a lot of what I want, I just have to plan it carefully, and accept that if I fancy a blowout for dinner (or pudding!), then lunch and breakfast that day are going to be :A

On the other hand, SW is very freeing - I really do have choice to eat what I want to eat, I do not have to give much up (although I may need to learn to limit it)whilst losing weight and feeling great.

Thank you very much for this. It's made me think a lot.

angie_loves_veg

Morning all

Easy day for me today:

B 0%greek yog with a banana and strawberries, tea (milk HA)

L homemade leek, potato and pea soup, 1tbsp cream (1.5 syns), 57g wholemeal bread HB

D chicken dopiaza (curry secrets), pilau rice, aloo gobi (all homemade and free), samosa (3x1syn each) with hm raita and geetas mango chutney (4 syns)

Nice glass 175ml red wine - 6 syns - total syns for the day = 14.5 :j


Have a fab day all :j

Ossireo

Tiggerlilly wrote: »

Ok, so I need you guys, I have totally fallen off the slimming world wagon, it is mostly due to family stress and my longterm battle with anxiety and depression. I was quite bad last week and still managed to lose weight, but since weigh in I have eaten only junk, 2 huge Mcdonalds, and a large pizza express meal tonight, I am defiantely self sabotaging and feel very low about it as am totally fed up with being fat and greedy. I am crying loads at the minute and just want comfort food all the time. How do i get going again without feeling upset when i have gained next week ? Has anyone got any really good low syn comfort food ideas ?, I love savoury and sweet things but not spicy. Any help will be very gratefully received, as feeling very lost right now.

Keep your chin up hun, totally understand where you are coming from as I am a master at self saboutage and suffered with anxiety adn depression for 7 years and know it is a viscious cycle. Do you like the SW chips as sometimes a plate of those with beans or eggs or bacon or low fat sausages can hit the mark. For sweet, it is a bit extravagant, but the Carte D'or Light Vanilla icecream works out at 45 syns for the whole tub, so you can have a generous scoop or two with a mound of fresh fruit without breaking the syn bank. I do remember reading that there are various sugar free syrups that calculate to be free that could be added to desserts or maybe even a coffee for a sweet hit .. hopefully someone can help me out with the name of them

npsmama

npsmama wrote: »

Thank you very much for this. It's made me think a lot.

Just to update...
I've decided that I'm not going to give it but I will keep searching and searching until I find a way that works for me.

I just realised that although I love non greek yogurt I wasn't buying it bc it's very expensive but instead I was buying those Mullerlights that everyone at Slimming World loves - I think they're awful!! And yet what is filling up TWO shelves on my fridge right now? Those infamous Mullerlights ! What did I spend £6 on? Those infamous Mullerlights !
I will no longer buy those but instead buy the greek yogurt even if it means having less of it.

At the newsagents today I bought a WW cookbook magazine. It's not the WW magazine but a special edition that solely has recipes in it.
A lot of those recipes look very nice and it's given me hope.

The other thing I did was to make a pan of my beloved granola. I've decided that once a week I can have some with skimmed milk. On that day I will try to be angelic for the rest of the meals/snacks. The rest of the week it will be out of sight and hopefully a bit more out of mind.

anyone in North wales want some free Mullerlights? I've got loads to spare!!!

angie_loves_veg

Oh, good luck npsmama .... once you find your way, you will be able to eat the food you love and lose the weight too ..

Have you tried the 0% greek yogurt made by total? (it is a 'free' food on SW) I think it is great, but you could always try a small pot to see first...

I had a peak at that WW cookbook mag on the newsagents shelf - some of the ideas looked very tasty, do shout if you need some advice converting them to SW syns etc..

Whilst it might be a depressing outcome, have you tried to syn your granola - who knows, you might be able to work it in somehow....

Have a great day