New Slimming World Support Thread

xnatalie81x

I am back - after seriously falling off the wagon today is the start afresh! Have been blackberry picking and had banana for brekkie. So here is my frugal plan for the day

BREKKIE: coffee (milk HEA) and banana

lUNCH: Home-made chips with home-laid eggs (although not my home as my 3 chickadees have yet to lay!!! - these are a neighbours)

SNACK; Foraged blackberries and a muller yog i found lurking in the fridge

DINNER: Tesco simply fish salmon 100g with garlic butter (2 HEB) and need syns as not in directory!!! HELP!!! with mashed potato and roast potatoes, broccoli and any veg going off

SNACK: pasta n sauce if hungry. Fruit if snacky. Any syns left.......

xnatalie81x

Need help with:

TESCO simply fish salmon with garlic butter (in the cardboard single packet)
JAMMY dodger bars.....

Both are lacking from the directory and i do not have password although have online account

xnatalie81x

Any one know the syns for tesco pasta n sauce cheese and ham. On special with apporved foods and considering stocking up if low!

thanks

Skint_Catt

Right! It's going to be a good day for me! (I hope :rolleyes:)
Brekkie - Bacon & mushrooms
Snack - apple, diet coke
Lunch - scrambled eggs with tinned salmon
Snack - yoghurt/banana
Dinner - TBC - poss duck in pancakes - but depends how many syns the pancakes are! And the hoisin....hmmmm lol

HEA/HEB will be cheese on toast if I need a snack after archery practice!

C xxx

Skint_Catt

cte1111 wrote: »

But I'm feeling fed up with it already. Not sure why, but it does seem to really limit what I can eat, everything needs cooking and I'm bored of the easy things to cook. Does anyone else feel like that?

But what would you eat normally then that doesn't need cooking? Is there any way you can adapt these things to fit in with SW? The good thing with SW is it DOESN'T limit what you can eat - you can eat anything - just to varying degrees!
I love my green days so if you need any help just ask! Loads of heads on hee will make things easier!
C xx

RabbitintheHeadlights

cte1111 wrote: »

I've been doing SW for 3 weeks and lost 7.5 lbs, got Slimmer of the Week this week. But I'm feeling fed up with it already. Not sure why, but it does seem to really limit what I can eat, everything needs cooking and I'm bored of the easy things to cook. Does anyone else feel like that?

I've bought the green cook book and Sauce book (I'm vegetarian), I guess I need to make myself actually use them and vary our diet a bit.

I'm meant to be starting a new job next week and feel stressed about that, so I think that dieting at the same time might be making me feel bad, but on the other hand you can always find excuses not to diet, can't you?

Hi from another veggie :wave: and congratulations on getting SOTW. Half a stone in three weeks is brilliant!

I'm not sure from your message whether you're feeling down because you're fed up with cooking everything or whether it's that you're getting bored with the easy stuff? If it's that your fed up with cooking then there's loads of quick options - if you're *really* fed up there's even a few packet sachets (the just add boiling water type) that only take five minutes! If you're bored then the books are definately the way to go. There's often good recipes in the magazines, as well, and have you tried online? I've found quite a few of the meat recipes on there can be adapted by using quorn instead of chicken or soya mince instead of beef. Normal recipes that you used to make can pretty easily be adapted too - use fat free fromage frais instead of yoghurt in sauces and one of the sugar substitutes (I've found spenda pretty good) instead of sugar in stuff for baking.

If it would help, I can pm you with the meals that I've been making? Currently I've a household of seven ranging from age 2 to age 42 including a couple of picky teenagers and I'm managing to feed them SW food which they're eating happily with no idea it's good for them - so it can't be too bad!

Re your work, do they have a kettle, or a microwave? Either would make life quite a bit easier. Although the weather atm is great for a chuck-it-all-in salad - salad leaves, grated carrot, shredded beetroot, cubed melon, grapes, strawberries, sweetcorn - it sounds wierd but it tastes fantastic! Don't forget if you'd rather escape the office and get a sandwich you can count your bread in the sandwich as one of your healthy extras, which makes it a bit more flexible in terms of filling.

I've been doing SW for 12 weeks and have lost a couple of stone, so please don't give up. Hopefully it's just the worry about your job that is getting you down and once you've started that it'll get better.

Suzy

sophster1

I know what you mean about getting bored - I'm lucky if I manage a full week without losing interest. Particularly bored with yoghurt and fruit being the only snacks I can think of!

I find that the cooking is ok, I try to make 3-4 portions of something. Then if the boyf is in he gets 2 portions (piggy, all though you wouldnt know it to look at him), I eat 1 for dinner, then 1 left for lunch the next day, so less cooking overall. I try and do the same with scan bran cake so I'm not making that all the time.

Also I hate the 'quorn, potato and veg' standard meal. I mean I know I can eat a lot of it, but it does get dull after a while. And then chilli, spag bol and veg curry all seem to be a variation on the same thing - veg/onion/garlic/tomato.

I think maybe I'm not helping you with this! You're probably right that the new job might be stressing you out. Maybe you could carefully plan little treats (syns) each day until you start the job and relax a bit? Failing that, rather reluctantly I have discovered that exercise is a great stress reliever - once I get there (and have stressed myself out trying to come up with excuses not to go!).

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cte1111 wrote: »

I've been doing SW for 3 weeks and lost 7.5 lbs, got Slimmer of the Week this week. But I'm feeling fed up with it already. Not sure why, but it does seem to really limit what I can eat, everything needs cooking and I'm bored of the easy things to cook. Does anyone else feel like that?

I've bought the green cook book and Sauce book (I'm vegetarian), I guess I need to make myself actually use them and vary our diet a bit.

I'm meant to be starting a new job next week and feel stressed about that, so I think that dieting at the same time might be making me feel bad, but on the other hand you can always find excuses not to diet, can't you?

RabbitintheHeadlights

WI today, lost 3lb and got SOTW - hurrah! Think they felt sorry for me missing it two weeks ago as I had to leave early due to screaming small person, but he was good as gold today. I'm really, really chuffed as I'm down to the size that I was before I had my DD five years ago. If I drop another size and a half I'll be the same size I was when I got engaged sixteen years ago - and back to the slimmest I've ever been! I'd still be heavier than I should be (and plan to keep going) but it'd still be a massive boost and what I'm aiming hard for right now.

I am a bit worried though as DD is on school holiday from Friday so I won't be able to stay to Image therapy for the next six weeks. She couldn't not talk without wrapping gaffa tape over her mouth several times and I don't want to disturb everyone else at the meeting. I'm really hoping I can stay focussed . . . I'd like to change to an evening meeting but I'm so busy already most evenings that I really can't justify leaving my poor dh home alone for the two evenings we have off together atm! Not without getting divorce papers from him anyway . . . :eek:

Ali_UK

xnatalie81x wrote: »

Any one know the syns for tesco pasta n sauce cheese and ham. On special with apporved foods and considering stocking up if low!

thanks

120g pack dried, Orig 22, green 0.5 syn

Can't find the salmon I'm afraid, nothing coming up.

Ali_UK

:T great work on getting SOTW rabbitintheheadlights!


Having a rotten day today, got a cold (flu even?) and it's totm (yes, put on 1.5lb this week, means only lost 2lb in total...determined to have that off and more by Monday!), have taken more painkillers but just want my bed. Have already decided it's mash, quorn sausages and gravy for dinner tonight, proper comfort food :rolleyes: