Lose Weight 6

Lois_Lane

Re misuse or abuse of certain foods, when I started doing SW foods like canned macaroni cheese and spaghetti bolognese used to be free food on green, and I found they made an easy lunch, something I could take to work and heat up in the microwave. It worked for me - I was losing weight regularly. Then SW decided they shouldn't be free foods anymore, and the reason was that people were abusing them - for example making lasagne using liquidized macaroni cheese for the sauce! I know SW isn't based on calories, but can you imagine the number of calories that would be? :eek:

Corned beef used to be free on original, which I found quite surprising too, given its fat content. I used to do the SW corned beef quiche as a main meal, probably every other week (and lost weight). But I guess people were eating it by the tin, and wondering why they didn't lose weight!

In my opinion some people take SW free food to extremes, which is fine, if they are losing weight, but if they're not they blame SW and say it doesn't work. As with all eating regimes, moderation is the key. I got on well with SW because I knew I didn't need to go hungry. On WW when you run out of points the only option is to choose from the very limited list of free foods, and for most people vegetables or salad don't satisfy you when what you really want is a bacon butty or a bar of chocolate. With SW there are so many free foods that you can usually find something satisfying.

My SW consultant was very good at spotting what people were doing that might be stopping them losing weight - like not having enough variety. When I keep a food diary, I'm often struck by how boring my menu's can be - for example every day this week I've had porridge for breakfast and salad for lunch, muller light and fruit for snacks, and used most of my syns for red wine. I like porridge and salad, but maybe I'd do better with more variety.

LL

p.s. what do other followers of SW spend their syns on?

cheekymole

consultant31 wrote:

Happy birthday and enjoy the cake (Canadian cake is syn-free!!!):rotfl:

I wish! :rotfl: :T :rotfl:

MrsYatesy

My SW syns are on G&T (slim line), Mayo, flora, Digestive biscuits, a Hifi bar if I ahve already had my B's and stuff like that, it's rare that I fall off the wagon and have to use it for sweets, but there are some days ............... !!

MrsYatesy

Happy Birthday CheekyMole! Hope the cake was good!!! :-)

bluemoon_3

RACHIE77 wrote:

I usually have bean curd (its fried tho) with vegetables and boiled rice from the chinese takeaway, its got a light sauce on it that tastes like soy sauce but cant be sure... can anyone (especially consultant31!!) hazard a guess as to the syns in that??

Well bean curd is just another name for tofu, which is free on green, and I think on red too. There'd be syns in the oil though, and since tofu is quite porous it could absorb quite a lot if fried.

Don't know if that helps at all.

fox2319

I keep hearing talk of syn-free cakes, I want that one! Thanks. Tried a weetabix cake not very successfully.

fox2319

You could use the oil as a healthy choice in your chinese! I usually get Asda curry pot Vegetable balti masala, it has to be the BALTI though! It's around 6 syns for the lot and I cook my own rice, truly delish.

RosWright

Happy Birthday Cheeky Mole!

I'm having a bad day today - someone stole my purse from my handbag while shopping in morrisons today - so I have spent the afternoon asking for replacement cards and in the police station - I'm making WW cheesecake tonight as my emotional crutch - I loved my purse and it had my WW stones in it
Luckily I found my cashpoint card for my emergency account -so I can still get cash without rip off credit card withdrawal charges

fox2319

Ros, you might get it back. Mine was taken from the house, it had the babies pictures in. An old man found it in the road 15 mins from the house, collected all my personal bits and handed it in. It was empty, but I got my bits back.((())) to you. Mine was taken from the house while I was upstairs bathing the babies. Make sure you add all that was in it to the police record.

consultant31

RosWright wrote:

Happy Birthday Cheeky Mole!

I'm having a bad day today - someone stole my purse from my handbag while shopping in morrisons today - so I have spent the afternoon asking for replacement cards and in the police station - I'm making WW cheesecake tonight as my emotional crutch - I loved my purse and it had my WW stones in it
Luckily I found my cashpoint card for my emergency account -so I can still get cash without rip off credit card withdrawal charges

That's dreadful, I'm so sorry. I hate little b******s like this, there's such a lot of personal stuff in a purse which is no good to them, they're just after the cash. I do hope you get your bits back - my friend did when her bag was stolen from the rest room at work. They took out the cash and lobbed the bag over a wall, horrible little rat-bags!!