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Debt Free, & Fat Free the SW way

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  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Morning all. Could you post a few more details on the kick start regime Louise, think my metabolism could do with a bit of a shock to get it moving again.

    Plan for today.

    HM meusli - skimmed milk
    Garden salad with salmon and feta cheese
    Chicken tarragon, new potatoes and brocolli, carrots.

    Snack WW chocolate roll :j

    45 minute walk.

    As far as I can tell this is how Success Express works:

    Have 3 meals a day, at each one fill two thirds of you plate with superfree foods then one third of your plate with foods that are free on green or original (both together if you like).

    Add your healthy extras every day as usual
    Enjoy your syns between 5-15

    Snacking must only be on Superfree foods or healthy extras though!!!
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • scrooge2008
    scrooge2008 Posts: 1,390 Forumite
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    Thanks Lou and welcome Tigzem, we all need as much moral support as we can lay our hands on.

    Well today has not been as good as day one and two, but basically stuck to the eating plan and exercise. Succumbed to half a bottle of wine, which is a real weakness, and wasn't on plan, ho hum.

    Onwards and upwards :T.
    I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Half a bottle of wine is 13 syns so not as bad as the full bottle:D
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • scrooge2008
    scrooge2008 Posts: 1,390 Forumite
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    How many syns am I allowed in a day, if i'm going to reach my model girl (ha ha) figure?

    Still can't quite get my head around the new SW approach. May need to rework the budget and join a class.
    I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    How many syns am I allowed in a day, if i'm going to reach my model girl (ha ha) figure?

    Still can't quite get my head around the new SW approach. May need to rework the budget and join a class.

    Between 5-15 but I like to keep it under 10 most days.
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • scrooge2008
    scrooge2008 Posts: 1,390 Forumite
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    Another day, another dinner.

    HM meusli
    Garden salad with feta cheese, salmon and walnuts
    HM vegetable burgers and SW chips, with garden cabbage
    45 minute walk and lots of water.
    Sins - half bottle of wine again. (come on it is Saturday!)
    I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Another day, another dinner.

    HM meusli
    Garden salad with feta cheese, salmon and walnuts
    HM vegetable burgers and SW chips, with garden cabbage
    45 minute walk and lots of water.
    Sins - half bottle of wine again. (come on it is Saturday!)

    Scrooge your food always sounds so nice:drool:

    Extra Easy day for me today I need to use up some store cupboard stuff before the holidays.

    B - Banana and Optifit Yog (1.5 syns)
    L - Mackeral in tom sauce with 2 x WW brown danish toast (HEb)
    D - Cod in parsley sauce (1 syn) with new pots and peas

    Snack - 3rd slice of WW brown danish with 42g of Cathederal City lite cheese (HEa), plenty of fruit.

    You are allowed 3 x slices of WW brown danish bread as 1 healty extra, OK toasted but to have it as a sarnie is like eating fresh air:rolleyes:

    Hoping to resume my walking with OH but typically, now that I have broken up from work for summer I am coming down with a cold:mad:
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • Well done so far - thanks for the funny stories! I've had an OK week considering my Mum's been staying (cheese / biscuits / cheese / hummus / biscuits / full blown curry last night :rolleyes:). I think this is going to take some time - i just keep 'forgetting'. Today I started with water and bran flakes with sultanas :A. Decided to catch up with MSE and have been sitting here polishing off the remains of yesterday's Doritos (inserts self-flagellation smiley here). Why did I do that - I wasn't even hungry?!?
    Lose The Beef Challenge :p - start 17.01.11 3.5lbs/60lbs
    Tone The Rest Challenge :A - start 17.01.11 Jan 10/14 days Feb 17/28 Mar 4/31
    Buy Less Cr*p Challenge :D - start 01.02.11 Feb £0/£300
    It's not the destination...
    .............................. ...it's the glory of the ride!
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Change of plan for today, I am off to the Metro centre with Hubby and we are going to Nando's for dinner:eek:

    I have had a look at the menu online and have decided to have the 1/4 chicken with spicy rice and sweetcorn. Fits in nicely with the Extra Easy plan.

    Drinks will be diet coke:A

    Thats why I like SW so much, you can still have a life:D
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • natsing
    natsing Posts: 555 Forumite
    edited 18 July 2009 at 3:39PM
    Hi All
    had a shocking week last week and put on a pound, arghhhh, thought I'd stuck to it, so I've been extra careful so far this week, kept well inside my daily allowance.
    good luck with you're weight loss journey people.
    Debt free 11/05/11!

    Savings £4000/ £300
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