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missy_moo_5

Hello all....

Will you advise me if you think SW would be the "right" diet for me? I don't want to go and join before knowing if it would suit my needs.

I'm a vegetarian. My vices are pasta, cheese and white wine. I can't stand counting/weighing or having to work out points and values which is why weightwatchers failed for me - I have a small baby and a full time job and I have to cook meals to suit everyone - I just don't really have time to make something different for all of us and get totally bored and feel very restricted when I have to weigh everything out - it just makes me rebel!

I get married in 10 weeks and I'd like to have lost a full dress size by then (I'm in a 16/18 at the moment and would love to be a 14/16 which I was before I had my daughter). I'd be happy with a one stone loss. I've lost weight before on slimfast and on the "2 portions of cereal a day for 2 weeks" diets. These worked because I didn't have to weigh/count/worry about it - I just did it - but I ended up bored!

What do you think? Will SW work for me as a veggie? What sort of things would I be able to eat? Samples of meal ideas would be great.

Thank you!

Missy

laura2481

missy_moo wrote: »

Hello all....

Will you advise me if you think SW would be the "right" diet for me? I don't want to go and join before knowing if it would suit my needs.

I think you would be fine with SW

These are all the food you can eat for 'Free' on Green day (no weighing/counting/measuring just eat as much as you like)

Pasta and Noodles
Tofu
Quorn mince/pieces
Fresh fruit: all the usual suspects like apples/bananas/pineapples etv
Vegetables
Potatoes
eggs
v low fat cottage cheese
v low fat yoghurt (including somef ruit ones like mullerlights/activia fat free)
v low fat fromage frais

and lots of other stuff...that's off the top of my head.

You are allowed 2 Heathy extra 'A' choices per day: this is a measured amount of cheese and milk. eg
250ml semi-skimmed milk is one A choice
42g reduced fat cheese is another

Then you are allowed 2 healthy extra B choices per day. This is thinks like bread, cereals, dried and tinned fruits eg
2 slice of wholemeal bread from a 400g loaf is 1 B choice
2 Alpen light cereal bars would be another

Then you are allowed between 5-15 syns per day which you can spend on 'treats' like a glass of wine, or chocolate. You get given a book which has most usual syn values in and access to SW website where you can look everything else.

Here is an example of what you could eat in day (taking into account I don't actually know what you like..but might give you an idea)

Breakfast:
Fat free yoghurt (free), banana (free) and 1 alpen light cereal bar (1/2 of HEB)
Lunch:
Jacket potato with v low fat cottage cheese and salad. (free)Apple.(free)
Dinner: Spaghetti bolognese made with quorn mince (free) with 28g parmesan. (HEA)
dessert- Strawberry mousse 1.5syns (recipe on SW site) with fresh strawberries(free)
Snacks Alpen light cereal bar (1/2 of HEB), yoghurt (free), fruit or vegetable crudites (free)
Syns:175ml dry white wine 6 syns Bag of Quavers 4.5 syns
Total syns: 12syns

Hope that helps

laura2481

laura2481 wrote: »

Breakfast:
Fat free yoghurt (free), banana (free) and 1 alpen light cereal bar (1/2 of HEB)
Lunch:
Jacket potato with v low fat cottage cheese and salad. (free)Apple.(free)
Dinner: Spaghetti bolognese made with quorn mince (free) with 28g parmesan. (HEA)
dessert- Strawberry mousse 1.5syns (recipe on SW site) with fresh strawberries(free)
Snacks Alpen light cereal bar (1/2 of HEB), yoghurt (free), fruit or vegetable crudites (free)
Syns:175ml dry white wine 6 syns Bag of Quavers 4.5 syns
Total syns: 12syns

Hope that helps

Just read that back and that's a lot of food! You might not need all the snacks :rotfl: Or skip the quavers and have an extra glass of wine

*edit* And now I've just realised you are missing one other A choice and B choice so you could have more cheese with your dinner, or milk for tea and bread for toast as well!!

And loose weight.

promise.

missy_moo_5

laura2481 wrote: »

And loose weight.

promise.

You sure lol??!!! I don't eat that much on a normal day - today I had toast and marmite for b/fast and some leftover pasta with roasted veg for lunch, 2 diet cokes, one tea with milk, sugar free apple squash. Tonight I'll probably have quorn sausage and new potatoes and veggies. I don't really snack, and I don't have puddings either. I do eat too much cheese though!

Bit scared about going to join up - once I've gone then I feel committed to it and thus forced into it! Then the rebellious "sod it" side comes out and I end up giving up!

One step at a time though, I suppose!

Don't you find you find yourself obsessing about it all though? I just want a diet which I don't have to "think" about at all (but then not thinking about what I eat is probably why I need to loose weight!)

Thanks - I might give some of those examples a go as a "tester day! and see how i get on!

missy_moo_5

sorry - whats "expected" weightloss on SW? Is it 2lb a week like weightwatchers?

missy_moo_5

sorry again!!!! So something like spag bol with quorn mince - you wouldn't have to weigh that out? You could eat as much as you wanted???

laura2481

missy_moo wrote: »

sorry again!!!! So something like spag bol with quorn mince - you wouldn't have to weigh that out? You could eat as much as you wanted???

Yep, scoff it without weighing measuring.

Weightloss varies person to person 2Ib per week is about right, especially if you do a bit of exercise too. I don't think it's quite as a fast as ww (I've no experience of WW though) because it's not as limiting with what you can eat. eg WW a banana= 1point out of you 18 point daily allowance. SW= eat your banana and no need to 'count it' it's a free food. I loose about 1.5Ib to 2Ib per week... if i stick to it right

Like all diets it takes a bit of getting used to.. and you will think about it a lot in the beginning but when you get used to it and you know what you can/can't have or like/dislike you don't need to think much... just plan ahead and buy the good stuff rather than junk food

laura2481

missy_moo wrote: »

You sure lol??!!! I don't eat that much on a normal day - today I had toast and marmite for b/fast and some leftover pasta with roasted veg for lunch, 2 diet cokes, one tea with milk, sugar free apple squash. Tonight I'll probably have quorn sausage and new potatoes and veggies. I don't really snack, and I don't have puddings either. I do eat too much cheese though!

How your day today would like on a SW day
breakfast:
2 slices WM toast HEB
marmite Free

Lunch:
Pasta Free
Roasted veg (dry roasted or using Frylight) Free

Dinner: Quorn sausages Free
New Potatoes Free
veggies Free
(use syns for butter on new poatoes if that is what you like I do )

Drinks: Diet Coke/ Sugar free squash Free
Tea with milk Free (using 250ml HEA)

What you are having today is pretty much SW friendly. Add 3x babybel light as HEA to ease your cheese craving (or 2 full fat Babybel is 1 HEA) On green days you can also have more cheese as a HEB! So you could have had cheese on your pasta at lunch eg 28g Red leister.

All SW is, really, is a way to encourage you to eat lots of fruit and veg and low fat stuff and limit the junk food and alcohol... same as anything else

laura2481

How's everyone doing this week? Any WI results?

fly_dragon_fly

i lost 1lb x