Slimming World - Extra Easy weight loss!!

lauraj87

Hi all -

As per the few previous posts, I have just checked the calorie count for my lunch. I had 2 packets of Smart Price Noodles, 2 because I missed breakfast and because they are smaller then the Super noodle branded version.

I did make lunch this morning but added some Thai flavouring to my pasta and it was horrible so I had to throw the whole lot out, Quorn pieces and all

So as I was then running late with no lunch I grabbed the two packets of noodles. I have just looked and they are 345 calories per pack!! Therefore I have eaten nearly 700 calories for lunch! :eek: I know these are light in syns but surley we shouldn't just eat as much free food as we want due to the calorie content?

I know we are meant to have superfree foods to bulk it out and make it healthier but that's still a lot of calories...

greenpixey

Well my stifado did taste an awful lot of vinegar (no surprise there). I drained all the liquid off and it improved quite a bit. Hubby has promised to eat it anyway so we are having it tonight with a Jacket Potato.
I will try this recipe again...next time I'll be using the pickling onions and not the pickled onions

This lunchtime I tried another new recipe Curried Egg Mayo Salad from the SW book Family feasts for a fiver. Very nice and I highly recommended it.

Vixie_Pixie

hey people!

EE day for me!

B - 42g Crunchy Bran (heb) with vanilla ff onken and chopped banana

L - Chicken legs followed by melon, nectarine, apricot, plum and satsuma & ML yog

D - Sweet n sour pork (2 syns per portion as using a Tesco light choices sauce @7 syns - going 4 ways) stir fried
courgette, mushroom, pepper and beanshoots and Egg noodles (2tsp oyster sauce 1syn = 0.25 syns per person!) Had some Asda (takeaway counter) prawn crackers. (10.5syns for the whole bag but syn calculator states 1/4 a bag is 2.5 syns )

Syns today 5 (rounded up) I forgot myself in asda and they were giving away samples of freshly cooked pizza. I had a bite (it was a tiny bite too!) and gave the rest of my sample to OH. No idea of how many syns so i think i'll be safe by only having my milk (hea) later and not the biscuit! lol.

Tinkabell25

Hey All,

Am having a bad week for food cravings, espcially chocolate which i weird as i'm not that fussed by it normally! But trying to persevere and get the syns under control.

Today:
B: i was late so grabbed a can of spaghetti hoops on way out and had them when i got into work!
L: Leftovers from Dinner: Pasta, Passata, Mange Tout Leeks and Mushrooms with a bit of garlic
Not sure yet, will have to check what i have in but probably sw chips, egg and veg!
Snacks: Hifi bar (HEB), Dairy milk (21g) 5.5 syns, Raspberries, Apple
Also plan on a glass of low alcohol wine later which is 3 syns

Hopefully i won't go off course!! Just seem to be ridiculously hungry today which is weird.

Tink x

Sian_the_Green

Tinkabell- I love the options hot chocolates which are 2 syns at about 3:30 in the afternoon. They are lovely and thick and really help with the craving

Any help on somewhere else to buy scan brans?

gocat

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Any help on somewhere else to buy scan brans?

Holland and Barrett use to sell them. Havent bought them in ages as I didnt like them but that's where I got them.
Hth.

blackberry-rum

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Yesterday I made the Thai chicken curry from the EE recipe book. TBH I wasn't impressed, it was very bland and not worth the effort.

QUOTE] I have found that with most of the recipes I've tried from the various books and magazines; as there's only me to cook for (much as I enjoy cooking and eating) I don't want to spend 2 hours preparing something only for it to end up dull, specially as I make four portions at a time! So now I mostly cook exactly what I've always cooked, but use SW methods such as stock instead of oil, etc. and enjoy it much more!

blackberry-rum

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Any help on somewhere else to buy scan brans?

Sian: I'm sure I got some once (the only time I ever bought them, each to his own ) from Holland and Barratt.

dammit, I was a minute too late that Gocat beat me to it!

blackberry-rum

On the subject of yoghurts, I have just treated myself to a lolly maker with just small "pots" and have decanted a mullerlight toffee yog into four of the pots. I figure this will make me eat less of the stuff - it will take me ages to eat a lolly and one a night will do, equalling a quarter of a pot! I did wonder too (Consultant might know this answer) if pureed strawberries or other fruit, frozen into lollies, would still need to be synned because they would take ages to eat, not like just gulping down a smoothie.

The other thing I did today that some people might like is make a "sun tomato salad". I started it this morning in a shallow dish. Slice about a quarter of an onion into thin rings and give them a couple of mins in the microwave to soften. Add sliced tomatoes, a sprinkling of fake sugar, some balsamic vinegar, black pepper and then sit it on a table in the sun for a few hours, with either a cloth or a mesh cover so the flies don't sneak in. Before eating it for lunch I added capers, baby sweetcorn, fresh herbs and some pollack cooked in lime juice but other ideas would be olives (little syn), prawns, cucumber, well anything you fancy. It's lovely and FREE.:D

I also made some "sun tea". In a glass jug put teabags (I used earl grey) and water, cover with a plate and sit it in the sun for the day. For a change I also added a half a lime chopped up. I'm drinking it now, with ice cubes. :beer:Very refreshing!

consultant31

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Now then Consultant31 I have a question for you -I got some yogurts the other day 0.1% fat.... anyway I put the nutritional info into the online calculator and they came up as 3 syns....
out of curiosity I got the information for the muller light -vanilla with choc sprinkle off my mum -which are listed as free...BUT when I used the calculator they came up at 3 too -even if I selected the "free food allowance" option and picked yogurt I still got the same result -so now Im confuddled
It won't make any difference to me as I hate mullers and these new ones are no better (I will be sticking to my yummy scrummy full fat 8syn yogurts nomnomnom) -but it made me wonder.... especially for anyone who eats a lot of mullers -

hope I haven't given you brain ache with that waffle Im not sure if Im missing something obvious

hope everyone has a great day

Yes, this is one of those anomalies that are 'sent to try us' I'm afraid. In my opinion, if a yoghurt is less than 1% fat I would count it as syn-free or perhaps ½ syn (that's what SW say for a low-fat yog). The Mullers are syn-free apart from the odd ones with a small amount of syns (the layers and the lemon bitty thing).

I used to love Mullers but I've gone off them recently. Stick with your yummy one if it suits you - and judging by your weight loss to date, it obviously does

As for counting calories - well, it's each to his/her own, but it's not following Food Optimising 100% which is pointless IMO when you are guaranteed to lose weight if you follow a plan properly. I think many people forget that following a plan properly involves eating a variety of healthy food, not grabbing whatever comes to hand and saying 'oh well it's free, I'll have 2'.

I'm not here to pick and point the finger, but to food optimise properly you really need to plan your meals, prepare fresh food as often as possible and eat to satisfy your appetite and not to stuff yourself.

I know this is sometimes easier said than done, it took me a long time to find my 'stop' button cos I can eat for England, but there are little tricks you can use. Having a smaller plate (not tiny, just a little smaller) really does help. Slowing down your eating is one I have learned simply through finding that if I can't eat fast (I had a very sore mouth a while ago) I was full before I'd finished my meal which was a revelation to me. Apparently it takes 20 minutes for your brain to get the signal that you've eaten enough.

SW's food optimising is so easy and fulfilling that calorie counting seems pointless to me - it's against everything we stand for. I understand the people who've checked their meals and found that they're eating in excess of 2000 cals a day, but if you follow a menu from the magazine you'll find that they are substantially below that and yet those meals are filling.

The secret, I believe, lies in making sure that your meals are full of a whole variety of filling foods - carbs, protein and lots of veg on every plate.......look at the likes of MRSMCAWBER's meal plans, they look to have a huge amount of food in them but she's losing weight at a good rate because she has an enormous variety of different foods every day.

It can be done without the pain of calorie counting......I've done it and believe me, if I can, anybody can, because I love my food and don't sell myself short.

Sorry for preaching