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laura2481

bettyB wrote: »

Breakfast: Poached egg (free) with baked Beans (Free) and 2 small slices of wholewheat Bread (HeB) Cup of tea with 1/4 HeA milk

Lunch: Cold leftover pasta (free) with tuna, Sweetcorn, spring onion (Free) and a level tbsp extra Light mayo (need to look up syns)

Dinner: Shepherds Pie made with Lean lamb mince (Free) Toms and veg - peas and carrot (Free) Potato (Free) Light cream cheese (2 syns) Cheddar (the other 3/4 of HeA, 21g - if breaking it up like this isn't allowed i'll have it as my whole HeA and syn the milk from the tea in the morning) Lentils (Free)

Snacks and desserts:
Muller light (Free)
Fresh cucumber, celery and tomatoes
Fresh cherries

I need more syns I think.

I would syn the milk in your tea (it's 0.5syns for a dash of milk in tea) and have you whole 28g of HEA cheese.

You are not supposed to split up your healthy extras like this eg 14g cereal, 14g hummous = adds up to one HE. The reasons a HE is what it is because each portion contains the right amount of fibre, or in the case of hummous the right amount of healthy oils or whatever nutrients it is they are wanting you to get from your HE. That's why they add the crackerbread or ryvita to 28g of certain cereals as by themselves they don't have enough fibre.

If you have a bit of one HEB (or A) and a bit of another you don't end up with the full amount of nutrients that they are wanting you to have by putting it as a HE, so your not really getting the nutritional benefit.

At least... that's the way I see it

Besides that... it'll make your shepherds pie nice and cheesy

laura2481

bettyB wrote: »

Is worcester sauce and/or marmite allowed? I put these in to make spag bol have more flavour

Yep, both Free

laura2481

My food diary for today:

Breakfast:
Activia fat free (Free) with couscous (Free) I know it sounds weird but it's actually nice (honest!) and fills me up until lunch.

Lunch:
Salad- lettuce,spring onions, cucumber, egg, sliced new poatoes. (Free)
42g Cheese (HEA)
M&S Arbroath Hot Smoked Salmon 1 Syn
6x Mikado chocolate sticks 3 Syns

Dinner:
Tandoori Chicken (Chicken. Fat free yog, tandoori powder, lime juice) Free
3 x Pappadums 6 Syns (2 Syns per pappadum)
Raita (Fat Free yog, sugar free mint sauce, coriander) Free

Snack- Hi-fi bar (HEB)

Not snacked much today as quite full from all my free foods!

Total: 10 Syns

bettyB_2

laura2481 wrote: »

I would syn the milk in your tea (it's 0.5syns for a dash of milk in tea) and have you whole 28g of HEA cheese.

Ok, great, i'll do that then. I'm only splitting it coz after years of calorie counting i am hard wired to eat less- so i'm trying to cut things down. I need to get into SW mode where you have proper amounts of food!!!

c_l_a_i_r_e

laura2481 wrote: »

You are not supposed to split up your healthy extras like this eg 14g cereal, 14g hummous = adds up to one HE. The reasons a HE is what it is because each portion contains the right amount of fibre, or in the case of hummous the right amount of healthy oils or whatever nutrients it is they are wanting you to get from your HE. That's why they add the crackerbread or ryvita to 28g of certain cereals as by themselves they don't have enough fibre.

If you have a bit of one HEB (or A) and a bit of another you don't end up with the full amount of nutrients that they are wanting you to have by putting it as a HE, so your not really getting the nutritional benefit.

At least... that's the way I see it

Besides that... it'll make your shepherds pie nice and cheesy

Laura just to qualify it's perfectly fine to split your HE's in this way according to SW:

Q: Can I mix and match my Healthy Extras by halving the portions?

A: Yes, if you like - you’ll still lose weight beautifully! The downside is your speed and fibre symbols would have to be ignored unless your two halves had identical symbols. However, mixing and matching couldn't be done when there are multiple items in one choice. With all single item choices, feel free!


So cereal and houmous could be split on a green day as long as the cereal was a single item choice ie special k sustain and not something like the raisin bran which needs the ryvita added to it to make it a HEB choice:)

I split my HE's quite a lot although mostly the A's as I only drink skimmed milk or unsweetened soya and 350ml is way too much for me in a day unless I'm having a takeaway cappuccino or something.

c_l_a_i_r_e

bettyB wrote: »

I am confused as to why hummous is HeB on Green but not on EE, I think I need some more info on what counts as Heb and HeAs on EE days (might do some googling / check minimins)

I have no idea, I think logically it should be a HEB choice on EE as well as green but as far as I can see its not listed as a choice online. The only reason I can think of is that they include it as a HEB choice on green to give you an extra protein option in your diet which they feel isn't needed on EE?

Chickpeas are free on EE though so you could make your own home made houmous anyway.

MRSMCAWBER

Good morning all
Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend....it is glorious here again!
Well Im reporting in with a 4lb loss this week -and I got my 2 1/2st award :j.
My mission this week is to eat more of my syns (again)


Todays meal plan is :-

• 250ml semi skimmed (A)
• 2 bacon
• 2 eggs scrambled
• tomatoes
• mushrooms
• melon
• pineapple
• peach
• grapes
• cherries
• roast chicken
• 1/2 an 8" home made yorkshire pud (5)
• 71g frozen garden peas (B)
• carrots
• broccoli
• kholrabi
• 2tsp bisto best chicken (1)

depending what time hubby gets in for dinner -about 4ish I reckon I may be able to squidge in :-

• 2 ryvita seedy (B)
• 42g low fat cheddar (A)

for my supper ..then I will have used my A+Bs and 6 syns ....perhaps that is the answer..... home made yorky pud with every evening meal, that would use the 5syns easily .

Im only having fruit for lunch as Im about to do my brekkie and dinner should be about 4-ish so I don't need a "proper" meal in between -anyway its warm and I love my fruit so I will chop it all up on a plate mmmmmmmmm
right Im off to finish my menu plan for the week and I WILL use at least 5 syns EVERY day ... give me a kick if you see them missing off my plan folks
Hope you have a good day and fingers crossed for anyone else weighing in today

Circes_2

bettyB wrote: »

I am confused as to why hummous is HeB on Green but not on EE, I think I need some more info on what counts as Heb and HeAs on EE days (might do some googling / check minimins)

Basically it's assumed that on EE you will be getting your protein from lean meat and fish, whereas on green you don't. So to ensure you get a balanced diet on EE your HEBs are rich in fibre rather than protein,

gocat

laura2481 wrote: »

Happen to have my book by me...

Pretty much all fruit is either a speed or super speed food except:
Amla
Bananas
Blueberries
Custard Apple
grapes
jambu fruit
jujube
lychees
mammie apple
mango
mangosteen
watermelon
persimmon
physalis
pomegranates
Rambutan
Sapodilla

Although most of them I've never even heard of never mind eaten so not too worried about them not being speed foods! :rotfl:

And most vegetables are speed and super speed foods too except:
Artichokes
Brussel sprouts
Garlic
waterchestnuts

So if you fill up on lots of super free speed and superfree food you will loose weight a little more quickly as they are all low in calories while being filling so you can't eat much of them before you feel full...



HTH

Surprised at some on that list. Especially blueberries and garlic.......:think:

trixietoes

Well done to everyone who has dropped on the scales this week.

I feel this week slipping away and I'm finding it hard to pull it back. Thur, Fri & yesterday I have exceeded my syns... more than doubling them ... I don't think I will be able to be syn free for the rest of the week to make up for it. I really want to drop 2lb this week too. Does anyone have any tips, advice?

Today... EE
B - 2 little toasts (HEb), Frylite Egg, Mushrooms, 1 rasher of lean bacon and beans.
L - Ham salad with H/M potato salad (1)
D - Beef Chilli (3) Brown Rice & salad
Snx - ?????

Ooo also MrsMacawber.. what do you do with kholrabi ? I've seen it in the shops but I am too scared to buy any.. what sort of taste does it have?