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Inazuma

lynzpower wrote: »

Hi doll sounds like you are really struggling to maintain (/ lose a bit) we need to buddy up luv as I am struggling too

Its EE for me most of the time, although I am going to try to do a couple of greens a week for cheapness

Do you live alone or do you have family to cook for/with. Do you regularly have leftovers?

Ps thanks for the lidl tip will try to get there tomorrow if poss, 50p for spinach is good i was baulking at 1.65 a bag in my local Mr ts.

Thanks Lynz, I have family to think about, but in all honesty I can fit my SW around them ok, I'm just soooo fed up with myself for being such a pig and spending every day doing the 'I'll start tomorrow' thing. I know if I can get started I can do it, but I am just stuck in such a rut - don't know if it's being at home so much coz of school hols, maybe I'm a bit bored.

What about you?

cherub1965

sw_mina wrote: »

There is. It's here: http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-recipes/80496-carrot-cake-slimming-world-style.html

Personally all I can taste is the bran. But then I have trouble with chickpea and couscous cakes too.

HTH

thanks,i keep forgetting about the minimims site,brain like a sieve.got the migraine from hell aswell.i dont mind bran,i'd probably enjoy it.
never tasted cous cous.getting bored with what am eating need to shake it up a bit. wish i could eat fish,prawns etc,allergic.the only thing i can tolerate is tinned tuna for some reason.

dizzyk

lynzpower wrote: »

Sounds lush that does.

Can I ask how you braise the meat? I usually do mine in the slow cooker with flour and gravy granules, have you found a free way - if so PRAY TELL!!

Sounds like a lovely meal for a rainy day as it is here in the capital finally, it has not rained for ages and Im hoping its had a good effect on my plants that are surviving on the roof!

I just put my meat onions bit of pepper & a couple of bay leaves in a casserole dish and put enough stock (usually couple oxos) to just cover it) then cook it down for a good 2-3 hours, by this time the gravy has reduced a lot so hardly needs any thickening.....but if it does I use half a tblspn flour and water in a paste and stir it thru and cook it off a bit more. the flour is only 2 syn per 1/2 tablespoon.....makes enough for 4-5 good servings from that but I still call it 1 syn a portion....not sure why (maybe cos im thick lol)

It doesnt get the greasy taste that gravy granules gives you either

MRSMCAWBER

gien wrote: »

MrsM are those activia yogurts the standard 'full fat' whole milk ones?
I was counting them as one syn from the website but am now worried I am making a mistake.

Hi there -
they are the ones in little goldfish bowls -the lemon is stunning and I don't mind paying 2.5syns as my usual yogs were 10-12syns each -full fat beauties they were mmmmmmmm

Dizzy -off the top of my head Im not sure which meats you have to syn -I just always calculate any new packets I get -just in case .

Well -I realised that my shopping wasn't quite as bad as I thought as €9 I will get back (deposits on bottles) and there was 24x1.5lt bottles of sparkling water -Im getting through loads as always.... and then there were things like shaving foam, kitchen roll etc...

dinner was gorgeous -Im developing an obsession for my home made yorkshire pudding ... the plus point being that if I have that I can't manage potatoes too -so I get to keep a heB -for my fibre plus bar :j
hope everyone is having a good evening

Vixie_Pixie

dizzyk wrote: »

Hun....I feel your pain ! the doc today told me to up the water to a minimum 8 to 10 pints...but the more I fill my stomach the more the hernia slides up and its agony both top and bottom of stomach then...catch22.

The chemist said you can buy these powders but theyre flippin dear..£8 + for 20 sachets I think he said they were.....Ive got 2 big carrier bags of em -

You reallllly dont want to be waiting and suffering a week tho like I did before you...ahem...go. try some sennakot its natural and gentle might just give nature a hand AND DONT EAT ANYMORE NASTY EVIL BREAD:o

I have been trying to drink loads, even hot drinks which usually trigger movement...

I'll give it til 2mro - there's a health centre 30seconds from my office so i might even pop in there! Tonight i am gonna have a cuppa and stick a hot water bottle on my belly!

I swear i am never eating bread again!

screamer

Vixie_Pixie wrote: »

I have been trying to drink loads, even hot drinks which usually trigger movement...

I'll give it til 2mro - there's a health centre 30seconds from my office so i might even pop in there! Tonight i am gonna have a cuppa and stick a hot water bottle on my belly!

I swear i am never eating bread again!

I don't blame you. I had a serious pig out day on Sunday (really bad weekend) and had 5 slices of wholemeal:eek: Felt terrible the next day! Can't have done the diet any good either, which is why I'm making up for it by walking for 4 miles every day Fingers crossed it works!

Green day for me tomorrow I think, and probably on Thursday too. Want to be a least a pound lighter on WI day!!!

flutterbyuk25

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

dinner was gorgeous -Im developing an obsession for my home made yorkshire pudding ..

Any chance you can post the recipe? I've never made yorkshires before and would love to learn, especially if they are SW friendly!

x

turbo5019

Good evening everyone
Hi to newbies
Not posted much due to stress - kids playing, neighbough who thinks she owns the road and just cause I park my car on the road outside my house the police were called and I have to be conciderate to the neighbough. She lives oppssit and doesn't drive but hubby finds it hard to get out of drive. Bull spring to mind. Don't know what they did for the 13 years befor I had drive done 2 years ago. Also off to hospital tomorrow for pre op. Don't like hospitals but got no one to go with as DH not home for 11 days and my friend got the kids. Sorry rant over.

I have been keeping up and been 100% but feel bloated but we'll see thur at WI normall go wed but cant be in 2 places at once but I will be weighed at hospital so will see what they say.

On EE
B- bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausages, egg pineapple, yoghurt
L- Sushi 4.5 syns pineapple
T- 2 quorn bugers 1syn, jacket potato, green beans, sweetcorn (home grown and to die for) gravy 1syn, cherries,
Snacks- roasted butternut squash with 2 tbl mayo 2 syns
HA cheese, HB bread

lynzpower

Inazuma wrote: »

Thanks Lynz, I have family to think about, but in all honesty I can fit my SW around them ok, I'm just soooo fed up with myself for being such a pig and spending every day doing the 'I'll start tomorrow' thing. I know if I can get started I can do it, but I am just stuck in such a rut - don't know if it's being at home so much coz of school hols, maybe I'm a bit bored.

What about you?

Im at what I think is target.

I have broken scales but as was said by some one wise back thread somewhere, I dont go off what the scales tell me I weigh, I'm going off what I look like. I had bought some size 10 dresses and also this rogue size 6 dress and when I tried them on again about 2 weeks ago, they were starting to look too big. only a few weeks after I bought them. due to broken scales saga, i havent done a weight in for 2 weeks.
Although I have no scales I think I have put on about 1lb ( on my boobs yay)

I know this sounds ever so smug ( ignore me any of you) but I dont think I really want to be any slimmer than this. I wore leggings and a waist level short blouse/tunic thing the other day with nothing covering my bum ( first time in my life lol) and I thought I looked really good ( go me) So am emotionally wobbling, "now im ok" and its buying the odd pack of biscuits ( only 2.5 syns each) but eat a handful with a cuppa. And not when Im hungry :eek::o:mad:

Snacking is my major flaw particularly when I am overly stressed, I had piled it on when I was stressed at work ( snickers for brekfast dinner and tea on top of everything else, endless mcd's to "cheer myself up ) "just a happy meal" on top of everything else.I always ate veg but never fruit, and the lure of anything crunchy. Am rather stressed at the moment, so can feel my head wandering to "what can I eat to make myself feel better"

I read recently that the "crunch" aspect has been identified as a major factor in stress-eating. Ill have to try and find that report it was really interesting.

So then its me with the "oh an extra this", "and should I bother to syn this oil?" And Ill conveniently kid myself I didnt just eat that mini roll as no one saw Eyeing up peanut butter ( my fave, I cant have it in the house) and I know im on the rocks. Soon I will be back to my size 14-16 and wondering why I do it to myself

Just me and the OH, he eats brek at work and I do dinner, SW style he has not complained once and has really enjoyed what Ive made ( for once lol) however, I know he misses some of the things we used to have like HM fried chicken burgers and he would have HM pizza every day if I allowed it ! But then he eats crap at lunch, he went to greggs today and wonders why he feels rough lol

dizzyk

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