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consultant31

bectoria wrote: »

Hello

It's my first week on slimming world, started on monday and I've just over 2 stone to loose, I'm doing it online as I work shifts so it's not that easy to get to meetings. I wondered if anyone could take a quick look at my week so far and check I'm doing it right, I seem to be eating loads!

I've stuck to EE so far to make sure I get the hang of it before trying any other options.

Monday
No breakfast
Lunch - cheese and tomato sandwich (HEA and HEB) (3 syns as my bread weighed over HEB and 2 syns low fat spread)
Shape 0% yoghurt (1 syn??)
nectarine
4 x cups of tea (2 syns)
Dinner - Mushroom risotto (5 syns for using sherry in it)

Tuesday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Tuna and tomato sandwich (HEB) (3 syns for extra bread weight)
Shape 0% yoghurt (1 syn?)
nectarine
2 x cups of tea (1 syn)
Dinner - Spaghetti Carbonara (1/2 parmesan cheese HEA, 1/2 5.5 syns, 1/2 teaspoon olive oil (1 syn)
4 or 5 plums

Wednesday
Breakfast - Banana in fat free natural yoghurt
Lunch - Pasta with peppers, onion, corriander, mixed beans, tuna, chilli, and fat free dressing
Shape 0% yoghurt(1 syn?)
nectarine
pear
3 x cups of tea
Dinner - chicken kebabs (chicken marinaded in chilli, garlic, turmeric, buttermilk 2.5 syns on skewers with peppers and onion)
Couscous - with onion, corriander, rocket
8 or 9 plums
Almost forgot to have my HEA and HEB so
Supper - slice of bread (HEB with cheese (HEA) and tomato

Thursday
Breakfast - 1/2 melon
Snacks - 2 x alpen light bars (HEB)
Lunch - coucous with onion, rocket, corriander and dried raisins (2 syns) with chicken (no skin)
nectarine
pear
Dinner - Beef and mushroom stroganoff (lean beef with mushrooms in small amount of dry cider (2 syns) butter (7 syns, I cooked it last week pre-diet!) and low fat creme fraiche (5 syns)
1/2 melon
250ml semi skimmed milk (HEA)

So that's it so far, please please please tell me if I'm getting this all wrong as I'll be gutted if I haven't lost any weight on Monday.

Thank you very much for your help in advance

The meals look fine though I'm not sure that you're having a third of a plate as superfree foods with each meal. If you are, that's fine, but it is the core of the plan really and if you slip up with it you won't lose weight very well.

Keep going and don't panic if the scales don't say what you want them to say on Monday. Try and see this as a life change rather than a diet. A slower weight loss is healthier and more maintainable than the fast-loss-fast-gain type you may have known in the past.

Good luck

dizzyk

Morning Ladies

Brekkie HEB weetabix (boiling water) blueberries, kiwi & onken vanilla yog

Lunch left over asda spicy chicken & cous cous salady mix from yesterday with yog, mint&cayenne sauce. couple clementines

Tea spag bol again I think as I made a bit too much and no more tupperware for the freezer lol.....luckily it did taste rather good so I dont mind having it again tonight fruit to graze on later if needed(apple clementine plums)

syns kitkat 5 1/2 2 cubes dairymilk 3 = 8 1/2

Hope Friday treats you all well

watch for the fairies, they know the weekend is here girls !!!!!

consultant31

bettyB wrote: »

Please could you post your soup recipe flutterby? sounds good! thx

...........have been having a lot of days where i do well sw-wise for the first bit of the day but then it all goes t*ts up by 4pm when i get a bit crazy and end up eating toast or an extra bowl of cereal. really struggling to find a solution to this 4pm munchies problem!

I have masses of soup recipes - if anyone wants them give us a yell and I'll post some up.

If you're hungry between meals - eat more at mealtimes....simples!! Seriously though, make sure that you have extra fruit in your bag if you're out and liable to want something before tea. I also like a little box of veggy sticks (carrot, cucumber, peppers etc with a home-made savoury dip. Use quark or f/f fromage frais and add spices, garlic etc to get a flavour you enjoy. They fill a gap till mealtime. If you want sweet stuff you can still use the quark and add sweetener for dipping strawberries or other fruit into.

I swear by my slow-cooker and use it almost every day to ensure that there is a meal ready when I walk through the door or I'd be reaching for the biscuit tin too.

Hope this helps

bettyB_2

consultant31 wrote: »

I have masses of soup recipes - if anyone wants them give us a yell and I'll post some up.

If you're hungry between meals - eat more at mealtimes....simples!! Seriously though, make sure that you have extra fruit in your bag if you're out and liable to want something before tea. I also like a little box of veggy sticks (carrot, cucumber, peppers etc with a home-made savoury dip. Use quark or f/f fromage frais and add spices, garlic etc to get a flavour you enjoy. They fill a gap till mealtime. If you want sweet stuff you can still use the quark and add sweetener for dipping strawberries or other fruit into.

I swear by my slow-cooker and use it almost every day to ensure that there is a meal ready when I walk through the door or I'd be reaching for the biscuit tin too.

Hope this helps

Thanks consultant. I think i will make some more of your lovely hm hummous and snack on that with some veg sticks. Hopefully that should keep me going till tea time. Popping to tesco later on so will make sure i buy chickpeas and ff yog.

I would be interested in hearing some soup recipes please flutterby's celery soup sounded interesting and I love to know if there are some soups that involve a lot of superfree food as I find soup really filling and would be a great way to up my superfree intake.
I like pea soup (basically just whizzed up peas and onions) but i dont think peas are superfree, just free, right?

Also what with the miserable weather here in London, soup would be a nice treat! seriously you'd think it was october/november at the mo it's so dark and drizzly!!

Green day for me today:
Brek - peppermint tea, beans on toast (heb)
Alpen light (3.0)
lunch - leftover pasta, creamy cheesy veg sauce with courgette, onion, peas, quark and bit of cheddar (1/2 hea)
snack - ryvita and laughing cow extra light with cherry tomatoes (1/2 hea and 2nd heb)
(this snack will be hummus and veg next week once i've bought the ingredients!)
dinner - syn free vege chilli with beans, peppers, courgette and sweetcorn, boiled rice and cheddar grated on top (2nd hea)
dessert - sugar free jelly and a muller light (0.5)

Happy friday everyone!

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yes , blackberry run i think you could be right . i hope it gets better soon cos it is making me want to raid the kids cereal !

my tip for today :
i have just mixed a shape zero yogurt with fat free fromage frais
it made the yogurt taste not so sickly sweet and the FF not so bland and filled me nicely for breakfast (but it was so good i did it twice so now i feel disgustingly bloated )

but just the once would have been just right for brekkie / pudding x

trixietoes

consultant31 wrote: »

Syns allowed are actually 5 - 15 per person per day, but with the advent of Extra Easy it was decided that if Consultants recommended 10 syns, then any new members who may make mistakes with their calculations would be covered.

It's easy to go over by a few syns and EE is such a generous plan anyway that a few extras each day would slow the weight loss to unacceptable levels.

Aim for 10 but don't stress about having a couple over the odds is what I advocate.

This is good to know thank you. I have been doing EE and allowing myself 15 a day and some weeks my loses haven't been as good as I hoped so I am going to drop them to 10 based on this.

loopy-loo73

morning everyone

day 1 went fine, had everyone tucking into loads of fruit with me which was good trampolined with dd2 & did my exercise dvd with dd1 (although she did collapse in a heap laughing at me several times :rotfl:)

food today:
B - melon, strawberries, yoghurt (3.5syns) & pear
L - leftover cheese, onion & potato bake (HEB) with salad
D - veg frittata with new potatoes done in actifry with bacon
milk - HEA

dh asked if i wanted to go out for dinner before going the pics tonight, i said no how impressed am i with myself lol, actually i know i'd have no willpower once sat in a restaurant so we're just going for coffee & i've already said i just want black coffee & he has to order it so i can't change my mind :rotfl:

have a good day everyone
lou x

trixietoes

A question that is flumuxing me. What is the best to have for brekkie out of these 2 (being on EE) :think:

Toast (B) and tomatoes - super free
Toast (B) and baked beans - super speed

Your thoughts would be welcomed.

Today (EE)
B - Toast (B) Mushrooms (F) Butter (1.5)
L - Omelette + any suitable veg lurking in the fridge (F) Ham (F) cheese (A)
Mid Aft - Fruit - nectarine, mango, blueberries, banana (F) Sweetened plain yog (F)
D - Beef Goulash (F) Carrots, Broccoli, Green beans (F) Mash (3 - for the butter)
Even - Fruit & yog - as above (F)

Syns - 4.5 so far plus any more snacks I want to a max of 10.

Exercise - 3 x 10 mins on bike (1 down 2 to go)

Have a great day everyone... I think it's the fairies national holiday today so they have the day off!!!:D:D

consultant31

bettyB wrote: »

Thanks consultant. I think i will make some more of your lovely hm hummous and snack on that with some veg sticks. Hopefully that should keep me going till tea time. Popping to tesco later on so will make sure i buy chickpeas and ff yog.

I would be interested in hearing some soup recipes please flutterby's celery soup sounded interesting and I love to know if there are some soups that involve a lot of superfree food as I find soup really filling and would be a great way to up my superfree intake.
I like pea soup (basically just whizzed up peas and onions) but i dont think peas are superfree, just free, right?

Happy friday everyone!

Ah ha......you want a soup to up your ration of superfree veg??? Have a go at this one. Trust me when I tell you it makes A LOT - get out your biggest pan, then look for another even bigger, lol. This recipe uses speed foods ie those with lots of bulk and very few calories. It is very good for those with, shall we say, problems in the bowel department

Speed food Soup (syn free on Green and EE)

1 can mixed bean salad
1 can green lentils (or handful of dried)
2 cans chopped tomatoes
1 can baked beans
Handful of split lentils
2 large leeks
1 large onion
4 medium carrots
2 parsnips
1 each green, red and yellow peppers
2 vegetable stock cubes
Salt pepper
Mixed herbs
Water (enough to cover all ingredients)
Chop all vegetables. Put them and everything else into a large pan, cover with water, bring to boil and simmer until vegetables are soft (about 30 mins). Once cooked, the soup can be left chunky or blended smooth.

You are right in that peas are free food but not superfree as you would have to measure (or syn) them on a red day.

The following are 2 of my favourite soups - not superfree but lovely and filling and both are free on Green and Extra Easy:

Butternut Squash Soup

1 large butternut squash
1 large onion
Frylight
2 pints hot water
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 vegetable stock cubes
Very low fat natural yoghurt (optional)

Peel, de-seed and chop the squash into 1” chunks.
Dry fry the chopped onion in Fry Light for 2 mins in Frylight.
Add curry powder & ginger and cook for a further 1 minute.
Stir in the cooked squash and add the stock cubes & 2 pints of water
Bring to the boil, and then simmer for 30 mins.
Puree in blender and serve with a swirl of low fat yoghurt if liked.


Spicy carrot and lentil soup

7oz red lentils
1lb carrots, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
1 teaspoon curry powder
Frylight
2 vegetable stock cubes
2 pints hot water
freshly ground pepper just before serving
Very low fat natural yoghurt (optional)

Wash the lentils.
Using a large saucepan, dry fry the onion and curry powder for 2 mins in Frylight.
Add chopped carrots, lentils, 2 pints of water & two vegetable stock cubes to the onion and curry mix.
Bring to the boil, and simmer for 30 mins.
Puree in a blender and serve with a swirl of yoghurt if desired.


Hope these help a little. I think if you have a bowl of soup as a starter you tend to feel fuller for longer.

consultant31

trixietoes wrote: »

A question that is flumuxing me. What is the best to have for brekkie out of these 2 (being on EE) :think:

Toast (B) and tomatoes - super free
Toast (B) and baked beans - super speed

Your thoughts would be welcomed.

I would have the beans as they contain lots of fibre which helps you feel full and remain full for longer.

Superspeed foods are best eaten with other, more filling, foods such as protein (meat, fish etc) and carbs (jacket potatoes, pasta etc).