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dizzyk

mummyof5 wrote: »

hi everyone i haven't read today's posts i am just here for a whinge and a moan.
i have followed green days religiously for 4 weeks now and lost 0.5lb,1lb then STS for 2 weeks. i know i was on holiday but i didn't veer off the plan at all.

i am now feeling very despondent and pretty much what's the point

i do eat a lot of free foods but always have 1 third superfree even on green , and i don't always use all my syns , but usually most of them .

i am more active than i have ever been , just wondering if i should do weight watchers instead as it restricts you - i think i need that

sorry to come on and moan i was so looking forward to getting some weight off , it is costing me a fortune and nothing happens .

i am off to cook real food for my kids and rabbit food for me so will be back later :rotfl:

thanks all for "listening " xx

sorry you're feeling down about it all at the mo.....

I remember when you first joined us and we told you to keep on posting and post your meal plans.....but you were a bit hesitant to do it as you thought you were eating too much ?? (heck I eat all the time....remember my consultant giving the talk about 'stoking the steam engine')

Maybe you're just missing something really simple on the plan - if you post your menu people can pick up on it and point out where you might be going wrong.

I know when I first started on EE my first week I was shovelling peas & sweetcorn down me with nearly every meal thinking they were superfree oops!! :rotfl:

The plan really does work....and often it is something just so silly thats been overlooked that ballses it all up :mad:

were all in the same boat on here... were all wanting to fight the fat and help each other - so mabe if you do post you meal plan we can take a look for you xx

dizzyk

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Real
Hugs:grouphug: (always think this smiley looks a bit dodgy!)
Liz x

LMAO :rotfl::rotfl:

larmy16

lisa26 wrote: »

Sounds good but surely there are syns for the brown sugar?! Might have to give them a go at the weekend.

Oops yeah there must be a bit of a syn going on. Not much though surely for 1/4 tsp. Not sure if you could replace it with a tiny bit of sweetener. May try that.

Just looked - it is a 1/4 of a syn so not bad.

gunsandbanjos

Had a good day, will have to syn some olive oil though as i forgot to buy fry light:cool:

Currently having a lovely fillet steak, SW chips and a big salad - using balsamic vinegar as a dressing, its yummy, although it is 18 months out of date, vinegar doesnt go off does it?

lbnblbnb

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Went for lunch at Waitrose afterwards to celebrate/commiserate with a friend from work. Had a "Cafe Salad", which was lentils, endame beans, pomegranate seeds, watercress and goats cheese. I don't know if it would be on the website? Really yummy and the best choice there was (they don't do baked potatoes). I also bought the ingredients for the chocolate and mint ice creams in the latest magazine.

I have finally bitten the bullet and joined online. I found the salad, 5 1/2 syns, so will reduce the dairy milk squares to three tonight and total syns will be ten. Not bad!
Those of you who use the Body Optimise online thingie, what do you like about it? Find it a little hard to find my way round it.
Liz

hex2

_party_:wave: Guns'n'Banjos - flylady pitch invasion!

Not the best of days, and DH turned up with takeway. Resistance was futile .

flutterbyuk25

lynzpower wrote: »

Being poor ( and I am) I cant afford class, after all a fiver a week is 20 a month and I can spend that on veg. I cant have both, its that simple for me really.

I am the same as you. I'd rather spend the fiver on fresh fruit/veg and my gym membership!

lbnblbnb wrote: »

I went into school today (I am a teacher) to get GCSE results. I had a student who hadn't worked at all in year 11 (I had called her parents in a number of times and talked to her about it with them during the year) tell me she wanted to re-take all her GCSEs at our school. (We don't do re-takes, apart from the odd student who is doing A levels and needs to improve a particular GCSE). She doesn't want to go to college or do an apprenticeship. She will be lucky to be accepted at college or get an apprenticeship with the grades she has, and few jobs around. She wants to rewind to the beginning of year 11, but she can't. So sad and frustrating to see the penny finally drop but too late.

Thant's very sad. I work in work-based learning with 16-25 year olds, and I often get ones that realise that they should have put more effort into school and they feel so depressed. It's hard work sometimes!

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Good idea. I have a Jamie Oliver curry sauce that I adapted to make nearly syn-free last time I was on SW. I will cook a big batch of that to freeze, then just need to cook veg in sauce.

Care to share recipe please?

x

dizzyk

lbnblbnb wrote: »

I have finally bitten the bullet and joined online. I found the salad, 5 1/2 syns, so will reduce the dairy milk squares to three tonight and total syns will be ten. Not bad!
Those of you who use the Body Optimise online thingie, what do you like about it? Find it a little hard to find my way round it.
Liz

I just use it to track my weight....check syns....recipes, ive not really explored much else on it really to be honest oh but I do use it a lot for checking syns on anything Ive seen on the mysupermarket.co lol......well no point wasting my money if I cant eat it

flutterbyuk25

Evening all

I had a manic day at work, barely had time to shovel my salad down me! Didn't even get a chance to eat any of the fruit I took with me.

I'm currently debating whether to blow the majority of my syns and my last 2 HEX's on tea - soft tortillas with veggie chilli, sour cream and cheese. Or to have something like stirfry which is lower in syns and have something like crisps later.

Green Day: (will update once I decide on tea!)

B - honey nut shreddies (HEB) and skimmed milk (HEA)
L - salad with lettuce, toms, pasta, balsamic vinegar, spring onions, peppers
D - veg chilli, 2 soft tortilla (12 syns), chesse (HEA and HEB), sour cream (3syns), lettuce
Snacks - HB egg, strawberries
Drinks - coffee, NAS squash, water

Total syns = 15

x

Liz3yy

Evening all,

I'm having a green day today as follows:

Breakfast - mullerlight and blueberries (didn't fancy cereal today)

Lunch - jacket potato and beans, also snacked on a
salad of lettuce, cucumber, tomato and yellow pepper

Dinner - mushroom risotto

HEb - 6 brazil nuts this morning plus olive oil in the risotto
HEa - milk & cheese in the risotto (yum!)
Syns - 2 finger kitkat (5.5 syns)
Almost forgot I had an orange earlier too

I feel stuffed after all that!