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blackberry-rum

morning all, happy holidays Trixie! Today is the first day of following a SW menu. (bits in brackets aren't on the menu!) Breakfast: 2 large mugs fresh coffee with skimmed milk, giant bowl of strawberries, raspberries, melon and grapes (topped with a dollop of plain yog and a synned teaspoon of honey. Also left out the apples, will eat as snacks in the day). Then 2 ryvita with quark (and a smear of marmite ) Lunch: home made bolognaise (used fresh toms rather than tinned as I have a surfeit) also cauliflower and broccoli, 2 tbs of parmesan (synned), and some pasta bows as it's faffy doing spaghetti in the microwave. Evening: whatever it says on the menu, I forget; plus I have brought apples to eat in the day and probably should have brought more fruit but breakfast seemed like two breakfasts so I didn't! Still, we can buy melon pots and fruit salad at work. There will be at least 3 more "real" coffees through the day and I always have a bottle of water on the desk.

Niandra_

consultant31 wrote: »

Cheese is one of the best methods of getting vital calcium into your body and that is why it's a healthy extra.

Ooh thanks for that consultant, I don't need to be told twice that eating cheese is good for me!

Niandra_

Morning all.

EE Food plan for today will be -

b - Shape 0 yog and 2 satsumas
l - Tuna salad with tuna, cel, cuc, tom, radish, lett, spring on and gerkins. Cherries and strawbs for afterwards. Pack of French Fries (4syns as from multipack)
t - Spag bol made with HM x x lean mince, carrots, celery, peppers, garlic, herbs, fresh and tinned toms. Parmesan on top (Hea) And maybe a salad on the side to up the superfree even more.
Syns snacks - 2 sugars (2) French fries with lunch (4) Fibre plus bar (Heb)


Hope you gave a fab holiday triexietoes

bettyB_2

Morning all.

* week played havoc with my WI this week. 2lb on yesterday has just vanished today! so no loss but still no gain which is nice!

EDIT: Argh, all my rolls are mouldy already! only opened the packet on monday! Grrr, that changes everything!!!

[STRIKE]Having a Green day today:
2 eggs scrambled with 1 wholewheat roll (heb1) and 2 tsp flora (2.0)
2 plums
3 ryvita with 3 extra light laughing cow (heb2 + 1/2 hea1) and little tomatoes [/STRIKE]

EE now:
Shredded wheat and skim milk (1/2 heb and 1/2 hea)
1 ryvita (1/2 heb) with a laughin cow light triangle (are these 1.5 each??)
2 egg omelette with vegetables and cheese (1/2 hea)
pasta with tuna, veg and extra light mayo (1.5 for 3 tbsp)
going out for drinks but am going to try to avoid alcohol so will stick to diet coke with a lime wedge (trick my mind into thinking i'm drinking alcohol!)
mugshot if i'm hungry when i get in later on!

lolly1981

i missed WI on tuesday but i feel i am really struggling already, yesterday was a particularly bad day. my eldest son has ADHD and presents some very challenging behaviour and at the end of a bad day like that i like to munch. luckily i refrained as best i could, i did eat some maltesers, chocolate cornflake things, hi fi bar and 2 packs of walkers french fries. but incomparison to what i used to eat thats pretty good lol.

i dont think EE is working for me either. when i originally done SW about 8 yrs ago i lost 2 stone in 2 months and i lived on just green days and my meals were all very samey, jacket potats, packet rice etc but i did rteally well.
this time i dont seem to be doing so well think i will stick to just the green days. the other thing about my previous weight loss is i just stuck with the food optimising book, if i couldnt find the syn value in it then i didnt eat it. i didnt look up in a book at group and it wasnt online then. there was only a few things i ate that werent in the book buts thats because i learnt the syn value at group. i didnt look up certain brands of butter etc i just went for either the full fat or low fat syn values etc, which wasnt always accurate but worked for me.

well today i have had
breakfast...weetabix (heb) banana, semi (hea) and honey (2) plus a coffee with milk from HEA and sugar (2)

not sure what the rest of the day holds.

lbnblbnb

lolly1981 wrote: »

i missed WI on tuesday but i feel i am really struggling already, yesterday was a particularly bad day. my eldest son has ADHD and presents some very challenging behaviour and at the end of a bad day like that i like to munch. luckily i refrained as best i could, i did eat some maltesers, chocolate cornflake things, hi fi bar and 2 packs of walkers french fries. but incomparison to what i used to eat thats pretty good lol.

Lolly, I think you have done BRILLIANTLY to keep the eating down after a difficult day:T. Focus on the positive! I teach some kids with ADHD and it must be really difficult dealing with that at home.
Liz

lbnblbnb

Plan for me today is:
Green day
HEA X1 = 250 ml semi skinned milk for tea etc
Breakfast: Tortilla – potatoes, onions, eggs (the potatoes had some yucky bits on them, cut them off but put me off a bit, kept imagining I could taste it..)

Lunch: Wholemeal pitta (HEB), quark, tomatoes and basil
Dinner: Roast vegetables (pepper, aubergine, squash, red onion, done on the GF grill), cous cous + 42g of cubed feta mixed in (HEA ) + and greek yoghurt mixed with chipotle paste, lime juice.
Large red cabbage, carrot salad,with balsamic dressing


Total syns: 5 cubes of Dairy Milk (7.5 syns)


Yesterday was not as good as I had hoped. Friends offered me a biscuit (I turned it down), but then had nuts, ice cream and meringue with toffee sauce. All small portions, but not as good as I had hoped! Never mind, onwards and downwards!
Liz

lbnblbnb

WARNING: I made the mint and chocolate ice creams from the latest magazine yesterday. The mint is absolutely RANK. It tastes of chemicals: far too much colouring, far too much flavouring, plus the sweetener. I followed the recipe exactly, apart from using slightly more fromage frais which should have diluted the chemicals. My kids tasted it and spat it out, when I tasted it I could see why.
The chocolate one is better, but still not great. What a waste of money. :mad:
I think in future I will be freezing Muller Lights or other very low fat yoghurt. I may get some low fat custard (synned) and mix that with Muller, see what that is like.

lolly1981

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Lolly, I think you have done BRILLIANTLY to keep the eating down after a difficult day:T. Focus on the positive! I teach some kids with ADHD and it must be really difficult dealing with that at home.
Liz

aww thank you for that makes me feel better today has definatly been a better day, so hopefully i dont feel the need to stuff junk.

sorry you wasted time and money on the ice creams, some consilation (sp?) at least youve been the guinea pig, so no one else makes teh same yukky mistake ive never tjought to freeze muller lights but then im not a huge icecream fan (unless its ben and jerrys phish food)

lolly1981

mummyof5 wrote: »

thanks consultant , i am going to try and sort out my portion control a bit it is all my own doing i just don't know how else to deal with things my life throws at me !!!

hello
a good way i found to control portion sizes was to serve all meals on a side plate not a dinner plate, tricks your mind i used to dish just over a 'normal' me sized pirtion onto 1 plate me and OH each had a side plate and helped ourselves from teh serving plate (if that makes sense) my OH lost a stone just by doing that!!