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consultant31

turbo5019 wrote: »

Thanks for making me feel so welcome.
Breakfast
Scrambled egg
Smoked salmon
mushrooms
yoghurt
blueberrys
melon

Lunch
Salad- tomatoes lettuce cucmber
jacket potatoe
tuna
low fat mayo 2syns

Tea
pea and gammon risotto from sw book
grean beans
yohurt
melon
cherries

Snacks so far
sea food sticks
cherries and blueberrys

Will fit in A&B somewhere and syns
I am trying to do extra easy I find it had asI am a red or green day girl and finding it hard to get my head around.
Can some one shout if I have done anything wrong so far.
Right off to get my daughter from holiday club at school.

This looks great with lots of variety. You could perhaps have added some tomatoes to breakfast for extra superfree (try to make it one third of your plate). Similarly, carrots with your tea along with the green beans would have given you extra superfree.

Make sure you get the HEs and some syns to give you a healthy, well-rounded diet. If you don't want to do Extra Easy you know, you don't have to. The Red and Green plans are still there and still work really well. Go with whatever makes you happy

consultant31

susan6780 wrote: »

SW is great,and it makes us feel slim and good about ourselves,but did you know the average person on a diet only loses 6lbs?
i'm not disparaging SW here,nor us that use it as a means to shed a few pounds,but you must stop feeling guilty about eating,its not healthy to be in a state! your friends will still love you fat or thin,blonde or brunette,although we might go off you if that kebab was SUPER TASTY AND YOU HAD CHILLI SAUCE ON IT!!! Grrrr!:rotfl:

Ah but food optimising isn't meant to be a 'diet'

You're right though about the pointlessness of guilt feelings. They are counter-productive and are more likely to make you give up altogether.

A bad day needn't turn into a bad week - forget it and move on. If you were given a bunch of flowers and one died, you wouldn't throw the whole bunch away would you? Same goes for your healthy eating plan. Had a bad day? So what - tomorrow is a fresh start

Vixie_Pixie

consultant31 wrote: »

A bad day needn't turn into a bad week - forget it and move on. If you were given a bunch of flowers and one died, you wouldn't throw the whole bunch away would you? Same goes for your healthy eating plan. Had a bad day? So what - tomorrow is a fresh start

Consultant31 - your post has made me feel so much better. I am having a bad time atm... but i have had a hen night, a party, a bbq, OHs birthday and a wedding all within the last fortnight! (and to top it all off its * week this week too!)

From friday i have no "events" until my BFs birthday in August along with another wedding!

tomorrow and wednesday are going to be very well planned and i'm gonna make sure i have lots and lots of superfree food. I need to shake this bloated feeling by thursday otherwise my new slinky maxi dress is gonna look awful!

TakeItEazy

I was given the Hairy Bikers 'mum knows best' cook book as a gift on Friday. My 16 year old son has had a good look through it and today decided to make cheesy nibbles [biscuits]. Now I have worked these out at 3.5 syns but this doesn't take into account I could use the cheese as heA. So if the overal cheese content was 170g and the mixture made 29 biscuits what do I do to account for my heA. It took me ages to work out the syns as maths is not my strong point especially when I'm tired.
Any help would be much appreciated or I might just go with 3.5 syns as thats easier lol.

KITTY_2-2

Afternoon everyone and welcome to the newbies :wave:

My menu today has been:

Monday – Extra Easy
Drinks –Milk (HEA), Coffee, Water, Apple Tea
Breakfast – Breakfast omelette (Bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms & eggs), lf salad cream (2)
Mid morning snack -Alpen light (1/2 HEB), banana
Lunch – Pasta Bolognese (1), Muller light yoghurt
Mid afternoon snack – Satsuma, Alpen light (1/2 HEB)
Dinner – Chicken supreme (4) rice and veggies, natural yoghrt with white choc options (2), strawberries
1 A and 1 B plus 9 syns

I've done very well this week at sticking to my plans and keeping the syns down. I've averaged 8 per day. :T My weigh in is Wednesday at 7pm so hopefully will see a good loss, especially after the annoying gain last week :mad:

I have also increased the fish I've eaten having read the losses of the ladies doing a fish week. I couldn't have 2 meals a day containing fish but have managed 1 - apart from today

Good luck for this week, you bunch of losers :laugh:

Vixie_Pixie

I'm not even going to mention today's food... 2 words... work buffet! Damn! I even made SW friendly mini kebabs (.5 syns for 2!) but no, the cheese pastries, indian snacks, pizza, quiche, italian meats, cheese n crackers and chocolate mini rolls got the better of me Damn those sabotage fairies, coungering up all that naughty food!!

If its any consolation (to myself) my breakfast was ok! Sultana bran and milk with a w/g crackerbread! Oh and i did have salad....

EDIT - shoot i'm supposed to have a ryvita sesame/dark rye/original with my sultana bran... damn that means i have to syn the bloomin crackerbread and eat the ryvita! Dang!! Lesson learned lol

Tomorrow's food is like this (red day)

B - 2x weetabix (heb1) with chopped banana and raspberries, Milk (hea1) Cup of tea (using milk from hea1)

L - 2x ryvita sesame (heb2 - speed!) with ham and 42g cathedral city lighter cheese (hea2) and a small bowl of Hayward's mixed pickles (my fave pickles!) to be followed by a ML yog and mango segments

D - Stuffed marrow. We have been given a massive marrow from one of our allotment neighbours (i love this sharing lark) and its going to be stuffed with pork mince (lean) and leeks

I think i am going to use my syns on a club biscuit for 5.5 syns with my evening cuppa. Hopefully that should limit the damage from the last few days lol. Off to plan wednesday's food now ......

lynzpower

I definately agree with you consultant about trying to save the syns for later in the day, gives you LOADs of leeway. Not that I always stick to this of course.

I find the alpen lites a good portable snack too, good for shoving in the handbag when hunger strikes when out and about. I made a very portable free ( ish) couscous salad the other day with loads of veggies in and Ainsley couscous, it was great and very filling.

I havent had cereal since I started SW, as my scales are broken and im too tight to buy any more. I am not into this "weighing" idea anyway seems a bit too much like a diet to me. Havent weighed anything for months, and weighing scales I had were for baking ( cakes, cookies etc, all the stuff that made me porky in the 1st place)

I personally find that I was always starving with cereal in the morning but fruit/ grill up/ omelette a lot more filling.

I am definitely looking into the breakfast couscous Idea, after seeing a recipe for it last night on allrecipes
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/breakfastrecipe1/r/applecouscous.htm Just googling I saw this? This is using canned apples ( can you even get them here?) but Im guessing if I cook normal chopped apple in this recipe would I have to syn it?

Heres another http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=1779 Most of them tend to have dried fruit in like raisins, currants, dried apricots, all of these have syns, dont they?

turbo5019

consultant31 wrote: »

This looks great with lots of variety. You could perhaps have added some tomatoes to breakfast for extra superfree (try to make it one third of your plate). Similarly, carrots with your tea along with the green beans would have given you extra superfree.

Make sure you get the HEs and some syns to give you a healthy, well-rounded diet. If you don't want to do Extra Easy you know, you don't have to. The Red and Green plans are still there and still work really well. Go with whatever makes you happy

Thanks for the advice I do normally have tomatoes but was in a rush to get my oldest to holiday club. I did eat about 7 straght out of the garden they taste so much better.
I have also had half a pineapple whilest I was cooking tea. Total stuffed still and tea was at 4pm. Still need to eat at least 3syns and A&B.

consultant31

Vixie_Pixie wrote: »

Consultant31 - your post has made me feel so much better.

Good, I aim to please :rotfl::rotfl:

consultant31

lynzpower wrote: »

I definately agree with you consultant about trying to save the syns for later in the day, gives you LOADs of leeway. Not that I always stick to this of course.

I am definitely looking into the breakfast couscous Idea, after seeing a recipe for it last night on allrecipes
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/breakfastrecipe1/r/applecouscous.htm Just googling I saw this? This is using canned apples ( can you even get them here?) but Im guessing if I cook normal chopped apple in this recipe would I have to syn it?

Heres another http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=1779 Most of them tend to have dried fruit in like raisins, currants, dried apricots, all of these have syns, dont they?

Yes, dried and canned fruits are synned and quite high too

I like the sound of the apple couscous with cinnamon, yum. Worth the syns I suspect. Apple, stewed is only 2 syns for 113gms and I wouldn't think you'd need anything like that much so if you halved the recipe it would only be 1 syn.

I have the couscous, fruit & yoghurt regularly and find it very filling and it only takes 5 minutes to get ready.