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Vixie_Pixie

Hellooo! Just popping by to quickly post my food diary. (i have precisely 4 minutes of my lunch break left!)

Green day

B - 28g Fruit and fibre cereal (part heb) with blackberries (foraged ) and raspberries and 4 big tbsp of vanilla onken yog 1 w/g c/b with nuttella (part heb+1.5syns)

L - Pasta n Sauce Macaroni cheese (made up with 125 ml of milk from hea2) (2) with 28g cheddar (hea1), packet of WW tortillas (4) banana and toffee ML

D - Veggie noodle stir fry (mushrooms, chilli, onion, pepper, mangetout, baby corn, bean shoots, pinch of 5 spice and splosh of soy sauce)

Evening snacks - Fibre Plus bar (heb2) with evening cuppa. Poss a couple of squares of cookie crumble

Total syns = 7.5 plus 6.5 for the cookie crumble (if i eat it!)

dizzyk

redcoltraine wrote: »

Dizzyk, Thank You, Thank you, Thank you

Until, I read your reply I was ready to blow the whole day away, I was going out on lunch to subway and having a full fat full on sub with all the trimmings and then drink what I like and eat all the curry I could, but you are sooo right.
And because of you I am now sat eating a chicken salad with light dressing and i am throughly enjoying it and when I go to the pub I shall be having either gin or vodka with a diet mixer or maybe even a diet coke, and I may have a dry chicken tikka - not sure on syns for that as its a dry dish so no sauce and if no sauce no need for naan bread or rice.....:cool:

Dizzyk, any chance you could become my unofficial guru

Red

:rotfl:LMAO Hey glad I come in useful sometimes

Well done Red .....youre on the road to your weight loss journey Hun :T just take a step back everytime you think theres an obstacle like a night out or a meeting up with friends that could sabotage your diet......cos you can bet your life theres a way around enjoying it and still coming out of it pretty much intact

you could have a chicken dhansak at only 6.5 syn chicken jalfrezi 8.5 lamb rogan josh 6.5 ........plain rice is free so you may as well have it and feel full like youve had a good old meal

smart move on the spirits and slimline mixers too


Keep coming on here red dont be a lurker!!!!! it really helped me finding this place and posting my daily menus etc & getting daily support....we will keep you motivated.....If you want it bad enough you can do it hun (and when you go shopping just buy a big can of raid fly spray to get the food fairies that try sabbotage your day;)) x x

lynzpower

Hey gang :wave:

|Hope everyone is ok - trying not to type too much as my hand hurts like hell so doing the 1 handed typing again!

injection went in nicely- follow up in 3 months. feeling very sore & sorry 4 self right now:( !

OK well today was EE but has gone slightly wrong - advice pls:

Breakfast- thoguht I wasnt allowed any then i read in the booklet when I artrived that yes, light breakfast is expected. So got 2 pieces of wholemeal toast ( dry) and ate one. What a waste of HEB, could have had 2 alpen lites for that
Then after the anaesthetic ( only local ) they would only let me leave once I had eaten 2 digestive biscuits WHAT A WASTE. I siad I felt fine but they wouldnt let me go until I ate them and I did, grudgingly. What a wate of syns that is ( please dont tell me its more than 10 I cant bear it)
Lunch : got home absolutely starving after one piece of dry toast and these poxy digestives and made beans mushrooms egg and bacon but the bacon was really foul so dog has had most of it
Dinner is roast dinner, chicken,F potatoes,F peas F parsnips F beetroot SF b-squash SF carrots SF bit of gravy 3

Will have to squeeze some exra fruit in so will be pineapple and strawbs but for now , Im off for a lay down as I feel truly shocking

Hope everyone else is ok, scorpioles- great loss :j and great to see you are feeling a little better dizzy xxx

blackberry-rum

awww Lynz, they ought to provide other bolstering food than digestive biscuits - eg I don't like biscuits even if I'm not trying to lose weight (sooner have a sausage roll actually!). I hope you soon feel better.

gizmomum

Hello everyone. I've been lurking here for ages umming and amming about whether to post, so here goes.
I've always struggled with my weight and in fact did SW a few years ago for a little bit with some success.
However having had two babies in the last two years my weight has now ballooned. I'ts really affecting me now, instead of just feeling big, I'm uncomfortable most of the time, can't move around so well and struggle to keep up with my little ones
My GP is going to refer me to a group but that's going to take some time I think so am trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and start doing it with the resources I've got (still have books etc from before)
In the past I used to mainly do red days as I'm also an ex Atkins follower and it seemd to fit with that, and more importantly worked. However I seem to remember reading here that EE involves very little weighing which sounds ideal.....I am very pushed for time with two little ones and working long days
Can anyone give me tips and advise on what is easiest....I've looked at SW recipes and they do sound lovely and I would love to say I'd cook everything like that but it's just not realistic
I really want to lose weight so that I can run around with my children and feel a bit more attractive.
Thankyou in advance for any replies.....I do look at the site as regularly as I can, if I'm not around it's either due to work or children!!!:-)

blackberry-rum

Hi Gizmomum, I suggest you read the first page of this thread, where Consultant gives details of the "extra easy" system. it really is extra easy, and you say it's just not realistic to cook the SW way all the time but really it is as it simply involves leaving out the fats and oils, and making sure you have lots of fruit and vegetables. That would be super for your babies too, surely? Also you can pop into the Slimming World Website and print off a week's supply of Extra Easy menus/recipes. You don't have to follow the menus, obviously, but it does give you an idea. To me the hardest bit is breakfast - ensuring I have a load of fruit or some tomatoes/mushrooms with whatever I eat then. After that it's a pushover (and I'm a Picky Eater, honest!). Give it a try with what you've got in the house - don't tell your OH or your children and I bet they won't even realise.

gizmomum

thanks blackberry, have had a look at the menu on SW site and it does look great...my little ones love cottage pie so the version they've got of that would be ideal, and not too much of a change in routine/time to what we cook already, which is exactly what I'm looking for. Am struggling to get my head round the concept that you can eat as much as you want of things even if you're mixing red and green foods, I know there's the 1/3 superfree rule but it still seems like you could overeat horribly. Am willing to give it a go tho, like you I think breakfast will be the biggest challenge, at the moment, more often than not I don't have anything....tut tut

dizzyk

gizmomum wrote: »

like you I think breakfast will be the biggest challenge, at the moment, more often than not I don't have anything....tut tut

Hello.... Welcome to our happy group I find EE really easy to do....and it doesnt feel like 'dieting' at all ! I managed a fab 10.5lb in my 1st week so was chuffed to bits seeing as I had really eaten masses of food

I found breakfast really hard....Ive never been great at the first meal of the day thing
- but our consultant gave this talk about how important it was as our bodies were like steam engines and how we needed to 'stoke the boiler straight away' then keep stoking it all day so we keep it running- and lose weight so from then I made sure that I just had a small dish of berries (strawbs or rasbs) or a bannana with a couple of spoons of the fat free onken strawb yog (delish I have to say:p). I then found because Id eaten this.... I was getting hungry again for something else mid morning so I could get more superfrees in by having a quick fry up with plenty of toms & mushrooms Or some more fruit.

lynzpower

gizmomum wrote: »

thanks blackberry, have had a look at the menu on SW site and it does look great...my little ones love cottage pie so the version they've got of that would be ideal, and not too much of a change in routine/time to what we cook already, which is exactly what I'm looking for. Am struggling to get my head round the concept that you can eat as much as you want of things even if you're mixing red and green foods, I know there's the 1/3 superfree rule but it still seems like you could overeat horribly. Am willing to give it a go tho, like you I think breakfast will be the biggest challenge, at the moment, more often than not I don't have anything....tut tut

not having anything for breakfast- wont help You gotta stoke your boiler!

I dont really struggle for breakfast on EE, mainly because Im at home in the mornings, and to be fair EE means you can graze regularly too. Might suit you if you are at home! If you are out and about then you can take fruit salad, couscous salad, pasta salad etc in tupperwares.

I usually have 2 breakfasts a fruit one ( strawbs, pienapple, mango etc) with yoghurt and then an 11ses breakfast of bacon/andor eggs, mushrooms beans.

I know what you mean about "overeating" the whole time I have done SW I have eaten the sorts of volume that I have never eaten before, people I know cant believe how much weight I have lost without stopping stuffing my face -however, its usually superfree that keeps the metabolism working a-ok.

dizzyk

Glad it went ok at the Hosp Lynz rest up and take it easy now hun x x