**Happy New Slimming World Year**

sarymclary

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

righty-ho then, today is a "careful" day -just in case as I am on my own all day I have to make sure I have enough syns and things left over in case the "munchy monster" comes a knocking I have managed to dodge him so far when hubby has been away -*but* you never know -so then here is todays meal plan...

• 250 semi (A)
• scrambled eggs
• roast tomatoes
• orange
• 1/2 grapefruit
• smoked haddock
• leeks
• peppers
• frozen mixed berries
• activia (2.5)
• marinated tuna steak (2) -I will change the syns when I decide what Im using
• 1/4tsp oil (0.5) -to stir-fry:-
• onions
• mushrooms
• broccoli
• peppers
• broccoli
• fibre plus bar (B)
• 250 semi (6)
• 2 clementines
• apple
• lychees

so I make that 11 syns and 1A+B .... so I have enough syns left for in case I need another yog -and other than that I have plenty of fruit -although with the size of my list I should be fine
Right I will get off for now, and will pop back later and type up the rest of my weeks plan..
Have a lovely day everyone

MrsM, that looks like a good day's plan. My only comment would be that if it's meant to be Extra Easy, you would have some pasta/rice/potatoes, etc. with your meals. Otherwise that could easily have been a red day, or even green if you'd synned/HEB the fish instead. Just a thought, but it's the main reason Extra Easy is chosen, so that you can have curry and rice, shepherds pie with mash topping, bolognese with a pile of pasta, bangers & mash, etc. The main struggle on EE for most who do it regularly is to get 1/3 of each meal as superfrees, whereas your day consists of primarily superfrees on an ordinary looking day (I know you love your fruit!).

flowerscotland wrote: »

hey everyone

is there room for another ?

I am starting sw today again I just plan on doing it myself and not going to classes, if I struggle I will reconsider.

I weighed myself today and I am shocked at the amount I have put on :mad: but I am ready to change my attitude about food.

I have been reading the thread and there seems to be loads of tips and inspiration :T

Hello hunni, welcome aboard this lovely thread. Join in for maximum benefits, and we love to hear all about what you're getting up to... foodwise, and anything else too!

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

Ok I'm posting my food diary, can anyone tell me if it's ok please x

Green day.

Weetabix (Heb) milk (Hea)

Jacket tattie, beans, cheese (Hea) salad, cucumber, onions

Phillynara: wholemeal spaghetti, garlic, mushrooms, bacon (Heb) 56g Philli light (4syn)

SW chips, 1/4 chinese curry sauce (1.5syn)

Stawberries, blueberries, danone fat free yogurt

Total syns 5.5

I am thinking of what else to have to up my syns, maybe an alpen light bar (3syns)

That looks like a good day to me. You've had some fruit and superfrees in there too, to keep the balance right.


Well back from last night's WI, and I've had a gain of 0.5lb. Really disappointed because I've had a week 100% on plan. Have wracked my brains ever since trying to work it out. I have been hungrier, so had increased meal sizes, but I felt I was maintaining my balance of lots of veg & fruit. Really going back to basics this week, the dynorod soup is done and waiting to be portioned up, SW quiche full of superfrees in the fridge to snack on. Little Sary had a 2.5lb gain, but he admits he's eaten out of the home at friends, and has been having a treat of a cookie or muffin at school. At least he knows where it's come from. He also looks like he's shot up in height to me, so I am not really so worried about him.

DKAM you're right, the people at my class are out of the Ark, but that can be said about the town I live in, and local area anyway. They don't even know how to use the mini-roundabouts that were put in about 10 years ago (I kid you not, they just stop and sit there wondering what to do)! In some ways it's nice, but in others I do wish they could be a bit more 'with it'. The average member's age is definitely 55+... our eldest member has a birthday this week and she's 88!!:eek::eek: Quite a few come along with their 'children' who are in their 30/40's. I'm in my early 40's, and I feel positively youthful in the group.... so there is a silver lining!:T

Remember how I was saying how big our Consultant was, and not a good advert for SW a few weeks back? Well I feel soooo guilty now, because at the end of class, she sat there, almost in tears, and said that she felt like a failure, that she thinks we must all sit there and think what a state she looks, and how can she inspire us? That she really struggles to stick with the plan 100%, battling each day with temptation and often losing, and feeling so bad about herself because of it, and that her health is beginning to suffer because of her weight gain, and that she wants to get back to a size 12/14. Well these lovely ladies in my class were marvellous to her, told her it was a group effort, we were all in it together, and support went both ways, and that we were there for her, and vice versa. That she was a huge inspiration, and wealth of support to us, and that she has all our telephone numbers so can call us if she's having a bad time. So regardless of whether these people can use a roundabout, don't use the internet, wear shoes with velcro fastenings, and think going beyond the county border makes you an adventurer, they have their hearts in the right place.

It also makes sense that I picked up on something from the word go with my Consultant (I've always had this weird 6th sense with people, my OH thinks I'm a witch), that she wasn't really fully engaged, and really 'in it' with us, and so her 'confession', and exposing how low and vulnerable she's been feeling explains so much. Hopefully her desire to do the plan successfully, and to achieve her personal goal, will help her to drive the group forward too. It still didn't stop her choosing one of the usual 3 who get SOTW, who lost over 7lb due to gastroenteritis... which isn't really being successful with the plan is it? I'd lose 7lb if I couldn't keep anything down for the next 6 days. God I sound so bitter, don't I? hahaha I'm not really, I don't think I should be getting it, but do think if it would be more valuable a tool if it were to be awarded to a variety of worthy slimmers.

I forgot to post my mealplan yesterday: EE

B - WW yogurt, apricot, banana
L - SW quiche (packed with: onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms, quorn sausages, lean bacon, garlic, vlf cottage cheese with onion/chives, potatoes, eggs, lf cheese, tomatoes). It's gorgeous.
D - Bowl of dynorod soup, piece of quiche. Ketchup (2 syns)
HEB - HiFi Ravishing Ruby (flapjack.... 1st try & they're lush)
HEA - milk in teas
Syn - bite of son's brownie made in school DS class. (3 syns)

Have yet to work out what we're having today, so will post that later.

I have to say, the soup has certainly had a windy effect! :eek: Sorry for any turbulence on the SW tank this week guys.

Wootball, if you keep eating the soup, it'll eventually fire through! *stands well back*

Dontknowanymore

Ali660 wrote: »

Morning All - not sure what to follow today - could be EE or Green

B: 2 weetabix with chopped up banana

L: Jacket potato with salad

T: Not sure yet ... need to find myself another HEB if I go green so may go EE :think:

Have a good day everyone,

Ali
x

You don't have to have the extra Heb if you don't want to, I found this on the FAQ's on the site yesterday.

Q: Do I have to eat all my Healthy Extras every day?
A: It won't affect your weight loss if you don't take all your Healthy Extra choices. However, the Healthy Extra section is there to ensure a balanced diet, so from a health point of view we recommend that you enjoy all your Healthy Extras each day.

sarymclary

nessie216 wrote: »

I am totally gutted - i can say hand on heart i had a 100% week and at last nights WI i put on 1lb! :mad::eek::mad:

I know last monday after WI i had over 15 syns but every other day since then i have not had more than 15 syns a day! Maybe i should cut down to 10? I have been back on my green days as they suit the budget better!

I did have antibiotics last week for wisdom tooth which caused troubles with my toilet habits, but the course ended on saturday and things have been back to 'normal' since then! :rotfl:

Maybe i need to up the exercise?

Am seriously gutted! :mad:

Food for the day (green)

B - Pawridge (1/2heb1) with 175ml fat milk (hea1) (whoopsied milk - 25p for 4 pints!) and banana
S - cherries ... nom nom
L - Pasta with left over casserole sauce which includes baked beans, canelini beans, green beans, tomatoes, carrots, onions
S - Muller light & Apple
D - Left over casserole sauce with quorn mince with swede & butternut squash ... nom nom
S - 6 scan bran (1/2heb1 + heb2) with Quark with options (2) & 4 quality streets (8)
Other hea is milk in coffees
So that is 10 syns - goin to keep to 10 all week!
Aiming to drink my 1 litre bottle of water on my desk!
I WILL get on the exercise bike tonight!

Going to make SW quiches for rest of week lunches tonight with plenty of onions & mushrooms & peppers - if someone would have told me 2 years ago i would be eating a huge tub of mushrooms a week i would have laughed in their face as i used to hate them! Now i don't mind them! :eek:

Any other suggestions?

I don't want to do fast forward - would blow my budget & it is too strict!

Sorry for the rant - well done to all losers & good luck for WI (not that you need it!) x

How ironic is that? I just posted an identical post. I gained too, after a 100% week. It must be the week for it? And you've made the SW quiche too, haha.

I have upped my exercise already, I worked out 3 times in the gym last week, sweating cobs, barely able to breathe, grunting with effort, and all for a gain!

My only consolation is that I put on some trousers and a tshirt yesterday that I've not worn since Christmas time, and I can actually see a change in my shape. I took my measurements at the weekend too, and I've lost several inches, so I'll hang on to that positive thought.

I'm going to really stick with it 100% this week, and keep my syns to 10 or less each day, just to see if that can do it. I'm also upping my amount of superfrees, so aiming to have more than 1/3 of my plate as fruit/veg each mealtime... that's where the soup & quiche come into their own, because they're hidden within. It's going to be more cottage pie and bolognese on EE days, and the odd green day thrown in so I can have baked spud with cheese & beans on the days I feel the need for more comfort 'stodge' foods.

giggalon

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Not SWing today, tummy still very tender so will be eating dry plain food in the hope it settles down.

Bit stressed too, hubby went up to the late night clinic at the hospital last night as he had a really bad pain in his side. He doesn't do pain, thinks its for wimps(ex marine commando), he once drilled through his thumb and just pulled it out and carried on working:eek: So he must have been bad to go to hospital. Anyway he text me at 5.30am to tell me they had kept him in but didnt tell me why. I text back and he hasn't replied. I don't want to phone as its really early but getting a little stressed:(

Morning, I hope you hear from the hospital soon, waiting can be a nightmare but I'm sure you would have been contacted if anything was wrong. Try not to worry, I'm guessing maybe your hubby had to turn his phone off on the ward?
Hope you're both feeling better soon,
big hugs!

Lucy_Lastic

Pennylane wrote: »

Getting really muddled with my posts but over the weekend I posted that I was not doing well with EE and a couple of people asked me to post up a typical day's food.

I posted this a few weeks ago .............
...................................
Here's my EE day

Brekkie - 1 oz cereal with skimmed milk and a banana. (Incs A &

Lunch 2 slices grilled bacon, 1 egg fried in fry lite. 2 x Ryvita with scrape of Flora Pro-Activ. (Counted as syns) Few grapes.

Dinner. Lambs Liver & Onion (Cooked SW way) with potatoes and peas. Dessert - Raspberries (from freezer) with Meringue Nest (counted as syns).

....................................

That's probably not that typical because I'd normally have more veg than just peas.

I tend to use my syns with things like a meringue nest, options sachet, sometimes cappucino sachet, small glass Lambrusco now and then, very occasionally a pkt of low fat crisps. So nothing too terrible and I do 10 - 15 usually.

I love fruit and veg. I only ever have skimmed milk. I don't take sugar. I have flora pro-activ.spread. I never eat pastry, cakes, sweets and never fry anything.

Pennylane - just so you don't think you have been ignored - I'm not as expert as most of the superslimmers on here, but it appears to me that you are not eating enough superfree foods. It should be one third of your plate (at least) on EE. I would up the fruit and veg if I were you. Maybe snacking between meals on fruit or carrot sticks etc. Do you have plenty water too?

Dontknowanymore

sarymclary wrote: »

That looks like a good day to me. You've had some fruit and superfrees in there too, to keep the balance right.


Well back from last night's WI, and I've had a gain of 0.5lb. Really disappointed because I've had a week 100% on plan. Have wracked my brains ever since trying to work it out. I have been hungrier, so had increased meal sizes, but I felt I was maintaining my balance of lots of veg & fruit. Really going back to basics this week, the dynorod soup is done and waiting to be portioned up, SW quiche full of superfrees in the fridge to snack on. Little Sary had a 2.5lb gain, but he admits he's eaten out of the home at friends, and has been having a treat of a cookie or muffin at school. At least he knows where it's come from. He also looks like he's shot up in height to me, so I am not really so worried about him.

DKAM you're right, the people at my class are out of the Ark, but that can be said about the town I live in, and local area anyway. They don't even know how to use the mini-roundabouts that were put in about 10 years ago (I kid you not, they just stop and sit there wondering what to do)! In some ways it's nice, but in others I do wish they could be a bit more 'with it'. The average member's age is definitely 55+... our eldest member has a birthday this week and she's 88!!:eek::eek: Quite a few come along with their 'children' who are in their 30/40's. I'm in my early 40's, and I feel positively youthful in the group.... so there is a silver lining!:T

Remember how I was saying how big our Consultant was, and not a good advert for SW a few weeks back? Well I feel soooo guilty now, because at the end of class, she sat there, almost in tears, and said that she felt like a failure, that she thinks we must all sit there and think what a state she looks, and how can she inspire us? That she really struggles to stick with the plan 100%, battling each day with temptation and often losing, and feeling so bad about herself because of it, and that her health is beginning to suffer because of her weight gain, and that she wants to get back to a size 12/14. Well these lovely ladies in my class were marvellous to her, told her it was a group effort, we were all in it together, and support went both ways, and that we were there for her, and vice versa. That she was a huge inspiration, and wealth of support to us, and that she has all our telephone numbers so can call us if she's having a bad time. So regardless of whether these people can use a roundabout, don't use the internet, wear shoes with velcro fastenings, and think going beyond the county border makes you an adventurer, they have their hearts in the right place.

It also makes sense that I picked up on something from the word go with my Consultant (I've always had this weird 6th sense with people, my OH thinks I'm a witch), that she wasn't really fully engaged, and really 'in it' with us, and so her 'confession', and exposing how low and vulnerable she's been feeling explains so much. Hopefully her desire to do the plan successfully, and to achieve her personal goal, will help her to drive the group forward too. It still didn't stop her choosing one of the usual 3 who get SOTW, who lost over 7lb due to gastroenteritis... which isn't really being successful with the plan is it? I'd lose 7lb if I couldn't keep anything down for the next 6 days. God I sound so bitter, don't I? hahaha I'm not really, I don't think I should be getting it, but do think if it would be more valuable a tool if it were to be awarded to a variety of worthy slimmers.

I forgot to post my mealplan yesterday: EE

B - WW yogurt, apricot, banana
L - SW quiche (packed with: onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms, quorn sausages, lean bacon, garlic, vlf cottage cheese with onion/chives, potatoes, eggs, lf cheese, tomatoes). It's gorgeous.
D - Bowl of dynorod soup, piece of quiche. Ketchup (2 syns)
HEB - HiFi Ravishing Ruby (flapjack.... 1st try & they're lush)
HEA - milk in teas
Syn - bite of son's brownie made in school DS class. (3 syns)

Have yet to work out what we're having today, so will post that later.

I have to say, the soup has certainly had a windy effect! :eek: Sorry for any turbulence on the SW tank this week guys.

Wootball, if you keep eating the soup, it'll eventually fire through! *stands well back*

Thnx hun, I know that I haven't been eating nearly enough food to get the benefit, so am upping my intake but don't want to over do it!
Ahh thats rather sad about your consultant, it must be so much pressure to keep the weight off when you are a consultant x

ihategossips

HI all

I'm hoping to start SW again after a couple of years break! I don't have any of the books from the first time and I see from the mag that there's another option of Extra Easy now too. Is this something you can follow everyday or just have a certain no of? I wanted to join online but it's just too expensive for me at the min as I'm on extended Mat leave with no income. I'm looking on ebay for the books so if anyone can let me know which book has the actual plan in it it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ali660

What's with the 'Options' girls? Do you drink it like a hot chocolate or is there another way of using them??

Ali
x

bettyB_2

Hey everybody, scooch up and make room for me on the wagon will you please??

I've been kinda hit and miss the last few days, a few good intentions, a few bad ones, a few influences from OH who missed the old style meals i used to make (i felt sorry for him yesterday and made chicken wraps, i dont ever want to think about how many syns are in tortillas!)

But I know my own brain and I know what will get me back on track, so I am focussing on seeing a loss NEXT wednesday as I know tomorrow will not be a good result cos of my own behaviour and if i hold onto false hope for tomorrow WI i will just de-motivate myself more. I have also bought a pretty new notebook to be my food diary, as I know i will want to stay on plan to make the food diary look good and not spoil it! hehe I am such a child!!

sarymclary wrote: »

So regardless of whether these people can use a roundabout, don't use the internet, wear shoes with velcro fastenings, and think going beyond the county border makes you an adventurer, they have their hearts in the right place.

:rotfl: hehehe
Aw it's nice that you all rallied for your consultant, sounds like she needs the group as much (if not more than) everyone else.

Ok I am doing a EE day today:

Brekkie:
32g frosted wheats - HEB + 2.5 syns (was hungry!!)
250ml milk on cereal and with a pot of tea - HEA
Banana
Pomegranite (yellow stickered from £2 something to about 30p!:money:)

Lunch:
I want to make soup with beans/pasta in, like a minestrone or something 'hearty' - can anyone reccomend a SW minestrone recipe please, I am sure it exists but I can't find it... thanks
and an Apple

Dinner (Chicken stir fry)
Chicken and loads of veg like cabbage, carrot, spring onion, peppers and beansprouts
sharwoods chow mein sauce = 4 syns
Noodles (boiled)
2 HM vegetable spring rolls = 2 syns (same recipe as the samosas in the mag - so i know they are 1 syn each - but using mixed stir fry veg and soy sauce and rolled into tubes not trangles!):D

Really looking forward to making these - the samosas were fab and you can make loads at a time then freeze them, saving loads of ££ if you usually buy them from MrT/S/etc

total syns = 8.5 (trying to stay at 8 per day maximum really, but I can forgive 0.5 extra!)

bettyB_2

Ali660 wrote: »

What's with the 'Options' girls? Do you drink it like a hot chocolate or is there another way of using them??

Ali
x

Options big tubs of hot choc are about £2.50 usually but at the moment MrT's has them 2 for £4 :money: including begian choc, orange and mint flavours

I love it just as a hot choc - Options is the most chocolatey one in my opinion (and a friend who is a chocolate addict once told me she thought they were the best ones so if it has her seal of approval i'm happy!:))

I'm not sure if you can do anything else with them but i know some people mix them with quark to make a choc dessert (i've never tried it tho)