**Happy New Slimming World Year**

ANY_CHANCE

Todays eats :-

B = 6am - fruit and fibre (HE), blueberries, banana, milk (HE) tea

L = 11 am - Mug shot (noodles) water x2

S = 4 pm - Orange, garlibaldi x 3 (6 syns), tea

D = 6 pm - pasta, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, garlic, chicken, bacon. Water

S = 9pm - Frozen muller (that i forgot i had put in the freezer last night), blueberries. Tea

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sarymclary wrote: »

It's an even worse excuse when your youngest is 10 and the eldest is about to turn 19!!! Have I really been battling this weight for almost 20 years?

I've decided that this is the year I will conquer my weight, get fitter, and feel better about myself once and for all. If I were to lose an average of 1lb a week this year I'd still be 3.5 stones lighter by Christmas... that would have me in well within my healthy BMI range. I've not been there since I got married all those years ago. This has to be easily do-able, if I just stick to the wagon, and move about a bit more. Bring on the warmer weather and long bike rides!:T

:beer: (pity there isn't a smilie of people saying cheers holding scan bran or something else less synful than beer)
Great thinking sary, I love your positive attitude! I agree about the warmer weather and longer days. I average 2 lbs a week quite easily and consistently if I just run/jog/waddle for three days a week, but I leave home when it is dark and get home in the dark at the moment.
Liz x

Skintslimmer

blackberry-rum wrote: »

First thing (and I had long suspected this but convinced myself I had mis-remembered the original recipe) REAL CARBONARA DOES NOT HAVE CREAM!!!!! So there. I'd always mentally thought of it as "breakfast pasta" because it is bacon and eggs (and parmesan). So it becomes a SW recipe without any faffing about with fatfree white stuff! If anyone wants I'll copy out the recipe tomorrow, OR even better I will find my old ElizabethDavid cookery book and copy the real thing from there!

*drools a lot* I have all the ingredients. looking forward to the recipe when you get a chance to post it, BR

Lil_Me wrote: »

Dinner
Boulangere potatoes (like dauphinoise but healthy!)
Mustard and cheese stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon

*drools some more*

Christ I'm supposed to be revising for my last exam and I'm drooling over all your nice sounding food! Can I catch up with the Waggon on Saturday? Its looking like tomorrow and friday are going to be booze-fuelled. Makes a change from methane

Ali660

sarymclary wrote: »

It's an even worse excuse when your youngest is 10 and the eldest is about to turn 19!!! Have I really been battling this weight for almost 20 years?

I've decided that this is the year I will conquer my weight, get fitter, and feel better about myself once and for all. If I were to lose an average of 1lb a week this year I'd still be 3.5 stones lighter by Christmas... that would have me in well within my healthy BMI range. I've not been there since I got married all those years ago. This has to be easily do-able, if I just stick to the wagon, and move about a bit more. Bring on the warmer weather and long bike rides!:T

I remember working it out once that I had put on an average of 3 lbs a year since I got married ... great! ... until I realised I had been married 10 years so that was 30 lbs :rotfl::rotfl:

I've now been married nearly 18 years ... I'm not even going there :rotfl::rotfl:

Actually, it's not that bad ... it's now an average of 2.1 lbs :j I'd better stay married to him ... my average is getting lower by the year!! :rotfl::rotfl:

alisont

Hmmmm meeting a friend for tea from work tomorrow choices in town are:

Wetherspoons jacket/beans and salad

Pizza Express - veggie pizza with no cheese or pesto sauce and plain salad.

Saw a WW sign by the Lower fat pizza going past today - the Legerra or something?


I'm not a fan of Wetherspoons jacket spuds as they are never served hot enough and are no doubt pre cooked but are these lower fat pizzas any good? Has anyone tried them?

I don't think I should be eating pizza - not been there since I started SW but do sometimes miss Pizza - worried about syns and if the amount of bread type base will give me gut ache:o

Mind you entering Wetherspoons on curry night might be a mistake:eek:

Good thing is friend is also on SW so we can keep each other on track!

Off to look at Pizza Exp menu online but think pub will be safer.

Picklepud

jill36 wrote: »

picklepud you will find WW talked about in MoneySaving in Marriages, Relationships & Fami... scroll down to the discussion of


Frustrated with Weight Watchers ProPoints

Thanks just read it well done Lil for your fantastic explanation!

blackberry-rum

Skintslimmer wrote: »

*drools a lot* I have all the ingredients. looking forward to the recipe when you get a chance to post it, BR

OK hope Elizabeth David is out of copyright from 1954
Can be made with any shape of pasta or noodles.
Cook your pasta in the usual way, strain it and put it into a heated dish. Have ready 4 oz (for 4 people) of ham, bacon, or coppa cut into short matchstick lengths and fried gently (in butter! let's say frylight or nowt!). When it is cooked add 2 beaten eggs and stir as you would for scrambled eggs - pouring the mixture onto the cooked pasta just as the eggs are beginning to thicken. Give it all a good stir so the bacon & eggs are evenly distributed, add grated parmesan and EAT!!!!!

Personally, in all the years I've made this since i first saw the recipe, I have cooked the bacon, tipped it onto the hot pasta and THEN added the raw eggs and stirred them in - they cook enough with the heat of the pasta and still remain creamy. Oh, and I've always cooked garlic with the bacon but I am a garlic freak!

Whitehall

beasygirl wrote: »

Hi all,

I havent been around for a while, this thread moves so quickly and work has been so manic that I havent had time to post or read what you're all up to.

Hi to all the newbies, and well done to those that have lost or STS, for anyone that has had a gain, keep on going. There are so many factors that effect weight loss, on the Biggest Loser last night Gillian said that being stressed out can make you put on weight :eek: Now call me silly but I would of thought it would have the opposite effect!

Anyway my meal plan for today is
B - Fibre plus (b) apple, satsuma.
L - mug shot with poached salmon, watercress cherry toms and cucumber
D - j potato, cheese (a) sweetcorn, spring onions and prawns.Options (2) blueberries and f/f yog.

It is my Birthday on Friday so I'm limiting the syns until then I will be 30, and I know its going to be a messy one.

Does anyone on here regually order Joe's sausages? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure these are the ones recommended by SW and are fairly low syn. I really miss sausages, but am bit of a snob and Morrisons just don't cut it :rotfl:

I was going to suggest placing an order at my group tomorrow night, does anyone have any experience of them??

Hope everyone eljoys their day

Re Joes sausages, they are completely sin free and recommended by SW.

Had a box full of various mixes and some of the peppered Beef, Chicken & Pork, If you google Joes Sausages you'll see whats on offer.They are not cheap but I found them worth the extra as I am a bit fussy about sausages as Irish ones, real ones that is, are quite different to English ones.

Whitehall

Lil_Me wrote: »

Congratulations! Wonderful weight loss

In terms of target my real target is 9st. I have set my target however at 9st 7lb. Once you reach target you have a 3lb grace either way without having to pay.

Once I get below 9st 4lb they will give me a week to get back to within 3lb of my "target". At this point I can change my target down to 9st (you have to change it by 7lb). It means I can have a little breather whilst I'm at my upper target without having a financial penalty.

It should also save me money! I really can't afford to keep paying to go anymore, so I plan on weighing with shoes on to keep within "target" and I'll take a holiday week and weigh with light clothes on to get down to my bottom target. I can then put on 3lb but still not have to pay.

Dizzy - sounds like you had he same experience of Belgium that we did! It rained and everything was closed! We had a bomb scare and couldn't get onto their metro so had to walk to the hotel in the rain. Chocolate was good though :rotfl:

I too started off with a higher target but when in my case reached 11.7 I them amended it to 11.3 and like you my real target is 11.0 which gives me the 3lb either side for other times ,but I didn't have to change it by 7lbs.you can change it to whatever you feel good with.

Whitehall

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Whitehall wrote: »

I too started off with a higher target but when in my case reached 11.7 I them amended it to 11.3 and like you my real target is 11.0 which gives me the 3lb either side for other times ,but I didn't have to change it by 7lbs.you can change it to whatever you feel good with.

When I say like you I obviously mean a round figure ie: 11.0 stone /9 stone, regretfully haven't been 9st 7 since I was about 21. a million years ago !!