**Happy New Slimming World Year**

Sarjsmith

Have managed to get my hands on some oat so simple out here but they are flavoured (golden syrup) I see from syns online that the flavoured are one and a half extra syns over plain.Does anyone know if I can use them as a Healthy B option (you can with the plain ones) and just add the one and a half syns to your daily allowance?
Really lovin' all the tips and recipes, Thanks.

Lil_Me_2

sammyjammy wrote: »

Welcome to the thread and yes you are correct thats exactly what you do.

So you want to lose 21lb in about 7 weeks, it all depends on you I guess but I would imagine you're more likely to manage 14lbs in that time if you're lucky. As you've not got a huge amount to lose the chances are your weight loss will be slowish, its not a race, as long as you get off to a good start then you can carry on after you return from your honeymoon (assuming you're having one).

I calculated 11 weeks to mid april. Unless I've been asleep for a month hehe.

Yes it's possible, but it would be a struggle. I lost 1st 2lb in my first 11 weeks and I was a little lighter than you at start. If you can work hard (I had a 2lb gain in there) then you can do it. Took me 16 weeks to lose 21lbs.

An aim of 2lbs a week is very reasonable. Post your daily food diary on here and we will happily look over it and point out if you're miscalculating/make suggestions.

Lil_Me_2

Oh! forgot my food diary!

Lunch
Left over pasta bake from yesterday - free with HEA for cheese

Dinner
Going out, going to have chicken and steak skewers (2x HEB) plus 3 syns for cooking oil
Chips - 17.5 syns.

I'm over my syns for the past 2 days now by about 10 syns, so will only have 5 tomorrow to make up for it. OH is having dominos pizza for the superbowl, so I can eat whatever I want! Lots of veg me thinks.

Lil_Me_2

Right, I've created a SW recipe thread for everyone to post recipes!! Please share!

We definitely need a dyno-rod soup recipe, Mrs M some of your slowcooker recipes would be great too!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3032236

blackberry-rum

susiebear wrote: »

...Also I am roasting a chicken tomorrow for SUnday lunch, was thinking of making chicken & veg soup am I ok to boil the carcuss for stock if I remove all the skin, or do you think this will add syns to it?

Hello Susiebear, your other questions have been answered I think! I always use up my chicken carcase to make stock (which I then usually turn into a chinese style soup with lots of vegetables and noodles in - "leftover day" is my favourite day). If you take off the skin and any visible remaining fat (cats and birds LOVE this!), do your boiling down thing, then leave it to cool, any remaining fat will rise to the surface and set and you can gently slide it off. Then it's all FREE!

blackberry-rum

I have been sooooo good today - rhubarb and ginger for breakfast (syn or two for cooked rhubarb, but negligible); tea was spicy squash stew, cabbage with fennel seeds and a fabulous sea bass fillet cooked on the GF grill with some thin slices of courgette. How healthy is that!?!?!? Plus a few bits of fruit during the day.

Sadly, I went to a nearby farmers market today to stock up and it had been cancelled due to wind (weather, not the stallholders). The only person still selling was a lovely Indian girl with home-made samosas and bhajis. I bought two samosas,one for my friend and one for me. The seller kept cajoling me to have a bhaji too. I said no, I was trying to lose weight. She said "try this little bit" - so I did, it would've been rude not to, right? Then she parcelled up the 2 samosas and slipped a big fat bhaji into the pack. I said "Oy, I'm trying to lose weight and these are deep fried!" She smiled sweetly and said "Oh yes, but everything else is so healthy, it cancels out the deep frying". Then my friend announced she didn't want one anyway so I was FORCED to sit in the car and eat them all before they went cold :rotfl: Luckily, I'm not SO bad very often, and I am at target already We have to have some naughtiness in our lives, that's why SYNS are there.

alisont

I have had lunch at a Chinese restaurant and now going to have Indian takeaway for tea - whoops!

Having said that - fruit and yoghurt for breccy, fruit this afternoon and had a smaller portion lunch deal so sweet n sour veggie chicken(made from soya) with boiled rice and veggies then tonight is vegetable/chick pea rogan josh with boiled rice and a big salad.

Avoiding the wine!

The balti restaurant have done my veggie dish without any oil:T

lisa26_2

Sarjsmith wrote: »

Have managed to get my hands on some oat so simple out here but they are flavoured (golden syrup) I see from syns online that the flavoured are one and a half extra syns over plain.Does anyone know if I can use them as a Healthy B option (you can with the plain ones) and just add the one and a half syns to your daily allowance?
Really lovin' all the tips and recipes, Thanks.

I'm pretty sure the official line is no...has to be counted as all syns but to me that doesn't make sense so I'd personally call it a HEB and maybe count 2.5 syns to be sure....but thats naughty old me being rebellious!!

lisa26_2

Well ladies, my tummy ache went off by lunch and I've had a slightly more normal afternoon! I didn't manage any brekkie as it was lunch time by the time I felt up to eating but I never normally miss it so once won't hurt!! I went to enquire about a saddle the local tock shop has been meant to be selling for me this afternoon....the lady said, 'oh yes its still here' and picked it up, to which i replied....'that's not my saddle!!!' so then had to go through explaining to her how I knew for definate it wasn't mine, she eventually believed me and asked if I could pop back later when someone else was in...at which point I'm thinking OMG I trusted these people with my lovely saddle, what's happened to it?!! ANyway, went back later and the guy said he deffo didn't have it so he must have sold it so he gave me the money for it .......all turned out ok in the end!!! So that's next years hay paid for before its even started growing! Plus we've been saving up £10 per month each (mum and I) incase the saddle didn't sell so we're going to keep saving then use the excess to have a day out or overnight trip in the summer hols.

Sorry about that ramble...just excited!!

Anyway, today's food is EE:

Brekkie - nothing!
Lunch - salad, tuna, WM pitta (HEB), sw chips
Snack - banana
snack - yogurt and apple (had to have an extra snack as OH is at work till 8.45 so tea won't be till 9.30pm!!!)
Tea - slow cooked beef brisket, onions, mushrooms, sw roasties, roast parsnips, carrot and swede mash, sprouts,

flutterbyuk25

Evening all

Green day for me:

B - 2 eggs fried in frylight on HM WM bread (HEB), LF marg (0.5syns)
L - pasta bake - pasta n sauce, peppers, onions, garlic, sweetcorn, butter beans, chilli flakes, cheese (HEA), LF coleslaw (3.5syns)
D - roasts spuds, olive oil (HEB), HM SF lentil pie, peas, yorkshire (3syns), onion gravy (3.5syns for flour)
Snacks - banana, pear, jelly (0.5syns), LF creme fraiche (1.5syns)
Drinks - coffee (skimmed milk = HEA), fizzy water, squash

Total syns = 12.5

My new favourite drink is Tesco Value NAS Lemon Squash (30p for 1 litre) mixed with Tesco Value Sparkling Water (17p for 2 litres) - tastes just like old fashioned lemonade and very cheap!!

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