**Happy New Slimming World Year**

lbnblbnb

Syns online still says:
Asda Chick Pea Dahl, Mild, canned, 400g can EE Free Red 15 Green Free

consultant31

I've missed such a lot of posts over the past couple of weeks that I really can't catch up properly. However, I did notice that Success Express seems to be causing some confusion. It is quite similar to EE, but there are some differences, which are vital to the success of the plan. I have reprinted the official version here, please pay particular attention to the last sentence which is the opposite of EE:-

SUCCESS EXPRESS

Step 1
Have Three Success Express Meals a Day. At each meal follow the two to one principle.
Fill two thirds of your plate with Super-free foods then one third of the plate with foods that are Free on Green or Original.

Step 2:
Add one or two Healthy Extra ‘A’ Choices and two ‘B’ choices from either the Green or Original lists.

Step 3:
Snack on Super-free Foods such as fresh or frozen fruit, vegetables, eggs or very low fat dairy products. You can add Healthy Extras to Snacks.

Step 4:
Choose your Syns; enjoy five to 15 Syns per day. You can enjoy your Syns as part of a meal or for treats.
Snacks, desserts or starters that are not Super-free or Healthy Extras are counted as Syns.

SERVING SENSE

To get the maximum benefits from Success Express. It is best to follow the easy guidelines that put a little structure and control into your serving sizes.

If you find yourself building “towers” of food that are mainly free on Green or Original, it might be better to go for that choice rather than busting the “true” two to one principle.

On a Success Express Day, everything you eat that isn’t a Free Food (following the two to one principle), a Super-free Food or a Healthy Extra has Syns. If a Syn has a higher value on one choice than the other then you must take the higher value.

Lil_Me_2

jill36 wrote: »

I'm going to post todays menu for a change. It is a red day.Will some kind soul look over it please.

Sk milk for coffee (A)

B - 2 egg omlette with onion, turkey ham + tbsp tomato sauce
2 plums

L - ½pkt of Batchelors pasta n' sauce (chicken and mushroom)
rocket and tomato + salad cream

D - Salmon fillet, Jk potato (B), Butternut squash and mange tout

Activia yogurt with raspberries
2 finger kit kat

I make that 1 A and 1 B + 7½ syns

Jill, the only thing I noticed is the pasta 'n' sauce isn't free on a red day! In fact they're 21.5 syns per packet so you've had 10.5/11 syns for lunch. Do you think you've had enough superfree to make it an extra easy day?

Edit - or swap for a green day. You can take the salmon as your second HEB and syn the little turkey ham you had at brekkie.

Flat_Eric

kathy206 wrote: »

Morning all!!
Good day yesterday (apart from the ruddy cherry Bakewell-9 syns:eek:)

we had cakes in our office yesterday which I sadly couldn't resist and opted for a chocolate cookie - I haven't looked up the syns yet ....

When I returned to the kitchen later, there were only the mr kiplin cherry bakewells left which were calling me, calling me but I walked away and looked them up in the food directory. When i discovered they were ten syns, I stayed out of the kitchen for the rest of the day...

antonia1 wrote: »

Right, following a totally undeserved sts this week (by rights I should have gained at least 2lb) I've decided to pull myself together and stick to the plan 100% for this week. The "one more glass of wine won't be too bad" and "at least I'm eating better" excuses are totally gone! I chose to do SW because I needed to lose weight, and I only need a bit more willpower to stick to it!

hmmm kind of echoes how I feel about sw at the moment - I am sticking to the plan to an extent and i have been increasing the amount i walk this week (getting off the bus a stop earlier etc) but I am still having far too many syns I keep going to bed at night, hoping that I will wake up the next day and that all will be well - that I'll finally have a day of being ultra organised and sticking to the plan 110%

If I'm to get back to target then I need to stop kidding myself that its acceptable to have all the syns I have been enjoying - that I must start sticking to 10 or less.

Flat_Eric

katycocoa wrote: »

Just been to asda and stocked up on their Chickpea Dahl, the tinned one. Noticed that the packaging has changed and I think the recipe might be different. It's now 119 cals per 100g, and 3.9g fat. I thought it was less than this? Does anyone have a tin to compare? I'm worried it won't be free anymore!

I just looked on Asda website and they are showing the old cans, and the calories/fat has increased. Boo!

did it show all the details?- if not - I have an old tin - per 100g its 420kj or 100kcal for energy
protein is 4.6g
carbohyrdrate its 12.7g of which sugars 1.8g
fat 3.4g of which saturates 0.2g
and fibre 3.4g
sodium 0.30g
equivalent as salt 0.8g

Skintslimmer

h007 wrote: »

hi guys,

am jumping off the tank for a couple of weeks while i move house.
I just dont have time or energy to really think about what i am eating but will be back on once i am in and settled.

on the plus side i hope to loose weight by packing and carrying loads of heavy stuff and running around like a nutter trying to organise stuff!

Ooh stressful, hope it all goes smoothly and look forward to seeing you back as and when

blackberry-rum wrote: »

But (and this is where I too get confused with Red & Green so I stick to EE) she cannot have some lean meat or some noodles to make her day into a green or red day because the meat would be a HEB on green and the noodles would be a HEB on red and need to be measured, so she could not have the two planned HEBs, only one lot plus the meat or noodles.

Hope this makes sense. I know what I mean.

currently mmmmm noshing on raw baby sweetcorn - evening all!

Eh? I think she had mainly neutral free foods on it, so if she was on green she could have had noodles (free on green), if on red she could have had meat (free on red). Having one or the other would mean she still had the two healthy extra B's she had planned.

Yes? Or... no? :rotfl:

I didn't realise you lived so close - maybe we should do coffee sometime?

I'm currently noshing carrot batons dipped in cottage cheese :A

My day shopping could have gone so badly - but I feel I deserve rather a large pat on the back for avoiding the McDonalds and then tesco's cake aisle, where my friends indulged themselves fully!

My food diary - green

2 chocolate weetabix & milk (b & a & 2)
Ditto, plus a banana as an early lunch (b & 2, when I looked at how much milk I'd used it was within 1 a portion - phew!)
McDonalds - 1 cappucino (a) and nothing else!
Tesco - bought all healthy things, and a pack of sushi (2) to snack on. Friends bought multibuy offers of mini rolls (insert anger at cheap junk food here!)
Stir fry, with broc, baby sweetcorn, red pepper, mange tout & noodles. 1/2 pkt stir fry sauce (2.5)
Meringue nest (thanks for the idea whoever it is that's having these recently!) with WW vanilla yoghurt, blueberries and 1 tsp honey (1 I think). Good lord that was YUMMY!
Carrot batons and cottage cheese
9.5 syns so far.. might have a hot choccy or another meringue later on.

Doing Davina in a bit (steady!) - but not standing up this time!!


Off to pick up an ebay'd cross trainer tomorrow - woohoo!

boltonangel

hi,

i've just joined sw again after a break (i discovered i had pcos and my weight loss on sw was poor - but at least i was still losing some - unlinke now!!)

anyway, does anyone know the syn value for streamline no added sugar strawberry jam? i've looked online and can only find the reduced sugar one.

thanks

TakeItEazy

lbnblbnb wrote: »

I have bought some own brand smash to try the smash pizza, but I am going for the trad version tonight.
TGI it's the weekend!!

I made this last night for lunch today, it was ok if you like cold mash :cool:. I think I made it a little thick in the middle, I also added herbs which will leave out next time. The topping was ok but will try it hot next time, just wanted something extra at lunch as been very hungry after work this week. Kept to good stuff though .

Can someone check how much mozzerella is HEA please, had a light version on my pizza so hopefully within HE. Still wondering about the soft cheese HEA thing.

Food today:
B - weetabix milk [a] coffee
L - pizza [2xa] 2x wm roll [2xb], lemon curd [3], pineapple, melon, activia
T - noodles, mushrooms, spag hoops, brown sauce [1]
Snacks - carrots, pineapple, melon, onken, meringue [2.5]
Syns - 6.5

So thats 3 HEA+B which is what I should be having every day but very rarely do so brownie points today

Lil_Me_2

42g normal mozzarella is 1 HEA on all plans.

57g reduced fat mozzarella is a HEB on green.

28g reduced fat mozzarella is 2.5 syns on all plans.

Ali660

Just a quickie, note to self more than anything so I can keep on top of the synnage

Last night - 2 glasses of red wine (15 syns) (2nd glass not quite full)

Total syns for day: 15

Today EE:

B: Bacon, poached egg, baked beans, mushrooms, 1 sausage (4 syns)
No lunch as such, banana & kiwi stirred through Activia FF yog; ham & beetroot wraps (x2)
T: HM slow cooker chicken curry (with tomatoes, red peppers, onions, chilli & spinach), boiled rice

Tonight: 2 glass 125 mil white wine with diet lemonade (8.5 syns)

Sundries: 1 syn for butter at brekkie and 1 syns for my share of Schwartz curry mix

Total syns: 14 syns

Counting up these syns is teaching me a really good lesson! I would never have thought what I've eaten today would amount to that many syns :eek: