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  • Cor blimey I struggle to keep up reading this thread at the moment :rotfl:
    sashanut wrote: »
    Hi all:j

    Just popping on to see if anyone found the recipe for dumplings at all that was mentioned earlier in the thread? Am doing beef casserole for dinner & would love to do some dumplings to go in it, not expecting syn-free (!) - but if there is someone out there who knows how many syns they might be, I've love to know:D

    I replied with several recipes - the reply must have got lost in the ether that is a diet thread in January :rotfl:Try clicking my username and looking at my past posts.
    alisont wrote: »
    However my skin was so dry/flaky - I realised I was missing my essential fatty acids so am back on my hemp oil.

    Ooh, off topic but where do you get your help oil from? my skin is horrible at the moment, so flaky, I think its a mixture of shock to the system of broken leg/hospital etc, possibly nutrition and definately not getting outside enough to blow the dead skin cells away :rotfl:I was looking up healthy oils, particularly ones which can provide omega 3, 6 AND 9, so advice appreciated :D
    Ok, i officially don't like red days:(

    Just had to syn 2 weetabix as i was hungry, so have now used my full 15 syns for the day as i had a kitkat too. Will rethink tomorrows plan as it was meant to be red too:eek: Hubby wants to do red days, we don't eat together as he works late so i think i'll still make what i was planning to anyway and freeze him some portions.

    Might make cheese and onion pie for me.

    You could do EE, and do red meals for when you both eat together, and just have yours with potatoes/rice etc :) hubby might eventually get fed up of seeing you eat all the carbs and join you ;)

    Me today:

    Banana, yoghurt, bit of pecan cereal (after consultant's post I won't cheat and count this as a B :o so 5 syns)

    Cous cous, stock powder, ham (b) onions, sweetcorn, mint sauce (delish)

    HM soup (lentil, turnip, parsnips, carrot, bnut squash, onion, stock)
    Ryvita (b) philly (a - I think?)

    5 syns for cranberry juice light

    Its looking ok :T
    Nothing tastes as good as riding a horse feels
  • msgnomey
    msgnomey Posts: 1,613 Forumite
    brekkie
    milk and porridge (HEA HEB)

    Lunch
    lots of salad with mixed beans salad, low fat yoghurt
    bananas oranges

    Tea
    HM chicken noodle soup (FREE)
    low fat yoghurt and an apple
    Supper
    Orange
    mackerel in tomato sauce
    beetroot


    Syns
    packet of skips (5?? or 6??)

    Am very pleased as I resisted a school dinner of roast pork which smelt gorgeous!!!!! I cut up the pork for some of the children and it was soooo tender BUT I didn't have any!!!!! (because it would have come with roast potatoes and lashings of gravy nomnom

    on a course tomorrow so not sure what I'll be able to eat, will stuff my handbag with fruit!
    Go hopefully into each new day, enjoy something from every day no matter how small, you never know when it will be your last
  • Hi all. I have been lurking here this week seeing how the thread works. I lost 3 stone with SW 4 years ago and since then half of it has crept back on. This week reached an all time low when I heard myself say I didnt like Skype cos it made me look like i had a double chin!!! :doh:I had just decided to start doing it on my own at home as didnt really have spare pennies, but then got an email today from my old consultant:

    In fact, to help you after the Christmas spending, between 3rd and 29th January we’ve got an offer of free membership when you buy a 12-week Countdown, so as well as giving your commitment a boost, you’ll be saving almost £20 membership fee plus two free weeks).

    Seems a good deal to me. Can anyone tell me what a countdown costs these days so i can make a decision and get on with it!!

    thanks

    Just been browsing through the thread and in case this hasnt been answered yet i paid 49.50 for 12 week countdown yesterday
    “most people give up just as they are about to achieve success”
    If you think you are going through hell keep going - Sir Winston Churchill
    If You Can't Change It, Change the Way You Think About It.
    SW, 13st5lb, -4 1/2, -1,(12st13.5lbs)
  • alisont
    alisont Posts: 1,648 Forumite
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    Cor blimey I struggle to keep up reading this thread at the moment :rotfl:


    Ooh, off topic but where do you get your help oil from? my skin is horrible at the moment, so flaky, I think its a mixture of shock to the system of broken leg/hospital etc, possibly nutrition and definately not getting outside enough to blow the dead skin cells away :rotfl:I was looking up healthy oils, particularly ones which can provide omega 3, 6 AND 9, so advice appreciated :D

    I use this oil

    http://www.goodwebsite.co.uk/Good-Hemp-Food-Products.php

    From Sainsburys maybe but I get it from the health store - find it is good for my skin, my skin goes tight and flaky if I dont get the essential fatty acids, I find my skin goes downhill if I'm stressed/rundown/ill. Body needs some right fats to keep it ticking over but SW are right that we need to cut right down on bad fats - something Id been having too many of in my pre SW days!

    I have got some skin oil a Jason one with vit e in it is a bit of a sticky skin oil but good, Superdrug do a Vit E range and the facial oil is good, I tend to use that at night at the mo and Neals Yard Powerberry moisturiser in the day (currently £4 in their sale)

    Hope you feel better soon:)
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  • pollysg
    pollysg Posts: 207 Forumite
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    ANY_CHANCE wrote: »
    Just been browsing through the thread and in case this hasnt been answered yet i paid 49.50 for 12 week countdown yesterday


    Or, buy a copy of Bella for 87p, and you save £10, only pay the class fee of £4.95. Almost all the newbies like me had the voucher yesterday.
  • I finally did it! :j got me 1 stone sticker! :j
    5.5lb off this week, 1 stone 3lb in total :D
  • NorthernLas
    NorthernLas Posts: 1,271 Forumite
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    Interesting Womans Hour program on diets yesterday on Radio 4.

    iPlayer link

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x76vm

    And today, there is a listener phone in on diet experiences ...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x781n

    If you want to phone in (lines are already open) here are the details

    If you would like to take part in the Woman’s Hour phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email.
    Tel: 03700 100 444 – (The phone-lines will be open from 0800-1045: standard geographic charges apply and calls may be included in your telecom provider’s call package. Calls from mobiles may be higher.)

    or you can email instead http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/womans-hour/contact-us/

    Hope 2011 brings you peace, health and happiness

    NL x
  • redmel1621
    redmel1621 Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    i finally did it! :j got me 1 stone sticker! :j
    5.5lb off this week, 1 stone 3lb in total :d
    Well Done:T
    Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
  • beasygirl
    beasygirl Posts: 172 Forumite
    I finally did it! :j got me 1 stone sticker! :j
    5.5lb off this week, 1 stone 3lb in total :D


    Wow fantastic weight loss there. Well done!
    Currently takling Barclaycard - £67/£350
    Debt free date October 2014
    :jDoing it for my girlies!!:j
    38lbs lost in 2011
    SW for May 8lb/7lb
  • sarymclary
    sarymclary Posts: 3,224 Forumite
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    ~daisy~ wrote: »
    just wash out your fry light bottles - the nozzle unscrews - then you can add whatever you like

    im using half water half olive oil and a good shake - has been working fine :)

    I was just thinking the same thing, and then saw your post. Would be the same as the bottle from Amazon I'd think.
    Wootball wrote: »
    Here's a question for everyone - what do you tend to do on WI day, especially if your WI is in the evening?

    My WI is at 5pm, and I tend to have a breakfast consisting of scrambled egg on toast and a handful of fruit, then approx 2 litres of water before 1pm, then nil by mouth between 1pm and 5pm. Anyone else follow a WI day routine?

    I'm glad you asked this question, because I'd been thinking the same thing. I tend to have a lighter food day, so yogurt & fruit for breakfast, mugshot & fruit for lunch, and then try not to drink from mid-afternoon onwards. My meeting is at 6pm, and we get there bang on time for weigh in. I take along some fruit & 2 alpen light bars to eat during the meeting, and I have a mug of tea while I'm there. That means I'm not starving hungry after the meeting, and eat more sensibly once back home again. I either try to have something cooked in the slow cooker (like a casserole/bolognese), or I do bacon & eggs for dinner that night.
    sammyjammy wrote: »
    Oh you poor thing, that sounds like hell but how fantastic that you resisted. The smell of chip shop chips is hard to resist at the best of times but ohhhh :D

    This talk of chip shop chips is actually making my mouth water! I can just imagine the smell, with all the vinegar & ketchup on them.:rotfl: That's got to be worse than water torture to sit and watch/smell other's eat them?

    Well I was having a good day yesterday, meals were all planned, and then OH looked all forlorn when I said we were having chicken, salad & jacket spuds for tea. 'why can't we have lasagne or pasta bake anymore, I really love them?' he says. I felt guilty, because I know they won't like the SW versions of these, and I don't have the ingredients in store for the low fat cheese sauce. So, I tried to make my own version, and give him his wish of chicken pasta bake. I gave him an enormous portion, and myself an extra small portion, which he mentioned, and asked if I'd had to eat less because of it being non SW friendly, so at least he seemed to understand I'd had to make a big compromise. He was very appreciative, and thanked me for a lovely meal.

    I'm not sure how to syn the sauce though, but here's an idea of the ingredients:
    20g butter
    250ml skimmed milk
    100ml water
    1 tbsp parmesan
    42g low fat grated cheese
    nutmeg, pepper, salt

    The rest of the ingredients were wholewheat pasta, chicken breast, passata, garlic, peppers, mushrooms & herbs... which was all perfectly fine I know. I made enough to fill a large lasagne dish, OH had 1/3 of the dish, and I split another 1/3 between youngest son and me, so it fitted into a small pasta bowl, rather than a plate full like OH's. There's 1/3 left over, and OH is getting it again for his dinner tonight, even though I know he's not keen on re-heated pasta, but tough, he asked for it! :rotfl: I counted 6 syns for my portion, even though it's probably well over, but I'd rather err on the side of caution.

    Unfortunately, I'd already had my 250ml milk in my HeA allowance, and during the afternoon decided to use up my syns having a packet of Graze flapjack that I had left over from last year's boxes. I put it into the syn calculator and it came out at 12 syns, which was fine at the time I had it, and I've been having too few syns most days, so was happy with that (at the time).

    So, I've learned the lesson to not allow other's cravings for foods to affect my day's plan. The problem was there wasn't enough chicken to keep a fillet back for me to have one to myself with a spud & salad, and do the pasta bake for the rest of the family. If I'd only had jacket spud and salad, I'd have been stuck with just beans to put on it, and there wouldn't have been enough balance in the meal really.

    Anyway, today is going to look like this:

    Green Day:

    B - porridge (HEB 1) milk (HEA 1) banana
    L - pasta & sauce, satsuma x 2, ff activia
    D - Jacket potato, 42g low fat cheese (HEA 2), mixed salad, baked beans, salad cream (2 syns)
    Snacks : satsuma, shape zero yogurt, Fibre+ bar (HEB 2)
    Not decided what else to use my syns on, but I like to save them for the evenings so I can have a treat or supper if wanted.


    Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why Extra Easy is the plan being mainly promoted and discussed at meetings? The new booklet being promoted to buy (free to new joining members though) gives only the lowest syn rating on recipes for either Green/Original or the Extra Easy syn rating, but not all 3. Are they intending to phase out original/green? Since joining I've not really been encouraged to do the red/green days, and have stuck with Extra Easy because that's been the only plan I've heard being discussed. It's only as time has gone on, and I've become more familiar with plans, and looking at member's food plans on here, that I've felt more confident to try a red or green day, but I'm still not really au fait with the do's/don'ts, apart from knowing to syn/heb meat on a green day.

    Anyway, I just thought I'd mention it, and hope the longer attending members of meetings might have an idea about it.
    One day the clocks will stop, and time won't mean a thing

    Be nice to your children, they'll choose your care home
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