**Happy New Slimming World Year**

Flat_Eric

Magnolia wrote: »

So just how many syns/HEa's/HEb's? and just how many of the little mad cows (light) can I have

Thanks for your help - 1st day here and nearly banging my head on the keyboard!

*Note to self* watch for the symbols at the side of each fruit!

If you are having a green or red day then its 2 Healthy A Options and 2 Healthy B Options.

If you are following extra easy then its just one of each (1 Healthy A) and (1 Healthy so for your A its either milk or cheese not both like I do ! (i.e have milk and cheese but conveniently forget to syn the cheese !!)

When I started SW, I was allowed 15 syns but my consultant recommends new members stick between 5 and 10 and has suggested the same for me. She explained recently that sticking to 10 means that if you miscount something (unless you get it drastically wrong!) you are still under the 15 syns :j

I have the 2010 book. This says on page 21 that you can have 6 x 17.5g The Laughing Cow Extra Light Triangles or 5 x 17.5g The Laughing Cow Light Triangles.

teecee46

blackberry-rum wrote: »

forget it, Ive lost interest now. If anyone is on my Facebook page, it's on there

Thanks to Wootball your link is on here now too - WOW - the style (and the bod!) looks great!

Flat_Eric

Thank you for all the replies. :j most interesting and very helpful.:D

For my lunch, I got round the sw chips with cheese n bacon by having instead a jacket spud x 2 with lots of roasted veggies (butternut squash/peppers/courgette/cherry toms) (forgot to cook the mushrooms!) and served that with some of the bacon chopped up and a sprinkling of Parmesan. I also had some of my chilli jam (don't know the syn value but allow 3?)

Breakfast was a hi fi bar (HEB) and two red grapefruit.

Afternoon snack was a Danone Shape Delights toffee desert (5 1/2 syns)

Tea has been roast beef. Two small sw friendly roasties, carrots / more butternut squash / peas with gravy and some english mustard (more syns).

Overall a good day and trying hard now not to go over syns with a glass of wine / one of my malteaster bunnies !!

eta I am foregoing the wine and the chocolate and am making do with a glass of diet sprite and two meringue nests (2.5 syns each) greek 0% yogurt mixed with canderel (free) and frozen raspberries. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Skintslimmer

shala_moo wrote: »

I watched this today and i don't know why but I just could not find any sympathy with this chap. I understand that people have addictions to food (i'm definitely one of those people) but he just seemed to have a real "poor me, everyone's done this to me" attitude about it. I hope he received some counselling as well as the operation to help him through it and help him move on from the bitterness he obviously feels.

Yup. I watched it after I saw a newspaper article about it, and I must admit I felt slightly more sympathy towards him after watching it, because regardless of how he got there he obviously was very upset and lonely at times. I think that's probably partly where the blame everyone else attitude comes from - because he had to live with himself and he felt so much guilt already he couldn't shoulder any more

However I still can't get over the whole feeding him whilst he was bed-bound thing. IMHO you wouldn't give a heroin addict heroin if they were so badly addicted they had no way of getting it for themselves - you'd wean them off it or get them on a substitute etc. The Doc who did his surgery said it is a downward spiral for someone that size because they can't exercise - yet a quick google says the average person who is bed-bound requires 1000 to 1200 calories per day. So why couldn't he had been fed say 900 calories per day? Yes it would have been an incredible shock to the system, and probably requires some serious amount of dietary expertise in order to get him to that point without serious shock to the body, but it'd be possible.. a bit like sectioning someone who is mentally ill and unable to care for themselves.

So whilst I feel that yes the system did fail him in some ways, he received a tremendous amount of help from the NHS and cost the taxpayer millions...the hospital had to get a new ambulance built because their fat-ambulances were designed to take up to 50 stone and he was over that, and they had to reinforce the floor of the theatre! :eek: Plus all his care assistants etc... yet all he seemed to do was get upset about what they didn't do and what they cut. :mad:

On top of all that, the flipping man seemed to have had an ego transplant when he had the gastric op, because he turned into a man who suddenly "didn't fancy" roast dinners or mars bars, not even small portions, not because they made him feel ill but because a yoghurt was better for him. Now come ON, surely you could have reached that decision some years before! :doh:

.. gosh I seem to have ranted on for quite some time there...

flutterbyuk25

flutterbyuk25 wrote: »

I think I'm going to attempt a SW take on this recipe tonight. I'll use normal lasagne sheets instead of tortillas (as much as I adore tortillas ), and cheddar not goats cheese as I dislike goats cheese. I'll have lots of leftovers for lunches/dinners too

MMMmmmm I have to say this was totally yummy I had huge portion for tea and there are 3 portions leftover!

x

Magnolia

Flat_Eric wrote: »

two meringue nests (2.5 syns each) greek 0% yogurt mixed with canderel (free) and frozen raspberries. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm[/B]

Do you mash your frozen raspberries into the yogurt to make a mock icecream? Saving some to pour over the mixture once it is put in the meringue nest?

blackberry-rum - had to come back in and say you are looking fantastic girlie - well done you :T

blackberry-rum

Thanks Magnolia! And like SkintSlimmer I have a birthday in a few days .... but I am about 40 years older than her I think, at 63.

~daisy~_2

Lil_Me wrote: »

Nothing online sorry, but if you post the stats I'll calculate it for you!

44 cals
4.5g sugars
2.5g fat
1.5g saturates

thats for each piece - is that enough info ??

many thanks xx

fitorbust

Skintslimmer wrote: »

Yup. I watched it after I saw a newspaper article about it, and I must admit I felt slightly more sympathy towards him after watching it, because regardless of how he got there he obviously was very upset and lonely at times. I think that's probably partly where the blame everyone else attitude comes from - because he had to live with himself and he felt so much guilt already he couldn't shoulder any more

However I still can't get over the whole feeding him whilst he was bed-bound thing. IMHO you wouldn't give a heroin addict heroin if they were so badly addicted they had no way of getting it for themselves - you'd wean them off it or get them on a substitute etc. The Doc who did his surgery said it is a downward spiral for someone that size because they can't exercise - yet a quick google says the average person who is bed-bound requires 1000 to 1200 calories per day. So why couldn't he had been fed say 900 calories per day? Yes it would have been an incredible shock to the system, and probably requires some serious amount of dietary expertise in order to get him to that point without serious shock to the body, but it'd be possible.. a bit like sectioning someone who is mentally ill and unable to care for themselves.

So whilst I feel that yes the system did fail him in some ways, he received a tremendous amount of help from the NHS and cost the taxpayer millions...the hospital had to get a new ambulance built because their fat-ambulances were designed to take up to 50 stone and he was over that, and they had to reinforce the floor of the theatre! :eek: Plus all his care assistants etc... yet all he seemed to do was get upset about what they didn't do and what they cut. :mad:

On top of all that, the flipping man seemed to have had an ego transplant when he had the gastric op, because he turned into a man who suddenly "didn't fancy" roast dinners or mars bars, not even small portions, not because they made him feel ill but because a yoghurt was better for him. Now come ON, surely you could have reached that decision some years before! :doh:

.. gosh I seem to have ranted on for quite some time there...

I felt the same way! How can he get his hands on 10 chocolate bars a day, or a mixing bowl of crisps? I felt it was obscene actually.... and felt less and less sympathy as the programme went on. I just felt embarrassed when he had the tantrum in hospital after his care package was cut. Even though he had lost weight, he still seemed unable to walk and had a state of the art wheelchair (at what cost one wonders?).
My husband and I joked that he was doing an 'Andy out of Little Britain' and as soon as the carers left he was skipping around the kitchen stuffing his face!!
I usually watch these things with some sort of empathy but in this case couldn't summon up anything.

Magnolia

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Hi
I have posted my comments above.

blackberry-rum wrote: »

Thanks Magnolia! And like SkintSlimmer I have a birthday in a few days .... but I am about 40 years older than her I think, at 63.

Ack! Age is just a number - your as young as you feel - to be honest - with me chest infection I feel about 158 at the moment;)