The Slimming World "Countdown to Easter"

consultant31

Hello there

Here we are again at the beginning of a brand new thread and with Easter and the summer hols on the horizon. As has become the 'tradition', post 1 will include the recipe link and the official version of the EE plan. Don't forget to add a subscription to the new thread so you can find it again.....guess who forgot

Food Optimising is a plan for life, it is not a quick fix and you should look at weight losses over a period of time. There are no prizes for speed of weight loss
You need to commit to making changes to what you are doing, because what you have been doing in the past and what you are doing at the moment is not getting you to where you want to be.

You cannot use parts of the plan that suit you and forget the rest. If you are not prepared to make a commitment to change the behaviour that has got you into your current situation then nothing is going to change, and above all things, you need to be honest and accountable for every single mouthful of food that passes your lips.

You need to care enough to take time out to pre-plan your slimming campaign. Look again at the menu plans and see the variety and volume of food you can eat. All you have to lose is the weight.
Slimming World has been successfully helping people lose weight for over forty years, so trust them and read your Food Optimising and Choose Success books again and again.

Food Optimising is easy but life isn't. Losing weight is a battle but you have the battle plan in your food optimising book, your secret weapon is free food, and that, together with your healthy extras and syns add up to a healthy way of eating that can be a life plan. Success is there waiting for you………go for it!

I think it's probably a good idea to put the following at the very beginning of the new thread so it's easy to find for anyone who needs it:-

The Original and Green plans are still going strong but most people may well have heard of the new Extra Easy plan which is sweeping through the land If you've ever wondered if it works, I promise you it does. If you've ever wondered how it works, just trust the experts at SW, they wouldn't send you on the wrong path.

If you fancy having a go at it, here are the official 'rules' to ensure that you not only lose weight regularly but get all the nutrition your body needs to function well:-

Extra Easy:

1: Choose your Free Food

Anything that’s Free Food on Green OR Original – so that’s pasta, rice, potatoes, lean meat, poultry, fish and all the Superfree food – is totally Free on Extra Easy! Yes, you can eat unlimited meat, potatoes and veg, fish, chips and mushy peas, and chicken curry and rice with no measuring, no weighing, no counting – no kidding!

And for super-fast, super healthy results, fill one third of your plate with Superfree Food!

2: Choose your Healthy Extras

Each day select one Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice and one Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice from our simplified list of calcium and fibre-filled foods, including milk, cheese, bread and cereal.

3: Enjoy 5-15 Syns each day

And if the Syn values for Green and Original foods are different on the standard Syns lists, count the lower one!

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If you find your weight loss has slowed down or stopped, check………

1. Whether everything you're counting as Free, is Free

2. Whether you're under-estimating Syn values (over-estimate if guessing)

3. Whether you're counting everything that should be counted

4. Whether you're measuring everything that should be measured

5. Whether you're sabotaging your success in any other way (using SAS logs will help uncover individual long-term self-sabotage patterns) and, if none of these is the culprit, either...........

A: increase the proportion of Superfree Foods to half of your plate

OR

B: switch to more Speed Foods

And above all, if you follow the plan, any plan, 100% you will lose weight!

Link to recipe thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...4#post40936144

gunsandbanjos

Ooooh, shiny new thread, i'm definitely in. It's my birthday on Easter monday so i would like to have shifted some podge by then:D

gunsandbanjos

Having a green day here, quelle surprise!

Just had a coffee and getting DD ready for school.

Breakfast will be 2 x alpen light(B) with fruit and yoghurt.
Lunch will be a quorn burger(2.5) in a wm roll(B) with sw chips(1) and beans, ketchup(1)
Dinner is quorn bolognaise with an A of cheese.
Used 4.5 syns, will definitely be adding to it later.
Have a great SW day.

Primmer

Yay to shiny new thread!
To those who have stayed the same or not lost as much as they would like, don't give up the losses will come stick to the plan and exercise and make sure you are eating enough.

EE today
B - cooked mushrooms, ff yogurt and some strawberries
S - two alpen lights (heb)
L - cannelloni (Hea) french fries crisps (5?) apple
S - falafel
D - mince with tomatoes, mushrooms and onion and served with curly kale, green beans and corn on the cob
S - Freddie frog (5.5)

gunsandbanjos

Primmer wrote: »

Yay to shiny new thread!
To those who have stayed the same or not lost as much as they would like, don't give up the losses will come stick to the plan and exercise and make sure you are eating enough.

EE today
B - cooked mushrooms, ff yogurt and some strawberries
S - two alpen lights (heb)
L - cannelloni (Hea) french fries crisps (5?) apple
S - falafel
D - mince with tomatoes, mushrooms and onion and served with curly kale, green beans and corn on the cob
S - Freddie frog (5.5)

Just googled these and they are 4.5 syns.

antonia1

Morning all! Thanks for the shiny new thread Consultant31. It is definately motivating to think about easter because that always reminds me of warm weather:j and summer clothes :eek:

Food for today:
B - yog + nana
L - cous cous + roasted veg
S - Indian

snacks - kiwi, apple, plum

The Indian is a meal out, but I can have a chicken dhansak and pilau rice for 9 syns. I've opted to drive so I won't have anything to drink, which leaves 6 syns in case our local Indian uses more oil than the average place. WI tomorrow, so I really need to KEEP AWAY from the naan bread!

MRSMCAWBER

morning morning morning.....a nice new shiney thread too -thanks consultant
Its bright n dry here but bloomin frosty n ,,,


So then I seem to have another green day planned .... which should look like this:-

• 250ml semi (A)
• grapefruit
• 2 quorn sausages
• baked beans
• melon
• feta frittata/tortilla (B)
• roasted tomatoes/onions
• avocado (7) -will adjust when I weigh it
• activia (2.5)
• pineapple
• jacket potato
• cottage cheese
• lettuce
• tomatoes
• cucumber
• onions
• peppers
• tickled cabbage
• tickled beetroot
• 250ml semi (A)
• fibre plus (B)
• frozen berries
• activia (2.5)

so that will be 2A+B and 12syns so thats a bit better on the using my syn front :j
oooohh here is a piccie I took the other day when I found my "fat pants" ..its not very clear, will have to get hubby to take a better one -where all of the trousers fit the pic :rotfl:.. but here it is.... they are my size 32s -and what you can't see is the safety pin I had to use as I bust the popper ..


Hubby is having a very rare lie in but once he is up n functioning I will cajole him into going for a walk later -once it has warmed up a bit
Have a great day everyone and keep up the great work....

Primmer

antonia1 wrote: »

The Indian is a meal out, but I can have a chicken dhansak and pilau rice for 9 syns. I've opted to drive so I won't have anything to drink, which leaves 6 syns in case our local Indian uses more oil than the average place. WI tomorrow, so I really need to KEEP AWAY from the naan bread!

Naan bread used to be my biggest weakness pre sw, now I have a chapatti instead which is only 6 syns and is yummy!

Primmer

Guns - thanks for looking up the syns for me, great news!

beasygirl

Hello all, geez you guys can talk.

I've just come back from 2 weeks away in Tenerife and have come back to a new thread, and about 30 pages to read.

I'm on day 2 of officially being back on the wagon, and have WI tomorrow, I'm expecting a gain as I really let go on holiday, drinking cocktails by the pool at 11am, having chips and pizza. It was heaven.

Not good to be back but hey ho, I managed to make it to my mini-target of losing 2 stone before I went away (2 stone 2lbs to be exact ). And have set myself another target of losing 7lbs in March I think that is realistic.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Taliahmai

Morning all...Ive still been following sw just not been coming online everyday...im trying to cut down my computer time, as im normally on it all day! I had my first proper weigh in yesterday and lost 4lbs!! It quite suprised me to be honest as it was my birthday last week andi didnt stick to the plan at all, we went out for dinner and i spoilt myself lol, so i was really pleased with that loss. I have roped another friend into doing it with me, and we took her dogs, and 6 kids, out for a walk last night for an hour...it was great! We are going to do the same tonight too. Then when i got in i did 45 mins workout on the biggest loser kinect game (i gave in and bought it, and am so glad i did its great) So this morning everything hurts and i can hardly walk haha.

Todays plan looks like this...

B - Banana, melon, grape and pineapple covered in yogurt
L - Poached egg on toast with beans (hex b)
D - Sausage (quorn) and mash (made with milk and cheese) with carrots broccoli and sprouts

Snacks, fruit, yogurt,

For the hex a, am i allowed to mix them? like with my mash i use a splash of milk and the 28g of cheese (even tho it will feed 4 of us) or i struggle to use it up. I dont drink hot drinks or have cereal, so wouldnt use the milk and i hardly eat cheese.