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Magnolia

lynzpower wrote: »

SW is nothing like atkins and thank god for that! ( If anything its more like GI)

I never thought I would need to defend a way of eating when I was no longer eating that way but here goes :rotfl:

SW red days are very much like Atkins - both of them restrict carbs and are based on the GI - that's what Atkins is all about - not the removal completely of them. The main difference is the control of sugars and the restriction of fruit - something I did miss very much over the years. Not that I didn't eat fruit - it was just berries Eating whole, natural foods rather than processed food cannot be so bad - not a lot of nasteeee kemikuls in natural foods

There are many low GI diets around - Paleo Diet (based on the foods that would have been available to Paleolithic man!), The GI diet, South Beach, Protein Power, Sugar Busters, Zone, Carbohydrate Addicts Diet and which ever works for you is the right one

There are many myths about low carb diet plans and they are explained here: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarb101/a/lowcarbmyths.htm

The Inuit people live exclusively on protein and fat (seal, whale, etc), at least for part of the year and they haven't died out

Maybe it is because of my long term low carbing that I find myself having more green days than red days in a week - I dunno - whatever it is it is working again for me and I for one and not about to fiddle with my new way of eating.

If it works for you then go for it and if it isn't broke then don't fix it

juliejim

h007 wrote: »

ee day today;

brunch - 2 eggs, 2 bacon, mushrooms

2x alpen light (heb)
4x pagens (8) philly (hea)

dinner - plain rice, stir fry veg - this will have some syns as it is from the chinese and is in a light sauce
going to have some melon in a bit

remembered to cook extra rice so i can make egg fried rice tomorrow or monday


oh can someone look up what i had for dinner last night?
dalepack gammon grills

the packet of 4 is 340g

each grill is;
167cal
11.8g protein
4.5 carbs
11.3g fat
(4.9g sat fat)
0.2g fibre

they are 83% pork

sorry to ask again but i found that i have 2 packets of these for some reason

3 on O & EE, 8.5 on G

juliejim

Lynzpower - I don't think the skip type snacks are in the directory so you'd have to put them through the syns calculator - the prawn coctail crisps in the directory are just normal ones I think.

I didn't eat much yesterday but none of it was free food it was all synned. However DH and DS had chinese last night and I had a WW meal so it wasn't all bad!

lisa26_2

Morning all! I was all miserable for some reason yesterday!! I didn't know what I wanted to eat and even unhealthy stuff just didn't appeal! Soo I ended up eating (green day):

Brekkie - half a tin of beans
Lunch - a pack of savoury rice with carrots, sweetcorn and cheese (HEA)
Tea - a smallish frozen pizza!!!! It had a bit of meat on and not much cheese so will call that HEA&B and it was an 'extra thin' base so hopefully not too many syns there!

Not exzactly the best day ever but atleast I didn't eat that much so if I counted calories (as I used to do!) it would probably be ok but not very healthy!!

Today I'm going to Mum's and will have all 3 meals there. brekkie will be either fruit, yog and cereals or mushroms, tomatoes and toast. Lunch will probably be jacket potato and salad and my money is on roast chicken for tea! Not actually discussed any of this with mum but she's a creature of habit so I can guess fairly easily lol!!

Have a lovely day all.

MRSMCAWBER

Gooooooooood morning all

Well done on those losses folks :T

3lbs off for me this week :j -so the "scale gods" were kind to me ... just 1.5lbs now and I will get my 10st shiney

Hubby "gained" 1lb this week -although being male he just accepts it -despite me doing the totally girly thing of -"oooh you won't actually have PUT 1lb on, but you had home made pizza late on last night-so it will be that" .... but he then completely :eek: me when he said.... "after I have had that pizza you have made -don't make me any more" .....dear lord I think he suddenly really wants to lose weight :j.
Anyway he has tootled off to his golf comp -so heck knows what time he wil be back -so Im going to meal plan, make another shopping list -and then I think I will have a pamper session -I have all sorts of lotions n potions but they aren't doing any good sat in their containers are they

Im on my red carb curfew again ..that will look like this:-
8am
28g oats (B)
activia (2.5)
mixed berries
12
113g lentils (B)
3 bacon (6)
garlic
onions
peppers
celery
cucumber
spinach
balsamic
4pm
melon
pineapple
activia (2.5)
7pm
chicken breast
lettuce
tomato
peppers
celery
onions and cucumber in balsamic
tickled beetroot
500ml semi (2xA)
So that makes 2A+B and 11syns Im looking forward to lunch -Im making a warm lentil n bacon salad nomnomnom

Hope everyone has a great day......off to get planning

lynzpower

3lbs off for me this week :j -so the "scale gods" were kind to me ... just 1.5lbs now and I will get my 10st shiney

:T :j :T :j :beer: :j :T

findingmyownway

Wow well done MrsM, 10 stone is a huge amount to lose!! :beer:

WI for me this morning... 0.5lb loss. I'm not overly thrilled by it, but I guess its better than a gain. Takes me to -4lb in my first 2 weeks on plan. I think things were probably going better until it came to Friday (pizza express leggera (25 syns) + 1 glass of wine and 3 vodka and diet cokes) and then Saturday (tried to be good when out for so ordered chicken salad but it came covered in yummy dressing and served with white :eek: pitta bread. Then it went from bad to worse as ended up eating tea at a BBQ, had sausage, more white bread, potato salad etc). So overall I think i probably ruined all my good work for the week

It made me realise I need a better strategy for eating out though, as I do quite a lot of socialising. How do you all cope with it? My next challenges are tomoro (out for pub lunch with friends) and Weds i'm going to a theme park for the day.

flutterbyuk25

findingmyownway wrote: »

It made me realise I need a better strategy for eating out though, as I do quite a lot of socialising. How do you all cope with it? My next challenges are tomoro (out for pub lunch with friends) and Weds i'm going to a theme park for the day.

This is a problem that I have, almost all my socialising with friends involves eating out (or drinking!). We go out twice a week normally. I can get round the drinking sometimes by being the designated driver - I'm not a huge drinker and I have vertigo which doesn't agree well with it either! But the eating part is so hard. I think it's worse cos I'm veggie so the choices are so limited unless I want to live off jacket spud beans and cheese .

x

Magnolia

Mrs M

I can feel your excitement at your 10 stone shiny - well done you on your perseverance - only someone who has walked a mile in your shoes truly knows that feeling :T

When you get it I know I will be misty eye'ed for you

findingmyownway

flutterbyuk25 wrote: »

This is a problem that I have, almost all my socialising with friends involves eating out (or drinking!). We go out twice a week normally. I can get round the drinking sometimes by being the designated driver - I'm not a huge drinker and I have vertigo which doesn't agree well with it either! But the eating part is so hard. I think it's worse cos I'm veggie so the choices are so limited unless I want to live off jacket spud beans and cheese .

x

Its hard isn't it? I also usually avoid drinking (I live further from city than most of my friends so usually drive) but its the weekend lunches etc that the problem! I have just been reading the SW website and that seems to recommend a salmon and new potato type option, but obviously thats not very helpful for you. Maybe veggie chilli / tomato based pasta would be better for you?