A Slimmer Summer with Slimming World

lisa26_2

braders1234 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, I must say SW seems all most too easy, reading through it is hard to see why I weigh 14st 5 at 5ft 10inch, I love all the free food and we cook most of our own food. Currently inundated with raspberries and plums form the allotment.

I suppose the reasons for the weight are, in order

booze - I like Cider and it seems a real no no on SW. Also partial to wine - I quite often have a few drinks on a week night.
cheese - love it, we cut of chunks and suck till nothing there.
crisps and choclotae bars - usually have one of each each day at work, as well as a pastry in the morning.
overeating - finishing my own plate then polishing off the kids dinner

oh god, now i write it down it does not seem quite so mysterious!

agree with other posters though, no point doing a diet and then going back to your old ways, has to be a change in life style, lets see how I get on!

Hi Braders, I love your post! Shows perfectly how you can think you're having a healthy diet but then realsie where its going wrong when you think about it!!!

maman wrote: »

Great lunch at my friend's today but totally flexi. It was a great day so they did a barbecue and salads. Sounds innocuous but I had sausages (3), chicken (I don't think with skin), lovely salads and potatoes but all in mayo/dressing followed by a pear and walnut tart (with sponge in it), cream and washed down with chardonnay and champers. But I enjoyed it:D and tomorrow I get back on the wagon.

I need friends like that!! The pear and walnut tart sounds AMAZING! I think I'll be googling for a recipe! I don't suppose they told you where they got the recipe from? Or was it bought? And washed down with champagne?! On a week day lunch?! Can't be bad!!!

Well, my meal out was lovely but they didn't have the pud I wanted (pear and frangipan art....hence my interest in the pear and walnut one lol!) so I had bailey's cheesecake instead!! And steak pie for main!!! With chips ooops! lol! Ah well, back to it today. Food is Green:

Brekkie - Porridge (HEA&B), banana, blueberries
Lunch - jacket potato, beans, melon, yogurt
Tea - ??? at MIL's but have HEB2 for whatever meat we have.
Snacks - more fruit
Syns - whatever MIL cooks as she uses oil and sometimes does naughty things like pie and sausages.

maman

Apologies Lisa, but it was pear and almond tart (must be going nuts!;)). Definitely HM. It looked a bit like tarte tatin but it was actually more like upside-down cake with sponge between the fruit rather than pastry/custard. I'll ask for the recipe. Your meal sounds good too. We don't normally go for champagne mid-week but decided to take a bottle along as friends were so kind laying on a lovely meal.

Anyhow, paying for it today as put on half a pound at WI:( I've listened to all the reassuring words from friends and consultant but I'm still getting fed up that my target seems just out of reach (3lbs now). I've brought a food diary home to fill in just to make sure I'm not getting blase. I know I've had two 'bad' meals out but I've been quite good the rest of the time. Maybe what I could get away with when I had lots to lose is different from now when I'm so close. Who knows?

Today's EE menu:
B: HEB Puffed Wheat, HEA milk, tea and banana
L: HM lentil & veg soup, grapefruit
SW bolognese (extra veg) and maybe apple
Syns: some wine 'cos DD2 coming round later

blackberry-rum

susiebear wrote: »

Does the same thing relate to veg too?? I never thought but I make veg soup every week

That's one of the things that doesn't make sense to me about SW, Susiebear, but I have decided to go with what they say and stop questioning it! Vegetables mashed, blended into soup, etc are just fine apparently! May be something to do with the sugars in fruit, or else they just cannot believe anyone (ie me) can eat so much soup in one go (my other major problem is that tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, aubergines etc are all technically fruit but are ok to be cooked, blended, eaten from tins. Mainly my questions are re tomatoes, for gawds sake I've even seen them added to fruit salads because they are FRUIT ... but as I say, I just go along with it now).

Groovygirl wrote: »

Ohhhh, i get it. Thank you.

I'm getting back into SW, got the new book but am finding that alot of items I'm trying to find out syn values for are not in there. So I'm back and forth between new and old books.

We as a family are doing it, my husband has lost a stone, son & myself 1/2 stone in 1 month. Well pleased with ourselves.

Groovygirl you might find a lot of the syns mentioned on the Minimins slimming world pages, I don't have a link, it might be Minimims actually, someone here will know or if you google SW syns it should bring up one of their pages.

It's easier for me this week, being at home with no easy access to shops! I hope I've dropped that couple of extra pounds when I get weighed next tuesday.

ETA: found it: http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/

shala_moo

http://www.minimins.com/syn-values/

Here's the forums on Minimins for syn values - hope that helps..

Well so far so good today, i've filled in my food diary as i've gone along and i've got some pork out for tea so i know it will be a healthy tea.. just got to ignore those last cornettos in the freezer!!:(

Food for today - green day
B - apple, yogurt, weetabix (2)
L - LO pasta bake,(0.5 HEA) french fries (4)
T - pork, potatoey bake thing(HEA), salad
S - satsumas, nectarine, Milk for teas (0.5 HEA)

Still have a HEB left over so if i'm hungry after tea i'll have some ryvita crunch...

rachelww1

Can someone give me some tips please. We're going camping tomorrow for 3 nights, and being so close to target, I don't want it to be a complete distaster food wise. We're in a tent with no electric, and have a 2 ring burner and a grill that can toast 1 slice of bread at a time. We've got a small cool box for milk but really want to shop daily as things go off in there quite quickly. We may take a small bbq, but only if it fits in the car. Also I don't want to cook seperately for me (I don't at home) as it's me, DH and both DSs. Any ideas greatly appreciated

nessie216

rachelww1 wrote: »

Can someone give me some tips please. We're going camping tomorrow for 3 nights, and being so close to target, I don't want it to be a complete distaster food wise. We're in a tent with no electric, and have a 2 ring burner and a grill that can toast 1 slice of bread at a time. We've got a small cool box for milk but really want to shop daily as things go off in there quite quickly. We may take a small bbq, but only if it fits in the car. Also I don't want to cook seperately for me (I don't at home) as it's me, DH and both DSs. Any ideas greatly appreciated

If you take a BBQ you can do jacket pots & lots of meat on there!

If not, what about a chilli con carne? Spag bol? Omelette? Soup? Risotto?

Most things can be done in one pot!

Google one pot recipes & adapt to SW friendly (ie. no oil etc.)

HTH x

TakeItEazy

MrA has just delivered and one of the things today was 4kg sack of onions for £1.67 [used to be 5kg for £1.97 so lost a kg ] anyway the onions are HUMUNGUS. I'm just eating a cheese and onion 2 egg omlette and theres MORE onion than omlette :rotfl:. Good job I like onions .
Now then WHY is it the minute I put washing out it RAINS, has done every time this week :mad: AND why is it I think of something I want to pass on and then come on here and totally forget what it was [must be my age ].
Ignore me, having a grrrrrr moment :rotfl:.

lisa26_2

maman wrote: »

Apologies Lisa, but it was pear and almond tart (must be going nuts!;)). Definitely HM. It looked a bit like tarte tatin but it was actually more like upside-down cake with sponge between the fruit rather than pastry/custard. I'll ask for the recipe.

MMMM! pear and almond sounds even better!!!

It took me AGES to loose the last few pounds to get to target, don't give up, you'll get there!

rachelww1 wrote: »

Can someone give me some tips please. We're going camping tomorrow for 3 nights, and being so close to target, I don't want it to be a complete distaster food wise. We're in a tent with no electric, and have a 2 ring burner and a grill that can toast 1 slice of bread at a time. We've got a small cool box for milk but really want to shop daily as things go off in there quite quickly. We may take a small bbq, but only if it fits in the car. Also I don't want to cook seperately for me (I don't at home) as it's me, DH and both DSs. Any ideas greatly appreciated

When we camp I usually take a chilli or bolognese to warm up for the first night (hm one that I've frozen), the other nights i usually do BBQ'd or pan fried (in a dry pan) meats with salads and boiled new potatoes. You could also do stir fries. A friend of mine always does fajitas when camping but you don't get many tortilla wraps for your syns!!

confused57

rachelww1 wrote: »

Can someone give me some tips please. We're going camping tomorrow for 3 nights, and being so close to target, I don't want it to be a complete distaster food wise. We're in a tent with no electric, and have a 2 ring burner and a grill that can toast 1 slice of bread at a time. We've got a small cool box for milk but really want to shop daily as things go off in there quite quickly. We may take a small bbq, but only if it fits in the car. Also I don't want to cook seperately for me (I don't at home) as it's me, DH and both DSs. Any ideas greatly appreciated

Hi, would it be possible, (if there's room in the cool box) to take some HM soup? Alternatively you could use WW tinned soups and have it with toast, that would be a nice lunch. x

blackberry-rum

lisa26 wrote: »

MMMM! pear and almond sounds even better!!!
It took me AGES to loose the last few pounds to get to target, don't give up, you'll get there!

When we camp I usually take a chilli or bolognese to warm up for the first night (hm one that I've frozen), the other nights i usually do BBQ'd or pan fried (in a dry pan) meats with salads and boiled new potatoes. You could also do stir fries. A friend of mine always does fajitas when camping but you don't get many tortilla wraps for your syns!!

Didn't MrsM, on one of the older threads, have a recipe for home made tortilla wraps that were about 1 or 2 syns each?

rachelww1 wrote: »

Can someone give me some tips please. We're going camping tomorrow for 3 nights, and being so close to target, I don't want it to be a complete distaster food wise. We're in a tent with no electric, and have a 2 ring burner and a grill that can toast 1 slice of bread at a time. We've got a small cool box for milk but really want to shop daily as things go off in there quite quickly. We may take a small bbq, but only if it fits in the car. Also I don't want to cook seperately for me (I don't at home) as it's me, DH and both DSs. Any ideas greatly appreciated

Take loads and loads of fresh fruit, apples etc, even if thought boring they'll taste good in the open air and there are some lovely crunchy juicy ones around. You could take dried milk for teas and coffees and use your coolbox to store something more SW useful tho I can't immediately think what that might be. I'm assuming there are pubs or cafes you can eat at? So you could have salads and stuff. A jar of pickled eggs is a good snacking standby and they don't taste as bad as they sound. Quorn sausages will cook quickly on the BBQ; if you don't take it why not cook them at home and eat them cold as snacks. Also jackets could be cooked at home and if you take the BBQ you could quarter them to reheat them over the coals. Precooked chicken could be taken and in this weather :eek: wouldn't need to be kept in a fridge for the first day! Sorry out of ideas, it's years since I camped :rotfl: