Lose Weight 9

redpoison

catmeister How about adding quorn products to green days? im absoluterly addicted to them, but sadly i do not do many green days because i feel to bloated and starving and i actually tend to gain weight!! must be the carbs i guess !!

alyssa_mae

on s/w you have 2 healthy a options. milk & cheese and 2 healthy b options.

I normally have say readybrek (b) for breakfast. jacket & cheese salad for lunch (a) Then my second b option for dinner which could be chicken/mince/lamb/pork only I weigh it. then I have as much veg & potatoes or pasta depending I'm having.

The other way round I might have a cooked breakfast (bacon,eggs,toms). ham & beetroot sandwich( ww bread being a healthy extra b) for lunch. Steak & jacket(weighed b ) with green beans for dinner in the evening. On top of that I use my 15 syns a day for sugar with tea and a ww chocolate cake or cookie or even a little bit of triffle.

There are loads of recipes you can try and I must say i have never cooked so much as I do now using fresh ingredients and the whole family eat together.

honey28

Catmeister - my typical green day could be weetabix or porridge for breakfst with lots of fruit. Lunch might be packet flavoured couscous with tomatoes, tuna, salad. Dinner - baked potato and baked beans with 1oz grated cheese, or quorn chilli/spag bol made using tin tomatoes, herbs, spices etc. There are loads of meals to be had on a green day - I try to only have approx 2 eggs a week. I find green days a lot easier than red to be honest, I tend to feel more "full" because I am eating pasta or potatoes and loads of veg
Good luck!

MissMoneypenny

Hi all

I decided that I would see what this diet is like for a week (especially as it gives a green light on the fruit bowl), just as an experiment. It won't hurt to take a week of WW. So not sure if I will lose or gain this week on Sacred Heart Diet. The dogs got the salmon that was planned for my dinner tonight.

I was up at 5, so made the vegtable soup. It tastes fantastic and I have eaten loads of it, then tonight I realised I forgotten to add the tomatoes, so in they went for dinner.:D I stocked up on loads of fruit yesterday but Asda had run out of watermelons and cantaloupe melons. So today I have eaten grapes until I could get to the shops to get a watermelon. Have also drunk 9 glasses of water so far plus a coffee with skimmed milk. Too full to eat any of the kiwis, nectrines or apples. I might try to squeeze one of them down later on, but I still have 3/4 of a watermelon. Day 1 nearly over.

MissMP

MissMoneypenny

Hi all

I decided that I would see what this diet is like for a week (especially as it gives a green light on the fruit bowl), just as an experiment. It won't hurt to take a week of WW. So not sure if I will lose or gain this week on Sacred Heart Diet. The dogs got the salmon that was planned for my dinner tonight.

I was up at 5, so made the vegtable soup. It tastes fantastic and I have eaten loads of it, then tonight I realised I forgotten to add the tomatoes, so in they went for dinner.:D I stocked up on loads of fruit yesterday but Asda had run out of watermelons and cantaloupe melons. So today I have eaten grapes until I could get to the shops to get a watermelon. Have also drunk 9 glasses of water so far plus a coffee with skimmed mild. Too full to eat any of the kiwis, nectrines or apples. I might try to squeeze one of them down later on, but I still have 3/4 of a watermelon.

Day 1 nearly over. I managed 9 miles walking today and don't feel ill from the diet - quite the opposite.

MissMP

MissMoneypenny

Sorry about the duplicate posts - must be the diet!

petrichor

Hi

Enjoying reading all the pros and cons of SW and WW and it really does boil down to what fits into your lifestyle I suppose.

After reading this thread and checking out the SW website I was inspired by the recipes - tasty, easy to prepare and economical - so I thought that if I was having the benefit of SW resources etc the least I could do was buy their latest magazine, which I did today. I hope this will give me added support as I'm trying to slim without having to join a club although I've had success in the past via club support. This time it's a time convenience factor so I'm putting the money that I would pay out in club fees into a jar as an added incentive.

As opposed to some of you I've decided not to drink any wine until I reach my target weight, so this weekend will be the first one for over 3 years that will be dry - it's going to take some doing as it's such a way of life and there's quite a few bottles left over from Xmas to add to the misery :sad:

Do any of you have help from your OH when you're dieting? I have one that is an absolute godsend, he tells me to cook whatever lo-cal recipe I want for us and that if he decides he wants anything else he will go and make a sandwich or whatever!! I'll rent rent him out if necessary :rotfl:

Good luck to all for the weekend :T

consultant31

Catmeister wrote:

OK all you sw experts! I've been looking at the trial menu and am a bit confused about green days - what does one eat? Obviously all the carbs you want, but what about some form of protein? The whole diet seems (from the trial menu - sure it can't all be like that) to rely very heavily on eggs - whilst I love them, OH has high cholesterol and is only supposed to eat one a week.

What do you do on green days? It can't really be greens and carbs... can it?

Eggs are free on both plans, though you are advised not to eat more than 10 each week and if you suffer with high cholesterol then you must do as your Dr. advises.

A typical Green day for me would be:
Breakfast:- Couscous, Mullerlight & fruit (very filling and free food)
Lunch:- Jacket potato with a healthy Extra B of prawns (140gms) and a salad.
Dinner:- Tuna Pasta Bake with my second H.Extra B being tuna (113gms), with a topping of 28gms of grated cheese (Healthy Extra A)

I have an allowance of 350mls skimmed milk (HEA) which I make into milky coffee mid-morning and a hot milk drink at bedtime.

As you can see, not an egg in sight, in fact I rarely eat eggs except to make a pasta quiche now and again.

consultant31

MissMoneypenny wrote:

SW - you can eat more, but I found it a bit restrictive as it is similar to the hay diet on food combinations. It use to be red (protien) and green days (carbs), so once you went one route for the day (say green), you had to count what you had if you then fancied the red day that day.

Food combining is entirely different, honestly. You wouldn't be allowed to put carbs and protein together with that, whereas with SW you are encouraged to do just that. The allowances for proteins are generous on a Green day and equally, the allowances for carbs are good on the Red day.

Nevertheless, which plan you follow is a very personal choice and the only thing you need to consider is whether you can live like that for ever - going back to your old ways will inevitably lead to weight gain of course.

loopy-loo73

i've finally allowed myself a drink :beer: just a glass of wine tho with dinner (steak, HM chips & cheesy leeks) cos DD has a friend round playing, will prob finish the bottle later when she's gone home!

rachelmk be careful with botox, i understand why you want to try it but the lady i took over from in my new job has tinitus (sp?) and was telling me that the place she goes to for acupunture type treatment has loads of young people in suffering from the same thing due to 2/3 years worth of botox. i think we forget that it's a poison when we consider using it

gym update - i went last night & managed 12 minutes on the bike (did 1 of those hilly programmes on level 3) then 8 minutes on the running machine (2 walking @ 5kph them 4 running @ 6.5 kph then 2 walking again). i know it doesnt sound like much but by the time i'd finished i had sweat dripping off me, a really tight chest & it felt like somebody was sticking daggers in my legs i felt awful

anyway - am supposed to be going back this weekend, prob sunday so hopefully will be a little easier :rolleyes:

have a good weekend all

bfn
lou x