Heading for winter with Slimming World

zippychick

Superfree foods are a big part of Extra easy. For you to do extra easy, it means a third of your food through out the day should come from superfree. Superfree foods are unlimited foods you can eat any time of day. Most fruit and vegetables. There is a list in the book - around page 20 maybe? I don't have it to hand . So examples - strawberries, oranges, apples, grapes, kiwi, carrots, peppers, onions, etc.

Not to confuse you, but within the superfree, you will read the term super SPEED - this means it's a really good food for helping speed up weight loss. My biggest favourties here are strawberries and melon.

A third of your food should come from this group on extra easy - it means you're filling up on the "good stuff" which should sneakily limit how much chicken/pasta etc you eat. Superfree foods are very filling so help you to eat a balanced diet.

Superfree dinner might be chicken, roast potatoes and a third of the plate as veg - steamed brocolli and roasted carrots for example.

Green or red they aren't such a "requirement" -you could eat a plate of all meat if you wanted to. From a personal point of view i include loads of superfree when i do green or red , just as it seems healthier to me.

So on green you could have baked potatoes with beans and cheese and as much green food as you wanted
Red you could have a steak as big as the plate and as much meat as you wanted

Superfree are all still superfree and unlimited on green or red so you can snack on them and eat as much as you want
hope ive explained this right, i need to check my book again

kahunababy

Thank you Zippy, thats great. I get it now and will be making sure my plate is full of superfree foods although I might find that a struggle at breakfast time as my breakfast usually consist of a bowl of ready brek. Will try and add in a good handfull of berries and maybe a orange afterward or something like that. Thanks again for the help x

zippychick

Yep thats perfect. I add fruit to my breakfast when in my normal routine. I dont have time to incorporate veg into breakfast Well done on the planning :ack of planning lead to me having soup for breakfast earlier this week !:o:p

TakeItEazy

Completely off topic but does anyone know if under active thyroid is hereditary?

saidan

TIE - yep hyperthyroidism can be hereditary and environmental.

dimbo - :rotfl: at the leek!
zippy - thanks for all those suggestions - very kind of you :beer: I have never been keen on quorn but can 'hide' it in spag bol or chili so might try that. tofu YUK
you are right about the hea......some days i have 1 hea/heb, some days i have 2 of each....depends on how i can work it in. as the book says 1 or 2 i mix it up a bit. how many grams of fibre does an alpen light bar have? i have to stick to under 10g a day if possible. also do they taste like cardboard?
i have bought some slim crackerbread things (heb) to go with laughing cow (hea) some days for snacks......

today - EE (trial but not sure if i'll get 2/3 SF)
B10.30am: bacon, eggs, mushrooms & 2 nimble (heb) scrape of flora light (1.5 syn)
L: banana & diet cola (whilst ds at a party had buffet!)
spag bol - lean mince, mushroom, onions, leeks, tinned toms. served with small serving pasta, brocoli & carrots. Mullerlight for pud.
Sn: hot chocolate - milk (hea), 3tsb powder, 1/2 tsp sugar. I have a curly wurly sat here calling my name while the hot choc cools. (10 syns).
WI monday so we'll see if trying to eat that bit more has worked

saidan (have used 64.5 syns so far this week - WI monday)

Inazuma

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Completely off topic but does anyone know if under active thyroid is hereditary?

Hi TIE, really sorry you are feeling down atm.

My sister and I both have underactive thyroids and our mum had pernicious anaemia, which is part of the same group of disorders known as auto immune and I believe there is a link in families. I'm not sure why you are feeling down, but having an underactive thyroid will certainly contribute, it can make you feel awful when undiagnosed.

Senora_Pie

Argh lost my post! Oh well, it was boring anyway. In summary, I've been out of the game but I'm getting back in!,

Discovered total 0% this week and absolutely love it. Expensive tho :eek:

Also bought an epilator in the amazon black Friday thing (along with a lot of other stuff ) and I LOVE it. Going to change my life :rotfl::T

Got two weeks to my work Christmas do, need a dress stat. Everything seems really short though, and as I'm tall (5'10) I'm struggling to find something. Don't want to spend too much either as I don't plan on staying this size!

TakeItEazy

Inazuma wrote: »

Hi TIE, really sorry you are feeling down atm.

My sister and I both have underactive thyroids and our mum had pernicious anaemia, which is part of the same group of disorders known as auto immune and I believe there is a link in families. I'm not sure why you are feeling down, but having an underactive thyroid will certainly contribute, it can make you feel awful when undiagnosed.

Thanks for answering, I'm going through such a lot at the moment [lost my Dad a couple of weeks ago, hubby made reduntant the week before that & day before funeral bank was hacked so no money ]. Anyway was wondering about thyroid as Mum has it and niece just been diagnosed so my sis & I both googled the symptoms [out of couriosity] and we both have so many of the symptoms. Have an appointment with Dr next Wednesday [earliest available :mad:] so will ask for blood test. Would explain all the ailments I've suffered over the last few years that I put down to other things i.e tummy trouble down to IBS, memory like a sieve down to my age :rotfl:, aching legs & feeling cold all the time down to I don't know what and so on and so forth. Would be nice to know theres a reason and I'm not just falling to bits :rotfl:

Inazuma

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Thanks for answering, I'm going through such a lot at the moment [lost my Dad a couple of weeks ago, hubby made reduntant the week before that & day before funeral bank was hacked so no money ]. Anyway was wondering about thyroid as Mum has it and niece just been diagnosed so my sis & I both googled the symptoms [out of couriosity] and we both have so many of the symptoms. Have an appointment with Dr next Wednesday [earliest available :mad:] so will ask for blood test. Would explain all the ailments I've suffered over the last few years that I put down to other things i.e tummy trouble down to IBS, memory like a sieve down to my age :rotfl:, aching legs & feeling cold all the time down to I don't know what and so on and so forth. Would be nice to know theres a reason and I'm not just falling to bits :rotfl:

Those really do sound a lot like thyroid symptoms - I was cold all the time and had aching legs, and my brain just felt thick; I thought I was getting old, although I was only 35. Only got diagnosed as couldn't conceive and had blood tests for that.

I am a lurker here, so have been following your posts and the terrible time you have been having. Hope you are beginning to heal a little. The good thing about underactive thyroid is that it is fairly simple to remedy once it is confirmed and if GP starts you on thyroxine you should feel better gradually but quite definitely. It affects your metabolism, and weight loss can be hard so it's not as off topic as you thought!

dimbo79

Good Morning

It's a beautiful day here in Lincolnshire, hope it stays.

Anyway another Green day for me again:
B - 2 x WG toast (HEB), baked beans, 3 x mini babybel light (HEA)
S - Fruit (more cherries and grapes as have loads)
L - HM Butternut Squash soup
S - 2 x Ryvita Fruit Crunch (HEB), Banana
D - Veg soup with Pearl Barley
S - Lemon Cheesecake Muller light (1 syn), more fruit

Lots of water, green tea, swimming, the 30 Day shred and perhaps a walk.