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maman

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

Fri 6 January 2012
B-tuna and egg salad – tomato, red pepper, spring onions, cabbage, ½ avocado, 1 tblspn light mayo – 7 syns
S-fruit
L-left over Sunshine Pasta Bake (courgettes, peppers, onions) made into frittata (HEA)
S-fruit
D-lentil soup; chicken thigh, braised cabbage, green beans; beetroot salad; green salad – lettuce, cucumber, ¼ avocado, sp onion - 3½ syns

I love the way the avocado portion gets smaller through the day!:rotfl:

Prudent wrote: »

I don't have any scales just now as I have loaned them out.

We threw our old scales away for much the same reason. I've avoided replacing them. That way there's no temptation to weigh mid-week and be freaked out by natural fluctuations. Good Luck!

Prudent wrote: »

This is what I am planning to eat today. Any hints or comments most welcome

B. 1 oz porridge oats coeked with about a quarter of a packet of frozen summer fruits (mixed berries) with 2 desert spoons of total 0% greek fat yoghurt stirred in.

L. Tuna salad and cuscous (spelling!) mixed salad leaves, spring onion, 2 beetroots, red onion and tomato
Fresh pineapple

D. Thinking of making a chickpea, spinach, pepper and mushroom curry which I will have with rice (can I use any kind?)
Shape rhubarb crumble style yoghurt

snacks. I have some pears that need eating up

That looks like a good day's menu. It could be syn free (if that's what you want) but you need to check couscous, rice (some microwave packs/ways of cooking aren't free) and depends how you do your curry (powder and spices is fine but pastes/jars have syns). Sorry don't know about the shape yoghurt.

maman

tankgirl1 wrote: »

Hello everyone!
Another bad day for me y'day - went well overboard on the syns

I'm finding my worst time of day is the evening - I start to feel hungry and crave savoury snacks - crisps/crackers/cheese etc. I eat my main meal between 4-5pm with LO as he comes home from school starving!

Does anyone have any ideas on how to train myself out of the evening munchies

I don't know how old your LO is but is it possible to have an afternoon 'tea' snack straight after school then eat your meal a bit later? Many people eat syn free all day and save them for treats in the evenings. You could not buy crackers and things (difficult I know with LOs). Having snacks isn't a problem, it's making sure you snack on free (or preferably SF) foods. I've often made a jacket and cottage cheese as late at 11 p.m. Don't be too hard on yourself, it's all about planning and having the 'right' things available.

sarahs999

OK - a better evening last night now that the evil milk tray have been consigned to some children at my DH's school! Have managed to stick so far to my resolution of doing some exercise every day, even if it's just walking to school, so feeling positive about that (i do realise it's early days!).

Food today:
B: low fat yog, grapes, tsp honey (1 syn)
L: jacket pot and tuna
Hugh FW's bean-stuffed chilli peppers

snacks: fruit, kellog's fibre plus (HEB), tea and coffee (HEA), muller yog
martini this evening (not sure of syns, depends how big my measure is

Prudent

Thank you for the welcome

What does HEA stand for?

Prudent

maman wrote: »

I love the way the avocado portion gets smaller through the day!:rotfl:



We threw our old scales away for much the same reason. I've avoided replacing them. That way there's no temptation to weigh mid-week and be freaked out by natural fluctuations. Good Luck!



That looks like a good day's menu. It could be syn free (if that's what you want) but you need to check couscous, rice (some microwave packs/ways of cooking aren't free) and depends how you do your curry (powder and spices is fine but pastes/jars have syns). Sorry don't know about the shape yoghurt.

Thank you so much. I could change the coucous for a baked potato if that would help. I am making my curry from scratch. I am using a recipe link from page 1 of this thread for the sauce. The other ingredients are because I have them. I have food budget of £25 a week and my fiance eats with me once or twice a week, so I am careful about using things up. Thankfully he is happy to have what ever I have as long as its vegetarian. I am thinking of making the butternut squash bubble and squeak from the recipe thread with quorn sausages tomorrow eve.

Does anyone know if the cold quorn sliced 'meat' substitutes are syn free?

tankgirl1

maman wrote: »

I don't know how old your LO is but is it possible to have an afternoon 'tea' snack straight after school then eat your meal a bit later? Many people eat syn free all day and save them for treats in the evenings. You could not buy crackers and things (difficult I know with LOs). Having snacks isn't a problem, it's making sure you snack on free (or preferably SF) foods. I've often made a jacket and cottage cheese as late at 11 p.m. Don't be too hard on yourself, it's all about planning and having the 'right' things available.

Thanks maman

I think this is what I will have to aim to do - save my syns and possibly HEB until the evening. I have thought about eating tea later, but LO (6yo) comes home starving, and I battle to get him to eat his tea if I let him have a snack before - even if we then have tea later - so I find it better for him to have an earlier meal.

Ideally I would like him to eat what I eat, as I want him to start eating healthier too - we had far far far too many 'meals' consisting of pizzas, chips, cheese/ crisp butties, peanut butter on toast, chicken nuggets etc etc last year - I'd really slipped - which again is why I'm finding it hard, and why I really want LO eating healthier too!

Also I like to have a drink - do you know what the lowest syn value alcohol is? I like a beer, which again has added hugely to my waistline, so need to find a better alternative lol!

evilsquid1603

maman wrote: »

We threw our old scales away for much the same reason. I've avoided replacing them. That way there's no temptation to weigh mid-week and be freaked out by natural fluctuations. Good Luck!

i fell into the mid week weigh trap last time. i even did pre WI weighs so i didn't get a shock. it didn't help me one bit and i made myself stop it all and just do the one a week.

Prudent wrote: »

What does HEA stand for?

HEA = healthy extra A
HEB = healthy extra B

Prudent wrote: »

Does anyone know if the cold quorn sliced 'meat' substitutes are syn free?

we were told with quorn, if its processed in any way i.e. not the "mince" or "pieces" then it has a syn value.

maman

tankgirl1 wrote: »

Also I like to have a drink - do you know what the lowest syn value alcohol is? I like a beer, which again has added hugely to my waistline, so need to find a better alternative lol!

Sorry but I'm not a beer fan. I could tell you wine syns to the last drop!:rotfl:I think the lowest is a spirit (vodka, gin) with a diet mixer. Don't forget your LO could have beans, egg and chips every night and you'd still lose weight!;)

Prudent wrote: »

Thank you so much. I could change the coucous for a baked potato if that would help. QUOTE]

Most plain couscous made from dry is free but some flavoured ones aren't and certainly not the made-up pots!

tankgirl1

maman wrote: »

Sorry but I'm not a beer fan. I could tell you wine syns to the last drop!:rotfl:I think the lowest is a spirit (vodka, gin) with a diet mixer. Don't forget your LO could have beans, egg and chips every night and you'd still lose weight!;)

That'll be me on the voddy and diet cokes then :D

LO doesn't like SW chips - he says they taste of peas :rotfl:

lo_bush

Hi all, I'm not sure if I posted my post Christmas/Pre New Year WI ( The holidays have fried my brain completely) but I had gained 4.5lbs, which wasn't toooo bad considering how much I had pigged out. Anyway last night was post New Year WI and I've managed to shake off 3.5lbs of it, so I'm really pleased with that.
Well done all you happy losers, Welcome newbies (It's really not as complicated as it first seems) and big hugs to those struggling (we're all human)
Like all the other regulars Dizzy has been very much in my thoughts things must be very difficult for her and her family at the moment, it puts other things into perspective a bit doesn't it?.
Prudent: Don't I recognise that name from another board on here?