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Rummer

Hello

I could do with some advice from more experienced SW members. What I am struggling with is my sweet tooth. How have others coped with reducing their sugar intake?

teecee46

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

OMG sorry didn't realise how much I'd written - sorry to bore you all!!!!!

Your post wasn't boring at all - it's chatty & full of ideas and I loved it! :T

jennyjelly

Hi, hope you don't mind if I join in and take advantage of the vast amount of experience on here. I joined an SW group on Thursday and although the leader explained it all I'm finding it a bit difficult to get my head around the whole idea of eating as much as I want! Having tried and failed with WW and RC it just seems such an odd way to lose weight, though I work with loads of people who are proof that it works.

If I tell you what I ate yesterday would you be able to give me a critique please? Here goes.

Breakfast - 1 shredded wheat with just enough semi skimmed to moisten it. (I think that's my A and B healthy extras?)

Lunch - 3 scrambled eggs, 3 rashers of bacon with all the fat cut off and some mushrooms, all fried in fry-light. (I think all these are free?)

Dinner - HM curry using 3 chicken breasts, onions, broccoli, carrots, curry powder, fat free yoghurt, chicken stock cube, no oil, just Fry-light. Served this with a big pile of boiled basmati rice. This served 3 of us. (My book says it's free but I can't believe that). I followed this with an Asda SP creme caramel which according to the syns calc on the SW site is 5 syns.

Supper - 1 shredded wheat with a little milk (approx 7 syns?) as I can't sleep otherwise (though it always used to be a huge bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes and 1/2 pint milk :eek:)

Throughout the day I had 4 cups of tea - I only have about 10 mls sKimmed milk per cup so I'm guessing this is the rest of my HEA option. I also spent the whole day eating strawberries, grapes, blueberries and crabsticks.

I'd be really really grateful if someone could glance through this and tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks in advance.

JJ

Senora_Pie

Rummer wrote: »

Hello

I could do with some advice from more experienced SW members. What I am struggling with is my sweet tooth. How have others coped with reducing their sugar intake?

This is what I struggled with too. I use my syns almost exclusively for sweet things :$ lol
Try mini meringue nests, Cadbury chocolate fingers, mikado and the like. All pretty low syn to give you a taste and hopefully stop the cravings! Some people also like an Options drink, again they're low syn but pretty sweet

gallygirl

jennyjelly wrote: »

Hi, hope you don't mind if I join in and take advantage of the vast amount of experience on here. I joined an SW group on Thursday and although the leader explained it all I'm finding it a bit difficult to get my head around the whole idea of eating as much as I want! Having tried and failed with WW and RC it just seems such an odd way to lose weight, though I work with loads of people who are proof that it works.

If I tell you what I ate yesterday would you be able to give me a critique please? Here goes.

Breakfast - 1 shredded wheat with just enough semi skimmed to moisten it. (I think that's my A and B healthy extras?)

Lunch - 3 scrambled eggs, 3 rashers of bacon with all the fat cut off and some mushrooms, all fried in fry-light. (I think all these are free?)

Dinner - HM curry using 3 chicken breasts, onions, broccoli, carrots, curry powder, fat free yoghurt, chicken stock cube, no oil, just Fry-light. Served this with a big pile of boiled basmati rice. This served 3 of us. (My book says it's free but I can't believe that). I followed this with an Asda SP creme caramel which according to the syns calc on the SW site is 5 syns.

Supper - 1 shredded wheat with a little milk (approx 7 syns?) as I can't sleep otherwise (though it always used to be a huge bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes and 1/2 pint milk :eek:)

Throughout the day I had 4 cups of tea - I only have about 10 mls sKimmed milk per cup so I'm guessing this is the rest of my HEA option. I also spent the whole day eating strawberries, grapes, blueberries and crabsticks.

I'd be really really grateful if someone could glance through this and tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks in advance.

JJ

The only thing I can see is that you have not had 1/3 superfree fruit or veg for breakfast (possibly lunch also?). Have a big portion of fruit with your cereal, or eat an apple etc. You may find fat free yogurt better for brekkie than milk - you can have as much as you like of that

Good luck.

And yes, your curry would be free :T

jennyjelly

Thanks for looking, and for the reaassurance! So would it have been better if I had eaten my strawberries with shreddies and FF yoghurt for breakfast, rather than as a snack later?

ETA chuffed that I'm right about the curry - DH and DS both loved it too!

evilsquid1603

Rummer wrote: »

Hello

I could do with some advice from more experienced SW members. What I am struggling with is my sweet tooth. How have others coped with reducing their sugar intake?

if you are going to group, get hifi bars. I've found if i get a craving for "sweet" theres just enough chocolate on them to take it away and all I've had is my HEB. if not or you want to kep your HEB, get the treat size chocolate bars, there all around 5 syns a go. highlights and options hot chocolate are good too, they're only 2 syns each per sachet. if you get cravings all you want is the taste and a little bit will work just as well as a full size will.

you could make the fake ferrero rocher too. its basically nutella and crushed up ryvita mixed together. it sounds disgusting but they actually do pass for ferrero rocher and are like 1/2 syn each (i think).

it is hard at first reducing it is you are used to having loads but you do start to loose the taste for it.

jennyjelly wrote: »

Hi, hope you don't mind if I join in and take advantage of the vast amount of experience on here. I joined an SW group on Thursday and although the leader explained it all I'm finding it a bit difficult to get my head around the whole idea of eating as much as I want! Having tried and failed with WW and RC it just seems such an odd way to lose weight, though I work with loads of people who are proof that it works.

If I tell you what I ate yesterday would you be able to give me a critique please? Here goes.

Breakfast - 1 shredded wheat with just enough semi skimmed to moisten it. (I think that's my A and B healthy extras?)

Lunch - 3 scrambled eggs, 3 rashers of bacon with all the fat cut off and some mushrooms, all fried in fry-light. (I think all these are free?)

Dinner - HM curry using 3 chicken breasts, onions, broccoli, carrots, curry powder, fat free yoghurt, chicken stock cube, no oil, just Fry-light. Served this with a big pile of boiled basmati rice. This served 3 of us. (My book says it's free but I can't believe that). I followed this with an Asda SP creme caramel which according to the syns calc on the SW site is 5 syns.

Supper - 1 shredded wheat with a little milk (approx 7 syns?) as I can't sleep otherwise (though it always used to be a huge bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes and 1/2 pint milk :eek:)

Throughout the day I had 4 cups of tea - I only have about 10 mls sKimmed milk per cup so I'm guessing this is the rest of my HEA option. I also spent the whole day eating strawberries, grapes, blueberries and crabsticks.

I'd be really really grateful if someone could glance through this and tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks in advance.

JJ

what a lot of members do if the HEA isn't being used in one go is buy flasks and measure out the full HEA into it in the morning and only take milk from that flask so you know how much you have left and you don't go over the allowance.

don't worry that you are eating too much! if you are eating enough to satisfy your genuine hunger then you are eating exactly why you should be eating. i know its hard coming from restrictive diets telling you that you should eat small portions and going hungry because of it but your body won't drop weight if it feels like its being starved. its designed to hold on to every last gram of fat and to store whatever it can as fat if it thinks that food is scarce, its how we survived in our caveman days.

teecee46

jennyjelly wrote: »

Hi, hope you don't mind if I join in and take advantage of the vast amount of experience on here. I joined an SW group on Thursday and although the leader explained it all I'm finding it a bit difficult to get my head around the whole idea of eating as much as I want!
Breakfast - 1 shredded wheat with just enough semi skimmed to moisten it. (I think that's my A and B healthy extras?)
Lunch - 3 scrambled eggs, 3 rashers of bacon with all the fat cut off and some mushrooms, all fried in fry-light. (I think all these are free?)
Dinner - HM curry using 3 chicken breasts, onions, broccoli, carrots, curry powder, fat free yoghurt, chicken stock cube, no oil, just Fry-light. Served this with a big pile of boiled basmati rice. This served 3 of us. (My book says it's free but I can't believe that).
I followed this with an Asda SP creme caramel which according to the syns calc on the SW site is 5 syns.
Supper - 1 shredded wheat with a little milk (approx 7 syns?)

Hiya - when you joined SW did your consultant give you a pin number? If so, your membership number and pin gives you access to the SW website where you can read up more but just thought I'd give you my tuppence worth on your menu.
1½ Shredded Wheat = healthy B
250ml semi skimmed milk = healthy A (if you take milk in tea, I would keep your daily allowance separate in a container for the first few weeks until you are sure how much you are using - every 100ml over your allowance counts as 2½ syns)
Breakfast - try and add a bit of fruit to it - a banana, strawberries, frozen mixed fruit - anything like that
Lunch - all fine - again, if you like tomato, throw one into the pan!
Dinner - no problems! Again add a bit of fruit or something with your creme caramel which is officially 4½ syns.
1 Shredded Wheat (when not being used as part of your Healthy is 3½ syns but since you didn't use 1½ in the morning - who would try to break a shredded wheat in ½!! - I would count your wee supper one as 2 syns (plus whatever milk you used over your 250ml daily allowance)
Sorry if this is long winded but hope it helps - and keep asking!

maman

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

OMG sorry didn't realise how much I'd written - sorry to bore you all!!!!!

Definitely not bored but the food sounds fab!! If you didn't live so far away I'd be inviting myself round!!

jennyjelly wrote: »

I'd be really really grateful if someone could glance through this and tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thanks in advance.

JJ

I think that's a great start but would agree that the Superfree might be a bit low as it's hard to tell how much you grazed on.;) If you like fruit with your cereal then that's great but snacking on it has the same effect. I haven't had any SF yet today but will probably make up for it over lunch and dinner.

I love SW curries and I add peppers, mushrooms and sometimes spinach to mine. I like a tomato based curry with a tub of passata too.

Good Luck!

My EE menu today:
B: NAS squash, baked beans, HEB toast, HEA milk for teas
L: vegetable soup
D:roast beef, SW roasties and parsnips, cauli, broccoli, carrots, cabbage
Syns: wine with meal, horseradish, gravy and maybe small yorkie.

ruby_eskimo

Hi everyone, WI day today and I've lost 3lb! I can't remember the last time I weighed this weight! Even more determined to carry on and get to where I want to be!