Spring into Summer 2012 with Slimming World

lalamb

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I do 99% green days. It is no meat unless you either syn it or have it as a B choice. It's unlimited potatoes/ rice/ pasta/ pulses and you get the flexibility of 2A and 2B choices.
A typical green day for me:
I use 1 A for milk in tea and coffee throughout the day
Coffee first thing
Breakfast 2 x weetabix (B choice), activia snackpot yoghurt, banana,
tea
Lunch is usually a big bowl of homemade lentil soup-loads of lentils with swede, carrot and leeks, yummy!
Will have a snack about 3pm, usually fruit and yoghurt and a cup of tea/coffee sometimes a kitkat(5.5 syns)

Breakfast and lunch are the same for me everyday, the only thing I change usually is dinner.
Yesterday i had a cheese omelette(A choice for cheese), SW chips with more cheese on top! On green cheese is a B choice too:D and baked beans.
Had a curly wurly(6 syns) at about 8pm with a cuppa.
So that is both A and B choices used and 12 syns:)

That's a fairly standard day for me following a green day, today I'm having the usual breakfast and lunch but will have a quorn chicken burger(2.5 syns) on a wholemeal roll(B) with SW chips and an A of cheese on them and beans.

Please feel free to ask any questions:)

Any red people want to post their meal plans, I don't really do red days but am happy to mock up a meal plan if anyone wants?

Thanks for that, very helpful indeed!

I will see what happens tomorrow night at WI and I may try a different plan for the following week. I like lots of chicken(staple of my diet even before SW) and I would struggle without it I think. I don't eat a lot of red meat, maybe once or twice a week. I eat lots of rice and veg. The only thing I'm doing differently now that I wasn't doing before SW is eating regular meals and eating lots of fruit....oh and I've discovered I love mullerlights, I never liked yogurts before.

lalamb

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Also for any new SW people, if you haven't already check out https://www.minimins.co.uk for loads of information, people have posted loads of great stuff on there. There are food diaries to check out and lots of recipe ideas. If you scroll down the page I've linked to there is a dedicated slimming world section.

I will have a look at that thank you.

I've just noticed on slimming eats site http://www.slimmingeats.com/blog/category/green/page/5

They do recipes according to plan categories aswell, which is very helpful.

SwipernoSwiping

Minnie-the-Minx wrote: »

My official WI isn't until tomorrow but judging from my own scales I've stayed the same this week.

I feel like I am doing everything right but I guess not...

Could you lovely experienced ladies cast an expert eye over a couple of typical days and tell me if you can see anything obviously wrong:

late B: ff yogurt, eggs, mushroom, tomato + grapefruit
snack: Alpen light, half an HEB
mushy pea curry (lots of veg) + mango, melon, pineapple
Wine 6.5 syns
HEA - skimmed milk for coffee


B: eggs + grapefruit
L: leftover mince (with lots of veg cooked in) with cheese + mango, melon, pineapple
snack: Alpen light, half an HEB
chicken, cauliflower, sweetcorn, broccoli + mango, melon, pineapple, grapes
Wine 6.5
Cheese 5
Options hot choc 2
HEA - skimmed milk for coffee

Many thanks.

I'm a wine and cheese lass too on EE - the my worst loss week I was when indulged in both (red wine mind).
While eggs are free on this, I know that they are good for clogging you up...:eek: so add more fibre, or have less eggs. try and stick to 3 or 4 a week.

Also, even though you have veg IN your meals, put a side of salad, or 1/3 of superfree veg ON your plate too. You'll be amazed how filling it becomes. Half my plate was vegs last night even though my lasagne had tomatoes onions and lentils in. I was stuffed!
As I have just learned sweetcorn/corn on the cob and peas are not superfree. So a lot of last weeks vegs didn't help toward the slimming. Yes you'll still loose, but just not as much/fast.

Average day plan for me:

B 1 Weetabix, (1/2 HEB) with HEA milk (ss) Banana & half a grapefruit.
s. 1 scanbran.ryvita (other 1/2 HEB) with ff cottage cheese/ quark or a ff yoghurt
L Tuna salad with baby potatos and ff dressing & ff yoghurt.
s. Satsuma
D. Slow cooked beef with carrots, potatoes, cabbage, brocoli, swede, and onion with beef stock gravy! (which I shall not be eating till I get back from WI tonight:D)

Drinks - Ribena Really Light ( Super Free/speed so I am told? ) and tea with HEA milk.

Evening nibbles, Pineapple, grapes, 1scanbran with FF cottage cheese.
or Reduced fat cheddar. 4 syns for the cheddar otherwise it's a syn free day!

Hoping for at least - 2.5lb tonight and that will put me in different stone bracket. But having had my fair share of wine this week I don't know that I will be. Certainly not believing the Wii - -8lb silly thing. :rotfl:

Not getting much done today. Littlest is still awfully clingy, even though she slept well last night.

shala_moo

Gunsandbanjos - love your analogy!

Rainbowfairydust - the first time i did SW i didn't worry about calories and i succeeded.. every time since i've thought about how many calories are in everything i'm eating and i've failed everytime. I think the whole point of SW working is that you listen to your body and only eat until you are satisfied.. that way most days you would be around the normal calorie limit..

For me it's also a mind rick - in other diets if you are restricted in what you eat then all you want to do is eat. On SW you're not restricted so don't feel hard done by.

lalamb - love the chicken kievs too - so much nicer that shop bought and so much more healthier!!

I'm on a EE day today but i haven't much food at work with me so i'm going to have to use my willpower not to steal bread from my colleagues

have a great day all xx

rachbc

I do mainly green

B - ff yog with banana and mango
S - ryvita (2/3 HEB) and 28g of cheese (HEA) - will have half mid mornong and half pm
L - bulgur with tons of herbs, toms, cucumber, roasted peppers, chickepas and harissa dressing
D - Out for a curry tonight - will have grilled chicken starter (HEB2), boiled rice, veg curry and dahl. Will guesstimate the syns and drink water!

evilsquid1603

lalamb wrote: »

Trying to get my head around R/G days...but it's not happening! Been following EE religiously since starting SW 3 weeks ago, I haven't given the other options a single thought.

So, do you think I will lose more weight following R/G?

Would someone mind giving a typical days meal plan following both days please because I haven't got a clue. You are allowed a certain amount of meat on G days is that right?

My weight loss hasn't been bad considering what I'm eating but I would've loved to have seen a dramatic loss in my first week but I got 2lbs off, then 1.5, it's looking around the 2lb mark again for this week, so maybe I should stick with EE......confused!

i loose more on R/G than i do on EE. I still do a mix of both. i would have:

RED:
bfast: egg with toast 1/2 HEB, butter 2 syn
lunch: chicken breast and salad with fat free dressing
dinner: salmon with HEB potato and salad. sauce 4.5 (HEA milk in sauce)
snacks: usually mullerlight, fruit, ham pieces HEA cheese, other 1/2 HEB bread etc


GREEN:
bfast: HEB cereal and HEA milk
lunch: pasta with homemade sauce and HEA cheese
Tea: Quorn or HEB mince chilli with rice.
snacks: usually mullerlight, fruit, mugshots, super noodles etc

poohbear59

Mediterranean_Mum wrote: »

Poohbear, I hope I didn't offend you as that wasn't my intention at all - I just wanted to point out that SW is really not a diet like any other and that's why it works.

A major part of the plan though is planning and lunchtime can be a nightmare - I know because the last month for me has been full of nightmares and I went majorly off plan. Unfortunately my crazy days aren't over (I have one today) but I've given myself a good talking to and spent just 20 minutes last night peeling and cutting veggies and fruit to take with me today. Today I'm making soup (veggies prepared last night) so that tomorrow I'll be able to take a flask of it with me but if I want this to work I have to make it work - we have to control our eating and not let it control us which so many of us have done for many many years.

Good luck and of course we're all in the same boat and all here to help each other pull those bloody oars!

I am not offended at all. I needed a bit of a kick to make me see where I was going wrong.:D ATM I am not driving and living in the back of beyond is making me very short on fresh fruit. In fact I have none left!! When I planned a supermarket delivery a friend offered to take me shopping but that has now fallen through and here I am with half a cabbage, an onion, some potatoes,[STRIKE]an orange[/STRIKE], and three peppers. I have lots of frozen vegetables but no fruit!

Last night I even persuaded DH not to make me my usual hot choccie as it is laiden with syns.
Today's dinner plan was veggie sausages, mash and lots of veggies but I don't have any veggie sausages so I am going to have to have a rethink.

I also didn't know about the peas!!:eek: Friday's dinner was going to be SW chips, eggs and lots of peas. Will sweetcorn or runner beans be okay instead of peas? We have lots of eggs ATM as the hens are very productive.

poohbear59

Back again.
I have had a look in my freezer and have found some tuna steaks. Does anyone have an interesting recipe? And what would you serve them with? I have found 'seared tuna alla marinara on the SW website but I would need to swap a lot of the ingredients eg tinned chopped tomatoes, no fresh basil. Will adding sweetcorn to it affect the syn value? Not having an advisor as I am doing SW online means I usually just guess about things. But not any more.

rachbc

Sweetcorn is free but not super free so doesn't count towards your 1/3 superfree.

Runner beans are superfree I beleive - not got my book here to check.

maman

poohbear59 wrote: »

I also didn't know about the peas!!:eek: Friday's dinner was going to be SW chips, eggs and lots of peas. Will sweetcorn or runner beans be okay instead of peas? We have lots of eggs ATM as the hens are very productive.

Runner beans are fine and it's OK to have peas but not as part of your one third superfree. I must admit that I'm not a great fruit lover so most of my superfrees come from vegetables. I try to have fresh whenever possible but frozen is fine as is canned or pickled. I eat quite a lot of pickled beetroot. It's a great stand-by. Also, frozen french beans are good. I like them cooked, refreshed and then fried with a bit of garlic and sometimes bacon. I think tinned carrots are a useful standby too. They taste like a different vegetable to fresh ones. I sometimes brown a chopped onion then add a tin of peas and carrots (with the juice and a pinch of sweetener) to the pan and heat through. It makes a different side dish. All of these are good if the fridge is looking a bit empty.