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frogga

It worked last week? Yes I remember it did didn't it? Well, that's it then, we've mastered it! Bingo, I feel better already

Have a good day all, off to walk the hounds xxxx

Mediterranean_Mum

frogga wrote: »

It worked last week? Yes I remember it did didn't it? Well, that's it then, we've mastered it! Bingo, I feel better already

Have a good day all, off to walk the hounds xxxx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hey you know, one day at a time and all that c**p!

tbear06

maman wrote: »

My favourites are Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Cumberland Pork. They're half a syn each. Delicious:drool: 6 in a packet and currently on offer at 2 packs for £5. Not the cheapest but yummy!

Are they the 97% pork ones, love those!

MrsE_2

maman wrote: »

My favourites are Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Cumberland Pork. They're half a syn each. Delicious:drool: 6 in a packet and currently on offer at 2 packs for £5. Not the cheapest but yummy!

I just checked syns online & they are 8 (or could have been 8.5) syn per sausage!

MrsE_2

Still looking for a low syn sausage recommendation.

maman

MrsE wrote: »

Still looking for a low syn sausage recommendation.

Many apologies. I should have said

Be Good to Yourself Extra Lean Pork Cumberland Sausages, 8 pack, chilled, 57g each

They are the half syn ones.:)

maman

maman wrote: »

Many apologies. I should have said

Be Good to Yourself Extra Lean Pork Cumberland Sausages, 8 pack, chilled, 57g each

They are the half syn ones.:)

To avoid any confusion, this is what you're looking for!

Sandypan

I was filling in my food diary last night and thought I had completely stuck to plan and had no syns and discovered that the fat free yogurt I had been eating was synned and the Hi fi bars that I thought were light and hence 2 for a HB were infact 1 for a HB and 6 syns for the other. Fortunately that was only a small mistake but lots of these errors can add up and result in low weight losses.

I made a delicious pasta dish last night looking on here for ideas to use up some quark I had bought RTC.
I chopped up an aubergine, onion, yellow pepper, green pepper, 8 tomatoes and fried them in some Frylite. I cooked some spaghetti in a pan and mixed half a tub of quark in with the vegetables after about 15 minutes and then mixed the veg and quark with the pasta. Absolutely delicious and I think completly free.

I make the Jamie Oliver Jules pasta dish but my recipe uses tinned tuna - another delicious free meal.

MrsE_2

Sandypan wrote: »

I was filling in my food diary last night and thought I had completely stuck to plan and had no syns and discovered that the fat free yogurt I had been eating was synned

I make the Jamie Oliver Jules pasta dish but my recipe uses tinned tuna - another delicious free meal.

I'm often confused by fat free yogurts, I think the mullets, activia & Irish diet yogurts are all flavoured, fat free & syn free & the supermarkets own lookalike mullers, but after that you have to be careful.

Interesting you say about tuna in jules pasta, because I thought when I was looking for the recipe that it was with tuna rather than sausages, is that another official Jamie version or your own tweak?

Always_after_a_bargin

frogga wrote: »

Thanks MedMum, I'm so glad you're awake and on here :beer: It helps to know I'm not on my own as well. I've got to stay possitive today. I think I may have to just bite the bullet and weigh myself every week. Maybe that would have helped as I would have realised earlier that things weren't working.

Half of me is in panic mode, thinking the amazing exciting SW model might not actually be what I thought it was. I don't want to hear that I have to limit free foods. I was happy knowing there were things I could eat as much of as I liked with no consequences.

Now it feels as thought the rug has been pulled out from under me, and actually I do have to watch what I eat, I do have to restrict myself. All the talk from SW about eating as much as you want doesn't work for me. Why me? Why us MedMum?

I'll start again again. I guess I know what I weigh now. So, as of tomorrow it's back to writing it all down, defo walking the dogs everyday, cutting right down on the fruit. I'll weigh myself next Sunday and see how I've done. Hopefully I'll be as successful as you MedMum.

Do you know I'm SO SHOCKED at what the scales have said this morning that I seriously sat here thinking of what else couls possibly be making me weigh so much? Could I be pregnant? Could I have a huge heavy tumor growing inside me that weighs alot? I'm not sure if I'd rather it was either of those two rather than the reality of SW not working for me?

This post could of been written by me. I totally understand how you feel. I had a few weeks where I lost 1/2 lb a week for a few weeks and could not understand why. I counted every syn and weighed ,my healthy extras and eat nothing then other than free foods. I then dawned on me I was eating in between meals lots of fruit and snacking on free food in between. I thought maybe its not as good as it promises. I thought go back to the basic three meals a day concept filling up 2/3 of free food 1/4 Superfree etc. I would snack only on Superfree but cut of bananas and stuck to strawberries and melon ( speed food) to snack. I used my full syns 105 and that week lost 4lb.

Now I think the secret is to train yourself to ask yourself is this hunger or habit. I know I was guilty of it, I am a emotional eater. I have history of depression and anxiety and when I am happy I eat to celebrate and when I am down I eat to make myself feel better. The extra weight wrecked my self esteem and confidence and in return turned me into a angry person, angry towards the world as I was miserable and blamed everyone apart from myself. I wanted to be anyone else apart from me. Not saying your like this :rotfl: but trying to explain the awful fight I have had with my weight, self esteem and confidence.

I then sat back after crying my eyes out New Year's Day, thought enough was enough I am taking back control of my life. I am going to learn to love myself and treat myself with respect and love. Doing this I can then be able to love others and be a better person to be around.

Fast forward to now I am now three stone lighter, my confidence is through the roof and I am have the best people in my life, brilliant friends etc. I have been given a second chance to be the person I knew I was underneath all the mess. You really are what you eat. My depression as gone and my anxiety is at a low. You have to draw a line underneath it now. You have weighed yourself and now here is your fresh start. Go back to basics and write everything down. stick to three meals a day, snack on Superfree in between meals and use your syns. Important to use your syns as you need to live and not be deprived. I also occasionally have one night totally off plan as we all need a break. I then get straight back on and carry on as normal. Surprisingly those weeks I don't see a gain. It's because I am in the habit of eating lots of speed food weekly. Past is past Hun, draw a line underneath it, take what it's taught you and make your future wonderful. Good luck.