Make 2013 a year to remember with Slimming World (Part 2!)

Blodwen

maman wrote: »

If I make my own, I generally cook pasta and then stir something in. My favourite is to do a tray of roasted vegetables with frylight (courgettes, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic) and stir that into the cooked pasta. It's yummy and travels well in a Tupperware type box.

I watched the programme. Quite interesting and seriously done. A lot of emphasis on the emotional side of eating. I loved some of the music they'd chosen. My group does meet in a church hall but we've not resorted to this yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGrlO8ntOQk

I do pasta salad like this, with roast veg, but often add a spoonful of red pesto in as well - it's something like 3 syns per tablespoon but a tbsp goes a long way. A sprinkling of parmesan is low as well.

I only saw the first 15 mins of the programme then another 5 mins near the end as fell asleep so may watch it again. I liked the fact that it was just observing rather than making any judgements about classes and the people who attend them (from the bits I saw anyway!)

TakeItEazy

maman wrote: »

P.S. tie, hope it was a half syn sausage!

Errr nope :eek:

magicbucks

TakeItEazy wrote: »

Errr nope :eek:

TIE I take that non half syn sausage and raise you my breakfast:rotfl:

A twix and an americano No excuse really wanted it but thats it now back to plan

lilian1977

Morning all

Hope everyone is feeling happy and healthy this morning?

My plan for today (Extra Easy):

Breakfast: One egg omelette with half a tomato, a mushroom and some spring onion (at 4.30am - DS wide awake!)
HEB Porridge made with water and a spoonful of fat free natural yoghurt, blackberries and raspberries (both foraged on the way home last night)
Melon cubes

Morning snack: Apple & Peach

Lunch: 3 x Ryvita crackbreads (not high fibre so 3 syns) with v low fat cottage cheese

Post gym: Quinoa salad (containing broccoli, babycorn, tomato, red pepper and lollo rosso) for the protein

Afternoon snack: Fat free yoghurt with strawberries

Dinner: Small portion of veg packed sausage casserole (not 1/2 syn, made before SW started so will count it as 5 syns to be safe!) with wholemeal pasta. Nectarine for pud.

Evening snack: 10g Propercorn (2.5 syns) and 28g cheese (HEA)


Anything blindingly obvious that I've missed?

MrOrchard

Hello All,

Continuing to lose here (even though my weigh in isn't until Sunday), I'm down around 10kg now since I started, or a stone and half (ISH).

The lightest I've ever been as an adult is 125kg, 19st 8lb and I'm only a couple of kilos from this, around 5lbs.

Apologies for working in kilos, but I'm 33 and was brought up on the metric system, so whilst I KNOW my ideal weight in Stones, I can VISUALISE a kilo much easier (it's a bag of sugar, innit )

So, after my 10kg loss target, my next milestone is to have lost 12.5kg, the weight of my 22 month old boy.

Commuted to work by bicycle twice so far this week, so that's 62 miles of cycling, with another 31 mile commute tomorrow. I also joined a cycling club (as member number 2!) last weekend, and will get another 20 - 25 miles in on Saturday with them, so my exercise levels are ok.


I realise I've never really posted my food here before, for scrutiny:

I actually find myself actively avoiding syns during the week. It's really not a hardship given how many things are free! The biggest changes I've made so far are cutting out bread, cheese, wine and oil/fat. I find it very easy to have a 0 syn dinner and lunch everyday - Quorn bolognase has always been a staple in my household for example - and a jacket pot with salad, low fat cottage cheese, or beans, or prawns, or tuna is an easy option.

Today I'm having (or had for breakfast):

• Breakkie: 2 x weetabix with SS milk, banana and a plum cut up on top
• Lunch: Jacket spud with tuna (in spring water) a salad and an activia 0% yogurt
• Dinner: Turkey curry (some leftovers) in the SW 0 syn curry sauce, with rice and a pot luck fruit salad depending on what Abel and Cole have left on my doorstep today.

I'll snack on a lot of fruit throughout the day as well. It also helps that I like my coffee like I like my w.... actually, that doesn't work, what I mean is that I lilke coffee like marmite, black and strong, so no HEx saving required for milk.

I seem to use my syns in a laissez-faire fashion, more at the weekends and few during the week, which is clearly working for me at the moment, but I probably have no more than 2 or 3 on a weekday (with many 0 days) and more on the weekends. SW is actually VERY straightforward once you get your head round it isn't it? Perfect for a simpleton like me!

Carry on the good work all!

maman

lilian1977 wrote: »

Anything blindingly obvious that I've missed?

To answer your question , you're doing fine. It's just that as a syn saver I'm always trying to find syn free ways of eating during the week.

I know it was 4.30 a.m:eek:. but if you made a large omelette for breakfast (I'm enjoying these at the moment;)) you'd have it to snack on for later.

I used to have sausage casserole without the sausages when I was getting to target (assuming I didn't have low syn ones in). So mine was more like a veggie stew.

I think you're being exemplary with synning the Ryvita crackerbread. 3 with one Weetabix is one HEA. So to miss part of a HEA (i.e. no Weetabix) is hardly a catastrophe. I'm not trying to encourage bad ways but I think you're being amazingly good.:T

EE day here:
B: NAS Ribena, 2 boiled eggs, HEB toast, HEA milk for teas, banana (sometime)
L: I've got a little LO veg from last night. I'll fry up mushrooms and spring onions and add that in. Probably enough.
baked haddock, cauliflower, courgette and broccoli cheese, SW chips/wedges
Syns: cheese sauce (will try to limit tea drinking to keep syns low)

sukeyboo

Morning All,

I completely forgot all about that programme last night - will have to catch up on the iplayer. I have never tried WW but did do RC for a while before converting to SW. RC did work but I always felt hungry :mad: unlike now

Maman - I know what you mean about being at the upper end of your target range - it is surprising what a difference those few lbs make - I know I much prefer to be at the lower end of mine otherwise I feel uncomfortable.

Steph - your pyrotechnics sound really interesting - I love watching displays - do you ever have any 'down South'?

EE (as usual) for me today:
- maintaining so extra HE A & B for me
B: x2 Weetabix (HEB1) with semi-skimmed milk (HEA1) and banana, small fruit juice (2 syns)
L: Small wholemeal roll (HEB2) with tuna, peppers, sweetcorn & watercress, ML Greek style FF yogurt (1/2 syn)
T: Homemade chicken curry (SW recipe) with lots of peppers onion & tomatoes & basmati rice (maybe a tiny bit - and I do mean tiny! - of OH's naan bread to mop up the sauce) I think I should allow 2 syns for this
S & Banana, grapes, tea (milk from HEA2)

So, overall 4 1/2 syns for the day (unless I decide to have a little tipple later in which case it will be another 6 syns for a glass of wine :eek:)

lilian1977

maman wrote: »

To answer your question , you're doing fine. It's just that as a syn saver I'm always trying to find syn free ways of eating during the week.

I know it was 4.30 a.m:eek:. but if you made a large omelette for breakfast (I'm enjoying these at the moment;)) you'd have it to snack on for later.

That's true - might try that next week. I don't really go out at weekends so would treat them the same, but will maybe try and ease up on the syns through the week to give me the leeway.

maman wrote: »

I used to have sausage casserole without the sausages when I was getting to target (assuming I didn't have low syn ones in). So mine was more like a veggie stew.

I could always spoon them out and let OH have them, but I guess the fat will already be in the sauce?

maman wrote: »

I think you're being exemplary with synning the Ryvita crackerbread. 3 with one Weetabix is one HEA. So to miss part of a HEA (i.e. no Weetabix) is hardly a catastrophe. I'm not trying to encourage bad ways but I think you're being amazingly good.:T

I wasn't sure because I've already had my HEB of porridge oats?

Thank you so much for your tips

lilian1977

Eating out tips - which of these would be the best to have on an EE day?



I'm thinking the chicken salad and the Goi Cuon.

MrOrchard

lilian1977 wrote: »

Eating out tips - which of these would be the best to have on an EE day?


I'm thinking the chicken salad and the Goi Cuon.

I'd agree, though be wary of the peanut oil, see if that can be separate in some way.