Be Fab not Fat in Fourteen! (welcome to the Slimming World Support thread)

lantanna

Maman - I have that programme taped so look forward to watching, I know it is easy to think how and why -but I was looking at a pic of myself from last year and at the time I couldn't see how big I was.


I think education is a lot to blame. When I was at school no one ever talked about healthy eating - lunch was chips and chips - crisps were freely available and you had a two course lunch in primary school everyday.


No one ever talked about a healthy diet - consequences etc - I'm only 34 so its not like it was really that long ago either!


Mind you same way no one ever taught me about Money either!!


And yes before anyone starts I am responsible for what I put in my mouth and what and how I spend - but trust me when I was a kid it was just eat what was put in front of you with no consideration or talk of health, obesity, 5 a day or weight!


I often think I would love to start again with a completely new body - one which I would look after better and never let get fat! I think for some obese people it must some seem like an impossible challenge so they just stay the same.

tracey12_2

mumoftwo wrote: »

Decided to go red today:

b: scrambled egg and slice of ham
l: tuna salad, l/f mayo 2syns,
Muller Greek Style yogurt 1/2 syn, these are so yummy,the coconut one is divine, I can eat them all day long

t: sausages from Sainsb. 1 1/2 syns
HEa: milk
HEb: prob crackers tonight and 2 Alpen light bars as snacks with a cup of tea
syns: I bought the last 3 packets of Velvet Crunch on the shelf at Tesco as they were only £1 - 4.5 syns

Velvet crunch are 4 syns each (every little helps)

greentiger

Hello again.
Yesterday I planned
Breakfast - herb omelette with tomatoes and spring onions
lunch - Uncle Ben's risotto bacon & mushroom, 6syns (couldn't find med veg one ), fruit
dinner - Singapore beef, 1 syn followed by fruit and ff greek yogurt,

In the end It was chicken & mushroom risotto, so only 4 Syns. My fruit was an orange and grapes. I chose 2 Alpen Light bars for hexb and 30g cheddar chunk for hexa, so I was quite happy with that.

Today

Breakfast: porridge with hexa milk
Lunch: chicken noodles, rasps and ff yogurt
Dinner: lamb stew with couscous (0.5 Syn) followed by meringue nest with strawberries and ML vanilla yogurt (3 syns).

That leaves plenty of scope for my snacks.

Thanks for the support everyone and good luck today.

tracey12_2

My food for today:-

Green day

Breakfast - 35g Shreddies (HEB), 250ml semi skimmed milk (HEA) with banana

Lunch - SW chickpea loaf (free), 2 slices wholemeal bread (HEB), 20g reduced fat cheddar cheese (0.5 HEA) with 0.5 tbsp. Baxters onion chutney (1 syn). I toasted bread on one side, added onion chutney and topped with cheese and back under the grill, yummy with salad, an apple

Snack - pack of Pom bears (5 syns)

Tea - Orzo pasta bake with tomatoes, mushrooms, 2 Linda McCartney Italian sausages (1 syn) and 20g reduced fat cheddar (0.5 HEA)

Snack - Velvet crunch (4 syns) and Quark chocolate pudding using 0.5 tub quark and 11g chocolate options (2 syns) mixed with some water so not so thick (this is quite rich so sometimes eat over 2 days).

Tracey

mich_city

well done all some fab losses :T

had a good day yesterday.. first one fully on track in a long time! :j

I keep fooling myself that i'm sticking to it and wondering why i'm getting gains when I know full well i'm not.. time to be honest with myself and stop the nasty habits I've picked up!

today..
B: 2 Weetabix + banana (A+B)
L: HM soup.. squash, sweet potato, parsnip, onion.. veg stock, garlic, curry powder.. yummy!
T: 2 sausages (2) new potatoes, cabbage + carrots.. dessert: mullerlight + blueberries

snack syns: not sure yet, see what I fancy later on

gingerfurball

I went and got myself some salad to go with my yogurt and fruit...shouldn't have bothered it was tasteless and uninspiring and I gave most of it away (to hubby).

sukeyboo

Wow - some amazing losses on here today - especially rfd & xjoanne - congratulations :T.

Like Maman says rfd, I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as it is only the one week - see what happens next week and then maybe cut the 'fast day' out if you are still losing too much.

Welcome pooler-leanne - there are a few of us that don't go to group on here (me included) and those that do are really helpful with syn values and checking menus etc.

gingerfurball

I do fancy that Quark pudding though...I must have a rootle round Sainsbugs and see if they have any (our local one has expanded recently and they have actually dropped a lot of their range! To make room for a bunch of new stuff which is rubbish!!)

gallygirl

gingerfurball wrote: »

I do fancy that Quark pudding though...I must have a rootle round Sainsbugs and see if they have any (our local one has expanded recently and they have actually dropped a lot of their range! To make room for a bunch of new stuff which is rubbish!!)

I saw today that Asda are now selling small pots of quark in multipacks :T.

mumoftwo

tracey12 wrote: »

Velvet crunch are 4 syns each (every little helps)

thank you, :j:j

I have just looked up Joedenise's recipe for the hoisin sausages, was in Sainsb and was buying sausages when I thought of them, lol bought the hoisin sauce etc. Just copying and pasting the recipe in here for easiness so I can find it later on when I need it.

20 pork cocktail sausages - I used pkt BGTY cumberland cut in 4
2 level tbsp hoisin sauce
4 tbsp tomato pur!e
4 tbsp dark soy sauce
¼ tsp sweetener
¼ tsp dried red chilli flakes
Mix all the sauce ingredients together in a dish and then put the cut up sausages and turn to coat. Try to get them into a single layer.
Cook in a pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees. I turned them in the sauce halfway through cooking although to ensure they were coated more evenly.

They sound lovely and can't wait to try them.

edited to add: I didn't realise hoisin sauce is 2 syns per tblspoon, so the whole recipe made with Sainsb. pack of sausages (8 x 0.5 syn) and the marinade will come to 8 syns, is that correct?