Be Awesome in Autumn with Slimming World

Lioness_Twinkletoes

Menu for today:

B - Toasted oats (HEX with raspberries and strawberries with a sprinkling of almond flakes. Topped with Muller smooth coconut yoghurt and a drizzle of honey.

L - The rest of the butternut squash stew

D - I am cooking shepherds pie but might not eat it (cooking it for husband really). So it will either be a small portion of shepherds pie with veg or a salad.

Snacks - Banana and a nectarine. Maybe another yoghurt if I'm feeling bold.

Syns - Around 10 again - all for breakfast. Worth it though!

Kiwisaver_2

So far not so good for me this week either, my *special* week also, I woke up yesterday really cold, tired, achy and tempted to pull a sickie but I didn't and dragged myself into work and was utterly miserable the whole day. Today hasn't been much better I stayed at home and my eating has been a bit half-a$$ed even though I promised I was going to feed myself all good healthy things to make myself feel better.

Added to which other half is falling all over himself to get back in the good books and brought me cake home and offered to go an get fish n chips if I didn't feel like cooking. :eek: That's a double shock that he even noticed and shock that he offered to get ME dinner. I did however turn down the fish n chips as I wasn't willing to sabotage things quite that badly.

B. Porridge, Cinnamon, Maple Syrup
L. Small portion of HM Chicken & mushroom risotto out of freezer (it had some cheese in but no idea of syns)
D. Beef stew from freezer, made with lots of carrots, mushrooms, celery and tinned toms with 2 slices bread (hexb) and scrape of butter
Snacks; 3 Ryvitas and 2 Laughing Cows, 2 x Digestives, a banana and half an iced bun. :eek:

greentiger

Morning all.

I've only skim read this last wee while, but I think there was a rumour about frogga being SOW! EEK! I think it got posted a couple of times - frogga didn't get it twice, lol, or there'd have been some very loud croaking, but then, she's such a shy pond dweller, so maybe not. ;(

Anyway, well done to all you losers; heads up, shoulders back and march on if, like me, you're struggling just now.

Let's hope the nasty lurgy that seems to be affecting so many of us goes away soon.

Hello, to all the new people. It's good to meet you.

Well, Shala, it' s -1lb for me. Absolutely thrilled with that considering I've been eating out all the time and have been feeding my cold. However tour guide duties are finished now, so back to "auld claes and parritch" and SW ethos, hoping cold loses its appetite.

Today's Menu

Breakfast: hexb French toast, banana & maple syrup (1 syn)
Lunch: Batchelor's Pasta 'n' Sauce Cheese & Broccoli, beetroot, tomato, fruit
Dinner: steak pie (hmmm, not really SW friendly, but special request of granddaughter - any idea how many syns to allocate for this, including a wee bit of puff pastry?, carrots, cauli, potatoes, Hartley's 10 jelly (0.5 syn)
Snack: grapes & hexa mini babybels (2 or 3 depending on whether they're light or not)

Big fat line drawn in sand, and hoping the tide stays out.

maman

Saverupper, I agree with lioness that you're not having enough superfrees in your menu. The way I reckoned it was that if you added your fruit snack (whenever you eat it) to your breakfast then that was balanced out. Your salad lunches were fine. That leaves your dinners where you only had a portion of carrots and green beans as SF all week. Definitely not enough. If you think that SW recommend Success Express (two thirds SF) for speeding up weightloss then if you're not even having the third then that's probably where the problem lies. IMO, SFs and planning are the two key features of SW.


beg, when I was getting to target I used to keep my own food diary written down in columns for HEXs, free, superfree and syns as I went through the day. The syns was a running total from the bank of 105. If the free column started to look much longer than the superfree then I'd have some SF snacks (Satsuma, banana, chopped apple) through the day to balance it off.


crabapple, I've had that problem with wedding rings too. Could you wear a dress ring on top of it to hold it on? It really doesn't seem worth having it resized until you get to target.


mumoftwo, I hated being fat too, We probably all did which is why we're all on here. But we have a cunning plan and we'll all get there. Enjoy your holiday and then come back all refreshed and raring to go like nicegirl and denise. I'm on holiday next week and I'm sure I'll gain but when I get back I'll do a huge shop for veggies and get right back on it.


I've done a mini meal plan to see us through until Saturday morning and I'll pop out later for the little bit of shopping that I need. DH was out last night and I had a super supper on my own of SW chips and a yummy omelette (peppers, spring onions and tomatoes) with cheese on top. DH doesn't eat eggs so it felt really indulgent. Isn't SW wonderful!


Today's EE plan:
B: NAS Ribena, 2 boiled eggs, HEB toast
L: lentil and veg soup, apple
steak, jacket, salad
Syns: scrape of spread


Dinner's a pub meal but the citrus dressing they put on the salad seems very light so not too bad (but I'll probably have wine syns too).

maman

greentiger, an individual steak pie (shop bought) is coming up as 20.5 syns:eek: and I checked M&S and they're even higher:eek:. If you have minimal puff pastry then you could probably just keep within a day's syns. One way of doing it is to make a steak casserole and cook discs of pastry to serve on top. I've seen that done in pubs. Then you could pass on the pastry.

Minihauk

wizkid1 wrote: »

Good morning everyone, I feel much better today I. Have lost a pound this week it's not a lot I know but it is like a pound of lard or fatty bacon. or a pound of potatoes.:j
Hopefully next week will be even better. :T :T

I found your dratted pound!!!

Shala +1 lb for me this week please!

pink_poppy

maman wrote: »

beg, when I was getting to target I used to keep my own food diary written down in columns for HEXs, free, superfree and syns as I went through the day. The syns was a running total from the bank of 105. If the free column started to look much longer than the superfree then I'd have some SF snacks (Satsuma, banana, chopped apple) through the day to balance it off.

The food diary with columns is a fab idea, maman, I'm really glad you posted about that, thank you :T

I'm still feeling ill today so having a day off-plan as I'm craving rubbish

Carmen

Well two good days and five bad days has seen me put on half a kilo (I need two get scales that show pounds Maman) I did a conversion of my weight online and it came as rather a :eek::eek: the good part is I am refocused again and back on the wagon.

Well done to all the losers and hugs to any that need one.

Off to make Homity pie for dinner

Carmen x

shala_moo

BEG - don't beat yourself up.. there may be many reasons why you didn't lose as much as you thought. Going back to basics sounds good though.. bet you lose loads next week!!

Kiwi - hope you feel better soon..

Found this recipe which i'm going to adapt to be Butternut Squash Dauphinoise for tea
https://www.philadelphia.co.uk/Recipes/Philadelphia%20Dauphinoise?r=3059

just need to get some low fat cream cheese which replaces the full fat cream:eek:. Will let you know how it goes and post the recipe if it's nice, might post a pic if it looks like restaurant standard :rotfl:

It will help up my the superfrees :j BNS is superfree isn't it?

greentiger

oh maman, thank you for that scary information!!!! - I think!

I bought my pie from a butcher. It always has plenty of lovely meat. Today it's a 1.5lb pie and I'll share it between 3 adults and 3 children. Having read your advice, I'll divide it as 2 adults and 4 children . I will have some pastry (otherwise it's not a steak pie, lol). I'll have lots of veg.

Oh, and I've already been a wee bit scuppered. I couldn't get the cheese & broccoli pasta, so I had cheese, leek & ham. If memory serves, that variety has syns. I did have loads of delicious strawberries - the coop had boxes with today's date down from £2 to 50p! I bought the last 3 boxes and they are in perfect condition, better than some well in date ones I've bought before