Spring into Spring with Slimming World

Lois_Lane

Hi all and welcome to anyone new

Counting speed food is really helping to focus my mind, and I'm finding I'm choosing them in preference to free fruit/veg. Today I've had melon, carrots, butternut squash, onion, broccoli, green beans, baby corn, strawberries, and satsuma so 9 so far and I'll probably have another piece of fruit. Nowhere near your score Denise!

For fans of LMcC sausages, they're on offer in Morrisons at the moment. I got the last pack on Sunday so I think there must be a few other SW followers around here.

Back tomorrow. Good luck to everyone with the new challenge.

LL

blue_eyed_girl

Evening all - sorry I have not been around very much lately but things are hectic atm and to add to it all we have started decorating today. However I am popping in to report a -3lbs off this week shala :j

I have been trying to read all the posts as I go along but have forgotton now what I was going to comment on so I will say :hello: to newbies and well done to all our lovely losers :T. Hang on in there anyone who is struggling - it will happen eventually.

Pleased to see you are working from home this week lantanna but sorry that you are still in pain. Take care of yourself. xx

Really chuckled at your fish stash and your Man's cat meg :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Absolutely shattered tonight so don't think I will be out of bed for too long.

Good luck to everyone for the new challenge. Thanks shala for all your amazing work.


b_e_g

tarab1986

shala_moo wrote: »

Evening all :wave:

Welcome tarab :wave: if you have enough willpower to go it alone then i'd say don't bother joining a club.. plenty of people will help on here if you have any questions we start the new challenge today - would you like to join us? we just set ourselves a target to see how much we'd lose in 9 weeks, it's not a competition but it helps people have small goals to meet.

That's an impressive stash Meg but :rotfl: at the man friend - will the cat not even get a titbit?

Beanie - I saw a message Mildredd posted saying she was having trouble getting on MSE.. hope she can get back on soon x

Hope you enjoyed your meal Scarlet, sounds like there is a nice choice at that pub!

You're added on tweets

Hi joee.. added you to the challenge, it's a brilliant target to reach! :T

Well that's me caught up, had a really bad day today tiredness wise.. was anyone else too hot last night to sleep not looking forward to the heat wave if I can't sleep

EE for me today
B - strawberries, pineapple, yogurt, granola (3)
L - pasta, meatballs, salad, SW BBQ sauce, sushi (1 syn)
T - chicken parmigiana from the mag (2.5) sugar snap peas, potatoes (1 oil), carrots
S - crisps(4.5) milk (hea)

body magic - swimming - very tired but going to go and see if I can manage it

Thanks shala_moo for the encouragement. I'll join the challenge :-)

First day went well - spoiled only by a small homemade brownie that someone made for me.
Should I try something different to grapes?

Tomorrow's plan is:
HeA milk - used in tea
HeB oats

Breakfast
Overnight Oats
Muller light
Blueberries
Grapes

Lunch
Cauliflower rice
Peas
Peppers
Tomatoes
Quorn chicken
Soy sauce

Dinner
Homemade pasta sauce - chopped tomatoes, passata and herbs
Courgetti and grated carrot
Lots of veg - peas, carrot, mushrooms, onion just to name a few
Low fat quorn sausages - are these syn free?

Snacks
Cherries
Easy peel tangerines

Saver-upper

I have been following the thread,but not commenting for a couple of days.Both days over the weekend the diet was a bit "bitty"-went to a BBQ on Saturday night (always knew this was on)-had cheesecake.When that was over,I thought "Well,I have survived that very well,now on with the rest of the week."About 3 hours later I realised that I was going to a BBQ/party on Sunday as well.I knew there would be all sorts of synning going on there.....and there was .Hard to list everything I ate.I know there was more cheesecake,tiny pieces of carrot cake,a lemon drizzle cake,the birthday cake was red velvet (never seen that before-it was divine).I also had chicken drumsticks (no skin,so at least that was one small mercy),2 different types of not-SW friendly curry with not-SW friendly rice.Everything in that list was HM except the cheesecake :eek:.

Anyway,after all that,weighed in tonight,and this week I lost 2 lb thanks Shala_moo :eek:
Only got to lose another 2.5 to get back into target range (and stop paying :j),5.5 to get to target weight.

My menu today was:
Breakfast: MUller light yoghurt and strawberries,an apple

Snack: apple and mandarine,

Snack: mandarine,sugar used in coffee (1 syn)

NO LUNCH

Snack: a peach

Tea: chicken in honey and soy sauce (guessing 4 syns for my share of honey),rice

Snack: 1 Alpen bar and 1 HiFi bar (are you allowed to mix Alpens and HF's like that to make a HEB??Before last week I had never bought the HiFi bars,but the lemon meringue ones are just toooooooooo nice!)

Skimmed milk used in cups of tea

hanert

My Menu for today is:

20g Malted Shreddies with milk from allowance

Just a few teaspoons of yoghurt as I don't know what the syn value is, I can't find it anywhere.

Lunch: leftover chicken salad with toms,lettuce,beetroot.

Dinner:
HM meatballs with linguine and HM pasta sauce which is just a tin of tomatoes cooked slowly for an hour with mushrooms,onions and basil added at the end.

Snack:
Probably Alpen light bar as I have no fruit.

HEA 250 semi skimmed milk (using the rest for tea)
HEB shreddies

Syns: I'm allowing 5 because of the yoghurt.

I was going to change my weigh in day for this new challenge, but decided to keep it to Thursday as it the day before shopping and should keep me on track better.

Good luck everyone :j

joedenise

tarab1986 wrote: »

Thanks shala_moo for the encouragement. I'll join the challenge :-)

First day went well - spoiled only by a small homemade brownie that someone made for me.
Should I try something different to grapes?

Tomorrow's plan is:
HeA milk - used in tea
HeB oats

Breakfast
Overnight Oats
Muller light
Blueberries
Grapes

Lunch
Cauliflower rice
Peas
Peppers
Tomatoes
Quorn chicken
Soy sauce

Dinner
Homemade pasta sauce - chopped tomatoes, passata and herbs
Courgetti and grated carrot
Lots of veg - peas, carrot, mushrooms, onion just to name a few
Low fat quorn sausages - are these syn free?

Snacks
Cherries
Easy peel tangerines

I wouldn't worry about the small brownie you had as you do't seem to have had any other syns.

Grapes and blueberries are both Free foods and choosing Speed over Free is a good idea but nothing wrong with having the Free fruits.

Most quorn sausages are Free or certainly very low syn but without know which ones they are can't say for definite.

You might find it helpful to actually count the number of Speed foods you are eating - it really helps to focus you on what you are eating.

Saver-upper wrote: »

I have been following the thread,but not commenting for a couple of days.Both days over the weekend the diet was a bit "bitty"-went to a BBQ on Saturday night (always knew this was on)-had cheesecake.When that was over,I thought "Well,I have survived that very well,now on with the rest of the week."About 3 hours later I realised that I was going to a BBQ/party on Sunday as well.I knew there would be all sorts of synning going on there.....and there was .Hard to list everything I ate.I know there was more cheesecake,tiny pieces of carrot cake,a lemon drizzle cake,the birthday cake was red velvet (never seen that before-it was divine).I also had chicken drumsticks (no skin,so at least that was one small mercy),2 different types of not-SW friendly curry with not-SW friendly rice.Everything in that list was HM except the cheesecake :eek:.

Anyway,after all that,weighed in tonight,and this week I lost 2 lb thanks Shala_moo :eek:
Only got to lose another 2.5 to get back into target range (and stop paying :j),5.5 to get to target weight.

My menu today was:
Breakfast: MUller light yoghurt and strawberries,an apple

Snack: apple and mandarine,

Snack: mandarine,sugar used in coffee (1 syn)

NO LUNCH

Snack: a peach

Tea: chicken in honey and soy sauce (guessing 4 syns for my share of honey),rice

Snack: 1 Alpen bar and 1 HiFi bar (are you allowed to mix Alpens and HF's like that to make a HEB??Before last week I had never bought the HiFi bars,but the lemon meringue ones are just toooooooooo nice!)

Skimmed milk used in cups of tea

Saver Upper - just draw a line under the weekend and stick to plan for the rest of the week.

You don't seem to have eaten very much - think I'd be very hungry with not fruit and yoghurt for breakfast and then no lunch!

You can mix Alpen and HiFi bars but you can only have 2 if they are both Light ones. If they're not then you would need to have one for HEB and syn the other. Hope that makes sense.

Another Green day for me today (this one was planned - yesterday's happened accidentally!):

B - Shreddies/milk - HEB/HEA; melon; strawberries
L - Jacket potato with tuna mayo (HEB2 + 2); lettuce, cucumber, tomato, cornichons, beetroot, pepper, tomato, rocket
D - Egg, chips, beans & mushrooms; fruit salad - strawberries, melon, grapes, apricot, peach, plums

Will probably not have any other syns as really need to keep syns low as had so many over the weekend!

Not done so well on the Speed foods today - just 15.

Denise

Saver-upper

joedenise wrote: »

Saver Upper You can mix Alpen and HiFi bars but you can only have 2 if they are both Light ones. If they're not then you would need to have one for HEB and syn the other. Hope that makes sense.

Thank you joedenise

hanert why don't you tell us what sort brand and type of yoghurt it is,and one of us can look it up for you? x

hanert

Thanks Saver-upper,
It's Easiyo unsweetened low fat Greek yoghurt, with 2 teaspoons of strawberry flavour topping.

Mad_with_money

Hi all, mind if I join? I have two stone to lose, annoyingly I had lost it via sw before but one baby later and here I am! I can't get to class at the moment so need to go it alone. I am breast feeding baby so think I can have an extra a & b?

We go away in 12 weeks, I don't think two stone is realistic but aim for the stars and all that lol!

I need to plan my lunches so as to avoid the sandwich trap and I notice I eat a lot more if I am extra tired. So some things to think about and plan for! Thanks for having me!

beanielou

b e g & saverb~~great losses :j

Welcome with Mad with money to our lovely thread :wave: