Get in the swing for Spring - Slimming World support thread 2017

Cazzaswfc

So, after Sundays little STS strop I've made sure I syned everything and trying to up it speed.

Today's menu

Almond quark blackberries, grape nuts
Chicken salad with of mayo 3 syns
2 sasumas and Alpen bar hxb

Thai curry 3 syns with loads speed veg and BNS chips

1 ryvitas 1.5 syns and cheese hxa, a few Pringles 4 syns and melon

Tommorow (so far)

Salted Carmel quark blackberries

HM broccoli, caulk and cheese soup 1 syn with 2 ryvitas and dairylea - half hxa and b
Strawberries.

kathrynha

1/2 lb gain for me last night. Really rather relieved that was all. Determined for a good loss this week.


Thank you for all the breakfast advise. I like puffed wheat. Ages since I've had any, but yes I remember it was good for quantity you are allowed.
Fancy the suggestion of smoked salmon. I love the stuff. I definitely need to think outside the box on breakfasts. I don't necessarily need 'traditional' breakfast food.


Today's plan:
Breakfast - yogurt, fruit and grape nut
Lunch - chicken and cottage cheese salad and birthday cake
Dinner - Bacon, egg, beans, tomato and mushrooms


HA - milk
HB - grape nut
Syns - cake, reckon it's about 10

Top_Girl

I've made overnight oats for the first time. Not sure it's all speed though - Asda frozen black forest fruits, so blackberries, blackcurrants, cherries and Morello cherries, can anyone help?


However


B - Overnight oats


D - Ham, egg and potato salad, melon, strawberries. Possibly a tikka mugfull (1)


T - Spaghetti Bolognese


I'll have fruit later if I'm hungry too. HEXA on milk. Gone over my 5 syns per day so trying to pull it back...

Tete_en_l'Air

I'm no expert Top Girl because I don't like berry type fruit, but I think the blackberries and blackcurrants are speed but cherries are just free.

Haylaluru - thanks for the JP advice and the giggle! It must be too early in the morning for me because I needed your explanation to work out what you meant!

I am having such a bad week over here, just can't get my head back in gear. Tuesdays are always stressful and although I had on plan meals from the freezer, I ate biscuits all day while planning my lesson then came home and ate my godson's Easter egg and had a glass of wine.

I've woken up this morning and have a week until I have to be back in work but I feel really deflated and almost bordering on depression when I should feel energised about having time to get stuff done. I guess the reality of not having a proper job is getting to me and I'm starting to feel panicked rather than free.

Waking up knowing I've just spent five days sabotaging my SW efforts doesn't help either so I'm going to start by making a plan and a shopping list.

kathrynha

Top girl cherries are definitely only free, but that black forest frozen fruit is definitely the nicest selection


Hugs Tete. It's so hard when our schedules are different from normal. Well done for planning to make a plan. It's the best thing to do, and hopefully it will help to refocus your mind. Don't forget to put some planned treats in there, to help you feel better, and make you hopefully not be tempted by large unplanned treats.

Abbafan1972

My favourite fruit for overnight oats is the Tescos "Breakfast Topper" it's in the frozen section (desserts). I think it's mango, peach, pineapple and strawberry, but it's in small pieces.

pixtotts

Mad_with_money wrote: »

I am going to attempt to continue SW minus all the sweetener products (diet coke, options, gosh the list is endless there is sweetner in so much:eek:). Has anyone else done this? I am thinking drinks (which is where I consume most sweetner products) are going to be reduced to water and not a lot else...:cool:

This is something I try to do as in all honesty I can't stand the taste of sweetner, it just leaves me with this weird aftertaste, for that reason I don't really find drinks a problem, I just don't like the taste of diet drinks, I mostly just drink tea lol. Bog standard black tea, or flavoured black tea, I have some amazing stuff from Bluebird tea co, I have loads of different ones but christmas cake tea, hot cross bun tea, and maple bacon pancake tea are my favourites

smallpackages I know exactly how you feel! so far each month this year I have finished at about the same weight as I was before Christmas even though I've been doing the same as I was doing before Christmas! urgh! These atovely people have very graciously put up with my whining on quite a few occasions
Just have to stick with it, like you I go with a relative, who it's worked for, so we know it does work ( my mum, she got to target the week before last 8 and a bit stone off in 18 months ) , it just gets frustrating doesn't it x

regarding the muller light talk the way I've always looked at it is (though I tend to opt for the danone light and free over muller I think they taste more like fruit). It goes back to the balanced diet thing, too much of anything is bad. I see free foods as being luxury, they aren't needed... SP days we have all we need S, P, HE A&B. So there's no NEED other than convenience, or because we like them to have free foods. Personally I never have more than 1 yogurt a day, just because the idea of having more wouldn't occur to me.

Piglet - my mum has always had all her speed as vegetables as she became allergic to all fruit apart from bananas it's never made any difference to her, so if you don't want the fruit don't have it I guess they have to keep it in there because we do need our 5 a day (though think they said it's actually way more than 5 we need) and those who don't like vegetables can at least have fruit

kathrynha - you should always weigh more after exercise, it means it's working . I don't do any on a Wed or Thursday now because of weighing on a Thursday night, when I was at uni I used to frequent the gym and it would take a rest day to lose what muscles gained through exercise x

I'm back from my most amazing weekend in London, I completely ignored SW not that I had much choice in the matter anyway... I HAVE to tell you about dinner Saturday night though it was amazing! So we'd had cocktails on arrival, an amuse bouche, starter which was salmon so I only ate the salad haha, and a beef main, then the band left, they took all the flowers, and the wine :eek: and were sat there like umm...... are we off? Then music started playing and they rolled baking parchment down the middle of the table, and the pudding was "made" on the table, people walked down the room putting squiggles of sauce on the table, then piping cream onto it, we had chocolate brownie with poached pears, rhubarb mille feuille, lemon cheese cake with blueberries, a rhubarb sorbet, and a chocolate creamy moussey thing with blood oranges all served directly onto the table with sparklers for us to share, it was the most amazing experience ever! Aaaannnd soo I'm fully expecting a gain this week but totally worth it

todays plan
B - weetabix (HEB) sugar (2)
L - pasta or noodles not 100% decided

and that's as far as I've got, I have a smidgen of a cold from the lack of sleep x

Lois_Lane

Morning all

Feeling a bit better today - yesterday turned out to be the kind of day when you don't want to be too far from the loo IYSWIM. I didn't eat much either, some eggs and toast for lunch and LO spag bol for dinner, so hoping for a good result next weigh in.

There's been a number of posts recently on Pinch of Nom's Facebook page about making a low syn treat with sugar free marshmallows and a HEB of Cheerios, and I'm thinking puffed wheat might work too.

I like the sound of the Breakfast Topper Abbafan, I must get some when I'm back, small pieces would work well.

Pixtotts - have you ever tried weetabix without adding sugar? There's sugar in them anyway and you could have sliced banana with them and save your Syns.

I'm going to a 70th birthday party this afternoon and I expect there'll be buffet food so hopefully some healthy options too.

Have a good day everyone.

LL

joedenise

I don't actually like the breakfast topper very much, the pieces are too small. I tend to buy the Tesco value fruit which is mainly melon balls (2 types); strawberries & grapes. I also buy a bag of watermelon balls and add those too when defrosting and occasionally some frozen pomegranate seeds.

Enjoy the party this afternoon LL. I would have thought there would be plenty of salad stuff as you're in Spain, unlike here in the UK, where you'll probablyl get the odd bit of lettuce & tomato garnish on the sandwiches, LOL!

Today's plan:

B - boiled egg & soldiers
L - ham salad
D - ribeye steak, chips, onions - would have had mushrooms as well but have run out! - side salad

HEA - milk
HEB - bread
Syns - chips (not sure of syns but think about 5)

Denise

lantanna

Haylaluru wrote: »

Lush It sounds very similar to what I've had. The pain would start on my right under my ribs and would radiate around by back, up into my shoulder and across my chest. It was agony and would last about an hour and during that time I could hardly concentrate on breathing never mind anything else. Dr suggested Dioralyte every hour on the hour for 6 hours then water every hour on the hour for the next 24 hours (except when sleeping) to 'flush' out a potential virus. I had blood tests and off the back of those results an ultrasound which showed I was 'borderline' and no further action required. Borderline what? I have no idea as I can't get passed the bloomin' receptionist to make an appointment with the GP to discuss it further. I couldn't even get to see the GP before the ultrasound as the appointment just came though because of the LFT result so I have no idea what was suspected. (possibly fatty liver but that's the danger of a google search when you can't see your GP) The initial dioralyte/water did ease it a lot and got rid of the dull ache under my ribs although I had another 2 episodes of full blown agony between then and the ultrasound last week. My symptoms are much better after I started avoiding onions and leafy greens, I'd never had a problem with these ever before but from my food diary these seemed to be the only common triggers, so maybe it was a build up of gas which sounds trivial but jeez I've never known pain like it, and I've been through childbirth.
So keep a food diary to see what your triggers are and get to see a GP if you can, hope you feel better soon x

Tete Just !!!!! your Potatoes rub some olive oil on the skins and a sprinkle of salt, (I'm sure frylight would work too) wrap in tin foil, put in the slow cooker and forget about them. Mine weren't huge and were ready after 6/7 hours on low. The large ones you buy in packs of 4 will be ok for a good 8 hours in there ready for dinner after work. Or put them on high for 4/5 hours depending on their size.

Sounds like a classic case of gallstones to me!