Slimming in to Spring - Slimming World support thread 2019

ikkle87

What a lovely thing for your hubby to say Sary.

My food yesterday was:
B. BLT wrap using ww wrap as a HEB and a satsuma
L. Jacket potato (0.5 syn) primula light (HEA) with lettuce, tuna, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes and pickled onions
T: Chicken kebabs (2 syns for chilli sauce) with onions, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes and spinach. Chicken savoury rice (1.5 syns) and mint Raita (0.5syn for the mint sauce)
Snacks: Strawberries, grapes, swizzels lolly (1.5) cereal bar (4.5)

maman

That looks like a great menu ikkle. Are they ready made jacket potatoes?


It's Thursday that we're likely to be out for lunch (after a meeting). I've had a quick look online and hopefully everyone will just want a snack in which case I can have a JP. If I'm being very good I might not have wine syns either but that would be drastic in a pub.;)


I'm going to try that fish recipe today. I haven't got sea bass to so trying it with lemon sole.
https://www.fishbox.co.uk/recipes/sea-bass-with-bacon-and-tomatoes/


The other thing I've been doing lately is making a few carrot chips alongside the potato ones. It all adds to the Speed!:D


Today's EE plan:
B: NAS grapefruit, HEB porage with HEA milk
L: cold meat, fried LO veg (all Speed) and pickles
lemon sole with tomatoes and bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, SW chips
Syns: syrup 2.5

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Breakfast today - 1 × slice wholeness toast plus beans, coffee x 3 (black & ss milk)

Lunch today - 1 egg omelette in fry light, 5 x shroom pups, 4 x pickled onions and 2 x slices Hovis nimble wholemeal with olive spread.

Tonight I don't know yet ... hopefully I won't spoil things. So far, My Fitness Pal tells me just over 700 Kcal, plus I've walked for an hour and spent an hour in the garden.

TheTalkingDead

Tonight's dinner:


2x Aberdeen Angus Beef Steaks "extra Lean",


Baby Potatoes.


Green Beans.


Carrots.


May do broccoli too.


decisions though?


1. Mushy pea's gravy cut with a little amount of white Pickling vinegar, Course ground white pepper, little salt, and garden fresh mint leaves, 2 lamb stock pots.


OR


2. Mushy pea's gravy, cut with a little amount of brown "fish and chip shop" vinegar, Course ground black pepper, a little dried rosemary and thyme, and 2 red wine oxo stock pots, fried onions and lazy garlic pinch of salt.


I haven't had red wine gravy for ages and if I can make a "free" one that would be awesome, what do you guys vote for 1 or 2.

beanielou

Sary~~that was lovely of your OH

maman

Not for tonight TTD but if you like your gravy I'd recommend the Hairy Bikers braised beef and onions. It would be a waste to use Aberdeen Angus steak for that. It just uses a teaspoon of cornflour and the gravy is great.

Also I make beef in 'red wine" using Tesco own brand red wine stock pots. Just adapt any boeuf bourgignon type recipe and use that instead of the wine. As a cheat it's good. My DH can't tell the difference. My recipe uses 2 tbsps of cornflour so 1 syn each.

joedenise

Maman that fish recipe sounds lovely. I'm sure it will work well with lemon sole. Probably won't take so long to cook though - 20 minutes seems quite a long time. I rarely bake fish for longer than 15 minutes unless it's very thick.

TTD - the red wine stock pots are quite good for gravy but will probably need thickening either with some cornflour (Syns) or Xanthum Gum (syn free!).

Denise

poundsinbucks

Pleased to report -1lb this week, for a total of 1st 11lbs lost so far. Will do better next week, still a long way to go, one pound away from Club 10!!

Thanks for the beef bourgignon suggestion, will get some of those red wine stockpots with my next shop and have a go. Am still enjoying trying out SW recipes from the mag and the website, and sharing suggestions and tips with friends, including here :T. My latest ‘revelation’ is buying cooked beetroot (45p for vacuum pack in Tesco) and making it into a quick salad with some iceberg and a few boiled eggs, plus fatfree vinaigrette (Tesco’s own). Just made some sweet potato wedges in the airfryer as a snack, will have those with a dollop of ff fromage frais. All FREE .

Poundsinbucks x

FrankieM

Yesterday's slightly dodgy tummy was more than slightly dodgy.

Lasted 2 hours at work and then headed back home and to bed. I've had today off too and I'm feeling much better.

With amazing commitment I headed off to weigh in for a 'weigh and go' _3.5lbs I think it'll be cause I hadn't eaten but I wanted to draw a line under last week.

I've eaten with no problems today. A very noisy tummy but no cramps etc

B: 2 x hi fi bars( HEA) & banana
L:Beefy mince (1 syn), potato & broc from last night
T: Bolognaise(minced beef, onion, mushroom, pepper, courgette, aubergine, passata, oxo, herbs) , pasta, lettuce, cucumber, tomato

I'll have some cheese (HEB) on my bolognaise and I've had milk (HEB) for hot drinks

Snacks: apple, grapes, satsumas, yog (1 syn)

I'm being out here for Mother's Day. When you eat out do you still stick as close to plan as possible (even if there are other things on the menu you'd prefer) or do you just chose what you'd like as it's just one meal?

maman

FrankieM wrote: »

I'm being out here for Mother's Day. When you eat out do you still stick as close to plan as possible (even if there are other things on the menu you'd prefer) or do you just chose what you'd like as it's just one meal?

That's a great loss Frankie. Well done!:T
Whether you try to stick to plan (not always possible with restaurant menus) when you're eating out rather depends on how quickly you want to lose weight. If you just eat whatever you like then that week, at least, will probably be a write off. You could make some wise (ish) choices perhaps having a roast but no Yorkshire and just a couple of potatoes and masses of other veg. Skip a pudding and have a coffee, that sort of thing. Then (assuming you'd be having wine syns) you'd probably STS or a small gain. If it was possible to completely stay on plan or go armed with loads of saved syns then you'd probably get away with it. What matters most is, as you said, it's just one meal and you need to get back on plan ASAP.:)

poundsinbucks wrote: »

Pleased to report -1lb this week, for a total of 1st 11lbs lost so far. Will do better next week, still a long way to go, one pound away from Club 10!!

Thanks for the beef bourgignon suggestion, will get some of those red wine stockpots with my next shop and have a go. Am still enjoying trying out SW recipes from the mag and the website, and sharing suggestions and tips with friends, including here :T. My latest ‘revelation’ is buying cooked beetroot (45p for vacuum pack in Tesco) and making it into a quick salad with some iceberg and a few boiled eggs, plus fatfree vinaigrette (Tesco’s own). Just made some sweet potato wedges in the airfryer as a snack, will have those with a dollop of ff fromage frais. All FREE .

Poundsinbucks x

Well done on your loss too.:T
I eat loads of beetroot. Vacuum packed beetroot is on offer in Aldi at the moment and as it's long life, it's worth stocking up. Other pickles I enjoy are cornichons form Lidl, much sweeter and crisper than gherkins and jars of Heinz pickled red cabbage from the £ shop or Home Bargains. They all add to the Speed count for the day. I eat them with bubble & squeak (cook extra veg deliberately), omelettes and jacket potatoes.