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Pennylane

Checking in after Weigh in with another 1.5lb gain. i have now gained 8 lbs since the beginning of December. It is so depressing and I am on the verge of giving up.

I have another week on countdown and seriously need to decide what to do because I am just wasting money. My heart isn’t in it anymore.

I eat a porridge/fruit breakfast, a light lunch and always cook a really nice SW meal for tea but it gets to about 8pm and I am craving cheese and biscuits or crisps.

last week I did a lot more walking than usual but even that didn’t help.

joedenise

Arkers sweetener is only synced if you use 1 Tbs per portion. If it's less than that then it's still Free.

Pennyland if you're craving cheese and biscuits of an evening how about saving your HEB and having some Ryvita with cheese using one of your HEAs. Obviously you'll need to find something else for breakfast if you do that, perhaps something like a mushroom, pepper & onion omelette or some scrambled eggs which would probably be more filling than porridge anyway.

Denise

poundsinbucks

Pennylane wrote: »

Checking in after Weigh in with another 1.5lb gain. i have now gained 8 lbs since the beginning of December. It is so depressing and I am on the verge of giving up.

I have another week on countdown and seriously need to decide what to do because I am just wasting money. My heart isn’t in it anymore.

I eat a porridge/fruit breakfast, a light lunch and always cook a really nice SW meal for tea but it gets to about 8pm and I am craving cheese and biscuits or crisps.

last week I did a lot more walking than usual but even that didn’t help.

Don’t give up Penny! You obviously know what to do, just small adjustments necessary . I like the Corn Thins (Waitrose or Tesco) which you can easily turn into a SW savoury snack. I always have a few packs of the Seriously Spreadable Creamy Squares (£1 Sainsb). 3 Original or 4 Lighter for HEa. You can have 5 of the Corn Thins for HEb. So spread on some cheese, then add a vit of either Marmite or Vegemite and voila, cheesy savoury snack for the evening. Grapes are another standby snack. Sometimes after washing sprinkled with jelly crystals (1.5 syns whole sachet) as a sweet treat. Or make a treat plate for your evening with things you like which fit into plan. Hard boiled eggs, sliced ham/chicken, gherkins, pickled onions, cherry toms, sliced cucumber, carrot batons. Lots of things you can munch on that won’t do any damage.

Would be a shame to throw in the towel now, wouldn’t make you feel any better probably . You can turn this around! Cut the ‘bad’ snacks and you could get a loss next week. You would feel sooooo much better :D.

Poundsinbucks x

TakeItEazy

I know I saw a post with all the Heinz soups on and they were quite low syns, has that changed again? IGNORE THIS, FOUND THE POST & PICKED THE HIGHEST SYN SOUP! TYPICAL!!!

Hubby is eating the crackers and other bits but he really shouldn’t. Son same but at least he’s active.

Just hoping I have a better week health wise which should help food wise (fingers crossed)

sarymclary

Pennylane, I was like this toward the end of last year. I just didn't want to keep taking steps backward - knowing how fed up I felt this time last year. I think we've both lost a similar amount of weight during 2019 if I recall correctly? Not sure if it will help you, but I went back and found last January's thread on MSE, and looked at my own posts to see what I had put down as my food plans. I took pictures of those posts (easier than copying out, although cut/paste would have also been a solution if I could've printed it off). Anyway, the gist of it is that I followed what I knew had worked for me before, and I know I wasn't going without foodwise then either.

I'm trying to understand my own self-sabotage, because I always end up doing it, and one way of understanding it, is to also try to prevent it. Easier said than done! Part of it is to deal with the narrative inside my head IYSWIM, I undermine my attempts, I tell myself I fail, I never stick with it, I've always been this way, or even that it's 'just today, it doesn't matter, no one else knows'. If someone else were saying this to me, I'd probably be a bit offended, so how come I tolerate saying it to myself?

Can you plan for some snacks in the evening, so it's part of your plan, or save syns during the day to enjoy later on? If you didn't have the cheese/biscuits/crisps in the house, can you have some alternatives that are things you like, but within plan/lower syns to also look forward to?

My only way of knowing I can stick with being on plan, and making it work long-term (ie. for life so I stay healthier) is that whatever I eat has to be enjoyable. I'm never going to eat anything joyless again, so I have to put in the effort to ensure I eat nice, healthy, tasty food.

I'm sure you can do it, and we are here to support you if you need it.

Does anyone else have any tips to avoid temptation/bad choices, or how to deal with cravings?

I put the kettle on if I think I am tempted to snack hunt. If a hot drink doesn't sort it, I will have a few mouthfuls of yogurt, some fruit, slices of ham, and my new favourite is jelly.

tessie_bear

thankyou Denise and Maman much appreciated

joedenise

All change again! Didn't start potatoes earlier enough so it'll be boring old mash again!

Have run out of French beans so it'll be peas instead.

I always seem to have trouble doing what I say I'm going to do when I've been out!

Checked the syns of the tonic and wasn't as bad as I thought - it's only 2.5 syns for 200ml. I only had half a bottle so 1.5, can cope with that.

That's a really in depth reply from Sary. Definitely some food for thought.

Denise

bubbs

Evening all

Well done to the losers:T:T
Commiserations to the gainers this week is your week:D

As for snacking, i rarely do it, this is why i have big meals:D we also eat tea early 5.15-5.30 as we are ready for it then as we are up at 5.30 and out the door 6.30 every week day!

BUT i save my pudding till about 8, could be sweet omelette with fruit and yoghurt, just fruit and yoghurt or something which i have not done for a while , waffles made with my hexb porridge allowance

Now you know me:rotfl::rotfl: its not just an orange or a apple or a pear and yoghurt, its probably pear, satsuma, kiwi, few grapes and yoghurt .

If after this i am still hungry which is rare, i have those corn thins PIB suggest's with ham or marmite

bubbs

Maman , think it was you that said about curry? my sister swears by those slow cooker packet mixes, she said it's beautiful, guess i might try it next month when i am staying at hers, 3 1/2 syns for the packet so less than 1 syn per portion

Tete_en_l'Air

sarymclary wrote: »

it's 'just today, it doesn't matter, no one else knows'.

This is me all over. Great post Sary!

I'm delighted to report in with a 5.5lb loss for 11th Jan :j That's my biggest ever loss, although realistically it just takes me back to my pre-Christmas weight Still though, nice to be back to that so quickly - onwards and downwards!

Yesterday was a planned off-plan day iyswim? Both meals were out, but I didn't come home and scoff a full tube of pringles and family box of maltersers to boot.

Back on it today as follows:
B - Weetabix (HEB, HEA, 1 for sugar)
D - Carrot and lentil soup
T - Christmas curry from the freezer, brown rice
HEA - Milk
HEB - Weetabix
Syns - Sugar in coffee and on Weetabix (4), Options hot chocolate (2)

I'm going out for a 6.5 mile run shortly - training for a 10 mile race in March! I haven't raced for well over a year now, possibly two, so feeling good about this (touch wood all goes well).

I'm also going to visit my friend's new kitten today so that's a nice little non-food pleasure to look forward to!

Have a lovely day everyone!