Losing in Lockdown - Slimming World Support Thread

ruby_eskimo

Morning all!  Had a bit of a busy day yesterday with work so didn't get a chance really to pop in.  My ankle is feeling a lot better so will be testing it out with a short walk to the GP's to put in for a prescription and home again.  If it's all good then I'll start back with some gentle exercise again tomorrow.  

Had good old porridge for breakfast with raspberries and a lot of cinnamon (maybe a bit too much ).  Lunch will be some leftover kimchi stew and then dinner is going to be a jacket potato but no idea what I'm going to top it with - have plenty of options but nothing that jumps out to me right now.  All I do know is that it will involve cheese   

Hope you're all staying safe and having a good day.

joedenise

Morning all, glad the ankle is feeling a lot better this morning.  Hope the walk goes OK and doesn't cause you further problems ruby.

bubbs ours was a 3 year service plan too but like you have decided not to bother again.  We'll just get the servicing and MOT done at our local garage, which is where we used to get our cars serviced before buying a nearly new one which had a warranty on it so needed to be done at the dealers at least until the warranty expired which it has now.

Today's plan:

B - baked oats, quark, mixed frozen fruit, blueberries & cherries - HEB; P; S; F
L - creamy garlic mushrooms with roasted jacket potatoes - P; S; F; 2
D - beef stew (from freezer), mash, cabbage, very small dumpling - P; S; F; 3?

HEA - milk
HEB - porridge oats
Syns - Philly Light 2; dumpling 3? couple of rum & ginger beer 5

Don't feel as though I've actually lost weight this week - but will have to wait until tomorrow morning to see!  Will be annoyed if I haven't as have had no more than 15 syns on any day and then only had 15 on 1 day and 14.5 on another, all the others have been around 10 or less.  If I haven't then I will be going back to "my normal"!

maman

Glad your ankle's feeling better ruby. Seems odd that it gave out on you when you weren't exercising.🤔 Do you use frozen raspberries with your porridge? 

My DD just had her car MOT done . She just uses Halfords or similar in the city centre. It was Sunday week when it was tipping down with rain. She was moaning to me that usually she looks around the shops while it's being done but this time she only had the option  of Asda and the £shop!  Fortunately it passed. 😉

There's nothing worse than knowing you've done everything right and still not losing denise. Hopefully the scales will prove your wrong tomorrow. 😊

I roasted small cubes of potato to go with the chicken last night. DH loved them. It's the way I used to do patatas bravas but chilli sauce would have been one flavour too many yesterday. We had the creamy cabbage too. That's another new favourite although, to be fair, DH seems to enjoy most of what I feed him. 🥰

I'm making a cottage pie tonight. I will use some potato for the mash but also mix in BNS and carrots, they give it a lovely colour. 

Today's EE plan-
B- NAS grapefruit squash (F), HEB toast, HEA1 milk, scrambled eggs (P)
L- JP (F), cottage cheese (P), pickles (S)
D- cottage pie (P, F, S), cauli, broccoli and cabbage, HEA2 cheese topping
Syns- HP sauce 1

klew356

Its Wednesday and I feel like I’m having a good week so far, the joiner is coming round tonight to finish some jobs off so dinner is going to be late, I am going to be starving waiting for that (xl dog walk) – when it comes though I’m having gammon steak, baked potato, again involving cheese but probably roasted veg as a side, got red peppers and courgettes to use up. I’m going to do a roast on Sunday so I have food prepared after op on Monday. Really hoping for a loss this weekend,

 I also need a change from my soup lunches, hit me with your ideas please but I’m thinking something hot rather than a salad?

joedenise

klew - do you need portable hot lunches or do you eat at home?  It's fairly easy if you're at home but if it needs to be portable I'd suggest getting a food flask so that you can take things like LO bolognaise, LO chilli.  If you've got a microwave at work you can do things like jacket potato with various toppings.

klew356

joedenise said:

klew in which case it's probably worth cutting back on the cereal - definitely worth weighing it, at least for a while.  40g isn't very much at all.  If you like cereal then it's worth getting some Puffed Wheat or Honey Monster (light Sugar Puffs) as you get masses of those.  I actually like eating the Honey Monster cereal like popcorn while watching the TV in the evening!

thanks @joedenise, i will look at both those cereals when i go to the supermarket tomorrow night  - def due a change 

milann

If you get a hot food flask Klew beware of the cheaper ones. I bought a Tesco wide necked flask but the food was just about warm at my midday lunch. Ds bought me a thermos one as he was sick of me moaning 😂 and it happened to be in a deal he’d seen a while ago. This keeps food piping hot as long as you heat it with boiling water beforehand. I used to make a big pan of corned beef stew approx 1-2 syns or any other sort of stew or bolognaise -  0-1/2 syn for cornflour. It was delicious the following day in the flask. If I did bolognaise I made it quite runny as the pasta absorbs the liquid.
Not a good day for me today as my kitchen has been totally emptied in readiness for floor coverings tomorrow. I walked around to Morrison’s which do a meal deal for £3 and there’s usually something SW friendly or low syn.....non left today. I had a chicken and bacon sandwich and hummus with carrots as a side along with a cup of tea. It was very delicious though. Tea will be a take away of dh choice.....it is what it is until next week when I’m fully functional again. I’ve done ok syn wise the rest of the week 👍
I was quite pleased as the consultant who is treating me for a hip problem phoned me about a steroid injection- I had to answer some questions and he said ‘I already know you’re not overweight’ maybe I’m worrying a tad too much about the extra stone I’m carrying.....won’t do any harm to shed it 👍👍

maman

Hang on in there milann. The kitchen will be done. I'd call that a NSV from the consultant. 👏👏👏 I'm sure they see people who are grossly overweight and you obviously aren't one of them. 😁
Are they portable lunches that you need klew? I'd certainly second leftovers. I deliberately make extra the day before. Things like quiche (like the salmon one bubbs made😋) and savoury muffins or pasta salad (or rice or couscous) are good with soup to fill up and give you something warm. At home, I like omelettes. 😊

joedenise

That's great news from the consultant milann, as maman said a great NSV!

I forgot to mention klew that the Honey Monster cereal which is HEB is the one in the blue box, the other one isn't HEB! (can't remember what colour it is though).

Think I'm going to go and make some popcorn to pick on this evening.  I saw an idea on one of the threads on here about flavouring with Marmite so going to give that a go!  apparently I need to stand the jar in hot water to make it runny before mixing with the popcorn - will certainly be different to anything else I've ever had, LOL!

maman

I would imagine it would taste like Twiglets denise. 🤔