'Lose pounds more in 24 with Slimming World'

MrsPorridge

Well done to all the losers.
@NornIronRose happy new start. @joedenise hope you had a good holiday.

I know I need to up my speed but I do struggle with it.

B overnight oats with berries
L pea shoots, tuna, sweetcorn, ketchup (1 syn), hard boiled egg and a pack of pom pom bears (3.5 syns)
D BGTY sausages 1.5 for (1.5 syns), onions, green beans and mash
Snacks jelly with berries and FF yoghurt

Coxy11

Hi all,

Welcome back @joedenise – eeek to the washing mountain!

Happy new start @NornIronRose – sounds like a good plan to have a girls holiday and great that you get a BAMGAWF freebie x

Always the way isn’t it @Longwalker – DH and DD also munch the ‘good’ snacks when they could have the full fat ones – typical! What are the Bailey’s bunnies you speak of?! Exciting about the new M&S food hall – don’t go too mad!

I’ve bought overnight oats today for a change. Also had a packet of Mediterranean couscous for lunch, with a kiwi (still…not…speed…), cherry toms, cheese portion and an apple. Dinner tonight is our fave tin can massaman curry with rice mmmmmmm

I actually turned down some chocolate last night (polishes halo) and stuck to tea, plus got up and did a little run this morning. First time since August when I injured my ankle taking in the washing (not even joking). Just hadn’t found my mojo since then but decided last night to get out my running gear before going to bed. Did just under 3k which is a bit pathetic BUT ran the whole way, even up 2 small hills which nearly finished me off lol! Probably won’t be able to move later – I am not a natural runner but it does give me a MH boost.

beanielou

Well done on the run coxy 

maman

Good to see you back @joedenise. Hope you and Joe enjoyed your holiday. It's meant to stay dry for the rest of the week so 🤞the washing doesn't hang around too long. Doubt you'll be needing shorts and tee shirts here anyway! 🤣

Great to have something to look forward to @NornironRose and a good incentive to lose as much as you can before your holiday. 😁

I know it's more expensive @MrsPorridge but you could try baby sweetcorn chopped up instead of canned as that would up the Speed. 🤔

I'm really looking forward to the evenings getting lighter. It'll be better for running too @Coxy11. Well done on making a start. 

I've got chilli and rice on the menu @Longwalker but now you've got me fancying wedges. 🤔😋 You could try meatballs if you buy chicken mince again. I use turkey with dill and spring onions and couscous instead of breadcrumbs.

Today's EE plan - 
B- HEB toast, HEA milk, egg, bacon (P), baked beans (F) 
L ham (P), fried veg and pickles (S), 1 potato (F) 
S veggie chilli (P, S), rice (F), cottage cheese (P) 
Syns - 0

bubbs

Afternoon all 😁

Well done to all the losers, sts, and commiserations to the gainers, it will be your week this week!

I have just had a skim through.

Welcome back Denise, hope you had a fab holiday.

Rose, that's something to look forward too and just think of your new weight loss, you will look fab 😍

I must spend about £30 on fruit and veg a week! Yoghurt is my next biggest expense unless i get it at the company shop and i have been lucky last few weeks, meat i always get in company shop or on offer!

Almost sorted for shutdown, Case packed ready for Thursday, bags with loo/kitchen roll, tea towels, bedding (always take my own) towels, tinned stuff, weekend i'll shop from the freezer when we come home, ideal way to use what's in there so can get the shed one cleaned out and then all fresh stuff in there. I keep adding spices as i use them so i don't forget 😂 when everything is on hand it's easy and i am loathe to but more as i have tonnes of spices! I will be forgotten something no doubt!!

Food today was picky plate and 1 hexa

Tea is sausage casserole, 2 syns for the mix, sausages free (lm) veg

joedenise

I decided to jump on the scales this morning to see what the damage was.  As expected I've put on 7lb - don't think I can get that off by the time I need to go to WI again but I'll do the best I can from tomorrow.

We had a good holiday apart from the food in the hotel - we ended up eating out quite a bit as we got fed up with cold/Lukewarm food.  Lunches were OK as I tended to just have salad but I've eaten a mountain of tinned sweetcorn as had it every day on my salad but at least there was plenty of speed too.

Spent an absolute fortune on shopping today but not surprising as we'd run down so much stuff before our holiday - think we only spent about £30 for the first couple of weeks and that included sausages from the butchers (think there's enough for most of February too).  I still need to meal plan but at least I've got the building blocks to do it - various meat and fish etc.  There are still quite a lot of tins in the pantry but I will top those up next time I go shopping.

Looks like you're nearly ready for moving out @bubbs.  Hopefully you will have got all the spices you need while your away and won't need to buy any more.  I keep a good selection in the motorhome for when we're away and can usually manage with the ones I have.

Hope the M&S food hall is as good as you think it will be @Longwalker!  Well done on sticking to dry January - that's amazing.

Longwalker

@ruby_eskimo, those were the days when fruit tasted of fruit, when it was seasonal only. I remember as a pre-teen - my auntie Pat used to give me 10p to go get a pound of peaches, Id have them ate before lunch so I had to go back again I loved the summer fruits. We used to go strawberry picking and we gorged on them , just bursts of summer juiciness. And water melons were bright red inside and you seriously could suck up the juice with a straw

Nowadays everything tastes of marrow!!!

@beanielou - OMG M&S - I could have spent 2 hours in there lol. It was heaving, could barely move. I shall go back in a week or so and spend my time looking at what they have properly, I just skimmed shopped. I picked up two meal deals - single prices came to over £40, paid £24. Now they say they are for two people but I can make them stretch to three - Luxury fish pie - which I wont be having - which I got with luxury profiteroles and a steam veg pack of broccoli, those nero greens and peas, and the other one was joint - I took the beef and three sides so I got roasties, a vegetable melody and seeing as the rest of the side were either potato or gravy, they also had nice stuffing and pigs in blankets so I nabbed the stuffing which Ill use another time  - so really pleased with that haul 

@Mrsporridge , I feel your pain re the speed, its taken me since May to finally buy proper fruit , eat it and enjoy it. Im not much better with veg. But I also know I have to eat as much of it as I can if I want the loss. What I did was go to the book and tick the ones I didnt actively hate , and from those chose the ones I dont actually mind and made those the basis of my speed intake. Cabbage for example - not a mission is dark cabbage going down my neck, but York/sweetheart cabbage, finely sliced and lightly boiled is edible for me. Turnip ( swede ) is really ok if mashed, carrots and parsnips are nice mashed together and both are nice roasted - to me. Im not a fan of tomatoes - unless tinned in a recipe , so I buy the tiny once and dice them up so they are shovelled in and eaten without thinking about it. A lot of veg compared to what I used to eat is now consumed  And some veg I like the rest of the family dont so I cook that just for me for lunch, like sweet potato and aubergine - love aubergine with a tomato sauce and a bit of feta 

@coxy11 - go you with the running - woo hoo I find a 5k walk is enough My knees would stand up to running, I keep trying - and failing lol. The baileys bunnies come out at Christmas , you must have seen the ad? Baileys flavoured chocolate hollow bunnies and you eat the head, fill with Bailey, top with cream and drink away and then scoff the bunny

@bubbs, good luck with the move. I too spend most of the budget on veg now, well more then I ever used to , but then again I used to work in veg production and just took as I needed - FOC - so its a bit of a gunk finding out how expensive it is 

@maman , go with the wedges, you know you want to I shall look at meatballs as well now I know the texture of the chicken mince, thanks for that xx

Ladies, I have been a very very very bad girl  Well bad in a good way. In a NSV way. So we all have the problem of clothes no longer fitting as we loose and Ive been lucky that I have a lot of "smaller' clothes in the wardrobe from decades ago that have been seeing me through. However, the undies have been a huge problem, bras in particular. Now for years Ive been a 38d , yes I was wearing them on the largest sizing at points Obviously Ive been shrinking but Ive just tightened the bras and got on with it. Only Ive been getting sore under the boobs where they just arent fitting so I had enough and bit the bullet and went for new ones. Im now a 34dd 34!!! I haven't been a 34 since I was a teen lol So they only had white and flesh in the one style I liked so treated myself to two. Then I thought cant have new bras without new knickers ( I dont do matching, I do comfort , so a couple of packs were added, then as I walked to the tills, I passed rails of clearance and I thought just have a look, and then I realised Im no longer a 14 so a couple of jumpers were added. It gets worse, you know I work for an independent store? Well I was a five minute walk from our sister store. They are having an end of clearance sale - an extra 20% of last marked price and I already get up to 30% off ( depends on the franchise ) so before I knew it, two pars of shoes from Dunne,  original joint retail price of £190 ended up in a bag and I parted with £54 !!

The bras I needed, the knickers I needed, the jumpers weren't really needed but will fit better then what Im wearing - but did I really need shoes???? Nope, but they are so beautiful I couldn't resist 

beanielou

@Longwalker. Have M & S envy & shoe envy. 

Denise. Glad you had a good holiday. 

Bubbs. Hope your move goes smoothly. 

Coxy11

Lovely that you treated yourself with some new clothes @Longwalker - definitely a well deserved treat after the weightloss and dry January. My bra size didn't change even when pregnant - I am not blessed in that department!

bubbs

Thanks everyone

Longwalker, i have a reciepe for chicken and maple syrup burgers if you want it i'll try and find it they are nice 😋 well done on treating yourself.

Coxy you are not on your own in that department 😂😂