Slimming World Support Thread

16011996

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catkins

Hi, I posted on here a couple of weeks ago asking for some advice and thanks to all you lovely friendly people me and OH took the plunge and joined SW last night.

I weighed quite a bit more than I thought I did but am feeling optimistic. To be honest I was not that keen on the meeting. It started at 7pm and because OH did not get home until 6.45 we did not have time to eat before we went. It did not finish until 8.50 by which time we were both starving!! When the consultant (or whatever she is meant to be called) was reading out each person's weight loss and then asking them how their week had been and how they saw the coming week and what their goal was for that week I actually got quite bored. It seemed to take forever (well in fact it did take forever). I am not sure that we will want to keep going every week and it will work out quite expensive - will have to see.

Anyway OH is leaving all the meal planning to me and I am rather confused by it all. We are both veggie so hopefully that should make it easier but every time I think about meals my mind is just going blank. I am not sure that I really understand the plan at all. Can anyone give me any meal pointers just to get me started?

Also how many syns would a slice of home made bread be? I normally either make white bread or a mix of white flour and brown or wholemeal as OH does not like wholemeal bread!

He had cornflakes for breakfast and neither us are sure what they count as. Also any ideas for meals he could take to work for lunch?

So far today I have had:

Breakfast: bowl of muesli with semi skimmed milk from my day's allowance, cup of tea with milk from allowance.

Mid morning snack : Large banana

Lunch: Poached egg on a slice of home made bread with a very small amount of butter

I am guessing the bread and butter count as syns but not sure how many. No idea what to eat for tea.

Sorry for so many questions but just can't seem to get my head round it at the moment. Also think I am going to find it difficult to eat enough!!!!

Skint_Catt

Cornflaskes are approx 5 syns for 28g - they are not a HEB (as a lot of cerals are as there is not enough fibre in them).

Wholemal is mainly a HEB although you can get White Nimble bread as a HEB. Homemade is an issue as one of my SW buddies found out when she contacted SW to find out how she could syn it - regardless of their answer she wasn't giving it up! An average white slice from a sliced shop bought loaf is 4/5 syns.

Tea can be anything veggie pretty much - as you're doing green says there isn't much you can't eat! Rice, pasta, (most) Quorn is free as is soya (I believe).

Hope you get the hang of it!

Snuggles

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Snuggles I find Mix 2 Max and Success Express take even more thought that Red and Green! Are you having plenty of veg/salad with your meals, do you have plenty of cooked chicken etc to snack on? I find red hard as you can't add sweetcorn/potatos/pasta or rice to salads (other than as a HEB - I try to eat as free as poss).

Hi Catt, I am really just snacking on fruit, and very occasionally Alpen Lights if I can manage to save a HEB for them. I can't seem to get calories out of my head, especially if I try a green day, I think if I have a jacket potato with beans for lunch and then a big plate of pasta for dinner, that will be way too many calories. I made a SW quiche with bacon, eggs, cottage cheese, mushrooms etc, but was afraid to snack on it too much as I kept thinking about the calories in the eggs!

A typical day is bran flakes and skimmed milk for breakfast, a banana mid morning, salad with either eggs, mackerel or ham for lunch, followed by a mullerlight and another piece of fruit, more fruit if I'm hungry mid afternoon, then maybe a pork chop, a HEB jacket potato, and steamed veg for dinner. I might have a couple of Ryvita Muesli crunch as syns (3 syns each), or a 2 finger kat kat (5.5 syns) if I want some choc.

I'm really not sure if I am eating too much or not enough

16011996

hi catkins,

typical green day for me to give you some idea (this is yesterdays what i eat)

brekkie

frozen summer fruit salad, defrosted with a syrup made of water and sweetner
banana
cup of coffee (skimmed milk from healthy extra a)

snack mid morning
apple

lunch
jacket potato, baked beans in tomato sauce, lettuce
muller light yogurt
grapes

snack midafternoon
highlights hot choc (2 syns, milk from healthy extra a)
little orange (can't remember what they are called)
alpen light bar (2 count as healthy extra b)

tea
quorn quarter pounder (1 syn)
roasted new potatoes in there skins (just wap em in a hot over for about 30-40 mins, they are lovely)
broccoli
carrots
gravy (2 and a 1/2 syns, 142 ml made up as on the packet)
sugar free jelly, 142 ml made up (1/2 a syn)

snack evening
other alpen light bar (part of healthy extra b)
42g crunchy bran (healthy extra b and last of milk from allowance)

also drank loads of water and sugar free squash,

hope this helps a bit

did they give you a food diary sheet to fill in? i found this invaluable to get me started, lead me the right way around things til i got my head around it all

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peachyest

hi catkins , , i try reading the whole thread for idear or from half way if its to much , ive left a few tips and lots of the other thread members have , but your homemade bread if i was you may slip you up , get a small loaf of nimble or any from your book and freeze it in two slices in a freezer bag , so when you need your h/b its there and you havnt wasted a loaf .

16011996

Snuggles wrote: »

Hi Catt, I am really just snacking on fruit, and very occasionally Alpen Lights if I can manage to save a HEB for them. I can't seem to get calories out of my head, especially if I try a green day, I think if I have a jacket potato with beans for lunch and then a big plate of pasta for dinner, that will be way too many calories. I made a SW quiche with bacon, eggs, cottage cheese, mushrooms etc, but was afraid to snack on it too much as I kept thinking about the calories in the eggs!

A typical day is bran flakes and skimmed milk for breakfast, a banana mid morning, salad with either eggs, mackerel or ham for lunch, followed by a mullerlight and another piece of fruit, more fruit if I'm hungry mid afternoon, then maybe a pork chop, a HEB jacket potato, and steamed veg for dinner. I might have a couple of Ryvita Muesli crunch as syns (3 syns each), or a 2 finger kat kat (5.5 syns) if I want some choc.

I'm really not sure if I am eating too much or not enough

wish i struggled wishing i had another heb, i always end up with one left, hence the cereal before bed, or sometimes 2 more alpen light bars.
don't be afraid to fill up on free foods, you really can eat as much as you like, i know cos i have a huge appetite and i'm losing weight.

peachyest

hi rialooney , where are you and what have you had today , and have you drunk your water :rolleyes: , have you got any tips for today

Skint_Catt

Snuggles if you're hungry than its not enough, if you're not then it is - everyones different but thats why SW works for lots of people.

Think of the calories you're allowed then double it if that helps! The only thing with eggs is they do recommend you not to eat more than 10 a week as they contain cholestrol (6 if you already have high cholestrol). I'm not sure what to suggest other then if you're hungry eat it! As long as it didn't have pastry that whole quiche is free on a red day! (Green day too without the bacon!) Dont' forget your free yoghurts too (mellerlight to toffee and banana aswell as the fruit flavours though I think lemon cheesecake etc has 1/1.5 syns). Oh and Shapers bars are low sin choc too - strawberry is 4, mint is 5 - not sure about the others!

Eat and enjoy. I still feel guilty having a HUGE lunchbox of pasta when my colleagues are sipping a lonely cup-a-soup or a piece of sushi (I have mug shots as snacks not as a meal!!!! :rotfl:).

Catt xx

And as peachyest just reminded me drink plenty! diet pop, sugar free squash, water, tea, coffee etc - sometimes the brain thinks its hungry when the body is thirsty!

peachyest

go skint-catt