Slimming World Support Thread

shanleypink

Dead quick tea on a green day. Better still, Hubby loves it too.
Boil pasta.
Fry (in frylight of course!) finely chopped onion and some mushrooms with a clove of garlic, salt and pepper.
Drain pasta and add to frying pan, turn off heat.
Stir in 1 tsp pesto (4 syns) and pop into two bowls.
Crumble over top 28g blue stilton HEb
Gorgeous...
You could use a different cheese, but it is just REALLY tasty with stilton. I always put mine straight in the microwave for 30 seconds so the cheese melts...mmmm

Skint_Catt

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Morning everyone
re these mugshots that Ive spotted you talking about - are these free both on a red and green day and does that include all flavours? I think I have found them - mug shot pasta snack / mug shot noodle snack as follows
Mug Shot Noodle Snack Chicken Flavour 54g
Mug Shot Noodle Snack Sweet & Sour 67g
Mug Shot Pasta Snack Tomato & Herb Sachet
Mug Shot Pasta Snack Creamy Cheese Sachet
Mug shot chicken chow mein flavour

Eric pasta is only free on a green day. It only includes the noodle ones inc Chow mein, and the tomato and herb. The creamy cheese is 2 syns on green and 13 syns on red.

Catt xx

Skint_Catt

ELLA wrote: »

Just being nosey really but what is everyone's favourite sw meal, and what do you cook the most. Ive not been doing sw for very long but love cooking the beef stew but my hubby is fed up with it now.

Ous is probably Quorn chilli and rice or Quorn curry and rice (which we're having tonight!)

sarbut

Hi there - I am new to this forum and started SW online 1 week ago.

To give you some background - have on and off dieted (mainly WW) for the last 18 months since having my son and managed to lose a couple of stone. My weight had stuck at 10stone 13 so a month ago I bought an exercise bike and have religeously exercised for 30 minutes a day (never did any exercise at all before) and followed similar eating pattern, thinking that the exercise would kick start my weight loss. No weight came off for 3 weeks so I thought I'd try SW to see if a change in approach would work.

I am absolutely gutted as I followed the programme really strictly (and kept up the exercise) and have stayed the same weight AGAIN!!!!! :mad: I am so fed up and have had a really bad day today and eaten loads of chocolate (and some cheese on toast :eek: ) so actually feel quite sick now.

I only want to lose another 10 lbs to get to my ideal weight - so disappointed as I really thought this might give me the boost to do it

Sorry for long post but just wanted to moan

Skint_Catt

:hello: Hi sarbut - please don't be too disheartened - sometimes it takes your body some time to get used to a new way of eating, and as you've dieted previously with WW it's got used to certain things.

sarbut

Thanks SkintCatt - I know you're right and the worst thing I can do is let it all slide so I will persevere and maybe try more original days and see if that helps as I seemed to do loads of green ones this week. I'll try and get on the forum to get some inspiration too as a quick glance at the posts you guys all seem to be doing really well on it.
Thanks for your reply x

consultant31

tobys_mummy wrote: »

Been looking at what other healthy extras i can have and was wondering why are you only allowed some stewed fruits but not all of them?

Also if cooking fruit makes it become synned does freezing things like yoghurt/bananas make them become synned?

Sorry I didn't answer you fully this morning, I hadn't realised the time and had to run so finished my sentence and logged off.

Which fruit did you want to stew that isn't mentioned?

Freezing doesn't affect the syn value of foods because when you thaw them you're only going to ear them as normal (if you see what I mean). Cooking fruit (as in stewed apple etc) is synned because it's too easy to eat too much without any of the benefits.

consultant31

sarbut wrote: »

Hi there - I am new to this forum and started SW online 1 week ago.

To give you some background - have on and off dieted (mainly WW) for the last 18 months since having my son and managed to lose a couple of stone. My weight had stuck at 10stone 13 so a month ago I bought an exercise bike and have religeously exercised for 30 minutes a day (never did any exercise at all before) and followed similar eating pattern, thinking that the exercise would kick start my weight loss. No weight came off for 3 weeks so I thought I'd try SW to see if a change in approach would work.

I am absolutely gutted as I followed the programme really strictly (and kept up the exercise) and have stayed the same weight AGAIN!!!!! :mad: I am so fed up and have had a really bad day today and eaten loads of chocolate (and some cheese on toast :eek: ) so actually feel quite sick now.

I only want to lose another 10 lbs to get to my ideal weight - so disappointed as I really thought this might give me the boost to do it

Sorry for long post but just wanted to moan

I wonder if you followed it as strictly as you think you did! Not meaning to question your honesty at all, but coming from WW it's quite hard to get into food optimising straight away. I have members in my group who've done this and I find they don't eat enough to boost their metabolism because you are 'conditioned' by the WW way to watch every point (even with fruit I believe).

You need to forget everything you did with WW and have utter faith that SW will work for you if followed 100% - this means eating lots of free foods along with your HEs and some syns.

Could you post up a food diary for a typical week so we can have a look and see where you may be inadvertently going wrong?

consultant31

bringmeshoes wrote: »

we've been told at our class that they are free on a green day as its just pasta and pasta is free on green day.

Redmel, didn't see you original post on this topic, but for you and everyone else who's interested, I can categorically say that these are NOT syn-free.

Using food for anything other than it's intended purpose is counted as 'misuse' and therefore the lasagne sheets made into mock Doritos, home made potato crisps, chickpea 'peanuts', chickpea cake, polenta cake etc, etc have to be synned. The only thing I can say about the people who have them and still lose weight is that there will come a day when they won't and that will be the reason why.

Hope this helps to sort out any misconceptions.

sarbut

consultant31 wrote: »

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Could you post up a food diary for a typical week so we can have a look and see where you may be inadvertently going wrong?

Hi consultant31 - thanks for your reply. Sorry for the long post and probably dodgy format as had to cut and paste from the online diary! Any advice gratefully received

Green Diary
23 February 2008



Free Food
very low fat natural cottage cheese
eggs
very low fat natural yogurt
potatoes
baked beans in tomato sauce
bananas
kiwi fruit
salad, without dressing
Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


28g Double Gloucester


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls




Syns
Lean Corned Beef 50g
5
Tomato ketchup 1 level tbsp
1
Total Syns 6


24th – from memory as not saved online for some reason :mad:
(Green)
Breakfast – muller light and banana
Lunch – baked beans on WW brown bread (HE)
Dinner – Syn free chips (using fry lite in oven), bean sausages (SW recipe – free on green days), salad

Syns – whatever the syn is for tbsp of low fat mayo

Green Diary
25 February 2008



Free Food
rice
eggs
very low fat natural yogurt
courgettes
mushrooms
onions
bananas

Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


113g chicken


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls




Syns
Oil, all types excluding extra virgin olive oil 1 level tsp
2
Oil, all types excluding extra virgin olive oil 1 level tsp
2
Total Syns 4


Green Diary
26 February 2008



Free Food
very low fat natural cottage cheese
very low fat natural yogurt
baked beans in tomato sauce
mushrooms
apples
bananas
salad, without dressing
salad, without dressing
Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


28g Cheddar


85g bacon


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls

Syns
Pesto dressing 1 level tbsp
4
Sweets, basic, Wine gums each
1
Sweets, basic, Wine gums each
1
Sweets, basic, Wine gums each
1
Sweets, basic, Wine gums each
1
Sweets, basic, Wine gums each
1
Potatoes, chips, homemade, average thickness, deep fried 28g
1.5
ciabatta
1.5
Total Syns 12


Green Diary
27 February 2008



Free Food
rice
very low fat natural cottage cheese
eggs
very low fat natural yogurt
very low fat natural yogurt
potatoes
mushrooms
apples
apples
bananas
kiwi fruit
strawberries
salad, without dressing

Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


85g ham


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls




Syns
Sweets, basic, Jelly babies each
1
Sweets, basic, Jelly babies each
1
Chocolate, basic, Selection sweets, eg Quality Street/Roses each
2.5
1/2 bag wotsits
3
Bread, White 28g
3.5


Total Syns 11




Green Diary
28 February 2008



Free Food
very low fat natural cottage cheese
very low fat natural yogurt
very low fat natural yogurt
potatoes
baked beans in tomato sauce
apples
bananas
grapes
kiwi fruit
melon, all varieties
strawberries
salad, without dressing
Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


2 Mini Babybel Cheeses


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls

Syns
Sweets, basic, Jelly babies each
1
Sweets, basic, Jelly babies each
1
Sweets, basic, Jelly babies each
1
Crisps & snacks, branded, Walkers Wotsits, all varieties 21g bag
5.5
Total Syns 8.5





Original Diary
29 February 2008



Free Food
very low fat natural cottage cheese
very low fat natural yogurt
gammon
ham
tomatoes
bananas
salad, without dressing

Healthy Extras

350ml skimmed milk


2 Weetabix/Weetabix Gold/Weet-bix


3 Pagen Wholegrain Krisprolls




Syns
Chocolate, branded, Maltesers 37g bag



Total Syns 9.5