Slimming World Support Thread

miss_phish

Ooh, I dont know - i often use half the milk allowance and half the cheese triangle allowance together as 1 HE. Oops.

stilernin

poodlehorse wrote: »

ok quick question re the recipes in the site larmy posted. Quite often she adds a HE to the whole dish but a portion of the dish she says would be 1/4 HE. Are you supposed to do this? I always thought you couldn't mix and match your HEs like this that you had to have the whole thing or syn it. You know I think that confused emoticon should be my avatar, I am always confused:D

I haven't got a mag at hand to check, but I always thought that a recipe for 4 gave the HE and syns per portion. So for example it would be four pieces of chicken (or fish or baked potatoes) all weighed, which would be 4 x 1HE. IYSWIM

twinkie-smith

Can anyone suggest a really quick family evening meal I can use to replace my Wednesday pizza meal where we have to cook, eat and be out of the house in little over 30 mins!!!! I know - I hate wednesday!

MissMassEffect

I will have been following Slimming World for a year next month and I have managed to lose four and a half stone so far, although that is with exercising at times too.

I follow it myself at home without the help of a group, I got a Food Optimising book and starter pack (which is an obsolute must have in the beginning) so I can't give any advice on what going to group is like.

It can be a bit confusing when you first start, what with the Green Days, Red Days, Healthy Extra's and Syns but it does turn into second nature after a while when you've learnt how it all works.

I would say that SW is great if you like cooking things from scratch and it often means you use less "syns" (naughty food/ingredients) if you do too.

I don't like Mullerlights so I don't eat them, I make my own yoghurt using EasiYo, I have the plain Greek one which doesn't have any sweeteners in.

I don't eat Cheese or Bread often as I find they make my weight loss slower, but I can't see any reason why you couldn't make your own bread, although you'd have to make sure it was Wholemeal for it to count as a Healthy Extra (or you could use syns for it).

On SW you can have full fat versions of things, such as Cheese, but you would have to have a smaller amount than low fat versions.

If you have any more questions fire away and I will try to answer them

poodlehorse

stilernin wrote: »

I haven't got a mag at hand to check, but I always thought that a recipe for 4 gave the HE and syns per portion. So for example it would be four pieces of chicken (or fish or baked potatoes) all weighed, which would be 4 x 1HE. IYSWIM

yes that is what I always thought too, that dish you could have one portion of and you would include the chicken for example as one whole unadulterated HEB. But I didn't think you could one HEB size piece of chicken to the whole dish and then eat a quarter and just claim quarter of a HE and then go and eat 1.5 slices of bread to make up the difference. Because I assume some of the HEs are there for different reasons eg some because they are high in fibre and some because they are protein on a green day etc. Not sure it would matter so much on an a choice HE but still. I'm going to have to remember to ask my consultant on Monday now. I remember being told that you can't carry over HEs either like you can with syns. It is definitely use them or lose them. But then you've got to remember my former consultant was a bit rubbish and didn't seem to know Ryvita minis were HEB choices and in fact told me I was wrong:mad: . Thankfully I still had the mag at home (about a month old at that time so obvious she didn't bother reading it) that proved it so I just ignored her and let her carry on in her own world. So sometimes I do question what I "know" a bit as I don't really trust a word that ever came out of her mouth. Thankfully my first consultant was brilliant so I got a good grounding in the plan with her and the new one is ace.

stilernin

twinkie-smith wrote: »

Can anyone suggest a really quick family evening meal I can use to replace my Wednesday pizza meal where we have to cook, eat and be out of the house in little over 30 mins!!!! I know - I hate wednesday!

One idea would be to make a tomato and veg pasta sauce the night before and leave in the fridge.

When you get home, boil a kettle of water rather than a pan, then pour into a pan and add pasta The bows cook quickly, but spaghetti broken in half (to get in the pan quicker) would do. The more water to pasta you have the quicker it will cook as it doesn't have to heat up again.

While pasta is cooking, heat up the sauce.

Serve with some salad.

Or you could cook the whole lot the night before, stir pasta into sauce and put in fridge. Next say just zap it in the microwave.

jockettuk

miss_phish wrote: »

Ooh, I dont know - i often use half the milk allowance and half the cheese triangle allowance together as 1 HE. Oops.

no got told off doing this was told to use up the whole allowence or add them as syns

poodlehorse

Thanks jockett that clears that up. Glad I wasn't making it up or I could have been having a whale of a time with my HEs .

Twinkie - what about just having a syn free pizza. You use mashed potato as the base and just shape it and bake it I think (acording to the recipes in that website posted earlier where she uses Smash but I have definitely heard tell of it with proper potato). You could just make extra potatoes the night before and make your mash and bake your base and then just add the toppings the night you need them. Unless this is what you are already doing and are bored of it and that is why you need an alternative. I just realised I might have picked you up wrong. Well will post this anyway just in case. Where's that emoticon gone? Gottit :rotfl:

hannahsmummy1

Thanks for your lovely welcomes!!! I have had a bit of a naughty day today! I was really good for lunch- deciding to have a huge salad, when i took DD for mcdonalds (bad mummy i know!! LOL) But then we came home & made chocolate chip cookies & i just ate 2- they were only small ones!! Oh well, back on the wagon tomorow!!

whatatwit

Hi SW gang...I too am a SW member, at target, well 2 lb over at moment...I've lost 2 stone 5 pounds.
Does anyone know the SYN value for Mug Shots, they are those pasta/noodle things a bit like a mini pot noodle crossed with a cuppa soup.
I have been on the SW site, but I can't find them although I always have fun and games with it.
I'm sure I was told once in class that they were free or at least some were.
Thanks.