Slimming World Support Thread

reddeb

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Hello. Happy Birthday for next week.

I always find it hard when I go out for food because I either have my "im gonna make the most of it and stuff my face head on" :rotfl:or I have my "half sensible head on":rolleyes:

It has been brought up in our class before that some of our members enjoy a bottle of wine at the weekend. Obviously a bottle of wine is a lot of syns.....

so it has been suggested by our consultant in class before that whilst slimming world does not advocate saving up your syns/doing without so you can "binge" at the weekend, if you work out how many syns you are allowed over the whole week, say 105 if you are allowing 15 syns per day or 84 if you are allowing 12 syns per day, 70 if its just 10

work out what your special weekend treat is, be it that bottle of wine or that extra large slice of cheesecake..... and deduct this from your weekly syn allowance. then whatever syns you have left, divide this by 7 and you are left with your daily syn allowance.

I guess you shouldnt do this every week as having only a handful of syns each day to play with will no doubt prove hard to stick to.

It would be interesting to hear consultant31 views on this.

You could also flexi syn, so you are going out for a meal, do you know where you are going? do they have a website that you can look out so that you can read up on the menu?

If you flexi syn, you say, ok, Im going to ???? restaurant, this is what im likely to have, this is going to amount to ???? number of syns so for saturday night, my meal out, im going to allow myself ???? syns. Then go out enjoy yourself, enjoy your syns and next morning, as our consultant puts it! you can look in the mirror and say I kept in control, i stuck within my limit of ???? syns and then you get straight back on the plan.

When I go out for a meal, I do struggle as I have mentioned above but what I tend to do is rather than go all out, I try to choose a sensible starter - say melon, a reasonable main, say steak and jacket and then go all out on the pudding.

I think if you went out and tried to be too sensible then you would feel deprived. I know that I would end up going on a massive binge if i tried to be too sensible on a night out. Its only your birthday once a year so enjoy it :bdaycake:

Many thanks Flat Eric, I'm going to have main course and dessert and a couple of Barcardi and coke's(diet of course), and try just diet coke in between alcoholic drinks:T don't want to feel like I'm deprieving myself as you say it's only your birthday once a year, but it's all my friends birthday's too!! Gotta learn to get around these things.
Good luck to everyone, hope you all have a great weekend, the weather's lovely here hope it's the same where ever you are.
Gonna be good this week before birthday meal next Saturday only need another 21/2 lb for 2 stone award, would be a nice birthday present:rotfl:

reddeb

Gonna have a green day, but can I have mashed potato? Gonna do cheese pie, cheese from HE and skimmed milk to mash??

mumsyrach

Hi, im very new to Slimming World, went to my first class on Wed. Am a bit confused on a few items about if they are free food. Are Muller Lights classed as free or do they have a Syn value? also are other supermarket own fat free yoghurts classed as free? like the tesco or asda value branded fat free strawberry or toffee ones free?

insincere

The muller lights are all free. The own brand ones arnt. This is because, slimming world work with mullerlight, so if muller decided to change their recipe, slimming world know months before so can warn slimmers if the yoghurts suddenly have a syn vaue, whereas with own brand yoghurts, the recipe can change and we wouldnt notice, and might still eat bucket loads and put on weight. lol.

Morrisons are currently doing 10 mullerlights for £2, so stock up! x

Skint_Catt

insincere, the weigh gain will be due to the quantity you've eaten - whats still in your body will weigh lbs but when its used (and not converted to fat like syns would be) then you'll lose it again.

Skint_Catt

reddeb wrote: »

Gonna have a green day, but can I have mashed potato? Gonna do cheese pie, cheese from HE and skimmed milk to mash??

Yes, as long as you count both the cheese and milk from your two HEA allowances! enjoy

Skint_Catt

I thought there were some Supermarkets own brand yoghurts which were free (but not all flavours like Mullerlight)? The website doesn't like the word yoghurt but I'm sure there were some :rolleyes:. Maybe someone with a food directory could help? :confused

Lois_Lane

mumsyrach wrote: »

Hi, im very new to Slimming World, went to my first class on Wed. Am a bit confused on a few items about if they are free food. Are Muller Lights classed as free or do they have a Syn value? also are other supermarket own fat free yoghurts classed as free? like the tesco or asda value branded fat free strawberry or toffee ones free?

Hiya - I checked Tesco's own brand for someone on here quite recently and the Healthy Living ones were free. As a general rule of thumb, if they are described as very low fat, or fat free, they are syn free on SW. It is worth checking though - I was eating Yeo Valley fat free natural yogurt and discovered it is 1/2 syn per pot! :rolleyes:

Here's what I posted previously for Tesco:

Healthy Living, Black Cherry Yogurt, 100g
Healthy Living, Raspberry Yogurt, 200g pot
Healthy Living, Strawberry Yogurt, 200g pot
Healthy Living, Virtually Fat Free Yogurt, all varieties, 100g
Healthy Living, Yogurt with Cake Pieces,
Virtually Fat Free, all varieties, 100g Light Choices,
Natural Bio Yogurt, 100g
Low Fat Natural Bio Yogurt, 100g
Low Fat Natural Set Yogurt, 100g

SC - try changing the spelling!

LL

JAMIEDODGER

can anyone tell me the syn value of one dark rye ryvita (if i chose to have it as syns if ive used up all my HEb's)

thanks

CB64

JAMIEDODGER wrote: »

can anyone tell me the syn value of one dark rye ryvita (if i chose to have it as syns if ive used up all my HEb's)

thanks

1.5 syns each