Slimming World Support Thread

missjennipenni

Hi, thanks for the great welcome!

Think Im doing ok today, had 2 toast (heb) with very light LC cheese (part of hea), a banana.

Lunch is SW chips with tinned spaghetti (is this free on green?)

Tea will be roast parsnip, butternut squash, potatoes, onion, leek & beetroot with some chicken (heb) and chicken bovril gravy

Skint_Catt

Tinned spgahetti is free on green, yes!

Fed up as OH is away again. I'm fine on Saturdays but Sundays I get really down and lonely. Doesn't help I'm watching PS. I love you on DVD which was a very sad book.

So far, pasta, beans and cheese as brunch and a packet of French Fries. Want to eat and eat but trying to stop myself.

C xx

2cats1kid

Thanks ALV! I do occasionally do a HM soup as I've put it into my meal plan occasionally. I think I'll check out what tinned soups are low syn too, to help out with manic times!

Sounds like I've understood mix2max at last then, so I may throw one or two of them in to shake things up a bit.

ajgrist

please can someone pm me with the password for the slimming world website. thank you in advance.

fluffynit

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Tinned spgahetti is free on green, yes!

Fed up as OH is away again. I'm fine on Saturdays but Sundays I get really down and lonely. Doesn't help I'm watching PS. I love you on DVD which was a very sad book.

So far, pasta, beans and cheese as brunch and a packet of French Fries. Want to eat and eat but trying to stop myself.

C xx

How about making a huge pile of sw chips and fry(light) eggs?

Skint_Catt

Cause I had them last night as a 'snack' :rolleyes: and I'd been doing so well on cutting my portions :mad:

Had lots to drink (diet pop) so had some savoury rice and am now waiting for OH to come home for din. Had a Hi-Fi which has thrown my syns/HEb's out the window :mad:

Thanks though. i'll be straight back on it as soon as OH comes home!

angie_loves_veg

Hi all

For anyone who is keeping up, I am on day 5 of fast forward :rolleyes: On the countdown now, as weigh in is Tuesday AND I REALLY WANT TO LOSE SOME WEIGHT.

I think I have done well - I have stuck to the plan 110%. Not even one slice of cucumber more than allowed has passed my lips :A I haven't cheated, tweaked or ad-libbed. I watched hubby have cake, DD have chocolate - and I have sipped on my ever trusty bottle of water.

I am getting used to the water (3 x 500ml a day minimum). My skin looks great :rotfl:

The portions have been surprisingly generous - mainly just veg though. I think it it quite similar to what would happen if you only ate superfree and healthy extras (as was mentioned a few weeks ago) - although on FF everything is weighed.

My weight just seems to be very stubborn to shift. I know I shouldn't weigh myself but it looks like 2lb so far, which is good, but I wish it were more There was someone on here who did FF a while back and lost either 6 or 7 lb in a week. Mind you, I have never lost more than 2 lb in a week (that was my first week), so maybe I should be very pleased with a 2lb loss....I would be happier though if I could get my stone award (needs 2.5lb loss).

Just 2 more days and I will be back to 'reality' - wednesday will be red for DH's birthday. He fancies something Algerian (as you do !!!) So I am planning hummus (B) with veggie dippers to start - for main I will marinate some lamb for kebabs and maybe some chicken too. Lots of tomato/cucumber salad, yogurt and pomegrate dip.

Have you spotted that I am obsessing about being back on the standard plan!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: Just hope I don't put it all back on

pollysg

Hi, sorry I've not posted for so long, have been away/busy/too lazy to get the computer out and plugged in!

Does anyone have any ideas/favourite recipes for marinades (for green days) - I have some Quorn chicken in the freezer, and as my experience with quorn so far has done little for me so far, I thought I'd jazz it up. I bought the "SW sauces" book in the hope it would inspire me, but it's exactly that, sauces, not marinades.

Hope you can help,
Polly

angie_loves_veg

Yogurt is a great base for a marinade - works fab on chicken and lamb although I have never used it on Quorn. These are 'indianish style' -

Mix your vlf yogurt with garlic, fresh ginger, cumin, crushed coriander seed and a little curry powder (masala)

mix vlf yog with tandoori powder and garlic.

if you fancy sometiing completely different (from indianish) let me know and I will have a think....

heres another thought - chinese marinade - you could use the stir fry sauce I posted last weekish and then add the sauce to the stir fry at the end: here it is:

4 tbsp soy
1 tbsp chopped ginger
1 tsp sweetner
1 tsp fivespice
1tsp ground star anise
1 chopped chilli
2 tbsp thai fish sauce
1tbsp oyster sauce (0.5 syns)
basil and mint - handful, chopped thrown in at the end of cooking

(makes 2-4 portions so you can ignore the syns in the oyster sauce)

Flat_Eric

2cats1kid wrote: »

Kettle available every day.

No other facilities on Monday.
Fridge and microwave on Tuesday (also a proper lunchbreak on Tuesday - I like Tuesdays )
No facilities Wednesday
Fridge on Thursday
No facilities Friday

So my typical lunches are :
* cottage cheese salad one day (this is not great as salad takes a lot of eating and I just don't get time to eat it, often as not)
* can of ravioli (Tuesday) and a mug shot as I work late Tuesday and have mug shot as a snack late afternoon
* rice salad/pasta salad
* sandwich if I can spare the B option for the bread
I do sometimes make the SW quiche and take slabs of that in with me.

I take fruit (normally 3 pieces) and 3 Babybel lights and a Mullerlight, but I'm just getting bored to death of lunches. That's the time I'm likely to think "stuff it" and go to Tesco for a ready made sarnie or a pasty or something! (I am a total pasty fanatic, which doesn't help!)

I also tend to do green a lot as I'm not a big meat eater, which again restricts me a bit. I'm thinking a tandoori chicken sandwich would be nice, but then that would be my meat for the day and I get a bit confuzzled by mix2max.

If I did a breakfast of say Mullerlight and couscous, then a tandoori chicken sandwich (bread = HeB) with my usual fruit and stuff as snacks, then a predominantly green dinner with a HeB of meat, would that work for mix2max or have I got it all wrong?

I have an office, sit on my bum all day job but Im lucky because I have a fridge, kettle and toaster. My office is based on a street where there is a local supermarket plus a small independent sarnie shop which does fab salads, jackets etc! my office is actually right next to a pasty shop :eek:

Anyway the point is, I still struggle to plan yummy filling lunches but Ive put my thinking cap on and here is what I would suggest for you.

On a tuesday especially as you have to work late, why not pre-cook some jackets at home which just need to be warmed up. Top with some Heinz Mean Beanz (the italian, mexican, sweet chilli and smoky bbq are free on green). top with your HEA cheese and some chives or a small side salad and you have the perfect filling lunch.

Have a look on the lakeland site typing in code number 50867 I bought one of these in june and not only does it come with the chiller bit, it has some smaller boxes built in which ive used for fruit, yogurt etc. This would be ideal on the days when you cant keep your food cold.

also check out 11202 or 11203 from the lakeland site. this would be ideal if you had made a soup which you wanted to take in. How about chopped pepper, sweetcorn, carrots, celery with a low fat dip (either home made yogurt and mint say) or some low fat thousand island dressing which you would have to syn. from what you say though, it would seem you cant have stuff on the side of your desk and can nibble on it as and when you please.

i will continue to ponder ideas and will let you know if I think of anything else.