Slimming World Support Thread

Flat_Eric

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Hi all,

welcome newbies :wave:, and **welcome back Kelly** :j we had to give you a chance to live 'the other way'.... but glad you are back

I was a bit pleased tonight as I lost 1 and 1/2 lb :cool: I think that my fast forward week started it moving for me again. I am still increasing my vegies by at least 1 portion per meal, three meals a day and I wonder if this has made the difference ?? Anyway, who cares why, but it is working for me.

Shocking news :eek: is that as it is weigh in night, I am "helping" hubby finish a piece of chocolate fudge sponge layer pudding thingy from the fridge... it is better gone, and at least at the beginning of the week it should do less damage

have a great week y'all :j

hmmmmmmm confesion time? chocolate sponge you say?! Ive just eaten sticky toffee pudding and banana custard. one pudding was 25 syns :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: but once I had eaten half of it, i chucked it in the bin even though I knew I could probably have eaten the lot! My tea also went a bit pear shaped as instead of my planned new covent garden soup, my OH put on for me, chips, onion rings and thai chicken x 2. I also had tiger bread although I didnt eat all my chips etc- just dont enjoy them anymore (but seem to think I will for some mad reason until I start eating it) Ive also eaten tiger bread so syn syn syn (not including the large glass of wine I poured) so confession time over and I feel very ashamed at typing this but I have weighed in and I am aiming to have a fab week with all my veggies so know after today that I will be very good, keeping to my 10 syns a day and eating lots of superfree food.

Flat_Eric

Fig Pavlovas


A melt in the mouth dessert thats really simple to prepare


EASY

Serves 4


V


Ready in about 15 minutes


6, firm, ripe figs
½ orange
1 tbsp artificial sweetener
1 cinnamon stick
4 meringue nests
4 tbsp low fat custard

1. Halve the figs and place in a shallow bowl. Finely grate the orange zest. Set aside

1. Add the artificial sweetener, cinnamon stick and 7 fl oz / 198ml water to a saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, pour over figs and allow to cool. Once cool, drain the liquid from the figs. Set the figs aside.
2. Place the meringue nests onto individual serving plates. Mix together the custard and most of the orange zest. Spoon the custard over and around the nests and top each one with 3 fig halves. Decorate with the remaining zest.

Syns per serving


3 ½ original
3 ½ green.


Recipe from Slimming World Magazine Nov/Dec 2008.
Pg 77.

Flat_Eric

Baileys Mocha Syllabubs


extra easy
ready in about 10 mins (plus 2 – 3 hours chilling time)
freezable


1 tsp instant coffee
7 oz / 198g quark
2 pots toffee muller light yogurt
4 tbsp baileys liqueur
2-3 drops vanilla extract
3-4 tbsp artificial sweetener
½ oz / 14g cooking chocolate.
Cocoa power to dust.

1. Dissolve the coffee in 1tbsp water. Whisk together the coffee, quark, mullerlight, baileys, vanilla extract and sweetener.
2. Spoon the syllabub mixture into 4 desert glasses. Chill in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
3. Meanwhile melt the chocolate. Take a spoonful of chocolate and drizzle thinly over a piece of baking parchment in four separate decorative patterns. Allow to cool and chill in the fridge till set.
4. Remove the syllabubs and chocolate swirls from the fridge. Decorate the syllabubs with the swirls. Dust over the cocoa powder and serve.

Syns per serving


original 4
green 4


Recipe from Slimming World Magazine Nov/Dec 2008.
Pg 66

Flat_Eric

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Yay on the loss FE :T

Good for you trying to kick the mid week weighing habit :A remember - you have to tell now if you step on.....:rolleyes:

New mag!!???? Not fair :mad: Just got back from class, and it wasn't there - if the recipes are great you have to share - a whole week for me to wait you know :rolleyes:

thank you angie loves veg . ive posted a couple of the recipes. let me know what you think.

2cats1kid

Hi guys, sorry I've not been about much, but work is mad at the moment. I've also joined a singing group and picked up my genealogy research again, so I've been pretty busy. I've FINALLY managed to find a death certificate I've been looking for on and off for 15 years (do you have any idea how many John McDonalds die in Scotland every year!!) so I have renewed enthusiasm for it again.

It's my WI tomorrow morning, so I'll pop in with that and then try to be a bit more regular on here again.

Skint_Catt

Got the new mag, opened it but haven't read a word yet! :j

Flat_Eric

one of the recipes in the new SW mag is for lamb shanks. where can I buy lambs shanks ? is it something my local butcher does? whenever ive looked online with Mr T, they have always been pre-prepared in some kind of sauce or are frozen with a sauce and therefore have to be synned.

Skint_Catt

LOL, going to scan the cover of the mag and post it to the fridge:

"Cover star Claire (my real name) lost 3stone 2lb (my weight to go pretty much) New Look, New Man, New Me!" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Getting my new look (hair) next week - wonder how long it'll take the rest

angie_loves_veg

Flat_Eric wrote: »

thank you angie loves veg . ive posted a couple of the recipes. let me know what you think.

:eek: sticky toffee pud with banana custard :eek: chocolate fudge thingy :eek:

how does it go? a moment on the lips is straight on the hips!!??

Think its 'bout time we all got cooking the yummy recipes you posted eh!? They look great cheers (esp the fig pavlova one yummmmmm:D )

angie_loves_veg

we had a laugh at class tonight, our consultant (an 'older' lady who is really lovely and friendly, but never shocking) has just got back from holiday and (clearly feeling frisky!) amongst other things reminded us that sex was great body magic (as she put an ''anklet'' on the raffle table saying it could be an anklet or dangled on something else :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: )

Flat_Eric wrote: »

so confession time over and I feel very ashamed at typing this but I have weighed in and I am aiming to have a fab week with all my veggies so know after today that I will be very good, keeping to my 10 syns a day and eating lots of superfree food.

anyhoo - she was mimicing another consultant, and in a (very essex) voice was telling us to 'Start each day the SW way, you might balls it up by lunch, but start the next day the SW way. The next day you might balls it up by tea, but if you start your day the SW way, you will get to the third day and start to lose weight, because you will notice you didn't balls it up at all.'

So maybe that's it. We are all human. We *do* balls it up sometimes, but if we wake up with good intentions, then tomorrow could be the SW day for us...:cool: