Slimming World Support Thread

niceday999

katie97 wrote: »

Hi, password last 2 wks,when you go to class buy sw magazine before class starts, also look at free food book and any past magazines.
Are you filling in the food diary, you have to for 4 wks,your sw consultant will
check it every week just to see you're on track.
Instead of having water biscuits,try the pagan wholegrain krisprolls,they are really lovely - 3 allowed as HB red or green Drink plenty of water-free lol what sausages are you having, be very careful most are very high in syns.
Good luck

Pork sausages . I thought they were free and have counted them as such......Are quorn sausages free ? I know bacon is ......HELP

angie_loves_veg

Quorn sausages are free on both days.

The ONLY sausages that are free on red are Morrisons Eat Smart 3% fat Pork Sausages.

Tescos do some reduced fat (5%?) pork sausages that are 0.5 syns each on red.

Most standard sausages are 5 - 6 syns each.

Bacon is free on red if you remove 'all visible fat'.

niceday999

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Quorn sausages are free on both days.

The ONLY sausages that are free on red are Morrisons Eat Smart 3% fat Pork Sausages.

Tescos do some reduced fat (5%?) pork sausages that are 0.5 syns each on red.

Most standard sausages are 5 - 6 syns each.

Bacon is free on red if you remove 'all visible fat'.

Oh Dear wasnt any of those they were dennys pork sausages........i am losing the will to live here.
I am going to plan tomorrows food now.

niceday999

Monday - red day

Breakf. Fruit and Fibre 28g HEB Milk HEA
Lunch
snack Muller Light
Dinner Bacon ,scrambled egg, Tomato,
2 slices nimble w.meal HEB

Not sure what to have for lunch as would have loved a small baked potato and dairy lea and ham.....
working 3 to 8 so wont have dinner til around 8.30

katie97

Hi,I have apple/banana with free syn yogurt for breakfast keeping my hb for later.If you did this you could have the baked pot for lunch with cottage cheese, bit of salad.
Will be back on forum in morning

angie_loves_veg

Hi nice day

I agree with Katie - if you could avoid using your B for breakfast, you could have your 227g (B) jacket potato for lunch, with lots of ham and an HEA of dairy lea (3 light triangles or 3 original triangles or 2 light slices or 2 rippers or 2 tri bites)

an extra snack of fruit or salad or picking on ham or chicken pieces (no skin)would do well too..... I am not sure if you are eating *enough* to satisfy you

SueB

Hi niceday999.
I'm really sorry to hear you're struggling.
Why are you sticking to red days when you seem to want to be on green days? It doesn't matter what day you are on and if you're a pasta/potato person then go for it. I'm not too sure why your consultant said stick to reds first.... what happens if you're veggie????
Sweetie, at the end of the day it's your choice what day you choose and it would be horrible if you decided to quit because you struggled to find stuff you wanted to eat.
I say.... go for green tomorrow
Oh..and if you get to your weigh in and find you haven't lost the weight you wanted then put it down to experience and begin again :j

angie_loves_veg

niceday999 wrote: »

Monday - red day

Breakf. Fruit and Fibre 28g HEB Milk HEA
Lunch
snack Muller Light
Dinner Bacon ,scrambled egg, Tomato,
2 slices nimble w.meal HEB

Not sure what to have for lunch as would have loved a small baked potato and dairy lea and ham.....
working 3 to 8 so wont have dinner til around 8.30

Just a thought - but on green, your menu could look like this:

B - Fruit and Fibre 28g HEB Milk HEA

Lunch - big jacket potato/es, dairy lea (A choice), ham (weighed as B choice), unlimited baked beans

Snacks - muller lights, fruit etc

Dinner - Bacon (weighed as B choice), scrambled eggs, tomatoes, unlimited slimming world chips

does that look more interesting?

Flat_Eric

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

Hiya



D Roast duck (F), roast pumpkin (SF), mashed potato (with skin on = HEB) mixed with cabbage (SF), cauliflower (SF), leeks (SF). Gin (2.5 syns) and slimline tonic (SF), 175 ml wine (6 syns)

Hope these ideas help

Hi Angie Loves Veg. This post was very interesting and a useful insight into how you only use your syns for alcohol. I tend to use my syns for food items but have the alcohol as well meaning that on occasions I struggle to stay within my syn limit (which is meant to be 10!!).

I noticed you had roast pumpkin with your main meal. How did you go about preparing this and cooking it? I bought one - I think to make a soup with it but roasted sounds nice but on my kitchen side it remains because Im not really sure how to go about cooking it etc.

Despite my best intentions, ive had a bad weekend syn wise and when I added everything I had on Friday, I think I had about 70 syns! once i started, I couldnt stop! part of this was I didnt drink enough (3 cups of tea and a couple of sips of water up to 6pm) meant that I was mistaking thirst for hunger and consequently munched 2 snack sausage rolls and a treat size dairy milk (which had been bought for my OH) on my journey home. Thus once I had consumed more than my day's syns in about 2 munches, I thought what the hell and thus the syns increased.....

Do you not feel deprived just having the 6 syns (175ml) of wine? If i pour this amount into one of my LARGE wine glasses, it seems to amount to about 2 sips!!!

I made the baileys sylabubs from the new SW mag and big thumbs down from me. just tasted like a large toffee yogurt but with the occasional hit of baileys. would probably be ok if you (increased the syns) and put a swirl of chocolate through the sylabub and if you could get it to set (was a bit too runny for me) .

I know I will probably pay for my synful weekend at class on Tuesday but your post has given me some ideas and I think I am going to try and plan a menu where I dont have any syns and everything is either free or one of my HEA/HEB options. I dont have far to go to target (5 pounds) (will be more after Tuesday!) but certainly i am determined that Im going to win this battle with my syns.

Tomorrow, Im planning on having steak and celeriac for tea with HEB bread spread with LC triangle and sainsburys bacon medalions for lunch.

fruit and yogurt for snacks and hi fi bar for my other HEB.

thank you very much for your useful post

angie_loves_veg

Hiya Flat Eric - hope you are well

I doooooo like a drink.:beer: Probably not the best for me in the long run, but at least I now drink less than I used to . It seems logical to me to look at the food choices and build meals from super free, free and HE's. I don't find it a hardship at all. It is fairly rare that I add anything to them in the way of syns - not never of course, but gravy or ketchup or mayo etc are occasional extras rather than regular features....

I grew 7 different varieties of pumpkin and squash on the allotment this year, so we are eating them many different ways.:eek: I find that the more colour the flesh has (ie darker orange, like a BNS for example), they roast well, just cut into chunks (skin on), remove the seeds and spray with frylight roasting for about half an hour. These darker flesh ones are also the ones you want for soup - roast in chunks, then simmer for about 20 mins in chicken stock with an onion. Blitz.

However, if they have a pale flesh, they are better peeled, chunked, steamed and mashed - they can create a really creamy, superfree mash! (but quite a tasteless soup - not worth the bother)

175ml wine is OK for us now. It is half a bottle between 2 - so a bottle does us 2 nights now :cool: . The trick is to ALSO have a glass of chilled water (or fizzy water) on the table. When you are thirsty, drink the water. When you fancy some wine, sip the wine. It takes getting used to, but on a Friday night we share a whole bottle (12 syns each) as a treat, and we often 'forget' to drink quicker! It is so easy to retrain the brain.......:rotfl:

Your red plan for tomorrow sounds good, will you have the celeriac mashed or as 'chips'? I love steak nights...... and mushrooms and roasted onions and grilled toms yummmmmmmm:D