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Bunnyinthelights

I'll get more adventerous Im sure once I've made a few more-I like them quite 'runny' and almost sour with lemon and lots of onions

Burlesque_Babe

Dopiaza is lots of onion and Ceylon is hot and sour - lots of black pepper and lemon. I like lots of lentils in mine.

There is a SW curry book, I've got it somewhere - must find that as well!!!

Bunnyinthelights

I like a dupiaza-I will try and make one of those-you can get some recipes off the website so may try that.

Snaggles

Argghhhh....I thought I'd stuck to it perfectly today but Stu sneaked extra wine and some garlic puree into our dinner, so I've had 15.5 syns.....nooooooooooo!!!

But as I haven't had the books with me today, and I've had chocolate, cheese and wine I haven't done too badly! I've still got a healthy extra to have...hmmmm, dry bread anyone?

superpup

Hi again

I think I'm getting my head around this, thanks to info from Keren and posts on here, but could do with checking today's eats if someone wouldn't mind please?

I'm working from the 7 day free trial off the SW website at the moment.

Already tweaked it as had nothing suitable for b'fast.

B'fast
2 Weetabix, a bit of semi skimmed milk and some water

Snack (on way into Tesco) banana
Snack (on way out of Tesco) toffee mullerlight

Lunch
Jacket potato, 3/4 tin beans, 42g low fat cheddar
(was supposed to have homemade coleslaw but it was 4pm and I had shopping all over the kitchen)
Was also supposed to have a tin of fruit cocktail in juice with some natural yogurt but didn't really want it or feel I needed it. Does it matter that I missed it out?

Dinner
Quorn Bolognese with wholewheat linguine. I had 42g low fat cheddar with it as a Healthy A choice and the milk that I've had with my b'fast and in tea should count as my 2nd Healthy A, yes?

The Weetabix I had this morning would've been a Healthy B choice so I have to have something else off the B list tonight?

And I don't think I've had any syns. I bought some Tesco own brand Jaffa Cakes in the hope that they would be reasonably low on the syn front.

Maybe if I have a slice of toast with a bit of something on before bed, that would count as my last Healthy B with a few syns?

I promise I'll have this sorted in a few days

I started today as I don't have much time before the wedding I'm going to next month and can't afford to wait a few days. Are we weighing in on Wednesday or the following week? I weighed this morning and I was 11,4 and if I can get down to 10,10 by 17th May, I'll be reasonably happy.

Thanks for the recipes that have been posted. I will post some of my own once I know what I'm doing. If I try it now, I'll probably merge the 2 and create a murky brown day :rolleyes:

sp x

PS - Snaggles, that's only half a syn over isn't it? Can you earn extra syns with exercise?

SuzySu

Superpup....just looking over your menu briefly you seem to have had 42g low fat Cheddar for both lunch (on your jacket) and dinner (on your spag bol) plus your allowance of milk. You are only allowed 2 'A' choices, so you will need to count the second helping of cheese as Syns (and 28g of low fat Cheddar is 4 Syns) so you have had 8 Syns today, just on cheese alone.

Another confusing thing is that you can count various meat/fish as a 'B' choice on a green day. PM me if you want to know weights of these.

donner_kebab

Just thought I would mention, dunno if this is still the case, but when you have treats like chocies and crisps and you don't always know the syn value, usually 20 cals = 1 syn
That's what I was told when I went to classes many moons ago! Seems to ring true when I check my fav snacks out!

donner_kebab

Superpup could count the milk as syns if that was less couldn't she? And have both cheese portions as her A's?

tw1nklestar

what can i say, moved in with other half (relocated to york from east midlands) didnt work for 4 months and gained about half stone a month - now back to work but still got the weight :rolleyes: loved the red green day diet but there is not one within walking distance from here - has been my excuse not to go anyways- other excuse is i dont own scales :j . when i was on this diet i lost 2 stone in 12 weeks and felt fit healthy and full. I will go into town in the week and have a weigh in :eek: my guess is nearly 14 st:eek: :eek: :eek: and want to be down to 10 by august - is doo able as long as i give up the evil wine me thinks lol. Last glass going down now so cheer all :beer: . will post some summer pictures when at goal lol. Oh i forgot to say had pic taken on a school trip on thursday and it was put on whiteboard friday to remind kids of trip (i was only in the background) omg if that was not enuff to make me stick to this diet i dont know what is lol - back to last glas of :beer: and will clock in tomorrow with food diary for the week :rolleyes:
see said it out loud now so got to stick to it

donner_kebab

Just wanted to say hello to Tw1nklestar and enjoy that wine! I have also given up the booze, only recently and do feel better for it! I know that you should be able to have a small amount, glass or two but I prefer to save my syns for chocolate! Just polished off a curly wurly and hot chocolate options thing so that's all my syns gone for today! But time for bed anyway!
Take care xxx