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  • just wondering if any of you have seen this http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1062453
    this sounds like a good idea to me,
    DFW red and green member
    Doing my best to lose weight and save money
  • supersavershal
    supersavershal Posts: 1,270 Forumite
    i notice you don't use many syns up. is this because you're nearly at target weight? i always thought if you used less than 10 then weight loss slowed down unless you were nearly at target weight?
    I do usually use about 12-15 syns, that was a good day for me.
    I wish I was near target, got stones and stones to go, ive not been very good lately so im trying to jumpstart my wt loss by copying what I ate the first week I started when I lost 5lbs.

    Today I have had

    Breakfast - boiled egg, 2 wholemeal nimble (HEB), teaspoon of lurpak 2 syns
    Lunch - tuna salad, mullerlight, fat free vinigraite dressing, banana
    Tea -chicken and veg stir fry, blue dragon stir fry sauce 2.5 syns and white boiled rice 8 syns, jubbly 1 syn
    Also had the 250ml semi skimmed milk for tea and coffee

    So to summarise - 1 HEA, 1 HEB, 13.5 syns.

    I am also on nights at the moment so find it harder to eat all my syns.
    Shal xx
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    spud30 wrote: »
    Sammy, my DH is now off work for 2 weeks, so I have a weekend that will last a fortnight :eek: We tend to have a bottle of wine in the evening, whereas we wouldnt do that if he was working.

    We're hoping to go out walking quite a bit while he's off, so hopefully that will offset any damage the wine does :o

    I posted on the chat thread yesterday, the scan bran arrived. Now maybe I'm a bit odd, but I think it's yummy :confused:

    Thanks again for sending it to me x

    Told you Spud, its like Marmite - you either love it or you hate it......

    My OH is only working 2 days next week, monday and friday so he will be home all week. The only glimmer of hope on the horizon is I took him for a run this morning and he gave up half way round and took a short cut home, while I carried on. He then went to bed!!! I think he has realised how fat and out of condition he has become :rotfl: :rotfl: Although he is right at this very minute tooking in to Onion Pakora and chicken Jalfrezi and rice....:rotfl:
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • Cleosmum
    Cleosmum Posts: 2,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    i notice you don't use many syns up. is this because you're nearly at target weight? i always thought if you used less than 10 then weight loss slowed down unless you were nearly at target weight?

    My weight loss has sped up since I lowered my syns. Ive been doing SW on and off for the last 5 years and Ive come to believe its a myth that you need to keep your syns up to lose weight.
  • Cleosmum
    Cleosmum Posts: 2,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Green day:

    Sachet Asda porridge (HEB) with 180ml semi skimmed (HEA - rest of the 250ml in cuppas)

    Chowmein mugshot (free)

    Banana, apple (s)

    SW chips (pepper and aromat), beans (ss), poached eggs and 85g bacon (HEB)

    Pepsi max

    half red grapefruit (ss)
  • bubsy70
    bubsy70 Posts: 106 Forumite
    Hi everyone, I have started to fill in a diary this week as I have maintained the last 2 weeks also I know I have been slipping a bit.:eek:
    Green day today
    Breakfast: 1oz Porridge + 150mls soya milk + 2 teaspoons brown sugar (2syns) +1 glass grapefruit juice.

    Lunch : Jacket potatoe + low fat cole slaw (1table spoonful) and BBQ noodles.+ Mr Softy icecream about (8 syns)

    Tea will be: 2 slices of toasted Brown Nimble with 2 ozs cheese. + sugar free jelly & fat free yogurt.:T

    I should'nt need anything else after this, I HOPE.
    My worst time is evenings I always want to nibble when watching telly.
    Have a good day, bubsy
  • Cleosmum
    Cleosmum Posts: 2,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Bubsy, dont forget to syn the grapefruit juice, coleslaw and jelly. Well done for keeping the food diary :)

    My day:

    Red

    2 x alpen light bars (HEB)

    banana

    2 x warburtons medium bread (400g loaf - HEB) with 2 poached eggs, bacon, mushrooms (s), 1 tsp utterly butterly (1.5 syns) and 1 level tbsp fruit sauce (1 syn).

    Banana

    2 HM burgers, with spring onion (s), lettuce (s), toms (s), carrot (s), cucumber (s), red peppers (s) and 42g half fat cheddar.

    1 curly wurly 6 syns.
  • jennyred
    jennyred Posts: 421 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi guys. well, was on nights last week - was awful, really busy!! didnt get that much time to eat. so this week I have lost ................

    3lb!!!!!!!!

    woo - hoo. puts my weight down to 15s 2lb. started at 17s 4lb in feb so am really happy at that. am at my lowest for years.

    am off for 2 weeks now and thats when I find it the hardest so am going to spend a couple of hours meal planning so hopefully will keep the weight off. also will be able to do more exercise so fingers crossed.
    am going to a wedding in York on Thursday and we are staying in a hotel for 3 nights but OH is really supportive so I know we will eat healthily while we are there.

    any way - going into town to find outfit for wedding - nothing I own fits!!!!!!! YESSSSSS

    jenny
  • bubsy70
    bubsy70 Posts: 106 Forumite
    Cleosmum wrote: »
    Bubsy, dont forget to syn the grapefruit juice, coleslaw and jelly. Well done for keeping the food diary :)

    My day:

    Red

    2 x alpen light bars (HEB)

    banana

    2 x warburtons medium bread (400g loaf - HEB) with 2 poached eggs, bacon, mushrooms (s), 1 tsp utterly butterly (1.5 syns) and 1 level tbsp fruit sauce (1 syn).

    Banana

    2 HM burgers, with spring onion (s), lettuce (s), toms (s), carrot (s), cucumber (s), red peppers (s) and 42g half fat cheddar.

    1 curly wurly 6 syns.

    Hi cloesmum I always thought sugar free jelly was free of syns, will check it with my food directory, have synd the rest though went over the top slightly :eek: have a good day bubsy
  • bubsy70
    bubsy70 Posts: 106 Forumite
    jennyred wrote: »
    Hi guys. well, was on nights last week - was awful, really busy!! didnt get that much time to eat. so this week I have lost ................

    3lb!!!!!!!!

    woo - hoo. puts my weight down to 15s 2lb. started at 17s 4lb in feb so am really happy at that. am at my lowest for years.

    am off for 2 weeks now and thats when I find it the hardest so am going to spend a couple of hours meal planning so hopefully will keep the weight off. also will be able to do more exercise so fingers crossed.
    am going to a wedding in York on Thursday and we are staying in a hotel for 3 nights but OH is really supportive so I know we will eat healthily while we are there.

    any way - going into town to find outfit for wedding - nothing I own fits!!!!!!! YESSSSSS

    jenny

    WELL DONE jennyred :T :T you must be really proud of yourself.
    have a good day, bubsy:j
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