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bubsy70

Hi everyone thanks for your birthday wishes, I had a lovely day and a nice meal out last night. I did not think too much about my diet. I had Lamb Massuka, side salad, a few chips, (never ate them all) :j and garlic bread MMmmm, very tasty, only drank orange juice,

Have a good day all. bubsy.

Burlesque_Babe

northernlass - I don't have a Morrisons anywhere near me unfortunately and I didn't like the Asda ones, I tried them a couple of times in different dishes

They are around £3.30 a packet which is more than bog standard supermarket ones, but no more in price than the some of the premium ones in the supermarkets and they've all been incredibly nice and very, very filling. They were somehow delivered via the Real Meat Company, which I know is expensive, but the quality is excellent.

He also does chicken breasts, steak and pork steaks dipped in different sauces which are also all free and they are no more in price than a packet of plain chicken/pork/beef for the same weight at the supermarket.

I'm planning on having 4 red days and 3 green days a week and I've worked out on my food budget that this costs £2.31 per day on average for my lunch with me having my usual green day lunches. I work from home 3 days a week (as well as 4 afternoons a week) and need to have green days on those 3 days to have plenty of carbs to snack on!

I finish work at 1 Tue-Fri and find it easy to do green as I can do pasta n sauce, cous cous, beans on toast, savoury rice etc in 10 minutes for my lunch (before I start my self employed work from home I do). I find it hard to find equivalent really filling red day quick lunches and I lose weight much quicker on red days. I could do some batches of burgers, grill sticks etc and freeze them, but I already work 2 jobs across 7 days, i've just taken on my 3rd job which will be 1 evening a week and I cook from scratch every night and often don't eat until 8.30 or 9 many nights so I just need easy lunches and having to find extra time in the day to make burgers etc to put in the freezer is hard. I know it's a slightly expensive solution to me having red days, but it's working and this time I'm trying all ideas to make it work!!!!

Cleosmum

Red day:

Bacon, tomatoes, poached eggs, mushrooms and 2 nimble (B) sunflower spread (2 syns) and fruity sauce (1 syn).

northernlass_2

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that is some fulltime work you do there so i understand why you havnt got the time, i just hate lining other peoples pockets while emptying my own lol. if it works for you and you can afford it then why not, anything to make your free time your own.

Burlesque_Babe

I know - I'm working at the same time that I'm posting here I'll be working across the weekend and Bank Holiday I feel like crying some times at the lack of free time I have - even annual leave from my paid job turns into working on my self employed work to try to make ends meet. I love cooking each day (I start as a cookery teacher for adults in September which is the third job I mentioned) so I don't often have ready meals - pasta n sauce is the only ready meal I have to I guess, but the sausages/grills/burgers etc have been a welcome lifeline for me to try to do lots of red days and , like I say, it's costing around £2.30 a day for lunch which isn't too bad really. I guess I could factor in using MSE rather than going to SW class to even out the spend versus budget a bit as well

To be honest, I'm at the stage of trying anything to get the weight off. I'm 150 pounds over weight (make that 150 away from the top of my weight:height ratio to make it even worse!) and a month or so ago I sent off for a brochure for bariatric surgery locally at a private clinic. Of the 3 options, I'd never do stomach stapling as 1 in 100 people die, the gastric band is £12k for my weight and would almost wipe out my savings and the only other option is a saline filled balloon placed in the stomach. This is only left there for 6 months, the average loss is 3 stone and costs £4k.......:eek: ....now that would have been a non-MSE solution!!!!!! (makes sausages at £3.30 a packet pale into insignificance )

I felt that desparate though that I did sit and read the brochure though - more than once.......:(

northernlass_2

i know what you mean, ive done it myself, i have done loads of research on the internet trying to work out which country is the cheapest but also the safest etc, i hate being overweight and i have about 70lbs to get me to 10 stone but that is still 2 stone over weight for my height, its a long and slow process but they say the longer it takes to come off the longer it stays off apparently though i dont think that includes yo yo weight gain and loss LOL.

Burlesque_Babe

well, apparently Belgium is a good place, but I'd never, ever have the stomach reduction. I would rather be 150 pounds overweight than take the risk of being that 1 in 100!

My OH is apt to make unkind comments (see today's Daily Chat for a timely conversation) so I have that added 'bonus' to throw into the pot for put downs along the way.

consultant31

Cleosmum wrote: »

So not an official B then? Not on sw lists anywhere?

I checked with my area manager who confirmed this. I guess they're not listed in the book (or syns online) because they aren't a B on their own - you have to add 3 syns.

Burlesque_Babe

afternoon all. I'm going for a red day on a weekend _pale_ not sure how I'll get on for the rest of the day. I've just had salad with 8oz roast chicken tossed in and I need more food!!!!

I found the chicken in Asda - it's Smartpice ready cooked roast chicken. I'm guessing it's the odds and ends from the posher packets of thick sliced chicken, but it was great.

1 oatibix skimmed milk
banana

chicken salad

actimel prune yoghurt (3 syns)

fat free asda yoghurt

dinner will be lean strips of beef in a curry sauce with various veg.

Burlesque_Babe

when I last did SW 'properly' and lost nearly 5 stone, every 1/2 stone, I treated myself to a little something. Just something small , but a 'treat'. I've decided to do it again. When I get to my first 1/2 stone I'm going to buy some 'nice' (ie not Tesco etc own brand!) bubble bath and at my first stone, I'm going to buy a necklace from this ebay seller. There are loads I like so I'm going to see it as a mini challenge to get one within the overall 20 pounds in 10 weeks challenge I've set myself.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Dichroic-Glass-Uk