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Following Christmas, my Wedding, New Year and then my Honeymoon I am 1 1/2st heavier than I was in November, I haven't lost anything since I got back from my honeymoon at the end of January. I think I am eating healthily (despite the little goodies my new hubby keeps plying me with!)
Anyway I haven't done SW before, but have read up on it a lot and am hoping if I make a start my head will 'get in the zone!'

Any advice would be welcome, please be gentle with me as a newbie I'm sure I'm going to need a far bit of guidance!

My food for today:-

Drinks throughout the day
Tea with skimmed milk

Breakfast
2 x weetabix
Skimmed milk

Lunch
1/2pk Tesco BBQ chicken chunks
Salad(tomato,cucumber,lettuce)

Fruit salad(melon/grapes)
Peach activia yog

Dinner
Chicken gougons with Cajun seasoning
Carrots,cauliflower,broccoli, green beans
Splash of gravy

1/2doz Brazil nuts


I am a creature of habit and eat a lot of the same foods, just because I like it, I do eat a lot of chicken!

I have just made some SW crust less quiches for lunch tomorrow tho!

Please point out my mistakes or suggest little tweaks, I am desperate just for a loss of any description!
 
Hello, congrats on getting wed, it's hard to get out of comfort mode and being strict with yourself and well done on making the first moves.

Firstly, you need to measure your milk, you can have 350ml of skimmed milk, you may not have gone over but it's good to measure to ensure no sneaky syns.

Secondly, the brazil nuts are quite high syn'd unless a part of a healthy extra, they are 9 syns per 25g or 0.88 oz so just watch how many you eat, well done on measuring them :)

Thirdly, always read yoghurt labels, some of them are fat free but still contain sugar therefore syn'd

Apart from that everything else looks good, good luck with your journey and I hope everything goes well for you x
 
Hi and welcome. You will love slimming world.

Ideally add a speed food to breakfast eg add some raspberries to your cereal, or if you switched up breakfast to something like a mushroom omelette then you could save your healthy B to use on nuts.

When I have cereal I tend to swap the milk for fat free bio live natural yoghurt which is a handy tip. I then can use my hexa for a bit of cheese grated over pasta or similar.

My other tips are to make sure you always drink loads of water and also try loads of new recipes which will help to keep you interested.
 
Thanks for your replies

Breakfast needs to be something really quick in the week, does yoghurt make the weetabix go soggy or does it stay crunchy? May have to try the overnight porridge everyone raves about, then I could add the required extra fruit.
I haven't quite got my head round the Healthy Extras but working on it!
To be honest, I'm was just trying to get rid of the nuts so the temptation is gone, won't buy any more!

Will post food later, thank you
 
Remember that the object of Speed foods is to reduce the amount of Free foods you eat. You don't have to add them to a meal using Healthy Extras just for the sake of it as portion control is already built in by weighing/measuring the HExs. You may prefer to save any fruit you might have added to have as a snack later on.

It would be useful to detail your Syns as that way people can spot any errors in your calculations. For example, in your planned menu, the chicken gougons and gravy most likely have some Syns in.

If you haven't done so already, I would recommend joining a group or on-line to get the new member's talk and the most up-to-date books. Good luck.

PS I love porridge, but loathe overnight oats!
 
Thanks for your replies, I'm still learning the ropes and possibly eating a few things up that I will buy better in future!

Today was

Breakfast
HE weetabix x 2
HE skimmed milk 350ml
(and some in tea throughout the day)
Raspberries

Lunch
1/2 pk BBQ chicken slices (syns?)
Lettuce, tomato, cucumber

Fruit salad - honeydew cantaloupe melon(won't buy anymore honeydew)
Grapes raspberries

Tea
Plain grilled chicken breast
Lettuce tomato cucumber

Mango

Snack
2x SW crustless quiches (free)

Sneaky glass of wine 4syns?


Having an attempt at overnight porridge for breakfast tomorrow, see how that goes ;)
 
Thanks Cherrybobs

1/2 Syn for the bbq chicken
The wine was 175ml Pinot

Having done the Cambridge diet on and off quite a lot over the last 5 yrs I am really carb sensitive, so I have to admit I try and avoid them although I am trying to introduce more!
A friend is doing a nutrition degree she says most of my carbs come from the sugars in the fruit I eat, so I m trying to make slightly better choices! According to MFP I'm still getting 55-60% of my food as carbs! It's the fat I'm down on!
Will try harder ;)

Off to try my overnight porridge!
 
Food so far today:-

Breakfast
HE 35g Porridge
HE Low fat yogurt
Mango & Raspberries

Lunch
Lettuce, cucumber, tomato
1/2 ok bbq chicken. 1/2 Stn

Mango melon raspberries grapes

Snack
2 x SW crustless quiches

Will be making some more of these!

Off shopping soon so will hopefully get some inspiration for tea
 
Tea
Leak and bacon stuffed mushrooms
Sprinkled with low fat cheese 2/3syns
Sweet potato wedges -free -
very nice, will definatly make these again

Was just going in search of 'something' when unexpected visitors turned up so was distracted for a few hours! Too late now, so saved :)


Off to make overnight porridge for morning
 
It looks as if my head had finally got the message!
When we returned from our honeymoon I was 13-9, I fully expected to loose a few pounds from water retention etc when I returned to eating better, but never did! In fact I gained a few more pounds. When I started this thread I was 13-10, so that is what I called my start weight.

This morning I weigh 13-8 so hopefully now going in the right direction
I know I still have a lot to learn about SW but hopefully this is the start of a successful journey.
 
Breakfast
HE porridge 35g
HE low Fat yogurt
Raspberries
Mango

Lunch
Jacket potato
Low fat cottage cheese

Taking hubby out for his birthday later so will try and stay on plan as much as possible!
 
That didn't quite go to plan!
Had run out of the Vibrant Salad and the risotto so ended up with Hunters Chicken and s jacket, followed by Ice cream!
I was driving so had orange J2O's
Can't find syn values for these but bet they are quite high, good job I haven't used many syns this last week!
 
J20's are 4.5 syns I think.

Hope you had a lovely night x
 
Thank you, I feared they may be getting on for 5 each so not a bad guess!
So what do you drink when out but driving? I don't like cola (of any description) low syn suggestions welcome!

Today has been back on plan

Brunch
Bacon poached egg mushrooms tinned tomatoes

Snack
Mango
1 SW crustless quiche

Dinner will be a roast
Well meat and loads of veg, might have 1 roast potato and Gravy so not many syns!
 
Dinner
Beef
Carrots cauli broccoli green beans
SW roast potatoes
Stuffing ball 4syns
Gravy 2syns


Had a cuppa earlier and added 2digestives so another 6syns

Gosh they soon add up

Need to get out of the mind set of needing something to go with a cuppa!
 
Breakfast
Overnight porridge
35g porridge HEb
Low Fat Natural Yogurt
Mango raspberries

Lunch
Lettuce tomato cucumber
1/2pk bbq chicken 1/2syn

Melon grapes
Active yogurt 1/2syn

1x Ferrero Rocher 3syns

Dinner
Cod Loin Fillet
Carrot cauli broccoli green beans
Boiled potato

Now the interesting bit
How do I syn a home made cheese sauce?
1oz LF margerine 85 Cals
1oz plain Flour 90 cals
150ml semi skimmed milk
(Can this be 1/2hea?)
100g low Fat cheese 323cals
Can some of this be 1/2 hea?
It served 2of us


Snack
SW crustless quiche
More fruit
 
Hi cruise diet and welcome to Minis! :)

Not too sure about the Syns for the sauce you made but wondered if you fancied making a cheese sauce (in future) from Quark. Quark is a Free food and takes on the flavours of other foods quite well. I sometimes make cheese sauce with a tub of Quark, mixed with some black pepper and mustard powder or Synned made mustard - 1 level teaspoon of any variety = 0.5 Syn and then mix in some grated extra mature Cheddar, used as Healthy Extra's. 30g Cheddar = 1 x HEX or 40g reduced-fat Cheddar = 1 x HEX. When sharing the recipe between two or more people, this equals quite a lot of cheese, so there's always enough to grate some over the top of the dish too! :)

Hope you find this helpful and good luck. You've definitely logged on to the right place for help, recipes, friendship and advice! :)

Kathy xx
 
Thanks for your reply Kathy, I looked at a tub of quark in my fridge but didn't really know how to go about using it!

Would you heat it in order to melt the cheese, it was added to the cauliflower and put in the oven for @20mins could I just do the same?

Based on the 20 cals/syn I worked it out to @ 12.5syns per serving so if I had the milk and some of the cheese as hexa a few less so not too many over for the day!
 
No, I don't heat it first, I just stir it through, then it melts during its time in the oven. I always use either mature or extra mature cheese so the Quark takes on the flavour really well. When I'm using cheese in anything later in the day, I always have something like fresh fruit and yoghurt (or cooked breakfast sometimes, at the weekend) for breakfast so I'm not using my HEX A on milk for cereal but I still have enough left over for milk in cups of tea throughout the day. This is why planning ahead is so important! :) Using Quark, as opposed to making a 'proper' cheese sauce from flour, etc., is also a lot easier so that suits me fine, after a day at work!

Hope you like it if you do decide to give it a go.

Kathy x
 
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