Thread: Christmas

Hi

On Christmas Day are you planning on syning stuff or just not syn at all?? I'm just planning my shopping and all the food in doing is from the Xmas but in the latest sw mag but wen I think of booze I'm thinkin do I go with low % sparkling wine off full alcohol cava ??

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Well done you - I am not going to worry on Christmas day itself but am more worried about leftovers. Half considering doing a 5:2 week instead of slimming world but I know that is not a part of the plan.

I dont think i am going to bother on xmas day either but i am not going to go ott with chocs and puddings etc but I will enjoy my dinner and some nice wine and get back on it next day x

I'm going to family for Christmas dinner itself, and I really don't feel as though I can make demands such as "please roast my potatoes in frylight" and "please don't put butter () on my veggies" so I think I'm going to just go with the flow! Take smaller portions of the food I know is high in syns and bulk out of vegetables.

The alcohol though is a different matter!

same as me - dont want to be too much trouble but yeah i will be doing the same as you haha!!

Last year I made syn free chicken liver pate for starters/buffet tea, scotch eggs for buffet tea, a mandarin cheesecake made with jelly and quark and Mandarin slices for dessert, a scan bran carrot and ginger cake, pigs in blankets with joes syn free sausages, frylight roasties, turkey, sprouts, basically I stuck to plan with all my meals.

I then flexi synned lots of chocolate and some cheese and crackers.

Back on plan boxing day and then after, going to try and do the same this year, I don't drink though so that makes it easier I suppose.

I think I'm just having three days off plan but then straight back on it after Boxing Day. I have to eat Xmas dinner three times every year looool but that's not too bad. Load up on turkey and veg but go easy everywhere else. It's the picking and grazing that gets me every year lol I will try not to eat for the sake if it but I only drink baileys so that's a huge wodge of calorie laden sugary diet killer right there before I even get to the nut bowl.

I'm with family this year so just gonna try my best to eat less and take my own alcohol as my glass always gets topped up with wine, so if I take bacardi, it will help. Also a first this year is exercise. I exercise a lot now and am going to try just a little 30 min run everyday over Christmas in the hope that it counteracts some of the CAKE! But then I have Berlin for New Year....all that sausages!!! Help! xx

I will be SW all the way up to Xmas day.

Xmas day me and oh will have SW friendly breakfast - cooked breakfast or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

Lunch we will be going to my parents but we have offered to bring starters and desserts, so we can control that part of the menu. Main course will be the usual roast, so we will go heavy on the meat and veg (not buttered thank god) and lighter on the roasties and trimmings.

Evening is a cold buffet so again we have offered to bring a few things with us - free pasta salad, cold roasted veg etc to go with the cold meats.

Boxing day we will host friends for a 2nd Xmas dinner but we cook that, so that will be 100% SW friendly.

OH doesn't drink so he's fine on that front, I try and only drink from Xmas dinner onwards, and stick to wine.

I'm doing Christmas this year. Everyone is getting a SW version as i won the Christmas book in the raffle the other week

I will have some choccies, but I wont buy a big tin even though a smaller box works out more expensive!

Sw Christmas day dinner for me as I have weigh in on the Thursday, the only problem I can for see is that I'm at the mum in laws boxing day and new years day. No getting out of it and its the most high cal dinner you'll ever see!! I'm still trying to work out how I can tell her not to put butter in the veg or mash potatoe, no sausages on my plate (although I'm debating whether to take my own sw version!) And definitely no gravy as she pours all the fat from the meat into it!!

Originally Posted by emmam028

Sw Christmas day dinner for me as I have weigh in on the Thursday, the only problem I can for see is that I'm at the mum in laws boxing day and new years day. No getting out of it and its the most high cal dinner you'll ever see!! I'm still trying to work out how I can tell her not to put butter in the veg or mash potatoe, no sausages on my plate (although I'm debating whether to take my own sw version!) And definitely no gravy as she pours all the fat from the meat into it!!

You might have a stomach bug *cough* or an attack of gallstones *cough* which is triggered by animal fats. Non-life threatening but best I avoid that butter hey...

Originally Posted by jezzi999

You might have a stomach bug *cough* or an attack of gallstones *cough* which is triggered by animal fats. Non-life threatening but best I avoid that butter hey...

Haha, she's coming to us Christmas day for dinner so I'm hoping after eating my lovely offering she'll change hers slightly. She has been asking about my weight loss as she's looking to lose some for my nephews christening in a couple of weeks but her idea of a good diet is starving herself on a cereal only diet!! I really am deading it as I'm planning to stay on plan over Christmas so want my syns for little treats through the week, not to use all on her dinner

Originally Posted by emmam028

Haha, she's coming to us Christmas day for dinner so I'm hoping after eating my lovely offering she'll change hers slightly. She has been asking about my weight loss as she's looking to lose some for my nephews christening in a couple of weeks but her idea of a good diet is starving herself on a cereal only diet!! I really am deading it as I'm planning to stay on plan over Christmas so want my syns for little treats through the week, not to use all on her dinner

Maybe take some leftover veg/roasties from yours with you to hers and tell her "it's important to me that I stick to my diet, I hope you don't mind I didn't want to offend you but also didn't want to make you extra work cooking something special for me"

Originally Posted by jezzi999

Maybe take some leftover veg/roasties from yours with you to hers and tell her "it's important to me that I stick to my diet, I hope you don't mind I didn't want to offend you but also didn't want to make you extra work cooking something special for me"

If I have any left overs lol!! That's not a bad idea as I was already thinking of taking my own pigs in blankets. Was just going to pick at it and then have something much better for me when I got in