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Hi Strawberry, I like your mealplans... two days ago you had breakfasts for lunch and dinner, hihi. yesterday's dinner sounds wonderful! ... not to mention the million-syn-Italian LOL Enjoy your birthday!, and you can sort things out afterwards. The weight will still come off if you enjoy the...

Hi Purplesunshine, Please don't stop, you have only just begun! Slimming World is not just a diet, it's like a behaviour therapy as we change our eating habits. It won't happen overnight, you need to give yourself time. The things you describe: you couldn't sleep and had no willpower --> I am...

Hi Strawberry, yaye to the 2 pound loss! well-done, you! yesterday's naughtiness is completely forgotten :-D it never happened... I normally do our shopping in Aldi, too. I figure it's about 35% cheaper than big supermarkets and I'm also quite thrifty. The quality is super. I guess German...

oh, it's here, sorry, the vanilla with chocolate flakes is 1.5 syns!! so watch out http://www.minimins.com/syn-values/276393-watch-out-pretend-muller-lights-syn-values-aldi-brooklea-light-yoghurts.html

Yes, Strawberry, keep looking at your stickers to get motivated! :-) You motivate me and others, as well lol. Pork stir-fry sounds really good. As you are also an Aldi shopper, have you noticed that they are selling some fat-free yoghurts that seem to be fake Mullerlights. Are they free, do...

Yes, that potato salad recipe makes perfect sense, thank you, Strawberry! So the potatoes have to be freshly cooked then. Now I'm thinking, maybe we can mix ff natural yoghurt or 0% creme-fraiche with some very low syn salad cream, and mix that with the potatoes. I haven't tried it though...

Hi Strawberry apparently there is a saying in Finland: "well-planned is half-done". That's totally my mantra on SW. I like to have the fridge full of frozen portions of homemade free stuff. But it's not always easy to be organized and sometimes I'm just not in the mood to eat what I have ready...

Good-o, welldone, keep going! Don't feel guilty about eating two lots of icecream, you were within your syns. That's what I like about SW, I can eat a mini Magnum (5 syns) and not feel guilty because I know what I'm doing. (Well... when I do, haha) My problem is that sometimes at 10 pm I get an...

Hi Strawberry, I find that if I get off plan for whetever reason, then it takes quite a few days to get back. Much more difficult to get back on plan than stay on plan. Try to forget about it now and look ahead! Eating mozarella straight out of the packet - hihi, I've just done that, 2 days...

well-done for staying the same, Strawberry! at least you don't have to start losing what you already have lost, if you see what I mean. I didn't know you could have muesli with hot water :-) I made some paprika chicken at the week-end, Yeo Valley now have 0% fat organic creme-fraiche, it tastes...

Hi Strawberry sounds like you had a great time, glad you enjoyed it! Now you can start concentrating on your eating. Hope the little one gets better soon!

I agree, Strawberry, they look like good food plans! Are you going to cook goulash then tonight? :-D I'm going to make a big pot of tomato soup. Hopefully freeze some of it, too. Then "Lancashire hotpot" tomorrow, that should last us 2 days. And roast a chicken on Monday. No baking for me...

Good work, Strawberry! You must have done something really well on the other days. Well, have fun then, and get back on plan when you're back home!

Strawberry, just call it a "day off", and start again when you're ready. I sometimes have these days when I have to have fresh white bread with butter, nothing else will do... I usually give in, then I calm down for a while LOL.

Flashharry, try to keep going, don't fall off the wagon! I'm sure you have lost weight, but there are so many other things going on in our (women's) body that it got "zeroed" and doesn't show. If you stay on plan 100%, I'm sure you will lose next week. I've heard it's often better to look at...

Hi Strawberry, glad you're feeling better! Oh, you sure like coffee... lol. Sometimes, if I have a long lie-in, I also start "proper" eating quite late on a Sunday. The pork medallion dinner sounds lovely!

Hi Strawberry, are you all right? I hope you are feeling better after your half day off, and now the weekend.

... unless there is some meat in it :-D (it is the same syns as EE) Hello, Newbies, welcome! Yes, I do Green / EE. The only difference between doing Green and EE without meat is that you can have 2 HeAs and 2 HeBs on Green. That's an extra cheese sandwich, if you like.

Super!! Yaye to the pound loss - it's not "only" a pound, you're doing really well. And yaye to the better mood! Do you shop in Aldi? (="Brooklea yoghurt") I buy everything I can from there, and then go to a big supermarket once a month for the rest, like wm bread flour, wm pasta etc. Aldi is...

Hi Strawberry, I know how it feels when nothing goes well, everything is more difficult including SW - catch us on a bad day, we're all like that. I'm sure it's only one of those days, and it will pass soon. Having last night's dinner for lunch works for me, I do it all the time! It looks...

Hi Strawberry, all sounds good, well-done! Daffodils in the house, mmm... Trampoline - that's also my favourite way of exercising, because all you need to do is go out to the garden. When I'm fit, I can keep going for 30 minutes, it's fun! Have to start at 5mins / day in the spring though...

Hi Strawberryshortcake! Well-done on losing weight, and good luck for losing the rest! I like your dinner ideas. I think I will be coming to have a peek... It seems you eat your HexB as cereal - do you eat bread at all? I struggle with the bread allowance but I do Green Days when I can, so...

I seem to have killed this thread... :-( I've tasted both the sweet potato curry and the vegetable pasta from Iceland, and I don't like either of them. Oh, well. I'm sure it's just me, though, and lots of people will like them.

Hi All, can I ask you a question? Do you sometimes struggle with the SW bread allowance? If I have Weetabix for breakfast, then I have only 2 slices of bread left. I bake my own (wholemeal) bread, it's really yummy and nutritious. There is practically no fat in it. But if I get hungry, and I...

There are two vegetarian SW meals at Iceland: the sweet potato curry and a roasted vegetable pasta. My husband has bought me one each, but we haven't tasted them yet. Also bought some meatballs in tomato sauce for our daughter. They are £3 each, but they are big portions. And there is no rice...

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year to All! I haven't been for a while: I ran into a bit of a health problem at the beginning of December that sabotaged my Sw diet. I was actually quite upset, you now the feeling when your mind is ready to do SW and you want to do it, but life gets in the way...

Parapluies, are we all struggling this weekend?... I will get back on track on Monday, I've decided. I was quite happy though that I could hardly stomach the coq a vin, it was so fatty and meaty. I felt sick afterwards. My stomach is getting used to goodies! :-D I want some yellow lentils now...

Has anyone tried oatmilk? Yes, I have tried "Oatly" (from Sweden), it has been the tastiest milk alternative for me so far. Hazelnut, almond, rice etc are yummy but they taste of hazelnut, almond etc, you get the idea. Nice, but not quite like milk. Having said that, it's a question of taste...

Hi Sunflower, so welcome back? As I said, WW didn't work for me. Some people can put up with being hungry, they can fast etc - not me. Parapluies, I'm also going to have a tricky 3 days. My husband is cooking tonight, a coq a vin, which means chicken, bacon, wine ...and he is making enough to...

(An earlier post of mine has disappeared...) Parapluies, thanks, I might invest in a Veg everyday book then. It's £6 on Amazon, and it has 950 positive reviews! I made a sweet potato, bean and spinach curry tonight, with rice and salad+raita dip, it was all free and yum! What do you...

Thread police - there are moderators, I've seen them tell off some German SW-ers for writing something in German.

Thanks, Parapluies, I might invest in one, it's ~£6 used on Amazon. It has 950 5-star reviews! Sunflower, WW is not a swear word, it is the same idea, a low-calorie, low-fat healthy diet, just different approaches. I tried it once, but I was hungry. I need to lose a stone and a bit, so they...

Was a lazy cook tonight so we had jacket potatoes with baked beans and cheese as my HeA. Snacked on fruits during the day (grapes, mandarins, strawberries) but sadly, also had two slices of the chocolate cake we baked yesterday. No idea about the syn value... This River Cottage "Veg everyday"...

Oh yum..., we also buy almond and hazelnut milk sometimes, and I have recently tasted something called Oatly (Swedish I think?) oat milk. Really nice. That's one thing I found out from this thread that you can have a litre of almond milk as your HeA. Sounds good. We are also going to bake in a...

Thanks, lickthelid! Yes, I know iron tablets make you constipated, pregnancy memories... :-) I've been OK so far with them. B12 - yes, I've heard that's the "vegan vitamin". I eat eggs, and as they are free on SW, I eat quite a lot, so I don't think it should be a problem. Is your family...

Hi, can I join you? I was really happy to find this thread: I'm "almost" vegetarian (can you say that?) and trying to lose weight on SW, almost always on Green. It's difficult to find the right forum, magazine etc, because it's either SW and I keep seeing meaty recipes/ideas, or vegetarian, then...