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1) Alcohol has no syns as long as you get drunk enough to forget how many drinks you had. 2) I don't measure milk out, I just guess. The way I see it is if I have to drink red top then it's ok :p 3) A piece of shortbread once or twice a week with a cuppa is practically syn-free...especially...

Thanks Circes - apologies :o

Suggestions for my shopping list, anyone? I'm on EE and don't eat seafood. Other than that, fire away! What should every self-respecting SW gal have in her fridge / cupboards? I'm looking for some interesting / yummy things! :D

Well done, that is an awesome achievement!!! You look great! Much healthier and definitely younger :)

I saw a bottle of Cherry Lucozade last week and thought "Woooo new flavour! Want!!" and just as I picked it up I remembered - Nope, too synnie. Not fair :cry:

I just grill it (fillet - always!) and that removes some of the fat as it just drips down into the tray. Not much fat in a fillet steak really.

I got mine in the wee local shop across the road from my work but I've seen it in Morrisons before. It looks like this http://www.marshallsfoods.com/images/photos/marshalls_cheesey_macaroni_thumb.gif

Right, I know lean back bacon is free on EE - but is smoked back bacon with all the fat and rind removed the same thing? (i.e. FREE!)

Yeah I don't pretend to know the 'science bit' (sorry for the cliche') but I'd like to know more about how it works. I believe it's a bit of a closely guarded secret though. I've seen several friends lose a LOT of weight on SW, in a relatively short space of time too. I'm losing weight so am...

6 tablespoons of milk (I just used from my Hex A) and they recommend butter, but I just used a couple of skooshes of Fry Light Buttery :)

It's 190g of dry macaroni and powdered cheese sauce. It makes a decent bowlful and it actually tastes pretty good (not as good as the real thing, obviously!). Nutritional values are as follows (per pack): Energy = 960 kcal Protein = 30.2g Carbs = 127.4g of which sugars = 22.6g Fat = 36.6g of...

I'm tucking into a bowl of Marshall's Cheesy Macaroni just now (the blue box), which is syn-free on EE, and having read the nutritional values on the back of the box I just don't get how I can eat this and still lose weight? It's the best part of 1000 kcals per serving! Little help, anyone? x

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Thanks for the response :) I was just reading up a wee bit about fibre and it seems that, from what I've read, soluble fibre is the stuff that makes you poop more. Can anyone confirm this?

Scan Bran cake! It's actually not bad :D

Ok, if I eat foods high in fibre on SW (I'm following the EE plan) how likely is it that this will make me...uh, y'know...'go' more, meaning I will lose weight quicker? Sorry for the slightly yucky question, but it's way after dinner time (:D) and I'm curious!

I have this awesome pair of jeans that I bought, wore about once and then couldn't fit into them next time I tried. Grrr. I absolutely love them and I just dug them out last night. I'm going to look at them every couple of days to remind myself why I'm doing this. Then maybe one day in the...

Know what? I am actually going to make some of this tonight! Off to Morrisons I go :D Edit: Question - When you say Cadbury's chocolate powder do you mean cocoa powder or drinking chocolate?

Awesome, that's helped to alleviate my fears - thank you! xxx

That's a fantastic achievement, well done! I bet you feel amazing for it too! xx

You beat me to it! Falafels with loads of salad and low-syn, home-made coleslaw. Yum!!!

I do worry about this stuff, as I don't know what a sensible amount of skooshing is? How many skooshes do you usually use? I know it's probably relative to the amount of food you're frying up - for instance, I fried up a bunch of mushrooms and onions this evening and I used about 20 skooshes...

I love this thread! Macaroni cheese is (another) one of my achillies heels. I bought the Pasta & Sauce once last night on the off chance that it was low-syn - hurrah!

When you say mashed with egg, do you mean a boiled egg or did you just pour a beaten egg into the potato?

Just bought another one of these this evening and am going to have it tomorrow after my yummy healthy chicken salad ;)

Awesome, well done you! Here's to your future success and skinniness ;) xx

:D Love it

What's a star week?

First proper full week and 4lbs dropped :) Huzzah!

I was wondering the other day, do you need to attend a class in order to be in the magazine or is it enough that you just follow one of the SW plans?

I concur, for a low fat cheese it does well. This is my cheddar of choice :)

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For cheesecake fans everywhere! Cheesecake is my achillies heel (well, one of them!) and I just had a pot of Limited Edition Lemon Cheesecake Mullerlight. LUSH! Highly recommended! :D PS: Only 1 syn - well worth it!

I've just made an amazing chicken salad and have put a quarter avocado in with the mix. This chicken salad is amazing. Red peppers, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, 1/4 avocado, roast chicken breast, croutons made with fry light and half HexB bread. Dressing made with free fromfrais...

Maybe I'll put a wee bit in the chicken salad I'm going to make for lunch :) Thanks for the words of advice, ladies x

Same here, I've been off work since Wednesday with some sort of cold virus thing and it's lousy. Unfortunately I haven't lost much of my appetite and think I have been going over syns due to drinking so much tea (I have milk in my tea). I'm going to make a chicken salad in a while and try to...

I love this thread - it's like soul cleansing :) We are all unique in our own wonderful ways, but we all have a common goal - whatever our reasons may be - and that is to shed the stones, pulverise the pounds, fight the flab and conquer the cellulite! You all speak to me so much as I am in...

I bought a couple of avocados tonight, thinking that they might be only moderately synnie; they're 14 syns each according to the online calculator :cry::(

Other people always notice it before I do, but then I'm my biggest critic! I notice it in my hips and my waist first...and the way my bras fit! Regarding noticing a small change, I don't. I just let the scales do the talking.

Further to the thread about your reasons for being overweight, I thought it would be interesting to hear what made you finally say "enough is enough" and make a pledge to yourself to lose weight and get the body you've been dreaming of? My reasons are that I've been seeing myself in...

Great news - It's freeeeeeeeee on Green & Easy Extra. I think the lady said 17 on Original (per 100g uncooked weight)

Yeah it's not very easy to find Ebly these days. I can't remember where I bought my most recent pack. I do really like it though. Makes a change from pasta and rice. I didn't know there was a syn helpline, but I'll look it up and give them a call. Will report back with my findings - thank you :)

Fantastic! You can really notice the difference! Well done and keep it up, lass!

Found it on the following website: Honey and Cinnamon: Natural Cures & Nature's Remedy Cinnamon and Honey formula for weight loss: This should be prepared at night before going to bed. 1. Use 1 part cinnamon to 2 parts raw honey. 1/2 tsp cinnamon to 1 tsp honey is recommended but can...

Sorry to change the subject slightly, but OMG you have done amazingly well!! You must feel absolutely fantastic!

Fantastic! Edit: I just looked at my syn list and it says stock cubes are 1.5 syns each?

How about curry fried rice? Cook up your rice, fry up some onions & mushrooms. In a seperate frying pan spray some fry light and add two beaten eggs. Mix round until they're bitty and have dried up a bit. Add fried eggs mixture and rice to frying pan with musrooms and onions and add curry...

Sorry, just noticed you are on a green day. Not sure how that effects the recipe? Maybe leave out the chicken? I'm sure someone more experienced than me can help - apologies!

You could make a variation on rissotto that I make. Fry up some mushrooms, onions, sweetcorn and some chicken / quorn (whatever you prefer). Add the rice and enough chicken stock to fully cover the mixture and just let it simmer, stirring every few minutes. Depending on the type of rice you may...

I'm 5' 7'' and I wear a size 18 in jeans /trousers / skirts. I weigh 16 and a half stone right now. I'm aiming for around 11 stone and a size 12!!

Make a nice chili con carne with them and whap it onto your baked potato! :D

Phew, ok. I like the idea of sticking to whatever I fancy - This can't be a diet! :D Butter buds sound amazing, Circes. Great tip! We have a Lakeland here in Edinburgh so I will be visiting in the next few days once I'm back to work and I've shifted this bloomin' female-version-of-manflu...

The EE plan documentation I downloaded doesn't mention original and green days? I don't quite know what all the original & green day stuff is about, except that it's something to do with meat on an O day and veg on a G day. Help! lol thought I had this sussed, too :cry: (10 mins later) Ok I've...

Thanks for the responses :happy096: The EE plan is really suited to me as some of my favourite foods are things like rice, noodles, pasta, potatoes, steaks, eggs...Still can't believe I can actually eat all this stuff and lose weight!! Seen it in action with a few friends, so I know it's...

Hi Ladies & Gents :flirt2: When I next go shopping I am looking for an easy way of picking Slimming World-friendly products. Is it just as simple as looking at the back of the pack and picking products that are low in kcals or is there more to it than that? Lynne x

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me the syn value of Ebly wheat? I can't find it on the online calculator anywhere. I'm hoping that it'll be free...like rice & pasta...but I'm guessing it's most probably not!

Am I misreading this or are you saying you've lost 2.5 stone in 4 weeks? If yes then WOW!!!

Wow, really? I love Pasta 'n' Sauce (Tomato & Basil flavour). I'm new (hi!) and on Easy Extra. Just signed up for the online version as I don't really have much time to go to classes at the moment. I previously had success with WW (lost 2 stone) but I gave up and am now right back where I...