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I weigh in on a Thursday but my food diary week runs Thursday to Wednesday. So every weigh in day is the FIRST day of my week not my last. I've really found this simple change made all the difference. When I started my week on a Friday if I'd STS or gained I'd be 'I blew it this week so it...

Ooo these sound lovely, fingers crossed they will appear in ASDA or Sainsburys soon!

Sorry Kats you can only buy them in group but I think the alpen light are yummy and a great alternative.

But you could have cheese as your HEA (or syn it). My understanding is the the list on Healthy Extra A choices (in the food optimising book) is the same for all plans, EE, Red and Green. Cheese only appears as a HEB on Green (I'd not noticed this before... I can feel a cheesy day coming on!)

I completely understand where you are coming from with companies selling 'healthy foods'. I also think it is a bit sneaky of go ahead to promote their biscuits as 60 Cal... tiny tiny print per slice!! One of my work colleagues got caught out by the same biscuits! I'm always surprised by some...

Pink and whites are 2.5 syns for a large wafer biscuit with mallow inside, my consultant cuts them into smaller pieces and eats a bit with every cup of tea throughout the day. Rich tea biscuits are also quiet low syns at 2 syns per biscuit. I like biscuits but I have a problem stopping at...

Quark is quiet nice in mash potatoes gives a slightly cheesy taste but makes them creamy.

If you microwave a hexa Kerry low low spread (60g) it gives a nice cheesy sauce for pasta as well (also REALLY nice for dipping veg sticks in when warmed up... Yum)

According to the syns online app it's 3.5 syn for a 10g butter portion on all plans and 2.5 syns for a reduced fat butter portion (10g). So yes the flora is better. I've got very used to going without the spread and if I'm at home I might have a dollop of quark. Have you tried the butter...

The flora original (8g) portion is 2 syns on all plans according to syns online.

I think this is one of the beauties of SW, you can test it out and eat lots of Superfree and free food and STILL loose weight. You might find in a few weeks your tastes/apetite changes naturally and you'll eat smaller portions. For me it took a week were I gained when I thought I'd been GOOD...

I always took this to mean weetabix could be substituted for ASDAs wholewheat biscuits or Kellogg's sultana bran by Sainsburys Bran flakes with sultanas. I have to be honest and say I've never looked at the two products side by side but surely there shouldn't be much difference in cereals from...

I work shifts so end up weighing in on different days at different times but always wear my 'slimming world jeans' and gave nothing to drink for at least2 hours prior to weigh in and try to go to the loo before stepping on the scales.

I'm not always 100% but this is real life... I lost slowly at the start and was a bit disheartened. I was always skirting the upper end if 5 to 15 syns. I was loosing but it wasn't the 5lb first week losses other were having so I got a bit 'is there any point keeping to my syns when it is...

If you go to a group stay for Image Therapy. One of the ladies at our group suggested using pieces of string rather than a tape measure... So you know you've lost inches without being disheartened by a number. Good luck

I think this is why image therapy is so good for me... I'm dealing with my emotional eating and not mindlessly eating like I used to. I'm also finding myself making wiser choices but not feeling deprived, for example every Friday my hubby goes to my MIL for dinner and there is ALWAYS...

It is a bit of a pain that a HEB would be around 1.5 slices of bread from a 800g loaf... Who could ONLY eat half a slice of toast... Not me!

You could make your sandwich with the 2 slices from the wholemeal warburtons 800g loaf which would be 4.5 syns a slice (9 syns in total) then take you 6 HEB syns away and have a nice big sandwich (filled with superfree and free foods) for just 3 syns.

Well done to your hubby! It just shows that it's worth changing things up and what worked at the beginning doesn't always continue to work. At the start of my journey I could have more than 15 syns a day and still lose but 18 weeks and I need to be more vigilant.

I heat up a frying pan with fry light til nice and hot, then fry the fresh tuna steak for around 3 min a side. How long depends on the thickness of your tuna and how well done you'd like it. You can see the tuna cooking from the side, so I usually wait for the grey to get almost half way up...

Well done Clairebear, sometimes knowing you're making the right choice is so much tastier than eating the junk. My NSV was that I've discovered yesterday I can get my trousers down without unbuttoning them... Not sure when that happened but I LOVE it!

I buy the frozen tuna steaks and defrost them before cooking. Used to cook the in the oven in a foil packet but they were always over done, dry and tough. I tried a rare tuna steak in a resturant and have been converted, It's much moister cooked rare!

I got caught out early on my filling a third of my plate with peas and sweetcorn! Still great compare to no veg but not the third SUPERfree I thought I was having Eggs are great at filling you up and being free you can eat 'freely' as they say. One of the target members at my group swears by...

If you like rare steak, rare tuna isn't a million miles away!

2 slices from a Dominoes small (10 inch) cheese and tomato pizza in the UK is 15 syns. They put oil in their tomato sauce, use plenty of cheese and they have quiet a doughy base compared to an Italian pizza. Reducing the amount of cheese and piling high with free food would reduce the syns...

I went for the first time in a long time the other month after reading thee linking world article, was very impressed that the menu had all of the calories listed so you could have that pudding and syn it properly! I even treated myself to a ladle of the blue cheese dressing (3.5 syns) which...

I had a look at the menu a few weeks ago, all the burgers sounded tempting and i'm not sure i'd have the will power to sit there and eat the best option while DH scoffed burger and chips so we went elsewhere. They will sell you a burger without the sourdough bun and give you a portion on...

The most recent update of extra easy no longer lists eggs as super free they are just free on extra easy. Most veg is super free but not ones heavy in carbs like peas, sweetcorn etc.

I swear by the tape measure as well... Well a piece of string actually... If the numbers on the scale aren't moving the seeing the inches shrink may give your DH the boost he needs! Or a new party trick.. Today I discovered today I can get my old trousers down without undoing them! It's not...

I like my tuna steak quiet rare (fried on a hot frying pan with fry light) drizzled with lemon juice served with couscous (made with a veg stock cube with soya beans and corriandr mixed through it) and a HUGE salad ... Yum and all free!

Sadly no, these are not HEBs- not enough fibre!

The free food book (small green book £1.95 from group) also contains a current list of HE A and B s at the back.. I was surprised it fills a good few pages.

The sw free book says 40g of cathedral city lighter mature cheddar is 1 healthy extra on green but I doesn't specifically say the sliced cheese. HTH

You can get 2 books from class for £1.95 each that might give you some new ideas for snacks.. Free foods which also lists all he HEX and low syn snacks which lists foods under 5 syns. I also find the magazine is quiet good for new food ideas.

You can have 60g (around half a tub!) as a HE A or it's 2.5 syns for 25g on all plans. I really like it over leftover pasta, just zap in the microwave for a few minutes and it tastes soooo good, like syn full macaroni and cheese!

They are REALLY nice, wish I'd bought more than one box... I like the peanut delux one as well but haven't tried the lemon one will have to be next on my list. A tip from my group is to put the chocolate and fudge hi if lights in the fridge, makes them last longer and a bit more chewy!

Sorry meant to say...The taste is hard to describe, a bit like a thick yogurt but a bit cheesy. If you like a really cheesy taste it works well mixed with you HEX A of cheddar to make it go farther on baked potatoes etc.

You can buy it in Sainsburys as well, they sell it in a BGTY pot and keep it near the speciality cheeses. You can make nice cheesecake out of it or I like it mixed through mash potato instead of butter and cream.

I like Colemans Garden mint (syn free) mixed with 0% Greek yogurt and a splash of lemon juice as a salad dressing or dip for veggies. Or you could make a low syn thousand island with tomato purée, 0%yogurt and a tsp of extra light mayo. I work shifts so the temptation is the vending machine or...

If you have lots of willpower (and a Hoover as a hubby) then 1 slice of a Domino's small cheese and tomato pizza is 7.5 syns on EE. I had two slices with lots of salad and it tasted lovely. Luckily my husband is was willing to eat the rest for me or I nay gave been tempted to have more!

Went into home bargains today they are 33p each, bought 8 felt like a mad woman :D

Wow 11 syns!! just shows fat free does not equal healthy!

A few weeks ago a girl in my group discovered the Uncle Bens rice time was on the app twice with different values. The regional manager was at our meeting when we discussed it and she said she would feed it back. There are some updated values on the Slimming world website under the Food...

I tried the square thins at the being on my SW journey and they are lovely toasted but toast just makes me WANT butter. Since I found out a small pat of butter was 3.5 syns :eek: I'm just given up on toast of all kinds!

oh no I love the fibre plus bars. It's like having a chocolate bar for a HE B! Are they REALLY not going to produce them anymore?? I'll have to buy all the ones I see from now on :)

I've found the best place for MugSots is Home Bargains only 39p each and they had lots of different ones in stock whereas my Sainsbury's only has the chicken noodle one in stock.

You are right, MisterQ, the Becks Blue is 3 syns on all plans Beck's, Alcohol Free, 275ml bottle 3

They are currently on special offer in Asda- box of 5 bars for a £1

Sounds yummy.. will have to get cooking x

I'm even lazier and just buy a frozen pack of veg for stews (onions, carrots, turnips etc) and boil them up with some oxo cubes and blitz :)

Don't tell me that.. I don't need the encouragement to eat them! So I could have 4 as HE and 5 more for 15 syns on a green day :D ... actually that might be enough to put me off then for life!

Well, good luck and let us know how you get on. x

I felt just the same in my first few weeks, I'm being good but the person who joined at the same time is losing loads and I'm not! Can I just ask if you are eating 1/3 super free foods? I thought I was and the weight loss was very slow the first few weeks and I was a bit disappointed. Then I...

My issue is stopping at two! Have had 5 in one day before 2 as a HEB and 9 syns worth!!! I now keep them in my locker at work because they are just to tempting for the boredom/ emotional eating habits that I'm trying to break! Will have to pop into Asda and try the Cherry bakewell ones :D

I thought I should check, using the details off the nandos website and the syn calculator and a regular macho peas is 3 syn on EE and Green and 8 on Red.

I had the 5 bean chilli the other week, it's really nice and no I don't have that much willpower so enjoyed the tortilla chips (6 syns). I made a mistake having a lager shandy tho work it out to be 15 syns!

Love the butterfly chicken, I count it as 3.5 syms and don't eat the skin out of habit. Last time I went they had macho peas, which were spicy garden peas. I'm not sure of the syn value as they wren't on the website (I counted them as a free food).

Cookie, You truly are an inspiration! I hope you are successful this time in getting the skin removal. You really deserve it. Fingers crossed for you.

Hi, I'm new here and just thought I'd pop in and say hello. I'm 3 weeks into my slimming world journey and am in need of new recipe ideas. I've been slowly gaining all the weight I lost for my wedding year and a half ago (by using a body bugg and hitting the gym) and I got to my heaviest...

Can I join in too? Joined SW 3 weeks ago at 11st 5.5 and am still getting head around what I can eat. I was really good the first 2 weeks and lost 2.5lbs in total... Feel like it's going very slowily and to be honest thought I would have lost more :(. WI tomorrow and scared as had a weekend...