Extra Easy Advice please!! :)

[Hawkesy2410]

Is anyone on Extra Easy eating quite a lot a day?

I eat a lot of free foods especially fruit & steamed veg alongside pasta n sauce, savoury rice Etc.

I tend to use 5-10 syns as I like to be below the allowed 15!

I'm always under my skimmed milk allowance (i never choose cheese) and I always have 2 weetabix or 2 slices of wholemeal bread from a 400g loaf.

I think due to the fact I eat a lot of fruit & veg and carbs as in pasta ((either pasta n sauce or my own made) I am quite bloated! But feel great first thing on a morning!!

Does anyone think this kind of amount a day is too much??


Breakfast - 2 weetabix & banana.
An orange & some grapes.
Special K biscuit moment - (5syns)

Dinner - Savoury rice & 1/2 pack Tesco piri chicken & bag of steamed veg. Small portion of Smash potato made with water.

Snack - low fat choc mousse (3syns)
1/2 vanilla mullerlight & a banana & strawberries.

Tea - homemade beef casserole with leeks, carrots, onions. bag of steamed veg. Small portion of Smash potato made with water.
Grapes & an orange.
Diet coke.

Syns - 8/15

 

[MrsQuadkon]

I just did a rough calorie estimate and that adds upto around 1400 at the most I reckon which is not too much at all for somebody your height and weight. Are you losing weight?

 

[CraigA]

To much? no way i have about 3 times that a day haha

Looks fine to me

 

[Hawkesy2410]

Yeah steadily!! Just feeling bloated but I'm on SW so I'm doing what extra easy says?

Are you meant to calorie count on EE? X

 

[MrsQuadkon]

No you're not but I can't help it. I get bloated too it's my 8th day, maybe ill get used to it though

 

[CraigA]

I would always suggest making your own pasta sauces instead of the pasta n sauce packet ones as they will be full of processed crap. And it wont take alot longer to make them yourself.

In fact i would suggest you try your best to make everything from scratch, thats what i do and i never got bloated and i have around 100g rice and 150g pasta a day. Im pretty sure its all the packet stuff that does this, i could be wrong and i know it is on SW plan to eat this stuff but it cant be any good for you in the long run.

Just my opinion though and everyones different

 

[CraigA]

Yeah steadily!! Just feeling bloated but I'm on SW so I'm doing what extra easy says?

Are you meant to calorie count on EE? X

You shouldnt cal count and i didnt until i reached my target but i do now as ive found it easier to maintain this way. I do follow SW still but have more syns and loads of HEXb's. I worked out i need to eat between 3500 and 4000 cals a day just to maintain now but i do alot of exercise to.

 

[stace77]

There is a great recipe on the sw website for a ragu, its lovley, you can then use it as a base for currys, chillis ect x

 

[SallyVater]

The packet stuff usually has a high salt content. Sodium causes water retention hence feeling bloated and will have an effect on the scales unfortunatley

 

[Hawkesy2410]

Aw I love them! I always bulk them out with steamed veg & salad!

I make my own tuna pasta and pasta salad with chicken or prawns & natural yoghurt that's always tasty!

Just being At work on awkward shifts it easy to make one up to take

What do you find great Superfree foods wise? X