From Fat to Fit- My Journey
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icklerockchick
slow but steady!
sarah.w said:Hi everyone, thanks for all your messages
Had a rocky start but now i think ive settled into the routein (yaay)!Y'day was good and i didnt have a single chocolate bar or bag of crisps, i was good :happy036:
Heres my day so far on sf:
08/09/2012
Brekkie: 4pp
homemade porridge made with skimmed milk, topped with 2 slithered almonds, a drizzle of honey and a pinch of cinamon 2tsp
1 apple
green tea
Lunch: 5pp
1 banana
1 cheese sandwich (with nimble bread and no butter)
1 yogurt
Dinner: 2pp
50g (uncooked weight) wholewheat pasta and homemade tomato sauce with some cheese
Desert: 4pp
vanilla ice cream with cut up strawberries
Total weeklies used: 15/49
2o mins of kettleworx
If this is simply filling it looks like you have overestimated the points used to me. Where would the 4pp in breakfast come from? The skimmed milk and oats are all free so 2 almonds and a tiny drizzle of honey would be more like 1pp??
Same with lunch nimble is free and you say no butter so I doubt you could fit 5pp of cheese on a sandwich?
Not trying to criticise just help
x
sarah.w
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If this is simply filling it looks like you have overestimated the points used to me. Where would the 4pp in breakfast come from? The skimmed milk and oats are all free so 2 almonds and a tiny drizzle of honey would be more like 1pp??
Same with lunch nimble is free and you say no butter so I doubt you could fit 5pp of cheese on a sandwich?
Not trying to criticise just help
thankyou!!
i thought i was pointing it wrong, i used the normal chedder (not half fat) and didnt measure it so i assumed it would have been that much giving myself extra pro points just incase i went overboard. I kept thinking honey was 2 pp for 1tsp for some reason but thanks for telling me, because i used around 2 tsp worth of it. And i appreciate your help thanks for pointing it out
icklerockchick
slow but steady!
No problem I don't use honey so no idea of propoints but 5pp of cheese even full fat is quite a large amount to fit on the tiny nimble bread! And ww spread is 0pp per serving if you want some spread on your sandwiches!
Also on a day like that where you don't have big portions of the free foods it would probably work out less on a propoints day (like use less weeklies) even though your meals involve some simply filling foods if that makes sense? So might be worthwhile calculating that and checking - no point using up those weeklies when you don't have to ;-)
Takes a little while to get used to sf but once you do it's great being able to swap between that and propoints to suit that days food. Simply filling really works best when most of the meals contain quite a high proportion of free foods especially things that are quite high in propoints like a baked potato or a big serving of pasta. Other than that it will often work out that you are using less points propointing it but this varies depending on how many dailies you are on of course.
On simply filling days it's good to take advantage of the free foods - like I generally have a latte or smoothie since skimmed milk is free, and eat some yoghurt as a snack. Little things like that will ensure you are eating around your daily points allowance even on sf (as really that's the aim of it anyway not having to weigh everything but still eating around the same as a propoints day and it being more filling foods naturally stops overeating).
Not sure if this makes any sense but any questions just ask x
Also on a day like that where you don't have big portions of the free foods it would probably work out less on a propoints day (like use less weeklies) even though your meals involve some simply filling foods if that makes sense? So might be worthwhile calculating that and checking - no point using up those weeklies when you don't have to ;-)
Takes a little while to get used to sf but once you do it's great being able to swap between that and propoints to suit that days food. Simply filling really works best when most of the meals contain quite a high proportion of free foods especially things that are quite high in propoints like a baked potato or a big serving of pasta. Other than that it will often work out that you are using less points propointing it but this varies depending on how many dailies you are on of course.
On simply filling days it's good to take advantage of the free foods - like I generally have a latte or smoothie since skimmed milk is free, and eat some yoghurt as a snack. Little things like that will ensure you are eating around your daily points allowance even on sf (as really that's the aim of it anyway not having to weigh everything but still eating around the same as a propoints day and it being more filling foods naturally stops overeating).
Not sure if this makes any sense but any questions just ask x
bulldogdaisy
Gold Member
icklerockchick said:
All sounds good to me :0)
bulldogdaisy
Gold Member
How you've enjoyed your first weekend back :0)
sarah.w
Full Member
its been good, i was at my cousins house y'day for dinner and there was a few fried things in the menu but i didnt eat them all, just tried a little, and i didnt have desert so i tried to do the best with what i had. Also, i prepared myself by not eating anything but fruit the whole day so if i had to eat a little fatty i could. I think everything must have been around 32 pro points and im on 29 so i dont think its that bad lol
How was your day?
sarah.w
Full Member
thanks for the tips, im definitely going to buy some ww spread. Where do you get it from because i've never seen it at my local supermarket? ive only done sf for around 3-4 days in total and i see now where ive made a few mistakes, but now i love the fact that you can alternate between pp and sf without adding the weeklies if it all fits into the dailies. I think i need to properly sit down and work everything out, learn it again because i havent done ww for over 2 months and so ive become a bit rusty on my knowledge so ill browse through this forum and read through my notes and hopefully ill work it out. Thanks for all the advice and help
icklerockchick
slow but steady!
No problem at all you will get into the swing of things in no time. Its always a good plan to eat lots of the simply filling foods on propoints days anyway as much better than lots of junk! So can always have the meals and then work out which uses less weeklies doing propoints or simply filling that day x
x
icklerockchick
slow but steady!
Oh and the ww spread I have only seen in Asda so far - it doesn't melt as well as normal spread but it's great not having to use any points on it and tastes fine! X
bulldogdaisy
Gold Member
sarah.w said:its been good, i was at my cousins house y'day for dinner and there was a few fried things in the menu but i didnt eat them all, just tried a little, and i didnt have desert so i tried to do the best with what i had. Also, i prepared myself by not eating anything but fruit the whole day so if i had to eat a little fatty i could. I think everything must have been around 32 pro points and im on 29 so i dont think its that bad lol
How was your day?
Glad it's been good,sounds like you're getting your head around things well :0)
All good here,had Saturday off but on track the rest of the time.
sarah.w
Full Member
Had a good day yesterday, was completely on the straight and narrow:
10/9/12
Brekkie:
Porridge (skimmed milk, 2 tsp honey)
green tea
banana and strawberry smoothie (skimmed milk)
Snack:
1 apple and banana
Lunch:
boiled egg sandwich (with no butter and nimble bread)
Dinner:
200g chips, 4 sprays of frylite, 4 fish fingers and half tin ww (small) baked beans, ketchup
Dailies used: 29/29
Weeklies used: 0/49
Exercise 20 mins of resistance kettlebells
10/9/12
Brekkie:
Porridge (skimmed milk, 2 tsp honey)
green tea
banana and strawberry smoothie (skimmed milk)
Snack:
1 apple and banana
Lunch:
boiled egg sandwich (with no butter and nimble bread)
Dinner:
200g chips, 4 sprays of frylite, 4 fish fingers and half tin ww (small) baked beans, ketchup
Dailies used: 29/29
Weeklies used: 0/49
Exercise 20 mins of resistance kettlebells
bulldogdaisy
Gold Member
Looks like a good day :0)
sarah.w
Full Member
yesterday was really good, and i indulged a little today and ive dipped into my weeklies:
11/9/12
Brekkie:
porridge with honey 7pp
1 apple
Lunch:
1 banana
1 starbucks grande coffee frap 6pp
Dinner:
quorn garlic and herb fillet with ww chips, ketchup and some coliflower on the side 14pp
desert:
2 scoops vanilla ice cream 3pp
Dailies used: 29/29
Weeklies: 1/49
exercise: 20 mins kettleworx, lots of walking
12/09/12
Brekkie:
2 wheatabix pieces with skimmed milk and half a tsp of sugar 5pp
1 nimble toast with low fat butter 2pp
1 peach
Lunch:
1 apple
tomato soup with 3 ryevita crackers 5pp
1 muller light yogurt 2pp
1 piece of baklava (which i didnt realise was high in points) 5pp
Dinner:
lentil curry and rice with mango pickle 13pp
dailies used:29/29
Weeklies left: 44/49
exercise 20 mins kettleworx
lots of walking
11/9/12
Brekkie:
porridge with honey 7pp
1 apple
Lunch:
1 banana
1 starbucks grande coffee frap 6pp
Dinner:
quorn garlic and herb fillet with ww chips, ketchup and some coliflower on the side 14pp
desert:
2 scoops vanilla ice cream 3pp
Dailies used: 29/29
Weeklies: 1/49
exercise: 20 mins kettleworx, lots of walking
12/09/12
Brekkie:
2 wheatabix pieces with skimmed milk and half a tsp of sugar 5pp
1 nimble toast with low fat butter 2pp
1 peach
Lunch:
1 apple
tomato soup with 3 ryevita crackers 5pp
1 muller light yogurt 2pp
1 piece of baklava (which i didnt realise was high in points) 5pp
Dinner:
lentil curry and rice with mango pickle 13pp
dailies used:29/29
Weeklies left: 44/49
exercise 20 mins kettleworx
lots of walking
bulldogdaisy
Gold Member
Food looks good and well done on the exercise :0)
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