miss_emmajane
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I always do green days yet lately I have been missing one or two of my four healthy extras - sometimes both a boxes and a b box depending on what I am doing. Other days I have all four - does this matter?
EE - 1 of each
Green/red - 2 of each
I honestly couldn't follow SW without the healthy extras! I use mine as part of a meal mainly and then sometimes some alpen bars for a snack. The A's don't bother me, but the B's I could happily eat about 4 choices a day
They are there to ensure you are getting enough fibre and calcium, what you need for a balanced diet xx
Sorry for stealing this thread :whoopass:, I'm also a newbie at this and I quite often skip my healthy A choices "dairy"(I mainly have red days) but I do have a banana and syn free yoghurt for breakfast, am I correct in assuming that I would get the required dairy extras from the yoghurt ?
syn free yogurt is not a HEXa, so you would need do have some. Don't you drink tea or coffee? The milk in that could be used as a HEXa, or perhaps some cheese?
I don't always have my HEXs but try to as they are there for our well being but not for weight loss.
Thanks for the info Circes. that makes sense. The calcium content of my syn free yoghurt is the same as skimmed milk, so I might just add a yoghurt as a sweet at dinner time (yes I do like my yoghurt).It's the calcium content. Recent medical research has shown that increasing the calcium intake in people whose intake is low improves weight loss. If you look at a mullerlight it says that it provides 30% of your recommended daily requirements so having one yoghurt will not fill the bill. Slimming aside calcium intake is particularly important for women to ensure they avoid oesteoporosis in later years.
It's the calcium content. Recent medical research has shown that increasing the calcium intake in people whose intake is low improves weight loss. If you look at a mullerlight it says that it provides 30% of your recommended daily requirements so having one yoghurt will not fill the bill. Slimming aside calcium intake is particularly important for women to ensure they avoid oesteoporosis in later years.