Can anyone offer a quick and easy guide to slimmingworld?

[HungryOnSlimFast]

Due to work commitments in the coming weeks I don't have the time to actually join a class yet.

Ive had a quick look at their online "7 day menu" thing and was just wondering if there are any special rules I should be aware of? for example one day has a cooked breakfast and a chow mein on another day - could the two be eaten on the same day?

I mean, one of their lunches is cheese triangles wrapped in ham served with numerous cold cuts of meat etc etc - who can be arsed with that?!

So I was just wondering if anyone could offer any quick breakfast/lunch ideas to kickstart my slimming world diet?

ps I do intend to join in a couple of weeks - but I need to start losing now before I end up with no clothes at all that actually fit me!

In short if you do the 'extra easy' plan you can eat unlimited lean meat or fish, (all visable fat removed before cooking) fresh fruit (it has 'syns if you cook or blend it) cooked or raw vegetables, potatoes, rice, noodles, pasta, fat free natural yoghurt, some flavoured fat free yoghurts (Mullerlights and some of the WW ones). Then you have one healthy extra 'a' each day, which is milk, cheese etc and one healthy extra 'b' each day, which is bread, cereals, ryvita etc. on top of that you get 10-15 syns each day to use on whatever you like. It could be extra bread or sweets, crisps etc.

So yes, you could have a cooked breakfast and a chow mein on the same day.

I tend to use my healthy extra 'b' for either lunch or breakfast, so breakfasts are things like a sliced banana with fat fre natural yoghurt and 35g of Jordans natural museli, or 'magic pancakes' with fruit (google for recipe) or two weetabix and a banana or an omelette or a cooked breakfast.

Lunch tends to be a sandwich with some veg sticks, or a bowl of home made soup like celery, carrot and coriander, minestrone, lentil and bacon.

Just bear in mind that if you have bread or cereals with breakfast you've then used your healthy extra 'b' and if you then want bread with lunch you need to count the syns.