Slimming World weigh in and food diaries......

[calzone]

There are lots of SW posts which I love reading but was finding it difficult to remember where to post my weigh in and menus for the day.

Hope no one minds me doing this......

I am Calzone and I am 5ft 6'. I joined SW last week and weighed in at 14st 3lbs.
I am doing Dry January and think I have been pretty good this week with my food choices.....

Food today
B......fruit/tea with sk milk
L...2 bread, beans, 2 eggs
D....DH is doing Lebanese and promises it is SW friendly.

So, if you want to do the same.....post and share, otherwise this will be my SW experience.

B - 35gr branflakes & milk, cup of tea
S - Mullerlight
L - 2 slice GF bread (400gr loaf), 3 tbsp beans
S - Mr Kipling french fancy - not sure of syns but soooo not worth it
D - pasta, half orange pepper, half courgette, 35gr tub lightest phili

How did slow cooker cannelloni go fanny. I'm awaiting in anticipation whether it was genius or disaster.

Little losses so 10 lb since started which is 3.8lb to go to first target. But first target will also be fine, anything else will be a bonus. Really like this diet as really only tweaking normal diet, and in fact probably eating more then normal.

Busy day and only had access to McDonald's had a hamburger happy meal ( without the burger) and some mozzarella cheese sticks. I think about 5 syns for small fries and 13 for sticks I,m not bothering counting the bun with the sauce on.

If I hadn't been so rushed to get to a meeting I could of gone to subway. So question for a fast foody treat a 6 inch sub veggie delite, I could have without the cheese, so literally a salad sandwich with chilli sauce yum on wholemeal should be relatively low syns or not?

Calzone you are literally a walking shredding machine, I bet you feel fab. Are you clothes shopping???

I wonder if mumsnet had been around in my uni days, word count on essays would have been a breeze!,

silky, it wasnt bad, but i would use ricotta as my HEX A, rather than light philly/quark. It needed the creaminess, rather than the slightly sour taste with the spinach.

Also, i didnt factor in the need for more liquid to cook the dried canneloni tubes, so should have added lots more tomato sauce - mine was a little dry.

BUT the results were edible, and with those 2 tweeks, I think it could work.

The revelation to me was cooking pasta in a slow cooker, which might just come in handy on those busy running around afternoons! I am now going to try, at some point, a lasagne, which is supposedly very good in a slow cooker. No idea what I would use for white sauce - I really do not care for quark!

Skimmed milk and flour or cornflour?
Low fat cheese?

yes, I think Id have to use some syns for a lasagne. If I was making it, Id make it for the kids, with full fat milk and loads of cheese....

One of my SW facebook friends says:
"1tub quark, 2 eggs, fromage frais, some cheese from hea and a little nutmeg"

She says the eggs make the difference. ANd this is syn free...

Sounds a bit yuck
Does anyone know the syns in baxters carrot and corriander soup?
I can only find v old info on the net and it said 8 syns
Please tell me thats wrong, it was horrible thin and watery too.

I must learn to check first.

7.5 syns per 400g can. :( What the Jeff is in it! Carrots (free) coriander (free) stock (minimal) - unless they have thrown in a bucket of cream as well?

Thanks!! I was right then.
It was really thin and tasteless too.
I think it gave me horrendous wind too

Can I join please?

I've lost 4.5st over the past 2 years (2.5st through SW which I've been doing for a year) and still have another 3st to go but its slowing right down and I've had a few gains which could apparently be due to me not eating enough .

With help from my group I've managed to start bulking out my intake as of today but looking at my mealplan it seems enough to feed a cattle herd yet many of them are much smaller than me and insist it'll get me back on track again.

Today I'm having:

Breakfast: 3 egg, cheese (HEA) and tomato omelette and an apple.

Lunch: 2.5 ladels of homemade veg and lentil soup, a clementine and a mullerlight

Dinner: Cheeseburger (HEB+2.5syns) and potato, beetroot and chive salad

Snacks: 100ml whole milk (3.5syns), 12 homemade jelly sweets (1syns), Options hot choc (2syns) and a banana

I'm far from small as is my appetite but this is the kind of intake I should be looking at apparently, is it just me that thinks its WAY too much?

I make veggie lasagne. I don,t bother with the White sauce and just layer tomato sauce veg mix. I cover with tinfoil and the right at the end a bit of mozzarella on top. I love it and don't miss loads of cheese with it.

darn it, gained .5lb - not good!

hi shitebag (I'm thinking you may be irish with that name ). You have lost loads and not to regain is amazing. I'm only new to slimming world too and the amount you can eat seems a bit barmy to me too. However i haven't been hungry which has meant I've been able to withstand temptation. I know I didn't get 4 stone overweight by eating to much fresh whole foods.

I am attending a family event today though and lunch is being provided so I'm slightly anxious about that as I don't feel I know the syn values of much yet

Haha Cake close enough, I'm Scottish :o

I never actually thought of it that way, I certainly didn't slide into morbid obesity by eating too much fruit either so I guess it is better this way!

I'm off out for a meal tonight too and am taking that off but sticking to plan 100% the rest of the day.

Ahh, wifi died.

B.....2 wh m bread
Bacon and egg

L....none

Sn.....mango

D....duck stirfry with noodles, cauliflower rice and asparagus

Syns 8 Lindt chocolates

Tomorrow will be....

B....2 x Alpen Light, fruit

L....root vegetable soup, muller light, fruit

D....chilli with cauliflower rice

Todays plan:

Breakfast - 35g Coco shreddies (B) and clementine

Lunch - Instant noodles (5), banana, muller light

Dinner - SW tomato and basil soup (0.5) and SW trifle (4.5), grapes.

Snacks: 175ml milk (A),

I'm going to struggle through the holidays not the chocolate but just having the kids off and doing stuff with them.

Ledkr I struggle with the holidays too, being out of routine totally mucks me up and having extra munchies lying around for the kids.

My plan is to set out my meals/snacks the night before and when they're gone they're gone! Will be making an activity plan with the kids too so that we're kept busy.

I sat down a few days ago and worked out that if I lose 1lb a week from now until my birthday (mid-October) I could be at weigh in the day before. Staying focussed on that goal should hopefully keep me motivated :o

Can I come and join in? Again!! Please.
Not very good at this this week, have caught MANFLU, and been not best.
Need a 10lb loss by Thursday, I'm going away for a week.
No seriously I need to stick to plan so when I do come back I can get ready for the next holiday. I play around with the same 10lb. How do ppl not gain on holidays? Sunshine without wine just doesn't go.
Today's meals
Shredded wheat & 1% fat milk
Scrambled egg & spaghetti
Chicken chasseur sw chips & peas 2 syns
Snacks - a crumpet & 1 toast with lunch. ????syns 10 I would suggest.
I've had no fruit as its boring. Must try harder.

B.....toast with bacon, beans and mushrooms

L....noodles with bean sprouts

D.....chicken (2) mashed potatoes with carrots, savoury rice, salad

Sn....fruit s

Syns....curlywurly and hula hoops 9.5 syns

First weigh in last night. Down 6.5lbs

Today:

B: Scrambled eggs and grapefruit

L: Salad with feta and home made Healthy option b croutons

D: Spag bol

Snacks: Apple and Orange

Syns: I haven't decided yet. Maybe an ole curly wurly and a sherbet fountain.

Well done cake! Feels good, doesn't it?

B....35g grape nuts, yoghurt, fruit

L....sushi, fruit

D.....weigh in first then will think about it.