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.

Dinner was diced roast chicken mixed into golden savoury rice and peas, diced tomatoes with onions and balsamic vinegar and sweet potato fries.

Syns
Velvets (4)
Hifi (3)
Goodies yoghurt (2.5)
Beef canapés from M&S (3)
Rice (2)

More flat tummy water before bed.

The LM rosemary and red onion sausages are my favourite, although the Tesco low fat Cumberland are also great at half a syn each.

I've been really good this week but am not feeling very positive about weigh in tomorrow. I've been stuck at half pound losses for a couple of weeks and I'm getting fed up! I've cut my syns down this week and have had no bread again, I've upped my water...we shall see!

Some of your meals sound lovely. I try and cook a SW recipe every night but these are also great inspiration!

Am getting a bit fed up of all the chopping!

I get in at 4pm and seem to chop fruit and veg and more veg for hours!
Am gonna buy pre chopped veg next week!

That's a great but simple idea calzone - cos I find the SW meals taking more of my time because of all the chopping.

B: Woken up late and had two hashbrowns (9 syns) and beans from work canteen and tea from Costa (HE A for milk)
L: Chickpea, tomato and green bean soup. Fruit salad.
D: Shepherd's pie from SW magazine
Snacks: BeLight crisps (4 syns)

HE B! Knew I'd forgotten something - might have some almonds after dinner.

Calzone, I have a full size freezer my mum said I'd never need that much freezer space, she was wrong and it's half full of prepared veg, fruit and fresh herbs, I don't think I could cope with the amount of time I'd need for cutting veg if I bought it all fresh, not only that but the veg never goes to waste as you just use what you need and put the rest back in the freezer.

Had a truly demoralising 4lb gain last week, I'd had a couple of take aways but one I'd managed to keep within syns so I was absolutely gutted.

This week's weigh-in was much better, I got a 4.5 lb loss, bringing my total loss to 1lb (which is still pretty gutting after 4 weeks) but I forgot to eat much for the past 3 days, due to being ill with something flulike (thought it was mastitis but we seem to be ok other than a decidedly lumpy sore boob so long as I'm taking paracetamol) and I had a Chinese last night (or what I could eat of it, which wasn't much) which I plan on being my last take away until I get my 1/2 stone award.

I've got three days before I go away for the weekend so I need to be super good at sticking to plan until I go away as I have no idea what's happening about food, though on Saturday night we'll have a buffet so I can pile up crudite type stuff. Today marked my last food diary hand in at group, so I really need to be making a record of what I eat from now on to keep me in line.

Breakfast (though practically lunch by the time we got back) 1 mullerlight, 1 hifi rocky road, 1 hifi double chocolate. (hex b)

Lunch: Jacket potato with beans and 78g of skinny cheddar (2 hex a) and 1 tablespoon of butter (5.5 syns)

Dinner: Cottage pie from the members pack with mixed root veg mash (2 syns) instead of potato, and shoved full of extra speed veg.

In between: 4 satsumas, Quark & highlights (2 syns) chocolate brownie options (2.5 syns) cherry tomatoes & cucumber with tesco healthy living dressing (2 tbsp: 1 syn)

unused: 2 syns and 2 hex a. (breastfeeding)

A question for you lovelies.

Do you get the 4 o'clock munchies and if so what do you do??? I have dinner about 6.30 with dh and am starving @ 4.
Coffee doesn't work on its own it would with cake. Do you have fruit, yogurt free stuff then???

Today's menu.
B- toast x1 hex b spaghetti & egg.
L- beef stew 1x bread hex b.
D- salmon, green vegetables & new potatoes.

S- mullerlight & berries, 1 crisp bread cheese triangle. 2 syns.
Hex a milk 1% fat.

annie

Oh yeah to the munchies. Yesterday I ate banana, 2 satsumas, muller light, 3 low fat rich tea biscuits (4.5 Syns in total) dipped in tea.

Today's food:

B - garlic mushrooms, beans, 2 Nimble
Lunch - 2 mullers, 2 satsumas
Dinner - potato, beetroot, rocket, tomatoes

HexA - 3 Babybel lights
HexB - 2 nimble

Syns - 4.5 so far (3 low fat rich tea)

Im having a PMT week - which is not usual as Im going through the menopause.

But when I have PMT, I crave fish. No idea why. SOmeone once suggested iodine deficiency. But given my egg, fish, milk & yoghurt consumption, I doubt it.

SO today has been a fishy day....

B: Smoked haddock, eggs, tomatoes, "fried" potatoes (1 syn)
L: 2 open face sandwiches (hexB) with tuna mayo (1 syn), baby cucumbers and tomato. Mullerlight.
Sn: Banana. Peach. Grapes.
D: Salmon teriyaki, noodles, stir fry broccoli with onion, ginger and garlic (1/2 syn for shared tsp sesame oil. ); quark with options. (2 syns)

Hex A: Milk in tea.

4.5 syns.

1lb lost, but that did hit my 2 stone so I was pleased! Am going to cut out bananas and diet coke this week and see if that makes a difference to my slower losses. They don't call bananas natures Mars Bar for nothing!

Brilliant Blueberry - 2 stone is fab

I HAVE VEGETABLE NEWS!!!!

Tesco are now stocking carrot spaghetti, courgette spaghetti and cauliflower couscous!

What a coincidence after what I said yesterday.
So, I bought a pot of each at 3 for £2. Very chuffed.

B.....35g oats, fruit, toffee muller
L....leftover chicken pilaff, tomatoes, nectarine, plum
D....3 Heck sausages (1.5) mashed swede, mushy peas

I ate sushi when I got in at 4pm. Fills me up and is low Syn.

Syns
Sausages (1.5)
Sushi (3)
Goodies yoghurt (2.5)
Velvet crisps (4)

1.5 lbs ON after a v naughty week.
Back on track now. Gonna be v strict for a week and really kick (my own) butt into shape.

Wish I liked cooking. Would make this so much easier!

On plus side, people are noticing the loss, mainly around my face. I hadn't really noticed at all, I just see that it's too much fat.

Will catch up on thread tomorrow :)

Slimmer, don't be so hard on yourself. It wasn't a naughty week it was a blil into old ways. And we all criticise our selves, we shouldn't.
What are your cooking skills like. Maybe a few quick & easy recipes will help. What things do you like to eat?

Calzone - what aisle are the carrot & courgette spaghetti and cauliflower coucous? Thanks.

Today
B: Overnight oats with apple and mango (HE B)
L: Shepherd's pie with quorn and veg (SW recipe) with cheese (HE A) super speed salad of rocket, tomatoes and cucumber
D: Aubergine, spinach and chickpea curry (SW recipe)
Snacks: two boiled eggs, Muller Light and a Mini Delight choc (4 syns)
Hmm leaves me enough to be syn-ful later this evening :)

Thanks annie.
I suppose can cook I just don't enjoy it. Feels like a waste of time or something.
My meals are usually
Breakfast - porridge with chia (synned) with fruit, some sort of bacon/veg/Egg concoction, or if running late, weetabix with fruit.
Lunch
Baked potato with tuna & boiled egg, beans & cheese, or leftover bolognese & cheese. Sometimes a homemade soup.
Dinner
SW TIkka or sweet pot curry with microwave rice (synned)
Pasta and sauce ( jar - so synned)
Meatballs pasta and sauce
Pasta carbonara ( SW recipie) - that's prob my most elaborate meal ;) )
Steamed chicken, potatoes and veg.

I know I should bulk cook some pasta sauce as we eat it a lot but I really can't get motivated!

Also, on a v positive note, Thos morning the scales showed me a few lbs lighter than I was yesterday morning, so I guess it was water retention or something.

By the micobag veg, take a few minutes in the microwave then throw in to the pasta

Hi shehasawildheart with the carrot spaghetti what will you do with it would you make up your own pasta and mix it in with this and also the cauliflower cous cous what would you do with that would you have them for dinner or lunch and are there any syns as ive seen them and they look quite nice
Any advice would be really appreciated
Thanks

Love microwave veg! I use it in my omelettes, along with frozen diced onion ( and bacon) zero thought required. My favourite kind of meal ;)

Sarah I think you use them instead of couscous /noodles. ESP if on an SP day

How are we all today?

b: Yoghurt, banana, blueberry, peach. Slices of chicken.
L: Moroccan burgers (2 syn) on bread with lighter than light mayo (1/2 syn) and salad.

Sn: Ham slices, Apple
D: baked CHicken skin removed, fried rice (1/2 syn for 1tsp sesame oil, shared)

Milk in tea.

Hi
I haven't actually joined sw but getting advice from the mil who has...
B: bowl of fruit with fat free yoghurt
Snacks: banana, Raw carrot, nuts
L: lentil soup with bread roll & butter
D: tuna steak with roasted veg, potato wedges & Cous cous.

Think my syns are the butter & nuts. The Cous cous is ok right?

Roll is syns too Sunshine

Yes cous cous free unless it's a tasty M and S Mexican cous cous when it's a million

Syns for nuts are very high

No loss this week for me, just maintaining (but 6.5 in last 2 weeks so I shouldn't complain)

B - 2 nimble, beans, 2 eggs
L - yoghurt, banana
D - salmon, rocket, tomatoes, sweet potato
Hex b - the 2 nimble
No Hex A

Syns - highlight chocolate mug cake - bleurgh (2 syns) - never again
10 - carrot cake (a small bit and scraped the buttercream off as I'm not fussed about it)