Slimming World Support Thread (3)

[calzone]

Shiny new thread for us all.......😀😀😀

Had a few days away with work last week not very SW friendly but tried when l could , went to class , happily maintained . Got a text from leader today got slimmer of month ! Yeay ! Got it last month thought it was beginners luck ! Hoping for a loss this week , don't want to loose momentum ! X

luna quark is fine to cook with, I use it instead of yoghurt if a recipe (curry etc) calls for it.

Not keen on it as a good on its own though.

I have lost 42lbs so the total is 102.5lbs!

I love Quark.

It is so versatile and suitable for sweet or savoury dishes.

I boiled some cauliflower and mashed quark into it tonight. Delicious.

I need to try some more quark recipes. Our consultant keeps talking about mixing it with a sachet of low fat hot choc powder to make as pudding but its quite sharp so I'm unconvinced so far.

Managed -1.5lb at weigh in tonight, which I'm really pleased with given the weekend just gone & the time of the month. Meant I got my half stone award too which was nice.

Well done to all the other losers & congrats buttwing on grannyhood & secondary school allocations. Our DD also got our first (very popukar, out of catchment) choice - it's such a relief isn't it?

Quark's great, creamier than yoghurt in savoury things and much nicer for sweet stuff as well.

By itself it's evil, just soury nastiness, but with other flavours it's lovely.

I have lost 14lb new total loss 116.5lb

Wow deli that's amazing!

Great losses ladies 😊
B Apple, coffee 0.5
L heB wholemeal thin toasted with melted heA cheese, ham and salad
Coffee 0.5
D homemade meatballs, Courgetti, peas, broccoli .
Fairy cake 7syns (?)
SP day.

I've lost 6.5 pounds in 2016, New total loss123 pounds

may that's incredible too, and really encouraging from my POV as I have a similar amount to lose.

Can I ask something about the SP days? Talked about it at group this evening - it's basically anything you want with an S or P next to it, plus 1 HexA and 2 x HexB and 5-15 syns a day, is that right?

But according to our consultant no Free Food without and S or P, including yoghurt, but you can't even have a Mullerlight as a syn.

It just makes no sense to me that you can't have a fat free yoghurt, but you could, in theory, go out and have a Mars Bar ?!

I've just realised the total loss figures are as a group! What a numpty!

I've done 7.5lb so far, making group total 130.5lb

Avalol

Ava! No I've only lost 1 stone in total personally :) Your SP question, at 10-15 per day the amount of syns is measured and limited, so probably about 2-300 calories, like 1 mars bar. but if you ate any free foods, or foods like synned yogurts, which have a free food allowance you could end up eating loads more calories if you ate them freely . I don't worry too much if I forget and have 1 yogurt though. Book also says if you do SP regularly you can have 1 small fat free yogurt per day.
Yes to foods with S or P, at least half the portion should be Speed at every meal, and most snacks should be Speed too . 1 A and 2 B choices .

Cheers.

Maths was never my strong point !

Lots of people definitely achieve that level of weight loss with SW though , there's been some great total losses on here too.

Agree with quark, you need to do something with it not just eat it alone. Ava if you mix it with a hot choc sachet you also need to add sweetener. I often have sweetened quark with fruit for breakfast or I add a couple of mini meringues to make a sort of Eton mess. I also use it in SW quiche.

I did get some mini meringues & was going to try adding sweetener and vanilla

Also wondered about sweetener & grated lime rind & dipping ginger nuts (syns!) in it, like an instant key lime pie.

I'm guessing it would work well as an alternative to sour cream too.

I add sweetener and lemon essence to quark and mix with a lemon hifi bar and top with squirty cream......

That sounds yummy Calzone.

I'm yet to try anything sweet with quark but I also use it to make syn free coleslaw, just add a pinch of mustard powder too. A firm favourite in our house.

Need to try not to cave in to a takeaway tonight, like I do every time DH is out and it's just dinner for one.

DS is being a nightmare at bedtime at the moment and if if takes me too long to get him down, I can see me logging on to just eat

I've done 10 pounds so far so new group total 140.5

I'll try quark with something else then. I managed to ignore the chocolate and crisps in the vending machine as I sat in the common room for an hour! Not usually in there that early, but husband has hospital appointment so dropped me off on his way. Made myself a tub of salad and weighed out 25g of cheese as a synthetic for it, then realised it really isn't a lot for 5 sync so didn't bother and bought some salmon flakes instead.

I only lost 1lb last night so that will teach me for thinking I could get away with one cheat meal!

So 5.5lbs in two weeks....hoping for my half stone next week.

Had a PT session this morning. Now going to have a tooth taken out at the dentist

How much do teeth weigh?

Well done everyone - and thanks all! I've lost 20lb so far in 2016 (which is apparently the weight of a car tyre!!)

Yesterday I was good during the day but had a 3 course meal out in the evening, with a welcome drink. It was somewhere I was reviewing and we had no choice when it came to food, but I avoided wine with the meal, stuck to water, and didn't eat everything.

We stayed overnight too, so a full cooked breakfast this morning. Time to try and pull it back!

Today:

B - full English - definitely NOT SW-friendly

L - will be tomatoes, radishes, chicken slices, pickles and some fruit

D - probably a chicken and potato curry with rice and veg

Alpen Lights for my HexB, skinny latte later for my HexA.... No more Syns today after that breakfast!