Slimming World Support (5)

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Hope Calzone doesn't mind me starting the new thread- we've run out of room- eek!

Me new thing for this week has been cauliflower rice. Filling, doesn't taste too bad with strong flavours like chilli or curry but boy does it stink!

An edible bowl.....

Thanks em and Lemony!

Calzone - that looks good...

Calzone, how do you make the edible bowl? (Sorry, longtime lurker on here trying to gain enough inspiration to sort myself out and get on the SW bus)

That looks lovely Calzone. I love hummus and need to make.some syn free stuff to try.

Might do fajitas next week. Bizarrely my smoked paprika has disappeared from the rack. I suspect dp has had a hold of it and put it somewhere stupid.

B. Coffee
L. Nothing as was busy.
T. Roast lamb and trimmings. Had a yorkshire pudding and gravy so whatever syns were in that.
Just having a lovely g and t and debating whether to have my B choice as muesli and yoghurt.

We have 2 small metal bowls so I pulled the wrap over one and shoved the other one over it to make the bowl shape.

Baked in oven. Pulled top bowl off and let it crisp up.

Used the gluten free wraps which are a HEB.

Hummus was 2 tins chickpeas, lemon, quark, garlic. Whizzed.

Hi everyone, can I join? I have done slimming world over the years many times. I joined as an online member last month and am on week 4. I am really, really struggling. I lost 2 stone last year using shakes, put it all back on within 6 months of normal eating (not gorging) and I think I may have messed up my metabolism. I followed SW for 4 weeks Jan / Feb and lost nothing (even followed a week exactly in the magazine and lost nothing). Trying again, lost 2.5 lb first week, 1.5 back on second week, maintain 3rd week. Due to weigh in on Tues. If I post some of my meals here can anyone help me see where I am going wrong?

Today I had:
Breakfast: home made rice pudding made with almond milk (HEa) and candarel, handful strawberries.
Lunch: piece of wholemeal bread from ordinary loaf (HEb) wafer thin ham, salad and SW home made coleslaw, 'light 'n' free' yoghurt.
Afternoon snack: 2 shorties biscuits (6 syns) plum, tangerine
Dinner: gammon, mashed potato with skimmed milk (had only used half my almond milk allowance so thought a splash of skimmed in my spuds would go towards HEa), teaspoon light flora(1/2), broccoli and peas, home made parsley sauce (milk as above) (1/2 syn)
Pudding: few pieces broken meringue (3 syns) yoghurt (light and free) strawberries

Drinks: diet coke, water, one cup tea.

I think I wasn't maybe remembering 1/3 plate of superfree but I've been trying really hard. Can anyone see any obvious mistakes? Can I split my HEa between almond and skimmed milk? I am pretty sure I'm not having the full allowance even split.
It is so depressing, I always used to be less careful and lose slowly but surely. Now I am 45 it seems like just a glass of wine messes the whole week up.

Hi Squashy! Sorry to hear you're struggling.

How much water are you drinking? Upping the water intake helped me a lot. And are you being strict about 1/3 of your plate at each meal being made up of speed food?

You could also try mixing up your healthy B choice - I seem to lose more when I use other options (pistachios, dried apricots, cereal bars) instead of bread...

Bread makes me weigh heavily too.

I use oats, bran flakes, prunes, scan bran for HEB.
Skimmed milk for HEA.

Try just eating speed fruit and vegetables for a few days.

Your metabolism might just need to get used to what you are eating. Your diet looks fine.

Thanks Emily! I often have 2 ryvitas with quark and a TSP of jam for breakfast, but otherwise I tend to not have a HEb as, like you, I find bread isn't helpful for weight loss.I think this is probably the first bit I've had all week. I probably should drink more water!

The SW frozen meals, are they meant to be for two people?

Yay Emily, get well soon lemony
Hi Squashy, you could try some SP days maybe? Also filling an SAS log has helped me spot where there's room for improvement. I'm a really slow loser too, down, up, maintain! But over time there's a downward trend . I hope you see a loss this week .

B toast heB, butter and jam 3 syns
Nectarine .HeA milk in coffee
L roast lamb, sw potatoes , onion/mushroom gravy 1 syn , homemade mint sauce , green beans,carrots, peas
Pudding made from sw haribo recipe gone wrong! Used vegegel instead of normal gelatine and it set funny . Made into SW trifle with berries, fromage frais, quark , sponge fingers, soaked in mix apple juice and a little brandy . 6 syns.
Didn't have evening meal was still full.

I've not had the ready meals but I think you can have as much as you like as long as you add a third of speed veg to the plate . Be guided by your appetite.

Would say it's definitely worth having your HexB choice, as it's designed to be had every day - have a look through the book/website for the list of choices, there are loads of bread-free options (dried fruit, nuts, tinned soups etc) that you can use!

Morning everyone. Feeling a bit better today. The antibiotics are doing their job.

Didn't have anything apart from the dinner my mam made me yesterday.

Back on plan today
B: ciabatta (hexb), scrambled eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms
D: Ham salad, possibly with cheese for hexa
T: SW Singapore noodles with added speed

Weekend badly off plan with a formal on Saturday and comfort eating a ton of toast on Saturday.

Back on plan today to try to scrape a maintain I'll be lucky

B- porridge, fruit, yoghurt
L- salad and fruit
D- not sure yet. Going shopping after work.

Morning, had a bad weekend SW wise, I have my weigh in tomorrow evening so hoping to undo the damage done

Morning all, I've had a bit of a mixed week and weigh in is tonight. Hoping for a loss but I don't think it's going to be a big one.

B-coffee
L-chicken salad
D-spag Bol after weigh in

I made a really nice lunch over the weekend I dry fried bits of bacon, baby asparagus and tin new potatoes (never had them before they were actually quite nice!) put it all on a pile of spinach salad and some cherry tomatoes and put a poached egg on top it was so good! I'm trying to find different things to eat as I feel like I'm eating the same things over and over.

I use tinned tomatoes in slow cooked curries, Butt. They're great. That concoction you made sounds lovely, will have to try it. I love asparagus, but usually must buy the jars.

I've bought a jar of roasted peppers, unsure what to have those with though. Any ideas?

Tinned potatoes, not tomatoes, although I use those as well.

Hello all,
May I join you? Been on SW for a few weeks now (though only 2 weeks actually attending class) - have lost about 8lbs in total, though only 1 of those officially at the class. I go massively off plan on Fridays, a bit off plan on Saturdays (using all my week's syns on wine basically!) and the rest of the week I find it easy enough sticking to plan. Did SP yesterday and trying again today to make up for the weekend. Gained half a lb last week but was (TMI, sorry) terribly constipated . Have sorted that out but now spending half the day peeing! Anyone else got the same issues? Oh well, here's hoping for a decent loss this week (WI on Wednesday).

SP day yesterday
B: Porridge HexB1, milk HexA, apple
Snack: Quark & berries, Bread HexB2, ham, tomato.
L: Omelette & salad
D: Roast dinner, chicken and ton of veg (no potatoes), gravy (4 syns ish)

SP day today
B: Porridge HexB1, milk HexA, apple, strawberries, plum
Snack: Quark & berries
L: Ham & cottage cheese salad, bread HexB2
D: Chilli with loads of extra veg, salad, FF greek yogurt.

Does this sound ok? I find it strange on SP that I can have bread but not potatoes but as I prefer bread I am prepared to run with it!

Buttwing, your salad sounds delicious, I haven't had tinned baby potatoes in about 30 years but I remember they were lovely. Tinned/jarred mushrooms are also something I liked years ago, they'd be a good addition to a pasta salad I reckon.
I notice you also mentioned Two Chubby Cubs up thread - love them!

Today's plan is for an SP day - not feeling confident about w/i tomorrow morning, for some reason...

B - bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms

L - ham salad

D - homemade burgers with cheese (HexA) and mushrooms, carrot chips and salad

First HexB will be a bun for my burger, second will be an Alpen Light. Syns for salad dressing and olives, then will have a small amount of chocolate but try to keep syns low...

Lemony pea, I am obsessed with jars of roasted peppers. Delicious in a salad, and lovely in any sort of tomato-based sauces, especially if the recipe calls for chorizo - I leave it out and use loads of roasted peppers, bacon and smoked paprika instead. Not as nice but a good syn free sub. Also lovely to make a tomato and red pepper soup (frylight an onion, add tomatoes and/or passata, chopped jar of roasted peppers and herbs of your choice. Stock or water to your taste/required thickness.
I also did a veggie antipasti on Friday which consisted of roasted slices of aubergine, cherry toms roasted in balsamic and roasted red peppers from a jar all mixed together with some herbs. It would have benefitted from a drizzle of olive oil but I didn't have the syns to spare!

Welcome nomore you've just said exactly what I was going to say about the roasted peppers I love them too and you use them in all the ways I do!

Lemony they are really good in a risotto too which has reminded me I haven't made risotto for ages another meal sorted for this week!

OK I am really confused as I thought that on Extra Easy you only got one B choice (unlike old Red / Green days when you used to get 2 b choices) but nomoreheroes I see you are eating 2 b choices?

I need to go back to the book.

My day today:

Breakfast - large slice melon, 2 fruity ryvitas (heB), quark, tsp apricot jam (1/2 syn), cup tea

snack - 2 plums, tsp nutella (1.5) coffee

Lunch - 1/2 baked sweet potato, gammon, large mixed salad, free fruit yoghurt

supper plan - lots of asparagus, 2 poached eggs, bit more gammon, grated cheese (heA)

snack plan - curly whirly bar (6), fruit

Oooo thanks, lots of ideas. Currently have some in a salad, yum. I didn't think of using them in a space, might add them into paella at the weekend.

Squashybanana you only get two HexB choices if you are doing Extra Easy SP which is 50% protein and 50% speed plus 2 b choices and still 1 HexA. Hth.