The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part IV - A New Hope (And the Countdown to Xmas!)

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Morning Dod'ers!

Here's a nice new shiney list for when the old one is full.

Pull up a squishy chair and feel free to help yourselves to the Sw friendly snacks. Posters from the old room will be moved in shortly .

Hey kid - it gets better girl. When little kid it three THE best game is chasing/finding hairballs about the house with the vacuum long hose. Being little they can get right down there among it under the sofa/kitchen table. Till then, just open your front door and your back door on a breezy day and hey prest! a self cleaning house [hwink]

Oh blimey, I love a chocolate orange. Classic Christmas snack.

Well done everyone on excellent losses. I'm so impressed and looking forward to weighing in again next week.

Had a blip yesterday eve 1/2 btl White wine and 4 lindt chocs.

Food today:
B: melon and ff yog
L: egg, bacon and baked bean on hobbit toast (heb)
D: ham and artichoke pasta

ria well done on 6lbs! Expect that's motivated you for next week. Pm me your address and we will sponsor you.

pushka I'm jealous of zumba. Do you go with tena lady stuffed down your leggings then? Heading back myself on Sunday

Well done all! Going to be few weeks yet til I'm a 10st-something I think, as am losing it really slowly now I'm almost at target. And am off to Devon on the w/e so can't see me doing well next week (although will try to be good).

Think I might buy the latest SW mag later for some inspiration and motivation.

Yes please ria - would love the rice recipe when you've got time to post it.

Have a good day all.

covers ears la la la Who mentioned chocolate orange? ::drools::

Well done to you all esp Ria well done you.

Slinky I too am in the very slow phase I really want to get to target (10.5 st) by Christmas but I have to stop cheating

Food today
B Melon pear and yog (1.5 syn for the yog)
L left over bacon veggie soup Free!!
D Rias panhaggety and sausages

Morning all [hsmile], still a bit sore and tender after my aerobics/yoga class on Tuesday night, have decided to stick with SW although won't be going to classes as I don't find the leader very approachable!

Posted too soon [hblush], will be getting weighed by friend next Tuesday so will post my stats then if that's ok.
So far today I have had Special K with skimmed milk for brekkie, a banana as snack. For lunch going to have scrambled egg, bacon, mushrooms and tomato.
Do you have to count Special K as syns or is it ok to have for brekkie??

Obrigada the SW web site is not playing ball at the moment so I'm not sure if Special K is on the healthy extra B list. I do pay to go to group but just walk in to be weighed and walk out again as my consultant is....::coughs and looks a but embarrassed:: away with the faries .

I really needed the incentive of being officially weighted each week.

I'm really hungry I think I will have a mini snackette of ryvita and cheese triangle. I'd rather have a [hbiscuit]

Special K doesn't seem to be on the healthy Extra list it is 4.5 syns for 25g!!

Thanks for looking that up Hedge, I have a friend who has professional weighing scales and she has said she will weigh me every Tuesday night, really didn't see the point in continuing to pay at SW as the woman over the class barely acknowledged you being there and seemed to spend her time fawning over a select few!

thank you for all my congratulations, am feeling quite .

will post some recipes tonight

have to go to work in a minute, wish I didn't as feel rubbish. think my sinuses are bad. also I want to stay at home and continue mucking out DS1s pit. I'm sure I saw a floorboard earlier. Hope find his DS which has been missing for a Very Long Time.

had poached egg, hobbit toast and a banana for breakfast, lunch will be chicken with couscous and salad... not sure about tonight as DH has promised the boys a trip to the farm to play in the stables.

GTG, nearly late for work!

PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT HOBBIT TOAST IS?

Handily I loathe chocolate orange. Tis the ruining of 2 perfectly nice flavours to put them together.

Don't quote me CantSleep but think hobbit toast is the weightwatchers bread!

Hobbit toast is bread from a small wholemeal (400g) loaf you can have 2 slices as a HEB, so psychologically it is better than 1 slice of normal wholemeal .

tbh obrigada if I had found this lovely thread when I was starting I would have probably just joined online to get access to the website etc and not bothered with the group, but what I'm doing is working so I'm loacth to change it.

Ria sorry you are feeling pants have you got any decongestant?

If it's working for you Hedge then definitely don't change it. I am more of a blend in the background person (hopefully some day soon that will change [hhmm]) and I feel that because of that the woman in charge of SW group didn't feel she had to make any effort with me.

Hi all,

Well done on the weight losses they are brilliant.

Hopefully I'll have good numbers to add to it next week too. But at 6 weeks PG not sure if I should expect big losses or any loss for that matter - I'm just hoping that following SW will stop me blowing up like a balloon :o

Have any of you followed SW whilst PG?

I'm still a bit concerned that I'm eating too much - I hope not as I am really loving it so far - so less restrictive than WW, if this works for me I can't ever see myself going back to WW!

My menu today is

B: 3 Scrambled Eggs, 1 slice Wholemeal Toast
S: Banana, 3 Plums
L: Baked Potato, Baked Beans and Poached Chicken Breast
S: Orange, Kiwi, Apple
D: Lean Grilled Steak, Boiled Potatoes, Cabbage, Carrots, Onions & Mushrooms with Bisto (3 syns?)
M: 250ml Semi-Skimmed.

Also one last question (for now anyway) - Are all Mullerlight yogurts free or is it just the Vanilla one? And is it okay to have one with a Free Fruit Salad as a snack between meals or should I stick to fruit only?

Thanks, B.x

Hi Birdie, only really starting out myself so not much good on the advice front, do want to say that I am liking your food plans, you and I seem to have similar taste re food so I really hope it works for you [hgrin]. Not much good at meal planning so might steal some of your ideas [hwink]

Going to try your dinner from yesterday but with shop bought (i.e. add milk to powder and boil) white sauce so if any one can let me know how many syns there is in this sauce this I would be really grateful ?? (will be using skimmed milk)

Hi Obrigada,

I made the white sauce with 15g flour / 20g Low fat spread and 250ml of Skimmed milk - I had about 1/3 of the sauce - tried to do a bit of calcution using the books but still wasn't 100% sure what to give it so allowed 10 syns - hopefully that should cover it!

I don't have my book with me today in work but I think there is a syn value for packet white sauce in it - HTH. Enjoy your dinner, I'm looking forward to getting home to get mine!

I'm sitting here thinking about what I can cook for dinner and dreading going to the gym tonight. My feet are in agony as I wore new boots today, big mistake!

I got a 40% discount voucher from the best Indian restaurant around. I am trying my hardest to resist the temptation to place an order, but its soooooooo hard

Looking forward to trying some new recipes, just waiting for people to post them lol

4 syns for low fat spread. 3 for flour. 6 i think for milk. So 13 total means your 1/3 was at worst 4 syns :).

I did sw when pregnant with my first. I lost lots until 3rd trimester, when I piled a load on, so ended my pregnancy about the same as I started it.

I can't eat yogurt, so others are prob better to advise, but my understanding is that all of the mullerlight fruit ones are free, but some of the fancier ones (cheesecake etc) have some syns. Perfectly fine to have one with a fruit salad (still maintains the 1/3 to 2/3 proportion if on extra easy day).

Thank you for explanation re hobbit toast :). I am buying the small loaves myself. Goodness knows why we can have 3 slices of WW brown danish but only 2 of brown nimble, as the nutritional info is almost identical .

Rubbish re new boots Kid. I hate sore feet.

from the book
packet white sauce made with skimmed milk - 3 level tbsp = 1.5 syn or 142ml = 4.0 syn
packet white sauce made with Whole milk - 3 level tbsp = 2.0 syn or 142ml = 6.0 syn

x-post CSWS, I have long ago thrown my scientific hat out when trying to understand the syn calculations I just know it's working [hgrin]

Evening all! Hey Birdie - when I started SW i used to stockplie free food in my office (just like me granny after rationing stopped) in case I could not make it until lunch at 1pm. I have never eaten so many satsumas in my life! All my files now have a feint orange whiff!

(CSWS - Chocolate and orange was ordained by the Lord God Himself....its in the Bible at the bit where he shares the fish (for SW followers) and the bread (for theskinny billinies). he chucks in a coulple of segments for the days syns. Honest,...its true. And Hallelujah for that!!

Did somebody mention Dirty K??? Grrr. I remember the self-strop I had when I realised that it was outlawed with a ridiculously high sin balue for what amounted to about thirteen flakes. It has profoundly affected me for life....every time I see a fox in a red frock I want to lamp her one and say "YOU CANT POSSIBLY JUST EAT THIS - DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SINS THERE ARE IN ONE BOX????"

Sliky my lovely - how was the best ad final offer?

B Crunchy Bran
L Cuppa soup (I know, it is just water with attitude)
D jacket spud teeny bit of butter

Four party rings (testing 'em for the my party tea [hwink])

No no no Pushka. You have got choc orange and marzipan confused, clearly.

Sausages. Can we talk about them please? Which ones are actually nice but also very low in syns? I tried WW ones which I think are 1/2 a syn each, but they tasted purely of pepper, and were so vile that I left them. This morning I tried some lean waitrose ones, which are 2 syns each. They were nice, and currently in the lead in my sausage ranking. But I'd like to find some nice ones that are 1 syn or less ideally so that I can eat twice as many.