The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part VI - The thread in which we Spring Into Action

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Sorry chaps, my thinking cap is busted. Best title I could manage tonight!

Loads of comfy chairs in here, bowls of fruit, and lots of superfree veggies to snack on

So, settle in, have a natter, and let's show the lard who's boss!

Bee
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There, did that help?

yummm cold sausages, don't wack her with it give it to me I'm starving.

good positive thinking there bee

I have very odd soup for lunch It was from the SW soup book and i like the idea of it while I was making it but now I'm wibbling. Its root veg with beetroot, it is a great looking colour I'm just not sure if I actually like beetroot . Anyway that's all I have for lunch so I will have to eat it.

Well i have just done a nice big SW shop, and despite being a highly seasoned SWer am experience my first 'whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?' moment.

I am going to have beans on toast. Fine. Great! Good solid Green Day food. I would in the past have cheerily eaten the whole tin of beans (Free, innit? etc. etc.) but have noticed this is 400 cals. Add to that 2 slices of hobbit bread and some HEA cheese, and fruit for after, and we're looking at a 650 cal lunch

So I assume this is where I have gone wrong on SW before - even if it says free, you need to exercise portion control? Would any of you wise ones eat a whole tin of beans? I am guessing no....

Well i have just done a nice big SW shop, and despite being a highly seasoned SWer am experience my first 'whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?' moment.

I am going to have beans on toast. Fine. Great! Good solid Green Day food. I would in the past have cheerily eaten the whole tin of beans (Free, innit? etc. etc.) but have noticed this is 400 cals. Add to that 2 slices of hobbit bread and some HEA cheese, and fruit for after, and we're looking at a 650 cal lunch

So I assume this is where I have gone wrong on SW before - even if it says free, you need to exercise portion control? Would any of you wise ones eat a whole tin of beans? I am guessing no....

I'm trying Hedge (yes, very trying I know - I'll say it before someone else does [grin).

The beetroot soup sounds yummy, but then I love beetroot anyway. I seem to remember in the dim and distant past making some sort of beetroot and egg soup in Home Economics (er, that'd be about 1984/5). Bleurgh!

Er, what?! Sorry about the duplication!

Hedge is that basically borscht? Do tell what it turns out like!

TSP Er, actually I have eaten the whole tin before yes. Thing is, I've found that really really fills me up and I often run out of room for the fruit or yogurt. Having said that, I am now more conscious of the amount I'm eating, so would probably have half a tin. But on a hungry day I'll still be tempted.

The other day I had a 3 egg omelette with half a tin of beans - that must be somewhere around the 500 ish cal mark? I dunno. I'm not going to pretend I understand it all

don't know I've never had borscht but I am slurping it now and it is dead yummy

Ooo sound nice Hedge - I love root veg soups: they tend to be lovely and sweet...

Well, I did the Full Tin. I don't think I would if it were with a spud or similar, but it was only hobbit bread which has all the texture and heft of a marshmallow

I am watching Eternal Law. Anyone seen it? I adore Sam West but watching him bring all his heartbreaking Shakespearian gravity and angst to some ITV fluff about angels posing as barristers in York is faintly hysterical...

I wouldn't eat a whole tin, but only because I don't like them enough to.
See this is I think why my weight loss is so slow now. I can and do pack away a huge amount of food, so although it is mostly 'free', it still adds up to too many calories overall.

I have burned 950 cals at gym to make up for my cake fest!

Bee - eek at 'fibroid'. Fingers firmly crossed for it being nothing serious.

I've had 3 ginger nuts on a mammoth ward round. I was starving so that's 7.5 syns wasted

I would eat a whole tin of beans with cheese I was starving. Otherwise, I would have 1/2. Hobbit bread sucks.
Got a mountain of paperwork to do now, wont be home till gone Isobel's bedtime. .

Oh and bee, your GP sounds amusing. No ovarian tumour would get that big! It will prob be a fibroid / fibroma. They grow massive and cause no problems.

Oh Cheese, yah boo and sucks to paperwork

Agree that hobbit bread sucks. It completely disappeared beneath the beans. I mean honestly, just vanished into a weird pap! I kept fantasising about doorsteps of artisan sourdough .

Still. Artisan sourdough would do nothing for my thighs, which currently resemble a Turner Prize exhibit constructed from unbaked bread dough left to prove in a damp place - so onward, onward!

I'm thinking about starting dinner but am hoping someone else can do it for me. Yeah, I know that's not going to happen so I guess I'll go and make a start now.

DS has to back to the hospital in 3 months to review it again. They have ruled out any pressure (growths) on the brain and behind his eyes. It's just a case of monitor and treat as necessary for now. I'm pleased with the thoroughness of todays appt, shame they couldn't reach a conclusion though as to what's causing them. We'll get there, eventually.

Right I'm done and out of here. The problem is my job share is off sick, so I'm doing a full time job in 2 days as my other day is in the community. Damn it!

Hobbit bread is truly the pits. It doesn't even toast nicely.

Anyway, it's a nice dinner made by DH tonight so at least I don't have to cook, sorry kid! Have you tried ruling out different foods; cheese and choc are often culprits.

Gah Cheese, sounds like you've had a bit of a baptism of fire, as ends to ML go. How damned inconsiderate of your colleague to get poorly

Glad the appt went well Kid

Right, I have here my meals for tomorrow - I don't trust this Extra Easy stuff (when SW worked for me, I was on the Green/Red plans; when it didn't, I was EE) so it's the old fashioned way for me:

RED DAY
B - Fruit and yogurt
L -Bacon, onion and cheese frittata type thing, and some Alpen Lights (1 HEA, 1 HEB)
D - Turkey burgers with SW chips (HEB), salad, prolly some light mayo (2.5 syns), fruit salad for after.

Where is everyone? You're all vair quiet

I'm here!

My colleague lost her baby at 18 weeks, bloody awful. So more than happy to work my socks off for her, poor thing.

Stick to what you know pimps.i love EE as I dont have to think too hard!

It's snowing here, Brrr!

B: omelette
L: jp and beans, salad
D: roasted salmon, mash and runner beans
Snacks: ML yog, fruit and will have some hobbit toast as a HEB

Sorry dinner is from last months mag: seared salmon with pesto and pea mash. Sounds good.

There's some nice recipes in the new mag, just flicked through.

So sad about your colleague cheese, what a dreadful thing to happen. Most people assume they are okay once they pass the 12 weeks stage.

We have to keep a diary of DS's migraines. If he does get one, we have to note what he was doing when it started and anything that he has eaten that day and whether he had done any activities (football). The idea is, we will see a common trigger.
They were very thorough and will write up a report for his hospital file, doctor, school and I'll get a copy too.

Dh ended up cooking most of the dinner, shame it wasn't a SW recipe.
He did mince (mixture of normal and lean), peppers, mushrooms and chopped tomatoes. He then mixed that with rice and topped with cheese. I took some of the meat before he mixed the rice so it was half SW.
Not to worry, still got the rest of the week to buckle down. I'm going to try and pick up the latest SW magazine soon.

Oh gosh, the poor, poor lass. You know, I see so much of that, and so much trouble with fertility, that really I begin to think it a wonder that any of us made it here at all.

Snow?! Are you a Londres?

If it snows Tues next week and our plane can't take off, I am going to go MENTAL.

Pimpy - you can't have SW chips as a HE. You need to swap it for a jacket spud or some little new pots in their skins. Are you making the turkey burgers yourself? (if yes my next question is how?)

we've got a bit of snow here apparently TSP I can't be bothered to check but DS was jumping around shouting its snowing a little while ago.

Ooo thanks for checking that CSWS - I thought that if I had potato wedges with the skin on, cooked in Fry Light (so basically a jacket potato in bits) that would count? Or should I literally have it as a jacket potato?

Yes to the turkey burgers - just turkey mince, v. finely chopped onion and garlic, salt, pepper, cumin (if I can find it), pressed together into patties. I'll bind it with a bit of egg if need be, but they normally stick OK....

Kid I just looked - it's really coming down! It feels insanely Christmassy but, of course, there is no bank holiday, no mince pies, no port and stilton, no tree, no gifts, no NOTHING

I'll have to go and have a look at the snow now then. I was being lazy but I do like snow falling. DH can drive me to work tomorrow

Oh I would think that would be ok tsp - the important thing is having the skin I think.
Now, my reason for asking about the turkey burgers... Do you have extra lean turkey mince? Apparently there is one supermarket that sells it (think it might be sainsburys), but most turkey mince out there is too fatty to be free. I made the mistake in my first couple of weeks of assuming that since turkey is a fairly lean meat anyway, that all turkey mince would be ok, but actually wasted a load of syns on it .