The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part VII - Slipping Sylphlike Towards Summer

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Ah yes, it's that time again. New list, new decor. Same comfy chairs though

So, pull up a chair, settle in and make yourselves at home

Aww crap pix - pizza is a hard one to cut down the syns on, but here are some suggestions for you to pick and choose from...

1. Have a green day instead of extra easy. This way you will be allowed 2 heAs which you can have as cheese, plus you can have a little hummous as a heB. Would be worth finding out if someone is taking crudités to dip or if it's Doritos and bread, in which case you might want to take crudités yourself.

1. Eat before you go. Might sound mad, but if you are hungry and presented with a table full of syns it will be hard to resist, but if you are full then less so.

1. Encourage someone to take a green salad to go with the pizza, then enjoy a very small slice of pizza with your syns, accompanied by a very large helping of salad. Even better if there's a tomato and red onion salad too.

1. Make your offering a dessert. My suggestion is to find a ring mould and make a sugar free jelly with nice fruit inside (raspberries or strawberries would be good). Then present the jelly with an array of coloured soft fruits piled up in the hole in the middle. It will look pretty but be almost syn free. You can offer ice cream with it, but decline that yourself.

1. Peppers. Great as a nibbley bit or with the pizza. Either buy a jar of those pappadew ones, or grill a load yourself until the skin is black, pop in a sandwich bag to sweat them off, then peel off the skins, slice and put in an airtight container with some crushed garlic and balsamic. These can be done a couple of days in advance. Yum.

Oh, almost forget what I came on for. Meant to include that I burned 850 cals at gym yest, hence not minding using all my syns.

Being at home is much harder to control what I eat than I thought it would be.
My menu for today is

(red day)
B: 2 weetabix (b), milk (a)
2 cookies ( x syns)
L: Bacon and mushroom omelette
muller light
apple
D: jacket potato (b - need to check weight allowance)
chicken tikka masala (0 syns)
Snacks: quavers, muller light, satsumas

I need to know syns before I actually eat junk food so I know I am within allowance and also so I know how much more I can eat.

The jeans that I am wearing today fit amazingly well. A couple of months ago, I couldn't even do the button up. I've been on my powerplate again this morning. I actually watched the dvd that came with it today so I now know which exercises to do on it. I have a feeling they are much harder than the model in the dvd makes them look, I'll find out soon enough!

230g raw weight for your potato kid.
quavers 6.5 syns. If you haven't already had them then I'd give them a miss tbh, as you've already had 2 cookies. Do you know exactly what kind of cookies so that I can look them up for you?
Well done on fitting into your jeans better :).

Thanks CSWS. The crudites idea is a definite go-er as the person bringing the dips is a confirmed veg dodger! I've had a bit of a look at syn values for houmous, tzatziki, sour cream and chive etc and they aren't too bad - between 1.5 and 2.5 syns per tablespoon. I think the pizza and bread is going to be the killer.

cant sleep i had a salad with dinner and 2 syns worth of marie rose sauce. i weighed my bran flakes this morning and still seemed an ok portion. im finding this quite weird as i was on herbalife which was 2 shakes a day and a dinner at night to having 3 meals again. i am going out tonight and its a 4 course meal so not had any syns today at all lol..

Hi food monitor cantsleepwontsleep, i posted a thread last week titled "Slimming world veterns help please" or something simmilar and i had my weeks food which i though i was being really good, and i was not so sat and sun i went off the rails and by Monday i was on top form, so here is my food diary from Monday.

Monday - B - Porridge HB
L - Scrambled egg, 1 quorn sausage and beans.
D - small bowl of syn free soup and a raost chicken salad

Coffee and milk using HA

Tuesday - B - Wheatabix x2 HB with honey and milk HA and 1syn for honey
L - Soup and chicken salad sweet chilli mayo 3 syns
D - Omlete,salad and a few new potato roasties 6 syns (garlic olive oil)

Wednesday - B - porridge and banana HB and HA
L - soup and muiller yog
D - scrambled egg beans and 2 quorn sausage

Thursday -Red day B - porridge and banana HA and HB
snack orange and banana
L- soup and 6 cracker bread HB and cottage cheese
D - Baked pot with prawns and sweet chilli (nat yog and scs) 1.5syns

Friday - Red day - B- scrambled egg and beans
L- 6 cracker bread HB (3 cottage cheese and 3 with sliced banana)
D - chilli and rice and wedges HB (garlic olive oil on wedges) HA cheese on chilli.

I have already posted todays as above. All soup was a syn free carrot and lentil i made on monday and i have been really strick and tryed not to snack (although i have a muiller yog and a curly wurly in the freezer, all syned for tonight).

I also did not exercise this week and i know i wont lose this amount next week but its given me a big boost, please let me know what you think and if i can improve/change anything all comments are welcome as i really want this to work.

enjoy your night out natz :).

wow MIS - I'm not surprised you lost a lot - that's like proper diet food . Well done for sticking to that - I think I'd have spent a lot of the week hungry as I'm a greedy pig. Just a couple of observations for you: Wedns was obv a green day, so was it a conscious decision not to use your other healthy extras?
Friday I think you might have got in a bit of a pickle. You said that it's a red day, but you have had beans, rice and potato, none of which are red day foods. Need to dash right now, but i will tell you about cauliflower rice later, which is really useful on red days.

Yes i was really hungry between meals but i was advised to resist all snackage unless nessisary!

Yes prob a bit mixed up with those days was meant to be green but i dont fully understand mixing the days up!, also was working wed and find it hard to eat them all once im home and sorted for the day and i realised i havent had them!

The cookies were Maryland chic chip cookies. I've not had the quavers yet, I'll give them a miss. I need some low syn snacks as i don't think I can go between meals with nothing and I don't want to snack all day on fruit.

Best get started on dinner before I decide to eat anything else.
I've also got to plan for the next 7 days. Tomorrows dinner is basically meat, veg, jacket potato. Not exactly well thought out!

3 syns each for those kid.
Nothing wrong with meat, spud and veg!

I am just being lazy though as I don't know what meat I have in the freezer (plenty of chicken I am sure)
Are there any vegetables that I can't have on a red day?

Can't have potatoes, parsnips, corn (baby corn is ok, but not sweetcorn kernels), peas (sugar snap peas fine) or beans (baked, kidney, butter etc - runner/green beans are fine) - basically all the ones that are not 'superfree'.

Food diary for today:
B scrambled egg on toast (HEb)
L roast gammon, baby roast potatoes, carrots, cabbage, sprouts, sugar snap peas
D stuffed peppers + cheese (HEa) (some stuffed with cottage pie type mince mixed with leftover brown rice, and one stuffed with leftover bean chilli)
melon, small amount of ice cream (a dairy free one made from cashew nuts!) that ds2 left - no more than 3 syns I think
Snacks - apple, dregs of a packet of nutty cereal - looked like nothing, but I weighed it and it was prob 12 syns, so I shouldn't have had it, but at least the packet's gone now.

Did a bit of jumping about on the trampoline for a tiny bit of exercise, but realised that my pelvic floor is not what it once was, so not really enough to burn off any calories!!

Thanks csws
I love parnsips, peas and sweetcorn. Looks like I'll be having carrots, cauliflower and brocolli instead though. It will be worth it in the long run. Maybe next sunday, I'll skip the meat and have the potatoes, parsnips, peas and sweetcorn then?!

Oh bugger, thats made me realise that I had both beans and potatos on a red day last week I was taught Extra Easy when I started and I seem to have a total mental block when it comes to anything else!

Ick, I abandoned my traditional Coke Zero for a 7UP Light this morning and it MINGS.

csws are Sainsburys butchers choice lincolnshire sausages 6 syns each on a red day?
I think I need to rethink my food for today if they are!

God I'm in a bad mood today

Hope everyone else is having a better weekend.

whats up Pixie?
I'm having a lazy Sunday but have got so much to do.

At work, surrounded by idiots. Only three hours to go though. Must try to resist going to Starbucks for a big cake so get myself out of my slump!

Quiet on here today.

Hope you manage to resist that cake, it does sound nice but you will probably regret it afterwards though.
Could you set yourself a mini target to reach and when you reach it, you can treat yourself to the cake then?
I'm saving some wine in the fridge for my reward at reaching a mini target, I haven't decided what the target is yet though!

I've had a busy but boring morning. Scrubbed the bathroom, changed the beds, done loads of washing and about to start the ironing now. But thought I deserved a cup of tea and some computer time before doing anything else.

DS has been on the xbox for ages, think I'll go and annoy him soon too by turning off the wifi

they are 5.5 syns each kid. Their Be Good to Yourself Extra Lean Pork Cumberland ones are only 0.5 syns, so you'd best buy those next time. I have given up sausages, which I love, because all the low syn ones taste vile to me (often taste of pepper, which I loathe).

okay, thanks for the tip. I'm not a huge fan of sausages anyway so don't mind not having them. But I will buy the others ones next time. Infact, I have other ones in the freezer, must check what they are.

I bought some ryvita wholegrain crackerbread. Could I be a pain and ask if those are suitable for a HEb? I'm having the normal crispbread at the moment, 4 for a HEb, but I've never tasted the crackerbread so thought I'd give them a try.

Oh I eat the wholegrain crackerbread. They are nice, and you can have 6 for a HEb :).

6, wow, thats loads!
Guess I'll be eating them more often then.

I figured that as the sausages were 5.5 syns each, I would just have one with my dinner. But, after taking 1 bite, I figured the 5.5 syns was for a red day, but I was having a green day (mash and beans) so I gave the rest of the sausage away.

I'm going to have a few green days this week, they are easier for when I'm at work. Just to need to work out what I'm having though and sort out shopping list. I think I'll order it this week instead of actually going myself.

just logging in before I go to bed.
Hope you've all had a good weekend.
I am a bit ATM, and lurking. Feeling really down on myself and need to sort that out. Maybe it will morph into TOTM which would be a welcome explanation. I was wondering about some kind of supplement, but I know I can't take St Johns Wort due to implant, and I already take vitamin D. Any ideas?
Will probably miss DoD this week, but I'll be lurking. Will try to get walking for a bit of a boost.