NEW SLIMMING WORLD THREAD - IT'S NEARLY CHRISTMAS - HOW ARE WE DOING????

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Had to start a new thread peeps as the old one was too long to accept any new messages. How's it going?
I'm sad to say after my positive note on starting the previous thread, I'm having a terrible time of things. I've really slipped. So, I need you to all shout at me and get me back on track. I don't mind what you say or how you say it. I can handle it.

Hi lurcher lass - this is what i'm living on at the moment.

baked apple with 1tbsp mincemeat in the middle and a 0% total yoghurt on top - 2 syns

parsnip sliced thinly, sprayed with frylight and spinkled with garlic salt & black pepper - cheats crisps and FREE. Works with butternut squah as well

low fat super noodles to go - (bbq flavour) stir fried with bean sprouts, carrots and cabbage - FREE

Quorn bolognase - made with passata and sprikled with a HE b of cheese - FREE

Scan bran X 5 spread with peanut butter and topped with sliced banana - 1 X heB plus 4 syns for p'nut. ( fills me up so that I can't face eating anything else afterwards)

1 banana sliced in half, filled with 1/2 funsize packet choc buttons. Wrap in foli and bake in the oven - 2 syns

Lots and lots of cous cous, pasta to go and about 5 satsumas a day!

Hope that gives some ideas

Nikki

Aaw thanks lurcherlass, I know what you mean about not even tasting food, that's how I ate that chocolate in fact. Wonder why it happens?

Well, surprisingly after my carb and chocolate slip this week I still lost 6lb so quite chuffed.

New free green ideas... well I'm only just getting started really, but today in my class my group leader was talking about polenta, saying she knows someone who shapes cooked polenta into a flat shape and bakes it like some kind of pizza base or flatbread with mozarella/cheddar on top. No idea what polenta is like but if it was bland I spose you could add cooked chopped onion/garlic or herbs? Apparently she also chops it up and puts it on top of pasta (probably with a tomato pasta sauce) a bit like lumps of cheese. No clue if either idea is nice or not!

I make a lot of stews in bulk on the weekend and freeze them in individual portions and I have them for lunch almost every day. I add anything from sweet potato, butternut squash, mushrooms, leeks, courgette, potato, carrot, celery, onion, lentils, parsnip, kidney beans, butterbeans, chickpeas, passata, mixed herbs, bayleaf, couple of veg oxo cubes, garlic puree and tomato puree, and I only use a teaspoon or two of olive oil to start the onions off (still can't find frylight, they don't seem to have it in asda?) so despite the oil, the oil in the puree tubes, and whatever is in the oxo cubes, I count them as free because it's only a couple of tablespoons between about ten bowls of stew.

James Martin (the chef) had a recipe on his show the other day which could probably be adapted for SW... baked bananas speared with rosemary, with a toffee sauce and quick banana icecream: He basically stripped the lower blades off a sprig of rosemary and stabbed it diagonally through an unpeeled banana then baked it, made a toffee sauce (Hideously calorific- there has to be a low fat version somewhere! Melted mini curly wurly?) and made instant banana icecream by whizzing up frozen banana segments in a food processor with low fat fromage frais, sweetener and some vanilla essence.

Hmm, recipe here but it says buttermilk instead of fromage frais. I'm sure he used fromage frais on the programme but maybe I got it wrong...

Thanks Nikki, I like the idea of parsnip crisps. I love parsnips in any form I hadnt thought about grating it. There was a SW recipe using grated potato, that I mean to try. I think I'll make it with half taties and half parsnip- yummee
James,you have reminded me that I love sweet potatoes too. It's so easy to get into a rut and fall back on the same old foods isn't it? Then, you're so vulnerable to "fancying" something naughty.
As for the stuffing thing, wow, that's a complex issue. It has to do with the seratonin that's produces a calming effect, but we cannot discount the fact that we were probably comforted with something "nice" when we were hurt or upset as children. Repetitive action, such as chewing and rocking or sucking,are also comforting. It can be hard to break that pattern of responding to "upsets" with food. But, hey, we're only human and we do our best!

Hi everyone, I am back doing SW after being away from it for almost 6 months. Was at my target but have now put on a stone!!!!! Having difficulty shifting weight this time, and don't know why. Is there a limit to the number of eggs you should eat, I eat at least two a day and am thinking this might not be helping.

I went to nandos, ate my meal, half my hungover boyfriends meal, had a large box of popcorn...

... AND STILL MANAGED TO LOOSE 1.5LBS!!!

thats a total 18lbs altogther w00t w00t

although I suspect I'm borrowed time

igd, I think I read that you should have no more than 10 eggs a week as they are high in cholestrol. Don't remember where or when I read that so it may be completely wrong!

Hmmmm Nikki some of those things you eat sound gorgeous - will ave to try the baked banana and chocolate one day.

Well had my first weigh in and I lost.......4.5lbs!!! - so pleased as this week I had friends round on Friday night and I got very drunk (but it was on gin and I made a SW Rogan Josh) and had works party at chinese restaurant on sat but I did an original day and stayed away from rice and batter.

Well done on the other weight losses.

Just had a nice suprise I hadn't weighed myself for a month, but my clothes were looser. Turns out I've lost 5 1/2 lbs (in a month). Only 2 more pounds to make 2 stone lost. I've got 2 do's coming up, so I might not get that off til after Christmas, but I'm cool with that

Well done on all the losses! Not bad for before christmas eh? bet this thread gets busy in the new year too.

I like the parsnip crisps idea too, bet it'd work with carrots etc too

So, whats the lowest syn drinks to have over christmas? I don't drink much but I used to be quite partial to sweet white wine, Jim Beam and coke, Martini or cider. Bet they're all really bad!

And where oh where can I buy frylight from???? thanks.

Frylight sells at the larger supermarkets like Tesco/Sainsburys/Asda etc.

I guess you have the Jim Beam with diet coke. Stick to shorts with diet mixers and you should be ok.

lurcherlass I'll race you to that last 2lb - I also have that to lose, to get to 2 stone

BTW re eggs - yes they are high in cholestrol - but in the good type not the bad one.

You're on MamaG !! I won't eat that cranberry and orange muffin I have my eye on then!! We're having some freinds over on Saturday night and we're going to cook them a SW chinese. My freind has watching me whittling down and was dead interested in SW. So I spent ages writing it all out and explaining it to her, but she decided it was too complicated. It does seem it at first, especially as people think it is something to do with food combining and stop listening to you after that! Anyway, I reckon you have to give it a few weeks, before the penny drops- that's how long it took my menopausal brain-cells to light up

I went back to group last week 4mnths after hitting target as I knew I had put something on, turns out 5.5lbs not too bad in the scheme of things, lost 4stone in total but I was really dissapointed. I have my first weigh in today so am getting nervous. Did find that after a break I am really enjoying it again. not had any naughty moments this week. going out for 2 meals next week though. Need to lose excess before xmas as having BR operation on xmas eve and can see myself laid up eating while I recover. Tommorow is Italian meal, what would be best to have?

I made the banana and choc thing for pudding tonight - hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Does anyone know the syns for those Couldron veg sausages (which are lovely btw) was hoping they might be free on a green day but not sure.

5.5lbs after 4mths is really quite good - good on you for getting back to classes.

Arse... I messed up today, ate without checking the book and got through 21 syns accidentally.

I had:

shreddies, milk and chopped banana for breakfast

coffee and hifi bar midmorning

spicy parsnip soup and a salad sandwich on wholemeal bread with an apple for lunch

new potatoes, french beans, sweetcorn and two fishfingers for dinner and a funsize fudge bar

I'd have been ok if I hadn't have had that shitty bland soup!

Must plan ahead!

Cauldron Foods Lincolnshire Veggie Sausages, 5 pack - 2 syns each GREEN/RED

Cauldron Foods Cumberland Veggie Sausages, 5 pack - 1.5 syns each GREEN/RED

Cauldron Foods Cherry Tomato & Basil, Glamorgan, Mushroom & Herb, Sun Dried Tomato & Black Olive Sausages - ALL 1 syn each GREEN/RED

which is bit annoying, but not too bad I guess!

Hey parsnip lovers!!

CRUNCHY PARSNIP AND LEEK CAKES

Serves: 3
Syns per serving:
3½ Syns on Original
1½ Syns on Green

454g / 1lb leeks,chopped
454g / 1lb parsnips, chopped
57g / 2oz wholemeal bread made into breadcrumbs
salt & ground black pepper
1 tsp curry powder (optional)
1 tsp ground coriander
1 egg, beaten
Fry Light, for spraying

1. Dry fry the leeks in a large heavy based frying pan for 2-3 minutes until soft. Place the parsnips into a large saucepan of water, bring to the boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes until tender and then drain and mash.
2. Transfer the parsnips into a large bowl, add the leeks and remaining ingredients and mix together. Divide into 8 portions and shape each one into a burger shape.
3. Preheat a heavy-based frying pan over a low heat. Spray with Fry Light and fry the burgers for about 5-10 minutes until they're golden brown on both sides. Serve immediately.

Thanks for the sausage info - typically I chose the ones with the highest syns and had 3 so there goes 6syns without even realising! I think I ought to write down what I eat before I eat it from now on.

no worries - I got caught in that trap with mullerlights layers (1.5 SYNS!!!) + the dessert ones (varies from 0.5 SYN - 1 SYN) and ended up eating untold amounts of extra syns, booooo!!

however I have now pretty much compiled a list of syn vales of pretty much everything I am likely to eat which took me agggges on the syns online thing but is pretty helpful. I have an alcohol one too that covers everything lol. my friends think I'm a right loser - but I've lost 18lbs in 8 weeks so they can sod off

my current saviours are veg sushi packs + the aforementioned peters spicey sauce... oh and sugar free red bull which is free

Hi - I have two pack of extra lean minced beef and leeks - can anyone come up with an inspring recipe please?

I've been experimenting with making some christmas nibbles today! Last week in my group they were complaining that peanuts were so high in syns (16 peanuts= 9 syns!)

Well I've just created a spicy snack using chickpeas which is free for a whole bowl (if you use the tsp of olive oil as a healthy extra b, or if you use frylight- 2 syns a bowl otherwise)

I just blotted some chickpeas on some kitchen paper, added a tsp olive oil (2 syns), rolled the chickpeas around in it then added some salt. Then I seperated the chickpeas into four and left one as just salt and pepper, sprinkled lots of paprika on one, some mild curry powder on another and mild chilli powder on another, and roasted them for about ten minutes.

They've worked really well! All the flavours were nice but I've mixed them all together now and the mix of spices is really good.

They're a bit like dry roasted peanuts with a spicy coating, some are crunchy and some are a bit chewy but they would totally work if you were craving nuts/crisps/bombay mix at christmas.

Think I need to join you all in this thread if that's ok. I was at Slimming World briefly and lost nearly half a stone in three weeks. Stopped going and have put it all back on again. Have dug out my books and will start afresh. Can't get to a class until Tuesday but will try to get started into the SW way of thinking before then. I have about a stone to lose in total.

James, that sounds good , Were they tinned chickpeas?So you didn't fry them? you just used the oil to help the coating stick- is that right? I'm starting to fancy something salty and DH will be tucking into his cheese-footballs over Crimble.
Welcome Lallylou, you'll soon get back into the swing of it, I'm sure.