Slimming World- re-group and re-motivate! LET'S GET SKINNY TINY BUMS!!!!

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Oh lecture over

Toadette - there's a curry booklet in this months magazine if you are venturing to the shops today.

Hey all!

Made the meatballs last night. Not bad but I cooked them in the oven and they took longer and I think I put in a little too much garlic.....?

I have a wii-fit which really is good but don't go on it nearly enough. My little mii went all chubby when I first weighed on it! It's getting thinner now though !

All this talk of Christmas has raised my stress levels just ever so slightly!!

Thanks, pinkjenny, is it the aug/sept issue or is there a new one out?

Will have to dust off our wii fit and get back into it again, my mii must be feeling very neglected!

It's the brand new issue, sorry, it's at home, not sure which month it is, but I only bought it yesterday.

toadette i can give u a recipe from the curry book if u like what sort of thing

I'll check out magazine shelves if I get to shops today, pinkjenny, thanks again

babyjjbaby, that would be great. Anything indian or thai style curry that's not too bad on a green day with chicken as HE. Thanks.

right ok i'll just eat me porridge then have a look thro book

chicken tikka masala free on orignal but i think to make it free on green u just need to measure chicken

serves 4 30 mins
1 lb 8oz chicken breasts
4tbsp tikka powder
200g pot very low fat natural yogourt
salt and frshly ground black pepper
1 onion
4 garlic cloves
1 red chilli
a handful of fresh coriander
frylight
1tsp ground ginger
1 level tbsp tomatoe purree
1 tsp artifical sweetner
5 tbsp very low fat natural fromage frais

1= chop chicken into bite size chunks.mix half the tikka powder with the yogourt. season well pour over chicken and set aside

2= grate the onion, crush the garlic, deseed and chop the chilli, and chop the coriander . spray the pan with frylight and fry the onion for 5-6mins, add the garlic, chilli ginger, and remaining tikka powder and fry for 2-3 mins.stir in the tomatoe puree, sweetner and 250ml water and bring to the boil. reduce the heat and simmer for 12-15mins,stirring often.

3= meanwhile place the chicken ona grill rack,spray with frylight and cook for 15mins,turning occasionly,until cooked. add the sauce divide between 4 bowls and sprinkle over the coriander . serve with a raita made with chopped cucumber onion mint leaves and very low fat yogourt

oops when u reduce the heat u put the fromage frais in it then simmer

classic chicken curry
free on red day serves 4 1hour 10 mins

1 onion
1in piece fresh root ginger
2 garlic cloves
a small handful of coriander
2 green chillis
2lb 4oz skinless and boneless chicken thighs
salt and freshly ground black pepper
fry light
1tsp each of ground cumin and coriander
1\2 tsp crushed cardamom seeds
1\4 tsp ground cloves
1tsp each of groung cinnamon and paprika
1tsp mild or medim curry powder
1\4 tsp turmeric
400g can chopped tomatoes
1\2 pint stock made with chicken bovril

1= prepare ingredients,finly chop the onion,grate the ginger,crush the garlic,chop the coriander dessed and slice chillis, chop the chicken into chunks,place on a plate season well and set aside

2= fry the onion in frylight for 5-6 mins.stir in the ginger,garlic,cumin,ground coriander,cardomom,cloves,cinnamon,paprika,,curry powder and turmeric and cook for 1-2 mins

3= add the chicken and cook for 2-3 mins till sealed.then add the tomatoes and stockbring to the boil cover and reduce heat and simmer for 40 -45 mins stirring occaisonly until chicken is cooked

4= remove from heat adjust the seasoning to taste and serve garnished with freshly chopped coriander and the sliced green chillis

Cheers for posting recipe, babyjjbaby

It's so grey, wet and cold here today (think summer is over before it began!) that I'm craving comfort-y type foods, curries, stews and casseroles. Yum.....

I've found it not too bad so far today, have done a GREEN day. Fruit and yoghurt for breakfast, baked beans on 1 slice of wholemeal toast (HEb) and cheese (HEa) for lunch. One syn for the butter on the toast, and one HEb to use for the chicken in tonight's dinner. If I stick to fruit for snacks and make that syn-free with loads of rice then I'll have managed on 1 syn, yayyyy!!!!

toadette...good luck on your 10K run....am exhausted just thinking about it, lol!

The new Issue of the magazine is the October issue and yes it is brandnew Some fab recipes in it

i am gonna do pasta tinned toamtoes garlic mushrooms onions and mixed herbs for lunch and blens some for baby and freeze it i just want to eat loads of food today

not a bad thing Baby...our consultant always says..those that eat the most loose the most

Might brave the rain and go to shops before school run, I love it when new SW mag is out. The real-life weight loss stories are fantastic motivators.

Like your consultant's saying, 3anm! That's what I love about the SW plan, you can eat and eat while you slim

yes

Toadette you asked about Curry recipes...there are some lovely Curryrecipes in the 100 saucy secret cookbook....and you can adapt them depending if you do green or red...

Out of all the sw cookbooks that I have got that one is my favourite....and it is only £2.95 ( I think...)

Right, RIGHT MONDAY, I will start SW properly to the plan etc on MONDAY. This week is all messed up - I hasn't planned ahead so have synned up to my eyeballs, and got a posh meal/drinks with work tonight and some other stuff planned which makes this weekend not the best to be back on track.

I still struggle over weekends. I need to ditch my chocolate cravings and get back to low syn alcohol - I will take a trip to the supermarket this weekend and stock up on my fave free foods, and that will include a tup of options hot choc, so hopefully I can battle the choc cravings with a mug of that, not a 100g bar of dairymilk

Does anybody else do anything at home to remind them to stick to the diet? I might make a food diary type wall planner to remind me that snacking on cheese and chocolate is not the best of ideas

hm...the only thing I do to keep me oon track is writing everything I eat down...because it does help avoiding falling into food traps...in my experience....because, either it will stop me eating somehtiing in the first place or it makes me realise the syn value of what ever little thing I would otehrwise just pop into my mouth and forget about

Will have a look for that book at class next week, 3anm.

SWlurker, enjoy your meal out and make sure you're back on Monday to start back on good 'ol SW!! I need another re-starter to keep me motivated.

toadette - I love it when the new mags come out too - I have actually subscribed to it. How totally sad am I

swlurker teh only thing i find is writing everything down last week and put on 1.5lbs

in the lates magazine one bloke lost 24st in 2 years

oh dear oh dear having a bad day
looking after Dc for friend and had another friend to visit with her DC so she brought doughnuts...ok me thinks I will have half of one and nothing else syn wise..only I ate a full one then my other friend brought cookies for the DC as a thank you for looking after her dds only they are white chocolate and lovely so have also eaten one of them now feel like the day is gone and I cant cook as DDs are both asleep on me..so have phoned DH to ask him to rbing something in for tea..he said the only thing near by is KFC..oops
so am going to have a complete day off and be stricter than anything from tomorrow!!!

thast what flexible syns are for lol

Was just about to post same thing, babyjjbaby

i am gonna ask consultant how to do mix2max coz i don't understand it lol