DOING SW FROM HOME???
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Haha, I am the queen of quick prepared meals for when you've just come in from a long day!! Just ask if you would like any more suggestions
Thanks so much please fire away the more ideas the better
charl-young I had but I had totally forgot about it until you mentioned it. I will take another look now. Thank you.
charl_young
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No worries! If you like fish there's a lush tilapia and mango salsa recipe, the fish is always cheap and takes like 10mins as does the salsa, really nice with brown rice, bf made it on Friday for us x
charl_young
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Hey!! Today has been soooo much better, so think I'm in ketosis now, so hopefully should just get better and better now. Been pretty much 100% and it's the end of the 3rd day. Had an extra pack last 2 nights and a little more protein but a lot of people say that's fine until your body switches. Been completely 100% today, no extras at all and I woke up at half 4 so a lot more of the day to get through! Think I've done 3 days now so as I've done it now I know I can so I'll be ok for the next 3 weeks. It's pretty hard cooking the rest of the family food tho and sitting with them while theyre all eating stuff I love! Not really craving anything just hungry. Should be fine by tomorrow tho, so they say!
How are you gettin on? Any better? Xx
How are you gettin on? Any better? Xx
Jenny809
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Am ok thanks. Had a day of feeling like I can't be bothered and really craving all things naughty. I seem to do this every so often. I had a ww belgian chocolate slice at 4.5 syns so that helped! I know tomorrow will be a sts or gain which means only a 6.5lb loss in a month. Not quite sure what to do really!
Are your drinks/food etc expensive?
Jx
Are your drinks/food etc expensive?
Jx
charl_young
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Jenny809 said:Am ok thanks. Had a day of feeling like I can't be bothered and really craving all things naughty. I seem to do this every so often. I had a ww belgian chocolate slice at 4.5 syns so that helped! I know tomorrow will be a sts or gain which means only a 6.5lb loss in a month. Not quite sure what to do really!
Are your drinks/food etc expensive?
Jx
Ah love! I was the same took me 3 months to lose my first half a stone! Then started cal counting too and dropped nearly a stone in 5 weeks which for me being such a slow loser felt brilliant. I stopped really even doing SW at weekends and just cal counted. Stopped eating fruit too, or bananas anyway, still ate melon and strawberries though. Think the 30 day shred really helped me too, made me start burning energy better, as I only did low impact (swimming, walking) until then. Can't wait to get back into the shred next week, you aren't supposed to exercise this first 3 weeks of this diet but just going to start next week anyway.
Hmmm it's not really that expensive I don't think. I got a taster pack for this week which was £25 I think, but ive also been buying asdaprice sliced chicken breast to have protein as you can have 3 packs a day plus 100g protein and 200g veg. But you can't eat much so a pack lasts 3 days. I think it's been cheaper than my usual shops. Going to have a day tomorrow where I have all packs though and no meal as you can pick and choose really, whether to have 3 and a meal or 4. Ooo my stomach is going crazy now! This is the time I usually give in and have an extra pack! I won't do it!!! Grr! Hah.
If you feel like having a load of treats sometimes its good to just give in. The recent losses I had I ate whatever I wanted on Saturdays with bf, I'm not saying it would work for everyone, but definitely worked for me. I didn't have pizza or maccy d's or anything ridiculously bad, as that would defo mean a gain, but some Saturday's I've had like 2500 cals and still lost but reigned it back to about 1400-1500 the rest of the week.
Do you have a food diary? Maybe your having too many carbs? I definitely was the first 3 months xx
charl_young
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Crazyfool said:
I live near a massive tesco with a fish counter and they have it. Or if you have a fishmongers anywhere near in a market maybe they always do too. I hadn't seen it until recently either. Its really nice, quite meaty fish so filling. And yep totally filleted x
Jenny809
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I've pretty much done all red days so no carbs at all. Think I've done 2 or 3 green days but felt really bloated after so stuck to red as I do love my meat!
I may have a go at calorie counting. I do eat quite a bit of fruit, banana every day so maybe I should stop that.
Haven't done ee cos of the carbs. But maybe I should and work on portion control!
Thanks hun, you're always really helpful!
I may have a go at calorie counting. I do eat quite a bit of fruit, banana every day so maybe I should stop that.
Haven't done ee cos of the carbs. But maybe I should and work on portion control!
Thanks hun, you're always really helpful!
charl_young
Gold Member
Hmm I'd definitely cut back on the fruit, are you using up your syns everyday? You really should. I can't see the stats on my phone, how much have you lost/want to lose?
Ah I love helping people, I'm a total mum! Red days are supposedly one of the best for losses so maybe it's portions, you might be like me where my diet wasn't bad, it's portion control that's my issue. I'm always hungry and trying to reign it in. And I pick at stuff constantly, do you eat a big breakie? I think that's really good for your metabolism too. I started having a bigger breakie then like 4 small meals a day rather than breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks as if keeps your metabolism burning fast, And varying cals over days, some 1600 some 1400 weekends sometimes loads.
Its really hard doing a diet as your supposed to and it not working when loads of people get consistent losses and eat loads more, but it's just hard learning what works for you so sometimes its good changing things up for a few weeks and seeing what happens.
We'll all get there, I have faith in us all xx
Ah I love helping people, I'm a total mum! Red days are supposedly one of the best for losses so maybe it's portions, you might be like me where my diet wasn't bad, it's portion control that's my issue. I'm always hungry and trying to reign it in. And I pick at stuff constantly, do you eat a big breakie? I think that's really good for your metabolism too. I started having a bigger breakie then like 4 small meals a day rather than breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks as if keeps your metabolism burning fast, And varying cals over days, some 1600 some 1400 weekends sometimes loads.
Its really hard doing a diet as your supposed to and it not working when loads of people get consistent losses and eat loads more, but it's just hard learning what works for you so sometimes its good changing things up for a few weeks and seeing what happens.
We'll all get there, I have faith in us all
xx
Laura94B
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Oh my gosh, brain is too fried from the heat and too little food for the past 3 days! So forgive me if there's anything too important in the last few posts as I cannot get my brain to focus to read
Ok, so quick, just come home meals!! This Jambalaya isn't the speediest of meals, but it's just made of stuff people usually have in the fridge/cupboard and whilst it's doing it's simmering you can go off and shower/spend time with hubby or kids/have a cuppa and watch TV I like it because it's really not that much effort, but is really comforting and is welll worth the 30 mins! http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-recipes/284520-no-syn-jambalaya.html
Something else I've started doing as well lately is that when I have some spare time (like always, nowadays) I make huge batches of SW chips and freeze them after they've been parboiled. Lay them out on trays once they've cooled down, put them in the freezer and once they've frozen transfer to ziplock bags/tupperware and keep in the freezer for when you need them. Just like being able to grab normal frozen chips, but without the worry of syns
Frozen is the way to go for convenience really - and good value for money. I buy most veg like broccoli, peas, sprouts, swede, leeks etc frozen as they're actually fresher than buying 'fresh' (sounds weird, but they are flash frozen within hours of picking, so better than the veg that sits around in transport, on shelves for days etc). So for days when you need to add some superfree or just bulk out meals, it's so much easier to chuck some frozen veg in a pan for a few mins that stand there chopping for ages.
Also, easiest meal ever is just a spag bol - chop up some onion, a garlic clove, some mushrooms and get the spaghetti boiling. Soften onions in a pan, add garlic, then mushrooms, stir in some tom puree and a tin of chopped toms, bring to boil and then simmer until it's reduced a bit, and sort out the spaghetti while it's simmering.
Stir frys are also really quick and easy. I usually use the frozen chicken cubes as they're already cooked and just need heating in a wok for 10 mins till they're hot all the way through, or just use ready cooked prawns.To save time and effort as well, I just buy the jars of beansprouts from Aldis, grate some carrot, courgette (use a grater setting on food processor if you have one to make it even easier) and slice some spring onions and garlic and chuck that all in a wok for a few mins, stir in some sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns for tbsp) and some soy sauce for a reeeeally nice saucey stir fry and serve with some rice/noodles.
Sorry if none of this makes sense or is not what you were looking for haha - as I said - brain is fried!! But, yeah, kind of went off on one there, hope there's something useful in it though x
Ok, so quick, just come home meals!! This Jambalaya isn't the speediest of meals, but it's just made of stuff people usually have in the fridge/cupboard and whilst it's doing it's simmering you can go off and shower/spend time with hubby or kids/have a cuppa and watch TV
I like it because it's really not that much effort, but is really comforting and is welll worth the 30 mins! http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-recipes/284520-no-syn-jambalaya.htmlSomething else I've started doing as well lately is that when I have some spare time (like always, nowadays) I make huge batches of SW chips and freeze them after they've been parboiled. Lay them out on trays once they've cooled down, put them in the freezer and once they've frozen transfer to ziplock bags/tupperware and keep in the freezer for when you need them. Just like being able to grab normal frozen chips, but without the worry of syns
Frozen is the way to go for convenience really - and good value for money. I buy most veg like broccoli, peas, sprouts, swede, leeks etc frozen as they're actually fresher than buying 'fresh' (sounds weird, but they are flash frozen within hours of picking, so better than the veg that sits around in transport, on shelves for days etc). So for days when you need to add some superfree or just bulk out meals, it's so much easier to chuck some frozen veg in a pan for a few mins that stand there chopping for ages.
Also, easiest meal ever is just a spag bol - chop up some onion, a garlic clove, some mushrooms and get the spaghetti boiling. Soften onions in a pan, add garlic, then mushrooms, stir in some tom puree and a tin of chopped toms, bring to boil and then simmer until it's reduced a bit, and sort out the spaghetti while it's simmering.
Stir frys are also really quick and easy. I usually use the frozen chicken cubes as they're already cooked and just need heating in a wok for 10 mins till they're hot all the way through, or just use ready cooked prawns.To save time and effort as well, I just buy the jars of beansprouts from Aldis, grate some carrot, courgette (use a grater setting on food processor if you have one to make it even easier) and slice some spring onions and garlic and chuck that all in a wok for a few mins, stir in some sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns for tbsp) and some soy sauce for a reeeeally nice saucey stir fry and serve with some rice/noodles.
Sorry if none of this makes sense or is not what you were looking for haha - as I said - brain is fried!! But, yeah, kind of went off on one there, hope there's something useful in it though
x
charl_young
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How's things Laura?? You ok after (I'm not sure what it was you were having.. I've never heard of it before) your hospital stuff?? How's the fam getting on? Hope everything's good. Xx
Laura94B
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I'm good thanks, Charl it's called a capsule endoscopy which is basically where you swallow a camera the size of a large pill, and wear a recording pack (looks like a 'fanny pack' as american's call them) and the capsule takes photos the whole way through your digestive system. Apparently it's quite popular now, but when I first had it I was the 8th to ever have it, I think ;D It's apparently better at finding Crohn's Disease than normal endoscopys and since my mum, older brother, nan and great nan all have/had it, they're almost convinced I have it, just need proof haha. Currently they're saying I have a rare disorder called eosyniphillic collitis, which is such a frustrating diagnosis as there's barely anything anyone knows about it, so there's not much they can do. It went well today though, just a bit painful when it finally hit my stomach as I hadn't ate in over 36 hours... Done now though Apparently because of all the holidays and everything, I won't get the results until Sept though :O
Things with the family are good, everyone's back to acting like normal, still a bit bitter about it all though haha... Nevermind! Grandad's in hospital now too! What is my family like... He's fine though, and should be out soon xx
it's called a capsule endoscopy which is basically where you swallow a camera the size of a large pill, and wear a recording pack (looks like a 'fanny pack' as american's call them) and the capsule takes photos the whole way through your digestive system. Apparently it's quite popular now, but when I first had it I was the 8th to ever have it, I think ;D It's apparently better at finding Crohn's Disease than normal endoscopys and since my mum, older brother, nan and great nan all have/had it, they're almost convinced I have it, just need proof haha. Currently they're saying I have a rare disorder called eosyniphillic collitis, which is such a frustrating diagnosis as there's barely anything anyone knows about it, so there's not much they can do. It went well today though, just a bit painful when it finally hit my stomach as I hadn't ate in over 36 hours... Done now though Apparently because of all the holidays and everything, I won't get the results until Sept though :O Things with the family are good, everyone's back to acting like normal, still a bit bitter about it all though haha... Nevermind! Grandad's in hospital now too! What is my family like... He's fine though, and should be out soon
xx
xTillyx
Silver Member
Hey Girls!!
Hope everyones ok!! So my friend decided she wanted to start Slimming World and wanted me to motivate her so encouraged me to join class until we get into the swing of things! So I joined last night! So if anyone needs to know how many syns in things etc just let me know as soon I should have my head fully round everything and have the online facilities now!
Fingers crossed this is what I need to finally lose my 1/2 stone and more! Even tho I'll be starting from scratch basically joining the class but I'll know I've still lost that 6.5lbs on my own that's to u guys!
Good Luck all x
Hope everyones ok!! So my friend decided she wanted to start Slimming World and wanted me to motivate her so encouraged me to join class until we get into the swing of things! So I joined last night! So if anyone needs to know how many syns in things etc just let me know as soon I should have my head fully round everything and have the online facilities now!
Fingers crossed this is what I need to finally lose my 1/2 stone and more! Even tho I'll be starting from scratch basically joining the class but I'll know I've still lost that 6.5lbs on my own that's to u guys!
Good Luck all x
Jenny809
Gold Member
Charl, thanks for your advice. I was 15 stone in February, am now 13st4lb, was 13st 11lb when started sw. I don't really have a target other than being in the normal bmi range, just taking it a stone at a time. I'd love to be nearer 10/11stone but am realistic too! I do eat breakfast, normally cereal and fruit. I get hungry mid afternoon, sometimes eat tea at 4.30/5 with the boys esp if doing exercise that night but if I wait for hubs then I never know what to snack on! Gonna do smaller portions and see if that helps! Wi was sts this morning. One hand I'm happy cos weekend off plan, still frustrated tho.
Laura, glad to hear your family is getting there. That's pants that you have to wait so long for results. Crohns isn't good! Altho my friend had it years ago, had surgery and was cured!
Tilly, good on you for joining, might be what you need. I have the books but are a few years old. I don't suppose you could check the weight of cereal allowance as hex b. Been having 42g all bran but someone posted that it's only 34g now?? Cheers hun!
Out for a meal at lunch, hopefully there will be something for me to eat!
Laura, glad to hear your family is getting there. That's pants that you have to wait so long for results. Crohns isn't good! Altho my friend had it years ago, had surgery and was cured!
Tilly, good on you for joining, might be what you need. I have the books but are a few years old. I don't suppose you could check the weight of cereal allowance as hex b. Been having 42g all bran but someone posted that it's only 34g now?? Cheers hun!
Out for a meal at lunch, hopefully there will be something for me to eat!
ultrabluedress
Silver Member
Morning ladies
New day new start I'm overhauling my diet I think I've been getting complacement plus I've been drinking wine and that is so not good for my weight loss.... well the choices in the pub last night were not impressive, everything had sauces on it no plain chicken or steak choices, which was a pain for my friend as she can't eat food that is spicy or comes with heavy sauces etc but what we had was very nice just not SW friendly.....
BBQ again I think today, nice SW friendly foods so I'll be having an EE day
New day new start I'm overhauling my diet I think I've been getting complacement plus I've been drinking wine and that is so not good for my weight loss.... well the choices in the pub last night were not impressive, everything had sauces on it no plain chicken or steak choices, which was a pain for my friend as she can't eat food that is spicy or comes with heavy sauces etc but what we had was very nice just not SW friendly.....
BBQ again I think today, nice SW friendly foods so I'll be having an EE day
ultrabluedress
Silver Member
Yeah, I don't see why you couldn't make chicken burgers like that
Hah I'd probably do that
talking of cous cous is the plain variety free on EE? If I get chance I might make it for later?
