Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Hi its nice to hear from you. You've done it once, you CAN do it again 
good luck hun x
good luck hun x
Rachel's Food Diary! I WILL be a slim bride!
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Rachel7896
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Hi Toni, thanks, just trying to find my willpower again!
You have done AMAZING! Well done! Bet you're so chuffed, definitely an inspiration to keep me going xx
You have done AMAZING! Well done! Bet you're so chuffed, definitely an inspiration to keep me going
xx
Rachel7896
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Food Diary for Monday 5th November
Breakfast - None today - i left the house in such a rush for work i didn't have time to grab anything. I will be better prepared tomorrow
Lunch - Ham sandwich (brown bread HEb) with 1tsp lurpack lightest butter (1 syn) and tomato ketchup (1 syn) (dont judge me for having ketchup in my sandwich, ha!)
Snack - Banana
Tea - Jacket potato, with chilli made with Extra Lean mince, baked beans, kidney beans, chopped tomatoes and spices. 45g light cheese (HEa) and 3tsp reduced fat sour cream and chive dip (2.5 syns)
Because this is my first day back on SW i haven't been as prepared as i should have been, so aren't eating as much free foods as i usually would. I'm having a trip to Tesco tonight to stock up on fruit and veg, and some ingredients to make soups for my lunch
Breakfast - None today - i left the house in such a rush for work i didn't have time to grab anything. I will be better prepared tomorrow
Lunch - Ham sandwich (brown bread HEb) with 1tsp lurpack lightest butter (1 syn) and tomato ketchup (1 syn) (dont judge me for having ketchup in my sandwich, ha!)
Snack - Banana
Tea - Jacket potato, with chilli made with Extra Lean mince, baked beans, kidney beans, chopped tomatoes and spices. 45g light cheese (HEa) and 3tsp reduced fat sour cream and chive dip (2.5 syns)
Because this is my first day back on SW i haven't been as prepared as i should have been, so aren't eating as much free foods as i usually would. I'm having a trip to Tesco tonight to stock up on fruit and veg, and some ingredients to make soups for my lunch
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Sounds good. And thanks hun yeah chuffed, been struggling last couple of months since my hols but hoping to be at target by Xmas or very nearly!
Rachel7896
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Ok so yesterday ended up being a sort of disaster in terms of SW. I kinda thought it might turn out that way with me being very unprepared food-wise and it being my first day back on the plan.
Breakfast - Nothing
Lunch - Ham Sandwich on Brown Bread (HEb) with lurpack lightest (1 syn) and ketchup (1 syn)
Snack - Banana and quavers (5 syns)
I then went home and made Broccolli and Blue Cheese soup for my lunches this week. It works out that because of the amount of cheese and milk i used, i can either syn it at 6 syns or use it as my HEa for the day. I had a small bowl of this before i went to Zumba, so because i'd used my HE's already i had to syn it. I didnt even think about this at the time! It probably wasnt a full portion but i will count 6 syns anyway.
Tea - Syn free chilli, jacket potato, light cheese (HEa) and Reduced Fat sour cream and chive dip (amount i had works out at 5 syns, oops)
I only drank water all day, and did an hour of Zumba, so hoping it wont have too much of an effect.
Syns for Monday - 18
Food Plan for Tuesday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Broccoli and Stilton soup (HEa)
Snack - Carrots
Tea - Chicken thighs (skin and fat removed) with vegetable rice. I cant remember the make of the rice i have in, but most of them seem to be syn free or very low syns so i think i will be okay. I will probably use some Nandos sauce with this, so 0.5 syns for that. Hoping that having an almost syn free day plus the hour of zumba last night will counteract the high syn day yesterday. We'll see..
Breakfast - Nothing
Lunch - Ham Sandwich on Brown Bread (HEb) with lurpack lightest (1 syn) and ketchup (1 syn)
Snack - Banana and quavers (5 syns)
I then went home and made Broccolli and Blue Cheese soup for my lunches this week. It works out that because of the amount of cheese and milk i used, i can either syn it at 6 syns or use it as my HEa for the day. I had a small bowl of this before i went to Zumba, so because i'd used my HE's already i had to syn it. I didnt even think about this at the time! It probably wasnt a full portion but i will count 6 syns anyway.
Tea - Syn free chilli, jacket potato, light cheese (HEa) and Reduced Fat sour cream and chive dip (amount i had works out at 5 syns, oops)
I only drank water all day, and did an hour of Zumba, so hoping it wont have too much of an effect.
Syns for Monday - 18
Food Plan for Tuesday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Broccoli and Stilton soup (HEa)
Snack - Carrots
Tea - Chicken thighs (skin and fat removed) with vegetable rice. I cant remember the make of the rice i have in, but most of them seem to be syn free or very low syns so i think i will be okay. I will probably use some Nandos sauce with this, so 0.5 syns for that. Hoping that having an almost syn free day plus the hour of zumba last night will counteract the high syn day yesterday. We'll see..
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
18 syns isn't a disaster hun. Don't think of it like that. It could have been a lot worse!
Rachel7896
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Food Diary for Wednesday:
Breakfast - Banana Milkshake - a banana wasn't really filling me up, so i mixed it with 250ml ss milk (HEa), a few ice cubes and a tbsp sweetener in my blender and made a milkshake! It was gorgeous and really filling (and lasted longer!)
Lunch - Jacket potato with syn free Chilli
Tea - Syn free chicken and veg curry (chicken, onion, cauliflower, peas, passata, chopped tomatoes, chilli's, tikka curry powder, paprika, salt and pepper, and all mixed with a few tbsp's FF Natural Yoghurt before serving, its so nice!) with rice and homemade chapati's which work out at 3 syns each, so i will have a couple of those as my syns for the day.
I feel like i'm getting back into SW now, and remembering the nice food i used to cook, and low syn treats if i felt like i needed one
Breakfast - Banana Milkshake - a banana wasn't really filling me up, so i mixed it with 250ml ss milk (HEa), a few ice cubes and a tbsp sweetener in my blender and made a milkshake! It was gorgeous and really filling (and lasted longer!)
Lunch - Jacket potato with syn free Chilli
Tea - Syn free chicken and veg curry (chicken, onion, cauliflower, peas, passata, chopped tomatoes, chilli's, tikka curry powder, paprika, salt and pepper, and all mixed with a few tbsp's FF Natural Yoghurt before serving, its so nice!) with rice and homemade chapati's which work out at 3 syns each, so i will have a couple of those as my syns for the day.
I feel like i'm getting back into SW now, and remembering the nice food i used to cook, and low syn treats if i felt like i needed one
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Sounds good but if you're following SW to the letter you need to syn your milkshake as fruit is synned when blended. I know loads of people ignore this but just thought is mention in case you weren't aware
Rachel7896
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Oooh, is this a new thing? I used to always make milkshakes when i was on the plan before and it didnt affect my losses, or at least i dont think it did! Things like this confuse me about SW, surely as long as i'm drinking the whole thing it wont make any difference cos i have still had a banana? Or is it just incase you blend a load of fruit together to make smoothies and end up having way more than you would have eaten on its on? Anyway, maybe i wont have them as much as i did last time..ha!
Rachel7896
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Because i'm doing SW from home, i struggle with finding the up-to-date syn value of things. Can anyone tell me if this is correct
http://ourworld.slimmingworld.com/downloads/Zoom-June2011/extra-lean-mince-Syns.pdf
I have some lamb mince at home (the Asda less than 20% fat one) which says here its 3 syns per 100g, so 15 syns for the full pack. I have 2 packs to use and i don't think 7.5 syns is too bad for half a packet as my syns for the day, but want to be sure before i make myself some lamb kofta's or meatballs!
http://ourworld.slimmingworld.com/downloads/Zoom-June2011/extra-lean-mince-Syns.pdf
I have some lamb mince at home (the Asda less than 20% fat one) which says here its 3 syns per 100g, so 15 syns for the full pack. I have 2 packs to use and i don't think 7.5 syns is too bad for half a packet as my syns for the day, but want to be sure before i make myself some lamb kofta's or meatballs!
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Rachel7896 said:
No its always been like that I think. Well, as far as I know never having been to group like. It's to do with hoe much you eat but also how much it fills you and how your body digests/uses it I think. I know lots of people have said they ignore this and it doesn't really affect their losses but I think its all about being sensible really. One milkshake using just one banana occasionally isn't going to do much damage I don't think.
Rachel7896
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Lets hope not, i'll make sure thats my only milkshake this week!
Rachel7896
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Food Diary for Thursday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Broccoli and Stilton Soup (HEa)
Tea - Homemade lamb burgers (8.5 syns for lamb and mint sauce) with a brown bread bun (Heb) and SW wedges. I will have some nandos sauce (1 syn) and light mayo (2 syns) so that makes it 11.5 syns for the day
I think i'm going to work my syns out weekly rather than daily, i have seen a lot of people on here do it and i think it will be easier/more flexible. I remember last time always having my biggest loses if i used all (or close to all) of my 15 syns a day. So thats 105 syns a week i will allow myself. So far this week i've had 42.5/105 syns
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Broccoli and Stilton Soup (HEa)
Tea - Homemade lamb burgers (8.5 syns for lamb and mint sauce) with a brown bread bun (Heb) and SW wedges. I will have some nandos sauce (1 syn) and light mayo (2 syns) so that makes it 11.5 syns for the day
I think i'm going to work my syns out weekly rather than daily, i have seen a lot of people on here do it and i think it will be easier/more flexible. I remember last time always having my biggest loses if i used all (or close to all) of my 15 syns a day. So thats 105 syns a week i will allow myself. So far this week i've had 42.5/105 syns
Rachel7896
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So i've since found out the syns for lamb mince were wrong and its actually 22.5 syns for the full 500g according to SW's website. Good job i only had 1/4 of the pack, which = 6 syns. So yesterday was only 9 syns which means i'm at 40/105 syns for the week.
Food Diary for Friday
Breakfast - None, i'm terrible with finding a SW breakfast when i'm at work early. I know i should have something but there's nothing i like/want! So i had a glass of milk for HEa
Lunch - Whomeal pitta (HEb) with 2 lamb meatballs (included in my syn allowance yest), 2 syn free falafel balls, lettuce, light choices mayo (2 syns)
Tea - Lamb meatballs in a syn free tomato sauce with spaghetti. This will work out at 11 syns (2 packs of mince between 4 of us) but i doubt i will eat that much. Still within my syns for the day though
53/105 syns for the week
Food Diary for Friday
Breakfast - None, i'm terrible with finding a SW breakfast when i'm at work early. I know i should have something but there's nothing i like/want! So i had a glass of milk for HEa
Lunch - Whomeal pitta (HEb) with 2 lamb meatballs (included in my syn allowance yest), 2 syn free falafel balls, lettuce, light choices mayo (2 syns)
Tea - Lamb meatballs in a syn free tomato sauce with spaghetti. This will work out at 11 syns (2 packs of mince between 4 of us) but i doubt i will eat that much. Still within my syns for the day though
53/105 syns for the week
Rachel7896
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Yesterday's food diary went exactly as planned, even managed to resist have cheese on my spaghetti and meatballs! I also went to a Kettlebells class which was only supposed to last 30 mins but we ended up being there for 50 and it was the hardest exercise i have ever done, ever. It was ridiculous, and i am in so much pain this morning! Thing i will be sticking to Zumba from now on...
Food Diary for Saturday
Breakfast - Bacon Sandwich (fat cut off) with egg and mushrooms on brown bread (HEb) and ketchup (1 syn)
Lunch - Chicken and Mushroom pasta n sauce with extra mushrooms.
Snack - Apple
Tea - I have two friends coming over tonight and we're getting a chinese. I'm going to get chicken in black bean sauce and boiled rice, and hope that it wont affect my loss too much. Apparently 360g is 5 syns, and the portion you get from the chinese is double that, but i will still be within my 15 syns for the day even if i eat it all. So i will just count it as all my 15 syns for today.
68/105 syns for the week
Food Diary for Saturday
Breakfast - Bacon Sandwich (fat cut off) with egg and mushrooms on brown bread (HEb) and ketchup (1 syn)
Lunch - Chicken and Mushroom pasta n sauce with extra mushrooms.
Snack - Apple
Tea - I have two friends coming over tonight and we're getting a chinese. I'm going to get chicken in black bean sauce and boiled rice, and hope that it wont affect my loss too much. Apparently 360g is 5 syns, and the portion you get from the chinese is double that, but i will still be within my 15 syns for the day even if i eat it all. So i will just count it as all my 15 syns for today.
68/105 syns for the week
Rachel7896
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Stuck to my food plan completely yesterday, apart from from 6 prawn crackers! Ooops! So thats an extra 4.5 syns.
Food Plan for Sunday
Breakfast - None as had a lie in and went straight out Christmas shopping!
Lunch - Potato skins, some with cheese and beans (HEa) and some with tuna, sweetcorn and spring onion, with a big salad of lettuce, cucumber, spring onion and sweetcorn. So that was about 5 syns for mayo
Tea - Syn free chilli with boiled rice, with side salad and 1 tsp low fat sour cream which i will count 2.5 syns for as there's 50kcal in 1/6 of a tub, but there's definitely more than 6 tsp in a tub! I'll be on the safe side though.
So, syns for the week totals at 80/105 syns for the week. Plus 1 hour of Zumba and 50 mins of a kettlebells class. This is the first week in a long long time i haven't drank and have exercised so i'm hoping it shows when i weigh myself tomorrow, but we'll see...
Food Plan for Monday
Breakfast - Melon
Lunch - Wholemeal pitta with ham salad and light mayo (4 syns) with extra salad on the side
Snack - Grapes
Before i go to Zumba i will have a banana and then come home for tea which will be the same as tonight, chilli with rice. Sour cream (2.5 syns) and light cheese (HEa)
Syns for the week 2.5/105
I'm going to Sheffield for my sister's graduation on Wednesday, so i'm going to take a load of fruit to snack on in the morning and then we are going out for lunch. I am trying to save most of my syns for the week to have something nice for lunch and drink on the night and attempt to stick to Vodka and Diet coke. It's a special occasion though which has been planned for a long time so i'm not going to worry too much
Food Plan for Sunday
Breakfast - None as had a lie in and went straight out Christmas shopping!
Lunch - Potato skins, some with cheese and beans (HEa) and some with tuna, sweetcorn and spring onion, with a big salad of lettuce, cucumber, spring onion and sweetcorn. So that was about 5 syns for mayo
Tea - Syn free chilli with boiled rice, with side salad and 1 tsp low fat sour cream which i will count 2.5 syns for as there's 50kcal in 1/6 of a tub, but there's definitely more than 6 tsp in a tub! I'll be on the safe side though.
So, syns for the week totals at 80/105 syns for the week. Plus 1 hour of Zumba and 50 mins of a kettlebells class. This is the first week in a long long time i haven't drank and have exercised so i'm hoping it shows when i weigh myself tomorrow, but we'll see...
Food Plan for Monday
Breakfast - Melon
Lunch - Wholemeal pitta with ham salad and light mayo (4 syns) with extra salad on the side
Snack - Grapes
Before i go to Zumba i will have a banana and then come home for tea which will be the same as tonight, chilli with rice. Sour cream (2.5 syns) and light cheese (HEa)
Syns for the week 2.5/105
I'm going to Sheffield for my sister's graduation on Wednesday, so i'm going to take a load of fruit to snack on in the morning and then we are going out for lunch. I am trying to save most of my syns for the week to have something nice for lunch and drink on the night and attempt to stick to Vodka and Diet coke. It's a special occasion though which has been planned for a long time so i'm not going to worry too much
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Good luck for WI tomorrow!
Rachel7896
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So, after a week of SW, less syns than i'm allowed and 2 hour long exercise classes and NO alcohol i've.....Stayed The Same.
Disappointed doesn't even come close.
Oh well, Zumba tonight and sticking with it. This is the reason i stopped SW before, when i got to around this weight last time i had to do a different diet plan to lose the last 11lbs and i think that's the reason its crept back on over the past 4 months because i lost it quite quickly. I'm a bit of a loss at what to do though now.
Disappointed doesn't even come close.
Oh well, Zumba tonight and sticking with it. This is the reason i stopped SW before, when i got to around this weight last time i had to do a different diet plan to lose the last 11lbs and i think that's the reason its crept back on over the past 4 months because i lost it quite quickly. I'm a bit of a loss at what to do though now.
Chipmunk89
but you can call me Toni!
Sorry about your STS. Persevere and I'm sure it'll shift eventually. I know its frustrating when you don't get there as fast as you would like but you know the plan works
Rachel7896
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Thanks Its just a bit disheartening really! Never mind, stuck to plan yesterday and did an hour of Zumba
Food Plan for Tuesday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - WM Pitta (HEb) with lettuce, cucumber, spring onion, sweetcorn, ham and light mayo (2 syns) with salad on the side
Snack - Grapes
Tea - Syn free spaghetti bolognese
Syns for the week: 8.5/105
Its just a bit disheartening really! Never mind, stuck to plan yesterday and did an hour of Zumba Food Plan for Tuesday
Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - WM Pitta (HEb) with lettuce, cucumber, spring onion, sweetcorn, ham and light mayo (2 syns) with salad on the side
Snack - Grapes
Tea - Syn free spaghetti bolognese
Syns for the week: 8.5/105
