Slimming world advice please :)

[mumface26]

Thats great topsy, im aiming for 3.5 this week

Sp is going well, i think. But due to the protien and filling speed foods im not half as hungry as i usually am so now i fear im not eating enough. But if your not hungry then dont eat....right?
Also, can i still have yogurts? I like mixing sweetener with natrual yogurt and i do this when mullers are proving expensive. Im still having some yogurt after meals to curb my sweet craving, is this ok to do on sp? Im eating fruit in between meals and still having my syns.

Xx

 

[AngelUK]

No sadly you cannot have yoghurt on SP days. Yoghurts are neither s nor p but just free foods. But you can have quark which also works well with sweetener and vanilla extract.

 

[topsy]

You might not want them as you are doing SP but Morrison are doing 10 muller lights for £3 xxx

 

[mumface26]

I am doing sp wrong today im having a tuna mayo jp with a heap of salad. But i shouldnt have the potatoe should I?
Not really had a lot of yogurt to be honest so if i start my sp tomorrow for a few days i should be ok.

Woops!

 

[mumface26]

Sp so far.....

Yesterday.
2 weetabix and milk hxb1 and a

Lunch bacon, scrambled eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms

Tea - cottage pie with swede mash topping.

Snacks fruit such as satsumas and apples. Yogurt - shouldnt have had.
Syns milky way, aldi crisps and a highlights hot choc
Hxb2 - 2 aldi light benefit bars


Today so far...
Breakfast - BLT bread as hxb1 and 1/2 syn for mayo. Satsuma

Lunch - tuna may jp with a huge salad. 1/2 syn for mayo. Apple

Tea - chicken breast, brocolli, cauliflower and green beans. Gravy 2 syns

Syns so far as above plus 2 splashes of milk in tea

Hxb2 2 aldi benefit bars
Hxa - light cheese

 

[AngelUK]

Yeah looks ok but you should not have potatoes or yoghurt or anything that is not S or P unless you syn it (but don't think yoghurt and potato can be synned, or at least I would not know how to count them). If you have free foods like potatoes and yoghurt, it is just Extra Easy, which means you have to count your second helping HExB as syns. Sucks I know but hopefully you can retrieve those syns this week.

 

[mumface26]

Yeah looks ok but you should not have potatoes or yoghurt or anything that is not S or P unless you syn it (but don't think yoghurt and potato can be synned, or at least I would not know how to count them). If you have free foods like potatoes and yoghurt, it is just Extra Easy, which means you have to count your second helping HExB as syns. Sucks I know but hopefully you can retrieve those syns this week.

Oh yeah my hxb will need to be syned now oh nooo!!

 

[mumface26]

An extra 12 syns to answer for now. 6 from yesterday and 6 from today for them aldi bars
I'll sort it...

 

[mumface26]

Its ok syn wise as i've counted my extra hxb and took it off todays which still leaves me 4.5. And i will take two off sun, mon and tue and have 13 a day.
Problem solved

 

[topsy]

SP sounds really hard never tried it xxxx

 

[mumface26]

Its harder than i thought. I spoke to my sw consultant and said what i'd eaten and she said just count it as an ee day. I've recalculated my syns 105 devide by what i've had and its left me with 14.5 per day til weigh in.
Just gna do ee. I will still lose as my meals this week are based around sp.
Sp means no carbs other than your two hxb choices so if you like rice with a curry then you cant have it. Or pasta with bolonese is a no no. But you could have cauliflower rice i guess.
No free foods unless its got a P next to it, is that right?

 

[AngelUK]

Yes no foods unless they have an S or a P before it in your book. And yes SP is hard to do for a whole week. I only do the occasional day.

 

[mumface26]

Yes no foods unless they have an S or a P before it in your book. And yes SP is hard to do for a whole week. I only do the occasional day.

Ive got my sp day planned for tomorrow....

Breakfast 2 weetabix and milk (hxa&b1) apple and satsuma

Lunch speed soup with 2 slices bread (hxb2) pear, satsuma

Tea cottage pie with swede mash (sp recipe) brocolli and cauliflower

14.5 syns on whatever i fancy
Snack on speed fruits

Is that ok?

 

[AngelUK]

sounds perfect

 

[mumface26]

Sp tomorrow, ee tuesday and sp wednesday. I've wrote it all down, syns and all.

Saturday im going to the christmas markets with dh. Its my first saturday off in like forever so im looking forward to it.
We're making a day of it, shopping in the morning. Bags back to the car and then manchester xmas markets in the afternoon. I will be off plan that day what with hot chocolate, hog roast and crepes but i wont have any syns on friday or sunday and do sp friday and sunday. I know it wont make up for it but it might help.
Just one day off plan wont hurt.

 

[AngelUK]

Sounds wonderful! Enjoy

 

[mumface26]

Early post before work.

Dh has got us both a chocolate advent calendar because were are both overgrown kids really. At this rate when we do have a LO they will be telling us to grow up
Mines a minion one but the writing on the back is in another language and the nutritional info is per 100g. Im going to guess 1 syn per chocolate just be on the safe side. Would that be ok?

 

[mumface26]

When i met dh 9 years ago i was under 10 stone. I remember this because a month before we had our first date i went on holiday with my best friend and weighed myself in boots in the airport for something to do i was happy that i wasnt double figures.
I was 20 and i could easily walk into a clothes shop, grab a size 10 pair of jeans and not try them on because i knew they would fit me.
Dh and i had been together just over 2 months when i went on the pill. The nurse at family planning weighed me and i was 10st 2lb. She said it was fine but it wasnt with me. I cut the carbs and got back to below 10stone.
Then life happened, my dad had a stroke and was unable to work so had to sell our house. He gave me enough money for me to rent my own place (i had a full time job luckily) dh was there for me and he practically lived with me.
I knew how to cook but couldnt be bothered so dh and i got take aways and ate out a lot. Im suprised we werent on first names terms with the staff at frankie and benny's.
My dad recovered from his stroke but then underwent a heart bypass, more stress more comfort foods. I quit smoking as seeing him in recovery was heart breaking.
He recovered which was great.
We got our own place together renting dh uncles house and the take aways and bad cooking continued.
I gained weight after quitting smoking but id rather not smoke tbh.

Anyway, its crept on slowly in 9 years. 3 stone in 9 years isnt bad though.
My dad passed away from lung cancer (stupid cigarettes!!) In jan 2014, 6 months before our wedding and instead of slimming into my wedding dress my alterations were to make it bigger. I didnt care really. I would have got married in a bin bag if it meant my dad could have been there but the day went great and it was so hot i believe he sent me the good weather.

Im ready now, not saying im over losing my dad that will never be the case but i feel ready to sort myself out now. I want to get healthy because i have pcos i know weight loss will help in that department.

 

[AngelUK]

I am so sorry for the rough time you have had and for the loss of your dad But that is a great attitude towards now being ready! Plus getting healthy and fit is something I felt I owed my boys and no doubt you will feel the same when you have your own babies

As for your advent calendar, I had a look online. The choccies seem to vary in size from one calendar to the next. But I think 1 syn per choccie is probably right.
I found the nutritional value for one of them at the Morrison's site. It says that each choccie is 2.7gr and 14cal each (sounds tiny??). That would be above 1/2 a syn but below 1syn. But on an (older) FB SW page it did list them as one syn. I would just count them as one to be on the safe side.
Btw my OH and I are also super silly and we already notice our boys copying some of our silliness lol.

 

[AngelUK]

this made me laugh