Slimming World

highly1111 wrote: »

I've only been doing SW a few weeks but have managed to avoid the crap - even when drunk. My method is to stuff myself silly prior to going out and just make the decision that I'm not eating it. It really is a case of mind over matter.

Sure if it was that easy, there'd be no need for slimming world :P

You're right though. You have to make the decision what you want more. A few drinks and a lavish dinner, or a few pounds off.

Personally, I always enjoy nights out/meals without worrying too much. The trick is to get back into the healthy eating the next day and not let the high syn day become a week.

One off occasions are fine. It depends in the long run of how much you want it. I want to lose every week and I want to get to target more than I have ever wanted anything else and the thought of getting to be a size 10 or 12 spurs me on and realising that I can't ever go back to the size I used to be.

2013Lara wrote: »

I can't really stuff myself before a wedding though and sit there and not eat the meal they have paid for. I will make the best choice I can for dinner etc but after a few drinks who knows what'll happen that night. I'm definitely drinking, night away without the kids, sure who wouldn't It's my biggest day/night out since starting. At least its the day after weigh day and I can try claw it back for the few days after.

Wedding food tends not to be that bad. Normally soup or a salad of some sort or melon and parma ham to start, meat and two veg (you can limit the potatoes and have more veg) and normally a trio of desserts, you could have the one that is less syns. As it's a long day, it'll be easy to pace yourself with drink and have spritzers instead of full glasses of wine. Use flexi syns - pick a number and try and stick to it, doesn't matter if it's 100 syns, but if you pick a number and stick to it, you will feel better about yourself. Have a big breakfast before you go so you don't pick on the scones etc (if there is any before the meal). Bring fruit too. And more importantly, enjoy yourself and dance (body magic) the night away

highly1111 wrote: »

Can you please tell me what you did? I love pizza and have been missing it.

Off to a bbq tomorrow night. Texted my friend and asked her if I could bring some steaks and baked spuds. I'm also going to put some baby tomatoes on the bbq - use them with the spud so its not dry. I've some gorgeous steaks in the freezer. I'll then have some wine which I'll use today and tomorrows syns for.

Plan for today is - fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. A large ham salad sambo for lunch with more fruit and then tonight I'm going to have sw carbonara which will be 2syns for the cheese - with lots of veggies.

Was at a work thing last night and despite eating before it went on hours and I ended up having a tuna mayo with cucumber sambo (brown) and about 6 crips. There was butter on the sambo so no doubt it was my daily syn allowance (and more!) I hate not been in control of my food - however much of a freak I may sound - I love a glass of wine and would much rather have had access to fruit then a sambo! I'll loosen up when the time is ready but this is all so new to me I want to really get used to seeing what works and get into habits and more organised before I go back to work full time in sept (I'm a teacher). I've also made the ham and mushroom muffins this am for syn free snacks and I've loads of fruit it. Off to aldi now as out of slimline milk and I need a few other bits. I still haven't figured out yet if I'm saving or spending more on our food shop. Buying a huge amount of stuff I never bought before but then also not buying loads!

Sorry for the long post!

Here is what I did, there are lots of videos on youtube, I followed a couple and made a couple of small changes to make the recipe more slimming world friendly.

Blitz a fresh head of Cauliflower until it was rice like in consistency. Then put it in a pan with some water and a good pinch of salt for 5 to 7 minutes.

The drain the Cauliflower, you will need a very fine strainer or just put a tea towel over the top of the pan and pour the water through.

Once the Cauliflower cooled enough to handle put it into the middle of a clean tea towel and squeeze as much of the water out of it as you can, this is probably the most important step, the more water you get out the drier and more stable your crust will be. If it's too wet it will just fall apart when you try to pick it up.

Put the Cauliflower into a bowl, add a beaten egg, I added some cottage cheese which is free but other recipes add goats cheese and parmesan at this step, I just wanted to keep it as free as possible. Some garlic granules, some mixed herbs and some Cayenne Pepper. You can add whatever you want here when it comes to herbs and spices, these I just what I chose, I don't have exact amounts as I just eyeballed it.

Put the Cauliflower mixture onto a baking tray lined with grease proof paper and make it into a pizza shape. It is quite easy to work with. Then put it into a preheated oven (200c) until it is a nice golden brown. For mine that took about 35 to 40 mins.

If you want to make your own tomato sauce for the base, you don't have to you can just use tomato puree, though I like the sauce better. You can do that now. There are loads of recipes online, but I just used what I had on hand. Tin of chopped tomatoes, half an onion, diced, couple of cloves of garlic, some basil and some oregano, fresh is better for the herbs if you have them to hand but dried will work as well. Leave it to simmer for a bit, stirring occasionally and then blitz it with a hand blender.

Once your crust comes out, put on your tomato sauce, don't go too overboard, just a nice thin covering. Then put on the toppings of your choice and stick it in the oven for maybe another ten minutes or until the cheese is bubbling.

Leave it to cool on a wire rack for a couple of minutes after it comes out, the crust is a little bit delicate when super hot, but once it cools a little cut and eat to your hearts content!

I'm in for another small gain or STS this week (up 0.5 last week), I can feeeeel it... really frustrating as I'm 100% on plan, all the time, now I've been rather hormonal so my syns have been closer to the 15 than my usual 10 to 12 this week so I suppose that could account for some of it... Boohoo etc

highly1111 wrote: »

I'm in Ikea and kids are playing at the play area in the restaurant. I'm surrounded by meatballs and chips but just ate 3 mandarins and an apple. This is hard sometimes!!

I was setting up for a meeting yesterday in work and the last group in the room had left a load of CAKES!!! I took one to take home for my mum but that was it :P

So I'm down another pound! I'm chuffed, really wasn't expecting a loss this week
Busy day after weigh in today and succumbed to a Costa chicken and chorizo flatbread thing... its only saving graces were that it didn't contain cheese, and that it had some speed food in the form of about 6 leaves of rocket I'm not even going to check how many syns were involved, just going to move on as though it didn't happen
Ah well, I very rarely go off plan and it was quite pizza-ish, which was nice after over 10 months without pizza!!

I was down 3 and a half pounds today. I had a bad 2 weeks before this where I put up 5 and half pounds.
This week I ate plenty of free food along with more fruit and veg.
I plan to have a another good week. I have a few things on over the next few weeks and I plan to use flex syns for those days.

This is probably wishful thinking but are Tinned Tomatoes a speed food? I'm having a bad week with the fruit and veg, I am eating it, but I am forcing myself to do so. Having tinned tomatoes be a speed food would make it a lot easier to incorporate it into dinner.

dcfc91 wrote: »

This is probably wishful thinking but are Tinned Tomatoes a speed food? I'm having a bad week with the fruit and veg, I am eating it, but I am forcing myself to do so. Having tinned tomatoes be a speed food would make it a lot easier to incorporate it into dinner.

I'd be lost with tins of tomatoes and passata. They go in (usually not together) about 3/4 of our staple meals (curry, bolognese etc)

And yes they're speed food

After months of eating slimming world food as my wife was doing it i think i'm going to join and do it right.

I need to drop about 15 to 20kg and my self control is awful.

I've been very fit in the past but its dropped off in the last 12 months. But even when i was fit enough to run marathons my diet was still awful.

I need to match diet along with my exercise to see real results.