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scarepanda wrote: »Fair play Jay! You've done an amazing job! Guys, any suggestions for easy to reach, no prep snacks? Stuff to replace that slice of delicious fresh bread, or packet of crackers? I'm getting a bit sick of apples and carrot sticks all the time.
Cheers! My main advice here would be to eat your fill at mealtimes, so you don't snack.
- if you're trying to drink 2+ L of water per day, a lot of the time you're not hungry but rather thirsty!
- Getting your belly-full is something all it takes, so a coffee or tea would do the trick. You probably know but it's what I do to cut down on snacking.
- Fizzy water with cordial tastes super-fancy and a lot "cleaner" than coke and such.
- Boiled eggs are great (esp with a little salt)
- Pickles too - lovely brine-y McDonald's burger taste! they even come in crinkle cut!
- Ham slices - u could wrap them around a laughing cow and add some hot sauce (usually negligible cals so free)
- Ready chicken - Iceland do delicious ones, like mango and coconut (1.5 syn)
- Chiver's jelly pot (1/2 syn) is really great value for calories and filling (9 cals!)
- Muller lights are now 1/2 syn
- Different fruits (eg apricot is so easy to cut) and quark (fat free cottage cheese) is fast and syn-free. Whip in cordial if u want it flavoured! Caramel flavouring is my fav.
- Pan Boxty fried on a griddle (1.5 syn) with PB fit (2 tbsp is 3 syn) is one of my favourite mid-morning snacks, it's really filling so worth the 4.5
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Started SW last week and happy to be down 2.5 pounds for my first week. But I'm really struggling with it. I've discovered that I'm the kind of person who eats what I feel like when I want to.Finding it hard to do any sort of planning. I seriously want to do this but don't know if I actually can.
First week I concentrated on cutting out coke and as much chocolate as I can. Was very good with syns etc. Seem to have lost motivation already🙠Any tips,?
"Eating what you feel like, when you want to" has gotten you here.
Much like everyone here, (including me!) you'll need to mend your relationship with food. Create new habits, new routines. If you can think of SW as more of a health overhaul with weight loss as a consequence, it works way better.
You'll need to have something deep inside you to draw upon when you're feeling low - reasons to keep going. Maybe it's a certain dress (so hang it outside your wardrobe) or how someone made you feel (put their picture up) or how you hated how you looked (put a pic in front of your vices to remind you).
More practical advice would be to not bring your binge foods into the house. You only go to the supermarket once but pass the sweets press a few times a day. Out of reach, out of mind. Good luck 0 -
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jaykhunter wrote: »Cheers! My main advice here would be to eat your fill at mealtimes, so you don't snack.
- if you're trying to drink 2+ L of water per day, a lot of the time you're not hungry but rather thirsty!
- Getting your belly-full is something all it takes, so a coffee or tea would do the trick. You probably know but it's what I do to cut down on snacking.
- Fizzy water with cordial tastes super-fancy and a lot "cleaner" than coke and such.
- Boiled eggs are great (esp with a little salt)
- Pickles too - lovely brine-y McDonald's burger taste! they even come in crinkle cut!
- Ham slices - u could wrap them around a laughing cow and add some hot sauce (usually negligible cals so free)
- Ready chicken - Iceland do delicious ones, like mango and coconut (1.5 syn)
- Chiver's jelly pot (1/2 syn) is really great value for calories and filling (9 cals!)
- Muller lights are now 1/2 syn
- Different fruits (eg apricot is so easy to cut) and quark (fat free cottage cheese) is fast and syn-free. Whip in cordial if u want it flavoured! Caramel flavouring is my fav.
- Pan Boxty fried on a griddle (1.5 syn) with PB fit (2 tbsp is 3 syn) is one of my favourite mid-morning snacks, it's really filling so worth the 4.5
Hope some of that is of use!
Hey!
Thank you for all those suggestions! I don't know why I didn't think of boiled eggs! Been having them this week and found out the toddler loves them as well :-)! (She's starting preschool soon so a nice one to have for break with a fussy toddler!) And it's so nice having sweet tea guilt free using sweeteners tablets instead of sugar!
Last week I was eating my fill, but I was also grazing a lot and I think it was because I was coming down from all the **** I had the week before between making the toddlers birthday cake, the party and then the day of her birthday we brought her up to Dublin for the day. None junk food wasn't quite hitting the spot but all back to normal now.
We have a wedding this week and then hopefully nothing major till November.
I've 5lbs lost in 3 weeks, which probably isn't all that much for the first few weeks, but I'm happy out with it considering all the temptations that have been around. And I didn't regain any weight which I was delighted with.0 -
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Glad to hear from ya mirrorwall! Ya you don't need to be a new member to sit in on the talk and such - some of the girls in my class did it to get their head back on straight
Just about eating lots of choc at night - make sure you're getting enough to eat for dinner. Like have seconds and thirds of you need to (make sure to keep ⅓ ratios!) - treats should be because you want the taste of something, not to get satiety, or else you'll scoff it too quick and blow your syns! It's something I'm working on, and getting my fill of dinner (and seconds later) really curbs the binge eating!0 -
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