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Thanks for the info!! So there is not much of having to cook from scratch? I couldn't be dealing with that at the moment, I don't have a lot of time on my hands.
To be fair. It takes about five minutes extra to cook from scratch than it does to open a jar.
Give it a try. There's a definite sense of acheivment
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I'm back on SW after a year off (wife was preggers, so she stopped). I've serious back problems at the moment and missed last week because of spinal injections in the hospital, but made it last night and i'd lost 10lb in the 2 weeks, so that's pretty good!
I lost 3 stone on it in 3 months last time and my wife lost 1.5st in the 6 months between having our first child and when she started and then another 5.5st on SW (in a year) AND got to her target 3 days before she found out she was pregnant again.
I know you can do SW when pregnant, but she didn't think she'd manage it with the cravings, so we just agreed to go back on it once the baby was born.
anyway, we're both back in the SW saddle now and she also lost 9.5lb in the last 2 weeks too, so almost 20lb between us in our first 2 weeks back and that's with absolutely zero exercise because of my back.
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my best advice on how to do well with SW is don't waste your syns on treats (i.e. mars bars, crisps etc.) spend them on flavour to make your everyday food as tasty as possible so you don't feel like you're on a diet and pretty soon it will become a way of life.
plan your meals for the week ahead and, prep, prep, prep!
we always do best when we make it easy to eat and snack well. make a big fresh fruit salad that will do you a good few days. all your favourite fruit in one place that's quick and easy to dish up once it's prepped.
same with regular salad. pick a drawer in your fridge (jamie oliver pro-tip) wash and spin a heap of salad leaves, pat them dry and lay them in the fridge drawer lined with tea towels and the leaves will stay fresh for up to a week. also chop up spring onions, cucumber (cut in half and slide a teaspoon along the length to remove the wet seedy bit), chop tomatoes (and remove the wet seedy bit), beetroot, peppers, etc. (basically whatever you like), making a point of removing the wettest bits were possible (and saving them, it's all flavour) as with the toms and cucumber. leave that in a bowl covered with clingfilm and you're all set to be able to make a lovely salad in 2 minutes flat.
feel free to keep all the juicy bits and add to whatever fat free dressing you normally use, remember it's all about the flavour.
protein is what fills you quickest, so have plenty of wafer thin ham or chopped cooked chicken handy for throwing into salads with minimal fuss and keep low or syn free dressings (shop bought is fine). you should be able to prep a weeks worth of salad and fruit salad in about an hour and it will save you a lot of prep time later in the week.
i'm not a big fan on the muller lights even though they're very popular in SW, the only time i ever use them is the greek coconut one as a coconut milk substitute in a curry. i'd much rather spend one or two syns on a decent yoghurt and really enjoy it. our favourite way to use fruit salad is to throw some in a bowl,put some yoghurt on top and then break up and sprinkle a meringue nest (3 syns) on top for a low syn eaton mess. 0 -
my best advice on how to do well with SW is don't waste your syns on treats (i.e. mars bars, crisps etc.) spend them on flavour to make your everyday food as tasty as possible so you don't feel like you're on a diet and pretty soon it will become a way of life.
plan your meals for the week ahead and, prep, prep, prep!
we always do best when we make it easy to eat and snack well. make a big fresh fruit salad that will do you a good few days. all your favourite fruit in one place that's quick and easy to dish up once it's prepped.
same with regular salad. pick a drawer in your fridge (jamie oliver pro-tip) wash and spin a heap of salad leaves, pat them dry and lay them in the fridge drawer lined with tea towels and the leaves will stay fresh for up to a week. also chop up spring onions, cucumber (cut in half and slide a teaspoon along the length to remove the wet seedy bit), chop tomatoes (and remove the wet seedy bit), beetroot, peppers, etc. (basically whatever you like), making a point of removing the wettest bits were possible (and saving them, it's all flavour) as with the toms and cucumber. leave that in a bowl covered with clingfilm and you're all set to be able to make a lovely salad in 2 minutes flat.
feel free to keep all the juicy bits and add to whatever fat free dressing you normally use, remember it's all about the flavour.
protein is what fills you quickest, so have plenty of wafer thin ham or chopped cooked chicken handy for throwing into salads with minimal fuss and keep low or syn free dressings (shop bought is fine). you should be able to prep a weeks worth of salad and fruit salad in about an hour and it will save you a lot of prep time later in the week.
i'm not a big fan on the muller lights even though they're very popular in SW, the only time i ever use them is the greek coconut one as a coconut milk substitute in a curry. i'd much rather spend one or two syns on a decent yoghurt and really enjoy it. our favourite way to use fruit salad is to throw some in a bowl,put some yoghurt on top and then break up and sprinkle a meringue nest (3 syns) on top for a low syn eaton mess.
Great tips above!
Thanks ~ I never thought of removing the wet bits from the salad:D0 -
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it just stops it going soggy and you can add it back in with the dressing when you serve the salad.Anne Other wrote: »Great tips above!
Thanks ~ I never thought of removing the wet bits from the salad:D
also, keeping all the non-leaf bits separate stops all the leaves from going soggy and it's easy to just grab a handful of bits to throw onto the leaves then when you need to make a salad and all the ingredients will stay prepped and ready to eat, but still fresh. 0 -
just had a healthy fry for brekkie too!
mallons low fat sausages (syn free) cooked from frozen to stop them drying out too much, lidl gammon with fat removed and cut into strips, chucked into the tefal actifry with some mushrooms with a tiny spray of oil.
a tin of beans with a tablespoon of bbq sauce in them for flavour (allow 1 syn per tbspn)
small punnet of whole cherry toms with a small spray of oil tossed in a frying pan until they start to blacken and the skin splits, then 1-2 tbspns of balsamic vinegar (syn free). they are lovely and sweet and very tasty.
with regards to cooking with oils, i (like most people) originally used the frylite but i found that it ruined my frying pans, so i checked the syn value of oils (most are 2 syns per tablespoon) and a tablespoon is 17.75ml give or take.
i got one of those pump spray oils and measured how how many pumps i could get by pointing it into a 5ml syringe and pumping and for this particular pump (you mileage will vary) i was amazed to find that i could do 30 sprays for 5ml of oil, which was more than enough to coat a whole 28cm frying pan.
now i just buy stir fry oil and used that to re-fill my pump spray and it does me for just about everything and adds that all important flavour element at no extra syn cost.
anyway, all in all, i used less than one syn of vegetable oil between the two of us in the actifry and the pan and another syn in the bbq sauce for the beans and the whole hting was delicious, it just about got inhaled and you'd never know it was 'diet' food! 0 -
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Does anyone know the syn value of these new Shape 0% pineapple and coconut flavours?
http://livedanone.co.uk/blog/health_and_fitness/pineapple-and-coconut-flavour-shape
All the other fruit 0% ones are free, but these aren't on the website and I've made the mistake of guessing syns for yoghurts before!
Oh and just weight it at 2 pounds down! With last weeks 1.5, that is the most I've ever lost in two consecutive weeks 0 -
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