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Long time no post!
I've still been going to meetings but been up an down, had a bad week of my birthday and out on 3lb. I had a great week the next week and exercised 7days of the week and lost 1/2lb. I was disappointed and then this week had a mediocre week, one bad day which wasn't that bad and stayed the same
My Leader said maybe mix up my meals. I normally have the same things every week and I weigh everything.
I make a batch of chilli mince with lean mince and that does two days, have tones of veg in it and either have it with wraps, actifry chips, rice or pasta.
Also have homemade chicken fillet burger, chicken and rice, homemade lasagne, homemade shepherds pie, Chicken fajitas.
Anybody any other ideas to have for dinners? Need some reheat able ideas as I work lates 2/3 nights per week and have dinner in work.
Thanks!
I was wondering where you'd been!
Sounds like you do need a bit of a shake-up alright. I dunno how you eat the same meals every week, I'd be so bored
I was looking at tiny_penguin's blog last night and she has some fantastic recipes, I'm so inspired!!! Have loads on a list I want to try. Ones that might be good for you to bring into work would be the risottos, jalfrezi, biryani.
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One of my favourite "easy" dishes to make is chorizo pasta.
60g wholegrain pasta 6pp
30g chorizo finely sliced/cubed 2pp
Tin chopped tomatoes
Red pepper finely chopped
Onion finely chopped
Chilli (fresh or dried)
Clove garlic, minced or chopped
1tsp sugar (optional, but I always use it as counteracts the acidity of the tomatoes and improves the taste) 1pp
Salt & pepper
Put chorizo in a pan with peppers, garlic, chilli and onions (no oil or spray needed, the oil from the chorizo will be enough) for about 5 minutes. Add chopped tomatoes, sugar and season with salt and pepper. (You can also add paprika for an extra kick). Leave simmer on the lowest heat for 30-60 minutes (the longer the better!)
Cook some pasta and add to the sauce. It's a big hearty meal for just 9pp. I often add chicken too, or have it with some low fat garlic bread.
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One of my more indulgent favourites is chicken and chorizo jambalaya (I ADORE chorizo if you can't tell!) I often make this on a weekend night instead of having a takeaway. The recipe below is for 14pp per serving, but I often make bigger portions if I have enough points left!
(Serves 2, 14pp per serving)
1tbsp olive oil 4pp
60g chorizo finely sliced 4pp
300g chicken breast diced 8pp
100g long-grain rice 10pp
1tbsp cajun seasoning 1pp
180ml chicken stock 1pp
1 onion diced
1 red pepper thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 can chopped tomatoes
Heat oil in large pan. Add chicken and fry until sealed (about 3 minutes). Add chorizo and onion and fry until onion is soft (about 4 minutes). Add pepper, garlic, cajun seasoning and fry for another 5 minutes. Stir in the rice, and add tomatoes and stock. Cover and leave to simmer on lowest heat for about 30 minutes, or until rice has absorbed most of the liquid and is fully cooked (add more water if needed).
This tastes even better the next day so I always make extra.0 -
Oh I've another one which I made recently, and love. It's kind of more of a winter dish, but I'll eat it any time!
Chicken,chickpea and chorizo stew (yeah, so sorry if you don't like chorizo :pac:)
(Serves 2, 10pp per serving)
2 chicken breasts, diced 8pp
1 can chickpeas, drained & rinsed 8pp
60g chorizo, finely sliced or diced 4pp
1 onion
1 red pepper
Can chopped tomatoes
A few handfuls of baby spinach
Salt & Pepper
Chilli flakes/powder/fresh chilli/whatever spices you want really
Chop the chicken breast and fry off in a saucepan until cooked, then leave aside.
Fry off the onions, peppers and chorizo for a few minutes, until the onion is translucent and the chorizo gives out its delicious oil.
Throw in the chopped tomatoes, chickpeas and seasoning and leave simmer for about 20 minutes.
Add the spinach and cooked chicken and cook for about another 5 minutes.
Eat with a spoon
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That's what I was guestimating too! Having it on Friday as my weekly treat. Gonna take it out of my weeklies. Will have earned lots of activity points too by then. Went out for a run last night, going again tonight after weigh in and tomorrow night. 5km run then on Saturday morning and going home to see some friends who love mountain walking so I'm sure I'll be dragged up a hill somewhere on Sunday!
Gorgeous, enjoy! Love pad thai, sounds like you'll have more than earned it anyway 0 -
ibarelycare wrote: »Gorgeous, enjoy! Love pad thai, sounds like you'll have more than earned it anyway
Down 2lbs!!! Wwooohhhoooo!!!0 -
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Wohoo, go you! Totally all the hard work! Keep her lit now for the week!!
Yeah TOTALLY
Well done to you too btw Well done. I say the bug did play a part in it as even though your appetite was gone for only 1 day, it can effect your body in other ways. Keep doing what you're doing and hopefully you'll see a loss next week. If you do see a gain just look at what you have lost in total over 2 weeks.
Yeah I know, it sounds so ungrateful but I was hoping for a loss of maybe 2lbs cos at least I know I would have earned that. But yeah, I said to my boyfriend earlier I'd be happy even if I STS next week, cos 4lbs over 2 weeks is still great 0 -
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Haven't been following the programme at all for the last 3 weeks and going to go back in for my WI tonight. I'm scared! But know it's been my own fault after a busy couple of weeks. Going to look here for inspiration & support! I need a miracle nearly at this stage! 0
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Long time no post!
I've still been going to meetings but been up an down, had a bad week of my birthday and out on 3lb. I had a great week the next week and exercised 7days of the week and lost 1/2lb. I was disappointed and then this week had a mediocre week, one bad day which wasn't that bad and stayed the same
My Leader said maybe mix up my meals. I normally have the same things every week and I weigh everything.
I make a batch of chilli mince with lean mince and that does two days, have tones of veg in it and either have it with wraps, actifry chips, rice or pasta.
Also have homemade chicken fillet burger, chicken and rice, homemade lasagne, homemade shepherds pie, Chicken fajitas.
Anybody any other ideas to have for dinners? Need some reheat able ideas as I work lates 2/3 nights per week and have dinner in work.
Thanks!
The only thing i would say is that there is a lot of minced beef in your meals - maybe that has an impact?
Maybe try a stirfry, Chicken/prawns with stir fry veg ( whatever you like - mushrooms, broccolli, baby corn, mangetout etc,) some ginger, garlic and a pinch of chilli flakes, with 1tbsp of soy sauce and 1 tbsp of oyster sauce, and 1 tsp of sesame oil. serve with noodles - it's delicious and really low in points! about 9 or 10 depending on how much oil you use to cook your chicked0 -
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Garden_Gurl wrote: »I am having such a bad day!!! Had a slip up the other night and got a chipper but since then have felt so guilty and this whole journey feels so daunting. I have so much to lose and I need to get myself into a good head space! My husband is trying to help by giving me the straight talk but I just keep losing it with him. It just feels so hard this time!!!
Apart from the chipper, which was covered more or less with my weeklies & days points, I have been eating within my points so haven't totally sabotaged my efforts but the people I'm doing it with have a tiny percentage of what I have to lose and I feel like I'll never get there. I know it's my fault for getting to the weight I am today but I think a lot of it is emotional eating and I need to try break that cycle!!! Any suggestions???
Also, I'm bored with my food choices already after only a week and a half & I just need some advice. All the recipes I'm finding are loaded with vegetables but I only eat peppers, onions & potatoes. I'll eat vegetable soup when blended or carrots cut tiny in a stew or casserole but I'm feeling restricted because of the NO VEG options!!! Any suggestions for recipes??
This is going to be long so bear with me! First off I understand how you're feeling, it is exactly how I fee atm. I am a big emotional eater and I am victim to a vicious cycle of being too ashamed of my weight to socialise so I stay in and eat. What I am slowly learning is that it is a matter of saying no. It's about getting to a stage where you really need to lose the weight that you are willing to do what it takes. Thankfully I seem to be at that stage today. I am celebrating today and instead of doing it with food, I am doing it with friends. It will come but it takes time. Stick with it and you will get there.
Regarding the food, funnily enough they are the only veg I eat, as well as carrots. There's loads of things you can eat; lasagne, cottage pie, bolognese, curry, meat and potatoes, quiche, wraps, steak sandwich, chicken burgers, burgers, omlettes actually any egg dish, any pasta dish. Just because there are veg in the recipe, doesn't mean you have to include them. I spent the week browsing online and going through my Mum's recipe books and I have lots of recipes to keep me going over the next few weeks. I will post them as I cook them. Browse online, look through this thread and the old WW threads, look at all the blogs and you will find loads of delicious foods. Marinades and sauces are going to be your saviour as they are what will keep your meals interesting.
Can I ask why you don't eat veg? For me it was because I never ate them as a child no matter how hard my parents tried. However I am going through a stage of retraining my pallets. I find chopping them really thinly and sautéing them well, it makes them much easier to eat. Also mixing them into your foods, like adding cabbage to mash, helps as well. If it's a case of texture, you could include them at the cooking stage and remove them after. That way you get the flavour although you still won't get the goodness.
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This is going to be long so bear with me! First off I understand how you're feeling, it is exactly how I fee atm. I am a big emotional eater and I am victim to a vicious cycle of being too ashamed of my weight to socialise so I stay in and eat. What I am slowly learning is that it is a matter of saying no. It's about getting to a stage where you really need to lose the weight that you are willing to do what it takes. Thankfully I seem to be at that stage today. I am celebrating today and instead of doing it with food, I am doing it with friends. It will come but it takes time. Stick with it and you will get there.
Regarding the food, funnily enough they are the only veg I eat, as well as carrots. There's loads of things you can eat; lasagne, cottage pie, bolognese, curry, meat and potatoes, quiche, wraps, steak sandwich, chicken burgers, burgers, omlettes actually any egg dish, any pasta dish. Just because there are veg in the recipe, doesn't mean you have to include them. I spent the week browsing online and going through my Mum's recipe books and I have lots of recipes to keep me going over the next few weeks. I will post them as I cook them. Browse online, look through this thread and the old WW threads, look at all the blogs and you will find loads of delicious foods. Marinades and sauces are going to be your saviour as they are what will keep your meals interesting.
Can I ask why you don't eat veg? For me it was because I never ate them as a child no matter how hard my parents tried. However I am going through a stage of retraining my pallets. I find chopping them really thinly and sautéing them well, it makes them much easier to eat. Also mixing them into your foods, like adding cabbage to mash, helps as well. If it's a case of texture, you could include them at the cooking stage and remove them after. That way you get the flavour although you still won't get the goodness.
Hope you feel better soon and you get your mojo back
Thanks Duffy...I'm feeling a lil better tonight. I was online during the day looking for recipes and came across an amazing website called skinny taste. It's american points+ but the girl has the protein etc so they're easily pointed into PP.
In the height of my meltdown earlier I forgot to write that I don't like pasta, rice & am fussy about egg dishes (love eggs just don't like the texture of omlettes or fried eggs and that)!!!
The thing about my eating habits is that if we're celebrating it's done with food, having a bad day - ring a chinese. It's just the cycle and I'd gone so bad with takeaways the last few months I'm having to retrain myself into cooking again. It's like starting from the very beginning as a kid!!!!
I'm the same as you in regards to the veg - they were never forced on me and I just don't particularly like the flavour of most of them. I love mushroom soup so last week when cooking mushrooms for the rest of the family I said I'll have a few - the texture was so slimy I don't know how people eat the like that!!!
Anyway, I made chicken in BBQ sauce with bacon medallions & swiss cheese with baby potatoes for dinner and it was so yummy. I'm going to do a few of the recipes I found online over the weekend and hopefully I'll wake up in a better head space tomorrow!!!
Thanks again - sorry for long post 0 -
ibarelycare wrote: »I was wondering where you'd been!
Sounds like you do need a bit of a shake-up alright. I dunno how you eat the same meals every week, I'd be so bored
I was looking at tiny_penguin's blog last night and she has some fantastic recipes, I'm so inspired!!! Have loads on a list I want to try. Ones that might be good for you to bring into work would be the risottos, jalfrezi, biryani.
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One of my favourite "easy" dishes to make is chorizo pasta.
60g wholegrain pasta 6pp
30g chorizo finely sliced/cubed 2pp
Tin chopped tomatoes
Red pepper finely chopped
Onion finely chopped
Chilli (fresh or dried)
Clove garlic, minced or chopped
1tsp sugar (optional, but I always use it as counteracts the acidity of the tomatoes and improves the taste) 1pp
Salt & pepper
Put chorizo in a pan with peppers, garlic, chilli and onions (no oil or spray needed, the oil from the chorizo will be enough) for about 5 minutes. Add chopped tomatoes, sugar and season with salt and pepper. (You can also add paprika for an extra kick). Leave simmer on the lowest heat for 30-60 minutes (the longer the better!)
Cook some pasta and add to the sauce. It's a big hearty meal for just 9pp. I often add chicken too, or have it with some low fat garlic bread.
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One of my more indulgent favourites is chicken and chorizo jambalaya (I ADORE chorizo if you can't tell!) I often make this on a weekend night instead of having a takeaway. The recipe below is for 14pp per serving, but I often make bigger portions if I have enough points left!
(Serves 2, 14pp per serving)
1tbsp olive oil 4pp
60g chorizo finely sliced 4pp
300g chicken breast diced 8pp
100g long-grain rice 10pp
1tbsp cajun seasoning 1pp
180ml chicken stock 1pp
1 onion diced
1 red pepper thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 can chopped tomatoes
Heat oil in large pan. Add chicken and fry until sealed (about 3 minutes). Add chorizo and onion and fry until onion is soft (about 4 minutes). Add pepper, garlic, cajun seasoning and fry for another 5 minutes. Stir in the rice, and add tomatoes and stock. Cover and leave to simmer on lowest heat for about 30 minutes, or until rice has absorbed most of the liquid and is fully cooked (add more water if needed).
This tastes even better the next day so I always make extra.
Thanks! Made the jambalaya yesterday it was yummy, very filling. I left some for the boyfriend to heat up and he seems to enjoy it more so might make a double batch next time and keep it for the next day! Thanks again! ;-)0 -
Hello everyone!
I am writing this post because these past two week i have half heartedly been following the plan.. i gained 400g this week and i suspect to have another come Tuesday.. my head has been elsewhere due to the emotional wreck i have been wit handing in my resignation and moving out of Melbourne..
but enough is actually enough im so fed up of saying one thing and not following through and being that person who uses every excuse.. I am leaving Australia for Thailand in three weeks which marks the beginning of a couple of months travelling before heading home and i won't so much to feel comfortable on the holiday.. Im going with friends who are all slim and stunning and i really don't want to feel like the turd amongst them.I completely understand that this is my journey but just this time I want to cop on for them too.
In writing this I am making a full commitment to writhing out a full meal plan for the week and sticking to it. NO MORE EXCUSES. Also i need to get my bum back to the gym because de ya know what I actually have better days after iv worked out and i never knew that was possible.
So Please forgive me if im hanging around here too much over the next few days but its my only hope to get back on my journey.. for me!
(sorry for the long post its been a few days in the making !!!!)0 -
shellybelly08 wrote: »Hello everyone!
I am writing this post because these past two week i have half heartedly been following the plan.. i gained 400g this week and i suspect to have another come Tuesday.. my head has been elsewhere due to the emotional wreck i have been wit handing in my resignation and moving out of Melbourne..
but enough is actually enough im so fed up of saying one thing and not following through and being that person who uses every excuse.. I am leaving Australia for Thailand in three weeks which marks the beginning of a couple of months travelling before heading home and i won't so much to feel comfortable on the holiday.. Im going with friends who are all slim and stunning and i really don't want to feel like the turd amongst them.I completely understand that this is my journey but just this time I want to cop on for them too.
In writing this I am making a full commitment to writhing out a full meal plan for the week and sticking to it. NO MORE EXCUSES. Also i need to get my bum back to the gym because de ya know what I actually have better days after iv worked out and i never knew that was possible.
So Please forgive me if im hanging around here too much over the next few days but its my only hope to get back on my journey.. for me!
(sorry for the long post its been a few days in the making !!!!)
I hear you! I have been all over the place since I got back from holidays that I've put on about 10lbs
:eek: Like you I also handed in my resignation in favour of a new job which I start in 2 weeks. I finished up yesterday in the old job and have 2 weeks off to exercise and cook from scratch...no excuses. You still have 3 weeks and you could get up to half a stone/3kgs gone by then. I haven't been posting much here either so I plan on using it to get me through the week as I would love a good loss next week. Don't forget to enjoy the last few weeks in Melbourne 0 -
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Garden_Gurl wrote: »Thanks Duffy...I'm feeling a lil better tonight. I was online during the day looking for recipes and came across an amazing website called skinny taste. It's american points+ but the girl has the protein etc so they're easily pointed into PP.
In the height of my meltdown earlier I forgot to write that I don't like pasta, rice & am fussy about egg dishes (love eggs just don't like the texture of omlettes or fried eggs and that)!!!
The thing about my eating habits is that if we're celebrating it's done with food, having a bad day - ring a chinese. It's just the cycle and I'd gone so bad with takeaways the last few months I'm having to retrain myself into cooking again. It's like starting from the very beginning as a kid!!!!
I'm the same as you in regards to the veg - they were never forced on me and I just don't particularly like the flavour of most of them. I love mushroom soup so last week when cooking mushrooms for the rest of the family I said I'll have a few - the texture was so slimy I don't know how people eat the like that!!!
Anyway, I made chicken in BBQ sauce with bacon medallions & swiss cheese with baby potatoes for dinner and it was so yummy. I'm going to do a few of the recipes I found online over the weekend and hopefully I'll wake up in a better head space tomorrow!!!
Thanks again - sorry for long post
Hope things are looking a bit better to you today. Maybe if you post the type of foods you do like some of us could help you with ideas.
Here's a Spanish Tortilla recipe I made this morning for anyone looking for new ideas.
Serves - 1
ProPoints - 9pps per serving
Ingredients:
50g potatoes (1pp)
1 small onion, chopped finely
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 small carrot, grated
1 medium egg (2pps)
1 egg white
2 lean rashers, visible fat trimmed (3pps)
30g low fat cheddar cheese (2pps)
1 large sprig parsley, chopped finely
Salt and black pepper
10g low fat butter (1pp)
Method:
Wash, peel and slice potato very thinly.
Peel and dice onion very finely. Peel and crush garlic.
Wash and chop parsley. Keep some for garnish.
Parboil the potatoes in a saucepan.
Heat butter, add potato, fry on medium heat for 10 minutes. Add onion and rashers, fry until golden and potato is soft.
Beat eggs. garlic, parsley, salt, pepper and vegetables.
Pour the egg mixture into the pan. Cook over a low heat for 10 minutes until the top has set.
Place a large plate over the pan, turn out the tortilla, then slide it back onto pan to cook the other side for 5 minutes. Alternatively, cook the bottom in the pan and when set, place under a heated grill to cook the top.
Sprinkle cheese on top and melt under the grill.0
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