I know you all missed it yesterday... Today I am eating

Mmmmm dinner sound gooood!

I know nothing about SW. Can you tell me what a 'syn' is and how many you're allowed a day please?

Breakfast: egg & bacon sarnie (bread was a HEb) then Mullerlight cherry & HiFi Light (3 syns)

Lunch: not sure yet!

Dinner: possibly lamb tikka with rice

You have both?!

You don't?

I'm not doing SW, I'm on WW but today I am having:

B: Golden Grahams with skimmed milk (4points)

L: Ham salad sarny with Clover light, bag of salt & vinegar french fries & a danone yogurt (8points)

D: Spicy prawn cakes with noodles & veg (12points)

Snacks: 2 satsumas

I'm left with 3 points for the day, so might have some ice cream after my dinner

Never. Its one or the other for me.

Ooh no, you're missing out.

Mind you, I have to fill my plate up with poatoes otherwise it would be empty ?

One? What a meanie! ?

Mash has no place in a roast dinner!

I'm going to have weetabix with semi skimmed milk in about 3 minutes.

Lunch will be left over stuffed peppers from last night.

Dinner is Cuban turkey steaks, salad and jacket potatoes.

Activity for today is an hour or so in the gym and possibly a shouting at by Jillian Michaels early this afternoon.

Claire, Flow, anyone who goes to groups - what does your consultant say about saving up syns? I'm only going on what my sister's consultant told her 4 years ago which is that you can have up to 15 a day, but you can't "bank" them for the weekend for example.

I also don't get the concept of "Flexible Syns" that I've read about. It says to add up what you think you'll need and then stop. Stop what? Stop counting or stop eating?!

What does yours say?

Duplicate - stupid computer

? ahh shucks, i woudlnt say amazingly..

but clurrs said it all, its daunting at first i know and i panicked thinking it was going to be a ballache workign out whats to eat with what but seriously, if you stick with it, youl 'know' the princicples in no time and be losing weight at a gradual pace and not be starving or stopping yourself eating goodies!!

saving syns in fine, its basically what flexi syns is!! so, if your out on a friday and know your going to have over 15 (this si what they say is the top end of syns you can have a day is, they say aim for 10) then on the saturday, have less. its about planning the whole week ahead i guess.

So, if you aim for 70 a week, youl find that maybe on a monday youl only have 4 syns the whole day, so the next day, add on 4, or save them up for the event/outing etc you have later in the week

does that make sense?

Either mash or roast potatoes for me, otherwise it all get's a bit carb-y. And if there's Yorkshire puddings, I'll only have one roast potato (as will Boy, although he protests ?).

I would rather have plain boiled potatoes than have mash without lashings of proper butter and roasties not cooked in goose fat. They are two of life's great pleasures.

Yes, perfect sense thanks Flow. It's obviously changed since my sister's days. That's really the reason we've been kind of giving up over the weekends, as we're more often than not away at weddings or the like.

they are really nice!! i always leave them in just that little bit too long so they get a wee bit burnty round the edges, NOM

My dad makes the most amazing roasties, but only makes them in the winter (when he can use "old" potatoes). In the summer, they have new potatoes with Sunday lunch. Mr Knees hates going for Sunday lunch during the summer and it's become a running joke that he now gets Aunt Bessie's!

Breakfast: was supposed to have a slice of toast with peanut butter, but I haven't had time yet! Bit pointless now.

Lunch: jacket perchetti with tuna & mayo

Dinner: homemade, SW friendly, chicken biryani

That's a new one RB ?

Today I have been a greedy cow!

I have had 2 snowball marsh mallow tea cake things

A hoisin duck wrap

A packet of cheese & onion walker

and 5 quality street sweets, it's not even 1pm! ?

My pa always calls it that and it's sorta rubbed off!

Thats my sort of day, lol! But would swap the quality street for roses.

However, a packet of those belvita biscuits and grapes so far. not sure what is on the lunch or dinner menu. pretty poor planning today ☹️

I missed this yesterday Claire! I was lost without it ?

Today (Going for a Red day)

Bfast: Oat so simple (HEB) made with water as work have full fat and I hate it!

Lunch: 2 salmon fillets (they looked small), low fat cottage cheese with onion and chive and salad

Dinner: Zumba night and I don't get in till 9 and am never hungry. In the 1/2 hr I have in between getting in from work and before I go I will probably have 3 x babybel light (HEA) and 2 alpen light bars (HEB)