Hi
Recipe for SW Lentil Chilli is in my file at home.
Will post it on here in the next day or so.
Irene

Started SW 2 weeks ago tomorrow and lost 8lbs already! Happy days!

Happy Holidays guys!
CourtneeLouise x

CourtneyLouise - A great loss.
Maintained again this week.
Have just looked through some old SW magazines for new recipes and inspiration?

Hi Irene. Don't forget to post the recipe please. I maintained this week, again. Gx

With 5 weeks to go till my holidays, and also picking up overtime, I recon I can get a few days at the gym, before I have to wind things up, so next 2 weeks going to try to tone up my body, and just before I head of, one final weigh in, just to see what I put on while away on holiday

Todays weight

86 kgs.......189 lbs

13 stn: 7 lbs

Aiming for ideal weight 13 stn: 4 lbs for 15 June

Paragaluvva
Apologies - not been SW focussed since Wednesday - here is the recipe.

Lentil Chilli
1 packet green lentils
2 tins baked beans or chilli beans
2 tins chopped tomatoes
1 tin sliced mushrooms
1 garlic clove
1 chopped onion
1 chicken or vegetable stock cube made up with 1 pint water
3 tablespoons tomato puree
chilli powder to taste

Boil up the lentils with a bit of salt and cook until soft and then drain. Add the remainder of the ingredients and bring to boil Can be left on the hob until it thickens or thicken up in a LARGE slow cooker (Use a very large pan - or halve ingredients - makes about 10 portions).

Can be frozen.

A cheap and filling meal.

Enjoy.

Thanks Irene. Sounds lovely. Will make a batch today/tomorrow. Gail x

I have been on the SW Extra Easy Plan for 3 weeks now and have lost 7 lbs. I really like the plan as you don't have to faff about weighing and measuring that much. I haven't joined a class, I just use the books I was given 2 years ago and bought the Extra Easy Plan and the 2011 Food Directory off of the well known auction site. I cannot live without the Food Directory as I use it all the time.

One thing that has helped is that my other half is on it too. He was very sceptical about being able to lose weight eating all the things we can eat but having lost about 8lbs so is now very happy.

We find we don't use that many syns each week, which is good as we have an off plan meal on Saturday evenings, although we make sure that we don't go mad. For example, we had a Chinese meal the other day but we didn't have Spring Rolls and I had noodles and himself had ordinary rice.

Well done Sydney and well done to your other half too

Ive been following the plan too for 4 weeks now. Im not to going to a class either and although this weekend was a complete disaster (2 birthday parties - 1 adult and 1 child - and a wedding reception. Lots of alcohol and very naughty foods) id lost 6.5lb but put on 2lb over my weekend of syn . Got another 3 weeks to do my stuff now so back into it 100% and hoping that another 6lb loss is forthcoming. Will be more than happy with that if I can do it. My aim was half a stone before my holiday and I almost got there early which would have been brilliant but with 2.5lbs to go again, I know I can do it.

SW extra easy is a breeze to do and ive let my friend borrow one of my old books and she is getting on fabulously too. Was very cynical about it at first but the scales and waist bands say otherwise so she is happy. I love it personally and for me its just eating healthily and not a diet at all.

Does anyone know how many SW syns are in a mini Jarlsberg cheese? I ask as I couldn't find my usual Babybel cheese.

Good Morning. This topic is very quiet!? Hope everyone is on track? Gx

Well, had biggest ever weight gain from holidays ever.......10lb, gutted, I stayed with salads n grilled stuff...must have been all the cocktails!
So I'm back to being 12lb away from my target again. Back to SW on Tuesday........

CazzMicknTom wrote:

Well, had biggest ever weight gain from holidays ever.......10lb, gutted, I stayed with salads n grilled stuff...must have been all the cocktails!
So I'm back to being 12lb away from my target again. Back to SW on Tuesday........ :(

With 3 weeks till my holiday, and more or less happy with my weight at the moment

13 st 12 lbs
194 lbs

Now I do expect to put on a few pounds over the 2 weeks of my holiday, as the food is so tasty, will probably stuff my face, but when I come back home, its not going to be hard for me to loose what I have put on

I am so jealous of my daughter ha ha! She has lost 1st 6lbs in 3 WEEKS!!! - Joys of being a 16 year old. I've lost 12lbs in 4 weeks.

Some of my favourite recipes from SW -
Chilli con carne
Basic chicken curry
Pepper sauce
Chicken risotto

Happy Hols!
CourtneeLouise x

Wow how did she do that? That is just what I would like to lose in 3 weeks . Please tell me how she did it? Does she still have more to lose? Gx

I have been on the SW Extra Easy Plan for 5 weeks now and have lost 11 lbs. At times the progress seems very slow, but I guess 1-2 lbs weight loss each week is better than a gain.

Well got weighed this evening and have lost 4lb since last monday, so only another 8lb away from my target. I'm still gutted to think I was spot on target the day I went away!
I will do it within the next three weeks though.....want to be a life member!

pargaluvva - Not quite sure how she's done that! She's on SW Extra easy plan (and she uses all her 15 syns per day) and on the wii fit she does 2 sets of hula hoop, 10 minute jog and kick boxing, 3 - 4 times a week. We are both dying to get in a bikini for hols!

CourtneeLouise xx

Hi all

Since I started my diet beginning of April I have now hit my target of losing a stone and am now 8'4. This is down to a lot of wii fit and giving up a lot of foods i used to eat and choosing the more healthy options.

I haven't been able to exercise for a week as have been ill. I go on holiday on Thursday so hopefully be better then.

I bought Zumba for wii but not tried it yet will be starting up the diet again when back.

I don't want to put too much weight on holiday but I know its inevitable.