Thursday, 07-12-23: Christmas Challenge

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to my maintaining on Slimming World blog where I talk about the meals I enjoy while maintaining my target weight and keeping a healthy balanced diet.

Through December, I am going to try to incorporate as much Christmas themed food as possible while still following SW guidelines (mostly) and remaining within my target range.

Yesterday's meal photos:

I just had a banana for breakfast

I found a portion of my tomato, roasted red pepper and lentil soup - very tasty, very filling and very healthy

Dinner was nice too.  I totally forgot to put any h m cranberry sauce on the chicken but not to worry.

The wine tasting event was great fun but I'm not used to drinking so fast or mixing drinks like that and I have a 'muggy' head this morning.
The price you pay!

Today's meal plans:

B:  fruit and yoghurt

. . . if I want any -I probably won't.

SW:  syn free

L:  turkey, brie and cranberry toastie 🎄, finger salad; fruit

I know I had this on Tuesday but I have a friend over and I know this works.

SW:  one healthy extra A, one healthy extra B, one and a half syns

D: turkey curry 🎄, rice, maybe a samosa; fruit

I'm going to be lazy this evening and use some Mayflower chinese curry mix.  It counts as festive because I'm using up leftover turkey!

SW:  It's quite hard to work out the syns - it will be around four, I think.  One vegetable samosa (from Iceland) is two syns

Exercise:  none today apart from everyday activity

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

seven and a half syns

For information:

The Slimming World structure:

While following the plan, you can have . . .

Any amount of speed and free food - BUT try to have a third of your plate as speed food as a sub for free food, NOT as well as . . .  Eat to satisfaction, not to stuffed-ness!

Two healthy extra As (calcium) and one healthy extra B (fibre) - details in the SW pack and on the SW web site/app.

Between five and fifteen syns-worth of synned food - again, details in the pack, site and app.  They are a limit to stay within, not a target to hit.

As a target member, I can also have . . .

Another two healthy extras each day
Another fifteen syns up to three times each week

BUT - only if I need/want to.  It's a limit, not a target

. . . with the ultimate aim of not needing to count healthy extras, syns, etc at all but just knowing and eating well instinctively.