What I have eaten today:
Syn free
Tomorrow's plans:
‘Tweaks’ is the term we use when a Free Food is used as a replacement for a high-Syn ingredient, for example – lasagne sheets turned into ‘crisps’. Tweaks could easily sabotage your weight loss success, so it’s good to be aware of them.
What makes something a ‘tweak’?
If it’s made from Free Food, why does it impact our weight loss? Slimming World’s Emily Young, a registered nutritionist, explains:
‘By changing the way a Free Food is intended to be used or cooked, we change the way we eat it, the way it fills us up (or doesn’t!) – and, as a result, the amount we consume.
A sort of Caesar salad using what I had.
The tomatoes, baby corn, cucumber, peppers and lettuce were all speed, the chicken and crunchy chick peas (recipe down below) were free foods, the lighter Caesar dressing was two and a half syns and the olives one and a half syns.
Dinner was lovely - the chickpea (I've been calling it bean but it is chickpea) and feta burger went nicely in a bagel with some chutney and some lettuce.
One B for the bagel, half an A and one and a half syns for the burger, one and a half for the chutney and one for the salad cream in the coleslaw.
Summary:
half a healthy extra A
one healthy extra B
eight syns
half a healthy extra A
one healthy extra B
eight syns
Not trying to be controversial here but my tum has been - unsettled is perhaps the best was to describe it so I am going to fast today, having a light meal in the evening, if wanted (I bet it will be).
I will have plenty of water, of course, and also I count black coffee and tea.
One day won't hurt and, hopefully, it will help lots.
D: soup, perhaps, or something egg based.
Exercise: Rest day
Crunchy chickpeas
Ingredients for one
cooked chickpeas, well dried (don't make loads, just a sensible portion - see below regarding tweaks)
one tsp avocado oil (two syns) - I used avo because it has a high roasting point
one tsp avocado oil (two syns) - I used avo because it has a high roasting point
salt
any other spices you fancy
and an air fryer
Method:
Make sure the chickpeas are properly drained and dried (if canned).
Pop them in a small poly bag, add the oil and give it a big squidge round.
Sprinkle over some salt.
Sprinkle over some salt.
Air fry at around 170/180 ish for 20 mins, shaking every five minutes and checking - they might be proper crunchy earlier.
When done, tip into a bowl, add whatever spice you fancy (I didn't, I just had the salt) and mix it in.
Enjoy hot or cold.
Two syns for the oil
About tweaks
When it comes to syns, strictly speaking they should be considered a 'tweak. This is what SW says about tweaks:
‘Tweaks’ is the term we use when a Free Food is used as a replacement for a high-Syn ingredient, for example – lasagne sheets turned into ‘crisps’. Tweaks could easily sabotage your weight loss success, so it’s good to be aware of them.
What makes something a ‘tweak’?
If it’s made from Free Food, why does it impact our weight loss? Slimming World’s Emily Young, a registered nutritionist, explains:
‘By changing the way a Free Food is intended to be used or cooked, we change the way we eat it, the way it fills us up (or doesn’t!) – and, as a result, the amount we consume.
It specifically mentions chickpeas.
Chickpea ‘peanuts’: Made by roasting or air frying chickpeas until they’re crunchy like nuts – and we all know how moreish they can be! Cooked this way, the chickpeas lose their water content and shrink in size, making it easy to polish off a whole can in one or two handfuls.
However, I didn't have them as a snack, I didn't make a large amount and dip into them randomly, I just cooked the amount needed and ate it as part of protein meal, synning the oil. So, to me, it is not a tweak.
Chickpea ‘peanuts’: Made by roasting or air frying chickpeas until they’re crunchy like nuts – and we all know how moreish they can be! Cooked this way, the chickpeas lose their water content and shrink in size, making it easy to polish off a whole can in one or two handfuls.
However, I didn't have them as a snack, I didn't make a large amount and dip into them randomly, I just cooked the amount needed and ate it as part of protein meal, synning the oil. So, to me, it is not a tweak.
But, as with all my work arounds, please make up your own mind.
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