I am not completely sure about SW diet as have not been before but rfom what I can see, this might be one diet that you might get away with that although you should try to eat some fruit and veg whether dieting or not. It doesn't have to fresh fruit and veg, it could be juice, soup, frozen, tinned, dried. I am lucky because I like fruit and veg but I know that there are plenty of people who don't. Why not add a new thread asking for new ways to eat fruit and veg?
hi sw ican eat lots raw i just dont like them cooked and as ive never actually been on a diet before i thuoght they were all salad and stuff .I eat lots of rice pasta and stuff i just don,t like salad i refuse to eat anything my hamster does but i will look at sw thanks again
The only thing to be very careful with is not to do fruit smoothies. These are ladled with calories (after all there are 80 in a glass of orange juice alone!). As my ex SW leader explained when having a smoothie you can gulp down loads without realising it whereas you would not be able to eat the same amount of fruit raw!
Certaily you can have as much cooked veg as you like. Just don't deep fry it! Steamed would be good because it keeps in the vits and the veg tastes more of the veg itself. Don't go putting butter on it all though (I still have to wean myself off doing this from time to time!).
SW- I hope you enjoy going to Slimming World. Don't worry if at first it sounds barmy or you think it is just you that cannot get to grips with it. We are here to help! It took me a while. One good product they will tell you about is the spray oil which has minimal calories/syns. The sunflower one is better as some people don't like the taste of the Olive oil one.
All you have to remember is, if you start the day on a red day you have to stick with it. If however you are going out and have no idea what you will be eating later- plan ahead by having cereal for brekkie then perhaps an egg sarnie and then you can either go green or red for dinner!
By the way, I am sure "Hammy" or whaever your hamster is called is quite put out by you dissing his food. Remember sunflower seeds give him that glossy coat!
Sorry the end bit was for Linus in regard to her rubbishing her hamster's diet. I did not make it clear. SW will be wondering why I mention her hamster!
Hmmm, had a good look at SW's 'diet' last night and i remember now why i could'nt keep it up i got sick of the oven baked fries and the idea of a poached egg with syn free chips and mushy peas was i could have had one fried in fry light but even so the diet seemed very bland after a while i'm sure all you UK'ers who can get your hands on the pre-packaged "free" foods will do really well..i know when i used to get the mag and see all the yummy grub that was free (and i can't get) it used to make my mouth water GOOD LUCK to all of you who are going to start this think it will have to be calorie counting for me.
hi peacock my hamster or jerry as he is calle d im afraid prefers wotsits and chips thanks mainly to the efforts of my sons but my dogs do love sunflower seeds! it,s the goldfish who eat the lettuce .see its not just me that has a weird taste in food and why i cook 4 different meals a night ,also for those who are having bother with virus,s have you tried a spy sweeper it check s emails as well .Hubbby builds comps and we have 3 constantly hooked to broadband and we very rarely have any bother all you do is run the program every now and then, and if theres anything dodgy including spam or cookies it takes them off
We used to give our mouse cheesey footballs. Are you old enough to remember them? The round things. The heighth of sophistication at dinner parties ..not. I think Will Self mentioned them on room 101 once. Well Kipsy our mouse loved them. We also had a mouse called Jerry. 3 hamsters too. I miss having the litte fellas around. They are so comical. My dad used to let one out when I had gone to sleep. For some reason he fed it raw spaghetti bits and you could see the thing sticking out. The same one got under the floor boards where the forgotten apples were . You know the ones you store away and forget about. They were well cidery when the hamster found them and was quite drunk (probably with a little hangover too) when my dad found her. She probalby started a fight with him as well!
super don,t i know that feeling unfortunatly hes really good with the software side as well so you get frantic phonecalls from people who,s system is going beep beep beep weve been really busy having to reinstall a lot of virus plauged comps at the moment i think anti virus should be compulsary and i wouldn,t have a sore ear listening to people trying to explain probs to me cause hubby is on a clan match and yes goldfish really do eat lettuce it stops them from eating the plants in their tank i give it to our tropical fish as well
bye all
ps ihave suvived 18 hours of no coca cola and i normally drink 2ltrs plus a day
I joined SW on Monday (I could have sworn that I already posted that here somewhere). I went on my own. I am on my second day and I have to say that so far the diet is suiting me (two days isn't much to go but I always find the first couple of days dieting hard).
I have been eating plenty. I am having quorn sausages, Iceland Good Choice mashed potato and baked beans for tea - all of which are free from syns.
i got sick of the oven baked fries and the idea of a poached egg with syn free chips and mushy peas was 
i could have had one fried in fry light but even so the diet seemed very bland after a while 
i'm sure all you UK'ers who can get your hands on the pre-packaged "free" foods will do really well..i know when i used to get the mag and see all the yummy grub that was free (and i can't get) it used to make my mouth water 
to all of you who are going to start this 
think it will have to be calorie counting for me.
hi peacock my hamster or jerry as he is calle d im afraid prefers wotsits and chips thanks mainly to the efforts of my sons but my dogs do love sunflower seeds! 
it,s the goldfish who eat the lettuce 
