plateau advice needed on what i am eating

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do about
10 min a day on excersise bike

daily food intake what i been eating:
MONDAY EXAMPLE

breakfast: slimfast strawberry shake 217cal
Lunch : slimfast choc shake 217cal

Dinner :100g of ovenchips sainsburys be good to yourself low fat 112 cal,
2 bbq chicken gridders 210 cal,2 pieces of weight watchers bread 94cal, a
few chicken dippers 50 cal = total of 460cal ish on average.

daily : 1100 ish + after snacks and drinks

SNACKS consist of: Cheesy strings 69cal
tescos toffee cake slices 75cal
weight watchers desserts 165cal 3 points
slimfast snack bar 91cal
banana 100cal

example meals
MAIN MEALS : Weight watchers ocean pie and 100g of crispy potateos =450cal
weight watchers curry and potateos = 450
+dessert yogurt or somin
weight watchers lasagna and potateos = 450 +
dessert yog or somin
100g low fat chips , 5 chicken dippers, 2 slices
bread and pro active butter =450

all my lunch and breakfasts are a slimfast shake and my main meal is about
500 cal each night with a snak
DRINKS flavoured pink grapefruit water
pure orange juice
Actimel strawberry

I Dont eat choc, sweets, crisps, drink coke, iv had no alcohol, dont smoke
my basic calorie intake is 1200 a day including snaks

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice.

becky

B Sneap wrote:


my basic calorie intake is 1200 a day including snaks

Please post your height and weight, 1200 kcal a day sounds awfully low
to me.

Going too low on calories is a bad idea since your stupid body thinks
there is an emergency and starts saving energy in the form of fat for later.

The optimal caloric intake is:
Fat loss = 12 - 13 calories per lb. of bodyweight

So, if you're at a body weight of 100 to 92 lbs that amount of food is ok.

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice.

I'm not a fan of slimfast products at all, if you want a convenient meal
replacement get e good protein powder from your gym or health store and
use that instead. And it should be cheaper as well

You might want to eat a little more if you are well below your
maintenance caloric intake.

On the other hand, if you have lost a lot of weight it might be time to
recalculate your caloric needs.

Cheers
Marc

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:55:35 -0000, "B Sneap"
wrote:

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do about
10 min a day on excersise bike

Some time ago we had a post from a lady who was a working single mum.
She wanted to lose weight and was trying to find ways in which to get
along to WW despite the problems she faced. I thought that was
brilliant and I think she will be very successful.

This post is quite the opposite. You are making up reasons why you
can't do the right things.
You are a fussy eater - yet you eat slimfast
You don't have any money - yet you eat slimfast and WW meals which
must cost you far more than fresh stuff
You want low calories - yet you waste half your calories each day on
snacks and deserts.

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice

Eat your BMR - 500 calories each day
http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html
exercise more
http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

Stop buying slimfast and WW and buy some fresh food.

Stop making excuses and start making changes.

Ray
--
rmnsuk
273/202/182

how wat like, many fresh food dosnt last for 4 weeks, i get paid once every
4 weeks and have no income wot soever during that. and live on my own, so i
need frozen foods :S fruit dosnt last 4 weeks, and fridge stuff.

what else is there to buy, i struggle with my weekly milk and bread so
making sandwiches for lunch andmy luch meal is the hardest and breakfast
thats why i chose slimfast cos its a easy shake, then all i got to worry
about is my meal which is frozen and will keep for 4 weeks..
its not easy

"ray miller" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:55:35 -0000, "B Sneap"
wrote:

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do
about
10 min a day on excersise bike

Some time ago we had a post from a lady who was a working single mum.
She wanted to lose weight and was trying to find ways in which to get
along to WW despite the problems she faced. I thought that was
brilliant and I think she will be very successful.

This post is quite the opposite. You are making up reasons why you
can't do the right things.
You are a fussy eater - yet you eat slimfast
You don't have any money - yet you eat slimfast and WW meals which
must cost you far more than fresh stuff
You want low calories - yet you waste half your calories each day on
snacks and deserts.

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the
weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like
that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to
sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get
no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i
only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice

Eat your BMR - 500 calories each day
http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html
exercise more
http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

Stop buying slimfast and WW and buy some fresh food.

Stop making excuses and start making changes.

Ray
--
rmnsuk
273/202/182

Just because you get paid once a month doesn't mean you have to go shopping
only once a month. I used to live by myself and get paid once a month, and
yet I still managed to buy fresh fruit and veg every week. It all comes
down to budget. If you stopped spending so much on slimfast, bought some
breakfast cereal, milk, and fresh stuff for lunches you'd get a lot more
variety. I find that when I eat a larger variety of food my weightloss is
much better.

--
Julie.
93.5/72.3/74 (WW)/72 (Personal) kg
205.7/159.0/162.8 (WW)/158 (Personal) lb

Here's our FAQ: http://www.didian.com/asdww/ and welcome notice:
http://www.geocities.com/welcomenotice/index.html

"B Sneap" wrote in message
news:Aas1c.432$54.168@newsfe1-win...
how wat like, many fresh food dosnt last for 4 weeks, i get paid once
every
4 weeks and have no income wot soever during that. and live on my own, so
i
need frozen foods :S fruit dosnt last 4 weeks, and fridge stuff.

what else is there to buy, i struggle with my weekly milk and bread so
making sandwiches for lunch andmy luch meal is the hardest and breakfast
thats why i chose slimfast cos its a easy shake, then all i got to worry
about is my meal which is frozen and will keep for 4 weeks..
its not easy

"ray miller" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:55:35 -0000, "B Sneap"
wrote:

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do
about
10 min a day on excersise bike

Some time ago we had a post from a lady who was a working single mum.
She wanted to lose weight and was trying to find ways in which to get
along to WW despite the problems she faced. I thought that was
brilliant and I think she will be very successful.

This post is quite the opposite. You are making up reasons why you
can't do the right things.
You are a fussy eater - yet you eat slimfast
You don't have any money - yet you eat slimfast and WW meals which
must cost you far more than fresh stuff
You want low calories - yet you waste half your calories each day on
snacks and deserts.

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the
weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to
much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like
that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to
sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get
no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i
only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice

Eat your BMR - 500 calories each day
http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html
exercise more
http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

Stop buying slimfast and WW and buy some fresh food.

Stop making excuses and start making changes.

Ray
--
rmnsuk
273/202/182

B Sneap wrote:

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do about
10 min a day on excersise bike

daily food intake what i been eating:
MONDAY EXAMPLE

breakfast: slimfast strawberry shake 217cal
Lunch : slimfast choc shake 217cal

Dinner :100g of ovenchips sainsburys be good to yourself low fat 112 cal,
2 bbq chicken gridders 210 cal,2 pieces of weight watchers bread 94cal, a
few chicken dippers 50 cal = total of 460cal ish on average.

daily : 1100 ish + after snacks and drinks

SNACKS consist of: Cheesy strings 69cal
tescos toffee cake slices 75cal
weight watchers desserts 165cal 3 points
slimfast snack bar 91cal
banana 100cal

example meals
MAIN MEALS : Weight watchers ocean pie and 100g of crispy potateos =450cal
weight watchers curry and potateos = 450
+dessert yogurt or somin
weight watchers lasagna and potateos = 450 +
dessert yog or somin
100g low fat chips , 5 chicken dippers, 2 slices
bread and pro active butter =450

all my lunch and breakfasts are a slimfast shake and my main meal is about
500 cal each night with a snak
DRINKS flavoured pink grapefruit water
pure orange juice
Actimel strawberry

I Dont eat choc, sweets, crisps, drink coke, iv had no alcohol, dont smoke
my basic calorie intake is 1200 a day including snaks

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice.

becky

Not enough shubbery! My leaders advice is to go back and look at a
week in
which you lost well and do that again:'If you always do what you always
did,
you'll always get what you always got@ is her little saying. Works,
too.

I'd say cut out the Slimfast: those things are a horrible price and have
less
nutritional value than you'd get from real food. Real food does not
have to be
time consuming or difficult, and lots of vegetables can be disguised.
Vegetables are filling and CHEAP! You need grean leafy stuff and other
vegetables for the bulk (to stop you feeling hungry), the vitimines and
minerals, and (very important!) the fibre conyent.

I tend to make a BIG pot of soup with loads of vegetables in: if you
don't like
the taste and texture, thry blitzing them to a puree. Loads of veggies
suddenly
acquire a much more interesting flavour when blended, and lost of soups
are zero
or very low in points.

A typical day's food for me:

Wheetabix or shredded wheat and milk: 3 points, and takes no longer to
plonk in
a bowl and eat than making a SF shake

Carrot and corriander soup - BIG bowl! No points, but 2 veg portions (I
make
this at the weekend and eat it several times during the week)
2 standard slices of bread with a scrape of Low Fat olive marge: 2.5
points
1 Go Ahead cake bar: 2 points - my little treat!

Low fat saussages -2 for 3 points
Low fat oven chips - 3 points
Peas and carrots - the peas make it 1 point for vegetables, but there
were two
whole veg portions on the plate!
WW yoghurts - 2 for 1 point, and my calcium for the day.
Kiwi fruit: half a point and another fruit & veg...

This left me with a total of 16 points used on meals, leaving me 6 to
snack on,
and I earned another 2.5 for my walk, giving me 8.5... I also consumed
all five
recommended fruit and veg portions.

You may need to make yourself eat the vegetables to start with, but if
you find
quick and easy things to do with them, it makes life easier. I like
Medeterrainean roast vegetables: hack a red pepper, 2 courgettes, an
onion, and
a fenel bulb into chunks... Add a few cherry tomatoes and some button
muchrooms. Spread out in a shallow dish, spray with a little olive oil,
scatter
a few mixed herbs over it, and zap in the M/W for 5 minutes: then shove
in the
oven along with a chicken breast and a portion of low fat oven chips,
and dinner
will be all ready in 25 minutes.

If you eat half the veg, that's about 2 portions, so almost half you
daily
requirement. Save the rest for the next night. Use them for pasta
sauce: blat
them into chunks in the food processor and heat through with half a can
of
chopped tomatoes and 10 halved olives (half a point there!): serve with
a
portion of pasta for 3 points, and follow with a Muller Lite yoghurt: 3
veg
portions, and dinner for 5 points! If you have the points, throw an
ounce of
grated cheese over it, or add some chopped bacon to the sauce, and get a
little
more protein in. I often use a mixture very like this to make a pasta
bake,
mixing the sauce with fusili and putting the grated cheese on the top to
toast
in the oven.

You can save time by making a bigger batch of roast veg and freezing
half for
another time, or using the cooked veg as tasty low point sandwich
fillings,
jacket spud fillings, and pasta sauce bases as above.

Chicken breasts are much cheaper than nugets, and much better for you.
Try
making your own herby version:
1 chicken breast, cut into chunks - 2.5 points
1 slice of bread - 1 point (Blat it into crumbs)
teaspoom of mixed herbs
1 teaspoon of olive oil - 1 point

Put the whole lot into a plastic bag and shake about until the chicken
is
coated: tip out onto a baking sheet and bake in a hot oven for about 20
mins.
Eat with chunky cut vegetables such as carrots, celery and peppers. You
can use
a WW salsa as a dipping sauce, or a little low fat mayo.

I think (and this is just my personal take) that what you need to do is
wean
yourself off so much expensive pre-packages, manufactured food, and on
to
healthier home prepared low fat simple versions of the things you like.
Yes, it
DOES take a little more planning and a little more time, but this is
something
you may need to do to get the results you want. Relying on the slimfast
type
thing does not teach you good habits you can keep to for the rest of
your life.
If I sound a bit teachery here, sorry, but that's what I was in a former
life.
--
Kate XXXXXX (Teacher in remission)
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

JulieB wrote:

Just because you get paid once a month doesn't mean you have to go shopping
only once a month. I used to live by myself and get paid once a month, and
yet I still managed to buy fresh fruit and veg every week. It all comes
down to budget. If you stopped spending so much on slimfast, bought some
breakfast cereal, milk, and fresh stuff for lunches you'd get a lot more
variety. I find that when I eat a larger variety of food my weightloss is
much better.

I agree! Most people get paid once a month. You have to pay the monthly bills,
put aside that months ration for the quarterlies, and devide the rest up into 4
for the weeks of the month. Buy the stuff that keeps well in bigger packs less
often, for the volume saving, and buy fresh stuff when needed.

PLANNING also helps: I plan the meals for the week ahead and we buy to the
plan. That way no food is wasted. Eggs keep for weeks in the fridge, as does
cheese, root vegetables, apples (otherwise how would we have them all year when
they are harvested in the autumn?). Stuff that really doesn't keep well needs
to be bought more regularly.

It's all a matter of learning how to budget for a healthy life. Start comparing
prices: how much does a WW ready meal cost, and how much fresh food could you
buy for that? I can usually feed the whole family (2 adults and a growing lad
of 9) for the cost of a WW frozem meal for one.
--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

I used to buy my food once a month, I figured out my menus. I bought canned
vegetables first to make sure I had two cans of those each day, then I
bought canned tuna and canned beef and yes at that time spam as well. I
divided the rest of my money into three envelopes and purchased bread, milk
and fruit with that. I had no freezer and it worked well, I stayed at the
same weight for a long time doing it that way, I also bought canned fruit so
I had that at least twice a week, good luck, Lee
B Sneap wrote in message
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im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do about
10 min a day on excersise bike

daily food intake what i been eating:
MONDAY EXAMPLE

breakfast: slimfast strawberry shake 217cal
Lunch : slimfast choc shake 217cal

Dinner :100g of ovenchips sainsburys be good to yourself low fat 112 cal,
2 bbq chicken gridders 210 cal,2 pieces of weight watchers bread 94cal, a
few chicken dippers 50 cal = total of 460cal ish on average.

daily : 1100 ish + after snacks and drinks

SNACKS consist of: Cheesy strings 69cal
tescos toffee cake slices 75cal
weight watchers desserts 165cal 3 points
slimfast snack bar 91cal
banana 100cal

example meals
MAIN MEALS : Weight watchers ocean pie and 100g of crispy potateos =450cal
weight watchers curry and potateos = 450
+dessert yogurt or somin
weight watchers lasagna and potateos = 450 +
dessert yog or somin
100g low fat chips , 5 chicken dippers, 2
slices
bread and pro active butter =450

all my lunch and breakfasts are a slimfast shake and my main meal is about
500 cal each night with a snak
DRINKS flavoured pink grapefruit water
pure orange juice
Actimel strawberry

I Dont eat choc, sweets, crisps, drink coke, iv had no alcohol, dont smoke
my basic calorie intake is 1200 a day including snaks

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the
weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like
that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to
sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i
only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice.

becky

I loved your post, great ideas. I have nothing against slimfast, use it
when we are traveling or in a hurry but I do not really like drinking my
points. I was also thinking the oposter could make that batch of soup from
on sale fresh vegetables and freeze for later use, easy and helps with the
once a month issue, Lee
Kate Dicey wrote in message
...
B Sneap wrote:

im stuck on the same weight and it wont budge it been 12,12 for 3 weeks
i aint got time to excersise due to long hours at work although i do
about
10 min a day on excersise bike

daily food intake what i been eating:
MONDAY EXAMPLE

breakfast: slimfast strawberry shake 217cal
Lunch : slimfast choc shake 217cal

Dinner :100g of ovenchips sainsburys be good to yourself low fat 112
cal,
2 bbq chicken gridders 210 cal,2 pieces of weight watchers bread 94cal,
a
few chicken dippers 50 cal = total of 460cal ish on average.

daily : 1100 ish + after snacks and drinks

SNACKS consist of: Cheesy strings 69cal
tescos toffee cake slices 75cal
weight watchers desserts 165cal 3 points
slimfast snack bar 91cal
banana 100cal

example meals
MAIN MEALS : Weight watchers ocean pie and 100g of crispy potateos
=450cal
weight watchers curry and potateos = 450
+dessert yogurt or somin
weight watchers lasagna and potateos = 450 +
dessert yog or somin
100g low fat chips , 5 chicken dippers, 2
slices
bread and pro active butter =450

all my lunch and breakfasts are a slimfast shake and my main meal is
about
500 cal each night with a snak
DRINKS flavoured pink grapefruit water
pure orange juice
Actimel strawberry

I Dont eat choc, sweets, crisps, drink coke, iv had no alcohol, dont
smoke
my basic calorie intake is 1200 a day including snaks

my difficualty is veg and fruit but i am expanding a little, as the
weight
watchers meals have brocoli and veg in them and i dont mind tht to much,
plus my buget is very,limited to 60,00 a month 30.00 on me slimfast on
shopping so i cant buy fancy food and cook it.
im very fussy on food, i aint keen on veg,beans,seafood, anything like
that.
and excersise is a prob as by the time i get home im tired and want to
sleep
and its late, and i start early morning and work on a checkout so i get
no
excersie (( i
im doing my shop on friday for the month and need to loose weight and i
only
got 40.00 to spend as im poor

i need advice, if anyone has any good advice.

becky

Not enough shubbery! My leaders advice is to go back and look at a
week in
which you lost well and do that again:'If you always do what you always
did,
you'll always get what you always got@ is her little saying. Works,
too.

I'd say cut out the Slimfast: those things are a horrible price and have
less
nutritional value than you'd get from real food. Real food does not
have to be
time consuming or difficult, and lots of vegetables can be disguised.
Vegetables are filling and CHEAP! You need grean leafy stuff and other
vegetables for the bulk (to stop you feeling hungry), the vitimines and
minerals, and (very important!) the fibre conyent.

I tend to make a BIG pot of soup with loads of vegetables in: if you
don't like
the taste and texture, thry blitzing them to a puree. Loads of veggies
suddenly
acquire a much more interesting flavour when blended, and lost of soups
are zero
or very low in points.

A typical day's food for me:

Wheetabix or shredded wheat and milk: 3 points, and takes no longer to
plonk in
a bowl and eat than making a SF shake

Carrot and corriander soup - BIG bowl! No points, but 2 veg portions (I
make
this at the weekend and eat it several times during the week)
2 standard slices of bread with a scrape of Low Fat olive marge: 2.5
points
1 Go Ahead cake bar: 2 points - my little treat!

Low fat saussages -2 for 3 points
Low fat oven chips - 3 points
Peas and carrots - the peas make it 1 point for vegetables, but there
were two
whole veg portions on the plate!
WW yoghurts - 2 for 1 point, and my calcium for the day.
Kiwi fruit: half a point and another fruit & veg...

This left me with a total of 16 points used on meals, leaving me 6 to
snack on,
and I earned another 2.5 for my walk, giving me 8.5... I also consumed
all five
recommended fruit and veg portions.

You may need to make yourself eat the vegetables to start with, but if
you find
quick and easy things to do with them, it makes life easier. I like
Medeterrainean roast vegetables: hack a red pepper, 2 courgettes, an
onion, and
a fenel bulb into chunks... Add a few cherry tomatoes and some button
muchrooms. Spread out in a shallow dish, spray with a little olive oil,
scatter
a few mixed herbs over it, and zap in the M/W for 5 minutes: then shove
in the
oven along with a chicken breast and a portion of low fat oven chips,
and dinner
will be all ready in 25 minutes.

If you eat half the veg, that's about 2 portions, so almost half you
daily
requirement. Save the rest for the next night. Use them for pasta
sauce: blat
them into chunks in the food processor and heat through with half a can
of
chopped tomatoes and 10 halved olives (half a point there!): serve with
a
portion of pasta for 3 points, and follow with a Muller Lite yoghurt: 3
veg
portions, and dinner for 5 points! If you have the points, throw an
ounce of
grated cheese over it, or add some chopped bacon to the sauce, and get a
little
more protein in. I often use a mixture very like this to make a pasta
bake,
mixing the sauce with fusili and putting the grated cheese on the top to
toast
in the oven.

You can save time by making a bigger batch of roast veg and freezing
half for
another time, or using the cooked veg as tasty low point sandwich
fillings,
jacket spud fillings, and pasta sauce bases as above.

Chicken breasts are much cheaper than nugets, and much better for you.
Try
making your own herby version:
1 chicken breast, cut into chunks - 2.5 points
1 slice of bread - 1 point (Blat it into crumbs)
teaspoom of mixed herbs
1 teaspoon of olive oil - 1 point

Put the whole lot into a plastic bag and shake about until the chicken
is
coated: tip out onto a baking sheet and bake in a hot oven for about 20
mins.
Eat with chunky cut vegetables such as carrots, celery and peppers. You
can use
a WW salsa as a dipping sauce, or a little low fat mayo.

I think (and this is just my personal take) that what you need to do is
wean
yourself off so much expensive pre-packages, manufactured food, and on
to
healthier home prepared low fat simple versions of the things you like.
Yes, it
DOES take a little more planning and a little more time, but this is
something
you may need to do to get the results you want. Relying on the slimfast
type
thing does not teach you good habits you can keep to for the rest of
your life.
If I sound a bit teachery here, sorry, but that's what I was in a former
life.
--
Kate XXXXXX (Teacher in remission)
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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Miss Violette wrote:

I loved your post, great ideas. I have nothing against slimfast, use it
when we are traveling or in a hurry but I do not really like drinking my
points. I was also thinking the oposter could make that batch of soup from
on sale fresh vegetables and freeze for later use, easy and helps with the
once a month issue, Lee

My problem with Slimfast and similar products is the sugar and salt content
(waaaaay too high for me - and think what that does to the water retention
levels!), and they taste disgusting! I'd rather have plain dry bread and a
glass of water. In fact, when on the run on a journey, I have been known to
grab a couple of fresh rolls from the baker and a bottle of water, and just have
that.

Occasionally, when energy levels are really low, I'll opt for a doughnut, but
not more than two or three times a year!

Kate XXXXXX
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