Chinese Slimming World Style

Tonight I am indulging in one of my favourite foods…chinese! I love chinese and look forward to it whenever I eat it. I haven’t had it in a good few weeks though due to the fact I have found that since starting Slimming World and cooking from scratch more I feel horrible afterwards. I’m not talking about that dreaded guilt trip I tend to go down whenever I ‘cheat’ but in myself I feel terrible. It is like my body is punishing me for putting something as fatty as prawn crackers, bbq ribs, egg fried rice and sweet and sour chicken (battered) into my body. It is like I just can’t handle it and to be honest I have now decided that it simply is not worth it. So tonight I will be really strict with myself and I will certainly not be indulging in the ‘really naughty’ chinese foods. Another added bonus to this is the fact that I will be saving a ton of syns. I looked up the syns of some of favourite chinese orders:

• BBQ Spare Ribs = 8.5 syns
• Prawn Crackers = 1.5 syns for 5 and you can guarantee that I could eat 10/15 in a meal so you looking at 4.5 syns
• Egg Fried Rice = 4 syns
• Sweet And Sour Chicken (battered) = 17.5 syns

So for my old chinese takeaway that made me feel terrible is a whopping 34.5 syns! I can’t believe I used to put that into my body and think nothing of it. It really is no wonder I used to feel terrible after that.

This time it will be a completely different story. I intend to not eat any prawn crackers or appetisers and will instead be ordering boiled rice (FREE) with chicken in oyster sauce (4.5 syns). Yum Yum and with this menu choice hopefully I wont be feeling half as bad as I did last time.

Indian Slimming World Style

Epic Win!!! I lost 1lb last night in weigh in, taking my total weight loss to 1st 3lbs. I now weigh 9st 2.5lb. The lightest I have been in…FOREVER (discounting childhood that is). Well, if that isn’t a huge motivator for carrying on I really don’t know what is.

Having made a brilliant eating plan on yesterdays post ready for today I was all ready to have a fabulous syn free eating day today. However, I woke up this morning horror struck! I had forgotten about going to see Michael Mcintyre. That alone is fine as I will take a bottle of water and if I feel like eating I will take along some of the juicy grapes that are currently waving at me from the fruit bowl. Unfortunatly I had completely forgotten the Tamatanga  (indian) meal beforehand…DOH! I spoke to my other half about it pre motivation 1lb weight loss as we have buy one get one free vouchers (would almost be rude not to!) This is the nightmare of every person trying to lose weight.

But all is not lost as I have a plan! I will stick to the following rules:

• No creamy sauces – this is one I must stick to so I WILL NOT be ordering my usual Chicken Tikka Masala and will be going for something tomato based instead.
• Boiled rice instead of Pilau rice – Now don’t get me wrong Pilau Rice is not the big bad monster as an average portion comes in at 2.5 syns and lets face it in the world of Indian cuisine thats brill. It’s just that If I know I am going to be having a syn laden meal I want syn free where possible.
• No extras – Usually when I go into some sort of indian restaurant my initial instinct is to order the whole kit and caboodle. So no poppadoms or naan breads or anything. Just my main meal as I will still have too much on my plate and be unable to eat it. \
• Chicken or Vegetable dishes – chicken is the most likely to be lean. Other meats tend to be unpredictable and vegetables kinda speak for themselves.

Normally when eating in an Indian restaurant I’d have a poppadom (4 syns each) with mango chutney (4 syns for 2 level tbsp) while ordering, then I’d have onion bhajis as a starter (8.5 syns). For my main I would have chicken tikka masala (14.5) with a portion of pilau rice (2.5 syns) and of course a garlic and coriander naan bread (20 syns). As I would be pretending to be on a diet I would then skip the dessert and be drinking diet coke. That baby is a whooping 53.5 syns!!!!!!!

I will not be doing that this time! I am struggling to choose exactly what I will be having but I will be choosing from the following:

• Tandoori chicken (without any sauce) with boiled rice (fingers crossed as it isn’t mentioned on the menu) – 9 syns
• Chicken Biryani – 12.5 syns
• Vegetable Biryani – 11.5 syns
• Lamb Rogan Josh – 6.5 syns

At the minute Lamb Rogan Josh is winning and even if I have to have Pilau rice it wont break the syn bank. Today’s food diary is as follows:

Breakfast Fruit and Fibre (HEB and 1 syn), Semi Skimmed Milk (1/2 HEA – I only have the tiniest bit)

Snack Banana (SUPERFREE) and water (FREE)

Lunch Chicken and Herb Low Fat Supernoodles (FREE), Tea with Milk (HEA) and Sweetener (FREE), 2 Nectarine (SUPERFREE – I was super hungry after the gym and swimming today)

Snack Fat Free Muller Greek Styke Yoghurt (0.5 syn) Tea with Milk (HEA) and Sweetener (FREE)

Dinner Lamb Rogan Josh (6.5 syns) Boiled rice (FREE) or if I can’t have that then Pilau Rice (2.5 syns) Diet Coke (FREE)

Snack Water (FREE) and grapes (SUPERFREE)

Total with boiled rice = 8 syns. Total with Pilau rice = 10.5 syns.