Alex, like many of the Griffin Players, has started Slimming World. The theory behind this diet is that most meats trimmed of all visible fat, veg and fruit is ‘free’, while other things have ‘Syn’ points. For example, two tablespoons of light mayonnaise is 1 Syn, a Jaffa Cake is 3 Syns, etc. Alex has up to 15 Syns a day. I make up a menu at the start of each week (mainly so I can make sure we have enough shopping in), only now it’s run by Slimmers World.
You should know at this point that I dislike cooking. I don’t hate it, but there is a definite resentment at the amount of time it takes to grate an onion, chop veg, measure out spices etc. You should know also that whenever I’m preparing dinner I’m also feeding my nine month daughter whilst aiming to be out of the door as soon as Alex arrives home in order to make it rehearsals 20 minutes late. This means that these meals had better bloody be worth it, or I’m going back to sticking something in the oven for 40 minutes.
I thought it might be valid to have a real world look at someone on Slimmers World, so here it is.
Day one.
Breakfast was brilliant. Giant fry up. Lovely and took me through to well past lunchtime hunger wise.
For lunch we nipped over the marina to the Carvery. Nomilicious. Alex found he could eat pretty much everything on offer but needed to check Syns of a few things when we got back.
For dinner, I made meatballs and spaghetti. We used wholemeal spaghetti – I bought pretty much wholemeal everything in the last shop as it’s meant to be better for you, Syns or no Syns. You know what? Wholemeal spaghetti tastes fine, don’t fret it. It was a bit of a pain prepping and cooking everything simultaneously, but it came out pretty good. I whacked a salad on the side so my portions didn’t seem too small. I’m impressed at how good it tastes. I made enough to put two portions aside to ‘ding’ another day, so not a bad start.
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Small portions? Adding salad to make it fuller?
The main crux of Food Optimising is that two thirds of your plate should be free food AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! And the other third MUST be Super Free like your salad. You portions should not ‘seem to small’ you should be eating as much if not more than when you weren’t on the plan! Perhaps this is something that the website does not emphasize as much as we do in group and during support calls.
But sounds like you’re doing great… just cook and eat more of it 🙂 x
PS
Even though I love cooking I still buy frozen chopped onions from the freezer sections… they’re a godsend when you’re in a rush… no smelly hands too x