Bugger

[lnr]

Slimming plans already going awry, or at least made harder work, lots of sin free things aren't any more. See this post to the SW community for more details if you're interested.

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[keirf.livejournal.com]

But think of all the new exciting recipes with new exciting ingredients you can go and research...

[lnr]

In my copious free time while struggling to cope with just getting out of bed these days, yes. And I can eat them all cold for lunch too.

Yes, I *can* cook myself good slimming food, and it can be interesting and new, but I just don't have the physical and emotional energy to do it for 3 meals a day, 7 days a week for the rest of my life.

[uitlander]

Well, one of my default bits of freezer food for days when I just can't face cooking is the Linda McCartney veggie lasagne - 354 calories. I've not followed any 'formal' diet, just kept and eye on the calories and fat content of anything I eat/drink.

Smoked tofu chunks are OK to snack on, and I find I am increasingly cooking with tofu despite not being a vegetarian (its virtually fat free). I'm also increasingly having tins of soup as a meal - fat/calorie content varies quite widely, but I've found Tesco's low fat Tomato & Orange particularly pleasant.

Good luck with it all.

[aldabra]

Do you have a freezer and a microwave? I keep meaning to start doing real-cooking again, on the freeze-a-batch principle. Once I get to the leaping-out-of-bed-in-the-mornings stage...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

How did they suddenly become more sinful? Did the manufacturers change the ingredients or something?

[lnr]

Sometimes things change because of ingredient changes. But sin values are based on energy density really: not so much the actual amount of fat and cals in a thing but also on how much it fills you up per calorie. I suspect given the vast number of changes they've discovered that many things aren't as filling as they'd hoped. Or perhaps the simple truth that when told you can eat as much as you like of a convenience food people really will eat far more than is actually enough to make them feel full.

[lnr]

Sorry, I don't mean to snap. The thing is there was nothing stopping me doing that sort of research before, and when I have lots of energy I do find it works well. The thing that's changed is that I now have fewer options when I'm not full of energy. And I also have a cupboard full of things that were bought for being able to just eat lazily without being fattening and now suddenly they're useless for that purpose.

The tesco Haddock in cheese and chive sauce which I used as part of the base for the fish pie the other day is no longer sin free either. Though probably still rather more so that homemade white sauce in a similar quantity.

[lnr]

It's certainly a possibility.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That's why I have so many cans of macaroni cheese in the cupboard for when I'm dizzy but not hungry. If I will eat nothing else, I will eat that.

Maybe they should have the first can/portion of those things a day as zero-sin, and any after that having a score. Then people would stop after one, maybe. It's all very complicated!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Like you said: bugger. :-(

Maybe it depends on why they've changed sin value? If the food really has changed, I guess it makes a difference. But if it's just what you said in another comment (i.e. that it's more to do with psychology), maybe you can allow yourself some leeway? Apart from the technical basis, I like SW's pragmatism. If it reaches a point where these changes make it so hard to keep to the rules that you might give up, it'd be better to systematically bend them slightly (e.g. continue to treat one or two of those things as sin-free), if it means that you can otherwise stick to the plan?

Sorry, I don't know. But if the food hasn't actually changed, and the plan was working for you before - and it was! - it would still work now. I don't know, but *hugs*.

[angua.livejournal.com]

Fuck me sideways with a broom..

I have no idea what I'm going to do about this now.. sins online is my saviour and I'm damn well not going to go back if they're starting all this corporate bollocks. It was bad enough before!

[aldabra]

Hey. If they weren't fattening before then someone changing a category on a webpage doesn't make them fattening. If you were eating them and losing weight then they're fine in a diet for you. Which is the point.

You looked fine to me, anyway. Eat the damn things. (But maybe not all at the same meal...)

[lnr]

*grin* all in the same meal would be pretty gross! I will eat them, well, and persude rjk to eat some of them too. My main concern is in mixing and matching plans not working very well. I am beginning to think that maybe if they're changing how things work quite significantly then I might actually find more interest in following the plan again, but we'll see.

The thing about fine is that it's now comparing not just with other people but also with me early last year, and it's a pretty horrible comparison and is making me miserable, which is why it's worth working on. Even if I do sometimes wish I could go back to just not caring.