So with it being Easter at the end of the week just wanted to give you all an example of how Slimmers4all can help you plan around any occasion!

So who’ll be getting their fish and chips this Good Friday?

You have 3 choices.

1. You can buy some fresh fish and cook it yourself at home with air-fried chips all for around 350 calories!
2. You can buy it from the fish and chip shop and think oh well it’s only Easter once a year and blow the whole weekend!
3. You can plan for it!

I know what I’ll be doing!

I’ll be buying my fish and chips from the fish and chip shop! But I will not be blowing my plan, I will get up in the morning and having my Weetabix and milk 168 calories.

I’ll be enjoying my fish and chips with lashings of salt and vinegar around 850 calories around 2 o clock. But I won’t want any tea as I’ll be too full from lunch.

So maybe a small sandwich on the night time with a Warburtons thin and a slice of ham 150 calories. Still leaving me enough calories for a Hot Cross Bun with a cuppa around 200 calories.

Still within my calorie intake and I’ve saved the day.
So what about Easter Sunday and chocolate eggs?
Again will you blow it or will you count it in, plan around it and stay within your calories again?

I’ll be having a large bowl of berries for breakfast for around 60 calories. Traditional Easter Roast lamb for lunch with roast potatoes and all the veg for around 600 calories. Again I’ll have this around 2.30 pm so won’t want a big meal for tea. So I have more than half my calories left for the rest of the night and plenty of calories to enjoy my chocolate egg without feeling guilty.

I’ve also made this cheesecake filled Easter eggs which work out 575 calories for the full one!

There’s no other plan out there anywhere that will allow you to eat like this and still be on plan!

With calorie counting there really is no need to blow your plan just because it’s an occasion or special event. All you have to do is plan around it. This is one of the reasons why I have maintained my Weightloss for almost 3 years now without depriving myself of my favourite foods.

So just wanted to let you know with Slimmers4all there’s always a way of having your cake and eat it 😂

When we start a healthy eating programme or diet whatever we like to call it, drinking more water is one of the first things we do right?

Yes, we cut out the crap, start an exercise regime and drink more water. After the first couple of days which one gives first? 9 out of 10 times it’s the water!

Why?

The benefits of drinking more water are immense.

1. Staying hydrated can improve your memory and moods as it helps the brain function better.
2. Helps with weightloss as the brain can’t tell the difference between hunger and thirst so quite often you get a sugar craving when you’re thirsty. So next time you fancy something sweet try having a glass of water first.
3. Having a glass of water before meals may fill you up and stop you over eating and therefore promote weight loss by eating less or smaller portions of a meal.
4. Drinking water can improve insulin resistance so helps reduce signs of diabetes and can prevent age related diabetes.
5. Improves exercise performance as being well hydrated gives you more energy and gets better results.
6. Reduces headaches and migraines.
7. Can help prevent constipation. When we’re healthy eating we naturally eat more fruit and veg, there’s lots of fibre in fruit and veg and water helps it digest and flush through the intestine. There is also evidence that sparkling water can also help with constipation too.
8. Drinking water reduces the risk of bladder and kidney problems such as UTIs cystitis and kidney stones.
9. May reduce hangovers! Alcohol is a diuretic and makes the body lose more water than you actually take in so when you feel ill the next day you’re more likely to be dehydrated!!
10. Last but not least water is really good for your skin it helps prevent spots and also helps keep the elasticity in your skin.Personally I know this works as I was advised to drink plenty water while losing weight to help prevent loose skin. As you know I lost 13 stone and hardly have any loose skin which I feel very lucky about.

Because a lot of you don’t like water! Or it makes you need the toilet more! Or it’s too cold to drink water!
Am I right?

Here are my top tips:

1. You don’t like water?
   • You don’t have to drink plain water! You can get flavoured water these days or you can add some juice or have fruit infused water.
2. It’s too cold to drink water?
   • Have hot water with lemon, or flavoured or herbal tea.
3. Keep a record of your water in take. You might be surprised how little you take.

So the moral of the story is…. don’t fall at the first hurdle. Stay hydrated. Drink water.

Whoever said you can’t have your pan CAKE and eat it clearly isn’t losing weight with Slimmers4all!

I’ve heard countless times people saying I didn’t lose weight this week because there was a birthday in the family or it was Pancake day and I had cake or I had pancakes!

Well with Slimmers4all you can have your cake, pancakes and still lose weight as we can help you count everything in.

Here’s a few tried and tested pancake recipes for you to try so you can have yours tomorrow without the guilt!

Easy banana pancakes!
1 serving of 4 pancakes.
170 calories.
1 very ripe banana
1 large egg.

Mash the banana with a fork until very soft and beat the egg.
Mix both together and leave to rest for a minute of so.
Spray a non stick pan with frylight and heat over a medium heat until frylight starts to bubble slightly l.
Place 2 tblsp mixture in pan into a small pancake shape. Cook for a few minutes until it looks like it’s starting to set on top the flip over gently and cook other side for another 2 mins. Repeat until all mixture is used.

Protein pancakes!
1 serving of 4 pancakes
266 calories and gives you 30g of your daily protein intake.

20g fine oats
1 scoop (25g) any protein powder
1 whole egg
50ml skimmed milk
Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
Spray a non stick pan with frylight and heat on a medium heat.
Place 2 tblsp mix into pan to form 1 pancake. Cook for 2 mins. When it starts to bubble slightly on top turn over and cook for a further 2 mins. Repeat until all mixture is used up.

Both of the 2 recipes above you can top with any low calorie toppings.

SkinnyFoodCo do a fantastic range of low calorie syrups to top with.

SweetFreedom also do a lovely caramel syrup and a choc shot sauce which is only 13 calories per teaspoon.

Or you can use lemon juice and a sprinkle of granulated sweetener and top with a few fresh berries!

You can even get your Biscoff Fix. See below for more info.

Nothing is off limits with Slimmers4all!
Enjoy your pancakes everyone ❤️

Hi Everyone,

With this Tuesday 9th February being National Pizza Day I thought I’d talk to you about how many different ways you can still have pizza and stay on plan without depriving yourself!

It probably doesn’t come as a big shock that pizza isn’t a health food, but if you’re a pizza lover, a life without pizza is no life at all. If you’re looking to treat yourself with a 10-inch pizza, calories may not be at the forefront of your mind. Can you get a small cheese pizza and stay within your calorie goals?

The exact amount of calories in a 10-inch Domino’s cheese pizza depends on the crust you choose, but for a standard, hand-tossed cheese pizza, you’ll consume 1,140 calories if you eat the whole thing. If you don’t plan on eating the entire pizza, you’re looking at 190 calories per slice.

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If you get a thin crust pizza, calories drop down to 800 for the whole pizza.

For a few of us that first option would be nearly your full calorie allowance for the day!

Even the skinny option would be quite high.

But if that’s what you want with calorie counting you can have this and plan the rest of your day around it.

A bowl of berries for breakfast for around 60 calories and a large salad for lunch for about 100 calories. This would leave you up to 1300 calories for the day or 960 for the skinny version.

However if you are like me and wouldn’t waste that amount of calories on a pizza here’s a few options for you!

1… a wrap pizza made with a Weight Watchers tortilla wrap, tomato purée, mushrooms, onion, a little ham, bacon or chicken and 30g 50% grated mature cheddar cheese all for around 280-300 calories.

2…. for a bit of a thicker base use the same method as about but with a pitta bread instead of the wrap.

3…. a Turkey meatza. This is a Turkey breast steak topped with tomato purée, a pinch of mild chilli powder, low fat cheese, onion mushrooms and a little chopped ham or bacon. Delicious and also around 300 calories.

4…. if a calzone pizza is more your style you could also do this with a tortilla wrap. Fry off some onion, mushrooms and bacon, add 100g passata and a pinch of mixed herbs and salt ant pepper, mix in 30g grated 50% fat mature cheddar. Place in the tortilla wrap, egg wash round the side and fold over pressing the edges together so it sticks. Egg wash the top and pop in the oven for 10/12 minutes until golden.

Don’t deprive yourself as there’s always a way. All you have to do is choose how many calories you want to spend on that pizza!
Let me know if you’re having a pizza on Tuesday and which way you decide to do it!
Enjoy 🍕🍕🍕

What is a diet?

Is it something people do when they want to lose weight?

YES???
No????

Actually it’s NOT. Diet is what we eat whether you have a good diet or a bad diet it’s your diet regardless. If you live on processed food or fast food it’s still your diet, it’s your lifestyle!

• The word Diet puts a lot of people off and can often set you up to fail! Because it’s the way you think about food which will determine whether you succeed or fail. If someone was to say they were on a diet what would you expect their meal to look like?
• A chicken breast or a piece of fish with salad?
• Or a plate of curry with rice and Naan bread?

90% of people would expect to see the first! Why? Because that’s the way society have made us think. The big name slimming clubs brainwash us into thinking differently about food and take our money for the privilege. They somehow make us binge on food by telling us it’s free and we can eat as much as we like. We eat these foods without having any control whatsoever and then can’t explain why we stop losing weight or have a gain. You have to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight and for that to be sustainable.

Make a list of all of your favourite foods and find a lower calorie recipe for it. It’s that simple. If you want a treat or have a special occasion plan around it.

Someone who has done the correct research into healthy eating like myself can help you plan around anything.

Yes there’ll be days when we eat more than others or fancy something more calorific because we’re just human.

We will go on holiday and eat and drink without even thinking about calories. But if we change the way we think and the way we cook it’s so much easier to get back on track once you get home because without thinking that’s just the way we cook now.

Its so important to have a healthy relationship with food and that is the main reason why you will succeed.

Yesterday I ate a white chocolate snickers and stayed within my calorie allowance.

I made a curry with sides and it was delicious and I was still within my calorie allowance. Today I’m making a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings with lemon pudding and custard for dessert and I will still be within my calorie allowance.

You can still love your food!

You can still enjoy every single bite you put in your mouth and you can still lose weight and this way is the most sustainable way every time!

• Vary your food!
• Love your food!
• Love your Diet!
• Love your lifestyle!
• Love your success!
• and most importantly love Yourselves!

Learn so we can teach our kids and Grandkids to have a good relationship with food.

There’s so many amazing lower calorie recipes out there and with our group support we won’t fail!

TogetherWeCan ❤️

One thing for sure is one plan doesn’t suit all!

If I were to give you all a menu and you all ate and drank the exact same for one week I can guarantee you’d all get different results and you’d all be fed up and needing something you fancied to eat!

I’ve had a lot of people message me interested in joining and asked if I give out a meal plan. When I say no, I don’t hear from them again?

But really would you rather have someone tell you what to eat or eat the things you love and just learn how to control it and count it in your daily plan?

It’s as simple as that! Keep it simple and you will succeed! Keep it simple and you can sustain this healthy lifestyle. We’re all going to have holidays (eventually), birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and we all want to not count and enjoy it.

But if we’ve never felt deprived on our plan we are less likely to binge on those special occasions.
Think about something that has happened to you while you’ve been either overweight, or while you’ve been unhappy with the way you are. Something that has really upset you and made you wish you were thinner, smaller or just made you think right I really need/want to lose weight. Write it down and put it on your fridge or away somewhere that you can look back on in 6 months time.
I have an awful lot of them stories.

The first time I really opened up about this was when I told my story to the journalist for my magazine story.

I once took the kids to Holy island and couldn’t get through the turnstile! I made on I was feeling poorly and went back and waited in the car!😢.

We once went to Whitby for fish and chips and I couldn’t fit in the seat so again I made on I was poorly and didn’t eat, even though I was starving 😢

Most of all I love my holidays but hated flying because the seat belt on the plane didn’t fit me and I had to press that button for assistance and ask for an extension belt! I’d ask so quietly so no one could here but you could guarantee the assistant would not hear me and say pardon? So I had to speak up. I was always so embarrassed and then a few days before coming home start to dread that exact thing!

When the journalist wrote my story and I got the read back I cried listening to it. When the article was published in the national magazines I cried reading it. It was like reading about someone else but it was also a realisation of how unhappy my weight had made me when I thought I’d hidden it so well! I’d paint a smile and say when you’re fat you’re happy! You’re really not! I wasn’t!
Now I keep it simple! I try my best to stay in the right mindset, to stay positive and to turn every negative into a positive.

Even when I get the days when I can’t be bothered to cook anything I would have grabbed a coffee and a handful of biscuits I think about the old me and instead of grabbing those biscuits I make something simple and I feel so much better in myself for doing that. When I can’t be bothered to go out for a walk or exercise I think about the old me and I push through and get it done and feel so much better afterwards.

It’s all a circle, you’re on a negative one and it brings negativity but you turn that into a positive one then it breeds positivity. It’s that simple! Eat the food YOU like and keep it simple instead of forcing yourself to eat what someone has told you to eat and it will work for you.

So like I said before write down your thing and when you get to your target go back and rip that up!