Bride Loses Half Her Body Weight In A Year Prior To Wedding

This bride-to-be managed to lose HALF of her weight in just one signle year. 

Jennifer Ginley, 26, at the time over 19 stone, was triggered by a selection of holiday pictures, but considers herself ready for her wedding.

Before, Ginley had warned her boyfriend Luke of proposing to her to avoid having bad wedding photos.

The Liverpool Echo reports that she was lost 9st 9lbs, going from size 24/26 to size 8/10 in just over a year.

"I knew I wouldn't be able to relax and enjoy myself," she said.

"I knew my fiance loved me whatever size I was but I was determined that I wasn't going to feel that way on my wedding day, so on January 3 I went along to my first Slimming World group.

"After losing five stone I felt fantastic on the day in August and even wore a bikini on my honeymoon, but the best thing is that I finally feel normal - not fat or frumpy."

She joined Kirkby Slimming World group back in May 2015 along with her mother and sister Christine and began to follow a healthy eating plan together. 

Jennifer admitted, ‘Before I lost weight I had a massive lack of belief in myself and I feel like I wasted so many years with fake smiles that hid how unhappy I was.’

‘I was a serial failed-dieter and could never understand how I could achieve so much in other areas of my life, yet I couldn’t control what I ate. My boyfriend Luke and I have been together for more than 11 years and I always used to discourage him from proposing because I couldn’t imagine myself as a bride being the size I was.’
Credits: evoke.ie , www.mirror.co.uk , www.theladbible.com . 

SW Hunters Chicken

Cheese, bacon, BBQ sauce on top of a chicken breast, served with a large side of Cajun Fries, are you sure this is a meal you can eat on Slimming World???

Well don’t worry because you can and it’s only a couple of syns too!!!
I used the BBQ sauce recipe that is on this blog and the recipe made 5 portions.
I used 1½ portions of BBQ sauce per person with this meal, which worked out at 2¼ syns per person.

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Ingredients

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
3 portions of Spicy BBQ Sauce (4.5 syns)
4 rashes of back bacon all fat removed
80g reduced fat cheddar (syn free if used as you healthy extra A)

Method

Put the chicken breasts in a foil lined baking tray sprayed with frylight. Cut a split down the middle of each breast and put ½ portion of BBQ sauce in each slit, cover with the bacon slices, 2 on each. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, then sprinkle over the cheese and return to the oven until the cheese has melted.

Serve with Cajun Fries, a large salad and 1 portion of Spicy BBQ Sauce.
Credit to : http://slimmingworlddelights.blogspot.com/

Amazing Overnight Oats

Ingredients

porridge oats – 35g

fat free natural yogurt – 200g

Mixed blueberries, strawberries and raspberries

Instructions


Layer the porridge, yogurt and fruit in a jar or bowl.

Cover and put in the refrigerator overnight so the porridge absorbs all the yogurt.

In the morning stir so all the layers are mixed together and top with more fruit.

Slimming World cheese and onion pie

Ingredients
600g potatoes (Desirée or Maris Piper), peeled and roughly chopped
200g carrots, peeled and finely diced
100g frozen peas
one calorie cooking spray
3 large onions, peeled and finely diced
3 eggs
2 tsp dried mixed herbs
200g fat free cottage cheese with onions and chives
salt and freshly ground black pepper
110g reduced fat Cheddar cheese, grated

Method

Cook the potatoes. Meanwhile, cook the carrots and peas in a large saucepan of lightly salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Spray a large non-stick frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place over a medium-high heat. Add the onions and stir-fry until softened.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Spray a medium-sized pie dish with low calorie cooking spray.
Drain the potatoes and mash until smooth.
In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, dried herbs and cottage cheese. Add to the potatoes, stir to mix well and season to taste. Add the reserved vegetables and onion mixture to the potatoes and stir well again.
Transfer the mixture to the prepared dish and spread evenly. Sprinkle over the cheese and bake for about 35-45 minutes until golden.

English Breakfast

A slim friendly breakfast that will give you vitality for starting the day!

Prep Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 35 minutes
Ingredients

potatoes – 700g
extra-lean minced pork – 450g
bacon, all visible fat removed – 4 slices
tomatoes, halved – 8
large field mushrooms – 4
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
low calorie cooking spray
large eggs – 4
baked beans – 400g can
Instructions

Place the unpeeled potatoes in boiling water and cook for 30 minutes, or until tender.
Cool, then cover and chill overnight.
Divide the pork mince into 8 portions and shape each into a patty. Place on a grill rack along with the bacon, tomato halves and mushrooms.
Season and grill under a medium heat for 8-10 minutes. Turn the bacon and pork patties and grill for a further 5-7 minutes, until cooked through.
Meanwhile, remove the skins from the potatoes, coarsely grate and season to taste.
Shape into rounds and fry in a pan sprayed with low calorie cooking spray for 5 minutes each side, or until cooked and golden.
Fry the eggs in low calorie cooking spray for 3-4 minutes and heat the baked beans in a small pan.
Serve the hash browns and pork patties with the bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, egg and beans.

My Slimming World Chicken, Chorizo and Sweetcorn Pasta Bake Recipe 2.5 Syns Per Person – SERVES 4

For the last few days I have had some spare chorizo staring me in the face every time I opened the fridge and so mentally, I’ve gone from one meal idea to another. And because I had a tub of quark in need of using up, tonight I settled on a Chicken & Chorizo Pasta Bake.
So here is my version. For something low fat, I think it is close enough for version when substituting a calorific single cream version with a fat free soft cheese.
It serves 4 very generous portions.
Recipe

Ingredients:
– 250g penne pasta (I used wholewheat)
– Fry light
– 2 large skinless chicken breast fillets, cut in to bit size pieces (mine were 380g)
– 1 red pepper, diced
– 1 tin of drained sweetcorn
– 1 diced onion
– 1 small 2″ long chorizo sausage, diced (I used Morisson’s Cooking Sausage) = 2.5 syns per person
– 500g passata
– 250g quark (fat free cheese)
– 1/2 tsp dried chilli flakes
– 80g grated low fat cheddar (half of your daily dairy allowance per person)
– 1 chicken stock cube (I used a stockpot)
– 2 tbsp mixed herbs
– seasoning

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas mark 5.
2. Cook the pasta in boiling water, drain and set side
3. Spray a roasting dish with fry light and add the chicken, chorizo, pepper, onion & chilli flakes and cook until the chicken is done (approx 30 mins).
5. Now stir in the passata, sweetcorn, stockpot, herbs and seasoning in to the chicken mixture and roast for a further 10 minutes.
6. Stir in the quark then the drained pasta and sprinkle with cheese and roast for 30 minutes.

New York Cheesecake (Slimming World)

Ingredients

For the base
5 scan bran
28g cocoa powder
2 eggs
half cup sweetener
6 x 250g tubs of Quark
56g flour
16 tablespoons sweetener
3 eggs
2 vanilla with chocolate sprinkle or plain vanilla muller light yogurts

For the topping
1 muller light yogurt
Seasonal fruitMethod (in video below)

1.5 syns per portion on Slimming World (19.5 syns the whole thing)