
I’m trying out an SP day today, where I’m only allowed to eat Speed and Protein foods.
The idea is that, although it’s not a required part of the Slimming World food optimisation plan, it is meant to speed up your weight loss. And I’ve been in a bit of slump recently, and need something to re-ignite my progress.
The problem is that it’s not as easy as it would first seem to do an SP day. There are a lot of free foods out there (potatoes, pasta, and so on) that are not speed. It’s worth checking the membership book, because I was surprised at some of them.
Non speed vegetables
Every now and again people in my class talk about swapping out potatoes for sweet potatoes when making chips – so it might be easy to assume that sweet potatoes are speed – but they aren’t.
Also in the list of non-speed vegetables are:
- Parsnips
- Sweetcorn
- Peas
Non speed fruits
When it comes to fruit, there are even more examples that are free but not speed, including:
- Cherries
- Kiwi fruit
- Mango
- Pomegranate
- Bananas
- Pineapple
I need to be really careful when picking out fruit to eat, especially those pre-cut fruit pots from supermarkets that often have grapes and pineapple in them.
The SP food planning is the tricky bit. Dinners will probably be okay because I can have a steak and salad, or some chilli and roasted vegetables. However lunches pose more of a challenge to my imagination. There are only so many times I can eat salad and cold meat before my taste buds shut down. And I’m not much of a fan of soup.
If anyone has any ideas for SP meals let me know.