Weekend is here :-)

So the weekend is here and I'm quite looking forward to a lazy weekend.
On Wednesday I didn't continue my diary as I went a little over. It amazes me, I lose slight control of what I'm eating and that's it. I only had a mars bar which was within syns and that's it I couldn't manage it. It's as if panic and don't know what to do as I've gone off plan so to speak.
Went out for drinks last night, could have been meal but I used the excuse that we were meeting late that I didn't want to eat, which in part was true but also because I knew I couldn't keep to plan if I knew we were eating out.
Started again yesterday with a good day, low in syns, part because of a possible impromtu day out tomorrow but also to make up for Wednesday. Today has been a good day too, only 2/3 syns had so far and since I won't be out for the day tomorrow I have a few extra to use up tomorrow at home. Going to be making some quiches recommended from http://www.minimins.co.uk/ Got my ingredients today so all set to go tomorrow.
Also decided to start making a list of meals to eat throughout the week so I have a shopping list to give my mom. Finding that I'm needing certain things and I have to go and buy them. Spending so much really.


Anyways a brief update on my diary for the last 2 days then it's off for some TV tonight. Got a couple of films to watch with an actor I've a bit of an obsession with at the moment hehe


Green days


Thursday:
B: 28g bran flakes, 100ml ss milk and a banana
S: apple and pineapple
L: jacket, LF cottage cheese and baked beans, mullerlight
S: hot chocolate (2syns) pudding rice with half a Ww yoghurt!
T: guess you could call it cottage pie? extra lean minced beef (1HEb) carrots, sweetcorn, swede, brocolli, baked beans, passata topped with mash potato. small yoghurt
S: banana, LF nat yoghurt, left over pudding rice.


(3 syns inc 1 syn from a drink)


Friday
B: apple, pineapple, LF nat yoghurt
S: muller yoghurt
L: left over tea from last night inc (1HEb) and a shape yoghurt
S: biscuit (not sure how many syns, let say 2)
S: apple and a banana
T: bachelors pasta n sauce (1syn)

Long day yesterday but still a good day :-)

B: apple, banana and blueberries with shape zero yoghurt
S: alpen light (1/2 HEb) mullerlight
L: small bowl of veggie soup, pasta n sauce (1syn) active yoghurt, 1 biscuit (1syn)
S: half bowl of pudding rice
T: half bowl of veggie soup, followed by pasta and curry sauce
S: 2 alpen light (HEb) mullerlight, hot choc made with HEa milk (2syns) a few crisps at pub 4 syns?!?

6 syns

 

So today is weigh in number 3, and I stayed the same. Slightly annoyed by it as I've too good this week. Ah well, keep going as they say.

 

Trying to sort some things out for the easter holidays. Got a few things planned for the next few months but fancy something a bit different. There's a few nice places around but don't know if it would make a fat lot of difference going on my own, probably make the lonliness that I feel now even worse, we shall see but it's nice to get away during the holidays and do stuff.

 

Anyways I won't depress myself with that even more on my nice, quiet day off.

 

Today so far:

 

B: scrambled eggs and baked beans

L: homemade veggie soup with 2x WW bread, (HEb) mullerlight cherry

Monday!

So I am doing so well this week and I'm excited again for a weigh in on Wednesday. Have been so good having veg soup for lunch and not going over syns! Today I have been on track but OMG I don't think my body knows what it wants today. Started the day off with a different breakie to normal (porridge) and then after my lunch of veggie soup I felt very full but quite sickly at the same time. Since then I have felt so hungry (suffer with low blood sugar so get shaky etc) but ever so full at the same time. Even now after my tea I am full to the brim but my stomach is gurgling away :-( Want today over with now.

My diary for the last 2 days as I don't believe I posted it yesterday.

Sunday: 2nd green day
S: apple
B: pudding rice with banana, half a mullerlight and blueberries
L: veg soup with butternut squash, swede, 1 parsnip, carrots, salt, pepper, garlic powder and curry powder.
left over pudding rice with blueberries
T: fish pie (cod 1HEb, peas, carrots, potato and swede mash, parsley sauce (2syns) topped with cheese (1HEa) mullerlight
S: mini apple and LF nat yoghurt
S: hot chocolate using remaining Hea milk (2 syns) and mini aero (5.5 syns)
S: Weetabix (HEb) biscuit (1syn)

10.5 syns for the day
Milk in tea HEa

Monday:

B: porridge HEb and a banana
L: veg soup with butternut squash, swede, parsnip, carrots, spring onion. Shape zero yoghurt
S: 1tbp of LF nat yoghurt, apple and handful of blueberries
S: tomato mug shot ( contemplated having this with lunch as soup is never enough for me but saved it for later)
S alpen light ( half HEb)
S: smash and baked beans (i coudn't wait any longer for food and needed something)
T: quorn chcken fillets covered in cous cous, pasta with curry sauce (mushy peas, tin toms and curry powder) banana and custard mullerlight

HEa milk in tea

Half term :-)

Well half term is here! It's been a long seven weeks and I'm glad of the break. Still have some stuff to do but can be done at leisure :-)

So this morning I decided to go shopping for new clothes. I hate what I wear to work and I always feel comfortable. My first mission was to get some to new trousers but to be honest they weren't what I wanted. I picked out a couple of dresses, a top and 3 pairs of trousers. None of the trousers fitted at a size 14 too! :-( The top too tight :-( but luckily the dresses fitted lovely. So after that I went somewhere else on a mission for more dresses! Ended up walking away with 3 more :-) Have always refused to spend loads on new work clothes as I never wear them anywhere else but I have decided that this time it doesn't matter. So now I have 5 beautiful new dresses to wear whenever. Have dumped the big, baggy and tatty trousers along with other tops that do not fit properly anymore! Can't wait to wear them for work. :-)

After the shopping trip I headed over to Aldi to stock up on veggies for some soup making.

Bought

2 swede
1 Broccoli
1 bag of carrots
1 bag of parsnips
1 butternut squash
1 bag of small apples

all of that for £3.34! Cannot complain.

So to end a relatively good day I did some work this afternoon looking at the steady progress my kids are making :-)

Finally it's half term, a nice (well i hope) week off :-)
Had a long day yesterday so no blog but food was relatively good. Went over on syns but only by about 3, but was under syns on wed so not all bad!

Today has been a good day :-)

B: weetabix
S: banana and strawberry mullerlight
L: apple, pasta mug shot and LF nat yoghurt
S: banana and mullerlight
T: sausage and bean casserole, was ok but leeks weren't cooked enough so left those out.

Contemplating changing from the extra easy plan to the green plan, I don't tend to have too much meat so might be worth switching over. Going to look at my books the weekend and see.

Anyways off shopping tomorrow for work clothes, I hate what I wear for work and always makes me feel awful. Half my clothes are big and baggy or i've had for years so time for new ones so i feel good about myself :-)

Weigh day number 2

Second weigh in after being back on track and I was another 1lb down, slightly sad it wasn't more after a good week but I can't complain. Whether its because I went over on syns yesterday but I had none on Monday I don't know but as loss is a loss and I'm only 12lb from the target weight I have set myself :-)

Today has been a good day, forgot bread for my soup so I spent the afternoon snacking on fruit as I was famished.

B: 2 rashers of bacon, 1 scrambled egg and spaghetti hoops
S: pear and a banana
L: soup (same as yesterdays tea) pineapple, 100g of mullerlight with blueberries
S: pear, apple, banana and activia yoghurt.
T: Jacket potato with bacon, baked beans and cottage cheese

Milk in tea (HEa)

For my tea I tried to be fancy and cut off the top of the jacket potato and scooped out the inside to add in the fillings but I should have waited for it to cook a bit more. Now it was nice but could have been better.

No syns for today as yet but maybe a small choc treat later? But also have my HEb to have so not sure as yet want to save up syns for the weekend, don't have plans but weekends are easier with extra syns :-)

Weigh in luming..

Well weigh in luming tomorrow, I am quite excited about it yet nervous as I have been so good this last week and eaten lots of super free foods. I am hoping for a 2lb loss taking me 11lbs off the target I have set myself :-)

Yesterday I finished off my day with a melted alpen light bar and a small amount of strawberry mullerlight. Was yummy, like granola. And then I had a whole load of grapes that I couldn't stop eating lol

So far today.
Tuesday:

S: 1 rich tea finger biscuits (1syn)
B: 2 weetabix (HEb)
S: pineapple, orange and banana
L: Pasta n Sauce (1syn) 100g mullerlight, orange, Alpen light (3syns)
S: Banana
T: soup made up of carrots, swede, 1 small potato, leeks and spring onions, 1 slice of bread (est 6syns) toffee mullerlight

11 syns so far
HEa Milk in tea


and as I have 14.5 syns remaining from yest I will be having a slice of weetabix cake later :-)

Debating...

A friend at work takes her daughter to a kick boxing lesson, her husband goes also. I have always wanted to do something like kick boxing and when I told her this she said she would find some information out for me. She told me today they are having a free open week so to speak in a couple of weeks and if I was still interested I should give my details. Now my only problem is that I do not want to attend on my own, i've just quit my current gym and this gym is further into town and costs double of what I'm paying now. Plus side is that you get the classes and access to the gym. Really can't decide on what to do :-(

Anyways, today has been a really good day so far. No syns as yet and half a HEb for later :-)

Monday:

B: apple, blueberries and LF nat yoghurt, 1 alpen light bar (1/2 HEb)
S: banana, apple and pineapple
L: jacket with baked beans, LF nat yoghurt for pud
S: apple, pineapple and grapes
T: potato and swede layered pie with extra lean beef, carrots, peas, sweetcorn, baked beans, passata and swede. (going to make extra swede to add to the small amount of mash I have.

HEa: Milk in tea

Sunday:

So Sunday was spent trying to find mullerlight yoghurts without them costing a fortune, luckily found them at the big tesco lol
Then trying to update the EYFS profile for each one of the my kids. I wanted to get done so I could lie in bed doing nothing but as soon as I did that I got bored and went back on the computer.

Spent 2 hours in the kitchen tonight (including time for eating) making a potato layer pie and then more rice pudding. This time with vanilla mullerlight instead of last nights toffee mullerlight. Was much nicer :-)

Food for today:
B: blueberries, apple, low fat nat yoghurt, 1 alpen light (half HEb)
L: left over soup from yesterday, danone activia
S: Weetabix cake with flora light (estimating 6 syns)
S: apple and pineapple
T: potato and swede layered pie with extra lean beef, carrots, peas, sweetcorn, baked beans, passata and swede. Rice pudding

(6 syns so far)

Yummy pudding!

Yummy pudding!
Had a yummy pudding tonight. Rice pudding, have a 2nd helping left over but think I will add a teaspoon of cocoa powder. There was something about the first one that wasn't quite right, still enjoyed though :-)
Ingredients: pudding rice, splenda, mullerlight and splash of milk :-)

Saturday

B: activia yoghurt, 2 rashers of bacon and 2 scrambled eggs
S: apple
L: 2 bread rolls with ham and butter (no idea on syns but no allowing any other syns for the day and having my HEb later)
S: activia yoghurt, grapes and banana slices with LF nat yoghurt
S: small bowl of smash as pre tea snack
T: soup (potato, leek, spring onion, carrots, parnsips, veg stock, salt and pepper) hopefully it will taste nice. apple, blackberries and LF nat yoghurt
S: pudding rice, muller yoghurt for a yummy rice pudding.

Milk in tea as HEa

Friday evening

Decided on tea which turned out to be a yummy fish pie made by moi :-) full of veg and around 3 syns.

And then I made a weetabix cake. Wasn't too sure on it begin with but the after taste now is lovely. And after reading a suggestion of adding butter to after I want more now lol

Probably about 6 syns for my big ish slice I guess?

Friday is here.

So Friday is here, my friend came up to me with excitement that she'd got into a smaller pair of trousers. For some reason this has spurred me on to keep me on track. So here goes;

S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1 syn)
B: apple, danone yoghurt and alpen light bar (1/2 HEb)
S: banana and a carrot
L: left over tomato soup from last night with pasta, danone yoghurt.
S: banana and mullerlight

Tea at the moment is undecided, I have had 1syn today only so a good day so far. Will trying, for what I hope will be a weetabix cake tonight so will need some syns for that.

Looking forward to a visit to see my nephew tomorrow! Will brighten up what will be a dull weekend.


Hope everyone is having a good friday.

Well last night went over syns, only by about 3. You know when you think I want to use my syns so I'll treat myself, couldn't think of what to have and then found a couple of things lol
Been feeling quite down these past 24 hours but striving through to the weekend. Just think I can't bothered with a lot of things at the moment but it's not affecting my slimming world.
So today,

Thursday:
S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1syn)
B: 2 quorn sausages, 2 rashers of bacon and baked beans.
S: apple and orange
L: mash, veg and half a chicken fillet from last night.
S: gingerbread man i decorated with the kids at worked. I did a demo and then couldn't not eat him (i guess around 3syns)
S: banana
T: tomato soup (passata, chopped tomatoes, baked beans, garlic powder, herbs and pepper all blended together) potato wedges.




Tomato Soup and Wedges















Milk (HEa)

4 syns so far.

Wednesday

Wednesday and half way through the week, 1lb down this morning. Went to visit a friend after school tonight so a late return home meant I didn't feel like cooking anything.

S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1syn)
B: 2 weetabix (HEb)
S: banana, orange and apple
L: jacket potato, LF cottage cheese and 3/4 of a mullerlight
S: 14g pack of raisins (2syns) banana and 2 oranges
T: bachelors pasta and sauce (1syn) mullerlight


S: milk in tea (1 x HEa) apple and danone activia

4 syns so far

Sunday:


B: bacon, eggs and 1 scrambled egg
L: Bachelors pasta and sauce - cheese, leek and ham (1 syn) Mullerlight
T: cottage pie with extra lean minced beef, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, celery, mash potatoes, roast potatoes and roasted parnsips with a little gravy (1 1/2 syns)

S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1 syn)
Pineapple with low fat natural yoghurt
Mullerlight
Chocolate m&ms (5 syns)

Milk in tea (HEa) 2 x alpen bar (1 HEb)

Monday:


S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1syn)
B: blueberries, apple and low fat nat yoghurt. 1 alpen light bar (1/2 HEb)
S: pineapple and banana
L: T: cottage pie with extra lean minced beef, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, celery, mash potatoes with a little gravy (1 syn) Mullerlight, orange
S: Banana, blueberries, apple and cherry activia yoghurt.
T: jacket potato, mixed veg including carrots, peas and sweetcorn, carrots, brocolli, cabbage and quorn chicken with gravy (2 syns) mullerlight

S: pineapple, shape delights (5.5 syns)
alpen light bar (1/2 HEb)
1 rich tea finger biscuit (1syn)
milk in tea (1 x HEa)

10 and 1/2 syns


Tuesday: (so far)


S: 1 rich tea finger biscuit (1syn)
B: blueberries, apple and low fat nat yoghurt.
S: 1 alpen light bar (1/2 HEb) and banana
L: pasta, quorn pieces with beans, ww toffee yoghurt
S: pear, apple, mini heroes fudge (2syns)
T: mash potato, mixed veg including carrots, peas and sweetcorn, carrots, brocolli, cabbage and half a chicken fillet with gravy (2 syns) activia yoghurt
S: milk in tea (1 x HEa)
S: alpen light (1/2 HEb)
S: rocky bar (5.5 syns) apple and spoonful of mullerlight, biscuit (2 syns)

12.5 syns

Diary posts!

Here I will be posting my food diarys. I will hopefully be taking pictures of meals as and when I can to share :-)