My name is Vicky and I am addicted to weighing myself!

I can’t help it! Every morning I have to wake up and know what effect the previous days food has had on my weight-loss. Sometimes it has a negative impact when I have been super good and it doesn’t seem to be working. But on the flip side of the coin when I see that my eating is having a positive impact it is a huge motivator. It also helps me to see how badly I need to get back on track after a weekend of sheer indulgence. I know it is wrong to weigh myself most days but I can’t help it. A couple of weeks ago I went away for the week and I it nearly drove me crazy not knowing what was happening with my weight. But it did help me to break some of the weighing habit so now I have managed to only weigh myself every couple of days. You never know some time soon I might manage to only weigh in once a week in class. That will probably be about the time that I get to target some time after the wedding and honeymoon (I am probably going to end up gaining that week).

Anyway, onto other news…today’s food plan is as follows:

Breakfast – Shreddies (HEB), Semi Skimmed Milk (HEA) Banana (Superfree)

Lunch – Supernoodles (Free), Jelly and Mullerlight mix (0.5 syns)

Dinner – Spaghetti Bolognese (Free) MullerLight (Free)

Sunday 25th November 2012

I’m going to try for a really low syn day today. Although I had a reasonable good day yesterday (if you conveniently forget about the 5 chocolates I ate). It means I really need a low syn day today, so here is the plan:

B – Fruit

S – MullerLight

L/D – Roast chicken

Roast potatoes

Veggies

Gravy 2 syns

S – Wholemeal Toast (HEB)

Margarine (HEA)

It should be a yummy scrummy food day if I can just Say No! On the positive side husband to be has decided to lose a few pounds and so it following it as well. As you can imagine this is a huge help as it means that he is unlikely to want all of those ‘naughty foods’. This week I really want to lose 1lb. I realised today that I have 1lb to lose until my 1.5st award. I would love to get that certificate to display on my fridge.

To help me stick to my diet plan I plan on keeping myself busy through crafting for the wedding, doing some college work, visiting Dunelm Mill to pick up some curtain hooks and of course cooking dinner.

Back On Track!

As the title of my post says I am back on track and had a good day yesterday as well as today (so far), although I haven’t been doing much exercise. That is unless you count the fact that I spent all of today assembling a table and 6 chairs. The table weighed a ton and I was impressed I actually managed to move it around and flip it over etc.

Yesterday I decided that I needed to do an actual food shop and this alone has helped me stay on track. Before yesterday we were trying to make do until payday. This was alright, until the point where you have nothing left and you have the nibbles. It is at that point where you end up making toast and butter. But now I’m stocked up with plenty of fruit and veggies, lean meat and some cupboard essentials like chopped tomatoes and baked beans.

Actually have food in the house meant we could have something for dinner that wasn’t made up of the spot based on what we have left in the cupboards. So we had a yummy scrummy chicken dinner.

My lovely chicken dinner

It was just what the doctor ordered.

This morning I had a good start with a fruit salad for breakfast and surprisingly enough it actually filled me until lunch!

Fruit Salad

I’ve decided that I just eat way too much high starch food. Generally I have a bowl of Fruit and Fibre for breakfast, some sort of pasta based food for lunch and then my dinner in the evening usually always had potatoes. Plus I might have cereal bars during the day which is another added carb filled item. So for a week I have decided to try to reduce it down a little and swap it out for more superfree foods. Hopefully this will help my weightloss a little bit.

Tomorrow I am looking forward to trying this pancake recipe that I have found. I’m going to use the porridge as a healthy extra and this will make the pancakes free!

I will have a low syn day today

Yesterday I went slightly ‘off track’. I had a good days synage by having chopped fruit (FREE) and Mullerlight (FREE) for breakfast with more fruit as a mid morning snack. For lunch I had grilled bacon, baked beans and a fried egg with FryLight (FREE). I then had an afternoon snack of more fruit (FREE) and a Rocky road bar (0.5 HEB). Not too bad I thought apart from missing my HEA and half of HEB I didn’t think I had done to badly. Then it got evening and due to bad planning we didn’t have very much in and I didn’t fancy yet another bowl of pasta, so off to the chinese we went…OOPS! We did make do with one portion of Special Chow Mein and Prawn Crackers between us (would have had a picture but I ate it too quickly…it didn’t stand a chance).

Today will be different though. Today will be very Slimming World friendly. That is once I have taken a walk into town to stock up on a few bits and bobs. I figured that if I wrote down my food plan I might actually stick to it. So here it is:

• Breakfast – Chopped fruit (FREE) with a Mullerlight
• Snack – Cup of tea with sweetener and milk (FREE +HEA) and Rocky Road bar (0.5 HEB)
• Lunch – Chicken and Herb Supernoodles (FREE) and mixed veg (FREE) 2x satsumas (FREE)
• Snack – Cup of tea with sweetener and milk (FREE + HEA) and Rocky Road bar (HEB)
• Dinner – Homemade shepherds pie (2 syns) with mixed vegetables (FREE) and Mullerlight (FREE)

So there it is. That should make up for the chinese syns last night. ..fingers crossed.

 

My First Slimming World Friendly Baking Experience!

Today I have done my first bit of Slimming World friendly baking since I started slimming world in February. I do enjoy baking and always find it difficult to watch programmes like the Great British Bake Off without drooling and wishing that I too could bake such amazing cakes that contain that amount of butter without getting fat. Alas, I cannot. In fact, while we are on the subject, why is it that you have these slim celebrity chefs cooking plenty of fatty delights but still manage to stay slim? I am convinced that they must not eat the food they cook! This is something I do not have the determination for. It just isn’t an option for me. If I have spent an hour or two slaving away in the kitchen making some sort of baked delight you can bet your bottam dollar that I WILL be trying it!

Anyway I have done my first bit of baking today and I must say it was a success. I made the yummy looking Spiced Plum Clafoutis from the most recent Slimming World magazine. It really was scrummy and the best thing about this lovely pud is that it is only 4 syns a slice! Yes you heard right..4 syns a slice! Don’t mind if I do! If you too would like to make this little delight you can find the recipe in the most recent Slimming World magazine or HERE on my blog.

It wasn’t too hard to make and the instructions were so easy that even me (who NEVER bakes apart from the really simple stuff :-p). The only thing I struggled with was trying to describe my eggs as pale and fluffy. No matter how much I beat them and whisked them they did not look pale and fluffy so I gave up and went to the next step. It doesn’t seem to have made a difference though.

Anyway, to the important numbers. Todays diet diary is as follows:

Breakfast Fruit and Fibre (HEB + 1 syn) Milk (0.5 HEA) Mango (SUPERFREE)

Lunch Chicken and Herb Low Fat Supernoodle (FREE) Sardines (FREE) 2x peaches (SUPERFREE) Muller Fat Free Greek Style Lemon Yoghurt (0.5)

Dinner Left Over Sichuan Pork (1 syn) slimming world (FREE) 1 slice of plum Clafoutis (4 syns)

Total syns = 6.5 syns

As I have had a few syns today and yesterday I will be going to the gym with my partner once he finishes work. It is much more interesting going to the gym when you have someone to go with. Not that we have the same routine 😛  .

It Sunday and it’s sunny so lets have a BBQ!

The weather has been beautiful today and as such we have had a lovely relaxing morning just sitting in the garden and reading while waiting for a friend to come over to have a BBQ lunch, Slimming World friendly of course. As I had Fruit and Fibre for breakfast as my HEB I didn’t have a cob but to be honest I didn’t feel like missed out. To help me stick to my syns I used a couple of my tried and and tested recipes that I know I love. The first on was Tandoori Chicken Skewers.

They are amazing and my other half thinks they are the best thing ever, in fact whenever we have a BBQ these are always requested. The best thing is that if you do not tell people they are Slimming World friendly they simply don’t know. They are just that good. Even better than that is that they are FREE!!!! I really would recommend that you try them and you can find the recipe HERE.

Another thing that I made is homemade burgers, unfortunately they looked and tasted so good that I completely forgot the take a picture, but you can find the recipe HERE. These are also FREE.

Alongside this I had some very juicy and tasty mushrooms (so juicy in fact that the juice burnt my lip 😦 ) and our friend brought along some Pork and Sweet Chilli Sausages. These I worked out and 5.5 syns and as I had such a good rest of the BBQ I allowed myself 1 without a cob. All in all it was a very good syn friendly BBQ.

In other news I also went to see my very first ice hockey match and I absolutely loved it! I’m really not one for watching sports like football (it annoys me when players roll on the floor for every minor injury) or rugby (I get annoyed by the stop and start play) but ice hockey is so quick! I was also strong and didn’t give into the temptation of burgers and hotdogs and chocolate and sweeties. Instead I just made do with…a diet coke. YAY for me!

So today has been an OK diet day again. I has better get a good weight loss this week.

Breakfast Fruit and fibre (HEB + 1 syn), semi skimmed milk (0.5 HEA), banana and a nectarine

Snack Muller Light Greek Style Yoghurt

Lunch 2x burgers (FREE), Tandoori Chicken (FREE) Pork and Sweet Chilli Sausage (5.5 syns) Mushroom (FREE) Sauce (2 syns)

Snack Mullerlight Banana and Custard

Dinner Mango

Total syns = 9 syns

Tomorrow I will be going to the gym and making sure I have another low syn day to make up for it. In fact I have some of that yummy scrummy pork from yesterday so that will make a lovely low syn meal for tomorrow evening. YUM YUM!

Saturday Antics

Happy Saturday guys and gals,

Well, last night went well and all the preparation I did for it worked like a treat. We went to Tamatanga where as planned I had the Rogan Josh (6.5 syns) and, as they didn’t have boiled rice, I had pilau rice (2.5 syns). A total of  9 syns and best of all I only had 1/2 of the Rogan Josh. I didn’t notice that I was eating a Slimming World friendly meal and am positive that I enjoyed it just as much as everyone else. It just goes to show that you can still eat in your favourite places and (hopefully) lose weight.

My Rogan Josh from Tamatanga

Afterwards we went to see Michael Mcintyre and he was brilliant. He had me crying with laughter. I was determined to be ‘good’ and as planned took my bottle of water and some grapes and happily munched on those whilst all around me Ben and Jerry’s, pop corn and candyfloss was being consumed. There was also temptation around every corner in the form of refreshment sellers. I would say that there was a new one every two minutes and as we were right at the end of the aisle they were being paraded right under my very nose…but I kept strong and now I am very proud of myself. Especially as I spent 40 minutes in the gym and then 20 minutes swimming so hopefully that will help as well.

This morning, being Saturday, meant cooked breakfast…YUM YUM!

My poached eggs and toast brekkie

Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother photographing my breakfast but I was so impressed with the shapes of my eggs that I just had to record the evidence. It was lovely and only 1 syn (I had slightly more bread than my HEB allowed and yes I did weigh it :-p).

I also made the Schezuan Pork from the new magazine as well. I served it with boiled rice. It was absolutely amazing. You can find the recipe HERE.

I would advise anyone with a hankering for chinese to give this a go. There isn’t enough sauce to cover your rice but it makes the pork yummy and sticky and it is a syn bargain at just 1 syn! It tastes like its a lot more than that and it would be lovely with egg noodles.

Todays food diary is as follows:

Breakfast 2 poached eggs (FREE), wholemeal toast (HEB + 1 syn) and a peach (FREE)

Snack Tea with milk (HEA) and sweetener (FREE), Banana (FREE), Grapes (FREE)

Lunch Batchelors Chicken and Mushroom Pasta and Sauce with no marg (FREE + HEA), 2 glasses of orange squash

Dinner Sichuan Pork (1 syn), boiled rice (FREE) and Muller Fat Free Greek Style Lemon Yoghurt (0.5 syns)

Total 2.5 syns

Not bad and should make up for yesterdays curry. I also did a ton of body magic in the form of gardening.

Tomorrow we will be having a BBQ so I will be whipping up my own FREE beef burger and marinading chicken legs without their skin to make sure that I still stick to my syns.