I really hate salad..............

I am a true Salad Dodger, in all senses of the word!

I have a diary over in the weight loss diary section but after 3 months of doing ok, but not brilliantly, I have decided to give SW a go as there seems to be so many great stories here and most people talk very positively about the plans. I have my books and am currently trying to decide whether I want to stick to EE or mix it all up so any pointers etc are more than welcome

Anyway, I started moving over to SW last week but yesterday was my first day of being on the wagon with a whip in hand and I thought it would be great to share some of my bitings with you all and hopefully get some more ideas on what I can eat along the way. As per my title, I don't like salad, I really wish I did as it would make lunch very easy but it's just not happening.

I've got some pics I will pop on later from my phone of what I have been eating (I find it easier to track it when I picture it) but here is the low down so far:

Saturday 16th Nov

B - Slice wholemeal toast with scraping of Yum buttery spread, half can of Tesco baked beans, 3 Grilled Bacon and fry light egg
L - Coconut Muller Light and Fruit Salad of Kiwi, Raspberries, grapes and plum
S - Half Chinese mugshot with 55g flame grilled chicen, Curly Wurly (Nom!)
D - Tesco Just Heat Chicken breast in BBQ sauce with half pack Tilda Chili & Lime Rice with stir fry veg, Satsuma

Total Syns - 10.5 (Spread 2, CW 6, BBQ Chick 1.5, Rice 1)

Exercise - 1 x PT session based on HIIT and 15 min treadmill with interval runs

Sunday 17th Nov

B - Magic Porridge with toffee muller and banana
L - Fruit Salad with grapes, grapefruit, plum, kiwi followed by S&S Mug Shot made up and stirfried with 2 x bacon rashers, 55g chicken and stir fry veg
S - Curly Wurly, grapes
D - Roast Chicken with fry light pots and parsnips, yorkshire pud and loads of veggies
Other - Half a little bottle of snowball alcoholic drink, cannot find any info on calories or syns so guessing at 3!

Total Syns - 11.5 (CW 6, Yorkshire 2.5 & Snowball 3)

Exercise - Body Pump class followed by 20 mins treadmill including 5 x 1 min interval runs

Have already done lots of prepping for tomorrow but I won't spoil the surprise! :drool:

What I've been tucking away!

Monday 18th Nov

B - Magic Porridge with a vanilla Muller Light and some frozen berries and mixed fruit, much better than the toffee muller!
S - Satsuma and a Plum
L - I did extra for dinner last night so I had chicken, few left over roast potatoes/parsnips with lots of veg and oxo gravy
S - Double Choc Alpen Light and fruit salad with Melon, Grape and Grapefruit
D - Aldi Lemon Sole, boiled pots, carrots and cauliflower
S - half a plum and a white chocolate coin from a bag of coins

Total Syns - 9.0 (4.5 for Lemon Sole, 3 for Alpen bar and 1 for coin?)

Exercise - Very sweaty Zumba session as I kept stupidly requesting quite intense tracks!

Yesterday's afternoon snack and dinner!

Monday 19th November

B - Magic Porridge again
S - Satsuma, grapes, half a plum
L - (Nom!) Some left over boiled pots from last night with 3 rashers grilled/trimmed bacon, 55g flame grilled chicken, baked beans, roast peppers and carrots (frylight) with a 20g sprinkling of reduced fat cheddar
S - Fruit Salad of kiwi, melon and grapes
D - Some scallops in fry light, a single peppered Mackerel filler, few new potatoes and carrots and leeks

Syns - So far, err 0.75 for the Mackerel! Debating a Curly Wurly so this may change!

No exercise tonight, I think three days in a row is enough and I am off on a conference tomorrow so have to pack. Hoping I can keep myself on a reasonable footing during the meals whilst I am away, fingers crossed!

Lunch and dinner today!

I meant to mention that I've been using my Hex A for milk as I drink quite a few cups of tea a day but today I really cut down and had mostly green tea so I could have some cheese with lunch. Hopefully that works ok!

OK, so not been able to update much as was on a two day conference and I thought taking photos of every meal might be a little odd BUT, I did get a pic of my roast dinner because I have never seen a yorkshire pud quite like it!

Today was as follows:

B - Coconut Muller with porridge oats and frozen fruit
L - Small mixed fruit salad followed by Cooked Breakfast (3 Bacon, 1 small toast, beans and fry light saute pots)
S - Banana, Satsuma, Nectarine, Small Milky Bar
D - Chicken Breast in BBQ sauce with mixed peppers and stir fry veg.

Syns - 2.5 for toast (400g loaf), 3.5 for Milky Bar and 1.5 for Dinner = 7.5

Exercise - Pilates Class followed by another C25k work out from week 1 and weights set.

The huge Yorkshire pud!

So pics for today are my post gym lunch of fruit salad, my snack of chicken breast wrapped in ham and lastly my SW friendly roast!

Sunday 24th November:

B - Coconut Muller with porridge and frozen fruit
L - Fruit salad - banana/kiwi/grapes & Satsuma
S - Chicken breast strips wrapped in ham
D - Roast Turkey with fry light spuds, parsnips and sweet potatoe with 1 yorkshire and cauliflower, carrots and leeks. Chicken gravy granules

Syns - 7 (Yorkshire 2.5, Gravy 1, Small Milky Bar 3.5)

Exercise - Body Pump class followed by 20 min on treadmill (burnt 160cal)

Monday 25th November

B - Coconut Porridge with frozen fruit
S - Banana & Satsuma
L - Home made turkey curry with 1/2 pack Tilda Pilau Rice, Carrots & Cauliflower
S - Left over fry light roast pots from Sunday, sliced chicken breast
D - Vegetable stirfry with 1/4 pouch of Tesco Sweet Chili & Ginger sauce, sliced chicken and 150g smoked and peppered Mackerel

Exercise - 1 hour Zumba

Syns - 5.25 (Pilau Rice 1.25, Stiry fry Sauce 2.5, Mackerel 1.5)

HexA - Milk, HexB - Porridge

Tuesday 26th November

B - Porridge, coconut muller and frozen fruit
S - Banana, Alpen Light Summer Fruits
L - Remainder of turkey curry with sliced jacket sweet potato and carrot sticks
S - Satsuma & Nectarine, 1/2 pot home made fruit salad
D - Steak seasoned with lime juice and peppers, sliced sweet potato, swede & carrot mash with sugarsnap peas

Syns 3 (Alpen 3)

HexA - Milk, HexB - Porridge

Pics to follow!

Yesterday's lunch



Last night's dinner



Lunch today



Dinner tonight

Wednesday 27th

B - No surprises - Coconut Muller with porridge and frozen fruit
S - Satsuma & Hifi Light Rocky Road Bar
L - Starter of half pot mixed fruit salad followed by Spicy Sweet & Sour Mugshot with 100g sliced chicken breast
S - Remainder of fruit salal, handful of raspberries
D - Extra Lean mince beef with homemade sauce (plum tomatoes, onion, garlic, pepper) with tagliatelle

Hex A - Semi Skimmed Milk, HexB - Porridge
Syns - Just 3 at the moment for the Rocky Road, might sneak something else in as I seem to be being TOO good!

Exercise - Body Pump class

My dinner (I ate about half the pasta, there was way too much!)



My cheat sweet & sour chicken

You're food looks amazing!! Am definitely going to steal some ideas how you finding it so far??xx

CharleyBar said:

You're food looks amazing!! Am definitely going to steal some ideas how you finding it so far??xx

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Hey Charley, thanks very much for popping in! Not finding it too bad at all at the moment, I am trying to plan a day or two ahead at a time so I know what I need to buy/cook and what I can save for lunches etc. I was really craving chips last night so I made up a nice plate of shoestring friends a la SW! I bought some old SW mags from the Android marketplace and have been scouring them, and here for recipes, especially ones with coconut or peanut as I am a sucker for both!

I need to update too, will just grab my diary and get my pics ready!

Thursday 28th November

B - Coconut Muller with Porridge & Frozen Fruit
S - Banana, Rocky Road Hifi
L - Swede & Carrot Mash, leftover mince in homemade sauce, sliced chicken breast
S - Satsuma
D - Fruit Salad to start, then small jacket potato with beans and ham
S - Curly Wurly

No Exercise tonight as have a small injury

Syns - 9 (Rocky Road Hifi 3, Curly Wurly 6)

Friday 29th November

Was off work today with Xmas shopping on my mind!

B - No surprises for guessing - porridge/fruit/muller again
S - Boots Shapers mini fruit salad
L - Sweet & Sour Mugshot with chicken (not ideal but I was out for so long and was starving when I came back and this was quick)
S - Rocky Road Hifi
D - Chicken mini fillets on skewers with red peppers and onions, sprinkled with herbs and spices and served with SW fries and dollop of ketchup
S - Milky Bar

No Exercise

Syns - 7.5 (Rocky Road 3, Milky Bar 3.5 and Ketchup 1)

HexA - Milk for tea
HexB - Porridge

Saturday 30th November

Lay in!

B - Banana, followed by SW 'fry up' - beans, 2 frylight eggs, 2 x 400g wholemeal bread (HexB), 3 Tesco Light choice sausages (3), 3 x Bacon rashers all fat trimmed and ketchup (1)
L/S - Coconut Muller with 1 kiwi and handful raspberries mixed in, Rock Road Hifi (3)
D - Coconut Prawn Curry for Nov SW Magazine, 1/2 bag mixed stir fry veg (2.5) - this was dire and tasteless, epic fail on my part!
S - Satsuma, sliced chicken breast and Milky Bar (3.5)

Exercise - workout from Week 2 of C25K plan followed by an hour of Powerhoop for a charity event.
Syns - 13 as marked above
HexA - milk for tea
HexB - bread for fry up