Dreamaholic's diary - 20 pounds to go!

[dreamaholic]

5/10 (Tuesday)

Breakfast: strawberries + 42g All-Bran + milk (HeA + HeB)
Snack: chocolate!!! 20 syns* (had quite a few pieces after my post yesterday, so it's more like 20 syns.)

Lunch: M&S eat well garlic prawn (1 syn) + salad leaves + Itsu on the go sushi roll (2 syns say with sesame)

Snack: apples, crab sticks
Dinner: Singapore fried rice noodles, with chicken, + lots of onions, spring onions, bean sprouts and curry powder, roast parsnip, homemade sweetcorn and carrot soup , 1 glass tropicana orange juice* 3 syns*

Total: 24 syns
they're nice swiss chocolate… really worth the syns (I'd probably change my mind when I see my weight next week…)

 

[dreamaholic]

Was very close to buying two large packets of kettle chips (2 for 2 quid at tesco) ... Walked away in the end but I do want crisps

 

[dreamaholic]

Just checked, each 40g small packet is 9.5 syns. The packet I was gonna buy was a 150g one which is 6 syns for 25g, which is 36 syns per pack. Maybe it's a good thing I didn't buy. (but I still want kettle chips)

 

[10st10lbs]

Have you tried making SW crisps hun? I quite fancy some right now! xxx

 

[dreamaholic]

Have you tried making SW crisps hun? I quite fancy some right now! xxx

No I haven't. Sounds like a good idea! How do you do it? Cutting really thin slices, spray fry light, season and bake? Are the thin potatoes slices free ?

 

[10st10lbs]

No I haven't. How do you do it? Cutting really thin slices, spray fry light, season and bake? Are the thin potatoes slices free ?

I slice thin but not too thin otherwise they burn, frylight a plate, season the slices and then place on plate but not overlapping, then a little spray of frylight over them, and in the microwave for 8 mins... My microwave is 950W so a little more or less time depending on the wattage of yours Yep they are free if you are doing EE or Green, they are lovely and you can't make very many at a time but they certainly are worth the effort in my opinion. Made SW doritos on the weekend from par-boiled lasagne sheets - rubbish! xxx

 

[dreamaholic]

Thanks, will try tonight when I get home from work (few more hours to go, yawn)

 

[dreamaholic]

6/10 (Wednesday)

Breakfast: spinach + noodles soup
Snack: apple
Lunch: Singapore fried rice noodles, with chicken, + lots of onions, spring onions, bean sprouts and curry powder, lots of spinach
Snack: apple, blackberries + SW chocolate cake (3.5 syns unless I'm allowed to count the All-Bran as HeB) + small amount of 2% fat yogurt milk (HeA)
Dinner: fried noodles, with chicken, + onions, mushrooms and shitake mushrooms, broccoli, homemade sweetcorn and carrot soup , homemade grape jelly (made using 75ml Welch's grape juice,* 1 syn), cola sweet, 1 syn

Total: 5.5 syns
Quite a low syn day.* Thought about going to the gym but stayed home to watch the Apprentice instead…

 

[dreamaholic]

bought some potatoes to make SW crisps, but also bought 2 small packet of kettle chips (40g) as a treat, had 1 pack, 9.5 syns, but it was YUMMY.

now heading to the gym.

 

[10st10lbs]

bought some potatoes to make SW crisps, but also bought 2 small packet of kettle chips (40g) as a treat, had 1 pack, 9.5 syns, but it was YUMMY.

now heading to the gym.

hehe hope you like the crisps more than kettle chips once you make them!

have a good time at the gym? x

 

[dreamaholic]

hehe hope you like the crisps more than kettle chips once you make them!

have a good time at the gym? x

I guess sometimes we just have to use the syns! Gym was busy, spent some time cycling till a treadmill is free, then did some running / brisk walking! Felt good afterwards

 

[dreamaholic]

7/10 (Thursday)

It's a left over day. (I'm feeling very lazy)

Breakfast: left over fried noodles, with chicken, + onions, mushrooms and shitake mushrooms, spinach
Lunch: left over fried noodles, with chicken, + onions, mushrooms and shitake mushrooms, spinach
Snack: apple x 3, small packet of Kettle Chips (9.5 syns)
Dinner: left over Singapore fried rice noodles, with chicken, + lots of onions, spring onions, bean sprouts and curry powder, broccoli
Dessert: strawberries + fat free yogurt

Exercise: 5 minutes cycling, 20 minutes on treadmill

Total: 9.5 syns
(forgot to take any alpen light to work hence no HeA nor HeB today)

 

[emily87]

Hi hun, sorry I've been absent for a while. Looks like you are doing really well. Have you tried those SW crisps yet? I love Kettle chips, infact I love all crisps, lol.

 

[dreamaholic]

Hi hun, sorry I've been absent for a while. Looks like you are doing really well. Have you tried those SW crisps yet? I love Kettle chips, infact I love all crisps, lol.

haven't tried the crisps yet - I did buy some potatoes though, may try this weekend.

8/10 (Friday)

had a rather syn-ful day.

had a small piece of tiramisu as dessert during lunch, then a few small slices of banana cake as tea. they are small portions, but they add up. I think it's because I haven't had such treats for a long time, when I see them in front of me, I find them hard to resist.

Tiramisu, 28g 4
the piece I had looks like it's 56g, so that's 8 syns

Banana cake... they're small slices (5cm x 5cm x 2cm), say 5 syns each, and I had 5

that's... 33 syns

have been good otherwise...

Breakfast: All bran + milk + blackberries (HeA + HeB)
Snack: fresh pineapple + mango from M&S
Lunch: homemade beef curry + rice + salad + tiramisu (8 syns)
Snack: 5 banana cake slices, 25 syns
Dinner: beef noodles, 4 steamed pork dumplings, possibly some syns with the dumplings, 2 syns say, orange

Total: 35 syns

I won't be too surprised if I see a gain next week

 

[emily87]

Eek, why do these things have to be so high in syns for such a small piece?! Very unfair. Was it all yummy though? You've been eating lots of fruit and veg during the week tho and going to the gym so I dont think it will do too much damage. Just have a couple of really good days before weigh in with lots of superspeed maybe.

 

[dreamaholic]

crisps / cakes / chocolates - I have to say they are what I crave the most since I started SW. well we can have 10 syns of those a day without jeopardising weightloss, so it's not unbearable.

9/10 (Saturday)
Breakfast: strawberries and blackberries with fat free yogurt
Lunch: sushi (with seaweed and spring onion being superfree)and miso soup (1 syn)
Snack: 2 alpen light, 1 bar of bueno chocolate - 120 kcal so that's 6 syns (got it on my way home... was starving, and craving chocolate at the same time)
pre-dinner snacks: crabsticks, fat free yogurt (was basically starving when I got home)
Dinner: chicken and cucumber salad with garlic / ginger / sesame dressing (2 syns with dressing as there's some sesame in it), stir-fry noodles

Exercise: walking / hiking around London and Hampstead Heath

total: 9 syns

Not too bad given I did have a bar of chocolate! (21.5g = 6 syns... quite a high value!)

 

[dreamaholic]

I slice thin but not too thin otherwise they burn, frylight a plate, season the slices and then place on plate but not overlapping, then a little spray of frylight over them, and in the microwave for 8 mins... My microwave is 950W so a little more or less time depending on the wattage of yours Yep they are free if you are doing EE or Green, they are lovely and you can't make very many at a time but they certainly are worth the effort in my opinion. Made SW doritos on the weekend from par-boiled lasagne sheets - rubbish! xxx

just made these absolutely yummy SW crisps, seasoned with salt and black pepper, DELICIOUS!!! so easy to make as well!

are these really free?

 

[dreamaholic]

10/10/10 (Sunday)
Breakfast: banana
Lunch: Chinese dim-sums -eg prawn and chive dumplings, custard tart etc (?? syns)
Snack: banana with fat free yogurt and sprinkle of All-Bran, choc cake made with All-Bran (All Bran as my HeB today, maybe 1 syn with choco powder) SW crisps - so easy to make, and so yummy! thanks 10st10lbs for recommending this!

pre-dinner snacks: left over Singaporean style fried noodles
Dinner: seaweed and cucumber salad (with very low fat yuzu dressing) SW chips and egg.

total syns: mainly coming from my dim-sum lunch. Cannot work out how many there are, but have been good today otherwise!

weigh-in at home tomorrow! fingers crossed.

 

[10st10lbs]

crisps look yum x

 

[dreamaholic]

11/10 (Monday)

Weighed myself using wii today, 70.8kg = 156 pounds!
Lost 1.5 pounds!!!:bliss: