From Maximus to Minimus - coming soon!

Hello! I made a big stew yesterday in the slow cooker. I dry fried stewing steak (well a few squirts of fry light) and then added to crock pot with three big carrots, two sweet potatoes, onion, red onion, packet of mushrooms halved, tin toms, knorr beef solid stock thingy, 2 bay leaves and enough water to cover. Cooked for 8 hours and served with mustard mash (extra easy day), runner beans and cabbage. It was yum. Unfotunately, when I was boxing up the leftovers, the pot fell out of my hand and broke when it hit the floor :(. Just when I had dusted it off for the winter. Must buy another one. I've heard curries are lovely cooked in there. Chilli is delish cooked in there too x
 
We have 3 fridges and 2 freezers lol!

That's just for your snacks isn't it Tubs;)

Oh well today was a mixed day. Started off with a SW-style breakfast of syn-free burgers, sausage, baked beans, mushroom & fried egg (1syn for oil). Won't be bothering with that again, didn't particularly like the taste of the sausage and would rather something I enjoyed at the cheaper price and better taste.

I mentioned I made a vegetable soup that would have had Baxters, Heinz, Campbells, Covent Garden Soup Co. etc. all vying for my culinary skills and worrying about their future profits, you may recall?

Well I only went and left said masterpiece in its food fask on the bench! Meaning lunch was the HEX B wholemeal bread I planned to have with it, with some crabsticks! - a couple of Alpen Lights (6) were synned and I added apple, banana and a plum.

That was bad enough, but on my hike today, I slowed right down, dropping to the back of the group struggling at times not to faint, or be physically ill:eek: Not sure what it was thoguh, I even briefly thought it may have been those syn-free sausage & burgers I had this morning, but my symptoms were more "flu-like". I felt completely "flat" as though I was running on empty with shooting pains from arms, legs, back and shoulders - even on level ground, I was struggling. Uphill was damn painful.

On my return I at my soup literally as I got through the door and comfort-ate with a nice salad with Ryvita (6), Laughing Cow (HEXA) to keep up my share of super-free as it was an e/easy day.

Even now I feel drained, and it is only because after my jetlag and getting my sleep pattern corrected I have not gone straight to bed as I feel dreadful:( 10pm will be late enough.

As for tomorrow, well I car-share (or to be more accurate, I take two other people to work each day) and will see how I feel at 6am when the alarm goes as to how I feel then. At the moment I am undecided between food-poisoning, sunstroke and flu (I have ruled out the potentially fatal man-flu).

To cap it all, my GPS batteries died after about 5 mile so not even ure how far I walked today, but I know it was more than 10:eek: - so much for a nice Sunday stroll.

I'm now having to take on extra fluids (rehydrating) might have been a touch of sunstroke. My face is burning which suggest this (either that or Dawn is talking about me).

Anyways, I finished the walk strongly, and should dwell on a great weekend rather than a dodgy couple of hours. The Body magic for the weekend was off the scale.
- Just as well as with the salad dressing (1.5) and my forgotten cappucino first thing (2.5) I make that a belly-bustin' 17 syns!

Harly the end of the world, but enough to not be 100%.

Dilemma.....

Can I justify having 13 syns (or less) tomorrow, or use the extra two from the ones this week when I was under to claim 100%?

Don't be too tough on me or I might:cry:
:p

:8855:
 
Sorry to hear you were feeling so poorly. I hope you feel better today x
PS So annoying about leaving the soup at home.
 
Morning Steve,

How are you feeling today hunni? Hopefully a lot better than yesterday x

I got a bit bored with the Ride in the end...typical! Xx
 
Aw, what a pity you were feeling rough and didn't enjoy your walk. So this sudden bout of illness had nothing to do with the footy yesterday then? ;) :D

Hope you are feeling better today Mr Souperman :8855: x
 
Thanks for the good wishes everyone.

Just when I was planning a week or more on sick leave, I woke up - well, if not full of the joys of spring, a very close second!

I woke up with tired legs and aching muscles - especially thigh and legs - which is all very good as it was a steep and demanding walk. As mentiond I was thinking everything from dicky tum/food poison to sun/heatstroke to flu! - It was strange how I just had no power or strength and at one times had to concentrate not to fall over.

Today I took the remainder of the batched soup to work for lunch but the forgetful streak continued as I also prepared a chicken salad to go with it and only just remember it was in my draw at home time:eek: - perhaps a touch of amnesia? (well, as Dawn would say I'm getting on a bit.

I had the salad (supefree) whilst waiting for my chicken madras, or to be more accurate the rice cooking. (I now have two more chicken madras portions to look forward too:cool:

Today's food then was cheese on toast (HEXA & B) cappucino (2.5)

Soup, packet of French Fries (5syns but fancied something crispy from the vending machine). Apple, banana, 2x plums.

Chicken curry (6 syns for sauce)rice then a Mueller light. - oh and aforementioned chicken salad (1.5syn for the dressing).

Exactly 15 syns I make that (more luck than judgment!)

Tonight I was going to use up the remainder of my extra lean mince to make a cottage pie, but added onions, peas carrots and a bit of swede and instead of covering with mashed potatoes, I thinly sliced a couple of spuds and covered the mixture. This will be another of my winter warmers!

Jackie if you're reading, good to have you back home, and thanks for the text today. I'm sure you'll be on your feet in no time. I'm thinking about registering you for next years London marathon - that's how confident I am;)
 
Sorry to hear you were feeling so poorly. I hope you feel better today x
PS So annoying about leaving the soup at home.
lol - I had the soup the second I walked in the door - before I even took my muddy boots off:eek:

Oh and it was "top notch"
 
Evening Steve,

Have you finished roasting your chestnuts? :eek:

Must be REALLY cold there...:rotflmao:
 
I'm considering hibernation!

Since losing weight I feel the cold so much;) on the downside, the heating bills will be horrendous this year because of it:confused:

WI tonight but right now I'm more concerned with th spawn of the devil that is itunes and associated updates of software to Itunes 10.5 and OS v5 for the iphone - as if it isn't bad enough and time-taking enough having to do it for the phone, I have to repeat the whole update process for the Ipod, Ipod Touch and Ipad2.

Good job its my late start tomorrow.

I may be some time:(

Oh, btw, I am still 100% just as usual find it boring writing food diaries - it bores me, so I figure other people might be suicidal:eek:

Going to get a nice, warming bath, then sit in a cold church for 90 minutes or so at SW:cry:

Wish me luck as I am going to need it!

Steve
 
Steve..... i think that you have only yourself to blame for the i tunes thingy. Why do you have to have so many gizmos? If i were you i would ignore the updates and get yourself a good old stereogram :8855:
 
Steve - go an treat yourself to some thermals!!! I promise you, they're the best thing ever

I've already got some - got them last year I might have to wear them for work:eek: - well, I might put some trousers on too - not decided yet;)

Steve..... i think that you have only yourself to blame for the i tunes thingy. Why do you have to have so many gizmos? If i were you i would ignore the updates and get yourself a good old stereogram :8855:
i think you should change your tune:8855:stereogram? - or perhaps a music centre to replace my aging Dansette? - I have hifi separates - how 90s is that!!

Hey Lorrayne, can I serenade you?

"So kiss me and smile for me, promise that you'll wait for me, hold me like you'll never let me go. 'Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again, Oh babe I hate to go....." oops! you're supposed to sing that to ME:eek:

Hey, I manage to lose 5lb tonight - so wiped out the last 5 weeks gain. A good start. Yes I'm satisfied with that, but a little annoyed that I could have had a much greater loss had I avoided extra easy and all the portion control problems.

Still, it's a brilliant sign that a 5lb loss is a minor disappointment. It looks good for next week. Oh and extra easy will be used sparingly;-)

I made my Christmas wish at group and put it on the tree. It is to join the century club (100lb total weightloss) reaching the milestone by Christmas. 14.5lb to go - but me being a smart@rse said I want to reach it by my birthday weekend so Skinny Dawn can bow at my feet:p - 6 more weigh-ins lol.



 
Evening Steve x

Hey, good loss hunni! All that worry...and then you go and pull 5lbs out the bag! I seem to remember a little birdie (not just little but almost SKINNY actually! ) telling you it'd be ok?

As for the bowing down...

In your dreams sunshine!!! ;-)
 

Hey Lorrayne, can I serenade you?

"So kiss me and smile for me, promise that you'll wait for me, hold me like you'll never let me go. 'Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again, Oh babe I hate to go....." oops! you're supposed to sing that to ME:eek:

Hee hee - she'll be getting on one in just over 12 hours!

Well done on the 5 lbs off. If only I could manage to do that I'd smash target! And in a week!!!! Go Stevie Go. So close to that Century club!
 
whoo whoo on the 5lb loss :D thats pretty good and means you've lost the whole of your gain in 2 weeks as predicted :D fantastic. BLess you feeling the cold, you will just have to treat yourself to some trendy knitwear. I :giggle: yesterday at Charlie's assembly as a man came in in tshirt and jeans, freezing, but he had one of those thick woolly hats with bobbles on :giggle: his head was warm :giggle: but he looked so funny sitting there like that but its obviously the trend
 
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