FUNCURLS FOOD DIARY, BLOG and CHIT CHAT!! New target set!!

[funcurls]

Well i have reviewed your diary and i think you are doing fabby hun!!! keep going at it my little slim kitten! - xxxx

Why thank you Ellekitten!! Today I wasn't very good!! Not that I ate a lot, but it wasn't a very balanced diet!! But I am most pleased with my loss this week!! That turquoise sticker feels gooooooooodddd!!! Next stop lime green!!X

 

[*EB*]

wait for me i need to catch up!!! lol - not sure how much i need to catch up by, but i want the pale blue beauty you have on your siggie!!! 4.5lbs to lose to get that one wahoo!!!! all i want to lose this week is 1.5 to get into the next stone down! I will be happy with that!

 

[Meli]

Well done on your big loss this week, your 3.5 stone sticker and SOTW!!! Doing great!

 

[Claireybella]

A big well done from me too hon, that's fab!!

 

[funcurls]

wait for me i need to catch up!!! lol - not sure how much i need to catch up by, but i want the pale blue beauty you have on your siggie!!! 4.5lbs to lose to get that one wahoo!!!! all i want to lose this week is 1.5 to get into the next stone down! I will be happy with that!

That's a massive acheivement in itself, going down into the next stone bracket!! You feel much lighter just knowing you've dropped down into it!! You're doing great, and when you're a good bear you have big losses so no reason why you won't overtake me very soon!!XXXX

 

[funcurls]

Well done on your big loss this week, your 3.5 stone sticker and SOTW!!! Doing great!

Thanks hunny, I have lime green 4 stone sticker envy though!! LOL! Hope you're fine with your STS! I think that's pretty good going as you were expecting it, and you've had some mammoth losses over the last couple of weeks!!XXX

 

[funcurls]

Week 39- Day 1 (Tues)- Extra Easy- Day off.

Breakfast-10am- 2-egg omlette with 28g cheddar (HEXa) and some baked beans. 1/2 an Oreo cookie (1.25 syns!).

2pm- A satsuma.

4pm- Small chicken salad (mixed leaves, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, spring onion, balsamic vinegar).

7pm- Turkey and veg curry (strips of turkey breast, onion, garlic, root ginger, courgette, aubergine, mushrooms, red pepper, chickpeas, fresh tomatoes, curry powder, chilli powder, madras curry paste 2 tbspns (2 syn for portion). Red and white grapes. Vanilla/choc sprinkles with black cherry underlayer (2 syns).

Total syns 5.5.

 

[*EB*]

That's a massive acheivement in itself, going down into the next stone bracket!! You feel much lighter just knowing you've dropped down into it!! You're doing great, and when you're a good bear you have big losses so no reason why you won't overtake me very soon!!XXXX

i think OBG is making me motivated!!! i want a 7 stone sticker!!! haha! x

 

[Loopeylou]

Wow what a loss this week, well done hunny.....lovin the gorgeous turquiose sticky!!!!
xx

 

[funcurls]

Week 39- Day 2 (Wed)- Extra Easy- Working 7.30am-3pm.

Breakfast- 6.30am- 3 egg omlette with 28g cheddar (HEXa).

Work break 1- 11am- Strawberries, blackberries and white grapes. An Activia fat free cherry yogurt. 2 choc/orange Alpen Light bars (HEXb).

Work break 2- 1.30pm- Creamy cheese Mugshot (2 syns). A banana and a satsuma.

On way home from work and Lidls- 4.30pm- A few cherry tomatoes.

At home 5.30- A very small bowl of baked beans! A Curly Wurly (6 syns).

9pm- Turkey & veg curry (see yesterday) with no accompliament (yummy on its own and contains lots of chickpeas!- 1 syn for curry paste) Mandarin Mullerlight mixed with Total 0% yogurt to make it creamier and bulk it up a bit!

Total syns 9.

 

[funcurls]

Wow what a loss this week, well done hunny.....lovin the gorgeous turquiose sticky!!!!
xx

Thanks chicken! I'm keeping my eyes peeled for your WI result!! Disappointed you haven't opted into my Kool 4 Skool challenge!! LOL!XXXX

 

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Week 39- Day 3 (Thurs)- Extra Easy- Working 7.30am-3pm.

Breakfast- 6.30am- 3-egg omlette and baked beans.

Work break 1- 11am- Red grapes, white grapes, blackberries, raspberries and sliced nectarine. Shape Zero peach & passionfruit yogurt.

Work break- 1.45pm- Roast chicken Mugshot (0.5 syns). 3 Pagen Krisprolls (HEXb) with 3 Laughing Cow XL (1/2 HEXa) and marmite. An apple.

At home-6pm- Moussaka (from pg 53 Aug/Sept SW mag- allowing 3 syns for fat just incase- I had to drain the fat during cooking as couldn't get hold of extra lean lamb mince) with steamed broccoli.

After choir- 9pm- A cherry Mullerlight and a Kelloggs Fibre Plus dark choc/almond bar (6 syns).

Total syns 9.5.

 

[Meli]

Funny you had the Moussaka and I just bumped a recipe for it as I need to use the aubergines up I have in the fridge. How did yours come out? I'm thinking to do mine with the Quorn mince I have in the freezer.

 

[Loopeylou]

Thanks chicken! I'm keeping my eyes peeled for your WI result!! Disappointed you haven't opted into my Kool 4 Skool challenge!! LOL!XXXX

Well I lost 3.5 expect to gain that in next 3 weeks though...French bread, wine, cheese and cakes have to be tried at least lol
Think i'd have ended up with a deficit by the end of your challenge lol
xx

 

[funcurls]

Well I lost 3.5 expect to gain that in next 3 weeks though...French bread, wine, cheese and cakes have to be tried at least lol
Think i'd have ended up with a deficit by the end of your challenge lol
xx

Congrats on your brilliant loss chick!! I knew you were due a big one as you've been so angelic AND doing all that 'body magic' (SW make me laugh, their names for things!! LOL!) I forgot you were going to France for all that time!! Just make sure you enjoy and relax on the food front, but that's not to say you won't be able to make some wise choices and limit the damage!! I don't think you'll see this til you arrive home anyway so hope you enjoyed! XXXXXXXXXX

 

[funcurls]

Funny you had the Moussaka and I just bumped a recipe for it as I need to use the aubergines up I have in the fridge. How did yours come out? I'm thinking to do mine with the Quorn mince I have in the freezer.

Hi hun, the moussaka went down a treat, both with myself and dh, which is always a great litmus test!! I would recommend you grill the aubergine slices well before assembling the dish, and make sure you have plenty of potato slices! I made the topping with 3 egg yolks, v.f.f fromage frais, nutmeg and chopped parsley and it tasted lovely Did you see the quorn moussaka recipe on the SW website? I'm going to try that way too!!X

 

[funcurls]

Hev, how do you get 2 breaks on a short shift? are they 15 mins each? We only get 2 on a 12.5 hour shift and it's just not enough time to eat and let it settle xx

Hey sugarlips, it really depends on how busy the unit is!! If all works out, on a 12.5 hr shift (which is my norm) we usually get 20 mins 10/11 am (ish), then 20 mins for lunch, so around 1/2/3pm, then another 20 mins around 5/6/7pm! But it varies so much! Sometimes we only get 2 short ones, just grabbing 10 mins at a time just to get away, and other times we have 3 breaks and stretch them out to 30 mins if the unit is quiet, but that doesn't happen that often!!LOL! It is frustrating when you don't have time to sit and enjoy your food properly, especially if you have to prepare/heat stuff up first! You're a brave so-and-so going into this nursing lark ya know!! We're all mad to be doing it- good job I love it!! ps Do staff on your ward get paid for the full 12.5 hrs or just for 11.5 hrs, because if the latter, you're entitled to an hours worth of breaks (in an ideal world lol!) On a short shift the morning break is discretionary, but you're entitled to a 1/2 hr lunch break if not being paid for your break!!XXXXX

 

[funcurls]

Our unit is quite flexible with break times- as long as the patients are safe and being looked after, people don't clock-watch too much! But if we're really hectic, we only take a few mins each anyway, just so we all get to have our breaks! I find I get really dry and parched in work because of the air con so I always take a 2l bottle of water with me from my fridge at home and try to drink the bottle if I'm on a short shift, and refill it and drink a total of 4l if on a long day or night shift! I'm glad you're enjoying your medical ward! Hectic I bet! I'm in CITU not CCU, so it's post cardiac surgery rather than the medical side of things. What's nice about it is that we deliver ALL the care, from washing, bum wiping, rubbing cream into people, sucking their toes (OK the last one was a joke!!LOL!), feeding patients, to running blood gases, analysing them, acting on them, monitoring them both invasively and non-invasively, doing hourly or more frequent obs along with fluid balance on our big complex charts, drawing up lots of 50ml syringes of drugs for syringe pumps and other IVs, giving blood, blood products and other fluids, managing pain (sometimes a challenge in itself), performing suction, extubating ventilated patients, assisting with intubations, drain, line, tracheostomy insertions, removing invasive lines and drains, doing dressings, dealing with renal filters and dialysis, plus lots of other machines, and of course dealing with relatives. We're 1 to 1 unless patients are HDU level patients, in which case we can be 1 to 2, so although we can be ridiculously busy with just 1 patient, (I never realised anyone COULD be that busy with 1 patient until I worked in ITU) we can also ensure that everything is done as thoroughly as possible so there is rarely that guilty feeling of neglecting patients or leaving them waiting for too long that I used to have when I worked on a ward! I've been on ITU 10 years now and I don't think I could ever go back to a ward environment!! Any idea what area you'd like to go into?! Anything tickled your fancy so far?X

 

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Week 39- Day 4 (Fri)- Extra Easy- Day off.

Breakfast-10.30am- 28g Dorset Cereals Fabulously Fruity muesli (HEXb) with raspberries, blackberries and sliced banana and 100ml semi-skimmed milk (2/5 HEXa). A nectarine.

Lunch- 2.30pm- Large slice of SW quiche (eggs, cottage cheese, spring onions, red chilli, green pepper, courgette, mushrooms, tomato) with a corn on the cob. A very small piece of dh's cheese & onion pasty! (est. 4 syns). New York cheesecake Mullerlight (1 syn).

Tea- 7pm- Moussaka (from SW mag- made yest- allow 3 syns for fat in lamb in case not all drained off- wasn't extra lean) with 1/2 pack Tescos stirfry veg. 17g grated melted cheddar (3/5 HEXa).

Total syns 8.

 

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Week 39- Day 5 (Sat)- Extra Easy- Working 7.30am-8pm.

Before work- 3 egg omlette with 28g cheddar (HEXa).

Work break 1- 11am- Raspberries, blackberries, sliced nectarine, white grapes, red grapes with v.f.f. fromage frais. Luscious Lemon HIFI bar (HEXb).

Off food trolley in work (tut tut!!)- 3 potato croquettes (6 syns).

Work break 2- 3pm- A slice of vegetable SW quiche (see yest) with 1/2 pack Tesco stirfry veg (pre-stirfried at home) and a half corn-on-the-cob. Mango Shape Zero yogurt.

At home- 9pm- Moussaka (from SW mag- made Thurs- allow 3 syns as yest for ?fat in lamb) with steamed broccoli. An orange.

1 Oreo cookie (2.5 syns).
8 marshmallows!!! (8 syns)!

Total syns 19.5.