Getting back in zone, to loose for good!!

Nikki you should bring out a SW meal guide, your meals always look so interesting. I always ate the same things on SW, my downfall I am sure. I got bored of the limitations.
 
Hello Kez, thanks for popping in honey.. I know with any diets that I get bored, so have to make them feel interesting. I'm getting a bit p'd off with the 2lb loss each week, was really hoping for an average 3lb loss so that I didn't need to do CD again last 2 weeks in July, as I just love food, lol.. Did a stir fry pork thingy last night, with noodles, kind of like a chow mein, then added a tbsp of l/f peanut butter with hot water mixed in and some chilli flakes and that was soo yummy :).. See what I mean with food?? So going back to CD, I'd be a nightmare..

Will come on over to see your diary in a sec too.Thanks again for the support hun xx
 
Hi guys
Hope your arm is ok, EF. Had weigh in yesterday (usually Monday but it was bank hol here). Put on half a pound. Not totally surprised but group was really helpful and I'm determined to lose it and more by next week. Only prob is I'm away to Belfast from Thur to Sun and won't have any control over what's cooked - must remember I do have control over what goes into my gob! Rx
 
Hello Rainbow.. That half a pound could have come off already this morn, mostly water retention. Good luck while you are away hun.

Today is drizzling here again and am more and more tempted to follow Red/Green days again. EE is def slowing my losses. So will defo do that from next Tues onwards after WI.

Out to Romford today with my sister, I'm enjoying the peace and quiet while Ian isn't here and the kids are being good too. Funny that, his oldest isn't when he is around (18) and now he is fine..

Food for today - 10 syns EE

Bfast - Mlight Yogurt, Banana and Pear
Lunch - Jacket and beans
Snacks- Strawberries
Dinner - Pork (f), Noodles (f), mushrooms(sf), , baby corn(sf), and carrotts(sf), spring onions(sf), 1tbsp l/fat Peanut Butter (4)

Desert - Strawberries

Snacks - 2 alpen bar lights, 1 small bag of butterkist popcporn (5.5)

Syns today - 9.5
 
Thanks for that, hun.

I'm in Belfast and the hotel is lovely. Had dinner in the hotel yesterday which was great and breakfast was absolutely fine; had fresh berries with yogurt and poached egg with slice of toast (1HE). Conference starts this morning and I'm not sure how it is catered but will find out at lunch! Was at same Conference in the south of Ireland three years ago and it was 'clog your arteries' food produced to feed big numbers.

However, hope springs eternal.....:)

Hotel has a leisure centre but conference session doesn't finish today until 7.30pm. so might not be in any fit state for 'leisure'!!:4635:
Hope you have a great day. Rx
 
Morning T.

Raining here, just cooking my sw breakfast and doing some free potatoe croquettes with it too. Just rolled out handfulls of cooked mashed potatote, seasoned, rolled in cooked seasoned couscous, fry light and bake for 20 mins.

I'm meeting my friend for lunch today in town, so aiming to walk there, then another mate is coming over this eve and I'm cooking a curry - sw style :). Ian isn't back til Sunday eve, so the boys are having a mate each over for pizza and to stay over the night tonight. Quite enjoying my peace and quiet here.

Food for today:

B-fast - bacon (f), poached egg(f), pot croquettes (f), beans (f) and mushrooms (sf). Pear (sf) and Apple (SF)

Lunch - Nando's Chick (f) Salad (sf) (3 for the Croutons)

Snack - Alpen Bar Light

Dinner - Chicken Curry and Rice. Chicken (f)Onions (sf) garlic(sf) , carrots(sf), spices, tomoatoes(sf), yogurt (F) and coconut flavouring, basmatti )rice(f)

Desert - Strawberries (sf) and a Fab Lolly (4) :)
 
Thanks T.

I went and done my back in this morn, getting washing out of machine with one hand, must have twisted somehow.. so pain killers later, not too bad and still venturing out for lunch with my friend. My son has just hoovered downstairs, for me, bless him.. his GF is also coming over for the day, so he's cleaned his room too.. Don't usually like leaving them in the house on their own, so have said that someone is calling here today with my online shopping from Tesco and he'll need to bring it in and unpack if for me. Should do the trick, lol.
 
Well, went to pub for lunch and had steak salad, which was nice and not croutons, so no need to count those now. Plus it helped me to errrr.. go! lol.. TMI :8855:I know, but was gettin a bit bunged up from these pain killers.

Tesco delivered and it was exciting, how sad is that..:eek:, not had shopping delivered like that before, so all unpacked and ready for the weekend :). Foprgot the ginger to cook curry, but hey ho!!
 
Well I can truly say that yesterdays lunch and dinner cleared the drain (TMI) c:8855:.

Cooked a curry for my mate last night, syn free: Serves 2 :D

  • 2 cans chopped toms
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1 large onion
  • Black onion seeds-1tsp
  • mustard seads-1tsp
  • Coriander seads -1tsp
  • curry powder - 2 large tbsp
  • Ground Coriander - 1tsp
  • Cumin-1tsp
  • Garam Masala-1tsp
  • 1 cup of chicken stock (chicken oxo)
  • Coconut essence - 2tsp
  • Plain fat free greek yoogurt
  • Basmatti rice - 1 cup
  • Fry Light
Gently fry (fry light) your seads, then add chopped onion and fry til browned, then add chopped chicken breasts, again fry til browned. Then add your dry spices and chicken stock. Stir and bring to boil, then add tomatoes, simmer for 20 mins. For your rice, add some seads to pan and gently fry til they start to simmer. Add dry rice, then 1 and 3/4 cup of water ,add 1tsp coconut essence to that pan and stir. Bring to boil - for 2 mins. Take off heat, and cover. Leave this for 20 mins.

Take curry off heat, and stir in 2 tbsp of greek fat free yogurt and 1tsp of coconut essence. Stir in and serve with the rice :D


Food for today on EE:
  • B-fast - poached egg(F), bacon(F) and mushrooms (sf) and 2 syn free pot croquettes (F)
  • Lunch - 2 sw scotch eggs (2)Salad(sf),Fat free dressing (f)
  • Dinner -Chinese take away 23
  • Snacks - 2 alpen light bars ( HEB)
  • 2 apples, 1 pear and fruit pack (sf)
  • Skinny cow choc mint ice lolly - 4.5
  • Choc mint shapers nougat bar (4.5)
Total - 33 syns

Going for a walk into town today to get some chorizo for kids pasta bake, which will burn some cals :).

Ian gets bak tomorrow from Portugal, and making the most of today with the kids on my own (has been nice) and tonight last night in bed on my own - again nice, no snoring, lol.
 
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Good morning.

Sunday - its dry here and a little sunny :), always makes you feel better doesn't it.

Oh dear - now for the bad news - I had a chineese take away last night, it was only me and my son in and he fancied it.. so I ordered it and ate it, not all mind! But a good 25 syns of it. Now I have had 6-8 syns a day during the week since my WI on Monday eve, and am in the thought mode that if I count that as 8 syns carried over, then use yest as a flexi syn day - 15 syns, and borrow 5 from today and tomorrow to make up for it? That makes 33 syns really, but I'm leaving it as that even though I didn't have that much. Do you think thats ok? It was narf nice :)

Food for today on EE
B-fast - berries (sf) and yogurt
snack -apple (sf)and pear(sf)
Lunch - Pasta n sauce (free) (using HEA)
snack apple (sf)and pear(sf) stawberries (sf)
Dinner - Chicken, potatoes, peas, cabbage(sf) and carrotts(sf)
Gravy - 2 syns
Stuffing - 3 syns
Afters - Fruit pack(sf) and 2 alpen light bars (HEB)

Total 5 syns

Need to go for a walk today so hoping the weather stays dry :)
 
Morning T.. Chinese was yummy, but that's over and out, lol.. til next weekend, anyway, and I'll save the syns this time, so I don't need to borrow them after the munch out, lol.

WI day tomorrow and hoping for 2lb loss, not sure it will be.. with the chineese on Sat night, but went walking to compensate yest, only did 2.7 KM, but it was better then nothing right?

Need to walk into town today, which is about 2 miles there and back, will track with my Pedometer how many steps that is and km's.. and am staying on just 5 syns today and that will be my Shapers Choc Mint Nugart bar (4.5).

Food for today, not very adventerous and need to up the 1/3 sf foods with my meals too, so that will have to be in fruit form as don't have that many veg in..

EE day - 5 syns

B-fast - Vanilla Yogurt and pear(sf)
snack - apple(sf)
Lunch - Pasta n sauce cheese and Brocoli (1) (HEA) and half cucumber(sf)
Snack - Apple (sf) and Pear (sf)
Dinner - SW chilli con carne and rice (free), 2 onions (sf), 2 peppers (sf), chopped tomatoes (sf) Beans (f)
Desert - Fruit pack (sf), 2 Alpen Light Bars (HEB) and a choc mint shapers bar (4.5).

STill have 0.5 syns left and might just leave that, lol.. could make a difference to tomorrow's WI :)

Edited 12.18pm - 1 syn for pasta and sauce - so gone over by half a syn. 5.5 total.
 
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Hi there

Pinkies crossed for good new with your weigh in tomorrow :cross:.
That curry sounds nice -I may have to pinch that to do for hubby :whistle: he loves lots of heat n spice -since I starte SW I seem to be developing quite a thing for chillis too-I never used to like them :confused:
There is a cracking chinese not far from here (although I think we have only ever had about 6 takeaways in 3 years:p) -but do you find that you get really thirsty when you have had one? I drink loads of water anyway -but I think it must be the MSG they put in it that makes me sooooo thirsty as I don't get it when I make my own :D
keep up the good work -you are doing great , especially with a damaged arm and back:clap:
Hope you have a good week
 
Thanks Capricorn, it does make a difference with the curry, that Coconut Essence, have posted it on the recipe thread. Only off of Ebay and you can use it in almost anything and its free :). You might have to pay a little extra postage, but get a few and they'll last ages.

The arm isn't so bad today, achey and really needs putting in a cast to start the healing as the lump thats sticking out, I'm sure that's the fracture and need to wait ti 21st to see Fracture Clinic on NHS. Hey ho..

I do get thristy on chineese take away, usually get a pint of water down me.. flushes it through (TMI) lol. :8855:

Have a good one Capricorn x
 
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