Gobolino's Food Diary - converted to ww now!

[prawnchopSuey]

Hi Hun, don't worry about the cookies, these things happen and it could have been way worse than just three! 30 syns is really not bad and you can easily work your way back to an average of less than 15 per day for the week.

I think you are right to say that you should not have baked on an empty stomach though, far too tempting!

Think you might need a new recipe book or as you said, an evening surrounded by books to refresh your ideas and re-inspire you

 

[gobolino]

Thanks both!

Yep, I need some chill out time with recipe books. I'm so fed up of not knowing what to have, especially for evening meal. There are loads of ideas out there I just need to hunt them down!

Here's today:
Friday 28th September

Breakfast:
vlf fromage frais, splash of milk from HA, blackberries and grated apple. Peach. Small banana

Dinner:
2 wholemeal rolls (120g total = HB HB). 2 Laughing cow deli cheese (1/2 HA). Cherry toms

Snacks:
Pineapple. Peach. Milk in tea (1/2 HA) NO CAKES AT COFFEE MORNING

Tea:
Pasta n sauce 1/2syn with peas, mangetout and broccoli. Cheese (HA). For pudding: vlf fromage frais/quark/hazelnut coffee and 1/2 a 25ml shot of hazelnut Baileys (2syns), light squirty cream (1syn)

Snacks:
6 potato wedges from hubbys tea (1syn for garlic oil)

Syns: 4.5
Exercise: none (I did manage a 15min walk yesterday lunchtime but unfortunately not today!)

 

[gobolino]

My ideas for food this weekend. I'd like to get a few meals into the freezer too

Homemade pasta sauce
BNS and sweet potato soup
Broccoli stalk soup
Mixed bean and quorn chilli - done!
Homity pie
Stuffed peppers
Sausage casserole

 

[gobolino]

Syns review - must stay on plan!

Total so far= 66.5
Remaining syns 3.5 for mon/tues

Weds 7.5, Thurs 30.5, Fri 4.5, Sat 8.5, Sun 5.5, Mon 10, Tues ?

 

[gobolino]

Saturday 1st October

I'm up early enough to go to yoga, but havent got the car so that tags another hour of walking onto a 90min class...... I've got loads to do at home and want to give the dog a walk before its too hot! So, no yoga today.

Here's the menu:

B- 42g all bran (HB), chopped banana, milk from HA

D- starter: thai BNS and carrot soup, carrot sticks and quark dip. main: scrambled egg (1.5syns for butterlicious) on toast (HB). pud: vlf fromage frais, highlights hot choc (2syns)

T- Chopped salad (tom, cu, onion, sweetcorn, peppers, thai basil and a squeeze of clementine) with 3 quorn sausages (3 syns -ouch!). minimilk (2syns)

snacks- a peach, latte (first HA milk + 175ml so another 1/2HA)

Total syns= 8.5syns
Exercise= 50mins walk, housework

 

[gobolino]

Good progress so far on making meals for the freezer - will update as the day progresses:
Mixed bean and quorn chilli (free)
Thai BNS and carrot soup (free)
Veggie lasagne with peppers and courgette. Ricotta and l/f cheese topping (HA or HB +1 syn per portion)
Broccoli stalk soup

I've also got the good food magazine for some great ideas..... just have to resist reading it now until the housework is done!

Tomorrow I'll probably make brocolli stalk soup and homity pie -yummy yum yum! - edit- didnt get round to the homity pie.... maybe I'll do it during the week, but busy each night till thurs so probably not. Will use the leeks in a stir fry instead.

 

[gobolino]

Sunday:

B- all bran (42g HB), milk from HA, banana

D- Lasagne and salad (HA+1syn), new potatoes. Vlf fromage frais white choc and coffee mousse layer (2syns)

T- Veggie chilli and sweet potato wedges or rice or something different ..... pud - melon and vlf mousse as above (2syns)

snacks- apple, 2 alpen light bars (HB), couple of new potatoes, milk in tea (HA). ice lolly (1.5syns)

Exercise- 50mins
Syns-5.5
Woah its so hot I'm not really sure what I want for tea. Chilli and rice seems a bit heavy!

 

[gobolino]

Mondays plan:

B-Grated apple, vlf fromage frais and 1 alpen light bar (1/2HB)

D-Soup (Thai BNS+carrot). Mangetout. Melon. 1 co-op wholemeal pitta (HB)

T-Lasagne (HA +1syn), salad

Snacks- 1 Alpen light (1/2HB), milk in tea (HA), banana. Kiwis and Carrots

Exercise-60mins aerobics, 30mins walk
Syns- Maximum of 5 if possible.

 

[gobolino]

Monday has gone to plan apart from the syns:
lasagne =1
ryvita minis=4
2 lots of hot choc powder in vlf fromage frais=4
squirty cream=1

Total =10

I have a big craving for chocolate tonight...... its a monday night thing (ie night before weigh in) and have been talking to myself: 'Mmmmmm I have dark chocolate in the cupboard' 'no Gobolino you dont want to mess it all up on a monday night' .... conversation repeated many times.

So far I've had vlf fromage frais as soon as I came home and then had my lasagne (a bit of a backwards tea really)..... now I am soooo tired and full I dont want to do anything apart from go to sleep. But, will get myself out walking the dog and hopefully go to aerobics (although I'm tempted to trade that for a hot bath and relax instead tonight!).

I dont know sometimes I just feel like a gerbil on a wheel going round and round and never having enough time to fit everything in

 

[Derbynanny]

I often eat my pudding before my main meal as i can never wait LOL

I feel the same about being a gerbil on a treadmill and i am only working a few odd hours here and there at the moment.

Teresa

 

[Derbynanny]

Good luck with WI x

 

[craftylucyloo]

Hey Hun. Thanks for your encouraging message on my diary. I havent been around much but still weighing in each week. I must admit I follow we intrudes diary quite a lot to get new ideas. Today I am having leftovers of jerk chicken ( heb) with Turkish bulgar wheat salad and carrot sticks etc. Tonight I'll gave my usual cheesy chilli. I always use full fat cheese instead of low far stuff as it melts better. The mash pizza is really good too. Anyway hope you get a loss this week you have been doing so well. Xx

 

[gobolino]

Hello

Thank you for your messages!

Teresa I think its funny to think of us both being gerbils on our hamster wheel..... think of all that body magic eh! For me its not the first time I've had pudding first -he he!

Hazel thanks for the ideas. I enjoy browsing the food diaries for ideas!


Today went ok
B- alpen light (3syns), all bran (HB), banana, milk (part HA), peach
D- broccoli soup, pitta (HB)
snacks- latte (HA), ryvita minis (4syns)
T- scan bran and blue cheese pre weigh in and then taster session at group
Then at home I had some frozen yoghurt and dark chocolate as a treat (I know this isnt in my syns!)

I lost half a pound. I laughed at weigh in as I'd thought it would be a whole pound. But I'm still pretty chuffed at my continuous losing streak

 

[Derbynanny]

It is in the right direction and you seem to be on a streak now and so so close to your stone !

 

[silly sausage]

Well done Gobolino :clap: You are on a roll!

 

[Beegee]

You certainly are - you're doing brilliantly at the moment!

 

[gobolino]

Thank you all Focussing on it being a loss and in the right direction and however many in a row certainly keeps me going !

Here's todays menu:
Wednesday 5th Oct- red day

B-oats 28g (HB), vlf fromage frais, splash of milk from HA, blackberries and 2 grated apples. Nectarine

D-Tuna salad, wholemeal roll (HB), 2 boiled eggs. Pineapple

T-3 quorn sausages (3syns - unfortunately had to be used up!), stir fried leeks with herbs and garlic, BNS

puds- 11g options with vlf fromage frais (2syns).... mock sw christmas puddings (7.5syns)

Snacks-milk in tea (HA), cheese (HA), ryvita minis (4syns).

Yogacise 60mins
Total syns-16.5


My focus for this week is just trying to do things differently. Red day here and there, different healthy extras, anything different to normal. I'm trying to shake it up a bit!

mmmmmm just noticed I'm only using half my milk HA again. This is annoying I'm debating giving up tea altogether and then saving the whole lot for cheese

 

[gobolino]

Just for the record, I dont like red days! I end up eating too much other stuff as I dont feel comfy with red free food Green days for the rest of the week, thank you very much!

 

[Derbynanny]

I so agree with you gobolino, the only way i can ever succesful red day is if somehow i do it by accident they make me anxious and hungry hungry hungry ! Green with the occaional ee or maybe a mix 2 max if i eat a salad when i am out.

 

[gobolino]

Recap: Thursday was great on plan day, then we went for a curry buffet. I stuck to the veggie curry packed full of veg, plain rice so all the good choices. Calling that the full 15 syns for that day.

Weds
Syns 16.5. Yogacise

Thurs:
B- 42g all bran (HB), banana, nectarine
D- jacket and quorn chilli
T- curry buffet
snacks-kiwi, apple, milk in tea (HA)
Syns 15

Fri:
B-2 weetabix (HB), nectarine
D-jacket, cottage cheese, gherkins, sweetcorn
T-veggie lasagne (HA +1syn), jacket and cottage cheese
snacks-pineapple, kiwi, milk in tea (HA)
pud- 22g options coconut (4syns), 14g dark chocolate (3.5syns), 6 walnut halves (HB)
Syns 7.5

Wow my week is looking quite high in syns and low in exercise so far. Fingers crossed things will pick up