LittleSausage
is not so little
Pinkie1973 said:
Don't feel bad! Sunday is meant to be the day of rest, after all
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Don't feel bad! Sunday is meant to be the day of rest, after all
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
WARNING - MISERABLE BUGGER ALERT
Well today I have woken in a foul mood - the sort where everything irritates you. Where every turn you make you seem to knock something over, bump into something, child in the way etc etc ARRRGHHH!!! So I am guessing that blessed time is shortly to be upon me (well in the next week, my body likes a nice long build up to these things).
Food for yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 quorn sausages, 6 rashers of lean grilled back bacon (they were thin, but sod it - I wanted the damn bacon), baked beans, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, fried egg (with fry light).
Snack: 2 x Alpen light (HEb)
Lunch: lamb rogan and crab fish cakes from curry heaven book. The lamb was lovely, though I ended up eating the whole lot - 450g lamb, and I probably had about 300-350g worth of it! The rest was all onion and canned tomatoes - and both recipes were syn free. The crab cakes - nah, not so much - won't be bothering with them again. I didn't need them either - that was just greed on my part. Made the pilau rice to go with it (again free, onions, rice, stock and spices). Really enjoyed that, but next time will add more water, and possibly weaken the stock a little. Would have that with some extra veg as a cold lunch quite happily though. Have now run out of bay leaves and cinammon sticks!
Snack: 3 more Alpen light bars (9 syns) - admittedly this was over the afternoon, but I am addicted, and 3 pieces of the dark choc my friend bought me (5 syns)
Tea: well after that gluttonous feast I could barely move - so I just had a bowl of fruit and yoghurt later on.
Milk in tea (HEa)
Total syns: 14
Exercise: sod all, very couch potato
Water: 2 pints, but drank copious amounts of tea, may need to watch my HEa
Weigh in tonight, really dreading it. Have chicken stir fry for tea, so at least that isn't too stodgy. Feel like a big fat bloater though - need to go swimming really this afternoon when I finish work, but I just don't want to. I want to go back to bed and sulk.
Pissed off for no good reason Pinkie!
Well today I have woken in a foul mood - the sort where everything irritates you. Where every turn you make you seem to knock something over, bump into something, child in the way etc etc ARRRGHHH!!! So I am guessing that blessed time is shortly to be upon me (well in the next week, my body likes a nice long build up to these things).
Food for yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 quorn sausages, 6 rashers of lean grilled back bacon (they were thin, but sod it - I wanted the damn bacon), baked beans, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, fried egg (with fry light).
Snack: 2 x Alpen light (HEb)
Lunch: lamb rogan and crab fish cakes from curry heaven book. The lamb was lovely, though I ended up eating the whole lot - 450g lamb, and I probably had about 300-350g worth of it! The rest was all onion and canned tomatoes - and both recipes were syn free. The crab cakes - nah, not so much - won't be bothering with them again. I didn't need them either - that was just greed on my part. Made the pilau rice to go with it (again free, onions, rice, stock and spices). Really enjoyed that, but next time will add more water, and possibly weaken the stock a little. Would have that with some extra veg as a cold lunch quite happily though. Have now run out of bay leaves and cinammon sticks!
Snack: 3 more Alpen light bars (9 syns) - admittedly this was over the afternoon, but I am addicted, and 3 pieces of the dark choc my friend bought me (5 syns)
Tea: well after that gluttonous feast I could barely move - so I just had a bowl of fruit and yoghurt later on.
Milk in tea (HEa)
Total syns: 14
Exercise: sod all, very couch potato
Water: 2 pints, but drank copious amounts of tea, may need to watch my HEa
Weigh in tonight, really dreading it. Have chicken stir fry for tea, so at least that isn't too stodgy. Feel like a big fat bloater though - need to go swimming really this afternoon when I finish work, but I just don't want to. I want to go back to bed and sulk.
Pissed off for no good reason Pinkie!
LittleSausage
is not so little
Oh no! Don't be pissed off! Just take a minute outside and bask in the loverly London sunshine!
Honestly, though, I know how you feel. I was like that on Saturday. Everything p*ssed me off. Now I just have a headache that won't go. I really suffer every month for the full 5 days. And how I manage to get a terribly upset stomach EVERY MONTH is beyond me, when your gastric system and gynae system have nothing to do with eachother. Just goes to show what havoc a few damn hormones can wreak. Hope you feel better later!
Honestly, though, I know how you feel. I was like that on Saturday. Everything p*ssed me off. Now I just have a headache that won't go. I really suffer every month for the full 5 days. And how I manage to get a terribly upset stomach EVERY MONTH is beyond me, when your gastric system and gynae system have nothing to do with eachother. Just goes to show what havoc a few damn hormones can wreak. Hope you feel better later!
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Thanks Little Sausage - it's the hormones that affect the digestive system - mine are mental at the best of times - and I've just realised I've not been eating my curly kale this past month - I really believe it helps. My body is affected for about 10days or so one way or the other.
I religiously take the max quota of Evening Primrose Oil (if I don't, then it gets really nasty, I could probably murder - and will most certainly spend about 3 days in a mass depression, sobbing, hiding away at home). With the EPO I am quite normal, but have a day or two where I am easily irritated.
Had myself weighed at the nurses this morning (unrelated) - but she makes it that I've lost 4lbs in the past month - which means if that is the case, I'll have put on tonight when I weigh in. Proper pissed off, as although I haven't done exercise since last Weds, I have still stuck to the diet - albeit the upper boundaries.
Sunshine is glorious today though isn't it? I will have to force myself to go for a swim when I finish at 1 (half day at home today).
Meh meh meh.
(Thanks for the kind words btw and listening to my negative ramblings!) x
I religiously take the max quota of Evening Primrose Oil (if I don't, then it gets really nasty, I could probably murder - and will most certainly spend about 3 days in a mass depression, sobbing, hiding away at home). With the EPO I am quite normal, but have a day or two where I am easily irritated.
Had myself weighed at the nurses this morning (unrelated) - but she makes it that I've lost 4lbs in the past month - which means if that is the case, I'll have put on tonight when I weigh in. Proper pissed off, as although I haven't done exercise since last Weds, I have still stuck to the diet - albeit the upper boundaries.
Sunshine is glorious today though isn't it? I will have to force myself to go for a swim when I finish at 1 (half day at home today).
Meh meh meh.
(Thanks for the kind words btw and listening to my negative ramblings!) x
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
And I think I may participate in Lent this year - never bother usually - but my son is talking about it (giving up his treat tin) - so I thought perhaps I could try and give up my syn tin (which doesn't mean just don't put the goodies in there and scoff them anyway). This would extend to chocs etc.
Can I do it though? I never used to be a great fan of choc etc, and have a theory that it is largely habit than a real need. If that is the case, 40 days cold turkey might sort me right out - or it might mean I fall off the SW wagon?
Can I do it though? I never used to be a great fan of choc etc, and have a theory that it is largely habit than a real need. If that is the case, 40 days cold turkey might sort me right out - or it might mean I fall off the SW wagon?
Claire1981
Is so very nearly there!
It couldnt hurt but dont take away all syns! x
LittleSausage
is not so little
I don't think there's any reason why you couldn't do it... as long as you use your syns on other things! Mmm... cheese and cake, perhaps ha ha! That way you can feel virtuous for your Lenten following, but you won't feel deprived so can stop yourself falling off the wagon! x
ha ha! That way you can feel virtuous for your Lenten following, but you won't feel deprived so can stop yourself falling off the wagon! x
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Oh yeah - I won't get rid of my syns (I like my canned prunes with my breakfast too much for that - in fact, I'd consider them a necessity!).
But it might help combat this sweet tooth I've developed, and maybe encourage me to try different things.
I've had 4 alpen light bars this morning alone!!!!
But it might help combat this sweet tooth I've developed, and maybe encourage me to try different things.
I've had 4 alpen light bars this morning alone!!!!
julesm
Slimming World
Hey pinkie! Sorry to hear about your mood today, totally know what u feel as I was the worlds biggest grump thus morning! It doesnt help when you're in that sort of mood and it's a Monday! Sounds like you had some yummy food though! What was wrong with the crab cakes? The curry heaven book is next on my list!
The sunshine is indeed loooooooovely today, feels like summer! X
The sunshine is indeed loooooooovely today, feels like summer! X
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Hi Jules - the crab cakes just seemed a bit eggy - not really what I had in mind.
Food for today - well I have gone over my syns - I think they call it a flexi-syn day! lol
Breakfast:
frozen fruit, prunes (2 syns), branflakes (HEb), low fat natural yoghurt.
Lunch: (stupidly early incidentally) - low fat supernoodles, 2 plums, 2 x alpen light bars (6 syns)
Snack: 2 x alpen light bars (6 syns)
Tea: chicken stir fry with savoury rice - yummy
Snack: dark chocolate (10 syns), alpen light bar (3 syns), Joe's pork and apple sausages (syn free! - collected them at class tonight, and sod it, I'm tasting 2 now).
Skimmed milk in cups of tea (HEa)
Total syns: 27 (*****!)
Total exercise: NADA! :-(
Total water: NADA!
Christ, I feel like I'm having a bad one. I lost 1/2lb in class today - given I feel proper lumpy that's not so bad - but I am gonna have a good think about what I am doing with the whole diet thing - I quite like the idea of giving up the chocolatey stuff for lent. May get back into having my banana milkshakes. Also, I am going to try and stop drinking so much tea with milk. Possibly am going over my HEa there. So liquorice tea here I come!
Other than that - bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh - still have work sitting here waiting for me to do, and think I will do that and call it a night - draw a line under the day. Hopefully I'll feel a little perkier in the morning. Need to, as I have a ton of ironing sitting there that desperately needs doing too.
Pancake day tomorrow though - mmmm, sugar (sweetener) and lemon!
Food for today - well I have gone over my syns - I think they call it a flexi-syn day! lol
Breakfast:
frozen fruit, prunes (2 syns), branflakes (HEb), low fat natural yoghurt.
Lunch: (stupidly early incidentally) - low fat supernoodles, 2 plums, 2 x alpen light bars (6 syns)
Snack: 2 x alpen light bars (6 syns)
Tea: chicken stir fry with savoury rice - yummy
Snack: dark chocolate (10 syns), alpen light bar (3 syns), Joe's pork and apple sausages (syn free! - collected them at class tonight, and sod it, I'm tasting 2 now).
Skimmed milk in cups of tea (HEa)
Total syns: 27 (*****!)
Total exercise: NADA! :-(
Total water: NADA!
Christ, I feel like I'm having a bad one. I lost 1/2lb in class today - given I feel proper lumpy that's not so bad - but I am gonna have a good think about what I am doing with the whole diet thing - I quite like the idea of giving up the chocolatey stuff for lent. May get back into having my banana milkshakes. Also, I am going to try and stop drinking so much tea with milk. Possibly am going over my HEa there. So liquorice tea here I come!
Other than that - bleurgh bleurgh bleurgh - still have work sitting here waiting for me to do, and think I will do that and call it a night - draw a line under the day. Hopefully I'll feel a little perkier in the morning. Need to, as I have a ton of ironing sitting there that desperately needs doing too.
Pancake day tomorrow though - mmmm, sugar (sweetener) and lemon!
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Lol - it must be a bug - is it a full moon or something!
i have just eaten a load more - what is wrong with me? I could syn it all up, but can't be bothered!
On the other hand, I grilled a shed load of mushrooms - and realised how much I preferred them like that - so every cloud and all that....
I am now going to heave my carcass into bed, assuming I can squeeze out of the chair, and stop eating for five minutes! My first woman possessed moment in 7 weeks. But at least it was all food that I might on SW - just perhaps not in such vast quantities - (I now have even less alpen light bars remaining! Oops!)
i have just eaten a load more - what is wrong with me? I could syn it all up, but can't be bothered!
On the other hand, I grilled a shed load of mushrooms - and realised how much I preferred them like that - so every cloud and all that....
I am now going to heave my carcass into bed, assuming I can squeeze out of the chair, and stop eating for five minutes! My first woman possessed moment in 7 weeks. But at least it was all food that I might on SW - just perhaps not in such vast quantities - (I now have even less alpen light bars remaining! Oops!)
LittleSausage
is not so little
You and your Alpen lights!! You crack me up x
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Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
You and your Alpen lights!! You crack me up
I'm giving them up for lent. Never even used to like bloody cereal bars before. I've had about 6 or 7 today!!! WTF!
LittleSausage
is not so little
Pinkie1973 said:
Excellent! Well, just think about the other things you can try so as not to have the Alpen Lights! X
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Right this is a back to basics day for me. I reckoned I finally consumed 39 syns yesterday - all in bloody alpen light bars, oh and 2 special k minibreaks packs. Not best pleased with myself, but what is done is done. And at least it was all synable and not some crazy pizza fest or full on choc bars.
So, to help me psych back up (as I feel my resolve being weakened by the usual biscuits etc) I'm gonna go todays food in stages.
Cup of tea with splash of skimmed milk (HEa)
Breakfast: usual frozen fruit (defrosted), canned prunes (2 syns), branflakes (HEb), low fat yoghurt. Large cup (2/3 pint) of morning detox tea.
Another large cup of tea (ginger and hibiscus).
Lunch: half a Tortilla de Patatas that I made last night, with a load of salad leaves and cherry tomatoes. 2 Large cups of liquorice tea. Banana,
Apple and a caramel bunny (5 syns).
So so far so good. Trying to wean off the milky tea (surprisingly easy) and get a good balanced diet.
Not sure what is for tea - I am doing pancakes, so estimate about 8 syns for those. May have my leftover rice and veg from yesterday.
So, to help me psych back up (as I feel my resolve being weakened by the usual biscuits etc) I'm gonna go todays food in stages.
Cup of tea with splash of skimmed milk (HEa)
Breakfast: usual frozen fruit (defrosted), canned prunes (2 syns), branflakes (HEb), low fat yoghurt. Large cup (2/3 pint) of morning detox tea.
Another large cup of tea (ginger and hibiscus).
Lunch: half a Tortilla de Patatas that I made last night, with a load of salad leaves and cherry tomatoes. 2 Large cups of liquorice tea. Banana,
Apple and a caramel bunny (5 syns).
So so far so good. Trying to wean off the milky tea (surprisingly easy) and get a good balanced diet.
Not sure what is for tea - I am doing pancakes, so estimate about 8 syns for those. May have my leftover rice and veg from yesterday.
LittleSausage
is not so little
Yay! Hope you're ok. I always feel a lit better when I've taken the bull by the horns and got some control back. Little by little definitely works! And not an Alpen light in sight! X
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
But my god the bunny was good....lol
Am also planning my next ou course, thinking of doing philosophy for a year. Though it doesn't start till Oct, so may do a short course before then - maybe nutrition or something.
Am also planning my next ou course, thinking of doing philosophy for a year. Though it doesn't start till Oct, so may do a short course before then - maybe nutrition or something.
Pinkie1973
Starting over again......
Yeah thanks guys. No way am I about to give up. But def struggling a bit at the mo. A little rejig here and there plus some extra exercise should do the trick. I set myself a target of 7lbs this month. That means I have 3 weeks to lose 6.5lbs, and I'm determined. Must be in shorts and bikini top for Silverstone at the end of July.
