Jo's desperate attempt to get it right..with pics

[JoFlo2]

Breakfast

2 eggs fried in fry light
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Baked beans
30g wholemeal bread, toasted (1/2 hex b)

Lunch
Birdseye baked to perfection salmon
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Carrots

Dinner
Tuna pasta mayo (1 syn, SW as yesterday)
With tomatoe, cucumber, carrot and sweet corn mixed in
Mullerlight

Snacks
Grapes, apple, alpen light bar (1/2 hex b)
Options hot choc - 2 syns

Milk in teas - hex a

No added sugar squash - 4 big glasses (trying to increase)

Body magic - couch to 5 k run/walk 3.5k, 25 mins

3 syns so far, prob have a treat when get home fr work, crisps or choc fingers??? Will update later.

Have read loads of inspirational stories on here today and new mag and feeling positive (even if scales are not budging!!!!)

 

[JoFlo2]

Add another alpen light bar!! 3 syns

 

[JoFlo2]

So 6 syns PLUS a gin and slimline tonic - 4 syns

I also snacked on fish sticks and sains BGTY cottage cheese.

Total syns 10

Lets see what tomorrow brings!!!

 

[JoFlo2]

Didn't have the options so actually 8 syns

 

[JoFlo2]

Right seriously I am NOT happy - scales this morning showed 11.3 1/4 !!!!

How am I managing to put on weight when I am being so careful and trying so hard to loose??

I cannot see where I'm going wrong, anyone help????

 

[JoFlo2]

So after my earlier rant


Breakfast
Melon in mullerlight

Snack
1/2 slice (max without crusts) wholemeal toast with Nutella (I must stop eating the kids leftovers, but at least I'm listing them!!! - 3.5 syns)

Lunch
Butternut & sweet potato soup

Snack
Banana and yogurt with Kellogs all bran crunch (15g half hex b)

Dinner
Sweet chilli chicken from sainsbury 1/2 pack - 1 syn
Salad, lettuce, toms, cue, beetroot
Cherry mullerlight

2 x Alpen light 3 syns and 1/2 hexb
Apple
Grapes

Milk in tea hex A

So far 7.5 syns

 

[JoFlo2]

Breakfast
1/2 melon
2 fruit ryvita's (hex b)

Lunch
Bowl of bns & s.pot soup
Bachelors sweet chilli low fat super noodles
Large salad of celery, cucumber, tomatoes & beetroot

Snack
Freddo frog - 5 syns

Dinner
1/2 takeaway chicken with green peppers in black bean sauce ho fun (rice noodles) - 7 syns
Mullerlight
Apple
Grapes

Milk hex a

Total 12 syns

 

[JoFlo2]

Monday 18th Feb


Breakfast
Banana & mullerlight

Body magic
45 mins triple decker class (spin & body conditioning)

Lunch
60g wholemeal bread (hexb)
Ham
Xtra light mayo - 1 syn
Lettuce
Low fat cottage cheese with pineapple
Walkers baked crisps 1.5 packets - 7 syns

Milk in tea - hex a

Snack
2 x raw carrots
Pear
Grapes

Dinner
SW easy chicken curry
SW Bombay pots
Rice
Green beans
Baby corn

Raspberries in mullerlight

Bite of husbands curly wurly - 2 syns
Gin & slimline tonic - 4 syns

14 syns

 

[sarg1970]

Right I need to do this and I need help, even if its just to get it in a record for all to see...

I work shifts so meals are not always in a 'normal or conventional' order.

All days are EE unless I stated.

Breakfast
4 x sesame ryvita's with scrapping of flora extra light and marmite. Bunch grapes
Hexb and 1 syn

Snack
Apple & satsuma

Lunch
Wholemeal pasta with tomato/garlic/onion/mushroom & chilli sauce
Satsuma

Snack
Half children's tuna pasta mayo (leftover - 1/2 syn for extra light mayo)

Dinner
Birds eye baked to perfection salmon
Broccoli , cauliflower, carrots, baby corn
Apple & pear chopped in cranberry mullerlight

Will no doubt have a casburys options hot chocolate later. 2 syns

Milk in teas - Hex a

Total syns for day - 3.5



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Quick note:

only 3 sesame ryvita make a HE b and not four - so this would be an extra 1.5syns

 

[sarg1970]

So food for today - Wed 6th Feb

Breakfast
Kellogg's all bran crunch - hexb
Vanilla mullerlight
Banana
Raspberries

Lunch
SW chicken noodle soup
Preceded by a large raw carrot to ensure my 1/3 superfree

Snack
3/4 Slice of wholemeal bread (minus crusts)
Tbsp of Nutella (can you tell it's a leftover kids sarnie) 7 syns !!!!! That'll teach me!!!!!

Dinner
Asda chickpea Dahl
Lots of veg, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, baby corn, green beans. (There was a lot!!!)

So perhaps a options hot choc later 2 syns

Trying to increase water

Hex a - milk in teas & hot choc

Total syns for the day 9 syns - ok



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Did you syn the bread?

 

[sarg1970]

Fri 8th Feb

Breakfast
Kellogg's all bean crunch -hex b
Mullerlight
Banana and raspberries

Milk in tea & coffee - hex a

Light lunch/ more of a snack really
About 6 fish sticks and raw carrot

Snack
Lemon drizzle alone light - yum! - 3 syns

Dinner
Spaghetti bolognaise with side of veg
Mullerlight with chopped fruit apple/pear

As I'm working nights tonight I will be taking snacks etc to graze on, the first night is always the hardest food wise as I am generally awake for 24 hours.

Planned grazing to take (poss wont eat all of it)
Carrot sticks and sain BGTY houmous 2 syns
Apple x 2
Alpen light 3 syns
Mugshot
Options hot choc 2 syns - for the 4am chocolate fix!!!!

Total syns for the day 10 - not bad.


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Did you make the spag bol, if so which mince did you use as most are not free? ( I got caught with this one!)

 

[MrsKing]

I think your food diary look great, some lovely meals on there - The Veg that you use is it frozen packs that you put in the microwave ? Ive often thought about getting these but wasnt sure if they would actaully taste any good ? THey are ideal for the 1/3 superfree.
x

 

[JoFlo2]

Did you syn the bread?

Yeah, tbsp Nutella 4 syns, bread 3 syns

Total 7 syns

 

[sarg1970]

Hi

having taken a quick look they all look good. I would double check all your syn values and the HE b weights to be 100% sure.

Also try increasing the amount of superfree foods you snack on during the day. I have always found that the more I eat the more I lose.

 

[JoFlo2]

Quick note:

only 3 sesame ryvita make a HE b and not four - so this would be an extra 1.5syns

Thanks that's great - although I still would have been well within syns for the day.

 

[Lonestitcher]

Not sure which brand of cottage cheese you have bought but not all cottage cheese with pineapple is free. Eg. Tesco light choices cottage cheese and pineapple is 1 1/2 syns per 100g.

 

[JoFlo2]

Not sure which brand of cottage cheese you have bought but not all cottage cheese with pineapple is free. Eg. Tesco light choices cottage cheese and pineapple is 1 1/2 syns per 100g.

Ahh thanks - it is tescos

 

[JoFlo2]

I think your food diary look great, some lovely meals on there - The Veg that you use is it frozen packs that you put in the microwave ? Ive often thought about getting these but wasnt sure if they would actaully taste any good ? THey are ideal for the 1/3 superfree.
x

Nope the veg is fresh but I do use microwave "zip & steam" bags especially if no one is eating with me

 

[JoFlo2]

So after all the fab advice I am today trying my first red day.

Tues 19th Feb

Breakfast
1/2 large banana
30g Kellogg's all bran chocolate crunch (hex b)
Vanilla mullerlight
Cup of tea (milk from hex a)

Body magic
30 min jog/walk - couch to 5k

Snack
1/2 large banana (the other half from breakfast
Large glass orange squash (sugar free)

Lunch
Cooked chicken breast
3 large raw carrots
Large glass squash

Large glass squash

Dinner
Spag Bol (without the spag) - extra lean beef mince, oxo, tinned toms, Tom purée, leek, onion, pepper. Italian herbs.
Broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, baby corn

 

[JoFlo2]

Ok I can do this red day stuff, no syns so far so..

Swimming with kids after dinner,

On return, orange
Then 4 x laughing cow light with blue cheese (hex a) (5 for hex a but 4 was enough!) on 4 sesame ryvita's (3 for hex b and 1.5 syns)

Later planning on a curly wurly with a cuppa - my mouth is watering thinking about it!! 6 syns

Total syns for my first red day - 7.5!!! Go me.
4 large glasses squash

Picture of my dinner -