LoChan1984
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*shakes head sadly and pats shoulder* Nevermind, we all make mistakes Sugar :8855:
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LoChan1984
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Diary update for yesterday then I'm off back to bed as it's a day off and son's gone off with his school transport now 
Made myself get off the sofa and do the superfit workout with Davina in the morning before work yesterday. Gave me a bit of a buzz but left me with no lunch planned heh. Also did walking to and from school with a stop at the library so around 4.5ish miles with stops along the way. Was really hot with no clouds in the sky, hope it's a little cooler today.
Green day yesterday, mostly a re-run of the previous day's meals
First thing - activia yoghurt before exercise
B - scrambled tofu (1 syn), baked beans & scanbran (hexb).
Lunch - at 12.30ish chocolate oatly drink (hexa) and fibre plus bar (hexb). At 1.30ish bowl of chopped banana, fig and activia yoghurt
D - mushy pea curry, bombay potatoes (using potatoes from the garden! 2 syns for a little oil and sesame seeds in spice mix). Blackcurrant jelly (1 syn) and sour cherries.
Evening - activia yoghurt. 28g cheddar-type cheese (hexa) with chopped apple, BIG glass of wine (8 syns) and small bahlsen chocolate bar (2 syns)
Not sure what the food plan is for today yet. Kind of fancy hot and sour soup so maybe red or EE
Made myself get off the sofa and do the superfit workout with Davina in the morning before work yesterday. Gave me a bit of a buzz but left me with no lunch planned heh. Also did walking to and from school with a stop at the library so around 4.5ish miles with stops along the way. Was really hot with no clouds in the sky, hope it's a little cooler today.
Green day yesterday, mostly a re-run of the previous day's meals
First thing - activia yoghurt before exercise
B - scrambled tofu (1 syn), baked beans & scanbran (hexb).
Lunch - at 12.30ish chocolate oatly drink (hexa) and fibre plus bar (hexb). At 1.30ish bowl of chopped banana, fig and activia yoghurt
D - mushy pea curry, bombay potatoes (using potatoes from the garden! 2 syns for a little oil and sesame seeds in spice mix). Blackcurrant jelly (1 syn) and sour cherries.
Evening - activia yoghurt. 28g cheddar-type cheese (hexa) with chopped apple, BIG glass of wine (8 syns) and small bahlsen chocolate bar (2 syns)
Not sure what the food plan is for today yet. Kind of fancy hot and sour soup so maybe red or EE
Have a nice rest.
Potatoes from the garden are great, nothing like going and picking your own produce and eating it. I used to have an allotment but couldn't commit enough time to it. I loved having an unlimited number of courgettes, its really strange having to buy them now.
Potatoes from the garden are great, nothing like going and picking your own produce and eating it. I used to have an allotment but couldn't commit enough time to it. I loved having an unlimited number of courgettes, its really strange having to buy them now.
LoChan1984
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I've got one courgette plant too, it's not producing a whole lot though, think there's one definite and three maybes on it atm
It's my first year of trying stuff - got some chilli plants growing from seed which are also being a bit slow but are flowering now. A few varieties of heirloom tomatoes that I bought as plugplants which are all fruiting but not matured yet, and some herbs, strawberries and a gooseberry bush.
Hoping I'll have a bit more of an idea of how to look after things next year and get a bigger crop with more varieties. Only doing things in containers though as the backyard is paving stones.
It's my first year of trying stuff - got some chilli plants growing from seed which are also being a bit slow but are flowering now. A few varieties of heirloom tomatoes that I bought as plugplants which are all fruiting but not matured yet, and some herbs, strawberries and a gooseberry bush.
Hoping I'll have a bit more of an idea of how to look after things next year and get a bigger crop with more varieties. Only doing things in containers though as the backyard is paving stones.
LoChan1984
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Mn, quiet kinda day
Just walking done - getting pain from my plantar facilitis and ankles atm. And if I'm going ahead with the cardio challenge week I had planned thought a rest day would be a good idea.
Bought this weird thing from a little asian grocery on the way home... think it might be a freaky cucumber?
Will try and find it on google... otherwise it'll just sit in the kitchen, looking at me with it's oddness...
Green day today - last of the scanbran :bliss:
No breakfast today - was catching up on zzzs and such
L - 1 slice burgen bread toasted (5.5 syns), jam (1 syn) and chopped banana. Oatly chocolate milk (hexa)
Afternoon - fruit salad in the park after school... this felt pretty weird (don't do the eating in public much) but kinda nice
Activia yoghurt back at home.
T - Egg curry (random idea), bombay potatoes (2 syns), 1 tbsp mango chutney (2 syns) and scanbran (hexb).
Evening - milky coffee (hexa) and fibre plus bar (hexb).
Finger crossed for tomorrow's WI. 2.5lbs would be great as that would be 2.5 stones... 3.5 even better would be my 10%
Just walking done - getting pain from my plantar facilitis and ankles atm. And if I'm going ahead with the cardio challenge week I had planned thought a rest day would be a good idea.
Bought this weird thing from a little asian grocery on the way home... think it might be a freaky cucumber?
Will try and find it on google... otherwise it'll just sit in the kitchen, looking at me with it's oddness...
Green day today - last of the scanbran :bliss:
No breakfast today - was catching up on zzzs and such
L - 1 slice burgen bread toasted (5.5 syns), jam (1 syn) and chopped banana. Oatly chocolate milk (hexa)
Afternoon - fruit salad in the park after school... this felt pretty weird (don't do the eating in public much) but kinda nice
Activia yoghurt back at home.
T - Egg curry (random idea), bombay potatoes (2 syns), 1 tbsp mango chutney (2 syns) and scanbran (hexb).
Evening - milky coffee (hexa) and fibre plus bar (hexb).
Finger crossed for tomorrow's WI. 2.5lbs would be great as that would be 2.5 stones... 3.5 even better would be my 10%
Ha yes, I've seen those veggies and been curious. And yes too, to the eating in public. I'm OK about it now but not only have I felt inhibited due to my size - have got up to a size 24 before - but i was bought up my a mother with strange ideas about food, that eating in the street was unladylike .... love her dearly but she has left me with some strange notions to untangle And yup, I know my daughter will have some of mine to clear her head of ...
And yup, I know my daughter will have some of mine to clear her head of ...
broadsbean
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excitedly awaits wi results !!!!!
fingers crossed for that 2.5 stone xxxx
fingers crossed for that 2.5 stone xxxx
LoChan1984
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2.5lbs off this week.
Having a really bad day so I'll do my stats updates and catch up on diaries and stuff later x
Having a really bad day so I'll do my stats updates and catch up on diaries and stuff later x
LoChan1984
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Heys,
Sorry about quietness today. Just felt wrong as soon as I was awake this morning, was teary making breakfast and stuff then got an annoying letter and it just set me off sobbing and it's been on and off all day. Knackered now and congested feeling with all the crying juice
Been okay with food but didn't do any exercise. Going to leave the cardio challenge plan until next week and just do things day by day as I feel like for this week. Gives me a bit of a break
Did some therapeutic baking with my number 1 ingredient - pumpkin - namely a clone of US starbucks pumpkin bread. Bit high in syns though - 130 for the two loaves, 8 syns for an 8th of a loaf.
Good cooking experience.
And next a bad cooking experience. Apparently this
is a Karela, or 'bitter melon', or a DEVIL'S POO :9529:It is the most vile-tasting thing I have ever experienced. I followed a recipe I found online (which produced this harmless looking bowl of deception 
), only skim reading the footnotes about how the 'bitterness' can be lessened by soaking in saltwater before cooking. I thought 'hey, how bitter can they be'. Well, a lot. Apparently they are very very good for you. But I don't want to eat devil poo to get skinny so I don't think we'll be seeing them on my food diary again in the foreseeable future :9529:...:9529:...:sign0137:
Soooo yeah, you get the picture re bitter melon
Food diary for today - green
B - pumpkin waffles (0.5 syns), breakfast syrup (1 syn) chopped banana
Afternoon - nectarine and activia yoghurt. US quaker granola bar (5 syns)
D - Leftover egg curry (hope it's safe to reheat), brown rice and 1/2 tbsp mango chutney (1 syn)
Evening - milky coffee (hexa) and slice of pumpkin bread (8 syns)
Got a hexa and hexb left, don't think I want anything else today though.
Sorry about quietness today. Just felt wrong as soon as I was awake this morning, was teary making breakfast and stuff then got an annoying letter and it just set me off sobbing and it's been on and off all day. Knackered now and congested feeling with all the crying juice
Been okay with food but didn't do any exercise. Going to leave the cardio challenge plan until next week and just do things day by day as I feel like for this week. Gives me a bit of a break
Did some therapeutic baking with my number 1 ingredient - pumpkin - namely a clone of US starbucks pumpkin bread. Bit high in syns though - 130 for the two loaves, 8 syns for an 8th of a loaf.
Good cooking experience.And next a bad cooking experience. Apparently this
is a Karela, or 'bitter melon', or a DEVIL'S POO :9529:It is the most vile-tasting thing I have ever experienced. I followed a recipe I found online (which produced this harmless looking bowl of deception ), only skim reading the footnotes about how the 'bitterness' can be lessened by soaking in saltwater before cooking. I thought 'hey, how bitter can they be'. Well, a lot. Apparently they are very very good for you. But I don't want to eat devil poo to get skinny so I don't think we'll be seeing them on my food diary again in the foreseeable future :9529:...:9529:...:sign0137: Soooo yeah, you get the picture re bitter melon
Food diary for today - green
B - pumpkin waffles (0.5 syns), breakfast syrup (1 syn) chopped banana
Afternoon - nectarine and activia yoghurt. US quaker granola bar (5 syns)
D - Leftover egg curry (hope it's safe to reheat
), brown rice and 1/2 tbsp mango chutney (1 syn) Evening - milky coffee (hexa) and slice of pumpkin bread (8 syns)
Got a hexa and hexb left, don't think I want anything else today though.
LoChan1984
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Not great but I'll be alright
I had loads of eggs in so went googling and mixed up a few recipes to make it SW friendly:
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SW Egg curry - syn free on EE/Green. You could syn the peas for a red day, you'd have to check the weight/syns though as I didn't bother
Ingredients
6-8 eggs
2 medium onions
4 garlic cloves
1.5 400g tins chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup frozen peas
1tsp each ground coriander, cumin seeds, crushed chillies, turmeric
1/2 tsp each ginger, paprika, salt
1tbsp garam masala
Optional to serve - 1tbsp 0% greek yoghurt per portion stirred in at the end, chopped coriander mixed in at the end.
1) Boil the eggs 8-10 mins until hardboiled.
2) Mix/grind the salt and all the spices apart from the garam masala in a mortar and pestle.
3) Chop the onion and garlic and fry in frylight until soft and translucent. Add mortar & pestle'd spice mix and fry for a further 1-2 mins. Add a little water if the mix is quite dry (1-2 tbsp at a time so it doesn't get oversoggy).
4) Add the tomatoes & garam masala, simmer for 10 mins.
5) Remove shells from the cooled boiled eggs and chop into halves. Add to the curry, and bring to the boil. You can either leave this to cook at a simmer for a further 5-10 mins on the hob. Instead at this stage I brought the curry to the boil then transferred it to a pyrex dish and cooked it in the oven at 180C for 30-40 mins to thicken the sauce - depends on personal preference/patience.
To serve you can have as it is or to make it creamy you could mix in 0% greek yoghurt and/or chopped coriander. I didn't have either in but one of the recipes I adapted gave these suggestions.
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I'm not clued in on food safety where it comes to reheating eggs so wasn't sure if it would be okay or not. I put a portion in a mini casserole dish and reheated it in the oven for at least 20 mins until it was steaming. It's probably best eating it straight away though as the egg texture went a little too hard-boiled. Still tasted okay though... anything would after the evil vegetable
I had loads of eggs in so went googling and mixed up a few recipes to make it SW friendly:
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SW Egg curry - syn free on EE/Green. You could syn the peas for a red day, you'd have to check the weight/syns though as I didn't bother
Ingredients
6-8 eggs
2 medium onions
4 garlic cloves
1.5 400g tins chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup frozen peas
1tsp each ground coriander, cumin seeds, crushed chillies, turmeric
1/2 tsp each ginger, paprika, salt
1tbsp garam masala
Optional to serve - 1tbsp 0% greek yoghurt per portion stirred in at the end, chopped coriander mixed in at the end.
1) Boil the eggs 8-10 mins until hardboiled.
2) Mix/grind the salt and all the spices apart from the garam masala in a mortar and pestle.
3) Chop the onion and garlic and fry in frylight until soft and translucent. Add mortar & pestle'd spice mix and fry for a further 1-2 mins. Add a little water if the mix is quite dry (1-2 tbsp at a time so it doesn't get oversoggy).
4) Add the tomatoes & garam masala, simmer for 10 mins.
5) Remove shells from the cooled boiled eggs and chop into halves. Add to the curry, and bring to the boil. You can either leave this to cook at a simmer for a further 5-10 mins on the hob. Instead at this stage I brought the curry to the boil then transferred it to a pyrex dish and cooked it in the oven at 180C for 30-40 mins to thicken the sauce - depends on personal preference/patience
.To serve you can have as it is or to make it creamy you could mix in 0% greek yoghurt and/or chopped coriander. I didn't have either in but one of the recipes I adapted gave these suggestions.
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I'm not clued in on food safety where it comes to reheating eggs so wasn't sure if it would be okay or not. I put a portion in a mini casserole dish and reheated it in the oven for at least 20 mins until it was steaming. It's probably best eating it straight away though as the egg texture went a little too hard-boiled. Still tasted okay though... anything would after the evil vegetable
broadsbean
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well done on the 2.5 lbs, thats 2 .5 stone isn't it . you are doing so well xxxxx
:bighug::bighug::bighug:big hugs for yesterday and hope today is a better day, its a really long rocky road we are on, but we will all get there xx
you have my undying admiration for trying the devils poo !!!!!!
I would have been put off my its appearance
well done on the 2.5 lbs, thats 2 .5 stone isn't it . you are doing so well xxxxx
:bighug::bighug::bighug:big hugs for yesterday and hope today is a better day, its a really long rocky road we are on, but we will all get there xx
you have my undying admiration for trying the devils poo !!!!!!
I would have been put off my its appearance
*SugarPlum*
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Hi Lo,
Well done on the great weight loss again!
Hope you are feeling a little better today! Xxxxx
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Well done on the great weight loss again!
Hope you are feeling a little better today! Xxxxx
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Lily42uk
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Hey Lo,
Hope you're having a better day today :hug99:
wtg on the 2.5lb loss and you're 2.5st shiny.
Loving you're food pics, cept the bitter melon...ewww, you're a better woman than me cos the look of it would be enough to put me off :giggle:
Did you put up the recipe for the pumpkin bread? I can't see it if you did, I am loving the look of that and have decided I fancy your egg curry for today.
Take care hun, speak soon xxxxx
Hope you're having a better day today :hug99:
wtg on the 2.5lb loss and you're 2.5st shiny.Loving you're food pics, cept the bitter melon...ewww, you're a better woman than me cos the look of it would be enough to put me off :giggle:
Did you put up the recipe for the pumpkin bread? I can't see it if you did, I am loving the look of that and have decided I fancy your egg curry for today.
Take care hun, speak soon xxxxx
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