MWWWD (or Moonwatcher's Weight Watchers Diary!)

[moonwatcher]

OOooh, that's quite a day for both of you by the sounds of it. Very glad you got the opportunity to "counsel" the pupil regarding their behaviour. That sort of thing really riles me as well, and working in mental health something that I come across all to often from councils, benefits agency etc. All adults that really should know better.

Camping and walks by the beach sound like a lovely lovely way to spend the summer. Well, possibly minus the camping in my case, but I presume that's campervan camping rather than tent camping which sounds far far more civilised and appealing to me. I'm on my second week of annual leave this week and really really not looking forward to having to go back to work next week. Grumble. Especially if it hasn't cooled down quite considerably. I don't think we've quite got to your 35 today but its about 31 and so so stuffy. Was lovely and cool and cloudy this morning.

What's on the menu for dinner tonight?

It's a shame really because you see how the pupils are a product of their parents' behaviour, and I often wonder how it will be in another generation or two. (Beginning to sound like my mum here!)

It will be proper camping in the tent as the van is nowhere near ready - although the OH does have this romantic notion of sticking the futon in the back and roughing it, so who knows?

It is still so hot here - everyone seems to be saying how difficult it is to sleep. I have to keep my lower legs and feet under the quilt too, as the cat jumps onto the bed from the bottom, and she is not at all fussy about what she digs her claws into!

Will post my menu for the day in a mo.

Hello babes, just popping in to say hi :wavey:

Hi Susie. Thanks for dropping in.

 

[moonwatcher]

Food for today, Monday 22nd July

Breakfast - 3 sweet fruit crunch ryvita with cream cheese (8PP)

Lunch - blue cambozola brie and ham salad, plums (9PP)

Dinner - roasted rosemary and sweet paprika veg and new potatoes with chorizo and a baked egg, beetroot, fruit salad of nectarines, pineapple and our own just picked raspberries, with a squirt of spray cream (12PP)

Snacks - two pork chipolatas with a little HP, black grapes (3PP)

Drinks - water, strawberry and lime sugar free water, diet pepsi, one coffee with a splash of milk

Total for today = 32 PP - 29 dailies and 3 weeklies. Weeklies remaining = 19

 

[everton04]

What's the sweet ryvita like? Iv seen it but never tried it! Your dins sounds to die for!!
Hope your having fun Hun enjoy xXx


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[DeborahJane]

What's the sweet ryvita like? Iv seen it but never tried it! Your dins sounds to die for!!
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I love the sweet Ryvita spread with Philadelphia Chocolate (30g - 2 pp) mmm, lovely!

 

[DeborahJane]

Food for today, Monday 22nd July

Breakfast - 3 sweet fruit crunch ryvita with cream cheese (8PP)

Lunch - blue cambozola brie and ham salad, plums (9PP)

Dinner - roasted rosemary and sweet paprika veg and new potatoes with chorizo and a baked egg, beetroot, fruit salad of nectarines, pineapple and our own just picked raspberries, with a squirt of spray cream (12PP)

Snacks - two pork chipolatas with a little HP, black grapes (3PP)

Drinks - water, strawberry and lime sugar free water, diet pepsi, one coffee with a splash of milk

Total for today = 32 PP - 29 dailies and 3 weeklies. Weeklies remaining = 19

Your diaries always look so yummy! This dieting lark doesn't seem so bad when you see what lovely food we can eat! I don't feel like I am missing out at all at the moment. Happy days! x

 

[moonwatcher]

What's the sweet ryvita like? Iv seen it but never tried it! Your dins sounds to die for!!
Hope your having fun Hun enjoy xXx


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I love the sweet Ryvita spread with Philadelphia Chocolate (30g - 2 pp) mmm, lovely!

I love them - hadn't tried them before now, but they will be on the shopping list from now on. They really hit the spot with the fruity taste and the piece of dried fruit every so often. It was almost like having cheesecake for breakfast!

I wasn't really sure about the choc philly when I tried it, but may give it another chance!

 

[moonwatcher]

Your diaries always look so yummy! This dieting lark doesn't seem so bad when you see what lovely food we can eat! I don't feel like I am missing out at all at the moment. Happy days! x

That is what brought me back to WW - the fact that nothing is 'banned.' I may not have big losses at the start like I do on some other plans but it does seem the easiest plan for me personally to sustain long term. Mind you, as this is my first week back, I am suffering a bit at the moment from those feelings that I have had too much... have to just keep the faith! As I still have a lot to lose but am on 29 dailies (too short and too old to get any more apparently! LOL) I will use all my weeklies each week. Slow and steady is gonna win this race for me!

 

[Atomic pink]

Slow and steady (and delicious!) sounds like the best way.

Intrigued by the fruit ryvita, seen quite a few people having them recently, might have to try them. Are they so sweet that you couldn't have them with something savoury on?

Happy last day of term! Only a few hours left now for you. Bet the sigh of relief this evening will be a large one.

 

[moonwatcher]

I think it would depend on what savoury thing you wanted to add Atomic. I would put cheddar and other savoury cheeses on them as well as cream cheese. Mind you, we like cheddar on ginger nuts... I can't imagine them with, say, something like marmite on for instance.

Yep, finally the end of term is upon us. Quite an emotional day actually - firstly for something to do with a pupil, which I can't really say anything about, but also because we had a lot of staff who are going, and it was goodbye time to them. Some younger ones are moving on/having babies, and three of the others have clocked up over 80 years teaching between them - over 75 at this school, so they will be very missed.

Looking forward to six weeks holiday now!

Food for yesterday - Tuesday 23rd July

Breakfast - 3 fruit crunch ryvita, 2 with plain cream cheese and one with Castello pineapple halo cream cheese. (9PP)

Lunch - 2 slices of gluten free bread made into a sandwich with hummous and loads of salad, cherry toms, nectarines, plums and black grapes (7PP)

Dinner - one Tesco finest beef burger, oven baked potato wedges and a couple of spoonfuls of baked beans, cherries. (10PP)

Snacks - most of a chocolate triangle biscuit from the canteen, 3 mini celebration chocs (10PP)

Drinks - water, one coffee with cream, one latte (small plastic cup from the vending machine at work) (4PP)

Totals for Tuesday = 40PP - 29 dailies and 11 weeklies. Weeklies remaining 8

 

[moonwatcher]

Wednesday 24th July

Holidays are comin'. Holidays are comin'.

Breakfast - greek yogurt and coconut yogurt with a drizzle of maple syrup (9PP)

Lunch - can.t really call it lunch as spent my lunchtime finishing off a magic chicken collage (how the other half live eh?) so I didn't eat it until I got home about 5.15pm - tuna salad with mixed leaves, herbs, beetroot, chillies, olives, carrot, spring onions, cherry plum toms, grapes and l/f salad cream, plums and cherries (4PP)

Snacks - multi pack sized bag of prawn cocktail crisps mid morning, a mini chomp bar mid afternoon, two small breadsticks, a tiny dollop of dip and 4 Doritos at the leaving speeches (9PP)

Drinks - water, one coffee with cream, black coffees, one tea with a tiny splash of milk (2PP)

Haven't eaten yet this evening (well, apart from 'lunch' of course!) but the plan is a gluten free wrap as a cheese and veg pizza which will be 7PP, so today's totals will be:

31PP - 29 dailies and 2 weeklies. Weeklies remaining 6.

Finally, Dear Reader - a snippet from my day...

Me to pupil: 'So, how are you getting on with the radioactive cow?'

See, there's a question I didn't anticipate asking when I got up this morning!

 

[moonwatcher]

Knew I shouldn't have updated my food for today until I had finished eating it! After eating my salad so late I really didn't fancy a meal, so have had a nibbly evening. Instead of the wrap pizza I have had a peperami hot, one ounce of jarlsberg, a packet of cheese and onion crisps and a clementine. That little lot makes my total for today 34PP, with 3 weeklies left for tomorrow and Friday. Will need to concentrate on cooking some lovely food within points!

 

[moonwatcher]

Yay - a good morning here chez Moonwatcher. No alarm, the bits I was waiting for for OH's birthday on Saturday have arrived and the rain has hit Norfolk at last. That last one may seem an odd thing to say at the start of holidays, but it is so much fresher and more pleasant. I'm fortunate in that I have a long holiday to look forward to - if it's only a week and you have several wet days it is a pain, but it can't rain for 6 weeks. Oh wait, this is Britain, yes it can!

OH is currently in the kitchen making tea and toasting bagels. As he has no clothes on, I am not even going to think about how he is transporting the bagels from the freezer to the kitchen! See, you're thinking about it, aren't you?

 

[Atomic pink]

My word! Holidays put you in a naughty mood don't they?? Bagel and tea in bread sounds like a very good day to start your holidays though. And i am very much with you on the rain. I was very pleased and excited when the rain first started on monday evening. I just sat watching it out the back window and smiling.

Food sounds yum, sure you will be able to be inventive with your points until weigh in. I think its a bit easier when you have the time to plan and cook things often isn't it? Then you can save any "yay I'm on holiday" treats for the weekend.

I do have to ask though - what is a magic chicken collage??? Along with the conversation snippet you posted you are painting a very surreal picture of your job!

 

[moonwatcher]

My word! Holidays put you in a naughty mood don't they?? Bagel and tea in bread sounds like a very good day to start your holidays though. And i am very much with you on the rain. I was very pleased and excited when the rain first started on monday evening. I just sat watching it out the back window and smiling.

Food sounds yum, sure you will be able to be inventive with your points until weigh in. I think its a bit easier when you have the time to plan and cook things often isn't it? Then you can save any "yay I'm on holiday" treats for the weekend.

I do have to ask though - what is a magic ! chicken collage??? Along with the conversation snippet you posted you are painting a very surreal picture of your job!

Tee hee!

When it stopped raining the temperature seemed to immediately shoot back up again, but we had some more rain late afternoon, which brought the temperature down a bit again.

We ate out at the coast today, so I'm not sure yet how my points for the day pan out until I put it into the tracker, although I did choose a ham salad.

My last three days at school - you're right - surreal doesn't even cover it! That's the kind of thing that happens when year 7s get free rein to choose their art projects for three days! The magic chicken collage was a collage picture of an imaginary magic chicken, from an imaginary film poster I had worked on with a pupil! Another pupil decided that she would use the fluorescent paints to paint a radioactive cow! Thankfully there was very little blood or knives/guns - that usually comes in years 8 and 9!

 

[moonwatcher]

Thursday 25th July

Lazy morning sleeping and reading today. In the afternoon we went out to the coast. So, so hot. I'm sure the OH forgets that although I may have lost almost the equivalent of one sack of spuds, I am still carrying almost another two around with me!

We settled on a pub meal, as the place we really wanted to go to, the quirkily named 'Funky Mackerel' which overlooks the seafront, had stopped serving food by the time we finished our walk and shopping. I was rather disappointed as they do some tasty looking fishcake combos... next time!

The pub menu wasn't as exciting, and in the end I settled for a ham salad and a handful of OH's cheesy chips, plus a small cold glass of cider, (shared a bottle) and a diet coke. So, food for today...

Breakfast - cinnamon and raisin bagel with butter (9PP)

At the seaside - ham, mixed salad with fresh fruit, salad cream, one small new potato (left the other one - that'll be because of the handful of cheesy chips then!) (9PP)

At home later - 4 Jacobs chilli crackers with scraping of sweet chilli philly on 2, and cream cheese on the other 2, followed by a fresh fruit salad of a honey mango, persimmon fruit and raspberries - fantastic combination! (4PP)

Snacks - nestle crunch chocolate in car on way to the coast, cherries, fresh apricots and greengages (4PP)

Drinks - 3 earl grey teas with milk, black coffee, cider, diet coke, water, but not enough today. (5PP)

Totals today = 31PP, 29 dailies and 2 weeklies, one weekly remaining.

Was actually rather pleased with that, as the pub meal could so easily have been propoints apocalypse! We also walked for about one and a half hours in total, not as fast as normal, but it's still moving!

I also fitted in a trip to my favourite little greengrocers/fruiterers. My fruit bowls/fridge are now heaving with... pineapple, melon, clementines, black plums, mango, persimmon fruit, pears, fresh lychees, nectarines, peaches, apricots, greengages, cherries, strawberries and fresh figs. Didn't get much veg as we are pretty well stocked, but picked up some dinky mini red peppers for 30p a tray of about 12. I am very seriously considering a starter or a lunch tomorrow of a salad of fresh figs and roasted baby red peppers with goats cheese, sweetfire beetroot and roasted asparagas drizzled with a balsamic vinegar and blackcurrant dressing. (Blackcurrants from the garden) I may well drool myself to sleep shortly!

 

[DeborahJane]

Thursday 25th July

Lazy morning sleeping and reading today. In the afternoon we went out to the coast. So, so hot. I'm sure the OH forgets that although I may have lost almost the equivalent of one sack of spuds, I am still carrying almost another two around with me!

We settled on a pub meal, as the place we really wanted to go to, the quirkily named 'Funky Mackerel' which overlooks the seafront, had stopped serving food by the time we finished our walk and shopping. I was rather disappointed as they do some tasty looking fishcake combos... next time!

The pub menu wasn't as exciting, and in the end I settled for a ham salad and a handful of OH's cheesy chips, plus a small cold glass of cider, (shared a bottle) and a diet coke. So, food for today...

Breakfast - cinnamon and raisin bagel with butter (9PP)

At the seaside - ham, mixed salad with fresh fruit, salad cream, one small new potato (left the other one - that'll be because of the handful of cheesy chips then!) (9PP)

At home later - 4 Jacobs chilli crackers with scraping of sweet chilli philly on 2, and cream cheese on the other 2, followed by a fresh fruit salad of a honey mango, persimmon fruit and raspberries - fantastic combination! (4PP)

Snacks - nestle crunch chocolate in car on way to the coast, cherries, fresh apricots and greengages (4PP)

Drinks - 3 earl grey teas with milk, black coffee, cider, diet coke, water, but not enough today. (5PP)

Totals today = 31PP, 29 dailies and 2 weeklies, one weekly remaining.

Was actually rather pleased with that, as the pub meal could so easily have been propoints apocalypse! We also walked for about one and a half hours in total, not as fast as normal, but it's still moving!

I also fitted in a trip to my favourite little greenhouses/fruiterers. My fruit bowls/fridge are now heaving with... pineapple, melon, clementines, black plums, mango, persimmon fruit, pears, nectarines, peaches, apricots, greengages, cherries, strawberries and fresh figs. Didn't get much veg as we are pretty well stocked, but picked up some dinky mini red peppers for 30p a tray of about 12. I am very seriously considering a starter or a lunch tomorrow of a salad of fresh figs and roasted baby red peppers with goats cheese, sweetfire beetroot and roasted asparagas drizzled with a balsamic vinegar and blackcurrant dressing. (Blackcurrants from the garden) I may well drool myself to sleep shortly!

Wow, your food diaries always sound delicious! Sounds like you had a lovely day. Can I come to lunch tomorrow please! x

 

[moonwatcher]

Wow, your food diaries always sound delicious! Sounds like you had a lovely day. Can I come to lunch tomorrow please! x

Lol. Of course you can! I said once before, perhaps I should open a WW guesthouse!

 

[moonwatcher]

Lovely to wake up naturally with no alarm this morning. Teas and kindle at the moment, then starting the day properly. Food plans for today are the salad from my earlier post and sea bass for tonight - not sure yet how I'll be cooking it. Wondering what to have for breakfast...

 

[everton04]

That salad sounds out of this world il be there around 1 yea???


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[moonwatcher]

That salad sounds out of this world il be there around 1 yea???


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Yep, 1.00 - 2 ish in the garden. Will post pics for those of you who can't make it!