Purplebint's Diary

[Seacrest]

Enjoy the gym - no-one will stare or be interested, and it will be full of every conceivable size & shape if it's like any that I've ever been too. There are always a few perfect bodies, but they're usually so busy looking at the self in the mirror, they aren't interested in anyone else anyway! The gym can be a great motivation & excercise improves positive mood as well (apparently). Just don't beat yourself up if you don't go, and don't set unrealistic targets.

You can wear more or less anything, I echo what's been said here already. Fortunately the days of the thong leotard are long gone except in mens imaginations!

Enjoy!

 

[Purplebint]

Haha, a thong leotard gives me a mental image of trying to use the gym dressed like Borat.

Tonight's dinner -

Sticky chilli chicken and peppers, herby wedges and salad.

 

[Rosielea]

Dawn well done on joining the gym. I am sure you'll enjoy it.

 

[Seacrest]

Haha, a thong leotard gives me a mental image of trying to use the gym dressed like Borat.

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Ha!! I used to own a thong leotard many years ago - I recall my OH used to call it a 'cheese grater'. I can't imagine I ever had the body to wear it!

 

[Alycyn1980]

I love the gym & classes but ours is 8miles away, tiny & only 1 in area that is reasonable priced & it is always mobbed, spent more time w8in on equipment than exercising!!!! U will enjoy tho. Is there a sauna? That's the best bit!!!!!

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[Purplebint]

Haha, a thong leotard gives me a mental image of trying to use the gym dressed like Borat.

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Ha!! I used to own a thong leotard many years ago - I recall my OH used to call it a 'cheese grater'. I can't imagine I ever had the body to wear it!

Pics or it didn't happen

I love the gym & classes but ours is 8miles away, tiny & only 1 in area that is reasonable priced & it is always mobbed, spent more time w8in on equipment than exercising!!!! U will enjoy tho. Is there a sauna? That's the best bit!!!!!

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 using MiniMins

Mine is 2km away, no bus route and up a hill. I can cycle there in just under 15 mins though, probably a lot quicker when I get used to the hill. I'm hoping that as I'll be using it at odd times, weekday and weekends mid morning mostly, that I'll miss 'peak time'.
No idea on the sauna, or what else they have really. I can't imagine they have too many awesome facilities though or they'd be charging more than £18 a month, lol

 

[Seacrest]

Pics? No chance! There are people on this site trying to enjoy their dinner!!!

 

[Purplebint]

Haha!!

Planned food today

Breakfast - Ginger green monster smoothie with 1.5 syns of kefir milk.

Snack - Apple, 4 x ryvita rye (hexb) + clover light (2 syns) + ham.

Lunch - Steak salad with some crunchy herby potatoes mixed in. About 10 small cubes of potato, but there was definitely oil used. Will call that 5 syns.

Dinner - SW chips and leftover sticky chicken and peppers.


Drinks so far

2 mug black tea
2 glasses lemon kefir
1 mug coffee (will call this half a hexa to cover the milk used)
1 pint diet coke.

Syns used 8.5

Exercise

Walk to pub and back

 

[Red Riding Hood]

Hi there

I sent you a message earlier about recipes so I thought I'd come and look at your diary. Looks like you are doing so well on Slimming World. I fell off the wagon a while back after doing well, so I'm here to try again. I like cooking (when I have time) so it's great to see such a good food diary.

 

[Purplebint]

I've replied to your PM

I love cooking, I'm really glad that SW works so well with home cooking. I think the reason I've struggled on so many other diets is the reliance on packaged foods. The only way we can afford to eat the way we do is because I cook so much from scratch, I just couldn't afford to buy convenience foods anyway.

Hope you enjoy it back on the wagon

 

[Rosielea]

I agree, the best way to eat so well on the plan and lose weight healthily is by cooking each meal from scratch. From time to time, I have a mullerlight/cereal bar or Option, otherwise everything is made from scratch and I enjoy cooking.

 

[Purplebint]

Agreed

Planned food today

Breakfast - Ginger green monster smoothie (1/2 hexa kefir milk)

Post swim snack - apple

Brunch - Full english, sausage (2 syns), bacon, eggs, beans and 2 syns of HP. Followed by 3 x ryvita dark rye (hexb) and 2tsp clover light (2syns)

Dinner - Chilli notdogs with 1/2 hexa of cheese and salad

Drinks so far

1 bottle water
1 mug black tea
1 pint NAS

Syns used 6

Exercise - 30 lengths in the swimming pool. I am definitely slower in the mornings, heh

 

[Purplebint]

Chilli cheese notdogs and salad

 

[Purplebint]

Planned food today

Breakfast - Ginger green monster smoothie

Lunch - Asparagus and poached eggs

Dinner - Chicken jalfrezi with sweet potato and red onion bhajis

Drinks so far
1 mug black tea
1 pint NAS

Syns used 0

Exercise

School run 1
School run 2
Bike ride to and from Fat Club.

 

[Purplebint]

It's Taster Night at Fat Club tonight (hence saving most of my syns up ) , I'm making an extra batch of the syn free sweet potato and red onion bhaji, and will take some of my homemade lime pickle too.

I don't think I'll be having much of a loss this week, I feel a bit bloated and I've upped my exercise a lot this last week which tends to scupper me on the scales short term.

 

[Vegan*4*Life]

Hellooooo subscribing and aiming to catch up!

 

[Keldelacoe]

Just seen that come dine with me are after contestants on your area and thought of you I got down to the final auditions a couple of years ago and just missed out! ITV then asked me to audition for best dish but I didn't fancy that!

You should go for it

 

[Rosielea]

Good luck with WI tonight. could you please let me have your homemade lime pickle receipe. Thanks

 

[Purplebint]

Sneaky weigh in at home puts me 4lb up (I need to chuck those scales, I can't resist popping on them)

Just seen that come dine with me are after contestants on your area and thought of you I got down to the final auditions a couple of years ago and just missed out! ITV then asked me to audition for best dish but I didn't fancy that!

You should go for it

Unfortunately, I have a face for radio and couldn't face the thought of being on telly. *shudder* I'd put people off their food! hehe

Good luck with WI tonight. could you please let me have your homemade lime pickle receipe. Thanks

Lime pickle recipe is on my old blog - Life of Bint: Easy Lime Pickle I just left out the oil this time, it's worked fine but needs to be kept in the fridge rather than left in the cupboard.

 

[sherlann]

Face for radio my backside!! you are gorgeous. Dont talk yourself down lady