Sian's 2015 restart - time to shift the weight once and for all!
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dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Friday 11th January (EE)
Evening all! Wow, what a hectic week it's been! I'm always a little bit shell-shocked the first week back in school after a holiday, but there doesn't seem to have been a minute to sit down this week. I'm hoping that I'll be back into my regular routine by next week
After having a really bad food week (has anyone noticed that I just don't post very much when I'm having a bad week! I really must rectify this behaviour) I lost 3.5lb this week!!! :bliss: Only 4lb to go now until I'm back to my pre-Christmas party/end of term weight gain. I'm determined to have a good week this week - going to cook myself a lovely paella, so I've got to be good this weekend so I can save syns for all the yummy chorizo I want to put in it, lol! We went out for lunch today as a science department as a belated celebration of my birthday, but I was good and stuck to a chicken salad with caeser dressing. It was lush!
I'm off to see Les Miserables (the film, not stage show) tomorrow, wooooo! I'm meeting up with a friend who left our school in December, so it'll be nice to catch up on all the gossip from the new (far more horrible) school she's gone to! I'll just have to steer her away from the cakes in Costa and away from all the chocolates in the cinema! This could be easier said than done, lol!
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Apple
Lunch:
Chicken
Salad
Caeser dressing (5 syns?)
Supper:
SW spaghetti carbonara - part HexA
Snacks:
2 cups of coffee - part HexA
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
Evening all! Wow, what a hectic week it's been! I'm always a little bit shell-shocked the first week back in school after a holiday, but there doesn't seem to have been a minute to sit down this week. I'm hoping that I'll be back into my regular routine by next week
After having a really bad food week (has anyone noticed that I just don't post very much when I'm having a bad week! I really must rectify this behaviour) I lost 3.5lb this week!!! :bliss: Only 4lb to go now until I'm back to my pre-Christmas party/end of term weight gain. I'm determined to have a good week this week - going to cook myself a lovely paella, so I've got to be good this weekend so I can save syns for all the yummy chorizo I want to put in it, lol! We went out for lunch today as a science department as a belated celebration of my birthday, but I was good and stuck to a chicken salad with caeser dressing. It was lush!I'm off to see Les Miserables (the film, not stage show) tomorrow, wooooo! I'm meeting up with a friend who left our school in December, so it'll be nice to catch up on all the gossip from the new (far more horrible) school she's gone to! I'll just have to steer her away from the cakes in Costa and away from all the chocolates in the cinema! This could be easier said than done, lol!
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Apple
Lunch:
Chicken
Salad
Caeser dressing (5 syns?)
Supper:
SW spaghetti carbonara - part HexA
Snacks:
2 cups of coffee - part HexA
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
babybuffy84
Gold Member
Friday 11th January (EE)
Evening all! Wow, what a hectic week it's been! I'm always a little bit shell-shocked the first week back in school after a holiday, but there doesn't seem to have been a minute to sit down this week. I'm hoping that I'll be back into my regular routine by next week
I'm off to see Les Miserables (the film, not stage show) tomorrow, wooooo! I'm meeting up with a friend who left our school in December, so it'll be nice to catch up on all the gossip from the new (far more horrible) school she's gone to! I'll just have to steer her away from the cakes in Costa and away from all the chocolates in the cinema! This could be easier said than done, lol!
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Apple
Lunch:
Chicken
Salad
Caeser dressing (5 syns?)
Supper:
SW spaghetti carbonara - part HexA
Snacks:
2 cups of coffee - part HexA
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
Well done on the fab loss Hun !!! You must have done something right !!!
Glad you had a nice birthday even if it was chaotic x
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Ooo, sorry fo rthe lack of reply! Les Mis was fabulous...Russell Crowe's singing isn't up to much, but it didn't detract from how good the film was
There seemed to be quite a few men watching it and everybody seemed enthralled, so maybe the Oh could be persuaded? xx
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Friday 18th January (Green)
Well after a really bad week this week I put on 3lb It was completely deserved, but it's just made me feel really crap. Since restarting in July I've only lost 18lb, which is rubbish for me considering I have so much to lose. I just don't seem able to stick to anything at the moment. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to persevere
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Apple
Grapes
Lunch:
Pasta with a tomato, onion, pepper and garlic sauce
Supper:
Savoury rice
Eggs baked in large field mushrooms
Snacks:
Special K biscuit moments (chocolate flavour) - these are my new discovery and they were absolutely lush! - 5 syns
Coffee (part HexA)
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
Well after a really bad week this week I put on 3lb
It was completely deserved, but it's just made me feel really crap. Since restarting in July I've only lost 18lb, which is rubbish for me considering I have so much to lose. I just don't seem able to stick to anything at the moment. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to persevere Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Apple
Grapes
Lunch:
Pasta with a tomato, onion, pepper and garlic sauce
Supper:
Savoury rice
Eggs baked in large field mushrooms
Snacks:
Special K biscuit moments (chocolate flavour) - these are my new discovery and they were absolutely lush!
- 5 synsCoffee (part HexA)
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
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dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Saturday 19th January (Green)
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Grapes
Lunch:
Eggy bread (part HexA1 + HexB1)
Mushrooms
Ketchup - 1 syn
Shape yoghurt
Supper:
SW wedges
Baked beans
Grated cheese (1.5 HexA)
Snacks:
Coffee (remainder of HexA)
Crackling (couldn't resist!) - 5 syns
HexB2 wholemeal bread + EL spread - 2syns
Special K biscuit moments - 5 syns
Alcohol - 30 syns
Today's syns: 43
Total syns: 48/105
Syns remaining: 57/105
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Grapes
Lunch:
Eggy bread (part HexA1 + HexB1)
Mushrooms
Ketchup - 1 syn
Shape yoghurt
Supper:
SW wedges
Baked beans
Grated cheese (1.5 HexA)
Snacks:
Coffee (remainder of HexA)
Crackling (couldn't resist!) - 5 syns
HexB2 wholemeal bread + EL spread - 2syns
Special K biscuit moments - 5 syns
Alcohol - 30 syns
Today's syns: 43
Total syns: 48/105
Syns remaining: 57/105
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dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Well hello there stranger
Just do your best, that's all you can do hun.
Hope you're having a good day x
Hiya hun! It's a much better day than the rest of the week...it's amazing what having a weekend can do for the mood, haha! I need to find a rich man to marry so I can have that weekend feeling every day
Nah, I'd be bored really if I didn't go to work. Feeling more positive this afternoon...I'm NOT going to drink like a fish this evening, and I AM going to moderate my drinking. I'm also having some different meals this week...things have been getting a bit samey and I've got a bit bored, so I'm having tabbouleh this week for a change, yum!
Hope you're well lovely xx
dudette2001uk said:Hiya hun! It's a much better day than the rest of the week...it's amazing what having a weekend can do for the mood, haha! I need to find a rich man to marry so I can have that weekend feeling every day
Feeling more positive this afternoon...I'm NOT going to drink like a fish this evening, and I AM going to moderate my drinking. I'm also having some different meals this week...things have been getting a bit samey and I've got a bit bored, so I'm having tabbouleh this week for a change, yum!
Hope you're well lovely xx
Very positive
If you find that rich fella , can you make sure he has an equally rich brother please lol
I wouldn't be bored at all, I'd have time to go to the gym, go shopping with his credit card, be a lady what lunches! Hehe. Are you out tonight or do you drink at home??? Oh ***** I sound like an AA meeting!!! I find that I eat the same sorts of food over and over, but I don't really get fed up, but I do need to vary things a bit. What's tabbouleh????
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Haha! If he'd got a rich brother too I'd consider living in sin with the both of them! Oops, probably shouldn't say that, lol!
I go out drinking...I hate drinking in the house as for me drinking is a social thing. I actually started off very well last week and only had a few vodkas with lime and soda, but then someone started buying jagerbombs and it all went downhill form there really! I'll just have to resist this week
Tabbouleh is a bulgur wheat salad...here's the recipe I use:
Ingredients (serves 4 large portions)
200g bulgur wheat
200ml boiling water
1 red pepper, de-seeded and chopped
1 yellow or orange pepper, deseeded and chopped
350g ripe tomatoes, deseeded and chopped
5-6 spring onions, finely chopped
50g sultanas/raisins (7 syns)
5 tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley
5 tbsp chopped mint
A pinch of chilli flakes (optional)
Dressing:
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (24 syns or 4 x HexB)
1 tbsp tomato puree
4 tbsp lemon juice, and grated rind of the lemon
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp salt (although less would be fine!)
1 tsp ground pepper
Method:
1. Place the bulgur wheat in a large bowl. Cover with the boiling water, stir and cover with clingfilm. Allow the water to absorb for 20 minutes
2. Meanwhile chop all the vegetables and mix the dressing. After the water has absorbed, fluff up the bulgur wheat with a forl and stir in the dressiong.
3. Add all the vegetables and herbs and mix in well.
Other than the oil this is actually quite healthy, and a very nice alternative to pasta or rice salads. The olive oil could be used as a HexB to reduce the syns for this dish I'll probably halve this amount though as I don't want to eat it all week!
It ends up looking a bit like this:
Oops, probably shouldn't say that, lol!I go out drinking...I hate drinking in the house as for me drinking is a social thing. I actually started off very well last week and only had a few vodkas with lime and soda, but then someone started buying jagerbombs and it all went downhill form there really! I'll just have to resist this week
Tabbouleh is a bulgur wheat salad...here's the recipe I use:
Ingredients (serves 4 large portions)
200g bulgur wheat
200ml boiling water
1 red pepper, de-seeded and chopped
1 yellow or orange pepper, deseeded and chopped
350g ripe tomatoes, deseeded and chopped
5-6 spring onions, finely chopped
50g sultanas/raisins (7 syns)
5 tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley
5 tbsp chopped mint
A pinch of chilli flakes (optional)
Dressing:
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (24 syns or 4 x HexB)
1 tbsp tomato puree
4 tbsp lemon juice, and grated rind of the lemon
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp salt (although less would be fine!)
1 tsp ground pepper
Method:
1. Place the bulgur wheat in a large bowl. Cover with the boiling water, stir and cover with clingfilm. Allow the water to absorb for 20 minutes
2. Meanwhile chop all the vegetables and mix the dressing. After the water has absorbed, fluff up the bulgur wheat with a forl and stir in the dressiong.
3. Add all the vegetables and herbs and mix in well.
Other than the oil this is actually quite healthy, and a very nice alternative to pasta or rice salads. The olive oil could be used as a HexB to reduce the syns for this dish
I'll probably halve this amount though as I don't want to eat it all week! It ends up looking a bit like this:
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
I also found a recipe for breakfast tabbouleh:
Breakfast tabbouleh
The recipe is:
50g bulgur wheat (soaked in 100ml boiling water for 20 minutes)
Any fresh fruit you like, chopped (I'm using apple, satsuma and banana)
Freshly squeezed orange or lemon juice
Zest of the lemon/orange
Yoghurt (optional)
1. Pour 100ml boiling water over the bulgur wheat and cover with clingfilm for 20 minutes
2. Chop up the fruit
3. Once cooked, fluff up the bulgur wheat with a fork and stir in freshly squeezed orange or lemon juice and the zest of the orange/lemon
4. Add the chopped fruit, stir, and top with a dollop of yoghurt (I'm having a Coconut greek style muller, yum!)
Breakfast tabbouleh
The recipe is:
50g bulgur wheat (soaked in 100ml boiling water for 20 minutes)
Any fresh fruit you like, chopped (I'm using apple, satsuma and banana)
Freshly squeezed orange or lemon juice
Zest of the lemon/orange
Yoghurt (optional)
1. Pour 100ml boiling water over the bulgur wheat and cover with clingfilm for 20 minutes
2. Chop up the fruit
3. Once cooked, fluff up the bulgur wheat with a fork and stir in freshly squeezed orange or lemon juice and the zest of the orange/lemon
4. Add the chopped fruit, stir, and top with a dollop of yoghurt (I'm having a Coconut greek style muller, yum!)
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Sunday 20th January (EE)
Afternoon all! Well I didn't do too badly on the alcohol front last night...30 syns, which is manageable for me and this week's food plan I'm determined to have a good week!
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Grapes
Ginger nut biscuit - 2 syns
Lunch:
Prawn cocktail sandwich (HexB + 2 syns)
2 boiled eggs
Supper:
Prawn, courgette and mushroom pasta, with EL philli stirred in (HexA)
Snacks:
Special K biscuit moments - 5 syns
Today's syns: 9
Total syns: 57/105
Syns remaining: 48/105
Afternoon all! Well I didn't do too badly on the alcohol front last night...30 syns, which is manageable for me and this week's food plan
I'm determined to have a good week! Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Grapes
Ginger nut biscuit - 2 syns
Lunch:
Prawn cocktail sandwich (HexB + 2 syns)
2 boiled eggs
Supper:
Prawn, courgette and mushroom pasta, with EL philli stirred in (HexA)
Snacks:
Special K biscuit moments - 5 syns
Today's syns: 9
Total syns: 57/105
Syns remaining: 48/105
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dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Monday 21st January (EE)
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Apple
2 clementines
Lunch:
Tabbouleh (HexB for oil)
Pork
Supper:
Omelette (HexA)
Tinned spaghetti
Snacks:
2 ginger nut biscuits - 4 syns
Special K biscuit moments (my new favourite treat!) - 5 syns
Today's syns: 9
Total syns: 66/105
Syns remaining: 39/105
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Apple
2 clementines
Lunch:
Tabbouleh (HexB for oil)
Pork
Supper:
Omelette (HexA)
Tinned spaghetti
Snacks:
2 ginger nut biscuits - 4 syns
Special K biscuit moments (my new favourite treat!) - 5 syns
Today's syns: 9
Total syns: 66/105
Syns remaining: 39/105
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babybuffy84
Gold Member
Friday 18th January (Green)
Well after a really bad week this week I put on 3lb
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Apple
Grapes
Lunch:
Pasta with a tomato, onion, pepper and garlic sauce
Supper:
Savoury rice
Eggs baked in large field mushrooms
Snacks:
Special K biscuit moments (chocolate flavour) - these are my new discovery and they were absolutely lush!
Coffee (part HexA)
Today's syns: 5
Total syns: 5/105
Syns remaining: 100/105
Hey Hun !!!
Sorry about the gain I'm really struggling to get my head back in the game,it's still hard after Christmas and all this cold weather I just want stodge !!!
I'm desperate for some off them Special K biscuits might have a look tomorrow !!!
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
I know exactly how you feel about struggling to get back in the game since Christmas. The cold weather definitely doesn't help! If you have a tesco near you hun the Special K biscuits are 99p (half price). I stocked up yesterday!
xx
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Pea on legs!
Hi Sian, sorry about your gain, but at least you're trying to get your head back in the right place!
I haven't tried those biscuits, but I did pick up a pack of the Rocky Road Hi-fi bars at group last week - absolutely lush and can't believe you can have two for a HEX B! (Also tried the chocolate and caramel, but didn't like those as much...)
Hope you have a great week and avoid that dreaded alcohol!! I used to be really sneaky when I was out with friends - I'd always offer to go to the bar and order myself a diet coke, or a slimline tonic - and then claim it was a vodka!
I haven't tried those biscuits, but I did pick up a pack of the Rocky Road Hi-fi bars at group last week - absolutely lush and can't believe you can have two for a HEX B! (Also tried the chocolate and caramel, but didn't like those as much...)
Hope you have a great week and avoid that dreaded alcohol!! I used to be really sneaky when I was out with friends - I'd always offer to go to the bar and order myself a diet coke, or a slimline tonic - and then claim it was a vodka!
babybuffy84
Gold Member
I know exactly how you feel about struggling to get back in the game since Christmas. The cold weather definitely doesn't help! If you have a tesco near you hun the Special K biscuits are 99p (half price). I stocked up yesterday!
Oh thanks Hun !!! Will nip in and stock up
dudette2001uk
I will be a Princess!
Tuesday 22nd January (EE)
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Apple
2 clementines
Lunch:
Tabbouleh (HexB for oil)
Pork
Fruit salad (I feel virtuous as I really fancied a cake...my lunch didn't fill me up at all today!)
Supper:
Homemade turkey burgers
Pasta
Tomato, onion, pepper and garlic sauce
Grated cheese (HexA)
Snacks:
2 x Special K biscuit moments - 10 syns
2 ginger nut biscuits - 4 syns
Today's syns: 14
Total syns: 80/105
Syns remaining: 25/105
Today's food diary is as follows:
Breakfast:
Banana
Apple
2 clementines
Lunch:
Tabbouleh (HexB for oil)
Pork
Fruit salad (I feel virtuous as I really fancied a cake...my lunch didn't fill me up at all today!)
Supper:
Homemade turkey burgers
Pasta
Tomato, onion, pepper and garlic sauce
Grated cheese (HexA)
Snacks:
2 x Special K biscuit moments - 10 syns
2 ginger nut biscuits - 4 syns
Today's syns: 14
Total syns: 80/105
Syns remaining: 25/105
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