newbee89
Silver Member
Thanks hun, I will try that now. Do you get the images from a google search or from Minimins?
thanks Tracey
Hi Tracey, hope you're ok
Hi Joanne, I'm great thanks, just had a very busy few days. Post is a-coming
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Thanks hun, I will try that now. Do you get the images from a google search or from Minimins?
Hi Joanne, I'm great thanks, just had a very busy few days. Post is a-coming
newbee89
Silver Member
I am ALIVE. Busy weekend and I just genuinely didn't have the time to post here.
I got through the weekend very well. Another social-occasion crossed off the list that I can truly say I enjoyed and at the same time didn't let it control me or my healthy eating.
Friday night was OH's Dad's retirement party. We ended up at a table just the four of us and a massive plate of party food for 10 people was plonked in front of us. There were all types of sandwhiches, chicken goujons, chips, garlic sauce, sweet chilli sauce etc. I have to say it was the first time in weeks I felt tempted to just have a little something. But I resisted. Not one morsel of food entered my mouth and I was very proud of myself. Before the party myself and Peter got Take-Away Wagamama. I got the chikcken Terriyake noodles and asked for it to be cooked in no oil because I am 'highly allergic'. They told me the noodles come pre-packed in a tiny bit of oil and I told them that was fine. They didn't add any more. The dish was basically noodles, all sorts of veg, a chicken fillet and about a tablespoon, if even, of Terryake sauce. The only thing was that it was SO bland. The oil must really add some ooph to it because it was so dry. However due to the lack of oil and sauce I was very confident that it was under the 8 syn mark and it filled the gap.
Saturday morning I decided I wanted to fork out the €13 for the hotel breakfast because I knew we were going to be shopping and there would be no healthy breakfast/lunch options in the shopping centre. I knew that with a buffet-style breakfast I could stay in control, fill up, and know exactly what I was eating. I ended up having 2 poached eggs (I asked the chef to make them for me and it was no problem), grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, 1 slice of HexB bread toasted, tea and loooooads of fruit salad. I also nicked an apple, pear and some grapes for my handbag to munch on throughout the day. It was all so lovely. I will post a picture separately as they're saved in my phone.
For lunch we went to M&S and I had some Sushi, fruit salad and a bowl of tomato and basil soup from M&S Cafe. Does anyone know what syns would be in this? Its not a creamy soup at all. It was gorgeous! It came with bread which I didn't have and my coffee came with a biscuit which I also resisted.
Saturday night was the meal out with my MA class friends. We went to a lovely place on Grafton Street in Dublin (notoriously Christmassy shopping street in Dublin with lots of gorgeous lights etc). I knew I had about 10 syns or so to play with so this is what i had : a small starter portion of ceaser salad with the dressing on the side. It has chicken and bacon in it and it was GORGEOUS. I didn't eat the Croutons and I didn't use much dressing. It was less than half of a normal portion which I think SW say is about 10-12 syns in a restaurant so I estimate that it was about 5 syns. I then had a starter portion of pasta for my main course. As much as I was hungry I knew this was a better idea. It was spagetti in a pesto with roasted Aubergine and 'lemon oil'. I asked for it without the Lemon Oil and for no oil to be added at all. This was not a problem. What arrived was a smallish plate of spagetti with very little pesto, LOTS of yummy roasted Aubergine and lots of fresh rocket. It was lovely, but quite dry, again the oil must add that quality to a lot of foods. Everything was free apart from the rocket which would have had oil/parmeasan in it so again I would estimate about 5 syns. I really enjoyed the meal though.
Then I skipped on to the Christmas part at the theatre I used to work. I was nervous about this having not really seen anyone for like 3 months so my glass of wine (8 syns) helped soften the blow. I got there and we each got 4 drinks vouchers. I decided to have 1 wine and three vodka and diet 7up. While I do like the Martini, and it's great value at 2.5 syns, it just doesn't do it for me. I drank like 10 of them one night and didn't even feel remotely tipsy! I am not an alcoholic lol. But you know what I mean, it felt like I could have just been saving my syns and drinking the diet 7up. I think I would enjoy one glass of wine above 3/4 Martinis. About an hour in the food arrived and it was all from a fried chicken place. KILL ME NOW! haha. I spent the time sipping on my drink and chatting to a few of my ex-colleagues and before I knew it all the food was gone and I had experienced yet another social occassion where I resisted the fatty-food on offer. I have NEVER had this willpower before. After the theatre we went on to a club, and as I had had two glasses of wine and was pretty much all syn's out I decided to leave it at that in terms of drinking. I spent the next two hours dancing away and enjoying myself.
Sunday I woke up with a sore head, lol. I think it was tiredness more than anything. I went to a Lidl Outlet Store Sale with my mam and grabbed a Muller Lite Coconut yoghurt, a pear and an alpen light running out the door. It did the trick! When we got home my mam and I had a lovely brunch of boiled eggs, beans, free Slimmers Choice sausages, oven roasted vine tomatoes, HexB bread (1/2 as I had already had an alpen light) and it was absolutely gorgeous.
I didn't have a dinner then per-se but instead has about 1/4 of my sisters chicken and blackbean sauce and boiled rice from the chinese, some more fruit, and another Muller Light. I was definitely within my syns for the day and probably made up a few syns to cover the few I may have gone over on Saturday night.
So I was quite happy with myself after those two nights, albeit a bit apprehensive about the fact that I had wine both nights. I just really do love wine and I feel I enjoy a glass more than several Vodkas or Martinis. Problem is once you have one... I didn't go overboard though. I had about 3 on Friday which were unplanned so i would have used syns there that I didn't have technically, but I felt OK about it because I was so good on the food-front.
So that brings me up to yesterday - my University Graduation. I was very excited to be graduating from my MA. My mam and my OH came with me (as I only got two tickets and didn't want to bring one or the other of my Dad/Stepdad). It was such a lovely day. I had to work till 1pm though so it was all a bit of a rush and I was curling my hair in work (my boss wasn't here lol) while answering the phones. I just had some yoghurt and fruit for breakfast. The graduation went on from about 2-5pm in total. After the ceremony I felt sick with hunger. Like properly feeling weak type of stuff. Normally by 5pm I will have had a good breakfast and lunch but I had only had the fruit and yoghurt. I knew that there was going to be food served after the ceremony and of course I planned to have none but by the time it came around I knew I had no choice but to eat something. I felt awful. I decided to have the equivalent of a sandwhich so i had four little trianglular sandwhiches, two with chicken and pesto and red peppers and lettuce, and three were BLT. I also had two dry chicken skewers which definitely were not fried or greasy. I resisted all the cheesecake, biscuits, and fried things. I felt much better after the bit of food and I knew I hadn't 'ruined' things because I had no choice really. Its amazing how breaking your routine and not really eating till 5pm leaves you feeling brutal. I washed it down with a nice bottle of water and I felt 100 times better.
I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that i was going to weigh in three hours later though. I normally eat light on weigh-in days and I wouldn't have bread etc so it added more anxiety to my already nervous-i-won't-lose-again fears. So anyway, we got to weight in at like 8.02pm and the talk had already started so we would have to weight after the class. I spent the class feeling very anxious and just praying I would get food news. I hopped up on the scales after the class loudly saying 'please please please' as the consultant laughed at me and... the result?
DOWN TWO POUNDS!!!
Omg I was so bloody delighted. What a perfect loss. I was absolutely over the moon and completely chuffed. Means I have lost 7.5 pounds in the last 4 weeks and that is just about wonderful. I am soooo happy. This week I have no big events other than a dinner-date with my friend this evening which I will be synning so i don't need to save syns for the weekend or do anything out of the ordinary. I'll be shopping on Sunday and again will be eating out but I will be using that days syns for absolute definite! I am going in to this week feeling absolutely delighted with myself! Hooray!
We went for a mail last night, my OH and my mam and stepdad and I was quite indulgent, but come on it was m graduation. I had decided I was going to have what I fancied so i did. For starters I had hot and sour tomato soup with pork dumplings. Definitely not slimming friendly but SOOOOO good. For mains I had Nasi Goreng. It's an Indonesian rice dish with lots of veg, prawns, chicken and is served with a fried egg on top and some Chicken Satay Skewers on the side. I also had two glasses of wine and about two fork-fulls of this amazing Spanish Icecream that OH ordered - it was vanilla icecream with figs and raisins going through it, omg so amazing.
I could spend today worrying about making up for last nights meal and planning on saving a million syns a day but I have decided that it was a special occassion, like Christmas, where I made the conscious planned choice to indulge a bit and I enjoyed every single mouthful. I have been so so good and restrained and my willpower and motivation is at an all-time high so it certainly won't have a knock-on affect and lead me astray. I am 100% completely on plan and just had one evening of enjoying myself and not worrying about syns. It wasn't even all that bad. I still had lots of veg and protein and superfree foods. So I have decided to just draw a line under it and get straight back in to it today. It's exactly what I'll be doing for Christmas Day and Stephen's Day. I have a weigh in Christmas Eve and then I will enjoy those two days and get back on plan for the other 5 days before my next weigh in on New Years Eve. It actually works out quite nicely in terms of the dates being either side of eachother. A bit of room to enjoy myself but also a few days to make up for it. I just really want to maintain after Christmas. That would be amazing!
I am looking for peoples opinions on alcohol, do you guys syn it? I am considering easing up a bit on it because it is just impossibly high in terms of syns and for the sake of a few drinks and enjoyment I spend the week saving loads of syns that could be better used on food-things and all in all I'm not sure if it makes a huge difference. I probably go out and have a few drinks, on average once every 2/3 weeks but probably more like once a month usually. Twice maybe. I think those times I will just aim to save about 20 syns to give me a boost and just enjoy myself. That's kind of what I did this weekend. While I did save syns for the night out I had some un-planned wine and really enjoyed it. But I was so good with the food and I ended up with a 2 pound loss, which really probably could have been a 3 pound loss had I not eaten the sandwhich at the graduation.
All in all I am feeling very positive, happy, motivated and just completely determined. Nothing is going to stop me :character00201:
Some photos to follow! xx
I got through the weekend very well. Another social-occasion crossed off the list that I can truly say I enjoyed and at the same time didn't let it control me or my healthy eating.
Friday night was OH's Dad's retirement party. We ended up at a table just the four of us and a massive plate of party food for 10 people was plonked in front of us. There were all types of sandwhiches, chicken goujons, chips, garlic sauce, sweet chilli sauce etc. I have to say it was the first time in weeks I felt tempted to just have a little something. But I resisted. Not one morsel of food entered my mouth and I was very proud of myself. Before the party myself and Peter got Take-Away Wagamama. I got the chikcken Terriyake noodles and asked for it to be cooked in no oil because I am 'highly allergic'. They told me the noodles come pre-packed in a tiny bit of oil and I told them that was fine. They didn't add any more. The dish was basically noodles, all sorts of veg, a chicken fillet and about a tablespoon, if even, of Terryake sauce. The only thing was that it was SO bland. The oil must really add some ooph to it because it was so dry. However due to the lack of oil and sauce I was very confident that it was under the 8 syn mark and it filled the gap.
Saturday morning I decided I wanted to fork out the €13 for the hotel breakfast because I knew we were going to be shopping and there would be no healthy breakfast/lunch options in the shopping centre. I knew that with a buffet-style breakfast I could stay in control, fill up, and know exactly what I was eating. I ended up having 2 poached eggs (I asked the chef to make them for me and it was no problem), grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, 1 slice of HexB bread toasted, tea and loooooads of fruit salad. I also nicked an apple, pear and some grapes for my handbag to munch on throughout the day. It was all so lovely. I will post a picture separately as they're saved in my phone.
For lunch we went to M&S and I had some Sushi, fruit salad and a bowl of tomato and basil soup from M&S Cafe. Does anyone know what syns would be in this? Its not a creamy soup at all. It was gorgeous! It came with bread which I didn't have and my coffee came with a biscuit which I also resisted.
Saturday night was the meal out with my MA class friends. We went to a lovely place on Grafton Street in Dublin (notoriously Christmassy shopping street in Dublin with lots of gorgeous lights etc). I knew I had about 10 syns or so to play with so this is what i had : a small starter portion of ceaser salad with the dressing on the side. It has chicken and bacon in it and it was GORGEOUS. I didn't eat the Croutons and I didn't use much dressing. It was less than half of a normal portion which I think SW say is about 10-12 syns in a restaurant so I estimate that it was about 5 syns. I then had a starter portion of pasta for my main course. As much as I was hungry I knew this was a better idea. It was spagetti in a pesto with roasted Aubergine and 'lemon oil'. I asked for it without the Lemon Oil and for no oil to be added at all. This was not a problem. What arrived was a smallish plate of spagetti with very little pesto, LOTS of yummy roasted Aubergine and lots of fresh rocket. It was lovely, but quite dry, again the oil must add that quality to a lot of foods. Everything was free apart from the rocket which would have had oil/parmeasan in it so again I would estimate about 5 syns. I really enjoyed the meal though.
Then I skipped on to the Christmas part at the theatre I used to work. I was nervous about this having not really seen anyone for like 3 months so my glass of wine (8 syns) helped soften the blow. I got there and we each got 4 drinks vouchers. I decided to have 1 wine and three vodka and diet 7up. While I do like the Martini, and it's great value at 2.5 syns, it just doesn't do it for me. I drank like 10 of them one night and didn't even feel remotely tipsy! I am not an alcoholic lol. But you know what I mean, it felt like I could have just been saving my syns and drinking the diet 7up. I think I would enjoy one glass of wine above 3/4 Martinis. About an hour in the food arrived and it was all from a fried chicken place. KILL ME NOW! haha. I spent the time sipping on my drink and chatting to a few of my ex-colleagues and before I knew it all the food was gone and I had experienced yet another social occassion where I resisted the fatty-food on offer. I have NEVER had this willpower before. After the theatre we went on to a club, and as I had had two glasses of wine and was pretty much all syn's out I decided to leave it at that in terms of drinking. I spent the next two hours dancing away and enjoying myself.
Sunday I woke up with a sore head, lol. I think it was tiredness more than anything. I went to a Lidl Outlet Store Sale with my mam and grabbed a Muller Lite Coconut yoghurt, a pear and an alpen light running out the door. It did the trick! When we got home my mam and I had a lovely brunch of boiled eggs, beans, free Slimmers Choice sausages, oven roasted vine tomatoes, HexB bread (1/2 as I had already had an alpen light) and it was absolutely gorgeous.
I didn't have a dinner then per-se but instead has about 1/4 of my sisters chicken and blackbean sauce and boiled rice from the chinese, some more fruit, and another Muller Light. I was definitely within my syns for the day and probably made up a few syns to cover the few I may have gone over on Saturday night.
So I was quite happy with myself after those two nights, albeit a bit apprehensive about the fact that I had wine both nights. I just really do love wine and I feel I enjoy a glass more than several Vodkas or Martinis. Problem is once you have one... I didn't go overboard though. I had about 3 on Friday which were unplanned so i would have used syns there that I didn't have technically, but I felt OK about it because I was so good on the food-front.
So that brings me up to yesterday - my University Graduation. I was very excited to be graduating from my MA. My mam and my OH came with me (as I only got two tickets and didn't want to bring one or the other of my Dad/Stepdad). It was such a lovely day. I had to work till 1pm though so it was all a bit of a rush and I was curling my hair in work (my boss wasn't here lol) while answering the phones. I just had some yoghurt and fruit for breakfast. The graduation went on from about 2-5pm in total. After the ceremony I felt sick with hunger. Like properly feeling weak type of stuff. Normally by 5pm I will have had a good breakfast and lunch but I had only had the fruit and yoghurt. I knew that there was going to be food served after the ceremony and of course I planned to have none but by the time it came around I knew I had no choice but to eat something. I felt awful. I decided to have the equivalent of a sandwhich so i had four little trianglular sandwhiches, two with chicken and pesto and red peppers and lettuce, and three were BLT. I also had two dry chicken skewers which definitely were not fried or greasy. I resisted all the cheesecake, biscuits, and fried things. I felt much better after the bit of food and I knew I hadn't 'ruined' things because I had no choice really. Its amazing how breaking your routine and not really eating till 5pm leaves you feeling brutal. I washed it down with a nice bottle of water and I felt 100 times better.
I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that i was going to weigh in three hours later though. I normally eat light on weigh-in days and I wouldn't have bread etc so it added more anxiety to my already nervous-i-won't-lose-again fears. So anyway, we got to weight in at like 8.02pm and the talk had already started so we would have to weight after the class. I spent the class feeling very anxious and just praying I would get food news. I hopped up on the scales after the class loudly saying 'please please please' as the consultant laughed at me and... the result?
DOWN TWO POUNDS!!!
Omg I was so bloody delighted. What a perfect loss. I was absolutely over the moon and completely chuffed. Means I have lost 7.5 pounds in the last 4 weeks and that is just about wonderful. I am soooo happy. This week I have no big events other than a dinner-date with my friend this evening which I will be synning so i don't need to save syns for the weekend or do anything out of the ordinary. I'll be shopping on Sunday and again will be eating out but I will be using that days syns for absolute definite! I am going in to this week feeling absolutely delighted with myself! Hooray!
We went for a mail last night, my OH and my mam and stepdad and I was quite indulgent, but come on it was m graduation. I had decided I was going to have what I fancied so i did. For starters I had hot and sour tomato soup with pork dumplings. Definitely not slimming friendly but SOOOOO good. For mains I had Nasi Goreng. It's an Indonesian rice dish with lots of veg, prawns, chicken and is served with a fried egg on top and some Chicken Satay Skewers on the side. I also had two glasses of wine and about two fork-fulls of this amazing Spanish Icecream that OH ordered - it was vanilla icecream with figs and raisins going through it, omg so amazing.
I could spend today worrying about making up for last nights meal and planning on saving a million syns a day but I have decided that it was a special occassion, like Christmas, where I made the conscious planned choice to indulge a bit and I enjoyed every single mouthful. I have been so so good and restrained and my willpower and motivation is at an all-time high so it certainly won't have a knock-on affect and lead me astray. I am 100% completely on plan and just had one evening of enjoying myself and not worrying about syns. It wasn't even all that bad. I still had lots of veg and protein and superfree foods. So I have decided to just draw a line under it and get straight back in to it today. It's exactly what I'll be doing for Christmas Day and Stephen's Day. I have a weigh in Christmas Eve and then I will enjoy those two days and get back on plan for the other 5 days before my next weigh in on New Years Eve. It actually works out quite nicely in terms of the dates being either side of eachother. A bit of room to enjoy myself but also a few days to make up for it. I just really want to maintain after Christmas. That would be amazing!
I am looking for peoples opinions on alcohol, do you guys syn it? I am considering easing up a bit on it because it is just impossibly high in terms of syns and for the sake of a few drinks and enjoyment I spend the week saving loads of syns that could be better used on food-things and all in all I'm not sure if it makes a huge difference. I probably go out and have a few drinks, on average once every 2/3 weeks but probably more like once a month usually. Twice maybe. I think those times I will just aim to save about 20 syns to give me a boost and just enjoy myself. That's kind of what I did this weekend. While I did save syns for the night out I had some un-planned wine and really enjoyed it. But I was so good with the food and I ended up with a 2 pound loss, which really probably could have been a 3 pound loss had I not eaten the sandwhich at the graduation.
All in all I am feeling very positive, happy, motivated and just completely determined. Nothing is going to stop me :character00201:
Some photos to follow! xx
newbee89
Silver Member
Finally an MA graduate
Me, OH and my mam in the backgroud haha. Great day!
Oh i totally forgot to mention. Look what my lovely mammy bought me on Saturday at the outlet sale? Its for christmas from her and its for when me and OH get our own place in February. So excited by this!!! Here's to lots of home-cooking. OH was very excited too!
Not so aesthetically pleasing as it has already been attacked with my fork, but sundays breakfast when we got home from the outlet.
My breakfast in the hotel on Saturday morning. I LOVE poached eggs.
The thoughtful gift from OH from my graduation. A gorgeous pandora charm for my charm bracelet. Its a little graduation cap. Soooo sweet!
vintagepockets
Gold Member
Wow congratulations on graduating and getting your MA that's amazing! Well done you! And that Pandora charm is so cute xx
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vintagepockets
Gold Member
I just read through your weekend post and well done on being so restrained and sticking to plan - you did SO well!! And well done on your 2lb loss that is fantastic! You should be feeling very proud of yourself xx
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Honeyoc
Is a crunchy mama!
Oh wow you're on fire Tracey! Well done for being so dedicated and focused. I think your new state of mind is exactly how one should approach SW and what wil definitely get you to goal and beyond. It's all about balance, staying focused on the SW principles and leaving some allowance for off plan meals/components of meals/days etc. It's the 80/20 rule that a lot of naturally slim people follow intuitively. Well done, I think you're doing great!
Congratulations of your graduation as well, you must have made yourself and your family so proud. What an achievement!
Congratulations of your graduation as well, you must have made yourself and your family so proud. What an achievement!
newbee89
Silver Member
Todays food:
Breakfast - 1 slice nimble and one laughing cow light (1/2 a and 1/4 b) and a pear.
Lunch - erin low fat savoury rice (1.5), carrot sticks, 35g tub of philadelphia extra light (2) a muller coconut flavour (.5) and... an alpen coconut and chocolate bar. I mistakenly thought this was a 'light' bar and could be half an HexB but its not, its 6 bloody syns. So i didn't have my full Hexb and i spent 6 syns i had no intention of spending. Lesson learned. Such a pity because they're so good. Same with the philadelphia extra light. If it was just the 'light' one it could have been a HexA but as its extra light there is not enough calcium to make it a hexA. What a pain in the bum on both of these discoveries.
Snacks - mugshot tomato and herb (free) felt so guilty having it but i was really hungry about 12.30 so i had that. My lunch was at about 3.30!
Dinner - Nandos butterfly chicken (3) spicy rice (2.5) and corn on the cob (free) with some diet coke. It was soooo yummy! No superfree though :/ should have had some fruit after. I did have a banana about 30 min before though.
Syns for the day 15.5, phew that could have been way worse considering a) i spent 6 syns on a bar i thought would be free. b) the philly extra light is 2 syns and not a HexA and... I ate out!
Happy days.
Will be aiming for about 10 syns tomorrow
Breakfast - 1 slice nimble and one laughing cow light (1/2 a and 1/4 b) and a pear.
Lunch - erin low fat savoury rice (1.5), carrot sticks, 35g tub of philadelphia extra light (2) a muller coconut flavour (.5) and... an alpen coconut and chocolate bar. I mistakenly thought this was a 'light' bar and could be half an HexB but its not, its 6 bloody syns. So i didn't have my full Hexb and i spent 6 syns i had no intention of spending. Lesson learned. Such a pity because they're so good. Same with the philadelphia extra light. If it was just the 'light' one it could have been a HexA but as its extra light there is not enough calcium to make it a hexA. What a pain in the bum on both of these discoveries.
Snacks - mugshot tomato and herb (free) felt so guilty having it but i was really hungry about 12.30 so i had that. My lunch was at about 3.30!
Dinner - Nandos
butterfly chicken (3) spicy rice (2.5) and corn on the cob (free) with some diet coke. It was soooo yummy! No superfree though :/ should have had some fruit after. I did have a banana about 30 min before though.Syns for the day 15.5, phew that could have been way worse considering a) i spent 6 syns on a bar i thought would be free. b) the philly extra light is 2 syns and not a HexA and... I ate out!
Happy days.
Will be aiming for about 10 syns tomorrow
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newbee89
Silver Member
Thanks so much! Isn't it just adorable? I am so delighted with it
I just read through your weekend post and well done on being so restrained and sticking to plan - you did SO well!! And well done on your 2lb loss that is fantastic! You should be feeling very proud of yourself
Thank you so much hun, I am thrilled. I really am. It's not easy being at these events etc and saying no but I felt so so good after it and now I feel I can face anything really. It's a great feeling. I don't want any gains this side of Christmas, or any for that matter, lol. Would love to lose 7 pounds before Christmas and then maintain over Christmas. That's the plan anyway! I'll just be allowing myself Christmas Day and Stephens Day off plan to have what I fancy!
Oh thank you Honey, It was a great day and a great celebration. My OH and mam were so proud of me which felt really lovely. It was a once off experience for me because I didn't go to my BA graduation. I loved every minute. What a week it has been between OH's Dad's retirement Party, my Xmas party at the theatre, meal with MA class, then the graduation on Monday and I STILL got a 2 pound loss. So unbelievably happy and just beaming right now. I am completely following the 80/20 rule. funnily enough I do talk about that rule a lot. I firmly believe that this is what Slimming World encourages. 80% of the time we are being really healthy and wholesome, and there is that bit of extra easy-going-ness to allow us to also LIVE and enjoy our lives and social occassions! Thank you for the support
newbee89
Silver Member
Breakfast - 1 nimble toast with 1 laughing cow light and a pear. (1/2 of hexa and 1/2 of hexb)
Snack - Alpen light bar (rest of hexb)
Lunch - erin low fat savoury rice (1.5), muller light coconut (.5) little philadelphia light tub (2).
Dinner - baby potatoes, chicken fillet fried in fry light and aromat with baby carrots and some curry sauce (half a knorr chipshop curry sauce is 2.5. I had literally a drizzle so probably 1.5 syn though not even that realistically. This was followed by another muller light coconut (.5) and a mango.
Hex a - 1 laughing cow light and skimmed milk in 1 tea and 1 coffee.
Hex b - 1 nimble bread and 1 alpen light bar
Syns - 6
I'm staying with my nanny tonight. She has been out of hospital about 2 weeks now and its lively to spend quality time with her. She has a little granny flat off my aunties house so i also got to spend time with my baby cousin who is only 6 weeks old. She is just perfection and my God i am so broody. I cannot wait to be a mother someday. On the way there i collected chipper food for my auntie, nanny and my cousins. I ordered the chips, battered sausages, battered cod etc and i walked home mesmerised by the smell of it. I brought them back and i did not have one crumb of chips. It was absolutely FREEZING out and the hot chips were so appealing. These are the moments that I know I am strong and I know I am actually doing this for real. I started preparing my dinner as they ate their fish and chips and, you know what? My dinner was gorgeous!!
My dinner. The baby potatoes were seared in a hot pan with aromat seasoning after they were cooked. I felt like I was having chips!
Todays lunch. I am loving carrot sticks at the moment. They're superfree right?
Snack - Alpen light bar (rest of hexb)
Lunch - erin low fat savoury rice (1.5), muller light coconut (.5) little philadelphia light tub (2).
Dinner - baby potatoes, chicken fillet fried in fry light and aromat with baby carrots and some curry sauce (half a knorr chipshop curry sauce is 2.5. I had literally a drizzle so probably 1.5 syn though not even that realistically. This was followed by another muller light coconut (.5) and a mango.
Hex a - 1 laughing cow light and skimmed milk in 1 tea and 1 coffee.
Hex b - 1 nimble bread and 1 alpen light bar
Syns - 6
I'm staying with my nanny tonight. She has been out of hospital about 2 weeks now and its lively to spend quality time with her. She has a little granny flat off my aunties house so i also got to spend time with my baby cousin who is only 6 weeks old. She is just perfection and my God i am so broody. I cannot wait to be a mother someday. On the way there i collected chipper food for my auntie, nanny and my cousins. I ordered the chips, battered sausages, battered cod etc and i walked home mesmerised by the smell of it. I brought them back and i did not have one crumb of chips. It was absolutely FREEZING out and the hot chips were so appealing. These are the moments that I know I am strong and I know I am actually doing this for real. I started preparing my dinner as they ate their fish and chips and, you know what? My dinner was gorgeous!!
My dinner. The baby potatoes were seared in a hot pan with aromat seasoning after they were cooked. I felt like I was having chips!
Todays lunch. I am loving carrot sticks at the moment. They're superfree right?
newbee89
Silver Member
I seem to be hungry all the time lately, what is wrong with me?
I only had my breakfast (beans on toast and a pear) at 9.15am and since then I've had to have the rest of the beans and an apple to sate my hunger. It seems that I get hungry like every 2 hours. It's only been about 1.5 hours since the beans and apple and I am already hungry. Having said that I have been completely dossing in work and reading through Honey and Vintagepocket's old diary entries for some food inspiration, so that's never going to help
I'm alone in the office today till about 2pm and I have no motivation to do any work which is not good. I didn't get much sleep last night because I shared a bed with my little cousin as I stayed at theirs and I was just freezing all night and uncomfortable. I also generally get up twice a night to use the bathroom. I am like a pregnant lady, but as I was sort of cornered in I was trying to ignore that feeling which kept me awake too. I feel the tiredness now big-time. Normally I just have a coffee in the morning but I will definitely be having one with my lunch now. I have my course tonight which I am so not in the mood for. To think that I could be home, showered and in my PJS with dinner by 7.30pm if I didn't go, but I won't get home till 10.30pm, won't end up having a proper dinner, and I won't even have time for a shower this evening as my family will be asleep and our shower is a loud power-shower with a very noisy pump so we have a bit of a no-showering too late policy at home. I'll just have one after the gym tomorrow, i.e after work. The showers at the gym are actually lovely. SO hot and it just feels great after a work-out. It's very soothing to the body. Anyway, as I was saying, I have to go to my class tonight because I didn't go last week and next week is just a revision class before the exams. I haven't even thought about the exams to be honest, and probably won't till January. It will be fine though :character0053:
I have a boring old lunch today in the form of a mug shot and I don't think I'll be having a proper dinner because I'm having chinese on Sunday and I don't want to have it twice in a week so I'll probably go to m&s and get some sushi, fruit salad and carrot and hummous. Might even get a cheeky packet of velvet crunch or popcorn if I have the syns.
I can't wait to get home tomorrow evening and have the class, the gym and a nice long shower behind me and look forward to a relaxing evening with OH. There are 7 people in my house not including OH when he comes over so it can be hard to get alone time. Hopefully it will be nice and relaxing either way. Saturday I plan to do absolutely NOTHING other than maybe tidy my room and relax all day among the Christmas tree and decorations. It's OH's Christmas party so he'll be out on a mad one and I'll be doing quite the opposite. Man, I LOVE doing nothing these days.
Note to self : when I have kids I must inform them that the real world is not what it's cracked up to be. Work, Sleep, Wash, Eat. That's it really isn't it? No wonder food is such a joy in my life! lol:bliss:
Almost 1pm, so I can just about justify my lunch now. Seriously!!!
I only had my breakfast (beans on toast and a pear) at 9.15am and since then I've had to have the rest of the beans and an apple to sate my hunger. It seems that I get hungry like every 2 hours. It's only been about 1.5 hours since the beans and apple and I am already hungry. Having said that I have been completely dossing in work and reading through Honey and Vintagepocket's old diary entries for some food inspiration, so that's never going to help
I'm alone in the office today till about 2pm and I have no motivation to do any work which is not good. I didn't get much sleep last night because I shared a bed with my little cousin as I stayed at theirs and I was just freezing all night and uncomfortable. I also generally get up twice a night to use the bathroom. I am like a pregnant lady, but as I was sort of cornered in I was trying to ignore that feeling which kept me awake too. I feel the tiredness now big-time. Normally I just have a coffee in the morning but I will definitely be having one with my lunch now. I have my course tonight which I am so not in the mood for. To think that I could be home, showered and in my PJS with dinner by 7.30pm if I didn't go, but I won't get home till 10.30pm, won't end up having a proper dinner, and I won't even have time for a shower this evening as my family will be asleep and our shower is a loud power-shower with a very noisy pump so we have a bit of a no-showering too late policy at home. I'll just have one after the gym tomorrow, i.e after work. The showers at the gym are actually lovely. SO hot and it just feels great after a work-out. It's very soothing to the body. Anyway, as I was saying, I have to go to my class tonight because I didn't go last week and next week is just a revision class before the exams. I haven't even thought about the exams to be honest, and probably won't till January. It will be fine though :character0053:
I have a boring old lunch today in the form of a mug shot and I don't think I'll be having a proper dinner because I'm having chinese on Sunday and I don't want to have it twice in a week so I'll probably go to m&s and get some sushi, fruit salad and carrot and hummous. Might even get a cheeky packet of velvet crunch or popcorn if I have the syns.
I can't wait to get home tomorrow evening and have the class, the gym and a nice long shower behind me and look forward to a relaxing evening with OH. There are 7 people in my house not including OH when he comes over so it can be hard to get alone time. Hopefully it will be nice and relaxing either way. Saturday I plan to do absolutely NOTHING other than maybe tidy my room and relax all day among the Christmas tree and decorations. It's OH's Christmas party so he'll be out on a mad one and I'll be doing quite the opposite. Man, I LOVE doing nothing these days.
Note to self : when I have kids I must inform them that the real world is not what it's cracked up to be. Work, Sleep, Wash, Eat. That's it really isn't it? No wonder food is such a joy in my life! lol:bliss:
Almost 1pm, so I can just about justify my lunch now. Seriously!!!
newbee89
Silver Member
Omg I am freezing! This has felt like the longest day ever. Cannot wait to get home and have a long hot shower before getting in to cosy bed. I will definitely sleep like a baby tonight.
Tomorrow is Friday thank god. I plan to have a productive day in work tomorrow to make up for todays lull, and then i'll be going to the gym and meeting my lovely OH and commencing our movie night. I hope we rent something Christmassy! Actually, i bought Home Alone last week
OH has asked if I will cook Carbonara so i'm really excited about that. It was so good last time. I'm stlll a bit confised by the parmeasan though... Different syns for 'grated' and powdered and bought grated and grated from a block. I'll probably buy a packet of grated parmeasan, is that 1.5 syns per tablespoon?? I am very confused, aren't they all the same??
My food diary for today...
Breakfast - 2 nimble bread toasted with 1 laughing cow light and bakes beans. A pear.
Snack - rest of the baked beans and an apple.
Lunch - a chicken flavour mug shot(free) with a little tin of sweetcorn and peppers mixed through. 35g of philadelphia extra light (2) with carrot sticks and a muller light coconut flavour (.5
Snack - a Special K double chocolate bar (5)
"Dinner" before my class - an m&s snack pack of sushi(1.5), a little m&s fruit pot and a packet of cheese and onion flavour popcorn feom m&s (4) thanks Vintagepockets for the idea
May or may not have a small bowl of vegetable soup when i get home. I'm not overly hungry but my mam made it and it will be gone by tomorrow so why not add in some more veggies to the engine. Can't hurt in this weather!
Hexa - 1 laughing cow light and skimmed milk in two coffees.
HexB - 2 nimble bread
Syns - 13.
Today was such a hungry day. I didnt 'need' the special k bar but i swear i was hungry. All in my syns so i shant dwell on it. I did really enjoy it. I just seemed to be constantly hungry all day. Looking forward to a nice hearty carbonara tomorrow. Yummy!! X
Tomorrow is Friday thank god. I plan to have a productive day in work tomorrow to make up for todays lull, and then i'll be going to the gym and meeting my lovely OH and commencing our movie night. I hope we rent something Christmassy! Actually, i bought Home Alone last week
OH has asked if I will cook Carbonara so i'm really excited about that. It was so good last time. I'm stlll a bit confised by the parmeasan though... Different syns for 'grated' and powdered and bought grated and grated from a block. I'll probably buy a packet of grated parmeasan, is that 1.5 syns per tablespoon?? I am very confused, aren't they all the same??
My food diary for today...
Breakfast - 2 nimble bread toasted with 1 laughing cow light and bakes beans. A pear.
Snack - rest of the baked beans and an apple.
Lunch - a chicken flavour mug shot(free) with a little tin of sweetcorn and peppers mixed through. 35g of philadelphia extra light (2) with carrot sticks and a muller light coconut flavour (.5
Snack - a Special K double chocolate bar (5)
"Dinner" before my class - an m&s snack pack of sushi(1.5), a little m&s fruit pot and a packet of cheese and onion flavour popcorn feom m&s (4) thanks Vintagepockets for the idea
May or may not have a small bowl of vegetable soup when i get home. I'm not overly hungry but my mam made it and it will be gone by tomorrow so why not add in some more veggies to the engine. Can't hurt in this weather!
Hexa - 1 laughing cow light and skimmed milk in two coffees.
HexB - 2 nimble bread
Syns - 13.
Today was such a hungry day. I didnt 'need' the special k bar but i swear i was hungry. All in my syns so i shant dwell on it. I did really enjoy it. I just seemed to be constantly hungry all day. Looking forward to a nice hearty carbonara tomorrow. Yummy!! X
babytreetrunk89
Gold Member
It's been freezing today... the cold definitely makes you want to eat more.. as it's counted.. why not eh? x
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vintagepockets
Gold Member
Could you not just count the parmesan as your HEXa? You get 30g as your allowance. I always buy the fresh grated stuff and count it as 1.5 per tbsp and my HEXa but I've got no idea if that's allowed or not (but I don't care lol ) x
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newbee89
Silver Member
vintagepockets said:Could you not just count the parmesan as your HEXa? You get 30g as your allowance. I always buy the fresh grated stuff and count it as 1.5 per tbsp and my HEXa but I've got no idea if that's allowed or not (but I don't care lol
So you use 30g and count anything extra as 1.5 syns per tablespoon? I'm confused! :/
It would be a lot more straightforward to use 30g as healthy extra but i had already had milk and some cheese on my sandwhich earlier that day before i decided to have carbonara. I used 60g of grated parmeasan in the whole dish for four people. Syns online says it is 5 syns for 25g. Does that sound right? So does that mean that I used about 13 syns in the whole dish so about 3 syns each? I'm confused. That means 60g would be about 8 tablespoons, does that dound about right? Seems like a lot. I don't want to over syn or under syn.
The other thing i'm confused about is why they distinguish between whether its from a block or if its bought grated etc. Is it different?
newbee89
Silver Member
I am having the most relaxing Saturday afternoon imagineable. Its exactly what I needed. Lovely breakfast and sitting in my PJs watching MTV reality shows and drinking lots of tea. This is bliss. I am going to be gettin organised and ready to leave in a little while. I'm staying over in my aunties house with my cousin so we will be relaxing and watching movies which will be fun. OH will be at his Christmas Party tonight.
Yesterdays Food -
Breakfast - a muller light coconut yoghurt (.5). A banana and a clementine.
Lunch - 2 nimble bread with ham, turkey, hexA cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, spring onion and 1 tablespoon of Branston Pickle (1) a packet of m&s cheese and onion popcorn (4) a snack soup (2.5) and some carrot sticks and philadelphia extra light (.5). I definitely didnt need the snacksoup and i wouldnt waste 2.5 syns that way again.
Dinner - carbonara made with courgette, peppers, mushrooms, smoked bacon, spagetti, eggs, fat free fromage frais, about 3 syns worth of grated parmesan (about 15g).
Snack - 2 more muller light greek style. Omg i had three of these today!!!!
Hexa- grated cheese on my sandwhich and skimmed milk in tea.
Hexb - 2 nimble brown bread.
Syns - 15. Could have saved 3 by not having the soup at lunch and less muller lights.
Yesterdays Food -
Breakfast - a muller light coconut yoghurt (.5). A banana and a clementine.
Lunch - 2 nimble bread with ham, turkey, hexA cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, spring onion and 1 tablespoon of Branston Pickle (1) a packet of m&s cheese and onion popcorn (4) a snack soup (2.5) and some carrot sticks and philadelphia extra light (.5). I definitely didnt need the snacksoup and i wouldnt waste 2.5 syns that way again.
Dinner - carbonara made with courgette, peppers, mushrooms, smoked bacon, spagetti, eggs, fat free fromage frais, about 3 syns worth of grated parmesan (about 15g).
Snack - 2 more muller light greek style. Omg i had three of these today!!!!
Hexa- grated cheese on my sandwhich and skimmed milk in tea.
Hexb - 2 nimble brown bread.
Syns - 15. Could have saved 3 by not having the soup at lunch and less muller lights.
newbee89
Silver Member
Todays Food Diary...
Breakfast - 2 slices best of both bread from
Normal loaf (hex + 2) bacon, lettuce, tomato, 1 tablespoon extra light mayonaisse (1), 1 tablespoon branston pickle (1) a small sprinkle of grated cheese from hex a.
A clementine and a muller light greek style honeyed peach yoghurt (.5)
Lunch - nothing. Breakfast was late-ish.
Lesson - not worth having normal bread as it is a waste of syns! Not that 2 syns would make a huge difference.
Dinner - girly night in with my cousin. fillet beef with blackbean, veg and noodles (6) got them to make it with no oil. 5 prawn crackers (1.5). I was delighted you get 5 for 1.5 syns so i couldn't resist.
Snack - tangle twister (4.5) manhatton popcorn (6.5) and a diet coke.
Syns for the day - 23.
Will make sure i only have about 10 tomorrow to make up for things. Im having nandos for dinner after a day of shopping in town which will be about 7 syns. Breakfast will probably be toast with eggs and fruit. Lunch will probably just be fruit salad or something like that as we will be out shopping. Might throw in a mug shot somewhere too. Staying under 10 syns won't be a problem though.
I already can't believe tomorrow is Sunday. I know it sounds stupid, but I get so down when the weekend ends and its back to work time. Patrticularly because monday my boss in back from a 5 week trip to oz and i work in a sales role so lots of pressure will be out on me. Living for 1pm on the 21st when I have 12 days off for christmas. Including weekends but whatever. Lately i am feeling very negative about my job. I want to work somewhere where i feel good, fulfilled, appreciated and i am doing a good thing. I need to start thinking more seriously about the direction i want to go in. 5 months in my job already, i can't believe it. What's another 7? A year looks a lot better on a CV. Breeeeeeath.
Breakfast - 2 slices best of both bread from
Normal loaf (hex + 2) bacon, lettuce, tomato, 1 tablespoon extra light mayonaisse (1), 1 tablespoon branston pickle (1) a small sprinkle of grated cheese from hex a.
A clementine and a muller light greek style honeyed peach yoghurt (.5)
Lunch - nothing. Breakfast was late-ish.
Lesson - not worth having normal bread as it is a waste of syns! Not that 2 syns would make a huge difference.
Dinner - girly night in with my cousin. fillet beef with blackbean, veg and noodles (6) got them to make it with no oil. 5 prawn crackers (1.5). I was delighted you get 5 for 1.5 syns so i couldn't resist.
Snack - tangle twister (4.5) manhatton popcorn (6.5) and a diet coke.
Syns for the day - 23.
Will make sure i only have about 10 tomorrow to make up for things. Im having nandos for dinner after a day of shopping in town which will be about 7 syns. Breakfast will probably be toast with eggs and fruit. Lunch will probably just be fruit salad or something like that as we will be out shopping. Might throw in a mug shot somewhere too. Staying under 10 syns won't be a problem though.
I already can't believe tomorrow is Sunday. I know it sounds stupid, but I get so down when the weekend ends and its back to work time. Patrticularly because monday my boss in back from a 5 week trip to oz and i work in a sales role so lots of pressure will be out on me. Living for 1pm on the 21st when I have 12 days off for christmas. Including weekends but whatever. Lately i am feeling very negative about my job. I want to work somewhere where i feel good, fulfilled, appreciated and i am doing a good thing. I need to start thinking more seriously about the direction i want to go in. 5 months in my job already, i can't believe it. What's another 7? A year looks a lot better on a CV. Breeeeeeath.
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newbee89
Silver Member
The minute i wrote that i fel paranoid that my boss would see this. Could he? Our posts are not limited to minimins members as i regularly google stuff and minimins comes up when i'm not signed in.
Tempes to change my profile picture.
Paranoid much?
I also have fear i will get fired because i have been on the internet ALOT in work, like definitely too much when i should have been working. Pray for me that i won't be found out as i'll be changing things for real from Monday.
Sigh.
Tempes to change my profile picture.
Paranoid much?
I also have fear i will get fired because i have been on the internet ALOT in work, like definitely too much when i should have been working. Pray for me that i won't be found out as i'll be changing things for real from Monday.
Sigh.
newbee89
Silver Member
Todays Food Diary -
Breakfast - hexb bread with one rasher with the fat trimmed off and 1/2 hexA of philadelphia light. A banana.
Lunch - nothing. Had a latw breakfast!
Dinner - Nandos with my sister after a days shopping. Had butterfly chicken (3 syns) spicy rice (3.5) corn on the cob and about 2 tablespoons of nandos dressing (1).
Snack - Starbucks Fruit Salad.
Starbucks Skinny Caramel Macchiato. I heard that its only half a syn if its hexA milk and sugar free syrup. They didn't use sugar free syrup though, and i had only half of hexa milk so i'm going to say 3 syns. Hopefully that's about right.
Hex a- phildelphia light and skimmed milk in starbucks latte
Hex b - 1 slice Burgen seeded bread (tweak)
Syns - 10. Perfect!
Plan for the evening is that I am finished for the night. I won't be having anything else except maybe a herbal tea and some water.
Breakfast - hexb bread with one rasher with the fat trimmed off and 1/2 hexA of philadelphia light. A banana.
Lunch - nothing. Had a latw breakfast!
Dinner - Nandos with my sister after a days shopping. Had butterfly chicken (3 syns) spicy rice (3.5) corn on the cob and about 2 tablespoons of nandos dressing (1).
Snack - Starbucks Fruit Salad.
Starbucks Skinny Caramel Macchiato. I heard that its only half a syn if its hexA milk and sugar free syrup. They didn't use sugar free syrup though, and i had only half of hexa milk so i'm going to say 3 syns. Hopefully that's about right.
Hex a- phildelphia light and skimmed milk in starbucks latte
Hex b - 1 slice Burgen seeded bread (tweak)
Syns - 10. Perfect!
Plan for the evening is that I am finished for the night. I won't be having anything else except maybe a herbal tea and some water.
Honeyoc
Is a crunchy mama!
I'm liking the look and sound of the Burgen seeded bread. When OH and I were in Australia two years ago I was following the weight watchers core plan which was very similar to SW and one of the foods you could have was 2 slices of seeded bread. I used to love a hefty sandwich with lots of chicken, salad, mustard on burgen soy & linseed bread... Yum yum yum!
