Tracey's healthy yummy lovely journey

He he my great grandma was Irish. I'm named after her - kathryn, so I have a touch of it in my blood ;-)
 
Today's Food Diary...


Breakfast - peach halves, fat free natural yoghurt and a green tea

Lunch - savoury rice (1.5) 2 WM bread (HexB) with HexA cheese (laughing cow + low fat cheddar) a mandarin, pear and plum.

Snack - 1 slice WM bread (3) with light phily (1.5)
Noodles with sweetcorn and sweetchilli sauce (2)

Dinner - Home made Nandos Chicken (2 for nandos marinade) peach halves, rocket, sweetcorn.

Greek muller (.5)

Hexa - light phily and light cheddar
HexB - 2 WM bread

Syns - 10.5

First weigh in tomorrow having been on the challenge for a week. Excited and nervous :///
 
Today and yesterday's dinners :))
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Well done Tracey, resisting party food is hard, I couldn't on Sunday!
 
Honeyoc said:
Well done Tracey, resisting party food is hard, I couldn't on Sunday!
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Thanks Honey! I have to do it again this Sunday for my cousin's Christening and this is a close family affair where I will be way more relaxed etc so it will be even more of a challange but I will be strong! :))
 
Food sounding yummy! I still need to buy some of these Nandos products- all I have is the chip sprinkle ha ha ha! xx
 
xJoanneJJx said:
Food sounding yummy! I still need to buy some of these Nandos products- all I have is the chip sprinkle ha ha ha! xx
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That's the only one I haven't bought! I must get it in next week's shop actually. The marinade is lovely! Especially with chicken fillets or thighs just left in the oven after they've been marinated for a while. Really tasty!

Good Morning Everyone,

I'm starting to feel like this week may not go as slow as last week. I think with the bank holiday and 4 day weekend it took me so long to sort of wake up or something. I am feeling a little perkier this week so hopefully that means good things all round.

OH finished work last night really late. He didn't get home till 9.30pm and we still had to do our food shop so it was literally 11pm when we were eating dinner. I posted a picture above of what I had for dinner. We made Nandos chicken using skinless chicken thighs. I made them hours before so they just needed to be heated up. I was conscious of how late it was so I just had mine with a salad and some sweetcorn. OH had his with savoury rice. It was really tasty! Sort of like jumbo chicken wings. The Nandos marinade is great because you get a full tablespoon for half a syn. I even drizzled some over my salad for a bit of a kick! It was lovely but I prefer the milder one. This one was lovely on the chicken but on it's own it was a little bit too spicy for me. Runny nose central!

So I had my first official weigh in this morning and the result was a 3lb weightloss. I was very happy with this. I would have been delighted with anything from 2 pounds up because I have just stuck to the plan and done nothing out of the ordinary but 3lb was quite a feat considering I haven't been to the toilet in two days :-( Sorry for the TMI but I feel really bloated and uncomfortable. I have eaten lots of fruit and veg, and had my fibre in my WM bread etc. I didn't drink a tonne of water yesterday but I still drank atleast a litre between a bottle of water and cups of herbal tea. It's very strange for me. For breakfast this morning I had grapes and an apple because I believe this will help. My tummy is a bit upset too so I'm having a peppermint tea and plan to drink a lot of water today. I'm hoping that after today I will be back to normal and I may weigh myself tomorrow morning too, just to see if there is any difference, because in my opinion there just has to be. Sorry for the TMI, but these are issues that affect the scales.

I was a bit emotional last night and had a few tears. As always OH was great and cheered me up. I just felt down because since we moved in together OH has been working late every night. The earliest he gets home is 8pm. We end up eating dinner late and I am so tired come the time that he wants to just chill and watch some tv. Hence, not much 'alone' time because I am so exhausted and our schedule is sort of all over the place. My tears were frustration at the situation though, not at him. It's out of his hands because he has targets to reach and his company is a bit backwards and so he really can't change it right now. A nagging girlfriend is not going to help a situation he already feels crappy about. We had a good chat though and it felt good to get it out in to the open. I also spoke about my frustrations with the apartment. When we moved in we wanted everything to be perfect. It has been in so many ways but unfortunately a few fundamental things just have not worked out and it's making me feel like I won't want to live here anymore when our lease runs out in January 2014. Issues such as it being freezing all the time. We have storage heating which is awful anyway, but there is a terrible draft that comes in both windows in our living room and so every time we sit in that room we are shivering and under blankets. It's ridiculous because out bills will be huge as heat is always on high AND we are still freezing. Our immersion is either broken or messed up but we can't figure out how and neither of us feel anything will actually be done about it because it's quite complex to explain to we wouldn't know how to approach it with the landlord. A) we don't know if our storage heating is supposed to heat the water or not. We have been told by some people that it is and by others that it isn't. If it is it's probably broken and the way we are heating the water for a shower is so uneconomical and our bill will be insanely high. We always use 'boost' for an hour and that heats it enough for a hot shower. Apparently boost is just supposed to be used to top up the heat though, not as an independent way of heating the water. Then the actual system you use to turn on the heat is very confusing and may be wired wrong. We just don't really know how to go about it because it's really confusing to explain. We are both not looking forward to that bill! I think it's due next month. Anyway, we had a good chat and OH said he feels the same way about those things. He wouldn't want me to stay somewhere and feel unhappy. It's all a learning curb, but I am at the point where the thoughts of being here another 9 months is getting me down. Don't get me wrong, I love it and what I do love about it I really love but those other things are really getting me down. Our washing machine is also fecked and doesn't turn on unless you kick the door and you have to kick it after the wash for it to open too. Many other little things on top of this such as an AWFUL smell some days. Our apartment is spotless yet every second day or so I come home and get this awful smell. It's hard to describe but it's like foreign cooking, but not in a good way. It is a BAD sort of stale smell and it makes me feel sick. I have tried everything to get rid of it. Again this is an issue that's almost impossible to resolve. Top that up with noisy neighbours and a plumming issue in the apartment above us that means there is a loud horn of a noise every time they flush their toilet. STRESS. I am now dreaming of a time where we have our own house and have the freedom to do things. Many of these issues would be resolved if we lived in a house. Aaaah, vent over. Problem is, we would have a lot more choice if I drove. And I don't! Maybe it's time to bite the bullet. I may start taking lessons towards the end of the year!

Food wise today I have planned to make the chicken tikka masala recipe from Vintagepockets' recipe book. I went and got all the ingredients yesterday so I'll be looking forward to that, provided my body is back to normal by then.

I'm visiting my grandad today as it's his birthday at some point this week. I usually see him maybe once a year if even but he lives only a 10 minute walk from where I work. I want to make the effort because he is 81 and he is quite sick. He has been housebound for over 3 years. He was always a heavy drinker and even now he constantly has a cigarette in his hand. Basically I suffer very badly with anxiety. It's not something I talk about a lot but it's kind of gotten very bad lately and this would be a prime example of something I would feel anxious about. I am going at 1pm so I will good after it. That's how it works for me it seems! He is so unbelievable like my Dad and since my parents divorced 10 years ago I don't see a whole lot of him and he has yet to really get his life on track so seeing my Grandad brings up a whole heap of other issues too. I just have to feel the fear and do it anyway. He is lonely and sad so it is a good things and I need to be selfless. It won't be a long visit anyway because I only get a 45 minute lunch and the walk will be 20 minutes. I just bought him some biscuits, chocolate bars and a nice birthday card.

Sorry guys, I know my 'food diary' is a bit more Oprah that normal today. Just one of those times for me I suppose.

X
 
Wow! Well I just quickly read all that and am at work so just a quick reply for now.

WELL DONE ON THE LOSS :)
 
Well done on your WI from me too! I'm so sorry to hear about your apartment troubles, I can imagine how frustrating it must be, it's terrible not feeling comfortable in your own home. Are you renting directly from your landlord or through an agent? It's the landlord's responsibility to maintain the property they rent out. If he uses an agent to manage the property they're the ones to contact for any maintenance issue. Unfortunately some landlords shirk their responsibilities to their tenants which is why renting directly from them can be a bit of a risk. As for the stale cooking smell it might be worth checking the kitchen vents and giving them a clean and then wipe down with diluted vinegar. It might be lingering cooking smells from the previous tenant. Really hope things straighten out for you!
 
Great weight loss, well done! Sorry to hear about the issues with the apartment though :( I'd definitely say go to your landlord and get everything inspected / fixed...you're paying good money, and you're paying for things to work properly..they must be obligated to fix any issues. Good luck xx
 
Honeyoc said:
Well done on your WI from me too! I'm so sorry to hear about your apartment troubles, I can imagine how frustrating it must be, it's terrible not feeling comfortable in your own home. Are you renting directly from your landlord or through an agent? It's the landlord's responsibility to maintain the property they rent out. If he uses an agent to manage the property they're the ones to contact for any maintenance issue. Unfortunately some landlords shirk their responsibilities to their tenants which is why renting directly from them can be a bit of a risk. As for the stale cooking smell it might be worth checking the kitchen vents and giving them a clean and then wipe down with diluted vinegar. It might be lingering cooking smells from the previous tenant. Really hope things straighten out for you!
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Thanks Honey! I know the letting agent is responsible as he told us that when we moved in but he is brutal. He's a sales man and once we moved in that was it! It's been a real pain. We emailed him last Sunday and sort of let it rip and he responsed telling us that after 6-7 weeks they 'hand us back to the landlord'. He NEVER mentioned that to us. So now he apparently has told the landlord of all the issues and will revert but that was a week and a half ago and we have heard nothing since. I just emailed again. I look forward to having my own lovely home some day. As i said, the things I like about the apartment I love, but the other things make it very hard. It has been and is a huge learning curb, that's for sure!

Thanks Honey, I know I should be counting my blessings because I have many of them, but right now I'm just a bit stressed. Maybe my Zumba class tomorrow will help!
 
xJoanneJJx said:
Great weight loss, well done! Sorry to hear about the issues with the apartment though :( I'd definitely say go to your landlord and get everything inspected / fixed...you're paying good money, and you're paying for things to work properly..they must be obligated to fix any issues. Good luck xx
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Thanks hun! I know he's responsible for all that but it's proving to be a lot more compicated than it should be. You'll see my message to Honey above. Ah hopefully it all works out. I'm a bit down in the dumps in general so I'm trying to oull myself out of it. Happens to me every now and then. Thanks for the support xx
 
Congrats on the loss hun and sorry to hear of your problems with the flat. I also know how you feel re the OH working late and not feeling like you see each other. It does suck but you've just got the make the most of the weekends. With the food shop I find that if I have to do a shop in the week I just do it online and get it delivered. It saves the hassle of having to go out after work - I bet you were both knackered having to do it that late! I hope you manage to get everything sorted hun xx
 
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