Monday, 30-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

After circuits this morning (very tiring in the heat), I polished off the gazpacho that I had planned to have yesterday but didn't.  No photo so here's the one I took the other day.

One syn for evoo.

I will be making some more - it was so good and felt really 'healthy',

I had planned a salad with some baked salmon but remembered that I had veg that needed using up so I had them instead, steamed - green beans, corn and asparagus.

I made a little salad veg pickle to have on the salmon too.

A bit of light mayo for dipping the asparagus in was one syn but the rest was all syn free

It was light and refreshing and very, very satisfying.

Wimbledon has started so you have to, don't you.  Yogurt, not cream, though.

Syn free.

Dinner was more of the lentil and veg bolognaise sauce with added chicken, penne pasta and hard Italian cheese on top.  The salad had seeds added.

So half a healthy extra A, half a B and two syns for evoo

Summary:

half a healthy extra A

half a healthy extra B

four syns, all for evoo

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   avo toast with egg and asparagus for dipping, bit of salad; fruit

D:  bean chilli in a jacket potato, side salad, maybe coleslaw; fruit

Exercise:   groove but, if it's as hot as today, I am driving down, not walking.

Sunday, 29-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

Sorry this is late.  I was so tired last night, I couldn't put two words together coherently.  Please read it as if it was written last night.  :-)

What I have eaten today:

Lunch was at a Thermomix cooking demo.  They made devilled eggs, sous-vide apples, potato salad (including the mayo) and sticky chilli beef with vegetables.  The 'naughtiest' things on the table were the mayo and some ice-cream they served with the apples.  It wasn't appropriate to take photos, sorry, and I have no idea how to syns it but all the main ingredients were free or speed and cooked from scratch.

This was dinner - a lentil and vegetable bolognaise sauce with spaghetti.  It looks murky but it was delicious.  It was supposed to make two portions but made three so one for tomorrow and one for the freezer!

I also had plenty of fruit and some nuts.

No idea of SW values today.  I will tighten up again tomorrow.  

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   salmon salad; fruit

D:   chicken, lentil and veg penne pasta bake, maybe side salad; fruit

Exercise:   Circuits

Saturday, 28-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

Feta dip with seeded crackers and finger salad for inch.  I made the dip yesterday and there was just enough for three little quenelles (which sounds like I know what I'm talking about, doesn't it?).  Afters was some fruit.

One healthy extra A and two syns for the feta dip and one B and two syns for the crackers - I thinks that's a bit high but better to over than under estimate, don't you think?

A nice, mixed salad with cold turkey and beef, feta, mixed seeds, olives and loadsa speed stuff.

One healthy extra A, three syns for the Caesar dressing, three for the olives, one for the mixed seeds.  I think that's it.

Dessert was some cherries.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one heathy extra B

eleven syns

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   out for a cooking demo so no idea

D:  lentil and veg bolognaise, side salad; fruit

Exercise:   a walk

Friday, 27-06-25

Just to let you know there won't be a post this evening as I have family round and won't be able to wrote one.  Back tomorrow .  xx

Thursday, 26-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

I didn't take a photo of lunch with Val as it wasn't appropriate but it doesn't matter because, as hoped, there were leftovers and dinner was exactly the same.

The gazpacho went down a treat.  Val loved it, I loved it.

Super healthy although I have to count six syns for the extra virgin olive oil.  Very heart healthy but . . . this is Slimming World.

I do wonder, thought, when they say you have to syn blended fruit (I don't) but not blended vegetables.  Ours is not to reason why . . .

And then the chicken pasta bake.  I used orzo as the pasta and it was delish.

Two syns for the salad cream (for both meals, not for each meal).

Half a healthy extra A for cheese at lunchtime.

I'm also counting the seeded crackers I had as my healthy extra B and two syns.

Summary:

half a healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

ten syns

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   I think probably fruit because I will have a good old off-plan feast in the evening - with wine!

D:  I have Dave and Anna round:
Starters:  creamy feta dip, hummus, seeded crackers and buckwheat soda crispbread

Main:  Make-your own salad

Pud:  what else but fruit!

Exercise:   I doubt I will have time!

Wednesday, 25-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

What I have eaten today:

Oh dear, a very unexciting photo.  Under the lid there is an egg and two bacon medallions and it was so tasty.  I didn't really want anything else with it.

The chicken, pepper and mushroom risotto was really nice again.  I 💛 leftovers.

As well as these, I had an apple, some grapes, some strawberries, some ice cream (ooops), and a partridge in a pear tree.

Summary:

no healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

no idea about they syns but lets call it the full fifteen.

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:  chicken pasta bake, seeded crackers, salad; fruit

D:  There might very well be some leftovers from lunch.  If so, I will have that; if not, there's bits in the freezer.

Exercise:  SET online

Tuesday, 24-06-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

Happily, I did manage to do Groove today.  Leonie very kindly managed to get my start time changed so I was able to drive there, do the class, freshen up and get to the demo in plenty of time.  Excellent.

And I am still doing OK with the two meals a day.

What I have eaten today:

Lunch was out at a Thermomix 07 demo.  Leonie cooked a chicken, pepper and mushroom risotto and then we had it for lunch.  Delicious but no photo.  However, I brought two portions home with me, one for tomorrow and one for the freezer so there should be a photo tomorrow.  I can syn it because I know exactly what went into it and it was two syns for evoo.  The rest was all free/protein/speed.

I came home again and made some seed crackers.  Because they are home cooked and I know what's in them, I am going to count what I ate as a healthy extra B and three syns.

This was dinner - the rest of the tortilla with a few salad bits on the side.

One A for cheese and that's it.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

three syns

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   egg and bacon muffin with tomatoes and mushrooms.  Definitely a brunch today!

D:  It was going to be a pasta bake but not it is chicken, peppers and mushroom risotto with a salad on the side.

Exercise:   I have two classes - circuits changed from Monday and personal training in the afternoon.