Sunday, 19-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

What I ate today:

I made an oat and chia seed pud for breakfast, flavoured with skinny syrup and with added mixed seeds.  With some fruit, it was lovely, filling, felt healthy - and use up my fibre choice and two swips-worth of milk.

Lunch was the chicken from the one Alex roasted on Friday with a few roasties from the freezer, some roasted sweet potato and some fresh tomatoes plus one and a half syns for some chutney.

I had intended to cook some veg but the early afternoon got very busy.

Dinner was a portion of the lovely roasted sweet potato, red pepper and tomato soup from Friday and I used the rest of the opened can of potatoes to make a frittata/tortilla/whatever the one with a potato base is called!  There's three more portions to freeze for other times.

Summary:

one fibre, one calcium and part of a healthy fats
three and a half swips

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  bacon and mushroom omelette with tomatoes on the side

L:  possibly some hm sushi with salad

D:  chicken, cheese and cranberry toastie with side salad

That will use my calcium and fibre choices plus six more syns

And fruit ad hoc.

Exercise:  circuits class

Saturday, 18-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

Today's meals:

I grated some tinned potato, mixed in onion and garlic granules and seasonings and spray fried as a patty.

One swip for brown sauce and part of my healthy oils choice for some avocado oil.

No the gloomy weather has landed, I'm back on a more substantial breakfast again.

I went to a sushi course over lunch time and after everyone had a go, we scoffed thewy results - it was all very good and there was not one bit of sushi left.

No idea of swips but it can't have been many, just what went into the sushi rice and a few drops of sauce.

It was really good fun.

Penne pasta bake for dinner.  Yum.

One and a half calciums and a bit of oil.  No fibre choice today unless you count the sprinklings of poppy seeds and sesame seeds on the sushi.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  oat and chia seed pudding

L:  roast chicken dinner

D:  soup and fruit.

Saturday morning , 18-10-25

After a bit of a health dip this week, I'm feeling loads better this morning and hope to be posting again this evening.

Tuesday, 14-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

Today's meals:

Some meals just don't photograph well.

Oat, chia seed and yogurt pudding with blueberries.  Not a pretty sight but healthy and tasted great with vanilla and sweetener.

Oats and chia seeds were each half a fibre choice.

I had already had an apple before Groove.

The toast was six syns as I have used my fibre already, the avocado was almost a healthy oils choice and everything else was free/speed.

I had another apple in the afternoon and six swips-worth of popcorn  

I found some savoury mince in the freezer.

The potato was free, as was the mince and the vegetables.  The cheese was one calcium choice and three syns and I sprayed one swips-worth of oil to crisp up the sliced potato - but that can be the last bit of my healthy oils choice.

Instead of having it as a topped potato, I made a pie.  Same ingredients, different arrangement.

Summary:

one each of healthy calcium, fibre and oils choices
twelve swips

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  beans on toast

L:  leek and lentil soup

D:  steak, salad and chips

Plus ad hoc fruit

Exercise:  personal training.

Monday, 13-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

Sorry, late again.  Since I've been unwell, everything has been a bit upsy-down and I am so tired in the evenings.  I will try to do better and, in the meanwhile, please can we pretend it is Monday evening.
Thanks

What I ate today:

For breakfast I had an apple before Circuits and I polished off Saturday's mushroom soup as I felt very cold inside and needed warming up.

Lunch.  Avocado and scrambled egg on toast.  The egg was free and protein, the avocado was four and a half syns or part of my healthy fats/oils choice and the toast was my fibre choice.

The tomatoes were speed, of course.

As mentioned above, I was so tired come the evening that I used a SW frozen ready meal instead.  The aromatic duck noodles was really very nice indeed - one to get again.

It's been very hard to get back on plan after holiday and double dose of virus.  As well as what I photos, I have been scoffing away at all sorts of rubbish and need, desperately need to get it all under control.

Send me good vibes.

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  oat and chia pudding using yogurt, sweetener and vanilla plus some blueberries

The time for no or minimal breakfast is over.  It's colder, darker - I need more than just fruit.

This will be my fibre choice for today.

L:  Avocado toast with egg, salad on the side

Same as Monday, pretty much.  I have half an avocado to use for my healthy fats/oils choice and I will swip the toast.

D:  My brain is empty of ideas so probably a cheese jacket potato with some veg on the side.  Easy.  The cheese can be my calcium choice and I will probably swip a bit more.

(I'm not sure I like 'swip' any more than I liked 'syns' - for different reasons)

Exercise:  Groove

Sunday, 12-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

I'm just back from a lovely day at the Knit and Stitch Show at the Alexandra Palace.  If you follow my other blog (link at the side somewhere), you will know that I love knitting, crochet and sewing and today has been a wonderful experience.   My brain is now buzzing with colour and pattern . . .

Today's food has not been on plan and I have no photos although I am in the middle of prepping some hm chips with a few fish goujons.  I'll show that photo tomorrow.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit

L:  mushroom soup; avocado on toast with scrambled egg

D:  bean pasta bake, roasted veg; fruit

Exercise:  circuits

Saturday, 11-10-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

What I ate today, not following SW but trying to eat healthy.

It may look odd but it tasted amazing - oats and chia seeds soaked in milk, maple syrup for a bit of sweetness and with blueberries and an easy peeler.
So good!

A simple creamy mushroom soup for lunch.

Mushrooms, stock, milk, parsley, creme fraiche (it should have been cream but I only had creme fraiche light), some philly light and seasonings.
Really good and I have a second portion in the fridge for tomorrow evening, maybe.

Some hm wholemeal toast to dunk.

I was going to have something super-healthy but saw these cod goujons reduced in Morrisons so there you go!  The tomatoes and the fish fitted the bill, the batter didn't really but it was super-nice.

Tomorrow's plans are iffy because I hope to be out all day.

B:  fruit
L:  whatever I can find at the knit and stitch show

D:  back home and I have a few cod goujons to use up and some mushroom soup.  We will see . . .

Exercise:  plenty of walking around.