Wednesday, 27-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

So it is day day six.  Five have been on plan and one very off plan, sadly.  I have felt very bloated today.  One more to go.

What I ate today:

The fish pie leftovers were absolutely fine so no waste.  That's good.

With it I had a basic salad with half a Bs worth of mixed seeds and two syns in a simple dressing of evoo and balsamic vinegar.

The sweet onion ryvitas were the other half of my B and the fish pie had one A of cheese in it.

Later on I had one apple.

A sizzle steak with tomatoes and chips.  I also made a blue cheese dip/sauce with just yogurt, blue cheese, lemon juice and a bit of pepper.

Strictly speaking, the blue cheese isn't an A, there's not quite enough calcium, but I always call it an A.  I use two syns for some spray garlic infused evoo on the chips (lovely).  Finally, I deglazed the pan I cooked the steak in and then fried the tomatoes in the same pan.  Tasty!

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

four syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  tomato and vegetable soup with croutons; fruit

D:  baked salmon, vegetable loaded bulgur wheat, salad; fruit

Exercise:  personal training.  Lindsey is back!

Tuesday, 26-08-25 (written Wednesday am)

Sorry, everyone.  Out all day and I was totally shattered come the evening - so shattered that everything went a bit oopsy downsy and I was totally off plan.  I took no photos and wrote no blog.

All back this evening and straight back onto it from the time I opened my eyes this morning.  Minimise the damage!

See you later.

Monday, 25-08-24

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

Four days into this week, all on plan so far and three more to go.

I had a Non-Scale-Victory today - I can get reasonably comfortably back into my size 10 jeans again.  I'm so pleased about that.

And I did a freezer audit and changed my plans for this week to make better use of what I have in.

 there.  Nice and economical!

What I ate today:

I didn't make a toastie with cheese but I do like the crunchiness of toasted bread.   

The bread was one B, two syns for spray garlic oil, one syn for mayo and half a syn for grain mustard.

 I planned a big old sandwich and that's what I got.  It was scrummy!

  Today's fruit was an apple, two very squidgy and juicy plums, a nectarine, an orange, five golden raspberries from the garden and some stewed apple.

Fish pie for dinner.  I used smoked basa, a small cod fillet and five prawns, plus loadsa veg in a tomato sauce and added an egg yolk and grated cheese to the mash for extra ooomph.  Pretty much everything was free, just one and a half As for cheese.

However, it made loads and I managed about two thirds of it.  The rest is now in the fridge and I will finish it off tomorrow night with a salad.

Dessert was the stewed apple with golden raspberries, baked apple yogurt (half a syn) and some red berry coulis (two syns)

Summary:

one healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

six syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  I'm out so I will make up a packed lunch - I still have some beef left so that can go in a pitta with some salad and some chutney.  I may not stay on plan all day as I might fancy an ice cream or something.

D:  leftover fish pie with salad; fruit

Exercise:  lots of walking

Sunday, 24-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

Three days down this week now and, with slight, reasoned tweaks, 100% on plan.  :-)

What I ate today:

From the freezer, I used a pot of broccoli and cheese soup (two and a half syns) and some fresh chicken stock.  I added chopped onion, grated potato and carrot and some red lentils and cooked it all together.  Then I added some cooked noodles left over from yesterday and some mixed veg, also from the freezer.  It made a delicious and hearty soup, very filling and with a portion left which I will freeze because it's been thoroughly re-cooked.  

I had it with some crunchy garlic croutons, made in Nellie, and topped it with grated cheddar.

One healthy extra A, one healthy extra B and one and a half syns

Today's fruit was an apple, an orange, a nectarine, a peach and some strawberries

Dinner was a bit traditional;  some sliced roast beef that I cooked yesterday (so it sliced really well) with vegetables on a Yorkshire pudding 'platter', recipe from the very first Pinch of Nom book ever.   And I had some Dijon mustard to go with the beef.

Some of my second healthy extra A for the milk, Three syns for some oil and three syns for flour for the Yorkshire.

For dessert, I had some strawberries and yogurt with three syns worth of red berry coulis drizzled over.  Very nice for a treat.  

Summary:

between one and two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

ten and a half syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  roast beef sandwich/roll/pitta, salad; fruit

I might make it a toastie to use some cheese although I plan to add cheese to the mash for dinner.

D:  fish pie, vegetables; fruit

I have some mash I made from left-over potatoes that needed using in some way - I cooked and frozen three baked ones but the other needed chopping about a bit so mash it was.  And I have odds and ends of ransom fish in the freezer.  I'll add some mixed vegetables and use garlic and herb cheese spread for a sauce, bake it in Nellie and - Bob's your uncle - a perfectly reasonable fish pie.

Exercise:  Groove

Saturday, 23-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

Two days down this week, both on plan.  Five days to go.


What I ate today:

I love how the toast goes all crunchy after being sprayed with oil and toasted.

The toast is two healthy extra Bs worth so I am going to have one A and two Bs today plus two syns for garlic infused olive oil, half an A for crumbled feta and two syns for some herb and garlic lighter soft cheese (under the tomato).

Today's fruit was an apple and a fruit salad made with strawberries, golden raspberries, nectarine, grapes and pineapple.

The sweet and sour lentil tofu was delicious!

I tossed the cubed tofu in seasoned cornflour and fried it until it was 'golden' as they say.

I put some noodles on to boil.

I softened onion and pepper, added a bit of sweetcorn and some fresh pineapple before adding the sauce which was made with one tbsp ketchup (one and a half syns), one tbsp rice wine vinegar (free), half a tbsp dark soy sauce (free) and some garlic granules.  Finally I added the lentil tofu, put the noodles in a bowl and topped them with the rest.  The last touch was supposed to be some sesame seeds but all I had was mixed seeds so that's what I used for another one and a half syns.  It was so good and so very filling.

Afters was some of the fruit salad.  There's more left for tomorrow.

Summary:

half a healthy extra A - I may have a nibble for the other half in a while

two healthy extra Bs

I think it comes to seven syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  Lentil and veg soup, crunchy garlic bread, grated cheese on top; fruit

D:  roast(ish) beef, Yorkshire pudding wrap, assorted veg, some roasted in Nellie; fruit

(I might swap these two round)

Exercise:  Groove

Friday, 22-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

Phew.  One pound off this morning - that's a relief.

Mini aims for this coming week (which started after weigh in this morning):

to be 100% on plan except for Tuesday when I am out at lunchtime

to do some kind of Lindsey based exercise each day.

What I ate today:

The Pinch of Non roasted sweet potato salad - I used seeds instead of avocado.  It was very tasty.

The dressing made two portions and I will have the other on my steak this evening for a total on one A.

Half a B for the seeds and two syns for oil.

Fruit through the day was two apples, two plums, a banana and some grapes.

Dinner was beautiful.  The steak (quite a small, thick piece of fillet, hammered out) was melt in the mouth and, thank goodness, today Morrisons had some Maris Pipers again so the chips were half decent instead of being floppy and soggy.

The dressing I made for lunch (part of the recipe) was lovely with the steak.  It was yogurt, feta, lime juice, Dijon mustard (which is now a free food, cheers) and seasonings, all blended together.  It was nicer this evening than at lunch time - improved with time.  An A altogether for the dressing, two syns for evoo for the chips and one for salad cream.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

half a healthy extra B

five syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  fried tomato bruschetta (sort of) with a finger salad; fruit

D:  sweet and sour lentil tofu or stir fry lentil tofu (I need to decide which!)  with rice or noodles, side salad; fruit

Exercise:  I'll try the step video again but marked out on the floor.  See if I can avoid falling over my own feet this time!

Thursday, 21-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing 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.

Well, seven days on and seven days on plan 100%.  So why are my home scales registering no loss whatsoever?

How irritating is that!!

Weigh in tomorrow so we will see, won't we?

What I ate today:

A sort of open toastie really.  One B for the bread, one and a half syns for the chutney and one A for the cheese plus some lovely tomatoes on the side.  Oh, and I spent half a syn more on a bit of brown sauce.  Very tasty!

I saved my fruit until later.  it was two rather hard peaches (I'm going shopping again tomorrow), an apple and an orange.

So - on to the lentil tofu and it was really, really, really good.

I made a covering sauce with cornflour (one and a half syns), some nutritional yeast (one syn), some soy sauce, garlic granules and cayenne plus a bit of salt and some accidental cinnamon, tossed the cubes of lentil tofu in it, then tossed some little cubes of potato (not chipped yesterday) in what was left, sprayed the lot with evoo (two syns) and gave it a go in the air fryer.  So good.  The outside wasn't exactly crispy but it did have a 'crust' and inside turned fluffy and flavoursome.

I had the tofu and potato with a very simple salad and some mixed seeds (one syn).

And I was totally full up!

Summary:

one healthy extra A (I may nibble on the other A later but, if I don't, I'm not stressing)

one healthy extra B

seven and a half syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  roasted sweet potato salad; fruit

I got notification of a new Pinch of Nom recipe and it looks good so I want to try it.  I might adapt it a bit.
Here's the link:

https://pinchofnom.com/wprm_print/roasted-sweet-potato-salad-slimming-weight-watchers-friendly-copy

D:  steak, some sort of sauce, salad and chips; fruit

A Friday treat!

Exercise:  I think I will do Groove - I'm enjoying that very much.