Monday, 07-07-25

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:

Just the one meal today because lunch and dinner were the same thing, falafels, pasta, tomato sauce and cheese on top . . . 

. . . and a nice big salad with salad cream.

I also had an apple and an orange through the day.  

Summary:

two healthy extra As

no healthy extra Bs

eight syns - oil, salad cream.

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   I have another friend round and today I'm doing gazpacho (already made and chilling in the fridge overnight), cold meat and salad maybe coleslaw too; fruit

D:  lentil and veg pasta, veg; fruit

Exercise:   groove and the walk there and back, depending on the weather

Saturday, 05-07-25

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:

Before I get into the two meals, this morning I made . . . 

. . . these - using the baguette recipe from yesterday and shaping into rolls rather than longer products.

The recipe made nine at roughly one B and three syns - ish.

Seven are in the freezer, I had one for my burger and one is making a filled roll for tomorrow.  Nice!

It looks messy but it was just as delicious as yesterday's.

Working out syns is pretty much an estimate.
I think the pancakes and the cheese together make one healthy extra As and half a healthy B while the salad has one syn's worth of mixed seeds and two syns for the evoo in the dressing.

That's the best I can do really.

I had some strawberries for afters.

A home made burger in a home made roll with home made chutney.  Lovely!

One and a half syns for chutney,  one B and three syns for the roll. one A for cheese, one and a half syns for stuff in the burger.

Summary:

two healthy extra A

one and a half healthy extra Bs

nine syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   cold meat roll, finger salad; fruit

D:  meatballs in tomato sauce, pasta, grated cheese

Exercise:  a lot of walking

Friday, 04-07-25

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.

I woke early this morning so set to and made some baguettes for the first time.  Not 'proper' ones, just my usual recipe to give me some practise in shaping and using my newly acquired baguette tin.

And at SW I weighed for the first time in eight weeks.  No, I wasn't in target range but I wasn't far off and I'm in the nine stone bracket, not the ten stone.  Very happy about that!

What I have eaten today:

Alex made carrot crepes with a tomato, cheese and spinach filling - except that the carrot batter didn't work properly so I knocked up a quick batch of normal batter to make crepes.

Later on, I tweaked the batter and it pancaked perfectly - too much milk or not enough eggs and flour.  I have made a note to that effect on the recipe.

This was Alex's portion . . .

And this was mine.  No idea of syns and I have one of Alex's to reheat tomorrow as they were very, very filling.

No idea of syns and I'm not fretting, especially as this evening is an off plan meal anyway.

When I make it again, then I will work out the syns properly.

How I enjoyed this!  The baguettes turned out lovely, the chutney was home made as was the butter (leftover cream after Christmas, popped in the freezer).

So naughty in SW terms and I couldn't eat like this every day, but oh, it was good.

Back on track tomorrow.

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   The leftover tomato, cheese and spinach filled pancake with salad; fruit

D:   h.m. cheese burger, salad, coleslaw and chips; fruit

Another I have been fancying for a while. My recipe makes one me-sized burger and some meatballs.  I read somewhere that you can add sourdough starter to your mix rather than breadcrumbs.  I don't add breadcrumbs anyway but I might have a go, just to see.

Exercise:   a walk

Thursday, 03-07-25

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:

Unusually, lunch was sweet rather than savoury.  This morning, I made a batch of sourdough blueberry pancakes, all carefully measured out so I know what I have to count - and I don't syn cooked fruit.

Half a healthy extra B and one syn for a bit of maple syrup - the rest is all free or speed ingredients.  There's protein from the egg and the yogurt.

After Groove, I sliced the loaf I made in the morning and froze all but the two ends which I am calling a B and three syns.

When it came to dinner, I realised it was silly to cook something (and probably freeze half) when I had plenty of stuff already in the freezer so I got out the last portion of the chicken and mushroom risotto from the cooking demo and four sweet potato falafels (a SW recipe) and had them with a salad.  Afters was some grapes.

So two syns for the risotto and one for some salad cream.

Summary:

no healthy extra As

one and a half healthy extra Bs

seven syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:   Not totally sure, it depends what Alex would like, but it will be on plan, for sure.

D:   I'm going off plan to have something I have fancied for a while.  hm baguette, French cheese (probably Boursin and camembert or Brie), chutney, grapes and some red wine.

Exercise:   walk to SW and back again

Wednesday, 02-07-25

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.

It's so much cooler this morning, we have had rain and my system seems to have sorted itself out, thank goodness.  I think it must have just been a reaction to the heat.

What I have eaten today:

Lunch was a jacket potato with bean and veg chilli and some coleslaw I made yesterday but didn't have.
It was delicious but the portion was way too big so I saved half of the jacket, the chilli and the coleslaw with the intention of having it in the evening, maybe with a bit more salad and some cheese on top.

One syn for oil in the chilli and one and a half for salad cream.

To what I saved from lunch I added a salad, some mixed seeds and some grated cheese.  It was tasty, felt different and good and filling.
For afters, I had some garden blueberries, some raspberries and some yogurt.

On top of the syns for lunch, I had one healthy extra A and half a B for the seeds.

Summary:

one healthy extra A

half a healthy extra B

two and a half syns

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   Blueberry pancakes with yogurt and fruit and, if that's not enough, I can have some salad later on.

D:  chicken curry with rice; fruit

Exercise:  Groove at Shimmy Studio

Tuesday, 01-07-25

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.

(Written on Wednesday am - just pretend, please)

Not a great day, sadly.  It was baking hot and my tum went on me mid-afternoon (possibly the heat, I really don't know) so I had a few bits and bobs, nothing that I photo-ed.

What I have eaten today:

Breakfast was nice - I'm not great with eggs though, am I.  Not to worry!

Two and a half syns for avocado and one healthy extra B.

That's all the photos I have.

Things seem to have settled somewhat now so fingers crossed . . .

Tomorrow's plans:

Br:   jacket potato, chilli, salad; fruit

What I should have had for dinner and, as I defrosted the chilli, I must use it or lose it.  

D:  depends on the weather - probably a simple egg and cheese salad.

Exercise:  personal training

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.