Tuesday, 16-03-21

 Good morning!
Checking the calories is helping quite a lot.   I would never be able to have the dinner I plan today if I wasn't checking the calories as well - or, rather, I would but I'd think I was way off track for the day.  In SW terms, I suppose I am, but not in calories.  We won't think about healthy balance!  :-)

Yesterday's photos:

 Breakfast - a two egg mushroom omelette and very welcome it was too after ninety minutes down the allotment.

I added a cooked chicken fillet to the day's foods and that has taken my calories up to a more sensible level.  It was really nice in this toastie for lunch.

I had an apple, orange and pear later on in the afternoon.

The curry for dinner doesn't look much but it was very nice with just enough heat to create a pleasant tingle on the taste buds.

Today's plans:

B:  bacon sandwich
. . . made with four bacon medallions and two slices of breads, spray fried crisp.
SW:  one healthy extra B and half a syn for a tbsp bbq sauce
280 calories

L:  tomato and red pepper soup, one slice bread, 30g grated cheddar; fruit
Yesterday I got two pots of peeled fresh tomatoes, garden produce from last year.  This morning I added some onion, carrot and celery, some roasted red peppers, some stock, seasonings, tomato puree and water and boiled it all up before zizzing it down and pushing it through a sieve.  It has made the most delicious tomato and red pepper soup, at least four portions and the flavour is fantastic - which it would be, made with home grown produce.
I will have a portion with 30g grated cheddar and a slice of bread with 5g half fat butter
SW:  the soup is speed and free, three syns for the bread and one for the half fat butter
472 calories (the soup itself is 80 calories per portion)

D:  pizza and salad; yogurt
I'm treating myself to a Sainsbury's stonebaked chargrilled vegetables and olive thin and crispy pizza (quite a mouthful in more than one way!) which is a calorie snip at 402 calories, about half of what other pizzas cost.  I've had it before and it's really very tasty so I'm looking forward to dinner.
SW:  This is where calories and Slimming world totally crash.  SW says it is twenty and a half syns - but I really can't see how that can be.  Both Nutracheck and the packaging say 402 calories.  Oh, well, not to worry, this is one reason why I am doing both!  Oh, and half a syn for the dessert!
485 calories plus whatever the salad amounts to.

Body Magic:  day 51 of the 100 day challenge:  a Leslie Sansone walk online and my daily core exercises to which I am adding a plank.  I can't do a plank for long so I can but get better.
I'm going to start back at ten:
ten sit ups
ten squats
ten knee press ups (if I can)
ten second plank (if I can)
I know none of that sounds much but I must start somewhere and maybe I could do two sets?

Summary:
one healthy extra A (plus there will be a bit of cheese on the pizza)
one healthy extra B
twenty five and a half syns - oh my - BUT . . .
1237 calories plus whatever the evening salad comes to.

Interesting . . .