Friday evening, 26-07-24 - Eat-Your-Syns-Friday

Good evening, everyone!

I'm liking this current strategy for keeping things sensible on Fridays after weigh-in.
It's working, I think, because . . .

• normally, I eat pretty low syn, as you may have noticed if you're a longer term reader, so I do have wriggle room
• I can have extras but not go completely bonkers on Eat-Your-Syns-Friday (I know I can any day but I choose not to most of the time)
• I can have a few extra things (possibly more ultra processed than normal but let's not worry about that right now) and feel a bit 'wicked' but know I am still keeping on track overall so no feelings of doom and gloom to make me feel a bit down the next day.
• It's preparing me for maintenance again.

And, talking of maintenance . . . today I lost two pounds which means I am so close to my target range again and back into single stone digits.

Maybe next week, most likely the week after.  Wouldn't that be great?

What I ate today

My usual fruit breakfast but I'm not getting bored of it because there's so many different kinds of fruit, aren't there?

Syn free.

Lunch was good, good, good,  Now that I am focusing on fruit for breakfast, I can have something breakfast-y for lunch, should I want to.

I added a level tbsp peanut butter powder to the waffle batter (so, so delicious) for one and a half syns and topped them with one tbsp maple syrup for two syns.  Mmmmmm.

The yogurt and strawberries went with the waffles perfectly.

So lunch was three and a half syns.

During the afternoon, I nibbled on a meringue nest for two and a half syns and some cheese for a healthy extra A.

Dinner was the first SWK meal from the box that arrived today; jerk chicken with zingy mango slaw.

I changed a few things.
I had chips instead of the rice - because it's Friday.  Chip day!  That was three syns for half a tbsp toasted sesame oil

When I made the slaw, I left out the leaf coriander because who wants to add a soapy flavour to a delicious slaw:  With shredded red cabbage, grated carrot, chopped mango, lime zest and lime juice, it was absolutely lovely.

I made the jerk chicken straight apart from leaving out the spinach.

So - three syns for oil and the rest was syn free.

The Eat-Your-Syns treat.

I made some yogurt ice with frozen cherries (which I did not syn) and a Mullerlight toffee yogurt, blended together and popped in the freezer for an hour or so.

One nest has the yogurt ice on it and the other has some 0% Greek yogurt and some fresh strawberries.  Then I sieved over a bit of cocoa powder.  I weighed the plate as I did so and it didn't even register, it was so little.  I'm going to remember that one, for sure.
It was a real treat.

Five syns for the nests and half a syn for the Mullerlight.

And I couldn't manage another bite, even if you paid me!

Summary for Eat-Your-Syns-Friday:

one healthy extra A

no healthy extra Bs

fourteen and a half syns - perfick!!

My meal plans for tomorrow:

B:  fruit

I have such a nice mixture of fruit to choose from.

L:   all day breakfast bake - bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms, potato and baked beans with some cheese on top, maybe salad; fruit.  ALso, I might be brave and add a few spinach leaves, the ones I didn't use today.

D:  the other portion of jerk chicken, mango slaw, salad; fruit

Exercise:  SET class online