Monday evening, 18-11-24

Evening, everyone.

Today's meals:

For breakfast, I dusted plums and easy peelers with cinnamon and Sugarly and it was so delicious!

One syn for the mixed seeds

I made the soup pretty much the same way as the red pepper and lentil - soup base mix, stock, garlic, chickpeas, two broccoli stems and some basic seasonings, all boiled up and blended.  It was really delicious.

Later on, I had an orange. 

One healthy extra B for the toast and one syn for some mixed seeds I sprinkled over.

Dinner.  Pasta bake always tastes a whole lot better than it looks and this was no exception.  Pasta, obviously, onion, pepper, mushroom tomato, mixed beans, capers and olives with mozzarella and it was gorgeous!

No afters - I was full!

One and a half healthy extra As, two syns for olives, two for evoo and that, I think, was that.

Summary:

one and a half healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

six syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  fruit, yogurt and mixed seeds

L:  hm tomato, pepper and lentil soup, bread; fruit

I have a friend here for lunch but she is a SW-er so no problem!

D:hm baked beans, jacket potato, cheese, side salad; fruit

Exercise:

The Extra Bit:

This evening's Slim Win chat is on why it is so hard at the moment (to lose weight, I mean).

Here's my basic initial thoughts, written before the chat so it's just a bit of preparatory pondering really..

1.  It is darker and mood lowers as the days get shorter.  We're stay inside more and inclined to extra nibbles.
2.  We are genetically programmed to fill up with stuff, when we can, that keeps us full and warm in the darker, leaner months and which creates more internal insulation.

3.  It's cold - we 'need' comfort food.  Or we 'deserve' comfort food . . .

4.  The shops are loaded with colour, light and 'special' food - luxury stuff, fatty, carby stuff, party stuff.  It's very hard to resist.  

5.  We're heading for days of celebration and family/friends get together and the temptation to start early is strong.  

6.  There are parties, Christmas meals, festive buffets, three for the price of two party foods, special alcohol . . .

7.  There's a whole load of science that explains but, as I don't understand much of it, I'll just say science says so!

Do you have any thought on this?  x