03-01-25 and Eat-Your-Syns-Friday

Hi, everyone!  It is still the Christmas season chez moi and will continue to be so until Twelfth Night, so I make no apologies for the ongoing Festive vibe in here. 

Having said that, I am trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to get back on track.

It was buzzing at SW this morning.  We had ingoing members, returners and new members and it was so fri3endly and positive.  All in all, a lovely time.  
I don't have to weigh until the 31st which gives me four weeks to get back into the happy zone.

I've got it all written down so I don't forget.

Eat-Your-Syns-Friday has resumed with one proviso - it won't be junk, UPFs, that sort of stuff, it will be what SW calls 'savvy syns', items that enhance meals and are good for health such as olives, evoo, chestnuts, nuts, seeds and so on.

What I ate today:

Breakfast was oat pancakes (ok but not amazing) with fruit and yogurt.

Half a healthy extra B.

Later on, I had an easy peeler.

Yesterdays arrabbiata leftovers, warmed up with a side salad.

One and a half healthy extra As, one syn for some olives, one syn for mixed seeds in the salad and three syns for some salad dressing.

Later on, I had some grapes and a nibble of cheese.  Half a healthy extra A

When I was sorting out the freezer, I found what I thought must be a rump steak, just because it was so thick and seemed big to me.  I don't think it was huge as steaks go but too much for one meal so I thawed it out and cut half of it off and that's now in the fridge and I will make steak and mushroom stroganoff tomorrow evening.  Mmmm.

This was nice too.  Steak with some balsamic onion chutney, sweet potato fries that I seasoned with a little flour, salt and pepper - the flour gave them a slightly crunchy texture in places.  I dressed the salad with a tsp on toasted sesame oil which I really love.

Two syns for the chutney, two for the flour and two for the sesame oil - actually better than I thought it would be.

Then I had a couple of small apples for dessert.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B (I will add the lunchtime seeds to the oats to make one B instead of synning them)

ten syns - so I didn't quite use them all but I was very satisfied and didn't want anything else.

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  bacon and egg muffin, tomatoes and mushrooms

L:  chicken and soup mix soup; fruit

D:  steak and mushroom stroganoff, rice ot jacket potato, assorted veg; fruit

Exercise:  squats, maybe a walk if the weather plays ball.

The Extra Bit:

Inspired by the Michael Mosely book, 'Just One Thing', I'm starting a cumulative little exercise and balance Thing.

I'm starting with twenty five squats consisting of five sumo squats, five plies, five knees together squats, five forward squats and five backward squats (I have no idea what some of these are called) and I will be doing this every day for a week.

Then, next Friday, I will be adding some balance things that a friend sent me yesterday.

And so on.  

After a while, as one more is added, the first one drops off (but will probably reappear at some point).

That's the idea anyway.