11-01-25 and eat-your-syns-Saturday?

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys - (blood pressure - now normal) and borderline 'bad' cholesterol.

I weighed unofficially (not with my card) to do something about the scales - calibrating them or something (Heidi did explain but it went over my head) and oh, dear.  But I have to remember that between the bad back and the various meds, I was bunged up and holding on to a lot of fluid, etc.  To my relief, things have - er - started moving again today.  Phew.

  
As of yesterday I no longer have access to the SW app for a few weeks (until I weigh again) but that's OK because I have the book and I can always ask, if needed.

I totally forgot yesterday was eat-your-syns-Friday but as there's always the proviso of 'if I want to' and, honestly, I was very satisfied with what I had, no worries.  Today, everything fitted in fine so I won't be eating all the syns this week.

What I ate today:

Loads of seeds today in an effort to get my gut back to normal as quickly as possible.  

The fruit was a mix of speed and free - pineapple, peach, nectarine and mango from the freezer (free) plus apple and orange (fresh and speed).

One syn for mixed seeds and one syn for chia seeds - but I used them as part of a B.

A bit later I wasn't hungry but I wanted to eat something.  Odd.  So I just put together a simple crunchy salad with some baby beetroot and some salad cream and it was most satisfying for very few calories and one syn.

Leftover roast lamb makes such a delicious pasta bake with a crunchy choppy salad and some home made dressing.

I had a pear for afters.

The pasta bake was one healthy extra A and three syns and the dressing was also three syns for the evoo.

To make the stuffed pepper, I used some bean and mince beef chilli from the freezer, defrosted it, added some bulgur wheat and boiled it up for a few minutes while I softened two halves of a pepper in Nellie.  I spooned the chilli into the pepper halves, topped it with grated cheese and baked it in Nellie again for a short while until it was all piping hot and the cheese had melted.  It was so lovely with a very simple salad and so filling that I could only manage one half.  The other half is now cooling to go into the freezer - the chilli was re-cooked so there's no real issues with that.

The chilli was one syn (for evoo) and one A for cheese.  I also used one more tsp mixed seeds on the salad to make my seed intake up to half a healthy B

Summary:

two healthy extra As

half a healthy extra B

eight syns - so hardly an eat your syns day

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit, seeds and yogurt

L: a sort of Christmas dinner - I am using a turkey thigh joint from the freezer and slow roasting it in the oven, sadly, as it is too big for my little slow cooker - or maybe I could use the air fryer? - and them using the leftovers in sundry meals though the week.  I probably won't fuss with pigs in blankets or stuffing but I have hm cranberry sauce to use up and some nice turkey gravy in the freezer to go with the usual roasted veg (potatoes, carrots and parsnips) with sprouts and broccoli.  It'll be a good Sunday dinner!

D:  turkey, cheese and cranberry toastie, salad; fruit

Exercise:  None

The Extra Bit: