15-01-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  At present, I am working to reduce my 'Bad' cholesterol through diet.

How can it possibly be half way through February (pretty much)?  Eeeeek!

The post Christmas gain is proving remarkably stubborn and it's beginning to feel very discouraging, to be honest.  Does anyone else find that.  I guess there have been a couple of medical-type issues that aren't helping on the short term and the exercise regime hasn't been great but I am tired of slightly too tight jeans and just wish my body would start responding and get its act together again.
Ho hum!

What I ate today:

Breakfast was the usual.  I did a freezer dive for the fruit and came out with cherries, pineapple and nectarine and peach slices, some of which I saved for lunch.

One syn for chia seeds and one for mixed seeds.  Heart healthy syns there!

A hummus salad wrap for lunch.  The hummus was the real deal, home made and certainly not syn free but full of the good stuff and I added leaves, cucumber and pepper.  I fancied pickles on the side so, as well as what's on the plate, I made some pickled red cabbage by adding apple cider vinegar, salt pepper and a bit of sweetener and it was just what my palate was craving.
I had the rest of the breakfast fruit for afters

One healthy extra B for the wrap and four syns for the hummus (and worth every last syn!)

I blew both healthy extra As on a snack of cheese but that's OK, I wasn't planning to use it for anything else.  

For the rice and beans I drew on my own memories of savoury rice and went for it.  I had the last of the turkey stock to use up which was delicious, and I had stir fry veg in the freezer which wasn't exactly 'proper' but worked fine.  Using up what I already have is what it's all about, for sure.
It came out quite spicy and rather murky because of the brown turkey stock but, when mixed with the coleslaw and with a dollop of yogurt on top, it was delicious, much to my surprise.  The apple went particularly well and I must remember that for another time.
I have a bit of both left over for tomorrow.

No room for dessert

Three syns for some evoo and one syn for salad cream in some coleslaw

Summary:

two healgthy extra As

one healthy extra B

ten syns.  Perfick!

Tomorrow's plans:

B:  fruit

L:  at a friend's for lunch

D:  it depends on what lunch is but I'll probably finish off the rice and beans, side salad; fruit

Exercise:  something online