Saturday, 1 February 2025

Saturday, 01-02-25

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, particularly using the Mediterranean way of eating.

I went to pick up my Cook's order and, when I got it home, I found they had got it a bit wrong.  I went back and it was no trouble, they added the missing item without a quibble and, as an apology, handed me a box of two lemon cheese cakes.  Very nice of them except when I checked the syns I was 'eeeeek'!
Fourteen syns.
EACH!

Not to worry, they're out of sight in the freezer and maybe I can have one to celebrate getting back into target zone when that happy day arrives.
What I ate today:

It was a busy morning so I just had this very quick and simple breakfast.  
Part of a B for mixed seeds.

When I went shopping, I bought some cooked chicken and made a simple chicken salad to go with the soup.  Very nice and pretty filling too - I was having a hungry day today and that bit of extra protein really helped.
Another part of a B for the seeds and two syns for the salad dressing.  The soup was one syn for some sundried tomato I added in before blending.

For dinner, I chose to sample one of the ready meals, jerk chicken with pineapple salsa and I added some salad on the side because I made plenty earlier.
The jerk chicken, etc, was three and a half syns - that's really not bad at all, is it?  - and it was delicious.  It's a lunch bowl size but, for me, plenty for a full meal with a good salad on the side.  It was spicy but not uncomfortably hot, there was plenty of shredded chicken, a good amount of pineapple, peas, beautifully cooked rice - for my taste if just needed a bit of salt, that's all.  I really enjoyed it.

So three and a half syns for the meal, half a syn for a commercial dressing.  Also I added more mixed seeds to the salad and, as I haven't had any bread, etc, today, I am calling all the seeds a healthy extra B rather than syns.

Summary:
no healthy extra As
one healthy extra B
seven syns
Tomorrow's plans:

B:  smoked fish with a poached egg, tomatoes and  mushrooms

L:  roast chicken dinner; fruit

D:  cheesy chicken toastie, salad; fruit

Exercise:  rest day

1 comment:

  1. I'm not sure that this will help you as you are following the SW plan, but when I went to see Tim Spector during the week he said that the current drive to eat more protein isn't good for our bodies. Any excess protein we consume will either be passed in our urine or retained by the body as fat. xx

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