Friday, 04-04-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I have managed to reduce my 'bad' cholesterol by eating according to Mediterranean principles and now I want to maintain this.

Today's big news (big for me) is that at weigh in this morning I had lost two pounds and I'm back in my happy zone again.  Just in but that's OK.

I want to lose more though - being at the top of your range means that a slightly salty meal the day before can push you up and out of it again so it's not much of a buffer.

So - I will be taking advantage of the extra healthy extra when I want to but I won't be upping my syns just yet.  My next  aim is to get right back to actual target by May, another three pounds off.  It is good to have a target, something to aim for.

I'm very happy!

What I have eaten today.

The breakfast fruit was grapes, blueberries and strawberries plus yogurt and some seeds.

One syn for the seeds

I used the second wholemeal pizza base to make a calzone.  It was still quite stodgy and I overfilled the calzone (lesson learned) but it was edible and tasty so no complaints.

I'm calling it two healthy extra Bs for the dough, one and a half As for cheese, four syns for pepperoni, one syn for the coleslaw and one syn for a small drizzle of salad dressing.

Afters was some strawberries and some grapes and I had some more grapes later on.  You may have noticed that grapes are a Friday treat.

Now, I know I have been quite rude about Slimming World ready meals in the past and, to be fair, I don't find some of them all that nice.  Too much spinach, for a start.

However, this evening I had two meals -  chicken in black bean sauce and sweet and sour chicken (I love chicken) -and they were both really tasty.

Have I had tastier from the take away Chinese?  Yes, of course I have, but this was all syn free and, at two meals for £8, loads and loads cheaper.  And loads of chicken.  And the wrapper gives the recipe for another time.  

Of course, I didn't have all of both portions - half of each is now in a container, cooling quickly, and due for the freezer for another fake-away another time.

With it I reheated some wholegrain rice from the freezer and a bit of bulgur wheat from yesterday and, truly, it was really very nice indeed.

No room for any dessert.

Half a syn for the rice.

Summary

one and a half healthy extra As

two healthy extra Bs

seven and a half syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  discard waffles, fruit, yogurt

L:  corned beef hash, salad; fruit

D:  chicken escalope, chips, fruit; salad

Exercise:   SET online