Thursday, 24-04-25

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

Tomorrow is weigh in as usual and then, midday, I have my medication review.  This is an interim one because last August, it was discovered that my 'bad' cholesterol was 'borderline' and I set to trying to lower it through diet.  That was a success and bloods came back as 'satisfactory - whatever that means - last month so it should go OK.

So why am I nervous? 

What I have eaten today.

Nothing for breakfast - I just wasn't hungry.

I only just remembered.  I ate out with a friend, and I had the house salad, a wonderfully Mediterranean bowlful with avo, olives, salad, etc, dressing is a little jug on the side and some toasted sourdough.
No ideas of syns but it can't have been so much that it broke the calorie bank.

I wasn't that hungry at dinner time so I thawed out a bit of chicken and had it with tomatoes and pepper after which I had some strawberry chia pudding. 

Very natural flavours and really delicious, all of it.

No summary because it's not possible today.

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  fruit

L:  cheese on toast, salad; fruit

D:  Dave and Anna are round.  I've given up doing posh food for them as they can cook so much better than I can.  I'm using up some of Sunday's left over lamb in a shepherd's pie with some fancy veg, courtesy of M&S, some olives and crispy things beforehand and some fresh fruit afterwards.

Exercise:   nothing formal.