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 and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.
Thank you for your patience while I have taken some time out and thank you, Sooze, for your lovely understanding comment. xx
I may not have been posting but I have kept records and the photos, etc, are in the next section which is quite long, sorry.
I think my head is back on the right way again now after lots of encouraging self-talk and firmly stamping down the more negative and self-critical stuff. It's weird how our brain works, isn't it?
I've planned for the week to come, up to Thursday evening. Now I just need to stick to it.
I've found some motivational sayings to help me to stay positive while I catch up with myself again. :-)
Today's was
'The past can't be changed; the future can.'
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| (because we have had rain at last!) |
What I have eaten over the last three days:
Friday, 23rd
Breakfast was an apple and, as I made a small batch of biscuits for my techy friend who came to try to sort put my PC, I had one - just one. My grandson, Alex, took what was left home with him. I put it all into Nutracheck and each biscuit was four syns.
Alex had come over for his cookery lesson and he made SW tomato soup and a cheese and chutney toastie for each of us. Very delicious too.
One healthy extra A, one and a half Bs and two syns for the chutney plus one syn for spray evoo.
Dinner was a ready meal katsu chicken with brown rice. It's by My Protein and I got it from Iceland - well, Food Warehouse. It was very, very nice, loads of veg, sufficient chicken and a tasty sauce.
Six and a half syns (or 406 calories)
Summary:
one healthy extra A
one and a half healthy extra Bs
thirteen and a half syns (but six of them were for a dinner, not extra calories)
Saturday 24th
I watched one of my favourite vloggers, Ali Lives Well On Less and on Foody Friday she demo-ed a quiche made with a rice crust. I've never heard of that before but it looked really good as well as working with Slimming World so I gave it a go first thing Saturday morning. Here's the link to that specific vlog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of_JPmjwGBk
I used a pouch of Tilda wholegrain basmati rice for two and a half syns the lot. The filling was onion, mushroom, yellow pepper and grated carrot and I intended to add some peas for colour but put them in the microwave to defrost them and forgot they were there! The crust took one egg and the sauce took two eggs so everything else was speed/free apart from two As for the cheese on top. If it makes four portions, that's half an A and half a syn per portion.
Breakfast: After making the above, I had some egg, some cheese and some grated carrot left that I wasn't going to waste so I mixed it all together with some pepper and garlic granules and made three little omelette patty type things which I had for breakfast with some brown sauce drizzled over, leaves and tomatoes. Very nice indeed with half a can of rather saucy beans (shrinkflation, I guess).
Not as much as half an A (I used two As-worth of cheese in the quiche and had some left over) so I'm calling it two syns plus one syn for the brown sauce.
Lunch: a slice of the quiche with coleslaw and a mixed salad. You could tell that the crust was rice but it was lovely and I will do it that way again.
Half an A and half a syn for the quiche, half a syn for salad cream in the coleslaw, part of a B for mixed seeds and two syns for some evoo in the salad dressing.
Afters was the half apple that didn't go into the coleslaw and an orange.
Dinner was the penne arrabbiata the way I always make it.
Half an A for cheese, another A for cheese I nibbled on, one and a half syns for spray evoo and one and a half for olives.
Summary:
two healthy extra As
part of a healthy extra B
nine syns
Sunday 25th
For breakfast, I roasted some veg and added a little bit of smoked salmon that really needed using up. I had planned an egg but I can have that tomorrow instead.
Three syns for evoo and half a syn for a drizzle of brown sauce.
Lunch was more of the rice crust quiche with the rest of the baked beans opened yesterday.
Half a healthy extra A and one syn for the quiche plus half a syn for brown sauce.
Afters was an orange and a few grapes.
For dinner, I tried a Cookidoo recipe in Thermione that I might do with Alex at some point - mushroom stroganoff. I left out the white wine and subbed yogurt for cream. Oh, and I used avocado oil instead of butter. I decided to have a small jacket potato with it as I need to use up the potatoes I have before they go 'off' and I microwaved some mixed veg.
The oil was three syns and the Dijon mustard was half a syn. Everything else was speed or free and it was very filling.
Afters was an apple.
Summary:
half a healthy extra A
no healthy extra Bs
(ooops - but I have eaten well today)
eight and a half syns
Tomorrow's plans:
B: roasted veg topped with an egg
L: Ali's quiche with salad and coleslaw (again); fruit
D: Cook's chicken balti; fruit
A ready meal - I want to use most of them up this week.
Exercise: gardening, one of Lindsey's clips
I am so loving the olive sourdough toasted. Gorgeous with egg.
