Monday, 11-08-25

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys. I'm now around my target range and am aiming to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure.

Four days down, three to go, three on plan and one just a bit off plan.

I have lots of garden tomatoes and I had garden cucumber so I made a jug of gazpacho - I love it, it's so fresh and delicious and quite filling too.  It's basically tomato, cucumber, green pepper, onion, garlic, salt, a bit of evoo and vinegar (I used balsamic this time) and it can be jazzed up with a spicy sauce like Henderson's or buffalo or something like soy sauce.

You should add bread for real authenticity but I don't and find it quite thick enough without bread.

I had planned to have some mid afternoon instead of the usual fruit but stuff happened . . .

I haven't had it heated up yet, it is supposed to be chilled, but I think it might be nice.

What I ate today:

Lunch was a very nice Mediterranean salad with leaves, tomatoes, red onions, radishes, cucumber, orange segments, seeds, olives, feta and croutons with some balsamic vinegar as a dressing.

The croutons and the seeds together made a healthy B, the feta was part of an A (there wasn't that much left), the olives were one and a half syns.

I had the rest of the orange for afters.

In the afternoon, without going into details here (see t'other blog tomorrow, link at the side, for details) I ended up  at my daughters with a poorly car waiting for the RAC man to turn up.

I didn't binge, I didn't comfort eat, but I did have a few - truly a very few - raw almonds and cashews.  However, it didn't take me over syns and anyway I haven't had any As so no worries.

By the time I got home, I didn't want to fuss with chopping veg so I just used some frozen mixed veg to go in the curry sauce (two syns) with the meatballs and that was enough.  No rice, no bulgur wheat, etc.
I did have some fruit for afters.

Summary:

no healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

fifteen syns

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  A bit of an experiment:  chickpea, tomato and red pepper falafel with leaves and a peanut butter, orange and balsamic dressing in a pitta or wrap (depending on what the freezer throws up)

D:  lentil and veg layer bake, coleslaw, salad; fruit

Exercise:  A Lindsey video.  xx