Saturday, 16-08-25

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.

This week's countdown:

seven days (starting on Friday), two down, two 100% on plan, five to go!

I have a YouTube recommendation for you.  Nothing to do with losing weight or Slimming World.

Weary Wolf is a lorry driver (is the term 'trucker'?) who looks really 'tough' but is passionately interested in growing food, allotments, budget cooking challenges and self sufficiency in a practical and sensible way.

I'm picking up loads of ideas from his videos.

Do go and take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/@WearyWolfAdventures

What I ate today:

I changed lunch - when I looked at the beef tomato that I wanted to stuff, I decided it could do with a day on the window ledge first, so I swapped some meals round and had a portion of the lentil and veg bake instead.

I do love the basic lentil mix, a sort of dhal really.  I can see myself making it quite often, especially as it gets colder.  It's lovely stuff.

One healthy extra A.

(here's where I got the idea - it's kinda adapted.

https://www.easycheesyvegetarian.com/very-veggie-lentil-bake/)

The salad I had with the lentil bake.  Just the usual culprits with one tbsp of mixed seeds and some salad cream.

I decided to have my B in mixed seeds today so one tbsp is half a B and the salad cream is one syn.

Afters was an apple and later on I had an orange.

Dinner was my generic pasta recipe which is:

some sort of protein, cooked (ham)

some sort of vegetables (onion, pepper, mushrooms)

always tomatoes (fresh at the moment)

some sort of pasta (fusilli)

some sort of seasoning (salt, pepper, garlic granules, mixed herbs, tomato puree)

some sort of cheese (mixed cheddar and mozzarella)

(cook the protein, if necessary)

cook the pasta

soften the veg

add the seasoning

add the protein

add the tomatoes

cook briefly

add the pasta and stir in

sprinkle the cheese on top

(melt the cheese, if you want)

And Bob's your uncle.

I had it with runner beans and I also added mixed seeds for my B.  No afters - I was totally satisfied.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

one syn - I didn't set out to be so low, it just happened

Tomorrow's plans:

L:  stuffed tomato with garlic bread and salad; fruit

(not buttery garlic bread, of course, I will rub over a cut clove and spray with evoo or similar)

D:  roast gammon (well, boiled really) dinner with apple and onion sauce, roasted sweet potato, runner beans, broccoli, carrots . . . and whatever other veg I fancy; fruit

Exercise:  a Lindsey video