Friday, 05-09-25

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.

Well, that was a disappointment!  After a pretty much perfect week . . . I maintained!  Unexpected too.

I was sorely tempted to say 'blow it' and have a blow out but I managed to shut that thought down.  

And then my usual cheery nature re-exerted itself and I decided to, yes, eat more than I had planned, but make it wholesome, relatively healthy stuff - which I did!

So we plod on in hopes that it will all catch up next week and I am very proud that I controlled the food and didn't let it control me.  That was the game changer.

How do you feel when something like that happens?  Something unexpected and unwanted?

So that is one day down in the new week, one day sort of on plan and six to go!

What I ate today:

Lunch was with Alex and I didn't take a photo.  It was a cheese and chutney toastie, one A, one B and one syn.

I made the fish cakes from the new SW magazine.  They were . . . OK.  I found them a bit stodgy and lacking in flavour - they'd maybe have been nicer with smoked fish or salmon.  I felt I would rather have used pretty much the same ingredients for fish and chips with an egg and I won't be making them again.

Syn free and one A for extra cheese that I added - didn't really help!

I also had grapes, blueberries, yogurt and granola (for 10 syns),frozen fruit foam to use up an egg white (the yolk went in the fish cakes) and which was free because I don't syn blended fruit, and a wodge of cheese which I didn't measure.  I wasn't huge but I'm saying it's taken me to the top of my syns.

Summary:

two healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

fifteen syns, maybe into flexi-syns.

Did I stay on plan.  Sort of, I think.  It was all controlled and, apart from the last cheese, measured out if necessary.  I'm saying 'sort of' anyway.

Tomorrow's plans:
I have leftover canned tomato and leftover bean chilli in the fridge so I am having . . .

L:  tomato, red pepper and lentil soup with crunchy sourdough fingers; fruit

D:  loaded chilli fries with cheese and pickle topping, side salad; fruit

Exercise:  gardening, weather permitting!