Friday, 19-09-25 (written and posted Saturday morning) - changing things for a week

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.

. . . and it was a maintain.  Woo hoo!!!!!

I was happy with that.

However . . .  
I really wasn't feeling that well yesterday.  I think it was the result of living on ready meals for a week(ish) with a bit of added fruit, bit of A, bit of B . . .

Despite the chia seeds and the fruit, by yesterday I was very bunged up, very uncomfortable
(apologies if this is TMI) and a bit sore all over.

So the planning went out of the window.  I had some fruit in the morning and did a bit of stretching, etc, and things did loosen up a bit, thankfully (although still not right), but come the evening all I wanted was some simple, honest, uncomplicated food so I just had my As and B in the form of marmite and cheese on toast, whole grain sourdough toast.  It tasted so good . . .

This is not saying anything against those SW at Iceland frozen meals.  They are good, they are tasty, but they do, I think, lack fibre - for me, anyway.  The vegetables tend to be speed veg, the sauces tend to be artificially sweetened and any carbs tend to be white and refined carbs.  

I've had enough of them for now.

I'm going to be away from Monday and it seems to be the ideal opportunity to change things round for a week.  This is what I'm thinking . . .

I'm going to move away from Slimming World structure for a short time (just the week) and focus more on just healthy and whole food.  I won't be counting calories or anything, just trying to be balanced.
Having said that, I'm eating out a couple of evenings and want to make the other evenings really simple.  I had planned to buy ready meals from the Parc Market but now I am not so sure.  I might just take some wholewheat pasta and a few cans - tomatoes, pulses, a potato, onion, salad veg, mixed seeds and chia seeds - and knock up really simple evening meals. Then fruit and yogurt in the morning and something like avo and egg on sourdough toast (I'm taking some with me) with salad for lunches.  

That, with all the swimming and walking, should sort my system out nicely.

No As, no Bs, no syns and certainly no calories, just go with my instincts and enjoy it.

What do you think?

Tomorrow's (today's) plans:

B:  oat and seed smoothie

L:  smashed beans on sourdough rye, tomatoes and peppers on the side; fruit

D:   salmon poke bowl with sesame and soy dressing

Sounds posh but basically it's a salad!!  In a bowl!

I'm using this as a base idea.  https://www.justspices.co.uk/recipes/tuna-poke-bowl.html

Exercise:  A Lindsey video and some stretching.