Sunday, 05-10-25

 Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog where I talk about my 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 which is now going to include the three different healthy extras - calcium, fibre and fats/oils.  I'm winging it a bit until the info about amounts is released, making sensible guesses based on prior knowledge so please apply your own common sense and remember that, at the moment, none of the changes are official canon and won't be until the New Year.

Today's meals:

No photo of breakfast - it was three kiwis, an orange and an apple and it was very nice.

This was delicious.  Black bean and avocado on toast, slightly adapted from  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mexican-beans-avocado-toast

I skipped the coriander entirely, horrible stuff, and used spray oil because of the avocado.

85g avocado is 145 calories (says Nutracheck).  Assuming 120 calories is likely to be one healthy fat choice, that's another one and a half syns.  The toast was one fibre choice.

With it, I had a fairly ordinary salad over which I drizzled some balsamic vinegar after I took the photos.

I'm still getting garden tomatoes which is nice.

It was all very filling so I saved my fruit for later.

Later on I had some grapes and 25g popcorn for four syns

I really enjoyed my roast dinner.  I decided I  neither needed nor wanted the roast potatoes, not with runner beans (still from the garden), broccoli and the first sprouts of the season.  It was all very tasty!

One and a half syns for the chutney I had with the sliced turkey.

I realised I hadn't had my calcium choice so I nibbled on some cheese.

Summary:

one calcium choice

one fibre choice

one healthy fats choice 

seven syns

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  I'm at school for a coffee morning so may have something there.

L:  turkey, bacon and avocado roll or bagel with salad; fruit

D:  roasted vegetables and butterbeans with feta; fruit

https://juliebladon.com/warm-salad-recipe/