Thread: FUNCURLS FOOD DIARY, BLOG and CHIT CHAT!! New target set!!

Just read all of your diary!
Really Inspired, you have done really really well,
Ive got just over 2.5 stone to lose but you have inspired me loads!
So thank you very much!

Hope you get to your target v soon!

Regards

Ruth
x

Originally Posted by Trefoil

Just read all of your diary!
Really Inspired, you have done really really well,
Ive got just over 2.5 stone to lose but you have inspired me loads!
So thank you very much!

Hope you get to your target v soon!

Regards

Ruth
x

Wow thanks Ruth, what a lovely comment!! Surely you must have nodded off at some point!! There's lots to read.....Zzzzzz lol! Well it hasn't always been plain sailing for me! I've had plenty of 'moments'- days/weeks off plan, resulting in gains and STS! I've also had gains and STS when I've been ultra good- I think the trick for me has been to just keep going in the knowlege that one day it'll pay off!! And it is! I'm 12 lb away from target (maybe more after the past couple of weeks) but I'm feeling so much better in myself that I'm not worried about it taking a while to shift the last of it! You'll so lose that 2.5 stone! It's just about being committed to being in it for the long haul!!XXXX

RIGHT, BACK ON PLAN BIG TIME!!!!


Been away for a few days and have had a couple of bad weeks over all what with one thing and another!! I say 'bad', actually they were very fun, but 'bad' in SW terms!! I took a holiday week this week and have until next Monday to really pull things back for next WI (although it's still very unlikely I'll avoid gaining as I got away with a STS last week after indulgence!!) But the main thing is I have got back on track from this morning and am feeling positive and raring to go!

Week 59- Day 1 (Tues)- Green- Annual leave.

Breakfast- 9.30am- 2 slices of toast (2 HEXbs) with a tiny bit of Flora Buttery on each (2 syns) and marmite. A clementine.

Lunch- 1pm- Stopped at Morrisons on way home from Bolton and bought one of their self-service salads. Lettuce, cherry toms, beetroot, grated carrot, 2 hard boiled eggs, couscous salad, noodle salad (allowing 4 syns in case of dressing but mainly dry!)

Coffees with milk (Part HEXa- ?%)

Snack before choir- 7pm-Creamy cheese Mugshot (2 syns). 2 cold roast potatoes (2 syns). An apple.

After choir practice/pub- 11pm- Ainsley Harriot's creamy veg spelt (1/2 pack- 0.5 syns) with stirfried veg- leek, carrot, orange pepper, red pepper, cherry tomatoes with chilli and rosemary.

Total syns 10.5.

Hey Heather,

Thought I would drop by as haven't spoken for a while!

I see you have had a fun few weeks - I have just confessed my syns in my diary too!! I got my 4 stone award and then partied like crazy to celebrate! So as you can imagine I gained last week and now have to get off 2lbs to get it back again!! Oops.

I find this time of year so hard with all the festive temptations and the cold weather. I just want to snuggle up with biscuits and chocolate!! How are you finding it?

Anyway, hoping tomorrow's WI is a better result and am refocusing on getting at least a lb a week off before Xmas!

Well best of luck for the upcoming week - I see you are back on plan and raring to go - hope I can get some of that motivation this week!

Amy xxx

Hi babe, it's tough sometimes isn't it!! I'm finding it hard to stay on plan when I have social things on/when out of my usual routine/sphere of control! Whereas this time last year if I had a social event on I would be mega controlled and say no to things this year I seem to be giving in and telling myself I'll just get back on track! So it's very inconsistent and patchy!! I suppose the difference is that last year I just wanted to see progress whereas this year I've made massive progress, feeling so much better in my skin, enjoying clothes, thinking I look 'OK' and although I really really want to get to target in the near future, I haven't got the same desparation as I had at the beginning! I guess this is a good thing in itself!!

Well done you though on your 4 stone award! I'm sure you'll get that back again really soon with a bit of focus! My strategy is to try and maintain up until Christmas! I don't think it's too much to ask for, and I'll be quite happy to work seriously on shifting the rest in the NY! I need to up my exercise massively too! I've really been slacking on the walking and swimming I was previously doing!

Lovely to hear from you anyway hun! Just remember how far we've both come and give ourselves credit for that!XXXXX

Week 58-Day 2 (Wed)- Green- Annual leave.

What started out as a green day suddenly turned into an EE one!!

Breakfast- 10am- 28g porridge (most of HEXb) with 175ml skimmed milk (1/2 HEXa) with strawberries and chopped apple.

Lunch-2pm- Baked sweet potato with 28g sweet chilli Philadelphia (2 syns) and some mushy peas!

Late afternoon snack- 4pm- 1/2 a full fat cold sausage from fridge (OH's!!!) (3 syns). 2 Alpen Lights (6 syns).

Tea- 7pm- Homemade minestrone soup- Onions, garlic, carrot, leek, peas, sliced spring greens, tin of mixed beans, broken up spaghetti, veg stock, parmesan (a little HEXa). Also made some corned beef soup- 'lean' corned beef (7 syns for whole large tin), onion, garlic, leek, potato, swede, carrot, sweet potato, sliced spring greens, peas, OXO beef stock, Worcester sauce, seasoning. (Had some nibbles of corned beef whilst making- 1 syn). 2 oranges.

Total syns 12.

Originally Posted by funcurls

Whereas this time last year if I had a social event on I would be mega controlled and say no to things this year I seem to be giving in and telling myself I'll just get back on track!

This is totally me!!

This time last year I was super focused on losing weight - this year i'm like oh i'll just have one choc/cake/treat and it won't matter too much!

Well today is day 1 of 100% so i'm hoping the will power from last year will return!

Looks like you have had a good few days too so keep it up!

I am also struggling with the exercise - my main excuse being it's too cold for the gym! I must go this week!

xx

Week 58- Day 3 (Thurs)- Green- Annual leave.

Late breakfast- 11am- 2 slices nimble wholemeal (HEXb1) with baked beans, mushrooms, scrambled egg and 14g cheddar (1/2 HEXa).

4pm- 2 Alpen Light apple & sultana (HEXb2)
Shape Zero cherry yogurt.

6.30pm- Bowl of home made minestrone soup- see yest (approx 1/2 HEXa for parmesan cheese). An orange, 2 clementines and an apple.

9pm- Options mint madness (2 syns).

Total syns 2.

I used the philli sweet chilli and pureed it with some butternut squash and omg what yummy comfort food!
Hope your well and feeling better for being back on track
xx

Originally Posted by Loopeylou

I used the philli sweet chilli and pureed it with some butternut squash and omg what yummy comfort food!
Hope your well and feeling better for being back on track
xx

Yum yum Claire!! I love the combination of the sweetness of BNS or SP and the sweet chilli!! I think making a dip with the philli sweet chilli and perhaps fat free yog or the like and dipping BNS chips in it would be yummy too!!!X

Week 58- Day 4 (Fri)- EE- Day off.

Breakfast- 10am- 3 egg omlette.

Lunch- 1.30pm- Homemade soup- onion, bacon, ginger, garlic, chilli flakes, BNS, sweet potato, carrot. With a swirl of red fat creme fraiche (0.5 syns). A slice of wholemeal bread (HEXb) with a tiny bit of butter (1 syn).

Made Nigella's lemon polenta cake for a friend's birthday- 2 of my friends came over! Worked out that the whole cake was 160 syns!!!!!!! Shock horror!!!!! Had 1/8 (20 syns) plus scraped the bowl after making (?5 syns)!!! Whoops!

Tea- 6.30pm- More soup- see earlier!

In pub 8.30pm- A few chips (?3 syns!!).

Total syns 29.5!!

omg whats in the 160 syn cake???!!!! thats mental!

well done you for working it out!!! xxxx

Originally Posted by Ellebear

omg whats in the 160 syn cake???!!!! thats mental!

well done you for working it out!!! xxxx

I know!!! I was shocked!!! Bloody Nigella!!! It would have been easy to turn a blind eye to it but I thought if I worked it out at least I know where I stand and where I need to cut back over the weekend!! It was 200g ground almonds =56 syns, 100g polenta = 18 syns, 200g unsalted butter = 60 syns, 100g caster sugar = 18 syns, 3 eggs, baking powder (whoops didn't count that) lemon rind, and for the syrup you pour over the top lemon juice and icing sugar 125g = 15 syns but I only used 1/2 the mixture. Wow shocking!!!!

I found out tonight what we're having tomorrow at the Victorian night! It's leek & potato soup to start so that's not bad if I skip the bread and butter (goodness knows how much butter/cream in the soup though!!), roast pork dinner (I'll limit myself to one roastie and try and limit the stuffing and gravy and avoid crackling!!) Then spotted dick or treacle pudding!! Then cheese and biscuits!!! I don't know how I'll deal with this one! May offer to do a stint behind the bar when the puddings come out!!! And no alcohol for me!!

I've posted on your thread but have a fab time at your photoshoot tomorrow hunnyXXXXXXXXX

Right, that's it, I've decided to say a big NO THANK YOU to pudding tomorrow night!! It's my fault I had so many syns today with the lemon polenta cake and I really want to minimise the damage on the scales on Monday! I've got to make choices in life if I want to continue to lose weight! I know that if I do this I will feel so proud of myself for having self-control and I'll be perfectly full from the starter and main course anyway! May even have a free snack before I leave the house so that i'm not ravenous when I arrive!! Ahaaa, tactics!!X

Sounds like your head is in the right place, you can do it