Thread: Jo's desperate attempt to get it right..with pics

Right I need to do this and I need help, even if its just to get it in a record for all to see...

I work shifts so meals are not always in a 'normal or conventional' order.

All days are EE unless I stated.

Breakfast
4 x sesame ryvita's with scrapping of flora extra light and marmite. Bunch grapes
Hexb and 1 syn

Snack
Apple & satsuma

Lunch
Wholemeal pasta with tomato/garlic/onion/mushroom & chilli sauce
Satsuma

Snack
Half children's tuna pasta mayo (leftover - 1/2 syn for extra light mayo)

Dinner
Birds eye baked to perfection salmon
Broccoli , cauliflower, carrots, baby corn
Apple & pear chopped in cranberry mullerlight

Will no doubt have a casburys options hot chocolate later. 2 syns

Milk in teas - Hex a

Total syns for day - 3.5

Sneaky late night Greek miller extra 0.5 syn!!!!

So husband comes home and eats a packet of Walkers lights crisps and a bag of Cadburys buttons, both of which I have a dip into, so to keep this diary completely honest I'd better add the syns, I'm estimating 2 syns for buttons and 1 for crisps adding 3 syns to yesterday's total to

7 syns.

Today's plan is dependant on how my * stomach ache is later, hoping to get some body magic in, day 3 of couch to 5 k would be good.

Wednesdays are a bit of a nightmare tea time as my ds (5) does 2 hours o gymnastics 4-6 straight after school in the next town so picking her up, changing feeding her a sandwich and having to drag my ds (3) with me if OH working, like today makes for a hectic hour or so, I'm trying a different approach today so we'll see how that works. I am on a rest day from work today!!! Yippee.

We also have a builder coming round to give us a quote on an extension we are toying with, exciting!!!

Just completed day 1, week 2 of couch to 5k, covered about 4k in 31 mins so chuffed with that.

So food for today - Wed 6th Feb

Breakfast
Kellogg's all bran crunch - hexb
Vanilla mullerlight
Banana
Raspberries

Lunch
SW chicken noodle soup
Preceded by a large raw carrot to ensure my 1/3 superfree

Snack
3/4 Slice of wholemeal bread (minus crusts)
Tbsp of Nutella (can you tell it's a leftover kids sarnie) 7 syns !!!!! That'll teach me!!!!!

Dinner
Asda chickpea Dahl
Lots of veg, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, baby corn, green beans. (There was a lot!!!)

So perhaps a options hot choc later 2 syns

Trying to increase water

Hex a - milk in teas & hot choc

Total syns for the day 9 syns - ok

Thurs 7th feb


Breakfast
Kellogg's all bran crunch - hexb
Muller light
Banana & raspberries

Snack
Alpen light - 3 syns

Lunch
Ham salad with tbsp (at most) pizza express dressing - 3.5 syns
Melon, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, with muller light

Dinner
Pork chop
Bachelors savoury rice
Broccoli , cauliflower , carrot, baby corn

Will undoubtedly have an options hot choc later - 2 syns

Total syns. 8.5

Sorry no pictures tonight, phone had died and as we'd just got in from an hours swimming with the kids we were all starved!!

Fri 8th Feb

Breakfast
Kellogg's all bean crunch -hex b
Mullerlight
Banana and raspberries

Milk in tea & coffee - hex a

Light lunch/ more of a snack really
About 6 fish sticks and raw carrot

Snack
Lemon drizzle alone light - yum! - 3 syns

Dinner
Spaghetti bolognaise with side of veg
Mullerlight with chopped fruit apple/pear

As I'm working nights tonight I will be taking snacks etc to graze on, the first night is always the hardest food wise as I am generally awake for 24 hours.

Planned grazing to take (poss wont eat all of it)
Carrot sticks and sain BGTY houmous 2 syns
Apple x 2
Alpen light 3 syns
Mugshot
Options hot choc 2 syns - for the 4am chocolate fix!!!!

Total syns for the day 10 - not bad.

Sat 10th Feb

Breakfast
Didn't really have one as on nights, got up at 4pm and was gonna have dinner about 6.30 so ended up having cup of tea and ginger snap biscuit - 2.5 syns

Hexa - milk in tea & coffee
Hexb - 2 x alpen lights

Dinner
Prawn sir fry, loads of veg, noodles and tbsp sweet chilli sauce - 1.5 syns
Greek style muller - .5 syn

Lunch (grazing at work)
Low fat natural cottage cheese
Carrot sticks (3 carrots)
Mug shot
Options hot choc - 2 syns
Mullerlight
2 x apples

Total syns - 6.5


No pictures again, sorry I am slacking!!

Sunday 10th Feb

Kellogg's all bran crunch (hex b)
Banana
Mullerlight

Milk in drinks (hex a)

Pasta with leftover bolognaise sauce (containing a heap of superfree)

Supper/ grazing for nights
Carrot sticks
Apple
Mugshot
Mullerlight

All syns spent on a small cinema popcorn (20+ ?)
But worth it and been under the rest of week so should be fine!?!

Monday 11th February

Milk (hex a)

Breakfast
Banana
Bacon sarnie (all fat removed and 60g of wholemeal bead) (hex b)

Lunch
Fish sticks,
Beetroot salad
Alpen light bar - 3 syns

Dinner
SW chicken Rogan Josh (from SW curries cookbook) with added spinach
Basmati Rice
1/2 sainsbury snack selection veg samosa (2 syns)
Melon & muller light
Options 2 syns
Kit Kat or similar 5/6 syns

Total syns 13

Aarrggghhh official WI day at home and scales been showing 11.1 1/4 for last 3 days and today..... 11.2 3/4!!!! It's still a 1lb down from last week but was hoping the 11.1 was here to stay this week!!!!

Right lets start again!!!!!

My kit Kat or similar from Monday actually became a bag of mini choc fingers 5.5 syns so bang on syns....

So after a "not as good as expected" WI today I have slipped a little bit.. So in black and white...

Kellogg's chocolate bran crunch (b)
Mullerlight
Banana

Milk (a)

Soup - butternut squash, garlic, sweet potato, carrot (2 mugs)

Roast lamb
Dry roast pots & sweet pots (using fry light)
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Carrots
Greens
Bistro lamb gravy - 2 syns

V small pancake - 3 syns (hubby made a batch & I divided up the flour syns )
2 x tbsp Nutella - 8 syns
Melon
1 slice leardammer cheese - 5 syns

Total syns (so far!?) - 18 syns

And an options hot choc - total 20 syns

Over but the way I felt today it's a miracle I didn't blow it!!

Breakfast
Kellogg's all bran crunch - hex b
Mullerlight
Banana

Lunch
Fish sticks and cottage cheese with pineapple
Butternut squash, sweet pot & carrot soup

Snacks
1 McDonald's chicken nugget - 2 syns
5-10 fries - 2 syns

Dinner
Keema curry & rice
(Curry has tinned toms, mushrooms, carrots, sugar snap peas, onions (easily 1/3 superfree)

Apple & pear chopped in mullerlight

5 glasses water (yeah!!)

Milk hex a

Photos of last nights roast & tonight's curry.