Melissa's food diary

Hi all,

Starting slimming world again today after doing every single diet under the sun for the past few years....i find that slimming world is the most family friendly "diet" ... im not a fan of the word diet, more looking for a lifestyle change that I can stick too!

Doing it alone for now as cant make any local groups until my little boy starts nursery in Januray so im going off what I remember and this forum!!

Please help me out if I'm going wrong anywhere, going to be trying to do EE but ive never done this plan before ive always stuck to green/red.

So here goes!

Today's food

Breakfast
2 x 400g warburtons wholemeal (HE B )
2 x egg (microwaved to make egg in a cup)
1 x Orange
Handful of grapes

Dinner
4 pieces of wafer thin ham
2 laughing cow light (HE A)
Lettuce
Cherry toms
3 x seafood sticks
Pickled onions

Tea (daughter is at rainbows tonight so its a quick tea)
Jacket potato
Spaghetti
1 x laughing cow light (HE A)
Salad (lettuce cucumber cherry toms spring onions)

Snacks

Apple
Handful of blueberries

Syns
ALDI romeo chocolate (son stole half of this so 3 syns)
Brooklea fat free yoghurt toffee (3 syns) thought these were free ...need to stock up on Muller lights!

Will also have a few cup of tea later using dashes of milk

Is this okay for EE day??

Todays menu

Breakfast

Blueberries banana and vanilla muller light

Dinner

Tin of mackrel in tomato sauce
Lettuce
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber
Spring onions
2 x seafood sticks

Tea
SW chilli con carne (packed with peppers mushrooms onions chilli)
Rice

Snacks/syns
Aldi bubbles chocolate (3 syns)
Apple
2 x benefit bars (HE B )

Havent managed to use my HE A today, might grate some cheese on my chilli and will have a couple of cups of tea

Also couldn't get less than 5% meat so I had to get 12% I am going to say 3 syns for my tea to be on the safe side?

Breakfast

35g porridge (HE B ) made with 100ml semi skimmed milk (HE A) and 100ml water
Handful blueberries
Chopped banana
Drizzle of honey (0.5 Syns)

Cup of tea (50ml HE A milk)

Dinner

Small leftover chilli con carne portion (1.5 Syns)
Carrots
Peas
Green beans

Large glass of water

Tea

Birds eye inspiration lemon and black pepper fish (7 Syns) got the wrong ones!
SW chips
Mushy peas

Snacks/Syns

Seafood sticks x 2
Apple
Whittards turkish apple tea (4 Syns ouch!!) Sister in law told me I must try it lol
Aldi bubbles choc (4 Syns)
Mr freeze ice pop (0.5 Syns)
Options Belgian hot choc (2 Syns) With 100ml left over milk (HE A)

Syns total
19.5

Gutted at my Syns total today as I could of said no to the apple tea and also got the wrong fish.... Oh well I will just eat less Syns tomorrow but also as above it not been using all my Syns anyway....can you carry Syns over???

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Oh also meant to add that I got my lady time of the month which I think in SW lingo is star week? Which is annoying as its my first week of SW!

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Breakfast

35g porridge (HE B ) made with 100ml SS milk (HE A) 100ml water
Chopped banana
Sprinkle of cinnamon

Dinner

Chilli 1% fat mug shot
Salad

Tea
Chicken pieces
Pasta mixed with 1 x laughing cow light cheese (HE A)
Salad
2 tbsp Kraft light garlic and herb dressing (2 Syns)

Syns/snacks/drinks

2 x large glass water
1 x cup of tea (dash of HE A milk)
1 x tall skinny cappuccino with dusting of chocolate (HE A for milk) (1 Syn for choc on top?)
Turkish delight muller yoghurt
Apple
ALDI Bubbles choc (4 Syns)
white choc options (2 Syns)

Total Syns 9

Really hungry today but managed to kurb it....not really looking forward to my tea but just wanted something easy as I'm feeing abit meh today because of TOTM.... Went and met my mum and dad at Starbucks and was so tempted to get the pumpkin spice latte but I resisted as I know the syns were probably more than my daily allowance? Maybe as a treat next week if I get a good wi result usually get a caramel frappe but also resisted that haha. Enjoyed my skinny cappuccino though! I meet my mum pretty much every week at Starbucks so it's good to know that I can still have coffee and use my milk as HE A....very impressed! The cakes are a hard one to resist though lol...pleased with my willpower today


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Tea was yummy as was Turkish delight Muller loving SW!

Cheeky weigh in this morning and im 4lb down!! Yay will keep me going over the weekend for sure

Breakfast/brunch

2 linda McCartney sausages (4 syns)
Fried egg
Lotsss of mushrooms
2 x HE B wholemeal bread
Drizzle HP brown sauce (1 syn)

Dinner

Muller yoghurt
Pear
Apple

didnt have breakfast till 11.15am so dont think im gonna be that hungry?

Tea

SW lasagne using HE A for cheese sauce (adding 1 syn as used bisto to thicken up lol)
Salad

Syns/snacks
Options mint hot choc (2 syns)
Apple
Seafood sticks
Aldi bubble (4 syns)

Total syns 12

Today was a yummy day! Feeling full to the brim after Lasagne....soo tasty!! Time for a bath now then hot choc and watch the soaps

Well i didnt even end up having my hot chocolate last night I got straight in bed!! So 10 syns yesterday.

Todays foood

Breakfast
28g weetabix crisp minis choc chip (HE B )
100 ml milk (1/2 HE A)
Chopped banana

Dinner

Spicy tomato mugshot
Tin Mackrell in tomato sauce
Salad
Laughing cow light (2 syns)

Tea

SW lasagne left overs (1syn and HE A cheese)
Salad

Snacks/syns/drinks
Aldi romeo choc (8 syns)
Options hot choc (2 syns)
Muller light mint
Orange
Grapes
Bite of daughters choc spread on toast (weekends kill me! 1 syn??)

Total syns 14

Breakfast

28g weetabix crisp minis cho chip (HE B )
100 ml milk (HE A)
Chopped banana

Dinner

Subway chicken salad
Light mayo (1 syn)
Cheese (HE A)

Tea

Wasn't that hungry...strange!

Lidl tikka chicken breast pieces (100g) FREE and yummy
Muller light turkish delight with frozen raspberries

Snacks/syns

Pear
Aldi bubbles (3 syns)
Malted milk biscuit (2 syns)
Haribo strawberry (1 syn?)
Options mint hot choc (2 syns)

Drinks

Trying to up my water intake and general fluids....

1x large glass of water
1x bottled water
1x glass of no added sugar squash
2x cup of tea
Total syns 9


Official weigh in tomorrow!!

-4.5lb on the scales this morning....yay!!! :sly::thumbup:

Green day today

HE A: 250 ml semi skimmed milk
40g RF cheese

HE B: 2 x 28g weetabix crispy minis chocolate chip

Body magic: 30 mins dog walking (included huge hill which I pushed buggy up!)
20 mins walking to school


Breakfast

54g weetabix crispy minis chocolate chip
100ml semi skimmed milk
Chopped banana
Large glass of water
Cup of tea

Dinner

Chickpea dahl
Rice
Spinach

Glass of water

Tea

Jacket potato
Baked beans
40g RF cheese (HE A)
Salad

Syns/snacks

1 custard cream biscuit (3 syns)
Muller greek light (0.5 syns)
Cadbury snowman mousse (8.5 sickly syns ... I actually felt sick after eating this...normally I would of eaten two I bet lol)
Apple

Total syns 12

wow great weight loss

Well done on a great first week. Keep it up

Thanks Mel! X

Breakfast

28g weetabix crispy minis HE B
100ml milk HE A
Apple

Dinner

Large ham salad
Kraft light garlic and herb dressing (2 syns)

Muller light coconut with hint of lime
Tea

2 x Aldi chicken and bacon simple to cook (2 syns)
Microwave steam vegetables

Snacks/syns/drinks

Banana
5 miniature heros (2.5 syns each = 12.5)
2 x Benefit bars (HE B)
Tea x 2
Coffee
Glass of water
Flavoured still water

Total syns 16.5


Realised my day turned into a red day it was meant to be EE! Also big mistake going to sister in laws today as she had a tub of minature heros and couldn't resist....I think I had 5 but it could of been more, was so mad with myself as was doing well!!
Went on a huge walk with my friend today with our babies in the buggies....included big hills, very out of breath and sweaty! 6.3 miles/10 K.

Great day and even with the chocs only 1.5 syns over. I am pretty sure that huge walk will have completely negated the effect of those mini chocs
I like walking but find it so time consuming. Time is something I seem to have very little of these days...always rushing here, there and everywhere, in the car!



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Thanks im trying so hard to stick to it 100%! Suppose chocs could of been a big bar instead and alot more damage!

Yeah it is hard to find time sometimes....im lucky that im a stay at home mummy for now so have quite a lot of time in the day on between cleaning and doing the school runs etc but half the time I veg infront of the tellie or browsing on here lol. Feels good walking....my legs are aching this evening, always a good sign!

Wasnt going to log todays diary as felt like ive failed AGAIN....but looking back not too bad of a day....need to be 100% the rest of the weel though.

Breakfast

Over night oats
35g porridge (HE B )
Vanilla muller light
Raspberries

Dinner

Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel
Salad
(Worked out 11 syns for the bagel and really unsure if i could of used cream cheese as my HE A but I dont think it was a light cheese?)

Tea

SW Chilli con carne and rice

Snacks/syns

Apple
330ml can full fat coke (drank 1/2 so saying 3.5 syns)
A leg of a ginger bread man (guessing at 2 syns)


Total syns 16 (but still unsure of cream cheese)

Yeah today wasnt good, met my mum and dad for dinner at a cafe and planned to have soup/jacket potato but the soup was cream of mushroom soup and they had no jacket pots so I thought id just have whatever....not tooo bad really it could of been worse.

100% this week now though, going to go on a big walk again tomorrow, hopefully 2 miles at least, also limiting my syns to 5 for the next few days! Cannot fall off the wagon!

HE A 250ml semi skimmed milk
HE B 2 x benefit bars
Body magic: 30 mins exercise bike (10k)

Breakfast

Benefit bar
Raspberries
Banana and custard muller light

Dinner

ham salad with tbsp herb and garlic dressing (1 Syn)

Tea

Sainsbury's be good sausages x 2 (1 Syn)
2 x fry light eggs
Half tin of baked beans
1/3 mushrooms

Snacks/Syns

Quality street x 2 (5 Syns)
Pear
Apple


Good day today might have a options hot choc later bringing my Syns to 9 Syns

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Completely messed up yesterday was doing so well up until 4pm then something just switched and before I knew it I was literally in the cupboard every 2 mins eating.. .shouting at myself now as I should of got a muller yoghurt or fruit but instead ate half a muffin (it's huge and was probs about 10 syns costco one) jelly sweets of the kids, nutella out of the jar....seriously binged!

Today however is a whole new day, 100% back on plan for today and the rest of the weekend for WI on Monday!

Went shopping last night and got different fruits and also ingredients to make chilli as that was my fave meal last week!