Thread: Jennie's Journey, but mostly ranting...

Saturday food diary
Breakfast - weetabix x2 beb and skimmed millk hea. Pear
Lunch - SW lentil broth soup
Dinner - Spaghetti bolognaise
Syns: 7 for the bolognaise as the mince wasn't free
6 for 2 SW Rocky road bars
2 for highlights hot chocolate

Today I have been mostly eat...
Breakfast/lunch because I was up late - strawberries, grapes, raspberries, banana and Mullerlite.
Dinner - baked beans, fried mushrooms and cherry tomatos sprinkled with soy sauce and pepper, scrambled eggs and grilled rashers.

I went for a half hour walk with my hubby and our dog

Just waiting on my roasted veg soup to come out of the oven before going to bed...lunch sorted for tomorrow. I love that soup....

Mondays Food

Breakfast -strawberries, raspberries, scan bran cake HeB

Lunch - SW Roasted Med Veg soup

Dinner - SW soup again because it's lovely and SW chips with 30gs of Cheddar melted on top HeA yum! A whole melon and more scan bran cake.

Syns - drop of milk in tea...oh she was good today

Wednesdays Food Diary

Breakfast - Magic Porridge pancakes with raspberries and strawberries with a mullerlight. Heb, coffee with a drop of milk.

Lunch - SW Roasted Med Veg soup with lettuce, cucumber, tom, cheese and tuna salad.

Dinner - SW wedges, grilled lean pork chop, steamed carrots, sprouts and cabbage.

Syns: 2 Hot choc, 6 curly wurly, 1.5 skimmed milk and 5.5 high-fi bar...this brings us to 15

I decided to use all my syns tonight as I had my weigh in earlier and I haven't been using them much over the last few days.

I was down a pound tonight. Thought I'd have lost more as I've been quite good this week but maybe it'll show next week or maybe I've leveled out after the first few big losses and it's going to be slow from now on. Either way I'll be happy. I'm glad I have kept it going now for 9 weeks and hopefully I'll stay on track up to and over Christmas.
I always see tomorrow as the start of my new week - after weigh in so I'll have a think about my portions sizes and make sure I get the Superfrees on the plate first before anything else!!

Thursday's Food Diary Red Day

Breakfast - 2 weetabix with skimmed milk 1 heb & 1 hea, with strawberries, melon and raspberries.

Lunch - I had a banana...no SW soup left and ran out of time. Filled a hole!

Dinner - SW Rogan Josh which contains tinned toms, onion, garlic. I put a tin of chickpeas in as well, half a tin is worth 1 heb and the dish was split between us. My hubby got the bigger half. I added a green pepper too. I was struggling to know what to have in place of rice so I cut savoy cabbage thinly and steamed it for 2-3 minutes, just so it still had a crunch but wasn't raw - if ye get me!!

Syns: Just enjoying a 2 syn mug of Highlights hot chocolate.

So I've decided to move from Extra Easy to Red days as I'd like to see if that suits me better. The first day has gone well, even if I didn't have any lunch
I was out for more than an hour today with Ruby (my wee dog). Normally I'd be out for 45 minutes or so. I've just discovered I can get into the local football field to let the dog off the lead and run about. She is a border collie and needs more walking than I can manage (accounting for the Fibromyalgia) so 20 minutes running around after our walk will do her the world of good. She's been the only reason I've been getting out walking for the last 4 weeks so I want to treat her well.
A good day all round

Friday's Food Diary Red Day

Breakfast - A banana....I was up late!

Lunch - Tuna, tom, lettuce, cheese hea with French dressing, black pepper and oregano. Mug of coffee - milk hea

Dinner - SW bolognaise with Savoy cabbage! Ingredients - tinned toms, tom puree, less than 5% mince beef, onions, garlic, celery, mushrooms and bovril stock.
Yummy scrummy fill my tummy. Definately don't feel as bloated having the cabbage instead of the spaghetti!

Syns: Purple snack 6

More syns: Bag of Lidl crisps that I think are 5.5. heb 2 hifi bars

1/2 a pineapple.

Shattered and away to bed soon. I walked the legs off myself and the dog. Hope I sleep well tonight...

Saturday Food Diary

Breakfast - 2 weetabix heb, with skimmed milk hea and strawberries, raspberries

Lunch - Bolognaise from last night with a slice of wholemeal bread heb

Dinner - That bolognaise was so nice I made it again tonight!! I had it with steamed/mashed swede. So good on these cold evenings.

Syns - meringue nest tesco finest 2 1/2 syns (aparently!), rocky road SW bar 3 syns. Highlights hot chocolate 2 syns.

Snack - Mullerlight, strawberries, pineapple, raspberries and grapes.

Sunday's Food Diary

Breakfast - Poached egg, 2 rashers, 150g baked beans heb, mushrooms and tomatoes cooked in soy sauce and seasoned with pepper..so tasty! Mug of coffee with skimmed milk Hea.

Lunch - Had such a substantial breakfast I didn't have one. Went shopping with my sister who wanted to go for a coffee and bun. I dodged the cakes and got a big chunky chocolate chip cookie which I reckon had 13.5 syns...when I worked it out from the package. I said feck it. Totally not worth it! It was dry and slightly on the turn!!!

Dinner - I made Irish Stew for the first time ever and it was delicious. The ingredients were beef for stewing, carrots, onion, celery, swede and spuds. I had a quarter of a spud for a heb. It serves four and I had one portion. I had to use 2 tbsps of flour so I reckon with my portion I had 1 syn. I used a slow cooker. I can not recommend getting one of these enough.

Syns: 13.5 for cookie, 1 syn for flour.

Monday's Food Diary - Red Day

Breakfast - 2 weetabix heb with skimmed milk hea, strawberries, raspberries and grapes. Mug of Jo

Lunch - 6 Slender Choice syn-free sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes.

Dinner - I'll be having roasted chicken legs (skin removed). I made the rib sauce from the SW little book of sauces which will accompany the legs. Don't know what veg to have with it though...

Ended up steaming carrots, sprouts and frozen peas. Dinner was very tasty Hifi bar afterwards Heb.

Just had a bowl of strawberries, pineapple, raspberries and grapes, topped with an orange Mullerlight.

Syns: Enjoying a mug of Highlights hot choc 2 syns with a curly wurly 6 syns.

I've been doing the Red days since Thursday and I feel a lot more energetic and not as bloated as I used to be. Glad I've made the change. I might have the odd green day as I love my spuds and there's a few Vegetarian hot pots I like that have beans and pulses in. I weigh in on Wednesday and I wanted to do a full Red week so after I see what the scales say I might do a Green day on Thursday. It's nice to mix it up.

I haven't been sleeping well these days so I hope tonight I get some quality sleep. I've been walking Ruby every day bar yesterday for the last week. We're normally out for about an hour and I feel a lot fitter.

I tried on a pair of walking trousers I bought last year, which were tight on me when I bought them (thinking I'd shrink to fit in them) and the fit me perfectly. It was a great boost for me.

Tuesday's Food Diary - Red Day

Breakfast - 2 weetabix heb, skimmed milk hea, grapes, raspberries, strawberries and a mug of coffee.

Lunch - Steamed darn of salmon with lemon, pepper and paprika. Lettuce, tom, scallion and beetroot salad. Fat free french dressing and 2 tbsp of lighter than light Aldi mayo - 1 syn.

Dinner - More steamed salmon, carrots and garden peas. Apple and pear.

Snacks - Mullerlight, melon and grapes.

Syns - Mayo 1 syn. 4 sour jelly snakes 3 syns.

More Tuesday food...I felt peckish this evening and ended up frying the other 6 of my slender choice sausages and wrapped them in lettuce. They're very tasty. Had a hot chocolate 2 syns and 2 mini babybel hea and a high-fi bar heb

Pigging out has never been this controlled!!

So a total of 10 syns today.

Wednesday Food Diary - Red Day

Breakfast - slice of toast Heb with a banana, strawberries and grapes. Half a mug of coffee Hea

Brunch - Poached egg, mushrooms, tomato. Tea Hea

Lunch - Bowl of SW Roasted Med Veg soup

Dinner - Steamed cabbage, broccoli and sauted onions with Syn Free Slender Choice sausages.

Snack - Melon, grapes, strawberries with Mullerlight. High Fi bar heb.

I'm feeling a lot slimmer in myself and yet only a lb off this week. Fibromyalgia wise I feel a lot better this week so I think I'm going to stick with Red days. I think I'm going to boost my veg intake. Tomorrow I've promised myself a green day so I'll be having baked beans and fried spuds etc...I think I'm getting my period so that never helps things.

I just realised I've had no syns today hmmm lets see what's in Mammy's cupboard - I'm not in my own house tonight so I'm not sure what's to be had....

Syns: 2 slices of white bread toast 8syns, benecol spread tbsp - 4 syns.