Thread: Lydia's points diary and food log

Sounds like you're doing well Lydia - keep up the good work... you do make the Core plan sound do-able for a food junkie like me!! :-) Good recipes too.... I always have the same old thing so gonna give your recipes a go. Thanks hun! x

Here is the receipe for my dinner last night, I will say that I need an extra 1/2 pint of stock though

QUORN & MUSHROOM RISOTTO

serves 2

3 quorn fillets cooked and sliced
1/2 medium onion(s), finely chopped
1 cloves garlic, finely chopped
150g mushrooms,
10 grams of dried porcini mushrooms
120g dried rice, brown
1 vegetable stock cube
1 tablespoon parsley, small bunch, chopped
salt & pepper

Place the dried mushrooms and stock cube in a measuring jug and add 375ml ( 1pt ) boiling water.
Heat a large, heavy saucepan, spray with frylight, cook quorn for about 8 minutes, then add the onion and garlic and stir fry until softened.
Add the mushrooms and stir for a further 2 mins .
Add the rice. Drain the dried mushrooms, reserving the stock, chop into small pieces.
Add to the risotto with 75ml of the stock.
Cook the risotto on a low heat stirring frequently until the stock has been absorbed and then add another 75ml and so on until the stock is finished.

Season and stir in the parsley before serving.


it was really nice, served it with some broad beans and peas (as I don't always find rissotto that filling)!!

You could easily substitute the quorn for chicken breasts.

I can't make my weigh in this week, totally forgot (until i was reminded today) that I am going to a Virgin V party tomorrow night (will eat before I go so i am not tempted by the nibbles), so it will mean that I get almost a full two weeks on Core before I weigh in. If I could manage a 3lb loss in those two weeks I would be so happy, but anything over 1 1/2lbs will do me in reality, as my weightloss is historically very slow.

You are doing great - two weeks without a weigh in will be good (i could never manage it in a million years though)it will give you a good idea of how core is working for you - enjoy the party

Yes thats what i thought, I couldn't really give the leader my thoughts on Core after only 4 days. I have a confession though, a slip up today - I had a small cheese scone!! Warm as well!! I have pointed it at 4 points and marked it in my journal! So will try to be good for rest of day and make sure I have a 100% day tomorrow, won't think about any further than tomorrow, otherwise I am just setting myself up for failure. Going to really try and get a 3lb loss for next weigh in (a week tomorrow)

It's not really a slip up, more a slight stumble as you're allowed 21 points over the week. I'm really tempted to try Core the more I read those recipes.

How do you have the resistance not to jump on the scales. It takes everything I have not to jump on them every morning!

Have a good Virgin V party.

Sharon

Oh I weigh myself every single morning, Ive given up even trying to stop myself ha ha! My weight can flutuate by 5lbs between morning and evening, it always has, so sometimes I register a 1lb or 2 loss in the morning of my official weigh in day and by the time I get to WW Ive lost nothing!! When I stop going to classes at the end of the month my mum is going to weigh me in on a Saturday morning, I'm hoping that even if I see a 1/2lb loss every week that will be far more motivating for me, and I won't get so stressed out over going to classes (I can get myself in a right state at the moment which I don't think is helpful to me).

I know I shouldn't weigh every day and I don't condone following my lead but Ive stopped stressing over it, is just part of what I do now and I refuse to feel guilty about it ha ha !

Hi WillKat,

I think some of the WW core receipes are suitable for SW and vice versa!

Well, I well and truly mucked up yesterday, ended up having dominos pizza! So wrote yesterday off completely, might as well come on here and be honest about it otherwise I am only cheating myself, so here I am confessing.

Anyway back to day, a new day and I am determined to make it a 100% day, have put my failsafe plan into action - I haven't brought my purse to work with me, therefore I can't buy anything bad or naughty and I have to stick to my plan. I know from experience that the first half of the day is my danger zone so if I can get through to lunch time then I will be fine for the rest of the day!

Oh why is it so hard!!!

Food for today WILL be:

B - 2 weetabix, chopped banana, Onken Very Low fat nutural yoghurt.
L - 3 ryvitas, 3 tablespoons Extra Light Philly, half pack of Quorn ham, sliced cucumber, Shape Satisfaction yoghurt. Nectarine.
D - Jacket potato, 1/2 tin WW beans, 40g low fat cheese (2 1/2 points).
S - grapes and Satsuma
2 litres of water
Exercise none - inspectors still in but they are having a day off tomorrow so can go to gym before work YIPPEE!

Morning Lydia,

Great mentality to just accept the weighing and get on with it, also for having Dominos pizza! Bet it was yummy though.

I'm the same as you. If I have money on me I can be tempted to buy something just because I can, rather than need. I also found the only way to deal with it is only to take enough money for the shopping I need, or take nothing if I'm just going for a walk. That way I can't go in the shops. My danger period is late afternoon/early evening. Right before or after dinner!

Good luck for today. I'm sure you'll be fine.

Sharon

keep up the brill work ur doing fab. 3lb loss here you come!!

Hi chick ,how you doin?xx

You are doing great - dont worry one bit about the slip - just write it off. One thing I would say though - when you felt the cheese scone was a slip did you say sod it and the rest of the day followed - maybe if you allow yourself to use your points a little more you wont feel guilty having little treats - I have a new strategy - use three points every day and use my activity points for alcohol at the weekend- great motivation to get moving! you will still easily get 3 lb off by your weigh in

Annie - your right, I had the scone then thought "Sod it might as well be bad all day", which is why I say my danger zone is the first half the day, if I can get through to lunch I think more positively like "Well I have got through lunch sticking to plan why ruin the rest of the day". I know my danger zones and I know my failings for EG I eat for the sake of it, right now I have just asked myself "am I hungry" well no I am not hungry right now, so why eat, ok to be fair I only have fruit around me, but it runs a little deeper, if I am not hungry at the moment don't eat until you are - god I am making it sound so simple HAHA. But thats what I am trying to tell myself today, have your three main meals and eat some fruit ONLY if you are hungry!

I like your suggestion of having the 3 points a day, think I will give that a go, I have 2 1/2 points tonight for my cheese, but I could have a jumbo snackajack couldn't I? Feels like treat just thinking about it!

I am out tomorrow night for a Chinese little worried about it but was thinking if I have boiled rice could count that as Core (a lot of people still have white rice on core), and then just point the rest and earn some bonus points to pay for it, I have the other two meals planned for tomorrow. But will worry more about tomorrow when it arrives, lets get through day first ! Thanks for the advice