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[autumnflower]

Thursday 7th April - RED/FAIL DAY

Breakfast
38g bran flakes (HEB + 1.5)
125ml ss milk (1/2 HEA)

Lunch
half tin of tuna
3 crab sticks
ex light mayo (2)
lettuce and cucumber

Tea - Pizza Hut
3 slices of large cheesy bites chicken supreme (45)
3 slices of chicken pizza with cheesy bites removed (24)

I will be removing 9 syns for my HEA and a half that I didnt use, for the mozzarella cheese.

TOTAL SYNS = 62.5

So..... today was a slightly failed day! I did eat around 1500 cal in pizza alone, however, I didn't really eat much during the day, and was stuffed until very late! So i'm sure I won't have done absolutely horrendous damage. Or so I keep telling myself

I think I may try a few Success Express days to hopefully banish any gain I may experience.

 

[autumnflower]

Friday 8th April - Success Express Day

Breakfast
Free Food: Muller light
Superfree: strawberries (ss) apple
Syns: 1/2 teaspoon sugar (0.5)

Snack
1 slice of wholmeal toast (1/2 HEB)
20g cheese (2/3 HEA)

Lunch
Free Food: new potatoes, 3 slices of ham
Superfree: lettuce, cucumber, celery, beetroot and pickled onions
Syns: small bit of extra light butter (0.5)

Snacks
Alpen Light (HEB1)
grape snack pack

Tea
Free Food: Chicken breast, new potatoes
Superfree: peppers, courgette, onion, cherry tomatoes.
Syns: Maggi mixed herbs for chicken (2.5)

Snacks
2 sesame ryvitas
flora ex light (1)
carrot sticks

I'm going to a birthday party with a few friends, and apparently there is gonna be lots of food! AAARGH! nooo [strike]I just hope they've got some veg sticks! [/strike]

OK, so it turned out to be a half day success express! I'm quite annoyed that i'm being complacent and sabotaging my weight loss efforts. I know I can definately get down to 9st 5lb coz i did it before! So why am I doing this to myself argghhh!

I had half a ham sarnie, cocktail sausages, crab sticks, a cupcake, small sausage roll, crisp medley and satay sticks. To drink I had 4 vodka and diet cokes and 1 vodka with normal coke as a friend bought it for me.

Fail day no. 2 DONE

WI is tomorrow, so I will see the stupid amount of damage my weekend and bad choices will combine to be! But hopefully this will be a new week and a new start!

 

[autumnflower]

Got away with a STS this week.

I will try harder for next week.

 

[autumnflower]

Saturday 9th April - Extra Easy

Lunch
2 tesco light choices cumberland sausages (2)
2 bacon medallions
1/2 tin of beans
1/2 tin of chopped toms
fried egg

Snacks
slice of WW bread (1/2 HEB)
apple
250ml glass of rose wine (6)

Tea
Pasta Bake;
28g red cheese (HEA), pasta, 1/2 tin tomatoes, 1/3 sainsburys light pasta sauce (3.5) peppers
lettuce and cucumber

I did do lots, and took a portion off and stored it in some tupperware, then decided I was still hungry after tea and ate the rest too!

Evening
2 sesame ryvitas (1/2 HEB)
ex light butter (1)
carrot sticks
slice of melon

TOTAL SYNS = 12.5

 

[autumnflower]

Sunday 10th April - Extra Easy

Breakfast
1/2 a melon
5 strawberries
toffee mullerlight
toffee alpen light (1/2 HEB)

I wanted to start the day with a success express style meal!

Lunch
Wetherspoons chilli con carne with chips (7)
2 x morgans spiced and diet coke (5)

Evening
250ml glass of ss milk (HEA)
warmed up alpen light (0.5 HEB)
toffee mullerlight

TOTAL SYNS = 12

Today has been such a lovely day! I soaked up the sun in Wetherspoons beer garden, and found out the Chilli con carne is AMAZING there!

It did come out with tortilla chips with it though, so I gave them to my OH to eat *polishes halo* and scraped the sour cream to a side because I don't like it! I assume that were the conditions of the syn value for it anyways, but I still wonder how many syns are in a portion of chips from 'spoons? because 7 for the whole portion is amazing! and how many for just the chilli too, because I would love to have it with a Jacket Pot from there too, omnomnom

I then went to the cinema to see Source Code which was really good, and in a fully digital screen which also looked AMAZING!

However, I have discovered that I still really dont like having a glass of cold milk. I thought I could handle it seeing as I loved to drink cold milk when I had a large bar of dairy milk to eat with it. Turns out the chocolate is a necessity, not optional :sigh:

Blab over

 

[LornaGrace]

Morning. Hope you had a good weekend?!
Thats my kind of breackfast, melon and strawberrys are my fave fruits. specially when its sunny like this.
Could you not have cheese as your healthy extra a? I dont like milk on its own either, so iv started having babybell, and then have muller for breakfast insted of cerial.
x

 

[autumnflower]

Morning. Hope you had a good weekend?!
Thats my kind of breackfast, melon and strawberrys are my fave fruits. specially when its sunny like this.
Could you not have cheese as your healthy extra a? I dont like milk on its own either, so iv started having babybell, and then have muller for breakfast insted of cerial.
x

I don't particularly like cheese either :8855: Unless it's on a nice piece of buttered toast!

 

[LornaGrace]

nothing wrong with that. you would only have to syn your butter!

 

[autumnflower]

and i'd have to syn the bread as i've nearly always gobbled up my HEB allowance by breakfast. Must start trying to have no cereal/alpen light breakfasts! Or have cheese on toast in the morning!

 

[autumnflower]

Monday 11th April - Extra Easy

Breakfast
38g bran flakes (HEB*) (1.5)
125ml ss. milk (1/2 HEA)

Lunch
Basa fillet
3 new potatoes
vegetable skewer

Snacks
apple
1/4 melon
roast veg cuppa pasta

Tea
Quorn Spaghetti Bolognaise; serves 2.5
2 carrots, 4 mushrooms, 3/4 courgette
handful of peppers, onions & tinned toms
1/4 sains light tomato and herb sauce (3)
oxo cube, 1 tsp gravy (1)
14g red cheese (1/2 HEA)

Evening
1 sesame ryvita (HEB*)
ex. light butter (0.5)
carrot sticks

TOTAL SYNS = 6

The quorn bolognaise was delish! Managed to get two portions and a smaller portion for freezing for a lunch or something

I'm going out on friday, and trying to keep syns minimal. Never manage to keep it below 5 though, but i'm going to try!

 

[*Emsie*]

Just popped in to have a mooch and wanted to say love your meal pics will be having a mooch more often

 

[autumnflower]

Tuesday 12th April - Green

Breakfast
melon slices
2 x alpen lights (HEB)
apple

Lunch
small tin of beans
slice of wholemeal toast (1/2 HEB2)

Tea
Jacket potato
lettuce, cucumber, beetroot and pickled onions
42g cheese (HEA 1.5)

Snacks
alpen light (1/2 HEB)
1 x vodka & diet coke (2.5)
1 x morgan spiced & diet coke (2.5)

TOTAL SYNS = 5

Went on a night out and only had two drinks I was very impressed with myself I do say.

 

[autumnflower]

Wednesday 13th April - Red

Breakfast
2 slices of wholemeal toast (HEB1)
scrambled egg
tomato ketchup (1)

Lunch
2 slices of wholemeal bread (HEB2)
tin of tuna
lettuce and cucumber
1 tbsp ex. light mayonaise (0.5)

Snacks
2 slices of melon
3 strawberries
tsp sugar (1)

Tea
Maggi So Juicy (2)
chicken breast
carrot and swede mash
roast med vegetables

Evening
Mint choc options (2)
250ml ss milk
Just gone mad:
chocolate hob nob (4)
3 x alpen lights (9)

TOTAL SYNS = 19.5

 

[autumnflower]

Thursday 14th April - Extra Easy

Breakfast
5 strawberries
4 slices of melon
tsp sugar (1)
alpen light (1/2 HEB)

Snacks
apple
alpen light (1/2 HEB)

Lunch
Youngs North Atlantic Cod in herb butter and sundried tomatoes (1.5)
7 new potatoes
1/2 courgette and 14 cherry toms roasted

Tea
Pizza Hut chicken arribatta pasta (5.5)
mint chocolate options (2)
250ml ss milk (HEA)

TOTAL SYNS = 10

The Youngs fish thing is meant to be 2.5 syns, but I poured most of the garlic and herb butter sauce stuff off, so removed 1 syn for that. leaving 1.5 just to be on the safe side though.

Gotta try and plan my syn free food for tomorrow in preparation for my night out

 

[autumnflower]

Friday 15th April - Extra Easy
Flexi Day - 50 syn limit

Breakfast
28g bran flakes (HEB)
125ml ss milk (1/2 HEA)

Lunch
basa fish fillet
roasted cherry tomatoes and courgette
(had new pots on plate, but they were rock hard so didnt eat them)

Snacks
apple

Tea
Chicken Stir Fry;
diced chicken breast
1 nest of sharwoods medium egg noodles
Blue dragon chow mein sauce (2.5)
frozen stir fry veg
extra peppers

Evening - Night Out

4.5 vodka's & diet mixers (11)
1 double vodka and irn bru (8)
1.5 halfs of cider (8)
sailer jerrys and diet coke (2.5)

TOTAL SYNS = 32
18 under my flexi day allowance of 50

 

[autumnflower]

SATURDAY WEIGH IN

Pleased to announce a 3lb loss this week!
9lb loss in 5 weeks, which is 1.8lbs per week

Mini target for me = (-2lbs) - to reduce my BMI by one more point.

Next big milestone = one stone gone (-7lbs)

next mini target = (-10lbs) = get into the 8 stones!

Hopefully, I will hit my next mini target in two weeks from now. The stone one in 4 weeks from now, and the 8 stones one in 6 weeks from now.

And in 6 weeks I shall have finished uni and gone home, hopefully 19lbs lighter!

YAY!

 

[autumnflower]

Saturday 16th April - Extra Easy

Breakfast
none

Lunch
'spoons jacket pot with chilli - (4)

(no butter or salad dressing - have to guesstimate the syns as syns online doesn't list this without these options - I also scraped off the sour cream)

Snacks
bit of OH's strawberry milkshake (4)
apple

Tea
new potatoes
ham slices
lettuce and cucumber

Evening
2 slices of wholemeal toast (HEB)
28g red cheese (HEA)
flora extra light (2)
150g (raw) McCains Rustic Oven chips (1.5)
ketchup (2)

TOTAL SYNS = 13.5

 

[autumnflower]

Sunday 17th April - Extra Easy

Breakfast
2 x wholemeal toast (HEB)
flora extra light (2)

Lunch
Caffe Nero Roasted Pepper Penne (1.5)

Tea
piri piri chicken skewer
vegetable skewer
lettuce, cucumber, beetroot & pickled onion.
2/3rds co-op wholemeal pitta (4)

Evening
strawberries & sugar (1)
sailer jerrys and diet coke (2.5)
2 sesame seed ryvitas (3)
4 slices of wafer thin ham
28g red cheese (HEA)

TOTAL SYNS = 14

I had to leave some of my pitta as it sat in beetroot juice and water and went really soggy Went to the cinema today aswell and took strawberries felt positively angelic!

 

[autumnflower]

Monday 18th April - Green Day

Breakfast
28g weetabix bran flakes (HEB1)
125ml ss milk (0.5 HEA)

Snacks
apple
Mr. Men ice lolly (2)

Lunch
Quorn Chilli con Carne; 1.5 portions
small tin kidney beans
small tin chopped tomatoes
100g quorn mince
1/2 courgette
handful of peppers
handful of onion
OXO cube
10g cheese (0.5 HEA1)

Tea
mushy pea curry
50g easy cook rice
1/2 garlic & corriander naan bread (10)
(I left about 1/3rd of the curry though)

Evening
3 vodka & diet lemonades (7.5)

TOTAL SYNS = 19.5

Exercise: 15 mins on Just Dance

Healthy Extra's: A - cheese & milk B - bran flakes

I felt a bit sick after the curry so went to lie down. I then got persuaded to go out to a club, so had a few drinks at home (and went over syns ) but the queue was massive to get in so we left it. I now feel pretty bloated, so won't bother with having a second HEB or HEA, as i'm just using them for no reason really. Tomorrow WILL be a better day! I just bought Zumba for the Wii, so I will do that tomorrow to compensate for the extra syns!

I'm going to post the mushy pea curry recipe in the next post, and what I thought of it ect.

 

[autumnflower]

Mushy Pea Curry Recipe

Mushy Pea Curry;
4 portions - FREE ON GREEN

Ingredients;
large tin of baked beans
large tin of mushy peas
6 small mushrooms
curry powder
peppers
onions
rice (follow package instructions)

Cooking;
1. boil some water and add your rice
2. fry the mushrooms, peppers and onions in frylight.
3. add the tins of mushy peas and beans
4. flavour with curry powder to taste
5. add water or vegetable stock to thin sauce

Thoughts;
The curry sauce was pretty nice, really thick and chip shop-esque. I did blend the mixture though, as it did look like beans mixed with mushy pea's at first, but reckon with cooking they would both disintegrate. I also added in quorn chunks at the end, to make it more like chicken curry.

I thought it tasted a bit sickly though, and couldnt eat it all, but my OH just loved it and said it was 'fantastic'!

I think that I just don't get on with curry spices added to food, just doesn't taste as good as ready made jarred stuff in my opinion. Possibly the texture of it put me off, so next time may just blitz the beans and peas first in the blender, then add that to the fried veg. It also could have been too 'sweet' and I have seen other recipes using tinned tomatoes instead of beans, and thought that this might improve the recipe.