Bex's WW Diary - 47lbs to go!

[MiniMimi2091]

Ah thank you - it's certainly having it's up's and down's!! Mini, 11lbs in four weeks is fantastic!! How did you do it???

I'm pleased i haven't gained anything since i started in August, thats an achievement - i've STS for three weeks out of the 14. I'd love to be in the 15's for xmas but i'm not sure if thats going to happen now - 5 weeks to go and 12lbs to loose!! xx

Crazybecky,I also have 9lbs to lose for Xmas and with WW average of 2lbs a week it seems to be achievable - I am sure you can get rid of 12lbs in 5 weeks!!! If you want to boost your metabolism you could stick to filling food ONLY or add some excercising (swimming or classes) Either way, you are on the road to success - keep up a good work xxx

 

[Crazybecky5]

Yeah that sounds like a great idea with the filling food lists. Is there a link on here with any of the information on?

Thanks so much Mini - it's nice to have a boost! And you're right i'm sure it is achievable! xx

 

[Angie3]

I have been reading you page and think your doing brilliant, i joined ww last November and lost nearly 3 stone and stop going in October as i felt i had lost the plot and wasnt getting anywhere. I then joined sw but cant get my head around it so decided this week to try ww again, hopefully i stick to it this week and see a lost on the scales on Wednesday.

Wish i could get some of your modivation as ur doing so well

 

[Crazybecky5]

Thank you Angie!! It seems to be getting tougher as i go along but i'm trying so hard to get there I'd love to be in a position next summer where i feel comfortable and don't have to hide myself away.

I aimed for the 3 stone for xmas (or thereabouts!) cause of a comment made to me by a relative! Not a very nice comment - so i'm going to prove everyone wrong, the next time i see her will be at Christmas!

I've done all sorts of diets, tried all of the tablets ect - nothing works but WW is sustainable and you i know i will be able to maintain it in the end! I come on here all the time as a bit of a boost (especially when there are cakes in the office like today!) lol - reminds me what i'm doing it for!!

 

[MiniMimi2091]

Yeah that sounds like a great idea with the filling food lists. Is there a link on here with any of the information on?

Hi sweetie,
as a WW member I am sure you'll have an access to e-source where you can track your pts. Check out all the food you can have guilt free. There are plenty 0 pts things you can eat and nibble on whole day long. I fill my fridge with tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, asparagus and courgettes so I can always make a quick meal without hardly any pts. Add some chicken breast, tuna, low fat mince meat, cottage cheese and eggs and you are done for a week. Filling food is everything which comes with a green square in our pts tracker on ww e-sources.
I also "nicked" some of the low carbs/high protein receipies from other forum so I am not stuck with same food over and over again.

All of these below are not more than 3.5pts on average!!! and choice is fabulous (well at least for me) My favourite is mushrooms stuffed with cottage cheese which work out 0.5pt for one big mushroom!!!
Enjoy xx

CHICKEN KEBABS
Cut up chicken breast and then put it on kebab sticks with mushrooms and courgettes and then a little cajun spice to give it a kick.
Grill 4 minutes each side and then 1 minute in the microwave just to make sure it was safe and then tuck in.

CHICKEN BURGERS
Mince your raw chicken breast (can do this in a processor also) - guess you could do this with quorn or tofu too?
Stick in a bowl and and add
1 tbs fine chopped mushrooms
Herbs or spices to taste - I've used basil and oregano, and chilli powder
Black pepper
About 1 tsp of bouillon powder dissolved in 1 dsp hot water
Mix or squish it all together with your hands
Form into 2 or 3 'burgers'
Cook on 200 or over a BBq for about 15-20 mins

ROAST CHICKEN + STUFFING DINNER
Cook your chicken breast and slice up
Make up a sachet of chicken soup to muffin consistency and cook in the nuke as you would a muffin (a little longer if you want the 'stuffing' crispier) Serve with vegetables (broccoli cauliflower roasted button mushrooms), have with celeriac chips or mash and bouillon gravy or use half the soup as stuffing and the other half as sauce.

STIR FRY
Chicken or turkey done as a stir-fry in that 1-cal spray fry, with mushrooms, courgettes and asparagus. With a little fat-free yoghurt added too and some herbs.

STUFFED CHICKEN:
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Cut a pocket in the side of chicken breast. Blanch the spinach in a little boiling water until wilted. Or place spinach in a large glass bowl, and heat in the microwave for 3 minutes, stirring every minute or so, or until wilted. Drain, squeeze out any excess water and place in a bowl with some finely chopped mushroom and cottage cheese/yoghurt/fromage frais. Stir to combine. Stuff chicken breast with the mixture. Sear on a hot griddle pan for a few minutes on each side, then transfer to a non-stick baking sheet grill pan. May need to secure with cocktail sticks. Spray lightly with Fry Light and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Serve with vegetables or salad and use chicken & mushroom or mushroom soup mixed up with less water as a sauce.
Chicken with cd chickmush soup/sauce, rocket salad with balsamic vinegar.
Warm chicken salad - Spray fry or dry fry small pieces of chicken or quorn pieces and sliced button mushrooms, sprinkle some marigold reduced salt boullion as seasoning and balsamic vinegar and reduce. Have on salad or with hot vegetables.

SAUCES
Sprinkle the bouillon powder over chicken pieces before grilling for extra flavour.
If using fromage frais instead of milk mix with spices to make a tandoori style coating.
Use mushroom, chicken & mushroom, veg and spicy oriental soups (or any savoury you like) as sauces over chicken, fish or broccoli/cauliflower.
Make crisps out of half a pack of soup then use the rest as a sauce over the chicken. Makes the plate look a bit fuller

VEGETABLES
Stuffed Cabbage Leaves
Par boil whole green cabbage for 5 minutes so the leaves peel away easily and keep them whole.
Meanwhile in a bowl mix minced turkey/quorn/chicken, grate in some courgette, mushroom and cauliflower. Add in salt, pepper and paprika to season.
Wrap a small ball of the mince in one of the cabbage leaves. Put in ovenproof dish. Once they're all in cover the parcels in stock made from Marigold Bouillion or CD savoury drink powder. Bake in oven for 25 minutes or so on high.

Mushrooms stuffed with cottage cheese, herbs and cover it with a sprinkling of grated cheese then bake it in the oven
Mixed half the cottage cheese allowance with half of the tuna allowance. Added a tiny bit of mustard powder and some pepper. Piled it into the mushrooms and baked until they were browned on the top. Served it with some iceberg lettuce with a drizzle of Kraft Fat-free dressing.

CELERIAC CHIPS:
Peel the celeriac, then cut the celeriac into thumb-thick slices and then into fat chips. Preheat the oven to 230°C. Bring a very large saucepan of water to the boil, throw in the chips and blanch (boil rapidly, uncovered, for 1-2 minutes). Drain the chips. Sprinkle with black pepper, boullion, curry powder or any seasoning of choice and toss until well coated. Spread the chips over baking tray, leaving plenty of space and spray lightly with fry light. Bake for approx 30 minutes.

CELERIAC MASH:
Boil chopped celeriac for approx 20 mins, drain, add black pepper/seasoning, mash.

CAULIFLOWER MASH:
Boil cauliflower, drain, add black pepper/seasoning. Make up small boullion gravy or small leek & potato soup/sauce add to cauliflower and mash.
Cauliflower Cheese:
Chop up some cauliflower, and some strips of courgettes
Boil up the cauliflower until it starts to soften (only takes a few mins)
Drain the cauliflower and put both veg into a baking dish (the par-boiled cauliflower and the raw courgette)
Mix up the cottage cheese with coriander and a sprinkling of some pepper (becomes strong when cooked so only a little is needed.)
Mix a few spoonfuls of the cottage cheese mixture in with the veg
Pour the remaining cottage cheese over the top
Place in the oven at 200 degrees (fan assisted) for 10minutes
Then place under the grill (on full) for a further 5-7 minutes to brown the top

Cheesy Courgette Strips:
Slice the courgette into strips longways or little round discs, I tried both!
Place the courgette onto a baking tray under the grill for a few minutes on each side to soften slightly (they also taste nice griddled first if you like the chargrilled taste!)
Mix up the cottage cheese as above with pepper and coriander or whichever herbs you like
Once the courgettes are half cooked place them on the baking tray/foil, spoon the cottage cheese mixture onto them (it does not seem to melt over the sides so it can be piled quite high depending on how cheesy you like things)
Place under the grill for about 5minutes or until the cheese starts to brown on top
Dry fry some courgette, mushroom add pak choi for the last 2 mins with spices of choice. Put the veggies in a nice bowl then the cooked meat/fish/quorn on top, sprinked with a little more pepper.
FISH
Make a paste out of a small amount of curry powder and water and spread it on top of the fish. Bake it for a bit until it's cooked and serve it with a few vegetables.
Dry fried cabbage, spinach and courgettes add tin of tuna and bit low fat natural yoghurt/fromage frais or really light dressing.
Cod fillet, celeriac or caulliflower mash (made with leek & pot soup/sauce and black pepper or low fat yoghurt/fromage frais).
Large lettuce leaves wrapped round tuna or cottage cheese with thin shredded cucumber really light mayo.

QUORN
10ozs of Quorn mince and cooked it in some water with some button mushrooms. Add one sachet of the CD Chicken & Mushroom Soup - less water than is usually required to thicken it up a little. Added a little pepper and some steak seaoning.

Mock Shepherds Pie:
The base of this is made from quorn mince -cook in a frying pan straight from frozen, adding in herbs and some coarse ground black pepper, stirring until softened. Spoon this into the bottom of a baking dish.
The mash is made from brocolli or cauliflower or a mix of both - The veg is boiled until quite soft and then drained and mashed up to form a mock mash potato. Add herbs and pepper. This is then layered on top of the mince in the baking dish.
Top the dish with some cottage cheese (again mixed with herbs and pepper) and place under the grill on high until browned.

Mock Chicken Bake:
For the base of this use the quorn chicken pieces. Brown these in a frying pan mixed with some strips of courgette and using a few sprays of the 1cal spray oil to help it along a bit, this normally takes about 5 minutes. Spoon this mix into the bottom of a baking dish. (can use cd sauce if wish)
Make some mash as above. This is then layered on top of the quorn chicken pieces and courgette in the baking dish.
Top the dish with some cottage cheese, again mixed with herbs and pepper.
This is then placed in the oven for about 10minutes (180 degrees, fan assisted oven) to make sure the quorn chicken is cooked through, then finish under the grill.
Can be made with any combination of meat/veg.
STUFFED MARROW:
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Cut marrow in half lengthways, using metal spoon scoop out seeds. Spray fry light onto foil and place marrow on top. Micro/dry/spray fry quorn mince. In wok/pan fry finely diced mushrooms and courgettes, add the quorn. Pour in small gravy of marigold reduced salt boullion, or small sauce made from CD soup (keep some sauce to pour over after). Place quorn mixture into scooped out marrow. Wrap marrow halves together in foil. Bake for approx 40 mins until tender
Quorn mince dry fried with cabbage, spinach and courgettes with cd leekpot soup/sauce & black pepper or marigold boullion.


SALADS
Salad leaves with tuna and cottage cheese with some fat-free blue cheese salad dressing.
Any of the meat/quorn dishes served with mixed salad leaves.

 

[Crazybecky5]

Oh my god!! So many amazing recipes i want to try!! Thank you so much i really appreciate it! I didn't think of trying cottage cheese but i think i might have to now

It's nice to have people around to talk to aswell lol xx

 

[Crazybecky5]

Well i have been avoiding this but i STS again this week! Seem to have a hit a real plateau - anyways, i have decided to have a go at the Fast Start this week and see if that gives me a boost. With my points taken into consideration, i will be on 22 instead of 25. Has anyone tried Fast Start? Did it work?

I have gone 'off the rails' a bit recently and haven't been tracking my points properly ect, decided this week i'm going to put loads of effort in! Work hasn't helped again with the cakes lol - i resisted for a bit

How is everyone anyway? (thats if there is anyone around to talk! ) x

 

[*Saski*]

Good luck with your fast start my dear i'm sure you will be able to shive yourself out of your plateau. Take care and have a good weekend. xxx

 

[MiniMimi2091]

Well i have been avoiding this but i STS again this week! Seem to have a hit a real plateau - anyways, i have decided to have a go at the Fast Start this week and see if that gives me a boost. With my points taken into consideration, i will be on 22 instead of 25. Has anyone tried Fast Start? Did it work?
I have gone 'off the rails' a bit recently and haven't been tracking my points properly ect, decided this week i'm going to put loads of effort in! Work hasn't helped again with the cakes lol - i resisted for a bit

Hello sweetie,
was wondering recently how were you doing... Hahaha, I know how you feeling abt STS - I have just narowly escaped this second week in a row. (quite possibly only because I wore different wi clothes than usual - am sure it allowed me to "cheat" of 1lb lol)
Had a bad two weeks as first one was snacking, cakes at work, socialising, mulled wine on offer in M&S; you name it I kept finding excuses. This whole week I spent in bed trying to get rid of flu so don't have to add that my share of treats was more than needed. :flirt2:
But I am not going to cry over it. Tomorrow is a new day and I am restarting my eating routine.
You mentioned abt fast track, I am sure you'll be seeing results soon.
Have a fab Saturday and catch with you later xxxx

 

[fitz]

Hi
Goodluck with your fast start week - sure to boost the weighloss & get it moving again x

 

[Crazybecky5]

Hello everyone, weekend hasn't gone too bad really - ive got everything crossed for WI this week

Saski, thanks so much! I haven't tried Fast Start before so it is a new experience lol

Mini! Hello!! Totally agree about the WI clothes lol - i do that everyweek too! Might mix it up this week tho and wear the lightest possible things in my wardrobe lol!! How did your Staurday go in the end?

Fitz, thanks so much! Lets hope FS has the desired effect xx

 

[MiniMimi2091]

Hello there,

How did your weekend go?

I have my wi tomorrow and I KNOW it's not going to be brilliant and no, I can't even do clothes trick (unless I'll go there in my underwear lol).
Well, at least I will have a fresh start from now on.
Initial idea of losing next 8lbs for Xmas is looking rather remote for time being but I will still try my hardest.

Had some friends over this weekend. And since being on ww for a while my fridge didn't have anything but healthy stuff (didn't even have butter as I find laughing cow much tastier and only 1/2 pt!!!).
I knew I will have to serve proper breakfast and have some sweets with coffee (not to mention crisps and stuff like that). So I went shopping and bought all the "normal" stuff.
Went for indian saturday eve and had some left overs on Sunday.
I didn't binge but didn't also count pts. After being ill for last week I desperately wanted to start feeling better so I thought if I stop limiting my food so severly it might help me a bit. So thought, sod it - I will have a weekend off.
I enjoyed myself but found pretty incredible that even though I ate anything I wanted I still managed to have smaller portion. And Sun morning for breakfast instead of having loads (which I would before dieting) I only had bagel and was SATISFIED with it. With coffee I had piece of cake but it was tiny and didn't crave for more.
Well impressed. It means that once I stop dieting I might actualy be able to maintain the weight!!!! That's why I love WW - it does teaches you healthy habits and reinstate good relationship with food.
I handed rest of the food left to my friend with an excuse that I can't have it anyway. This should prevent any unnecessary fridge "trips" haha
I'm back to work and find that actualy was missing my routine pretty much. So back on track from now on!!!
Hope you all doing pretty well.
Catch up with you later xxxx

 

[Crazybecky5]

I can't even do clothes trick (unless I'll go there in my underwear lol)

Haha! That made me laugh!! :8855:
I'm sure you'll be fine at WI You must let us know how you get on! Good trick with the Laughing Cow, i must admit butter is one of my biggest downfalls - i love the stuff!

Being ill will affect your weight anyway, when i had flu my leader put it down in my notes (apparently all of the throat sweets and powders weren't very point freindly!) I must admit, i'm exactly the same as you i find the week much easier, when i'm at work as i can keep a routine - weekends are just awful as i have my OH around who gorges on chocolate and pizzas (he doesn't put a pound on either!) i really have to restrain myself.

My weekend was nice, been working on an assignment which is due in today ! I'm at college aswell as work doing a Marketing Diploma - it's taking up most of my life! lol will be worth it in the end tho!

Anyhoo, you might surprise yourself at WI!! Fingers crossed!! xxxx

 

[*Saski*]

Hello my lovely i hope your fast start is going well so far. xxx

 

[Crazybecky5]

Hey Saski! I feel like i haven't been on here for ages, had a couple of days off work and the Internet is playing up at home so i didn't even bother trying to get on

Well Fast Start worked!! 1lb off this week and i am over the moon!! Only 1lb to go and i've done my 10% so a real push this week

How has your week been? x

 

[MiniMimi2091]

Well Fast Start worked!! 1lb off this week and i am over the moon!! Only 1lb to go and i've done my 10% so a real push this week

x

Look at you sweetie!!! Way to go - how exciting to be just 1lb from 10% - keep up a good work xxx

 

[Crazybecky5]

Look at you sweetie!!! Way to go - how exciting to be just 1lb from 10% - keep up a good work xxx

Yayyy!! Thanks Mini - ooh i'm excited about hitting that target now, it's like my first real milestone!

Hows your week going? xx

 

[MiniMimi2091]

I am not doing too bad (apart from getting rid of my useless ex!!! which keeps me really preoccupied so I actualy keep forgetting to eat lol)
Back on track, flue free and motivated!!! I am aiming to get rid 7lbs until Xmas - 20 days to go - 7 lbs - hope it's achievable.
Stocked on my healthy meals and bags of fresh and frozen fruits (in emergency if I want to binge late evenings.) Drink lots of water and patiently wait for results. I guess I feel I am in the zone since no sweet or carb cravings!!!
We can do it sweetie - look at your achievements.
Decided to treat myself this weekend and I am going ice-skating. I am yet to find my partner in crime though.
Have a smashing day sweetie - will catch up with you later xxxxxx

 

[MiniMimi2091]

BTW, I've noticed on your details that we've managed to lose almost the same percentage of body fat!!! YOU GO GIRLLLLLL xxxx

 

[Crazybecky5]

BTW, I've noticed on your details that we've managed to lose almost the same percentage of body fat!!! YOU GO GIRLLLLLL xxxx

Ahhh thats awesome! We'll both be at our 10% in no time! Yayy!

Ohh Ice Skating sounds like fun, unfortunately i have no sense of balance so it's rather hilarious watching me on an ice-rink (grabbing the sides all the way round lol!)

You've set yourself the same target as me for xmas! We'll shift those 7lbs i'm sure!! The 'ex effect' always works, i got to my lowest weight in ages after i split up with my ex on the 'wine diet' lol - seriously, i think i lost about 3 stone! (which all went back on again when i met Ben haha!)

Oohh can't wait now, i've got two weeks off at christmas and i'm sooo excited! - i love spending time with the dog! (Hope i don't sound too mad saying that lol)

Have a great day xx