cheekylau extra easy food diary

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Decided to start a food diary because its getting too easy to forget what i have been eating and need to be more organised. Only 5lb to go til target but its getting harder to lose now and weight loss seems to be slowing down probably due to forgotten syns lol. Trying for 100% this week any comments greatly appreciated.

Tues !7/04/12

Breakfast
35g oat bran flakes
ss milk
banana

Lunch
Prawn Salad (lettuce, cucumber,tomatoes,calery,onion)
Plum

Dinner
Jacket Potato topped with tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, garlic, courgette, peppers, mixed herbs

Snacks
Rich tea finger (1syn)
Wispa bite (1 syn)
Bourbon biscuit (3 1/2syns)
Chocolate raisins (small handful 3syns?)
Melon + FF yogurt

Hea 250mls ss milk
Heb oat bran flakes

Syns for day 8 1/2
syns for week 8 1/2
 
Wed 18/04/12

Breakfast
Melon, summer fruits ff yogurt

Lunch
Egg, bacon and cheese toastie
side salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes)

Dinner
Pasta
Homemade pasta sauce ( tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, garlic, courgette, peppers, spinach, mixed herbs)

Snacks
kiwi
banana
options hot choc (2 syns)
foxs fruit (4 syns)


Hea 30g cheddar
Heb 2x wholemeal bread
Total syns for day 6
Total for week 14 1/2
 
Thu 19/04/12

Breakfast
Banana Alpen light

Lunch
Ham, pickles, celery
apple

Dinner
Boiled egg and cheese salad
FF yogurt + fruit salad

Snacks
options hot choc (2 syns)
alpen light
kiwi
Curly wurly treatsize (3 1/2 syns)

Hea 30g cheddar
Heb 2x alpen light


Syns for day 5 1/2
Total syns for week 20
 
Fri 20/04/12

Breakfast
FF yogurt blackforest fruits and banana

Lunch
Crabstick and lettuce sandwich
Tomatoes, cucumber and celery

Dinner
Whitefish fillet
Noodles, Stirfry veg

Snacks
Apple
2 slices ham
Chicken chunks

Hea 250mls ss milk
Heb 2 x wholemeal bread

Syns for day 0
Total syns for week 20

Usually use some syns but my little girls birthday tomorrow and my partners on sunday so been very careful with syns this week to give me a bit of a treat this weekend
 
Sat 21/04/12
Well today was a difficult one took my little girl to chessington for her birthday and so much temptation but did well i hope think i had 2 much pasta though feeling really bloated. Does anyone else get this think im heading for a gain on Monday.

Breakfast
Banana + plum

Lunch
Chicken 2 babybels cucumber celery and cherry tomatoes
Plain pasta
Melon

Dinner
Pasta bolognaise with loads of superfree
Peas + sweetcorn

Snacks
6 x tikka bites (3 syns)
Ice cream from daughters soft strawberry cornetto no cone
(5 syns?)
Apple
Ryvita minis

Hea 2 mini babybels
Heb Ryvita minis

Syns for day 8
Total Syns for week 28
 
Sun 22/04/12

Breakfast
Melon
Kiwi

Lunch
Buffet food for daughter and partners birthday
Prawns, crabsticks, chicken breast, pasta, salad, strawberries, melon

Dinner (not hungry at all)
Ham toastie
Banana

Snacks
Dairy milk miniature (1.5 syns)
Birthday cake (homemade so no idea of syns 30?)

Hea 250mls ss milk
Heb wholemeal bread

Syns for day 31.5?
Total syns for week 59.5?
 
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Hi, I saw your post on the other thread asking to look at your diary, so thought I'd pop by.

I think your food choices are great, very healthy and you are using your HeXs and some syns. I can't really see anything wrong, the only thing is you seen to have a lot of wheat in your diet (bread, noodles, pasta) maybe try mix it up a bit with potatoes and rice, or use beans/chickpeas/lentils as a base for meals. I get bloated when I eat too much weight, so that may be eat, although I think more importantly variation is the key to Any healthy diet. Hope this helps and well done on your weight loss to far!
 
Thanks for looking and your opinion. Finding this site so useful should have joint ages ago. I was thinking the same thing that it could be the pasta etc. I choose them coz i think it will keep me full but maybe its that thats giving me this uncomfortable bloated feeling. Well weigh in tonight so we will c wot happens maybe time to change things about a bit.
 
I would love to try grains and lentils but wouldn't have a clue where to start im not the most adventurous cook just tend to stick to basics. Any advice greatly appreciated.
 
They're Sooooooo easy! Promise!

Ok green lentils (Tesco,about 79p per kilo bag, sometimes called lentil vertes). Take a big handful, put them in cold water. Boil for 10 mins. Drain. Put fresh water in (doesn't matter how much, you just empty it after). I add diced onion and garlic too. Simmer for 10 mins. Chuck in some frozen green beans then cook for 3 mins. Drain. Chuck on some balsamic vinegar or something and it's done! So so easy but goes with loads.

Quinoa (brilliant grain, in the whole food bit at tesco) - measure out a cup full and add two cups of water. Add a veg stock cube. Boil for 12 mins. Water absorbs and it's done!

Bulgar wheat is even easier - pour on hot water and let it absorb!

Good luck! X
 
Well they do sound easy definitely on the shopping list. Any other ideas are greatfully received i have decided its time for a change before i start getting bored :)
 
I love lentils! I usually use the red plit lentils as a base for dahls and soups, you cook it almost like a risotto (maybe also a nice thing for you to try) saute some garlic n onions in fry light, add spices to choice (I ususally use cumin and coriander seed), add a cupful of lentils then add 2 cups of stock (veg or chicken or whatever you fancy really) sometimes I add chopped carrots to the lentils before adding the stock, just simmer till they are cooked through, when they are tender and turned into almost a smooth consistency add any other ingresients you fancy like for example spinach and chickpeas to make a chickpea dahl. You can mix it up to by adding one cup of curry stock and a tin of chopped tomatoes and then adding any veg you want. Eat the Dahl with rice or naan (syns though!), you can make a syn free raita to go with this with fat free yogurt, cucumber a little sweetener and a little salt.

If you want it as a soup add lots of root veg to the lentils, then a tin of tomatoes and 3 cups of stock and let it buble away till tender, blitz or leave it chunky. (check the forum for speed soup recipe, its a favourite of mine!)

Enjoy!
 
Thanks everyone for the ideas definitely ones for me to try. Had weigh in tonight and sts :-( better than a gain i suppose but still.

Mon 23/04/12
Breakfast
Oat bran flakes
ss milk
banana

Lunch
King prawn stirfry

Dinner
Left over bolognaise
Lots of veg (cauliflower carrots green beans peas and sweetcorn)

Snacks
Apple
Banana
Blue riband (5 syns)
Country cake slice (5 syns)

Syns for day 10
Total syns for week 69.5
 
Tue 24/04/12

Breakfast
Alpen light
Summer fruits with ff natural yogurt

Lunch
Chicken
Stirfry veg
Sweet chilli velvet crunch (4 syns)

Dinner
Crabstick salad
Options mixed into ff greek style yogurt + sliced banana (2 syns)

Snacks
Alpen light
Apple
2 x kiwi

Hea babybel x2
Heb Alpen lights
Syns for day 6
Total syns for week 6
 
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Wed 25/04/12

Breakfast
Banana, apple, ff nat yogurt, 35g oat bran flakes

Lunch
Jacket potato topped with pineapple cottage cheese and ham
Side salad

Dinner
Prawn stirfry

Snacks
Kiwi
Melon
FF greek style yogurt
Pear
Options hot choc (2 syns)
2 x celebrations (4 syns)

Hea 250mls ss milk (drank)
Heb 35g oat bran flakes

Syns for day 6
Total syns for week 12
 
Thu 26/04/12

Breakfast
Apple
Summer fruits + ff nat yogurt
Fried egg sandwich

Lunch
Pasta vegetables + cheese

Dinner
Crabstick salad

Snacks
Plum
Muller
Melon + Kiwi
Fudge treatsize (3 syns)
2 x mikado (1 syn)

Hea 30g cheese
Heb wholemeal bread

Syns for day 4
Total syns for week 16
 
Fri 27/04/12

Breakfast
Oat bran flakes + milk
Melon + Kiwi

Lunch
Mixed pepper + ham omelette
Cottage cheese with pineapple
Apple

Dinner
Whitefish fillet, Jacket potato, mixed veg

Snacks
Plum
1/2 frozen curly wurly (3)
Banana
FF greek style yogurt
Options hot choc (2)
Penguin (5.5)
Roses hazelnut in caramel (3.5)

Hea 250mls milk
Heb 35g oat bran flakes

Syns for day 14
Total syns for week 30

Had real cravings for choc today after long day at work but managed to stay within syns and actually increased them.
 
Sat 28/04/12

Breakfast
Apple
Grapes
Alpen light

Lunch
Ham, crabsticks, 2x babybel, pickles and cucumber

Dinner
Mushy pea curry (1st attempt and it was yummy!)
Rice, mixed veg

Snacks
Alpen light
FF yogurt
Plum
4x rich tea fingers (4 syns)

Hea 2x babybel
Heb 2x alpen light

Syns for day 4
Total syns for day 34
 
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