Claire's Christmas Countdown

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Thursday 11/10/10 EE

Breakfast: Apple, pineapple & orange with Total 0% yogurt, cinnamon & honey (1 syn)
Green tea

Snack: Green tea, Cranberry Hifi bar (HEB), apple

Lunch: Bean chilli & rice with cheese (½ HEA)
Activia mango yogurt

Snack: Green tea, melon

Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese & cheese (½ HEA)
2 slices of garlic bread (7 syns)

Total syns for day: 8

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Friday 12/10/10 EE

Breakfast: Apple, grapes, pineapple & orange with Total 0% yogurt, cinnamon & honey (1 syn)
Green tea

Snack: Green tea, Mince pie Hifi bar (HEB)

Lunch: Jacket potato with beans, cheese (HEA) and beetroot, celery, carrot & pepper sticks.

Snack: Green tea

Dinner: We went out to Wimpy with friends & kids so I just tried to be fairly sensible and went for Gourmet Chicken Platter (??). It was grilled chicken with chips, salad & coleslaw. I didn't eat the coleslaw so I guess it was just syns for the chips. Think I'll just write the day's syns off & hope for the best

Total syns for day: 15

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Not a good day

Saturday 13/10/10 Green (was supposed to be Extra Easy but I didn't have third superfree at lunch or dinner)

Breakfast: Apple, grapes, pineapple & orange with Total 0% yogurt, cinnamon & honey (1 syn)
Green tea

Snack: Green tea

Lunch: Cheese & brocolli pasta n sauce (think this is half a syn?)
Green tea

Kind of lost the plot this afternoon, went to a children's birthday party with my son & hubbie and ate a mini sausage roll, then we went into Costa afterwards & I had some fizzy water and a bakewell slice thing and then I bought some marshmallow sweets and ate them all watching X-factor this evening. Plus I've had some of hubbie's minstrels. I'm not usually bothered but today I just felt fed up of turning things down.

Dinner: Home made scotch eggs, chips & beans. Usually have these on an extra easy day so not sure how many syns are in the Morrison' s eat smart sausages on a green day. Probably the least of my worries today :sigh:

Total syns for day: probably about a million. I'm writing off today as a bad 'un plus I didn't manage to have either of my Healthy Extras :4633:

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Monday 15/11/10 GREEN

Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Greek yogurt & honey (1 syn)
28g muesli (HEB)
Green tea

Snack: Apple, green tea

Lunch: Bean chilli & rice with cheese (HEA)
2 x clementines

Snack: Cup of green tea, Hifi bar (HEB), Activia raspberry yogurt

Dinner: SW chips, mushy peas & 2 fried eggs.

Gave blood after work & ate 3 ginger nuts - too lazy to look it up so guessing that's all my syns for the day. Lost the plot this week so not going to sweat it about 3 ginger nuts!


Total for day: 15 syns?

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Tuesday 16/11/10 EE

Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Greek yogurt & honey (1 syn), green tea

Snack: Green tea, 2 clementines, apple

Lunch: Pea & bacon soup, 7 x crackerbread (HEB + 1 syn) 2 x Laughing Cow Light triangles (HEA)
Activia strawberry yogurt

Snack: Green tea

Dinner: Salmon with stir fry noodles & veg (1 syn for honey in marinade)
Milky Way (5 syns)
Treat size fudge (3 syns)

Total for day: 11

Well I knew I would have scuppered my week with the chips, cake, biscuits, sausage roll etc and I stayed the same at weigh in last night.
I need to be 100% focussed this week.

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Wednesday 17/10/10 EE
Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Total 0% yogurt, honey (1 syn) & cinnamon, green tea

Snack: Green tea, banana, apple, 3 x clementines

Lunch: Pea & bacon soup, 4 x Ryvita (HEB), 2 x Laughing Cow Light triangles (HEA)
Activia peach yogurt (½ syn)

Snack: Green tea, melon, Snack-a-jacks (4 ½ syns)

Dinner: Chicken bourguignon & rice with salad (1 syn)

Total syns for day: 7

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Thursday 18/10/10 EE

Breakfast: Frozen berries & pear with Total 0% yogurt, cinnamon & honey (1 syn)
Green tea

Snack: Green tea, apple, banana, clementines

Lunch: Pea & bacon soup, Ryvita (HEB), Laughing Cow Light triangles (HEA)
Activia strawberry yogurt

I need to make some different soup this weekend, I'm fed up of the pea & bacon now. Think I might do leek & potato.

Snack: Green tea, Snack-a-jacks (4 ½ syns)

Dinner: Sausage & bean casserole (1 syn for 2 Eat Smart sausages) with green beans & carrots
Hubbie brought me home 2 Brazilian Darkness from a tin of Roses at work yummmm mmm mmm (4 syns)

Total syns for day: 10 ½

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

My post came up twice - weird!

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Friday 19/10/10 EE

Breakfast: Apple, grapes & pineapple with Total 0% yogurt, cinnamon & honey (1 syn)
Green tea

Snack: Tea with milk (HEA), Fibre+ bar (HEB)

Lunch: Tomato & basil pasta n sauce, beetroot & sugar snap peas

Snack: Tea with milk (HEA)

Dinner: Left over sausage & bean casserole (1 syn for 2 Eat Smart sausages) with mashed potato (with milk from HEA) & red cabbage with apple (1 syn). Recipe from the magazine this month, it was lovely I used balsamic vinegar instead of red wine as I didn't have any.
Hubbie brought me home another Brazilian Darkness (2 syns) :love:
Chocolate options (2 syns)

Total syns for day: 7

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Saturday 20/10/10 Green

Breakfast: Potato Scones (3 syns - recipe from on here, think it was Evethewitch? Need to go & thank her because they were delish), baked beans & 2 scrambled eggs.
Green tea

Snack: Fibre+ bar (HEB)

Lunch: Chilli chicken low fat super noodles with 4 Ryvita (HEB) and 2 x Laughing Cow Light triangles (part HEA)
Apple & pear

Snack: Tea with milk (part HEA)

Dinner: Pizza (5.5 syns - quarter of a Napolina pizza base) with red peppers, homemade tomato, garlic & onion sauce, sweetcorn & mozzarella cheese (42g - HEA), SW chips & homemade coleslaw (2 syns for mayonnaise)
Tea with milk (part HEA)
Just eaten Activia FF vanilla yog over pineapple & grapes. Would have been delicious if I hadn't been watching Wagner at the same time. Put me off a bit

Total syns for day: 10.5

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Wednesday 21/10/10 EE

Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Total 0% yogurt, honey (1 syn) & cinnamon, green tea

Snack: Apple, mince pie Hifi (HEB)

Lunch: Jacket potato & beans

Snack: Pink & white wafer (2.5 syns), tea with milk (part of HEA), 3 x Rich Tea finger (3 syns)

Dinner: Meatballs in tomato sauce with wholewheat pasta & red cabbage left over from Friday (1 syn). Sprinkle of cheddar (rest of HEA)
Chocolate Options (2 syns)

Total syns for day: 9.5

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Monday 22/11/10 GREEN

Here's the plan!

Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Greek yogurt & honey (1 syn)
28g muesli (HEB)
Tea with milk (part of HEA)

Snack: Apple, green tea, Fibre+ bar (HEB)

Lunch: Leek & potato soup with quarter pizza left over from Saturday (5 ½ syns + HEA for 42g mozzarella)
Activia strawberry yogurt

Snack: Cup of green tea, clementines

Dinner: SW chips, mushy peas & 2 fried eggs
Mini milk (1.5 syns)

Total for day: 8 syns

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Tuesday 23/11/10 EE

Weigh in tonight, feel very nervous about it as my scales at home are showing I haven't shifted a bean. I think I may lose the plot if I STS again

Breakfast: Pineapple, pear & grapes with Greek yogurt & honey (1 syn), tea with milk (part of HEA)

Snack: Green tea, banana, clementines, Alpen Light (3 syns)

Lunch: Potato & leek soup, 4 x Ryvita (HEB) 3 x Dairylea Light triangles (rest of HEA)
Activia raspberry yogurt

Snack: Green tea, apple

After weigh-in dinner: Chicken curry & rice
2 x Poppadoms (4 syns)
Mango chutney (2 syns)

Total for day: 10

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

So disheartened yesterday, stayed the same again at weigh-in :cry:. I think I would be more upset if I wasn’t eating the things I liked, I can see me eating this way forever now but it would be nice to be rewarded for a good week with a loss. Looks like I was too optimistic in thinking I could get to target before Christmas.

I had to pop to the supermarket on the way home from group & was feeling all ‘sod it’; bought 2 chocolate donuts & me and my hubbie had one each when I got home. No idea of the syns in one of those but I don’t think it would have taken me over the 105 maximum for last week seeing as I only had 64 in total. Then I ate my lovely chicken curry & rice and felt stuffed.

Oh well, today’s a new day and a new week.

Wednesday 24/10/10 GREEN

Breakfast: Sachet of Paw Ridge porridge made with milk (HEA + HEB) plus Canderel, grapes & tea with milk (part of HEA)

Snack: Green tea, apple, clementines, Alpen Light (3 syns)

Lunch: Potato & leek soup, 4 x Ryvita (HEB), 4 x Dairylea Light triangles (HEA)
Activia peach yogurt (½ syn)

Snack: Green tea, pineapple

Was starving and had a headache when I came in from work so had 5 Rich tea finger biscuits (5 syns) and a pink & white (2.5 syns) with my cup of tea.

Dinner: Asda chick pea dahl & rice with extra onions & peppers
Mini milk (1 ½ syns)

Total syns for day: 12 ½

 

[Nut_Brown_Hare]

Thursday 25/10/10 GREEN

Breakfast: 28g Jordan’s porridge made with milk (HEA + HEB) plus Canderel, grapes, banana, tea with milk (HEA)

Snack: Green tea, cranberry Hifi bar (HEB), clementines

Lunch: Left over chick pea dahl & rice
Activia raspberry yogurt

Snack: Green tea, apple, pineapple

Dinner: Cheese & onion omelette (HEA) with SW chips & baked beans
Mini milk (1 ½ syns)

Total syns for day: 1 ½ so far but I'm sure I'll fit some more in...

 

[Nonna_edmo]

Good luck with weigh in this week!! hope you loose, fingers crossed for you huni!