evilpenguins munchings

[evilpenguin]

Hi all

Thought I would join in and get myself a minimins food diary thread going. I keep a diary at home & a spreadsheet at work so another can't hurt I really wanted to be halfway to target by the end of the year (21stone wanting to get to about 12stone!) but it's coming off slowly.. losing motivation & then comfort eating doesn't help. But I feel really positive thanks to this site and am hoping a food diary that everyone can see will motivate me some more. Maybe some newbies can steal my dinner ideas too

Just going to start with yesterday which was my first 100% day since about November.....

Weds 10th - extra easy​

breakfast: coffee (milk part HEA) & sweetener (not exactly brekkie but wasn't hungry)
lunch: chicken pasta salad with extra light mayo (1 syn), shape yoghurt, satsuma, banana
dinner: risotto with courgette, leek, spring onion & 14g parmesan (3 syns)
snacks: weetabix (HEB) + milk (rest of HEA), wotsits (5 syns)

Total syns: 9 / 15

 

[evilpenguin]

Thurs 11th - extra easy​

breakfast: coffee (HEA) + magic porridge HEB (28g porridge oats with banana + custard muller light)
lunch: chicken pasta salad (mayo 1 syn), wotsits (5 syns), shape yoghurt
dinner: cannelloni with reduced fat cheese (3.5 syns)
snacks: syn free pancake, yoghurt, satsuma

Total syns: 9.5 / 15

(Used up my HEA with coffees throughout the day)

 

[evilpenguin]

Don't think I ate enough yesterday. Dinner was packed with veg, so was lunch, so it should be cool.

Fri 12th - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge with orange choc muller light + 28g porridge oats (HEB), coffees through out day (HEA)
lunch: chicken pasta salad (1 syn for mayo), wotsits (5 syns), satsuma
dinner: SW chicken curry (1 syn for corn flour), SW chips, salad
snacks: single twix biscuit (guess 5 syns), vlf natural yog, grapes, banana

Total syns: 12 / 15

 

[evilpenguin]

Saturday 13th - extra easy
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breakfast: beans on toast (HEB)
lunch: leftover pasta salad (0.5 syns)
dinner: marshalls macaroni cheese in a box (1 syn for the marge, milk HEA)
snacks: single twix (5 syns), jaffa cake bar (6.5 syns), curly wurly (5 syns), VLF yoghurt with fruit

Total syns: 18 / 15 .. so too many but figured I had enough "saved" from the past few days to have the jaffa cake bar which was unforeseen + my mum's fault lol.

Also this is the first day I had some green tea so we'll see if it helps me lose more.

 

[evilpenguin]

Sunday 14th - extra easy​

Valentines Day today so going out for a meal. Using flexi syns and limiting myself to 60 syns! Is that too many??

brunch: SW pancakes (5.5 syns), lean bacon, quorn sausages, green tea
dinner: 6 course meal - guessing 40 syns*
snacks: green tea, half pack of fun size cadbury buttons (3 syns?)

* Valentines Dinner @ Khublai Khans Mongolian BBQ restaurant
1st course: kangaroo enchiladas = 1 tortilla wrap, kangaroo meat, a sprinkle of cheddar + some very yummy full fat mayo
2nd course: buffet meal using 2tbsp BBQ sauce
3rd course: buffet meal using 2tbsp BBQ sauce, 2tbsp olive oil
4th course: buffet meal using 2tbsp sweet + sour sauce, 2tbsp garlic oil
5th course: buffet meal using 2tbsp oil - did not finish this course
6th course: homemade banoffee pie (small portion) + a mocha (milk is HEA?)

Hoping the above only used around 40 syns, probably a lot more but the only synful things were what I've listed, without asking the staff about every single thing I was eating. I limited myself to 60 syns so that should pick up any extra syns I haven't counted.

 

[evilpenguin]

Monday 15th - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB - 28g porridge with Onken free strawb yoghurt), coffee (milk part HEA)
lunch: green tea, roast chicken sandwiches (bread HEB, mayo 1 syn), satsuma, shape yoghurt, wotsits (5 syns)
dinner: pork chops, mashed potato (marge 2 syns, milk rest of HEA)
snacks: 2 curly wurlys (10 syns)

Total syns: 18 / 15. One curly wurly too many. I was starving

 

[evilpenguin]

Tues 16th - Red

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breakfast: coffee (milk part HEA), magic porridge (HEB), more green tea..!
lunch: roast chicken sandwiches (HEB) with extra light mayo (0.5 syn), shape yoghurt, satsuma
dinner: another roast chicken sandwich (bread 6 syns), extra light mayo (0.5 syn), SW pancakes (5 syns + rest of HEA), syrup (guess 3 syns?)
snacks: took one bite out a curly wurly (1 syn?)

Today was rubbish, I was too tired to make dinner so we had pancakes + a sandwich instead of the stroganoff I'd planned. Should've had a lot more veg + a proper dinner

Syns: 14 / 15 (guessing tho)

 

[evilpenguin]

Weds 17th - extra easy​

Today was WI + I lost 5lbs this week!!​

breakfast: coffee throughout the day (milk HEA), banana
lunch: roast chicken sandwiches (bread HEB), extra light mayo (0.5 syn), marge (1 syn), activia yoghurt (free?), satsumas, banana
dinner: SW beef stroganoff, rice
snacks: nibbled on some pasta salad I was making for Thursday's lunch.. syn count 0 I would say. oh and I had another activia yoghurt

Total syns: 1.5 / 15 ... not enough!

Felt absolutely horrible today like I'm getting the cold or flu, didn't eat much because of this.

 

[evilpenguin]

Thursday 18th - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB), with onken free strawberry yoghurt + chopped up strawberries, coffee (milk 0.5 syns*), green tea
lunch: pasta salad (1 syn), shape yoghurt, satsumas
dinner: Marshalls cheesy macaroni in a box (milk 1.5 syns)
snacks: cheese toastie (HEA + 6 syns), single twix (5 syns), funsize buttons (5 syns?), cherry muller (2 syns)

Today was pretty much a write off after dinner, I was so hungry I kept eating. Mostly because I didn't have a proper dinner!

*just found out 2tbsp SS milk is only 1/2 a syn!

 

[evilpenguin]

Fri 19th - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB) with free onken strawberry yog + chopped strawberries
lunch: chicken sandwiches (HEB, mayo 0.5 syns), marge (1 syn), quavers (5 syns), shape yoghurt, satsuma
dinner: homemade chilli
snacks: twix (5 syns), chilli toastie (6 syns)

Syns: 17.5 .. too many again

 

[evilpenguin]

Sat 20th & Sun 21st - extra easy
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breakfast: nothing
lunch: shape yoghurt

OK, so I didn't fill this out on Saturday night and have now forgotten everything I ate. I went over my syns by a lot though. Then on Sunday I kept eating, I stayed good for the first half of the day but then the evening came and I lost it. So the weekend was pretty bad, new start on Monday - definitely.

 

[evilpenguin]

Mon 22nd - extra easy
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breakfast: magic porridge (HEB) with onken strawb yoghurt
lunch: leftover cottage pie from yest. (free)
dinner: honey glazed pork chops, mash, roast veg (1 syn)
snacks: 1/2 a scan bran cake (4.5 syns), satsuma, munched a nibble of tomorrow's pasta salad (0.5 syns?), cheese & chicken toastie (HEA + 1 slice bread 3 syns), single twix (5 syns)

Syns: 14/15

 

[evilpenguin]

Tues 23rd - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB) with choco sprinkles vanilla muller
lunch: chicken pasta salad (mayo 1 syn)
dinner: macaroni cheese (milk 1.5 syns)
snacks: choco orange muller light, wotsits (5 syns), 2 slices wholemeal bread (6 syns) with cheese (HEA), vlf yoghurt with banana, grapes, satsumas

Syns: 13.5 / 15

Was really hungry today but filled up on low syn (ish) snacks and fruit!

 

[evilpenguin]

Weds 24th - extra easy​

This morning was WI and I've gained 1.5lbs. Just read through this diary and no wonder! Been about a week since I ate properly. Keep going over syns, one day I didn't even have any syns, and it just shows you what damage 2 or 3 extra syns a day can do! Imagine if I was still having 20 syns a day every day...

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB) with banana & custard muller, green tea, coffee (milk part HEA)
lunch: chicken pasta salad (mayo 1 syn), shape yoghurt, green tea
dinner: marshalls macaroni (milk HEA)
snacks: wotsits (5 syns), small pack of buttons (3 syns?), satsuma, shape yoghurt

Total syns: 9 / 15

 

[evilpenguin]

Thurs 25th - extra easy​

breakfast: magic porridge (HEB) with choco orange muller, coffee (milk part HEA)
lunch: chicken pasta salad (1 syn), shape yoghurt, satsuma, banana
dinner: marshalls boxed mac + cheese (milk rest of HEA)
snacks: half a scan bran cake (4.5syns) with syrup (2 syns), half a small pack of buttons (1.5 syns), wotsits (5 syns), 1 slice bread (3 syns)

Syns: 17 / 15 (the slice of bread's fault - it was really late and I was really tired and had no idea I'd had all my syns!!)

Also today I done 30mins exercise at the gym

 

[evilpenguin]

Friday 27th - extra easy​

breakfast: green tea, coffee (milk part HEA), magic porridge (HEB) with strawb onken (free! )
lunch: roast chicken sandwiches (bread 6 syns, mayo 0.5 syns), wotsits (5 syns), shape yoghurt
dinner: macaroni cheese in a box (rest of HEA)
snacks: wotsits (5 syns) half pack of funsize buttons (2 syns)

Syns: 12.5 / 15

 

[evilpenguin]

Sat 28th - extra easy​

breakfast/lunch: half of kitkat duo chunky (8 syns)
dinner: macaroni cheese (milk HEA)
snacks: sorbet 50g (3 syns), toast (HEB)

Syns: 11

 

[evilpenguin]

Monday 1st - extra easy​

breakfast: coffee (milk part HEA), green tea, banana
lunch: roast chicken sandwiches (HEB + 1 syn for mayo), quavers (4.5 syns), cherry muller (2 syns), satsumas
dinner: SW cottage pie
snacks: quavers (4.5)

Ok so I missed out Sunday's food diary. I had an OK day up until going to my mum's. Cake, sandwiches, ice cream etc.. it all went wrong.

Total syns: 12 / 15

 

[evilpenguin]

Tues 2nd - extra easy​

Today was my bf's birthday, so we went a little off plan.

brunch: pancakes (5.5 syns), bacon, eggs
dinner: steak, corn on the cob (1 syn for marge), SW chips, prawn kebabs, cheesecake (...lots of syns?)
snacks: pom bears (5 syns), happy hippo (5 or 6 syns I think?)

Syns: way too many!

Everything was OK apart from the cheesecake...!

 

[evilpenguin]

Weds 3rd - extra easy​

This morning was WI and I lost 1lbs.

Today at work I went to a meeting at another site, lunch was provided so the lunch I planned to have is still sitting in the fridge! I had no idea it would be provided and I didn’t even get to choose my own food. So this is how it looks now.

Breakfast: banana, coffee (milk 1 syn)
Lunch: potato + leek soup (not even sure how much of it I had so 3 syns I’m guessing) then I had 1 sandwich (bread HEB) one triangle made up of full fat mayo (5 syns!!) and prawns + smoked salmon, the other half was mayo (5 syns again) and chicken + onion. And I ordered a diet pepsi but I’m convinced I got a full fat pepsi! Not even sure of the syn value..
Dinner: will be risotto
Snacks: coffee with real sugar (1 syn), Mikados – not sure of syn value but I had about 5 of them!

So pretty much a ruined day, thanks to my lovely work providing a lunch that was not diet friendly at all!!!