Went to some friends house last night for dinner, I agreed with my hubby before I went that I would drive home so that I had a reason not to have a drink! (avoided those syns!)
My friends knows I'm on a diet so agreed to do a healthier meal, and cook rather than us ordering it (which I was really grateful for)
Got there and it was sausages (like the worse thing!), with roasted sweet potato and honey roasted parsnips with a marsala wine onion gravy and streamed green beans! followed by a small cake with very small spoon of ice-cream!
Now I didn't want to be rude as they had gone to so much effort with him and his new girlfriend cooking, so I had it all!, I did however not mop up my gravy like I would have in the past and tried to eat as little as possible of that. (was a lot left on my plate of gravy)
Got back home and worked out my syns straight away and felt like crying :cry:
18 Syns just for the sausages (3 of the Tesco finest ones at 6 syns each!)
11 syns for the bit of cake I had! (was a small Mr Kipping one)
Now as I don't know how much syns to count for the gravy or how much oil was used on veg. I've marked down 11 to make a round even 40 syns for the evening! :sigh:
Now don't get me wrong I had a great evening but with weigh in on Wednesday after work I am going for no syn days between now and then to try and claw back.
Just makes you realise that a meal somebody thinks as being healthy actually works out worse than if we would have had take away!
Anyway back on it now and lets hope for anything but a gain on Wednesday!
My friends knows I'm on a diet so agreed to do a healthier meal, and cook rather than us ordering it (which I was really grateful for)
Got there and it was sausages (like the worse thing!), with roasted sweet potato and honey roasted parsnips with a marsala wine onion gravy and streamed green beans! followed by a small cake with very small spoon of ice-cream!
Now I didn't want to be rude as they had gone to so much effort with him and his new girlfriend cooking, so I had it all!, I did however not mop up my gravy like I would have in the past and tried to eat as little as possible of that. (was a lot left on my plate of gravy)
Got back home and worked out my syns straight away and felt like crying :cry:
18 Syns just for the sausages (3 of the Tesco finest ones at 6 syns each!)
11 syns for the bit of cake I had! (was a small Mr Kipping one)
Now as I don't know how much syns to count for the gravy or how much oil was used on veg. I've marked down 11 to make a round even 40 syns for the evening! :sigh:
Now don't get me wrong I had a great evening but with weigh in on Wednesday after work I am going for no syn days between now and then to try and claw back.
Just makes you realise that a meal somebody thinks as being healthy actually works out worse than if we would have had take away!
Anyway back on it now and lets hope for anything but a gain on Wednesday!