Needs motivation!

[Maggie23]

I'm starting sw and need some motivation. I hope this forum is it!!
I've lost weight on an extremely low calorie diet before and felt fabulous. I used a forum to keep me on the straight and narrow and found it really effective. Then I went through a break up and piled weight on. Now I'm with a new boyfriend I'm happy and socialise a lot more leading to weight gain!
This morning I woke up after a night out feeling bloated and horrible and decided to do something about it. I've a friend's hen do in a few months and then her wedding and I want to look my best. I used to workout several times a week but have been doing a really long commute and exercise has gone by the wayside.
So today I weighed in at 10st 9 which is the highest I've been at. I expect a pound or two is due to the chips I had in the wee hours of the morning! Still, it galvanised me into action so I did a small (7 min) workout, as I've got a cold at the moment, I made pea soup and did a big shop.
Here's my food diary:
One sainsburys wholemeal thin with 3 Baby Bel light
Sw arrabiata with spaghetti, sweetcorn and 2 reduced fat sausages
Galia melon and two grapes

Which comes to 3 syns!
I hope the sainsburys thin is counted as a Healthy Extra as it was on offer!!

 

[Maggie23]

Yesterday was a good sw day, not a great day in general!! I missed one of my connections so was left standing for 35 minutes in the rain and cold and was late for work. Still, I ate my fruit out of my lunchbox instead of popping into Costa like I normally would!
I didn't get a chance to exercise but hopefully will remedy that today.
So yesterday's meals were:
Melon and grapes and two Babybel light
Pea soup with a wholemeal thin, dairylea light triangle and cherry tomatoes
Sw Arrabiata with sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, spaghetti and two fat reduced sausages
3 syns altogether
(Which I didn't finish until 9.20 so no time to even think about eating anything else)
Then I tried to watch television but I was on the go since before 6am so fell asleep on the couch.
I hadn't read about the third plate speed foods until yesterday so I hope my pea soup recipe is alright- I got it from a colleague who is also doing sw and it's delicious!
Then this morning it's my day off so I've reweighed and I'm definitely starting off at 10st 9 so know I need to stick to it as I don't want to head further into the overweight category.

 

[Maggie23]

Today was pretty successful!
I did a twenty min workout- a jillian Michaels 10 minute one that I got in USA. And then I went doing all my jobs for the day and I walked 12km!
This morning I had:
30g all bran golden crunch with a touch of milk which I don't drink
Pineapple and 1/3 galia melon
Snack of barbecue popchips 17g and 2 Babybel light
And dinner was my homemade chilli recipe with couscous and chopped cucumber
I didn't feel hungry at all but I did bloat terrible after the exercise and cereal (I've Ibs and my stomach swells after a workout)
All in all, just 3.5 syns!
I've prepared lunch and breakfast for tomorrow so I think it's time for a rest.

 

[Maggie23]

Woohoo! Day 4 is done! I know this is healthy eating because I don't feel hungry and I amn't craving sweet things! For that reason, I'm really worried that I won't lose. I've switched my weigh in day from Sunday to Friday because it's my leaving do on Friday and I might be away on Saturday as well so that only leaves a few days to make a loss.
I was really proud of myself today. On Wednesdays I go to a meet up group in Starbucks and I normally get a skinny hot chocolate with syrup (but without cream) and a cake. I would only end up feeling deprived if I didn't get a hot chocolate so I used up my Healthy extra allowance for the milk and didn't have syrup or a cake. The cake alone would have been 18.5 syns! And I didn't really notice so I think that'll be what I'll do from now on.

Breakfast: wholemeal thin with hardboiled egg, half a slice Brunswick ham, half tbsp lighter than light mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce and cherry tomato
Lunch: 50g fusilli pasta with half tin tuna, cucumber, iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes, jalapeños and 1.5tbsp lighter than light mayonnaise
Galia melon
Snack: skinny grande hot chocolate at Starbucks
Dinner: reheated chilli with cucumber and iceberg lettuce

= 6.5 syns
Btw does anyone think lighter than light mayonnaise is like water? I know it's only 1 syn but it doesn't taste of anything which was fine in my pasta salad but kinda wrecked my smoked ham and egg sandwich.

 

[Maggie23]

Today I tried extra easy sp-ing as will be at a friend's for dinner tomorrow and won't have much of a choice in what I eat. Also tomorrow is my first weigh in and although I've stuck religiously to the plan since Sunday I don't think I've lost. If anything, my stomach seems larger than it was before which I think is due to the fibre I'm consuming. Because I have Ibs I avoid anything with seeds or fibre so I think I'll have to swap the wholemeal bread for white and count the syns.
Today I had melon and pineapple for breakfast with two Babybel light,
For lunch: Homemade pea soup and a wholemeal thin with a dairylea light triangle, slice of ham, 2 cherry tomatoes and iceberg lettuce.
They were talking about takeaways at work and by the time I got home at 7.50 I was starving!
So while I was waiting for my dinner I had two slices of ham with sweetcorn and iceberg lettuce
And for dinner: baked sea bass cooked with roasted peppers and cherry tomatoes, crinkle cut butternut squash chips (which I got in sainsburys and worked really well) and a microwave veg pack of tender stem broccoli, sugarsnap peas and carrots.
I'm full and happy now which I never thought I could achieve without loads of carbs!
Dreaded weigh in is tomorrow and part of me thinks maybe I should leave it another week as I'm really enjoying the plan, enjoying the food and don't want to be discouraged by the scales. But on the other hand, if I'm doing something wrong or the plan doesn't suit me, then I'd rather know now than after another week!!

 

[Maggie23]

Yesterday was a bust!
I did fruit salad for breakfast and pea soup and ham rolls of salad for lunch (saving all my syns and healthy extras for dinner).
Then dinner was chicken in haggis with mash and a double cream sauce, followed by a massive doorstop of cake, a pastry, fizzy juice and crisps!!
Very very bad.
But today is a new day. I did not feel great after all that rich food, I don't eat creamy sauces at all. So I didn't actually feel able to eat anything until this evening. So at 5pm I had a mug shot.
I made fish cakes using a sw recipe (I've made better fish cakes) with amazing sw chips (highly recommended, I didn't miss sauce) and a bag of steamed carrots, green beans and peas.
No syns so far so I'll try to keep it that way to make up for yesterday.

 

[Maggie23]

Sunday!!
I'm obviously very good at healthy eating at home but less good when I go out!
I did a workout (and a house clean- that counts right?) yesterday morning and a quick breakfast of pineapple and strawberries before going out to meet my bf. It was a fab sunny day so we got sandwiches and I have no idea how many syns- it was a Vietnamese wrap tuna (with mayonnaise), and lots of veg with vermicelli noodles and wrapped in a rice wrap. Even if it was high in syns- it was quite healthy and delicious. After that I got a skinny hot chocolate- about 5 syns but resisted the amazing donuts so was quite happy with that.
Normally I'd feel like I was going to blow it anyway and get a toastie and a big cake.
Then at home I cooked a sw roast- roast potatoes done in fry light with roast carrots, parsnips and salad (dressing 1.5 syns) , a roast chicken crown from sainsburys which was 6 syns.
Later on, the ice cream in my freezer was calling but I was completely stuffed so decided against it. So I definitely went over on my 15 for the day but don't feel bad about it. Still I need to work at it for the rest of the week- I'm on totm right now- over a week early so I don't think I'll do a weigh in until that's over.