Nikki's Operation Slim Diary

[Nikkibee]

Hello everyone,

Well I've been browsing the page for a while and thought I would start up my own diary so that I could share what I'm eating and people could help me point out if I'm doing anything wrong or share any tips or hints.

A bit about me....I've been dieting on and off since 2007...I took a break between 08-09 as I had my little boy but always been in and out and have always followed the old weightwatchers plan at home....At my heaviest i was nearly 24 stone...and a size 26-28, ive manage to get down to 16st and a size 16-18 now and still have a long way to go....my first goal is 14 stone but will then reassess once I get there. I managed to loose a big chunk of the weight between 2010-11 for our wedding and we got married in May 2011 and I was the smallest I had been and my dress was taken in from a 24-20 which was a great moment. I then went on to loose another 2 stone and that is where it stopped...until this year when I kept taking two steps forward and 3 back and it just didnt seem to work anymore, so I grabbed two friends and we headed off to slimming world. This is my second week and I WI on Thursday. My first WI was fantastic with a 6.5lb loss which is the biggest loss I have ever had to date. finally something I starting to work for me again! I'm following the Extra Easy plan and so far really enjoying actually feeling full something I haven't experienced for such a long time

I shall start from tomorrow with my diary and hope to keep it up as writing it down really helps to keep me on track.

Nikki xx

 

[Bean Feast]

That's a great story, having to have your dress taken in. You sound very determined and I agree, it is nice to feel full. Well done on such a big loss, 6 1/2 lbs is brilliant. Good luck with the rest of the plan, I look forward to following how you are doing.

 

[Nikkibee]

Hello Again...

Had internet issues so was unable to upload diary but should be back on track and able to upload today! WI was last night and im now another 1.5lbs done...chuffed with that as i have now lost 8lbs resulting in me recieving my first 1/2 stone award!! Yay!! xxx

 

[Nikkibee]

So today's food looks like this:

Breakfast

Milk - HEA
Fruit and Fibre - HEB
Strawberries
Raspberries

Lunch

Thai mug shot - 0.5 syns
Carrots
Apple
Orange

Dinner

Homemade wedges with season all
Bernard Matthew chicken slices
Lettuce
Tomato
Curcumber
Balsamic vinegar

Snacks

Muller light vanilla and chocolate
Fox's caramel thin - 1.5 syns
WW mini roll - 3.5 syns
Packet of space raiders - 6 syns

Total syns - 11.5


Quite a good day today! Tried the wedges and they were lovely added a bit of season all spice and they were delish! We went to a local fair this evening with the monkey and these helped me from snacking on the fair food that was on offer and there was plenty of it. So pleased with today hoping for another good loss this week! x

 

[Nikkibee]

Hello again...to anyone reading! Hope your enjoying your weekends

Been a busy day finishing off getting things ready for my little boy who starts "big boy" school Wednesday.

So today's diary ended up like this:

Breakfast

Coffee - milk HEA
Wholemeal bread x2 - HEB
Mushrooms
Scrambled egg
Ketchup - 1tbsp - 1 syn
Light flora 2tsp - 2 syns

Lunch - had a cheeky nandos for lunch

Butterfly chicken lemon and herb - 3.5 syns (I actually took the skin off this so works out syn free but using 3.5 just in case)
Corn on the cob
Side salad

Dinner

Homemade paprika wedges
3 x bernard Matthew turkey slices
3 x chicken tikka slices
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Balsamic vinegar

Snacks

Muller light toffee
Apple
Aldi cheese curls - 3 syns
WW mini chocolate roll - 3.5 syns

Total syns - 13/15

So another top day. Going to try and get more fruit and veg in tomorrow and lots of water!! Really gonna try and get a good loss this week. Any tips welcome xx
Cucumber

 

[Nikkibee]

Hey everyone,

Busy day today....dare I say it.....I started my Xmas shopping today I like to be organised hehe and with a little boy who's turning 5 I need a small mortgage for the toys and games this year. How comes Santa gets it so easy lol! So I have a list as long as my arm for little one which is handy as his birthday is also in December lol. Managed to clock up lots of steps got t round the shops too.. Haha.

Anyway today's diary looks like this

Breakfast

Coffee
Milk - HEA
Fruit and fibre - HEB
Raspberries
Strawberries

Lunch

Lettuce
Tomato
Cucumber
Balsamic vinegar
Chicken tikka slices
Orange x2
Apple

Dinner

Chicken roasted
Roast potatoes
Stuffing - 1.5 syns
Gravy. - 1.5 syns
Carrots
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Peas


Snacks

Muller light vanilla
Banana
Grapes
Kiwi
Foxes caramel thin x2 - 3
Aldi cheese curls - 3
Ww mini rolls - 3.5

Drinks

Coffee - x5
Squash x1
Diet orange fizz - 1 pint

Total syns - 12.5/15

Goal for tomorrow - drink more fluids preferably water!!

 

[Nikkibee]

Another 100% day under my belt although very hard. We had a 5th and 3rd birthday party to go to today which meant only one thing.......lots of party food, fizzy drinks and CAKE!! But......I didn't touch a thing. very pleased. I'm a real nightmare for a buffet and tend to roar in and just keep going back for me so was very impressed with myself.

So today looks like this:

Breakfast

Milk - left over from yesterday's HEA
Fruit and fibre - HEB
Raspberries
Strawberries

Lunch

Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Spring onion
Chicken tikka slices
Balsamic vinegar
Carrot buttons
Orange
Kiwi

Dinner

Jacket potato
Cheese 30g cheddar - HEA
Salad cream - 2 syns
Tiny bit of butter half teaspoon - 1 syn
Lettuce
Tomato
Cucumber
Balsamic vinegar
Turkey slices

Snacks

Mullerlight mandarin(yuck)
Orange
Aldi cheese curls - 3 syns
WW mini roll - 3.5

Total syns 10/15

Woo hoo only 2 days to go till WI xx

 

[Nikkibee]

Sould as drinks woops:

3 coffees
1 tea
3 glasses of water
1 glass of diet tango

 

[littlemisspiggy16]

Hello :wavey:

Found your diary! Looking good so far, impressed you resisted the buffet - not sure I'd be able to.

Wow you're organised with your christmas shopping. Mine's usually left until the week before, lol. Though guess you can't do that with a little one. Are you nervous about hus first day at big school? Hope it goes well!

X

 

[Nikkibee]

Hello :wavey:

Found your diary! Looking good so far, impressed you resisted the buffet - not sure I'd be able to.

Wow you're organised with your christmas shopping. Mine's usually left until the week before, lol. Though guess you can't do that with a little one. Are you nervous about hus first day at big school? Hope it goes well!

X

Aw thanks for saying hello, nice to know someone us reading! was so hard and had another birthday again today!! Finding it hard to resist all the cake but I did. Woop :-D

Haha I sound super organised but I will be rushing around with everyone else still on Xmas eve hehe!

Aww thank you.
I'm so nervous and sad cant believe its that time already and he's my only one so I'm going to feel so lost! But.....must not eat biscuits...must exercise instead lol!

So how are you finding SW have you been doing it long?

Xx

 

[Nikkibee]

Well today has been crazy...running around doing school bits and bobs ready for tomorrow (well today now) and also had another birthday party.....I can't believe it but I managed to resist cake...TWICE! And I really love cake...instead I had a nice juicy nectarine :-/ did the job but not even close to how the cake would have been but as they say nothing tastes as good as slim feels. (I've said that to myself 100 times today...rekon people are starting to think I've lost it all this talking to myself )

Anywho today looks like this:

Breakfast

The usual
Milk - HEA
Fruit and fibre - HEB
Raspberries and strawberries

Lunch

Rice
Green peppers
Onion
Mushrooms
Soy sauce
Orange
Nectarine

Dinner

Bernard Matthew chicken slices
New potatoes
Salad cream - ( 2 syns )
Lettuce
Tomato
Cucumber

Snacks

Strawberry muller light
Orange
Aldi cheese curls (3 syns)
Caramel rocky - (5 syns)

Total syns - 10/15

Drinks

Coffee x3
Tea
3 bottles of water (Must improve)

I'm off to an outside gym tomorrow after I've dropped my little one off to big boy school in hope that it stops me reaching for the biscuits

Nothing feels as good as slim feels
Nothing feels as good as slim feels
Nothing feels as good.........

 

[littlemisspiggy16]

So how are you finding SW have you been doing it long?

Xx

I first tried SW ages ago, didn't really lose on it (or more lost & put on the same few pounds over & over) - that of course was due to not sticking to plan properly, lol.

I have tried soooo many diets & my problem is although at times I can be super good & even stick to fairly strict diets (except shakes, which I've never tried! Love food too much, lol) on a fairly regular basis I have to have a splurge. This could be due a night out - I just don't enjoy going to a restaurant anywhere near as much if I order the 'healthy' option or if I don't have at least 1/2 a bottle of wine & a couple of post-dinner drinks. I know this is just due to my attitude / way of thinking but I'm not sure it's something I'll ever change. I also have a tendency to binge now & then

So I'm now doing a kind of SW / 5:2 combo, with my hope being that the low cal days will compensate for going over syns on the SW days.

Sorry for the long post on your diary! I also have a tendancy to ramble a bit, lol.

X

 

[Nikkibee]

I first tried SW ages ago, didn't really lose on it (or more lost & put on the same few pounds over & over) - that of course was due to not sticking to plan properly, lol.

I have tried soooo many diets & my problem is although at times I can be super good & even stick to fairly strict diets (except shakes, which I've never tried! Love food too much, lol) on a fairly regular basis I have to have a splurge. This could be due a night out - I just don't enjoy going to a restaurant anywhere near as much if I order the 'healthy' option or if I don't have at least 1/2 a bottle of wine & a couple of post-dinner drinks. I know this is just due to my attitude / way of thinking but I'm not sure it's something I'll ever change. I also have a tendency to binge now & then

So I'm now doing a kind of SW / 5:2 combo, with my hope being that the low cal days will compensate for going over syns on the SW days.

Sorry for the long post on your diary! I also have a tendancy to ramble a bit, lol.

X

Hehe ramble away I love to hear other people's stories.

I'm the same but I also think however much I need to lose weight I don't want a diet to end up ruling my life and I think SW seems to fit in better than anything else I've tried. It means I can still socialise with people and enjoy myself and cause you can have so many carbs I don't feel like its so bad.

How does the SW/5:2 combo work I've never heard of it?! Xx

 

[Nikkibee]

Sorry for anyone reading been a bit rubbish keeping up with my diary :-( been a busy few days will get on track updating from tomorrow but been 100% still and had WI this evening and lost 2.5lbs total of 10.5lbs in 3 weeks very chuffed with that!

Roll on next week

 

[littlemisspiggy16]

Sorry for anyone reading been a bit rubbish keeping up with my diary :-( been a busy few days will get on track updating from tomorrow but been 100% still and had WI this evening and lost 2.5lbs total of 10.5lbs in 3 weeks very chuffed with that!

Roll on next week

Woo hoo! Yay to being 100%! It certainly seems to have off, thats a fab loss so far

I think the 5:2 / SW combo is slightly made up! So not sure how common it is. I basically try & fast (well stick to 500 kcal) 2 days a week & follow SW the rest. I like it because it's so much more forgiving if you go overs syns a couole of days a week. I don't find the fast days too hard as I've never been much of a breakfast eater so have a mid afternoon snak & a proper evening meal. Sometimes I'll have 700-800 kcal if I'm feeling hungry, but generally aim for 500 kcal. I've been getting losses of about 1.5 lb / week (which for me is by far the highest out of all diets I've tried!) & that's with going over my weekly syns.

Have a gd weekend - I'm so glad it's Friday!

X

 

[Nanny Doreen]

Hello Nikki. Just subscribing to your diary.

(((Been a busy day finishing off getting things ready for my little boy who starts "big boy" school Wednesday. )))

My Grandson started big school on Wed too. He lives an hour away but I was sent a photo. Emotional.

Hope you son is getting on alright at school, like his mum doing well on her new way of eating. x

 

[Nikkibee]

Woo hoo! Yay to being 100%! It certainly seems to have off, thats a fab loss so far

I think the 5:2 / SW combo is slightly made up! So not sure how common it is. I basically try & fast (well stick to 500 kcal) 2 days a week & follow SW the rest. I like it because it's so much more forgiving if you go overs syns a couole of days a week. I don't find the fast days too hard as I've never been much of a breakfast eater so have a mid afternoon snak & a proper evening meal. Sometimes I'll have 700-800 kcal if I'm feeling hungry, but generally aim for 500 kcal. I've been getting losses of about 1.5 lb / week (which for me is by far the highest out of all diets I've tried!) & that's with going over my weekly syns.

Have a gd weekend - I'm so glad it's Friday!

X

Ooh sounds really interesting my aunty follows a diet similar to that and it seems to be working wondered for her! 1.5lb loss every week is really good.

Hope you have a fab weekend too! xx

 

[Nikkibee]

Hello Nikki. Just subscribing to your diary.

(((Been a busy day finishing off getting things ready for my little boy who starts "big boy" school Wednesday. )))

My Grandson started big school on Wed too. He lives an hour away but I was sent a photo. Emotional.

Hope you son is getting on alright at school, like his mum doing well on her new way of eating. x

Hello Doreen,

Thanks for subscribing :-D

Aww bless such a big thing for them isn't it, and so much to do. But yes very emotional think I cried most of the day but he's loving every second. thank you xx

 

[Nikkibee]

Another day under the belt and thank god it's Friday, I don't know about the monkey but this school malarkey has knackered me right out, I even had a cheeky nap on the sofa this after noon! I blame the big brunch. Oh well back to work next week :-( why does time off fly so fast?!

Anyway today looks like this:

Breakfast:

Coffee
Milk - HEA (only had half as wanted some cheese with my dinner)
Banana

Brunch

Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary sausages - (first time for trying and they weren't to bad cooked 3 but only managed 1.5 so filling)
2 eggs
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Frylight fried Potatoes
Spaghetti hoops
Ketchup - (1 syn)
Butter - (2 syns)
2 x wholemeal bread - HEB

Dinner

Jacket potato
Turkey slices
Cheese - 1/2 HEA
Lettuce
Tomato
Cucumber
Balsamic vinegar
Salad cream - (2 syns)

Snacks

Nectarine
Plums
Aldi cheese curls - (3 syns)
WW mini roll - ( 3.5 syns)

Total syns - 11/15

Drinks

Coffee x2
Tea x1
Water 500mls x2

 

[Nanny Doreen]

Afternoon Nikki. Food looking good. Your brunch sound really lovely. I keep meaning to try those sausages but forget when I get to supermarket. Must put a note on my fone for the next time I go shopping.

My grandson has settled very well in "big school" . He has an older sister in this school who he sees at playtime, I think that may have helped. Can`t wait to see him so he can tell me all about it.