Penny's food diary

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I haven't done SW for a couple of years, and started this morning. I'm going to try to keep a diary for the next few weeks to keep me on track.

Friday

Weetabix & milk HEB HEA
Fruit salad & yogurt

Banana

Pasta salad (2 syns)
Fruit salad

Chicken kebab & pitta HEB
Mayo (3 syns)
2 slices garlic bread & cheese (10 syns)

2 m&m's peanut (0.5 syns)
2 squares galaxy (2 syns)

Tea & coffee HEA
Water x 3 pts

Syns for day 17.5
Syns for week 17.5

Today was going well until OH suggested we get takeout, so I could watch the tennis, then they delivered free garlic bread with the takeout. I had the 2 smallest pieces, and the rest went in the bin. Only bonus is that if I hadn't been thinking SW I could have eaten chips, more garlic bread, more chocolate etc..

I'm off to a boozy BBQ tomorrow, so will try to stick to meat and salad.

 

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Saturday

Knowing I was going to a BBQ tonight I tried to minimise what Healthy Extras and syns I had during the day. Although if I had eaten something not long before we left I might have managed to leave the crisps and dips alone.

However, I have still got 46 syns to last 5 days, so not a disaster.

Fruit salad & yogurt
Mushroom omelette & beans (2 syns for oil/butter)
Fruit salad & yogurt
Banana, strawberries, cherries
4 squares galaxy (4 syns)
Crisps and dips (10 syns)
Jkt potato, salad, coleslaw, potato salad, lamb chop, sausage, burger (HEB + 5 syns)
Chocolate cheesecake (8 syns)

Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 1 (HEA)
Gin & tonic (2.5 syns)
2 x sm red wine (10 syns)

Syns for day 41.5
Syns for week 59

 

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Sunday

Weetabix & milk (HEA,HEB)
Tuna Mayo salad (3 syns)
Southern fried chicken, w/meal roll, lettuce, homechips, mayo, 2 x cheese slices (HEB, HEA + 15.5 syns)
Fruit salad, sm scoop ice-cream (5 syns)
Water x 8 glasses

Syns for day 23.5
Syns for week 82.5

 

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Monday

Back to work, and away from all the weekend temptations. Really pleased to have stuck to 3 syns, especially as I'm not remotely hungry. Helps to balance out the weekend excesses !!


Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Fruit salad (pineapple, melon, strawberries, cherries)
Banana
Pasta, courgette, tomato, mushroom, green & red peppers, onion, tiny bit of dressing (1 syn)
Fruit salad (as above)
Cajun Chicken salad, new potatoes, Mayo (HEB + 2 syns)

Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 1 (HEA)

Syns for day 3
Syns for week 85.5

 

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Tuesday

Another 100% day, really pleased to now be back on track with my syns.

Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Fruit salad (pineapple, melon, strawberries, cherries) + 0.5 vanilla mullerlight
Banana
Jkt potato, beans, laughing cows, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, Mayo (0.5 HEA + 1 syn)
Fruit salad (as above)
Spaghetti carbonara (1 rasher bacon, 20g parmesan, 1 egg) (HEB)

Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 1 (0.5 HEA)

Syns for day 1
Syns for week 85.5

 

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Wednesday

So the day started off well, then one of my colleagues went to the chippy for lunch. I said no thanks when he asked if anyone wanted anything. But then he only ate half his chips, and offered the remainder between me and one of my colleagues - just too tempting. However, I'm on a green day and have counted the syns. Then out came the biscuits. I declined the first and second times they were offered around, but the third time I was in the middle of a major rant about one of our departments expecting me to do most of their work and took one gratefully. I did only have 1 so stayed within my syns, just not quite as I'd planned.

Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Fruit salad (pineapple, melon, strawberries, cherries) + 0.5 vanilla mullerlight
Banana
Pasta salad (courgette, onion, red & green peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes)
Leftover chip shop chips (4.5 syns)
Shortbread biscuit (4.5 syns)
Fruit salad
Spaghetti bolognese (HEB), sm piece garlic bread (5 syns)


Water x 4 glasses
Diet coke x 2 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 1 (0.5 HEA)

Syns for day 14
Syns for week 99.5

Really pleased to have managed to have a difficult day without coming off plan.

 

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Thursday

After yesterday's almost wobble, I was completely committed today. Attended a Zumba class, and stayed 100% all day
First weigh-in tomorrow, and I've stayed within my syns for the week (just!)

Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Banana
Grapes and cherries
Vegetable curry with rice (4 syns)
Raspberries with vanilla mullerlight.
Sweetcorn omelette with salad (0.5 syn)


Water x 10 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 1 (0.5 HEA)

Syns for day 4.5
Syns for week 104

 

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Friday

Woo hoo 3.5 lbs off (or quarter of a stone ) Really motivated for today

Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Fruit salad & vanilla mullerlight
Banana
Jacket potato with Quorn Chilli
Fruit salad
Banana
Homemade burger, w/meal roll, sm portion rustic oven chips (6 syns)
Bottle peroni (7 syns)


Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 0 and coffee x 2 (0.5 HEA)

Syns for day 13
Syns for week 13

 

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Saturday

Today's plan is to choose what I want to eat and as long as I count the syns anything is fine.

Weetabix & Milk (HEA, HEB)
Bacon & egg w/meal roll (HEB + 3 syns)
Banana
3/4 large cookie (6 syns)
Steak, mushrooms, few Rustic chips, coleslaw, salad, (8 syns)
Vanilla ice-cream (10 syns)


Water x 4 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 3 (HEA)
Wine x 2 glasses (8 syns)

Syns for day 35
Syns for week 48

Pleased with stopping eating the cookie when I'd had enough - Mum finished it off for me

 

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Sunday

It's still the weekend, so slightly less concerned about syns than I am in the week .

Bacon & mushroom w/meal roll (HEB + 2 syns)
Tuna roll (6 syns)
SF chicken, w/meal roll, lettuce, mayo (HEB + 6 syns)
Ice cream (10 syns)


Water x 4 glasses
Orange juice (3 syns)
Tea x and coffee x 1 (HEA)

Syns for day 27
Syns for week 75

 

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Monday

Back to normal after the weekend

Weetabix & Milk (HEA + HEB)
Fruit salad & Mullerlight vanilla
Pasta salad (0.5 HEA + 2 syns)
Fruit salad
Chicken breast, salad, new potatoes, coleslaw (HEB + 3 syns)
20g chocolate (4 syns)



Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 2 and coffee x 1 (0.5 HEA)
Diet coke x 1

Syns for day 9
Syns for week 84

 

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Tuesday

I love the way that 1 day on low syns can get you easily back within your weekly limit after a mischievous weekend. 2 days to go 20 syns left

Weetabix & Milk (HEA + HEB)
Fruit salad & Mullerlight vanilla
Quorn chilli & rice
Banana
McCain Rustic chips, beans, 20g cheese, tiny bit of Mayo (HEB + 1 syn)

Water x glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 2 (0.5 HEA)


Syns for day 1
Syns for week 85

 

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Wednesday

Busy day today, didn't get the chance to eat fruit as I usually do, and only ate half my lunch, if I'd been at home tonight I'd have struggled to stay on plan, thankfully I wasn't

Weetabix & Milk (HEA + HEB)
Pasta and roasted veg
Ham & asparagus toad in the hole, salad (0.5 HEA, 0.5 HEB, 6 syns)


Water x 8 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 2 (0.5 HEA)


Syns for day 6
Syns for week 91

 

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Thursday

Weetabix & Milk (HEA + HEB)
Fruit salad & mullerlight
Ham mushroom tagliatelle (8 syns)
Banana
Chicken, rustic chips & beans (HEB + 2 syns)
3 breadsticks (6 syns)


Water x 6 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 2 (0.5 HEA)


Syns for day 16
Syns for week 107

 

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Friday

Last day at work today, start new job on Monday. Chinese buffet planned for lunchtime. Going to try to eat what I want to eat without going crazy.


Weetabix & Milk (HEA + HEB)
Chinese buffet (lots of syns)
Mug shot

Water x 4 glasses
Tea x 1 and coffee x 1 (0.5 HEA)
1 bottle Peroni (7 syns)

Kept the buffet under control, I just had 1 spoonful of everything I fancied. I've had a look at some typical syn values for some of the fattier Chinese foods, and am just going to make an estimate of my syns for the day

Syns for day 40
Syns for week 40