Stokegal's journey from a slummy to yummy mummy!!

[stokegal]

Hi all

Today was day 1 for me. Having spent the past 18 months on and off cd it seems so strange to include food in my diet.

Today I ate....

Breakfast
Nothing

Lunch
Jacket potato and beans

Dinner
Fillet steak and jacket potato
3/4 of a fresh tomato
2 mouthfuls of lettuce

Snack
6x ryvita wholegrain cracker bread (HEB)
6x laughing cow extra light triangles (HEA)
1x slice of smoked salmon
1x pink lady apple
1x banana

Total syns - 0

Total Syns for week - 0 Syns

 

[Emmaline]

Well done on a really good start. Keep it up and you will soon see a different picture and you will feel so much better for it.

You are such a lovely looking young lady and the new hairstyle is brill....

All the best to you...

 

[stokegal]

Thanks Emmaline - those pictures are actually from over a year ago when I did cd - so I'm about 2 and a 1/2 heavier than the first before pic - it devastates me to think about it as I vowed never to get this big again but iv done it once so I can do it again

Today was a funny old day, I've felt like ive snacked all day but had no proper meals... Oops!!

Breakfast
Pink lady apple (my fav and on 2 packs for £3 at tesco currently)
Banana
(I did have a satsuma and nectarine in my fruit bowl but my ds ate it!!)

Lunch
1 x Carrot raw (it was Manhoosive!!!)
2 and a half SW Thai Style Chicken Cakes (again my DS stole half - and nodded with great approval)
Spoonful of low fat cottage cheese with black pepper added

Dinner
SW turkey, broccoli and pasta gratin (1 1/2 Syn) - I made 8 portions of this yesterday and froze it - microwaved it today and it was lush!!

Snacks
1 x muller light - raspberry and cranberry
BLT sandwich with wholemeal bread (heb) and 1 tsp low fat spread (1syn)
5 laughing cow cheese extra light (hea) - ate these at he cinema whilst other half munched on a hot dog

Total Syns - 1.5 Syns

Total Syns for week - 1.5 Syns

 

[stokegal]

Hmmm... Feel like a big piggy today - I've eaten loads...

Breakfast
Bacon, fried egg (frylite), grilled tomato, baked beans, mushrooms (thousands of them lol)

Dinner
Rice (frozen rice - 1 syn but so worth it), a slice of ham chopped, soy sauce and yet more mushrooms
Muller light yogurt - strawberry yum!

Snacks
Pink lady apple
A handful of chips from ds at th football (I reckon about 4 syns)
A mouthful of banana - it had gone mushy
3 slices of ham

Dinner
SW Thai chicken and vegetable curry with Jasmine Rice (2.5 syns)
1 slice of wholemeal bread (1/2 heb)
Muller light yogurt - Cherry (again - yum!!)

Snacks
Mouthful of tuna (tomorrow's lunch so was just tasting it)
3 x wholegrain crisp bread (1/2 heb)
3 x laughing cow extra light
Pink lady apple (I'm obsessed!!)

Total Syns - 7.5

Total Syns for week - 9 Syns

 

[stokegal]

Been SOOO hungry think I'm coming up to my Star week as I've been craving chocolate and I never do that

Breakfast
Pink lady apple (I'm obsessed with them!!!)

Lunch
Mahoosive salad with
Lettuce, tomato, egg, low fat cottage cheese, tuna with vinegar, carrot, slice of smoked salmon
3 x crisp bread (1/2 heb)
3 x laughing cow cheese extra light (1/2 hea)
Muller light yogurt

Snack
4 slices of ham

I'm always so hungry after work - I need to break the habit of snacking her but I'm doing better - it use to be a pre packed sandwich on the way home or 2 bags of crisps!!!

Dinner
KFC style chicken (3 syns)
SW chips
Baked Beans
Muller light yogurt

Snack
Pink lady apple - it's official I'm obsessed!!!
3 x crisp bread (1/2 heb)
3 x laughing cow cheese extra light (1/2 hea)
Approx 200g strawberries

Total Syns - 3

Total Syns for week - 12 Syns

Is it bad that I am eyeing up my last pink lady apple

 

[stokegal]

Feeling low today - bad day at work has really made me feel bad. Normally I would come home and stuff my face but today I don't even have the energy for it, just want to curl up in bed and cry, think I may be coming up to my star week as I'm really craving chocolate

Breakfast
Nothing

Lunch
SW turkey, broccoli and pasta gratin (1.5 syns)

Snack
Pink lady apple
3x Wholegrain Crisp Bread (1/2 heb)
3x laughing cow extra light (1/2 hea)

Dinner
SW Minced beef hash with extra mushrooms

Snack
Mullerlight yogurt
3x Wholegrain Crisp Bread (1/2 heb)
3x laughing cow extra light (1/2 hea)
2x slices of smoked salmon
Approx 200g of strawberries

Total syns - 1.5 Syns

Total Syns for week - 13.5 Syns

 

[stokegal]

As if I couldn't feel any worse I had a sneaky weigh in and I've not lost anything, nothing... Not a lb!! Is my diet really that bad?? Its my first week and I feel so disheartened

 

[stokegal]

Still feeling like rubbish today silly work, I'm still resisting the urge to binge though

Breakfast
Nothing

Lunch
SW Turkey, broccoli and pasta gratin (1.5 Syns)
Muller light yogurt

Snack
2 laughing cow cheeses (1/3 of hea) wrapped in 3 slices of ham
Activia yogurt (1/2 Syn)

Dinner
SW chicken tikka masala
1/2 pack frozen rice (1/2 Syn)
1/2 portion of Bombay potatoes made with Schwartz Mix (2.5 Syns)

Snack
Pink lady apple (my stock is replenished!!!)
Quavers Crisps (5.5 Syns)
Cupcake (10 Syns)

Total Syns - 20.5 Syns

Total Syns for week - 34 Syns

 

[stokegal]

God where to start with yesterday's food... It all went wrong, it became my totm which explained my feeling sorry for myself and I officially fell off the wagon

Breakfast
Nothing

Lunch
Jacket potato with tuna Mayo (not even counting syns after what I had for dinner!)
Packet of plain French fries

Snack
1 small piece of banana loaf
1 segment of tweets chocolate orange
1 finger of twix

Dinner.... Oops!!
Mcdonalds - large fries, mctasty with bacon, cheesy bites with a diet coke - my saving grace

It was my first weigh in last night and I lost 4lb (before the mcdonalds) so onwards and upwards!!

Total Syns - about a million

Total Syns for the week - lots!!!!

 

[stokegal]

Breakfast
Nothing - i need to start eating breakfast again!!!

Lunch
Pink lady apple
Banana

Snack
Pink lady apple
Bachelors low fat chilli chicken supernoodles

Dinner
Chicken in Maggi Garlic Sauce (2.5 syns)
Ainsley Harriott Cous Cous (1/2 syn)
Lettuce, tomato, carrot, cottage cheese

Snack
Active yogurt - 1/2 syn

Still need to have healthy extra's but I'm stuffed - may have a late night cheese on toast treat when I get back from the pub tonight

Total Syns - 3.5 Syns

Total Syns for the week - 3.5 Syns

 

[stokegal]

Hea and b used

2 slices of wholemeal toast with 28g cheese and Worcester sauce - yummy!!