Trying my Best - Food Diary to see if I actually am *lol*

[Rach*B]

OK, so I'm doing this from home, with the green food optimising book that my best friend gave me when she decided SW wasn't for her.

I'm learning as I go, and will note anything that I know I've done wrong. If you see anything I've done wrong that I don't seem to have noticed, PLEASE let me know

Also just to mention, I was a jar, tin, and ping (microwave) cooker before, so trying to make everything from scratch is part of the battle

Last thing: I have given up drinking alcohol for February, from March onwards it will probably re-appear *lol*

With all that said and done, let's start....

Week 1: 1st - 7th Feb
(Starting weight 11st 10lb 3/4)

1st
Breakfast: 28g All bran, 212g green milk (inclusing cup of tea). Grapes & banana
Dinner: Tin of tuna, 1 tbsp light mayo (2.5 syns), sweetcorn
Tea: Beef stir fry, noodles, Blue Dragon jar of sauce
Snacks: Grapes, kiwi, banana & natural yogurt. Cherry tomatoes.
SYNS: 15+ due to jarred sauce?
Exercise: 2 miles. 250 cal. 30 min walk

2nd
Breakfast: Omelette (ham, onion, peppers, sweetcorn, mushroom, frylight - NO cheese), milk (2.5 syns)
Dinner: Home-made burgers (mince, spring onion, chives, salt, pepper, chilli, garlic, mozzarella (hexa), wholemeal barm (slightly bigger than hexb so 2 syns?)
Tea: Pasta, chopped tomatoes, and some of left over hexa cheese
Snacks: Cups of tea (2 syns)
SYNS: 6.5?
Exercise: None

3rd
Breakfast: 1 big of big white bread (7 syns), poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (1 syn), cup of tea
Dinner: Pasta with tinned tomatoes. Apple.
Tea: Chicken, minced jar garlic (2 syns?), sweetcorn, peppers, onions, mushroom, broccoli, tagliatelle
Snacks: Cup of tea, 200ml green milk
SYNS: 10
Exercise: 3.5 miles. 425 cals. 30 mins

4th
Breakfast: 1 piece of big white bread (7 syns), 1 laughing cow light triangle
Dinner: 1 egg, mushroom and ham muffin
Tea: Bacon, 2 fried eggs (2 syns), tomatoes, mushrooms, beans and SW chips
Snacks: 2 apples, 2 cups of tea, 1 alpen light, 150ml green milk
SYNS: 9
Exercise: None

5th
Breakfast: Cut fruit, 125g fat free blueberry yogurt (1 syn)
Dinner: 1 egg, mushroom and ham muffin with beans
Tea: Chicken stir fry, noodles, soy sauce jar of Blue Dragon chow mein (15 syns)
Snacks: 1/2 apple, 42g low fat cheese on 2 pieces of wholemeal toast
SYNS: 16
Exercise: None

6th
Breakfast: 2 poached eggs on 2 pieces of wholemeal bread, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns)
Dinner: Breaded chicken breast (8 syns), mixed veg, home-made potato wedges, fry light, tobasco
Tea: Pasta, ham, mushroom and cherry tomatoes
Snacks: 1 cup of tea
SYNS: 10
Exercise: 5 miles. 605 cals. 55 mins

7th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal toast, bacon, scrambled egg, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms
Dinner: Missed
Tea: Mushroom with cheese (hexa). Tuna, 2 tbsp light mayo (5 syns), jacket potato, fat free flavoured yogurt (1 syn) Cut fruit
Snacks: Cup of tea
SYNS: 6
Exercise: None

 

[Ally89]

It looks mostly right. All Bran you can now have 35g of instead of 28g. most of the dinner's doesn't look like you are eating a lot. Could maybe throw in more superfree foods. Otherwise looks ok to me.

 

[Rach*B]

Week 2: 8th - 14th Feb
(Weight: 11st 8lbs. Lost: 2lb 3/4)

8th
Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs and beans, 1 cup of tea
Dinner: 2 cut apples
Tea: Homemade curried chicken with onion, musroom, peppers, and courgette on skewers. Homemade spicy wedges, fry light, lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes
Snacks: 2 SW strawberry fairy cakes (6 syns) 200ml green milk. Alpen bar
SYNS: 6
Exercise: 5 miles. 605 cals. 1 hour.

9th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal bread, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns)
Dinner: Missed
Tea: Spag Bol (mince, chopped tomatoes, passata, courgettes, peppers, mushroom, onions, tagliatelle. Fruit salad.
Snacks: Cup of tea. Fruit salad. 2 SW fairy cakes (6 syns). 300ml red milk
SYNS: 8
Exercise: None

10th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal bread, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns), 1 fat free flavoured yogurt (1 syn)
Dinner: Yellow plum, tangerine, carrot
Tea: Left over spag bol on jacket potato with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, cherry tomatoes, mushroom and mange tout. 2 SW fairy cakes (6 syns) Fruit salad.
Snacks: Cup of tea. Small bottle of diet lemonade. 200ml green milk. Milky Bar (3.5 syns)
SYNS: 12.5
Exercise: None

11th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns), cup of tea
Dinner: Fruit salad
Tea: Home-made chicken curry (2 syns), rice, 3 home-made pakoras (1 syn)
Snacks: Fruit salad. Small bottle of lemonade. 200ml green milk.
SYNS: 5
Exercise: None

12th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal eggy bread, fruit salad, cup of tea
Dinner: Home-made pakoras (1 syn)
Tea: Home-made baseless quiche (1 syn), wedges, fry light, salad. Home-made mousse (5 syns)
Snacks: Ham, tomato, mushroom, cucumber. 200ml green milk
SYNS: 7
Exercise: None

13th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of wholemeal eggy bread with 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns)
Dinner: Cold leftover quiche (1 syn) with cherry tomatoes
Tea: Home-made chicken and bacon pasta bake with 1/2 hexa cheese
Snacks: Fresh pineapple, cup of tea (1 syn), fruit salad, 100ml green milk
SYNS: 4
Exercise: None

14th
Breakfast: 2 pieces of white weight watchers bread (7 syns?), 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns), cup of tea
Dinner: Pakora (1 syn), mushroom, tomato, cucumber
Tea: Leftover pasta
Snacks: None
SYNS: 10
Exercise: 4.96 miles. 600 cals. 65 mins


Realised part way through the week that wholemeal bread does NOT include Seed Sensations :cry:
I also slightly over syn some things just in case...
I also usually get through 1-2lts of water on none exercisey days (sounds better than lazy days), 2-3lts on exercising days.

 

[Ally89]

most peoples downfall is underestimating syns, if your unsure ask, someone will look up the syns online for you Otherwise you seem to be doing fine

 

[Rach*B]

Week 3: 15th - 21st Feb
(Weight: 11st 5lb 1/2, lost 2lb 1/2)

15th:
Breakfast: bacon, 2 fried eggs (2 syns), beans, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, cup of tea (1 syn)
Dinner: 1/2 wholemeal roll (full hexb)
Tea: Beef, leek, carrots, mange tout, mushroom, onion, gravy (just from meat, mushrooms and onions), SW chips, fry light
Snacks: Fruit salad. Small bottle of Diet coke (*really* dislike coke with Southern Comfort - oops) 250ml green milk
SYNS: 3
Exercise: None

16th
Breakfast: Omelette (1 syn), yogurt (1 syn) cup of tea (1 syn)
Dinner: None
Tea: Beef etc as yesterday but with boiled potatoes
Snacks: 2 alpen light
SYNS: 3
Exercise: 2.64. 320 cals. 30 mins (really struggled today, couldn't get my mind to it =S)

17th
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal bread, beans, beetroot. Banana, apple, grapes
Dinner: Nibbled on some leftover beef
Tea: 1/2 SW pizza (3 syns) topped with spicy chicken, peppers, sweetcorn, etc. Lettuce, cucumber, tomato, beansprouts. Mint muller light.
Snacks: 1 cup of tea (1 syn) Options (2 syns)
SYNS: 6
Exercise: None

18th
Breakfast: SW toffee porridge. Cup of tea (1 syn) Watermelon :drool:
Dinner: 2 jacket potatoes, tuna, sweetcorn, 1 tbsp light mayo (2.5 syns), cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumber, beansprouts
Tea: Beef, boiled potatoes, carrots, swede, broccoli, cauliflower
Snacks: 2 SW choc toffee cakes (7 syns), 250 ml green milk
SYNS: 10.5
Exercise: None

19th
Breakfast: SW vanilla porridge with sliced banana. Cup of tea (1 syn) Watermelon
Dinner: Spag Bol, tinned tomatoes, passata, mine, peppers, mushrooms, onions, beansprouts, bamboo shoots, pasta. SW choc toffee cake (3.5 syns)
Tea: Chicken, beansprouts, mushrooms, peppers, soy sauce
Snacks: 250 ml green milk
SYNS: 4.5
Exercise: 4.96 miles. 600 cals. 1 hour

20th
Breakfast: Bacon, fry light fried eggs *I think I prefer synned ones tbh*, beans, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms. Pineapple, plum, kiwi, blueberry. Cup of tea (1 syn)
Dinner: Watermelon
Tea: Leftover spag bol with pasta, cucumber, tomato, and mushrooms
Snacks: Raspberry and cranberry mullerlight with porridge. 1 SW choc and toffee cake (3 syns) 250ml green milk
SYNS: 4
Exercise: None

21st
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal toast, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns), cup of tea (1 syn). 250g Asda fat free blueberry yogurt (1.5 syns?)
Dinner: Watermelon and pineapple (munched on it all day to be honest)
Tea: Chicken breast marinated with mushrooms in tikka spices, broccoli, green beans, carrots, swede, 1/2 Batchelors Pasta n Sauce tomato and herb (0.5 syns). 2 syn free pancakes with mixed berries and a tub of choc philly (4.5 syns)
Snacks: 250 ml green milk
SYNS: 9.5
Exercise: None

So this week I discovered 'magic porridge' - yum!!!
I also discovered that pre-grated mozzarella isn't classed as a HEXA - eep! (ah well no point worrying about it now, line drawn and moving on)

 

[Rach*B]

most peoples downfall is underestimating syns, if your unsure ask, someone will look up the syns online for you Otherwise you seem to be doing fine

I have on a couple of things I don't want to be a pain though, so I have just treated myself to a SW Snacks book from Ebay. Mainly as my Mum who is "kind of" doing SW with me has a super sweet tooth (granted at 8st, she can afford it *lol*) I am also trying to get hold of the 2012 books so I'm a bit more up to date. I can't afford to go to classes every week, plus I work 'unsocial' hours, so I'm considering them investment pieces :giggle:

Cheers for the input
x

 

[Rach*B]

Week 4: 22nd - 28th Feb
(Weight: 11st 4lb 1/4, lost 1lb 1/4)

22nd
Breakfast: Chocolate weetabix (2 syns) and 250 ml green milk. Fruit salad (plum, kiwi, grapes, blueberries) Cup of tea (1 syn)
Dinner: Oven jacket spuds (usually microwave them, was a nice change), ham, pineapple, fat free cottage cheese (1.5 syns), chives, tomato, mushrooms, cucumber
Tea: Toffee muller light with 2 bananas, strawberries, and blueberries
Snacks: Cup of tea (1 syn), frozen mint muller light (daily exercise surely? Totally over frozen *lol*), 1 TLCow Light triangle (1 syn), Choc brownie options (3 syns - bit vile, but was trying to increase syns as I am always under and apparently shouldn't be?)
SYNS: 9.5
Exercise: None

23rd
Breakfast: Ham, 2 scrambled eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans. Brew (1 syn)
Dinner: Missed
Tea: Sticky pork with noodles (p36 of mag), peppers, mushrooms, savoy cabbage, Amoy straight to wok noodles (3 syns), strawberry muller light
Snacks: Vanilla muller lights with 28g porridge with banana, 250 ml green milk
SYNS: 4
Exercise: 40 mins. 370 cals. 3.06 miles. 28 reps with weights

24th
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal bread, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns), brew (1 syn) - I know, I know 1/3 superfree is missing :sigh:
Dinner: 2 spoonfuls of last over Sticky pork (thought I'd left more - oops), 2 plums and an apple
Tea: Tandoori lamb (pg 54 of mag), boiled rice, syn free pakoras, 3 roasted tomatoes. 2 SW choc and toffee fairy cakes without filling (6 syns)
Snacks: White chocolate options (2 syns), 250ml green milk, diet lemonade
SYNS: 11
Exercise: None

25th
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal eggy bread topped with grapes. Muller light and red apple. Brew (1 syn)
Dinner: 4 cherry tomatoes
Tea: Spag Bol filled filled peppers, onions, courgette, beansprouts, bamboo shoots, tomatoes, etc with pasta. 2 SW choc & toffee cakes (7 syns) Fruit salad (strawberries, kiwi, grapes, plums, banana, blueberries)
Snacks: 250ml warm milk (utterly vile, but was cold so thought I'd try it)
SYNS: 8 syns
Exercise: None

26th
Breakfast: 1 wholemeal, 1 Weight Watchers white bread (ran out of wholemeal *scowls*), 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns). Fruit salad (strawberries, kiwi, grapes, plums, banana, blueberries) with fat free fromage frais. Brew (1 syn)
Dinner: Chunk of pineapple
Tea: Leftover Spag Bol with 2 ovened jacket spuds. Toffee Muller light.
Snacks: Last of the leftover Spag Bol with pasta. 250ml green milk.
SYNS: 3
Exercise: 40 reps with weights.

27th
Breakfast: Omelette with ham, sweetcorn, mushroom, onion, 30g Arla Apetina 10% (used it as HexA, no idea if that's right or not, can't come to a set answer so winged it). Fruit salad (strawberries, kiwi, grapes, plums, banana, blueberries) with fat free fromage frais). Brew (1 syn)
Dinner: Chunks of pineapple
Tea: Steak with mushrooms and onions, mashed carrot and parsnips, 2 boiled spuds, and mushy peas. Followed by Muller light mango and passionfruit.
Snacks: 2 SW cakes (7 syns), 2 wholemeal eggy bread topped with fruit salad
SYNS: 8
Exercise: 60 reps with weights, don't think it will increase next time, but we shall see!

28th
Breakfast: Bacon, 2 properly fried eggs (2 syns), mushroom, onion, beans, tomatoes. Brew (1 syn). Fruit salad (grapes, kiwi, blueberries, plum, banana)
Dinner: 58g wholemeal roll with steak and mushrooms. Sugerfree jelly (1 syn)
Tea: 2 rasher bacon, green beans, carrots, swede, broccoli, and cauliflower. 2 SW yogurt scones (mix was super sticky so had to add extra flour, so instead of 3.5 syns each, I called it 4.5 syns, so 9 syns)
Snacks: 250ml green milk
SYNS: 13
Exercise: 60 reps, really couldn't have done any more, my arms were like jelly *lol*

 

[Rach*B]

Just tried to do weights for the first time ever...asked my Uncle to make me some little ones as he works with metal. He really doesn't seem to have understood the 'I have NO upper body strength, please be gentle' bit. 28 reps and my arms told me where I could stick 29 and 30 :sigh:
Work in progress begins here :character00115:
x

 

[Rach*B]

I am really struggling with a 1/3 of superfree for breakfast. There are just some days when you just can't face fruit/ veg before dinner...today is one of those days....tomorrow I think I will aim for my beloved eggy bread (rediscovered on SW) with fruit
x

 

[JezVonSavage]

Hi Rach, just thought i'd pop in to offer my support. I started off doing SW from home but I ended up going to class- it keeps me on track. Plus, my Mum pays so it's not like I'm losing out

I saw your response to my rant about my Siouxsie Sioux client, do you work in makeup too?

 

[Rach*B]

Hey,
Thanks for popping by =] I considered classes, but I figured I'd save my £5 for fruit *lol* Plus I've my Mum and set friends checking on me, which I guess is the main point of the group. Here has more recipes than I can shake a stick at
Yeah, I'm freelance (qualified, insured, etc like yourself), the number of people who don't want to pay is grim, but I love it regardless *lol*
x

 

[JezVonSavage]

I've got to that stage where I hate it. I actually don't do that much makeup work anymore- I'm always in the office doing paperwork and everyone else get the good stuff

 

[Rach*B]

I've got to that stage where I hate it. I actually don't do that much makeup work anymore- I'm always in the office doing paperwork and everyone else get the good stuff

That's not nice *hugs* You should get the good stuff too!
x

 

[JezVonSavage]

It's my business so I get to do all the boring stuff Oh the joys of self-employment.

 

[Rach*B]

It's my business so I get to do all the boring stuff Oh the joys of self-employment.

Ahhhhhh, fair call x

 

[Rach*B]

Increased by 12 reps, check me and my bad self out *lol* :character00115:

 

[Rach*B]

Soooooo, I have just realised that the yogurt in the Tandoori Lamb may OR may not have been fat free :cry:
I managed to make disastrous scones....BUT I have managed to make a meal plan for the next 3 weeks. This way I will hopefully have less waste, due to not needing things for a few days going off 'what I fancy'. I have also scheduled in a lot of dessert type things, which is pretty ridiculous as I don't have a sweet-tooth, however, apparently I'm not using enough syns, so it will prove interesting one way or the other.

On an exercise related note, I've been focusing on 'lifting weights', somehow that sounds hysterical to me *lol* I was doing a lot of cross trainer work, but my legs were NOT happy with me. Since I have no upper body strength, I figured it can't hurt. Might try for weights everyday, and cross trainer one day, then rest for one/ two days.

I am pretty sure tomorrow's weigh in will be grim, but body's can be inconsistent :sigh: x

 

[Rach*B]

Week 5: 29th - 6th Mar
(Weight: 11st 4lb 3/4, gain 1/2)

29th
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal eggy bread with blueberries, kiwi, grapes and plums. Brew (1 syn) Muller light.
Dinner: Pineapple. Plum. Apple. Boiled potato. Cucumber. Cherry tomatoes. Mushroom.
Tea: Pastry-less quiche with ff cottage cheese, peppers, onion, courgette, ham, mushroom, with lettuce, cherry tomatoes and cucumber
Snacks: 1 SW yogurt scone (4.5 syns - binned the rest as *really* not worth it) Milkybar (3.5 syns)
SYNS: 9
Exercise: 60 reps with weights

1st
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal toast, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns)
Dinner: Muller light rasp & cranb with grapes. Pineapple.
Tea: Chicken breast with 2 1/2 TLC triangles (4 syns) with mushroom and onion. Mashed carrots and parsnips. Savoy cabbage. Spicy wedges. Muller light vanilla.
Snacks: Alpen light (3 syns)
SYNS: 9
Exercise: 60 reps with weights Plus 1 hour. 675 cals. 5.60 miles

2nd
Breakfast: Bacon, 2 fried eggs (2 syns), beans, tomatoes. 1/4 watermelon.
Dinner: 58g wholemeal roll with 2 bananas (sliced)
Tea: Tandoori chicken curry, boiled rice, 4 samosas (4 syns), Lemon and lime tartlet (4 syns)
Snacks: 250ml milk
SYNS: 10
Exercise: None - totally not helping my 15 hour commitment for March =S

3rd
Breakfast: 2 wholemeal bread, 2 poached eggs, 1 tbsp ketchup (2 syns) Brew (1 syn)
Dinner: 1/4 watermelon
Tea: Mustard pork chop (1 syn), savoy cabbage, carrots, swede, broccoli, cauliflower - no spuds. Lemon and lime tartlet (4 syns) super soggy and very much not much it, shame as they looked really nice in the SW mag.
Snacks: 250ml milk. Another 1/4 watermelon (depressingly all gone now :cry Hazelnut Green and Black's (4 syns - worth everything divine moment!)
SYNS: 12
Exercise: None - smacks own hands

4th
Breakfast: Bacon, scrambled egg, beans, grilled tomatoes and brew (1 syn) Grapes, plums, banana, blueberries and kiwi.
Dinner: Missed
Tea: Spag Bol with pasta (mince, passata, onions, peppers, mushrooms) Muller light vanilla.
Snacks: 2 Alpen Light. 250ml milk.
SYNS: 1
Exercise: 1hr. 708 cals. 5.85 miles. 60 reps with weights.

5th
Breakfast: Grapes, plums, blueberries, kiwi and brew (1 syn)
Dinner: Scrambled egg, mushrooms, plum tomatoes, and beans. Samosa (1 syn)
Tea: Chicken, cottage cheese + chives, mushrooms, onions, noodles with soy sauce and bagged carrots, broccoli and sweetcorn
Snacks: 2 Alpen Light, 250ml red milk
SYNS: 2
Exercise: None, really not feeling very well :sigh:

6th
Breakfast: Toffee Muller light porridge (28g)
Dinner: Stagg veg chilli (1.5 syns - according to the Low Syn Snacks 2012 book) with jacket potato. Pineapple. Banana.
Tea: Homemade burger filled with mini Babybel, boiled egg, beans, lettuce, cucumber, and spicy wedges (garlic, chilli, ginger, frylight). 3 sw rice crispie cakes with mini egg on top (12 syns)
Snacks: Brew (1 syn)
SYNS: 14.5
Exercise: None

 

[Rach*B]

Started the March exercise challenge today 1 hour down...14 to go. I also sneakily hopped on the scales today and was 11.3.3/4 WOOOOOOO! That's 1/2 a stone gone, granted it isn't official until next Weds' weigh in, but it really spurred me on for my hour. I also really enjoyed my tea...maybe the sunshine is doing wonders for me?? x

 

[Rach*B]

Spent all day running around (and getting no where) so not had any chance to exercise...will have to do double tomorrow - eep! Also didn't have a 1/3 super with tea. Damn I'm being bad today, I guess a little hiccup at the weekend is allowed x