Food diary 14/4/2012

Breakfast: Nothing

Lunch: Potato and egg salad and tub of fruit

Tea: Frankie and Benny's crab salad (say 5 syns for the sweet chilli dressing) and a slice of birthday cake (about 15 syns)

Snacks: Philly light (HEa), weetabix oatybar (HEb). A third of an easter egg (about/at least 20 syns)
Drinks: diet coke

Total syns for the day: 40+

Total syns for the week to date: 67.75+

Average syns per day: 16.9375

Food diary 13/4/2012

Breakfast: A pear

Lunch: chicken tikka sandwich (1 tbsp ASDA low fat chicken tikka sandwich filler at 1.5 syns and 2 slices crusty white bread at around 4 syns per slice), 2 babybel (HEa), mullerlight, apples

Tea: 1/2 pack of tandoori salmon (3.25 syns), noodles, veg. Fromage frais, 2 weetabix (HEb) and frozen blueberries

Snacks: Pears, mild curry pot shots

Drinks: water

Total syns for the day: 12.75

Total syns for the week to date: 27.75

Average syns per day: 9.25

Food diary - 12/4/2012

Here's what I've had today:

Breakfast: a banana and an apple

Snacks: nectarine, pear, apples, jam sandwich [2 slices of crusty white bread (around 4 syns each), 2 teaspoons of jam (1/2 syn per tsp)]

Lunch: mashed potato, porridge oats (HEb), fromage frais, 2 x babybel (HEa) and mixed veg mixed together (a bit like last night's veg and crabstick pie: http://slimmingman.blogspot.com/2012/04/recipe-veg-and-crabstick-pie.html). Apples and grapes

Tea: Chicken fried rice (boiled rice added to stir fry veg, wafer thin chicken, chinese five spice and soy sauce all fried in fry light). Fromage frais, greek yoghurt, frozen blueberries and sweetener.

Drinks: water

Total syns for the day: 9

Total syns for the week to date: 15

Average syns per day: 7.5

Recipe: Veg and crabstick pie

SynsFree on EE if using cheese as HE

Ingredients
1 packet of mashed potato
Frozen veg (I used spinach, brocolli, carrots and peas)
3 eggs, beaten
A handful of crabsticks, chopped
1/2 tub of quark
2 x babybel, grated (HE)
Onion granules
Garlic granules
Salt and pepper

Method

1. Make up the mashed potato according to the instructions.
2. Microwave the veg for 2-3 minutes until cooked
3. Add the veg, quark, crabsticks and egg to the potato and mix well.
4. Add onion and garlic granules, and salt and pepper to season
5. Put the mix into a flan tin (spray with frylight first if not non-stick)
6. Grate the cheese over the top
7. Cook in a preheated oven (200C) for 30 minutes
8. Enjoy!
   

Food diary - 11/4/2012

I'm going to go back to basics and try to record everything I eat in a daily food diary blog entry - let's see how long I can keep this up!

Here's what I've had today:

Breakfast: porridge oats (HEb) with a Mullerlight

Snacks: bananas, nectarines, apples, pear, grapes, melon, 2 x Alpen lights (3 syns each)

Lunch: 2 chicken noodle mugshots

Tea: A veg and crab stick pie type thing, including babybels as HEa - recipe and pics to follow. Mullerlight

Drinks: water

Total syns for day: 6

Total syns for week to date: 6

Average syns per day: 6

Bank holiday blues...

Another 1lb on this week. It was to be expected after consuming at least a pizza, alcohol, a donut, ice cream, 2 Snickers, a Mars bar and an Indian meal. If anything, I got off lightly.

Since before Christmas I have fluctuated around the same weight - I've lost 5lb this year, so I'm still around a stone heavier than I was when I got married.

I am still determined to get to my target weight, or maybe lower, but sometimes it's hard to keep on track. I have therefore decided to stop thinking of my weight in comparison to when I got married, and instead to focus on becoming the lightest I have been this year, then the lightest I've been in the last two years, then the lightest I can remember being. By focussing on a more positive angle I hope to put my past weight behind me and to concentrate on a slimmer future.

On a positive note, I had a sort out of my wardrobe, possibly for the first time since starting on my SW journey.  As a result I filled 4 bags with clothes that are too big for me - some of which looked like tents. I've still got a handful of smaller clothes that I got in readiness for a (slightly) trimmer figure that don't fit me yet, but I'm hoping to fit into them soon.

One thing that might help me get into a smaller, lighter, shape is the 30 day shred - my copy arrived in the post today, so I'm hoping to get started tomorrow. I will try and keep you updated with the results and pain!

Mustn't grumble

I put 1lb on this week. That's less than I expected for the following reasons:

• Takeaway pizza and onion rings after last week's weigh in;
• A planned single drink (diet coke) in the pub that turned into several pints, a few shots of sambuca, a wee dram of whisky, and not a diet coke in sight as we got home 7 hours later. It was well worth the hangover in the morning!
• 2 cupcakes and 4 muffins beautifully baked by my fantastic wife.

Back on it again now - popped into the chippy on the way back from weigh in as a treat for my wife. Once I got there I decided I didn't fancy it, so this is what I had instead: