Four steps forward, three steps back...

I lost 4lb last week and was absolutely delighted with that. It's a shame I've undone most of that this week by putting 3lb back on.

It was all going so well until the weekend...

• Friday night: Indian takeaway
• Saturday lunch was jacket potato with beans and salad, but I had a chinese buffet for tea and other than not having deep fried stuff I wasn't that careful about what I had.
• Sunday lunch was a non-SW Sunday roast, then pizza for tea since the kitchen was out of bounds due to my wife baking cakes for charity.
• Monday involved a cake (or 3) from the charity bake sale at work and a fairly synful cheesy pasta.

Of all of those, Friday's takeaway was the one thing that I could excuse myself for not being careful about having been in A&E for over 2 hours due to collapsing, losing consciousness (for over 30 seconds) and not breathing (for 15 seconds). Had I not started breathing again when I did the doctor told me he would've performed CPR. That was a very scary thing to be told, but after a few checks I was given a clean bill of health - something that I had wondered if I would get given that I've been pretty sedentary for a long time.

Tomorrow is the start of another week, and I have already made a lit of low syn/syn free foods to get from the supemarket tomorrow night. Hopefully by planning ahead I can food optimise to the max this week.

Food diary 20/4/12

Breakfast: Fruit

Lunch: Mugshots, loads of melon

Tea: Boiled rice, part of a poppadom (2 syns), onion bhajis (11 syns), bit of naan bread (8 syns), takeaway curry (12 syns), can of pepsi (7 syns)

Drinks: tea, water

Total syns for the day: 40

Total syns for the week to date: 52

Average syns per day: 17.3
I missed out on HEs and overdid the syns today. It wasn't without good reason though - more details to follow in my summary of the week on Tuesday!

Food diary 19/4/2012

Breakfast: fruit

Lunch: Jacket potato with beans, loads of fruit

Tea: Stir fry veg, leek, mushrooms and onions with pasta, noodles, pesto (1 syn) and 2 babybel (HEa). 2 weetabix (HEb), yoghurt and jam (2 syns)

Snacks: Loads of fruit

Drinks: tea, water

Total syns for the day: 3

Total syns for the week to date: 12

Average syns per day: 6

Tomorrow is the start of a tricky time SW wise - takeaway curry tomorrow, out for a meal on sat and away from my kitchen for the weekend. I'll just have to try to not have too much, stick to what's lowest in syns, steer clear of syns whenever I have control and get back to it as soon as possible.

Food diary 18/4/2012

Breakfast: oaty bar (HEb), fruit

Lunch: Crunchy salad, no dressing, 2 babybel (HEa)

Tea: Leek, mushroom and smoked salmon omelette, spaghetti hoops, mini magnum (9 syns)
Snacks: Loads of fruit

Drinks: tea, water

Total syns for the day: 9

Total syns for the week to date: 9

Average syns per day: 9

Problems coming up: possible curry and drinks on Friday, plus a weekend away from home. Will have to minimise my syns for the rest of the week to make up for it and then just hope for the best.

What a difference a diary makes...

Well I lost 4lb this week - despite a massive 90+ syns at the weekend!

I think the thing that went for me most this week was keeping a food diary on here. It sometimes made me think twice about whether to have synful foods, and it helped a lot to keep track of my total syns for the week.

That loss means that I've finally shed my Christmas weight gain and I'm back to below my club 10 weight - 2 pretty significant milestones for me since they were both weighing me down a bit.

With a further 2.5lbs weight loss I will be at 2 stone off altogether - that is my next target. Wish me luck!

I'm planning on keeping the diary going, but have already identified the weekend as potentially pretty synful due to being away from home. I'll just do my best, try to choose sensibly if eating out and let the scales show how I've done next Tuesday.

Food diary 17/4/2012

Breakfast: oaty bar (HEb), fruit

Lunch: Tuna nicoise salad, no dressing (1 syn for the olives), 2 babybel (HEa)

Tea: Special fried rice (chicken, crabsticks, rice, egg and loads of free veg)

Snacks: Loads of fruit

Drinks: tea, water

Total syns for the day: 1

Total syns for the week to date: 118.75

Average syns per day: 16.96 - nearly pulled it back to average of 5-15 having sinned massively at the weekend!

Food diary 16/4/2012

Breakfast: banana and nectarine

Lunch: Fruit salad x 2, crab sticks, chicken mugshots

Tea: Chicken chow mein

Snacks: 2 babybel (HEa), 2 Alpen lights (HEb), loads of fruit, yoghurt

Drinks: water, tea

Total syns for the day: 0
Total syns for the week to date: 117.75

Average syns per day: 19.63