Day 34

Yesterday was a good day! Work wasn't too bad, despite being on the late shift and not finishing till 5.30. Hubby's friend from america is over for a week or so, so last night we all trooped off to the pub, and had a great night! Thankfully, because i'm on the later shift, I didn't need to get up at the crack of dawn for work, so I'm not that tired today.

Anyway, the plan for the rest of the week is:
Wednesday - Curry night (OH NOES!)- I think i'm going to have to take a flexi syn day that day. I haven't had a curry for AGES, and having an eat all you like buffet in front of me with chasni and korma and garlic naan on it REALLY isn't going to let my willpower win. So i'll admit defeat just now, and move on!

Friday - "supper club" At our house - This is good as I get to cook the dinner and know what's in it! What's bad is that i've been told they'll only come if I make my sticky toffee pudding sundae. BUMMER! Still, it's weigh day, and if that's the only treat I have, and I use light skooshy cream for my own, and only use a teeny bit of cake, it'll limit the damage.... everything in moderation *nods*

So yeah, Yesterday's menu:

Breakfast:

28g shredded wheat bitesize (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (HexB)
banana

Lunch:

SW quiche (0.5 syn for pasta n sauce, 0.5 HexA for cheese)
pineapple
strawberries
muller light

Dinner:

chicken stuffed with ex light soft cheese with garlic & herbes, wrapped in bacon, served on mashed potato & mixed veg (2 syns for cheese, 0.5 syn for 3 tbs skimmed milk in mash) - amaaaazing!
2 mini meringues (2 syns)
25g light skooshy cream (2 syns)
handful of raspberries

Snacks:
Jumbo BBQ snack a jack (2 syns)

total syns: 9

I actually can't get over just how YUMMY that chicken was for dinner! Who said diet food had to be tasteless!?!

Day 33

Sunday was a bit of a "bleh" day. I didn't feel great and it took me a fair while to cheer up, but I got there in the end! We went for a wander around an antiques shop, which ended up quite fruitful for hubby's Broons/Oor Wullie collection! When we left there, because we hadn't had any breakfast, we were STARVING. We decided we'd go to a little cafe that does grilled breakfasts (they're AMAZING) and use low fat sausages etc. Unfortunately they'd closed by the time we got there :( so we went into the spar next door and the best they could offer was some cooked chicken legs! So we started driving home and popped into morrisons on the way. Oh my GOODNESS! Thank the lordy for the morrisons salad bar! It was filled with hard boiled eggs, dressing-less salad and oil-less pasta salads! Followed by a muller yog and some pineapple! We had a great picnick in the carpark!

So yesterday's food was slightly better than Saturdays!

Breakfast:

Doesn't happen on a sunday.

Lunch:

2 hard boiled eggs
lettuce
tomatoes
sweetcorn
pasta
peppers
mozzerella (hexA)
Muller light
Pineapple

Dinner:

SW KFC chicken drummers (this was Fantastic! It was so much better than I ever thought it would be! let me know if you want the recipe!) (HexB for breadcrumbs)
sweet potato wedges
1 tbsp BBQ sauce (1 syn)
1 mini meringue (1 syn)
12.5g light skooshy cream (1 syn)
handful of frozen raspberries

snacks:

Sugar free raspberry jelly and Muller light (1 syn)

Total Syns: 4

So made up for the splurge on Saturday! *phew*

Day 32

I was doing so well on Saturday! Then we got invited round to a friends house at the last minute, and were fed all things nice and synful, but I only had 8.5 syns left! *sigh* I decided that I would just nibble on a few things, but it was difficult. In the end I went over my syns by 9, but that's salvagable!

Saturday:

Breakfast:

Bacon
eggs
beans
mushrooms


Lunch:

Asda spicy chicken pasta pot (WHO'D HAVE KNOWN THIS HAD SIX AND A HALF SYNS IN IT?!?!) (6.5 syns)
Pineapple


Dinner:
homemade beef burgers
57g wholemeal roll (hexB)
42g red. fat cheese (hexA)
salad
sweet potato weges
2 tbsp BBQ sauce (2 syns)

Synful snacks!
3 breadsticks (4.5 syns)
28g salted tortilla chips (7 syns)
2 tbsp sour cream & chives dip (4 syns)

Oh well! I made up for it on Sunday!

Day 31 - a new start

Ok, first day of a new week, here's what i've had:

Breakfast

28g oatso simple (Hex B)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
sweetener
(ran out of bananas!)

Lunch

left over paella (1.5 syns for chorizo)

Dinner

Fruity pork loin steaks (4 syns - red currant jelly)
mashed potato made with 1 tsp skimmed milk

Snacks

snack a jacks jumbo (2 syns)
Snack a jacks minis chilli (5.5 syns)

Total syns: 13

Week 4 - weigh in

well, despite my binge at the start of the week, I've managed to limit the damage with a nice loooooong walk and trying to keep my syns to a minimum. This week I spectacularly.... Stayed the same. *phew*

Ok, new slate today, I *will* lose this week! I plan to incorporate some more exercise into my week and eat more superfree foods than I have been recently.

I've entered the 4 week challenge on Minimins, and I pledged to lose 8lbs this month. That should take me over the 1 stone mark and into my second!

*positive thoughts*

Day 28 - The bad just got badder....

Yesterday was the most stressful day i've had since the day before my wedding. As a result, again, my eating went to shit. I did try to curb it as much as I could, and didn't go as far over as I thought I had, once I counted it all up.

On monday night, some cretins decided that it'd be MEGA LOLS to throw eggs at our neighbour's windows. These windows happen to be RIGHT ABOVE OUR DRIVEWAY. Yep, you guessed it, my car got the brunt of it. The eggs appeared to have bounced off the windows and onto my car. No one thought of coming to my door (I was in bed but not sleeping, although I didn't hear it happening) and tell me that my car had a nice coating of scrambled egg. Instead it was ignored until I went out to drive the car to work in the morning. I immediately knew what had happened, and looked up at her windows where my neighbour was standing, she KNEW it had happened, and KNEW i'd go out to my car at that time and just *shrugged* and said "it was a bunch of wee boys" - I didn't engage in a conversation cos I was, by this point, ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS. Had I *known* I could have made time before I had to go to work, or even gone to sleep last night, to go out and clean it. Instead, it was left to harden and start to corrode the paint. THANKS! I didn't have time to clean it at that point so I drove to work, explained my situation and took a half day in the afternoon. This meant that it was left for a further 4 hours until I could leave work. I cleverly thought to take some warm soapy water and a sponge down from the kitchen when I left at lunch time to clean off as much as I could. I then got a text from hubby's best mate suggesting that we should go to lunch to "calm me down" - he's a star. I popped round to his house (round the corner from my work), picked him up and went to the best car wash we know of. Then popped off to Ketchup. Oh BOY did I need that! I couldn't stomach eating anything other than jelly that morning, so I was hungry. By this point I knew my car would be *ok*, but hadn't had a chance to check the extent of the damage yet, so I was slightly more relaxed. We went back to his house and he (having every single possible car related item/product IN THE WORLD) buffed out the marks that were left on the paintwork. I owe him BIGTIME.

Last night I was too shattered to type all this so I just went to bed. This is what I ate:

Breakfast:

S/F jelly + muller light (1.5 syns)
frozen strawberries & pineapple (so amazingly yummy!)

Lunch:
sweet potato wedges (approx 1 tbs olive oil used to cook - HexB)
1 tbs Sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syn)
chicken "arriba arriba burger" without the bun:
1 chicken
1 slice of cheese (hex A)
lettuce
peppers
onions
tomatoes
1 tbs guacamole (1.5 syns)

Dinner:
marshall's cheesey pasta
steam fresh brocolli, carrots, peas & corn

Snacks:
1 small pack Mikado (1/2 syn each x 20pk = 10 syns - oops!)
packet BBQ snack a jacks (5.5 syns)

Total syns: 20 syns

I'm now in damage limitation mode and made sure i'm only using 4 syns today, which means that i only need to save 5.5 syns tomorrow to even myself back up again after monday's attrocious splurge!

Day 27 - Bad day

Ok, today was AWFUL. Mainly due to my inability to stop eating crap. I won't list everything i've eaten but it's 2 days worth of syns. So, tomorrow, and Tuesday i'm restricting myself to 5 syns for each day to make up for it. It was chocolate, and starbucks and crisps and more chocolate. Bad, just BAD.

Tomorrow I shall start afresh! *nods*

Day 26

Thank goodness tomorrow is a bank holiday! This weekend has gone in WAY too fast! I haven't really had a chance to do anything! This morning I got up early and went over to my mum's to help her paint. When I got there she was chatting to my dad on Skype and said I should talk to him, so I did. By the time I'd finished doing that it was about 11.45am, and no painting had been done, but I was really rather hungry, so I went to see what my mum had in her cupboards. Literally, nothing I could make a complete meal out of. She didn't even have staples like pasta or rice. So I started roasting some veg in the oven and went over to the shop to get some pasta, mixed the veg with some passata and chilli powder, and bob's yer maw's sister's man. Eventually we got started with the painting, got 3/4 of the way round the room and the paintpod decided to spew paint everywhere! Not good! So that got ditched. By this time it was 4.30, so I got ready to come home. On my way I thought i'd check my tyre pressures.... as you do... and realised my tyres were WAY under what they should have been! So i'm really glad I checked them! Anyhooz, my plan was to start cooking the dinner as soon as I got home, but my father in law and husband were stood in the kitchen gabbing and generally being pains in the ass. Eventually I got the kitchen to myself and this is what I made:



So today i've had:

Breakfast:

nope...

lunch:

pasta
passata
onions
peppers
courgettes
tomatoes

Dinner:

2 tesco wholemeal rolls (1 hexB + 6syns)
42g half fat chedder cheese (1 hexA)
2 mini burgers (lean beef, onion, salt, smoked paprika)
lettice
tomatoes
sweet potato wedges
1 tsp light spread (1.5 syns)
2 tbsp bbq sauce (2 syns)

snacks:

1 pack morrisons eat well onion rings (1.5 syns)
1 bbq snack a jack (2 syns)


Total syns: 13

My dinner was amazing, I actually LOVED it, totally worth the extra 6 syns for the second roll! mmmm yummy!

Day 25 - the aftermath

So, I had my 5 bean chilli, and VERY tasty it was too! Yum yum! Unfortunately, due to the varied times that folk were arriving, we didn't order our meals until everyone had turned up (2 hours after we arrived!). The birthday boy (man?) ordered 2 plates of nachos though. Argh! I *LOVE* nachos! And by this point I was actually *starving*. Yeah, ok I had a few of them. Not loads, just a couple and I avoided the cheese. Had about 1tsp of sour cream & guacamole to keep me going till my meal. So I managed to restrict myself quite well.

So today i've had:

Breakfast:

Muller light

Lunch:
a few nachos - less than 28g (5 syns)
1 tsp sour cream (1.5 syns)
1 tsp Guacamole (1 syn)
5 bean chilli with rice and tortilla chips (4.5 syns)

Dinner:

2 slices of wholemeal toast (hexB)
42g reduced fat cheese (hexA)
1 vine tomato sliced
1 tbsp HP BBQ sauce (1 syn)

Total: 13 syns

Probably won't have anything else tonight, i'm quite tired and would like to go to my bed, but my bro in law is flying back from london so I said i'd pick him up from his girlfriend's house at 11pm since his dad and brother are both gigging tonight. I'm *THAT* nice!

haha, Might see if I can get a few mins of sleep before I need to go. *snooze*

Day 25

We're off out for lunch today for Hubby's uncle's 50th birthday, and of ALL THE PLACES in town they could have chosen, they're going to Wetherspoons. Seriously? So I've had a look in my book, and there calling out to me, was the 5 bean chilli with rice and tortilla chips. At only 4.5 syns, this is the meal for me! Oh yes! So i'm prepared!

Now I just need to go and get ready and prod buggerlugs out of his pit!

Wish me luck and will-power folks!