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!