Day 24 - can't stop eating day!

I was fine until I left work! i'd been good and had only used 2 of my syns, however between 6.30pm and now i've used 9! *sigh* but they were worth it, and they kept me away from the chocolate which would have been a WHOLE load worse! I do think i've eaten too much pasta today though :s here's what i've had:

Breakfast:

porridge (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
sweetener

Lunch:

Tomato & herb pasta n sauce
cold cooked chicken breast

Dinner:

marshall's cheesey macaroni
steam fresh veg

Snacks:

1 caramel jumo snack a jack (2.5 syns)
1 pack of chilli snack a jacks (5.5 syns)
2 mini meringues (2 syns)
12g light squirty cream (1 syn)
a few frozen raspberries

I also intend to have a hot chocolate later with the remainder of my milk allowance so another 2 syns there.

Total syns:13 syns

My problem was that instead of going home straight from work and making dinner, I went to Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys. By the time I got out of sainsburys i felt like I was going to faint and the only thing i had that was conveniently edible RIGHT THEN was a packet of snack a jacks! So I munched on them in the car, then when I got home, I was going to have eggs & quorn sausages, but I couldn't have waited for them to cook, so I threw together some cheesey pasta and stirred in some steam fresh veg and scoffed it. THEN, i'd been looking forward to my SW pavlova ALL DAY so decided to have that too. Now i'm suitably satisfied i'm going to veg in front of the TV. ITS FRIIIIIIIDAAAAAAY!

Week 3 - Weigh in

This week I lost..... 3LBS! :D soooooooooo chuffed! So i've lost my first half stone! Yay!

Day 23

Yesterday was all well and good.... until my mother in law came over! she brought malteasers with her! I left them in the kitchen unopened whilst we sat in the livingroom chatting.... I was happy with this, they weren't opened and I could forget they were there. Except she kept referencing them and asking how many syns were in one, and then saying "oh that's such a waste of syns!" (personally I don't think so if you've not had chocolate all week and you've only used 2 syns that day, it's an indulgence!) So finally she asked me to *double check* that there was half a syn in one. I HAD TO OPEN THE BAG! Argh! So we worked out there were 34 syns in a bag, and there were 68 malteasers in the bag. Easy. 1/2 a syn each. I was right, shock horror!
So then we had to eat some of them. So since i'd only used 2 syns yesterday, I decided to have 8 of them - my goodness they were good! I've not had any chocolate for over a week, so this was like heaven on my tongue. Thankfully Hubby came home at that point and scoffed the rest so I wouldn't be tempted. How thoughtful of him!

Anyway, the food diary!

Breakfast:

porridge (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
sweetener

Lunch:

Baked potato
Beans
3 laughing cow (0.5 hex A)

Dinner:

Turkey chilli (1 syn for chorizo)
potato wedges

Snacks:
1 mini meringue nest (1 syn)
8 malteasers (4 syns)
a few pecan nuts (4 syns)

Total syns: 10

Really I shouldn't have bothered with the pecans, I didn't realise they were that many syns, but it's done now and i've been good all week.

Day 22

I just wrote a whole load of babble about my crap car, and my predicament for having it fixed on monday, but just lost it all cos this mac is poo and I dislike it. So I can't be bothered to re-type it all, I'll just tell you what I stuffed in my gob yesterday instead:

Breakfast:

porridge (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
sweetener

Lunch:

Crap, tasteless canteen soup
1 slice of wholemeal bread (3 syns)
2 laughing cow (0.5 hex A)

Dinner:

SW Chicken Tikka masala
rice

Snacks:

marshall's macaroni cheese
1 tbsp HP BBQ sauce (1 syn)

Total syns: 4 syns

Day 21

I am SO hungry today! Not due to deliberately starving myself, OH no! I didn't have anything out for my lunch this morning and I was running late, so just grabbed a couple of ex. light laughing cow and hot-footed it out the door. Well, my plan to have a baked potato for lunch was scuppered! I trotted down to the canteen, quite peckish and longing for my yummy potato, to find that there were none left! None! At 1pm, there were NO baked potatoes! I was so deflated, especially when my only other options were a cheese and bread laden panini, chips, or crap, tasteless soup! Needless to say, I went for the crap, tasteless soup option! Completely unsatisfied by it, and now i'm so close to chewing on my desk, i'm *that* hungry! I had to use 3 syns for a slice of wholemeal bread too, to give it some substance. Urgh!

I'm also tutoring tonight straight after work! Thankfully it's in my house, so i'm going to have to make up some marshall's cheesey pasta quickly to stop my tummy rumbling as soon as i get in.

Anyway, yesterday's edibles:

Breakfast:

porridge (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
banana
sweetener

Lunch:

frozen savoury rice (1.5 syns)
mexican chicken (0.5 syns)

Dinner:

SW spaghetti bolognese

Snacks:

muller light
bbq snack a jack (2 syns)
sweet potato wedges
1 tblsp bbq sauce (1 syn)

Total Syns: 5

I think i'm turning into a sweet potato addict. Those wedges are all I can think about! mmmm i've run out of sweet potatoes now though, so will have to wait till the weekend before I can get some more!

Day 20

I appear to be writing this a day in arrears of late... nevermind!

Yesterday was relatively non-eventful. Hubby went to London for work for the day, so we were up at the crack of dawn, and he came home about 8, by which time i'd prepared a MASSIVE pot of turkey chilli and some sweet/normal potato wedges. Yum! Due to being shattered all day, I had great plans of getting an early night. It didn't happen. My father in law came over about 9 and didn't leave until after 11 *sigh* so i'm feeling better today than I did yesterday, but still not 100%. I shall try again tonight!

I was a hungry caterpillar today, so I went on the munch a bit....

Breakfast:
porridge (HexB)
175ml skimmed milk (0.5 HexA)
banana

Lunch:
Asda frozen golden veg savoury rice (1.5 syns)
Mexican cooked chicken breast slices (0.5 syn)

Dinner:
Turkey Chilli (1syn - again with the chorizo!)
Sweet/normal potato wedges (I didn't realise just how YUMMY sweet potato wedges were!)
2 extra light laughing cow (0.5 HexA)

Snacks:
grapes
strawberries
muller light
marshall's cheesey pasta (oh my god, I still can't believe this is FREE!)

Total: 3 syns

woo hoo! 3 syns for all that food! I loooove this diet!

Day 19

I had a relatively lazy Sunday, yesterday. Got up around 1, showered and slowly (over 3 hours!) started getting ready to go out. We left at 5 to get to Tony Macaroni's at 5.30. I'd already decided what I was having off the menu:

parma ham, mozzerella & tomatoes
chilli king prawn linguini
lemon sorbet to share

It was soooooo yummy! (unfortunately my digestive system didn't agree, but nevermind!)

Once we left there we wandered up to the venue and found our space on the floor (mother and auntie found themselves a comfy couch with a good view of the stage!) Really enjoyed the gig. It wasn't too busy, I guess that was due to it being a Sunday night, but I preferred it, it was nice and intimate. It was really strange though, when we looked about, we spotted the DJ we had at the wedding in the crowd, the band were on stage, the best man & chief bridesmaid were in attendance, as was the mother of the bride, and chris & I.... it was like a wedding reunion! Quite surreal!




The gig finished at 10, we walked round to the car and by the time we got home it was 12.30. Hubby was up at 5am to go to the airport, which ofcourse woke me up, so i've had just over 4 hours sleep, and i'm feeeeeling it! Early night tonight I think!

Anyway, food for yesterday:

Breakfast:

nope!

Lunch:

2 slices of wholemeal toast (no butter!) (HexB)
1 poached egg

Dinner:
parma ham, mozzerella & tomatoes (hexA + 1/2 for parma)
chilli king prawn linguini (a bit oily so about 6 syns)
lemon sorbet to share (don't think I had 100g, but i'll give it 5.5 syns anyway)

Total: 12 syns

Not too bad considering!