Slimming World - WEEK 8 - Feb 2016

I knew going into this week that I would struggle as star week approached and being out for dinner 3 days in a row at the weekend…

So the plan was to stay on plan for breakfast & lunch, and also low in syns where possible and enjoy my dinners without any guilt ( I won’t post photos of my off plan dinners here as its not very helpful (they are on my Instagram) 

I had a loss :-)

This weeks Diary is my Food Diary.. I haven’t listed my HEA, HEB & syns

(FYI, my healthy extra A is always 350ml of skimmed milk for my tea)

(my healthy extra B tends to be 35g cereal, a bagel slim or 2 x Hifi bars)

(I try to keep my syns for sweet treats /chocolate..)

Fri 19^th Feb 2016 – Day  46

Breakfast:  2 x mini egg muffins with beans

Lunch: Toasted Bagel slim with Ham Salad (1.5 syns for light cheese triangle)

Dinner: Off plan pepper burger & chips

2.5 Litres of Water &   14.5 syns + Dinner

2 x mini egg muffins with beans

Sat 20^th Feb 2016 – Day  47

Breakfast: BLT on a bagel slim with egg & mushrooms

Lunch:   Pasta in passata with ham

Dinner: Off Plan 3 course meal

2 Litres of Water & 3 syns + 3 course Dinner

Pasta in passata with ham

Sun 21^st  Feb 2016 – Day  48

Breakfast: Raspberries with yogurt & Bacon bagel with ketchup (1 syn)

Lunch: Roast lamb Dinner in my mothers (syns for oil & cheesy cauliflower)

Tea: Food Court – Abra!!

Today was a hungry day and I make no apologies!! I wouldn’t say I had a binge... but  I definitely over ate on the wrong foods.

1.5 Litres of Water & ??  syns

Mammy Dinner - Roast lamb

Mon 22^nd Feb 2016 – Day  49

Breakfast: 2 x mini egg muffins with beans

Lunch: Turkey Salad

Dinner: SW Spaghetti Bolognese (2 syns for light cheese single)

1 hours Spinning for some body magic and to get me in the right head space

3 Litres of Water & 7 syns

Healthy Extra B & 5 syns

Tues 23^rd Feb 2016 – Day  49

Breakfast: 2 x mini egg muffins with beans

Lunch: Leftover Spaghetti Bolognese with side salad

Dinner: Bacon (fat removed) Turnip & Potatoes

Star week has arrived and I am feeling drained & very sorry for myself! (also explains Sundays over eating!)

2.5 Litres of Water & 10 syns

Leftover Spaghetti Bolognese with side salad

Weds 24^th Feb 2016 – Day  49

Breakfast: 2 x mini egg muffins with beans

Lunch: Toasted Bagel Slim (HEB) light cheese triangle (1.5) Turkey & Salad

Dinner: Chicken, mushrooms, SW chips, boiled rice & 28g Mayflower Curry (4syns)

Car passed the NCT, I celebrated with a purple snack (5 syns) that’s a positive that I stayed on plan

2.5 Litres of Water & 15 syns

Mayflower Curry 28g = 4 syns

Thurs 25^th Feb 2016 – Day  49

Breakfast: Overnight Oats

Lunch: Boiled Egg Salad

Dinner: Roast Chicken Mammy Dinner (syns for sausage meat & gravy)

Went to early weigh in & was 100% expecting a gain after the weekend!! BUT I was down 1 lb…

Delighted, the only thing I can think of is that on the days that I knew I’d be over my syns for dinner I kept the rest of the day low/synfree, obviously this stood to me this week!!

2.5 Litres of Water & 15  syns

Weight Loss

Weight lost to date: -6lb
Onwards and Downwards, the Slimming World way :)

Bit of Motivation for the coming week..

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Slimming World - WEEK 7 - Feb 2016

I’m back on plan, I enjoyed my week off but I’m ready now to get back to seeing losses on the scales rather than a gain!!  Which I did.. woohoo.. heres how my week went a photos of the best food on that particular day.... 

If you want to see what I eat every day then check out my facebook, instagram or snapchat (links below) 

I post everything that goes in my mouth on there.. As my leader says "If you bite it, Write it" Well i snap it.. heehee (an also write it)

Fri 12^th   Feb 2016 – Day  39

Weigh In last night has me up  4lbs after my week off.. I’m ready now to get back on plan and eat well again. Really glad I stayed for the meeting last night as it makes me believe that I can do this, I just have to start fresh and keep going

Synfree breakfast & lunch meant I had syns for a take away and kept my Healthy Extra B for chocolate (2 x hifi Bars)

2.5 Litres of Water & 8  syns

8 syns for Beef in Black bean with boiled rice 

Sat 13^th  Feb 2016 – Day  40

10am Spinning was tough after a week off, and I was happy when it was done… MY 3 main meals were on plan and I really enjoyed my 28g of Mayflower Curry (4 syns)

I waivered tho when himself opened a tub of Ben & Jerry’s!!! So I shared it with him!!!!

2 Litres of Water & 65 syns

ALL the syns!! 

Sun 14^th  Feb 2016 – Day  41

Valentines Day, I knew that we were going out for dinner today, so I was kicking myself for having the ice cream last night!! D’oh!

Bunch was a tasty on plan bacon & eggs bagel.. but everything else for today was off plan and over my syns!!
Fishcakes with chips, Mars bar cheesecake & Clonakility pudding on brown soda bread with ketchup!

1.5 Litres of Water & all the syns

on plan Valentines Breakfast

Mon 15^th  Feb 2016 – Day  42

Back on plan with a vengeance… just like every other Monday, my day was busy… Spinning class was tough!!!

I bought new long Nike exercise leggings and they seems to give me friction burns during the class!! Its not good when stretchy exercise pants need to be broken in!!

3.5 Litres of Water & 11 syns

Healthy Extra B

Tues 16^th   Feb 2016 – Day  43

Had overnight oats for breakfast, its been a while and they were delish…

I was tired and cranky all day and a feeling a bit MEH!

2.5 Litres of Water & 8 syns

Slimming World Overnight Oats

Weds 17^th  Feb 2016 – Day  44

I ate really well today!! Kinda feel like I’m food obsessed at the moment! Which isn’t the worse thing once I’m eating slimming world friendly foods..

With so much hype on line this week about the Mayflower curry (you can finally buy it in Cork it would seem) I had to have it again for my dinner this evening!!

Twice in the week!! I KNOW but it was delish and well worth the syns

2.5 Litres of Water & 14.5 syns

4 syns for all of this 

Thurs 18^th Feb 2016 – Day  45

Feeling good today and pretty confident after a week of eating very well…

The scales had me down 2lbs, I’m happy with that after going over my syns twice this week… if I can stick to being down 1-2lbs per week, I’ll get there… its tough at times when you meet people in group that are down 1stone 5lbs in 6 weeks tho, but I know I’m not a big numbers gal, 3lbs in a week is a lot for me! I don’t think I’ve ever lost 7lbs in one week!

2.5 Litres of Water & 30  syns

Weight Loss

Bit of Motivation for the coming week.. A little food for thought if you will... 

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Slimming World -WEEK 6 - off plan

Hey guys,

So it was my birthday last week, we went to London for the weekend AND Pancake Tuesday happened, so it wasn’t the worst week to have off plan…….

London was great fun, we done LOADS.. arrived early Sat morning, we were in the Science museum by 10.30, then I got cupcakes from The Hummingbird bakery (unbelievable)

We got the tube to Harrods for a walk around.... went to a yummy steakhouse for dinner that done a duo of cheesecakes for dessert (need I say more:-))

Sunday - we had breakfast, queued for the natural history museum, dinosaur expo was CLOSED!!! I was gutted!!

Then we went tube hopping to visit, London eye, big ben, Westminster & MI6 building....

 

London eye, big ben, Westminster & MI6 building

After a busy morning, we went to visit Hamleys & hit Oxford street for some retail therapy….

HAMLEYS

I also saw people with Hummingbird bakery  bags, so tracked it down and had a slice of Rainbow Cake (highlight of my trip)

We strolled thru Selfridges to avoid the rain & went for Dinner in Covent Gardens in Maxwell’s (delish)

Hummingbird Bakery

We were very lucky to get home on Monday.. the early flight was delayed in Stansted by 8 hours!!! we walked passed them and got our flight and were only delayed by 45min over the winds in Cork!!!!

I was very happy to be home but exhausted after the weekend!! my legs are still heavy!!

We did 17,000 steps on Sat & 28,000 steps on Sunday according to my Fitbit!

I took Tues off work, himself went to work, I hit the couch and ate lotsa pancakes :-)

So I happily accepted my 4lb gain at Slimming World and plan to get back on track ASAP

Bit of Motivation for the coming week..... 

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Slimming World - WEEK 5 - Jan/Feb 2016

January is finally over…. Can I get a woohoo J Hello Spring & February

Star week and birthday week for me which see’s me going waaay over my syns on 3 days!!

Hey, no one said this was going to be straight forward or easy! BUT the queen of excuses refuses to quit…. 

Friday 29^th Jan 2016 – Day 26

Still feeling nauseous, so didn’t eat much!!! Star week has arrived also!!! So not the best combo to start my day!!!

Today was off plan! I just ate what I thought I’d be able to keep down!

2.5 Litres of Water & ??syns

Sick Day

Saturday 30^th Jan 2016 – Day 27

Woke up feeling better, went to Spinning and hopefully sweated out the end of whatever bug I picked up!!

I was careful with my food today “just in case”

Dinner was a Chinese take away 8 syns and having 3 chocolate biscuits put me over my syns for the day but counting it as a win!

1 hour Spinning & 1.5 Litres of Water & 23 syns

3 biscuits = 12 syns

Sunday 31^st  Jan 2016 – Day 28

Today started well, breakfast * lunch were on plan, I got my food shopping in for the week BUT we had visitors for the afternoon and I let myself get too hungry and also Hangry!

So dinner was off plan pizza! Not sure why I find it so difficult to stay onplan at the weekend!!!

1 Litre of Water & ??syns

 

HEB + 1.5 syns (light cheese triangle)

Monday 1^st  Feb 2016 – Day 29

Have my usual Monday morning determination about me even tho I didn’t sleep very well!!

Ate as much fruit as I could to get the speed food into me!!

Suffered in Spinning class tonight, my dinner was jumping in my throat! Not a good feeling!

Had some dry half a syn biscuits to ease the queasy feeling

1 hour Spinning & 3 Litres of Water & 2.5 syns

Synfree Roast Chicken Dinner

Tuesday 2^nd  Feb 2016 – Day  30

Woke up tired!! I assume its how Tuesdays will be after a busy Monday and Spinning!!

3 meals were on plan.. had a quiet day and early night…  Had 2 x chocolate biscuits to use some syns

2.5 Litres of Water & 11 syns

Tuesday Treat

Wednesday 3^rd  Feb 2016 – Day  31

Today is my birthday, 32.. how did that happen!!! My birthday surprise is a trip to London THIS Sat (lucky me)

So today at work I cancelled cake (we always get cake when there’s a birthday in the office!)

My 3 main meals were 100% on plan (lunch was 1.5 syns for light cheese triangle) So that when I went to my parents for dinner, I was able to join in the “party” with my nieces and nephew & have birthday cake

Cake pushes me over my syns, but I’m ok with that…. It is my birthday after all

2 Litre of Water & ??syns

Happy Birthday to Me

Thursday 4^th  Feb 2016 – Day  31

Weigh Days here once again…. I’m feeling good today, and kinda lean and light, could be all in my head,  but regardless of what the scales says I plan to enjoy my weekend away…

Hit the scales and walked away with a maintain….. very happy with that  J

2.5 Litres of Water & 11 syns

Happy

I’m taking the next few days off, but I’ll pop in next Friday with my weigh in result xxx

 7lb lost to date

74lb to go

Bit of Motivation for the coming week..... 

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