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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Back to Slimming World - WEEK 4 - Jan 2016

I feel like the weeks are going faster because I’m telling ye about my day every day.. HOWEVER I think its helping me to stay on track!!

I really need a plan for the weekend tho! How do you all cope with being out of routine and a near empty fridge til shopping day (Sundays for me)?

Friday 22^nd Jan 2016 – Day 19

Planned my breakfast and lunch to be synfree so that I could enjoy my onplan take away later AND some chocolate

That’s a win in my books J

2.5 Litre of Water & 17.5syns

8 syn Wispa from the Multipack

Saturday 23^rd Jan 2016 – Day 20

Went to 10am spinning to start off my weekend… its getting dare I say a little bit easier!!! Brunch afterwards was a very tasty toasted bagel, synfree using my HEA (milk in tea) & HEB (bagel slim)

Dinner was on plan SW burger & chips…. But my snacking was a bit mad, so I went way over my syns, not even going to attempt to add them up but I did still write them in my food diary.

2 Litre of Water & Spinning & ??syns

SW Chips with Cheeseburger (2) & side salad

Sunday 24^th  Jan 2016 – Day 21

Sundays breakfast and lunch were onplan, but then we went to see our wedding band play in a showcase and decided to eat dinner in town, it was delicious and my dinner, so I don’t regret it.

However it did mean that later in the evening I allowed myself some extra treats for turning down dessert earlier!!!!

1.5 Litre of Water & ??syns

Bunless Bacon & cheese Burger with Chips

Monday 25^th  Jan 2016 – Day 22

Back to eating well 100% I plan to keep my meals synfree free if I can this week and my syns low to see if I can make amends for my 2 days of madness!!

I am seeing a pattern tho!!  Me & weekend – Brain thinks “lets eat EVERYTHING and worry about it on Mon”

Enjoyed spinning after a bad day at work, it was a good way to get me outta my negative funk J

3.5 Litre of Water & Spinning & 8syns

Mushy Pea Curry (synfree)

Tuesday 26^th Jan 2016 – Day 23

Heavy legs today after last nights spinning!! Walking up the stairs to work its like they woke up and decided to weigh a ton each!!

Was at the hairdressers from 5-9pm ( I brought onplan snacks), so ate my dinner really late because I was starving and decided my dinner was better than picking!!

2.5 Litre of Water & 8syns

Egg Muffins & Hifi

Wednesday 27^th Jan 2016 – Day 24

Tired today!!! Had egg muffin for breakfast so that I could have a bagel for lunch, it felt like a such a treat, but it was 100% on plan.. that makes me happy!

Had a couch night to relax and catch up on tv because the next week is going to be busy

3 Litre of Water & 14.5 syns

Toasted Bagel Slim  (HEB) with chicken Salad 

Thursday 28^th Jan 2016 – Day 25

Weigh Day again!!  Had Overnight oats fro Breakfast.. YUM (link here) 
Didn't feel great when I got to work, so just had boiled water with lemon all day! Decided to go to the early weigh in... I was down 2.5lbs, bought some new bars to try and left!!! I did have a small bit of dinner in my mums and it stayed down and I had some Salt & Vinegar crisps to see if it would help with the nauseous feeling... it kind of did and I got some sleep!! So felt ill all day but didnt get sick, probably because there was nothing in my stomach!!! 

3 Litre of Water & ??syns

Weight Lost to Date: 7lbs

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

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Pancake Tuesday

I tried this recipe for Pancakes a few month ago from Lovely Girlie Bits Blog (Link here)

and decided that I would give these Magic pancakes another go for Pancake/ Shrove Tuesday.

I also bought a mix in Tesco's, one of the “just add milk” and if you use the milk as your Healthy Extra A, the mix makes 10 pancakes, each with a syn value of 5 syns, and that’s before you add any toppings!! 

5 syns PER PANCAKE

For these magic pancakes, you can have them for free if you count the 35g oats as your Healthy Extra B or syn the oats at 6 syns.. all the other ingredients are free.. so you can make a good few pancakes from the batter with a total of 6 syns before toppings.

Definitely the way to go I think

So all you need is 35g porridge oats, any free Mullerlight (I used Vanilla) Sweetener & 2 eggs

Place your 35g of porridge oats in a bowl, mix with half a Müllerlight yogurt, add 2 tbsp of sweetener & 2 eggs into the mixture..

Blend until it looks like a batter (I put mine in the fridge for 40 mins, while I had dinner)

Pre heat frying pan and spray with fry light

Use a desert spoon and measure out roughly *12* small pancakes(I made 6 small & 1 large)

Fry one side for about 4-5 minutes until it stops bubbling

Flip over and cook for further 3-4 minutes until golden brown/ burnt like mine

If you wanted to have these for a total of 6 syns ((or free if oats are your HEB,)) then serve these with lovely free/speed fruit & the other half of your Mullerlight

If you've saved all your syns to have these as your treat (I know I have) then here are the syns for other toppings that you might want to top your pancakes with.

Other toppings

Lemon = Free

Sweetener = Free

Sugar = 1 level Tablespoon = 3 syns

Choc Shot – 1 level Tablespoon = 2 syns

Jam (reduced sugar)  =  1 level Tablespoon = 1 syn

Nutella  = 1 level Tablespoon = 4 syns

Peanut Butter = 1 level Tablespoon = 4.5 syns

Maple syrup = 1 level Tablespoon = 2 syns

Golden syrup = 1 level  Tablespoon = 2.5 syns

For ahem research purposes for the blog, I decided to try a few of the toppings on my little experiment... All of the below came in at 13.5 syns (including 6 syns for the oats) 
Which isn't bad at all

For any of you lovely ladies that are banana fan’s, check out this link to the Skinny Doll’s blog for banana pancakes

Skinny Doll Banana Pancakes >>> here <<<

Slimming World Ladies beware that mashed banana is 6 syns, so these are not free

I hope where ever you are today that your enjoying a pancake or three :-)

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Slimming World & me

Hey Guys,

I've been very slow to write a post about Slimming World, even tho I really think its amazing and the results speak for themselves, check out their magazine or website, but even in my group, the ladies are doing so well. I'm delighted for them every week as I share in their success.

I however have been playing the yo-yo game, up and down every single week since I joined in April (not exactly a poster girl for the programme) So I decided that until I got a cert to stick on my fridge then I would not be writing a post about it.
However if you follow me on instagram or Twitter you will be sick of seeing my daily posts of all my meals (sorry not sorry!). I find that taking photos of the food helps me to make better choices.
I also think instagram is great for getting food ideas and recipes. (I'm told that pinterest is too, but I can't get a handle on it.. showing my ages*ahem*)

So last Thursday night... it happened for me.. I lost 1lb and got my half a stone cert.. FINALLY :) I was delighted to get it and the clap I got from my group, it was lovely :) I think my clap was the loudest of the evening ,the girls knew its been a long time coming for me.

Half  Stone Award

So I have a lovely shiney sticker on the back of my book and I have the certificate on my fridge at home to remind me to choose wisely when I open the fridge.


So I'm sorry for the long (not planned) absence, but as I said, I wanted to wait until I had a progress report before I came back on here, otherwise this would be a confessional post about all the bad food I've been eating.

Thankfully tho I'm loosing,  its taken me 3 months to get off the 7lbs but that's ok because I know they are now gone forever and also it means that I didn't fall into the trap of "move in with the boyfriend and gain a stone" that was a big fear of mine.


So I'm back and I'm a total Slimming World convert, so I will be back to posting my weigh in's weekly and letting ye know how I'm getting on. I'll also post some recipes if ye like (the easy ones that is, cuz I'm not the best chef)

Do any of you following the Slimming World plan?  how do ye find it?