Week one AD (after deployment!)

So Monday came and went. It was finally D Day. The dreaded time to watch the ship that carries my husband to disappear over the horizon and settle in to life as a 'single parent' and embark on the mission in hand!

In all fairness I've been doing okay so far, don't get me wrong I hate him not being here and my daughter asking where daddy's toothbrush has gone broke my heart but for some odd reason I didn't want to stuff my face with copious amounts of Ben and Jerry or crisps.

The whole week has been like this. I had my day of sorrow and mourning on Monday, that first night alone is always a killer I don't sleep properly and I woke feeling pretty pants to be fair. But I pulled on my big girl pants -literally and metaphorically- and made my way to the gym for my second freebie pt session. I have been set a challenge for march.
I have to give up bread and embark on the fitness challenge.
I had to see how fast I could cycle 5k, how many bench steps I could do on each leg in a minute, how long I could plank for and how many push ups I could do (that was truly pitiful!)
She then weighed and took my measurements and I now have until April 6th to better every one of the scores I have, lose half a stone AND shrink my measurements. If I don't I'm in for some kind of sadistic beasting I think!

Feeling sore but motivated for the rest of the week I've carried on. Not eating bread and yesterday was my first weigh of my deployment diet. I lost

6 and a half pounds

Woooooooooooop go me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Smashing my weekly goal of 2 and a half so I've put myself ahead a bit already! Happy days!

Ready to begin week two.

This week started with me staying at a friends and involved Pizza and wine. But on the plus side it was a shared pizza and a bottle of wine so could have been a lot worse!!!!! Bring on the next week weigh! I've told my consultant I want to lose 3lbs this week.

Wish me luck!

Day one week one

Well that's it all back and re registered with slimming world. Although hubby doesn't officially deploy until Monday, he's Weekend duty this weekend so thought I'd get a few days head start.
I was shocked at how much affect about 5 weeks of "it's my last *insert food group/restaurant/drink/takeaway* can do but it's all fresh and shiney new ready for my task ahead.
I had a little chat with my consultant and we decided to settle on an interim target if 6 stone off in the time I have totally do able, I think it works out about 2 and a half pounds a week which is a healthy amount!
I'm off to take a picture and measurements to put in my diary!

I've actually spent a Friday after weigh in not actually going over my syns either! Check me out!

So stay tuned and see how I get on!

Hello!

Hi everyone,  it's been a looooooong time since I've blogged but I thought as I'd had a fair new followers on my page I thought I'd say hi and introduce my new mission!

I've had so much going on since my last post and a stupidly busy year has caused a big old weight gain and the need to find a new challenge for me.

So hubby is deploying yet again, 35 weeks this time and when he returns we want to try for baby number two, however the weight I am now it's not possible and I don't want to be this heavy as I don't want a repeat performance of my last pregnancy and birth.
It's also my 30th birthday in November and I want to be a fitty at 30 NOT a fatty!

So my mission as I have chosen to accept it is....

*** 35 weeks to lose AT LEAST 70lbs ***

It's still a healthy weight loss and would put my in good stead for getting towards a healthy weight, I'd still have a bit to go but hey its a start right?!

I'll not be blogging every night food diaries and the like but ill post something most days.

Weigh in will be Friday morning (fresh start at slimming world again)

I will also be gymming as often as possible but at least twice a week for a couple of hours at a time and I've also got wii and dvds and I've just purchased a hula hoop..... stay tuned for how much damage I can do there lol!

So stick with me and see how I get on. I'll take measurements and a picture after my first official weigh but I won't post them until I've completed my 35 weeks.

Thanks for reading xx

Why is this so hard?

I have been on a "diet" of some sort for most of my adult life, whether it be shakes, calorie counting, skipping meals, starvation (that didnt last very long though!) I binged, I tried making myself sick, only ate vegetables, the list is endless and has got me no where.

I have always been the "Fat Friend", granted I dont think any of my true close friends today would ever judge me on my size and my husband loves me for who I am, I've been at my biggest with him and smallest, he has never put me down or told me I'm fat, he's always been supportive of whatever fad I'm doing at the time but I've been ridiculed on nights out by strangers many a time and it knocks my confidence.
In fact my lowest point I had had my daughter about 5 weeks before and was in the middle of that sleep deprived, hormonal, first time mum stage, I had my best friend down for the weekend and we were going to the beach for the day. I pulled up at a petrol station, queued and when the guy in front looked like he was waiting for a different pump, I went to the one next to it, at which point he got out his car and started swearing and screaming at me about how he was waiting and I pushed in, now normally if I had been spoken to like a human being instead of screamed and ranted at, I would have pulled back out, apologised and let him go infront of me, but instead I sucked up a breath and started filling the car, at which point I had just about every single "fatism" thrown at me and apparently my need was greater than him for fuel because I had to get my fat arse to McDonalds, oh no wait they dont have an all you can eat there and other such delightful stuff.

I dont even like McDonalds!

At this point my friend was trying to launch herself at the guy and I finished paying and drove off in floods of tears, I had never been so humiliated in my life. The whole forecourt had witnessed it and I was mortified.

It has stayed with me to this day and probably always will. Why do people feel that its okay to abuse and publically humiliate others? Infact just last week I got told by a passing car whilst on my bike I needed to "peddle faster chunky!"

It's been a real struggle recently and my body just doesn't want to play ball. I'm not going to lie its upsetting me a lot and getting me down.
I either dont lose anything or gain, its a mystery as to why.
Ive seen my extremely helpful doctor who asked me if I was losing inches, to which I replied I had gone from a 22 to a 16/18 depending on where I shop, after my gain over last few weeks its more 18 again though :( and she basically didnt know what my problem was. How did she not get the fact that yay I've lost inches but theres still a lot of me and why the hell dont the friggin numbers change?!?! surely you lose dress sizes you should lose weight eventually! She did after a lot of begging do a blood test and everything there was A-OK.
I've tried adding in exercise, I've tried cutting out exercise, I've tried small plates, I've tried small meals, I've tried low syns, I've tried all my syns......I've tried calorie counting on apps such as My Fitness Pal, I dont even really drink anymore. I literally want to pull my hair out!!!! why cant I lose weight!?!?

I did SW before my daughter for about 18 months while trying to get pregnant as I think I knew deep down my weight was hindering our success concieving, sure enough I lost 5 and a half stone and TAAA DAAAA! we fell pregnant. So why is that since having my daughter its such a slow process, I go for weeks, months even, not losing anything, its soul destroying. Putting the effort in and getting nothing to show for it. Its taken me 2 and a half years to lose 3 stone. Its rediculous. I have seen people in my group lose 3 times that much and be at target. Its not fair. I just wish that I could get a definitive reason as to why my weight has come to a standstill with still so far to go, dont get me wrong though I dont begrudge people in their journeys by any means (little jealous maybe!) I would love to be that inspirational story that everyone wants to follow and support in, not gonna happen like this though is it ?! HA HA.

What if this is the reason though yet again we struggle to conceive? Its a harsh but true reality that may be the problem, but how do I go about solving it if I've tried all the solutions!

I know these posts arent like a lot of other foody blogs, but I do all my food pics on Instagram, I think I just need somewhere to vent my frustration.

Thanks for reading my ramblings, any suggestions feel free to leave a comment or go to my facebook page slimming world style and leave me some tips! I will try anything within reason.

xx

And so she returns from outer space, well cyber space at least!

Okay so realising when I was reading back through some of my old blogs, I've not actually blogged for nearly a year... a whole year!

I bet you're all thinking "ahhh she must be nearly at target" "ooh I bet shes been really good and lost tons of weight" or more probably "ooh that's the random girl who I used to read but then she got lazy and I stopped reading as she stopped posting...."
Well you would be right in one of those, and its the last one! I'm no closer to my target and I haven't lost tons of weight either, well actually I should rephrase that slightly, I HAD lost a stone since my last post, then my husband came back from a nine month world deployment and basically I spent the weeks that followed catching up on missed takeaways and a few date nights, social events and a very wonderful all inclusive holiday to Egypt. Therefore all that stone got put back on again! This has totally annoyed me (although i enjoyed at the time!!!)

So here I am, I have been inspired by a friend of mine who has recently started blogging and my husband said to me could I not start ranting abut my weight journey on here again, I think he may be getting fed up with me banging on about it all the time!

So let me get you up to speed.....

I now have an instagram account which I use every day to instablog my food pics, my user name is

1_pound_at_a_time

I find instagram really helpful, its full of amazing ideas and food related stuffs, I've picked up some great recipes and tips etc on there, so come follow me, I follow back pretty much everyone slimming world related unless you're selling me juice diets and wraps, thats a no go lol!
Its also a great place for fitness ideas and I'm trying to incorporate some clean eating into my diet now too, some days are better than others, but there's loads of inspiration on there for that too.

I had a few months around christmas where I just couldn't focus properly on my dieting and I decided in mid jan to give it a rest for a bit, get the homecoming out the way and then knuckle back down again when things were more settled and hopefully my body will kick start itself again. That was the theory anyway.

I rejoined my SW group on the 28th March I think it was and I've lost a grand total of .....

Two pounds.........

I could cry!

It's proving to be so damn difficult to get my body to shift this lard, I could understand if I was close to target but to this date I still need to lose a staggering 5 stone and 13lbs!!!!!!!
I had lost 3 and a half stone but put a few pounds back on hence the restarting.

I'm currently in the process of trying different things to help with my weightloss, I had started the C25K podcasts the week before last, put half a pound on come weigh in, had a hissybitchfit about it and didnt go out again, buuuuut....I'm going to restart week 1 tomorrow as I actually really enjoyed it.
I'm going to cut down my caffine intake and try and drink more water and herbal teas as I drink faaaaar too much caffine.
I'm going to focus more on some clean eating and healthy fats. As SW is low fat, I thought I might invest in some healthy fats as either HE's or use my syns on things such as almond or cashew butters, coconut oil for cooking rather than frylight, flax seeds etc, as I was having a consultation not so long ago with a personal dietian and she said I dont eat enough of these types of fats and it may slow down my metabolism especially as I dont like fish. Hey it can only help I guess!

Theres one massive contributing factor in my need for weight loss..... BABIES!!!
Well, Baby, not multiple babies...eeeek! We have decided to go for another and this time I want to be more in control and be healthier, the thought of gaining 5st again scares the beejeezus out of me and I don't want the health issues that come with it, I'm STILL trying to lose the weight I gained with my daughter 3 years ago! I've been told the SPD that I suffered with first time round will undoubtably come back and quicker and worse. If i can lose weight while trying and then when I fall I hope this will help it a bit especially as I will have an extremely active 3 year old to contend with too and lounging on a sofa all day will not cut it with her!

So there we have it, I'm back and thats me pretty much up to date I think as to where I am now so I hope you come back and share my journey again and help me through it

xx

Two for the price of one tonight you lucky things!

Good evening!!
So i was a bit lacking on my blog last night, i would say its because i was really busy....but i wasnt and yet still ran out of day for writing, and work rudely got in the way this morning so not enough time to do it then, soooo you get two tonight!

Right yesterday....

Started with a big fat cuppa, followed by mango, cherries, blueberries, raspberries, ff greek yog and some sweetner. So kind of much the same as pervious days, except today came with an invite to spend the day with my sis in law and one of my nephews.
So we decided to head up to the woods and have a picnic, then let the kids wear themselves out running around....hmmmm il tell you how that worked out later lol

Picnic needing knocking up, so i threw some courgette in a pan and warmed through, stuck some lettuce in a box, topped with tomatoes, cucumber, cress, carrots, and the courgette. Toasted a heb of pitta and boiled up some Ainsley Harriott couscous for 2.5 syns. Then left the couscous and pitta behind...fail!!! So i had to have that when i got home! Oooopsy! Did remember my banana though and two bottles of diet pepsi.
Did a quick pit stop in town...another fail, im looking for a doorstop in primarni of an owly for squirts room, but they are out of stock, then i have a heartattack and realise ive dropped my phone somewhere...such a small object makes me almost have a heart attack at the thought of losing it. Thankfully i retrace my steps and find it hidden under my car...phewww. i knee it was going to be one of those days.

Finally we arrived at the woods, a little late, but enjoyed a lovely picnic. We then thought we would let the kids just walk round rather than take push chairs...epic fail there too, we had tantrums and no's, floor sitting, falling over...the list went on! We then decided to go get an icecream. Oh my god seriously what is the deal with the price of ice creams! £4 for a solero (5 syns) and a kiddies '99!!! Robbing buttholes!!!

Anyway back home for a nap for squirt and i prepped dinner whilst munching two slightly frozen ww yogurts. We were having sticky chicken (1), roasted couscous stuffed peppers, mushrooms, onion and butternut squash chips. However my squash had other plans, its was full from top to bottom with seeds and pith, no solid bits at all, i managed to get 6 french fry size off out of a whole squash...miffed was an understatement! Then to add insult to it they then burnt, so i had none!!!
Anyway the rest was nice!
Pudding was pineapple and we were done for the day

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - ww pitta bread

SUPERFREE
Mango
Cherries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Cress
Carrots
Courgette
Banana
Pepper
Mushrooms
Onion
Garlic
Pineapple

FREE
Chicken
Balsamic vinegar
Soy sauce
Couscous
FF greek yogurt
2 ww yogurts

SYNS
Solero  5
Ainsley Harriott cous cous  2.5
Honey in dinner  1

TOTAL 8.5

So on to today and a very quick on as ive been at work!
Brekkie was the norm of fruit and yog, todays were cherries and raspberries and a ww strawberry tart yogurt

Off to work i go and stop for a quick brew at my folks (0.5) as ive decided to change my hea today and two hifis as my heb.

Lunchtime rolled round and i had a mismatch of spaghetti hoops, a mugshot and mango...bizaare right??? But it proper filled me up as i wont be eating tea til about 8pm tonight.

Finally home and i decide to try the mayflower curry sauce that all sw fb sites rave about, i have the extra hot one and it was quite mild compared to what i normally have but was tasty tho, maybe a bit heavy on 4syns though, so a treat from now on! I served it with chicken, mushrooms, onion, peas and courgette and some plain boiled rice :) and half a pitta bread for 3 syns.

Srawberries for pudding and ive munched 40g of reduced fat cheese for my hea today as well.

HEA - 40g reduced fat cheese
HEB - 2 hifi bars

SUPERFREE
Cherries
Raspberries
Mango
Mushrooms
Onion
Courgette
Strawberries

FREE
Chicken
Rice
Mugshot
Spaghetti hoops

SYNS
Mayflower sauce  4
1/2 pitta  3
Skimmed milk in coffee  1

TOTAL  8

Thats me done for the night so have a good evening :-) xx

Monday munchies...serious emotion munchies!!

Good morning everyone, hope the sun is shining where ever you may be :-)

Thought id blog again in the morning as it felt like i didnt stop eating yesterday or last night and i went over my syns it was that bad! However im feeling better this morning.

So shall we start with yesterdays red day with brekki...

I had a massive bowl of mango, blueberries, cherries, raspberries and strawberries with a raspberry shape yogurt frozen over the top, what better way to start the new week :-) ooo and dont forget the caffine fix too.

Now we are attempting to change our fish tank over to a gold fish tank, squirt has a complete obsession with feeding the fish at the mo, great i hear you say...except theres no fish in there that eat fish food! Just one very stubborn red tipped shark who happily grazes off the algae and wont touch the flakes :-/
So we made the decison to go goldfish styleeee instead, cheaper, easier to look after and they cant hide so well so squirt can actually see what shes feeding! So we trotted off to the pet shop and spent a good hour looking at fish, seeing if there was a fish adoption program (well there was one for furry pets so why not fish!!) watching the rabbits, rattys, gerbils and ginpiggys, yes guinea pig is far too hard for a two year old to say so they now sound like they are alcholic pigs lol. But left with just ideas.

Lunch was a rather yummy selection of tikka (0.5) and plain chicken strips, hea feta, a ww heb pitta, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, cress, carrots and 2 pints of nas squash. And half a packet of skips (2)

Then we went tesco to go and pick up a few predeployment bits, im prewriting notes for hubby, one a week so that no matter if the emails down or they have had to go off comms then he will have something from home guareented. I then spent the rest of the afternoon writing bits of info down on some of the places hes going so i can "trip advise" him in some notes, silly facts in others etc.
Whilst doing that i polished off 2 hifi heb, 2 mugs of coffee, some ham slices and a mini milk (1.5)

Then stupidly i fell foul to mindlessness and decided to eat the rest of squirts chips she had left which cost me 4 syns. I need to pour fairy liquid over her leftovers i think in future... im not even sure why i did it and to be honest i didnt even twig on the fact i was til they were gone! I blantantly wasnt hungry!

Anyway tea for me was gammon steaks with a mound of roasted veg, there was pepper, mushroom, courgette, onions, and plum tomatoes, more squash too. It went down sooo well!

More writing notes and stuff and i managed to eat a banana, a bowl of cherries and blueberries and a shape yogurt, AND a caramel freddo! (5)

It rolled past midnight and i thought it would be a good idea to go to bed, but nooo, i think im slowly depressing myself over this trip and i just couldnt sleep so shoved on an episode of made in chelsea....and found myself with a packet of ringos (3.5) and a slice of bread (5) silly silly girl!!!! Its definitely emotional eating and something i need to get under control before hubs actually goes or in 9.5 months time i will be the size of a elephant.

HEA - 350 ml skimmed milk
HEA - 45g feta
HEB - 2 hifi bars
HEB - ww pitta bread

SUPERFREE
Mango
Blueberries
Cherries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Lettuce
Cucumber
Plum toms
Cress
Carrots
Plum toms
Onions
Courgette
Mushrooms
Peppers
Banana
Cherries
Blueberries

FREE
Shape yogurt
Plain chicken strips
Ham slices
Gammon
Shape yogurt

SYNS
Tikka strips  0.5
1/2pk skips  2
Mini milk  1.5
Crinkle cut chips  4
Caramel freddo  5
Ringos  3.5
Bread  5

TOTAL  20.5

Crappit!!!!! :-(

Will have a better day today and lower syns too lets hope it doesnt ruin weigh in on friday now im off for a walk :-)

Xx

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Sunday Lazy Day :-)

So im writing this monday morning woopsy, but i just didnt have time last night, we were over my folks and by the time i got in it was bed time as hubby had to be up stupid early this morning (and succeeded in waking me up as well)

So yesterday was an extra easy day for me, and actually a good day, thats two days in a row which is a revelation to me, and todays shaping up to be ok as well.

We started off the day with a big fat grill up. Two tesco healthy living sausages, which were the 1/2 syns ones, bacon medallions, mushrooms, small tinned tomatoes, 1/2 small can beans, a red onion and a big fat cuppa! It was the perfect way to start a sunday morning and i really do look forward to having one.

After a quick shower and construction of my lunch we were off to my mum and dads for the day. I took my lunch up with me as my mum usually does goregous crusty white rolls, or naughty stuff for lunch so figured doing that id avoid temptation!
And i was right, white rolls and macoys crisps (my fave!) Vs my prawn salad with prawn cocktail hoops and crosses and a ww lemon tart yogurt.... phew prior preps meant a good lunch for me! However i was mighty disppointed with the crisps, the roast beef and salt and vinegar ones are absolutely lush, the prawn cocktail ones were a complete letdown...seems to be the theme of trying new stuff this week....not at all prawny more like tomato sauce flavoured!!! This makes me very very sad! :-( so i had a slice of garlic sausage to get rid of the taste for a syn instead lol.
I also added in a pint of nas squash and a couple of glasses of diet coke.

Afternoon snackage consisted of two hifi lights, one rocky road and one caramel and a cuppa while hubby and my bro were out playing golf. Few runs around in the garden and squirt playing on her new slide i needed warming up and that hit the spot.

I then had to make squirts tea, (ours was going to be cooked too late past her teatime) tonights experiment following on the success of the wiggly spaghetti yesterday i thought we would try gammon carbonara with homemade cheese sauce. My first ever attempt of homemade sauce! Lovely butter, cheese, milk and flour...opposite of sw friendly!!! But good for squirt who needs to put on a bit of weight after bein so ill, theres not many two year olds that could fit in to 9-12 clothes....
However i confess to trying a teaspoon to make sure it was cheesey enough so im hazarding a guess at 3syns. Bloomin lovely if i may say so myself! The fact that it took her nearly three hours of grazing on it to eat it i didnt take personally lol. Far too many other distractions to eat all in one go!

Now all i could smell was the slow roasting of a gorgeous leg of lamb in the oven, served up with brocoli, carrots, peas, parsnips, roastys in frylight, and 2 syns of gravy. It was gorgeous, i do love a good roast at my mums she has a bit of a talent in the kitchen even if im a bit biased!

Two hours catch up with Revolution and two pints of water later and it was time to go home, i decided i was going to end my night with some strawberries and cherries with a raspberry shape yog over as i needed something sweet, the choc cravings were poking through and this was a lot better of a choice!

Finally it was bed time and the start of a new week again...where is the time going!?!

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 2 hifi light

SUPERFREE
Mushrooms
Tinned tomatoes
Onion
Lambs lettuce
Plum toms
Cucumber
Carrots
Red cabbage
Alfalfa shoots
Radishes
Broccoli
More carrots
Cherries
Strawberries

FREE
Beans
Bacon
Prawns
Lentil and pea shoots
Lemon tart ww yog
Lamb no fat
Frylight roast potatoes
Peas
Parsnips
Shape raspberry yogurt

SYNS
2 sausages  1
Garlic sausage  1
Hoops and crosses crisps  4
Gravy  2
Tsp cheese sauce  3

TOTAL  11

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Hey Hey Im Back!

Hello my lovelies, im finally back and my feet are firmly on the sw wagon!

So, i feel the need to kind of explain where i have been, no not on some tropical island sunnying myself or a world tour, or even on holiday! Ive literally been ill in some shape or form for the last 3 weeks. Little lady decided to pick up a very nasty sickness and poor tummy bug, and was ill for about a week, a week of sleepless nights, vomitting, washing, disgusting nappies, washing, disinfecting, washing and more washing! Infact if any of you have shares in Ariel or Lenor then the rise in the price of them is down to me! My tumble dryer and washing machine were positively glowing! Then halfway through the week i had the joys of joining her as well as the majority of my family as well (i was not very popular!)
Then we both picked up colds after that too, which is still hanging around but i cant sit idly by and pile back on the weight.
Now most people i know get D&V tend to lose weight...my poor bro lost two stone....but not me! After nearly two weeks of either not eating and drinking or only being able to eat toast, i then went through a stage of just wanting stodge, lots of pasta and potatoes, not so good for me as my body cant handle to many carbs.
So after one missed group last week for fear of passing on germs and killing off people i finally returned this week and faced a 2lb gain...not horrific as i was expecting alot more, however disappointing as i was just 1/2lb away from that shiney purple 3 stone award, now i have fallen back to 2.5lbs...doh!!!!!
So i finished my friday up with a big food shop and my fridge is now full of yummy goodness and i am back in the game (after a chow mein and homemade sw spring rolls and a new muller fudge dessert..totally not worth 5 syns by the way...followed by a migrain??? Seriously i just want a day feeling normal!)

So on to today...... a day 100% on extra easy plan

Brekki today was a gorgeous concoction of fresh and my new love of frozen fruit. There was mango, strawbs, raspberries, blueberries, grapes and kiwi to name a few. The coldness of the fruit slightly freezes the yogurt i put on it and turns it to a fruity icecream. I used a ww strawberry tart yogurt and had a big cuppa as well. Delish and really filling.

A quick shower and change and we disappeared into town to hunt down some summer clothes for hubbys upcoming deployment :-( still in denial! Had a good wander round and browsed loads of shops but nothing really caught our eye so we headed home. A nice 3.5miles of body magic thrown in there :-)

Lunch was a rather yum salad of rocket, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, red cabbage, alfalfa shoots, lentil and pea shoots, grilled aubergine and farmfoods chicken tikka strips (0.5 syns) left over syn free pasta and a bottle of diet coke. And two wotsits 0.5 syns

After squirts nap we went to B&M  as a new one has just opened near us and i hear so many people raving about it on various fb sw groups but personally i cant see what all the fuss is about, all ours had was loads of cheap chocolate, not really very sw friendly, but i did pick up some prawn cocktail hoops and crosses as i love the other two flavours, for 4 syns a bag you cant go wrong! A hop skip and a jump later we ended up in The Range, serious dangerous ground for me as i could have spent a fortune in there, however we settled for buying squirt an owly hoot hoot quilt cover and curtains for her soon to be new room...roll on pay day! Only other purchase was a bottle of diet pepsi...oh the restraint!

Back home again and ive been investigating into creative food for my little one, she eats ok most of the time but i struggle to get veggies in her, shes a massive fruit queen but you even wave a mushroom or brocoli at her and she runs a mile! So have been scouring the internet for ways of making food fun, including dying it different colours, making it into animals, different shapes, some are amazing and well beyond my talents but one i tried tonight as an edge into it was hotdog wiggles! Now normally she wont eat past bigger than macaroni so spaghetti i thought would be a challenge! U basically skewer hotdogs with raw spaghetti and then boil til cooked, afterwards they look like wiggly centipedes or aliens and you know what she ate the lot and asked for more!!! Winner!!! While she ate that i tucked in to an ice cold carling zest on my balcony for 5syns, a slice of ham and an apple...delightful

We had spicy sausage and chorizo jambalaya tonight and it was sooo good! Chopped celery, peppers, mushrooms, spring onions, asparagus, 1.5 syns worth of sausages, rice, 3syns of chorizo, veg stock, paprika and cayenne pepper, all cooked til the stock is absorbed.

Then whilst watching blades of glory (cheeeeeeeesy film!) I remembered id not had my heb so cracked open a rocky road and caramel hifi with my coffee!

Had a brilliant day on plan, heres to the start of a fab week and getting that 2.5lbs off!

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 2 hifi lights

SUPERFREE
Mango
Blueberries
Strawberries
Grapes
Cherries
Kiwi
Raspberries
Rocket
Plum toms
Cucumber
Red cabbage
Carrot
Aubergine
Alfalfa sprouts
Apple
Celery
Pepper
Mushrooms
Asparagus
Spring onion

FREE
Strawberry tart ww yogurt
Lentil and pea shoots
Ham
Pasta salad
Diet coke
Diet pepsi
Diet fizzy orange
Veg stock
Paprika
Cayenne pepper
Rice

SYNS
Chicken tikka strips  0.5
2 wotsits  0.5
Carling Zest  5
Sausages  1.5
Chorizo  3

TOTAL  10.5

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A few woopsies!

I need to get some glasses or properly pre check my blogs i think, as not only did i write i had hot choc last night and not add it into my syns at the bottom (now totalling 16.5syns!) But the lovely Karen has pointed out i wrote 45g of reduced fat cheese instead of 40g which i did actually have. So im very sorry and endevour to make less mistakes in future!

Right on to today and the first day of a week of potential diet sabotage!

I got up early this morning and decided that i would have a big brekki so that i wasnt tempted by any naughties or cake or sandwiches etc when i was out later that morning, yes pre planning is the way ahead!
So i shoved in the oven a couple of the newly synned tesco healthy living sausages, the new packets have been resynned at 1/2 syn a sausage, this makes me very very happy as these are the best "diet friendly" sausages ive tasted from a supermarket. I added a couple of big mushrooms, 2 slices of fat removed bacon  small tin of beans (which i burnt....wtf???) some of these were hawked by my small person who has a bean fetish (like her mum!) and finally a handful of cherry tomatoes which exploded in the oven. All washed down with a big cuppa!

After a shower and shoving on some washing we made our way to the marina to meet a friend and her little girl for lunch, a good couple of hours was spent talking about the kids, our husbands and their ship, upcoming deployments etc with just a diet coke! I stepped away from the cakes, big brunches and garlic bread. I only fell foul of 4 small chips so im synning at 2 to be on the safe side.

After we returned home i made another coffee and heated up some of the noodles i made last night, had some raspberries and a greek muller with 2 hazelnut mikados that id frozen yesterday...nom nom nom. Oh and a couple of fruit teas to warm up!

For tea tonight i decided to treat myself to a steak as they are half price in Tesco at the mo, by the time id trimmed off all the fat i was left with possibly the smallest steak in the world but it was really tender. I had another couple of big mushrooms, a small tin of beans (see bean fetish too!) a courgette and red onion and 3 small potatoes for sw chips. It was delicious, ive not had steak in forever as its just too expensive so i only ever buy it when its on offer. So a proper luxurious tea for me! :-)

Now im going to pause my blog as ive realised ive not had my B choice today and im going to look through my sw bible to see if i have anything in the cupboards i can use instead of bread.......... stay tuned........

Eeeek excitement im going to have 55g of reduced fat houmous and some carrot sticks for my snack later oooo how exciting!! Seriously rock and roll for a saturday night! And if im living dangerously i may crack open some strawberries that need eating...yeah im living dangerous!!

Right im off to wrap presents and get an early night as i have a christening to go to in the morning woohoo! :-)

Extra Easy Day

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 55g reduced fat houmous

SUPERFREE
Mushrooms
Cherry toms
All the veggie parts of my noodles ;)
Raspberries
Courgette
Red Onion
Strawberries
Carrot sticks

FREE
Bacon
Beans
Steak
Potatoes

SYNS
2 x healthy living sausages  1
Muller Greek   1/2
2 mikado   1
4 chips    2

TOTAL    4.5syns