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

Weigh in day........

Hello all, hope ur enjoying a lovely sunny evening, i have a beautiful sunset going on behind me at the mo, hopefully red skies at night will be shepherds delight tomorrow!

Sooooo today was weigh in day for me, yet again i felt seriously nervous getting on them scales. I dont know whats gotten in to me and why im so nervous, i think its the fear of putting weight back on again this time, ive spent forever trying to lose this last half stone to get my elusive 3 stone award.
Anyway... i jump on the scales, complete with butterflies and after removing bracelets, rings, socks, and contemplating removing my bra lol (i didnt!!!) And to my shock horror i lost...

1.5lbs!! :-)

Ok so that may not be alot to some people but the fact that ive lost twice in a row is an accomplishment for me. And as id had no weigh in last week due to poorliness i thought i was in for a big old gain so that small amount was a great amount for me!

However there is a downside.....

Im now only a silly, stupid, measly, annoying half a pound away from my award. Damn it!!!!!!

However looking at this constructively i have a potential bad week coming up, lunches out, seeing friends, my dads birthday, a christening. All bad things but that half a pound i think is sticking in there to keep me from pigging out like i probably would have done if id got my award today, therefore im chosing to see the positive in this and make it a good week and get that award next week. I would have also got it exactly on my target, i wanted my award before my hubby comes home and il be seeing him come home next friday as well.

Well on to food today and a green day for me.

I was starving after group as i never have brekky before hand, so my first food of the day was a mugshot and packet of french fries and a big cuppa.

Then it was meal planning time while squirt napped away peacefully in her room.
While doing this i had a warbie sandwich thin toasted in the oven with a HEA of cheese, onion and tomato and some baked beans.

Shopping was fairly stressfree this week and for once i managed to get everything on my list, i also had a ton of vouchers and my staff discount card which meant i got £90 worth of shopping for £60 absolute bargain and my fridge, freezers and cupboards are full to the brim of yummy sw friendly foods for me.

Tea tonight im making the singapore noodles from the Tastes of Asia and some of my cannaloni spring rolls as well, im also treating myself to 4 syns of prawn crackers! Perfect fakeaway for a friday night. It was really tasty and im stuffed.

Ive got some cherries and raspberries defrosting for later and im going to top it with some fromage frais and have a hot choc with it too.

HEA - 350ml of skimmed milk
HEA - 45g of half fat cheese
HEB - ooopsy
HEB - ooopsy

SUPERFREE

Onions
Peppers
Mangetout
Beansprouts
Mushrooms
Baby sweetcorn
Water chestnuts
Cherries
Raspberries

FREE
Tom puree
Mugshot
Vermicelli noodles

SYNS
Warbies sandwich thins   5
French fries     4.5
Prawn crackers      4

TOTAL  14.5 syns

Just a quick one tonight! :-)

Evening all! Firstly thanks to everyone whos following on my fb page, ive been very priviledged to hit 100 likes which is amazing! Who would have thought when i started doing this that id have that kind of an audience...not me!!!

Today has been such a busy and head fluffy day full of meetings and work books that i just want to go to sleep, so its just a short one tonight as i dont really have much to ramble about to be fair! Ive not even really eaten alot due to these workshops.

Breakfast was a bagel and quark topped with cherry tomatoes and a cuppa ... think it was vanilla this time!

Time for work and after what seemed like a life time of trying to implant information in my extremely holey head it was lunch time! One small wholemeal pitta, feta and a pack of french fries, i couldnt even drag myself to go on shop floor to buy lettuce and more tomatoes!

Back out to work and a bit more training shoved in for extra measure and it was hometime.

After picking up squirt, bathing and bedding her i sat down to peruse fb whilst eating an absolutely vile ready meal of chicken and pasta. How u can screw that meal up is beyond me! Hot choc is on the way and so is my bed and its not even dark! How rock and roll am i!?!?

Please pray to the SW gods that i maintain or have a gain under 2lbs tomorrow!

Hopefully a more interesting blog for you tomorrow i do aplogise.

Xx

Strange people with wierd food ideas?!

Late one from me today! But hey its a wednesday and im actually blogging for a change!

So work day for me today but i have been really good, i didnt even take my purse to work with me, that way no spending extra money on stuff i didnt need and i actually ate the lunch i took in with me :-) check me out!!

Soooo i started this morning off with a bacon butty and a lemon and green tea, then it was a quick hop, skip and jump into the shower and get packed up to go drop squirt off at my folks for the day, a naughty cuppa (sshhhhhhh!!) And a quick natter later and i had to go, now i woke up in a proper narky and sarky mood today so thought i was in for a crappy day at work but ive had quite a few laughs with the customers, including one lady who bought vanilla coke and said her kids would think she was supermum today as vanilla coke taste "like heaven....like an angel had wee'd on your tongue!!!"
This had me chuckling for hours as who has ever had an angel pee on their tongue to determine thats what vanilla coke tastes like?!?!?!
Strange people out there, along with a gentleman who ate fish fingers dunked in custard............
Hmmmmmmm.........

Anyways on to a slightly more normal lunch of a packet of mixed leaves, feta cheese and tomatoes, a packet of french fries and a banana. I also managed to drink a litre of water as well :-)

Back out for another crazy couple of hours and another litre of water and it was off to my folks for tea.

I had a tesco light choices sweet chilli noodles and my veg unit was asparagus followed by an apple and a pix and mix tea bag (ive emptied a load of bags into my baby bag and its a lucky dip as to what i get!) I think it was spearmint and camomile!!

And im currently sitting in bed with my hot choc ;-) after catching up on Revolution and a very brief albeit heated phone call with hubby and his silly ship. Sometimes a military life bites, not just for me and our girly but for him too :-(

Has anybody else noticed that the galaxy choc bubbles hot choc crackles when you pour the water on?! Very odd, sounds like popping candy....mmmmmmm popping candy yum yum!!!

Anyways i digress

Have a lovely evening and il see you tomorrow for my final day of Fast Forward in an attempt at a maintain/low gain come friday after my easter scoffs

Night all xx

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Double whammy!

Heehee i apologise for the lack of bloggage yesterday evening, as i spent the evening catching up watching Made In Chelsea...i know i know dire but true! I kinda like the lifestyle in a weird way but not the ponsyness, its a bit of a giggle none the less and i will shamefully be watching more tonight as im starting from series one again... so i thought id get the blog in in a oner whilst squirt is nattering to ducks in the bath and trying to put rings on her head!!! Totally my child lol ;-)

Anyways yesterdays day started with a bagel, cherry tomatoes and quark topping...im determined to have a good day on FF and i drink enough herbal tea i think to keep Twinnings in business for the next twenty years!

A quick trip to Asda to get lil lady a new peppa pig cup and plate with her birthday money as the others are old and well lets face it dont have a piggy on them...

Lunch time rolls round and i have reduced fat cheese, whole bread and make it into a lovely toasty. I add cheese and onion french fries, delish!

My snack later on was a crumpet and jam, will miss this back on plan as its just too many syns to have on a snack
;-(

Tea was prawn stirfry with a massive pile of mangetout, it had some noodles  pepper, onion, baby sweetcorn and brocoli in and cooked in a bit of soy sauce.

Pud was a bit of a treat in cherries and raspberrys with fromage frais and a hot choc, i also sadly had the rest of the choc fingers :-( boohoo! However now it means i have a spare point to use if i want but to be fair im pretty full most of the time now once im actually doing this properly and not eating stuff i shouldnt!

Today was weetabix, half a grapefruit and milk (on the weetabix not the grapefruit)

I then spent three hours and nearly 600 calories walking around town with the sis in law and my neice and nephews. Ive downloaded the endo something tracker which works alongside my fitness pal which ive also been recording all my food in and will continue to back on plan so i dont over eat!
Not too shoddy for a mornings work!

Lunch was wholemeal bread and beans with a plum as my satsuma have gone mouldy :-( and some french fries, again copius amounts of herbal teas.

Then the lovely crumpet and jam nommers....

Tea tonight is a jacket potato with cucumber, tomatoes, salad leaves and a squirt of balsamic dressing oh and brussell sprouts!! then i get to enjoy a hot choc, jelly pot and strawberries later! According to my fitlog altho this sounds like loads of food its actually under 1200 cals a day! Infact yesterday it told me i hadnt consumed enough calories! Good job this plan is only recommended for short times and under supervision!
Altho sw is not about the calorie counting at all, i have a serious tendancy to overeat so its something i will be looking at in the future....

Right time to get my wrinkly prune of a child out the bath and on to more trashy telly lol night all xx

Fat Sunday :-(

Its that time of the day again, another blog post by yours truely and to be honest im kind of pouting at myself today. I had such a good start to the day and all went downhill from about 4:30pm.

I shall start at the beginning!

So another lovely morning albeit a little fresher than yesterday!
We had a lay in til 8am, i definitely think the blankets at the windows are makinh squirt sleep better.
We get up and i make her bacon and toast and i tuck into wholemeal toast, jam and a banana with a lemon and green tea and a big glass of squash (fast forward followed to the T again) and as its a lovely day we decide to go for a walk to the beach and go play on the swings and slides at the park. She has great fun running up the steps, playing peekaboo and whooshing down the slides until you always get that one kid whos determined to play on the baby park even though they are 13! And later on he was followed by his dad, so we decided to play "catch you" all the way along the common back towards home instead. Catch you is basically running away from her and her screeching and laughing until she catches up with me, we have to play this where ever we go and around the flat before bath time! It can also include hiding behind trees! Anyways it was great fun and we were out a good two hours playing around. Hopefully a good bit of body magic there! And i glugged a litre of water whilst out as well.

Lunch time rolled round and i had chicken and water cress sarnies, lemon and green tea and another big glass of squash and then it was nap time for lil one while i enjoyed a long chat with hubby on the phone. Hes back on board again after a night off and out to sea this week ahead so il not hear much from him so it was nice to get a 40 minute call. ♥

Eventually lil miss woke up and she got to chat to daddy too, she keeps saying "daddy ship" everytime she talks to him or we go to the beach bless her, cant wait to take her to watch him come in in less than two weeks now!
Well i had to make her dinner and i deserve a big fat slap for nabbing a couple of chips and a nugget :-( bad bad zoe!
However while she tucked into fruit and a couple of munch bunch for pud i had my jam and crumpet and cup of raspberry tea. This sort of subsided the munchies temporarily.

However after realising i needed to take my heap of crud car for a spin as i hadnt used it today (otherwise it wouldnt start tomo as theres something wrong with it but noone can work out what!) My thoughts turned to tea and to be perfectly honest i just didnt want the miniscule chicken roast that was on the menu for tea tonight. I wanted comfort food and i wanted chips and beans! So i decided thats just what i was going to have along with a warburtons sandwich thin pizza (cheese and tomato puree) and ok so its not the most horrendos food i could have eaten but it was off the FF plan. However it went down so well and took away everything i was craving!

I shall be back on track again tomorrow i dont know what has got into me the last couple of weeks, i had my fantastic loss and then i seem hell bent on putting it all back on!
I need to learn to break this self destruct circle that i seem to have going on....why cant i be one of these determined and steadfast people who never deviate from their goals?! It annoys the hell out of me! Its all good in the theory of it, i know where i want to be and how to get there...i just dont do it and i cant understand why?! I once said to my hubby that i self destruct my diet because if i was thin then id have nothing else to do or focus on! Maybe theres some truth in that... stupid thing is i know i would be alot happier and healthier slimmer!

Well tomorrow is another day and i will endeveour to try again as trying is all i can do.

Xx

Happy saturday :-)

Hello everyone check me out two blogs in a row...il need to sit down lol.

Hope you have all been out enjoying the sunshine, it was lovely just to be able to crack my windows open and put some fresh air around in the flat today. And it was even better to have the sun streaming in through the windows as well! Makes for a happy me!

Well my day started off with a lay in...i didnt think putting a cover over squirts curtains would make a difference, or whether it was the fact she didnt nap yesterday and went to bed later but it bought me an extra hour in bed, this is always a winner in my eyes!

Day 2 (day one of serious FF)

So this morning i had a cup of lemon and green tea, along with a glass of sugar free sparkling fruit water and a bacon butty! Happy days indeed, although i did miss having some sweet chilli sauce and mushrooms in it, but it was very tasty!

After a long hot shower we decide to go to B & Q to go look at stuff i cant afford but would love...namely kitchens and wallpaper! But settle on some new paint for squirts room, although i cant do anything til hubbys home as he WILL be helping me and i need a wardrobe the size of Russia to be moved. Plus we need to order some decals and a new duvet and quilt. My baby room will no longer be a baby room but a little girls room...sob sob! Oh and we buy a lovely pic frame to put photos of her daddy in for when he goes on deployment in a few weeks.
This has been a very large thought in my head the last few days and its makin me sad and depressed already, so we are coming up with different ways to make the 41 odd weeks go a little quicker! Good thing is i can be 100% diet orientated and work my way to a goal for when hes back again! Worked a treat last deployment, lost 3.5st, new hair, new clothes, a really bad fake tan and he hardly recognised me it was hysterical! ;-)
We are challenging each other to a weight loss/inch loss competition so should be fun lol.

Anyways on to lunch...i think this will be a fave back on the other plan, i had cherry tomatoes, mini pitta, lettuce leaves and feta crumbled on, with a cheeky spray of balsamic low cal spray (like frylight only dressing light!) Cheese and onion french fries and another lemon and green tea and more sparkly water. Cue the mass toilet visits!

An afternoon of playing chase, tea partys, chatting to my hubby and friends soon meant it was tea time and tonight was...

Macaroni pasta, tomato sauce with courgette, mushrooms, pepper, garlic and a sprinkle of herbs. I had also saved my veg portion to go with it as well so had some very tasty asparagus alongside too. More fizzy water and toilet visits! Oh and i nibbled on a crumpet and jam while it cooked.

A few more chats with a very tired hubby and my poor friend whos pretending water is wine and dropping pizzas on the floor and its time for my bed! Im taking with me my hot choc, 2 choc fingers, a choc mousse and strawberries!

I had a couple of slip ups today and had about 6 almonds and stupidly without thinking, whilst breaking up a bit of easter egg for squirt, a small piece of egg jumped into my mouth, i really need to stop mindlessly picking! Its an attrocious habit ive gotten into and i need to kick it pronto! So its on my list of to do's tomorrow!

Right night all xx

Serious apologies required!!!

Happy friday everyone, firstly im sooo sorry that ive not blogged once this week, its been one of those weeks! My lil squirt has been really poorly and had a terrible cough and cold, she then lovingly passed it on to me, ive had funny heads again and it was squirts birthday yesterday along with work....just made for a really really quick week and i just didnt have the time!
I didnt even get to weigh in this morning as we were both still poorly and needed a lay in to help to get rid of the last bit of icky bugs and start a fresh!
Ive had a crappy week food wise too, between a few sneaky easter eggs and glugging cough medicine and not drinking enough i think it would have been a horrific out come anyways!
Still it was very strange not going to my lovely little group this morning and it totally threw out my day and it doesnt feel like a friday...funny how one little blip in the old routine changes things completely!

Anyways i figured that as im 103% sure it was a gain (even though i wasnt brave enough to get on my home scales!) I decided to give fast forward another go this week in a bid to knock off what i gained and maybe offer me a maintain for friday if im really lucky and then i can work towards those last two pounds to get my long long long long awaited 3st award!

Sooooo on to the sort of food diary...its a bit of a new one for me being semi (all will become clear...) on plan for a friday as usually its treat day or takeaway night.  Serious fast forward will start officially tomorrow!
But i started my morning of with half a grapefruit, weetabix and milk, i kept back some of the milk for a cheeky coffee as i know im going to end up going through the caffine shakes again lol i really must cut down the amount of coffee i drink its awful!
We popped to my sis in laws to go pick up squirts birthday prezzys from her, being a good girl i had a herbal tea, a raspberry one i think...im living life on the wild side as ive emptied a load of teabags of all different flavours in to my baby bag! Now its a lucky dip as to what tea i get...

Now i was supposed to have whole meal bread and reduced fat cheese for lunch but as i hadnt got any in as id not been shoppin the sis decided to be very kind and made her first ever cheese on toast but was with white bread and normal cheese...a token effort on my part but it was seriously good!!! Hence only semi on plan.

Then came the arduous task of shopping, for once though my local tesco did have everything i wanted...miracles do happen once in a while! And once home and unpacked i enjoyed a crumpet and jam (serious perks of FF is some of the fab food they allow you to have!!)

I then made a lovely prawn stirfry and noodles for tea and used my veg unit with my tea to bulk it up a bit more and it was lovely! Im also drinking sparkling fizzy sugar free water today and have had two bottles, but i will try and drink more water from tomorrow as well.

Pudding will be a lovely bowl of raspberries and fromage frais, cashew nuts, hot choc and 2 choccy fingers.

Ive decided to swap my funsize choc bars for nuts, i think the choccy bars were the start of a serious choc addiction this week! Considering im usually a savoury girl favouring crisps over chocolate any day, i was seriously craving chocolate all the time!!!! It was a really bad downward spiral.
Fingers crossed though that the nuts will be better and with healthier benefits other than the fact they taste good! I still have that little choccy fix from the hot choc and choc fingers

Well i promise to blog all week from now and no more slacking..thanks for sticking by me and dont forget i have my fb page too Slimming World Style so come by and give me a kick up the backside!!! :-)

Xx

Happy Saturday :-)

Hello everyone!

So ive had a really nice day today, ive spent most of it mooching around shops with my friend Vicky and her little man. Found some bits and bobs for squirts birthday and had a lovely lunch out in Wetherspoons. The weathers not been too bad so we managed to walk into town and not worry about getting rained on which is always a winner!

So this morning was a lovely early wake up call of 6:45am yaaaaawn! I really didnt want to get out of bed so i grabbed squirt and her beloved peppa pig dvd and snuggled down under my duvet back in bed again for another hour or so... happy days!
But then the tummy rumbles kicked in in both our stomachs so breakfast was on order.

I soaked 35g of Jordans NAS muesli in rhubarb and strawberry yogurt and sliced up a finest grapefruit. Now yesterday i seriously begrudged having to pay £1.50 for two grapefruits as there was none of the red grapefruits...however i take it back as it was utterly gorgeous, not sour at all and seriously juicey, so i would purchase again with no qualms! I also had a big fat glass of nas squash alongside it as well.

After a lovely long hot shower it was time to get ready for town, after walking round the shops, nattering and putting the world to rights we decided it was lunchtime and headed to our local whetherspoons...happy days as there are sw friendly dishes there!
I settle for a diet pepsi and the sweet chilli noodles for one syn, and my goodness they are full of chilli!!! Hot hot hot!!! However a couple of chips may have found my mouth so im going to add on 2 syns for them as well.
Now i stopped at the market for some tomatoes for breakfast tomorrow and the silly bloke decided to pour them into a brown bag...and put in a carrier bag with my pineapple...take a guess at how many tomatoes survived the journey home?! About half the tomatoes turned into tomato soup in the bottom of the bag, its a good job they were only 50p!!!
Back home for a cuppa and its time to prep for dinner!

Tonight im very excited about tea as im making the first (of many!) recipes from my kindly loaned Taste of Asia book...Kung Pao chicken, all i have to say is its devine!!! I served it with some fine egg noodles and a pak choi.
I even did the really good thing of portioning it out (rather than eating the entire pan!) So i have three more delicious meals of this coming up as well...oh happy days!!!

I also enjoyed a slice of seeded sensation bread which is devine and its so lovely being able to have proper bread even if its synned at 6 syns per slice.

Im having a tesco healthy living chocolate mousse and some mango for my pudding a bit later.

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 35g Jordan Muesli

SUPERFREE
grapefruit
Peppers
Pak choi
Water chesnuts
Bamboo shoots
Baby sweetcorn
Button mushrooms
Spring onions
Mango

FREE
Chicken
Noodles
Strawberry and rhubarb yogurt

SYNS
Sweet chilli noodles  1
Kung pao sauce   2
Seeded sensation bread slice   6
Extra light flora  1
Healthy living mousse    4
Couple of sly chips   2

TOTAL  16

Slightly heavy on the syns today so im going to try and go minimal tomorrow, on a positive note tho i think my portions were really good today and i dont feel bloated or over full which is a great achievement for me today! Baby steps and all that! :-)

Weigh in day and fast forward results....

Hello!!!!

Well its friday and i had my weigh in this morning
I was there nice and early mainly because i wanted to get rid of the butterflies dancing around in my belly, i was beginning to feel slightly sick with nerves!
So i toddle up to the scales with some trepidation, close my eyes til i hear that beep, look down and.......

SIX AND A HALF POUNDS OFF!!!!!

my biggest EVER  loss!!!

Im so happy that i do a little jig! I then dont tell my consultant what ive lost so she can have a nice surprise a bit later in image therapy! :-D

Im so so so so happy with everything ive achieved this week:

- my ability to stick with the plan even when temptation was right under my nose.

- realisation of where i have been going wrong the last few months in my portion control, big may work for some but my body prefers little and often which im fine with.

- that i have fantastic support around me both in and out of group. (I sort of already knew this though!)

- i have a lot more determination than i give myself credit for, other times i would have given up when times got tough but not this time.

Its been a really good day and i have a battle plan now for the rest of my journey.

Im 40lbs down and 67lbs to go, and only 2lbs away from my elusive 3st shiney, which i want before my hubby comes home in 20 odd days, hopefully a slightly easier ask than before now i know my strategy for moving forward and downwards!

So after my happy start to the day despite missing a call yet again from my hubby, i settle down once at home to a cheese toasty, hot cross bun and my easter duck (getting all my easter stuff out the way so i have more time to work full steam on plan!) and my new sw magazine and a loan copy of the taste of asia book, for some cooking inspiration and to write my shopping list for later.

Once squirts up from her nap we head to tesco...big mistake, anyone would think that the world was ending, not that the shops were shut for just once measly day...how the hell must we have coped when all the shops were shut on a sunday...?!?! Oh thats right we used the other six days of the week to shop for stuff! I come out seriously stressed, peed off i cant get half the things i wanted, the shop looked like it had been attacked, there was hardly anything on produce, the queues were rediculous and to top it off when i came out some ass had run a trolley into the front bumper of my car! Grrrrrr!

Anyways once i finally got back to normality and the safety of my home i unpacked what little shopping i had and sat down for a coffee!

Tea tonight was warburtons sandwich thin pizzas, chips and beans. Already im noticing little changes as i would usually have had the wraps for 8 syns as they were bigger but actually the much smaller 5 and a half syns (i think) were just as filling, the small can of beans was just as good as a whole large can and 3 small potatoes for chips were much better sized than the 6 i would have used! See all positive changes!

I will be back on the usual sw plan tomorrow and will therefore be diary-ing it up properly along with my pic collage too!
But tonight i leave you with my fridge plaque and im off for a brew and to continue my mag and recipe book reading :-)

Night all ♥ xx

Oh so unbeliveably tired :-(

Hi everyone, today im writing to you absolutely shattered, squirt had night terrors last night, while we were stayin over the folks, so in a bid to not wake the entire household, including two members that were both on early turns, i decided that as she wouldnt go back in her cot without screaming, that she could come kip in with me. Oh what a mistake!
Finally at 2:45am she fell asleep, me however did not, she fidgets so much in her sleep i was being hit, elbowed, kicked and rolled on! Im not entirely sure i actually went back to sleep at all, then she was back up at 6am again when she heard people getting ready for work.
This made work for me incredibly long and i was so tired im pretty sure i was on another planet!

Anywho, for brekky i had my nommy proper bagel, quark and cherry tomatoes and a very naughty coffee...i really really needed it!
I obviously sensed i would need fuelling for the morning as it was super super busy, anyone would think the apocolypse was coming not just easter!

I was so happy when lunchtime finally rolled round, i had drunk a litre of water while on my checkout, but things were so busy still i couldnt get my salad leaves for my lunch otherwise i would have spent half an hour queueing! So it was just a mini pitta bread, cherry tomatoes, my french fries crisps and a packet of green beans (i ate them today!)
I was hoping that when i went back out that things would have eased off a bit but nooooo!
Finally the end of my shift drew near with another litre of water under my belt, hometime woooopiiieeee!!

After getting squirt to bed for hopefully a fuller night sleep than last night, i shoved on another cheeky ready meal under my allowed calories...tonights joyful meal was sweet chilli chicken and noodles, this time courtesy of tesco healthy living range. Better than the weight watchers one last night but not great! I honestly have no idea how people live off these things permanently, bring on the fresh cooked slimming world food again!

I have some strawberries, a hot choc and fun size choccy bar ready for my gorgeous, heavenly, amazing bed in the not so distant future

Tomorrow is weigh in day and to be perfectly honest im absolutely bricking it, if i have done all this and resisted so many things that have been wofted under my nose and i dont lose or only lose half a pound, i will be absolutely devestated, so please wish me good luck ♣

Night all xx

Come see how i got on and come like my fb page "slimming world style" x

Feeling very proud! :-)

Wahhhooooo i am managing to finally post a blog on a wednesday, after tno shows the last few weeks i thought i had better pull my finger out and write one lol.

Wednesdays and thursdays always throw me as its the only days i work, one late and one early, i always forget to photo my food too! Well i half succeeded today, i managed brekky and tea, parts of tea tho ooooh i really suck at this!

Well today started with a rock of a bagel...silly weightwatchers bagels...you could have thrown it through a window or killed someone with it, i have bought regular bagels for future bagel usage! I topped with quark and baby plum tomatoes, and some squash on the side, of the drinking not eating variety!

I then rushed around to get bits ironed for work, overnight stuff packed and then zoomed up to my folks to drop squirt off, stopping for a cheeky lemon and green tea on the way to work.

I managed to drink 2litres of water before my lunch break (thirsty work all this nattering to customers!)

I then picked up my new uniform finally after months of ordering, my shirt was now two sizes smaller wahooo and i have trousers that actually zip up now rather than a broken zip and no holes in. Victory!

Lunch today was a mini wholemeal pitta, a bag of salad leaves and packet of salt and vinegar french fries - no pic as i remembered after i had eaten it all! - actually surprisingly filling and i left my veg option as i was full...actually i still havent eaten it!

Finally it was hometime and i had managed another half a litre of water, now this is where i had a serious test of every will power i have; for my tea i had a weightwatchers steam meal of spicy mango chicken, sounded nice and was ok but only had two teeny tiny pieces of chicken in, and not worth the £2.79 price tag (its also so small i serve on a side plate!!!) whilst my parents tucked into fish and chip shop chippy!!!! Oh my days i was literally drooling on the floor, the smell was to die for...worst of all dad took my car to get them so the smell was lingering in there too!! But i didnt touch a chip! Im so so so very proud of myself :-D

Still hungry and cold i had a lemon and green tea, my yogurt, 2 satsumas, my apple and a funsize choc bar...id saved all my snacks for the evening as my parents tend to break out various niceys of an evening usually including crisps or peanuts or choc or my very skinny mum will break out the cheese and crackers! So i was fully prepped for this happening but it didnt lol!

So now im tucked up in bed as i suspect as both my dad and bro are on early shifts tomo that squirt will wake when they do about half 5 ...... ERGH!!!!

So i wish you all a good night xx

Evening all!!!

Sorry i couldnt think of a more witty, interesting or smart title lol, its so cold that i think my brain is beginning to become unfunctional! Brrrrrrrr!
Infact its that cold we had some white stuff falling out the skies this morning.

I found it soooo hard dragging my bum out of bed this morning, fresh hay is always a doozy to get out of especially when i was so warm and snug, but unfortunately my daughter wasnt having any of it and i had to get up just gone 7am, erghhhh!!!
So todays the first day ive got up and i dont have a fuzzy head and my hands arent shaking whhhooooooo! I may be finally coming out the otherside of the caffine pit!
Ooo i tried every one of my new teas between posting last night and breakfast, and actually they are all really nice, all flavours i wouldnt usually pick but i found them very light and refreshing :-)

Breakfast this morning was weetabix and the other half of my grape fruit and managed to stealth in a small coffee from my left over milk, it was out of this world and i enjoyed every single velvety sip that warmed my belly! I was back in a happy place again.

Now i was supposed to be going for a walk and play in our local woods with my sis in law but as it decided to start snowing and it was bitterly cold, i decided it probably wasnt the best idea and instead plumped for a day playing silly games indoors...seriously sun you need to make an appearance like NOW!!!!

Lunch today was a watercress and chicken sandwich with french fries and my veg selection today was green beans, went down so well and was really scrummy, im getting used to these smaller portions and having a drink at every meal as well, infact i seem to be constantly drinking something. I did however make the mistake of buying no added sugar dandelion and burdock and then remembered that i dont actually like it lol silly girl!!!

Me and squirt decided to settle down and watch Nemo for a bit and then i went off to make her dinner...of which she ate none :-( i had lovingly made fish pie, stealthed in some veg and she didnt even lick the spoon, annoyed was a bit of an understatement and when she finally went to bed she didnt even want the fruit i offered so im assuming she was full up still or not hungry as she never turns down fruit. I wish i had her mentality of if shes not hungry she wont eat, not mine which is oh well its dinner time spose i better eat something!

So my dinner time rolled round and i think i made a bad choice for tea tonight, i wanted something hot but instead tonight was jacket potato, cheese and salad. Not very warming at all and im currently shivering lol.

I shall look forward to my hot choc, 2 choc fingers and my nice warm bed again in a bit after The Big Bang Theory finishes as ive got work again tomorrow, wednesday again already where did the week go?!??!!? I also promise that i will get a blog up tomorrow after recieving a lovely message this morning saying i was a star for blogging and helping others...made my day :-) ♥

Night all xx

Im baaaaack! And still surviving on FF...just...

Ok so yet again apologies for a lack of blog yesterday, i had a fab food day but i have a sneaky feeling im the victim of some caffine DT's at the mo...

So yesterday was day two of my Fast Forward, the food im not really finding a problem, i think my tummy is a bit more accustomed to smaller portions now and im looking forward to my meals more and savouring them too, therefore eating more slowly as well.
I actually thought when i first saw the amounts that i had to eat was so little, ive now slowly turned that around to actually what i was eating was faaar too much...have i actually been sabotaging myself without reaslising? Now sw states you can eat unlimited food until youre full without calorie counting etc but i actually think ive been taking it to extreme, i could quite easily eat an entire punnet of strawberries in one go or a whole melon...all speed foods and good for me...but far too much! After only three days on this plan makes me realise ive been going about this the entire wrong way and although ive been eating all good foods, ive probably been eating for two, maybe three sometimes and i just dont need it! I dont feel bloated, i dont feel overstuffed or uncomfortable like i would usually, and im spreading my meals out eating 5 small portions rather than three huge ones. I just have everything crossed that my hard work pays off on friday and i can restart the usual plan with a clear focus and head.

Anyways enough revaltions on to yesterdays food in a nutshell, brekki i had a bagel, cream cheese and cherry tomatoes, still drinking loads of nas squash and peppermint tea.
My folks came over to go shopping for some clothes for my daughter birthday prezzys and after mooching round town i made them homemade veg soup and oven baked rolls, while i tucked in to 2 wholemeal bread slices, a very small can of baked beans, and a packet of french fries and muched on mangetout throughout the afternoon (now dont forget i cant give out weights etc as this plans specifically for me!) Oh and a satsuma, again squash and peppermint tea makes an appearance.

This is where it all goes down hill...i had a bit of a muzzy head when i woke up that morning but just ignored it, by lunch i was knocking back the pain killers but by tea time i knew i had a migraine coming :-( so i quickly whipped up my tea of pasta, and a chopped tom and veg sauce, glugged down my hightlights hot choc and choccy fingers and headed off to bed, by that time i couldnt see and my hands went numb :-(
Gutting as i also missed two calls from my hubby who ive not spoken to in what seems like forever, as i literally crashed out.
I think im on a caffine come down, as i usually have about 7 big mugs of coffee a day and ive cut it out completely. Milk is an additional unit and i picked food over milk lol.

This morning i still had a bad head but had serious hand shakes as well and felt really shakey too.
An extremely brisk early morning walk round to the seafront blew away (or froze) my remaining fuzzy head.
I head home for my brekki of honey on wholemeal bread and a banana on top.
My bro then popped round for a bit and after a good old natter whilst we all watched Finding Nemo, squirt has a mad fish obsession!
Lunch time arrives and i have a reduced fat cheese toasty, a plum and yogurt, with my carrot allowance, more peppermint tea and squash.

Im getting bored of my teas so i pop to the shops and pick up a box of camomile and honey, camomile and spearmint and raspberry and echinacea tea to try out! Im screwed if i dont like camomile lol.

While squirts havin her tea of sw quorn spag bol and orzo (her fave) i sit down to a snack of crisp bread, low fat cheese spread and chopped tomato. Nom nom nom!

Tea tonight is prawn stirfry again as i had leftovers that needed eating after saturdays tea (dont like waste!) With raspberries and strawberries and fat free fromage frais.
Later on i get a highlights hot choc, 2 choc fingers and a funsize choc bar oh so much yumminess (il miss not havin to syn these when im back on plan!!!)

Now just a quick happy moment...id been really annoyed by my trousers today as they keep falling down so i thought tonight i would retake my measurements, since the 5th march ive lost 10.75" all over! Most comin off my hips, legs and arms, sooo chuffed, and makes up a bit for my gain i had as even though my weights up and down, my body shape in general is down. Id highly recommend measuring yourself for weeks when you think you havent achieved anything...you may well have and lets face it we all need that happy shove and encouragement!

Day One of Fast Forward Conquered!

So my first day has been a success! :-) i started off the day thinking it wasnt going to be too bad but ive decided my definite fails are in an evening and tomorrow il save a few more units for then, but as a trial and error day i think i did ok!

Soooo where to start, i cant give you measurements or weights but i can tell you what ive eaten (i hope lol)
Breakfast... i managed to hold out to eat until nearly 9am despite my early wake up call from my daughter.

We snuggled up in bed watching peppa pig and tucked in to our brekky, she had delicious smelling peanut butter on toast while i had half a grapefruit, weetabix, a big glass of squash, and as i didnt use all my unit of milk up on my cereal, i stealthed in a cheeky coffee.
I think i may end up on withdrawl symptoms from the caffine as im not drinking it for the rest of the week! Eeeek!

Ok feeling good and surprisingly full so far....

I decided to clean my bathrooms, hoover, put some washing on and have a bit of a dust to keep me distracted, all the while glugging on sugar free squash to keep any rumbles at bay.
Until i broke and had my allowed weight of carrots, nibbled very slowly and savoured completely!

Lunchtime swings round so i make another squash and a herbal tea, todays are peppermint, one of my faves!
I weigh out my chicken for my sandwhich, the watercress and my bread. Im also havin my snack of plums as well then its time to go to my friends babyshower!

She had sent me a picture of all the healthy sw food she had lovingly prepped and all the naughties inc cupcakes and pizza, and i have to tell her that i cant have any of it, boohoo, but she says she will make sure i dont have to set foot in the kitchen so im not around temptation! Bless her how sweet! :-)
So we play games, i win a chocolate egg on the raffle which im giving to squirt for her easter egg, check out the restraint! I then win another game of guess the bump size and win a baby bottle full of choc too (man this is torture!!) And to top it off squirt keeps giving my food to hold, like her cupcake and other such nommys! But i am saintly and resist all! I think the girls are impressed...either that or think im bonkers!

So after rummaging around in couscous and sultanas for mini babies and sucking ice cubes with mini babies in (yep thats exactly how it sounds) pinning sperm in a womb and playing bingo, its time to scoot home.

I have decided to have my other unit of snacks whilst squirt eats her tea, so have cracker breads, weighed soft cheese and tomato and yet more squash and herbal tea.

After baths and bed i whip up my dinner and this is when it gets hard, i weigh out all my veg allowance and prawns and noodles and well....lets just say its what i would consider a starter! Eeeek again!!! However i do get a pudding with this one of raspberries and fat free fromage frais, more tea and more squash.

With nothing on telly yet again i decide to go stick a film on in bed, light the candle i won earlier and fill my room with a lemon and green tea smell. Im really missing my hubby tonight too which isnt helping and usually turn to food when im feeling a bit blue...thank god for my final units of choccy fingers, a hot choc and fun size choc bar!

Now i know it sounds like a lot of food but trust me the pictures dont do it justice of just how small these portions are!

Now im off to sleep as i have a feeling i will be up most of the night peeing!!!!

:-)

Is Fast Forward my winning solution?

Hello!!!! Sorry again for my absence but work on weds and thurs really blows me all out of sorts and the days disappear before i have a chance to realise that they have begun! And i had such a crappy day wednesday i just wanted to hide away from the world and rock! Broken cars, having to be rescued by my dad and brother, horrid people at work and a horrific mood was not good and it made for a very unhappy me and blogging fell by the "weigh" side ...boom boom!!!

As i said on my fb slimming world page "slimming world style" (shameless plug!!)  i am trying a different plan this week. Fast Forward.
Its a consultant led plan thats tailored specifically for the person following it, so this makes my blog a bit null and void really for most, if not all of you and for that i really apologise.

So I faced a heartbreaking 2.5lb gain again this week and cannot for love nor money find out whats going on and its getting me into a state of depression to be honest, im good for weeks on end to gain or maintain, occassionally a little loss and whilst i weigh in people and sit in group and listen to others saying "ooo i ate a whole cake, maccys, 5 meals out, my body weight in wine, etc etc" then see they have a 4lb loss, it gets a bit dishearting and i feel rather dejected over it all. Saying that i do love weighing in people, to see everyones progress and give out awards etc and hearing how everyones been in general (so carry on girls... as some of my group read this!!!) ♥

Ok, its * week (first time this year!) So that probably accounts for it but i have been angelic this week, you could literally see my halo shining from space. So my theory was that even if it was the dreaded week that i should maintain or maybe lose abit...but nope my body had other ideas.

It occured to me that ive been shifting inside the same half a stone for the last nine months and to be perfectly honest its just not on anymore, i try my hardest to eat different things, if i have blow outs to reign it back in again to minimalise the damage, i drink water and fluids all day, ok i should exercise.more but all the crappy weather has made it hard to go out for the lovely long walks i really enjoy so im going to make a concious effort to up that abit more.

Speaking to my fab consultant though, she understands how frustrated im getting and is always willing to help in any way she can and fully supports me doing this.
It actually says on the booklet that this is a slimming world straight jacket, so im a little nervous to say the least but willing to give anything a go, before i start whacking off limbs!!!!

I read the booklet inside and out when i got home from group and its not too hard to get to grips with once you know how many points you get. Now like i said i cant go into too many details but you get to pick bits off a pre weighed and pre made up menu every day of a breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks and a salad/veg unit too to make up your points.
I made a list of what i was having at each meal so its all attached to my fridge and i knew what i was shopping for and then my consultant rang me and i checked with her that i was going about it the right way. Now ive been told the best way to tackle this plan is to spread your meals out and drink lots! You have no superfree to fall back on when your hungry and no free foods to pick on in the evening! :-/

Shopping was a wierd one today as i didnt pick up my usual mass of fresh fruit and veg, just a few bits here and there, no bits for syns or really anything i usually eat so this is going to be a real eye opener!

Maybe this is the answer im looking for to get me in the right direction again, re-look at the whole slimming world plan and refresh it all again, maybe even tho im eating the right foods and slimming world says you can eat until satisfied, maybe, just maybe its something like portion control i need to look at and this will help to shrink my stomach to eating smaller meals???

Maybe my delightful body will yet again screw me over and il be the only person to put ON whilst being on it?!!?!?

Only fridays weigh in will tell me and im excited and nervous at the same time...im going to need lots of luck and probably a gag or zip on my mouth...with my first hurdle of my lovely friends baby shower tomorrow...*carla your famous again!!!* so no yummy cakes or treats for me il be armed with my bottle of water instead!

Right night night guys and girls see you all tomorrow when i regale you with tales of my day :-)  xx

Awesome Curry Night!!

Hiya all! :-) hope ur all well...

Well someone must finally have been listening to my order of sunshine as i woke up and after a rather misty start , it turned into a gorgeous day, no coat required either so im a happy bunny. It also put me into a rather sunny mood as well.

So i start off with a sunny breakfast and somewhat tropical affair of my HeB of muesli, soaked in a pineapple activia yogurt and i added to it strawberries, grapes, a plum and kiwi as well as im back on an Extra Easy day today. I also had my usual coffee and had a fab idea of using a massive cocktail glass that my hubby bought my back from the Hard Rock Cafe to fill up with nas squash. My theory was it was big enough to graze on and i had some serious thirst going on today, i think i got through 7 of these glasses!!!!

Me and bubs then took a mooch into town to meet up with my seriously crazy sister in law, apparently she was having a shockingly bad day! Anyway after about an hour she had to go and deliver some bits so we took a slow mooch home through the park to hunt down squirrels and jump in puddles :)

Lunch today was orzo but this time cooked up with courgette, mushrooms, peppers and onions in some soy sauce. Was lovely stuff and i sat there with the sun shining through the windows and finally felt warm and cosy and more cheerful :-)
I followed that with 2 frozen muller greek yogurts and some more squash, then i did something that ive not done in ages and that was napped....i actually fell asleep on the sofa and didnt wake up til bubs woke me up half hour later! Seriously refreshed now, i need to sleep earlier at night!

So after some doll playing, jumping on the bed, bird watching out the balcony, and other shananigans i decided to start prepping for tea.

Now theres a history behind this tea...its a legendary curry made by one of the girls in group, it has fantastic weight loss helping along properties...kind of medicinal if you get what i mean! Especially if you go hot hot hot on it!
Start by frying onions, peppers and chicken with frylight in a big saucepan. Add 3 cloves of garlic, and i added 6 birdseye chillies to mine as they needed using up, then add in 2tbsp garam masala, 2tbsp paprika, 2tbsp turmeric, 2tsp chilli powder, chicken oxo, 2tbsp tom puree, 3tbsp hot curry powder, and i also add in a good shake of cayenne pepper and chilli flakes. Then a massive jar of passatta, splash of soy sauce and veg of your choice. Simmer for as long as possible.
I added tinned potatoes, okra, peas, courgette, mushrooms and spinach to mine as i needed to make enough for lunches at work.
I also served it with cauliflower rice (cauliflower grated and cooked in the microwave for 3 mins) and a sliced banana on top, which i learnt tonight via my very lovely consultant is a very popular south african thing to do and i needed it to cool my burning mouth!

After a lovely long chat on the phone with my absent hubby, i decided to call it a night and go to bed with a bowl of mango and kiwi and an options hot choc and sit and write this :-)

So im now off to sleep as its back to work time again tomorrow and i want to be up early to go see my folks before hand :-) night everyone xx

HEA - 350mls skimmed milk
HEB - 35g jordans muesli

SUPERFREE
Grapes
Kiwi x3
Strawberries
Yellow plum
Courgette x2
Peppers x3
Mushrooms
Carrots
Cauliflower
Banana
Passatta
Garlic
Chillies
Spinach
Okra
Onions x3
Mango

FREE
Tinned potatoes
Activia pineapple yogurt
Peas
Chicken
Orzo

SYNS
2 x muller greek  1
Velvet crunch  4
Options hot choc  2

TOTAL  7

Rain Rain Go Away....

Todays edition of The Blog is bought to you from the comfort of my bed as theres naff on telly and im cold! So all snuggled up with my duvet and a film :)
What another crappy day of rain and wind, im in some serious need of some sunshine and warmth, a chance to get out and have some fresh air in my lungs and stretch my legs with a walk without having to wrap up in so many layers i look even more like the mitchellin man and spend the rest of the day drying off and shivering! Poor bubba is dying to get outside and run around...altho we did splash in a few puddles when we braved the rain for town for an hour.

Anyway i digress... green day again...
Breakfast today was a small can of spaghetti hoops on my HeB of Nimble and my usual cuppa to set me up for the day.
Bit of washing and hoovering later and my lovely dad pops up to say hi, him and my mum have been away for some of that much needed sun...seriously jelous and came in sporting a tan and slightly peely nose! After another coffee he has to go to work so i set about making dinner.

Lunch was 2 field mushroom, grilled up with a whole aubergine which i had thinly sliced, some orzo pasta mixed with a laughing cow triangle and then my other HeA of reduced fat cheese sprinkled on top and a sprig of rocket, scrummy and really filling. I also had a glass of lemon sugar free crush and 2 greek mullers.

While i was cooking up my chilli for tea i snacked on carrots and 50g of reduced fat houmous which is a HeB on a green day (thank god its all gone as i seriously ♥ the houmous lol) and 2pts of sugar free squash.

For tea i made quorn chilli and butternut squash chippies.
2 red onions, quorn mince, hot chilli powder, cayenne pepper, tinned toms and kidney beans in chilli sauce. Really lovely and filling and i had been looking forward to it all day, however a few of my chips burnt in my crappy oven which desperately needs a new seal!!

Whilst cuddled under my duvet im nibbling on pineapple and some strawberries, with another (oooopsy!) greek muller and topping off with a lemon green tea and an options hot choc.

Im also trying tonight my purchase from Holland And Barrett, aloe vera colon cleanser to help with my tummy, which has been largely helped by a lovely member in my group who gave me some tablets to help ease the bloating and pain (thank you again Karen!) So hopefully these will work their magic as they came highly recommended by the lady working in there for restoring natural balance of everything! And i deffo need some restoring and as they are natural im helping they will be a bit more gental :-) wish me luck x

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEA - 40g reduced fat cheese
HEB - 2 x nimble
HEB - 50g reduced fat houmous

SUPERFREE
Field mushrooms
Auberguine
Rocket
Tinned tomatoes
Onions
Carrots
Butternut squash
Pineapple
Strawberries

FREE
Spaghetti hoops
Orzo
Kidney beans in chilli sauce
Quorn mince

SYNS
3 x greek mullers  1.5
Laughing cow triangle  2
Options hot choc 2

TOTAL  5.5

Serious munchy day

Good evening all, im sorry but this is only going to be a short one as i got caught up watching ghost and its now reeeeeeeally late!

I was on a red day today and kind of wished i wasnt as i had a serious attack of the munchies and probably could have done with some carbs to calm the cravings, but i always preplan my food a week in advance so i only have to do one shop a week.

Breakfast this morning was a rather yum bacon, mushroom and 2 small red onion sarnie with my HeB of nimble bead and a coffee.

Headed off to Asda for a mooch round and found my beloved muller greek yogs on bargain for £1.50 so picked up a cheeky pair and they are currently freezing away in the depths of my freezer.

When i got home i tucked into a rather heartl salad of 'steves leaves and peashoots' cucumber, plum toms, red cabbage, grapes, radish, cress, carrot and chicken roll and a packet of velvet crunch, i think there was a coffee and a coke zero in there as well!

Uh ohhh those munchies kicked in again and i had to have a mango activia and a few carrots to nibble on while bubs tucked into her dinner and i may have dunked my carrot in 4 tblsp of reduced fat houmous...seriously have an obsession at the mo with the stuff!

Tea time was a veg fest of a courgette, a leek and a whole savoy cabbage shredded and cooked with crushed garlic and some frylight and teamed up with 3 healthy living sausages :) followed by my muller :)

As i sat and watched Whoopi Goldberg talk to ghosts i was peckish....again! So made another coffee, finished off my strawberries and a mango. Finally i was full. So off to bed for me and hopefully a slightly more exciting blog tomorrow x

HEA - 350ml milk
HEA -
HEB -2 x nimble
HEB -

SUPERFREE
Mushrooms
Onions
Carrots
Lettuce
Cucumber
Plum toms
Red cabbage
Cress
Grapes
Savoy cabbage
Courgette
Leek
Mango
Strawberries

FREE
Chicken roll

SYNS
Sausages  1.5
Greek muller  0.5
Houmous  6
Velvet crunch  4

TOTAL  12

Testing Toddlers & Party Danger Zones!!!

Good evening lovely people!
Tonight im writing this as a very tired mummy, worn out by temper tantrums and other such delights of my charming daughter!
However it wasnt all bad as it was one of my friends little boys first birthday party today...usually a sentence that fills me with fear....trays of cupcakes, biscuits, crisps, dips, sausage rolls and pizzas, the beige buffet, all full of scrumminess and weight loss sabotage, but not this one ohhhhh nooooo i was going in prepared hahaha take that buffet!!! In YOUR face!
I started my day at the rather unsociable hour of 6:45am errrrgh! The devil child decided to wake in a rather shirty and shouty mood this morning, so i decided on the calming decison of watching peppa pig snuggled up under my duvet but alas the peace only lasted 20 minutes before i was dragged out of bed for breakfast (at least there was a 7 on the clock now!) I decided a hearty green day brekky of beans on a HeB of nimble, a fruit salad of strawberrys, kiwi and grapes all washed down with a cuppa.
I was ready to start the day with some clothes washing, various cleaning chores and trying to avoid more strops from satan. God bless the terrible twos! (Shes not even two yet...surely it cant get worse can it?!)
As we were getting ready to head over to paaaarty central, i decided to have my lunch before i went and dug out my orzo pasta that ive been dying to give a go. I frylighted 2 large mushrooms, a big handful of pasta and when they were cooked i bunged some rocket ontop the mushrooms, put the orzo on top of that, sprinkled more rocket on along with some plum tomatoes and 1/2 my HeB of reduced fat cheese.
Bring on the party!!!

As promised there was a varietable feast of goodies including cake and muffins and i proudly resisted all, opting for 2 bread sticks and 2 tblsp of houmous for 7 syns instead. Heavy syns for not alot but i thoroughly enjoyed it and it stopped me wanting cake. I also topped up on tea as well. After lots of natters and catching up and birthday wishing it was time to take miss strops home, although after an inital bumpy start involving fights over a seesaw cow and a fire truck, she did calm down alot and played nicely with the other babies and kiddies so it was a bit more happy days. Needless to say straight away in the car she fell asleep ahhhhh peace!

Once home i dished up her dindins of sw quorn spag bol which after some kicking off she did scoff down. Whilst she ate i had a glass of coke zero cherry and picked on some leftover rice pud from last night as my dinner wouldnt be for another few hours yet.
I had premade the spag bol before leaving so all i had to do was preheat it.
I fried off onions and garlic in frylight, added quorn mince, tom puree, then a handful of mushrooms, a courgette, red pepper, peas, a carton of basil and garlic passata and a half carton of plain passata. Then a splash of dark soy which takes out the tang of the tomatoes. Simmer til cooked :-)
Once buglet had gone to bed i cooked mine up with some rigaoli, riggoli, riaglio or in english some spirally type pasta and asparagus. Pasta is on offer for 50p at tesco so i bought a whole heap of funny shapes and sizes! Topped of with the second half of my HeB of cheese and another coffee.
I then spent the rest of the evening chattin to my friend and putting the world to rights, well attempting to anywho!

So eventually tiredness kicked in and i retire to bed with a fruit salad of a banana, kiwi, yellow plum, grapes, one giant strawberry, a pineapple activia and a lemon and green tea so night y'all sleep well x

HEA -350ml skimmed milk
HEA -350ml skimmed milk
HEB -2 x nimble
HEB - 40g reduced fat cheese

SUPERFREE
Strawberries
Grapes
Kiwi
2 flat mushrooms
Rocket
Plum tomatoes
Asparagus
Mushrooms
Onion
Pepper
Courgette
Yellow plum
Banana

FREE
Small tin baked beans
Orzo
Rice pud
Squirly pasta
Activia yogurt

SYNS

2 breadsticks  2
2tblsp houmous  5

TOTAL 7

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Hello.....is it me you're looking for?!

Hello fond followers im sooooooo sorry for not blogging this past week!
I deserve a good slap on the hand, i have been so busy visiting friends at the beginning of the week for some long over due girly catch ups especially before one swans back off out to Auz again soon :-(
Then before i knew it it was work time again and i decided to kip up my folks as they are away at the mo and went and saw my bro and his gf, so we arrived at friday, and a start of my new shiney week, free of bad food and hopefully a resolution to find out whats occuring with my poorly tummy :-( i think this week has not been helped by eating full fat white bread at the beginning of the week, not drinking enough and not eating enough veg, ive loosely been on plan eating good brekkies and teas, as my friend was doing SW before she has her little boy she always cooks me sw friendly food when i go see her, this time a rather scrum chicken, mushroom and bacon risotto. Nommers! But there were naughties in the form of alcohol and dips lol.
So due to the fact im bloated beyond belief and ahem, rather bunged up, i decided to take a "holiday" this week and start afresh straight from group.
I picked a green day as my fridge and cupboards were bare due to being away all week, all that was left was some pasta!
So due to no milk i made a couple of hot chocs (4syns) to warm up and settled down to a lunch of macaroni with 1 laughing cow cheese triangle (2 syns) and the rest of the carrots, i then discovered a cherry activia yogurt in the back of the fridge too.

I have been investigating into supplements i can give a try to help with my mysterious digestive issues, and im going to raid holland and barrett i think on monday for some acidolphilous and colon clense and maybe a bottle of acai, all supposed to help clean up my insides. Previously when ive been to the drs ive been prescribed laxido, movicol, senna, and even a magnesium based liquid for heartburn that if you OD on it, its a laxative! Im not so keen on quick fixes as ive read horrid things about becoming reliant on laxatives and the bowel forgetting how to work so im looking for something more natural to work more long term and maybe rejiggle everything back to what its supposed to be doing! Ive also swapped aspartameand sucrolose based sweetner to stevia as well. Wish me luck! Oh and i munched a packet of skips and coffee whilst researching (4 syns)

Anywho.... i then went shopping for lots of yumminess to fill my fridge and picked up a cheap danio cherry yogurt, oh my days they are so thick and creamy and not bad for 1.5syns will deffo be having again as they are very filling too.

I decided to have sw chips, HeA of cheese and beans for tea but at group everyone was talking about the new Taste of Asia book, which after flicking through will be purchased next week, so i had seen a recipe on the facebook sw page for spring rolls made with cannaloni tubes. I think they are a seriously good substitute for the greasy deep fried spring rolls from a takeaway.
All i had to do was preheat the oven, boil up some water and add as many cannaloni tubes as you want, i made 6
;-) until they are al dente, remove and place on a baking tray. In a frying pan i put finely chopped onion, mushroom and a bag of beansprouts and a splash of dark soy sauce. When they are cooked and slightly cool, fill each of the tubes and place back on the tray. Spray with frylight and bung in the oven until crispy. Amazeballs.

Now im making up a big batch of rice pudding with diet cream soda and the rest of my HeA of milk to have for pudding and picking on tomorrow as im at a kiddies birthday party where theres bound to be cake and crisps. This time i have some vanilla yogurt to mix in as well for extra creaminess.

And thats today done and im off with my rice pudding to my bed to watch my twilight breaking dawn part 2 dvd, courtesy of my darling daughter and mothers day :-)

HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEA - 350ml skimmed milk
HEB - 40g reduced fat cheese
HEB -

SUPERFREE
Beansprouts
Mushroom
Onion
Carrots

FREE
Potatoes
Macaroni pasta
Baked beans
Activia cherry yogurt
Activia vanilla yogurt
Pudding rice

SYNS
Hot choc x 2  4
Skips  4
Laughing cow cheese triangle  2
Danio cherry yogurt  1.5

TOTAL 11.5