Today is a red day.
Breakfast: 28g of bran flakes (hexb) and 100ml of milk (hexa)
Lunch: grilled chicken breast with broccoli, lettuce, carrots and sweetcorn
Dinner: chicken tarragon fricassee with chicken, tarragon and other herbs, pepper, fromage frais, garlic, onions, carrots, broccoli and chicken stock. Served with a little bit of wholemeal pasta (hexb)
Snacks: milkyway (6 syns), muller light, bag of little chocolate buttons (4 syns)
TOTAL SYNS: 10
Measuring out my breakfast cereal is proving to be very weird at the moment. It just seems like so little, but when I eat it I’m just fine. Suppose that means I’ve been overestimating my portions for a loooong time…
I got my SW pack through the post on Friday, which though I know it’s naughty I ordered on eBay as I can’t get to meetings. The boyfriend and I had a lovely weekend, eating McDonald’s AND a Chinese takeaway (oh dear) and decided to start afresh on Monday (today!) now that we know what we’re doing, thanks to the books. So, here we go!
Breakfast: 28g Bran Flakes (hex b) with 100ml of semi skimmed milk (hex a, with 150ml left for coffee later)
Lunch: Lentil soup (4.5 syns), with 4 pieces of melba toast (2 syns), and some philladelphia with basil mixed in (2 syns)
Dinner: Grilled chicken breast with mozzarella and roasted vegetables (syn free with 1 hea) Recipe from here but because I have no peppers here, I’m going to make it with carrots, spring onions, onion, tomatoes and broccoli.
Snacks: Muller light (syn free), Snack a jack (2 syns)
Drinks: Coffee, water, diet lemonade
TOTAL SYNS: 10.5
Breakfast: 2 pieces of brown toast with low fat butter and raspberry jam
Lunch: Toasted bagel with herby cream cheese
Dinner: Chicken chasseur (syn free) - made with chicken, onions, white wine, chicken stock, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, tomato puree, herbs
Drinks: Coffee, apple and raspberry water
Snacks: Mullerlight, cereal bar
Exercise: Walking 2 miles
Breakfast: none
Lunch: non
Dinner: Chinese style sticky lemon chicken with noodles
Snacks: mullerlight, 2 cupcakes
Hmm, not a great day. Sometimes I get in a weird mood where I don’t want to eat until I’m forced to, which happened today. I feel very sad and very strange, and the no food thing probably hasn’t helped with this. Sigh. Ill be better tomorrow :)
I weighed myself today, which I probably shouldn’t have done - I think i’d like my weigh in day to be a Friday.
Anyway, i’ve lost 2lb, woo! I am now 13st 8 :)
Breakfast: Bran flakes and semi skimmed milk
Lunch: Toasted bagel with herby cream cheese and cucumber
Dinner: Broccoli baked potatoes, which is the potato bit of a baked potato taken out, mashed together with broccoli, mustard, egg and cheese and then put back into the skins. Served with vegetables and salad
Snacks: Muller light, cereal bar
Drinks: Glass of diet lemonade, mug of coffee, water
Exercise: An hour on Wii Fit, walk 4 miles
Saturday 8th January
Breakfast: Bran flakes, semi-skimmed milk
Lunch: Potato & leek soup
Dinner: Cheesy chicken and broccoli bake, made with carrots, spring onions, tomatoes, salad, pasta, broccoli, cheese, chicken, herbs, and a cheesy sauce made with butter, milk and cheese. All made from scratch and it was bloody lovely!
Snacks: A Malteaster bunny (oops), Muller light
Sunday 9th January
Breakfast: Branflakes with semi skimmed milk
Lunch: Bagel with herby cream cheese and cucumber
Dinner: Herby chicken with new potatoes, carrots, onion, salad, cucumber, stuffing and gravy.
Snacks: Muller light, cereal bar, 4 small shortbread biscuits (260 calories…oops!)
Walked 2.3 miles, burnt 224 calories. Hurrah!
I haven’t followed a diet for such a long time thanks to the stress of moving 200 miles away from home for university. As a result of too much snacking during studying, of having to cook for myself all the time, of too much alcohol and takeaways during socialising with new friends, I put on a whopping 2 stone in just 4 months!
I am only just starting to notice that my clothes are a bit tight, but other than that my newfound 2 stone hasn’t made any difference in how I look, as far as I can tell. No one has said anything about the weight i’ve put on, and so I haven’t bothered to do anything about it. But now that it’s a new year, new start and all that, I’ve decided to shift the weight again. But this time i’ve got an extra 2 stone to get rid of too :(
Last year I did SlimFast and lost about a stone in 2 months. I enjoyed SlimFast and even got my boyfriend to lose about half a stone on it, but now because I’m a student and not working, I think it’d be too difficult to carry on buying the stupidly expensive SlimFast powders. And it’s awkward in social situations to just be drinking a shake.
So, spurred on by a friend dropping 3 dress sizes in as many months, I’ve decided to give Slimming World a go. The only thing is that I can’t quite afford to go to the weekly meetings, so I’m going it alone with the help of the internet. This doesn’t feel like a diet, this feels like making a permanent change. I’ve never eaten so many vegetables or cooked so much from scratch, and I am absolutely loving it, so lets see how this goes :)
Hello!
I had a break from Slimfast for a while, during which I had a lot of fun with my boyfriend, eating out, eating all sorts of crap and generally not caring about the calorie content of anything. It was liberating, in a way, and a lot of fun, but I’m ready again to lose some more weight!
All together, I put on 2lb through not caring about what I was eating, I was expecting to be back up at my heaviest but yay!
Here’s to a new start :)
Breakfast: Vanilla shake
Snack: Medium banana
Lunch: Chicken and salsa flatbread & raspberry cheesecake pot (605 cals)
Snack: A few (6 or so?) sweet oat crisps (Ikea biscuits), 2 strawberries
Dinner: Vanilla shake
Snack: Quavers
Exercise: walked 4 miles
Water: 2 litres
Not a bad day overall, but I am now exhausted :(
