Sunday 30 September 2012

September 30th Food Diary

 
 
 
Breakfast
1 slice wholemeal bread - HEB
1 slice wholemeal bread - 4 syns
2 plums - Free
1 kiwi - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free
2 cheese triangles - 4 syns
4 slices wafer thin ham - Free
 
 
 
Lunch
Creamy pork pasta (including celery, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, quark and 2 extra light laughing cow cheese triangles) - 1 syn
 
 
 
Dinner
Minced Beef Hash - Free
1 orange - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free
 
 
Snack
3 ham and egg mini quiche - Free
Grapes - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free



 
Snack
120g icecream - 11 syns
 
 
 
 
Total syns = 20 syns
 
 
Please note: the normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 but I've been told I can have more because I have lots of weight to lose.

Saturday 29 September 2012

September 29th Food Diary

No Breakfast
 
No photo....I lost it somehow when I was transferring them.
 
Lunch
1 slice wholemeal bread - HEB
1 slice wholemeal bread - 4 syns
2 cheese triangles - Part of HEA
1 pear - Free
1 orange - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free
 
 
No photo....I lost it somehow when I was transferring them.
 
Dinner
Creamy pork pasta (including celery, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, quark and 2 extra light laughing cow cheese triangles) - 1 syn
 
Dessert
1 Orange - Free
 
 
 
Snack
Options white chocolate - 2 syns
2 Bourbon creams - 7 syns
1 Chocolate Mousse - 4 syns

Snack
1 banana - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free
 
 
Total syns = 18
 
 
Please note: The normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 but I've been told I can have more because I have a lot weight to lose.

Friday 28 September 2012

September 28th Food Diary


Breakfast
Scrambled Egg - Free
Bacon - Free
Fried Potatoes - Free
Cherry Tomatoes - Free
Satsuma - Free
Low Fat Yogurt - 2.5 syns
Coffee - Free
2 Sweeteners - Free
Milk - From HEA


Lunch
1 Slice Bread - HEB
1 Slice Bread - 4 syns
Tuna - Free
Extra Light Mayo, 2 tbsp - 2 syns
Coffee, sweeteners, milk from HEA - Free
Grapes - Free
2 Satsumas - Free


Dinner
Homemade Pork and Mustard Sausage - 3 syns
Vegetable Rice - Free


Snack
1 Caramel Options - 2 syns
2 Chocolate Digestives - 8 syns
1 Banana - Free

Total = 21.5 syns


Please note: The normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 but I've been told I can have more because I have a lot to lose.



Thursday 27 September 2012

September 27th Food Diary

Breakfast
Scrambled Egg - Free
Cherry Tomatoes - Free
Bacon - Free
Shape Yogurt - Free
1 Orange - Free
Flavoured Water - Free
Lunch
Tomato and Onion Pasta n Sauce - Free
Fruit Salad (1 plum, 1 peach and 1 pear) - Free
Flavoured Water - Free
Please Note: I photographed the wrong dinner! This is the husbands and has lots more mash and less vegetables than I had on my plate! I filled half my plate with veg, a quarter with mash and a quarter with chicken.
Dinner
Chicken Breast - Free
Mashed Potato using milk from HEA
Broccoli - Free
Cauliflower - Free
Peas - Free
Green Beans - Free
Gravy - 5 syns
No dessert
Another point to note is that I only ate one of these slices of toast...hubby helped share the syns!
Snack
1 Slice Wholemeal Bread - HEB
1 Tbsp Peanut Butter - 4 syns
1 Tbsp Jam - 2 syns
1 Chocolate Mousse - 4 syns
Flavoured Water - Free
Total = 19 syns
Please note: The normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 per day but I've been told I can have more because I have a lot of weight to lose.


Wednesday 26 September 2012

September 26th Food Diary

No picture for breakfast because I didn't have any.
 


Lunch
4 crackerbread - 4 syns
1 tbsp extra light mayo - 1 syn
1 tomato - Free
2 Satsumas - Free
1 Shape - Free
 
 
 
Dinner
Cottage Pie with carrots, peas sweetcorn and cabbage in the mashed potato.
Also used milk from allowance for the mash - Free
Gravy - 5 syns
 
Dessert - None
 
 
 
Snack
1 slices wholemeal bread - HEB
Tuna and mayo spread - 4 syns
1 banana - Free
1 pear - Free
1 shape yogurt - Free
 
 
Snack
3 jaffa cakes - 7.5 syns
 
 
Total syns = 21.5 syns
 
 
Please note: The normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 but I've been told I can have more because I have a lot of weight to lose.
 
 

Woohooo!! Lost my first stone :D

Well, to be exact, I've lost 1 stone and 2lbs so I'm currently grinning like this...

I'd set a 2lb target for myself for this week so I was delighted when she told me I'd lost 4.5lbs!

I think my photo food diary really helped me this week and I plan to carry on with it. I, like a lot of slimmers, struggle with the reality of what we eat and the amount our brain lets us remember that we've eaten!
Writing it down helped keep track of the syns but it didn't really help me recall what I'd actually eaten, especially as I write down the ingredients rather than the actual meal.

Anyway, back to group - I find myself enjoying it more and more each week as I get to know everyone and this week I had a bumper week, winning slimmer of the week,

slimmer of the month


and my 1 stone award :D




As slimmer of the week you get to bring home the contents of the fruit basket that everyone contributes to, which was wonderful because it's only mid week and our fruit basket is looking a bit empty!

I'm off now to take a photo of myself (I want to take one each time I lose a stone) and make some lunch. I'm ready for it today!

Starting Weight -

22 August 2012 -       31st 1lb   /  435lb   /  197.3kg / BMI = 77

29 August 2012 -      30st 9.5lb / 429.5lb / 194.8kg / BMI = 76.1 / Lost 5.5lb
05 September 2012 - 30st 9.0lb / 429.0lb / 194.5kg / BMI = 76    / Lost 0.5lb
12 September 2012 - 30st 5.0lb / 425.0lb / 192.7kg / BMI = 75.3 / Lost 4lb
19 September 2012 - 30st 3.5lb / 423.5lb / 192.0kg / BMI = 75    / Lost 1.5lb
26 September 2012 - 29st 13lb  / 419.0lb / 190.0kg / BMI = 74.2 / Lost 4.5lb

Tuesday 25 September 2012

September 25th Food Diary


 
Breakfast
2 slices Hovis wholemeal - HEB
Scrambled Egg - Free
Bacon and Mushrooms - Free
Shape Yogurt - 0.5 syn
1 Banana - Free
Coffee - Free
2 Sweetener - Free
Milk - From HEA
Ignore the Ibuprofen...I forgot to move them! Woke with a headache this morning that has thankfully gone now :)
 
 
 
Lunch
2 Crispbreads - 2 syns
Quark - Free
2 Slices wafer thin ham - Free
1 Orange - Free
 
 
 
Dinner
Beef Stroganoff - Free
Jacket potato - Free
Carrots - Free
Green Beans - Free
 
 
Snack
3 Crackerbread - 3 syns
3 Cheese triangles - 6 syns
Wafer thin ham - Free 
 
 
Snack
Grapes - Free
Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
 
 
Total syns = 12
 


Monday 24 September 2012

September 24th Food Diary



Breakfast
2 crumpets - 4.5 syns each
1 cheese triangle - 2 syns
Wafer thin ham - Free
Grapes - Free
Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
 
 
 
Lunch
Tomato and onion pasta n sauce - Free
Strawberries - Free
Strawberry low fat yogurt - 2.5 syns
Sparkling fruit flavoured water - Free
 
 
 
 
Dinner
 
Spaghetti bolognese - Free
 
 
 
Snack
Options orange hot chocolate - 2 syns
Milk - HEA
1 Kiwi fruit - Free
1 Hi Fi Light - HEB
1 Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
 
 
Total syns = 16.5 syns*
 
 
The normal amount of syns is between 5 and 15 but I've been told I can have more because I have a lot of weight to lose.
 


Sunday 23 September 2012

September 23rd Food Diary

 

Breakfast
2 slices wholemeal hovis - HEB
3 Cheese triangles - HEA
2 eggs - Free
Coffee - Free
2 sweeteners - Free
Milk - From yesterday - Forgot to finish my HEA yesterday
1 Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
1 Banana - Free
 
 
 
 
Lunch
3 crackerbread - 3 syns
Quark - Free
3 slices wafer thin ham - Free
Cherry Tomatoes - Free
1 orange - Free
 
 
 
Dinner
SW Cottage Pie - Free
Mashed potato and Cabbage - Free
Dessert - None


Snack
1 banana - Free
2 kiwi - Free
1 Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
Pear and elderflower sparkling water - Free



Snack
2 crumpets - 4.5 syns each
2 cheese triangles - 2 syns each

Total syns = 17 syns

*The normal amount of syns per day is between 5 and 15 but because I have so much to lose, I've been told I can have extra syns.
 


Saturday 22 September 2012

September 22nd Food Diary

 
 
 
Breakfast
1 slice of wholemeal bread, toasted - 4 syns
1 level tbsp jam - 2 syns
1 low fat yogurt - 2.5 syns
1 cup of hot, low cal lemonade and paracetamol* - Free
 
*Hot lemonade and paracetamol because I've started with a horrible cold :(
 
 
 
Lunch
2 slices hovis wholemeal - HEB
1 Cheese Triangle - 2 syns
3 slices wafer thin ham - Free
1 Orange - Free
1 Kiwi - Free
1 Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn
 
 
 
Dinner
 Pork & vegetable risotto - Free


Dessert
Banana & custard - 4 syns for 100g custard
 

Snack
1 Options hot chocolate - 2 syns
Grapes - Free
1 Hi Fi Light - 3 syns
 
Total syns = 20*
 
*The normal amount of syns per day is between 5 and 15 but because I have so much to lose, I've been told I can have extra syns.
 
 
 
 


Friday 21 September 2012

September 21st Photo Food Diary

 
 
 
Breakfast
2 eggs, scrambled - Free
Wafer thin ham - Free
Cherry tomatoes - free
2 slices wholemeal bread - HEB
Coffee - Free
2 sweeteners - Free
Milk - From HEA
1 Banana - Free
Shape Yogurt - 0.5 syn
 
 
 
 
 
Lunch
Leek & Potato Soup - Free
2 slices wholemeal bread - 8 syns
2 plums - Free
1 Shape - 0.5 syn
Sparkling flavoured water - Free

Mid afternoon
Coffee - Free
2 sweetener - Free
Milk - From HEA
 
 
 
Dinner
 Homemade pork, onion and mustard sausages - 2 syns
Colcannon - Free
Peas - Free
100ml Gravy - 2.5 syns

Snack
Coffee - Free
2 sweetener - Free
Milk - From HEA
1 Hi Fi Light - 3 syns

Snack
1 Banana - Free
1 Shape yogurt - 0.5 syn


Total syns - 17 syns*
 
*The normal amount of syns per day is between 5 and 15 but because I have so much to lose, I've been told I can have extra syns.


Thursday 20 September 2012

September 20th Food diary

 
 
Breakfast
1 crumpet - 4.5 syns
2 slices wafer thin ham - Free
1 level teaspoon margarine - 2 syns
Shape 0% fat yogurt - 0.5 syns
1 Banana - Free
Coffee - Free
2 sweeteners - Free
Milk - From HEA


Mid morning
Coffee - Free
2 sweeteners - Free
Milk - From HEA
 
 
 
Lunch
Leek and potato soup - Free
2 slices wholemeal bread - HEB
 
 
 
Dinner
Beef casserole - Lean Beef, potatoes, carrots, leeks and onion - Free
Gravy - 5 syns
1 slice wholemeal bread - 4 syns
1 Shape Yogurt - 0.5 syn


Snack 1
Banana - Free
Shape Yogurt - 0.5 syn

Snack 2
Coffee - Free
2 sweeteners - Free
Milk - From HEA
1 Hi Fi bar - 3 syns

Total Syns - 20

*The normal amount of syns per day is between 5 and 15 but because I have so much to lose, I've been told I can have extra syns.
 

Wednesday 19 September 2012

September 19th 2012 Food Diary

 
A quick breakfast this morning as I had lots to do before getting ready for my weigh in.
Banana - Superfree
Shape 0% fat yogurt - 1/2 syn

 
Apple and raspberry sparkling water - Free

 
Lunch - Left over mash, fried (using fry light) with bacon and mushrooms.
1 tablespoon tomato ketchup - 1 syn
Banana - Superfree
Low fat yogurt - 2.5 syns
 
 
 
Dinner - Stuffed Pepper with pasta in sauce
Peppers, leeks, onion, tomatoes, tomato puree, lean minced beef and garlic - Free and superfree
Tomato and onion pasta in sauce - Free
 
 
Dessert - Choc Ice - 7 syns
 
 
 
Snack - Hot Chocolate with semi skimmed milk from HEA* = 6 syns
2 Hi Fi Light bars - HEB**
 
 
 
Snack - 2 plums - Superfree
Shape - 1/2 syn
 
 
 
 
 
Total syns today = 17***
 
 
*HEA = Healthy Extra A
 
**HEB = Healthy Extra B
 
***The normal amount of syns per day is between 5 and 15 but because I have so much to lose, I've been told I can have extra syns. This is the first time I've actually gone over 15 syns a day.
I'm making sure I use as much of my syns as I can to see if it has any effect on my next weigh in as the 2 weeks I've had low syn days, I've had low weight loss on those weeks.