November 30th Food and Fitness Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread with cheese - HEA and B

Banana, 2 satsumas and activia - Free

Lunch

Salad and dressing - Free

Batchelor's rice - Free

2 satsumas and activia - Free

I only ate half the rice because I was full

Dinner

Steak, carrots, roast potato slices, mushrooms, mushy peas - Free

Creme caramel - 5.5 syns

Snack

Crisps - 5 syns

2 snowballs - 6 syns

Banana and 2 satsumas - Free

Fitness minutes done - 10

Total syns = 16.5

November 29th Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread and cheese - HEA & B

Banana, clementine and activia - Free

Lunch

Curry cake - Free

Salad leaves, tomato and Italian dressing - Free

Potato and ham salad with mayo - 1 syn

Clementine and activia - Free

I left one of the two pieces of curry cake and the ham because I was full. My appetite is getting smaller :)

Dinner

Carrots, broccoli and peas - Free

Mash - Free

Mince and gravy - 2.5 syns

Dessert

Mini rolls - 8 syns

Snack

Curry cake - Free

Banana, Clementine and activia - Free

Total = 11.5 syns

November 28th Food Diary

I dropped my camera when I took it out to take a photo of the amount of dinner I left tonight because I was full and now it won't work :'(
It's only a couple of months old as well so I'm more than a little annoyed at myself!

I can't put today's photos on now so here's my dairy without photos and hopefully I'll be able to get it fixed and add them at a later date.
I'll have to use my phone tomorrow and it's not a very good camera so I apologise in advance for the rubbish quality!

Breakfast

Black coffee with sweetener - Free

Lunch

Jacket potato and left over bolognese sauce - Free

Tomatoes, cucumber and mayo - 1 syn

Apple and activia - Free

Dinner

Chilli and rice - Free

Salad with leaves, tomatoes and cucumber and fat free salad dressing - Free

Dessert

Yogurt - 2 syns

Satsuma - Free

Snack

Curry cake - Free

Satsuma - Free

Rice pudding - 9 syns

Choc chip cake bar - 6 syns

HEA - 30g cheese
HEB - 1 slice brown bread

Total = 19 syns

Weigh In Wednesday - Had a Great Week!

I'm so happy with my loss today because I'm now out of the 400lb bracket and into the 300's :D

I lost 3lb this week and whilst I was very happy with the loss, it wasn't until I was filling in my weight loss chart and wrote 397 pounds did I realise what a huge milestone this is for me.
I really wasn't happy being over 400lb and I know it's only 3lb away, it's a huge deal mentally. It's given me a boost and I really can't wait to lose 4lb for my 3 stone award and then another 2lb for my club 10 award :D

I really am committed to getting to target this time and keeping it off for good. It's been 14 weeks since I joined and I've lost every week. I'm never hungry, I never feel deprived of anything, I have everything I want and instead of eating everything in sight because I could, I now eat what's important to me; for example, I was doing the shopping list for Christmas dinner and automatically put cranberry sauce on the list. I checked the syn value and decided there were lots of other lovely things I'd rather spend my syns on than cranberry sauce on Christmas day! Before, I would have eaten it because it was tradition and I wouldn't have given the chocolate, alcohol, nuts, crisps and everything else we have at Christmas, a second thought, I would have eaten the lot.
Now I know that what's important to me on Christmas day is a few glasses of Baileys and some chocolate. If I can spend my syns on those and stay on track I'll enjoy Christmas and enjoy the loss I plan on having at the next weigh in!

This is the quote I got when I put my results in the Slimming World website and I totally agree with it being a journey, not a destination and I know that with the help of SW and the people in my weekly group, I can enjoy the journey :o)

22/08/12	31 stone 1lb	435lb	197.3kg	BMI = 77
29/08/12	30 st 9.5lb	429.5lb	194.8kg	BMI = 76.1	- 5.5lb
05/09/12	30 st 9lb	429lb	194.5kg	BMI = 76	- 0.5lb
12/09/12	30 st 5lb	425lb	192.7kg	BMI = 75.3	- 4.0lb
19/09/12	30 st 3.5lb	423.5lb	192.0kg	BMI = 75	- 1.5lb
26/09/12	29 st 13lb	419lb	190.0kg	BMI = 74.2	- 4.5lb
03/10/12	29 st 12.5lb	418.5lb	189.8kg	BMI = 74.1	- 0.5lb
10/10/12	29 st 10lb	416lb	188.6kg	BMI = 73.7	- 2.5lb
17/10/12	29 st 6lb	412lb	186.8kg	BMI = 73	- 4lb
24/10/12	29 st 2lb	408lb	185kg	BMI = 72.3	- 4lb
31/10/12	HOLIDAY
07/11/12	28 st 13lb	405lb	183.7kg	BMI = 71.7	- 3lb
14/11/12	28 st 8.5lb	400.5lb	181.6kg	BMI = 70.9	- 4.5lb
21/11/12	28 st 8lb	400lb	181.3kg	BMI = 70.8	- 0.5lb
28/11/12	28 st 5lb	397lb	180kg	BMI = 70.3	- 3lb

November 27th Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread and cheese - HEA and B

Apple and activia - Free

Lunch

Leftover SW quiche - Free

Potato and tuna salad - 2 syns

Activia - Free

I didn't eat the kiwi fruits because they were too sour.

Snack

Mint options - 2 syns

Dinner

Mash - Free

Carrots and cabbage - Free

Chicken breast - Free

Gravy - 2.5 syns

Dessert

Choc ice - 7 syns

Snack

Crumpet - 4.5 syns

Ham - Free

25g cheese spread - 3 syns

Activia - free

Total syns = 21

November 26th Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread and cheese - HEA and B

Banana, 2 clementines and Activia - Free

Lunch

Quiche leftover from yesterday - Free

Jacket potato and beans - Free

Orange, clementine and activia - Free

Snack

White choc options - 2 syns

Dinner

Turkey risotto with peas and broccoli - Free

Dessert

2 snowballs - 6 syns

Snack

Crisps - 5 syns

Activia, orange and banana - Free

Total = 13

November 25th Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown toast with cheese - HEA + B

Banana and 2 clementines - Free

Activia - Free

Lunch

Jacket potato - Free

Beans - Free

Homemade mustard and pork sausages - 1 syns

Activia and 2 clementines - Free

Dinner

Quiche with mushrooms, ham, spring onions, low fat cottage cheese with chives and eggs - Free

Potato slices with paprika - Free

Mushy peas - Free

Dessert 

2 snowballs - 6 syns

Snack

Discos - 7 syns

Activia, banana and 2 clementines - Free

Total = 14

Curry Cake - Syn free

A few weeks ago we had a taster session at our Slimming World group and someone brought in a curry cake. I was a bit dubious because the words, curry and cake don't usually go together in my life!
I braved it though (I'm not very adventurous when it comes to trying new food!) and found it to be delicious.

A couple of weeks later I won the raffle and won the ingredients to make the curry cake and seeing as it's so delicious and oh so free of syns, I thought I'd share it with you :)
I was meant to make this ages ago when I got the ingredients but I've only just got round to it!

All you need are three ingredients:

1 packet Bachelor's curry rice (dried)
1 tin ASDA Chickpea Dahl (as far as I know, it has to be the ASDA tin because other versions are not guaranteed to be syn free)
4 eggs

Cook the rice per packet directions. Whisk the eggs then mix the rice, eggs and tin of chickpea dahl together.
Spray loaf tin with frylight then pour mixture in and bake at gas 6 for 40 minutes although there are lots of versions of this recipe on the Internet and the cooking times and oven temps vary greatly. I suggest you keep checking your loaf; stick a knife or something in the middle to see if it comes out clean.

November 24th Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread and cheese - HEA and B

2 clementines, banana and Activia - Free

Snack

White Chocolate Options - 2 syns

Lunch

Homemade pork and mustard sausages - 1 syn

Cherry tomatoes, mushroom and mashed swede - Free

2 clementines and Activia - Free

Tomato worcester sauce - 1 syn

Dinner and Dessert

Spaghetti Bolognese - Free

Creme caramel - 5.5 syns

Fruit flavoured water - Free

Snack

Discos - 7 syns

2 clementines, banana and Activia - Free

Options - 2 syns

Total = 18.5

November 23rd Food Diary

Breakfast

Bacon, eggs, mushrooms & beans - Free

Brown sauce - 1 syn

Lunch

Crisps - 5 syns

Activia, banana and 2 clementines - Free

Dinner

Potato slices with smoked paprika - Free

Homemade mustard and pork sausages - 1 syn

Mushy peas - Free

Activia, banana and 2 clementines - Free

Total syns = 7 syns

November 22nd Food Diary

Breakfast

1 slice brown bread - HEB

30g cheese - HEA

Shape crumble - 0.5 syn

Orange - Free

Lunch

Bachelor's rice - Free

Curry cake - Free

Crisps - 5

Shape crumble - 0.5 syn

Apple and orange - Free

Dinner

Mashed potato with mustard - 1 syn

Mashed swede - Free

Peas - Free

Pork steak - Free

Gravy - 5 syns

Snack

Curry cake - Free

Yogurt - 3 syns

Choc chip cake bar - 6 syns

Total = 21

November 21st Food Diary and Fitness Log

No breakfast

Lunch

Beef savoury rice - Free

Salt and vinegar crisps - 5 syns

Vanilla and chocolate sprinkles Shape - 1 syn

Orange - Free

Dinner

Beef and bean hotpot - Free

Dessert
Shape apple crumble yogurt - 0.5 syns

Snack

Options - 2 syns

Choc chip cake bar - 6 syns

Snack

Curry cake - Free

Snack

Curry cake - Free

Shape rhubarb yogurt - 0.5 syns

2 mini rolls - 8 syns

Total syns = 23 

Weigh in - 2 and a half stone award :D

As you can see from the title, I got my 2 and a half stone award today and whilst I was a little disappointed that I've only lost half a pound this week, I'm extremely happy to get my award so that made up for it!

I'm not sure why I've only lost a half but I do know that I've been snacking on chicken roll without realising it had a syn value; I'm going to be sticking to chicken breast snacks from now on so I know that it's free!
I've also had a cup of speed soup everyday for the last week and I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the low loss this week as apart from the chicken, it's the only other thing that I can think of that's changed.

Anyway, onwards and downwards!

I was hoping to get out of the 400lb range this week but it looks like that's next week's target!
I'm off now to do some Just Dance. Haven't done it for a few weeks and surprisingly, I'm raring to go :)

22/08/12	31 stone 1lb	435lb	197.3kg	BMI = 77
29/08/12	30 st 9.5lb	429.5lb	194.8kg	BMI = 76.1	- 5.5lb
05/09/12	30 st 9lb	429lb	194.5kg	BMI = 76	- 0.5lb
12/09/12	30 st 5lb	425lb	192.7kg	BMI = 75.3	- 4.0lb
19/09/12	30 st 3.5lb	423.5lb	192.0kg	BMI = 75	- 1.5lb
26/09/12	29 st 13lb	419lb	190.0kg	BMI = 74.2	- 4.5lb
03/10/12	29 st 12.5lb	418.5lb	189.8kg	BMI = 74.1	- 0.5lb
10/10/12	29 st 10lb	416lb	188.6kg	BMI = 73.7	- 2.5lb
17/10/12	29 st 6lb	412lb	186.8kg	BMI = 73	- 4lb
24/10/12	29 st 2lb	408lb	185kg	BMI = 72.3	- 4lb
31/10/12	HOLIDAY
07/11/12	28 st 13lb	405lb	183.7kg	BMI = 71.7	- 3lb
14/11/12	28 st 8.5lb	400.5lb	181.6kg	BMI = 70.9	- 4.5lb
21/11/12	28 st 8lb	400lb	181.3kg	70.8	- 0.5lb