Weigh Day

It's that time of the week again and the prognosis was not good

I can't honestly say I'm that surprised. Sunday night I wrote out my meal plan and we were all set to do our weekly shop Monday night, then this happened...

Which led to this

   

   

 which then led to this... 

 then finally this

Yes that is pizza, yes I did, wholeheartedly, regret it as soon as I ate it

So as you can see, I probably really deserved my 1lb on.

Because we didn't get our weekly shop on the Monday night as usual, the rest of my week wasn't fantastic either....it wasn't bad by a long shot, but not as good as it could've been. However, my shopping arrived today (I ended up ordering it online) and I can now get back on track. I need a 2lb loss to get me back on track to be at target by Christmas....wish me luck!

Weigh Day

I got weighed last night

Syn-free pancakes

This is another recipe I discovered on Instagram and there seem to be a few variations (of which I will be trying)

Ingredients

* 30g Ready Brek (I'm aware it's no longer a HeB, but I'm counting it as one...feel free to use porridge oats)

* 1/2 tsp sweetner

* 2 eggs

Instructions

Whisk all ingredients together and fry..easy peasy. I served them with banana and 2 tsp of maple syrup (1 syn)

The other version which I have yet to try is 

Ingredients

* 35g Porridge Oats

* 1 pot of Muller Light (any flavour)

* 3 eggs

* Sweetner (if needed)

Instructions

Put your oats and muller light into a bowl and leave to soak overnight (or 3 hours). Add eggs and sweetner. Fry in Fry Light. 

A few ideas/recipes

In line with my flavoured coffee obsession, I made myself a SW friendly Mocha. It's nothing fancy, it's literally an option hot chocolate, coffee, a dash of milk from my allowance (although you might not need it) and a squirt of cream for 2 syns, less if you buy the light version...I just used what was in the fridge (left over from Christmas if I'm honest)

Monday Mocha - 4 syns 

 

If you want something different, I saw a lady on Instagram using Fluff Marshmallow on top of a hot chocolate. I think she said was 1.5 syns, but didn't say for how much and I'm afraid I can't find it on syns online, but it's something to consider if you have a jar and access to the nutrition info so you can syn it up. 

For lunch I made a tomato pasta dish: 

* pasta 

* chopped tomatoes 

* baked beans 

* onion 

* garlic 

* bacon

* 1tsp of light cream cheese

* Cheddar to sprinkle on top (optional)

You can add any veg you like to this...just cook the pasta, whilst that's cooking cook all the other ingredients together and finally mix with the pasta. Serve with cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. You can also add chilli, I didn't to this one because I was sharing it with my daughter. 

This is a brilliant family meal. This is my youngest daughter enjoying her THIRD bowlful!

 

For dinner I just had to try the Mushy pea curry that's been doing the rounds on Instagram (seriously, if you're not already on Instagram, you should join, there are tons of SW ladies on there posting delicious looking food, sharing ideas and recipes, just search for Slimmingworld under tags)

Ingredients:

* 1 can Mushy peas

* 1 can chopped tomatoes

* 1 can baked beans

* Curry powder (to taste) 

blend them all together to make the sauce. Add whatever meat/veg you want. Serve with rice, or SW chips. 

Meal planning

This may seem like it's late because I did the last meal plan on a Friday, but we do our grocery shopping every Monday, so Sunday night will be my time to plan meals and write a shopping list. 

I have 2 children so I have to make sure we have things in for them too. If they can join in the Slimming World meal they will, if not I've found an alternative. It's not that any of the meals are unsuitable for children, just that my girls don't like spicy food and I love it. We're also working around after school activities and can't always eat together...but I do love that Slimming World is family friendly. 

 

Today (whilst out shopping) I came across these and couldn't resist buying one of each flavour. Syns online says a chunky kitkat is 13 syns (one of them might be 12.5) so I plan to share them with my husband for 6.5 syns each. I can't wait to try the coconut one. 

 

 Not necessarily a Slimming World friendly recipe but since these homemade tortillas work out at 6 syns each I thought I'd share them anyway. We had these with stew and it just made the meal feel a bit more naughty. Recipe here

 

Starbucks obsession

As I've mentioned before, I have a bit of a Starbucks obsession...well it's more of a coffee obsession but I just can't resist those fancy coffees from Starbucks so I'm experimenting with different things so I can still get my fix.

Today I tried out a tall, sugar-free hazelnut, skinny latte to then find the sugar-free versions aren't listed on syns online Hmph. The coffee was amazing though, I wouldn't have guessed it was sugar-free and skinny. 

  

After some research I found their nutrition sheet and the sugar-free syrups are 0 calories...I'm assuming then, that they are 0 syns (assuming you're counting the milk from your allowance). 

A blip

My Friday was filled with completing job applications. I've been a stay at home Mum for the past 4 years, but now that my youngest is in Nursery I feel ready to return to work. It was always meant to be a temporary break and now it's time to re-enter the world of work and I'm quite excited by the idea.

It would've been easy to sit and nibble on biscuits or chocolate whilst sat at my laptop, but I made myself a coffee and put out a bowl of grapes to stave off boredom hunger. It worked...




unfortunately the evening brought other challenges that I failed terribly at. I met up with friends for takeout and gossip. I was good and pre-planned my meal, but on the evening I felt bad that everyone else was sharing their dishes so I made the decision to share with everyone else and it was a downhill fall from there, because I then tried other dishes, dipped into starters (and we're talking prawn toast, spring rolls etc) and finished with one of my friends famous chocolate brownies...I'm pretty sure there are about 50 syns in the brownie alone.

I would sit here and write about how I could've avoided the extra syns, but even dieters need a night off once in a while. I'm not going to dwell on it, I'm not even going to kill myself trying to claw back the syns through the rest of the week because from experience this ends with me resenting the diet and I'll go on a binge. I will have 10 syns a day as normal and draw a line under the Friday blowout.