Look, I'm back!

Whilst it might have been like a million years since I posted - last in August 2014! - I still have the password! So here I am.

I haven't weight myself in a year or more and don't care to. My body has changed a lot in that time. But my husband and I have decided to get back into cooking more real meals and enjoying new food, so we're back. Weight change might be an extra bonus.

This week's menu includes new recipes, part of my 2016 resolution to cook at least one new dish per month. Fingers crossed, we've got leftover duck Harira (a Moroccan inspired soup), a slow-cooked pork and red cabbage casserole and kangaroo meatball tagine.

Hooray!

No Posts Since April!

...which in my head, sounded like that famous song title about lack of sleep. I'm easily amused. 

Lots of things have happened since April. My moods have changed an awful lot, with a down patch and exams on top as well. Luckily, I'm well out the other side (and my exam results were also excellent, yay). So I've been much more focused on Slimming World and able to commit to it in a way I just couldn't when everything else was going on. I spent about 4-5 weeks maintaining, which was definitely better than putting weight on - but doesn't take me closer to my goal!

This last Wednesday when I was weighed I was thrilled to see I'd lost another 2lb, which takes me up to 53lb in total or 3st 11. I'm really hopeful that this next week I'll get my four stone badge!

One thing I've taken from this past few weeks of struggling was a piece of advice I received about not stressing over it. If I'm eating healthily, that's a success in itself. As my consultant says, a good week is not a wasted week even if it doesn't reflect on the scales like we might expect. 

So that's where I'm at. 19 weeks to my wedding!

Week 4

This morning I went to SW and found out I'd dropped another 2lb - taking my total loss so far to 44lb!

YAY! I have 8 weeks left until I've been going for one year. I would like to lose 2lb a week until then so that I've hit my 4stone award. Hopefully, that'll be possible!

In this post, I'm hopefully going to be able to hide each day's menu under a cut. Hopefully. ETA: My internet searching has decided that I can't do each separately, but at least they're off the main page.


Wednesday
Breakfast: banana, apple, pink and white (2.5)
Lunch: potato, beans, salad, pink and white (2.5)
Snack: pink and white (2.5)
Dinner: let's just call it 47.5 and have it done, so that this rounds up to a nice 55.
We're going to Success Express the rest of the week. I hope.

Thursday
Breakfast: banana, apple, mullerlight (0.5)

Lunch: HexB roll, steak, HexA cheese, massive salad, banana. Jelly, raspberries, strawberries, yogurt

Dinner: amazing super free curry, potatoes. 

Syns: 40. 

What goes through my head, I will never know. 10 syns left for the week! :/

Friday

Breakfast: banana, apple, yoghurt

Week 3 - Day 7

Another week is nearly over. Time to start worrying about getting weighed tomorrow morning! Though actually there are plenty of other things for me to worry about in the meantime... like all the work I have to do today (I've been up since 4.30am) and the studying I'm needing to do before my exams in June (oh my god, help) and the whole wedding planning thing too. Far too much going on - I'd love an easy life.

Next week I'm going to keep editing daily updates into one post, I think. Less spam, less triggery numbers for everyone else, all good really. As soon as I work out the hide text thing, anyway. I'm up to 75.5 syns this week I think at this point, not including today's. That's not bad going, I think.

Breakfast: banana, yoghurt, raspberries, tea.
Snack: apple, pink and white (1.5), activia
Lunch: pasta with left over super free bolognese. Pink and whites (3), chocolate (2)
Snack: pink and white (1.5)
Dinner:

Week 3 - Day 6

I wish I could remember the code to 'hide' things under a cut. I know how to do it on livejournal but I suspect that's not real code!

Breakfast - natural yoghurt, banana, raspberries
Lunch - superfree bolognese with pasta, 1 square of chocolate (1)
Snack - 2 pink and whites (3), HExB bar
Dinner - bbq ham, broccoli, roast onions. crabbies (6.5), chocolate (1)

total = 11.5

Week 3 - Day 5

I really want treats but am trying to abstain !

Breakfast - banana, raspberries, yoghurt

Lunch - jacket, beans, cheese, salad, pink and white (1.5), chocolate (4.5)
Break - alcohol (16), pink and whites (3)
Dinner - BBQ ham, HExB bread roll, salad, chips (1)

26

(Abstaining from indulgence didn't go so well when my little crazy head kicked in and a long walk didn't 'fix' it. May have gone a little over today's syns but we're okay for the week at 64 overall. As it's day 5 of the week, 5x15 a day = potentially 75 syns so we're still okay.)

Week 3 - Day 4

Breakfast: apple, yoghurt, pink and white (1.5)

Lunch: beans on brown toast (HexB). 

Snack: two pink and whites (3), ham, banana, mini mullerlight. 

Dinner: Crabbies (6.5), veggie bolognese with chopped ham and pasta, HexA cheese, chocolate (3)

Week 3 - Day 3

I sort of want to stop eating in the vague hope that'll make me lose weight quicker. People ask how long I've been doing SW and I always feel a bit like they expect more from me for this time frame. Heh.

Breakfast: banana, apple, small mullerlight 

Lunch: salmon pasta with onion, tomato and pepper, HExA cheese, 2 pink and whites (3), hot chocolate (1.5)

Snack: Activia, HExB crackers

Dinner: more of the lunch pasta (salmon, pepper, onion, tomato), Crabbies (6.5), pink and white (1.5)

Evening: chocolate (3)

Week 3 - Day 2

I definitely feel more cheerful this morning!

Breakfast: mullerlight, banana, apple
Snack: Square of chocolate (3), HExB peanut bar - eating them together = fake Snickers, omg.

Lunch: rice with veg, pork and gammon, beet root, carrots. 2 pink and whites (3) and a small mullerlight. 

Dinner: homemade KFC chicken leg, salad and coleslaw. 

Today's syns = 6

Week 3 - Day 1

After an incredible weekend away partying in the 17th century, I was very worried about slimming world this week. My 'partying' didn't stop til Monday morning. I not only ate the banquet food but a good number of the biscuits I'd made, some pink and whites when I got home... So I was completely amazed when the scales said -2lb. I'm thrilled because that puts me back to my 3stone loss, back to where I was before I had my rough week and gained. That means I can start again afresh and carry on moving forwards.

Yesterday I went wedding dress window shopping with my mum, tried lots of things on and discovered that the styles I thought I like were not necessarily the ones I actually liked when I put them on. Being in the size 16 dresses was a revelation. I still want to buy a 14 or even a 12 one day, and when we go purchase the dress in September I hope that's what we'll do - but the difference already sometimes still takes me by surprise. I wish I could share pictures of the things I tried but alas, the boy might see!

Breakfast - banana, apple, HexB hifi bar

Snack - mugshot

Lunch - potato, beans and salad
Dinner - slow cooked gammon, big big salad, chips (1.5), salad cream (2.5), jelly (1.5)

Today's syns then total 5.5!