One year!

It's been a year since I started this blog and I have neglected it and me for that matter over the last few months.

A few weeks ago I turned 30 and I didn't loose the weight I wanted but I did enjoy myself. 

Since I have been thinking a lot about my life, my future. I have been struggling again with my thoughts and I feel I need to de stress and get to a happier place.

1. Work

It's tough for me lately, I'm finding it hard to even get up and go there in a morning. I really want to focus on my little business so that I can make it a full time commitment. I want to be passionate about what I do and still make enough money to be comfortable.

2. Home

Or the house itself, I want to redecorate and make it more fresh looking. Not spend too much on Xmas so that I can afford new things.

3. Family 

I have felt ready for a while and I don't want to leave it too late. I have pcos so it's difficult for me. As well as giving Marc the nudge to get him fully on board with me about this I need to make changes in my life and diet.

So to sum up I'm telling myself...

Find a way to live and make money in a way I can enjoy and make better choices when eating.

Wether I can do it I do not know!

Until next time, over and out.

Week 31- it's been a while

I know it's been a while but here I am again....

I haven't been to group for about a month, I lost all motivation and was not feeling the benefit of going anymore so I just stopped thinking I will find another group but then I thought, I will need to start all over again and all the work I had done so far would be lost.

I haven't been 100% on it lately, and I still want to loose more for my 30th birthday. I thought I might read over my old posts, they made me realise that I do still want this and I can do it, also what nice food I was eating.

What have I been up to since week 19? Hummmm...

Well I got my stone award, yay!

Been to a couple of weddings that was a boost as I was getting compliments on how I looked. I have been going to Zumba class every week with my sister, btw I'm dreadful at but it's fun and keeps me active. Now the bf's birthday is out the way and I am finally about to have my garden done I feel much more content.

Oh and by the way I have started my own online business selling yarn, whoop!

So feeling refreshed and motivated here we go again...

Today's weight is 12st 5.5lb

I think a stone is do able for October so that's my current aim.

Week 19- food haul #1

This week I didn't go to group, I wasn't feeling too well. I think I probably did have a loss as I feel like I have and I have been on plan.

I'm on lates this week and I cannot be bothered going food shopping before or after work so I did my shop online.

And here is what I bought...

Freezer food- I went for the herbs, I haven't tried them before but I thought they would come in handy. And some frozen veg, convenient for when I'm in a rush and have not got the time for chopping veggies.

A selection of meats, planning on along pulled pork, steak and kidney pie, spaghetti bolagnais, possibly piri piri chicken and chicken curry.

And a selection of veg and salad to go with the meats.

Some speedy fruits to snack on.

Healthy extras, the soup and all bran are Bs and the milk and baby bel As.

Treats, love the flavoured coffee not tried these flavours yet, can't wait.

Can't do a shop without stocking up on my old favourite eggs. Can't live without them these days.

I don't mind every now and then doing an online shop but I do prefer going to super market so I can choose my food, I look for food the have the longest life and pick my fruit and veg and meats. It normally takes me a good hour to do a food shop but online it's mostly all saved and I don't go off budget and I stick to what I need.

Week 18- meat!

This is a little late, but when I went to group this week I didn't do as well as I thought I would, just half a pound off. I was hoping for 2 and my stone award. Which means no new make up for me just yet (treat). But onwards and upwards, must not let it get me down.

I thought I would share a little recipe that is inspired by one I saw on SW website.

Meatloaf

You need:

600g pork I used the stir fry version from asda because they are lean and already cut up into bits.

5 eggs, 1 for binding the meat together the rest boiled.

Approx 8 rashers of bacon, remove the fat.

Seasoning and some herbs of your choice I went for sage because I think it goes well with pork.

I put the pork into the food processor a bit at a time so that it cut up nice and fine like mince. Meanwhile I boiled 4 eggs.

I then put the chopped up pork in a bowl with a whisked up egg. Herbs and seasoned with salt and pepper. Mixed it all together.

I then took a silicone loaf mould and lined it with the bacon. Put a layer of the pork in the bottom approximately a centimetre thick. Layed the peeled boiled eggs across the middle, filling the sides up and covering the eggs up with the pork. Then wrapped the remainder of the bacon around the pork.

I put it in the oven for around 45-50 mind on gas mark 6.

This went down so well with my other half and I enjoyed it as abit of a snack or with a salad for lunch. 

Week 17- Aldi 5 favourites

This week was a good week, I went to group feeling good and voila! 2lb lost. Which means another 2lb and I get my stone award and I will treat myself to some new make up. Hopefully I will have it off next week then I can present a bit of a make up haul.

I thought this week I would show you my top 5 favourite food items from Aldi because I have been going there a lot lately. In no particular order...

5. The super 6!

So generally every week they have 6 items of fruit and veg that they have price dropped to something like 59p. Which I think is really good because you can get your free or speed foods really cheap although all the fruit and veg is reasonably priced anyway I do like to try something I wouldn't normally buy when it's in the offer like kewi or butternut squash.

4. Infusions salmon fillets.

These are so good, you get 2 salmon fillets that are already seasoned for £2.89. I like the Thai red marinade, I haven't tried any of the other flavours yet. All you do is put them in the microwave for 4minutes and they are done, you can grill or bake them if u like instead. They are really nice with some stir fry veg and noodles. I'm going to have mine this week with roast Mediterranean vegetables. And by the way free.

3. Egg poacher

I am loving my new egg poaching pan only £4.99. Reason being I am useless at making poached eggs, no matter how hard I try I just cannot get them right but then I got this little beaut. I used it for the first time at the weekend, all you need to do is pour a shallow pool of boiling water in the bottom of the pan, crack the eggs into each of the separate compartments on the next layer then put the lid on top. This steams the eggs, just left them for 3-4 minutes and that's it, perfect and syn free.

 

2. Moser-Roth finest chocolate 

All verities are are 7syns for a 25g bar and you get 5 per pack for £1.19. I love mint dark chocolate so I have been enjoying these as a treat mostly with a mint chocolate options got chocolate drink (2 syns). They come in a few other flavours, I think I will try the orange chocolate next.

1. Harvest morn Benefit light cereal bars.

You can have 2 of these as an HEB and come as a pack of 6 for £1.19. They have them in chocolate and fudge, summer fruits and, apple and sultana. I prefer these to the alpen light bars, and you get more in a box and they are cheaper.

If anyone does read my rumblings and also enjoy Aldi's slimming world friendly treats then please let me know so I can try for myself.

Week 16- come on PMA!

Its a new week and new mindset, positive mental attitude. 

Last weigh in I had a maintain, and at group it's almost as bad as if you gain, you still get the whole 'well done for staying' and 'what's happend this week? Do you need help?'. I know I wasn't feelin it last week but I had a maintain and I'm ok with that at least I hadn't gained which I was dreading.

Now it's time to pick myself up and try again. I have planned meals and tried to come up with something new to make and one of my favourites, Stocked up on yogurts and cereal bars, so I feel prepared.

I have even got a mini goal in mind with a friends hen do coming up, I have 7 weight ins to go and I think I can easy get half a stone off by then.

I'm in the process of making a list aswell so that I can give myself a treat per every half stone award at slimming world, at the moment I am 4lb off my stone award and I'm wanting some new make up.

This week I am making slow cooked BBQ pulled pork which is one of my favourites at the moment. It's from sw website but this is just to show steps of how I do it, y'know just incase anyone reads this.

1. Above is the recipe from the website, I like to add a teaspoon or 2 of smoked paprika and an extra carton of passata.

2. I put all the ingredients in the slow cooker apart from the pork shoulder and mix it all up.

3. Then I add the pork, making sure it's all covered in the sauce. I get my pork shoulders from asda most of the time because they are normally in the 2 for £7 offer and hardly have any fat on them.

4. Then just leave for the day when I go to work. I think it will probably be ready to eat in about 4hours but not certain because I have only ever left it for the day.

I served mine with jacket potato and salad.

Week 15- too busy to think about food.

I was surprised last week that I had a loss then this week at group I lost another 1lb, I don't know how because I'm not trying my best to stay on plan, I'm not keeping a regular food diary, I'm too busy at work to plan ahead, would rather grab the nearest and quickest thing I can find to stop the hunger. I'm feeling so low and I cannot be bothered with anything.

After that 1lb off, the next day I went out for a meal of stone baked pizza and sticky toffee pudding drank a few wines and strawberry timmermans beer, didn't bother counting the syns.

Saturday, we drove to Skipton, had a walk round then had steak pie andash with peas and gravy for dinner that was so yummy. Then went home and chilled. 

Sunday was a good day, good breakfast of eggs on toast with baked beans. For dinner I slow cooked some lamb with veg, served with cauliflower cheese and broccoli, and mash potato.

Rest of the week at work I haven't had much time for lunch breaks so I've been grabbing meal deals, Gregg's sandwich, subway salad which was low in syns at least. Not had much fruit. When I'm home I just threw something together for dinner, mostly pasta based and I had pancakes on Tuesday night.

Today is Thursday, I'm walking to work as I write this and it's weigh in tonight. I need to make an effort today at least then be back on track and focused for the week ahead.