Week 3/4 help is here

As I mentioned in the last post I had a slimming world voucher, and yes I went. It's not a busy group but a nice bunch. 

Got my pack, some motivation, and on the scales, I was lighter than when I weighed on my own scales the Monday at 13.6 st. 

I left feeling energised, but now I'm counting syns it's a lot harder. I have cut back on drinking loads as I don't go out much and I'm trying to save for Xmas, but when I had a couple of drinks and realised the synage, I was mentally beating myself up about it. I felt proper crap about it but now I know I can move on and focus on the future.

I have been filling in the s/w food diary online and writing a daily journal on there which helps me, I think.

Let's check out some food iv had in my first week of slimming world...

Lunches and breakfasts have been similar to every other week. For dinner (top right, going clockwise) I have had shepherds pie with lots of veg, this was a day off lunch 2x brown toast(HEA) topped with scrambled egg with bacon bits and beans. Then we have sausage surprise where I basically chuck aload of bits from the cupboard in a pan with beans and sausages serve with mash, this is a good one for kids well my big kid Marc loves it. And then last there we have juicy steak with jacket potato and a massive salad, yummy. 

 

Here we have my version of Jamie Oliver pesto pasta, slimming world style. The picture on the left is what I use for the pesto sauce mix, throw in a processor with a bit of water. Then we have the rest of the ingredients I use, put them all together, the bottom picture is the end result.

This was our takeaway curry alternative, the top two pictures are my creations and the bottom three are from the s/w curry heaven book. Onion bhajis(1 syn each), shami kebabs(free) and chicken tikka masala with rice(1 syn). All very nice.

Then we have the treats. The top very naughty 16 syns. 2x chocolate alpen light(HEB) with after eight muller light. And a chicken mug shot. 

That's every thing I have had since my last post up until the weekend after I had joined group.

After then I went abit off the rails...

 

Sunday night I had this lovely dinner gravy 1 syn, and 2x Yorkshire puddings 2.5 syns. Doing really well until I realised how many syns was in in the Stella cider I washed it down with, 13.5 my gosh can't believe I did that.

So I got back on it...

Apart from my usual, I had cereal this week Dorset fruity musli with skimmed milk, I didn't feel I had enough here so I will have to have with yogurt and lots of fruit next time. And I had weetabix crunchy bran with milk and I enjoyed that.

Lunches. Lots of fruit between meals, evening meal leftovers and batchelors cup a pasta. I have stocked up my drawer at work with the pasta pots.

(Clockwise) gammon, s/w chips, poached eggs and beans.

Steak with mushrooms, peas and sweetcorn and new potatoes.

On weigh in night I tucked into a big plate of homemade lasagne with lots of salad.

Tonight I have made a massive batch of soup for work this week and I filled out a portion for dinner tonight with chicken cooked in Cajun spices, that was very nice.

I did have a bit of a blip on Wednesday night when I had about 4 pints of lager and 3 slices of meat feast takeaway pizza. Then it was weigh in Thursday and lost 0.5lb which is rubbish but still a loss so can't complain.

I had my work Xmas dinner and party on Friday, probably went crazy on syns. And Saturday I went Xmas shopping had a bacon butty on white bread with butter and tomato sauce, that was all my syns for the day but I needed it. I went for tea at a pub just stuck to diet coke and ate steak and salad to keep it good. 

I'm feeling focused for the week ahead with my soup all made, cereal weighed out and melon all cut up. 

I'm going for 2lb off this week.