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.

Week 14 - Wy Ey!

I spent this weekend in Newcastle for a friends birthday, and of corse I over indulged!

It all started Friday night, Marc and I went for a nice meal and I had salmon teriyaki and sticky coconut rice and a bottle of wine all to myself.

Next morning on our way to Newcastle I had a McDonald's breakfast, sausage and egg mcmuffin with hash brown. After a day of shopping I had home cooked chips with my chicken breast burger roped with pulled pork mmm! All washed down with lots of vodka diet cokes.

But I didn't stop there, when I got home I had a takeaway curry with naan bread and pigged out on chocolate.

I'm not bragging, that's what I did, after that I behaved myself and ate reasonably well.

On Thursday I was bracing myself for the scales considering I didn't get weighed last week and after all the junk I had scoffed, but surprise surprise I lost 1.5lb! Could not believe it, so now I'm totalling at 12st 10.5lb.

Here is some of good meals I have had over the past few weeks...

1. Asda 50% less fat Cumberland sausages (1.5 syns each) and swede and potato mash served with lots of veg and onion gravy.

2. Aldi salmon fillets in a sweet chilli seasoning served with new potatoes, baby sweetcorn and salad.

3. Lamb with swede and potato mash, sprouts and carrots, stuffing and onion gravy.

4. Chicken breast with laughing cow light inside wrapped in bacon served with new potatoes and a huge salad.

5. Shepherds pie with mushy peas

6. Chilli con carne with plain rice.

7. Left over chilli con carne with uncle bens Mexican rice.

8. Shepherds pie with aunt Bessie's Yorkshire puddings and gravy. 

9. Homemade beef chow main stir fry with egg noodles.