Daily menu - please come and write what you eat

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Wondered if wouid help us all to have a thread where we wrote what we eat each day

To give other new ideas options etc

B toast b - scrambled egg beans spinach ham
L chicken salad and mayo light 1
T potato bacon onion bake - sw mince and veg and salad

Good day today, 2 lots of pasta probably not ideal but I did take DN to Burger King where I just had a Diet Coke, so it could’ve been worse!

B - Apple
L - bachelors pasta n sauce (0.5) and cheese (HEA)
D - tuna pasta with a huge salad (1.5 for mayo)
S - 2 hifis (HEB), 2 chocolate mikado sticks (1), mini twister (2)

Just discovered Asda assorted mini milk lollies. Only 2 syns each, and they're lovely. Had 2, so my total for today is 10. Day 4 on plan

Better day today. After a horrendous weekend! Weigh in tomorrow, I'm going to have another gain.

B- raisin wheat and milk (b+0.5A)
L- salmon, chickpeas, tomatoes, halloumi (1syn, 1A)
D- morrocan meatball stew
S- 2 hifi, 1 mini magnums, latte (1A)

About 10 syns. 2b, 3a

@Wwydpooh you may not gain

B toast b butter 2 marmite fruit

L jacket tuna mayo 1 sweet corn and salad

T. Chilli con carne

S fruit eggs crisps 5

@TigerJoy It was only because I had nothing to snack I'm quite bad for grazing, especially in between coming in and making dinner.

B - Muller toffee yogurt 1. Skinny cappuccino HeA.

L - leftover chilli con carne and rice.

D - Think it'll be marinated chicken and couscous and salad. A pitta bread perhaps for my HEB. Will probably eat the remaining potato salad. Might have some cheese for my other HeA.

I'm back on it!
So far today-

Breakfast: porridge made with milk (A)
Lunch: bistro salad from Aldi, smoked mackerel, curried chickpeas, peppers, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar
Snack: apple, latte

Dinner is going to be be diet coke chicken, roast med veg and broccoli.

Hmmm @Hmmmbop I like the idea of smoked mackerel and curried chickpeas in a salad! I will save that idea up for later, thanks for the inspiration!

I have had a bonkers day. Didn't have a chance to eat breakfast until 11am, only just got to eat lunch! Meetings running on etc.

B: nectarines, blueberries, ff greek yoghurt (Fage - think I prefer the Aldi stuff! It's less thick)
L: salad nicoise with radicchio as the lettuce, which worked (5 syns for olives plus dressing)
D: enchilada lasagna from Pinch of Nom, if I can be arsed

Have some mince to cook - will probably cook a bolognese tonight as well and freeze for another day

S: no time! However I had LOADS of ice cream yesterday (3 tiny portions - but 3!) so hopefully today will make up for it. Weigh in tomorrow.

TigerJoy it's the Aldi curried chickpeas, 1 syn per pack, you only need half the pack, really tasty.

My diet coke chicken is currently in the oven. Can't wait.

TigerJoy how many syns in the enchilada lasagna? Sounds tasty.

B - none
L - tuna pasta salad (1)
D - lemon and herb chicken with vegetable micro rice (1), salad and coleslaw (1)
S - 2 hifi bars (HEB), twister (2)

No HEA again, didn’t really fancy anything cheesy. WI tomorrow morning so hoping for a decent loss as I’ve been good all week and had that stomach bug a few days ago so fingers crossed!

B - 45g branflakes (HEB) 150ml whole milk (1st HEA) black coffee
L - Sliced chicken
S - Diet Coke, black coffee
D - chicken in chipotle sauce, sweet corn, peas and oven chips (5 syns) fruit, yoghurt, meringue (5 syns)

Yet another dog walk! And busy day cleaning the house. Back to work tomorrow - that’ll be the test. Those bloody digestives again! Wish me luck

Breakfast - Bacon, eggs, beans, spinach
Lunch - Quorn meatballs, cucumber, tomato
Snack - Cereal bar x 2 (B) & cup of tea
Dinner - Heck chicken sausages (2.5 syns), potatoes, broccoli, halloumi (A)
Snack - Curly Wurly (6 syns)

Breakfast fruit and yogurt (1/2 syn)
Lunch boiled egg and toasted shoulders (1/2 heb and 1 syn worth of butter)
Tea sw Moroccan meatball stew and sweet potato wedges ( 1syn)

Snacks 2x Jammy Dodgers (8 syns), skittles 3.5 syns, prunes 2nd 1/2 heb, alpen protein 2nd heb and melon.

Finishing on 1 hea, 2 heb and 14 syns

@wwydpooh no idea I'm afraid (maybe free?) But couldn't find ww wraps in any shops. Gave up and cooked a massive vat of free bolognese with loads of veg in.

Dinner: Then ordered pizza for dinner as we were too hungry to wait! At least my italian husband was happy. Proper neapolitan pizza - about 500 cals and i only ate half. Guessing 10 syns

Strawberries and yoghurt for pudding

@wwydpooh how was the diet coke chicken? I've not tried it yet

Good luck with wi’s

Diet Coke chicken is lush. Amazing how itsimmees done to a sticky sauce

I appear to have put on a pound!! How?! Why I've stuck to it rigidly! I'm so pissed off.

On any 'normal' week I'd drink too much wine over the space of a week and indulge in a takeaway and all manner of rubbish and remain the same.

I've stuck to Slimming World, had 1 small glass of red (which I synned and managed to stick to just one) and put on a pound. So disheartening.

Telling myself after so many periods of going low carbs to lose weight my body needs more time to adjust? Or is that wishful thinking

Oh @supercee I really feel for you! You have been so good!

It might just be water weight. My weight can go up and down by about 5 pounds according to water. Are you weighing every day or just weighed today or going by the sw scales? I weigh every day and pay attention to the general trend not just the number that morning. I've had weeks where the sw scales have said maintain or gain where my weighing at home has said a steady (but small) loss and then the next week I've had a "big loss" (which has really been over 2 weeks but the week.before i was just heavier that particular weigh day).

Your body might also be adjusting. Think about it logically - if you continue to eat no takeaways and drink less wine you are bound to lose weight long term. Stick with it.

I've tried so many diets and given up - and probably they would have worked long term but I just couldn't sustain them. For me sw is a sustainable way of eating - you just have to keep going!

I just weighed today

I know that weight fluctuates and I tend to go by certain clothes anyway rather than the scales but I was hoping for at least a couple of pounds in water weight to come off. I don't have all that much to lose but still.

I think I'll weigh myself more regularly to see how I go. Definitely sticking with it for now as it only has just been a week and I can see it being more sustainable/long term than the other diets I've tried. Thought the lesser alcohol alone would've made me drop a pound!

Oh well. Onwards and hopefully downwards. Sigh.

Btw it's harder to see results when you don't have much to lose.

@supercee. It’s shit when you are good but gain

Some tally the loss over a month rather then weekly

Maybe next week will be your big loss

B bacon sarnie with cheese b&a and ketchup 1

OMG it was bloody amzing !!! So nice felt like I was being naughty

L Chicken salad with pasta and mayo 1

I’m better off having potato or pasta in salad as keeps me full up where as just salad doesn’t

T jacket salad tuna mayo 1

S crisps 6 (2 packets) fruit

B: mango, blueberries and yoghurt. I LOVE mango

L: googled recipes for what I had in the fridge - made a BBC Good Food recipe of radicchio, celery, cannelini bean, tomato, tuna salad with balsamic/EVOO dressing (2 syn). DO NOT make this it was not great. Bleurgh

D: Lasagna. Might make my own white sauce - by my reckoning it works out at only 6 syns a portion (50g each of butter and flour, 500ml whole milk) if you HEA the cheese.

Weigh in later...expecting to remain the same this week

TigerJoy if you use 25g cornflour it's 4 syns. My lasagna is 0.5 syn and 1 hex a per portion as I use skimmed milk.