Daily menu 3 - please come and write what you eat

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Thread 3

Welcome one and all

Thanks for all joining in on last thread And hello to anyone new

Seeing what others eat really helps me plus gives us all ideas

I seem to stick to same thing

To us all losing weight

@Blondeshavemorefun lunch sounds yum! i'm sure it wasn't too bad a day syns wise 😁

@MrsAvocet i agree with everyone else, life is for living as well it would be miserable if everyone else had a treat and we had a salad every time!!

@Hartleyhare1206 you need to bin that friend 😹😹

i wasn't as bad as i could've been last night, had a cheeseburger, two sausages in a roll, half a chicken and pepper kebab, too many crisps and my beers which are low cal

today could be different though as i'm doing some work in a village with just one tiny shop and not sure i'll have time to make and eat lunch in advance so...

L - possibly a pie out of that shop 🥴

T - lasagne and garlic bread

oops 😁

B toast b ham egg cheese a beans

L meatballs Aldi .5 pasta veg salad a

T shepherds pie and veg

A bar 4.5

B - skinny latte (HEA) and banana
L - more left over pasta (why can’t I ever cook just the right amount?!) and satsumas
D - home made Cheese burger (HEA&B) with A mixture of SW chips and butternut squash “chips” And salad. Will chuck a garlic roasted flat mushroom in the burger too, “speed” things up a bit!
3 syns for ketchup and fake mayo
S - glass of wine (5syns) maybe a little choc bar (5 syns)

B (2.45 pm): courgette, onion, mushroom, red pepper, garlic stir fried in a little veg stock and soy sauce with flat leaf parsley followed by 40g porridge oats (HxB) with berries and 2tsp flaxseed (1.5 syns).

D (7.45 pm): lettuce, spring onion and tomato salad with John west salmon, lentil and couscous pouch (6.5 syns), roasted butternut squash (roasted in concentrated stock not oil) and soy sauce followed by sugar free jelly (1 syn), alpro cherry yogurt (1.5 syns), grapefruit and 3 squares dairy milk (4 syns)

HxA: 800 ml alpro unsweetened almond milk

Two large meals as I am also doing intermittent fasting (I find it easier!). Bit syn heavy due to pouch (need to go shopping/being lazy) but otherwise think it was ok.

Thank you for the kind words
I'm back on track today, I did feel like a needed a bit of a detox so I'm staying as healthy as a can just for a few days my tummy actually feels a bit tender and I'm sure it's down to all the crap. I'm also doing 16:8.
L- soup
D- lenti Dahl with tikka roasted cauliflower

Shed loads of water and a few cups of tea/coffee.

Food shop comes in the morning and I'm planning lots of nice recipes for next week.

Hartley I can never cook the right amount of pasta either, my Italian mum despairs of me

@troppibambini 🤣🤣🤣
I never really see surplus pasta as a problem! More of a pleasure 😁

Hartley it's called second hand spaghetti in this house! It's my favourite I dry fry it (with a tiny bit of water) I much prefer it

@troppibambini - second hand spaghetti! Brilliant!

Weigh in today - lost 0.9lbs - so basically a pound really which I’m happy with as have had a couple of cake related treats this week, but have also eaten “well” and I feel like I’ve eaten really decent, satisfying and enjoyable food, not just for weight loss but for good nourishment If that makes sense? It’s the wrong time of the month so have a fair bit of water retention and I suspect my loss might have been a bit higher otherwise. I saw a colleague (and good friend - we are brutally outspoken with one another 🤣🤣🤣) yesterday for the first time in a fortnight and she approached me as I was sat behind my desk and as I stood up to greet her she just stopped and said “oh!”
I asked her what was up and she said “i looked at your face and it looks lovely and slim, I was about to comment you’d lost weight! But then you stood up and I saw your belly and thought oh dear!” 🤣🤣🤣
My tummy looks quite large...which it didn’t previously!
Think I just need to pee it all out! Classy I know!!! 🙄🤦‍♀️

@Stoichio welcome. Sounds yummy

@Hartleyhare1206. Congrats on loss and nice friend. Not lol

B toast b bacon egg beans

L chicken salad mayo 1

T lamb steak sw chips and veg

S crisps 4 bar 4,5

Hi guys hoping it's okay that I join :)

I am actually 6 weeks pregnant so will be following SW loosely :) also a vegetarian 🌱

Today:

B- an apple and wholemeal toast (b) with some light butter (2)

L - Heinz potato and leek soup (3.5)

D - I will be having Pizza pasta bake (a) with a salad

Snacks - another apple lol dunno must be a craving or something as I haven't had apples for ages and today I can't get enough

I'll probably have a skinny whip or something after dinner because I usually do haha!

@blondi all are welcome and congrats

I usually have a skinny whip as well. I’m not a huge chocolate lover but like the mint ones as dark chocolate

Sorry @Bl0ndi3

@Blondeshavemorefun the mint ones are ♥️🥰♥️🥰♥️🥰♥️

Thank you @Blondeshavemorefun

B (1245): big veggie stir fry with stock and soy sauce

L (1545): porridge (hxB), berries and 1 tbsp flaxseed (2)

D (1930): Spicy tofu scramble + 1 tbsp tahini (5); sugar free jelly (1), cherries, alpro cherry yogurt (1.5)

800 ml unsweetened almond milk (2HxA)

Think I am going to be very repetitive! Will at least try to make different dinners...

@Stoichio I’m the same and often have same meals

B cous cous mixed fruit yog 1

L jacket tuna mayo 1 cheese a salad mayo 1

T pizza b cheese a ham onion pepper fruit

S crisps 4 bar 4.5

morning everyone! welcome @Stoichio and @Bl0ndi3!

i was so bad yesterday..

B - cocopops and banana (6 syns and HEA, was starving)

L - bacon egg and cheese in a wholemeal muffin (HEA, HEB)

T - an indian takeaway had chicken dhansak (12 syns), asked for boiled rice and they delivered pilau, 1 poppadom (2 syns), a veg pakora (speed?!) and half a garlic nan..

S - most of a sharebag of crisps ffs!!

so need to keep my syns as low as possible from now until friday!

L - tomato and roasted red pepper soup with a cheese roll (HEA, HEB, 1 syn mayo)

T - branching out a bit tonight, chicken breast and some patatas bravas (1.5 syns for salsa)

S - strawberries, apple and a pear

Morning!! Ffs it never rains but it pours now youngest has broken a bone in his foot!!
Oh well trying to look in the positive side he's not in plaster just bandaged. We are in greater Manchester so life isn't too exciting anyway at the mo he won't be missing too much....

Yesterday
B- coffee
L-hifi and a banana
D- roast chicken dinner (1.5) mouthful of banana cake

Today
B- coffee
L-soup
D-slow cooked beef curry

Sorry welcome @Stoichio and @Bl0ndi3

Thank you @troppibambini and so sorry about your son's foot - I hope it heals quickly.

Thank you @JingleAndTonic!

I'm hoping reading through these food diaries will stop me going completely repetitive, it is great to see what other people are doing. I'm not a Vegan or Vegetarian but I do try to avoid animal products so that restricts things a bit, but also makes it easier.

One thing I do really notice this time round is how differently I am doing it - in fact I wasn't really doing SW when I thought I was before. I was cheating - often very low/no syns but loads of snacking on fruit/mullerlights (when loads were free) etc when not really hungry. I think I've got in touch more with what hunger actually is since I did this last time (years ago) and how to delay it...

@JingleAndTonic sounds yummyTho. Bet you will lose

@troppibambini oh no at ds. Hope he is. Ok

Sorry to hear about your DS @troppibambini Hopefully he will heal quickly.
I am dreading weigh in tomorrow as we ate out again last night. I will be happy if I've maintained.
We went sailing and as the weather was good stayed out way longer than planned. It would have been stupidly late if I had started cooking when we got home. I decided a pub meal (I had 5 bean chilli and rice) was less bad than a takeaway!
Anyway, back on the wagon today...
B - wholemeal toast(HeB)
L - pea soup (1.5) Sour cherry skyr (2) Banana
D - home made lentil curry (2, for the oil) and rice.
Snacks - orange, and a Solero (5) Well its sunny....
Just about to hop on my bike to assuage the guilt re the solero.

Thanks all :)

Today for me it's been:

B - salted caramel latte (1)
L - pizza pasta leftovers and salad
D - mayflower curry (4) with salt and pepper chips and broccoli

S - hippeas crisps x2 lol (9) and an apple

Should manage to stay under syns today for a change but we shall see. Still got my b left after I have dinner so I might have 2 skinny crunch with fat free natural yoghurt 🥰

B: veggie stir fry, 2 Kallo veggie rice cakes (4), tsp tahini (1.5), sugar free jelly (1), orange

D: Mixed salad, merchant gourmet Korean grains (4), pizzeria vegan house dressing (4), non dairy yogurt (1), flaxseeds (2), cacoa nibs (1.5)

800 ml almond milk (2 HxA)

No official HxB but grains have more than twice the fibre in than my usual porridge - so think I am covered. Odd day as I managed to do a 20.5 hr fast so only had a 3.5 hour eating window and son had taken over the kitchen cooking so went for quick stuff. Lots of syns but think I needed them today.

Just noticed that flaxseed counts as HxB too so didn’t need to syn that - still learning!