What I Ate Today: 05/01/2013

GREEN DAY

So I decided to do a green day today, mainly because I have no meat in the house, but also because I love the idea of double healthy extras! 

I had my breakfast quite late as I was running late when leaving the house to run an errand and didn't have time. I just ate two of the Kellogg's nutri grain breakfast biscuits in oats and honey when I got home.

Lunch was leek and potato soup from yesterday, but this time with a wholemeal bread roll. I forgot to take a picture of the bread roll after cutting some off it off to make it 60g haha.

I then snacked on 2 mini babybel lights from my healthy extra A before making dinner.

For dinner I made mushy pea curry (then blended it) and had it over slimming world chips and with some shredded lettuce and onion too. It doesn't look too appetising but it was very yummy and I've got LOTS left over which I will most likely freeze.

Between dinner and now I've had a few snacks, some because I needed to have some syns and some just because I fancied them :)

So I've also ate; my remaining babybel light, a rocky road hifi bar (forgot the picture sorry),  another breakfast biscuit, a cup of coffee with 50ml skimmed milk (which I know I can have as a 2nd healthy A but as I didn't want 350ml I'll just syn it) and 2 bananas. Wow, lots of food!

So there we go, I really think I've managed 1/3 of super free today which I'm very pleased about!


Syns-
hifi light bar (3)
breakfast biscuit (2 1/2)
50ml skimmed milk (1)

Total- 6 1/2



Healthy Extra's-
3 x mini babybel light (HEA)
2 x breakfast biscuits (HEB)
wholemeal roll (HEB)

What I Ate Today: 30/11/12

EXTRA EASY DAY

My sinuses and head are giving me hell this morning :( I so so hate being ill! Anyway, I started my morning with a cup of coffee, (anyone else feel like they can't function without one?) using skimmed milk (HEA) and sweetener (FF). About an hour later (I never eat as soon as I get up) I had bacon (FF) and brown sauce (1 SYN) on a wholemeal roll (HEB) and a bowl of grapes. I had this with a glass of diet pepsi (I cannot give up fizzy drinks for the life of me!)

For some reason I got hungry again quite early so I made my lunch at 12. I had leftover chicken in thai green curry paste (1 SYN) with a cheesy (3 1/2 SYNS) jacket potato (FF) and salad (SFF). It was very tasty, though I didn't quite finish the chicken as I prefer it warm! I don't usually like to syn my cheese but it was 50% less fat so I could have 25g for this amount of syns and I know that I'll have another coffee later and use all of my milk allowance!

As I ate lunch quite early, I started cooking dinner at about 4:30pm. I made spaghetti bolognese using passata (FF), worcestershire sauce (FF), a beef oxo cube (FF), garlic (SFF), onion (SFF) and peppers (SFF) for the bolognese and then obviously spaghetti pasta (FF). I probably gave myself too big of a portion, which unfortunately is a bad habit of mine, however, I didn't eat it all and stopped when I was full :) I ate a banana (SFF) afterwards to get in some more super free.

Later on I had some left over spag bol and an apple, I forgot to take a picture of the apple but I'm sure you all know what one of those looks like ;) I'll probably have a cup of coffee shortly, using skimmed milk for the rest of my (HEA) and sweetener. 

So that's it, my new format post! I'm thinking this looks prettier than before :)


SYNS -- brown sauce (1)
             thai green curry paste (1)
             cheese (3 1/2)

TOTAL -- 5 1/2

(SFF) Super Free Food

(FF) Free Food

(HEA) Healthy Extra A

(HEB) Healthy Extra B

A (Not So) Little Note

As I stated either yesterday or the day before (my memory really is terrible), I haven't been able to post as my laptop was on fritz. It seems to have settled down now (fingers crossed) but I'm still suspicious of it. I am hoping that the mousepad just stiffened up but we shall see!

Anyway, besides from my eating the past few days being the crappiest of crap (not having online access has really been my downfall, I need to be able to scour all of my favourite blogs (please check out The Slimming World Files) and slimming world groups for motivation and not having much use of my laptop prevented this. My willpower needs to be kicked into gear.

Anyway, my day has been better today, I have stuck to plan but there is a lack of food in my kitchen at the minute as a food shop really is long overdue! I'll be picking up some bits tomorrow but cannot do a full shop as I'll have Ollie in the pram. Unfortunately I can't stay in for an online shop as I'm doing some Christmas shopping and to be honest, whenever I do an online shop they seem to mess it up!

I'm not going to detail what I ate today as I've decided to change the form of my 'What I Ate Today' posts and will now include pictures and not be so darn mechanical (is that the right word?) Anyway, I really am rambling and this was supposed to just be a quick note, honest!  Tomorrow I am staying over at my sisters and will be having drinks and takeaway while my little man stays at Nanny's house. It will be a total right of and I would post what I eat etc but I really don't think I should as it will not be a slimming world day and that is the purpose of this blog! However, I will be jotting what I have down and will scribble it on the next post so I can face my shame! Haha!

Right folks, apologies for the long ''little'' note. If you read all of this, you're an absolute peach! 

Have a fab week guys!

xx

Quick Update: Weigh In & Macbook Issues

Apologies for the lack of posts! My macbook seems to have malfunctioned and I currently have minimum usage of my mousepad, have tried reinstalling the operating system but no dice. I'm going to contact apple but I have a feeling that I will have to take the macbook into an apple store (my nearest one being Liverpool and reachable by train. I really am not wanting to make a train journey with a £1300 laptop!)

Anyway, I had my weigh in on Thursday. Here's the verdict;

Start Weight: 177lbs

  CURRENT WEIGHT: 169LBS

2lb off this week!

Got my 1/2 stone award and slimmer of the week!

I'm happy with the 2lb, next week I will be going for a maintain as I have a few things happening that will mean a lot of syns, alcohol, mulled wine, takeaway, tapas and such! If I get a maintain it will be a godsend come to think of it!

57 TO TARGET!

Recipe: Diet Coke Chicken

I said that I'd put up the recipe, and since it was delicious I really want to recommend it to everyone! 

Recipe serves 4

Free on Extra Easy
Free on Red

Ingredients-

2 large chicken breasts
1 onion, diced (I didn't have any so left it out)
330ml can of diet coke (I used diet pepsi)
6 tablespoons of pasata
a dash of worcestershire sauce
fry light 
salt & pepper (optional)


Method-

1. Heat a large pan and spray with fry light
2. Add the onion and chicken and fry until chicken is white all the way through
3. Add the remaining ingredients and bring to boil
4.  Simmer until the sauce thickens and reduces to approximately half of it's original volume (sauce will become stickier)
5. Serve with your choice of side, I used home made syn free chips but it would be tasty with rice, jacket potato or over a salad if you fancy!
6. Enjoy the yummy flavours of your diet coke chicken!

So there we go guys, it is ridiculously tasty trust me! Please let me know if you make it and what you think!

What I Ate Today: 14/11/12

Extra Easy Day

Breakfast-

millicano coffee with sweetener and skimmed milk (healthy extra A)

banana

Lunch- 

1/2 cheese & broccoli pasta n sauce

diet pepsi

Dinner-

jacket potato with cheese (3 syns) 

weight watchers petit pain (healthy extra B)

3 syns

Snacks-

coffee with sweetener and skimmed milk (healthy extra A)

special k sweet chilli cracker crisps x 8 (crackers, not bags!) (2 syns)

little bit of mix for slimming world honeycomb (recipe to come soon) (3 syns)

5 syns
8 syns today :)

WEIGH IN TOMORROW, EEEK! WISH ME LUCK :)

Welcome To My Journey!

Welcome to my weight loss journey blog, '65 to target'. 

Quite simply, I have 65lb  to lose in order to get to my target weight. I wanted to make a blog where I could post updates, what I'm eating etc. 

So let me tell you a little about me.

My name is Lucy, I'm 20 years old and I'm mum to a gorgeous 2 year old, Oliver. While I was pregnant, I gained a lot of weight that I never actually lost again. This was mainly due to me being so naive that I thought if I ate and ate and ate during pregnancy then the weight would easily come off afterwards, wrong. I have lost a lot of confidence due to my weight gain and would love to gain that back.

I'm following the Slimming World. I followed this previously but have just rejoined as I gained back any weight I lost due to some personal things going on at home. This time I want to lose the weight and keep it off. 

I don't want to make this a ridiculously long post so I will leave it there but hopefully lots of posts to come.

The hard work starts here!