Meal planning Monday

Tonight

Monkfish with butternut squash risotto.

Tuesday

 

Breakfast 

Omelette 

Lunch 

Soup 

Tea

Chicken tikka

Wednesday

 

Breakfast

Hammy eggs & tomatoes. 

Lunch 

Quiche, jacket, salad.  

Tea

Chilli

Thursday 

Breakfast 

Grill up 

Lunch 

Quiche, jacket, salad. 

Tea 

Salmon stir fry 

Friday 

Breakfast

Eggs on toast

Lunch 

Picnic (eggs, pasta salad, fruit) 

Tea 

Slow cooked stew 

Saturday 

Breakfast 

Weatibix 

Lunch 

Smoked haddock 

Tea 

Stew 

Sunday 

Breakfast

Grill up 

Lunch 

Noodles 

Tea

Roast beef 

A brand new day :)

Right, so the sulk is over and I am back on track :)

Had a nice big omelette for breakfast 

Which was filled with tomatoes, ham and potatoes :) I have to say I've missed my omelettes quite a lot! 

Broccoli is all cooked for my quiche which I think this week will be chicken and bacon...who knows!?! 

Tea, well this is the bit I get scared of, hubby is cooking me a butternut squash curry. Recipie can be found here.....

http://www.slimmingeats.com/blog/malaysian-butternut-squash-curry

Kinda wishing that I had made today a green day now, but hey it's done now, I'm not synning ham!! 

Another thing I have done today is upped my fluid intake and I am trying to use that silly water my body app to try and help me remember to drink!!! 

Well, wish me luck! 

Love and syn free chocolate sprinkles

Tracey xx 

Almost a record!!

Well, that's it all over and done with! I finally got my post holiday weigh in all done and dusted! The grand total was 6.5lbs!!!!!! 6.5!!!! How the bleeding hell can I put on that much in 6 days!!! 

I know what I did, obviously but feel a bit like I wish I had kept some kind of control towards the end of my week as I think I could have kept it under 4lbs if I didn't piggy out yesterday on dips, chocolate, and booze! (Which is so not like me!) 

Well, weigh in was odd as I obviously knew I had gained and I was ready for it and had even said as long as it's under half a stone I will be fine, but still, doesn't stop you from feeling gutted!! 

Anyway, I know exactly what I did, I'm still ok, no tears just a bit of a sulk, but I am back on it now, as some of you may have read my meal plan is all sorted, all I need to do is get my shopping in, in the morning and I'll be set! 

I've had my holiday and like a friend said, it's not every day my beautiful boy turns two! :) 

So, if anyone sees me with anything bad near my mouth, kick me, hard!! I'll allow you this week and this week only :P

Love and syn free chocolate sprinkles 

Tracey xxx 

Meal planning Monday

Monday

Breakfast

Bacon baps

Lunch

Noodles

Tea

Trout with mushroom risotto 

Tuesday

Breakfast

Omelette

Lunch

Soup

Work quiche

Tea

Pork loin, jacket potato, salad

Wednesday

Breakfast 

Sardines on toast

Lunch 

Quiche, jacket and beans.

Tea

Spaghetti Bol 

Thursday

Breakfast 

Grill up 

Lunch 

Spag Bol and jacket potato

work - quiche

Tea 

Salmon, s/w chips and salad 

Friday

Breakfast

Omelette 

Lunch

Beans on toast 

Tea 

Seafood risotto 

Saturday 

Breakfast

Weetabix 

Lunch 

Fish 

Tea

BBQ pulled pork kebabs and salad 

Sunday

Breakfast 

Grill up

Lunch

noodles

Tea

Chicken and broccoli pasta bake 

Sorry it's been so long!

Well, here i am! I'm back!

And guess what i haven't done my normal trick of giving up just before xmas again! YET!!

what an eventful week!

We've spent 4 days in Newquay for my little dude's 2nd birthday, which well hummm he kinda enjoyed inbetween teething, having a cold, and not sleeping very well!!

We left on the monday afternoon so i missed my normal s/w group, so i weighed on the tuesday which is completely new for me as i've never gone to another group to weigh on holiday ever!!

Well, if anyone else is reading who has never weighed away, i'd highly reccomend it! i took my inspiration from my lovely friend sophie, who's fab blog can be found here....http://bend-dontbreak.blogspot.co.uk/ as she went to get weighed when she was visiting her family down here in Plymouth.

It was worth going as i got told i had lost another pound which took me to 1 lb away from losing 3 stone!!

Anyway, then the rest of the week happened!!! 

I basically let my hair down and ate what i'd missed for the last 9 months! eak!! At first it was all very controlled but then i lost it, but you know what, i'm not going to be too hard on myself because i was on holiday!

I know deep down i did my best, and if you knew what i'd eaten you may not think so, but i know i did, purely because of the fact i actually went to weigh on that tuesday! By doing so, my holiday started on the tuesday, not the monday before, so if i hadn't have gone, i'd have had another whole 6 days of not so healthy food choices! (Notice i didn't mention bad!!)

So today, is the big day, when i find out how big a gain i have had! but i am feeling ok about it, because at least i know why i have put on and i know exactly what i need to do to fix this! My meal plan is all sorted and my shopping will be done after slimming world!

I'll post my meal plan and my after weighin post later on this evening :)
PS Sorry for any mistakes, i am tired and my spell check is down x

Love and syn free chocolate sprinkles
Tracey xxx

Things i need to remember at weigh in time!

Well, as some of you know it was my weigh in day today, and i was really really hoping to lose 2 lbs to get to my 3 stone weight loss....well that didn't happen. I'm now going to post about how it makes me feel when i have the weigh in results i didn't want, and also, what i need to remember in the future.

Right, so lets start the day with how i felt in work, and before my weigh in, which i think are the feelings i tend to neglect and push aside, when in reality these are the feelings that i really need to be keeping hold of as these are the feelings that are the ones that are going to keep me going when times are hard and i want to give up!

well, i started work this morning at 7, on my day off, so this could be the reason i am shattered at the moment so i apologise now if i make any atrocious mistakes!!

As i put my overalls on for work and they felt that little bit looser i felt good, happy, like this whole journey has been worth while and i was happy with how i was doing!

Then as i rushed home to get to class on time and change into my weigh in clothes, i felt even better, almost like i was really happy with my self which is rare!

So the whole morning i felt all these happy and proud feelings, all of which i let get taken away from me, and why?????!!!

Because the scales told me i had stayed the same!

Nothing more, nothing less, i stepped on the scales, and from that moment it was like everything had been snatched away from me!! I could have cried, i think i nearly did, i had lots of thoughts going through my head, like disappointment, confusion, sadness, even jealousy as I'd heard of how well everyone else's weigh in's went!!

Now, if you re someone reading this who doesn't have a weight problem, you'd not be wrong to think i am mad, because you know what? I agree!

Why why why on earth do i let my self get dragged down by the numbers? And it's not just me, most of us do it! But why!!

Because unless you ate a couple of big mac meals in between the happy feelings, and getting weighed nothing has changed!!! Absolutely NOTHING!!!

So this is what i need to remember every time i have had a weigh in where i am not too happy with what the numbers tell me!

IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS!!!

Not at all, do you know what it's really about, it's about how far I've come in the last year, hell it's about the fact that i am still coming to group!

It's about being a healthy wife to my husband and mother to my baby boy.

It's about not having to run to the plus size side of the shop when i go shopping.

It's about the fact that i have lost more weight than my toddler currently weights! (which feels like a tonne when he stands on your foot trust me!!!)

And it's about, and the whole reason why i am doing this, so i can walk my darling son to school with out him being ashamed of me being his fat mummy!

And that is the thought that i have to keep with me when i feel like I've got no where or when i feel like i want to give up!

And this is the part where i preach about why staying to group really is so important!

If i had left with out having the image therapy this afternoon i would have walked straight into domino's pizza, but i didn't!! Listening to so many inspirational stories, told me not to give up, i reasoned with my self in my head, worked out where i could have gone wrong and built up a plan for the week ahead, all very productive stuff! So instead of running for pizza, i went straight back to work and stocked up on healthy foods!!

i now feel ready to start this week, and hopefully nothing is going to come up to give me any blips and i can get my 3 stone another day, because you know what, it will happen, doesn't matter when all that matters is not giving up!!

Not sure if any of them will read this but I'd like to say a massive thank you to the girls at my group who keep me going, including Fay, Katrina, and of course Rachel our fab consultant! I truly think the people in our group are some very special people, and they keep me coming back! :D

Right, i'm off for some chill out time!
love and syn free chocolate sprinkles 
Tracey xxx

Meal planning Monday!

Monday

Tea

Salmon, on a bed of spinach, with mushroom risotto.

Tuesday

Breakfast

Hammy eggs 

Lunch

Smoked salmon Quiche and salad

Tea 

Sweet chilli place & s/w chips 

Wednesday 

Breakfast 

Omelette

Lunch 

Smoked salmon Quiche and salad 

Tea 

Spinach, potato and egg curry

Thursday

Breakfast

Veggie grill up

Lunch 

Fruit salad 

Tea

Quorn stir fry 

Friday

Breakfast

Sardines on toast 

Lunch

Prawns in a Jacket potato with salad

Tea 

Sea food risotto

 

Saturday 

Breakfast

Weetabix

Lunch

Smoked haddock 

Tea

Tuna pasta bake

Sunday 

Breakfast

Grill up 

Lunch

Soup 

Tea

Spicy chicken and rice 

Where to start.......

Evening everyone! I'm back!

Well, like the title of tonight's post says............really, where do i start?!!

This week has been a challenge, a real challenge, but i have taken it, and i have embraced it, and if i do put on this Monday, at least i know i gave this week the best shot i could have!

I have rocked this week, on my food choices, and my meals have been lovely and varied, I've even managed to have a lovely KK doughnut fitted in to plan, which is always lovely!

These times were the times I'd consider the up times, the times where i am perfectly happy, not a care in the world and the only thing which would be in my way would be poor planning, which as well all know, i have my food set out to military standard lol.

I've had some lovely meals, fish stew with pasta, salads, spag bol, tonight was steak and chips, lots of lovely fruit salads, I've really worked at it this week!

And now on to the deep part of tonight's post...........this week, i have had the urge to binge, now.....I'm aware not everyone is familiar with the concept of a binge so now, i will try and explain them from my view!

Binges, well they are a double edged sword..........
On one side, they are full of the lusty promise that they will make you feel amazing, it will physically get to the stage where all you can think about is the food you need, and it seems to run in phases, for instance, in school it was crisps and chocolate, and coke cola. then a few years on in college it was squares, the crisps, and weirdly, cheesy mash with chicken and peas was always a favourite too! Then in my working life when times were hard it would be a whole chocolate cake with litres of full fat coke, and you have no idea how bad i feel writing this down when i remember how many times i have done this! Like i have said before I've been an emotional eater since 15.

i have a physical feeling when i start these binges, like it awakens all of my taste buds, and that food, is the only food i can imagine wanting in that very moment, i'd almost compare it to a pregnancy craving kinda feeling!

It was always something very specific, like an old friend if you will, something i could rely on, it would never be busy, or let me down last minute, it never left!!

Then the other side of the sword..................which would come about 30 mins (yes that soon, sometimes even sooner!) the guilt, the disgust, the disappointment, the feeling of gluttony the feeling that what i had just done wasn't normal it was horrible and that in fact after the initial buzz i felt fat and gross, and had an even worse image of my self!

you see the food i chose, made me feel happy, secure, protected and i think the fact i had phases of the same foods made me associate it would being in my happy place, a place that was familiar.It was a time where i had a very low self esteem and very low opinion of my self.

So, with the help of some very good friends and a very supportive hubby who makes awesome s/w cakes!! i avoided a binge this week, and I've never been so proud :) I'd like to take all the credit, but i can't as i REALLY REALLY wanted to binge, i was in that zone, and it was all i could think about, but they stopped me, and for that i feel so lucky!

This week has made me realise how far i have come in the 15 years i have been doing this to my self, it has made me realise that i really have managed to sort out some of my esteem issues, and that these days i really do have people who love and want to support me through out the whole of this hard, but very rewarding journey :))

phew, i think, that's blog post over :))

Thanx for reading :)
Love and Syn free chocolate sprinkles
Tracey xxx 

Fish stew 

S/w quiche (above is my KK! :))

S/w chocolate cake recipe here.....

http://www.slimmingeats.com/blog/squidgy-chocolate-cake#.Uiomf2S9Kc0

Omelette 

Surf and turf :) 

Meal planning Monday :)

Tuesday

Breakfast 

Kedgeree 

Lunch

Celery soup/jacket potato with salad 

Work

Quiche

Tea

Place with slimming world chips & salad

Wednesday 

Breakfast 

Grill up 

Lunch 

Quiche & salad

Tea

Spaghetti Bol 

Thursday 

Breakfast

Sardines on toast 

Lunch 

Tuna salad 

Work

Spaghetti Bol 

Tea 

Gammon, veggies, jacket potato 

Friday 

Breakfast

Omelette 

Lunch 

Savoury rice 

Tea 

Mussels & chorizo in a creamy sauce with spaghetti  

Saturday 

Breakfast 

Weetabix  

Lunch 

Smoked haddock and poached eggs 

Tea

Spicy chicken 

Sunday 

Breakfast

Grill up

Lunch 

Beans on toast 

Tea 

Roast beef &veggies 

Things not to say to some one trying to lose weight!

Well, today has been a thought provoking day to say the least!

Have you ever had one of them days where people feel the need to question your actions? That was my day!

Firstly I get asked why I am bothering to do slimming world....surely its common sense?! Well, in a word, yes it is! They're right! But is so much more than that!!

Mondays for me are my chance to spend a couple of hours with people who I know 'get me'. These people some of who I known for the full 4 years, some not have been such a big inspiration on my journey, they've become such good friends as well as my massive support network! I genuinely could not have done this without my group and my fab consultant's help!

So yes, I am paying to be taught to eat healthily but at the end of the day it's much more than that! And as I and millions of others have proven it works!!

Secondly.....you can't eat that you're on a diet!! Now this is my MASSIVE bug bearer!

Right, I expect this won't be the last time I say this, but I'm not dieting, I am food optimising/healthy eating!

This is a maintainable plan which you can follow long term, with this in mind, can anyone, really maintain a lifestyle with no cake, crisps, chocolate and all other nice yummy foods, the answer is no!

Which is where the beauty of slimming world comes in! There is no food off limits, which is why I picked this plan!

So please, if you see me munching on a krispy kreme, or a pasty, or indeed my sausage bap, from today, please accept that I have made this choice and can build it into plan! I have lost almost 3 stone doing this so I think I will be just fine thanks!

Thirdly, which a lovely twitter follower tweeted me, do not ask a curvy girl 'when she's due!' How anyone can make this mistake is beyond me! Preggie bumps are totally different! I LOVED my preggie bump!

Well, that's my ranting over! (For today!)

Today's weigh in was actually fab considering I had a massive wobble, a pound and a half off! Which means I have 2lbs to go till my 3 stone award! Feeling good again now and moving forward! I think I can do this you know!!!!

Right, that's me done!
Love and syn free chocolate sprinkles!
Tracey xxx

Planning planning planning!

Well, today has been a day of thinking and planning and more planning! 

I keep changing my approach to my holiday! 

First approach was to cook all my own food and stay 100 % on plan, meal plans and all, but now I think I have changed my mind all over again!

How does planning in planned syns sound? As in, I have certain foods I miss and would like to enjoy, so why don't I just get on with it, enjoy them, but keep the control which as I think we have gathered is my main issue! 

So here's the list......

A cream tea.

A pasty (only a decent one!) 

An ice cream.

Half a dominos pizza. 

A couple of ciders!

That's it! That's all I really want!! Now, considering when I go to Newquay I walk miles, and there will be lots of opportunities to get some fitness in, and as long as I eat lots and lots of fruit and veggies, I can get through that! Also I think going to a group Tuesday morning is the key to not leaving this time! So it's only a week not two in between weigh ins!

Not sure about everyone else but for me, that Monday I know I'm not weighing for two weeks is like permission to eat what the hell I want and lose it for two weeks!! Well not this time!!! 

I'm dreading weigh in 2moz but I know it has to be done, and what will be will be, this journey is a long one but will be worth it! 

Night! 

Love and syn free chocolate sprinkles 

Tracey x