Get a grip!

I have no idea where my time goes. Well last week was confusing. It always is when there is a Bank Holiday as I spend most of the time  confused about which day it is and chasing my tail! That was true last week and it was weigh in day before I anticipated it. Somehow I managed to lose half a pound. Not sure how with a Bank Holiday in the mix.

At class the previous week I had decided to measure my waist with a piece of string and see if it gets looser week on week. I duly measured it again on Wednesday and sure enough it was looser - not by much I admit, but it was definitely not as tight as the week before! I wish I had done that from Week one.

Food has been better but variable. I can't remember my menus day to day so I will just put a random mix up here! Fruit is more plentiful in the shops but I have noticed how expensive it seems. I am now waiting for peaches and nectarines to be ripe and ready. Roll on summer.

Here we go - a few random meals:

Grilled chicken with vegetables!

Porridge with summer fruits and yoghurt.

Steak with SW chips.

And just a few more!

And even more........

Well that's it - up to date again on the food front.  I really must get better at this blog update. Half term soon and I'm off to Eastbourne. Would be good to be a couple of pounds lighter!

Do you know .............?

Things just seem to be stacked against me. I spent most of Sunday on the internet trying to sort out holidays. It was extremely frustrating and I felt murderous at times as I received criticism after criticism which sent me searching for chocolate. Stupid I know but at times my blood was boiling. I really didn't want an argument so tried to bite my tongue! What happened was I bit chocolate instead. I had been doing so well this week too.

Eggs and crispbreads for breakfast which was a good start. Determined to keep myself occupied I set forth on the computer thinking it was a good plan to keep me busy and away from thinking about food. Well it was a good plan and would have worked admirably without the 'outside interference'. I am learning so much about myself just recently, especially my relationship with food. I have come to the conclusion that if I were left to my own devices and had no one else to feed then I could do well. Can't see that happening though.

Anyway, lunch was a jacket potato with beans and then fruit and yoghurt. I struggled through the afternoon really trying not to pick. Easier said than done. I went for nuts instead of chocolate, thinking about my blood sugar but not too much about syns. This is ridiculous!

Dinner was leftover curry. I promised you a picture yesterday so here it is:

 

Chicken curry, beef madras and lentils with spinach - all SW curries! Topped that off with a huge bowl of strawberries and raspberries.

All in all not a good day for syns. I am really not feeling too hopeful for amy weight loss in the immediate future with all this frustration at home. It is not helpful, and for goodness sake I now have Bank Holiday to negotiate!

Skipping a week......

I last blogged almost a week ago. To be honest I breathed a huge sigh of relief at weigh in on Wednesday as I maintained! I am not sure how that happened but grateful for small mercies ..... Let's sweep on.

I will skip to Thursday as I had determined to start with a new slate. At class I mentioned again that I thought I might be losing inches sometimes so having measured my waist with string, I am keeping the string in my purse so that I can see if it gets any looser over time. You never know, it might spur me on! Trouble is I woke up on Thursday morning feeling pretty awful. Think it might have been a diabetic thing as food was strangely not high in my thoughts! I struggled to want to eat anything at all. Breakfast was fruit and yoghurt which was quite refreshing. I'm not sure if I was craving more fruit or some carbs as the thought of anything made me feel nauseous. I settled for some carbs and had an egg and watercress sandwich for lunch (HEb) followed by fruit and yoghurt.

Looks a bit sparse I know but it was enough! 

Dinner had been planned a few says ago so I was kind of stuck with it! The sausages were 2 syns but the rest was free. I did have strawberries afterwards - super speed methinks!

So to Friday and I felt a little better. To ring the changes breakfast looked like this:

Syns for the nuts and the apricots!

I had prepared lunch but didn't really fancy it. I delayed eating partly because of this and partly because I was busy - no time to stop. As it was I didn't eat all of it - chicken, rice, cauliflower in a curry sauce:

Not sure it made me feel any better but at least I ate.

What I really did fancy was fish! So much so that I changed my plans and went especially to buy some cod. Of course there had to be chips - SW ones of course!! Although it looks thin on super free (only tomatoes) I did follow up with yet another big bowl of strawberries and yoghurt. I am really pleased that English strawberries are in the shops - so much more flavour than ones from overseas.

And then it was Saturday...............

Shopping again first thing so planned menu at the ready I filled the fridge! Breakfast was boiled egg, crispbreads and fruit. I was making dinner for good friends so spent all afternoon in the kitchen. I suddenly remembered lunch so had to grab this:

It was ok and I had a really good dinner later. Don't you find though, that when you have spent ages cooking something you eat precious little of it?  No pictures I'm afraid - I forgot! Anyway, it was Curry and rice. As there was a lot left over we have it for dinner on Sunday so you will see it then!

Meanwhile, I am anticipating that my string will be a little looser on Wednesday. Just Bank Holiday to negotiate first!