Going it Alone!

So after 2 years of attending a Slimming World group, we have decided to go it alone!

We found that our group was too late at night for us and we wouldn't be able to attend each week and to be honest with you, we were essentially paying just to weigh ourselves each week.

I feel that we have been doing Slimming World for long enough that we can pull it off on our own. So, we have been out and bought some shiny new bathroom scales and moved weigh in day to Friday morning so that we can potentially relax just a smidgen on the weekend!

I have downloaded a nifty app called My Fitness Pal and I'm using that to log all my food and also to keep under the calories that it sets my for the day whilst at the same time still following the Slimming World plan.

It's our first week weigh in day tomorrow and I am feeling optimistic!

Salad Ideas! Beetroot and Egg Salad

I'm always a little stumped for nice salad ideas as I usually find them so boring.. but this is something else!

This little beauty is made up of:

Beetroot
Boiled Eggs
Lettuce
Red Pepper
Cucumber
1tbs. crispy onions (1 syn)

Week 17 - 1.5lbs gain

Oh dear.. another gain...

This was a busy weekend full of Dominoes pizza and 2 birthday parties... So I know exactly where I went wrong and I was expecting a gain... But I feel pretty pleased as I contained my naughtiness to the specified days so it could have been a whole lot worse if I had thrown caution to the wind!

This week holds my dads birthday party... best through in some super good days!

Chicken Supreme

Serves 2
30 minutes
Syn Free

Ingredients

2 skinless chicken breasts
6 rashers of bacon - visible fat trimmed
1 onion finely chopped
100g Quark
150ml of chicken stock
1 tsp. mustard seeds
Fry Light
1 bag of mixed veg


Method

Spray a frying pan with fry light and fry the chicken until browned.

Add in the onions and fry until softened

Add the bacon and fry for a further 5 minutes

Meanwhile, mix the quark, chicken stock and mustard seeds together to form a smooth, creamy sauce.

Cook the rice and mixed vegetables according to packet instructions

Once the meat and onions are ready pour in the sauce and slowly warm. Don't boil as the sauce will split.

Serve immediately!



You can, of course, add what ever vegetables you like to the dish. The usual recipe's include mushrooms in Chicken Supreme. Mushrooms are not to my taste shall we say so I simply have not included them!

The Magic of Fry Light

I am super impressed with these two products - they are really full of flavour and I have found that some of my meals have really been enhanced by them.

I still need to use a few squirts of ordinary Fry Light and then I add a couple of squirts of either the Chilli or Garlic for flavour. They don't seem to be able to pull off cooking without the added help of either the Sunflower or Olive Oil spray (although it could just be that my frying pan is nearing the end of it's life!)

I highly recommend spraying some chips with the garlic oil prior to cooking them... the aroma that drifts from the oven is just divine.

Week 15 - 16 My Birthday!

So this last week saw me celebrating my 30th birthday... And celebrate I did! Below is just a snippet of what I had been indulging in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have not held back and had a wonderful time... but Monday I was straight back on it and this week...some how... I was rewarded with a 2.5lb loss!

 

After all of that!

 

Now that Easter and my birthday is out of the way I'm hoping to regain my focus. I've got the odd few events coming up but no long weekends of gluttony!

 

I find it funny now that after a couple of days of trashy eating I can really feel awful. I get bloated, tired and my poor skin... I actually look forward to getting back to eating healthy and the way it makes me feel physically. It used to all be about the numbers on the scales but now it really is about the whole healthy picture.

Week 13 and Week 14

Well... these last two weeks have been pretty horrific weight wise. I just couldn't get my head into it. We were unable to weigh in in week 13 so had a double whammy of naughtiness on Thursday.

It was a big one.

I had gained 8 and a half pounds. In two weeks.

There's a kick up the butt if ever I need one.

13 weeks ago I was at 11 stone 10lb and I'm right back there again.

But the Easter Eggs have gone! I have my birthday in a few days (and that will not be Slimming World friendly) but I am making a huge effort to ensure that I am not writing off the whole week just for a couple of days of celebration.

SO... I have dusted off the walking shoes and have been making the most of the beautiful spring weather we are having!

Today we had a glorious al fresco lunch of Low Fat Chilli Chicken Super Noodles and I used up some onion and peppers to boost the free food.

 

 

Then took a stroll (5 mile walk!) around the beautiful Isle of Portland. It's views like the one below that makes the Body Magic easy. Gorgeous landscape and pretty hilly too so great for toning!



 

 

 

We have booked off next week as holiday as my birthday falls on a Thursday and I plan on having a few cheeky glasses of something in the day time so I've got 2 weeks to lose as much of this 8.5lb as I can.

 

Game on.