Happy Saturday

11am Saturday morning, and currently I am in bed. I have been up and made myself breakfast and tea, but I brought it back to bed with me to watch the TV I'd recorded through the week (Geordie Shore and Love your garden!... random!) and have a bit of a pamper.

I didnt post my weekly menu yesterday, I was in a bit of a sulk since I'd gained 2lbs this week. Sure I'd had a couple of days where I hadn't been an angel, but to gain 2lbs! I was miffed to say the least. But its water under the bridge, there is nothing I can do about it so onwards and upwards. Even with my birthday on Monday, and celebratory meal out this evening I still want a loss this week, so I need to be supre super focussed.

Monday - EE - My Birthday! weather dependant we'll bike to the local farm shop for lunch. the day looks like it will pan out much like I hoped

Tuesday - Green - Yoga in evening
B - fruit & cereal
L - Quiche, salad & potaoes
D - pasta & sauce

Wednesday- Green - Gym in evening
B - fruit & cereal
L - Leftover Quiche, salad, potatoes
D - Chilli bean & potato bake

Thursday- Green - Balance & SW in evening
B - fruit & cereal
L - Leftover Chilli bean bake
D - cheese on toast

Friday - Green - Zumba in evening
B - fruit & cereal
L - Leftover chilli bean bake
D - Pepper & Mushroom Risotto

Saturday - EE
B - fruit & cereal
L - hot chicken salad.
D - Boxing on tonight, we have some friends coming over so i'll do some nibbles and make sure I have healthy stuff for me to eat!

Sunday - EE - Going to see Foo Fighters - No idea what I shall eat. hopefully We'll find a jacket potato stand! :D

These are my plans for the week anyway, mainly based around what we have in the cupboards already. Save money on grocery shopping as we have a busy week ahead. :)

Happy weekend xx

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Evening campers! A bit of a late update for a Friday. Its been a busy busy week at work, but its been a good week thats for sure.

At Slimming World last night I lost 2lbs! hoorah. Hopefuilly this is me back on track and there will just be more and more weight loss to come :) Next week is my last weigh in before my birthday, I'd love to hit a stone loss before my birthday so I need to kick arse this week to shift at least 3lbs!! Fingers crossed and send me motivational vibes please! :D

Here are my meal plans for the next week ahead...

Mon - Green - Gym in afternoon
B: Cereal/toast & Fruit
L: leftover spanish omlette
D: Baked gnocchi & garlic bread

Tues - Green - Yoga in Evening
B: Cereal/toast & Fruit
L: leftover gnocchi
D: slow baked potatoes, cottage cheese & salad

Weds - Green - Gym/Walk in evening
B: Cereal/toast & Fruit
L: Baked potato, cheese & salad
D: Mushroom pasta bake & garlic bread

Thurs - Green - Balance & SW in evening
B: Cereal/toast & Fruit
L: Baked potato, cheese & beans, and some leftover muchroom pasta
D: Cheese salad wrap

Fri - Green - Zumba in Evening
B: Cereal/toast & Fruit
L: Baked potato, cheese & beans
D: Veggy curry & rice

Sat - Extra Easy
B: Egg on toast or Granola & Fruit
L: spanish omlette
D: Italian meal out to celebrate my Birthday! ... no diet this evening. :)

Sun - Extra Easy
B: Egg on toast or Granola & Fruit
L: leftover spanish omlette
D: Cheese & Broc past bake & garlic bread

Have a wonderful Weekend all of you. x

Tasty Tuesday - Coated Chicken

This is a Slimming World recipe thats known as 'KFC Style chicken' I call it coated chicken because it tastes bugger all like KFC chicken in my opinion.
Not that it matters, because I actually personally prefer this to the take out 'finger lickin so good' version! (so good as a slogan just isn't as catchy as finger lickin' is it?)
We have this quite regularly, it does feel lik your having a naughty fast food treat.

Ingredients

2 Chicken breast

half a tub of Chicken Bovril paste

1 egg

1 clove crushed garlic - Or use dried like I did! (optional)

1 teaspoon of ground black pepper (optional)

half a teaspoon mixed spice (optional)

half a teaspoon of mild chilli powder (optional)

2-3 slices brown bread

1-2 teaspoons mixed herbs

Method

Place chicken breasts in saucepan of boiling water and simmer for 30min. When cooked, drain and leave to one side to cool

While chicken is cooking  preheat oven to 180deg C
Place bread and herbs into a food processor (I have one of those mini choppers!) and blend until made into breadcrumbs. Put them in a bowl to one side

in another bowl mix together your egg, bovril (I just guesstimate the half tub, dont bother measuring) mixed spice, garlic, chilli and pepper. Mix with a fork until a kind of gloopy paste is achieved

Cut the cooled chicken breast into chunky sized strips

(I always do the coating prep while chicken is cooking, so its never fully cooled by the time I cut it into strips. if its not fully cooled be careful not to burn your fingers!)

Get your baking tray and spray it with frylight now. Keep it close to hand

Take each piece of chicken, dip it first into the gloopy mixture, then into breadcrumbs

(this can get messy you could also just pop the chicken onto the baking tray and drizzle on the gloopy mix followed by the breadcrumb mix, I like mine coated all over though)

place coated chicken onto the baking tray, place in the oven and bake for around 15 minutes, until the breadcrumbs are nice and golden.

When chicken is cooked, remove from oven and serve! We normally have ours with some homemade chips/wedges, salad and coleslaw. Yummy

And you know whats best of all??... if like me you are following Sliming World, use the bread as part of your HEB and its totally syn free!

Let me know if you give it a try. xx

EDIT - I don't know whats going on with blogger and why some of the text is underlined, some not, some bold etc! It muddled everything up when it first published too, so apologies if you read it and wondered what the hell I was on about! :) thanks. x

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Good afternoon.

I'm feeling incredibly tired again today, it was so warm last night we couldn't sleep so early hours of the morning opened one of the windows.

This morning I was woken, not by my alarm, but by a bloody big bee that had found its way in and was stuck behind the curtains. 'Operation Bee Rescue' was quite simple... open the window wider. :)

Aaaanyway, I gained half a pound this week. Not much eh, especially after our weekend away. hoorah. I can feel my body starting to crave healthiness now though, today my lunch mainly consisted of celery and tomatoes.

On top of that, I still cant quite work out if I have developed hayfever or I have some sort of chest infection. Off to see the Dr on Monday. Hopefully they can tell me whats wrong and how to make it better! :) So hoping for a super healthy and lovely feeling week ahead!

Back to some normality this week too, or my new version of normality. Quite simply I now work 4 days a week, Tuesday-Friday. I'll share my plans for my extra 'free' tine soon!! :)

Here is this weeks meal plans (From Monday, as its cheaper to get groceries delivered on a Monday from now on! haha)

Monday: Green

B - Toast/Cereal & fruit

L - homemade soup & bread

D - Baked gnocchi, Garlic bread & salad

Tuesday: Green - Yoga in Evening

B - Toast/Cereal & fruit

L - Leftover Gnocchi

D - Slow baked potato & salad

Wednesday: Green - Gym in Morning

B - Toast/Cereal & fruit

L - 1/2 baked pot & salad

D - Stuffed & roasted BNS, with cheese & salad

Thursday: Green - Balance & SW in Evening

B - Toast/Cereal & fruit

L - Baked potato & salad

D - Sandwich/Wrap & crisps

Friday: EE - Zumba in evening!! (eek, first time I'll be going!)

B - Toast/Cereal & fruit

L - 1/2 baked pot & salad

D - Chicken in spicy tomato sauce with rice.

Saturday: EE

B - Porridge & fruit/Jam

L - Toasted Panini/Sandwich, coffee & cake

D - KFC style chicken & BNS chips.

Sunday: EE 

B - Porridge & fruit/jam

L - Burgers & cajun wedges

D - Homemade soup

Happy weekend. xx

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Gooood morning.


This week is a bit of an off one with the meal planning, It is our first anniversary this weekend (ahhhh) and so we are just going to see how it pans out. there will certainly be no meal planning, so I am just sharing the bits I have planned out...

Friday: green - gym in morning

B - Muesli & strawberries

L - Mugshot, fruit

D - Spaghetti Bolognese & aubergine fritters

Weekend - ???

Tuesday: Green - Yoga in evening

B - Cereal/Toast & fruit

L - Stuffed mushrooms/peppers

D - Veggy curry & rice

Wednesday: Green - Gym in Morning

B - Cereal/Toast & fruit

L - Leftover curry, or mugshot

D - Stuffed aubergines & salad

Thursday: Green - Balance & SW in Evening

B - Cereal/Toast & fruit

L - ‘Ready meal’ at work

D - mugshot or salad?

All a little vague I know, but there you go. I need to prepare a 'ready meal' to have my dinner at lunch at work on Thursday. seeing as Balance on Tuesdays has been cancelled my only other option in Thursdays before slimming world. This does mean however that I am out all day, so I am going to give a try to eating a full proper meal at lunch, and then just have a salad or sandwich when I get home. I really do not like going to bed on a full stomach. 

As for my weigh in last night. I lost 1lb! and after KoL and the weekend in general I am really happy with that. I finally feel like I am getting my sh*t together again. :)

Things are falling into place and that just feels wonderful!

Have wonderful weekends all of you, no matter what you do! xxx

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Morning campers.
I'm back with my weekly dose of meal planning. I'm feeling incredibly groggy today. Wheezy and chesty, bunged up and watery eyes. I've been on and off like this for about 4 weeks now. I've never had hayfever before but all fingers seem to be pointing in that direction. I was feeling fab a couple of days ago too.
I have some antihistamines that are still in date (from a reaction to an insect bite last summer) so I think I may take a couple today and see if that helps at all.


Anyway, onto my usual update. I gained last night. it was expected as I didnt stick to plan at all. I can honestly say I dont know whats wrong with me at the moment. Its so simple, and I know unless I stick to healthy eating and exercising I'm not going to lose weight, but my motivation and dedication is seriously lacking at the moment. I'm going to keep on meal planning and driving forwards though as something will click soon I am sure and it will all fall back into place again.


We have an odd/busy couple of weeks coming up and also my birthday at the end of the month. Plus there are a few changes happening that I shall go into in more depth on here soon. We have been having some lovely conversations at home planning and discussing changes and our hopes and dreams etc. And I am excited (and a little scared) about the next few months or so. :D

Friday: green (Today!)

B - Toast & fruit

L - Refried beans, Taco, fruit

D - Veggy Curry & rice

Saturday: EE

B - weetabix & apple

L - tomato mugshot

D - Dinner out with D's Family

Sunday: EE - Bike ride round Grafham Water (weather dependant)

B - Egg on toast

L - Pub lunch

D - golden rice & Prawn/Pork kebabs

Monday: EE - Bank Holiday - KoL in evening

B - Egg on Toast

L - ? in COV

D - ? in COV

Tuesday: EE - Exercise at hotel during day. Yoga in evening

B - cooked breakfast at hotel

L - ? in COV

D - Veggy Curry (leftovers from freezer) & Rice

Wednesday: Green

B - Cereal or Toast & fruit

L - Leftover Veggy Curry & rice

D - Quorn & golden rice & roast veg

Thursday: Green - Balance & SW in Evening

B - Cereal or Toast & fruit

L - Leftover roast veg & golden rice

D - Baked gnocchi & garlic bread

Bank holiday weekend and we are going to see Kings of Leon Monday night in Coventry. We should both have the Tuesday off too (waiting for D to confirm he has today!) so we booked a hotel for the night, don't have to travel home and battle traffic out of the arena, and we can have a mini break and use the hotel facilities on the Tuesday.

Hoping I feel better for then!!

Have good weekends all of you, whatever your doing! :) x

Weigh In & Meal Plans

A day late with this post. Today really truely was 'one of those days' (I am sure that is turning into my favourite saying recently!)
First I took a tumble at work while carrying some parcels and took the impact full on my right knee. on a concrete floor. ouch. Its not too bad,  it has a nice lump and bruise and my foot is bruised and grazed, but I can bend it, and it seems to be taking my weight ok walking up stairs this morning (couldnt manage that yesterday)
Then the car broke down. to be exact the exhaust fell off!! whaaaat! I've only had the thing 5 months, and we only noticed a rattling noise 2 days ago and then sodding thing falls off. Its in the garage at the moment waiting to be looked at on Monday. I'm not best pleased as you can imagine. Hopefully it'll be sorted soon, going form 2 cars to 1 to none is a bit of an adjustment!
Not to mention work is super busy. So when I finally got home last night we crashed on the sofa, I put my knee up and we got take out delivered. Not diet friendly, but it was so good after a crappy day.

Anyway, Thursday night. I lost 1.5lbs. hoorah. and apart from my little (understandable) blip last night, I'm hoping for another good loss next week.

Saturday - EE
B: Fruit & yogurt, Toast
L: Veggy tortilla
D: Pork curry

Sunday - EE
B: Sausage & Bacon panini
L: Crudites and home made dips
D: Spaghetti bolognaise & garlic bread

Monday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Fruit, muesli & yogurt
L: Veggy tortilla
D: Veggy Jambalaya

Tuesday - Green - Yoga in evening
B: Fruit, muesli & yogurt
L: Leftover Jambalaya
D: Cheese & broccoli pasat bake

Wednesday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Fruit, muesli & yogurt
L: Leftover pasta bake
D: Tofu/Veg curry

Thursday - Green - Body Balance & SW in evening
B: Fruit, muesli & yogurt
L: Leftover curry
D: Tomato & basil baked Gnocchi.

Friday - EE - Gym in morning
B: Fruit, muesli & yogurt
L:Leftover Gnocchi
D: Homemade fish & chips

Lunches are all about the leftovers this week. Makes it so much easier just cooking a little extra the night before, popping it in some tupperwear in the fridge and grabbing it the next morning! I am really enjoying going veggy during the week too, and it saves money which is of course a good thing :)
The exercise will all be knee dependant, I'll be sure to take it easy and not damage it any more.

Happy Saturday.xx

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Soooo. It was a bad week for me. and when I am having a bad week i lose all interest in food. Unfortunatly this does not lead me to ealing little and often, but rather eating junk and snacks because I quite frankly just cannot be bothered.
I gained 2.5lbs
I'm not upset about it though as I was fully expecting it. No excuses, it was entirely my own fault because I didnt have the energy or will power to turn down the biscuits.

It was a good meeting last night however, and i left feeling much more positive and happy with my plans for this week. And a lot of us pledged a 3lb weight loss aim for the week ahead. And because it was such a good group type pledge I really want to get it.

I'm keeping things simpler this week. I can have a tendancy to over think things, and to get myself back to eating heathier I think the simpler the better. :)

Saturday - EE
B - Cereal & fruit
L - Tuna salad roll & spanish tortilla
D - 'KFC' style chicken & chips (and Eurovision!)

Sunday - EE
B - Bacon, Sausage, Eggs, Tomatoes, Beans, Mushrooms, Toast
L - Spanish tortilla
D - Chicken casserole

Monday - Green
B - Cereal & Fruit
L - Tortilla & cheese and tomato roll
D - Thai yellow veg curry & rice

Tuesday - Green - Body Balance in Evening
B - Ceral & Fruit
L - Tortill & cheese and tomato roll
D - Gnocchi Bake (Gnocchi baked in a tomato sace with roast cerry toms and mozarella! - an experiment!)

Wednesday - Green - Gym in morning
B - Cereal & Fruit
L - Leftover Gnocchi
D - Pepper & mushroom risotto

Thursday - Green - SW in Evening
B - Cereal & fruit
L - Leftover risotto
D - Darrens quick dinner (Fish, jacket pot & mushy peas)

Friday - EE - Gym in morning
B - Cereal & Fruit
L - Jacket pot, Tuna & sweetcorn
D - Chicken, Chorizo & Prawn Paella.


Eurovison is tomorrow night. I am a complete eurovision geek. LOVE it! We have friends coming over for dinner, and I cannot wait! ha.

Have good weekends everyone xx

Weigh in Result & Meal Plans

Happy Friday everyone! :)
Well last nights weigh in was a it of a shocker. After Darrens b-day night out (post coming tomorrow) and hangover breadfast the next day etc I was expecting a gain of some amount.

You know what... I lost 2.5lbs! l.o.s.t!!

Shocked, amazed, elated. mostly shocked. haha. Hopefully I can keep it up and shift the weight I gained the week before asap.

So, this weeks meals (now I am back at work and in a nice routine!) ...

Saturday - Extra Easy
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: ?? - not sure yet!
D: Philly stuffed chicken with pasta & salad

Sunday - Extra Easy
B/L: Cooked brunch. Bacon, eggs, sausage, beans etc
D: Mediterranean chicken tray bake with sweet potato wedges (really looking forward to trying this recipe)

Monday - Green - Flexibar in evening
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: Salad with cheese & boiled eggs
D: Chickpea Curry & rice

Tuesday - Extra Easy - Body Balance in evening
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: Salad with Tuna & boiled eggs
D: Quorn Sausages, mash, veg & onion gravy

Wednesday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: Salad with Tuna & boiled eggs
D: Pork curry & rice

Thursday - Green - SW in evening
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: salad with cheese & boiled eggs
D: Darrens Lazy dinner - Jacket pot, Quorn & veg

Friday - Extra Easy
B: Fruit, Granola, Yogurt
L: Leftover pork curry
D: Tacos or Pitta pizzas.

Happy eating. have wonderful weekends xx

Ohhh Yeah! (aka: Weigh In Result & Meal Plans)

2.5lbs off!! ohh yeah you heard me.

On a side note, I cannot say 'ohh yeah' now without this going through my head.

God I love that movie! haha

Anyway, I'm not quite sure how I lost 2.5lbs. in my opinion my week as more 'treat filled' than last week, and I did minimal exercise.
I am getting my backside back to the gym/body balance etc this week, and I am going to make a conscious effort to drink more water especially when I am working out.

Really hoping I can get 2lbs off next week, as that'll hit my 1stone loss. which would just be awesome!

Here is this weeks meal plans. This week is a minimal grocery shopping week. We do these occasionally to use up stuff thats been in the freezer/pantry for a while. :)

Saturday: Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B: Porridge with Jam or fruit
L: Tortilla squares and salad
D: Fish, chips & mushy peas

Sunday: Extra Easy

B: Porridge with Jam or fruit

L: Tortilla squares, salad, golden rice, pasta salad etc (picnic-y food)

D: Prawn, chicken & chorizo Paella

Monday: Extra Easy - Gym in morning

B: Porridge with Jam or fruit

L: Leftover Paella

D: Pasta with spicy tomato sauce & garlic bread

Tuesday: Green - Body Balance in Evening

B: Mushrooms & beans on toast

L: Leftover pasta & tomato sauce

D: Egg & chips

Wednesday: Extra Easy - Gym in morning

B: Porridge with Jam or fruit

L: Jacket potato, Tuna & salad

D: Buffet/Leftovers! quorn dippers, pizza, sausage, pasta salad, rice salad, tortillas etc

Thursday: Green - SW in evening

B: Eggs & toast

L: leftover bits from last nights buffet style dinner!

D: Darrens Lazy Dinner... Quorn, jacket pot, cheese & sweetcorn

Friday: BANK HOLIDAY!! hoorah! Extra Easy - Gym in the morning

B/L: A Full English for brunch. Sausage, bacon, beans, mushrooms, home made hash browns, tomatoes, eggs, toast. (have I missed anything??)

D: Steak, chips, creamy mushrooms & salad

Happy eating and have a lovely weekend. The weather is supposed to be lovely. :)

xo

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

Good morning. The sun is shining, the birdies are singing, its Friday, and someone is playing 80s hair rock upstairs in the office. Happy days.

Last night was not such a happy night. I gained half a pound. Gained!! Gutted is an understatement. ok we ate out at the weekend, but I had sorbet at the cinema (much better than nachos, or jelly sweets) and Sunday roast beef at the pub, I even gave Darren my sausage wrapped in bacon from that Sunday roast! and ok, I've not been gym as much, but I've been on the bike instead. Something had obviously gone wrong though so this week I have been given the 'SAS' log (basically I log everything I eat and drink, if it was planned or not, how you feel during the day, everything!) and I started the 'weigh in week' by getting by butt out of bed and going to the gym. (and we found out today they are going to start opening at 6.30 on Mondays and Thursdays too! yay)

With bike rides, gym visits, body balance class, digging the garden and food optimising all week, If I dont get a bloody good loss next week there may be tears... or a tantrum. probably a tantrum.

Anyway, with no further ado, here are the weeks meal plans...


Saturday - Extra Easy - Bike ride & garden digging!
B: fruit salad & yogurt
L: Mug shot & cheese salad
D: Brinner! (sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes & toast)

Sunday - Extra Easy - Bike ride & garden digging!

B: fruit salad & yogurt

L: Cheese & ham toastie & salad

D: Slow cooked gammon, Roast BNS, potatoes & veggies

Monday - Extra Easy - Gym in Morning. Bike in evening?

B: Egg & beans on toast

L: Leftover Sunday roast dinner

D: Bacon, tomato & tarragon pasta

Tuesday - Extra Easy - Body Balance after work.

B: Porridge & jam

L: Mug shot & egg salad

D: Fish, SW chips & mushy peas

Wednesday - Green - Gym in morning. Bike in evening?

B: Egg & beans on toast

L: Jacket pot, cheese & salad

D: Pepper & mushroom risotto

Thursday - Green - SW in evening?

B: Porridge & jam

L: Leftover risotto

D: Darrens lazy dinner... Quorn, Jacket pot, cheese, sweetcorn

Friday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning. Bike in evening?

B: Egg & beans on toast

L: Jacket pot, tuna & sweetcorn

D: minted lamb & pepper kebabs with rice.

Happy eating. xxx

Weigh In & Meal Plans

Good afternoon. Well, last night when weighing in I stayed the same... again! but again, on the bright side I did not gain!
I have convinced Darren that he should bribe me into tracking and being 100% commited. and hes agreed that if I completely stick to it this week and get a good loss (2lbs or more) he will agree to one, 30minute foot or back rub! I like this idea, get skinny and get massaged!! whoop! haha.

I have also had this afternoon off with Darren, as today we have been together for 6 years! any excuse for some time off! :) We have just got back from a little bike ride. I haven't even attempted to ride a bike for 17 years, and have had a bike in the shed for almost 4 years gathering cobwebs. but I did it. I'll have a proper post about that coming soon.

Here are this weeks meal plans..

Saturday - Extra Easy
Breakfast/Lunch: 'Full English' brunch
Dinner: Those Burgers & chips (One of Hubbys favourite meals now it seems!)

Sunday - Extra Easy - out on bike in afternoon!
B: Fruit salad
L/D: Mothers day lunch out... I am going to go for something like a chicken salad, or gamon steak. No creamy sauces etc.

Monday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B: Weetabix & fruit
L: BNS soup & egg salad
D: Prawn & pepper kebabs with rice & thai sweet chilli sauce.

Tuesday - Green - gym or class in evening
B: Egg & beans on toast
L: leftover rice & kebabs
D: Creamy mushroom & pepper risotto

Wednesday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning, class in evening
B: Weetabix/granola & fruit
L: BNS soup & chicken or egg salad
D: Chilli con carne & rice

Thursday - Green - SW in evening
B: Egg, beans, mushrooms on toast
L: Leftover risotto
D: Lazy dinner a'la Darren - Quorn, Jacket pot, cheese & sweetcorn

Friday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B: Weetabix/granola & fruit
L: leftover chilli & rice
D: 'diet coke' chicken!

I've got some of my favourite fruit coming in the groceries this week, strawberries, pinapple and passionfruit. and I aso ordered double the amount of frozen raspberries we normally get. so lots of fruit for snacking/desserts, and lots of exercise planned.

Fingers crossed for a good week this time. Happy weekend everyone. xx

Weigh In Result & Meal Plans

I lost 1lb!! whaaaaaatt? after the week I had!?! All I can imagine is that actually my eating was not as bad as I had actually imagined, and the exercise is finally staring to work its magic! (I have been complimented this week on how healthy I am looking, and I am apparently looking 'leaner'!)

Now I do not think the in depth food plans I have been doing on here have been helping me that much, a little too restrictive and OTT having every single thing planned and to be honest were a bit of a bore to type out. So I am reverting back to a simpler strategy...

Saturday - Extra Easy
Breakfast: Egg & beans on toast
Lunch: ? Not yet sure
Dinner: 'KFC' chicken & chips with salad.

Sunday - Extra Easy
B&L: cooked full English brunch
D: Beef casserole in the slow cooker, roast pots and cauli cheese

Monday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B: Egg & Beans on toast
L: Leftover beef casserole etc
D: Fish, Chips & mushy peas

Tuesday - Green - Gym in Morning, Body Balance in evening

B: Egg & Beans on toast

L: Egg salad wrap & spicy tomato soup

D: Aubergine Parmigana & salad

Wednesday - Extra Easy - Gym in Morning

B: Egg & Beans on toast

L: Egg salad wrap & spicy tomato soup

D: Pork Curry & rice

Thursday - Green - Gym in morning - SW in evening

B: Egg & mushrooms on toast

L: Leftover Parmigana & salad

D: Lazy dinner! Jacket pot, crispy quorn & beans

Friday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning

B: Egg & Beans on toast

L: Leftover Pork curry & rice

D: Sausage, chips & veg

As you can see, and as previously mentioned, we are hoping to make our early morning gym visits a daily (week days) occurrence. We are also trying Body Balance on a Tuesday night instead of Wednesday too.

My snacks will probably mostly be yogurts and fruit. a couple of cereal bars on the green days. and some lovely sorbet with frozen raspberries for my desserts too of course.

Happy eating everyone! :) x

Weigh In result & Meal Plans

Its that time of the week again.... How quick does it fly by?
Anyway last night I had a maintain (stayed the same) I know I should be pleased I didnt gain, but I'd not had a bad week, and I'd been to the gym plenty too so in all honesty I was a bit pissed off. Anyway, I'm going to use that frustration and turn it into determination... or something like that anyway! :)
I was at the gym this morning did an extra 5minutes on the treadmill and 'kilamanjaro' on the bike again.

And here are my plans for next weeks meals...

Saturday - Extra Easy
Breakfast: Egg on Toast (bread Heb. Flora Light 2syns, milk Hea)
Lunch: Stuffed mushrooms & salad
Dinner: Slow cooked gammon with roast potatoes, BNS & veg
Snacks: Fruit, sorbet (3syns) malteaser bunnie (8syns!)

Sunday - Extra Easy
B & L: Cooked Brunch. bacon, eggs, beans, tomatoes, sausage, toast (bread Heb, Sausage 2.5syns, milk Hea)
D: Dinner out. Either at my parents or at a pub.
S: Fruit. possibly stuffed mushrooms in the evening, depending on what time we eat dinner!

Monday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Cereal bar before gym. Egg on toast after gym (Bread Heb, Cereal bar Heb, flora light 2syns, milk Hea)
L: Rice or cous cous salad
D: Veggy lasagne, salad & garlic bread (cheese Hea, Garlic bread 5syns)
S: Fruit & low fat yogurt, sorbet (3syns)

Tuesday - Extra Easy
B: Egg on toast (Bread Heb, flora light 2syns, milk Hea)
L: Leftover Gammon & leftover rice or cous cous salad!
D: Fish, Chips & mushy Peas
S: Fruit & low fat yogurt, Sorbet (3syns)

Wednesday - Green - Gym in morning, Body Balance in evening
B: Cereal bar before gym. Egg on toast after gym (Bread Heb, Cereal bar Heb, flora light 2syns, milk Hea)
L: Leftover Veggy Lasagne & salad
D: Jacket potato, quorn fake chicken thing, baked beans
S: Fruit & low fat yogurt, Sorbet (3syns)

Thursday - Extra Easy - Weigh in evening
B: Egg on toast (Bread Heb, flora light 2syns, milk Hea)
L: Jacket potato & tuna salad
D: Pork Curry a la Darren
S: Fruit & low fat yogurt, sorbet (3syns)

Friday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Cereal bar before gym. Egg on toast after gym (Bread Heb, cereal bar 3syns, flora light 2syns, milk Hea)
L: Jacket potato, cheese & baked beans (cheese Hea)
D: Pitta pizza & bns chips (Pitta Heb, Cheese 2syns, Chorizo 2syns)
S: Fruit & low fat yogurt, sorbet (3syns)


Quite a samey week as you can see!! I do love eggs for breakfast, and I was trying to have something different (and quicker) the mornings we go gym before work, but I was feeling hungry mid morning and snacking. So I decided 'sod it' I'll have eggs. yummy! Especially as I get them from a guy at work who has his own chickens that are fed organically. You can really tell the difference to shop brought ones, even when they are free range, they just don't taste as nice as the ones I get from work!

Sorbet every day for dessert too. but I really am addicted to that, its SO good. :)

Pork curry a la Darren... thats, well thats quite simply a curry cooked by Darren of course! he is becoming a bit of a culinary wizz at curries. Which I have no complaints about, and take full credit for (well I did buy him a curry cook book!)

Have lovely weekends all of you! xx

Weigh in result & meal plans

So, Weigh In last night. I had a maintain (ie: stayed the same) Which seeing how I'd had a couple of weeks off plan, been unwell and had eaten things like this. I was happy. :D

I am going for a really good week this week. as always I have planned my meals (all below as usual!) and I have plenty of exercise planned too.

Saturday - Extra Easy
Breakfast: Egg & Bacon on toast (bread as Heb, milk as Hea, 2syns for flora light)
Lunch: pasta salad (2syns for mayo)
Dinner: Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas

Sunday - Extra Easy - Gym in morning
B&L: Egg, sausage, beans (2.5syns for the sausage)
D: Bacon double cheese burgers & chips (Roll as Heb, Cheese as Hea)

Monday - Green - Gym in Evening
B: Egg on Toast (bread as Heb, Milk as Hea, 2 Syns for flora light)
L: Tomato Soup & Bread roll (roll as Heb)
D: Mushroom & pepper risotto & garlic bread (Philadelphia as Hea, Garlic bread 5syns)

Tuesday - Extra Easy
B: Egg on toast (bread as Heb, Milk as Hea, 2 Syns for flora light)
L: Leftover risotto (2syns for Philadelphia)
D: Chilli con carne & rice

Wednesday - Green - Gym in Morning, Body Balance in Evening
B: Cereal bar before Gym, Muesli & apple after gym (Muesli as Heb, Cereal bar as Heb, Milk as Hea)
L: Leftover risotto (again! 2syns for Philadelphia)
D: Some sort of Quorn thing! Jacket potato, cheese & baked beans (Cheese as Hea)

Thursday - Extra Easy - Weigh in Evening
B: Egg on toast (bread as Heb, Milk as Hea, 2 Syns for flora light)
L: Leftover Chilli & Rice from Tues
D: Tarragon Chicken & Pasta

Friday - Green - Gym in Morning

B: Cereal bar before Gym, Muesli & apple after gym (Muesli as Heb, Cereal bar as Heb, Milk as Hea)

L: Jacket potato, Cheese & Beans (Cheese as Hea)

D: Canneloni & Garlic bread (Garlic Bread 5syns)

My snacks for the week will pretty much just be fruit (and boiled eggs and a cereal bar for my early gym session days!) Saturday I am not 100% sure. I am going to see Jenny Eclair with my friend Leanne so We may have some nibbles!
And most evenings I shall probably have raspberry sorbet with some frozen raspberries. I actually cannot get enough of this at the moment, completely addicted to it. Its only 3syns for the small bowl full I have so it has become a regular treat.

The Tarragon Chicken we are having on Thursday is lovely. I shall be sure to share this recipe soon. and The Cannelloni on Friday, thats a new recipe I am trying. I'll let you know how it turns out and if its nice I'll share that one too!

Hope you all have a good weekend. xx

Weigh in result & meal plans

Good Morning.
So last night was weigh in night, and as I mentioned previously I had myself a mini goal of 1lb, so I could not just get my half stone award, but I would pass it that little bit too.

Well. As it happens I must have been rather good, because I lost 2.5lbs!! Whoop! :D go me. That takes me to 9lbs lost in total. Which considering how easy I am finding it, and how much I am enjoying it is just fabulous.

Of course this means I now have the 'all clear' to get myself some lovely new glasses. and as it happens the new Gok range was launched today it seems. Perfect timing? why yes it is.
It does seem however, that the glasses that I decided I liked and wanted when I had my little sneak peek on Sunday, are Mens. Bah. Whatever. I like them.

Anyway. I am going to share my weekly meal plan with you all again. I got some nice comments about it and you all seemed genuinely interested. (plus if I commit myself to it on here, It should be another incentive to keep myself on track)

Friday
Lunch: Egg salad Sandwich
Dinner: Stuffed Potato & Beans (quick dinner as we (myself, Leanne and Dawn) are off to a SW event tonight!)

Saturday - Gym late morning
L: French Toast, bacon & mushrooms
D: SW 'KFC' chicken & chips (new recipe. hope its nice!)

Sunday
L: Cheese & Bacon Omelette
D: Beef Goulash & Rice (in slow cooker)

Monday - Gym in evening
L: Leftover Goulash & rice
D: Sausage, Chips & beans

Tuesday (Green Day)
L: Egg & potato salad
D: Veggy Jambalaya

Wednesday (Green Day) - Gym in morning
L: Leftover Jambalaya
D: Pasta & Arrabiata Sauce

Thursday - Weigh In
L: Egg & potato salad
D: Homemade Quiche & chips.


I had a couple of realisations this week when sorting out the meal plan. and with us doing the early morning work outs, a couple of things need to change. Not huge changes just little tweaks.
Last week, instead of the Spag Bol on Monday, I cooked a pepper risotto so I could have a 'green day'. I really think this helped me stay on track and get a good weight loss this week.
Also, if I plan those green days on the early morning work out days, it means (with the extra fibre/dairy allowances) I am free to have a quick breakfast before the gym (say a cereal bar) and a proper breakfast after my work out, as I am getting ready for work. Hoorah.
Our weekday evening meals also, generally need to be super quick and simple. because we are either getting in late from weigh in or the gym. or we are knackered from our early morning work out, and quite frankly, if we are knackered we cant be bothered to cook! :)

I'll stop there as I can tell I am beginning to ramble! :) As before, let me know if there are any recipes you would like me to share. x