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

Pancakes

So Tuesday night I succumbed and we made pancakes. I just made up a small batch so we did not go tooooo overboard. But it was still incredibly decadent (mine were anyway!) for a Tuesday night!

As it was an unplanned event, and the camera batter was not charged we snapped a couple of quick shots on my BB. My tossing skills were remarkable! ;)

If you are currently watching your weight/dieting I may suggest you look away now! All good intentions of healthy eating went out the window with these little beauties. There is fruit included in them though, so technically there is some goodness in there.

mmmmm. Chocolate Cherry pancakes!
I had a few leftover frozen cherries in the freezer, and there was some chocolate spread stashed at the back of one of the cupboards. From previous experiments I knew this would be a tasty food combination, so threw them in my pancake.

oh... my... word. Soooo Naughty, but oh so lovely.

Just got to deal with the consequences of treats like this when I go weigh in tonight. Fingers crossed the odd bout of indulgence has not attached itself directly to my thighs! xx

A Few Things

Good morning. Its been a quiet few days as unfortunately I have been unwell. So today I am sharing just a little list of a few things on my mind at the moment.

.1 - Having a clean and tidy house is truly wonderful

.2 - Having a cold when you have a pierced nose is a real pain in the *rse (sorry. gross I know)

.3 - Last night I drove home without needing lights (Spring is in the air)

.4 - I'm starting Body Balance classes again on Wednesday

.5 - I am so un-flexible those classes may be a struggle/quite amusing/a complete embarrassment

.6 - The sunshine is really making me want to be outside taking photos

.7 - I really need to remember to charge my camera battery tonight

.8 - I would love to get tattooed again soon

.9 - I am dreading my weigh in on Thursday. Pleeeease let me have not gained.

.10 - My husband is now a follower of my little blog :) *waves*

.11 - Raspberry sorbet is amazing

.12 - Its Shrove Tuesday. To have pancakes, or not have pancakes. That is the question?!


Happy Tuesday xx

Sunday Snapshot

Just back from town where I picked up my new lovely Gok Wan glasses from Specsavers.
Not best accessorised with a red nose & cold I know (and I'm hoping my roots are not too noticeable using my BB camera) But hey, I may be a snivelling mess, but I have fecking cool glasses! :D xx

Weigh In & Meal Plans

Unfortunately I did not make it to Weigh In this week. A bit of a sniffle and feeling cold turned into a fully fledged stuufed nose, sore throat and aches all over. :(

I took the time I spent in bed to plan out this weeks meals and orde the groceries. Even though I am feeling rotten I am feeling positive and focussed this week.

This is what we have planned. I have gone a bit more indepth this week, with breakfasts, snacks, syns and healthy extras all included. Is this too much, or does it give a better all round idea of how I eat?

Saturday - Extra Easy
Breakfast: OSS & summer berries (Milk as Hea, Oats as Heb)
Lunch: Egg & chips
Dinner: Chicken, golden rice & salad
Snacks: Fruit, Raspberry sorbet (3syns), crisps or biscuits (2-5syns)

Sunday - Extra Easy - gym, swim or bike ride?
B & L: Egg, bacon & beans on toast (bread as HEb, milk Hea)
D: Roast chicken dinner (2syns for gravy, 3syns for yorkshire pud)
S: Fruit

Monday - Green - Gym in evening
B: OSS & summer berries (milk Hea, oats Heb)
L: Chilli supernoodles
D: Pitta pizza & BNS chips (pitta as HEb, Cheese as HEa, 2syns for Chorizo)
S: boiled eggs, fruit

Tuesday - Extra Easy
B: Fruit & salad (milk Hea, cereal Heb)
L: Left over roast veg (from sunday) & pasta
D: Philadelphia chicken, jacket potato & salad (3syns for philadelphia)
S: boiled eggs, fruit

Wednesday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Alpen Light cereal bar before gym. beans on toast after gym (alpen light is half a Heb, Toast as Heb, Milk as Hea)
L: Jacket potato, cottage cheese & salad
D: Mushroom & pepper risotto (3syns for Philadelphia, 5syns for garlic bread slice)
S: Alpen light cereal bar (half a HEb) boiled egg, fruit

Thursday - Extra Easy - Weigh in in evening
B: Egg & beans on toast (toast as Heb, milk as Hea)
L: Leftover risotto (2syns for philadelpia)
D: Sausage, chips & beans (5syns for sausages)
S: Fruit

Friday - Green - Gym in morning
B: Alpen Light cereal bar before gym. beans on toast after gym (alpen light is half a Heb, Toast as Heb, Milk as Hea)
L: Jacket potato, cheese & beans (cheese as Hea)
D: Mushroom stroganof & rice (5syns for slice of garlic bread)
S: Alpen light cereal bar (half a HEb) boiled egg, fruit

Now my gym session are all illness dependant of course. and as you can see on the days I have gym in the morning I have 2 breakfasts! A cereal bar before I go. and then beans on toast or something afterwards. something thats going to give me some extra energy. after getting up that early in the morning I need all the help I can get! :)
on the days I haven't worked in many syns I'll allow myself a treat, a chocolate (Hotel chocolate 3-4syns each!) packet of crisps, some sorbet. something like that.

If any of it takes your fancy, let me know. I'll pop the recipe on here.xx

Home Makeover - Living Room Inspiration

We are really close now to having our living room makeover complete. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of the pictures that helped inspire our makeover of this room.

Rooms that are light and spacious always catch my eye and draw me in, and thats what we want to create in our home. Its a small house, and the rooms are not overly generous in size. But its just right for the two of us, and seeing that with the current housing climate we shall not be moving anytime soon we wanted to turn our home into just that. Our Home.

We already had a large picture in the room that was of green bamboo, and with the room backing onto the garden, (eventually we have plans for a little conservatory, but thats a little way off yet)
we really wanted to create the feeling of 'bringing the outside in' so concentrated on off whites, vibrant greens, leafy prints, textures and light oak furniture/flooring

These are just a few of the pictures that I came across when trawling the internet for ideas (the wallpaper sample shown is actually what we now have on one wall in the room. love it)

We needed it to be practical (with storage and a tv/games console area) but relaxing. A space to come home after work and instantly feel happy.

I shall share before photos soon & the final finished room soon too. x

Zion

Morning!

That *points up* is what my current glasses are called. Just discovered they are also apparently Mens glasses! <- Do it like a brother, do it like a dude :D Really excited to get my new specs on Saturday though.

Anyway, just a quick update for today. I'm currently sporting braids/plaits for the first time in years. quick and easy, and it means I can half dry my hair and just throw the rest up in this style after an early morning gym visit
(Yep, I had to mention it. I made it to the gym for 6.30 again. not feeling as tired this week, but we'll see if I crash and burn later)

Diet wise, the week hasn't been the greatest. I wasn't as organised as I thought, and the first couple of days were kinda a bust. I couldn't get a couple of the ingredients for some of the recipes I had planned so that went to pot too.
I then discovered yesterday that the Lucozade drink I'd been having at the gym was a grand total of 7 syns a bottle!! oops. I'd guessed at a couple of syns, not 7. So that hasn't helped either. Hoping that my work outs, and subsequent days healthy eating have made up for my few days of chaos.

Been quite busy on a few other little things too, none of which are in the 'ready the share' phase yet, but hopefully not too long now and I can let you in on what I have been working on.
I'm going to share some of the inspiration behind the different rooms in our home, and what we are trying to work towards with our little home makeover soon too. I hope you'll find some of it interesting & possibly inspiring too.

xx