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LouiseJ

:mad: Reporting a 1lb gain for me this week:mad:

Must, Do, Better!!!! I have been really slacking this last week or so, time to pull my socks up as I have a family party in 2 weeks time with people I havent seen in years and the following week the Manchester meet.

Want to fit into my jeans nicely.

Burlesque_Babe

hey - you can all come to the meet! It's open to anyone - check out the thread :T


Had a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad syns day yesterday - 30 going to try for a no syn day today to even it up :rolleyes:

Food today

b: bacon, eggs, (good old frylight!) and beans
l: chilli with jacket or SW chips
d: roast chicken..........not sure about the rest!

retiredlady

Good Morning, here is my plan for the day:

Breakfast - oat so simple. berries, milk (heb,free,hea)

Lunch - Roast turkey, carrots, peas, brocolli, mashed potato and gravy (all free except 4 syns for gravy)

Supper - egg, bacon and bubble and squeak made from leftover lunch veg&mash!

Early night for me tonight, going to get weighed in the morning and I traditionally don't sleep well the night before weigh in:o I know I will not be having a loss this week, I too have been bitten by "its cold outside so better eat everything now" bug!:mad:

Have a good day everyone
Marion

Burlesque_Babe

Marion - what do you add to your mashed potato to keep it free? I don't normally have it because I like butter in it.........I'm thinking egg yolk and low fat fromage frais?

retiredlady

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Marion - what do you add to your mashed potato to keep it free? I don't normally have it because I like butter in it.........I'm thinking egg yolk and low fat fromage frais?

I just normally add an egg or a bit of 0% Total what ever I have handy that is free. I whip it up with my electric hand mixer for extra creaminess. If I have any milk left out of my allowance I will use that or I have even been known to use Smash:o

Marion

rupe34

Good afternoon all! Well I am grumpy v grumpy... have eaten half a Spicy Italian sub today - for no good reason. 12.5 syns for half the sub - AND I don't eat wheat generally because it messes up my innards! (is that too much info?)

I only ate it because I've been seduced into Mystery Shopping - but then the till receipt didn't print and the machine broke - so I have taken this as a sign that mystery shopping is NOT for me, and I shoud have been home with my family where I belong!!

Never mind - I live and learn. I shall have a nice free food day for the rest of the day. Hope you are all having a better Sunday than me:rolleyes:

spud30

I've spent the afternoon trying to analyse the reasons that I'm overweight (apart from the obvious one of eating too much :rolleyes: )

I have a real fear of running out of groceries, in particular food. I go shopping for milk, and come home £100 or more worse off. I know we have so much food in, we dont really have to shop for ages, apart from fresh stuff. It's that bad that I'm wondering if we really struggled when I was a kid. I know we didnt have much money, but wonder if was more than that. I have no-one to ask, so will never know

I also really struggle to control portions. I know on SW you dont really have to, but I feel I should be eating lots less than I do

What do you guys think? Am I talking through my arris

Burlesque_Babe

no, you are not speaking rubbish, you are probably using food as some kind of subconscious security blanket spud.

I am also struggling with the portion 'thing'. I have had to eat tiny portions to lose a stone so far but this week I have eaten 'average' sized portions (or possibly slightly smaller than average) and know they will be too big for me to lose anything this week.

Although, as i'm no psychologist, I could also be talking out of my arris............:rotfl:

spud30

To be honest BB, I'm not sure I know what an average or small portion is

I'm being really good, avoiding synful food, booze etc but struggle with my portion sizes, then feel really full and uncomfortable

Each time we go to the supermarket, I take a list, yet still walk up and down every blimmin aisle filling my trolley. I get to the check-out and feel so annoyed with myself for doing it again, then get home, and have to fit it in the cupboards somewhere :rolleyes:

Burlesque_Babe

for me, a small portion is 1 small cereal bowl of whatever we are having for dinner - ie pasta bolognaise, chilli, stew etc....I've got a couple of chinese soup style bowls and I use one of them for lunch for leftovers from the night before and then for dinner. The first couple of weeks, I used this bowl quite a lot and am able to use it after my cookery class as OH often isn't here when I get in, I just have a ladle full of whatever I've put in the SC.

Moving up, a medium portion is ooooooh, thinking about today, this is my food today, which I'm quite worried about, amount wise:

b: 3 rashers of lean bacon, half tin beans, 3 egg yolks (don't do whites!)
l: 2/3 of a takeaway tub size of leftover chilli with 1 jacket potato made into SW wedges with 2 x HE cheese
mid afternoon: the other half of the tin of beans with another baking potato made into SW wedges

2 mullerlights and 2 bananas

Syns - I wasn't going to have any syns as I went mad yesterday and had 30. However, I had a choccy digestive bar which was 5 and erm...about 5 small squares of homemade toffee..so too many syns again....probably where I'm going wrong I guess, but unless I eat the small portions i'm feeling bloated but at the same time, I just want to keep eating, which is stupid as I was doing well with Paul McKenna's eat consciously and stop when full mantras.

Dinner tonight is roast chicken. I'm going to have the breast meat. I'll probably have 1 breast with some butter beans because I feel I've eaten too much today and then a mullerlight and a banana, but possibly not as it will be late.

I too have the 'shove it all in' problem - usually at the beginning of the month when the shopping OH pays for arrives - trying to contort packets of mince etc so they fit in the freezer!!