Going AWOL

Yet again I have neglected my blog and in the main slimming world...I have pretty much been on and off the wagon since a few days after my last post. Life has got in the way with dinner out with friends, domestic tasks and then a birthday. I won't catch you up on the food as I didn't actually take that many pictures of it or it just wasn't on plan....some things included a McDonalds, takeaway pizza or just random freezer food. I don't think I cooked much over the past week. Last weekend I did far too much domestic activity but we finally have a spare room that can be used and I am really pleased with what we did.

I figured I would fill you in some notable fun things from the last few days, I had my 34th birthday on Thursday and was very spoilt by my amazing Fiance and my amazing friends. 

I feel truly lucky to have such wonderful people in my life.

On the evening me and Rich went out to zaza bazaar which is an all you can eat restaurant. On Friday we went into Bath to visit an amazing book shop Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights as Rich had got me a reading spa for christmas.

It was fantastic we talked too the amazing Ed and Danielle who talked me through some books and recommending some to bring home. Rich kindly treated me to some when the pile was huge

I cannot wait to get working on the pile, Rich is going to pick one at random for me as I simply couldn't choose where to start. They kindly emailed me a list of books that I want to add to my ever growing to read pile (an equally impressive pile of books).

On the evening I went out with friends for a night of drinking and dancing....and falling over ;)

I will admit to spending most of yesterday feeling tender particularly as I had managed to fall over and hit my nose...which has a cute little bruise on it now. Doug was also feeling a tad rough due to hurting his leg so we spend the day relaxing and watching TV

So today I woke up and got right back on the purple bus, the day has been spent either reading, watching TV or playing Lego Marvel with Rich which I am planning to get back too as soon as my blog is done.

So how did my first day back on plan look....pretty yummy I must say.

 SW friendly fry up with 1 syn for the tomato sauce.

Two cheese pasta (4 laughing cow blue cheese triangles and 40g grated cheese) with orzo, courgette, mushrooms and onion.

 Muller Banoffee pie yogurt (1 syn) and grapes

 Toad in the hole (5 syns) with veg mini roasties and gravy (1.5)

Danio honey yogurt (1.5) two hifi bars (HEB) oreo cookies (2.5) and a nana.

My total syns for the day were 12.5 and I enjoyed being back on plan. I am now going to go back to saving the Marvel universe. Night night all xoxo

Catching up again

So yet again I haven't blogged for a few days, the evenings have been filled with football and then a movie date with a friend so I've not had the chance to sit down and concentrate on blogging. So lets rewind to Tuesday first off and weigh in day. I was hoping that my efforts on the weekend and the exercise would be worth it. I stood on the scales and was rewarded with a 2.5lb loss. I will admit I was a tad dissapointed as wanted more but that's just greedy ;) the good thing is I have now done two weeks on the trot and do feel more in control again. I have a few social occasions coming up in the next two weeks due to my birthday and I will be flexi synning on the events and then on plan the rest of the time so I can keep focused on my goals.

Apart from weigh in Tuesday was just the normal day work wise, I came home from weigh in and watched the football and enjoyed a plan takeaway pizza. Food wise the day looked like this.

 Porridge (HEB) with yogurt and fruit

 Grapes mid morning

 Quorn fillet pieces and salad with fruit and babybels (HEA)

I forgot to take a picture of the pizza as I was so egrossed in the game. So I found this was me with the pizza. 

On too yesterday, again work was unremarkable the usual do my job come home walk Doug sort of day except there was an addition of a date with my lovely sparkly unicorn Jen. We had decided to go and see The Book Thief after both loving the book and the film was fab, it stayed close to the book in most places and tears were shed by me at the end. It was good to hang out with my Jen we went for a drink before hand and had a bit of a drool over the dessert cabinet but did not divebomb it (though it was tempting)

Food wise it was a good nom day

 Dorset fruit muesli with fruit and yogurt

 Grapes....not really a surprise there

Bfree wrap (HEB) with 1tbsp of mayo (0.5) quorn chicken slices and lettuce with babybels (HEA) and more fruit.

Quorn chicken fillets in Maggi so tender paprika papyrus papers (3 syns for both) veg and sw chips. I also had 2tbsp of tommy sauce (1).

Chocolate muller dessert (5)

Today hasn't been anything out of the ordinary it was proper foggy today...one of those days when you look out across Clifton Downs and expect to see a zombie coming through the fog...or is it just me that thinks that.....

I would argue that I resembled a zombie a bit today too as I spent lunch reading my book and listening to my music that when lunch was done I had gone into a trance like state. Coffee was required a lot today particular post lunch. Once work was done we headed to Asda for a few bits tomorrow and I took the opportunity to grab some new healthy b's

You can have one sachet as a HEB so I am looking forward to trying these out. I tend to have the same cereals all the time so decided to mix things up a bit so expect to see some different bits coming soon. 

Food looked like this today

 Dorset fruit muesli yogurt and fruit

 Grapes....

 Speedy tomato soup and fruit

Amazing dinner two quorn southern fried burgers (5) with cheese (HEA) wholemeal roll (HEB) sw chips garlic shrooms and salad.

Twirl (6) and oreos (2.5).

I'm out tomorrow night so probably won't blog until Saturday again I will be making the best decisions I can tomorrow whilst still enjoying dinner with my lovely friends. Night night all xoxo

Gorges Crufts tears and worms

I did mean to blog yesterday however I spent the whole day in Nazi Germany and once I left I was a tad emotional so wasn't in the mood to blog.

The reason for the tears was the above book which I would recommend to anyone who likes reading. It is an amazing and moving book. As a former history nerd (my degree was in this) I do find this period of history particularly fascinating but until this book had not been able to find a fiction book that has held my interest. 

So anyway lets reverse back to Friday, I had the day off work so took full advantage of this by first having a slight lay in before dropping Rich off at work and then taking Doug out on an adventure. I am lucky that I now work in Clifton which is a beautiful part of Bristol but I haven't really explored it enough so I took Doug up for a walk across the clifton downs and found the gorge that Id been told about.

I was really chuffed with how far I walked and it was worth it as the views were amazing. Once we were done with our walk we had to go and pick up the shopping then it was time to do some relaxing. I was conscious that we were going to crufts on Saturday so made an effort to prep some bits to take with me as I remembered from last year that it was tricky to find on plan food.

Apart from the walk then some sitting we didn't do much else Friday Doug was dropped off for his sleepover with his aunty Liz and Dudley before we headed up to the Midlands. On route we had to stop for coffee and I decided to save my HEA for it.

Food wise the rest of the day looked like this

 Rice pudding with fruit and a coffee

 Jacket potato topped with baked beans and HEA of cheese plus quorn tikka slices (F) and salad

 Fruit and walkers pop crisps (4)

Quorn sausages (3) in a homemade tomato sauce with pasta and 2x HEB of cheese. My syns for the day were 7 plus probably 1 or 2 for the extra milk.

On to Saturday which was Crufts day, I love going to Crufts and meeting all the dogs and shopping (aka spoiling Doug). One of the highlights of the day was meeting Victoria Stillwell who is one of my heroes.

We did so much walking (about 12000 steps which based on Rich's normal walk is about 4.5 miles) we met lots of dogs and again debated the merit of a little brother or sister for Doug and got many doggie kisses. We also did far too much shopping so Doug now has even more toys the spoilt little man he is. Crufts finished about 8 and we headed back home via Liz's to collect our little furbaby. It was a long day but so worth it and I am already looking forward to next years :D

Food wise I am so chuffed with myself as I stayed on plan the whole day despite the temptations.

Rice pudding with fruit and a coffee

 Hifi bar (1/2 HEB)

 Subway salad bowl (2 syns for sweet onion dressing) to which I added my babybels (HEA) and quorn tikka fillets

 Random snack box including low fat quorn sausages

 Other half of my HEB plus grapes whilst watching the flyball.

Sandwich when I hot home as I had the munchies so I used my final HEB on this sandwich which had 2 tbsp of mayo (1 syn) cucumber and quorn chicken slices. My syns for the day were 7 and I went to bed tired and happy.

Still with me? On to Sunday I woke up very sore from all the walking so it was always going to be a lazy day. I spent the majority of the day reading my book and watching Rich play Stick of Truth.

As you can see Doug was on board with the lazy day. It was a good day though the worms seem to have taken root in my stomach and I was struggling to feel full until quite late in the day. I hate days like this as usually they mean I go off plan and gorge but I stuck to plan the whole day. Food wise the day shaped up a bit like this

 SW fry up (1 syn for the tomato sauce)

 Speedy tomato soup with a cheese toastie (HEA and HEB)

Oaty biscuits (HEB) I had a biscuit craving and saw this recipe online so thought I'd try. They are really simple to make too. 35g of porridge oats, 1 tbsp of sweetener and 1 egg. Mix together well and then make into biscuit shapes and bake for 15 minutes at 200. I tweaked the recipe a bit as added 20g of peanut hottie (4 syns) and an extra egg. The mix made 6 biscuits so I had three as a mid afternoon snack.

 Sausage mash and gravy (1.5) with veggies

 The rest of the biscuits topped with 2 tsp of choc shot (1 syn) and two bubbly bites.

Told you I had worms sw chips with a tbsp of tomato sauce (0.5) taking my syns too 14.5.

And finally we are on today, we both had the day off work so once a few chores were done we settled down to some serious gaming

It was fab and I spent most of the time smashing stuff (I was Hulk a lot). This evening we watch Captain America: The First Avenger in preparation for the new movie coming out. I had worms again today and was also really tired which was annoying. Food wise the day was like this

 Magic muffins with fruit and 2 tsp of choc shot (1)

 BBQ quorn fillet with salad and cheese (HEA) inside a BFree wrap (HEB)

 Melon and grape snackpot

 Bubbly bite (3) being watched by the adorable Doug

Quorn chicken fillets done in maggi so tender papyrus papers (3 syns) sw chips and salad. You will notice the few mushrooms....this was due to a slight burning of food issue and we couldnt salvage many :( (sad face as I love my shrooms)

Movie snacks walkers pops (4) oreos (2.5) and a muller light taking the day to 13.5.

It's weigh in tomorrow and I'm hoping for a good result as I have been on the wagon and done more exercise than normal. I won't be staying to group however as have a rather important football match to watch (come on Arsenal!!!).

Thankyou for bearing with me on the whistle stop tour of the past 4 days I am going to head to bed now as I have work tomorrow night night all xoxo