To recap, yesterday was my first day officially on plan and of course, it coincided with a birthday meal out. As I mentioned in previous post, dinner was at a Turkish restaurant, so relatively easy to choose on-plan food.
As soon as we sat down, waiters appeared with baskets full of sexy bread. Yes, sexy bread...you know the type, freshly cooked, almost flat-bread like, dripping with butter and oil and covered in herbs....sexy bread. I ABSTAINED. Yes, I sat and watched my family eat basket after basket, and whilst I was DESPERATE for a piece, I didn't even have a nibble. What I did eat was lot's of salad, one massive piece of calamari (definitely off-plan), two slices of grilled halloumi, too much tzatiki and a massive grilled sea bass. I was completely stuffed and can't believe I would usually have had all of that, plus a basket of bread, to myself. I also passed on the chocolate Birthday cake which wasn't a big deal as I'm not really into cake.
Today started with a 30 minute HIIT session with my PT. It was bloody freezing but at least the cold encouraged me to move a bit faster. My legs felt like lead though so perhaps rolling out of bed 15 mins before my session wasn't a great idea.
After saying yesterday that I was going to avoid syns until weigh in day, today I decided that actually the whole point of SW is to enjoy a few syns whilst losing weight. This doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy a freddo (these seem to be very popular on SW) but it does mean that honey is back in my porridge :)
Breakfast was my usual 40g of porridge oats cooked with almond milk, a big handful of raspberries thrown on top and a tablespoon of honey at 2.5 syns.
Lunch was two quorn chicken breasts cooked with piri piri seasoning. I still haven't been to the shops so I put olive oil in the frying pan to moisten it and then drained it out. Unfortunately this was still too dry to cook the quorn so I added the juice from one lemon. I had this with half a bag of Uncle Ben's Mexican microwave rice and broccoli. The syns for a whole bag of rice are 2.5 and as I'm having the same meal for dinner, it looks like my overall syns for the day are 5 which is not bad going.
I do plan on stopping in Tesco on my way home to pick up a syn free Muller Light to have as dessert with some strawberries later on. Gotta live a little on a Friday night!
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As soon as we sat down, waiters appeared with baskets full of sexy bread. Yes, sexy bread...you know the type, freshly cooked, almost flat-bread like, dripping with butter and oil and covered in herbs....sexy bread. I ABSTAINED. Yes, I sat and watched my family eat basket after basket, and whilst I was DESPERATE for a piece, I didn't even have a nibble. What I did eat was lot's of salad, one massive piece of calamari (definitely off-plan), two slices of grilled halloumi, too much tzatiki and a massive grilled sea bass. I was completely stuffed and can't believe I would usually have had all of that, plus a basket of bread, to myself. I also passed on the chocolate Birthday cake which wasn't a big deal as I'm not really into cake.
Today started with a 30 minute HIIT session with my PT. It was bloody freezing but at least the cold encouraged me to move a bit faster. My legs felt like lead though so perhaps rolling out of bed 15 mins before my session wasn't a great idea.
After saying yesterday that I was going to avoid syns until weigh in day, today I decided that actually the whole point of SW is to enjoy a few syns whilst losing weight. This doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy a freddo (these seem to be very popular on SW) but it does mean that honey is back in my porridge :)
Breakfast was my usual 40g of porridge oats cooked with almond milk, a big handful of raspberries thrown on top and a tablespoon of honey at 2.5 syns.
Lunch was two quorn chicken breasts cooked with piri piri seasoning. I still haven't been to the shops so I put olive oil in the frying pan to moisten it and then drained it out. Unfortunately this was still too dry to cook the quorn so I added the juice from one lemon. I had this with half a bag of Uncle Ben's Mexican microwave rice and broccoli. The syns for a whole bag of rice are 2.5 and as I'm having the same meal for dinner, it looks like my overall syns for the day are 5 which is not bad going.
I do plan on stopping in Tesco on my way home to pick up a syn free Muller Light to have as dessert with some strawberries later on. Gotta live a little on a Friday night!
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