Week 16 - My Food Diary

So in the interest of keeping myself honest, and ensuring that I track everything I eat, I decided to start an exercise of logging my diary on my blog.  Not too sure how interested any one might be in what I have stuffed in my gob on a weekly basis, but sure we will see how it goes!

This week I lost 2.5lb

This is what I ate to help me loose it:

Date	Meals	Points Used
10 November 2015	Breakfast Baked Eggs with Asparagus and smoked salmon and slice of bread	8
	Snack 2 Rye Crackers with Hummous Zero Points Soup	3
	Lunch Baked Goats cheese and tomatoes with Rye Crackers Chocolate Snack Bar	5     3
	Snack 2 Rye Crackers and Hummous	3
	Dinner Burger	9
	Snack Jellies	10
	Points Used	40
	Weeklies Left	37
	Activity Points Earned	4

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
11 November 2015	Breakfast Smoked Salmon, Laughing Cow Light, Tomato and Bagel Slim Water	6
	Snack Banana	0
	Lunch Zero Point Carrot and Ginger Soup with a toasted cheese slimbo	5
	Snack Grapes, Granola and Yougart	3
	Dinner Scrambled Eggs and Toast with Tea and Skimmed Milk	10
	Snack Cranberry Cereal Bar Digestive Biscuits	5
	Points Used	29
	Weeklies Left	36
	Activity Points Earned	5

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
12 November 2015	Breakfast ½ an avocado mashed and mixed with two cherry tomatoes, tsp lemon juice, pinch of pepper and pinch of chilli flakes, spread over a bagel slim and topped with 50g smoked salmon Green tea and lemon	9
	Snack Banana 142ml Skimmed Milk	2
	Lunch Goats Cheese and Red Onion in Balsamic Reduction on Slimbo	5
	Snack Cracker and Peanut Butter	4
	Dinner Salmon and Pasta with a creamy sauce	12
	Snack Cranberry Bar 4 x Digestive Biscuits	6
	Points Used	38
	Weeklies Left	26
	Activity Points Earned	3

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
13 November 2015	Breakfast Boiled Egg and Bagel Slim Green Tea	6
	Snack Banana Curly Wurly	3
	Lunch Goats Cheese Sandwich with caramelised red onion in a balsamic reduction	5
	Snack Mandrin
	Dinner Chicken Stir Fry	12
	Points Used	26
	Weeklies Left	26
	Activity Points Earned	3

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
14 November 2015	Breakfast Sausages and Bagel Slim Green Tea	9
	Snack Banana	0
	Lunch Tomato soup Cranberry Bar	3
	Dinner Beef Stir Fry	10
	Snack Curly Wurly ½ Pint Skimmed Mil	7
	Points Used	29
	Weeklies Left	23
	Activity Points Earned	2

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
15 November 2015	Breakfast Bagel Slim with Poached Egg and Smoked Salmon	7
	Snack Apple
	Lunch Cracker x 2 with homemade Guacamole Banana	6
	Snack Toffee Crisp	7
	Dinner Steak and Homemade Oven Chips	12
	Points Used	32
	Weeklies Left	19
	Activity Points Earned	0

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
16 November 2015	Breakfast Slimbo with poached egg and smoked salmon Green Tea	7
	Snack Banana Mandrin
	Dinner Steak and Chips	22
	Snack Chipsticks	3
	Points Used	32
	Weeklies Left	15
	Activity Points Earned	4

 

Date	Meals	Points Used
16 November 2015

 

 

 

Week 5 - The Meals

I ate out a lot last week, being in London. So the opportunity to get busy in the kitchen didn't really present itself until this weekend. I kept it very simple for most of the weekend with nothing too adventurous, just lots of fruit and yougart and, my absoulte favourite of anything in all the land, the humble boiled egg.  You literally cannot beat it with a stick, unless its hardboiled, then you could use that bad boy as a Sliotar. 

Anyway, when I did get into the kitchen, I went a bit mad. I had a goo on my for Paella. It's not made the traditional way with peas and other seafood and chicken, I basically just had chorizo and prawns in, but I was trying to keep it down in ProPoints as it was a lunch and I was planning a pretty epic dinner. 

I may have mentioned before, but I love an oul Chinese meal. Just love it.  But whenever I order in I'm always left over full from the MSG (ehm.. nothing to do with the copious amounts of food I order) and mildly dissatisfied.  A member on the Weight Watchers facebook page posted this recipe and I literally had to try it. Couldn't stop thinking about it all day. Salt and Chili Chicken. It was as good, if not better, than anything I could have ordered in.

Being away forced my to really look at my fruit and veg in take as I was trying to keep the points down as low as I could. Here's hoping it worked out! 

Week 3 - The Meals

This week I tried to get busy with my low propoint snacks and lunches. I have found it a bit tricky to stay within my 26 propoints, so I decided to get creative.  My favourite things to munch on this week were:

Snacks:

I found these really cute mini bagels.  They are only 2 propoints and they are perfect for having something as simple as peanut butter and banana or cream chesse and salmon.

My favourite snack this week was the frozen grapes.  They were lovely and really felt like a good treat.

Lunches 
The best lunch I had, by far, was the smoked salmon, avacado and tomato on a slim! It was so tasty that I was a little bit sad when it ended... so sad that I had it twice in the week! It's a quick and healthy meal to fling together! Brilliant when I am starving and just about to reach for something bold!

Dinners
I had a great variety of dinners this week. I had Prawn Cocktail, I had Strawberry, Feta Cheese and Prawns on a bed of spinach with a balsamic vinegar dressing. which was lovely and light and refereshing and at only 8 ProPoints sure you would be mad not to try it!

I am loving loving loving avacado at the moment, and this Grilled Fillet of Hake with Avacado Sauce and Saffron scented couscous was so nice.. again, tears when it was all gone! Even Himself liked this one!

The final and absolute winner is my Fake-Away Chicken and Hot Garlic Sauce  Filled with lovely crunchy stir fried veggies and brown rice, it will kill any craving you have for a MSG filled Chinese take away, and it's only 13 ProPoints!!

Week 2 - The Meals

One of the really great things about this lifestyle, is how it gets my excited and creative when it comes to my meals.  I find that I can sometimes get stuck in a little rut with my food, when I am staying on track and motivated, I nearly always have three or four new things in one week.

This week, my favourite thing to eat was the Chicken Enchilada Casserole.  It was so perfect for comfort food with my mild hangover (that I was denying the existence of).  I also loved my porridge oats for breakfast.  My most favourite lunch was my fish finger sandwich.  I had the biggest goo on me for one and it hit all the right spots.  Sometimes, it's the simplest things that are the best!!

I have been using these crackers

They are 1 ProPoint for 2 crackers and made with soya beans.  They are really tasty and a great low point snack from tyding you over! 

Here's a look at some of the foods I have been eating throughout the week.

I'm looking forward to getting creative next week! 

Week 1 - The Meals

This week was great for getting me to get a little bit creative with my meals. It made me start thinking about what I was eating and ways to keep it interesting.

Here's a little look at some of what I made.. I kept forgetting to take pictures of the meals, so some of the images are from the Weight Watchers website

My favorite breakfasts this week were Eggs in Hellfire (which can be found in the recipe section) and avocado, tomato and smoked salmon on toast.  I used the Aldi Slimbo breads, they only have 2 propoints in them.

My favorite lunch was the Goats Cheese and Parma Ham Salad.

I made the weight watchers Moussaka and reaslised that I do not actually like aubergines at all whatsoever, but my daughter seems to so it wasn't a complete waste.  It's a pity, because the recipe is only 3 propoints so it would have been a handy little point saver if I did like it!  My favorite dinner this week was rosemary chicken and sweet potato fries. Delicious.  I just need to figure out a way of making the fries crisper without actually dunking that in a deep fat frier!!!

Snacks were a lot of fruit salads and popcorn!

Week One - The Simple Start Plan

Now that I am a busy Mum of one who is also working, I have found the only way for me to manage what I eat is to be fully prepared.  Once upon a time, before I was a Mama and a Wife, I used to spend one day a week filling up my freezer with dinners that I could just defrost and reheat.  It helped when I got in from work and was too hungry to prepare something nice for myself.

So this is something I am adopting this week.  I have it all planned out what I am having to eat this week - until Friday that is. But I will get the weekend sorted out on Thursday.

I have made myself Mason Jar salads for the week. I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it was a really good way of making sure I didn't reach for the wrong things, and, Day 1, it worked!

My salads this week include

Spicy prawns with noodles, red onion, mango, red pepper and chili.

Goats cheese and parma ham with spinach, walnuts and a balsamic vinegar dressing

Orzo pasta with pinenuts, spinach, tomato and basil and Parmesan shavings

I went and did my food shopping yesterday and I spent a couple of hours after I came home chopping and preparing all the veg and different snacks, again, prep to make sure that I have no excuse to reach for the wrong thing.

Dinners this week will include:

Baked Trout with lemon and herb couscous and roasted red onions

Spicy beef wrap

Weight watchers pizza

Roasted vegetables and couscous

For my breakfasts I like something big and hearty. Breakfast nearly always includes an egg in some shape or form for me. This week I am having

Crumpet and poached egg

Eggs Hellfire, without the cheese.  This is an amazing spicy tomato sauce that the egg is poached in. Its really delicious and an amazing hangover cure if you needed one.

Scrambled egg and smoked salmon

Breakfast hash

This is everything I have organised so far.  Here's hoping my organisation works for me!