Food Diary Thursday 4th September 2008

Today was a green day. Went out for supper with my girlfriends and tried to be as good as possible, I feel I definately made better choices than normal, especially with pudding!


HEa - 28g cheese x 2
HEb - minced beef x 2
Syns - hmmm, chips, lasagna, ice cream...

Breakfast - muller lite
Lunch - peppers stuffed with savoury rice, melted cheese (hea2 from yesterday) on top
Tea - Had lasagna with a few chips. So the pasta was free, cheese and beef healthy extras. Had pudding too - poached pears with a little bit of ice cream
Supper - Snacks - grapes, mugshot

Food Diary Wednesday September 3rd 2008

Today was a green day and went better than previously in the week, probably because I finished the pick n mix on Tuesday!!

HEa - 350ml skimmed milk; 28g cheddar
HEb - 28g sultana bran; 2 alpen light bars
Syns - vege 1/4 pounder (2)

Breakfast - sultana bran (heb1) and milk (hea 1)
Lunch - peppers stuffed with savoury rice, melted cheese (hea2) on top - only ate half, rest of hea2 will carry over til tomorrow (does that make sense?), salad, free dressing
Tea - tomato risotto, vegetable 1/4 pounder (2)
Supper - 2 alpen light bars (heb2)
Snacks - strawberries, blackberries, blueberries

Food Diary Tuesday 2nd September 2008

Today was mix 2 max but not a good day, mostly due to pick n mix:

HEa -
HEb - 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - pick n mix (oops! again!!), super noodles (3.5)

Breakfast - strawberries & muller light
Lunch - ham buttie (heb1)
Tea - chicken super noodles (3.5)
Supper - Snacks - pick n mix (white choc mice and cola bottles)

Food Diary Monday 1st September 2008

Today was a Green day, my first proper day back on the plan since before I was ill last week. It was a good day apart from the pick n mix - remind me not to buy lots of sweets ever again!

HEa - 28g cheese, 28g cheese
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - pick n mix (oops!)

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (6)
Lunch - beans on toast (heb2)
Tea - salad with grated cheese, free dressing, bolognese pasta n sauce, cheese melted on it (hea cheese)
Supper -
Snacks - muller light, strawberries, pick n mix (white choc mice and cola bottles)

Food Diary Thursday 21st August 2008

It was a Red day, my last day at work before a flexi day out to the Bullring in Birmingham

HEa - 28g cheese, 28g cheese
HEb - 100g wholemeal pasta, 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - caesar dressing (3), butter & marmalade (3)

Breakfast - strawberries with vanilla muller light
Lunch - chicken & bacon caesar salad - chicken, bacon, lettuce, caesar dressing (?)
Tea - venison bolognese with wholemeal pasta (heb1) and cheese (hea 1 & 2)
Supper - toast (heb2) with butter and marmalade (3)
Snacks - mango

Food Diary Wednesday 20th August 2008

Today was a green day. Not the most inspiring of food diaries, and not enough HEbs!

HEa - 350ml skimmed milk
HEb - 2 alpen light bars
Syns - salad dressing (5), ainsley's tomato tango couscous (0.5), tomato risotto (4) = 9.5 syns

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (6)
Lunch - salad, dressing (5), couscous (0.5)
Tea - cherry tomato risotto (4)
Supper -
Snacks - muller light

Food Diary Tuesday 19th August 2008

Today was a red day, when I started on the much needed task of using up the contents of my freezer!!

HEa - 350ml skimmed milk
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 198g new potatoes
Syns - santini tomato salad dressing (5), tikka chicken mini fillets (0.5) = 5.5

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (heb1)
Lunch - salad with chicken tikka mini fillets (5 + 0.5)
Tea - syn free leek & pork sausages, syn free chilli & coriander burger (think it was pork, but not sure!), roasted new potatoes (heb2), carrots, cauliflower, green beans
Supper -
Snacks - muller light, cup of tea (hea1)

Food Diary Monday 18th August 2008

After a busy weekend with work which is good for my weight loss (too busy to eat naughty things!), back on the plan 'properly' today. A green day:

HEa -
HEb - 28g + 28g goats cheese
Syns - 2 alpen light bars (6), orzo pasta salad (1.5)

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (6)
Lunch - orzo pasta salad from marks (1.5)
Tea - roasted red pepper stuffed with cherry tomatoes, basil and goats cheese with roasted new potatoes and peas
Supper -
Snacks -

Oops, no HEas today, because goat's cheese is a HEb instead. The roasted red pepper with goats cheese was absolutely beautiful, as were the roasted new potatoes - I even took a photo on my mobile - how sad am I?!?

Food Diary Friday 15th August 2008

A green flexi day, due to weight loss this morning (sure that makes no sense at all - I'm rewarding myself for losing weight by eating chocolate!)

HEa -
HEb - 2 slices bread
Syns - butter (2), marmalade (1), stir fry sauce (?), maltesers (? - I'd rather not know!)

Breakfast - 2 slices toast (heb1) with butter (2) and marmalade (1)
Lunch - noodle & veg stir fry with chilli and ginger sauce (?)
Tea -
Supper - Maltesers - a big bag!
Snacks -

Food Diary Thursday 14th August 2008

A red day. Loving the venison bolognese - gutted that the local venison farm is closing, where will I get my venison now!?

HEa - 28g cheddar, 28g cheddar
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 35g wholemeal pasta
Syns - salad dressing (0.5), chicken (2.5) = 3

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (hea1)
Lunch - salad with dressing (0.5), chilli and lime chicken mini fillets (2.5)
Tea - venison bolognese, 35g wholemeal pasta (heb2), cheese (hea1 & 2)
Supper - Snacks - plums

Food Diary Wednesday 13th August 2008

Today was a green day:

HEa - skimmed milk, 28g cheddar
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 2 slices bread
Syns - salad dressing (5), butter (2), marmalade (1) = 8

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (heb1), cup of tea (hea1)
Lunch - salad with dressing (5), lemon and herb couscous
Tea - jacket potato filled with tomato and herb pasta n sauce, grated cheese on top (heb2)
Supper - rest of hea1 milk, toast (heb2) with butter (2) and marmalade (1)
Snacks - diet coke, water, grapes, tropical fruit salad, lasting satisfaction yoghurt

Food Diary Tuesday 12th August 2008

HEa - 28g cheddar
HEb - 227g jacket potato, 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - salad dressing (5), chicken (1.5), butter (2), marmalade (1) = 9.5

Breakfast - lasting satisfaction raspberry yoghurt
Lunch - salad with dressing (5), lime and coriander chicken mini fillets (1.5)
Tea - venison bolognese, jacket potato (heb1), cheese (hea1)
Supper - toast (heb2), butter (2), marmalade (1)

Today was a red day. The venison bolognese was yummy, will be having it again tomorrow as a Healthy Extra b (85g of it, just like beef).
Another good day this week...yippee!

Food Diary Monday 11th August 2008

After an alright weekend (loss on Friday, treat Friday night, good day Saturday, few drinks Saturday night, Sunday lunch and medicinal Maltesers on Sunday night!) back to plan on Monday, a green day...

HEa - skimmed milk
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 2 slices bread
Syns - salad dressing (5), roasted veg - oil (2.5), shortbread (2.5) = 10

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (heb1), cup of tea (hea1)
Lunch - salad with dressing (5), beans on toast (heb2), lasting satisfaction raspberry yoghurt
Tea - quorn peppered steak, roasted veg (2.5), new potatoes
Supper - cup of tea (hea1), shortbread (2.5)
Snacks - pepsi max, water, grapes

Food Diary Thursday 7th August 2008

Today has been quite a good food day. Working at home which usually means giving in to temptations which are more easily available at home! Today was a green day. I really enjoyed my lunch (whoever thought to put pasta n sauce inside a jacket potato is a genius) and my tea. I found the beef strips in the deep freeze, which is very very full at the moment - really need to use more food from the deep freeze!

HEa - skimmed milk, cheese
HEb - 2 slices wholemeal bread, 85g beef
Syns - butter (2), marmalade (1), stir fry sauce (5), dressing (5) = 13

Breakfast - toast (heb1), butter (2), marmalade (1), cup of tea (some of hea1)
Lunch - jacket potato, tomato pasta n sauce, cheese (hea2), salad with dressing (5)
Tea - beef (heb2) stir fry with noodles, veg, sauce (6)
Supper - milk (hea1)
Snacks - mango, fanta zero, water

First weight in since my new start tomorrow. I did have a sneaky weigh in this morning and the scales said 11st 7lb! Amazing! I'll wait until tomorrow for my 'official' weight in though.
I've been considering changing my weigh in day to Monday, following advice from my slimming world buddy KellyBigBoobs. Seems like a good idea which should stop my 'naughty' Sunday habit, well curb it anyway. Thanks Kelly!

Food Diary Wednesday 6th August 2008

Well, today was going to be a red day. I took in a chicken and bacon caesar salad to work for lunch. The chicken was sweet chilli and lime flavour chicken fillets from Marks. But I was at a meeting / presentation in work in a building I hadn't been in before which had a lovely little cafe. I had a vegetable risotto for lunch. It was lush! I'm guessing about 6 syns for the oil but I could be wrong (please leave a comment if I am!). And I had the chicken salad for tea - yes, you guessed it, that was lush too! So today turned out to be a mix 2 max day. Loving my food at the moment!


HEa - 28g parmesan, 350ml skimmed milk
HEb - 2 slices bread
Syns - oil in risotto (6?), dairy milk (1.5) a chaplain gave it to me at the work meeting - couldn't say no could I?, salad dressing (1), sweet chilli chicken fillets (2.5), marmalade (1) = 12

Breakfast - mullerlight
Lunch - vegetable risotto from cafe at work, parmesan (hea1)
Tea - salad, caesar dressing (1), sweet chilli chicken fillets (2.5), bacon
Supper - toast (heb2), marmalade, glass of milk (hea2)

Snacks - muller light, grapes, water

Food Diary Tuesday 5th August 2008

HEa - 350ml skimmed milk, 28g cheddar
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - french dressing (5)

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (heb1)
Lunch - beans on toast (heb2), muller light
Tea - tomato and herb pasta n sauce in a massive jacket potato with cheese (hea2)
Supper - milk (hea1)
Snacks - mullerlight, cherries

Good day - very yummy tea!

Food diary Monday 4th August 2008

Feeling positive - I've had quite a good weekend with Saturday being the only flexi day, which was planned. Back to work today, which was a red day:

HEa - 250ml semi skimmed milk
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, 2 slices wholemeal bread
Syns - caesar dressing (1), 56g rice (4), marmalade (1), butter (2)

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (heb1)
Lunch - chicken caesar salad (from SW mag): chargrilled chicken, bacon, lettuce, light caesar dressing (1)
Tea - chicken tikka masala (chicken, yoghurt, lemon juice, tikka spices, coriander), rice (4)
Supper - toast (heb2) with butter (2) and marmalade (1), milk (hea1)
Snacks - strawberries with vanilla yoghurt, mango

Yum, yum, I will definately be making the caesar salad and the tikka masala again! I even made pilau rice to go with the tikka masala (well, sort of pilau rice!). I fried some cumin, nutmeg and cinnamon in frylight, added a chopped onion and fried that for a bit. Added 50g of basmati rice and chicken stock (made with bovril). Bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes - yum yum yum!

Food diary Friday 1st August 2008

Just realised I haven't posted Friday's food diary yet (green day)! Here it is:

HEa - skimmed milk, cheese
HEb - 2 alpen light bars, cheese
Syns - dressing (5), pasta salad (1), lemon herb butter (3.5) = 9.5

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (HEb1), cup of tea (some of Hea1)
Lunch - salad, dressing (5), 200g orzo pasta salad from marks (1)
Tea - jacket potato, beans, cheese (Hea2 & Heb2), peas, brocolli and spinach with lemon and herb butter (3.5)
Supper - Snacks - water, chow mein mugshot, berry medley from marks, loads of dr pepper zero!

I'm quite proud of myself for not going mad after the disappointing weigh in results, and actually sticking to the plan - go Lowri, go Lowri!

Food diary Sunday 3rd August 2008

Today was a red day, and a very special day too - first Sunday ever I haven't had a flexi day - woo hoo!!

HEa - 28g parmesan cheese, semi skimmed milk
HEb - beef, pork
Syns - tomato sauce (3), coke (10.5) = 13.5

Breakfast -
Lunch - meatballs (heb1 & heb2) with linguine pasta, tomato sauce (3) and parmesan (hea1) - from Wetherspoons
Tea - quorn tikka masala (quorn, yoghurt, lemon juice, tikka spices, coriander), rice
Supper -
Snacks - full fat coke (10.5), berry fruit salad

The tikka masala was absolutely lovely and I will be making it again. I hope to get round to posting some of the recipes I try and like, and this will be one of them!
I'm also pleased with my choice at Wetherspoons, it's even inspired me to try to make my own meatballs sometime this week.

Food diary Saturday 2nd July 2008

I knew before I even got up that today would be a Flexi Syn day - it's Oswestry Show!!
Here's a brief look at what I ate:

HEa -
HEb - 2 alpen light bars
Syns - way too many to count!

Breakfast - 2 alpen light bars (HEb1), dr pepper zero
Lunch - salad, dressing (5), 200g orzo pasta salad from marks (1)
Tea - sausage sandwich
Supper - hog roast
Snacks - bitter, smirnoff ice, pringles, mini cheddaries, scone, fruit cake, etc etc, oh yes and half a pizza on the way home

I had fun!!