Allow me to wax lyrcial about my husband for a moment – I promise it won’t take long and you can always hit that big red button and close the window if you can’t be done with the romantic pukings for a few moments.
This week has had its ups and downs – come to think of it July had lots of them too by itself!
On Tuesday after I’d been to the cinema with Our Sidekick I came home and Chris and I got the house ready for our Fostering Annual Review that we expected to be on Wednesday before Connect Group. He surprised me with the picnic that I wrote about earlier in the week.
On Monday our friend JD came round for tea and to hang out as we hadn’t really seen her recently. She’s been on a mission and has lost a bunch of weight and got healthier in the process. Chris had mentioned how different she looked and I explained what she’d been up to. So…on Thursday I went to join Slimming World. Now the idea of dieting to me fills me with a bit of dread – am I going to need to watch what I eat for the rest of my life to make sure I don’t put all the weight that I lose back on again? With my friend Dwayne who’s been helping with all the exercise stuff heading back home in a few weeks, am I going to fall back into bad habits?
No chance! Chris is on a mission of his own. When I got in from band on Thursday I hadn’t had any tea – I’d polished off two bananas but that’s not really tea. As a sort of last hurrah I had chicken nuggets from a certain yellow arched fast food takeaway place (mainly because Our Sidekick hadn’t had tea either as Chris had to put his International Rescue uniform on and go rescue a friend while I was at band). 6 chicken nuggets have quite a few syns – they aren’t impossible to fit into the plan but most days I will probably attempt to avoid them! I kept a note of what I had eaten on Thursday (although I think most of it wasn’t on plan!) and so officially on Friday morning I started this slightly mad journey.
Breakfast consisted of Shreddies and milk – the shreddies had to be measured quite precisely to make sure they fit as my Healthy B Choice…the milk also was measured – 250ml on the dot – that’s it for the whole day!
Lunch – Chris had cooked me a piece of chicken that I could have cold with chopped up carrots and then a banana for pudding. I got part way through my chicken and it wasn’t cooked completely so I had to leave it. I was in a bit of a panic as I had 15 minutes left of my lunch break and needed something to fill the lunch sized hole. I grabbed a sandwich from the canteen – it was egg mayo (low fat mayo that is) with two slices of brown or wholemeal bread (I’m told there is a difference but I’ve still not quite figured it out!). I did get a little worked up because I knew that I’d mounted up the syns against me just through lunch.
Dinner – this was a little easier as Chris was here to help me out. He cooked pasta, a better cooked piece of chicken and saw that I could have soy sauce as syn free so it was sprinkled over the top. I also had baby carrots.
Breakfast this morning consisted of two weetabix, a banana and natural yoghurt – the yoghurt is manky, it’s quite sour in taste……… Chris says I can try sweetener in it to make it taste a bit better. Can you use sweetener in cakes? I wonder…..that might take some more research.
Why am I saying this all this? Well… because Chris is being amazing, okay it’s only officially Day Two and a whole heap could go wrong from here but he’s being great helping me out to make sure I stay on track. Now we’re off on an adventure so I will catch you lot a whole bunch later. TTFN.
You are doing such a great job hon! The hardest step is the first one 🙂
You absolutely can use a granulated sweetener in baking, look for the silver spoon one – it is the one I use and it is awesome 🙂
I highly recommend planning your meals and writing them up when you do your shopping, it is the biggest tip I can give you and I can’t begin to tell you how much of a diet saver it has been for me on so many occasions!
Big huge hugs, what an awesome supportive hubby you have, it makes the journey that much easier xxx
Hello you!
Thank you for commenting again – I think I say it every time but I will keep saying it – thank you!!
A friend also recommended granulated sweetener but had said that it contains Aspartame but also to have a look for one that contains Stevia or something like that as its a plant extract.
Going to attempt planning and see if it makes a difference. I’ve found this evening that a Turkey Breast salad instead of a sub from a certain sub/sandwich chain is syn free – yeah! Even with ham as well it’s still syn free – might be making a homemade version for lunches at work.
The one I use does have aspartame in. Stevia is good too I believe and my friend uses one that is just like proper sugar but super pricy – I think its like erithol or something.
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