What I Ate This Week on Slimming World – Week 3  – My new addition to the blog, where I share my weekly food diary. This is so much better than just a basic Meal Plan because you will see the food exactly how it was made and enjoyed.

I must admit I struggled on a few days this week, but managed to fight through and kept to plan apart from the couple of days where my syns were slightly over. Luckily, because I was under on a few days too, it evened out a little. I was pleasantly surprised with my weight loss this week. That’s 5lbs off now in total in 3 weeks, which to some is not much, but it’s a good weight loss for me, as my weight losses are pretty slow nowadays. Remember that this is your own personal journey, so as hard as it is, try not to compare your journey to other’s, there are so many different factors to weight loss, and two people who weigh the same, are the same height and eat exactly the same things will not lose weight at the same rate. It’s something I have to remind myself sometimes too.

Logging my diaries here is definitely helping and I recommend it to anyone who is struggling with motivation. Whether it be on My Facebook group or through your own Instagram account. If you need some extra tips for keeping motivated. Check out my – 10 Tips to Increase Motivation on Slimming World

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Here is what I ate this What I Ate This Week on Slimming World – Week 2  starting Monday 21st May 2018:

Monday

Breakfast: 

• Crispy Streaky Bacon, oven baked – (2.5 syns)
• Whole Wheat Bread, toasted (HEb)
• Egg cooked in cooking oil spray
• Spinach (S)

Lunch:

• Sausage Chicken (2 syns)
• Steamed Vegetables (S)
• Butternut Squash Fries
• Feta (part HEa)
• Salsa (0.5 syns)

The butternut squash fries I cooked in my air fryer with some cooking oil spray, with a pinch of paprika and sea salt. The sausage is from Costco in the USA, but there are many different varieties of low syn sausages out there.

Dinner: 

• Leftover  Guinness Beef Brisket (2 syns)
• Baked Sweet Potato
• Spring Onions (S)

Recipe: Slow Cooker Guinness Beef Brisket

For the sweet potato, I pierced and added to the microwave for 4 minutes to save time and then finished off in the oven. Once cooked, just slice in half, season with sea salt and black pepper and sprinkle with spring onions. There is lots of veg in the beef brisket dish, usually, I would add some additional speed foods, but I had plenty of speed foods at lunchtime.

Snacks:

• Yoghurt
• Peach
• Tea and Coffee
• Gold bar (6 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: FETA/MILK
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: WHOLE WHEAT ENGLISH BREAD
• TOTAL SYNS: 13

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Tuesday

I was out most the day today as my youngest had some appointments to go to. Lunch was a grab and go of sushi, no nutritional info on the box, so will estimate the syns for that. Dinner was really quickly thrown together when I got in.

Breakfast: 

• Oatmeal – (HEb)
• Raspberries (S)
• Blueberries (S)
• 1/2 tbs of peanut butter (2.5 syns)
• 1/2 tbs of raspberry jam (1 syn)
• 1/2 a mini almond crunch cookie, crumbled (0.5 syns)

Lunch:

• Sushi Box (5 syns)
• Apple (S)

Dinner: 

• Pork Sausages (2.5 syns)
• Rice with corn and green chilli’s
• Sauteed Zucchini (S)
• Salsa (0.5 syns)
• Feta (part HEa)

The rice I cooked in stock, double amounts liquid to rice, added in some frozen corn and canned green chilli’s. Bring to a boil, then simmer to stock is just absorbed into the rice, turn off heat, add lid and leave for 10 mins, then it’s cooked perfectly. The zucchini I just pan fried in some cooking oil spray with salt and black pepper until lightly golden, yummy with some crumbled feta over the top.

Snacks:

• Peach
• Tea/Coffee
• Kettle Corn Popcorn (5 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: FETA/MILK
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: OATS
• TOTAL SYNS: 17 (slightly over today, but the sushi probably wasn’t 5 syns, so hopefully okay)

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WEDNESDAY

Breakfast: 

• 3 egg omelette
• Sticky Sriracha mushrooms (2 SYNS) (S)
• Spring Onions (S)

For the mushrooms, I browned 3 large sliced mushrooms with some cooking oil spray and sea salt, then whisk 1 tsp of sriracha with 1 tbs of maple syrup and 2 tbs of water, add into the pan and heat until it reduces down and goes sticky around the mushrooms, serve with omelette and some chopped spring onions.

Lunch:

• Spicy Chicken and Vegetable Soup (S)
• Cheddar butter bean bites (HEa)

Recipes: Spicy Chicken and Vegetable Soup and  Cheddar Butter Bean Bites

Dinner: 

• Pasta
• Red Pesto (3 syns)
• grated zucchini Zucchini (S)

I really didn’t feel like much for dinner tonight, so small bowl of pasta with 1 tbs of red pesto stirred through, also added a little bit of passata to make it a bit more saucy and then grated in some zucchini for speed.

 

Snacks:

• Pear (S)
• Tea/Coffee
• Cereal Bar (HEb)
• Ice Lolly (3 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: Cheddar
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: cereal bar
• TOTAL SYNS: 8

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THURSDAY

Breakfast: 

• Whole wheat bread – (HEb)
• Egg
• tomatoes (S)
• Sausages (2.5 SYNS)

Lunch:

• Red pesto, sweet potato and tuna burgers (2 syns)
• baby greens and cucumber (S)
• dressing (1 Syn)

Recipe: Red Pesto, Sweet potato and Tuna burgers

Dinner: 

• Shepherds Pie (1.5 syns)

Recipe: Shepherd’s Pie 

Snacks:

• Banana
• Tea/Coffee
• Fox classic bar (6.5 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: milk
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: whole wheat bread
• TOTAL SYNS: 13.5

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Friday

Breakfast: 

• whole wheat English muffin – (HEb)
• sautéed garlic mushrooms (S)
• Poached eggs

Recipe: Garlic Sauteed Mushrooms

I love these mushrooms, they are the best way to cook mushrooms syn free. Gives them a kind of butter flavoury that is just yum!!

Lunch:

• mixed berries (S)
• pear (S)
• yoghurt
• crumbled almond crunch cookie (2 syns)

It’s been a really hot day today, and I really didn’t fancy a meal for lunch. This was perfect.

Dinner: 

• Grilled chicken
• Corn on the cob
• Coleslaw (S)(1 Syn)
• Syn Free chips
• Ketchup (1 Syn)

Perfect dinner tonight to get rid of the take away cravings. The chicken I seasoned with paprika, salt, pepper, sumac and mixed herbs. Then heated up my Staub Cast Iron Grill Pan in the oven. Sprayed the chicken with cooking oil spray and baked until lovely and golden.

Chips I cooked in my Nuwave Air Fryer just sprayed with cooking oil spray and seasoned with salt, tossed in a bowl and then added to the air fryer. They took about 18 mins.

This is my coleslaw recipe. It’s yummy

Snacks:

• Tea/Coffee
• apple
• birthday cake Halotop Ice Cream (3.5 syns)
• Fox classic bar (6 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: milk
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: whole Wheat English muffin
• TOTAL SYNS: 13.5

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SATURDAY

Breakfast: 

• 2 boiled eggs
• air fryer potato wedges soldiers

For the potato wedges, I just season with salt, spray with cooking oil spray and add to the air fryer till golden.

Lunch:

• • Red pesto, sweet potato and tuna burgers (2 syns)
  • coleslaw (1 syn)
  • cucumber 

  Recipe: Red Pesto, Sweet potato and Tuna burgers and coleslaw

Dinner: 

• Lean Burger (2 syns) – supermarket brand
• 57g 100% Whole Wheat Roll (HEb)
• Tomatoes
• Onions
• 30g Cheddar (HEa)
• sweet potato fries (0.5 syns)
• Salad
• Dressing (1 syn)
• Ketchup (1 Syn)

recipe: Sweet Potato Fries

Snacks:

• Tea/Coffee
• Apple
• Ice Lolly (3 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: CHEESE
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: 100% whole wheat roll
• TOTAL SYNS: 11.5

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SUNDAY

Breakfast: 

• 40g Steel Cut Oats (HEb)
• Banana
• Blueberries (S)
• Peach (S)
• drizzle of milk (part HEa)
• 1 tbs maple syrup (2 syns)
• crumbled mini almond crunch cookies (1 syn)

woke up craving oatmeal this morning, and this was perfect. I love when peaches are in season and nice and ripe.

Lunch:

• Leftover Grilled Chicken
• Lettuce (S)
• Tomatoes (S)
• Spring Onions (S)
• Dressing (1.5 syns)

We had to dash out today, so lunch needed to be quick, this was super easy to make and really yummy. I had some leftover chicken, which I warmed up, and then shredded and served in lettuce wraps with tomatoes, spring onion and a drizzle of dressing.

Dinner: 

• 2 egg omelette
• bacon
• spring onions (S)
• baby leaves (S)
• Cucumber (S)
• Dressing (1 syn)

It was so late when we got back home, that by the time I was ready for dinner, it was pretty late, so an omelette with salad seemed perfect. It’s actually great when the weather is warm, as I crave all the good salad stuff (apart from ice cream of course)

Snacks:

• Tea/Coffee
• Pineapple
• Pear
• Monster Munch Crisps (5.5 syns)
• Cereal Bar (4.5 syns)

 

• HEALTHY EXTRA A: CHEESE
• HEALTHY EXTRA B: 100% whole wheat roll
• TOTAL SYNS: 15.5

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TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS THIS WEEK: 2LB

A lovely surprise, and motivation for me to really focus this week and stay on plan.

How did you do this week?

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