Mayflower Curry - Weigh Day

So tonight at group I had an unjustified gain of 1.5lb! I say unjustified... it probably was justified in some way I just refuse to believe it! I had a week off work which meant a week where I should have been planning meals and eating well which transpired to eating cake and living off service station coffee. Oh well! Hoping for a loss bigger than 1.5lb next week to balance it out! Here's my weigh day treat this week, no chippy or takeaway...a FAKEAWAY. It's the Mayflower Curry with some Egg Fried Rice. I really need to make this more! It was 4 syns worth because I used ALL the sauce but its a damn sight better than my other options!

Miss Slinky 2016

So now that I've got over the shock... I won this at group tonight.
I genuinely couldn't stop shaking I was so amazed to have gotten it. So many incredible people at my group tonight that inspire each other week in, week out. I've had a bit of a wobble recently I'll be the first to admit that so I didn't think I would even be nominated let alone win this.
An amazing taster full of low syn and syn free treats too, loads I want to remake, and my heads back in the game! 8lbs to go to target! Let's do this!

Half A Syn Sausage Rolls!

I am far too excited to devour a plate full of these at Taster tonight, and the best thing...
THEY'RE HALF A SYN EACH!!!

They are beautiful and will definitely be made again, in massive batches so I can live off them over the Christmas period and not feel guilty!

They are from the new Festive Feasts book that is available in groups this week, I got mine free with the Countdown Offer last month at group. I can't wait to try some other recipes from this book especially if they are as good as these!!

Chunky Soup

Lunches tend to be super hard to plan for me, I either bring too much food or not enough theres no inbetween. Although I find bringing a chunky soup fills me a lot more than one that is completely blended.

I've posted this recipe before but I think it's one of my favourites. I tend to mix it up slightly based on what veg and herbs and spices I have in the this is the original recipe:

1 onion, peeled and finely chopped (I got a bag of the precut onions from asda and just chucked the whole packet in)
1 red pepper, diced (I used two this time)
2 large skinless and boneless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
800g canned chopped tomatoes
400ml chicken stock - I used 3 stock cubes to make sure it was relatively thick
1 tbsp chopped rosemary
1 tbsp crushed chillies
2 tbsp. tomato puree
Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
I also chucked in a packet of cherry tomatoes (halved and quartered) as they weren't going to get used otherwise.

Method:-


Place the onion and pepper in a large non-stick saucepan and stir-fry for 4-5 minutes.
Add the chicken, tomatoes, stock, rosemary and lemon zest, chillies and juice.
Bring to the boil, stir, then cover and simmer on a medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Season to taste and serve

This recipe is completely syn free and so filling!

Face to face Friday

Timehop likes showing me some lovely photos from my time at uni, when I went out every night and ate what I wanted and generally just didn't care. Nice to see such a difference! So proud of myself for sticking to Slimming World, would recommend it to anyone!

Lemon Loaf

Lemon Loaf made! 1 Syn per piece and lovely way to stay on plan.

Ingredients
•2 lemons
•5 eggs
•45g granulated sweetener (or just 30g if not having a glaze)
•50g self raising flour

Directions
1.Add 30g of the sweetener and flour in a bowl
2.Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into the mix
3.Using a hand grater, zest both lemons and add the zest to the mix
4.Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Keep the whites aside, beat the yolks and add to the mixture
5.Whisk the egg whites until they are fluffy and form soft peaks. Fold into the mixture
6.Add to the cake tray
7.Bake for 20-30 minutes on 180C until golden brown, allow to cool a little.
8.Use the rest of the sweetener with a dash of water to make a paste to go on top as a glaze. I don't do this but it is upto you.

ENJOY!

MAINTAIN!

Enough said on that really. I'm happy. I think. I just need to shake my head and get back on it 100%. I want 3lb off next week!

Portion size!

I get lazy and have to keep reminding myself of this. Do any of you find yourself doing the same?

Slimming World Xmas Party

A couple of pics from our celebratory party! The first is a very synful cake made by one of the guys in our group. Incredible!

The second is my Xmas jumper, a SIZE 12! My target size, now just need my target weight!

And the third is a comparison photo to remind myself just how far i've come. Last Thursday I knew I was going to gain, and I was fine, but then I started kicking myself about how I had sabotaged getting my target in time for xmas. And then timehop threw up the picture on the right. And it instantly made me realise how far i've come since that picture was taken. No matter how off plan I will be over Christmas, I know I won't get back to that, and whatever the damage is will be gone in January!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Heres to an amazing 2016!

X

MIA

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. I've had a week off from work to get ahead with my christmas shopping and what not, so had a full week off plan. I've then come down with the lurgy so am still not completely back on plan as feeling super sorry for myself! I will be back soon!

x

Lemon Drizzle Cake Pops

Ingredients

• 2 lemons
• 5 eggs
• 45g granulated sweetener 
• 50g self raising flour
  
  
  8 syns for the recipe and it made 32 so I could have 4 for 1 syn/8 for 2 syns etc
  
  

Directions 

1. Add 30g of the sweetener and flour in a bowl 
2. Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into the mix 
3. Using a hand grater, zest both lemons and add the zest to the mix 
4. Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Keep the whites aside, beat the yolks and add to the mixture
5. Whisk the egg whites until they are fluffy and form soft peaks. Fold into the mixture
6. Add to the cake tray 
7. Bake for 20-30 minutes on 180C until golden brown, allow to cool a little. 

None Scale Victory

I finally treated myself to some new clothes yesterday. My target is to be a comfortable 12. This top is a 12, the pants were a 14 but they had no give and were very fitted. So I'm super happy right now that I'm in this position already. 2 sizes smaller than this time last year and feeling so much more confident in myself. I love Slimming World.

Salt & Pepper Chicken

This was amazing.

Ingredients

Chicken breast, cut into chunks
Plain flour (25g is 4 syns)
Salt & Pepper
Garlic granules
One egg, whisked
Fry Light

A pepper, thinly sliced
An onion, thinly sliced
A chilli, thinly sliced
Soy sauce
White wine vinegar
Sweetener

Method

Preheat oven to approx 180 degrees.
Combine Four tablespoons of flour in a bowl (25g is 4 syns), with half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of pepper, along with half a teaspoon of garlic granules.
In another bowl, whisk your egg and add a splash of soy sauce to season.
Pop your chicken chunks in the egg and then in the flour mix.
Once this is all done, arrange on a nonstick baking tray, sprayed with some Fry Light first.
Then spray the chicken with Fry Light - this will help it to brown.
If you're using the oven, leave the chicken for 15 minutes, and turn over, and then give it another spray of Fry Light and then give it another 10 minutes, or until golden.
When the chicken is on the second round of cooking, in a non-stick pan, gently soften your peppers and onion.
I'd add a splash of soy sauce for extra flavour.
Once everything is soft, toss in your sliced chilli and add your cooked chicken from the oven.
Mix together two teaspoons of sweetener with two tablespoons of white wine vinegar and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Add this to the pan and stir on a gentle heat.
This will be quite dry, as Salt & Pepper chicken is, but that vinegar/sugar mixture really makes the dish.
Taste and add some further salt and pepper if it needs it.


The only syns are for the flour - I used 25g so 4 syns and 2 of us had it so was only 2 syns each! could easily divide between 4 and make it 1 syn per portion!

2 Stone Award!

Finally! It might have taken me 33 weigh ins and the most scenic route ever. But I got it. I finally hit 2 stone loss with SW. So happy today! Now to stay on track for next week! 

Also, I didn't expect 2 stone to look so different but the left pic is from when I started, the right is from Monday. I love my whole stance, I can tell I am finally learning to love myself again and it's an amazing feeling. Here's to a good week everyone!

   

Nescafe Mint Mochas

Found these in my local ASDA and needed a new hot chocolate to try. Love them! Synning them at 4.5 syns as they aren't on the app yet but would highly recommend!

Flexi Syns

It was my others halfs birthday on Saturday... which ended with us having a Dominos (about 50 syns worth to be exact), I then spent Sunday/Monday in London... managed to have some baked oats before I left, but then I ended up having a decent meal on Sunday night then Burger King on Monday for convenience! Back on plan now and trying to limit the damage before Thursday! It can be done... I hope! You can normally flexi syn and it works, but I think I've already blown my weekly allocation so just going to make the best choices I can!

Weigh Day treat

Thursdays are my SW Weigh In but also the night that my OH is out so I find it really useful to use the time to read a recipe book or just my SW weigh book, but when a new mag is out I tend to use my night reading that, like yesterday. Amazing transformation stories and it's made me feel a lot more positive about this week going forward.

I help out managing our FB Group and help members who struggle with things on the website, just because I'm a bit more technically minded than my consultant, and it frees up some of her time, and last night she gave me these flowers just to say thankyou.
I was so touched! Such a lovely thing to do!
X

Weigh Day

-1lb which I definately wasn't expecting after feeling crappy all week.
definately need to shake things up and start cooking different meals, feel like i'm eating the same meals all the time.
What's everyones favourite thing to make?

x

SW Meals - Review

I tried the Beef Saag and the Chicken Saag this weekend, and they were both lovely! I would definately recommend them and would love to try the recipes on the back! The meat just fell apart in the Beef one and the Chicken one wasn't too spicy either. Yum! Definately felt like a good fakeaway option!

Have you got a favourite yet?

Weigh Day!

So last night I lost 1lb. I know some people would feel deflated after being on plan aaaaalllll week. But i'm not, and this is why...

I was using Kingsmill 400g wholemeal loaf as my he B choice most days as I would have soup or a sandwich at lunch, something made me check it yesterday and I found out it was no longer a B choice and they were 3 syns each, which meant I had been going WAY over on my syns! Was actually expecting a gain so I think to get a loss is a miracle! It's definately worth checking every so often guys even if just to protect your losses!
I also bought this new book for some new inspiration and ideas, hoping to batch cook some treats and soup this weekend to help me stay on track!