Two sided coin

I've had two very different experiences of low pointed foods and I just wanted to pop it on here.

So with it being Sunday yesterday, I of course did a Sunday roast. We had beef last week (again actually done by me) and this week it was chicken.

Breakfast

 So this was this mornings breakfast. Those are two ingredient pancakes, banana and eggs. Theory is that the egg and banana sticks together and creates that base for the pancake.

I was looking forward to it, I thought it was a jazzy idea and if I could get pancakes for two SmartPoints for the load rather then three for one (I kid you not!) I'd try it!

Then I tried it....

It tasted of banana and egg... this shouldn't be a surprise but... a pancake doesn't taste of omelette with banana, and yes its as disgusting as it sounds! It was like it was doughy on the inside of the pancake too... if someone knows some way of making them taste better, let me know but in the meantime... I endured so you don't have to... I'd rather never have pancakes again... Never mind, breakfast was only four SmartPoints....



On the flip side my roast chicken yesterday was so tasty! I had to add salt (which has no smartpoints)

here is my list....

carrots     0
celery      0
parsnips   2
onion       0
leeks        0

All in the bottom of my roasting tin along with some garlic (0) and a little bath of water.
I also roasted some carrots and parsnips with the potatoes...

The chicken which I've pointed 200g 3 SmartPoints (on the picture there is only 77g but I'm terrible for eating it while preparing the rest of the food, so its probably fair!)
the turnip (swede, if you're being... not from the north of england!) is zero . The potatoes 3. I seasoned those with basil. and cooking spray 30 sprays two smart points (Used to roast the potatoes, they aren't deep in fat or anything but still have a bit of a crisp to them, I part boil before I roast.

Surprisingly to me the Yorkshire puddings were only one SmartPoint each or 2 for 3 Smartpoints. So I had two, because I like Yorkshire  puddings....

It's Sunday dinner and I think 13 is perfectly acceptable. And let me tell you if every day could be like yesterday with food, I would be okay!

Thanks for reading

love

Lorna x

Curried Butternut Squash

So on the back of my Tomato Soup I decided to try and make a Curried Butternut Squash.

My Curried Butternut Squash Soup

I tried to make it as low in Smart Points (Weight Watchers again sorry) as possible and again I managed zero (0)!!!

So here it is.

You can see a couple of things have points in them but when divided it becomes so low in content that it becomes zero. I divided this into eight servings (I think!)

Joseph ate it Yasmine tried it called it spicy but ate it with some bread (Which is pretty good for her). I was a bit disappointed that the taste of the vegetables wasn't as prominent then I like, but the curry is very good for these cold nights coming in! Maybe I'll add a few more veg next time and leave it to simmer longer!

Overall, I did like it, this and the tomato would be nice on bonfire night!

The bread is weight-watchers (Which has a Smart Point value of one, I don't normally eat white bread but Phil came home with it looking pitiful after he couldn't find any of the wholemeal bread they do, I took pity on him!) but any bread is good (just remember the calories, syns or whatever you count!)

Thanks for listening to my ramblings!

love

Lorna x

• 2mediumCarrots, raw, chopped

  
  

  00 Points
• 1mediumParsnip(s), raw, chopped

  
  

  22 Points
• 2stick(s)Celery, Raw, chopped

  
  

  00 Points
• 1⁄2whole, mediumButternut Squash

  
  

  00 Points
• 1teaspoonsCurry Powder

  
  

  11 Points
• 1splash(es)Hot Pepper Sauce (Tabasco)

  
  

  00 Points
• 1largeOnion(s)

  
  

  00 Points
• 2cube(s)Chicken stock cube(s)

  
  

  11 Pointsm

Joseph

End of week one (Lost -6 and don't know where to find it!)

Here I am, the end of week one! I promise you I meant to update it more often, but I wanted to share you a picture every week at least and here we are.
So you can see I'm standing almost on the same spot and the same clothes (I promise they change in between!)
This morning I asked Phil if he thought I'd lost anything, he touched my tummy in a few places then nodded and said "Yeah."
I didn't think he could know! Quite frankly, I still think he made it up. I have no bases of this other then the fact that I know him.
Unfortunely I have no proof of this.
Since I lost six pounds.

Now I can hear some of you "Six!" And you might be questioning why I aren't jumping up and down with joy at it. I am happy about it, don't get me wrong, but first week back I know this, I loose loads and then it steadily goes slower and slower and slower, and for six pounds, I don't feel any different. (Although that maybe the cold talking!)

and its not like I haven't been hungry this week at times, but most of the time I've kept myself good.

On Saturday we went for a meal out. I had the chicken and bacon salad... It was very nice. I battled to get myself to get it though, and I wanted dessert! I am a dessert person but no, I was good.

I made some no point Tomato Soup (doing weight-watchers here) Joseph has been enjoying it on a lunch time with me!

I've noticed, I want to eat on a night time. I'll happily not eat all day and then want to stuff my face on a night. Honestly I don't think this is rocket science, I think I have two kids during the day I see to, I run after and hands up if you just can't be bothered!🙋
But then you get to the evening and you sit and relax and you suddenly know... you could eat a cow! You make your evening meal and you snack snack snack.
I have got to get back into the habit of eating at the right times! I think this will aid future weight loss.
So I maybe a little late in getting my blog up next week because its my birthday that day!🎈 But I intend on getting weighed in then going to my favourite Chinese restaurant then being good for the rest of the week!
We also got this at the end of class, apparently you lose 10 lbs you drop a dress size. I normally notice around the stone mark but okay. We get to fill them in... lets see how many we can do before Christmas (which is ten weigh ins from now).

Weight loss this week:-6 lbs
Weight loss total: -6lbs

Starting over again!

Greeting everyone!

I'm Lorna, I'm 33 years old. I have two beautiful kids Yasmine (7) and Joseph (1). I'm married, to the most supportive man in the world, my rock my best friend Philip (often referred to as Phil). I originally set up this blog years ago but after another failed attempt at dieting I stopped blogging.

I'll be honest, I don't think I have any major terrible relationship with food, or at least none that I've noticed. I do have a sweet tooth, I also have a savory one, in fact I just have teeth.

 Which love food!

I love cooking programmes, I watch Masterchef (UK, USA, Austrilia... anything they put on TV) I love The great British Bake off. These programmes inspire the foody in me.

Food is, particularly in our family, the hub. We go out we eat we stay in we eat. Its there its central.

I want you to know this about me because its part of our lives, its part of all our lives.

So to do for example a slim fast diet, I'm sorry, I'm sure I'd stick to it for like a week but that's it, tops, no way I could do more.

I've tried slimming world, with my friend, who lost a lot of weight on it. It worked for her, fantastic and words can't describe when you see your friends loosing you are proud of them. You love to see them succeed. When I tried said diet, I had an awful time. Too much carbs not enough sugars, drove me crackers. (ummm crackers!) If I wanted something the syns were too high for what it was and I felt forced into using my syns for 'healthier options'. I know this is at last part of the point but ask my other half he will tell you, I don't respond well to people trying to force me to do things. I lasted two weeks, lost eight pounds but was starving the whole time. Sorry not for me.

I've done Weightwatchers for so long on and off and when I'm on I do it and I do it well. After Yasmine was born I went on it lost two stone in three months (no small achievement) but I fell off and have found it difficult to get back on.

At the beginning of this year I had enough. I signed up to do a sponsored walk which I completed and I did lose a few pounds but once the year set in I didn't really keep up the walking (three miles a day mind it was no small feat!)

I want to loose weight.

Not because I have issues with my body. I don't. I remember when Phil and I started dating we went out with a friend and his then girlfriend. I was a size 16 I wasn't small or anything and our friends girlfriend probably about the same as me. We went out to eat and this group of girls probably about our age at the time walked past none of them over a size 12, perfectly healthy girls and I say hats off to them, more power them and everything, our friends girlfriend sat called them "skinny bit*hes" and refused to crack a smile the rest of the evening. I don't tend to compare and contrast, it never makes anyone happy. On the other end of the scale a friend who can't be bigger then a size 8 said she needed to loose some weight, I told her she was beautiful as she is but it is about being comfortable in your own body and I still think this. I genuinely think this. It's not about body shaming the 'too skinny' or 'too fat' its about being healthy.

And lets face it, we know how to be. The tools are there we're far enough along in medical knowledge that we know roughly what food does to us. We know.

But life gets in the way.

I can't promise not to fall off the bandwaggon.

I can't say I won't have off days where I won't go out and eat my body weight in food (and let me tell you that would be an achievement!)

But I am telling you I want to start again.

I'm not going to say how much I weigh.

I will tell you its a lot of weight that needs to go.

So here I am at

weight loss this week: 0
weight loss overall: 0