Four lbs Down :O

Hiya

So, I did my weigh in Monday.  Still at 10st 11lbs (been around that since after new year), well, I weighed today and am 10st 7lb.  Am quite impressed at that.  The problem is I now have 4 days of eating properly to put the weight back on.  And not forgetting the weekends wine.  I hope it does stay off but we will see.

B - cheese omelette
L - cheese and pate with salad
T - piri piri chicken with huge massive salad

Drinks - 3 cups of tea and 1 pint water

Joints - fine

Asthma - fine

Its been absolutly freezing today, am just about warming up now, was sure the weather man said it would start getting warmer now.  Ah well, not time to turn the heating off yet.

Sal x

Fast day no 2

Evening all

Am starvin' marvin', been a good day to fast though as been so busy.

B - omelette
T - soup

Drinks - tea and water

joint - ok

asthma - ok

I popped to Tesco earlier to pick up my new boots (ordered online reduced from £28 to £8) and whilst I was there I bought all the easter eggs.  All 16 of them!!! :o  They are now safely stored away in the attic out of temptation. :D 

Sal x

Food, Food and More Food

Evening

Well, after my low cal day yesterday, I spent all evening starving.  Woke up in night starving. Woke up this morning starving.  I just wanted to eat and eat all day.  I resisted though.

B - cheese and ham omelette
L - chicken, ham and cheese salad
T - chicken in taco seasoning with salad

Drinks - tea and water

Exercise - walked on school run and walked kids to youth club

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok and i picked up my inhaler yay!

Hubby wants me to pop to shop for wine.  I am thinking no!!!!!!  I really cant be bothered to go out in the cold and shouldnt drink in the week.  So am not going although the thought of glitches and whoopsies is tempting. lol

Sal x

Is a Bit Peckish

Evening all

So day 1 of the 5:2 diet.  I had my omelette for breakfast and my soup for tea and am starving.  This is not good!

B - omelette with 7 cherry toms
L - nothing
T - veg soup with lots of seasoning as it was quite bland

Drinks - tea

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok and still havent got my inhaler

Even had a brisk walk taking kids to street dancing earlier.    Did have any problems not eating during the day because the smell of the soup made me feel a bit sick!  It was like rotten cabbage.  Luckily I have made enough for 3 weeks so wont be going through that again for a while! :D

Right, off for another brisk walk to pick the kids up and I think I will need a low cal hot choc as am hungry. :(

Sal x

How Organised???????

Hiya

Tomorrow is my first fasting day on 5:2 diet.  I am still low carbing but as I dont want to reduce my carbs to lose the weight I will give this a go.  So low carb and fasting tomorrow.  I am having omelette for breakfast with 7 cherry toms which is 200 cals and have my soup cooking in slow cooker, well most of it is, waiting for it to reduce down a bit to add the rest.  The soup is 2 tinned toms, 4 leeks, 1/2 cabbage, 1 brocolli and 1 cauli.  i want that to last 4 days (2 weeks) and will be around 150 cals so will have some extra cals for the milk in my tea.  thats the plan anyway. lol

So today:

B - yogurt - i know i said no more but was far to lazy to make anything
L - cheese and ham with salad
T - roast chicken with brocolli and cauli

Drinks - lots of tea, freezing today, was 15 degrees when I came downstairs.  The chicken I took out of freezer last night to defrost was still frozen! :o

joints - ok

asthma - been a bit bad, need to get my inhaler urgent!

early night tonight, got a busy week, really need to declutter house, so several trips to charity shop is needed i think. :D

Sal x

Bad, Bad Day for Food

Hiya

Bad day for food.  Took the kids to a mammal workshop this morning and had to do a woodland walk and then built bat boxes.  Ds2 with the hammer again, he impressed the staff there anyway, just scared me! lol

B - yogurt (shop bought, I looked at the carb count and OMG more than 20g in 1 yogurt so I wont be having any more of them! )
L - 1 slice of tea loaf, was freezing from this morning and the kitchen was cold so had the quickest thing I could find.
T - kfc which isnt too bad as i only ate chicken. 

Drinks - tea, cider and later on wine

Joints - ok even with the cold

Asthma - ok but forgot my inhaler and chemist shut tomorrow so might be a bad day

Dont think I have got warm all day from this morning.  Might have to grab a blanket in a bit and try to warm up.

Sal x

Wine, Wine and more Wine

Evening all

So the wine bottle is now open.  And although I would love to drink excessively, I dont want the hangover (especially when I have to get the kids out to a freezing cold park in the morning) and I dont want the munchies the excessive wine will give me.  So should probably say wine, maybe a bit more wine and then water water and more water. lol

B - yogurt
L - ham and salad
T - omelette piza

Drinks - orange juice, tea, water and wine

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok considering my inhaler ran out last night, must remember tomorrow to pick another one up.

Still got a cold, am now drinking orange juice with echinasea in it first thing to try to get rid of it and taking nose spray, but that is making my nose sore so cant keep taking it. :(

Anyhoo, back to my wine :D

Sal x

Sharing Crackling with the kids :O

Evening all

I cooked a pork roast last night and gave the kids crackling :o  I did get ds1 to give me a hug for it first though lol

Yesterday:

B - yogurt
L - sausage casserole
T - roast pork with lots of cracking, brocolli, cauli, cabbage and a bit of carrot

Drinks - tea and water

Exercise - none

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

Today:

B - yogurt
L - leftover pork and salad
T - mince and veg

Drinks - lots of tea as freezing cold and water

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

Took the kids to the park today to build bird boxes, they did really well and all of the built one, so have 3 bird boxes that hubby is refusing to put up.  So looks like I will be climbing a tree when he is in work lol

Have a lovely evening

Sal x

The Mince Debate

Evening all

Another day of trying to stay away from discussing what goes into mince.  I like mince, I dont think I would eat it if I knew what went in it though.  So do you buy mince, does it bother you what they put in it or do you rather be kept in the dark about it like me.

B - yogurt
L - sausages with coleslaw
T - taco mince :o with salad

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 pint water

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

Still got a cold, fed up with having a blocked nose now, going to take all the medication I have and see if that helps.

Sal x

Naughty me, Had a Tortilla :o

Hiya

Well, I had a tortilla with my tea :o, and I had a bit (very tiny bit) of cinnamon tea loaf that was gert lush and hubby and 3 kids have nearly finished it and apparently I am making another one tomorrow!

B - yogurt
L - sausage and chicken with salad
T - chicken tortilla with homemade coleslaw and a tiny tiny tiny bit of cake

Drinks - 2 buckets of tea and 1 pint water

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

I still have a cold, its not going so am taking lots of vitamins and hopefully in a few days I will be ok.  Costing a fortune in tissues lol

Sal x

Never Mind Medications, Hot and Spicy Chicken Wings to Clear you Nose

Evening all

I found some whoopsie hot and spicy chicken wings when I popped to Asda for milk earlier.  So as no one else will eat hot and spicy or chicken wings they were all mine.  And a pack of them certainly cleared my blocked nose.  Maybe adding more spice into my diet to stop me getting bunged up lol

B - sausages with tomato sauce
L - none, ate breakfast late
T - hot and spicy chicken wings with salad

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 2 pear cidre's

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

My husband and I have been talking about how tired we are and how we both need more exercise today, when I was briskly walking the dog early I was feeling great, but now I am not, I am not! 

So tomorrow I am aiming to walk the kiddies to Morrisons and on the way back let them run wild in the park I recently saw as I drove past it.    I only need to go to Morrisons to get milk, free milk friday with Cravendale, I have won a voucher but Asda and Tesco do not stock the 1lt bottles in my area.  Will try Morrisons, might try Sainsburys but will not drive there just for milk and if no joy, I will give the vouchers away I suppose. :(

Sal x

Mmmmmmm Beer

Hiya

Had a busy day of shopping and soft play today.  Had a pint whilst the kids ran around at soft play, well they deserved it for putting up with shopping and I deserved it for putting up with them shopping! lol

B - yogurt
L - cheese salad
T - chicken salad

Drinks - 2 buckets of tea, 1 pint lager, a glass of wine or 2 later :-D

Joints - ok

Asthma - bad today, dont know why

Right, off to put littlest to bed.

Sal x

Does Ring a Ring of Roses Count as Exercise???

Evening all (or night as the case may be)

I was at work this morning, I like my fridays, the kids are brilliant and there are a few so not boring.  Well, they all loved ring a ring of roses so we had to do that several times, I lost count after 6! :o  I am sure that must count as exercise as I was moving ;-D

B - yogurt
L - ham and cheese with salad
T - omelette pizza

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea, 1 cidre and on 2nd glass of wine

Exercise - see above re: ring a ring of roses lol

Joints - ok

Asthma - starting to feel it now, need my inhaler. :(

Half term this week.  Hopefully lots of walking and having fun with the kids.  Planning on walking to arcade tomorrow as kids have earnt arcade money with their behaviour. :D  Thats all the 5p's from the jar gone!  Just need something to put the 1p's in now!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

Sal x

Wot No Chocolate? But its Valentines Day?

Evening all

I hope you are all having a lovely valentines day and being spoilt or spoiling yourselves.

My hubby (who didnt get me anything for xmas) got me a pink onsie, fluffy boot slippers and smellies so is now forgiven for xmas. :D  I got him a stress ball in the shape of a boob! lol

B - yogurt
L - ham and cheese salad
T - chicken wrapped in bacon stuffed with St Agur cheese and salad (and a few onion rings)

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and waiting for kids to go to bed and then having a glass of wine :D

Exercise - none

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

We are watching football tonight.  So romantic!  So I think I will have to get my 50p book out and do a bit of reading. :D 

Sal x

Pea's Again

Evening all

I am still not sleeping, just keep waking up in the night so still tired.  No point in going to bed early though as I spend the night waking constantly.

B - yogurt
L - ham and cheese with salad
T - cottage pie, had peas in it and carrots but I dont think these effect me.  Hope not anyway! lol

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 pint water

Exercise - none

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

Think I might have to make a cinnamon whoopsie bread thing as the kids had cinnamon pancakes today and they smelt really nice, how I resisted I dont know. lol

Hopefully will get a bit more sleep tonight.

Sal x

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Hiya

I am so tired.  Not sleeping properly.  I feel asleep just before having to take my daughter to dancing, luckily my youngest shouted at his ds and woke me up so we rushed out.

B - yogurt
L - ham, chicken and cheese in mayo with salad
T - Chicken in taco seasoning with cheese grated on top with salad

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 pint squash (might have a sneaky jd before bed)

Exercise - walked on school run :o

Joints - ok

Asthma - starting to get a wheezy feeling now, but been fine all day and could be due to inhaling wool again, need to get the scarf finished and stop using such fluffy wool :D

Hhhhmmmm, can I actually be bothered to pour myself a drink or shall I just go straight to bed.  Decisions, decisions......

Sal x

Bribing Kids

Evening all

So at the weekend we took the kids to the arcade (after a longish walk) where they spent all our 2p's.  So now they can earn 10p per day for eating their packed lunch and another 10p per day for doing their chores.  None of them managed lunch today but they all got 10p for chores.  They can now save for the next visit to the arcade.  Love a bit of bribery lol

B - yogurt
L - ham and cheese in mayo with salad
T - roast chicken, bit of bacon, a few carrots, and lots of cabbage

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 pint water

exercise - none.  I have read about this new idea of dong 4 mins a day rather than more so will be looking into that as even I should be able to manage 4 minutes.

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

I think I will be needing an early night.  My youngest had me up at 4am screaming as he had a bad dream.  I was 'long blinking' in work this morning.

Sal x

Today I Had All You Can Eat Breakfast

Evening all

We decided today that  we would go for the all the you can breakfast.  I ate a lot and very nice it was too. :D

B - Lots of bacon (6 rashers), 3 fried egg, scrambled egg, tinned toms, 1 sausage and 2 bowls of fruit (I know, I shouldnt have had the fruit but it was really nice, i forgot how much I like fruit but had my fix so should be alright for another year or so)
L - nothing after all that!
T - ham and cheese in mayo, not much though, did you see what I ate for breakfast?????

Drinks - endless cups of tea (came with breakfast), glass of wine

Exercise - none except a walk back from lidl when I bought 20 bars of 17p chocolate :o

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

Such a tiring weekend, fell asleep this afternoon for the first half of the rugby.  Might just finish my wine and watch the end of Kindergarten Cop (love a bit of Arnie) and then bed.  I have work in the morning and making a roast for tea tomorrow, would not have been able to eat that today after breakfast.

Sal x

BOGOF Steak :o

Evening all

As we were all pretty stuffed from last night still, this morning we decided not to go out for breakfast.  We did, however, go out for tea.  Buy On Get One Free in steak in the pub, my eldest son (8 years old) had one as well and ate the lot :o

B - bacon, fried egg and tinned toms
L - none, ate late as had to go shopping to buy breakfast
T - 8 oz sirloin with salad and 5 battered onion rings

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea, 1 pint fosters and 1/2 bottle red wine

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

We didnt get date night, after tea we went to pub with free soft play and had  the red wine, kids running about until 10.30pm then back to nanny's hotel room to sleep.  So too late for us to go out, just came home. 

Maybe in a few years we will get a date night :D

Sal x

All You Can Eat?

Evening all

Had a bit of a high carb evening.  MIL is visiting so we went to the pub with free soft play for the kids and all you can eat fish shop :o

B - yogurt (strawberry muller corner - oooppppssss)
L - ham and chicken in mayo with salad
T - fish in batter (lots and lots), 2 sausages in batter and a few peas (no chips though even though they looked quite nice :D)

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 beer and 2 glasses of wine

Exercise - none, didnt even move much in work

Joints - fine today

Asthma - fine

We are going for all you can eat breakfast tomorrow.  Lots of bacon and eggs for me :D  Then a walk (roll) around the seaside if its not raining.  Dont know whats happening rest of day, MIL was meant to be having kids tomorrow night but she did make a comment thats its only for when they are asleep so we can get a good nights sleep but the kids sleep through???  We were hoping for a date night.  We have not been out, just the 2 of us since before I got pregnant with ds1.  He is 8 and a half now so over 9 years without a 'date' with my husband :o  Think I have got round it and said we were going to the pub near her hotel for an hour just to make sure kids settle with her ;-D

Sal x

Oooppppsss Choccy Cake

Evening all

So, after school I took the kids to cooking.  The teacher running it had a birthday on Monday so the chef brought in a very nice looking choccy cake and at the end of the session handed out pieces so it would have been rude not to have a slice. 

B - ham and fried egg
L - ham, chicken and cheese in mayo with salad
T - omelette pizza

Snacks - 1 slice choccy cake

Drinks - 3 buckets of tea and 1 pint water and a glass of wine

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok even though I forgot to take my inhaler last night, which reminds me, I need to order another one

This weekend is going to be a tough one.  Got MIL visiting and as far as I can tell, we will be eating in the pub 3 times this weekend :o  This is going to effect my bank balance more than my waiste line :(

Sal x

Football = Wine

Evening all

So, England were playing Brazil today.  Its a rule, football means I read my book (50p in Asda yesterday) and have choccy and wine.  I didnt have the choccy but I did have a glass of wine and read 2 chapters in the book.  :D

B - ham and fried egg
L - chicken and coleslaw
T - sausage casserole and broccoli (the sausage casserole was sausages, carrots, peas, onion in a sauce so a bit carb)

Drinks - 4 buckets of tea, 1 pint water and 1.5 glasses of red wine

Joints - not noticed any aching today

Asthma - been fine

Do any of you get nervous when your kids are very well behaved.  My eldest (8) has thanked me for tea, telling me it was lovely :o and has made similar comments about other stuff I have given him.  Now, he is polite and always says thank you but this extra 'that meal was lovely mummy' is really starting to unnearve me.  He must be after something big, its been going on for a few days! :o   lol

Sleep well

Sal x

Taco Shells Tut Tut Tut

Evening

Look at me posting on time again :D 

We had tacos for tea today, I did not like the shells, glad I had them but wont have them again.  Kids loved them though and its the quickest dd has eaten tea for years!!!! lol

B - ham
L - chicken and colesalw
T - tacos

Drinks - 2 buckets of tea and 1 pint water

Joints - my big toe keeps clicking :o

Asthma - ok today

I bought a ham shank last week from the new farm shop, got loads of ham off it, well impressed.  But it does mean that I have to go again, and the butcher was quite scary and kept telling me prices in old money.  But the lamb did 2 days and there was loads of ham.  So I have to really!  I should take hubby as he used to be a butcher and instead of looking blank when spoken to, he will know what is being said! lol

Sal x

High Carb Day

Hiya

We had lamb yesterday so needed to use the leftovers today.  I decided to make sheperds pie with it.  But I didnt think I had much lamb so bulked it out with green lentils, carrots and peas.  Way too high carb for me but all healthy carbs so I am not going to stress about it.  And I did have enough lamb.  Ate loads :o  And all the kids ate it without complaining :o

B - ham (i know, but i really didnt have time/couldnt be bothered)
L - spicy chicken and coleslaw
T - sheperds pie with brocolli

Drinks - 2 buckets of tea and 1pint water

Joints - fingers aching today but i have done some knitting with dd earlier

Asthma - starting to get bad but i feel like i have breathed in wool :(

We are predicted snow again, cant decide if i am happy about that or not....

Sal x

OMG how much do I love lamb!

Hiya

So I tried a new farm shop this week.  Got shoulder of lamb for £5.80.  Had it for roast today and got leftovers for tomorrow.  So alls good. 

B - nothing, could not be bothered, up far too early, had about 20 cups of tea
L - ham salad
T - roast lamb, cabbage, brocolli and for dessert a muller yogurt (naughty although not too naughty but nice)

Drinks - endless cups of tea :D

Joints - ok

asthma - ok

Spent an enjoyable evening playing cluedo with the kids.  I won, hubby was not happy! :D

Anyway, hope you all had a brilliant weekend.

Sal x

Still Up :o

Morning all lol

Ok, so this is why I am always tired.  I am up far too late and up far too early.

B - bacon, eggs and tinned toms
L - ham and cheese salad
T - chicken and coleslaw

Exercise - 45 mins of just dance 4 with ds2.  thats enough for 1 day! lol

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

I really cant wait for this film to finish so i can sleep.  was up with kids this morning so hubby could have lie in.  How nice am I!!! :P

Sal x

Love a bit of wine :D

Evening all

I know its late, quite surprised I am still awake.  Got half a glass of wine to finish and then bed for me I think.

B - ham and stilton omelette
L - ham and cheese salad
T -omelette pizza

Drinks - 2.5 buckets of tea and cidre and wine

Joints - ok

Asthma - ok

I have even remembered to take out bacon for breakfast tomorrow.  :D  I am that tired I cant think of anything to write.  Hopefully I will have somthing interesting to say tomorrow.

Sal x