Morning Cyber space,
I hope you had a good weekend, it's Monday morning and I'm struggling to stay awake, we didn't get much sleep this weekend.
I'll start this Monday off with a recipie I discovered & tweaked on friday -
Risotto Pesce
200g Risotto Rice
500ml Water with good quality vegitable stock (use more if neccessary)
1 cup peas
1 diced onion
2 minced garlic gloves
Tenderstem broccoli, chopped roughly
FREE on EE
(you can use as much different veg as you like, the list above was what I had in my friedge at the time!)
In a large pan, spray with frylight and pop all veg into the pan once heated. Stir fry for 5 minutes.
Add the rice, stir for another 2 minutes, season.
Add the water with stock a little at a time, each time you add some water ensure it is fully encorporated and absorbed by the rice. This process should take around 20 minutes.
You may need a little more water to ensure you get the right consistency
Season and serve!
If you have some syns to spare, add some parmesan - 25g is 5 syns.
I had this for dinner Friday and had it for lunch the rest of this week, yummy!
I also tried and tested another soup, plonking a load of veg including Carrot, Onion, Suede and Celery with 1ltr of water and stock, add a good squide of tomato pure and season and place on high for 4 hours until veg is very tender. Serve immediately as it is or place into containers for later. I seasoned this quite heavily with pepper to give it an extra kick!
My phone is due to be delivered this afternoon, very excited so I can start taking pictures of food again for all of cyber space to see :)
Weigh in is tomorrow I am praying for a 1lb loss, I wasn't brilliant at the beginning of this week and helped myself to some chocolate on Sunday, as well as 2 glasses of prosecco on Saurday night (but I missed dinner, so hoping this will weigh itself out)
Fingers crossed for a loss :)
Love Lauren x
Monday, October 26, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
Embarrassment
Afternoon Slimming Worlders,
I know that at the moment I am writing to the abys, staring into a black world of empty space with no one around me, I am not expecting 100's and 100's of page views, nor am I expecting anyone reading this to feel sorry for me, but at this moment of time all I want to do is scream at it, scream at it until someone comes out of the darkness, puts their arm around me and tells me everything will be ok.
Yesterday I had a blip, I was doing very, very well with regards to dieting, eating the following:
Breakfast: Semi Skimmed Milk (HEXA) and 2 x wheetabix (HEXB) with a banana
Lunch: homemade slow cooked soup with leek, onion, carrot, tomato and sweet potato
Snacks: a pineapple pot and an apple
Syns: none.
I'd had no syns, been healthy, felt ok all day and felt full, I had looked over my diary in the afternoon before going home and thinking that I needed to make sure I had plenty of S foods in my dinner.
Then I got a call - an old colleague at work asked to meet me for a drink, having worked for my old company for 5 years and leaving on bad terms, I knew I had to go to see what was up.
I met with my old boss & others, a fresh glass of glistening white wine was waiting for me at the bar, and without asking I drank 2 glasses. (12 syns each) - I asked for soda but was given wine (they know the old me too well, I can't say no to a glass of wine.)
I felt this was ok, I was tipsy becauase I hadn't eaten but felt fine, so after this encounter I wondered home through the bustling London Station and onto my train home.
I always feel that when I have a drink I must eat something before getting home to avoid the questionable glance from my fiancé, joking I'd been drinking much more than I'd been letting on and proceeding to poke fun at me (completely in jest,I laugh too, but I wasn't in the mood for that this evening)
I withdrew £10, went to my favourite takeaway food and queued, I had Slimming World bells ringing in my head and decided to step away. First hurdle.
I hurried towards my train, all the bells and alarms dinging as I walked, I saw am empty queue at my favourite coffee house, just outside my platform. Oh no.
I didn't need to ask, the guy looked at me and said, what coffee could I get you - my head was thinking caramel lattee with skimmed milk but my mouth said water - Phew. Second hurdle.
I jumped onto the train with seconds to spare, enjoyed my journey home talking to my mum and my pregnant sister, her telling me the silly things she's missing since finding out she was having a baby, my mum chittering away about her upcoming holiday to Clacton.
I started heading down towards my home, a usual 30 minute walk which I make daily, rain or shine. Usually I have Mr Marston there to greet me and walk me home, tonight was a little later and he was snuggled up in home with our cats, (we have three) I made the start to walk home before being tempted into the nearest chip shop and purchasing a greasy portion of chips.
I fell at the third hurdle. So in my slightly tipsy state. I thought screw it.
I ate the chips, I arrived home to no questions from Mr Marston, I settled into watching the 8pm TV show and, before I knew it, my gorgeous fiancé appeared with two slices of toast laden with peanut butter. I didn't tell him about the chips, I didn't tell him I was hungry. He was just being a complete gentleman.
I should've said no, but I didn't. I ate the toast and had a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter afterwards. Needless to stay I felt sick.
Why am I telling my empty cyber space this? This is my scream, this is my vent to let all the dirty secrets out into the darkness, so I can beat myself to a pulp, pick myself up and continue down this journey.
Why do I continuously ruin my diet?
Why can I not see my goals?
Why do I continously beat myself up every time I fail?
Why can I not loose what little weight I have to loose (let's face it, I want to loose 1.5stone, I have no where near as much as some ladies do on this diet)
So, this morning I come in with a bit of a fresh mind, I ate a coissant this morning for breakfast (9) but doubled this so I don't eat any further syns throught this friday. I've decided not to have my HEXB to accomodate the coissant and instead my menu today looks a little like this:
Breakfast: a banana, a tub of pineapple and a tea
Lunch: Soup (same as yesterday)
Dinner: undecided, probably a steak with Salad (all 0 syns)
I need to plan more, I need to get out my pit and get on with what I'm here to do - loose weight and tell the world about it.
It's not easy, but I'll get on with it.
Ciao, Love Lauren.
I know that at the moment I am writing to the abys, staring into a black world of empty space with no one around me, I am not expecting 100's and 100's of page views, nor am I expecting anyone reading this to feel sorry for me, but at this moment of time all I want to do is scream at it, scream at it until someone comes out of the darkness, puts their arm around me and tells me everything will be ok.
Yesterday I had a blip, I was doing very, very well with regards to dieting, eating the following:
Breakfast: Semi Skimmed Milk (HEXA) and 2 x wheetabix (HEXB) with a banana
Lunch: homemade slow cooked soup with leek, onion, carrot, tomato and sweet potato
Snacks: a pineapple pot and an apple
Syns: none.
I'd had no syns, been healthy, felt ok all day and felt full, I had looked over my diary in the afternoon before going home and thinking that I needed to make sure I had plenty of S foods in my dinner.
Then I got a call - an old colleague at work asked to meet me for a drink, having worked for my old company for 5 years and leaving on bad terms, I knew I had to go to see what was up.
I met with my old boss & others, a fresh glass of glistening white wine was waiting for me at the bar, and without asking I drank 2 glasses. (12 syns each) - I asked for soda but was given wine (they know the old me too well, I can't say no to a glass of wine.)
I felt this was ok, I was tipsy becauase I hadn't eaten but felt fine, so after this encounter I wondered home through the bustling London Station and onto my train home.
I always feel that when I have a drink I must eat something before getting home to avoid the questionable glance from my fiancé, joking I'd been drinking much more than I'd been letting on and proceeding to poke fun at me (completely in jest,I laugh too, but I wasn't in the mood for that this evening)
I withdrew £10, went to my favourite takeaway food and queued, I had Slimming World bells ringing in my head and decided to step away. First hurdle.
I hurried towards my train, all the bells and alarms dinging as I walked, I saw am empty queue at my favourite coffee house, just outside my platform. Oh no.
I didn't need to ask, the guy looked at me and said, what coffee could I get you - my head was thinking caramel lattee with skimmed milk but my mouth said water - Phew. Second hurdle.
I jumped onto the train with seconds to spare, enjoyed my journey home talking to my mum and my pregnant sister, her telling me the silly things she's missing since finding out she was having a baby, my mum chittering away about her upcoming holiday to Clacton.
I started heading down towards my home, a usual 30 minute walk which I make daily, rain or shine. Usually I have Mr Marston there to greet me and walk me home, tonight was a little later and he was snuggled up in home with our cats, (we have three) I made the start to walk home before being tempted into the nearest chip shop and purchasing a greasy portion of chips.
I fell at the third hurdle. So in my slightly tipsy state. I thought screw it.
I ate the chips, I arrived home to no questions from Mr Marston, I settled into watching the 8pm TV show and, before I knew it, my gorgeous fiancé appeared with two slices of toast laden with peanut butter. I didn't tell him about the chips, I didn't tell him I was hungry. He was just being a complete gentleman.
I should've said no, but I didn't. I ate the toast and had a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter afterwards. Needless to stay I felt sick.
Why am I telling my empty cyber space this? This is my scream, this is my vent to let all the dirty secrets out into the darkness, so I can beat myself to a pulp, pick myself up and continue down this journey.
Why do I continuously ruin my diet?
Why can I not see my goals?
Why do I continously beat myself up every time I fail?
Why can I not loose what little weight I have to loose (let's face it, I want to loose 1.5stone, I have no where near as much as some ladies do on this diet)
So, this morning I come in with a bit of a fresh mind, I ate a coissant this morning for breakfast (9) but doubled this so I don't eat any further syns throught this friday. I've decided not to have my HEXB to accomodate the coissant and instead my menu today looks a little like this:
Breakfast: a banana, a tub of pineapple and a tea
Lunch: Soup (same as yesterday)
Dinner: undecided, probably a steak with Salad (all 0 syns)
I need to plan more, I need to get out my pit and get on with what I'm here to do - loose weight and tell the world about it.
It's not easy, but I'll get on with it.
Ciao, Love Lauren.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
1st Weigh in
So... My first weigh in...
Unfortunately it isn't a good one - my first week only came out with a maintain.
Admitting the maintain is hard, but I know where I've gone wrong, I drank wine on Friday and thought that becuse I haddn't eaten lunch it would balance out, I know not to make assumptions! I also ate out on Saturday and alothough I swapped chips for new potatoes, they were laden with butter and salt which didn't make for nice tasting - I also ate breads and butters which I am sure contributed to this maintain!
I know now what I need to do in order to get a loss for next week, so this weeks pledges are:
Unfortunately I don't have a working phone to take pics and updates of my food & recipies, but I hope to be doing this once I've got my phone back and working again!
I have also found and amazing new flavour from our friends Muller Light - Apple Strudel Flavour - it's INCREDIBLE! If you like cinnamon, and the little apple chunks that you get with muller rice, it's the bees knees! And best of all, it's F R E E !
Yesterday's Food diary (day 1 of 2nd week)
Breakfast: Wheatabix x 2 with chopped banana and skimmed milk (HEXA)
Lunch: Last night's scrummy SW lesagne, I doubled the veg contents and added mushrooms for more flavour, my patner absolutely loved it, I syned the cheese (6) - I actually prefer the yoghurt "cheese" sauce to fatty lesagne
Dinner: Brinner! Our favourite mid week not so cheat! Grilled Bacon, Slimming world sausages, scrambled egg, tons of mushrooms and griddled tomatoes... nom nom nom! Ihad this with a cheeky slice of toast (5.5) and butter (1)
Snacks: an Apple with a teaspoon of peanut butter (4.5) - it's my total guilty pleasure but do try, mashed up in banana is delish too!
finishing today on: 17 Syns (2 over, whoops!)
Tomorrow I'll update you on today's menu and my plans for the weekend... I'm trying to find a cupboard dinner menu this evening as we've ran out of meat for this week!! (gulp!)
Love Lauren x
Unfortunately it isn't a good one - my first week only came out with a maintain.
I know now what I need to do in order to get a loss for next week, so this weeks pledges are:
- to loose 2lbs (min)
- to write down EVERYTHING I eat
- to hand in a food diary to my leader on Tuesday - a completed one!
Unfortunately I don't have a working phone to take pics and updates of my food & recipies, but I hope to be doing this once I've got my phone back and working again!
I have also found and amazing new flavour from our friends Muller Light - Apple Strudel Flavour - it's INCREDIBLE! If you like cinnamon, and the little apple chunks that you get with muller rice, it's the bees knees! And best of all, it's F R E E !
Yesterday's Food diary (day 1 of 2nd week)
Breakfast: Wheatabix x 2 with chopped banana and skimmed milk (HEXA)
Lunch: Last night's scrummy SW lesagne, I doubled the veg contents and added mushrooms for more flavour, my patner absolutely loved it, I syned the cheese (6) - I actually prefer the yoghurt "cheese" sauce to fatty lesagne
Dinner: Brinner! Our favourite mid week not so cheat! Grilled Bacon, Slimming world sausages, scrambled egg, tons of mushrooms and griddled tomatoes... nom nom nom! Ihad this with a cheeky slice of toast (5.5) and butter (1)
Snacks: an Apple with a teaspoon of peanut butter (4.5) - it's my total guilty pleasure but do try, mashed up in banana is delish too!
finishing today on: 17 Syns (2 over, whoops!)
Tomorrow I'll update you on today's menu and my plans for the weekend... I'm trying to find a cupboard dinner menu this evening as we've ran out of meat for this week!! (gulp!)
Love Lauren x
Monday, October 19, 2015
Something new & shiny
Hello world, is anyone out there?
So, a little bit about me, my intentions and what I intend to do with this blog to keep me M O T I V A T E D.
My name is Lauren Marston, I am using my soon to be new surname to remind me of my goal - to be in a size 10 wedding dress. I have 3 cats, own my own home, love prosecco and pizza (preferably together)
I am getting married on 9th June 2017 - I intend to blog right up until my wedding day in 18 months!
I am 25, living in Essex and working in London as a PA. It is my dream job, but not my dream sector. Saying that, I bloody love it here.
I have always, always, always struggled with weight. I have tried 1000000000 (and 1000000 and 100000's) of different diets, including Juice Plus, Lighter Life, pills, Weight Watchers, cabbage soup, starvation, 5:2, blah, blah, blah. All have failed - except one.
I found Slimming world after my friend, we'll call her 'Beth', lost almost 100lbs on SW and looked absolutely incredible. She told me how much she was eating and as we sat in a house party gathering, munching on a punnet of grapes and telling me her incredible success, I was hooked.
I joined a local Slimming World group at first, and I fell in love with the community feel SW brought; the ladies all knew each other, everyone wrote cards if anything significant happened and did collections to send them gifts, I found myself telling everyone my life story. The downside of this group was that no one seemed to loose much weight, and those who did didn't seem to be part of this community. After all these months I decided to move my group into London for more positive image therapy. I left that group at 10 stone 3.5lbs and a happy size 10/12.
My first session was last Tuesday, and weighed in at 10st 9lbs (THE HORROR) - this was after a weeks holiday, my birthday and 3 weeks off plan. It's a massive gain for me though, I find that the second I am off plan the pounds zoom back on, I have an unhealthy habit of overeating when I am off plan, I eat like I've never eaten before and I feel totally ashamed afterwards.
So, it brings to me to this blog, why I'm doing it and why not other means of social media..
So, that's a bit about me, here's to my blog! (clink!)
Lauren x
So, a little bit about me, my intentions and what I intend to do with this blog to keep me M O T I V A T E D.
My name is Lauren Marston, I am using my soon to be new surname to remind me of my goal - to be in a size 10 wedding dress. I have 3 cats, own my own home, love prosecco and pizza (preferably together)
I am getting married on 9th June 2017 - I intend to blog right up until my wedding day in 18 months!
I am 25, living in Essex and working in London as a PA. It is my dream job, but not my dream sector. Saying that, I bloody love it here.
I have always, always, always struggled with weight. I have tried 1000000000 (and 1000000 and 100000's) of different diets, including Juice Plus, Lighter Life, pills, Weight Watchers, cabbage soup, starvation, 5:2, blah, blah, blah. All have failed - except one.
I found Slimming world after my friend, we'll call her 'Beth', lost almost 100lbs on SW and looked absolutely incredible. She told me how much she was eating and as we sat in a house party gathering, munching on a punnet of grapes and telling me her incredible success, I was hooked.
I joined a local Slimming World group at first, and I fell in love with the community feel SW brought; the ladies all knew each other, everyone wrote cards if anything significant happened and did collections to send them gifts, I found myself telling everyone my life story. The downside of this group was that no one seemed to loose much weight, and those who did didn't seem to be part of this community. After all these months I decided to move my group into London for more positive image therapy. I left that group at 10 stone 3.5lbs and a happy size 10/12.
My first session was last Tuesday, and weighed in at 10st 9lbs (THE HORROR) - this was after a weeks holiday, my birthday and 3 weeks off plan. It's a massive gain for me though, I find that the second I am off plan the pounds zoom back on, I have an unhealthy habit of overeating when I am off plan, I eat like I've never eaten before and I feel totally ashamed afterwards.
So, it brings to me to this blog, why I'm doing it and why not other means of social media..
- I am sick of people telling me I don't need to loose weight, I am not comfortable in my body, therefore I feel the need to loose weight.
- I am sick of being judged by friendship groups & family - I want to do this almost annonomously - they can find me if they look, they probably won't!
- I want to loose weight and document it, I think this maintains my motivation and allows me to keep focused!
- If (IF!) others read this, I could look to get advice and tasty recipies.
- I want to post recipies and recreations of my own!
So, that's a bit about me, here's to my blog! (clink!)
Lauren x
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