mmm I want one!

29^th November 2012

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Helen Keller

It’s a bit nippy this morning, but rather that than rain I say!  My members are all coping with with the start of the festive season I have to say, 70lb lost last night and a few silver sevens, 5% and 10% handed out, not bad at all!  And there’s a few so close to goal they can almost touch it ;-)

I’m holding off shopping this week because I have quite a bit in the freezer and cupboards that could do with being used up before Christmas, I’m just going to buy a loaf and a bit of veg today to get me through, I’m going to have Salmon for lunch and then I plan to ProPoint and work my way through the rest of the contents – not all in one day of course. Did you know the average UK family throws away a shocking £680 worth of food and drink every year!  To cut down on waste, plan your food for the week and make a shopping list.  Freeze leftovers or use them in packed lunches. Visit lovefoodhatewaste.com for ideas.

I’m going to plan next weeks shopping list, I want to include lots of Filling and Healthy foods so that I can make lots of good meals with the ingredients and I’m going to try and do it as cheaply as possibly because November and December are not good months for me financially so I can’t afford to be frivolous.

I have some wholewheat spaghetti I noticed and a perfect combo for that is to add extra garlic and onions to your pasta sauce and use the wholewheat spaghetti to bolster the bolognaise.  The amino acid cysteine, found in garlic and onions, increases the absorption of iron and zinc from wholegrains by up to 159%.  Check me out with the knowledge!

Here you go I’m on a roll now and strawberries with cheap fizz is something we’ve had on Christmas day for brekkie in the past, did you know 9 strawberries is all it takes to get your RDA of vitamin C.  That’s a really easy way to get that Vitamin C.

This week has been the first week I haven’t tracked as I told you, yesterday was difficult for me to write down and admit what I was eating because I was overeating!  Not bad stuff just the wrong stuff throughout the day, but it did turn to bad stuff on the night, I did what is so easy to do, I listened to what someone else was having and thought;

 “mmm I WANT one”,

I knew I didn’t need one and it wasn’t a healthy choice, but

“mmm I WANT one”,

It’ll mean the gain you’re expecting on the scales tomorrow will probably be higher if you have it;

“mmm I WANT one”,

It had at least 30-40pp in it you realise!  And you don’t have them spare to spend;

“mmm I’m STILL HAVING one!”

And I did, I walked over the chippy with my shop lady and ordered a donor kebab!  Was it nice? Honestly? It really depends on what you mean by nice!   I loved the pitta bread and the salad, I enjoyed the taste of the mint sauce and the lemon, as for the donor meat, having separated some of it and tasting it separately I realised it wasn’t very nice - it didn’t stop me eating it mind!  But it did make me realise that it’s the salad pitta I enjoy more than the donor meat, although some places sell much better donor meat than what I ate last night!  So I’m going to get me some pitta breads, the Weight Watcher ones are classed as F&H as they have added fibre, and I’m going to make me some salad pittas, I might add some stir fried beef because that will be just as tasty (if not more so!) and a few herbs and it’ll be lush, and guess what, I have a couple of thin pieces of beef steak in the fridge so I don’t even have to buy it!

So next time you have fast food, taste it, don’t just eat it and learn from it.

Take care of you. xx