Long Lie's and Lee-way

As the title of this blog suggests I had a lovely long lie this morning and didn't get out of bed until 11.30am!!!! Now, I don't think since having my first child 5 years ago, have I ever slept this long and boy did I need it. Especially since I didn't get to bed until 1am lastnight. Oops! Lol. I was definitely making the most of not having to get up at the crack of dawn this morning!

So, onto the lee-way part of the title. After much deliberation both last night and this morning I have decided to cut myself some slack over yesterday's events. I am notoriously hard on myself, as I think a lot of overweight people are, and instead of being able to relax last night after a lovely day and evening with my hubby, I spent most of it feeling guilty about what I had to eat throughout the day. But then I started thinking about what I would've ate had I not been back on the slimming world plan. For a start i'd have had the breaded mushrooms and garlic dip for a starter, followed by a burger and fries at the Italian, most probably with a glass of wine. I'd have definitely bought a bag of chocolates like minstrels to share with hubby whilst watching the show, then dinner would have looked a whole lot different with my salad having lots of extra, fattening bits added to it, not to mention a couple of bread rolls. Then I'd have went for the chicken burger with cheese and bacon after that.  I'd then have came home and cracked open the wine and no doubt would've munched more naughty things whilst watching the telly.

Shocking eh!! Not to mention very gluttonous. Well, that's exactly how I used to eat, and is exactly the reason why I'm over 8 stones overweight. This is something I'm really not proud of,  but what I am proud of is how I didn't let myself have a complete blow out yesterday, and how today I am back on track 110% and am still hoping for a decent weight loss on Wednesday night.

When I think back to my wedding day which was only 6 years and 4 months ago, this is what I looked like.

So, with that in mind, when I got up I had a yummy syn free brekkie/lunch.

I really do need to work on my fried eggs to make them look more appealing don't I? Hehe. Anyway, they tasted nice and I was glad I had something nice and free and healthy to get me back to feeling good about myself after yesterday.  I had some melon and grapes after that and then we went for a nice family walk to the park and the boys had fun before it started bucketing down and we had to head back home.

For dinner, I had some of the leftover meatballs from the other day but I had it with penne pasta as I wanted to cook extra to do me for work tomorrow and there wasn't enough spaghetti for that, so that's what I had with my HEA of grated cheese mixed into it and it was as good as I remembered it. So i'm definitely looking forward to lunch tomorrow at work (yes, already!!) lol

Since I'm on a green day today and I wanted to use minimal syns after yesterday I kept my B choices till tonight when me and hubby were watching tv. So I had my 2 aldi benefit bars and two rocky road hifi light bars along with a packet of quavers for snacks.

That means total syns for the day have been 5. As I used half a syn on some brown sauce with my brekkie and 4.5 syns went on the quavers. I'm hoping that by doing this I'll manage to have at least a 2lb weight loss this week. I was, and still am hoping to lose 3lbs each week, although I know this may not always be doable and that's okay. Oh and I also got my period this afternoon so will need to account for that.

Well, after a rather successful day on plan i'm off to bed as I have to be up early for work tomorrow.

Night night xx