A fresh start

After a small hiccup at the end of last week, a spur of the moment meal out with the husband, and Mothers Day, I had put on 2 lb by the end of the week instead of losing it!! This week I have carefully planned my meals, for both lunch and dinner, and tracked them in advance in the hopes of making a reasonable loss!

Monday
   Lunch - Grilled salmon and stir fried veg
   Dinner  - Beef casserole and roast sweet potato
Tuesday
   Lunch - Sausages with fried cabbage and onion
   Dinner - Rumps steak with cauliflower mash, fried onion and fried egg
Wednesday
   Lunch - Roast chicken thighs and salad
   Dinner - Nut coated chicken breast, butternut squash mash and veg
Thursday
   Lunch - Bacon, egg and cauliflower mash
   Dinner - Pork chops with apple and onion, roast sweet potato and veg
Friday
   Lunch - Rump steak, butternut squash mash and veg
   Dinner - Home made chicken curry
Saturday
   Lunch - Chicken leg quarter with stir fried veg
   Dinner - Bolognese with courgette spaghetti
Sunday
   Lunch - Sausage, bacon and egg
   Dinner - Roast pork and roast veg

As well as the better prepared menu, I have also been out for my first jog! If you knew me before, you'd know that I couldnt even manage a jog to the end of my road! Last night, I chose a route which came in just under 2 miles, and actually managed to jog more than half of it! I enjoyed myself, and have woken today with nicely aching muscles, but otherwise feeling pretty good! I actually have high hopes now of being able to jog the Race For Life this year!! Which reminds me, I must go sign up....!

Meal Planning Week 7

Another week, another meal plan! And they never get any easier! I swear that trying to decide in advance what we're going to eat all week is one of the hardest things I have to do!! This week it's made no easier by the fact that it's Mother's Day at the end of it, and we'll be heading over to the mother in laws for the day! I am already preparing to have to take a packed lunch, just in case the food is packed with gluten and sugar, Eeek!

But I suppose that's just more reason to be good the rest of the week! And so, here is what I hope we'll be eating for the week!

Monday - Chicken enchiladas, (with egg and Greek yoghurt wraps, to be tried for the first time!)

Tuesday - Pork Chops with roasted veg

Wednesday - Home made chicken burgers and salad

Thursday - Home made chicken curry with cauliflower rice

Friday - Rump steak, fried onion and roasted veg

Saturday - Roast belly of pork with cauliflower mash

Sunday - Mother's Day Dinner!!

A fresh start, of sorts!

This will be my mantra this week! After 2 weeks of hardly losing any weight, I'm really struggling to get back on track and sort out my eating! I hate having to count everything I'm eating, and one of the appeals of going paleo was that I could eat as much as I wanted as long as I avoided certain foods. Well it seems my appetite is a little too big still! I am slowly getting the hang of my portioning, and am actually quite positive of a loss at the end of this week! Who would have thought that cutting down my meat (protein) and upping my dairy would have made a difference? Annoyingly I was quite happy avoiding all dairy (with the exception of the odd splash of milk in my morning tea!), and yet now I'm going to have to start weighing and tracking again! I was hoping those days were over when I quit Weight Watchers!

Well, here's to a new week, and hopefully a new weight loss! Wish me luck!

A sweet find.

It's become a habit of mine to keep a bag of pecans on the worktop in the kitchen, and when I fancy a snack I grab one or two! Also, in the evenings, when I've sat down after my meal, I always have a craving for something sweet! This is a tricky one with Paleo, but I feel like I may have finally found the answer! A recipe for a Paleo trail mix bar! I made a few changes to this recipe, using ingredients I had in the cupboard, and also made half the quantity, as I hate making a bit batch of something I end up not liking!! This is what I ended up using.

¾ cup chopped pecans
¾ cup raisins
¼ cup hazelnut butter
¼ cup coconut oil
1 Tbsp honey

Melting the butter, oil and honey together I mixed in the fruit and nuts and pressed the mix into a lined square tin. I let it cool for a bit, then put it in the fridge where it took a couple of hours to set (at one point I thought I had ruined it!). When it did I was very pleased with the result!

This is the crunchy, sweet, nutty fix that I need! The only problem I now have is resisting the temptation to get a piece from the fridge every time I go to the kitchen!! It is hidden in a tub at the back where it's not so easy to reach!!