A SW Newbie's food diary... advice and tips welcome!

Hi everyone!

I've been looking around everyone's food diaries and they're all super informative! I thought it might be a good idea to write my own so I keep motivated and also so you lovely lot can give me tips on where I could improve. I don't go to SW meetings so I'm trying to learn this whole SW shiz by myself. Hopefully I can make it work!

I'm 20 years old and I go to uni full time. At the moment I'm off for summer and I have these big wonderful dreams of going back for my final year as a skinny minny. Here's hoping!

After failing miserably in getting a job this summer I'm trying to sort out some volunteering work to keep me busy and active, preferably in a care home. Until then though I'm actually just being incredibly lazy. Which does not burn any calories or fat! So I better change that then too.

I'm a shorty at 5 foot and I started off at 9 stone 4lb. I really would like to be 8 stone by the time I go back to uni in October. That's the plan anyway, but I know if I aim for that, I should be happy with wherever I end up. IF I STICK TO THE PLAN.

I've only been doing the Extra Easy diet for 2 weeks now, the first week I had a great loss of 4.5lb but last week I only lost 0.5lb. I'm hoping that I have another 4.5lb week!

Okay so my plan today is:

Breakfast: 2 Weetabix (HEB) and raspberries with skimmed milk (HEA)

Lunch: Chicken, Ham and Potato Salad, with 2 satsumas

Snack: Muller light Smooth Raspberry and Cranberry yoghurt.

Dinner: Ham (We have lots of ham left ), new potatoes, brocolli, green beans, carrots and gravy (2.5 SYNS)

Treat/Snack: 2 sticks of a kitkat! I'm not gonna lie, I'm excited. (4.5 SYNS)

TOTAL SYNS: 7.

Hopefully my syns calculations are right!

Hey lady! Thought I'd pop by after you commented on my photos to see how you're getting on. Good luck for your WI next time. I was a bit of a slow loser but I got there in the end and never looked back!

Keep up the good work!!!

Enjoy the ham

Thanks!

Well today I literally sat on my bum ALL day and did nothing. I loved it! But tomorrow I'll be doing lots of walking and hopefully an exercise fitness video to make up for it. I need to be more active if I want to lose a stone in 10 weeks. That's the hardest bit for me, I absolutely loath exercise. I think I may change my laptop desktop background to a skinny woman for motivation. Although it may confuse some...

I'm trying to incorporate more syns into my diet (which is such hard work obviously ), as I realised that during my first week when I was having 10 maltesers a day I lost 4.5lb, and the second week when I had none I lost 0.5lb. Maybe I was having too little? I don't know... but I guess I'll have more of an idea at the end of this week.

Breakfast: 2 Weetabix (HEB) and 250ml semi-skimmed milk (HEA) and strawberries
Snack: Mullerlight yoghurt

Lunch: Sunday dinner! Beef (w/o fat) veg, new potatoes and 1/4 pint of bisto gravy (2 Syns)

Dinner: Ham (AGAIN) and potato salad

Snack: Mullerlight yoghurt and 4 squares of chocolate (6 syns)

TOTAL SYNS: 8

I think tomorrow I'd rather be closer to 5 syns. And I think I should really start organising my meals better, maybe schedule them with snacks so I don't end up hungry. It didn't help that I've run out of fruit either, but that should be fixed by tomorrow morning.