Why can't all days be like today?

I have a had a fab day trying to loose weight.  I was up early for a Saturday (about 8am) and organised my breakfast which was a fruit smoothie.

The smoothie is made up from milk, which came from my Healthy A allowance, natural yogurt (free on slimming world) and Black Forrest fruits, which include grapes, cherries, blackberries and blackcurrants (which are all super free).  This gave me the energy boost to get going to the gym as I really didn't want to go today.  I do go however and did 45 mins in the gym and did weights, CV and toning work.  I followed this up with a swim and only managed 30 minutes.  I had planned to do an hour in each, but considering I really didn't want to go at least I did something, which is better than nothing. 

I got back home for about 11.30am, as I had to stop at the shops for wholemeal bread.  When I got home I had a early lunch as I needed the protein to start repairing my body after the exercise.  I had a bacon sandwich, which was on plan as fat is remove as much as possible and bread is my healthy extra b allowance.  I had this with homemade pumpkin soup made up from left over super free veg such as peppers, broccoli, brussels and of course pumpkin.  There was also potato on there which is also free.  The soup was topped with left over pork croutons and added extra flavour.

Lunch was followed by a shower and a food shop.  Food wise we always start at the local butchers and buy most of our fruit, veg and meat there as the quality is fab and is cheaper than local supermarkets, with the bonus of fab customer service. Here's a link to their website http://www.villagebutchers.co.uk/

We then headed onto Waitrose to buy a few store cupboard items, as is the usual routine as on the odd occasion the butchers haven't quite got the odd bit we need.

With the shopping unpacked, the housework was done, lamb rogan josh in the slow cooker and I then headed on out for a walk.  My intention was just to go out for an hour so I could reach the 10k steps we are supposed to reach every day.  I ended up walking for an hour and a half and have so far done 13,414 steps today!  Total exercise today is 2 hours 45 minutes.  Hey I should be biggest lose!

When I got home I got the rice, broccoli and cauliflower on for dinner and it filled me up a treat.  I so wanted to eat one of my home cooked mince pies that were cooling down on the wire rack, but I resisted them and just waited for my dinner.  I have so far resisted the wine to.

Pictures of dinner (or whats left of it):

 I also was I bit cheeky today and brought some mini scream eggs at Waitrose.  I ate 2 of them, and will only have the occasional one, as I couldn't find the syns for them so I have taken the syn value of a mini cream egg (they are essentially the same thing) and are 2.5 syns for one, so that takes my syns to a total of five so far today.

For those of you that don't know the Extra Easy Plan that Slimming World offers, it works something along the lines of splitting foods into the following groups:

Super free:   This includes most veg and fruit, but not all.
Free:           This includes high carb veg such as potatoes, peas, sweetcorn and beans, meats and fish

Slimming world suggest on this plan you fill up more than a third of your plate with super free as this is what will start to fill you up and the rest of your plate with free food.  None of this food has to be weighed or measured.  But be sensible about it.

The other two groups are:
Healthy Extras:    You are allowed one A and one B on the extra easy plan.  'A's include things a milk or cheese allowance and 'B's' include things like breads and cereals.  These need to be weighed
Syns:          This is for your naughty bits like wine and chocolate.  These also need to be weighed to work out the correct syn value.  You are allowed a total of 15 a day.  Some people work them over a week, so they can save them up for night out.

And talking of night's out, i need to and get ready!