The Inevitable gain blog

Ahhhhh, a gain had to happen at some point. At week 6 though?

One could be forgiven for shouting "EPIC FAIL"!!!

But not me today.

I was not expecting lose anything this week, as I've had 4 days out of 7 where I know my syns have exceeded 15.  So no Sherlock Holmes needed there! It's been a hungry week but I've gone a bit overboard and mega pigged out on free carbs, when I should have been snacking on superfree foods instead.

Take for example my lunch this week. I made a gorgeous yellow split pea soup which was really thick and filling as it had potato in it too, (as well as loads of veggies) but I thought why not make a ham pasta salad and take that for lunch too......it's all free right??? So my lunch bag has been bulging full of all that delicious healthy stuff, plus fat free yoghurt and superfrees like blueberries, grapes and figs. After eating all my soup and pasta I didn't want any of my superfrees and I was waddling round full to the brim.  I've also had a few naughties like alcohol and too many oatcakes (oh oatcakes, how I love thee!)

So this gain has taught me a good lesson, not in portion control, because we don't have to do that with free/superfree on SW, but that it's all about balance.  Pasta and most carbs are fabulous and amazing and free,  but if I stuff my face with the equivalent of 2 lunches at once, so much so that I can't even face a portion of fruit and a yoghurt, something is definitely awry!

Example 2: My lovely tea the other night was home made chilli with kidney beans containing a tin of kidney beans and a tin of baked beans (divided between 2 of us), PLUS couscous, PLUS SW wedges, PLUS stir-fry veggies. Here's a pic.  That's a bowl by the way, not a plate, so there's an awful lot of food in there!

Of course I had to eat the lot because I'm me and my mouth just luuurrrves to chew (perhaps I was bovine or a camel in a previous life!).

I've still lost a total of 13 pounds in 6 weeks taking into account the gain (it was half a pound gain by the way, not a lot but it's still going in the wrong direction). However the good thing is that I've learned some lessons from this week and I'm back on track now, making an effort to choose superfree foods first, then moving onto the free stuff.  And I also know that I need stop eating when I am full, rather than stopping when I am about to burst and waddle. I'm pretty sure the geniuses at SW who devised this plan, didn't advocate waddling after any of their meals!

And there endeth the lesson for today, my lovely Slimming Worlders.  At some point in the near future I will tell you all a bit more about myself, as we all like a bit of an autobiography don't we, but  it's TTFN lovely readers.

c
xx