25th Jan – WOOHOO success! 2lb off!

Hello! What a good day, saw my friend late morning after breakfast, got weighed, sorted mum in laws present for tomorrow, wrote a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while, made dinner, relaxing right now.

First and foremost… I LOST 2lb… WOOHOO, so pleased!

My new target is to lose 39lb in the next 27 weeks, which is when I go back to beautiful North Wales.

So, week 1/27 2/39lbs lost.

Right, now on to the day.

Sleep – not too shoddy a sleep.

Food – breakfast was beans on toast.

When we weighed we passed a food van… oh the smell of those fried onions! So tonight we decided to have burgers. With fried onions!

First I turned oven on to heat ready for sweet potato fries.

Simple ingredients, 500g 5% fat mince, 1 very big tablespoon oregano, 1 finely chopped onion, 10 turns of salt mill and 5 turns of pepper mill.

Mixed all the ingredients together and leave to one side.

Prepared ingredients to go with bun, sliced gerkins, grated cheese (30g per burger), sliced onion, sliced rolls.

I fried of the onions in 1cal spray then popped them in a small ovenproof dish with a bit of water, wrapped in foil and popped in oven to keep warm.

Cooked chips as per instruction.

Made patties out of burger mix and started cooking with a few squirts of 1cal on almost full heat. Covered.

Took just under 20 minutes, turning regularly.

Halfway through cook time I popped the buns under the grill to toast slightly.

Apparently a good cook knows when food is cooked, I am not a good cook. I prefer to check physically that food is safe to eat. So I cut into the middle of a burger to make sure.

With just a couple more minutes needed, I piled each burger with cheese and squashed it down with the lid of the frying pan.

Then, time to dish up!

Fried onion, then gerkins, then burgers, then sauce!

So healthy whole wheat buns, healthier meat, oven chips, cheese for dairy, gerkins and onions for some veggies. But still the problem on quantity! Apparently Paul thought 250g of meat wouldn’t be enough for two of us 🤣

Bless him! As happy as Larry! He didn’t eat it all.

And guess what, neither did I! In fact nowhere near! I did eat a couple more mouthfuls than I should have done, but I’m pleased I stopped!

That is what I left!

Now, I’m not going to sit here all smug, I found a secret bag of crisps today, we will be eating them.

I have also had a small glass of baileys, but will continue with a treat of Pepsi max.

Nothing to say about exercise I’m afraid.

Anyway, that’s me for now.

Night