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Easter/Spring Break is over…

18 Apr 2017 53 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Back In The Saddle, Back to school, Back to work, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating

That’s it.

Today’s the day that I stop my double eating, and get back into the routines that I am used to!

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t stopped eating naughtily since my last shout out about eating double last week!

Easter for some reason is the hardest holiday for me to be good! At Christmas, I indulged but managed to keep some control.

But for some reason, these two weeks I just lose my grip and, well, eat!

Every day was started with good intentions. Each breakfast has been healthy (apart from the croissants when I was back home with my parents!). Some lunches were ‘on plan’, but the snacking and the dinners…

I didn’t open the Easter eggs until Easter Sunday but there were all these other excuses to eat previously forbidden or limited food… takeaways, scones, hot cross buns, crisps, biscuits, chocolates… Oh man!

And I have to be honest. I am feeling it. Feeling the bloat, and lethargy associated with unhealthy eating.

So today, I have packed my lunch and fruit snacks, will eat a good breakfast this morning, and make sure my dinner is sensible, and try and ensure that again every day.

Wish me luck getting back into the saddle Peeps!

Ritu’s Healthy Eating Part 36 – #icandothis

14 Apr 2017 42 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Health, Healthy Eating, Slimming World, Weight Loss

wp-1492120543707. It’s been another week of excesses… I actually can’t wait to get back to school, term time equals more restraint with food!

Before I disclose any foodie pics, the damage…

Another 1lb on… but no fear, I am still below the ‘ceiling’ weight of 9 and a half stone that I have given myself!

And the photos show the mostly decent stuff I ate this week.

I really need to do something exercise-wise now! Today we are off to Howlett’s, which is a lovely wildlife park with all sorts of animals and lotsn of walking! And tomorrow I have a three hour walk for the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan Festival. Plenty of exercise!

Food tip today, instead of a recipe as I am a little stretched for time…

Try and eat your fruit before meals. It digests quicker them. Fruit after meals will sit on top of the other food you have consumed, and turn to sugar, causing weight gain rather than loss!

So, until next week, Peeps! I hope to report back with much better eating habits next time! Until then, enjoy Easter, and try not to indulge in too many chocolate eggs!

Doubling Up!

11 Apr 2017 97 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Humour, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Healthy Eating, poem, Snacks, Weight gain, Weight Loss

I have to confess… I have been oh so naughty these last few days! The Easter break always finds me with less willpower than at Christmas or the summer holidays for some reason!

I have been eating… and eating… and eating. When I want a snack, I am not reaching for the fruit bowl, or a yoghurt, as I have been doing, but rather the crisps, chocolates, ice creams, cakes… did I mention chocolate? And rather than having just one, I end up going back for a second helping!

It inspired a little poem from me today! Here’s to all of us who can’t help but snack! ( I’ll be back on my wagon once term starts. It’s not even worth me trying to be ‘good’ this holiday!)

This is getting serious
I don’t know what to do
For every time I have a snack
It’s never one, but two!

I went to get an ice cream
Didn’t realise the trouble
For after scoffing one
I needed more – Double!

Maple pecan plaits
You buy them in a pair
So I ate them both
I think that’s only fair!

At afternoon teatime
I make myself a brew
And if its not a pack of biscuits
I’ll have a scone – no, two!

With Easter coming it’s no fun
Chocolate everywhere
It would be rude not to eat,
And just sit and stare!

It’s not just sweets but savoury too
That seem to be coupling up
Wine, two glasses – not just one
And tea, ooh yes, another cup!

This doubling up is awful
I really shouldn’t indulge
After all my hard work
To shift my waistline bulge!

But then, I’m only human
Sometimes you gotta eat
And at my next weigh in
I promise I’ll not cheat

Instead, I’ll be good, I swear
I’ll get back to my routine
And then I’ll be posting about
How I got back to being lean!

Ritu 2017

Ritu’s Healthy Eating – Week 35 #icandothis

07 Apr 2017 44 Comments

by Ritu in Foodie Pics, Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Health, Healthy Eating, Slimming World, Weight Loss

Let me start by saying “Oops!”

No maintaining here this week I’m afraid! Too much fun, and eating plenty meant a gain of 1.5lbs but as I am still way below my 9 and a half stone limit, I think that’s ok!

I have enjoyed much food with my parents, eating naughtily as well as healthy!

As you an see, a mix of naughtiness, and good stuff!

Because of the holidays we are eating more relaxed, and I am quite happy with that. I am encouraging the kids to walk more, so hopefully that will be a good thing this week!

No recipe this week, purely because I haven’t the time!

Enjoy your Healthy Eating this next week Peeps!

Ritu’s Healthy Eating Week 34 – #icandothis

31 Mar 2017 37 Comments

by Ritu in Health, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Healthy Eating, Recipe, Slimming World, Weight Loss

Another week, another set of scales saying I maintained! Wow! I don’t know how!

I have attended a baby shower, with cake and lots of food! Some cake came home withme and I have eaten bits on and off too!

Here’s me being silly at the baby shower!

Then there was Mother’s day and a Chinese meal out….

And we had a colleague’s leaving do at a great Turkish place!

And I can’t forget that Lil Man has been cooking and baked cakes!

But I still stayed on track the rest of the time (except the ice creams, and chocolate cakes, and chocolate nests…Shhh!)

And so to my recipe for today. I only started to eat prawns in September, and found a great dish that is Slimming World friendly. In fact it was a recipe from one of their magazines! So yummy!

Pak Choi Prawns!

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Ingredients (serves 4)

400g dried rice noodles
Low calorie cooking spray
6 spring onions, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tsp finely grated fresh root ginger
1 red pepper, deseeded and thinly sliced
1 red chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced
400g pak choi, roughly chopped
400g large cooked and peeled prawns
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce

Method

This one is so simple!

Cook the noodles as per the instructions
Heat your wok with the low cal cooking spray.
Stir fry the onions, garlic, ginger, pepper, chilli and pak choi for a few minutes, or until the pak choi has wilted.
Stir in the noodles, and prawns and add the soy sauces, Stir frying for 1-2 minutes.
Serve!

And so there you have it!

I hope you have a wonderfully healthy week Peeps, and I’ll catch ya next week with another recipe!!!