Slimming World the Mediterranean Way: Thursday, 28-05-26

Good evening, everyone! In a comment, Melanie asked about my drinking patterns through the day - and she didn't mean alcohol!!!

On most days I start with a double pod coffee to which I add my collagen. I don't have milk in coffee and haven't for decades; nothing to do with Slimming World, I just prefer coffee black.
Actually, I probably drink too much coffee and am making the switch over to decaf but have some of the 'bad' stuff to use up. I don't use instant, I use my pod machine and get my pods from Wonky Coffee. I have to finish off the last 'full fat' box and I've changed my subscription to decaf boxes now.

So, scattered through the day, I have black coffees but the rest of the time I'm rather boring with mostly plain or sparkling water and a big old ice cube, especially at the moment. I used to drink a lot of diet fizzy drinks but in my drive to eat more unprocessed and more Mediterranean, I have more or less stopped. Occasionally, I add some squash to the water, or maybe a sprig of mint or a slice of lemon, but I do like it plain too.

I'll have the occasional cuppa tea to which I add milk (unless it's Earl Grey; then I add lemon). It's just a splash and I tend to call it half a swip.

I haven't added sugar to tea or coffee for all of my adult life, nothing to do with SW/slimming/etc.

The good thing about the above is that it works fine with Slimming World. Rarely do I have anything that needs counting.

Finally, when I do drink anything alcoholic, it acts as a trigger and that's when everything else goes ooopsie downsie too! Two recent holidays have played havoc with things and now I am clawing my way back again.

That's about it - how about you? Please say in the comments how you make this area work with your healthy eating regime, whatever plan you follow (or not).

The lentil crackers with dips - totally yum and nothing left.

I almost forgot about the salad .

There was some left for dinner.

And I DID forget about the stuffed tomatoes and lemon roasted potatoes which is a shame because they looked and tasted great. The stuffing was the Aldi Spanish style rice plus some softened chopped onion and pepper and some grated hard Italian cheese. Really good.
I can't even begin to swip lunch - definitely one oil and probably more - but it was all good, healthy stuff, the nearest thing to up was the rice and most was made from scratch. And Val enjoyed it.

Later on I had an apple and an orange.

Dinner was almost all leftovers - left over mixed salad, potato, rice mix and grated hard Italian cheese plus some seeds.

And after was some water melon.

The summary is difficult.
I didn't have a fibre choice, I had my oil choice plus and ditto for my calcium choice, although that wasn't so over.
And, honestly, I don't think I was over on my swips but I can't be 100% sure because although the only obvious swips was the rice (one and a half swips) The oil and cheese will have to be counted - and, while I weighed the cheese, I didn't weigh the oil and I certainty didn't monitor how much Val had and how much I had.

So I'm not worrying.