Weight Loss Week Five Day Six Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 6 - Monday
17/02/2014

Lite n' Easy: Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Fruit n Muesli Toast with Butter and a Vanilla Yoghurt

I don't really like this breakfast as I don't think it is as substantial as the others, so I'm more likely to get hungrier throughout the day.  This is the "new" vanilla yoghurt, I think the difference is that it's a little sweeter which I like.

Morning Snack: Seasonal Fruit (Red Apple)

Getting over apples, so, so many apples.

Lunch: Satay Beef and an Orange

I had this instead of the chicken filet roll.  This was pretty good, I'd have this lunch again.

Afternoon Snack: Rosemary & Rock Salt Crackers 

I really enjoy the flavour of these, after being on Lite n' Easy for a while I really taste the salt in things like this though.

Lite n' Easy Dinner: Chicken Parmigiana

Dinner: Chicken Parmigiana (#183)

This is yummy but because of all the sauce and because it's frozen, the crumb on the chicken is just soggy.  I would probably have this again but I would chose other meals over it.

Glasses of water: 5

Additional Items:  Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, 2 sugars)

Exercise: None

I have had migraines and nausea all this week.  On top of this I can't sleep at night so I'm pretty much just feeling miserable all day and exercise just isn't happening.

Weightloss Week Four Day Three Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 3 - Friday
7/02/2014

Lite n' Easy Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Nut Cluster Crunch with skim milk Wholegrain & Oat Toast with Strawberry Jam

Morning Snack: Red Apple

Lunch: Smoked Beef, Fruit Chutney and Baby Leaf Salad Multigrain Sandwich Seasonal Fruit (Grapes)

I thought I was going to hate this, it just didn’t sound appealing, but I actually liked it.  It’s not my first pick out of the lunch choices but it’s not the worst.  I toasted the bread and the fruit chutney actually worked with it, to my surprise.  The tomato was a little sad. 

The grapes had a best before for the next day again and I couldn't even finish them because they were so overripe. :(  Lite n' Easy have said that they are going to fix the problems with the fruit & veg suppliers, I just hope that we don't have to pay extra for the privilege as they should have been providing quality all along.

The perplexing iridescent roast beef

I really never eat smoked beef, especially sliced and on sandwiches.  When I put it on my sandwich I noticed an iridescent sheen and I was quite perplexed.  Was the meat oily or slimy? Had I stumbled on to some kind of magic meat or sliced unicorn?  So I googled it to find that it perplexes many and it is completely normal.  It’s to do with the meat tissue, how it’s sliced and there is an article here.

Afternoon Snack: Rosemary & Rock Salt Crackers

Really enjoy these for a snack, much better than dried apricots.

Lite n' Easy Dinner - Chargrilled Steak & Mushroom Sauce

Dinner: Chargrilled Steak & Mushroom Sauce (#189)

I really enjoy the Light n’ Easy steaks, surprisingly good for something that is cooked in the microwave!  I prefer this one over the Chargrilled Steak with Pepper Sauce (#188), because I like the mushroom sauce better and the veggies.

I was reading on the pack that medium cooked steak is eight minutes and well done is longer, ten minutes I think.  I never noticed that before and I was thinking that if you have it on longer, wouldn’t the veggies be on longer and perhaps dry out?  I like my steak medium anyway but I’m just curious. 

Anyone experimented with this before?

Glasses of water: 9

Additional Items: 2 x Homemade Chai Tea Lattes (skim milk 1tsp of sugar & 1tsp of honey in each)

Exercise: Exercise: 20 mins 1 mile walk Leslie Sansone (Can't find exact copy but there is a similar Youtube version here). (I use soup cans as light weights for upper body sections).

No wheezing today, must have been a once off strange thing. 

How is your weight loss going?  Are you enjoying Lite n' Easy? 

Weightloss Week 1 Days 5 - 7 Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 5 - Sunday
19/01/2014

Breakfast: Beans n' Bacon with Multigrain Toast

Unfortunately with Lite n' Easy sometimes this happens, the frozen bread is completely broken and there is no way to toast it.  Luckily I had a spare multigrain bread in the freezer.

Morning Snack: Pear Fruit Cup

I was out all day Sunday and I had my breakfast before I left.  I didn't have this snack until the afternoon.