After last week’s weigh in and an expected gain from J’s birthday festivities, I decided to knuckle down, go back to basics, and get right back on plan – all of which I (nearly) managed to do. As I gained 2lb last week I decided I wanted to lose that plus an extra pound so I made sure I ate lots of speed food. I had nothing to knock me off track – well, apart from chocolate fudge brownies and ice cream at the weekend, but that was the only ‘naughty’ I had all week that was out of my syns. But …
Inside the boys’ Easter basket
Last year was the first year that we were a family of four. N was only a few weeks old, but I made an Easter basket – well, actually a papier mache chicken – for J, so I thought I would carry on the tradition and do another one this year. I have left it rather late, though, so the boys have one between them, as I don’t think N will really be interested – I’m not sure how well that will go in theory, though!
Our Easter Plans – Family, Chocolate, and Crafts!
Before we had children, hubby & I didn’t really celebrate Easter or do anything for it – apart from buy each other lots of chocolate and stuff ourselves silly with it! When J arrived in the world, he was only a few weeks old when his first Easter came around, so yet again we didn’t really ‘celebrate’. It was only last year that I decided to make our own celebration of it, and I prepared him an Easter basket; N had arrived in the world a few weeks before too, so we had to dress him as a bunny, of …
Recipe – Peanut butter & white chocolate blondies
This is a recipe I did for our last bake club meeting at the beginning of the month. The theme was tray bakes and I thought, well, I’ve made brownies plenty of times but never blondies, and I had some Reese’s peanut butter left from my cupcakes from last month’s bake club… So these were born! As the peanut butter is smooth there wouldn’t have been any crunch to them so I added banana chips as an alternative (peanut butter and banana is one of my favourite combinations!). You could always use crunchy peanut butter instead and leave the banana chips …
Slimming World weigh in #10 – the one with a gain
After last weeks surprise 3lb loss I wasn’t at all confident of another loss this week for one reason only – it was J’s 3rd birthday and we had a two day celebration which meant lots of high calorie non-SW friendly food, and cake! I did try and counteract it every other day though with just eating as normal and lower syns but I decided I wasn’t going to sweat it if I did have a maintain or gain, as life happens and we have to remember that. Unlike the other weeks where I thought I’d gained and was nervous …