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Thanks to A Strong Coffee and her recipe for a walnut cake using coconut oil, I have recently discovered how excellent coconut oil is! I’ve had an unopened jar sitting in my cupboard for months, and the first time I used it was a couple of weeks ago when I made the walnut cake. It was delicious, and using natural coconut oil rather than butter made it even better, as it added flavour with natural goodness.
I mentioned in my last weigh in update that we were going on holiday last week so there wouldn’t be one, but we’re back now and I’ve been for my post holiday weigh in! The time between weigh in and us going away, I may have let myself slip a little – a bit of cake here, a few crisps there – and didn’t log the syns, naughty. I didn’t log anything on holiday though as I had already decided I was just going to enjoy myself and do EESP until weigh in, when I got back. I did weigh myself when I …
One snack that is really popular in our house is a biscuit, and since I started Slimming World I haven’t eaten them like I used to. Well, unless I’ve been having a particularly bad week that is and I delve into the biscuit barrel… I know I can make Slimming World friendly biscuits but sometimes I just can’t beat the taste of a custard cream. Or a bourbon. A Hobnob maybe. Or, well, any biscuit really, for that matter…
Okay, so this isn’t an actual cheesecake or Eton mess, but it is quite reminiscent of a mixture of both of them! I just chucked it together the other night when I fancied some dessert, but I couldn’t have fruit & yogurt as I was doing an EESP day so I just got some ingredients from the fridge and cupboard and came up with this. You could of course change the fruit in it, and the flavour of the Hi-Fi bar, but I thought it was really tasty just like this. It takes just five minutes to whip up too, and you could …
So I was a bit gutted with my weigh in last week after gaining yet again, and even though I knew I had a big meal out this week I was really determined not to have yet another gain. Quite frankly I am getting really annoyed at myself for yo-yo’ing up & down with the same few pounds which I have been doing since Christmas and now we are almost a third of the way through the year! I *only* have just over half a stone to go until the target I have set but it feels like there is no …