Day 536: Grocery delivery
Posted by Paola
1pm Strange wrap
Out of bread and sandwichy things. Cottage cheese, Quark on a small end bread crust, sun-dried tomatoes and piccalilli in a wrap.
2:20pm Banana + squash
4pm Sauerkraut and bean salad with Crackerbreads w/spread + fresh coffee
5:10pm Banana yoghurt mixture with bran flakes and sultanas
What was left of the mixture after making eight lollies. I should have just eaten it as is rather than adding the bran flakes and sultanas. I was feeling a bit full and actually took a deep breath before launching into this bowl, knowing I shouldn’t have any of it really. *sigh*
8:10pm Veg, bean and tomato soup with Crackbreads w/spread
9pm Apple
Evening drink: hot chocolate
Day 535: Can’t give ‘em away
Posted by Paola
9:30am Cheese, onion and tomato sandwich + fresh coffee
1pm Veg, tomato and bean soup w/olive oil
Big boil as half water.
Afternoon drink: pint of squash
1:30pm Frozen yoghurt banana lolly
3:45pm 6″ Pizza with hotdogs, onions, Quark and cheese with mayo and chilli sauce
4:20pm Kiwi, sultanas and orange curd with Quark
7:40pm Lasagne with baked beans and cheese + squash
7pm Frozen yoghurt banana lolly
8:40pm Port
Day 534: Cleaning jumpers
Posted by Paola
1:50pm Ham and cottage cheese salad sandwich + tea
2:10pm Pineapple with port
Leftover from the day before.
3:40pm Frozen yoghurt banana lolly
4:45pm Lasagne with cheese and spinach
+ tangerine
6pm Banana, Quark, chocolate spread in a wrap + tea
7:30pm Tinned spaghetti and egg with toast w/spread + squash
Lots of carbs today.
8pm Tangerine
11:00pm Cottage cheese salad with bread w/spread + tea
Ditto carbs.
+ tangerine
Day 534: weigh-in
Posted by Paola
Weekly weigh-in: no loss
Total lost: 67 lbs / 4 st 11 lbs / 30.4 kg in 74 weeks
Current weight: 147 lbs / 10 st 7 lbs / 66.7 kg
Day 533: Cake with Ruth
Posted by Paola
10:15am Ham and cottage cheese salad sandwich + tea
+ tangerine
Morning drink: pint of squash
1pm Veg, bean and tomato soup + wrap w/spread
2:05pm Tangerine
3:20pm Cottage cheese with cucumber and pickled beetroot
Before leaving for Fego’s for cake with Ruth, so that I wouldn’t eat so much. But, truth be told, I still asked Ruth on the way whether we could have a whole slice each this time, rather than sharing a slice. She said she couldn’t eat a whole slice.
4pm Butterscotch cake + tea @ Fego
7:45pm Burger and cabbage + squash
Savoy cabbage, veg burger, seeds, sultanas, yoghurt + dressing.
8:20pm Pineapple with port
8:45pm Pineapple, port and yoghurt
Uh oh.
9:50pm Pineapple, orange curd, seeds, bran flakes and yoghurt + tea
Yikes!
Holding Steady
Posted by Sylvia
People visiting, lots going on. I’ve been making meals that are inherently low-calorie (that is, dishes that I have previously made when holding to 1,200/day) but not measuring and allowing for larger portions. I’d guess that we are having between 500-800 calories per meal. We’re going to restaurants as well and drinking in the evenings, so it’s not really a position of being able to strictly diet. Trying to count every calorie to throw away the data in the end really frustrated me before, which is why I’m working on a system of “Keep it Simple” this time.
I’ve been cooking this way long enough that I have a pretty good idea of how to keep calories down and I’ve learned to be careful not to let myself feel hungry before going out for tapas and beer (too easy to fill up on snacks and then the alcohol hits and I fall over).
Actually, the main thing I feel guilty about is that I’m drinking a lot of beer rather than vodka+diet coke or some other low cal drink.
I’ve also been going for a walk or doing some exercise most week days to try to help counteract the extra calories.
I was nervous about doing the next weigh-in but I’m quite satisfied with the results: I have not lost weight but neither have I gained any. I’m exactly at 81.0 kilos, the same as I was on the 5th of the month.
Weight loss/gain: 0
Day 532: Not so much
Posted by Paola
2pm Cottage cheese and ham salad sandwich + tea
2:30pm Tangerine
Afternoon drink: coffee
4:40pm Veg, bean and tomato soup + pint of squash
+ apple
6:30pm Sauerkraut, spinach, sultanas and cheese with sweet chilli yoghurt
7pm Two tea-cakes w/spread + tea
9:15pm Hot chocolate
