Diet 2.3 weigh-in
I’m just over two weeks into my new diet and it’s going well. Tweeting my food diary is working for me; I’ve already lost half a stone (8 lbs / 3.6 kg) – but expect to lose 1.5 lbs on average in future, as I did in 2008.
I am eating a lot of vegetables – I have restarted my order of weekly boxes of organic fruit and veg from Abel & Cole.
I have been surprised how easy it has been. Frank set up my food info spreadsheet on a lap-top in the kitchen so that I can calculate calories before I sit down to eat.
I’ve not had any biscuits or cakes and realised that, when I did eat them daily, I wanted them more. I eat a lot of fruit instead and hot chocolate with sweeteners when I fancy something really sweet (which hasn’t been often since the first week).
I’ve only been hungry a couple of times and not eaten, when it was after ten at night.
I look forward to being able to get back into my skirts and dresses!
Diet 2.3
Last month, my brother asked my advice on getting Frank a box of American “sweet goodies”. I asked for mint fudge-dipped Oreos and things with caramel or peanuts but no Twinkies and no obvious junk food.
This is what Frank he got. I laid it out on our kitchen table when we got back from mum’s on the 28th Dec.
Frank is going to take all the stuff in the basket to work but that still leaves an awful lot of yummy things, such as peanut butter M&Ms, Butter Fingers and the mint fudge-dipped Oreos.
I looked at it, realising that if I had ANY of it, I’d not be able to control how much I had and that “just one piece” would very soon spiral out of control.
I resolved not to have any of it at all and tweeted: Why wait for 1 Jan to start my diet! Target: lose 45lbs / 20.5kg by June. I will tweet my food diary.
It was a spur-of-the-moment decision but I have stuck to it. I am now three days in to proper dieting.
When I started the Food Confessional, I didn’t know whether anyone would be reading it; I had to imagine that there were people reading and judging, or else it wouldn’t have worked for me.
However, I know how many followers I have on Twitter – many are people I know who do read my tweets.
Tweeting my food diary is effective for me.
Spaghetti Bolognese with Mushrooms
Hurray, it’s …. OK, it’s not actually only 400 calories for the meal. But at under 600 with plentiful parmesan, it fits within my “small lunch, big dinner” planning system.
I added random chopped veg which I fried with the onions in the oil (left over from stirfry) and chopped up mushrooms to bulk it out and add flavour.
| Bolognese Sauce | 1 tablespoon oil | 119 |
|---|---|---|
| 120g chopped onion | 38 | |
| 100g mixed veg | 35 | |
| 2 tins tomato 19 cal/100g | 296 | |
| 700g ground beef | 1,778 | |
| 2 stock cubes | 50 | |
| 2 tablespoon sugar | 100 | |
| Fried tomato | 158 | |
| Mushrooms | 19 | |
| Tomato sauce @64 cal | 179 | |
| Total Calories | 2,772 | |
It tastes nice and is really thick!
Weight: 2115 grams
Calories: 2772 calories
1.3 calories per gram
This made for a large serving – as much as I’d eat not on a diet. If I needed to keep calories under 500, I think that’d be pretty easy to do just by cutting down the spaghetti and leaving it with extra sauce.
| 150g Bolognese Sauce | 195 |
| 100g Spaghetti | 338 |
| 5g parmesan | 22 |
| Total Calories | 555 |
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Now, if only I could justify some garlic bread….
