A day of plenty
Posted by Anna
Oops, now I’ve added it up, I’ve gone a bit over my daily target. I thought I was going to be on the low side, so had the snack when I got home. I didn’t realise rice was so high in calories. I made an amount and then placed exactly 200g on the plate along with half a pack of M&S chicken masala (I’ll be eating the other half for lunch tomorrow, so will need to be more vigilant about the calories).
| Breakfast | Weetabix + skimmed milk | 176 |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Small tomato soup | 50 |
| M&S plain chicken sandwich | 250 | |
| Salad | 150 | |
| Snack | 3 ryvetas + extra light Philadelphia | 128 |
| Dinner | M&S chicken tikka masala + rice | 473 |
| Diet chocolate mousse | 60 | |
| Drinks | Various beverages | 50 |
| Total Calories | 1,337 | |
Low-Cal Sauce for Asparagus
Posted by Sylvia
I found this in a German magazine offering “healthy and quick meals for every day” – I like the fact that I don’t have to work out the calories because someone else has already done it for me. :)
Light Asparagus Sauce
2 small eggs
1 teaspoon mustard
150g full fat yogurt
1 tablespoon chives
Boil the eggs for 10 minute and then place them under cold water. Peel and separate the egg yolks from the whites.
Mix the egg yolks with the mustard and the yogurt and then process until smooth.
Chop the egg whites and the chives and mix them in with the sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve over asparagus hot or cold.
Recommendation: serve with thin slices of dark smoked ham
Time: 20 minutes
Portions: 2
Per Portion
10g protein
9g fat
144 kcal
Edit:
I “processed” this in a mini-food processor which turned the yoghurt to liquid. Next time I would just use a fork to thoroughly mash the egg into the yoghurt, which is probably what they meant (I’m not used to German recipes so you’ll have to bear with me while I learn the jargon).
I used English mustard as the main German mustard is quite sharp. It could easily have done with more. I don’t think low-fat yoghurt would have been any detriment to the recipe. It was a bit boring so I added some “vegetable seasoning” that I have in with cumin and crushed bay, which helped. This made more than enough for pouring over asparagus – we ended up with left-overs but that might have been because the sauce was so thin.
Turbulent Tuesday
Posted by Sylvia
Today was easy to keep under 2k as I felt horrible at lunch time and really just fancied soup. Unfortunately coconut milk has a lot more calories than I had expected – I’ll know for next time. I didn’t do my workout so really I shouldn’t have had any wine. I didn’t clear my plate either but I can’t really see a sensible way of measuring that without grossing myself out.
| Breakfast | |
| 2 eggs,soft-boiled | 160 |
| berocca | 5 |
| Lunch | |
| Thai vegetable soup | 450 |
| Dinner | |
| Beef Stroganoff | 440 |
| 100g egg noodles | 340 |
| Total Dinner: | 780 |
| Wine | 465 |
| Total: | 1860 |
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Tuesday – Can’t count calories right now
Posted by Becky
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 1/2 piece diet toast | 60 |
| Lunch | In N Out cheeseburger | 268 |
| fries | 130 | |
| diet coke | 0 | |
| Snack | See’s Candy | 150 |
| Dinner | Spaghetti Bolognaise | 450 |
| 3 glasses red wine | 268 | |
| Dessert | 2 scoops Hagaan Daz | 350 |
| Total | 1,676 | |
Weigh-in, week 4
Posted by Anna
Oh dear! The weigh-in isn’t great — I’m up 1 lb. Mind you, when I got back from Manchester on Friday, I was up 3 lbs, so I could argue that I’ve lost 2 lbs over the weekend! :-) Not such a good ticker thingy then…
I ate one of the chocolate fairy cakes I made, which was rather delicious — though I do say so myself! I made sure I went easy on everything else so am only slightly over the 1200 mark.
It was too wet today to do much in the way of walking, but I still managed to hit the 10,000 step mark just from my usual running around at work and the walks to and from the station.
| Breakfast | Yoghurt | 70 |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Cottage cheese | 210 |
| Salad | 100 | |
| Bread roll | 150 | |
| Snack | Home made chocolate fairy cake | 350 |
| Dinner | WeightWatchers chicken curry | 277 |
| Diet chocolate mousse | 50 | |
| Drinks | Various beverages | 50 |
| Total Calories | 1,257 | |
Day 114: Low on food
Posted by Paola
2:40pm Cheese and onion sandwich + pear + tea
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hamisha cucumber | 6 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| extra-light mayonnaise | 12 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| shallot onions | 22 | 0.9 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| pear | 76 | 0.5 | 20.4 | 0.2 | 4.1 |
| half-fat cheddar cheese | 120 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| wholemeal oatbran bread | 138 | 7.2 | 24.5 | 1.1 | 5.5 |
| Total | 374 | 23 | 53 | 9 | 10 |
Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash
5:40pm Red kidney bean salad
| 293g serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| capers | 3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| fresh mint | 7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| lemon juice | 8 | 0.1 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| red chilli | 13 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| red onion | 17 | 0.4 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| wholemeal Crackerbread | 40 | 1.4 | 7.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 |
| sultanas | 45 | 0.4 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| extra virgin olive oil | 56 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| red kidney beans | 133 | 11.0 | 20.7 | 0.8 | 8.1 |
| Total | 322 | 15 | 50 | 8 | 12 |
8:30pm Red kidney bean salad + carrot, celery and apple soup
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| extra virgin olive oil | 31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| carrot and apple soup | 89 | 0.8 | 19.0 | 0.8 | 5.5 |
| red kidney bean salad | 160 | 7.5 | 24.1 | 4.1 | 6.1 |
| Total | 280 | 8 | 43 | 8 | 12 |
Evening drink: hot chocolate (brr!)
| Day 114 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 374 | 23 | 53 | 9 | 10 |
| Lunch | 322 | 15 | 50 | 8 | 12 |
| Dinner | 280 | 8 | 43 | 8 | 12 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 1,076 | 45 | 146 | 25 | 34 |
| 18% | 59% | 23% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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Week 2 Weigh-In
Posted by Sylvia
Weigh-In: 82.4
Slight weight-loss but I think that’s more luck than good management.
46 – breasts
41 – waist
46 – hips
15.5 – neck
That’s holding steady except for my waist which has gained two inches – argh!
We went out to eat last night and I feel HORRID today – something was wrong with the beef I think. I’m skipping my work-out and have spent most of the day in bed. On the bright side, my calorie count for today should be very low.
I’m sort of looking at Sparkpeople Bootcamp – a four-week get fit plan with 10 min workout a day plus 5-days a week cardio. On the one hand, I’d like to increase my exercise (I seem not to find that very difficult although daily would probably start to get to me). On the other hand, I’m going away in under a fortnight which means I can’t really watch a daily you-tube video. So I’m undecided.
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