The Food Confessional

Posted by Becky

I thought I’d blown it with the mini cookies. (They weren’t very nice. I must learn to only eat things that are good quality and “worth” the calories)

Posted by Sylvia

Well, I’d previously decided to go with the system where I got the weekend off from tracking and calorie counting but I did sort of think that I’d take that chance to get caught up when I fell behind.

I haven’t.

And now it’s starting to pile up on me and I realised just now (5 minutes before going out with the next set of guests) that I hadn’t posted today because I still had to tot up all the calories from Thursday and Friday and because I didn’t have time to do that, I wasn’t even tracking today. Then when I looked, it seems I never finished Friday’s tracking because I knew I had Thursday still to do.

That’s not right.

So, quick catch up on my notes.

Thursday

2 soft-boiled eggs
1 Berocca 5 cal
2 milky coffee

1 artichoke

7 asparagus spears
sesame oil

1 small baked potato
150g beef (raw weight)
teaspoon butter
teaspoon soured cream

1 orange juice
1 chocolate truffle
sherry

Note: there is some part of my brain that firmly believes that nothing after 9pm counts, so I didn’t count the glasses of sherry. I think it was three. I have made a post-it note to stick onto my monitor to say “calories count even when you aren’t counting”

I’m considering myself back on track now so that I don’t have an excuse to continue to avoid tracking.

Posted by Becky

4 PM
I woke up this morning and felt overwhelmed by this following week. We’ve got to pack up the house and leave the USA on Friday and so we had a mountain of things to do today. I decided to give myself permission to blow the diet this week, or at least allow myself 1600 calories a day. However as I didn’t have a firm plan, I kind of ate what I liked today. It started badly when I announced to the family I would do a doughnut run down to Safeway. Then in the shop, I talked myself out of a doughnut and had a bagel instead. (I was quite shocked to see just how many calories are in a bagel!) I only ate 2/3 of it but still!

Now, half-way through the day, I’m feeling terrible about not sticking to the diet. I’ve got lasagne planned for dinner. (we are having to eat all the left-overs in the freezer) I’m going to try and only have a small portion.

8:30 PM

I’m really pleased with myself. When I was serving up dinner, I gave myself a really small portion. I also poured half of my margarita away. It just didn’t seem worth the calories.

Having just congratulated myself, I have to admit that I’ve had to guess with calories today. I really hope I’ve got them right. Back to the diet tomorrow. (What I really mean is back to self-control and a bit more of a plan.