Day 119: The Russian moral

4 May 2008 at 9:36 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

As you will see, I got hungry fairly regularly. And that’s even with waiting half an hour to make sure I was actually hungry.

11:50am  Russian salad with cheese + freshly-brewed coffee

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
capers 2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
half-fat cheddar cheese 55 6.2 0.0 3.3 0.0
russian salad 237 13.3 41.1 2.7 6.9
Total 294 20 41 6 7

2:45pm  Cottage cheese with rye bread + orange + tea

With a sprinkling of ground cashew nuts made for Frank to sprinkle over popcorn but which adds no flavour. And it didn’t here either.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
ground cashew nuts 33 1.1 1.8 2.6 0.2
Peppadew 36 0.3 8.7 0.0 1.1
orange 62 1.2 15.3 0.2 1.2
cottage cheese w/pineapple 85 8.9 9.3 1.2 0.3
multi-grain rye bread 104 3.2 21.1 0.7 4.7
Total 320 15 56 5 7

4:15pm  Russian salad with mayo
6:20pm  Russian salad with capers + hot chocolate
8:30pm  Russian salad with capers & bacon bits

4:15pm  Russian salad with mayo

301g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
extra-light mayonnaise 15 0.1 1.8 0.8 0.1
russian salad 177 10.0 30.7 2.0 5.2
Total 192 10 32 3 5

6:20pm  Russian salad with capers + hot chocolate

348g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
capers 2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0
extra virgin olive oil 46 0.0 0.0 5.1 0.0
russian salad 205 11.5 35.5 2.3 6.0
Total 254 12 36 8 6

8:30pm  Russian salad with capers & bacon bits

370g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
capers 3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0
soya bacon bits 39 3.3 2.3 1.8 0.0
russian salad 218 12.3 37.7 2.5 6.4
Total 260 16 40 4 6

Evening drink: pint of fizzy squash

Day 119 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Lunch 294 20 41 6 7
Snack 320 15 56 5 7
Snack 192 10 32 3 5
Snack 254 12 36 8 6
Dinner 260 16 40 4 6
Other drinks 100
Total 1,420 72 206 26 32
22% 61% 17%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

And the moral of the story is that I shouldn’t try to fill up on watery carbs.

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Week 3 Goals

4 May 2008 at 5:43 pm (exercise, temptation, thoughts)

Posted by Sylvia

This week I’m going to stay with the same system of remaining under 2000 calories a week. On Friday I’m going to be travelling and I’d really like to have a strong feel for “what is 2000 calories” and how I should be eating before thrown into full-time restaurant meals.

This will not be a good trip for meeting up unfortunately – if you are interested, you can see the trip plan.

I’m going to increase my exercise this week as well – this challenge thing I linked to before is going to have 10-minute work-out videos on Youtube every day so I thought I’d follow along with them from Monday-Friday. It’d be good if I could then keep up that routine while away although I don’t know how easy that will be.

I’ll do a weigh-in during the week – my goal is to be slightly lighter upon my return, and I can only see that I can do that if eating habits are a bit more instinctive and I offset those restaurant meals with exercise.

On the bright side, I should be able to pick up my pedometer on Sunday! :)

This is the week 2 state:

This is part of my greater plan for a change of lifestyle to ensure that as I get the weight off, it stays off!

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Friday Food Diary -ish

4 May 2008 at 5:34 pm (food diary)

Posted by Sylvia

A totally different approach this time. I knew we were going out to dinner and what’s more, to a restaurant that does steak on the stone, which I adore. So I accepted that the evening would be a lot of calories and thus I “make room” for it during the day. I didn’t have any breakfast and I had a filling but relatively low calorie lunch:

Milky Coffee 50
Lentils 400

At dinner, I had a rocket salad for a starter and was thrilled to see them bring the olive oil and the vinegar separately – so I just put on a bit of vinegar and left it at that. There was bread with sauce for dipping at the table – I was torn as to whether it was more sensible to fill up on bread (limiting meat intake) or better not to have the bread as it was white and probably very high calorie. In the end I had a piece of bread. Then for the main course I had the steak on the stone and a baked potato but I didn’t pig out. This is one of the few places where I like to have dessert, because they do lemon sorbet covered in sparkling wine. I was very clear that I had no appetite anymore after all the salad and meat. It was nice to realise that I reallly wasn’t that bothered, so I didn’t have a dessert. On the other hand, we went through a fair amount of wine and I had a few glasses of port when we retreated back to our house to sit and talk.

In the end, I am sure I went over the 2k mark but I don’t really think I went over by outrageous amounts and I did some real damage limitation. So I felt that I’d dealt with the issue whereas previously I just felt like dieting was a waste of time and I couldn’t win. So from an attitude point of view, that’s good. From a food intake point of view, I’m not so sure – I suppose the scales will tell over the long run.

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