Back into my normal work routine
Posted by Anna
Back to normal today, although I felt too tired out to do my walk (I woke up this morning feeling achy). Not sure if I’ll manage it tomorrow, but I’ll give it a go as I think the weather is set to be nice. I still managed over 7700 steps today, though.
| Breakfast | Yoghurt | 75 |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Chicken salad baguette | 350 |
| Dinner | Pasta + tom + basil sauce + 20 g low fat cheese | 413 |
| Fresh pineapple | 85 | |
| Drinks | Small skinny hot choc | 180 |
| 2 cups of tea + various 0 cal bevs | 20 | |
| Total Calories | 1,123 | |
Day 150: Lusty for crusty bread
Posted by Paola
Reading about Anna’s cheese baguette and then yesterday about bread rolls, I was lusting for crusty bread. I checked in at Waitrose at 5pm to look for offers and found some eat-now salads and a small baguette.
Pedometer: 3,000 steps
11:30am Cottage cheese and watercress sandwich + mandarin + tea
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| watercress | 6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| mandarin | 37 | 0.6 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| cottage cheese w/pineapple | 120 | 12.6 | 13.2 | 1.7 | 0.4 |
| stoneground wholemeal bread | 182 | 8.7 | 31.4 | 2.4 | 6.8 |
| Total | 346 | 23 | 54 | 4 | 9 |
3:50pm Curried soup with watercress + pear
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| watercress | 4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| fat-free yoghurt | 73 | 12.7 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| curried carrot & apple soup | 81 | 1.0 | 16.1 | 0.8 | 5.2 |
| pear | 96 | 0.6 | 25.7 | 0.2 | 5.1 |
| Total | 253 | 15 | 47 | 1 | 10 |
4pm Reduced-fat lime and lemon cake + coffee @ Tchibo
I’m guessing 200 calories. I left the coffee as it was icky.
Hungry on the way home.
6:40pm Cottage cheese in baguette + pint of fizzy squash
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cottage cheese w/pineapple | 35 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| baguette | 175 | 5.1 | 35.8 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
| Total | 210 | 9 | 40 | 1 | 2 |
Hungry again. I knew this would take me over my calorie allowance.
8:10pm Layered vegetables from Waitrose
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lemon juice | 5 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| fat-free yoghurt | 35 | 6.0 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| layered vegetables | 230 | 6.2 | 27.0 | 10.8 | 1.6 |
| Total | 269 | 12 | 31 | 11 | 2 |
Now I feel really stuffed.
Evening drink: pint of squash
| Day 150 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 346 | 23 | 54 | 4 | 9 |
| Lunch | 253 | 15 | 47 | 1 | 10 |
| Snack* | 200 | ||||
| Snack | 210 | 9 | 40 | 1 | 2 |
| Dinner | 269 | 12 | 31 | 11 | 2 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 1,379 | 59 | 171 | 18 | 23 |
| 22% | 63% | 15% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
|
Still stuffed. Ugh.
Don’t Buy Iced Fancies from Starbucks!
Posted by Becky
The “iced fancy” at Starbucks was really disappointing. (Why do I never learn?) It really annoys me when I go to all the effort of deciding if I’m going to risk the calories and then the food is stale and a bit tasteless. What I really should do is complain. (but not really in my personality) I wonder if Starbucks would take any notice? Do they really care if Mrs. Disgusted of Basingstoke thinks their pastries are a bit stale, tasteless and not worth the calories?
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Weight Watchers White toast | 49 |
| 5 ml butter | 15 | |
| 2 scrambled eggs (whites only) | 34 | |
| Snack | 1/2 Starbucks small cappucino with skimmed milk and sugar free caramel syrup | 75? |
| 1/2 Starbucks Iced fancy | 90? | |
| Lunch | 1/2 Beef Pie | 200? |
| Dinner | Mince with Zarzuella Sauce, Courgettes, Peppers and Sweetcorn | 270 |
| Spaghetti | 170? | |
| 1 glass wine | 78 | |
| Total | 981 | |
Don’t Eat Chiles
Posted by Sylvia
Today was planned in advance, allowing me to have steak and more of the mozzarella cheese. I made Nigel Slater’s Thai soup with poached chicken that I had left-over. Fresh chiles aren’t that easy to get so I put in three tiny chinese chiles that I bought in London’s Chinatown and then sprinkled a bit of chile powder on top before serving. It was actually a lot more chicken than the recipe called for so the soup was higher calorie than it should have been – but still within limits.
Or it would have been, if I hadn’t inhaled one of those tiny chiles. I knew they would be really spicy and I had no intention of eating one – but then I suddenly had a spoonful of soup and my mouth was on fire and my eyes were full of tears. I’m really no stranger to spicy food but this was insane. I ran to the kitchen to find the fullest-fattiest milk I could find (I’d have gone for cream if it was drinkable!) and poured a glass to try to quench the flames. It was in the back of my head that this was going to completely ruin my calorie counting for the day and I did try to go slow, swirling around my mouth. But honestly, NEVER have I felt such burning (and bear in mind I grew up near the US/Mexican border).
In the end, I measured it by what was left in the bottle and it seems I had half a litre of full fat milk. Argh.
I thought about reorganising things to try to make up for it but I knew the milk would not fill me up at all and I decided in the end that simply not writing off the diet for the day was going to be good enough.
On the bright side, I took a photo :)
Steak with Asparagus Salad
One portion
250g asparagus
125g tomato
62.5g mozzarella (half a ball)
a handful of basil leaves
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper
140g beef steak
Break off the ends of the asparagus. Slice them into approx. 1 inch long pieces.
Drain the mozzarella. Chop up the mozzarella and the tomato. Slice the basil leaves, leaving aside two whole leaves for garnish. Mix everything with 2 tablespoons of oil, the vinegar, and salt and pepper.
Heat one tablespoon of oil and season the asparagus with salt and pepper before mixing into the oil and roasting or frying for 5-7 minutes. Grill the steak – one to two minutes per side. Mix the roasted asparagus in with the tomato and mozzarella mix. Serve the steak surrounded by the salad mixture and place a basil leaf on top. Serve.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Thai Soup | 310 |
| Milk | 659 | |
| Sub-total | 969 | |
| Dinner | Steak | 275 |
| Asparagus | 65 | |
| Tomato | 20 | |
| Mozzerella (half ball) | 150 | |
| 1 tbsp olive oil | 119 | |
| Sub-total | 629 | |
| Total | 1,598 | |
First Loss
Posted by Sylvia
I weighed myself again today and it still says 79.7! Hurray!
*bounces around*
I know it sounds silly but I’ve weighed myself in the past and thought hey! weight loss! and then found that it was mainly water weight or I stood on the scale funny or whatever. So having finally broken the 80k mark, I wanted to be sure.
Not really noticing a difference in the clothes yet, to be honest – with one exception.
I got dressed in the dark the other morning and was cursing. My black trousers that I wear as standard seemed tighter – and here I’d been being SO good. They fit but only barely.
I left the bedroom where my other half was still slumbering happily ….and when I saw myself in the light, I realised the issue. I was wearing burgundy trousers, not the black ones at all! They’ve been too tight to wear recently so the fact that I could even consider them means I must have lost some weight!
