Thursday

6 June 2008 at 11:33 am (food diary)

Posted by Sylvia

Yesterday, I made myself this salad:

Meat 30g bacon 137
120g poached chicken breast 184
Sub-total 321
Salad Dressing 50ml light dressing 22.5
2g mustard 4
25ml pineapple & chile sauce 53
20g yogurt 13
Sub-total 92.5
Vegetables 100g cabbage 30
100g lettuce 14
50g tomato 38
20g chard 4
Sub-total 86
Total Calories 499.5

Then I decided the bacon was not very good use of calories and that I really had messed up the whole thing. So I ate half of it. But I didn’t adjust my scratch-pad and so I was counting the full 500 calories all day and wondering why I was starving. Finally at dinner time I realised what I’d done and so I had a really nice big meal of noodles and chicken.

Lunch
Chicken and Salad 250
Yogurt 70
Sub-total 320
Dinner Udon Noodles 230
60g poached chicken 92
chicken stock 40
mushrooms 10
cabbage 15
90g potato 52
oil (olive and sesame) 80
25g carrot 10
chile 4
Sub-total 533
Dessert Yogurt 118
Sub-total 118
Snack Bread, Cheese and Tomato 150
Sub-total 150
Total Calories 1,121

I have to admit I was thinking “oooh, I have calories free, what shall I do with them” at the end of the night when I made myself the bread with cheese.

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Dear Jennifer

6 June 2008 at 10:58 am (thoughts)

Posted by Paola

It’s been a week since you last blogged on Fat as Hell about feeling discouraged after your 10lb weight gain soon after hitting the 75lbs mark of weight lost prompted by being medicated for high blood pressure.

I hope that you’re on holiday, walking a lot and too busy to blog. Or perhaps you had a tiny accident and are in hospital.

Or perhaps you’re waiting for us to give up on you.

Well, I hope you’re okay and coming back soon but, if it’s the latter, please know that we’re not going to give up on you, even if you’ve given up on yourself.

You’ve been big all your life and yet you’ve lost 75 lbs in your 30s. This is a HUGE achievement.

Whether or not you sometimes take a few steps back, you know how to eat to lose weight. You are stuck with this knowledge. You can never unknow it. And, now, when you go to Starbucks for a whipped cream coffee and a cake, you’re gonna feel like shit, spoiling your experience, because you will know it’s doing you harm.

Is this where you are now, stuck between a rock and a hard place?

In the end, you don’t have much choice, you must get back onto your diet. The alternative is to eat cakes and jars of peanut butter, but never really enjoying them as much as you used to, and always be miserable.

There is no shame in self-doubt, but don’t hijack your own life because you think you can’t succeed, don’t deserve success or whatever. I don’t think it’s about the food; I think it’s about what you think of yourself. However, despite that, you were doing VERY well and can do so again.

We will support you. Lots and lots of people care about you. We are waiting for you.

Please come back.

I miss you.

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Crash Hot Potatos

6 June 2008 at 10:42 am (recipe)

Posted by Sylvia

I am going to try making these boiled and baked potatoes as a side dish. Using parchment on the cookie tray, it should be doable with just a minimum of oil and don’t they look good?

Does this seem about right for calorie counting?

200g potatoes – 116
1 tablespoon olive oil – 119

235 per portion

Served with a 100oz steak (201 calories) and a big salad (100 calories) it’s a big meal at 536 calories so I guess should be saved as a special treat. Mmmm, I’m starving now.

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