Friday
Posted by Sylvia
Felt tired and run-down. Paola ended up mentioning that it could be the low calories and I realised that I’d only had 360 calories that day. I had my pumpernickel and cheese snack and felt better. I think probably the difference is that I’ve been exercising again (walking mon/wed/fri and quick training on tue/thur). I’ll have to keep an eye on it.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Yogurt | 69 |
| Sub-total | 69 | |
| Lunch | Cottage Cheese | 180 |
| Grapes | 69 | |
| Salad | 12 | |
| Dressing | 30 | |
| Sub-total | 291 | |
| Snack | Milky Coffee | 60 |
| Bread & Cheese | 150 | |
| Sub-total | 210 | |
| Dinner | Steak | 248 |
| Baked Potato | 69 | |
| 20g light cream cheese | 40 | |
| Salad | 12 | |
| Sub-total | 369 | |
| Dessert | 50g plain Yogurt | 35 |
| 100g cherries | 70 | |
| Sub-total | 105 | |
| Snack | Bread and Cheese | 150 |
| Sub-total | 150 | |
| Total | 1,194 | |
The end of a busy week and a half!
Posted by Anna
Friday seemed very food-orientated! I ran an all-day course which had danish pastries and fruit salad served at the start. Lunch was a big buffet of cold and hot dishes (which I had very little of). Mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks included freshly baked cookies which gave off a wonderful aroma! It really is no wonder that I have gained so much weight in the 6 years I’ve been doing this job… It is only by sheer willpower that I don’t indulge myself.
It’s been a tiring couple of weeks. Last Thursday I had got up at 5:30am to head to Devon for my mum’s birthday (couldn’t leave the night before as Emma had theatre tickets). It had taken 4 hours and then it was all social stuff with friends and family ending late Thursday night. Friday lunchtime I drove back to London, but caught a lot of traffic – so it had taken over 5 hours. Saturday, despite being shattered, I headed off to a meet just after lunchtime and got home mid-evening. Sunday morning was spent doing housework, shopping, laundry and packing before I headed off to Liverpool at 5pm that afternoon. I ran a 2-day session which was very tiring and got back to my flat at 10pm on Tuesday after train cancellations and re-routes. I had another latish night at the Mexican on Thursday with the group of 20 I took on the course yesterday. Yesterday we had various problems and having got in to work at 8am, I ended up running around the (large) building trying to sort the issues out before we got started. It’s no wonder then that I put in nearly 12,000 steps yesterday! I was so shattered last night, I could barely eat and had to go to bed at 10pm, sleeping for 9 hours straight (I normally go at midnight and need only 6 hours). Phew! :-)
| Breakfast | Weetabix + skimmed milk | 176 |
|---|---|---|
| Yoghurt | 75 | |
| Snack | Fresh fruit salad | 70 |
| Lunch | 1/2 egg + lo-fat mayo sandwich | 200 |
| 1/4 ham sandwich | 100 | |
| 2 small grilled chicken kebabs | 100 | |
| 4 chips | 100 | |
| Dinner | Grilled breast of chicken (skinless) | 200 |
| “Pain rustique” bread roll | 200 | |
| Drinks | 3 cups of tea + water | 30 |
| Total Calories | 1,251 | |
Day 152: Intentionally Frank
Posted by Paola
11:50am Eggs and tomatoes with beef + mandarin + tea
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| spray rapeseed oil | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| horseradish sauce | 22 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
| Quorn peppered beef-style slices | 28 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| tomato | 31 | 1.2 | 5.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
| mandarin | 37 | 0.6 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| stoneground wholemeal bread | 68 | 3.2 | 11.7 | 0.9 | 2.5 |
| large organic free-range egg | 93 | 7.8 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 0.1 |
| Total | 286 | 17 | 31 | 11 | 7 |
2:10pm Bean, celery and tomato soup
| 435g serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fresh parsley | 3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| bean and celery soup | 94 | 5.9 | 14.8 | 1.4 | 4.8 |
| Total | 96 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 5 |
3:30pm Cottage cheese with watercress + pint of fizzy squash
With wild strawberries from my garden.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wild strawberries | 2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| green chilli | 4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| lemon juice | 6 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| watercress | 9 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| extra virgin olive oil | 41 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 0.0 |
| cottage cheese | 77 | 11.8 | 4.4 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| Total | 139 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 |
I still felt like eating more. I did the washing up and had a hot chocolate instead.
7:30pm Double veggie cheeseburger with pickle
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hamisha cucumber | 5 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| watercress | 6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| extra-light mayonnaise | 13 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| half-fat cheddar cheese | 52 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| Quorn burgers | 146 | 19.0 | 6.8 | 4.8 | 3.0 |
| white bread roll | 160 | 7.3 | 24.0 | 3.5 | 5.1 |
| Total | 381 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 9 |
9pm Frozen banana + pint of fizzy squash
| Day 152 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 286 | 17 | 31 | 11 | 7 |
| Snack | 96 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 5 |
| Lunch | 139 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 |
| Dinner | 381 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 9 |
| Snack | 83 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 1,085 | 72 | 109 | 31 | 25 |
| 29% | 44% | 28% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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