Graph of daily totals (to day 154)
Posted by Paola
I’ve updated my earlier graph (to day 74) of daily totals. This graph shows totals and trends of calories, protein, carbohydrates, fats and fibre. The calories use the right axis – everything else is in grams against the left axis.
I’m impressed that calories, fat and carbs are trending down, whilst fibre and protein are trending up.
Day 154: Prunes and beef
Posted by Paola
12:45pm Melon with beef, prunes, rye bread and soft cheese + pint of fizzy squash
I didn’t have any (vegetarian) Parma ham and so had beef-style slices instead with my melon! An interesting brunch to say the least.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| extra-light Philadelphia soft cheese | 17 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Quorn peppered beef-style slices | 28 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| galia melon | 68 | 1.4 | 16.2 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| wholegrain rye bread | 95 | 3.0 | 19.2 | 0.7 | 4.3 |
| semi-dried prunes w/stones | 123 | 2.1 | 27.9 | 0.3 | 6.4 |
| Total | 330 | 12 | 66 | 2 | 13 |
6pm Balsamic cabbage with mozzarella and yoghurt + apple + half pint of fizzy squash
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chilli sauce | 7 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| balsamic vinegar | 22 | 0.1 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| apple | 80 | 0.0 | 22.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| fat-free yoghurt | 106 | 18.5 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| light mozzarella | 114 | 14.0 | 0.3 | 6.3 | 0.0 |
| pointed cabbage | 121 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 3.7 | 12.5 |
| Total | 450 | 44 | 46 | 10 | 18 |
8:30pm Bean, celery and tomato soup + biscuits + fresh, milky coffee + port
I planned this meal in advance after calculating my calories so far. I actually wanted to have some of Frank’s Ben & Jerry’s Caramel Crunch ice cream but I worked out that I’d only get 80g (212 calories). Instead, I had the rest of the soup and some biscuits with port.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fresh parsley | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Finn Crisp | 40 | 1.4 | 7.5 | 0.3 | 2.1 |
| port | 47 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| chocolate hazelnut spread | 52 | 0.2 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 0.1 |
| Custard Creams | 65 | 0.7 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 0.2 |
| bean and celery soup | 88 | 5.5 | 13.9 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| Total | 294 | 8 | 39 | 8 | 7 |
The day’s totals:
| Day 154 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 330 | 12 | 66 | 2 | 13 |
| Lunch | 450 | 44 | 46 | 10 | 18 |
| Dinner | 294 | 8 | 39 | 8 | 7 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 1,174 | 63 | 151 | 20 | 38 |
| 24% | 58% | 18% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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And the moral of the story is…
Posted by Anna
As you can see, the needle didn’t move this week. Actually mid-way through the week I was alarmed to see 2 lbs go on, so was glad it seemed to go again by the end of the week!
Emma stayed over and we planned to go up to Covent Garden. There was a particular shop I wanted to take her to, but when I checked the website this morning, I discovered it’s closed Sundays. Emma still wanted to go up there. I’d had my yoghurt at 7am and by nearly 11am was feeling quite hungry. Knowing it would be hard to find decent (diet) food there, I decided to make a snack before I went and whisked some egg and skimmed milk together and stuck it in the microwave, toasted some bread and had that with pineapple to follow. Despite telling me she wasn’t hungry, as soon as it was done, I could see Emma eying my meal up, so I gave her some of it. We left at midday.
It was hot today and not wanting to lug bottles of water around meant feeling thirsty a lot of the time. Having wandered around a few shops, at 2pm we went to Caffe Nero where Emma had a lasagne and I stuck to a Diet Coke. But as we wandered around the many shops and market stalls, and surrounded by the aromas of a thousand pavement cafes, I began to feel hungry! By late afternoon I was famished and finally caved in and had a toasted cheese baguette (before the diet I would have gone for something sweet). I was aware the calories would be sky high and a very poor use of my daily allocation but I’d gone into several cafes and nothing took my fancy.
The moral of my story is, take food with me when I know I’m going to be out all day and unlikely to find something suitable, or ensure I’m near a supermarket where I can buy low-calorie food to go. :-)
| Breakfast | Yoghurt | 70 |
|---|---|---|
| Brunch | Toast + ex-lite flora | 95 |
| 1.5 eggs + skimmed milk scrambled in microwave | 140 | |
| 2 thin slices of pineapple | 50 | |
| Snack | Cheese baguette | 588 |
| Dinner | Weightwatchers chicken curry | 295 |
| Drinks | 1 cup of tea + 0 cal drinks | 10 |
| Total Calories | 1,248 | |
Day 154: weigh-in
Posted by Paola
Weekly weigh-in: 2 lbs lost (total: 38 lbs in 22 weeks)
I’m very pleased with this, especially having had two nice meals out yesterday.
Day 153: Camping with Becky
Posted by Paola
10:45am Strawberry Ribena @ train station
I was too busy picking out beads to eat before I left for the day. At 130 calories, I figured it provided enough energy as a small breakfast.
On to London to meet my friend, Yvonne, for lunch before doing the Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia.
12:15pm Mushroom pizza with mixed salad + diet Coke @ Pizza Express
I remembered what Becky said about ‘personal’ size pizzas and I asked the waitress whether they did child pizzas. She scrunched her face and said yes but that they weren’t allowed to sell them to adults.
Yvonne knows her calories and has been very interested and supportive of my diet. I told her my idea was to either have a whole pizza w/o cheese or share one with her. She agreed to share a mushroom pizza. The waitress said there was no problem serving the two halves on separate plates. Go figure.
We both had a side salad. It came with a creamy but vinegary dressing; can you believe it, I left a little of the dressing-soaked salad behind.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mixed salad* | 50 | 2.5 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| salad dressing* | 82 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 0.0 |
| mushroom pizza* | 513 | 24.9 | 70.2 | 14.8 | 5.9 |
| Total | 645 | 27 | 78 | 24 | 11 |
I left at 5:30pm to get a train to Basingstoke to meet up with Frank to go to Ian & Becky’s for dinner.
9pm Poppadoms + vegetable curries with rice + sorbet + wine @ Becky’s
I was hugely impressed and grateful when Becky gave me sheet with the calories of what she’d prepared for the meal!
I knew there would be wine and had previously decided to have some. I had a very nice rosé. We started with poppadoms (2), chutneys and pickles.
Becky made two types of vegetable curry – korma and rogan josh – and served poached chicken separately for the omnivores. Very nice to have a decent curry. We had lemon and mango sorbet afterwards with coffee.
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chutney | 33 | 0.0 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| lime pickle | 36 | 0.5 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 0.5 |
| poppadoms | 74 | 5.5 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 3.7 |
| wine | 74 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| rice | 87 | 1.8 | 19.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| sorbet | 107 | 0.0 | 26.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| vegetable curry | 167 | 1.3 | 19.2 | 8.3 | 1.9 |
| Total (estimated) | 578 | 9 | 91 | 11 | 7 |
Pedometer: 6,900 steps
| Day 153 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 130 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Lunch | 645 | 27 | 78 | 24 | 11 |
| Dinner | 578 | 9 | 91 | 11 | 7 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 1,452 | 37 | 200 | 35 | 18 |
| 12% | 64% | 25% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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Slob day!
Posted by Anna
Yesterday was a ’slob’ day as I had very little energy following an exhausting 10 days. I had lunch on my own at home and then met up with Emma at 3:30 as she wanted to introduce me to a new tea place that’s opened in Richmond. I just ordered a regular pot of tea, but she had the cream tea with earl grey. Her cream tea consisted of 4 mini-scones — about 1.5″ in diameter — plus clotted cream and strawberry preserve. I had half of a scone, with a tiny amount of cream spread thinly like butter, and a few drops of the (runny) preserve (I’ve based my figures on a standard-sized Tesco Finest scone being 225 cals — given that my portion would have been about a quarter of that and the accompaniments were tiny amounts, my final figure is probably still too high).
Later back at my place, Emma finished off the tomato & marscapone sauce I’d bought from Waitrose and I popped over to Sainsbury’s and picked out a Count On Us biryani curry. I felt conscious that I’d had a lot of carbohydrates (pasta and rice) and am considering having a low-carb week, but will need to get my act together to plan the menu, buy the food and be prepared to make things in advance to take to work for lunch (OMG, foward planning…eek!). I find the preparation of food tedious in the extreme (hence my reliance on ready meals), so it’s going to take a lot of self-discipline. Watch this space… :-)
| Breakfast | Yoghurt | 125 |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | Pasta + half-fat tomato & marscapone sauce | 367 |
| Snack | 1/2 mini scone + 1/4 tspn clotted cream + 1/4 tspn jam | 150 |
| Dinner | Low-fat chicken biriyani | 382 |
| Drinks | 2 cups of tea + various 0 cal bevs | 20 |
| Total Calories | 1,044 | |
