Quiet day

12 June 2008 at 11:49 pm (food diary)

Posted by Anna

I wonder why it is that the Rachel organic low-fat yoghurt is 125 calories per 150g pot, but the regular low-fat yoghurt from work is 75 calories. I’ve noticed this in Sainsbury’s too. Their “Taste the Difference” low-fat yoghurt is 70 calories but their organic low-fat yoghurt is also 125 calories. Weird.

Breakfast 2 sausages 150
Yoghurt 125
Sub-total 275
Lunch Chicken leg 180
Broccoli + red cabbage 100
Sub-total 280
Dinner 150g chicken 190
Stir fry veg 39
2 tbsp Kikkoman’s teriyaki marinade 80
1 tsp olive oil 40
Sub-total 349
Snack 30g honey roast cashews 188
Sub-total 188
Total Calories 1,092

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Day 158: Dark clouds

12 June 2008 at 8:06 pm (food diary, photo, thoughts)

Posted by Paola

1pm  Cheese and coleslaw sandwich + mandarin + tea

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
lettuce 8 0.4 1.3 0.0 0.8
extra-light mayonnaise 20 0.1 2.4 1.2 0.1
mandarin 37 0.6 9.3 0.2 1.3
high-fibre wholemeal bread 69 3.2 12.4 0.7 2.0
coleslaw 71 4.6 8.8 1.9 1.7
half-fat cheddar cheese 83 9.9 0.0 4.8 0.0
stoneground wholemeal bread 106 5.1 18.3 1.4 4.0
Total 395 24 52 10 10

4:15pm  Coleslaw with cottage cheese and prunes + pint of fizzy squash

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
tomato 15 0.6 2.7 0.3 1.0
semi-dried prunes w/stones 63 1.1 14.3 0.2 3.3
cottage cheese w/pineapple 86 9.0 9.4 1.2 0.3
coleslaw 149 9.6 18.3 3.9 3.5
Total 314 20 45 6 8

7:15pm  Aubergine and cucumber with sweet chilli sauce + new potatoes + pint of fizzy squash

A second day of worry. I am weary of it. Not serious – I’ll get over it – I just want it out of my head, but I realised while eating this meal that perhaps I was deliberately wallowing to punish myself.

As a result, I had some insight into what I have referred to in the past here as kamikaze eating. I cooked a whole aubergine in too much oil. I couldn’t be bothered to weigh and store half and so I decided to eat the lot. I had also boiled my Abel & Cole new potatoes to go with Frank’s black pudding and had a few even though I knew I had more than enough on my dinner (not side) plate already.

Kamikaze eating is where you knowingly eat too much to feel bad afterwards. On the face of it, the food’s supposed to make you feel better, but it is actually tied in with feelings of failure and the inevitable shitty feeling afterwards. Realising this now might help me deal with it better next time.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
extra-light Flora spread 6 0.2 0.0 0.5 0.0
cucumber 17 0.6 3.9 0.2 0.6
sweet chilli sauce 47 0.1 11.6 0.0 0.0
fat-free yoghurt 69 12.0 4.1 0.2 0.0
aubergine 88 3.7 20.9 0.7 12.5
new potatoes 95 2.1 21.9 0.1 2.0
rapeseed oil 132 0.0 0.0 14.7 0.0
Total 454 19 62 16 15

And now I am feeling uncomfortably stuffed. Mission accomplished. :-/

Day 158 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 395 24 52 10 10
Lunch 314 20 45 6 8
Dinner 454 19 62 16 15
Other drinks 100
Total 1,263 63 160 32 33
21% 54% 25%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

(I know too much about food to go overboard too much – it’s the intent of kamikaze eating that is unhrealthy.)

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Wednesday

12 June 2008 at 11:10 am (food diary, photo)

Posted by Sylvia

Cliff was complaining that he didn’t see the point in soup. Why not have the same food but without stewing it and then drink extra water. The main argument I came up with is that steamed/boiled vegetables are boring but soup – with chicken broth and chiles and spices and everything melding together – is interesting. But that doesn’t explain why I am happier with a much lower calorie count when it’s soup. Maybe I should be drinking more water.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Cottage cheese 180
50g grapes 35
Sub-total 215
Lunch Soba Salad 220
1 large egg 75
30g ham 35
rice spice 5
Sub-total 335
Snack 10g chocolate 50
Sub-total 50
Dinner Pork soup 110
Noodles 100
Sub-total 210
Snack celery 16
light laughing cow cheese 81
Sub-total 97
Total 907

Edit: forgot that I’ve been taking photos!

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Weekly Weigh-In

12 June 2008 at 11:07 am (food diary, weigh-in)

Posted by Sylvia

The scale is being a bit weird – under certain circumstances, it’ll suddenly jump up in weight (as in, step off and step on again) and then keep that weight consistently until I get bored. Then I check again the next day and it’s dropped down again. I’m trying to narrow it down – positioning? internal lubrication? No idea. Anyway, as a result I’ve been weighing myself every morning this week to feel confident about the results – almost a kilo lost!


Meanwhile, food. Arranging things around a steak was easier than I thought it would be.L

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Yogurt 69
Sub-total 69
Lunch 150g chickpeas, cooked 179
50g light yogurt 35
5g pickled jalapeno 1
cumin and mixed spices 5
1 large tomato 33
1 small carrot 21
Lettuce 25
Juice of 1/2 lime 10
Sub-total 309
Dinner Steak 350
Potato 149
Corn 90
Cheese 30
Sub-total 619
Dessert Yogurt 119
Milky Coffee 50
Sub-total 169
Total 1,166

Oops – I meant to post this and somehow missed it! This is Food for Tuesday!

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Day 157: Stressed out

12 June 2008 at 12:34 am (exercise, food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

I was in London to give a training session today. I didn’t have time to eat breakfast before I left and made two sandwiches to eat, one on the way and one at lunch.

9:45am  Ham salad sandwich
2:15pm  Ham salad sandwich

2 sandwiches calories protein carbs fat fibre
lettuce 10 0.5 1.6 0.0 1.0
Quorn ham-style slices 40 5.8 2.3 0.8 2.1
extra-light Philadelphia soft cheese 47 5.0 2.1 2.0 0.2
high-fibre wholemeal bread 276 13.0 49.4 2.9 7.8
Total 373 24 55 6 11

4:20pm  Lime meringue pie + tea @ Carluccio’s

This was comfort food as I had two major sources of stress today and wanted something nice. I met up with a friend after the training session and we sat at an outside table to catch up.

To estimate calories, I’ve used the info for the most calorific lemon meringue pie on calorie-count.com applied to a third of an 8″ slice: 606 calories. Since a small individual pie has more pastry than in a slice, this figure doesn’t seem unreasonable.

9:50pm  Spinach with coleslaw + pint of fizzy squash

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
cooked spinach 58 7.2 9.1 0.0 5.5
coleslaw 83 5.4 10.2 2.2 1.9
Total 140 13 19 2 7

Pedometer: 12,800 steps (4.8 miles)

Day 157 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 186 12 28 3 6
Lunch 186 12 28 3 6
Snack 606 3 107 20 3
Dinner 140 13 19 2 7
Other drinks 100
Total 1,219 40 181 27 21
14% 64% 22%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

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