Day 10 – Plums, Plums Everywhere

4 September 2008 at 9:34 pm (food diary)

Posted by Georgina

The plum stockpile is reducing. I’m feeling really tired this evening as I had a late night last night, and I think I’m coming down with a nasty cold, so I’ll make this a quick post.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Tesco BREAKFAST CEREAL Rice Snaps 113
Milk 3.7% fat 156
Cup of Tea 49
Total 318

A slightly higher cal breakfast than toast and marmalade, but I think it’s probably better for me.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Morning Tea Homemade Plum Jam 15
Total 15

I made plum jam in the morning, which was great fun and much easier than I expected. By herculean effort I managed to restrict myself to a taster teaspoon! Just as a vital part of the cooking process, you understand. Ahem.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Lunch BREAD White, Medium Sliced 238
Butter salted 36
CHICKEN Wafer Thin, Average 12
LETTUCE Iceberg, Average 1
Tropicana SMOOTHIE – Strawberry & Banana 135
Total 422

Nothing particularly out of the ordinary for lunch.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Afternoon Tea Cup of Tea 49
Total 49

As I knew that there was plum crumble in the offing in the evening, I was really good and managed to resist having a biscuit with my cuppa.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Dinner Carrots, steamed 8
Broccoli, steamed 7
Saute potatoes, in olive oil 150
Sainsbury’s FISH CAKES Cod 150
HP SAUCE Brown, Daddies Favourite 6
Plum Crumble, homemade 306
Sainsbury’s ICE CREAM Vanilla, Soft Scoop, BGTY 29
Total 656

By the time dinner came round I was absolutely ravenous to the point of actually hurting I was so hungry – so maybe skipping some sort of snack at 3ish is not that good idea. However, I was all geared up for that plum crumble I’d been looking forward to – I picked a fairly low calorie tea as well (well okay, not the sauteed potatoes part – but I did have a small portion of that, again to make sure I had enough cals for the crumble!).

The crumble was heavenly at the time even though it was a whopping amount of cals in really a very small portion. In retrospect even that was probably just too much though as I still feel bloated and full, and not that comfortable.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Late Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break 119
Total 119

I’ve included this just in case, but to be honest I’m feeling so full and pretty sleepy anyway, I may just go to bed and skip the hot chocolate tonight.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Exercise Exercise Bike (warm up 5 mins) -53
Strength Training -136
Total -189

Glad I did my exercise in the morning today. The evening would have been a very bad time to do it after all this food!

Time for the grand total…

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Cereal and a cup of tea 318
Morning Tea Taster of jam 15
Lunch Chicken and lettuce sandwich with glass of smoothie 422
Afternoon Tea Cup of tea 49
Dinner Fishcakes, sauteed potatoes and veg with plum crumble and icecream to follow 656
Late Hot choc (maybe) 119
Exercise Warm up and strength training -189
Total 1,390

Now that total is a hell of a lot better than I expected it to be. And still much much less than I have been having. (Still way under my 1600 limit). So why do I feel so bloated and rubbish?

Must try and distribute the calories a bit better through the day tomorrow I think so it’s not all within the last few hours.

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Set meal?

4 September 2008 at 5:27 pm (advice, temptation, thoughts)

Posted by Paola

Fruit planned in advance

Fruit planned in advance

I’ve been thinking about how I pick what I will have for dessert before I’ve eaten my main course.

Given my fundamental rule of only eating when I’m hungry, how can I be sure I’ll still be hungry after a sandwich, say? And, given my weakness of eating anything handy… duh.

And what about 3-course set meals at restaurants? Perhaps I should avoid those too.

So, from today, I’m not gonna select my fruit in advance and so you won’t see them in my meal photos anymore. I’ll wait until I’ve had my main meal and THEN decide whether I want something sweet.

I am already achieving steady weight loss but I have been getting impatient the last few weeks. And, with the prospect I might have to knock more pounds off my goal weight, I just want to step it up a notch; I don’t want to still be dieting next year.

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Abel & Cole box

4 September 2008 at 1:41 pm (Abel & Cole, photo, shopping)

Posted by Paola

4 September 2008
Bananas, lettuce, oranges, new potatoes, courgettes, Ramiro pepper, melon and spring onions.

Small mixed box from Abel & Cole

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Day 241: Satisfying crunch

4 September 2008 at 1:46 am (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

It’s great seeing regular updates on here by other people. Now, when I don’t feel like doing my food diary in the evening, I am spurred on when I see other people’s posts.

1:50pm  Toasted cheese and onion sandwich + apple + tea

It might not seem anything special but I consider cheese and onion sandwiches made with toasted bread a treat. Maybe it’s the satisfying crunch from the toast and onion. Or maybe it’s because my father used to make them for me.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
spring onion 9 0.5 2.1 0.1 0.8
extra-light mayonnaise 18 0.1 2.2 1.1 0.1
apple 39 0.0 10.7 0.0 2.4
half-fat cheddar cheese 65 7.3 0.0 4.0 0.0
wholemeal bread 169 8.2 30.1 1.8 6.4
Total 301 16 45 7 10

6:30pm  Beef, beans and tomatoes with dumplings + tea

Eek, a big portion to use up what was left. I’ve already put another bowl of aduki beans to soak so that I can make some more!

524g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
sun-dried tomatoes 20 0.7 2.3 1.3 0.7
beans, beef and tomatoes w/dumplings 315 21.7 46.1 5.8 12.5
Total 335 22 48 7 13

8:15pm  Braised cabbage + apple

218g serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
soya bacon bits 34 2.9 2.0 1.6 0.0
apple 54 0.0 14.7 0.0 3.3
Thin Crisp 54 1.9 10.7 0.4 3.2
braised cabbage 91 3.1 17.1 0.7 4.4
Total 233 8 45 3 11

9:15pm  Coffee liqueur + chocolate

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
chocolate* 72 1.3 6.2 4.6 0.5
coffee liqueur* 103 0.9 6.6 5.0 0.0
Total 175 2 13 10 0

The day’s totals:

Day 241 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 301 16 45 7 10
Lunch 335 22 48 7 13
Dinner 233 8 45 3 11
Snack 175 2 13 10 0
Other drinks 100
Total 1,144 49 151 26 34
19% 58% 23%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%

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