Day 14 – Still ill, *cough* *cough* *atishoo*
Posted by Georgina
I’d like to do positive and witty, but quite honestly I just want the day over with so I can crawl into bed.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Cup of Tea | 49 |
| Tesco BREAKFAST CEREAL Rice Snaps | 76 | |
| Milk 3.7% fat | 77 | |
| Total | 202 | |
Back to eating cereal (or cardboard soaked in milk as it tastes like at the moment).
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | BREAD White, Medium Sliced | 190 |
| Butter salted | 36 | |
| Homemade Plum Jam | 29 | |
| Tropicana SMOOTHIE – Strawberry & Banana | 135 | |
| Total | 390 | |
Comfort eating for lunch.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of Tea | 49 |
| Plums raw | 61 | |
| Total | 110 | |
And that’s the very last of the plums, yay!
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Dinner | Chicken and Mushroom Pie | 403 |
| Carrots steamed | 12 | |
| BEANS French steamed | 7 | |
| Mashed potato | 163 | |
| Cheese cheddar | 97 | |
| Total | 682 | |
The one thing about calorie counting that surprised me was just how many calories many of my homemade stuff actually was… I would never have thought that the chicken pie would have had that many cals before.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Late | Cadbury CHOCOLATE Dairy Milk | 105 |
| Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break | 119 | |
| Total | 224 | |
TBH, the chocolate bar (one of those thin 20g ones) was more because I fancied eating something rather than I was genuinely hungry.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise | Cycle ride around local woods | -330 |
| Total | -330 | |
Be prepared for shock – it didn’t actually RAIN today! No rain means being able to go out on a real bike, and I was looking forward to testing out my new cycle computer as that’s a feature of the stationary bike I find quite handy. Only problem is, it told me at the end of the half hour ride that I had only burned 33.0 calories (erm… no, I don’t think so!).
From checking with various online tables and knowing the speed/distance that I ride I know it’s a factor of 10 out – I can only guess that I entered my weight or the size of the wheel with the decimal point in the wrong place or something. At some point, I shall dig the manual out again and redo it – for now, multiplying by 10 seemed the sanest thing to do!
So, how did I do today…
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Cereal and a cup of tea | 202 |
| Lunch | Jam sandwich and a smoothie | 390 |
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of tea and two plums | 110 |
| Dinner | Chicken and mushroom pie, cheesy mash and steamed veg | 682 |
| Late | Small bar of choc and hot choc | 224 |
| Exercise | Cycle ride through the woods | -330 |
| Total | 1,278 | |
Not bad, not bad. Let’s hope that it translates into some actual weight loss when I do my weigh in tomorrow.
