Day 247: Half asleep
Posted by Paola
Morning drink: fresh coffee
At mum’s, who’d fallen the night before and cracked her pelvis. She needed me and Frank there during the night to get her in and out of bed. I think I was up 5 times during the night – we were both utterly exhausted by the time I properly got up in time for the Care Manager’s meeting at 10am. She was there for 4 hours and we were both completely drained after she’d left. I was feeling tired and sick but thought I should eat something.
2pm Cottage cheese with Krisproll + passion fruit
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| passion fruit | 49 | 1.2 | 12.1 | 0.3 | 5.5 |
| cottage cheese w/ onion & chives | 89 | 13.7 | 6.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 |
| golden Krisproll | 152 | 4.2 | 25.5 | 3.8 | 2.3 |
| Total | 291 | 19 | 44 | 6 | 8 |
(I’m gob-smacked by how many calories there are in a Krisproll!)
Motivated by the possibility of having to go into a nursing home temporarily, and with the aid of a foot stool, the three of us finally figured out how mum could get into bed by herself. Hurray!
Driving back home, my appetite returned. We stopped off at a late-opening Borders.
7:45pm Greek salad wrap + biscotti + tea @ Starbucks
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| almond biscotti | 254 | 4.4 | 34.9 | 10.5 | 1.5 |
| Greek salad wrap | 265 | 11.0 | 39.0 | 7.2 | 3.9 |
| Total | 519 | 15 | 74 | 18 | 5 |
The day’s totals:
| Day 247 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch | 291 | 19 | 44 | 6 | 8 |
| Dinner | 519 | 15 | 74 | 18 | 5 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 909 | 34 | 118 | 23 | 13 |
| 17% | 57% | 26% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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Day 246: Emergency visit
Posted by Paola
I over-slept, having accidentally left the heating on in the new house. I woke up groggy, finding a mail message from my brother and a phone message from my mother to say she’d cracked her pelvis in a fall again during the night and had gone to hospital for a few hours.
I was distracted and found it hard to concentrate for the rest of the day. When making a sandwich, I eyed the two remaining mini Crunchie bars, wanting one for comfort but making do with photographing them and telling you instead.
3:45am Cottage cheese and mushroom salad + tea
| 1 serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lettuce | 5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| chestnut mushrooms | 30 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| cottage cheese w/ onion & chives | 51 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| corn relish | 54 | 0.4 | 12.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| wholemeal bread | 148 | 7.2 | 26.4 | 1.6 | 5.6 |
| Total | 288 | 18 | 48 | 3 | 7 |
Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash
8:30pm Beans, corn and tomatoes with dumplings
Mum called after 5pm to say she couldn’t get in or out of bed alone during the night and could I come and stay the night. I ate just before we left so that I wouldn’t need anything else.
| 441g serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fat-free yoghurt | 58 | 10.1 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| beans, corn and tomatoes w/dumplings | 302 | 14.4 | 53.9 | 3.8 | 10.1 |
| Total | 360 | 24 | 57 | 4 | 10 |
In a cool box, I packed lettuce, a lemon, mushrooms, strawberries, clementines, cottage cheese, stew, bread, my scales and pad.
| Day 246 | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch | 288 | 18 | 48 | 3 | 7 |
| Dinner | 360 | 24 | 57 | 4 | 10 |
| Other drinks | 100 | ||||
| Total | 748 | 43 | 105 | 7 | 18 |
| 26% | 64% | 10% | |||
| Allowance | 1,200 | 75 – 105g 25 – 35% |
120 – 165g 40 – 55% |
33 – 40g 25 – 30% |
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I was in bed at midnight and was still awake when mum first called for me at 2am.
Day 15 – Just Another Tuesday
Posted by Georgina
I’m definitely getting better at this “only one ’snack’ in the evenings” thing. To the point where I managed to fit in my treat to the exact calories left this evening. There’s something rather satisfying about getting the figure exactly to 0 calories left. Of course, this is where I discover that I got my sums wrong…
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | BREAD White, Toasted | 106 |
| Butter salted | 36 | |
| MARMALADE Orange, Shredless, Average | 26 | |
| Cup of Tea | 49 | |
| Total | 217 | |
Disaster – we ran out of milk! So back to toast this morning.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | BREAD White, Medium Sliced | 190 |
| Butter salted | 36 | |
| CHICKEN Wafer Thin, Average | 12 | |
| Tropicana SMOOTHIE – Strawberry & Banana | 135 | |
| Sainsburys Soft Cheese Dippers | 37 | |
| Total | 410 | |
I only counted half the cals of the cheese dippers as they only provide 3 teeny breadsticks and it’s a physical impossibility to get all the cheese on it. I let my youngest son finish the other half of the cheese with the spoon. I figured that it was the cheese that was the bulk of the calories anyway.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of Tea | 49 |
| Bananas raw | 105 | |
| Total | 154 | |
Was really hungry by 3pm, so fought off the pangs with a banana.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Dinner | Chilli Con Carne | 284 |
| Rice white, long-grain, regular, cooked | 195 | |
| Doritos DORITOS Corn Chips, Cool Original | 51 | |
| Total | 530 | |
I really enjoyed this – the chilli was about the one thing that’s been able to blast through to my taste buds these last few days!
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Late | Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break | 119 |
| GIN 37.5% Volume | 52 | |
| Schweppes TONIC WATER Indian | 66 | |
| Total | 237 | |
The G&T was the treat that fitted exactly into my remaining calorie allocation. It was obviously a sign.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise | Exercise Bike (warm up 5 mins) | -53 |
| Strength Training (20 mins) | -136 | |
| Total | -189 | |
Got the strength training out of the way early on in the day – was glad I did because I started to feel rough with cold again in the afternoon and would probably have skipped it otherwise.
So, time for the final scores.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Toast, marmalade and tea | 217 |
| Lunch | Chicken sandwich, cheese dippers and a smoothie | 410 |
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of tea and a banana | 154 |
| Dinner | Chilli con carne, rice and a small helping of corn chips | 530 |
| Late | G&T and hot choc | 237 |
| Exercise | Warm up and strength training | -189 |
| Total | 1,359 | |
Yay, 1359 calories exactly. Result.
Day 15 – Weigh In
Posted by Georgina
Weekly weigh-in: 9st 2 (58.1kg) – 2lb (0.9kg) lost in last week – 2lb (0.9kg) overall
On paper looks fairly good but I’ve been up and down all over the place this week. Plus, that was the weight I was just before my period where I gained 2lb back then lost it again afterwards, so I’m fairly sure that’s all water weight. Bah.
Still, no more meals out for a while, should be able to start making steady progress. According to Food Focus my target daily cals has been adjusted to 1608, but I think given that I’ve been achieving lower than that regularly this last week (Saturday being the exception) I might put in on the next setting down which gives me target daily cals of 1359.
New target daily calories after exercise: 1359
