Day 16 – Hungry
Posted by Georgina
On paper, today was a fairly successful day (bang on target to the calorie again) – but it was a swimming night which meant that dinner was very early (to get the kids to the swimming pool in time) and then I end up snacking most of the evening. I was also feeling really ravenous most of the day, even after eating. It got to the point where this evening I was there with a calculator and kitchen scales measuring out the EXACT amount of chocolate I could have with my remaining calories.
Maybe my new lower limit is a bit too optimistic – or maybe I’m just not balancing out the calories throughout the day properly again. I’ll try and keep it up this week and reassess next weigh-in day.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Tesco BREAKFAST CEREAL Rice Snaps | 76 |
| Milk 3.7% fat | 61 | |
| Cup of Tea | 49 | |
| Total | 186 | |
The usual breakfast. I’m wondering if I should really try and aim to fit more cals into breakfast to try and spread the calorie load better. Problem is, I’m just not awake enough to eat properly in the mornings. Maybe I’ll try to have a piece of fruit after the school run as a belated breakfast top up.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | BREAD White, Medium Sliced | 226 |
| Butter salted | 36 | |
| Ferrero CHOCOLATE SPREAD Hazelnut, Nutella | 53 | |
| Tropicana SMOOTHIE – Strawberry & Banana | 135 | |
| Total | 450 | |
What can I say, it’s been a chocolate sort of day…
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of Tea | 49 |
| Total | 49 | |
No snack in the afternoon today, but had dinner at 4.30pm instead.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Dinner | COD Fillets, Battered, Average | 194 |
| CHIPS Homemade, Fried In Blended Oil | 321 | |
| PEAS Frozen, Average | 19 | |
| SWEETCORN Frozen, Average | 32 | |
| KETCHUP Tomato | 26 | |
| Total | 592 | |
A lot of calories on chips, but I enjoyed EVERY last one. Yum!
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Late | Coca-Cola COLA Coke | 142 |
| Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break | 119 | |
| Walkers QUAVERS Cheese | 82 | |
| Cadbury CHOCOLATE Dairy Milk | 184 | |
| Total | 527 | |
Not so happy with this – my ’snacking’ was practically another meal – would have been better to have something at least less nutritionally empty to be such a big proportion of the day. I need to have a better strategy for Wednesdays.
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise | Cycle ride around local woods | -445 |
| Total | -445 | |
Wow. And I thought the fact I was absolutely shattered at the end of it was just my imagination. Was nice to see that I’d actually burned substantially more calories for the effort.
So, time for the grand total:
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | Cereal and a cup of tea | 186 |
| Lunch | Chocolate spread sandwich and a smoothie | 450 |
| Afternoon Tea | Cup of Tea | 49 |
| Dinner | Battered cod, chips, peas and sweetcorn | 592 |
| Late | Can of coke, crisps, chocolate and hot chocolate | 527 |
| Exercise | Cycle ride through the woods | -445 |
| Total | 1,359 | |
At least I didn’t snack myself over target.
