Day 266: The Puppini Sisters

28 September 2008 at 10:07 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

Photos are not quite right; my camera’s died and I’m not used to Frank’s.

10:10am  Warm apple with cottage cheese + spiced tea

I’m quite getting into warmed apples. This is the first time I’ve tried the spiced tea bags. I had chai tea at Starbucks. The supermarket has two kinds of teabags – one with dried milk (40 calories a bag!) and one without. Nice.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
honey 19 0.1 4.7 0.0 0.0
wholemeal Crackerbread 40 1.4 7.8 0.4 1.2
cottage cheese 69 10.7 4.1 0.5 0.0
sunflower seeds 71 3.2 0.9 6.0 1.3
apple 71 0.0 19.4 0.0 4.4
Total 269 15 37 7 7

1:15pm  Cheese salad sandwich + soup + tea + prunes

Yup, a big lunch, after deciding not to get uptight about putting on weight since I’d been doing okay when I wasn’t trying so hard.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
lettuce 2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
hamisha cucumber 4 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.3
green chilli 6 0.3 1.1 0.0 0.2
extra-light mayonnaise 7 0.0 0.9 0.4 0.0
red onion 19 0.4 4.7 0.0 0.6
sun-dried tomatoes 30 1.0 3.5 2.0 1.0
Branston pickle 31 0.2 7.3 0.1 0.3
soft prunes 54 0.9 12.2 0.1 2.8
half-fat cheddar cheese 65 7.3 0.0 4.0 0.0
carrot & apple soup 104 1.7 22.2 1.1 4.9
seeded batch bread 151 6.2 21.3 4.6 3.6
Total 474 18 74 12 14

Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash

3:45pm  Sweet Crackerbread snack + banana

Over-eating. Feeling a bit desperate with a programming problem.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
chocolate hazelnut spread 23 0.1 2.3 1.5 0.1
extra-light soft cheese 32 4.2 1.1 1.2 0.0
wholemeal Crackerbread 40 1.4 7.8 0.4 1.2
peanut butter 62 2.3 1.6 5.1 0.6
banana 65 0.8 16.6 0.2 1.9
Total 221 9 29 8 4

4:40pm  Cheesy leeks

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
Thin Crisp 42 1.4 8.2 0.3 2.5
cornflour 45 0.1 10.9 0.1 0.0
half-fat cheddar cheese 117 13.2 0.0 7.1 0.0
leeks 170 4.1 39.6 0.9 5.0
Total 373 19 59 8 8

8:50pm  Crackerbread snack

I calculated calories so far and was already 190 calories over. I had a big hot chocolate but still wanted to eat something. Of course, afterwards I wondered what all the fuss was about and wished I hadn’t eaten.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
extra-light soft cheese 27 3.5 0.9 1.0 0.0
wholemeal Crackerbread 40 1.4 7.8 0.4 1.2
Total 67 5 9 1 1

The day’s totals:

Day 266 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 269 15 37 7 7
Lunch 474 18 74 12 14
Snack 221 9 29 8 4
Dinner 373 19 59 8 8
Snack 67 5 9 1 1
Other drinks 100
Total 1,504 66 208 38 33
18% 58% 24%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%		 18 – 30g

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Day 34 – Recovering

28 September 2008 at 9:24 pm (food diary)

Posted by Georgina

Feeling better than I did yesterday – but still felt a bit headachy and sinussy this afternoon though. Nowhere near as bad as before though, which is a relief.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast BREAD White, Medium Sliced 93
Butter salted 36
MARMALADE Orange, Shredless, Average 26
Cup of Tea 49
Total 204

Toast again for breakfast today. Was the easy option.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Lunch CHEESE Red Leicester, Average 240
SALAD Green 7
Branston PICKLE Small Chunk 5
Salad dressing caesar dressing, regular 26
Apples raw, with skin 10
GRAPES Red, Average 7
P & J SMOOTHIE Oranges & Mangoes 128
Total 423

We went out with some friends to Warwick Castle today so had lunch out. I tried my best to choose fairly sensible choices – although there’s a lot of guess work on quantities/calories in this.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Afternoon Tea Cup of Tea 49
McVitie’s BISCUITS Hob Nobs 133
Total 182

Felt a bit weak and headachy on return so had a quick boost of calories to keep me going.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Dinner Sainsbury’s CHIPS American Style, Oven 190
PEAS Frozen, Average 19
SWEETCORN Frozen, Average 32
CHICKEN Light Meat, Roasted 38
KETCHUP Tomato 13
Hellmann’s MAYONNAISE 36
Total 328

Finished up the chicken from yesterday’s roast, but still had fairly small portions – still not 100%

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Late GIN 37.5% Volume 36
Schweppes TONIC WATER Indian 52
Cadbury BUTTONS Milk Chocolate 66
OPTIONS Belgian Chocolate, Instant 147
Total 301

Picked up by the evening and felt hungry again. Still very tired though, so off for an early night. Got a new lower calorie hot chocolate to try tonight – will let you know if I like it or not!

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Exercise Walking around Warwick Castle -131
Total -131

Hard to estimate how much exercise, but it was a fairly long walk up from the carpark (up a hill too!) and we were walking pretty constantly while we were there (4 hours) except for lunchtime, a brief sit down in the playground and stopping to watch a falconry display. I went for the conservative estimate of 1.5 hrs at 2mph though we probably did more.

Time for the scores on the doors:

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Toast, marmalade and tea 204
Lunch Cheese salad, smoothie and a few bites of a fruit salad 423
Afternoon Tea Cup of Tea and two hob nobs 182
Dinner Cold chicken, oven chips, peas and sweetcorn 328
Late G&T, chocolate and hot choc 301
Exercise Walk around Warwick Castle -131
Total 1,307

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Day 265: Sleep the blues away

27 September 2008 at 10:07 pm (food diary, photo)

Posted by Paola

10:30am  Fennel with cheese + tea + orange

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
wholemeal Crackerbread 20 0.7 3.9 0.2 0.6
fennel 34 1.3 7.9 0.2 3.4
sun-dried tomatoes 40 1.3 4.7 2.7 1.3
orange 73 1.4 18.1 0.2 1.4
light sheep’s milk cheese 141 15.3 1.8 7.2 0.0
Total 308 20 36 11 7

Morning drink: hot chocolate

I was feeling low. My young neighbour friends came round and I made some hot chocolate and sat out the front in the sun to read things with them. We played some games but my mood was getting worse to the point that we ended up having the worst game ever of the Sticky Wobble game we’d invented.

2:30pm  Cottage cheese salad + pint of fizzy squash + hot apple

I fancied something sweet but warm. I nuked an apple and then added biscuit crumbs and cream cheese. Very yum.

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
lemon juice 6 0.1 2.1 0.0 0.1
lettuce 11 0.6 1.2 0.4 0.6
sun-dried tomatoes 26 0.9 3.0 1.7 0.9
biscuit crumbs 30 0.4 4.0 1.2 0.1
extra-light soft cheese 32 4.2 1.1 1.2 0.0
extra virgin olive oil 33 0.0 0.0 3.7 0.0
fennel 40 1.6 9.4 0.3 4.0
apple 59 0.0 16.1 0.0 3.7
cottage cheese 75 11.6 4.5 0.5 0.0
Total 311 19 41 9 9

Feeling worse, looking likely to be PMT, I gave in to it and went to bed, hoping to wake up when the dark cloud had passed.

9:45pm  Coconut pancakes + tea

I got up around 7pm, too late to go to the afternoon’s meet which had started at 4pm. But the dark cloud had gone.

I fancied coffee and cake. I made pancakes instead, with wholemeal flour and dessicated coconut (the photo shows two servings).

1 serving calories protein carbs fat fibre
orange 12 0.2 2.9 0.0 0.2
spray rapeseed oil 18 0.0 0.0 2.3 0.0
semi-skimmed milk 49 3.4 5.0 1.7 0.0
large organic free-range egg 93 7.8 0.0 6.8 0.1
dessicated coconut* 112 1.1 4.0 11.0 2.8
stoneground wholemeal plain flour 193 6.7 38.7 1.3 5.5
Total 478 19 51 23 9

Eating made me hungry. After half hour, I was still hungry so I had some soup.

The day’s totals:

Day 265 calories protein carbs fat fibre
Breakfast 308 20 36 11 7
Lunch 311 19 41 9 9
Dinner 478 19 51 23 9
Snack 112 2 24 1 5
Other drinks 100
Total 1,308 61 152 44 30
19% 49% 32%
Allowance 1,200 75 – 105g
25 – 35%		 120 – 165g
40 – 55%		 33 – 40g
25 – 30%		 18 – 30g

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Day 33 – Migraine

27 September 2008 at 9:33 pm (food diary)

Posted by Georgina

Bit of a weird day today. I suppose I should have noticed something was up the last few days – I’ve been getting motion sickness/car sickness when I’ve been driving which is just weird. Plus those food cravings and hitting the carbs a couple of days ago.

It started out as a sort of sinussy headache thing, so I took a decongestant and a nurofen and tried to carry on with my day. It wasn’t until I got the dizziness, nausea and extreme noise intolerance that I realised it was a migraine. Not nice. Haven’t had one in over a year, so was a bit of a shock.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast BREAD White, Medium Sliced 83
Butter salted 36
MARMALADE Orange, Shredless, Average 26
Cup of Tea 49
Total 194

I started out feeling very groggy and slow to get going, so hubby kindly made me a piece of toast and a cuppa.

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

Almost immediately needed another cup of tea. Knew I wasn’t 100% at this point, but had lots to get done.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Lunch BREAD White 200
Butter salted 36
Cheese cheddar 81
HAM Honey Roast, Average 18
Total 335

Rob made us lunch and this was the point where I took the nurofen and decongestant.

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

Something hot and sweet to keep me going while I cooked the dinner.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Dinner CHICKEN Light Meat, Roasted 38
Cauliflower, steamed 8
LEEKS, steamed 5
POTATOES Roast, Old, Average 60
STUFFING MIX Sage & Onion, Made Up, Paxo 43
Butter salted 36
Sweetcorn Fritter 142
Bisto GRAVY Granules For Chicken, Made Up 17
Sainsbury’s SAUCE Cranberry 15
Total 364

Wouldn’t normally have a roast dinner on a Saturday, but we’re going out tomorrow to see friends and I’d already ordered the stuff in – the leftovers will at least make an easy tea tomorrow evening when we get back.

Felt really ill by the point I’d made it though, and had fairly small portions of everything and went to bed for a bit shortly after.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Late Cup of Tea 49
Bananas raw 121
Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break 119
Total 289

Another cup of tea when I got up again as I was cold and shivery, then later on a banana and I now feel much better. Looking forward to an early night though.

No exercise today. I was planning on going out on a gentle bike ride with my eldest son, but it just didn’t happen for obvious reasons.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Toast, marmalade and tea 194
Morning Tea Cup of Tea 49
Lunch Cheese and ham toastie 335
Afternoon Tea Cup of Tea 49
Dinner Roast chicken, stuffing, roast potatoes, corn fritters and veg 364
Late Cup of tea, banana and hot chocolate 289
Total 1,280

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Day 265: weigh-in

27 September 2008 at 12:00 pm (weigh-in)

Posted by Paola

Weekly weigh-in: 2 lbs gained (total: 58 lbs / 26.3 kg in 38 weeks)

My average daily calories this week was 1,600. It means that, if I continue to have no exercise, my maintenance level after I reach my target is NOT gonna be 1,600.

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Day 32 – It’s Friday!

27 September 2008 at 10:52 am (food diary)

Posted by Georgina

Oops, I forgot to post this yesterday.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast BREAKFAST CEREAL Weetabix 63
Milk 3.7% fat 61
Sugars granulated 19
Cup of Tea 49
Fruit Bowl BARS School, Blackcurrant, Apple, & Pear 72
Total 264

I remembered to only have one weetabix today.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Morning Tea COFFEE Black 5
Milk 3.7% fat 189
Total 194

I had a really good bike ride this morning, but felt a bit headachy on my return, so although I wasn’t hungry I decided to have a latte to head off any potential low blood sugar badness. I did perk up a bit afterwards, but not sure if that was the extra calories, the caffeine or the nurofen I had with it!

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Lunch BREAD French Stick 68
Butter salted 36
Cheese brie 134
Salad 18
Tesco DRESSING French 22
Tropicana SMOOTHIE – Strawberry & Banana 135
Total 413

I’m getting a bit bored of this as a lunch now. Must come up with some other “stuff out of the fridge” ideas for next week.

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

The kids brought home chocolate from school, so I just stuck with the cup of tea.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Dinner Beefburger 165
Warburton’s BREAD Baps, White 88
POTATOES Boiled, Average 86
OIL Olive, Average 128
Salad 18
KETCHUP Tomato 26
Tesco DRESSING French 22
Total 533

Homemade beefburger in a bun, with homemade oven chips and a salad. I’m still not great at making oven chips – they always stick badly to the bottom of the tin, and I don’t know why.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Late WINE White, Dry 119
Galaxy Smooth Dark Chocolate 104
Cadbury HOT CHOCOLATE Instant Break 119
Total 342

I quite like having wine in the evening. If I sip it slowly it distracts me from getting any other snacks and I actually end up eating less in the evening.

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Exercise Cycle ride around local woods -625
Total -625

I’m getting good at this cycling thing!

Grand total:

Meal Food | Drink Calories
Breakfast Cereal, cup of tea and a fruit snack bar 264
Morning Tea Latte 194
Lunch Baguette, salad, brie and smoothie 413
Afternoon Tea Cup of Tea 49
Dinner Beefburger, bun, oven chips and salad 533
Late White wine, chocolate and a hot chocolate 342
Exercise Cycle through local woods -625
Total 1,170

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Day 46: Heartburn

27 September 2008 at 4:08 am (food diary)

Posted by Ginni

I was good at breakfast until lunch time

Breakfast:

low carb toast with raisins and low Becel margarine

A cup of tea with 1 sugar

Fresh squeezed orange juice

Lunch:

Indian Buffet (but my portion size was v good) – I did not over load the serving spoon and just took a little bit of everything. I would say slightly larger than a tablespoon but smaller than the serving spoon?

1spoon rice

1 serving spoon chick peas

1 spoon butter chicken (had 1 piece of chicken)

1 spoon lamb curry (had 2 pieces of lamb)

1 tandoori chicken piece (leg piece)

salad – cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce (no dressing)

2 potato fritters (small bite size)

1/4 naan bread

(sounds huge!)

Then I went back and had

1/4 naan bread

1 spoon butter chicken (2 pieces of chicken) but I did not finish it.

Dessert – 1 small bite size indian sweet

Dinner

A glass of milk as still have heart burn from the food…. I feel like I am regurgitating the food and my chest feels so heavy.

Needless to say I cannot even think about dinner and I have no idea how many calories this would have been. I am guessing it would be 2000 calories just on the luncheon. *sigh*

This was the worst lunch I had ever been to. At other restaurants I have been fantastic and I ordered salads with the dressings on the side so I can monitor what is going into the meal. However, lesson learnt today – stay away from Indian buffets.

Luckily, there’s not many in Calgary at all. I think there’s only 3 decent indian restaurants here and this was one of the best ones!!  I will stick to my own cooking :)

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