Day 360: Frosty day
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12;30pm Toasted cheese and onion salad sandwich + satsuma + tea
Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash
3pm Carrot, bean and tomato soup with cheese and Finn Crisp + apple
4:40pm Veg chilli with yoghurt and olive oil + satsuma
Tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, stock cube, red onion, a while head of garlic, beef-style pieces, mushrooms, dessicated coconut, carrot, sun-dried tomatoes and green beans. It ended up a bit wet from the water from the mushrooms. I added some gravy powder later.
6:50pm Bran flakes with sultanas + tea
7:30pm Crackerbreads with Quark and plum chutney
Evening drink: hot chocolate, but I’d rather have had something to eat.
Day 359: Back to work
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12:50pm Cottage cheese and turkey salad sandwich + coffee + orange
With a lovely plum chutney, an xmas present from a neighbour.
3:10pm Carrot, tomato and bean soup with cheese and Finn Crisp + tea + apple
4:30pm Hot chocolate (Brr!) + caramel rice cake + prunes
6:45pm Beetroot salad + coffee + caramel rice cake
Beetroot, mozzarella, capers, lemon juice and olive oil.
9:10pm Beetroot salad + tea
The rest of the salad with added sunflower seeds and sultanas.
9:30pm Bran flakes with sultanas
Peckish
10:20pm Orange
Day 358: Binge on soup
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11:30am Banana and yoghurt with Finn Crisp and chocolate hazelnut spread
2:40pm Carrot, tomato and bean soup with cheese and Finn Crisp + pint of fizzy squash + apple
Straight after finishing this bowl, I had a second bowl of the same, just because it was yum.
I made the soup with tinned tomatoes, passata, Tesco Value sweet & sour sauce, red onion, sun-dried tomatoes, cannellini beans, carrots and paprika.
5pm Carrot, tomato and bean soup with cheese and Finn Crisp + satsuma
Still feeling pretty full from earlier but wanting to eat. :-/
8:10pm Cold snack + half pint of fizzy squash + apple + tea
Ham-style slices, carrot, tomato, spinach, sun-dried tomato, cottage cheese, sunflower seeds, sultanas and Crackerbreads with lemon juice and olive oil.
Again, I was still feeling full but wanted to eat, somewhat for something to do.
Day 357: Catch-up
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12:40pm Veg bacon and hotdogs with baked beans and cheese + bread + tea + apple
1:30pm Finn Crisp with chocolate hazelnut spread and prunes + fresh coffee
4:10pm Green beans and mozzarella with sun-dried tomatoes, lemon and oil + squash + orange
Followed by a Tesco Value milk chocolate digestive bar (100 calories) and tea.
7:40pm Tesco Value tinned spaghetti with cheese and Finn Crisp
Evening drink: pint of fizzy squash
Why I’ve added my past food diaries
Even though I was too busy to post my food diaries, I was still taking photos and noting what I ate. But, as I saw my notes pile up, I started to think I’d just pick up the food diary again once work eased up.
When I thought that no one was watching anymore, it started to affect how I thought about my food. A few times I figured I could just keep eating biscuits and no one would know. So I promised myself that I’d add all the food diaries eventually to temper my consumption of food.
I have to keep food diarying if I am to keep losing weight. And maybe I’ll even have to continue food-diarying after I’ve reached my target weight.
Day 356: Boxing Day
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At my mum’s house for Christmas.
10:10am Feta salad sandwich with cranberry sauce + tea
12:30pm Dressed mixed salad with Quorn escalope and sweet potato mash with cream cheese
4:15pm Half a Rocky Road + tea @ Starbucks
7:10pm Lettuce, feta and sun-dried tomato salad
Back home from mum’s house.
8pm Three shortcake biscuits + Happy Hippo + Belgian chocolate truffle
I felt sick afterwards. I should have just had one at a time, going back for more if I felt the need to.
Day 355: Christmas Day
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1:30pm Christmas lunch
My first meal was Christmas lunch which I prepared with my brother at my mother’s house.
Steamed asparagus with feta dressed in lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil. (The meat-eaters also had smoked salmon with cream cheese.)
Quorn lemon and pepper escalope and cranberry sauce (jam) with baked pepper, brussel sprouts, sweet potato mash with cream cheese, and a mixed salad. Plus sparkling wine and diet ginger beer.
I later added some of the stuffing.
2pm Ben & Jerry’s mango and berry sorbet (lower in calories than ice cream) + fresh coffee
3:10pm Belgian chocolate truffles
(Given to me by my 9 yr old neighbour.)
7:30pm Baked apples with orange-soaked sultanas, meringue and custard
A Delia Smith recipe. A lower-calorie alternative to the usual Christmas pudding and panetone
9:15pm Stuffing and cheese salad with cranberry sauce + ginger beer
9:40pm Belgian chocolate truffles + port
Day 354: Christmas Eve
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5:30pm Cranberry and camembert panini + crisps + chocolate florentine + tea @ Costa Coffee
I figured I deserved a treat and so went for half a bag of crisps AND half a large chocolate florentine-type flap-jack. I wished later I’d just had one treat since the panini was about 460 calories by itself.
10:35pm Crackerbread with mozzarella, ham and tomato + squash
At my mum’s house for a couple of nights.
