Days 416-418: At mum’s
Posted by Paola
24 Feb 2009
12:20am Ham and cheese salad sandwich + plum + tea
Followed by half a biscuit.
3:30pm Diet Coke and Nik Naks @ train station
On the way to my mum’s for the night so I could go with her to a hospital appointment in the morning.
5:20pm Cheese Slices (pastries) with spinach and tomato salad
Followed by two Ryvita + a plum
6:20pm Happy Hippo + tea
10:15pm Cream cheese and tomato snack + plums
Followed by strawberries.
25 Feb 2009
At my mum’s house.
12:50pm Cream cheese and salad sandwich + plums
7:10pm Noodles with chilli vegetables + iced peach tea @ Wagamama
On the way home, after having left my mum’s house.
26 Feb 2009
10:30am Houmous wrap, Quavers, diet Coke and nectarine
460 calories for the wrap, 87 for the Quavers.
Bought from Waitrose which is next to the train station. I was on the way back to my mother’s house to be there for her appointment with the Community Matron.
3:45pm Chocolate chip and hazelnut muffin + spiced tea @ Starbucks
On the way home from my mother’s house.
7:45pm Veg and bean soup with cheese and crackers + squash
8pm (Broken) biscuits + tea
Days 413-415
Posted by Paola
21 Feb 2009
1:20pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tea + squash + nectarine
Honest, there’s a (potential) sandwich in there somewhere!
2:15pm Chocolate ice cream with sultanas, seeds and biscuits
6:10pm Peas, sweetcorn, kale and feta with sweet chilli yoghurt + squash
7pm Crumpets with low-fat spread (!) and chocolate hazelnut spread + plums
11:30pm Bean and veg soup with peas, sweetcorn, cheese and crackers + tea + apple
22 Feb 2009
2:25pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tea + nectarine + plum
6:30pm Crumpets with fried egg + squash
Followed by Muller light yoghurt and biscuits + nectarine
00:40am (night) Feta and tomato salad snack + lager + plum
1am Chocolate ice cream with biscuits, sultanas and seeds + port
4am Squash + biscuit
23 Feb 2009
4:15pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tea + squash + nectarine
Afternoon drink: coffee
7:10pm Veg and bean soup with cheese and crackers
8:30pm Coconut beef and bean chilli + apple
Evening drink: hot chocolate
1am (night) Cottage cheese and beetroot snack + tea
1:30am Biscuits, sultanas, seeds and honey with yoghurt
Day 413: weigh-in
Posted by Paola
Weekly weigh-in: 1 lb lost
Total lost: (total: 71 lbs / 5 st 1 lb / 32.2 kg in 59 weeks)
Current weight: 143 lbs / 10 st 3 lbs / 64.9 kg
Days 410-412
Posted by Paola
18 Feb 2009
12:40pm Coconut bean and beef chilli with tortilla wrap + tea + squash
5:30pm Tinned spaghetti with cheese, egg and toast + tea
Followed by two cup-cakes hand-made by my lovely neighbour.
11:30pm Cheese and tomato snack + tea
19 Feb 2009
5:20pm Veg and bean soup + ham and cheese salad sandwich + tea
6:30pm Chocolate digestives + banana
11:40pm Coconut beef and bean chilli with tortilla wrap + squash
12:10am (night) Bran flakes with sultanas and seeds + tea
20 Feb 2009
8:30am Lentil and cheese sandwich + tea
This photo shows the previous and new loaves I’m getting – both Warburton’s seed bread. I figured my sandwiches would be smaller if I made them with one big slice rather than two of the smaller slices. Turns out there’s only 3g difference between these options and it’s hard to cut the new-style sandwich into four.
4:10pm Cheese and ham salad sandwich + tea
I forgot I’d had a sandwich earlier!
7:10pm Coconut beef and bean chilli + tea
11:25pm Tea-cakes with low-fat spread, cheese and nectarine + tea
1:10am Green & Black’s chocolate ice-cream with biscuits and seeds + port
Day 409: Day of reckoning
Posted by Paola
Some of you might have noticed that I stopped having my big sandwich brunch a few days ago. I realised that they were too big (and that they had likely got bigger over the year). In my last grocery order, I replaced the small slice loaves with regular loaves. I’ll make one-slice sandwiches with these. (Cripes, their massive!) I was too hungry when it came time to eating today to resist a big sandwich, though.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I wrote yesterday, that the irrational panic of not having enough food while preparing a meal was the only unpleasant thing of my diet. I realised today that I had indulged my urge for cramming as much as I could on my small side plate in my daily sandwiches. I need to get into the habit of smaller portions. If that means even smaller plates, so be it. Today on TV there was yet another programme about a woman having a stomach reduction. The choice seems to be to reduce one’s stomach internally to reduce portion sizes or to actually reduce portion sizes.
Although I understand the imperative to 1) stop eating when one’s satiated and 2) leaving something on the plate, both of these seem mega hard to me and so I will try to tackle my urge to fill my plate instead.
For the first time in a year, I’m anxious that I’m gonna start bingeing again and put the weight back on. Yesterday I briefly considered eating one of the packets of chocolate digestives I’d bought for Frank. I figured he hadn’t known how many I ordered and so wouldn’t know if one went missing. But then I realised I’d have to eat the whole packet in order to ‘hide the evidence’ and I didn’t fancy making myself sick, I just wanted five biscuits.
3:30pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + squash + tea + plum
5:30pm Tomato, vegetable and bean soup with cheese and Finn Crisp
6pm Bran flakes with sultanas and pumpkin seeds
I’ve been having this a lot recently and so thought I should work out the calories now.
It’s quite shocking that, even in my smallest bowl, I’ve managed to accumulate the same amount of calories as one of my meals.
| 1 small serving | calories | protein | carbs | fat | fibre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5g Splenda | 20 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 111ml semi-skimmed milk | 42 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| 21g sultanas | 61 | 0.6 | 14.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| 15g pumpkin seeds | 88 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 6.8 | 0.8 |
| 33g bran flakes | 111 | 3.4 | 22.1 | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Total | 322 | 11 | 48 | 9 | 6 |
9pm Coconut bean and beef thing with a tortilla wrap + squash + 2 plums
10:15pm Quark and corn relish on rye bread
I’d hoped not to eat again today but I’d been cooking marinated chicken in the oven for Frank and it just smelt so good every time I opened the oven to give it a stir…
Day 408: Fillet of Quorn
Posted by Paola
Morning drink: tea
9:10am Cottage cheese with salad and rye bread
Morning drink: squash
12:30pm: Cabbage braised in balsamic with feta and yoghurt + squash + plum
1:30pm Bran flakes with sultanas and pumpkin seeds
4:20pm Quorn fillet salad + tea
7pm Quorn fillet salad sandwich + banana
11:10pm Braised cabbage with yoghurt + squash
Depressed about having removed posts and photos from Facebook. No excuse to eat, I know.
The Weekend
Posted by Simon
Generally over the weekend I’ve been doing a bit of ‘new thinking’ eating, and some not so new…
I’m finding I’m not constantly thinking about food, and often eating only when I’m hungry, but, I’m still eating more than I should some of the time, and not always stopping when I’ve had enough.
I sometimes find that if I stop and leave some, I’ll often eat it up a little while later, the tactic of stopping and then clearing the plate away is necessary I think!
The CD is weird, I hardly listen to it, but I’m sure it’s going in, I look at myself and see a thin fit person rather than a fat person who needs to lose some weight.
And focus is everything, you get what you focus on…
