Day 513: In Glasgow
Posted by Paola
10am Banana + crisps + tea
At the service station B&B.
12:15pm Apple
In the hire van on the motorway.
+ cola
7:40pm Macaroni cheese with chips and veg
+ fairy cake + tea @ service station
+ fudge from Frank’s cake
11:45pm Crackerbreads + Irn Bru
In the Gretna Green service station B&B on our way back.
Day 512: To Glasgow
Posted by Paola
1pm: Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tangerine + coffee w/cream + squash
1:30pm chocolate cake w/cream
5:20pm Roasted veg salad with red kidney beans and pitta
In the hire van on the motorway.
+ apple
6:10pm Marmalade cake
7:10pm Chocolate ice cream lolly @ service station
10:30pm Cheese, onion and mayo sandwich + crisps + cider
In the service station B&B.
+ Quavers
11:15pm Marmalade cake
Day 512: weigh-in
Posted by Paola
Weekly weigh-in: 2 lbs gained
Total lost: (total: 64 lbs / 4 st 8 lbs / 29 kg in 71 weeks)
Current weight: 150 lbs / 10 st 10 lbs / 68 kg
Day 511: Eton Mess
Posted by Paola
2pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + coffee + squash w/juice + tangerine
3pm Cake!
Left over from yesterday’s Cake Club. I hosted it but Aenne provided the cake. She brought enough for 12 but only 3 of us turned up. She insisted on leaving the remaining cake behind.
An eighth of a slice of the 8″ cakes were around 250 calories. So this first bowl is about 500 calories.
Plus more cake!
7:30pm Carrots and poppadoms and mint and horseradish yoghurt dips + orange juice with lemonade and kiwi
We had Aenne and Steve over for dinner.
8pm Veg lasagne with roasted carrot salad and green salad and pitta bread
Lasagne made with veg mince, mushrooms and walnuts. Roasted veg salad made with carrots, red peppers and garlic in a balsamic and oil dressing.
+ Eton Mess
Whipped double cream with crumbled meringue, milk chocolate pieces and cherry pie filling and single cream. Rather special!
+ coffee + port + Hershey mini bar + grape juice + squash
Wrap-Up
Posted by Sylvia
I’ll be out of the country until Tuesday so I won’t be posting for a few days.
Wednesday Food:
Breakfast: 2 milky coffees 60 calories
Quick Lamb Biriani
| 453g lamb | 602 |
| 1 tablespoon olive oil | 120 |
| 200g onion | 80 |
| 270g rice | 700 |
| Stock | 20 |
| Vegetables | 20 |
| Total Calories | 1,542 |
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Total calories: 1542
Total weight: 1220g
1.26/gram
Lunch: 529 calories
This was a nice meal – Cliff actually accused me of giving up on the diet early when I served it! The vegetables keep you from noticing that it isn’t much rice and it’s the type of dish where you don’t expect a lot of meat. I’ll definitely make this again.
Dinner: unknown
We went to the Japanese where I had tuna sashimi to start and then a small noodle dish as a main course. We decided that we would have a drink (no drinking tonight as we’re flying tomorrow!) and I had a beer, a fair amount of sake, and then at home I had rum with apple liqueur. Feeling just a weeeee bit rough today.
Thursday Food:
Not dieting today as we’ll be without food most of tomorrow – last time I made the mistake of keeping the diet going until the night before and I ended up feeling dizzy and unhappy in the plane (luckily it wasn’t me flying!).
So I made a “low cal” lunch (Chicken and onion kebab with about 400g of chicken split between three people and iceberg lettuce and pasta with corn and peas and leeks missed in and tossed in asparagus sauce) but didn’t actually bother with the calorie counting to save time. Then for dinner I made meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes with a little bit of butter and a big spoonful of light cream cheese – which tasted surprisingly good. Normally I’d do a lot of butter and sour cream but between the garlic and the cream cheese it tasted pretty rich without actually being a lot of calories.
For tomorrow, we have sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs as a picnic lunch for our fuel stop in Périgueux and then restaurant meals from there on out.
See you next week!
Day 510: Cake club
Posted by Paola
1pm Ham and cheese salad sandwich + tangerine + squash w/juice + tea
1:30pm Chocolate Digestive biscuit
3:30pm Cake (4 small slices)
700 calories?
5:20pm Spinach, sauerkraut and mushrooms with red kidney beans, walnuts and sweet chilli yoghurt
8:15pm Quarter cake with cream + coffee
Leftover cake from earlier. 600 calories?
2:45am Tequila-soaked melon with sultanas, seeds, honey and yoghurt + squash w/juice
+ Mr Goodbar and Krackel chocolate mini bars
10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight
Posted by Paola
I highly recommend watching the BBC’s 10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight which was on BBC 1 this evening.
I learnt about the positive benefits of soup-based meals and low-fat dairy.
Available to watch on iPlayer until 3 June 2009.
Here’s the programme blurb:
Every year millions of people in Britain try to lose weight, and most fail. We are constantly bombarded with advice about dieting and the latest slimming fads. But what really works? In this programme, medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming, uncovering ten of the simplest ways you can shed those pounds. From the slimming secrets of soup to our brain’s response after skipping meals, what he discovers may completely change the way you think about diets, health and losing weight.
Michael does not look like he is at all overweight, but while making this film he discovered that he, like millions of others, has internal body fat around his kidneys and liver that he really needs to lose. So he tries out the scientific tips himself, and by the end of the film he succeeds in losing the weight he wants.
Plus, musician Alex James, who is a passionate cheese maker, tries out an intriguing scientific discovery – that low-fat dairy products can help you excrete more fat from all your food.
Radio presenter Amy Lame learns how just a few small changes in her daily routine can help burn significantly more calories, which is handy for those who hate exercise and the gym.
And actress Debbie Chazen, who eats healthy foods, has her metabolism checked and keeps a food diary – with some surprising results.
We discover the scientific reasons why soup keeps you feeling fuller for longer than solid food: it’s all to do with the particular way the stomach shrinks and expands, and we’ll prove it using ultrasound scans of Territorial Army recruits.
Full of practical tips and scientific insights, we discover how anyone can lose weight more easily.
