The Food Confessional

Posted by Ginni

After reading Paola’s comments on my diet yesterday, I am flabbergasted by the calories ! I need to spend more time analysing what I eat and work out the calories instead of just going to the fruit.

Breakfast – nothing (wasn’t hungry)

12.30 – 2 rotis and a portion of potato

2pm – 1 peach

5pm – 1 small home made scone (sugar free and used skimmed milk)

7pm – a tin of three beans (150 cal) – seasoned with lemonjuice, tamarind and spice mix

(quickest food I could make as was hungry – ate it way too fast before I realised I had to take a pic!)

I had 1 can of Ginger Ale (120 calories)

From tomorrow I will start counting the calories too.

I don’t feel hungry at all right now (11.20pm). I have made some lentil and celery soup for tomorrow, so hopefully that will keep me going all day tomorrow.

Posted by Ginni

I started off well today, with a grapefruit and a glass of juice at 9am.

11am snack – 1 banana

12.30 snack – 1 orange

2pm lunch – Indian Fruit Salad – 1 Banana, 1 Apple, 1 Peach, 2 Potatoes with lemon juice, tamarind sauce and black salt.

6pm dinner (eating out!) – Green salad with ranch dressing (felt heavy!) and a Toasted Chicken sandwich with no mayo (Tomato, lettuce, chicken slices on toasted white bread).

Dessert – I had 2 spoons of Apple Caramel Crisp (sinfully sweet).

I took the camera with me but forgot to take pics at the restaurant. Our friend took pics and I was embarassed to see what I looked like!

Posted by Ginni

My weight is now the heaviest it has ever been in my entire life. I had a couple of bad months (Oct-Nov)

I am back on the wagon – or should I say, I am trying to clutch onto the wagon with my fingernails for the last 4 days in the hope that I will finally ride it out this time!  I started on Christmas Eve with a detox – just drinking water, fresh orange juice and eating oranges. This has probably been the worst xmas ever for me, and it seemed appropriate to start this detox on a day I will remember for a long time.

I had a blasting headache on Christmas day but I still survived on juice, fruit and some roasted veg with gravy for the Christmas lunch.

Boxing day, I slipped a bit with a bowl of lentils but it wasn’t too bad a slip, and I stuck to fruits and water mainly.

27th Dec

Oranges, 1 banana and a pineapple and water- and 1 piece of homemade choc fudge (ouch!)

28 Dec

Grapefruit, oranges, 1 apple, chicken soup (out of a can) with 1/2 slice of bread, 2 home made small samosas (baked). I think my detox has finally ended but I am trying to stick to low cal light food and eating STRICTLY when I am hungry.

I surprisingly found it easier to deal with light hunger pangs without running to the kitchen for a little snack, but I keep thinking about what I will make for the next meal!

Total loss so far is 6lbs, but I am sure it will balance out by the time I have my weekly weigh in on Thursday. Have started a little notebook to write down what I eat all day and will start taking pics like Paola next, now that I have a camera of my own !

Posted by Ginni

My tummy is rumbling and I am surrounded by food, yet nothing that I want to eat. I am doing my first ever catering job, 450 women at a Charity event, Women’s Night out – raising funds for educating young girls with vocational skills in India.

I am doing a trio of appetisers – Aloo tikki with Chana Masala, Cocktail size Paneer Samosa with Tamarind Chutney and Pakoras. The main course is my signature dish Butter chicken with rice, naan bread, Eggplant curry and Bombay Potatoes. Dessert is another trio – Coconut dipped Gulab Jamuns, Sweet Saffron rice with almonds & raisins, and Carrot halwa.

I also have to cook for the coffee shop sales this weekend and I have just come back from sending out a meal for 20 doctors who were having a meeting at my doctor’s surgery.

Apart from the tamarind chutney there’s nothing in here that says to me, ‘eat me!’. I am not eating at set times anymore and there is no distinction between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, I just grab something when  I am hungry.

Breakfast @ 9am:-

2 Paranthas (160 cal) with Eggplant curry (120 cal) and a Cup of tea (50 cal)

Lunch – was not hungry as had heavy breakfast

Dinner – 2 slices of Pizza with a can of diet coke (260 each)

Total calories for today: – 840 cal

It is 11.26pm now, so I am unlikely to eat anything now, but I will be working for a little while yet…. I need to buy a lock for my mouth!

By the way, if any of you young ladies would like some Indian spice mixes, please let me know… I am roasting and grinding my own mixes which are doing quite well at the stores here now, along with my frozen samosas, handmade rotis, paranthas etc. Take a look at this:-http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Translating+butter+chicken/1898307/story.html

Before you say anything, yes Jakey is going swimming 4 times a week to lose some weight.

Posted by Ginni

I have always known I comfort eat but I didn’t realise that I comfort eat more if I have had an argument and it eats inside me all day. Today was supposed to be a very busy day with a lot of prep and a launch taking place at one of the stores. Launch took place, 1 h2 30 mins later than scheduled which I absolutely hated as it was due to someone blowing a gasket for no reason at the wrong time.

As soon as I sent the troops off for the launch, I sat back and ate 3 samosas (140 cal each) and then half an hour later, I scoffed down the remaining 4 too. That was my breakfast and lunch!

Around 7pm, I had 2 Ham sandwiches, just plain slices of bread with a slice of ham in it with half a cup of tea, and 2 digestives. So that’s me done for the day!

Calorie count:

I felt so so guilty writing what I ate today… am embarrassed. I am over my allowance …*sigh* tomorrow will be better.

Posted by Ginni

I miss talking / listening to everyone, and I was shocked to see its quiet in the field for the last few months. Has everyone lost their weight and disappeared?!?!

I have been off the wagon for a little while now, and am looking to get back on it. I have been physically active, so I have some energy and I have reduced my intake of medicine / tablets, so feel a little normal. Since I am cooking all day, I am finding hard to keep track of what I eat !!

Before you say ‘ I told you so’, I absolutely and totally love what I do.

I am going to try keeping a diary from the morning and today I am preparing everything including a camera to help me with the food diary. Is this my 10th attempt in the last 2 years ? possibly! But I must be like a yo you as I keep coming back for more….

I miss you guys and I hope you come back, as its quiet and boring with you all :)  … Hugs to everyone!!

Posted by Ginni

*Hugs* to Sylvia and Paola…. I am really proud of your progress Paola and sorry for not being able to write sooner. Since I bought the coffee shop, my life has turned upside down and inside out!! I no longer get time to get onto the computer except checking quick emails when I am half asleep. I am officially pooped, and loving it !!

I have lost 8lbs in weight, and I am down 1 size at least I think, as even this one feels a bit looser now. I am running around like a blue arse fly, and I am so tired in the evening that I go straight to bed and I can sleep anytime and anywhere, which is very very unusual for me :)

I have developed one bad habit of drinking cold diet ‘pops’ all day as its really hot in there – but I have kept off any of the coffees, flavoured ice caps (except sometimes!), teas, fruity green teas, muffins, cookies, cupcakes, cake loaves, mini donuts and the food (including gulab jamuns and butter chicken).

I am drinking water and diet pops like a fish, but am really ‘off food’ until I really really have to eat, i.e to have medicine etc. I have swollen feet from standing all day, my hands hurt like hell, but I am 1000% more active with all the running around and once my body gets used to it, I am sure I will lose more weight. I am going to try to stay off the diet pops as I know fizzy drinks make me swell up for some reason!

My husband thinks I have lost more weight than 8 lbs but then, maybe he is biased or maybe I have just converted fat to muscle. I do all the buying myself which means loading and unloading the van with cases of drinks, and food and I do all the cooking and baking myself too, as well as running the shop with 2-3 staff members.

Am I glad I made this move? Absolutely! 

I am hoping I would be losing more weight with the running around and since my BP is much lower, I am hoping I will be reducing my medicine dosages too.

I am now returning back to sleep…. I can sleep the whole day away at the rate I am going. I never knew sleeping was so sweet ! :)