Posted by Sylvia

82.7 kilos

Sylvia’s Weight Chart:

.3 of a kilo (so over a pound) gained over the past few weeks. Looks like that kick came just in time!

Posted by Paola

Weigh-in: 2 lbs gained

Total lost: 59 lbs / 4 st 3 lbs / 26.8g in 94 weeks

Current weight: 155 lbs / 11 st 1 lb / 70.5 kg

Frank is away this week and I have been eating the house, as in everything edible because a) he’s not here to see me over-eat and b) I am not food diarying.

He’s back Tuesday. I wanna exceed my March lowest weight and see if I can get below 10 st (140 lbs, 63.6kg) by the end of the year. So, no more yoghurt and sweets. I’ll see if I can manage a week of a dailt sandwich for breakfast, soup and salad with fruit.

My Weight Chart:

Posted by Paola

Weigh-in: 1 lb gained

Total lost: 61 lbs / 4 st 5 lbs / 27.7g in 93 weeks

Current weight: 153 lbs / 10 st 13 lbs / 69.5 kg

Posted by Paola

Weigh-in: 1 lb lost Yay!

Total lost: 62 lbs / 4 st 6 lbs / 28.2g in 92 weeks

Current weight: 152 lbs / 10 st 12 lbs / 69 kg

Posted by Sylvia

Sylvia’s Weight Chart:

Down by .3 of a kilo – not a lot but at least I’m heading in the right direction again.

Posted by Paola

10:15am Half a glass of milk

Just before getting a train into London.

1:30pm Pasta with mozarella, tomatoes and spinach @ Oriel

It was a chicken pasta dish without the chicken but with a side order of spinach added.

3:50pm Cake + tea

7:50 Cottage cheese and turkey salad with tortilla wrap w/spread + coffee

8:50pm Frozen berries and ginger biscuit with yoghurt

Posted by Paola

Weigh-in: 1 lb lost hurray!

Total lost: 61 lbs / 4 st 5 lbs / 27.7g in 91 weeks

Current weight: 153 lbs / 10 st 13 lbs / 69.5 kg

This is the first time I’ve lost weight since the start of June!

Posted by Paola

I added notes to the inside cupboard door for my plates with the improved calorie counts from yesterday.

11:20pm Porridge with sultanas, fake butter and sweetener + tea

Weighed, thus pre-calorie counted. It exploded in the microwave again.

1:10pm Beef and bean coconut chilli with yoghurt and olive oil + tea

Too cold for salad.

My first attempt at a pumpkin pie adapted from a Delia recipe, made for the afternoon’s cake club.  I whipped the remaining cream with ground roasted pecans and a little vanilla sugar. The cream was much nicer than the pie!

3:50pm Pumpkin pie with cream + tea

4pm Pumpkin pie with cream + tea

I was hungry after the cake club!

5:30pm Cottage cheese salad with sweet chilli yoghurt + tea

5:50pm Frozen berries with yoghurt + coffee

Not weighed. I just took as much as I wanted (anything would have been too much).

6:20pm Pumpkin pie with cream + coffee

*sigh* And it wasn’t even that nice. But I told myself I wouldn’t eat again today.

Posted by Paola

Oops, I accidentally deleted today’s food photos.

10:40am Porridge oats + tea

Made with oats, water, milk, sultanas and pumpkin seeds. Served with fake butter and sweetener. The instructions said 50g a portion. I used 70g and it was loads.

Oops!

If I’d made it with water only, 50g oats, 2g sweetener, 10g sultanas and 20g of fake butter comes to 288 calories.

2:10pm Cottage cheese salad + tea

3:25pm Frozen berries with yoghurt

Hmm. 120g frozen berries + 145g low-fat yoghurt with 2g sweetener would be 150 calories. A much better total.

Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash

6pm Two pieces of roasted pumpkin with olive oil

After roasting pumpkin for the pumpkin pie I’m making for my turn at hosting the cake club tomorrow.

6:15pm Tomato and coconut beef chilli with dumplings

Ingredients: passata, reduced-fat coconut milk, beef-style pieces, aduki beans, sweetcorn and onions. Flavoured with paprika, fresh chilli and lots of garlic. With wholemeal dumplings. Served with yoghurt and extra virgin olive oil.

I made myself use a small glass bowl. I ate it slowly. It was so yum, I had another bowl immediately, not waiting as promised. :-( I vowed not to have anything else to eat today. I felt really very full afterwards.

8pm Pecan nuts * 4

Picked at while baking tomorrow’s pie.

Still feeling full.

Posted by Sylvia

I’ve upgraded my machine to Windows 7, which is fast and shiny and working great, but now my USDA calorie counter program doesn’t work.

I could work around it but within a day or two, Cliff will fix the program he made me and it will all be so much simpler. Also, my numbers are a bit sketchy ANYWAY so putting in the effort for an approximate count seems not worth it.

However, I AM noting the meals here to make sure I’m not tempted into eating a pound of Brie.

Tuesday Lunch
Chicken and Vegetable Stew (for two)
225 chicken
80g leeks
60g carrots
40g green onion
1 teaspoon sesame oil
100g mushrooms
1 stock cube

It was interesting how hungry I felt in the afternoon – and how aware I felt that recently I haven’t felt hungry. Around 5:30 I walked down to the beach and went for a swim. This is a great work-out for me because I honestly enjoy it (as opposed to mindless laps in the pool) and when I got out I was trembly and panting so I’m working a lot harder without even noticing it.

BUT on the downside, after a walk I’ll find I don’t feel so hungry but after my swim I was RAVENOUS.

Tuesday Dinner

We had burritos with minced lamb (left over from the other nice) and steamed vegetables and tomatillo sauce.

This started going wrong when I realised that there was no calorie count on the flour tortillas I was using. I also added half a cup of black beans from a tin which likewise didn’t have a calorie count on it. On top of everything else, we were meeting friends at the pub after dinner and I really didn’t want to make the mistake of drinking hungry, so I upped the portions.

At the end of the meal I was *stuffed*. Although it started out good (and was full of healthy veggies) I don’t think Tuesday’s dinner can be counted as dieting.

Wednesday Lunch

Scrambled Eggs with Indian Spices and Mushrooms

25g butter
150g onion
61g oyster mushrooms
100g champinones
65g peppers
Madras powder
chopped coriander
4 eggs

Served with a side salad of lettuce with vinegar.

I wasn’t sure I could face going for a swim after drinking too much red wine the night before but I walked down to the beach anyway and once I was there, I decided I might as well. I didn’t swim as long but my arms and legs ached when I got home so it must have done some good, right?

Wednesday Dinner

I defrosted two portions of Sausage Soup which I had noted as a total of 840 calories. Again, I felt ravenous and it just didn’t seem like a lot. Also I tried a taste and it seemed rather boring.

I had 50g of mushrooms left over from lunch which I quartered and added in. Then I put in a bit of mushroom stock to thin it out a bit. Then I put in a jar of tomato and mushroom sauce at 120 calories. Then I added a bit of hotsauce.

By the time I was finished, I was worried it was probably over the 500 cal per person mark. But then when I went to serve, I realised we had more food than was sensible for two people! I served us both a good sized bowl (leaving a small bowls worth in the pot). I wasn’t *full* (certainly not like I felt after the burritos the night before) but neither did I feel hungry / hard done by. I suspect it still did go over 500 cal for the meal but not by much.