overfed and underpaid

Update on last nights dinner - had 1 x posh burger in harvestgrain roll (a small roll), mash potato and salad, w/ angel delight and strawberries for desert, and 1 G&T

TODAY:

Breakfast - 1 x harvestgrain roll w/ flora light and lime marmalade, 2 x rice cakes, green tea
Lunch: salmon salad (really small), strawberries, apple, cashews/raisins/apricot/sunflower and pumpkin seeds
Dinner: No idea. Pork chop, thai rice and veggies perhaps.

Having a sneaky gin or two tonight as have freelance work to do until late.

BTW: Have lost 2 pounds this week

Hiya

Well, it's Thursday. Am being good today. Only problems I find with being good, really, are:

A) Wanting to cook yummy and filling things for my other half
Money.

Had better update for the weekend, from memory (Below plus a LOT OF GREEN TEA):

Friday: went out to posh hotel do with work. Had the couscous starter, basil chicken and coconut curry (minus sauce, just the chicken breast) w/ rice, and 1/2 a TEASPOON of creme brulee (my favourite), plus 2 x small pieces of fudge. Drank 3 white wine spritzers (poured 70/30 water). Then got the hump on way home, had a bottle of stella on the train and a bottle and a half or rose and threw up. So hopefully minus calories.

Saturday: toast breakfast, vegetable pasta lunch at posh restaurant (roast veg, not creamy at all), went to a gig and drank 3 x tonic waters and 2 pints of water. Dinner: chicken flavoured rice (5g fat, 200 cals) and 3 spicey thai prawns.

Sunday: scrambled egg breakfast w/ beans and 1 x white toast, Salad for lunch (inc prawns) and straweberries and pineapple for desert. Pasta pesto for dinner (wholemeal)

Monday: Rice Krispie bar for breakfast (was driving), salad for lunch (lettuce, potato, ham, egg, cucumber) and tiny amount of OH's spaghetti shapes. Freddie Fish pie for dinner (home made).

Tuesday: back at work. Museli for breakfast, pasta pesto for lunch, spaghetti bolognaise for dinner (wholemeal) and SF jelly

Weds; work. 2 x wholemeal toast for breakfast, wholemeal spaghetti bolognaise and Toffee muller light for lunch, sausage and mash for dinner (2.5 sausages, lots of veg).

And that takes me to TODAY:

Am off pasta, as with being SKINT that's all I seem to have eaten this week. I know it's wholemeal, but still. Is there any even healthier alternative?

Breakfast: 2 x lime marmalde on wholemeal toast
Snack: 1 x ricecake
Lunch: 1/2 tin of salmon (no dressing, just black pepper and spinkle of vinegar) salad (baby toms, red pepper, lettuce, celery). Bag of cashews / raisins / pumpkin seeds / sunflower seeds and 3 x dried apricots
Afternoon snack: 1 x ricecake
Dinner: posh burger (no roll), salad, mash potato

Mmmm. Green tea. Have currently got a shapers Mango & Raspberry water too. Tomorrow is WEIGH DAY. And payday, come to that.

Hiya

Breakfast: museli w/ semi skimmed, green tea w/ jasmine, water
Snack: small (really) handful of pumpkin seeds
Lunch: M&S classic salad (as in plain) and pack of plain chicken breast pieces (say 130 cals lot, 1g fat), Boots shapers still raspberry and mango water, Muller light
Dinner: No idea yet

Talked myself out of the smoothie. Would rather have LOTS of fruit at the w/e and make a HM one x

Was good yesterday - stuck to what i'd planned, BUT added some extra schezuan sauce to our stirfry (low cal and fat but moderately salty) and had some chewy jelly sweets in the afternoon (no fat, but of course sugar)... AND I shared a bottle of rose in pub with my Other ~(Better) Half...

But none of that matters, as I now weigh 96.1 - which means i've lost 3.9kg since I started - 8.6 pounds! Am happy happy!

Today's a hard day to plan, food wise, as i'm going to buy lunch from the Crussh smoothie bar (though their food is online, with cals and fat etc, so can have a read and make an informed choice) and have a work do tonight at a posh hotel, so am planning on having 2 white wine spritzers (or maybe just a glass of red). The food is a bit... random tonight, so will ignore the creme brule. PROMISE.

Breakfast:
Am not very hungry yet, but probably:
Green tea w/ jasmine, water, wheetabix w/ semi skimmed
Lunch: Something yummy
Dinner: No idea

Sorry, Will update post food!!! xx

Hiya!

Current weight: 97.4. Mmm.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 x weetabix w/ semi skimmed, tonic water
Snack: 3 x rice cakes
Lunch: jacket potato w/ tuna mix from cafe, pure orange juice
Dinner: Fishermans pie (low fat, 210 calories) w/ rice mix and soya beans / peas
Snack: 3 x Fruit Pastilles + 1 x chocolate hobnob at work (sorry - had headache)
Also had 2 x green tea w/ jasmine, 1 x vanilla tea, water, diet peach & mango fizz

Today:
Breakfast: cup of hot water w/ lemon, 2 x poached eggs on 2 x wholemeal toast (ate most of)
Lunch: Salad of tuna (spring water. Yuk), sweetcorn, lettuce, baby toms, celery, soya beans and 1 x dairlea light triangle. Muller light yoghurt.
Dinner: Cajun chicken breasts, stirfried chinese vegetables, sweet thai rice? Possibly.

Am still contemplating walking to the tube. Or from. Mmm. x

...

I DID: eat too much last night (had some home made garlicy bread and a light dairylea triangle).
I DIDN'T: walk home. OH was sad and I just wanted to get home.

So yesterday:

BREAKFAST: (had no milk, sorry) 1 x (white) roll, toasted, w/ lime marmalade
SNACK: cashews, sunflower seeds, 4 x dried apricots, 3 x dried apple rings
DRINKS: 2 x green tea, 1 x small non sugar orange squash, 1 x red fruit tea
LUNCH: Tomato and spicy lentil soap, harvest grain roll, apple, melon slices
SNACK: 1 x wholemeal bread
DINNER: Spaghetti bolognaise w/ wholemeal pasta + 1 x wholemeal bread w/ garlic and flora light / parsley

and Today:

BREAKFAST: coffee, white, 1 sugar (no sleep), 2 x wholemeal bread w/ lime marmalade
MIDMORNING: 2 x green tea
LUNCH: Lettuce, baby tomatoes, 50g of wholeal pasta left over, small spoon of low fat coleslaw, 1 x light dairylea triangle. 2 slices of melon, 2 slices of pineapple, some sugar free jelly. Am full.
DINNER: 1 x beef and jalopeno pepper burger, white roll, salad (I think, OH is cooking!)

xx

Hiya

Well, FRIDAY: we had a chinese takeaway - BUT I had:

Chicken & cashew nuts (and drained most sauce)
boiled rice (ONLY ATE HALF A PORTION OF THESE)
and 1 x prawn cracker

So about as healthy a chinese takeaway as you can get.
Also had 4 x gin and diet tonics. VERY SMALL. 57cals in an average shot, I was having about 1/2 a shot, so putting by 120 calories for that to be safe.

SATURDAY:

BREAKFAST: pineapple and strawberries
LUNCH: leftover chinese (boiled rice, chicken & cashews)
SNACK: cashew nuts, Del Monte frozen smoothie lolly (97 cals, no fat)
DINNER: curry. Low fat one, swopped the pilau rice for steamed, 2 MICROWAVED poppadoms and bit of a Naan. About 700 calores for that

Am keeping under 1200 by my calculations, and flushing myself out with green tea, aloe vera capsules, fibre capsules etc.

SUNDAY:
BREAKFAST: pineapple and melon, 1 x roll w/ 2 x grilled, and dabbed, rashers of bacon
LUNCH: Mums sunday lunch - roast chicken (white meat), gravy, 2 x roast potatoes, 3 x boiled potatoes, string beans, 1 x yorkshire pudding, 1 x boiled parsnip, SMALL spoon of cauliflower cheese (more cauli than cheese)
DINNER: 1 x poached egg on harvest grain roll, 2 spoons of baked beans.
SNACKS: Cashew nuts, 1 x rice cake
NAUGHTY: 1 x glass of non diet bitter lemon

and today!

BREAKFAST: (had no milk, sorry) 1 x (white) roll, toasted, w/ lime marmalade
SNACK: cashews, sunflower seeds, 4 x dried apricots, 3 x dried apple rings
DRINKS: 2 x green tea, 1 x small non sugar orange squash, 1 x red fruit tea
LUNCH: Tomato and spicy lentil soap, harvest grain roll, apple, melon slices
DINNER: Spaghetti bolognaise w/ wholemeal pasta

Am working out my walking mileage on www.walkit.com. If i walked instead of bussing to the tube, it'd be 2.3 miles and 191 calories at a moderate speed. I wonder if i could manage that pre work. Not post work - it's all up hill!

Am off work today as we're heading home after Lunch - OH should be finished around 12 or 1, so hopefully up North before 5.

Have dyed my hair, done some washing, dishes, tidied bedroom etc. Been quite busy and have been up since 6. Am eating random things as not been shopping.

BReakfast:
1/2 tin of tuna (left from yesterday, brine) and salad cream!
2 x rice cakes with spoon of pickle
Low sugar squash

Will make a green tea in a moment.

Need to have some lunch before we leave, as OH will eat at work. Thinking just rice and veggies from freezer.

Few things:

Firstly - by the end of my first cup of Puerh tea, I was retching. Not sure if i can stomach it. May put my remaining bags back on eBay!

Secondly - weighed myself this morning - 97.2. Bit better!

Thirdly - last night for dinner i had 1/2 a chicken lattice (brocolli cheese), soya beans, rice/asparagus steam bag and about 8 pieces of gnocci. And a low fat lemon desert.

TODAY:

BReakfast:
Green tea, watered down smoothie juice, 1 x toast w/ lime marmalade
Snack:
6 x apricots, 2 x rice cakes, few sesame seeds and cashews, 4 dried apple rings
Lunch:
tuna pasta (1/2 tin pasta (brine)), wholemeal pasta, tomato puree, peppers, salad cream (!) - am emptying fridge!
cucumber / grapes / green pepper to nibble on
Muller Tiny Stars natural yoghurt
Dinner:
Fishermans pie (250 cals low fat), veggies

xx

Well, day two again.

The Puer Tea I ordered on eBay came today and i've just made my first cup. To be fair, it smells of spinach and fish. It doesn't really taste of anything at all, which is quite a relief. Fong mentioned that she has it with ginger, but i've yet to find that online.

Anyway, today:

(Up at 6am)
BREAKFAST:
few pieces of melon
Hot water, slice of lime
small glass of 100% peach and passionfruit smoothie (SO THICK! Had to chew)
1 x toast with 1 x poached egg and black pepper

SNACK: 2 x rice cakes (dry, w/ sesame)

LUNCH: 50g ish of wholemeal pasta with tom/basil sauce leftover from last night
melon / grapes
few cashews, 6 dried apricots, 2 dried apple rings, sesame seeds
1 x little stars 100% natural kids yoghurt (Muller)
Fruit (haven't been shopping yet).

DRINKS: aiming for 1 litre of water, 3 cups of Puer and 2 of green tea, but am not sure yet.

My tummy feels slightly odd. Am going to get a bottle of red wine for the weekend but not drink other than that. If we go to pub then will try tomato and vodka.

It's been a ridiculously long time since I was here. I believe i'm stable at 97 but will confirm tomorrow. Have had a busy time at home, moving and OH being made redundant, but i'm back on the wagon now.

Am definitely finding alcohol to be my downfall. Am already slightly paniced at the prospect of not drinking. Will have to just cut right back I think.

Today:
Breakfast: few slices of melon, Toast (white, sorry, all I had) with lime marmalade
Snack: handful of raw cashews, 1 x coffee (white one sugar - someone made me it without asking)
Lunch: Tuna and salad, muller stars yoghurt (kids size, 100% natural, no evil sugars)
Snack: 5 x dried apple slices
Drinks: 3 x cups of Green tea with jasmine, sugar free orange and mango squash
Dinner: no idea.