Im Back! :-)

I am back, I will try to post once per week atleast. So what diet am I on now you ask? I am simply eating less calories and burning more. How simple does that sound? I will post photos of my favorite meals since I started this. How much have I lost? well, Almost 9KG.. almost 20 pounds! So I am now back at my weight that I left myself get to before I then decide that I need to go on a diet, so yes I have a long way to go and I cant believe I let myself get that fat! How long has it taken? these things cant be rushed and we all know its not good to do these things too quickly. It has taken exactly 3 months, and we have had valentines day, easter, pancake day and a few trips away in between = lots of chocolate and meals out. Aside from that we have had a takeout every week but it's worked because I have made sure that i make up for these things by doing some exercise, whether a walk or session at the gym and I have been compensating with healthy meals at work and at home monday - friday. How far will I go? My goal weight is in 5/6 kilos time! Best bit? there is no gimmick, no strict guidelines its as simple as eating less and moving more. I am aiming for approx 1200 calories per day but am probably averaging about 1500/1600, and I am walking during my lunch hour and some evenings, (racking up an average of 7 miles a day!). Thanks for reading! Cookie x

Tonights dinner

Tonight I gave the Airfryer a little rest, sort of.. I seasoned a chicken breast with a little fajita seasoning to give a barbecue flavour and put this in my preheated (180c) Airfryer for 16 minutes. I turned halfway through. I was sticky and flavoursome, I cut this into little pieces, mixed with a little reduced fat mayo, I added this to a sandwich made with small wholemeal bread (60cal per slice) for tomorrows lunch.

For dinner I had beef stroganoff, which I made using thin steak strips, mushrooms, onions, spring
onions, chives, paprika, olive oil and sour cream.

It was yummy! I served it with 50g of basmati rice.

Cookie x

 

Day 7

I can't believe that's it, a whole week has gone by and I have been mostly good, yes I've had some little slip ups however I would say on average I have been consuming less than 1500 calories per day therefore I feel I should have lost something. We'll find out tomorrow at the weigh in. I am thinking my scales are slightly dodgy and regretting not weighing myself at boots or somewhere that I feel may be somewhat more reliable.

Breakfast - Forest fruits shake, and as I suspected this was absolutely rotten!

Mid snack - small tub of hummus with some cucumber and a 30g piece of cheese

Lunch - Roasted pepper and tomato soup, and again this was rotten!!

Afternoon snack - x 1 scrambled egg, it was a large egg and was a double yolker.

Dinner - x 1 Duck leg with a small amount of parsnip mash (I know on the avoid list), carrots, roasted pepper, onion and courgette.

Supper snack - 30g soft cheese and some strawberries

Not much to update on today. I am thinking of getting some exercise in next week as my do in on Saturday and I am hoping to have lost a few pounds for then and just generally feel a little slimmer/more comfortable in my dress.

I have been painting, hoovering and cleaning for most of the day so I'm sure that has burnt a few calories, well I hope so!

Cookie x

Day 41 - PP (..not)

Yesterdays weight: 71.4 Kg

Todays Weight: 72 Kg - I have realised its been a few days since I have been to the loo, so perhaps its

worth looking for some fybogel

Breakfast: oatbran with light choc

Lunch: chicken slices and some light egg sandwich filler

Dinner: 1 chicken schnitzel some halloumi and yes..coleslaw..im hooked on coleslaw and halloumi and OMG i would love that in a baguette.. see it could be worse?

Snacks: 3 slices salami..

Summary: so I really need to adhere to pure protein tomorrow if it kills me, or maybe have veg and then 3 pp days? im thinking one on one off is far better for me, until you cut them out you dont realise just how much of them you eat, I have always eaten healthy but I have always had large portions of veg along with meals, for instance pasta with a side salad or crudites throughout the day with dip or jacket potatoes with lots of veg on the side, which I guess there is a healthy element but now after stepping away and examining it I also realise that perhaps wasnt the healthiest choice either and the best thing for me is the train myself to eat less, eat sensible portions and definately no second or thirds! (well maybe at christmas, but only for the 1 day not for the build up to christmas and the time after it, i will end up a big pudding if i do that!)

Day 39 - PP

Yesterdays weight: 73.5 - after a week of bread, rice, potato, pasta for breakfast - not too bad I guess, i tried a little of everything. I did not have large portions, I had mainly meat and cheese and a bite here and there of the carbs or just carbs at one daily meal.

Todays weight: 72.6 close to my leaving weight so I havent done too bad really, I just hope its not too difficult getting back to my regime

Breakfast: scrambled eggs x 2 and smoked proscuitto

Lunch: went shopping and bought some trainers :-)

Dinner: Naughty I know but I had lamb cooked in a little oil and then added some paprika butter, to accompany this I had some full fat halloumi which was fried in a little oil and oregano..Ooops but OMG the best meal in a while. I liked the romanian food very much, there is a lot of cabbage based dishes and tonights dinner was so tasty..

Snacks: coconut yogurt with light cocoa

Summary: after buying all the sachets of light hot choc and taking the oatbran with me again..no discipline there. I dont think my brother had a microwave but one thing was certain they would not let us make our own breakfast, they waited on us hand and foot, not something i'm used to. Anyhow, breakfasts were very pleasant we had feta cheese, tomatoes, olives, cucumber, a selection of meats and a little pasta with sweet milk, all very delicious!

I could not wait to get home as I thought I would have gained aleast 5 pounds.. I am very good at gaining weight.. lots of practice I guess. Now that i'm home I feel a little lost and would love to go back. Work again on thursday so back to reality. I hope everyone else had a good week.

Day 24 - PP

Yesterdays weight: 73.4kg

Todays weight: 73.6kg

Breakfast: not a weekend thing

Lunch: 2 boiled eggs with salad cream  light

Dinner: 2 chicken breasts with paprika and cayenne pepper barbequey seasoning with a small amount of

passatta and low fat sour cream and a baby bel grated over it.

Summary: well those laughing cow extra lights are no laughing matter, had a go,could not go through with it though, they are such an odd texture and taste powdery, maybe ill try them in something next time. Had my mum take a few photos of me today, starting to look a little better, well in comparison to the photos I made her take of me before going on holiday

In other news I had a call back from a local cafe owner who is willing to sell my wheat free cakes, so I am starting another blog, the gluten free bakery to go alongside this one.

March 2011            

August 2011

I have also noticed my face looks slimmer too, carb face gone

Day 23 - PV

Yesterdays weight: 73.8kg

Todays weight: 73.4kg at 7.30, then I woke up again at 2pm and was 73kg..things are happening, bit annoyed of wasting the day however.

Breakfast:

Lunch: Smoked Tuna mixed with a little light mayo and a light babybel grated on top. beetroot which was marinaded in chilli, a tomato.

Dinner: I marinaded some chicken in basil, mint and parsely which i wizzed with some low fat yogurt and a little tsp of oil. then baked the chicken thighs. I made a coleslaw by finely chopping 1 carrot, 1 small celeriac and some radishes (I added a red onion at the end so as not to turn everything purple) then i mixed with 4 tablespoons of low fat plain yogurt and 2 teaspoons of light mayo and half a teaspoon of dijon mustard and a squeeze of lemon juice.

I served the chicken with the coleslaw and this should probably count as a celebration meal, I chopped 4 thin slices of reduced fat halloumi and fried that in a teaspoon of olive oil, possibly could have used a little less. Although the meal was nice i would have preffered the cheese with a more spicy tomatoey chicken perhaps in a harissa sauce.

The slaw before I added the onion

Fried Halloumi - my favorite!!

The complete meal, was very filling but tasty

snacks: cup of earl gey tea with skim milk no sugar

Summary: well, quite a positive weekend, the weight is going in the right direction. I want to lose as much as I can now, as although im hoping I dont fall of the wagon in liverpool I dont think everywhere I go there will be the options plus I would really like a drink or two. Went to tescos today, oh my god the place was packed, night mare shopping on a sunday. I went at dinner time hoping people would be at home eating sunday roasts evidently not. Got some of the slightly naughty coconut yogurts for treat times. I also ot laughing cow extra light, now I have a bad feeling about this and perhaps light was light enough.. has anyone tried this?

Day 21 - PV

Yesterdays weight: 74.6kg

 Todays Weight: 73.9 Ohhh Yess!! i dont even care if it goes up a little tomorrow as it has been reached, so there :-)

Breakfast: porridge with the cocoa, 2 sausages and a fried egg

Lunch: 1 baby  bel light, 1 pepperami, a prawn salad with a little sauce, the whole salad read 80 calories and

less than 3g of carbs so I thought GET IN!

Dinner: What a palava! I baked a whole trout with lemon and rosemary and parsely. Well I tell you now I am not skilled with de boning and I could of sat there for hours picking out the smaller ones. so with the other baked trout the food processer is going to play a part in hopefully making a fishcake of sorts. I had the fish with some cauliflower cous couse, it didnt look ricey enough, and some grated celery and a dollop of beetroot and onion pickle.

wack in the oven

And voila, dogs dinner :-*)

Snacks: 100g cocontut yogurt which is not advertised as low fat but I have compared the fat and carb content to some of my lower fat ones and there is small difference between them, I added a little cocoa powder, heavenly bounty fix yogurt!

Summary: So two suprises today, TOM and 73.9 on the scales, the first wasnt exactly a suprise but I am suprised that I am weighing less despite this fact. who knows maybe a little less in a week once this is over. Quite a good day, went for a drink after work and had a diet coke, my gym buddy cancelled on me so stupidly I also avoided the gym, however I did go shopping after the pub with a considerable amount of bags and walk home with even more, i call that a work out.. dont you?

Day 19 PV

yesterdays weight: 74.1kg lbs

Todays Weight: 74kg lbs come on 73.?? come on!!

Breakfast: oatbran porridge with skim milk and low sugar cocoa

Lunch: superfood salad with get this.. lovely green crunchy bits and when I looked at the pack all was revealed.. brocolli stalk the part that if im honest i sometimes waste. I put some low fat cottage cheese in and some ham and it was lovely, I did not use the pommegranate and orange dressing either, impressed with myself there! however on the naughty side there was a spinkling of edamame and pumpkin seeds and it was heaven in my salad.

Dinner: Swamp soup (spinach and mushroom) to start

then salad and smoked mackerel - okay its not really cooking, its just chucking things together but heres a photo anyway!

Snacks: someone offered me one of those naturals snake gummy sweets and shamefully I ate two, ahh well. Now I wont be too shocked if Im not seeing the right scores on the doors tomorrow. vanilla yogurt, and light babybel

Summary: I have just finished my dinner and somehow I really want a snack, perhaps I will have some sliced ham later, no gym today or tomorrow as I am getting my hair done, specially for dolly..well not for her exactly, for the sake of going out and feeling good!