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 2

Well I havent done bad but I have had veg, carby veg at that..

I made my own bread by adapting the cookie recipe and it worked well and tasted a treat with some lurpack light, I can actually see syself making sanwiches from it!!

This Monrings Weight = 71.2kg

B: Vanilla activia 0%

L: 4 slices salami, 5 swedish meatballs, rocket, and a few pine nuts may have slipped in with a little pesto dressing.

D: Leek and carrot soup with my dukan bread and half a sausage.

S: Peach 0% activia

So I am feeling a little more positive and motivated as a result of discovering these cookies/bread.. whatever it is I am feeling more like experimenting and everything feels a little fresher and more worth while I guess as opposed to robotically doing the same thing all the time. wonder how long this lasts!

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

yesterdays weight: 74.6kg lbs

Todays Weight: 74.5kg lbs 100g of weight loss this week, finally..its pretty shocking really so I need to assess where i’m going wrong!

Breakfast: bowl of oatbran porridge with tsp of cocoa pwder and 1% fat milk, we ordered in from work, 2 fried eggs and two sausages so I wont be suprised if the scales are reading high the next few days

Lunch: I have made some chicken nuggets to bring to work with ketchup and unlike yesterdays omelette quiche my dad did not decide they look nice, I’ll have them. but they are scrummy, I did have to hide them in the fridge

Dinner: I have my katsu curry left, although today is no veg day, I cant have the apsaragus and I shall have to strain the veg from the sauce, not to worry really, all under control. I did not have the asparagus.. but i cba removing the carrot from the sauce

Snacks: I got offered a choccy biccy but I said no..thank you

Summary: I need to do some shopping, I am allowed veggies tomorrow and I would really like to make a cottage pie topped with celeriac mash, hopefully the family will eat this without fuss.

Shopping list
celeriac - makes great coleslaw also, low fat feta if such a thing exists, oat bran, babybel light - were allowed these right??, smoked salmon, 1 whole trout.

Chicken Katsu Curry sans rice

Ingredients - serves 2

spray of oil
2 chicken escalopes or breasts
1 egg
3 tablespoons of oat bran
2 tsp curry powder
1 tsp chilli powder
0.5 ground corriander
1 garam masala
few sprigs of rosemary chopped

sauce
whole bulb of roasted garlic (it is sweet and you wont require any sugar in cooking), alternatively just use 3 cloves of chopped fresh garlic
carrots chopped into fine squares
half a white onion chopped finely
It would have been nice with a chopped stick of celery
3 cups of chicken stock
few twists black pepper
1 tsp of corn flour
1 spray oil
1 tsp turmeric
2 tsp curry powder
0.5 tsp chili powder

serve with some veg on a PV day, goes great with asparagus, spring onions, spinach, pickles whatever you fancy!

Step 1. add 2 tsp of the oatbran to the egg and whisk, add 1 tsp of curry powder and the rest of the herbs and spices and whisk.

step 2. dip the chicken in the egg mix, then spoon on the remaining oatbran with the other tsp of curry powder mixed in and black pepper.

step 3. spray a pan and fry the coated chicken

step 4. whilst you chicken is frying spray a small non stick skillet and fry up some onions until starting to soften, then add the cubed carrot and celery if you desire.

step 4. add the spices and the corn flour, mix until incorporated with the veg,

step 5. add the chicken stock and leave to simmer until thickens, you can strain this but i decided to leave the carrot in, less hassle really.

Recipe for spinach and bacon omelette

Ingredients

2 slices of bacon cut into squares with a small amount of fat left on to fry instead of oil
1/2 a red onion
2 cups of spinach
4 whole eggs
2 cups of skim milk
seasoning with salt and pepper

1. fry the bacon until starting to brown and produce a little oil, then fry the chopped onion until soft

2. Once the bacon and onions are cooked and softened, season and add the spinach, leave this to wilt down.

3. Whisk the eggs and the milk, add the fried mixture to the bottom of an over dish then pour on the egg mixture

4. Bake in the oven at approx 180c for 20-25 minutes

5. remove from oven and Voila!!

6. Slice it up! Okay so there is no pie crust and its not very thick, yes it reminds you of an omelette.. me also