Anyone who reads this blog regularly
will be expecting a calorie count for this week and here it is:
Monday: 65
calories remaining
Tuesday: 770 -
Some calories remaining
Wednesday: -185
calories remaining
Thursday: 625 -
Some calories remaining
Friday: +/-Some
calories remaining
Saturday:
+/-Some calories remaining
Sunday: +/-Some
calories remaining
Total: Some calories
Weight: 239lbs.
It wasn't my most observant week,
food consumption-wise. I did 'watch' what I ate and try to keep calorie counts
about what they should have been but after giving blood on Tuesday I was a bit
out of it and then went for a walk with a friend across a nearby heath which
made things worse. Granted, I didn't tell her I'd given blood until I started
seeing spots so she really can't be blamed in any sense. We made it back to a
nearby (ish) pub she'd recommended where they sold amazing burgers and I had to
have at least one to survive. I did stop at one, but I don't know how many
calories it was.
And I ate all the chips that came
with it. The salad too, but the chips are the disappointing part. I am excusing
myself this because I had a lot of calories left over and needed more energy
after giving blood.
Wednesday I forgot exactly what
happened, but I had Friday off and have been up and down to Brighton over the
weekend, out in Guildford on Thursday with my
brother and cousin, saw Iron Man 3 and basically enjoying myself. As I
mentioned, I have been wary of my calorie intake but not monitoring it in what
one of my friends called "the same totalitarian way you have done since
you started dieting".
You know who you are. The Secret
Diet Police are tracking you down as we speak.
Despite my laxness this week I still
feel like I've kept on diet and on that front it was quite a good experiment in
maintaining the diet without having diet plans ever-present and constantly
checking calorie amounts against an online database. I think I succeeded and I
have almost made it down below the 17stone mark - just 2 more pounds to go! I'm
starting to real feel the weight loss now and a lot of people have mentioned
that they've noticed it, which is always good motivation; thank you everyone
for the continued encouragement and well wishes.
Below are a couple of pictures of
what I've been eating for entertainment and to show you can still eat big meals
while caring for your calories. Hopefully it should show that I'm being careful
and enjoying myself. A couple are even dishes of my own design, something I've
not really experimented with since university. I've enjoyed getting back into
thinking about my food and making my own meals so will be doing so more in the
future. Eventually, it might be safe for me to cook dinner for other human
beings.
This was a full roast dinner I had at a family meal. I walked home afterwards, which helped, but even without that I would have been within my limit as I'd had a reserved lunch.
This makes up most of my after gym meals; carbs, protein, comfort food, limited calories. And I even like it.
I didn't eat all of the cheese. Or the crackers. I still ate too much of it and had to walk the long way home.
This was a quick meal I made before heading out to the pub. Filling and under 350 calories.
Now my normal meal at the pub, I'm getting a little bored of the Wetherspoons chicken wrap. However, there is a whole menu for me to explore so I guess I could try other things.
Stuffed pasta with a diced chorizo salad? Yeah, I made it myself. From pre-prepared stuffed pasta and pre-diced chorizo and a pack of salad. So really I put it together myself...
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