Firstly my DD slept in with me for most of the night, due to her having an upset tummy ... not conducive to much rest for me.
Breakfast ... coffee
Then over to my ma's for Sunday lunch:
Roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mange tout, carrots, sweetcorn
The roast potatoes and parsnips she'd done in olive oil and not too much of it ... she's learning :)
However, she'd bought breadsticks (not the type that the olive garden does!) and dips .... I tried to stick to the carrot and celery for the dips ... y'know the dips which I calculated as having 36pts in total .... aaaaaaaargh .. the breadsticks which were a 1/3 pt each ......
But that's ok, as I persuaded her that instead of apple pie with custard .. that strawberries and raspberries with a little ice cream was the way to go ...
So, lunch was a blast and we drank water with that .. so ok too.
The evening it all went to pot ....
We came home, DD having had her dinner at my ma's ... we didn't ....
It got late, we'd been decorating ... we had chips and way too much wine
I daren't get on the scales ...
BUT .....
Am I going to let this defeat me? Shall I give in now that I've "failed" ...will I hell.
I shall eventually grab a shower, find another coffee and go make my porridge and get over it.
Oh and I'll weigh myself too for the sheer heck of it.
Food plan for the day:
Porridge, fat free yoghurt and fruit puree (if I have any!) or fresh strawberries
Dinner is meant to be stuffed peppers, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for that, so it may be cottage pie.
Exercise-wise ... nothing (according to my schedule, I'm "meant" to be doing a 3 mile run .... yeh, well here's news for my schedule ... IT AIN'T HAPPENING!)
Other: I want to paint the front window, the kitchen door, varnish DD's chairs and make strawberry jam.... then go to bed early and read my book.
Yesterday I stuck to Core and for me it worked, however, I'm still not convinced how long I could stick to it overall. I like my bread, butter & cheese way too much. But for an experiment (challenge) I'm finding it interesting and in some ways liberating.
So, yesterday I did have 2 slices of bread (no butter) .. so that's 2 of my Points for the week.
I did have 2 glasses of wine ... but I'd been to the gym, and in calories burnt from cardio alone I burnt 353 ... so I reckon that's ok.
Today I've just made a bacon, mushroom and pepper omelette for lunch. DH did "whinge" and say there's no cheese in it .... I gave him 3 other fillings for cripes sake, what does the man want, LOL!
I have made teddy bear biscuits this morning, I have consumed 2. They were small and very nice .. I'll award 2pts towards those ....
Dinner is going to be chicken & pineapple stirfry with peppers, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli and noodles.
I may have wine tonight, ok who am I kidding ... I will have wine tonight, so I either need to get some calories burnt or use some of my 17pts .... as I'm about to go and do some wallpaper stripping, I wonder if that might count towards "exercise", LOL ... I'll do some stretching and lunging, LOL!
Weight this morning ... 9st 3.5lbs.
If nothing else, it's making me think about what I'm eating, and not snucking in another slice of bread and butter .
Or at least going to do the Core plan of WW for the following week.
I've worked out what I can't eat .... and bluntly I know I couldn't do Core permanently, but for one week, and that being a week when I'm going to be away from my comfort zone of not being able to provide my food, but having to make the best decisions away from home, I think it "may" work for me, or at least give me something different to try.
I'm fairly excited at the prospect, although a little "depressed" by the thought of no bread, no butter, no cheese, no white rice, no white pasta, no sausages, no alcohol ....except for the weekly allowance of 21pts to be used for such essentials.
Trust me, it's an incentivisor (is that a word?!) for going to the gym and earning some AP's.
So, today's food has been like this:
Wholewheat rice cake (who was to know that it was wholewheat, I knew it was 0.5pts .. that much I knew!)
L - Bacon & egg buttie (back bacon and 2pts for the 2 slices of bread) (so 19 left)
D - Chilli with wild rice
Wine ...... I went to the gym for a reason y'know ;)
I told DH that we were doing Core, and he was totally unimpressed at the banned list, LOL. But, equally he says he wants to lose weight, and having measured him today ... he has lost precisely nothing in 2mths... so maybe he'll give it a go.
I am, however going to have to put together a menu plan and fast!
I've got as far as Tuesday'ish ...
Sat:
B - Porridge, fat free yoghurt with fruit compote
L - omelette with bacon & mushrooms
D - chicken & pineapple stirfry with rice noodles (I think it may have to be egg noodles, I've run out of grocery money and I have egg noodles!)
Sun:
B - Porridge again
L - At my ma's .. who is "meant" to be following core, but yes, well ... but anyway .. lunch will be roast chicken, roast potatoes and veggies with gravy ... not too bad. Pudding will be apple pie and custard ... ah well, y'know take a point or several ok?!
D - not yet planned .. DD will have beans on toast at my ma's. Maybe pasta and tomato sauce for us.
Mon:
Brunch: Porridge etc.
Dinner - Stuffed peppers with veggies and cous cous
Tues:
Lunch - not yet planned
Dinner - HM cottage pie and veggies
I think I'm going to have to make soup, it's the only answer to my lacking lunches ....
I'm contemplating making a rice salad to take with me to work ... but I'm not yet sure of the logistics of that. I'll sleep on that one.
Actually the physical food and drink was very good. I was still tired, I didn't really want to go, but it wasn't as bad as anticipated. The woman who I wasn't too desperate to be there .... wasn't.
Oh right, sorry this is a dieting blog (I keep having to remind myself of this!)
WW WI ... 1lb up. However, in reality I know it's more like 2lbs, it's just that I was wearing trousers rather than my normal "uniform" of jeans, and they gave me that advantage. Whatever, I'll take it, LOL!
Did I watch what I ate and drank last night? No, not really, but it was yummy.
Couple of bits of poppadom, no dip
Starter: salmon tikka
Main: king prawn shakuti with buttered chapati and special rice (the rice and chapati .. so very, very fattening ... so very, very nice!)
Plenty of wine and water ... I was good, I remembered to drink plenty of water.
Oh and the damned sweets at the end .. sugar coated aniseed balls ... delicious.
BUT ... in the middle of this, I took on a challenge ... lose 6lbs in 2wks .... I'm hoping aren't I!!!
Anyway, I've been thinking ... that perhaps for once, I ought to actually follow a diet? Do you think it would work, if I truly did? I was thinking of trying the "Core Plan" of WW ... not that I actually know what it contains. I'm thinking it restricts certain things like bread and potatoes. But I'm frankly grasping at straws .. so I'd best go and dig my books out!
I know that realistically with the week I've got coming up, I'm going to struggle on the "points" way of doing things, so to go on the "eat until comfortably full premise" may just help. Worth a go innit!
I'll be back later once I've worked out what a bad decision this is
One shoulder of beef processed. One more to go .. but not today!
We are now the proud owner of a "few" ready meals ..... I have 15 portions of chilli, 15 portions of bolognaise, 7 portions of cottage pie.
The other shoulder will become pies / casseroles / steaks / fajita strips / stroganoff / meatballs / beefburgers. That's the plan anyway ... but that will be Saturday's job.
Cooking on a daily basis, bores me. I mean, I like to cook, and I like to cook creatively, but on a "got to put dinner on the table" basis, it bores me, so I much prefer to spend the evening once in a while doing a bit of a cookoff and then having the food in the freezer, as otherwise ... the takeaway becomes that all too appealing option.
On a weight front, I know I've put on at least 2lbs. I know this, because I weighed myself this morning, and that gives my 9st 5.5lbs ... and that's this morning, as opposed to last Thursday's WI of 9st 4lbs, and I'm not cutting off limbs to try and find 1.5lbs! So, given that I always gain at LEAST 1 lbs .. that gives me a gain of 2.5lbs. Mind you, given the amount of bacon I've eaten, I'm not in the least bit surprised.
This coming week is going to be a bit hodge-podge too. Not from an emotional one, but from the following "social" engagements (hark at her pretending to have a life!)
Thurs - WW WI .. followed by a night out with the girls for a curry
Fri - no excuses
Sat - promised DD a "picnic" as her playgroup one has been cancelled.
Sun - my ma's for Sunday lunch and tea
Mon - no excuse
Tues - no excuse
Wed - out for dinner
Thurs - at work :( (out for breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Fri - at work :( (out for breakfast & lunch) ...
..... hmmm, so 3 out of 7 I need to be 100% focussed. Well, more than I have been eh!
On the plus side, I did buy some size 10 trousers yesterday, and apart from them being a tad too long (the perils of buying online) .. they fit perfectly, so lose the 6lbs excess, and they'll be just right methinks.
I am determined not to slip. It's just that sometimes life gets in the way.
Exercise wise has been severely lacking this week, due to lack of interest and a dicky knee (mainly lack of interest in anything much). It's amazing how when you're feeling blah, doing the simplest of things, can just prove too hard to even contemplate.
I'm going out tonight and I really don't want to go. There I said it.
However, as it's to celebrate someone's birthday, I can't skip it.
What's the problem with going out? Oh ok:
1. It's going for a curry to a place I don't like the look of ... and since I made a conscious decision not to eat battery chickens / eggs .... it makes for an interesting menu choices.
2. When going to an Indian restaurant around here, the choice of alcohol is pretty dire. Ok, so basically I don't drink beer, so that's me done for.
3. One of the girl's I haven't seen since she let me down in a big way. That could make for an interesting conversation, and one I'm not really interested in having.
4. It's going to be straight after WW and really all I want to do is put my jammies on and hide from the world, 2hrs of being sociable at WW's is enough in one day!
Never mind, it's only going to last 3hrs tops isn't it?!
Well, all around you seem grim, what do you do? Well, of course you retreat to the kitchen and bake and then eat. Ah well.
Weight this morning 9st 5.25lbs, guess I'm not going to win any prizes this week for weight loss. I reckon a 2lbs gain will be the order of the day. WI tomorrow shall seal the fate.
Yesterday, I had an exceptionally low maintenance day. I really wasn't up to any more than that.
I took DD out for lunch where she didn't finish her chocolate ice-cream, so I did ... I don't even care much for chocolate ice-cream, but it was rather scrummy. How come a 4.5yr old can show restraint and stop when she is full .. even on ice-cream, yet a 36yr old can't. Hey ho.
Then we came home, I baked 7 loaves of bread. A big batch of raspberry & white chocolate muffins (6 have been consumed, not just by me, I hasten to add!). So, I guess I can count that as one of my 5 a day, right!
Dinner was a bacon & egg buttie and wine. Ok, so how many days in a row, can I eat bacon? I think we're on day 5 now.
I've also made a batch of biscuit (cookie) dough up ready for DD and I to make "teddy bear" biscuits later.
This morning how do I feel? Better but bigger.
Plan for today, no idea...
DD and I are chilling out again, need to finish watching the Aristocats, and then there may be a Peter Pan showing or Shrek 3 .... .
On the plus side of yesterday, I did do something I've wanted to do for about 2 or 3 yrs, start making some leaven. So, yes, that should be interesting to see how it progresses over the next few days.
Foodwise today ... NO BACON!!!
I do have a shoulder of beef arriving at 11:00ish this morning, so I do need to go to the market and get some veggies in, as tonight is going to be a batch cook night methinks. Can't wait .
I thought it got easier. But do you know what, it does and then it doesn't SORRY.
My pa died 11yrs ago tomorrow. My mother when I attempt to talk to her, just witters on about her forthcoming trip to London, oh and most importantly .. she wants to buy a cross cut shredder.
Well, this morning I was determined that everyone was going to up and functioning. In a vague attempt to get organised and prepared for times to come, with school runs etc., ... did it work? Nope .... but never mind, only 15 mins late! Only .. says she who much prefers to being 15 mins early.
However, it's 09:44 and I've been at my desk nearly 2hrs, which for me is a minor miracle in it's own right, and I've resolved a whole load of work already :)
Weight this morning .. yes, well, let's have a "on plan" day and weigh tomorrow shall we ;)
Actually my eating wasn't too bad yesterday, it was just too late in the day again that's all.
I have gotten myself into the habit (over many many years) of "needing" a late night supper / snack .... I need to find something which is lower in calories / fat that's all.
Food yesterday:
LJ & hot water
HM ham & lentil soup with 2 slices of bread & butter
Coffee x 3
Fennel tea with honey
Water, some, not enough
Dinner was pork meatballs on a bed of spaghetti and tomato sauce (hm sauce, with lots of "hidden" veg)
Supper .... bacon & egg sarnie, done with spray oil in my defence.
Food plan for today:
LJ & hot water (done)
Coffee with s/s milk (doing)
Porridge with fruit compote and fat free yoghurt
Dinner will be jacket potato with tuna, mayo & sweetcorn
Water ... doing it's normal .. . glaring from the corner ;)
Exercise planned - none.
Good luck vibes to my DH who is taking his first exam in 14yrs tonight .... LOADS!!!
I am not going to the gym today. I am taking a well deserved break. From everything.
I slept in this morning, after minor interruptions from an overly chatty 4yr old .... but DH finally did what he said he would and went and played with her :)
I then slept on / off until 10:00am when DH brought me a cup of hot water and lemons to the sounds of the church bells ringing their "call to church".
It's now 11:31 and I'm still sitting here in bed, although now with a coffee.
My knee is feeling "better" but still twingy, so I'm not going to the gym.
In a moment or two I shall finally get up (battery about to go flat on laptop and shall use that as my motivation to leave :) ).
I'm going to go and make some soup (ham and lentil), put some pizza dough on to prove (or decide on a lower maintenance dinner), do the ironing (or read a book ;) ).
DD & DH will be back for lunch and then needs to buckle down and do some revision (exam tomorrow!), so I shall hope the weather is nice and then I'm taking DD out to a Farm open day (where of course the opportunity for a hog roast may just present itself ... hopefully !)
Right ..... I must move and do something ... there's only so much procrastination a girl can do in one morning, LOL!
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