Alright, I've decided that I actually do need a food diary thread, even if only to embarrass me into eating less. The last few days I've been trying to keep a record and count the calories, and I'm shocked. I think I've been trying to eat lots of smaller meals and that has just been a disaster and my estimated calorie count is at least 2000/2500.

I realised that I've never actually dieted before, diets for me have always been either just 'cut out sweets, crisps, chocolates and fizzy drinks but eat everything else' (which didn't work), or using diet pills, which works but causes havoc with my system.

So I really am battling to do this properly, but honestly do want to.

I'm not going to get extreme about it. I love food with a passion and I love cooking. I'm NOT going to survive on purely 'diet' foods.

I'm happy if it takes me a year or two of healthier eating to lose what I need (which, according to the lovely Harmster, is 1 stone and 4 pounds). Instead of a crash diet that will last 2 weeks and not do me any good in the long run.

But if anyone has any suggestions on how I can change my eating habits for the better without losing the will to live, please add them! :)

OK, so today I've made an effort to be good and to choose foods that I can easily calculate the calorie count of.

Breakfast
Oatso Simple porridge with skimmed milk - 183 cal
Coffee with skimmed milk and two sugars (yes, I know, I need to buy sweetener to keep at work...) about 60 cal???

Teatime
Tracker bar 127 cal
Low cal hot choc 40 cal

Lunch
2 slices wholewheat bread, unbuttered 160 cal
1 tin tuna in oil, drained 280 cal
400ml apple and blackcurrant juice 160 cal

Dinner
Weightwatchers meditteranean veggie pasta 240 cal

Going out for drinks tonight so will be drinking at least 4 glasses of wine, at 90 cal each... :(

And that comes up to a grand total of 1610, which isn't bad I think (for me). This does of course rely on me having the willpower to walk past the KFC in brixton after 4 glasses of wine and not buy a bucket of deep-fried reconstituted chicken. Yesterday I was pretty good all day and then got home and ate a mini frozen pizza which was 1400 calories!!!

Oh, btw, I'm just learning the calorie counts of stuff, so please feel free to correct me if I'm being a dunce.

If anyone actually read this far. Ha ha ha. Probably not. You're all pigfuckers. :hissyfit:

Oh, I forgot to mention that I had to walk half the way to work (30 mins fast walk) this morning because the bus got stuck in traffic.

Do I then calculate the calories burned through exercise and delete them off my total?

Or is a certain amount of exercise deemed necessary for daily targets?

Can I have another tracker bar please? The tuna sandwich didn't even touch sides. :(

Can I have another tracker bar please? The tuna sandwich didn't even touch sides. :(

Some would suggest having a glass of water. If you're still hungry, have an apple. If you're still hungry after that, have the Tracker. If you aren't hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry, apparently!

Ok, first point - womens calorie intake who arent dieting should come in at 2000 so you werent that far out. To add a lb in weight you need to consume an extra 1500 calories on top of that. If you consistently eat 2500 then you will put weight on. 2000 however is fine.

Other things to note -

Tuna in brine is much less calorific than tuna in oil. 100g of drained tuna in brine is 104 calories, so a 185g tin will be about 190 calories, compare that to your oily tuna and you're already making a big calorie saving.

I find silver spoon granulated sweetener the better of the available varieties. It doesnt have the nasty aftertaste of the tablet sweeteners and you can use it with cereal.

I dont know what brand of apple and blackcurrant you were drinking but that seems quite high calories for a drink. Eat an apple and choose a diet drink and you'll make another calorie saving. Fruity herbal teas are a nice diet drink without all the additives of carbonated ones.

Weightwatchers meals are the suckiest of all the healthy option meals. If you have a local tesco, they have a permanent offer on their healthy eating ready meals, 5 for £4 and they tend on the whole to be a lot tastier.

Other than that, and the fact that your diet seems to lack fresh fruit and veg in any quantity, your calorie count seems fine. Remember, not all diet foods are bad. By simply switching a few things around you can make a substantial calorie saving which you can then spend on other things.

Some would suggest having a glass of water. If you're still hungry, have an apple. If you're still hungry after that, have the Tracker. If you aren't hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry, apparently!

Damn. I hate water and I haaaaaaate apples.

I have so far resisted the tracker though.

Thanks Minx!

I have an aversion to tuna in brine, but find if I have tuna in oil (but well drained) then I don't use any marg on my bread, so that must kind of even out, surely?

Hmmmm, need to find a nice non-fizzy diet squash that I can keep at work, much better idea.

I will make a trek to the tescos tomorrow to stock up on sweetener, squash and diet meals. The somerfields has a very limited supply. I don't mind the weightwatchers med. veggie pasta though, it is the best of their range.

Oh, the lack of fruit and veggies comes in because I am eating all my meals at work today, so everything has to be easily prepared. I'm not a big fan of fruit (but will start making a much better effort!), but usually I make at least two portions of veggies or a big salad each with dinner.

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I have to disagree about WW meals Minx, some of them are pretty appalling but some are nice. Check out the Ocean Pie GIR, it has to be the best I've tasted by far. The hotpots aren't bad either. Their desserts are pretty good too. If you like icecream, Skinny Cow (from ASDA I think) is a very low cal icecream.

Oh, and as for sweeteners, I'm forced to use them all the time and I like Sweetex or Canderel. Don't worry about the price, the cheap ones are just as good as the expensive ones. Just don't make the mistake of eating one on its own (I was curious and tried this once). It's rank. Don't buy the powder unless you absolutely need it in powder form (i.e. if you spread sugar on cereal, you'll need powder) but otherwise tablets are the way to go. The powder can leave a layer of scum on your tea or coffee which is even less appealing than it sounds.

Damn. I hate water and I haaaaaaate apples.

I have so far resisted the tracker though.

I hate water but seriously, try and get into the habit of drinking a lot of it. I never ever drink enough, I'm really bad like that, but recently I've been forcing myself to have water and it stops me being hungry as well as giving me even more beautiful skin. Water is teh sex. Even if it is bland.

Skinny Cow ice creams are an excellent way to squeeze those extra calories into your diet. I always have one if I haven't eaten enough. They're delicious.

On the whole frozen foods thing, I much prefer preparing my own food. Obviously thats easy for me to say as I have the time, but if you can manage to put some time away to cook a fresh meal, it's always better. I find I can eat bigger portions and what I cook is much tastier. I am an awesome cook, I must admit. If you want me to look for some quick and simple recipes I can flick through my cook books for you :)

Ocean Pie

Sorry, but that sounds soooooo icky. Like they're not willing to commit themselves to exactly what's in there, it's just like a lucky dip of various 'things' found in the ocean. Like dolphins and crisp packets and unlucky surfers. Ewww.

Thanks for the sweetener advice though! I used to use sweetex tablets back home and found them pretty nice.

Water is teh sex.

Ugh. If you say so. Does it count if I drink it mixed with a lo-cal (as opposed to local) squash? I reeeeeeeeaaaallllyyyy hate water.

Skinny Cow ice creams are an excellent way to squeeze those extra calories into your diet. I always have one if I haven't eaten enough. They're delicious.

Excellent. I will try them, but I don't think I'll ever have a problem of too few calories!

On the whole frozen foods thing, I much prefer preparing my own food. Obviously thats easy for me to say as I have the time, but if you can manage to put some time away to cook a fresh meal, it's always better. I find I can eat bigger portions and what I cook is much tastier. I am an awesome cook, I must admit. If you want me to look for some quick and simple recipes I can flick through my cook books for you :)

Seriously, today is like the complete exception to the rule! I cook fresh meals with veggies and salad at least 5/6 nights a week! Recipes are always welcome, but bear in mind that I am a fussy bitch, and there's a lot that I refuse to eat.

I generally make stir-fry, veggie soup, pasta and salad, roasted meat and veggies, steak and salad, or casseroles every night.

Ugh. If you say so. Does it count if I drink it mixed with a lo-cal (as opposed to local) squash? I reeeeeeeeaaaallllyyyy hate water.

Yeah, I'm sure that's fine!

Seriously, today is like the complete exception to the rule! I cook fresh meals with veggies and salad at least 5/6 nights a week! Recipes are always welcome, but bear in mind that I am a fussy bitch, and there's a lot that I refuse to eat.

I generally make stir-fry, veggie soup, pasta and salad, roasted meat and veggies, steak and salad, or casseroles every night.

Hahaha, that's cool! I believe you! I'll take a look at what you eat and let you know if I see any recipes worth trying :D

all this talk of water nistead of drinks seems bizarre to me. I spend a lot of time drinking Coke zero or Pepsi max et al. These have something silly like about 5 calories per serving, surely this is not much less healthy than water? Lo cal squash would have the same effect but be careful of the really horrid cheap stuff that was enough to completely put me off squash as a kid. The Asda no added sugar stuff is great and pretty good for you it seems (I haven't got any to read the calorie count but I know it's low)

Hahaha, that's cool! I believe you! I'll take a look at what you eat and let you know if I see any recipes worth trying :D

I've told you once, and I'll tell you again: Stop staring in my windows while I'm eating dude! You're freaking out my cat.

;)

Which is saying something, it's not even a real cat. You're that scary!

Just because he's made of rubber doesn't mean he's not real.

Look, now you've hurt his feelings. Apologise to Hades.

Aww, I'm sowwwy Hades.

I'm still bitter he beat me at a stare out contest.

OK, in the spirit of honesty and all that:

The tracker was consumed. After having the WW meal here at work I went off to the pub, where I managed to resist ordering food, but after 2 glasses of wine and 3 Vodka OJ's I did devour half a packet of crisps.

When I get home I had a piece of cheesy toast.

All in all, not really a good day. Today will be better. I think the key will be planning my meals beforehand.

The plan so far is as follows:

Breakfast
Porridge (180 cal)

Teatime
Coffee and 1/2 punnet strawberries (? cal)

Lunch
1/2 tub Veggie soup (150 cal)
2 x pieces toast with marg (200 cal)
1/2 Chicken breast (80 cal)
Juice/water

Dinner
Chicken Casserole (still need to work out the calories. Will post the recipe when I have figured it out...)

Bah. The veggie soup was yucky and I had to throw most of it away. I also now have a dodgy tum, so am blaming it on the soup until further evidence.

:(

It's tragic when something as simple as soup is a disappointment :(

It's definitely been easier to diet today, away from my stash of tracker bars at work (they're eeeeevvvviillll).

Been really busy today, buying furniture and springcleaning the flat, so I just had some leftover chicken curry casserole for breakfast, and haven't eaten since.

I'm about to go and make a large pot of chicken, leek, carrot and cabbage soup and eat a few bowls of that for supper, followed by the remains of the waterymelon I had last night. And maybe some popcorn.

And YAY! I bought some apple and blackcurrant squash yesterday and have cut fruit juice out completely - yay! It works out to be 12 calories for a big glass instead of a hundred or more for fruit juice. And it means that I am drinking about two litres of water a day now, which is good.

Today things went a bit pear shaped.

2 pieces french toast for brekkie (white bread, full cream milk, last time I let the sibling do grocery shopping)

macaroni cheese with bacon, salad, garlic bread for lunch (was at someone's house, couldn't be picky)

bowl of chicken and veggie soup for supper

large bowl of absolutely yummy fruit salad for dessert.

drinks: half a bottle of wine with lunch, fruit squash the rest of teh day and will have a low-cal hot choc before bed.

I spent about 10 quid today on fresh fruit and there's enough for me to have at least 5 big fruit salads this week with pineapple, yellow melon, grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit and granadillas.

Not sure how calorific this is, but it's yummy and MUST be better for me than munching on chocolate or something. 5 a day and all that.

oooohh, I had a cornish pasty today and it tasted sooooo good. I knew it was very bad, but it just tasted so good. Plus I was roaming all over greater london this morning and there was far worse confectioneries on offer in the stations.

I've been good otherwise, a brunch bar for brekkie and I'm having butternut and onion soup for supper. And some fruit later.

I'm still having fond memories of the cornish though. It was the first pastry I've let pass my lips in weeks, and that is saying a lot, I usually eat all the pies (and sausage rolls) on a regular basis.

I recovered yesterday's indiscretions with the cornish pasty and just had one bowl of (very filling) soup for supper with a wholemeal roll. For the first time in ages I didn't feel hungry after supper, didn't feel the need to snack on stuff like chocolate and biscuits.

Good soup that.

Had some more for lunch today with another wholemeal roll.

Breakfast was porridge, teatime I had a tracker bar and I've had two cups of coffee because my squash is finished.

I've got some fruit salad for later if I'm hungry and then planning on some roast veggies and lambchops for supper. Yum!

Dear Diary,
Dieting in Ireland with a bunch of pisscats is difficult.

This weekend's diet consisted of:

dinner: pasta in an italian, tried to go for the 'healthy' option and have the salmon, leek and lemon pasta, which actually worked because it was so disgusting I only ate a quarter of it.

about 15 vodka and OJ's (no danger of scurvy then)
packet of crisps (hysterically called 'tay-to's, made me laugh for hours, since that's exactly how all my mates pronounce 'potatoes')

Breakfast: nothing, slept until about 1pm

Lunch: cauliflower soup, beef burger patty drenched in pepper sauce, accompanied by chips AND mash (gotta love Irish cuisine) cabbage and gravy, followed by tea and half a slice of death by chocolate cake.

Teatime: 6 vodka OJ's while watching the local rugger team get beaten by Leicester, amidst much swearing.

Dinner: garlic roll, 8oz steak with chips and mushroom sauce in the cheesiest theme restaurant, "Texas Steakout". Very excellent.

Pudding: about 5 vodka and gingerales and 4/5 vodka red bulls (was starting to fear death by OJ)

Midnight (3am) snack: Half a *vile* hotdog from 'Fast Eddies', which I was told would be absolutely brilliant, and seemed like a very good idea at the time. It took me about 15 minutes to explain to Fast Eddie (to the amusement of the queue behind me) about my fear of condiments. Either he wouldn't believe me or he didn't understand my accent, because I still got mustard. :(

Breakfast: sausages, bacon and black pudding on slices of crusty french loaf.

Got plenty of exercise though, wandering the streets of Limerick from pub to pub in the frozen, horizontal rain, jumping fences, and laughing more than I ever have in my life.

Going to eat soup and fruit all this week! ;)

Back to routine, thank Dog.

Breakfast:
double portion of porridge (about 360 cals)

11 o'clock:
bowl fruit salad (about 100 cals)
Muller Lite yoghurt (120 cals)

2 o'clock:
2 slices wholemeal toast (150 cals)
30g low fat cream cheese (47 cals)
3 slices roast beef (90 cals)

Total of 867 so far and supper tonight will be cock-a-leekie soup and a roll, so yay!

Okay, yesterday was v. good, went home and made a large pot of beef and vegetable soup, and after two bowls of that and a small salad, I was too full to have a breadroll with it! yay! But I did have a Brunch Bar as I needed “a mouthful of sweetness to round off the meal”, as my friend Todd says.

So that was:

Small salad – 50 cals?
2 bowls of beef and vegetable soup - (I looked this up and it seems like around 200 cals a bowl, which is a bit excessive I think) - 400 cals
Brunch bar – 150 cals

So add that to the day, and you get about 1450, which (for me) is a real improvement. When I started this diet I was still battling to come in under 2000 cals a day.

I did some online evaluations yesterday and they calculated that my BMI is 28 (that’s pretty awful, isn’t it?) and that I should be eating between 1200-1300 calories per day. But I reckon if I just get there slowly, like drop the number of calories by 50 per day, I should be fine.

The Plan for today is:

Porridge: 180 cals

Fruit Salad: 100 cals
Muller Lite: 105 cals

Bowl of soup: 200 cals

2 slices wholemeal bread: 150 cals
Cream cheese: 50 cals
2 slices beef: 60 cals

So that’s 845 cals until dinner, and I really shouldn’t be too hungry tonight after all that. I still have more soup at home, so may have another bowl of that and a slice or two of cheesy toast (I haven’t been eating much cheese lately and am starting to crave it!)

Target for today is 1400 cals.

I did some online evaluations yesterday and they calculated that my BMI is 28 (that’s pretty awful, isn’t it?) and that I should be eating between 1200-1300 calories per day. But I reckon if I just get there slowly, like drop the number of calories by 50 per day, I should be fine.


You should try to find out your Basal Metabolic Rate then calculate the number of calories you need from there. It's much more accurate- it takes into account activity and age as well as height and weight. I posted about it on here somewhere. I calculated mine and, after doing the additional calculations, I discovered that to maintain my weight I should eat 2300cals! To lose weight, I could, in theory, be eating 1800cals and still lose.

thanks kinky, I will try it out...

Yesterday was okay:

porridge - 180 cals

2 slices toast with cream cheese - 150 + 50 cals
hot choc - 50 cals

Mac and cheese ready meal with added cream cheese - 350 +50

2 x crumpets w/ jam and butter - ??? maybe 300 cals?
(yes, I know, but I was having tea with a lovely friend who has recently been incarcerated, so we were celebrating)
2 x coffees - 100 cals

bowl of beef and veg soup 200 cals

Total 1420


Today also okay so far:

Porridge - 180 cals

Tangerine - ??? 30 cals?

2 slices toast - 150 cals
margerine - 30 cals
tin of tuna - 190 cals

small bowl of ham and pea soup - 150 cals

730 cals so far. But I'm going out for a bite to eat again tonight (to a lovely turkish place) so at least I know I can have a decent meal and not feel too guilty.

Yum, supper was roast lamb and peppers and a mushroom pilau. Probably used up the remaining 600-odd calories to make up my 1350 target for today.

And was well worth it!

Today I am trying to be extra good, because I'm cooking the most sinfully high calorie meal tonight.

So far today:

Double portion of porridge (360 cals)

Diet cuppa soup (ugh, but only 55 cals)
2 slices wholemeal toast (150 cals)
Low fat marg (50 cals)

And to snack on this afternoon I have:
Hot choc (40 cals)
A tangerine (26 cals)

Total of 680, and my target for today is 1300, so I won’t feel bad about dinner.

I’m making my world famous beef lasagne, and although I’ve tried making a low-fat (and lactose-free) lasagne before, it really is sacrilege. My recipe is the nicest in the world, but does contain a kilogram of beef, a pint of cream, a litre of milk, 2 blocks of cheese and a whole bottle of wine. I only make it about twice a year though!

All I've had to eat today is some really yucky seafood at a ludicrously expensive place in Clapham. It really was awful and I can't believe I actually paid £18 for it. Bleurgh. I had scallops for starters (drenched in green olive oil) and a pint of the tiniest, flavourless prawns I've ever seen. Yuck.

But moving on. I've been on this diet malarkey for weeks now and no change to my weight. I think that from this week I'm going to try eat according to my blood type diet and see if it makes any difference.

Of course this means giving up all wheat and grains, pork in all it's glorious forms, and all dairy products. :(

Unless anyone else has any better ideas? Advice would be appreciated.

the weekend was a bit of a write-off, the delish lasagne from friday night lasted longer than expected, so I had that with salad every night. Seafood lunch (euuurgh) on saturday, and a nice roast lamb and veggies yesterday.

Not too much in the way of snacking besides, so I suppose I did well.

Also been very good with staying away from fruit juice, and getting into the routine of using sweetner in my tea/coffee.

Today I start trying to cut out wheat and grain as much as possible (as well as pork, and cut down on the amount of dairy I consume). I did this spectacularly badly by having oats porridge with skimmed milk for brekkie. ;)

Oh well, if I cut out porridge AND bread, I would seriously battle, so I guess I get to keep the porridge, at least until the weather warms up and I can start eating rice crispies or something.

OK, so today:

porridge 180 cals (or less, cos it was with skimmed milk)

banana 75 cals
hot choc 40 cals

Lunch will be a delish chicken salad
Chicken Tikka fillets 250 cals
cherry tomatoes 15 cals
lettuce 20 cals
baby corn 15 cals
Total 300 cals. It should be a seriously substantial amount, because I bought a large pack of each this morning and will divide the salad stuff up over two days.

Tangerine as a snack later 26 cals

Total for today of 621 then. Tonight will be going out for snacks (and a bottle of wine) again, so that will add on a lot. Will try to be good though, and own up to it here tomorrow!

621 cals, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a bit dangerous?

It sounded like a really low figure to me (it's probably my intake at breakfast) so I did a bit of research.

Everywhere I look I see that the recommended daily calorie intake for us ladies is around the 2000 mark.This means that women should aim for at least a 1,200 -1,500 calorie diet to lose weight & that you should never reduce you daily calorie intake by more than 1000 calories without medical or dietitian supervision.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not having a go either, just worried for you hon.

Haha, that's just brekkie and lunch, Eolas. At the moment my daily calorie intake is about 1300-1400... :)

I did think it couldn't possibly be right. Huge sigh of relief chez eolas. I wish you continued success with the weight loss XD

I did think it couldn't possibly be right. Huge sigh of relief chez eolas. I wish you continued success with the weight loss XD

P.S - I bump up my porridge by throwing in a handful of either fresh blueberries or dried apricots when I'm cooking it. Yummy & sets you up right for the day.

I did think it couldn't possibly be right. Huge sigh of relief chez eolas. I wish you continued success with the weight loss XD

P.S - I bump up my porridge by throwing in a handful of either fresh blueberries or dried apricots when I'm cooking it. Yummy & sets you up right for the day.

Ta eolas! :)

I may try banana tomorrow...

But I get the Oatso Simple golden syrup flavour, so it's nice on it's own too.

Ta eolas! :)

I may try banana tomorrow...

But I get the Oatso Simple golden syrup flavour, so it's nice on it's own too.

I put a few choc chips in mine, or a square or 2 of chocolate chopped up. I make it with water, too, and tbh it don't taste no different than with milk.

Ooh, chocolate sounds nice.

Growing up mine was always made with water, but with milk added at the end. I've started making it with skimmed instead of semi-skimmed, and it tastes the same.

On the subject, what other porridges are nice (and reasonably healthy)? When I was growing up we used to have this lovely one called Maltabella, which was chocolatey and malty. yum. Do you get that here?

...
In other news, I caved and had a (tiny) piece of toffee cake at teatime. Damn people and their birthdays! How can they expect us to eat healthily in this kind of environment??? ;)

Tonight wasn't as bad as I thought...

1 bottle of wine
1 pitta bread
say two tablespoons of hummus
2 slices of cheese and tomato thin base pizza

No idea of the calories as I can't be arsed to calculate it now (kinky? ;)

But I had 700 cals left of my daily allowance, so it probably comes in under. Yay!

Wine is about 90cals per glass (4 fl oz), depending on grape (sweeter wines have more cals, obv). Whole bottle? About 500cals.

Pizza probably about 200cals (Pizza Express Margherita is about 270cals for half of it)

Pitta bread, about 150cals each.

Hummus, approx 27cals per tbsp, so 54 in total.

So that's coming in at about 900cals- not too bad at all :) all values are approximate, mind you!

I put a few choc chips in mine, or a square or 2 of chocolate chopped up. I make it with water, too, and tbh it don't taste no different than with milk.

I've never had mine with milk, tastes fine with water to me! I put raisins in mine, they make this yummy syrup. Much better than the sugar I was putting on, I'd pile it on thick.

Thanks Kinky!

Wine was actually four smallish glasses, so maybe less than 500 cals. Well I hope anyway!

Coulda been worse I suppose!

Today:

porridge 180 cals
with a banana chopped up in it (yummy!) 100 cals (big banana!)

tracker bar 130 cals

Lunch
Tuna 190 cals
salad of cherry tomatoes, few lettuce leaves and some baby corn) 50 cals

So far that's 650 cals. Not great, cause I know I will be snacking on stuff leftover from a meeting here at the office this afternoon. Will try and stay away from the cake though.

Trying to think of something for dinner tonight. So far I've decided I want to try a low fat version of my favourite potato and butternut bake. Will post the recipe if it's any good. Might do a small steak with it.

Had another tracker bar at work this afternoon cos i was starvin marvin.
And a small piece of carrot cake because I have no self control.

130 cals
and 150 cals (or thereabouts)

Leek and potato soup for supper
200 cals or so (two bowls, very watered down)

packet of snack-a-jacks (first time I've had them and they were yummy!)
130 cals

So that's another 510 plus the 650 I had today at work...

1160 - whoohoo! that's my lowest yet!

Plus a coffee, a hot choc and lots of low-cal squash, but I haven't been counting those)

And yes, I know that's probably a bit low, but I've had plenty days lately where I've exceeded my limit, so I think that's fine. And I really have eaten a shitload today. Just starting to find a lot of stuff that I can eat with minimal calories.

Wednesday 31st January

Breakfast
Porridge 180 cals
Banana 100 cals

Snack
4 x Corn crispbread things 64 cals

Lunch
Bowl of homemade potato and leek soup 100 cals

Snack
Tracker bar 130 cals

Total of 574 for during the day.

Trying to work out something yummy for dinner tonight. I may need your help, Kinky (if you're around!). I have been trying to calculate the calories, but not sure if I'm doing it right, cos it's working out to be huge.

This is to be split between two people:

Mashed potato with marg (300g?) 29 cals per 28g = total 310 cals
Cabbage (300g?) 21 cals per 28g = total 225 cals (is this right? Seems a bit much...)
Lamb chops (400g? 2 lamb chops each) 69 cals per 28g = total 985 cals
Gravy (400ml) 45 cals per 83ml = total 216 cals

Total of 1736, divided in half is 868... That's a bit steep for a meal, isn't it?

I suppose the main problem is that I have no idea of the actual weights of most things. But it'll be four lamb chops in total, 3 large potatoes, and a small savoy cabbage...

Oh, and low-cal chocolate mousse for pudding at 84 cals each.

Ok, here goes!

Potato is around 80cals per 100g, that's 240cals for the potato plus marg comes to about 275cals depending on how much marg and the kind you use.

300g cabbage is only about 68cals from my calculations!

Lamb chops do indeed come in at about what you calculated- 246cals per 100g.

Gravy depends on type- Bisto instant comes in at 14cals per 50ml, so that's 56cals.

So in total that's 1383cals, making 691.5cals per portion

:)

Thanks kinky, that sounds a bit better. I will probably try cut down the amount of lamb we get, and rather fill up on the veggies.

Thanks for the help! :)

You could also use half potato, half butternut squash or carrot in your mash. Squash is good and it's only 40cals per 100g. Carrots are only 22cals per 100g.

Victory is mine! I managed to resist the gorgeous chocolate cake that was being offered around the office this afternoon and instead had a couple of pieces of delicious dried fruit that someone brought back from Bali - yum. I had a piece each of pineapple, mango, papaya and jackfruit (?).

So i feel happy in eating my yummy dinner that is presntly cooking. Lamb chops were about 12.99 a kilo, so instead I went for a lamb shoulder roast which was 3.99 a kilo... and it's smelling fucking delicious.

So total calories for the day will be about 650 + 750 =1300... not bad for me.

feeling yucky today and ate really badly. :(

2 slices of toast with leftover lamb - maybe 350 cals
low fat chocolate mousse - 80 cals
2 x mcVities biscuits (damn my sister for buying them) - 160 cals
2 small glasses of coke - ?? - 200 cals?
half an instant pasta - 250 cals
chocolate mousse - 80 cals

So under 1200 cals for the day, but all horribly unhealthy stuff. Not a piece of fruit, veg or salad to be seen. eeeurgh.

Ok the diet started properly again yesterday.

Monday
Porridge 180 cals
Slimfast Bar 217 cals
Small bowl of butternut soup 150 cals? (plus it was really spicy so that must have speeded up my metabolism!)
Two chunks of delicious sweetmeat from India that tastes kind of like baklava but looks like sawdust. Yum. Maybe 100 cals?
Bowl of low fat spag bol (using lean mince, tomatoes, onion, garlic, mushrooms, and peppers - absolutely yum) 400 cals
Parmesan topping 40 cals

Total 1087

(and the day included a half hour of very fast walking, a tour of the charming Council Estates of Brixton while looking for my rigtingbefok Irish friend who got lost.)

Today
Porridge 180 cals
Slimfast Milkshake 217 cals
Crackers and hummous (dunno, maybe 250 cals)
Pizza for supper tonight... Fairly unhealthy, but I'll use lots of fresh veggies and do a nice spicy steak one for me, instead of having bacon and ham and salami and stuff. 500 cals?

Total 1147

Yesterday I ended up having a noodle rready meal for lunch (320 cals) instead of crackers and hummus. And had half a small spicy steak, tomato, mushroom and green pepper pizza (500 cals). Yum. And two glasses of wine.

So total for the days was probably 1397 cals, not too bad.

Today:
Porridge 180 cals
tracker bar 130 cals
two slices wholemeal toast 150 cals
tin of tuna 190 cals

Probably have a couple of crackers and hummus as a snack later. 100 cals

Total so far: 750 cals

And no idea to what to make for supper. Soup maybe.

last night I had a bowl of tomato soup (150 cals) and two slices of cheesy toast (250 cals) for supper.

So that's 750 and 400, so a total for the day of 1150.


Today hasn't been so good, I blame the Sno.

3 small slices of leftover pizza for brekkie. (300 cals?)

5 crackers with hummus (100 cals)

1 flapjack and one small choc muffin (a thank you from my boss because we all came in despite the Sno.) (200 cals?)

Lunch will probably be a cuppa soup and two slices of toast (200 cals)

So that's about 800 cals already.

And my pikey friend is down from Wellingborough tonight, so there will undoubtedly be lots of booze and a curry later. Oh well.

Porridge 180 cals

slimfast bar 210 cals

1 tin tuna 190 cals
2 slices wholemeal bread 150 cals

730 already.

Tonight I'm making a nice chicken curry with potatoes, onion, tomato and carrots, which sould be very filling and not too calorific, I estimate around 350 cals a portion, so then I can have a choc mousse (80 cals) for pudding.

Total 1160.

Today's been bad, mkay.

Breakfast was two slices of toast and a little bit of leftover chicken curry (400 cals?)

Lunch was two hot cross buns, toasted, with butter - yum (300 cals)

Supper was pancetta and parmesan sausages with potato and butternut mash - double yum (about 450 cals for the sausages and 150 cals for the mash)

Then I went completely off the rails and ate half a bag of chocolate coated peanuts - triple yum (about 500 cals)

Hhm, actually that's 1900 cals, so still under 2000. Not too bad for a day or hibernation and DVD watching.

I usually do allow for weekends being a write-off diet-wise.

yesterday:

2 slices french toast, 2 rashers bacon, some mushrooms and some cheese for brekkie (no idea how many cals)

1 hot cross bun for lunch (150 cals)

Supper - 1 bowl of soup - broccoli, cheese and bacon. (250 cals?)

And lots of snacking, 'cause I have a clod. Cheesy wotsits, chocolate peanuts and McVities digestives were among the casualties.

Bleeeurrgh.

Today:

Porridge 180 cals

Hot Choc (40 cals) and little chocolate thingy from portugal (100 cals)

Lunch will be soup, if I can be arsed to go out in the torrential rain to M&S.

Supper will be something stewy, if I can be arsed.

Not feeling very arsed at the moment, as you may have noticed.

I hate clods.

Lunch was half an M&S chicken soup (195 cals)
and a small banana (75 cals)

snack - tiny portuguese pastry thing (not sure, maybe 150 cals)

Supper will be my delicious beef strog type dish - steak, mushrooms, peppers, milk and rice (probably around 400cals)

1140, assuming i don't snack on anything later.

Eating much smaller portions these days, which is good.

Today was okay...

Porridge 180 cals
Banana 75 cals

Smoothie 125 cals

V. small dish of leftover beef strog for lunch (±300 cals)

small dish of mac & cheese with bacon (±400 cals)
Glass of wine (90 cals)
chocolate mousse (85 cals)

Total 1255.

Brekkie: Porridge and banana 180 + 75 cals

Snack: Some crackers 150 cals

Lunch: 1/2 M&S chicken soup 195 cals

Snack: Tracker bar 120 cals

Dinner: Leftover mac & Cheese with bacon 400 cals
Small salad 50 cals

Should be 1170 if I stick to that!

Banana 75 cals

Slimfast shake 217 cals

Some crackers 100 cals

Some awful 'scotch broth' in a tin. What a terrible idea for lunch. Ugh.
(No calories, as I've only eaten 2 spoons full and am throwing it away)

Another banana 75 cals and maybe a tracker bar 120 cals

that'll be 587 cals, and enough to get me through the day. Going for dinner tonight, which will probably be a pizza, so will probably at least double that.

Ugggh.

Breakfast: Porridge and banana - 250 cals

Lunch: I thought I was being clever and I bought a ready meal lasagne. I looks at the deluxe one, and it seemed to have the same calories as the weight watchers one, so I thought fuck that I may as well have the nice one.

Then I realised that the 336 calories was for half the container. Doh! So lunch is nice, but close on 700 calories worth. Eeeek!

Dunno what I'll have for supper, but i think we'll be going out somewhere.

Okay, pretty bad weekend.

Friday night:
A few crisps for supper (because of a combination of feeling ill, and no electricity at home...)

Saturday:
A meatball subway for brunch
Steak, tomato, onion, peppers and mushroom tagliatelle for supper - yum.

Sunday:
3 slices of french toast and some leftover pasta for brekkie/brunch
1 beef burger and chips for supper (naughty! or maybe not...

... I made an extra burger and brought it for lunch today, so was trying to calculate calories. Now obviously last night I had deep fried chips with it, which is very naughty (but I NEVER eat chips unless I make them myself, and I only do this about once a month) but today I'm just having the burger on it's own.

The burger patties are sainsbury's Taste the Difference Scotch quarter pound beef patties (which are completely yum and you get 4 for £3) and from what I've seen by googling, these are only 250 cals. Add on 150 cals for the roll and salad, so 400 cals. Not bad. Much nicer than eating a ready meal or something.

So, today:

Brekkie: Porridge (180 cals)

Lunch: Burger (400 cals)

Snack: Smoothie (125 cals)

Supper will be: a couple of bowls of Potato and Leek soup (200 cals each)

So that should be 1105 cals for the day.

Going to be pretty strict this week, want to keep up the weightloss.

Oh! And a Creme Egg last night for pudding. Yum...

Add to today's: a small bowl of leek and potato soup (about 150 cals) and a cheesy roll (about 250 cals) and half a dark chocolate kitkat - yum. (113 cals)

So today's was 1218 cals. Not bad.

Today:

Porridge (180 cals)

Tracker bar (130 cals)

Bowl of potato and leek soup (150 cals)

Nik Nak corn chips (my favourite from home and I've finally found them here, which is a bad thing) 190 cals

So that's 650 for the day, then I'm having large amounts of pancakes (savoury ones with mince and veggies and sweet ones with butter and cinnamon sugar) tonight and I'm not even going to try and calculate that, cos I'm drunk already. Decided to have some wine before starting to make them.... prolly a bad idea.

Ended up only managing one savoury pancake and feeling too full to have any more.

Today I've had porridge, 180 cals

a large pizza at lunch (pizza and pint special at the pub for a fiver, I couldn't resist)

And tonight we will attempt to finish the pancakes.

Not a good day, all in all. Oh well.

Yesterday truly was bad. I finished it off with 2 savoury and 1 sweet pancake, plus a bottle and a half of wine. It was a great evening though!

Today:

Porridge with blueberries 200 cals

Lunch:
2 white rolls (same calories as the yucky looking wholemeal ones, what's the point of that then???) 280 cals
Some leftover mince with onion, tomato, green and red pepper, carrot and butternut squash - YUM of note. (about 200 cals)
half a punnet of cherry tomatoes (30 cals)

Tonight will be some tomato soup and maybe a slice of cheesy toast.
(200 + 200 cals)

That's 1110. Not too bad I reckon, so I might get a dark choc kitkat to share with my sis for pudding – they are so delicious. 113 cals for half, so that'll be 1223 for the day.

Dinner was a packet of crisps and a large amount of drinkahol. Not good.

Today:

Porridge with blueberries and a block of swiss chocolate - yum (250 cals?)

2 white rolls (280 cals)
1 tin tuna (190 cals
cherry tomatoes (30 cals)

And no idea what tonight will bring. Probably lots and lots of bad food. :(