What I ate today - no more porridge for brekkie

Breakfast:
Alpen NAS muesli with a splash of skimmed milk (as recommended by the dietitian, aiming for drier and crunchier options for breakfast. Readybreak or any porridge is considered 'slider' food)

Mid-morning:
Slim Fast nougat snack bar (not really that nice but lower calories than Atkins yumminess...)

Lunch:
100g grilled lamb's liver + green salad + onion & chive cottage cheese

Mid-afternoon:
Cream cracker topped with peanut butter and a drop of honey (oops this totaled much higher in calories than I thought but was well tasty!)

Dinner:
Jumbo king prawns cooked with garlic and chopped tomatoes with a few wholemeal penne pasta... I couldn't eat the pasta, it felt like stuck so I stopped eating it... Had a ryvita topped with mushroom pate instead.

Drinks:
Pint of NAS squash, WW hot choc, 3 coffees with skimmed milk

Exercise:
20 min walk (boo, really need to do more)

TOTAL 902 calories

What I ate today - not too keen on Mondays

Bah... Monday again... Weekends are way too short... Work is way too busy... I'm getting hungrier every day, can't wait til my fill this Saturday 24th...

Only highlight of the day was mt first dietitian appointment on the phone. Really nice lady, found it very useful. I'll write about that later in length.

Early morning:
Medium soya latte from Cafe Nero

Late breakfast:
Readybrek with skimmed milk, sprinkled with cinnamon

Lunch:
Green salad with balsamic vinegar and slice of wafer thin smoked ham + 2 ryvita slices with low fat cream cheese and mackerel pate

Dinner:
Home-made extra lean turkey mince curry with carrots, sweet potato and courgette (100g curry + 100g veg) with a tbsp of fat free yogurt topping

Snacks:
WW hot choc, mango & pear yogurt

Exercise:
20 min walk, didn't even bother to log it on MFP...

TOTAL 909 calories

What I ate today - bit of naughty food

Today we took the builder to our new house to get t he measurements for the floors. It's almost complete, can't wait to move in! It'll now have to be the first thing in the new year. Afterwards, we visited our friends who had a baby last week. Lovely day :)

 
Breakfast:
Home made extra lean turkey and bacon medallions patty with chopped tomatoes, mushrooms and an egg yolk

Lunch:
1/2 WW crustless broccoli and cheese quiche, 100ml oasis summer fruits (... and nicked a couple of crisps from my husband...)

Mid-afternoon:
5 mini Cadbury chocolate fingers (we were visiting friends, couldn't resist the urge when offered some and to be polite I accepted not just one but 5!!! )

Dinner:
2x lamb merguez sausages + sweet potato + artichoke

Snacks:
Grilled 100g lamb's liver
WW oat crackers x2

Exercise:
I definitely did something but can't remember... walk perhaps? Nothing on MFP, hmmmmm?

TOTAL 996 calories  

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What I ate today - end of 1st week of normalcy

Saturdays are my weigh in days. Immediately after my first pee of the day, hehe.

At the end of the first week of 'normal' food, I lost 4 pounds :) YAY! Dry and crunchy food does fill you up thanks to the way the band works and I'm glad I'm done with the 'slider' 'mushy' foods and back to normal.

I ate a lot today and not particularly healthy stuff either, oops... 1100 calories still not too high but I'll behave tomorrow :)

Breakfast:
Patty made with extra lean turkey breast mince + bacon medallions with onion and spices etc.
Fat free natural yogurt.

Mid-afternoon:
1/2 Atkins protein bar

Lunch:
1 oven baked glamorgan sausage + 1/2 small tin of reduced sugar and salt baked beans with 20g grated low fat cheese

Mid-afternoon:
1/2 Atkins protein bar

Dinner:
1 lamb merguez and 1 wild boar and apple sausages (grilled and most fat drained out hopefully) with broccoli and cauliflower cheese (Bisto cheese sauce granules)

Dessert:
Weightwatchers banoffee dessert

Exercise:
60 min cleaning and 30 min walk

TOTAL 1103 calories

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What I ate today - happy friday

Breakfast:
20g Ready Brek made with skimmed milk

Mid-morning:
1/2 ready made bottle raspberry slim fast

Lunch:
4 ryvitas with 2 laughing cow light cheese triangles and 4 slices of wafer thin turkey ham

Mid-afternoon:
Atkins chocolate protein bar

Dinner:
2 ryvitas with 25g mackerel pate each, topped with cucumber, radish and spring onion slices
1 artichoke cooked with 25g diced onions and 20g petit pois (salad and crunchy stuff really fills me up, lovely to see the band does work!)

Drinks:
1 pint of water, 2 cups of coffee (didn't drink enough today but I just wasn't thirsty)

Exercise:
30 min walk

TOTAL 929 calories

Happy Friday! :) x

What I ate today - first stuck food

I wasn't thinking and I put a little piece of bread in my mouth... Oh the pain! Really horrible feeling for a good few minutes until it went down so don't think i'll try bread again :) never been sick so far though, hopefully it will stay that way!

So today was a good day despite the lack of exercise, i didn't feel hungry at all.

Breakfast:
2 boiled medium eggs mashed with a tbsp of extra light mayo and seasoning

Mid-morning:
1/2 can of veg soup

Lunch:
4 slices of crispbread + 2 low fat cheese triangles + 4 slices of wafer thin turkey ham

Mid-afternoon:
Atkins crispy choc bar (was craving choc due to totm )

Dinner:
Home made extra lean beef mince cooked with tomato sauce and veg (carrot, mushroom, courgette, onion) with 100g boiled potato and 0% fat natural yogurt

Drinks:
2 pints of squash, 2 cups of coffee and 1/2 bottle of raspberry slim fast for dessert lol

Exercise:
None today, mad busy at work, couldn't leave my computer to take a lunch time walking break like i do most days...


TOTAL 978 calories

What I ate today - oh how I missed salad

I was at a seminar until late afternoon so had to snack and eat out for lunch. I wasn't too bad I suppose :)

Breakfast:
Ready Brek (30g) + 150ml skimmed milk

Mid-morning:
Small packet of Quavers

Lunch from salad bar:
Green salad with cucumbers, 4 mini cruton size cubes of potato, 4 penne pasta bits, 6 crutons, 1tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1/2 tbsp low fat mayo (oh how I missed salad!)

Late afternoon:
Orange+choc protein bar

Dinner:
Omelet made with 1 egg, 1 chicken frankfurter, 150g veg (frozen pepper, mushroom and onion), 100g chopped tomatoes, 25g skimmed milk, 25g extra light cream cheese with onion and chive

Drinks:
2 pints of squash, 2 small soya lattes, 1 cup of black coffee

Exercise:
30 min walk

TOTAL 922 calories

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