Keeping 'on the wagon'.

[gazter]

I feel i have kept pretty well to the diet for the last four months, but a food diary might help me keep an eye on things.

Week Eighteen:

Thursday:

Breakfast: 35g bran flakes (he), 150ml skimmed milk (he) and four strawberries

Lunch: three slices of lean cooked chicken (aldi, 2% fat), pickled cabbage, whole baby lettuce, tomato, cucumber, half an onion. One level (yes level) tablespoon coop reduced coleslaw, 15 grams half fat cheese (he)

5pm snack: mullerlight lemon cheescake (1syn) with fresh strawberries.

 

[Amelie24]

Sounds good! & congrats on the amazing weight-loss so far

 

[gazter]

Dinner: Ultimate burgers made with turkey mince, slimming world chips and lots of fresh salad + mushrooms. Wholemeal Bun, 7 syns, reduced fat tomato ketchup another syn.

Supper: rocky road 3 syns

Total syns for the day: 12

 

[gazter]

Friday-

Breakfast: 35g bran flakes (HE) + banana + 300 ml of skimmed milk (HE) (dont usually use that much milk, but felt like spoiling myself)
Lunch: Baked potato, prawns + scallops, tomatoes, lettuce, mushrooms, onions and cocktail sauce (tablespoon reduced ketchup, heaped tablespoon extra low mayo, 30g extra low philadelphia = 4 syns)

snack: rocky road hifi 3 syns

Dinner: 1% mugshot and a muller light (free) with apple

Total syns for the day: 7

 

[gazter]

Saturday:

Breakfast/Lunch: Big fry up, used up syn free turkey burgers i made, plenty of onion mushrooms tomatoes, 30 grams of half fat cheese and a wholemeal bread roll, baked beans and scrambled eggs. Ketchup syned.


Snacks: a few pieces of fruit, and a muller light.

Have not eaten anything else today... Not depriving myself, just not particularly hungry today.

Total syns: 1 for the ketchup, 7 for the second roll *update*

*update* have just had another brown roll, with slices of chicken and tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce onion and tomatoes. Total syns, about six or seven for the roll.*

 

[gazter]

Sunday so far:

Breakfast: Pink Grapefruit

Lunch/dinner: cooking for the family, SW kfc chicken, (healthy extra b for the wholemeal breadcrumbs), SW chips + sweet potato chips, with a mixed fry of lots of onions, mushrooms, red peppers, peas and sweetcorn to make up the superfree (minus of course the peas and sweetcorn).
Pre dinner bowl of frozen strawberries.

Late supper: bowl of 35g bran flakes with banana and pear

 

[gazter]

Monday:

Breakfast/lunch: 35g bran flakes skimmed milk banana
Dinner: leftovers sw kfc and salad with a light balsamic dressing and some baked beans
Supper: wholemeal bread roll with couple of rashers trimmed bacon, fried egg, onion, lettuce, tomato and reduced ketchup
Prune Juice (all bunged up!) 150ml (4 syns
Loads of fruit, three plums, nectarines, two peaches

Syns: 13

 

[gazter]

Tuesday (birthday):
Breakfast: bran flakes, skimmed milk, banana
Lunch: 2x 1% mug shots
Dinner (eating out): 8 oz steak, boiled potatoes and salad. No oils, dressings or sauces on any of it. Had a small slice of birthday sponge cake.

 

[gazter]

Wednesday:

Breakfast & lunch: grazed on fruit.
Dinner: 190 grams of wholemeal bread (60g heB, and 130 grams = 13 syns), chicken slices, lots of salad, tablespoon of extra light mayo and 20grams of half fat cheese.

 

[gazter]

Thursday:

breakfast: 60gram wholemeal bread, bacon lettuce, onions, tomatoes mushrooms

Lunch/dinner: two reduced fat cumberland sausages, super free vegetables and salad

Snacks lots of fruit

Glass of prune juice.

About 6 syns

 

[gazter]

Friday:

Breakfast: 35g bran flakes, banana, pear, skimmed milk
Lunch/dinner: Surf N Turf, ribeye steak and king shrimps with lots of superfree

 

[gazter]

not posted for a while but still keeping it up. Some good body magic today

When you are lying on the couch, it’s about 8.00 in the evening and you are thinking, what should I do now?

I can go to the fridge and search out some food; I can put the bins and the recycling out; I can ignore all that and carry on watching TV. Or, I can get up and go to the gym. Having not been since Saturday, and missing more than two days is habit forming, i decide the Gym. Getting out of exercise is too easy!

So I got up (ignored all the stuff to put out for the recycling) and went to the gym. Very pleased with myself with the run I did on Saturday. Twenty minutes at 9kph was pretty satisfying…

I was determined to beat that this time, if by only a little. Tonight I ran for *30* minutes non stop, for the first 26 minutes I ran at 9kph, for the next 2 I dropped down to 7.5kph (I keep an eye on my heart rate, when it starts creeping above 180 I cool off a bit), and then for the final 2 minutes I pushed it back up to 9kph.

My aim from the very beginning was to be able to run for 30 minutes straight at 10kph, equating to a 5km (3.1 miles) run. I am getting very very close.

I suspect I am gong to ache tomorrow, but tonight I burned about 600 calories. 600 by coincidence is the amount of calories in a portion of fish and chips from the chippy. Which I did not buy, but think I deserve…