LJ's daily thread

[lunar jim]

3500 cals to *lose* weight? Doesn't sound right somehow!

As far as tea/coffee goes, I only really have a drop of skimmed milk, really just a tiny amount so I don't bother counting it. If I have a coffee out and about I have it black anyway.

IKWYM about seeing it yourself; 5 stone, people can't have failed to notice, but your own brain does tend to lag behind the loss, so people say and that was also my experience!

 

[<3FallenxAngel<3]

3500 cals to *lose* weight? Doesn't sound right somehow!

As far as tea/coffee goes, I only really have a drop of skimmed milk, really just a tiny amount so I don't bother counting it. If I have a coffee out and about I have it black anyway.

IKWYM about seeing it yourself; 5 stone, people can't have failed to notice, but your own brain does tend to lag behind the loss, so people say and that was also my experience!

Yeah I know what you mean. I worked out that a cup of tea for me is 17kc (50ml milk) and 15kc (per tsp sugar) so 47 altogether and i have maybe 3 a day. I can drink it with sweetener but i would rather have proper tea less often than one i dont enjoy just for the sake of drinking it

Everyone tells me i look thinner, i can see it in my face and a little round my waist but i think its mainly cos i have so much loose skin from pregnancies etc that until there is a big difference in that im not going to see it, ah well we will get there in the end, thanks for the reply tho xxx​

 

[lunar jim]

Ah, I don't sweeten my tea, just coffee and then I use sweetener. It's funny, for years before starting the CD I drank diet drinks, skimmed milk and sweetener, despite all the other damage I did

Today's went like this:

Breakfast: scrambled egg with chilli flakes and W/W toast: 270
Lunch: pork and pasta, 380 calories
Dinner: home-made pumpkin soup, three rice cakes with philly on: ~440 (rough estimate!)
Snack: Go-ahead bars: ~160
Snack: rice cake with a scrape of Marmite: ~40?

1390 total, ran 1 mile also

 

[lunar jim]

Friday

Breakfast: special K and yogurt: 190
Snack: Marmite rice cakes: 117
Lunch: the last of the pumpkin soup with chillis (about half of last night's amount) plus some chicken breast and ryvita with philly: ~480

787 so far...

 

[lunar jim]

Had a chicken kebab for dinner; ~700 calories?

Having a Go-ahead with a cup of tea right now which takes me just over the 1600 for the day.

 

[kimber]

Yummy chicken kebab LJ! I like to have a treat on friday night, steak and oven chips last night for me yumma!
x

 

[lunar jim]

Heh sounds nice!

We vowed to keep the takeaways to one after pay day, partly to keep the costs down but partly so that we wouldn't be eating loads of takeaways! But events conspired against us yesterday so we had the chicken kebabs. Best choice for a takeaway though IMHO, it's only chicken, pitta, salad and chilli sauce

 

[lunar jim]

Wasn't online much at the weekend, but...

Saturday:

Breakfast: scrambled eggs, chilli flakes, W/W toast: ~270
Lunch: Ryvita with light Philly and chicken: 380
Dinner: Home-made butternut squash soup with mushrooms and crispy bacon bits: ~500
Snacks: Go-ahead bar 150, some sweets at the halloween party ~200 for those?

Sunday:

Breakfast: Special K and fat free yogurt: 190
Lunch: Roast beef, potato, green veg, splash of gravy: ~750 plus raspberries ~100
Dinner: Ryvita with cottage cheese and chicken ~350
Snacks: Go ahead bar: 150, Go ahead fruity bite thing: 85

 

[lunar jim]

And so far today...

Breakfast: Special K with fat-free yogurt: 190
Lunch: Talgiatelle: 400

Ran 1.2 mile this morning

 

[lunar jim]

To finish:

Snack: flapjacky type thing: 85

Dinner: Homemade butternut squash soup with mushrooms, ryvita with cottage cheese and ham: ~750

Feel bloody stuffed after that soup and crackers...

 

[lunar jim]

Breakfast: Special K and yogurt: 190
Lunch: weightwatchers chilli and rice: 380
Dinner: Roast chicken with veg and a dash of gravy: ~600 plus 100 cals of fruit
Snacks: Go ahead bar slices: 150, plus two Ryvita with Marmite: ~90?

 

[lunar jim]

Yesterday:

Breakfast: scrambled egg with chilli & WW toast: 190
Lunch: Ryvita with low fat soft cheese and chicken breast: 400
Dinner: Jacket potato with low fat bolognaise: 700
Snack: Go ahead slices: 150, yogurt bar: 85, apple: 60

 

[lunar jim]

Today so far:

Breakfast: Special K with yogurt: 190
Snack: Go ahead yogurty thing: 150
Lunch: Tagliatelle: 380
Snack: flapjacky bar thing: 85

 

[lunar jim]

And a Dominos Chicken Tikka pizza to finish, thin crust, reduced fat cheese: 850

 

[kimber]

Well done Jim - nice to see you are treating yourself! Yum pizza
x

 

[lunar jim]

You have to once in a while Actually, it was more to treat the kids, but when I looked at the calorie sheet I thought 'what the hell, I have the calories for today free' so just went for a sensible pizza. Fancied the mighty meaty though lol, the chicken tikka was yummy however

 

[Lady Marmalade]

Mmm, pizza! I didn't realise Dominos did nutritional info, that's a good tip.

How's the exercise going, Jim?

 

[lunar jim]

Yes, Dominos publish a nutritional information sheet but it's not always super-up-to-date with their special offers. A good start though and all their standard pizzas are on there. Pizza Hut do the same, some of the Dominos pizzas are lower calorie than Pizza Hut though, look at the Piri Piri and Chicken Tikka pizzas. Hint: they are made with sauce other than tomato... Thin crust is of course the way to go

http://www.dominos.uk.com/pdf/FoodGuide_NutritionPizzas.pdf
Nutritional Information - Pizza Hut

 

[lunar jim]

Ooh, and the exercise: going well, I'm really enjoying it. I've been doing 1.22 miles per session this week, and have got the time down by half a minute. The plan is to extend the route slightly each week until I can run 5km without dieing

 

[Auburn]

Hi Jim, how are you?
I think I'm just about ready to hit the gym... wish me luck.! Its a pretty hard step...!