Post Break Up Body

[BravingABikini]

Had my midweek check-in weigh in this morning and things going in the right direction. Caught myself in the mirror and thought that I was looking slim, so feeling quite good about myself today.

For lunch, I am making a courgette pizza, which is halving a courgette lengthways and putting in the oven for 20 minutes, then topping with passata or pesto sauce, halloumi, olives and parmesan and back in the oven for 15 minutes. It gives me all the ingredients of a salad, but warm as I'm freezing in the house today.

Supposed to be eating jerk chicken for dinner but the house is doing a Costco shop today so I have a feeling they will be eating pizza again. That means I need to come up with something for myself.

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

Well, I just picked up a Too Good To Go bag, which is mainly cake! Oops oh well a treat after weigh in tomorrow. We'll see! Very warm here again. I half considered walking back, but OH had asked me to pick up some shopping, and I'm carrying my laptop, so better on the bus today

 

[BravingABikini]

Well, I just picked up a Too Good To Go bag, which is mainly cake! Oops oh well a treat after weigh in tomorrow. We'll see! Very warm here again. I half considered walking back, but OH had asked me to pick up some shopping, and I'm carrying my laptop, so better on the bus today

Oh I just heard about this yesterday! Seems like a very dangerous app. But I love that it reduces food waste.

 

[BravingABikini]

Alright, eating an dinner of salmon fillet, spinach and mushrooms and cauliflower mash. I was definitely nicely under on calories so I put a healthy amount of butter in the mash making it very very moreish.

I've been thinking today about the potential imminent end to Minimins. The website renewal is due next Thursday. I was looking today for other forums online, but I just don't see anything like Minimins. There are some threads on sites like Mumsnet but nothing dedicated. Even though the site is very different to what it was 13 years ago, the last 6 weeks have been so helpful to have everything here to track and have the Easter challenge and other people to motivate. Fingers crossed it somehow still exists when I log in next Thursday/Friday.

I've started writing some notes down on my phone to keep myself motivated in case my diary is lost. Looking at my weightloss so far, I should only be on this diet for 1 or 2 more weeks, then switch to a higher calorie plan so I want to be sure I've got a track of my progress to help me focus as I transition.

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

I know what you mean - there isn't anything quite the same out there :-(

 

[BravingABikini]

Friday is back again.

For lunch I made a sort of tuna casserole. Garlic fried in butter with milk and parmesan. Mixed with a tin of tuna and handful of spinach and put in a casserole dish topped with cheese. I estimated 400 calories.

Dinner should be wrap pizza as usual. It puts me a little bit over my 800 goal, but close enough.

 

[Torn_Tranquility]

oooo casserole sounds delicious. I will have to give that go!

 

[BravingABikini]

I was thinking about snacks yesterday so had 2 biscuits watching the TV. That added 150 calories to my day, bringing me to 1000 calories for yesterday. A small moment of weakness and hopefully just a one off rather than telling of a drop in motivation.

Weighed myself this morning and lost 2lb over the week. I'm a little surprised it isn't more if I went purely from CICO calculations, but I know that I had a good healthy week and I'm comfortable with a steady loss.

We're heading into my two typically higher weight loss weeks in the month, but I've got some time away planned. Visiting my dad for a week next Thursday. So I'll weigh in Thursday morning and then again 9 days later after I get back. My dad's house is going to be very challenging. He has a very sweet tooth so there will be thousands of calories of cakes and ice-cream on offer, and very few options that fit in my diet. He is very dedicated to fitness though, so I could join his daily gym and swimming sessions or we could organise some long walks. Will take it one day at a time.

 

[BravingABikini]

Saturdays food diary:

Late lunch of 1/3 cauliflower roasted, 1/4 red onion fried, 60g halloumi fried & 90g lentils. Cooked using around 100 calories of oil for a c. 400 calorie warm salad.

Dinner is jerk BBQ chicken which I will would estimate 250 cal for the chicken, plus 150 calories for coconut milk and 100 calories for kidney beans sweetcorn and oil. 500 calories total. I'll have it with cauliflower rice.

Another 900 calorie day.