Thanks for the compliments everyone and the recipe squeeze - I'll try it out as soon as I get my hands on some mixed seeds
I'm heading to Wetherspoons and like any good CC'er, I've already chosen what I'm going to have.
The five bean chilli jacket potato looks lovely: Butter, kidney, haricot, cannellini and pinto beans, bulgar wheat, Quorn mince and peppers, in a rich tomato sauce, with tortilla chips and yellow basmati rice. After holding the butter and the salad dressing, It's 500 calories and is less than 5% fat. Not too shabby eh?
As lots of you know, I'm doing the dreaded first steps of maintenance now which involved upping my calories from 'losing weight level' of 1200 to 1700, my supposed maintenance level. I can't tell you how scary it is. It's the complete opposite for what I've been doing for the past 7 months. You've just got to hope that your metabolism speeds up and adapts to the change without changing all the extra calories straight into fat. There is a catch-22 situation though: if you up your cals too quickly, you will gain excess weight, however if you up them too slowly then you will continue to lose weight. The former may seem like the better option to some but at 8 stone and BMI 20.5, I really don't want to get any slimmer. It also doesn't help that I'm only 5'2 so even if I only lose another 2lb then it will show and I know I'll be too skinny for my liking then. But then if I up them too quickly, I'll get the dreaded weight re-gain of weight that I worked my ass off to lose. The trick is to find the right balance, the right rate of upping calories and it's just going to be trail and error. But I will get this shizzllleee done!
Hope you're all having a lovely day!
P.S. Someone has uploaded the movie 'supersize me' to youtube. Ok, it's illegal to upload but it's not illegal to watch! It's all about a man who ate nothing but McDonalds for a month and the things it did to his body. I would highly recommend a watch before youtube finds it and pulls it down!