Tuesday 28th April

Helloooooo! Well, I'm back! I have been terrified of getting on the scales as not only did I eat anything and everything on holiday but after Easter and Lent, when I stopped buying chocolate, I think I have made up for it in the last couple of weeks as i've eaten chocolate by the bucket!! I have been feeling podgy and bloated and I know I've not been eating properly or meal-planning plus I've been eating cakes, crips, deap-fried lard etc etc etc... Anyway, I braved the scales this morning and was very suprised to "only" be 12st 1lb so I'm quite pleased! I seriously thought I'd be around 12st 6lbs or something. So that's good. Anyway I have a resolution to cut out the crap, eat properly, not buy rubbish and to stop pinching bits off Aimee's Easter Eggs!!!

Monday

11st 13lbs :-)

Monday

12st 1lb :-( But I'm not suprised as I spent most of the weekend eating and drinking and haven't been properly careful for a while.
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Breakfast - Rice Crsipies zzzzzzzzz..........
Snack (yes I've had a snack already and it's only just after 9am) someone bought a whole load of pastries in, instead of cakes, for their birthday. I've had one so far :-) a custard danish. Well I had 3 pastries in the end! What did I say above about not being careful?
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Lunch - a fruisli bar and grapes. I could hardly justify anything more as I was stuffed on pastries!
Early tea with Aimee - homemade meatballs in homemade veg/tom sauce with non-homemade pasta. Maybe I should get a hobby and make my own pasta. Or maybe I should get a life and carry on buying it :-D
Snack - 2x toast & marmite and an apple.

Friday

Breakfast - Rice crispies
Snack - banana, fruisli. Oh and a left-over cake from yesterday's birthday bonanza.
I'm really not having a varied diet, am I !!!!
Lunch - vegan sarnie! Carrot, hummous, rocket and alfalfa.
Dinner - out for Clare's birthday, Old Orleans chicken and chips dish and numerous cocktails but only a mild hangover :-)

Thursday

I'll start today's off with an "oh dear"......!
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Breakfast - Rice Crispies Multigrain shapes.
Snack - banana, fruisli
Lunch - veggie sarnie from Boots
Oh dear - 4, yes FOUR, cakes that someone bought in for their birthday! And I'm not talking mini miffins either. I think I'll leave it there...
Dinner - pasta bolognese
I'm really not eating enough fruit and veg :-(

Wednesday

Brekkie - 2x toast & honey
Snacks - Fruisli, grapes
Lunch - homemade chicken ceaser salad with low cal dressing, yoghurt
Snack - banana, 1x crust with honey
Dinner - remainder of Tuesdayschicken pie with broccolli. Really craved choc but didn't have any in the house!!!

Tuesday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
No Snacks! I forgot to bring anything into work!
Lunch - meeting sarnies, crisps and a few grapes
Dinner - chicken pie with broccolli & peas with Aimee.
Blimey, that's not much!! Right, where did those Bourbon Creams go.......

Monday

Genuinely forgot to get on the scales!
Could have done with some comfort food first thing to build up courage for my first smear in about 6 years. Amazing how you can have 4 people staring and poking down "the business end" when you're giving birth but you do anything to avoid a 30 second test. And yes it's been on my to-do list but I have been influenced by Jade Goody as I've been getting some abdominal pain. Hopefully it's just all those grapes I've been eating or, as it's on the right, a grumbling appendix.
Breakfast - rice crispies
Snack - banana
Lunch - homemade chicken ceaser salad with low-cal dressing, and yoghurt
Now it gets tricky as Aimee had a friend for tea...
Snack - 6x Bourbon Cream biscuits
Tea - 5x chicken nuggets and some chips, 1 slice of Vienetta
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Snack - 2x toast with 1 slice of ham and some cheese.

RedNose Day

Breakfast - 1x egg & 2x toast & Clover

Thurs

Breakfast - same as every other bloody day! Rice Crispies
Snacks - banana & fruisli. God my life is so repetative!
After Mandy's text last night saying she weighed 11st13lbs, I got on the scales this morning and I'm 11st11lbs and Clare says she's 11st12lbs. We JOKED about going to go for a colonic to shift a few more pounds! Bleargh!
Lunch - roast beef & horseradish salad sarnie from sainsbs, 407 cals!!! Plus a yog as always zzzzzz
Snack - another banana
Tea with Aimee - my very high cal fattrening chicken pilaf. So 2 skimpy shicken legs, veg and rice. Very high cals. You can almost see them :-)

Wednesday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies (180cals)
Snack - Grapes
Lunch - home-made sarnies : 2x wholemeal pitta with chicken, salad and lowcal dressing. Yoghurt (117cals)
Nearly went out for chocolate this arvo as having a shite day but have resisted.
Snack before taking Aimee swimming - cheese sarnie, 2 slices of bread.
Dinner - kids chicken curry & rice
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Running Total. Oh I don't know! Really hard to do cals for home made stuff!

Huh :-(

Yes Clare, I'm trying to avoid the fact that I've crept up to the 12st mark :-( It seems the only way I can do this is to keep on here and keeop putting the calories in. So here goes (starting from today as other than booze on Friday night, a massive chinese takeaway Saturday night and 2 pancakes with maple syrup on Sunday afternoon because I was feeling "peckish", I've been pretty good. Oh, apart from yesterday mid-afternoon, 2x bread with honey plus just the 1 (honest!) carrot with about a tablespoon of hummous). But, having put on half of what I've lost, I saw a bunch of people I've not seen for a while on Friday night and a couple of them, independantly, asked if I'd lost weight! Plus I saw Ginge at Farnham Firestation's car-scratch... errrr... car-wash, and he said I'd lost weight. So I guess it's showing somewhere!
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Breakfast - Rice Crispies, can't remember cals, 180? Will check back.
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Snack - banana 90cals and grapes, calorie free surely!
Ooops - 10x M&S mini chocolate fingers at 15 cals each. 150cals then.
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Lunch - salmon and cucumber sarnie 270cals. Muller Rice 112 cals.
Total for lunch - 382cals
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Bloody red nose day - baked choc-orange muffins for Aimee to take to school on Wednesday and I accidently ate 4.
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Dinner - left overs from Sunday roast, small portion, honest.
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Running total - 802cals. Not including muffins and mini-roast.

Weds

Breakfast - 2x toast & honey
Snack - Fruisli & banana
Lunch - Home made soup & 2x small rolls (I was hungry!) and yoghurt
Snack - found my leftover grapes in the fridge at work
Snack when I got home before taking Aimee swimming - 2x toast
Dinner - 2x bacon, onion & mushroom pasta in 1/2 fat creme fraiche & parmesan
Now if I'd not had the 2nd lot of toast, that would have been a good day!

Tuesday

Breakfast - 2x toast & honey
Snack - banana
Lunchtime - large deluxe hot chocolate
Lunch - more Sunday leftovers! And a yoghurt.
Tea with Aimee - kids chicken curry.

Monday (wk 8)

11st 12lbs. It's clear I'm slacking as I know i've not had a good couple of weeks and suprise suprise I'm not losing anything. Hangover from Saturday has mostly cleared now but I'm tired so today might be tricky!
Breakfast - Rice crispies. Sam just has black coffee and is then not hungry til at least lunchtime, maybe I should try that!
Snack - banana and yoghurt. Verrrrrry hungry!
Lunch - left over roast lamb from yesterday, and grapes
Snack - 3x custard cream biscuits. How the hell did that happen?
Dinner - home made fish pie which didn't kill Aimee despite her thinking it would, plus she didn't entirely cover it in ketchup so it can't have been that bad, I thought it was lovely! "No salmon next time Mummy, just fish-finger type fish."

Sunday

Breakfast - egg sarnie (2x toast) & iz pastry
Lunch - 2x toast & marmite
Dinner - roast lamb, root veg ctreamed mash, cabbage, diced roast potatoes, profiteroles&cream plus 1 large vodka & orange and 2 glasses of wine.

Saturday wk6

breakfast - errrrrr..... forgot again as busy getting up and getting Aimee's sleepover friend ready to be picked uo and getting aimee off to dancing. bought 2x sausage rolls at Co-op whilst aimee at modern.
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Lunch - gawd, cant remembrer.... errrrmmmm.... nope ... oh yes, defrosted one of my cjocken soups and had with stale bread role from friday. In fact hadonlyu a few mouthfills before having to take aimee back to dancing for tap, then had the rest when we ot home at 2pm.
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Snack I must hace had something...... 2x crumpets definitely. with bertollu & jam obvosuly... erm.... that might have been it. didn't ouch the custard creams. oh yes a stale jam tart I found in the lounge keft over from aimee and sarahs midnight feats they eventaully had on the morning as their alrlam at midnight didn't go off for some strange reaons. I(cos mean mujmmy switched it off once they were asleep :-) hahahaha)
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Dinner - tapas and 1 & 1/2 bottles of chenon blanc at a tapas bar feck loadsof calories then oh dear :-)

Fry-up Day (Well it might as well have been)

Breakfast - 2x Weetabix
Snack - 2x slices birthday cake. Honestly, I reckon everyone at work has at least 2 birthdays a year as there's cakes every week recently!
Lunch - homemade soup, breadroll, yoghurt
Snack - Muller rice, grapes, 2 cookies, 1x jam tart
Dinner - chicken nuggets & chips with Aimee and her friend. Terrible terrible day!!!!

Thursday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Snack - Banana & grapes
Lunch - Sainsbs cheese & spring onion sarnie & Muller Apple Rice
Snack - Doughnut. Pants :-( Grapes & Fruisli bar
Snack - 6x custard cream biscuits. At 59cals each. Ooops!
Dinner - prawn & veg stir fry with rice

Weds (day 1 of Lent no chocolate!)

Breakfast - Rice crispies
Snack - grapes
Lunch - leftover pasta from last night & yoghurt
Snack - more effin grapes
Snack - 2x crumpets with Bertolli & jam
Dinner (of sorts) - 2x toast with cheese & ham
So no veg at all then, other than what was in the bolog sauce. No chocolate either! :-)

Tuesday

Breakfast - Rice crispies
Lunch - chicken & ham sarnie & yoghurt
Snack - grapes, banana
Snack - 2x Lindt Lindor chocs
Snack - 2x pancakes
Dinner - pasta bolognese & 2x squares dark choc

Glumday :-(

Weight - 11st 12lbs so up 1lb this week but I've eaten so much choc and bread over the lat few days I'm not suprised. I'm also not eating enough fruit & veg.
Breakfast - 2x Weetabix
Snack1 - Banana
Snack2 - some stupid idiot bought in chocolate cake for their birthday
Lunch - chicken & ham sarnie, greek yoghurt
Snack - grapes
Snack - 2x crumpets with bertolli & jam
Dinner - fajitas with chicken, pepper & ontion and salsa

Sunday

Breakfast - 2x egg omelette with 2x bacon
Lunch - beans on 2x toast
Snack - 4x Lindt Lindor chocs
Dinner - roast chicken, rice, brocolli,
Snack - 2x choc squares

Saturday

Will update in a bit

Friday

Will update in a bit

Thurzzzz...

I am going to start calorie counting again as I feel I'm slipping a bit.
Off with Aimee for a couple of days...
Breakfast - Aimee wanted a bacon sarnie! So I had a bacon and egg sarnie! 2x bacon (75cals), 2x bread (182cals + 54cals for 2x scrapings of Bertolli), 1x egg (89cals). Total of 400cals.
Lunch - one of those Innocent lunchpots, yum (280cals) + slice of bread (91cals)
Cinema (Hotel For Dogs, great for 7 year old girls) - Maltesers (187cals)
Dinner - chicken pilaf from a recipe. I left out the pine nuts but otherwise followed the recipe which is simply chicken thighs, onion, turmeric, rice, stock and you just brown the chicken & onion then chuck the lot in a cassarole dish in the oven for 20ish minutes - so WHY is it 780 cals per serving????? I didn't add lard or chocolate or cake or anything naughty. Hrmph :-(
Made stewed rhubarb for pud. With custard at 163cals per 1/3 of a tin.
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Total for the day (not including the rhubarb) - 1901cals!!! And there was me thinking I'd had a pretty good day!

Wednesday (week 6)

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Snack - Apple. Yes an apple, not a Twix!
Lunch - Chicken ceasar salad (low fat sauce). Yoghurt.
Snack - Fruisli bar, banana. Then Charlie bought in some biscuits. I had 3 and didn't bother looking at the cal content as I knew it would be high. Do I mention the doughnut at this point? I suppose so :-(
Dinner - 3 slices bacon, all fat cut off, pasta & veg in creme fraiche & parmesan sauce.

Tuesday

Breakfast - 2x Weetabix & milk
Snack - grapes, fruisli. Someone here bought M&S minibites in for their birthday, I had 4. At 90 calories each. Oh dear. And I was saved a choc-chip cookie from a meeting this morning I couldn't attend. Really yummy so bound to be loads of calories.
Lunch - homemade soup & roll and yoghurt
Snack - banana & fruisli before yoga
Dinner - 4x toast & marmite ahahahahahaha what happened to the healthy eating then eh?!

Monday

2lbs off this week! Down to 11st 11lbs. REALLY thought I might have put some on with all the rubbish I'm eating so am quite pleased. My eating habits are not perfect but i'm definitely eating less.
Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Snack1 - Fruisli (117cals)
Snack2 - Twix (284cals)off the trolley dolly that drives up to our office. Even as I was walking out to buysomething, I was thinking "I shouldn't be doing this, and it's a rip off at 60p!" but still bought one and ate it and enjoyed it :-P
Lunch - home made soup & a bread roll, Muller-rice (124cals)
Snacks pm - grapes
Got home from work at 830pm and resisted going to the chippy or even Sainsbury's round the corner to get a ready-meal and cooked chicken/veg/noodle stir-fry. Likely to have a square of choc in a bit (52cals) Not very good at counting calories these days, am I!!!

Sunday

Breakfast - Rice crispies
Lunch - toast & honey and sainsbury's pastry (again!)
Snack - 2x packets of Hula Hoops over the afternoon at Mandys
Dinner - roast chicken, dollop of mash and veg
2 glasses of wine

Saturday

errrrrmm.... lets see what I can remember...
Forgot breakfast, was in a hurry to get Aimee to dancing and simply forgot!!!
Snack - oops, sainsbury's pastry
Lunch - Pasta Bolognese
Snack - toast & marmite
Snack at the cinema - Haagen Daaz mini tub icecream
Dinner - warmed up Thursday nights pasta!

Friday

Breakkie - Christ Rispies
Snack - Feckin lunch van turned up at 11am , just as I was feeling peckish and had run out of grapes, so I bought a Twix 284cals. It was that or a bacon roll... I think I made the right choice!
Lunch - home made soup & roll. 260cals for the roll, no idea for the soup.
Snack - banana
Tea with Aimee - home made meatballs with home made sweet'n'sour sauce with rice. Yum! Then we made chocolate-orange muffins for pud!! They were nice and properly cooked but a bit dry and I can't work out why. I did use slightly-salted butter instead of soft margerine as I couldn't find any margerine in Sainsbury's, perhaps the slightly saltiness made them dry :-) Anyway, I had 4, which is 4 too many but heyho.

Thurs

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Snack - Grapes left over from yesterday
Lunch - homemade chicken & veg soup & a roll (260cals for the roll!)
Then I walked past Thorntons on the way back to work. Well, when I said I walked "past" Thorntons, I walked INTO Thorntons and then out again. Not out straight away, you understand, I bought a small bag of their Viennese truffles. 546cals per 100g. The bag was 130g. I gave 2 away so I probably had 120g. 655cals then. Oh dear! Oh well, it's done now. They're bloody lovely but I did feel a bit yuk after scoffing them. Serves me right.
Dinner with Aimee - ham and mushroom cheesy pasta bake. Loadsa cals probably.
I still think I'm generally eating OK, apart from the occasional naughty moment (655cals worth of naughty moment today!) and I'm def eating less rubbish than I used to.
Oh and I got into another pair of smaller trousers this morning :-D

Wedsday

Breakfast - 2x toast & marmite
Lunch - Chicken sarnies & yoghurt. Oh and 4 Lindt Lindor choccies
Snack1 - Banana
Snack2 - Bag of hula Hoops. 127cals
Dinner - Fresh pasta and bolog sauce. Actually the pasta was frozen when fresh, does that still make it fresh?

Tuesday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Snack - Banana
Lunch - chicken sarnie with scraping of mayo, greek yoghurt with honey. And I bought GRAPES from the market on the way back having NOT bought chocolate in Boots!
Snack about 4pm - 2x toast & marmite
Dinner with Aimee - home made chicken nuggets. chips & peas. And it was all going so well too... <...sigh...>

ICED BUNS IN WEIGHT LOSS SHOCK!!!!

Only 1lb down but that's still 1lb down! Back down to 11st13lbs :-D I seriously thought I was going to have put a few pounds on during the last week
Breakfast - 2x toast & 1x egg
Snack - Banana & grapes
Lunch - homemade chicken & veg soup & roll. Oh and a Twix (284cals, for the Twix). See if I'd bothered to walk down the road to the bakers to get a roll instead of getting one off the Salmonella Express wagon that comes round, it would have been cheaper and I wouldn't have been able to buy the Twix :-)
Snack - 4x Maryland choc chip cookies at 57cals each (228cals then). I never usually buy yummy biccies but Aimee had a friend back for tea and I always buy nice things when she has friends back.
Dinner - homemade Annabel Karmel's kids chicken curry. Really nice. No idea how many calories. Prob about 1/2 breast of chicken, then just veg plus korma paste & 200mls coconut milk.
Just a warning, it's week 4 of 4 (girls) so I'm likely to have a very sweet tooth this week ;-)

Sunday

Breakfast - porridge & chopped apple & tsp golden syrup
Lunch - cheese & onion sarnie (412cals) & chocolate twist pastry
Snack - banana
Dinner - roast chicken with rice, carrots, leeks & mushrooms & 1sq choc

Shatterday...

Oh dear... here goes.....
Breakfast - 2x egg scrambled egg plus 2x toast
Snack on the way into work - 1x Sainsbury's chocolate twist pastry
Snack at work - grapes
Lunch - Sainsburys microwave Red Thai Curry (592cals)
Snack on the way to Mandy's - Twix. All of it this time.
Dinner at Mandy's as I was there a long time helping her build furniture - delivery pizza. I had half a medium one, the rest is in the fridge for her friend's son tomorrow. Oh and a few potato twizzlers and one out of four garlic bread.
Ho hum... I bet I've put on a pound or six this week
Oh yes, Mum, Mark IS on Facebook now and his profile is open for anyone to view, interesting to see a few names I recognise on there!

Friday

Breakfast - 2x Weetabix
Snack - Banana
Lunch - homemade chicken & veg soup & bread roll.
Ooops - iced ring doughnut
Dinner - sausages, mash & peas

Seriously bad day (food wise!)

Breakfast - Rice crispies zzzzzzzzz.....
Lunch - cheese & ham sarnie from Boots on the train up to London, I didn't even think to look at the calories. Shared a twix with Charlie.
Pre Business Briefing snackette - 1x mini choc muffin
Dinner in the pub - sausages & mash & onion gravy, then apple & "waabsby" (baby-Aimee way of saying raspberry) crumble and custard. Don't mention the beer. HogsBack Brewery "TEA" very nice.

Wednesday

Back to school thank god.
Breakfast - porridge + 1/2 apple. 191cals for a portion of porridge with water, what would that be with milk then?
Snack - 2 of Charlies cookies, thank goodness he's leaving (101 cals each. 202 cals then).
Lunch - my yummy homemade chicken/veg soup, no idea of calories. 1 bread roll (150cals?). Snack - Oh dear, 1 iced bun. in fact I might as well say 2 iced buns as there's a spare sitting here and I'm more than likely going to eat it!
Not having a good food week so far, no motivation and all I want to do is eat!
Dinner - chicken & veg stirfry.
Update - I only had a 1/3 of the 2nd iced-bun, I shared it. But to make up for it I bought a pain au chocolat when Aimee and I popped into Sainsbury's on the way home. Aimee's fault, she wanted one for pudding and put one in the bag for me too. Aaaaah! :-)
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Running Total - gazillions. Not good at keeping this up am I... but how do you work out how many calories are in home made soup???

Chewsday

Breakfast - 2x toast, bertolli, 1x egg
Snack - 1x banana, 1x flippin choc cupcake.. They've all gone now thank god!
Lunch - Leek & potato soup + bread roll
Snack - Got shaky hungry about 4pm so had 4x "Nice" biccies
Dinner - home-made Toad In The Hole. Yummy! 3x chipolatas, batter (just flour, egg and milk but probably loads of calories), broccoli, onion gravy.

SnowDay

Got on the scales this morning, exactly 12stone again. Nothing gained tho which is good.
Breakfast - 1 & 1/2 boiled eggs (Aimee only ate half of hers!) plus 2x toast
Lunch - recipe from a magazine "Oven-Baked Chicken Pilaff" which consisted of chicken drumsticks (2 each), rice, veg and herbs & spices and it was lovely but 784cals per serving which is ridiculous.
Snack - 2 of Aimee's choc muffins
Snack - 2x slice honey sandwich
Dinner. Am not hungry so not going to eat anything! Well, not yet anyway :-)
Snackette - 1x carrot, 1x pitta, hummous.
And then I ruined it by having another one of those flippin 134cal Fabulous Baking Boys choc cupcakes! I'm obviously laying down a layer of fat to see me through the harsh winter we have coming up :-)

Sunday

Breakfast - 2x Weetabix
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Dropped Aimee at Sunday School and went to Sainsburys local as usual and RESISTED the aroma wafting around from the bakery section and just bought the paper and other bits and pieces but NO pains au chocolat!!! Bloody miracle!
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Snack - 4x "nice" biscuits. I'd Goolge them but somehow think putting "nice biscuits" into google will take some searching to come up with the brand "nice"!
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Lunch - roast chicken, 4x small quarters of potatoes, 2 homemade yorkshires which were mostly air and burnt bits, veg. No pud. Well, not until a bit later on when I scoffed 2 of Aimee's Fabulous Baking Boys choc fairy cakes!
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Tea - Covent Garden tomato soup & bread roll (132cals for the soup and 150 for the roll)

Saturday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies. Again. (180cals)
Lunch - Pasta Bolognese.
Snack - Honey sandwich. (91+91+27+27+17cals, total of 253cals). Huh. Wanted something (proper) sweet as Aimee had a choc-spread sandwich after dancing early afternoon
Snack - carrots, melba toast & hummous
Dinner - Veg soup plus bread roll. (163cals for the soup, 150 for the roll)
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Running Total - oh I don't know, loads ...

FFS Friday

I'm amusing myself logging in here for the first time today early evening whilst scoffing a "Divine" Double Choc-Chip Muffin at 387cals per 100g. No idea how much it weighed as I'd inhaled it by the time I remembered I should have weighed it!!!!!!! I've had a bad day so far so thought what the hell.
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Breakfast - Rice Crispies (180cals)
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Lunch - All day meeting at Waterloo and we were fed M&S sarnies for lunch. I had a chicken one which was still 470 cals, crisps 195cals, orange/rasperry juice 105cals. Blimey.
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Dinner - Salmon with pasta in an orange creme fraiche sauce with cherry tomatoes. 293cals for the salmon, 51cals for the creme fraiche and 211cals for the pasta. Total of 555cals for dinner. And then I started scoffin the muffin! Will log onto their website to see how much the thing weighed and report back :-)
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Total - 1505 and that's WITHOUT the muffin! AAAAAAAAAARGH!

Thursday

Breakfast - Porridge, at Aimee's request, with 1/2 an apple and a tspn of golden syrup (250cals)
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Meeting at Waterloo til lunchtime and I avoided M&S on the way home! Went to Greggs and got tomato soup and a roll. Charlie's just gone out to lunch and I've asked him to get me some "...grapes, not chocolate, grapes...I really don't want chocolate, just get me some grapes" but he says he's going to get chocolate and put it on my desk to test my resistance! (300cals for lunch)
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So he bought me some grapes back but he also bloody bought a box of those Sainsburys Taste The Difference Triple-Choc Cookies. At 104cals each. I had three :-(
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Dinner - I had the sticky chicken couscous thing again as it was lovely. Tried to shortcut the cooking by stirfrying the chicken/marmalade/mustard mix but it wasn't as nice as grilled, still tasted lovely tho! (396cals)
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Total - 250+300+312+396 = 1258cals.
Hmmnnn... so without the biccies that would have been an officially good day at 946cals. Pants!

Trying to have a better day...

Breakkie - 2x toast, bertolli & honey (236cals)
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Lunch - I've just had an Innocent Tasty Veg Pot "Moroccan Squash Tagine" with giant couscous and fresh coriander and it was bloody lovely! (296cals)
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Pub - 2 white wine & lemonades, bag of Mini Chedders (260cals) and picked at nachos
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Dinner - smal portion of chilli con carne (175cals for the rice and a guess at 100cals for the sauce which was homemade with mincemeat, tomatos etc)
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Total - 967cals minus the nachos and wine. Much better day :-) Resisted the biccies at work which I'm pleased about

OK so I'm having a bad week......

Breakfast - 2 toast with over half a tin of baked beans. (91cals per toast, 27cals per Bertolli, 151cals per half tin of beans but I'm rounding that up to 200cals.)
Total for breakkie 436cals. Ooops.
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Lunch - I was at Waterloo for a meeting this morning so popped into M&S foodhall and bought rare beef & horseradish sandwich (395cals) and then I went to look for the yogurts. I found them but they were on a lower shelf. At eye level were the profiterole desserts. I looked at them, picked up a yoghurt, held it in my hand but it juuuuuust didn't feel right. So I put it back and picked up a profiterole dessert which was far more ergonomically comfortable in my hand, just as if it belonged there. 448cals. Ah well.
Total for lunch - 843cals.
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Running total for the day - 1279cals. I did hear on the radio this morning that the average woman should be consuming 2000 calories per day to ensure she gets all the right nutrients :-)
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Picked on Aimee's tea, in fact prob had a very small portion rather than just picked. Pasta bolognese, homemade sauce rather than Dolmio. I've worked out 100cals for the pasta plus 20 for the sauce.
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Yoga. Knackered, didn't work very hard.
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Snack - thought about toast and honey on the way home mmmnnnnn. But had carrots, melbe toast & hummous. 173cals for the hummous plus 78cals for the melba toast. Total 251cals.
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Total for the day - 1650cals!!!! That's the most I've had in 3 weeks! Really could do with some chocolate... Maltesers... Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Belgian Choc Truffles... Penguin biscuits...... Aaaaaargh!

Muscle weighs more than fat, right? ;-)

Plus 1lb this morning, so back up to 12st :-(
However, I've done a lot of exercise in the last week so I reckon the fat's turning into muscle (obviously, what other reason could there be?!) as I feel better physically and my clothes are looser... but I've put on a pound! I did think last weeks loss was a bit of a fluke as I actually ate next to nothing on the Sunday whereas yesterday I ate quite a lot plus a roast quite late on in the day.
Breakfast - Rice crispies (180cals)
Snack - Banana (95cals)
Lunch - Covent Garden leek & potato soup (150cals) & multiseed roll (178cals), Yoghurt (112cals)
Oooops... 2x Cadburys Heroes Bourneville choccies (47cals each according to t'internet)
Dinner - sticky chicken & mango couscous mmmmmnnnnn......! 369cals per portion apparently but I also had half of Aimee's small portion because even though I thought it was delicious, she hated it! 500cals. Oooops :-)
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Running Total - 1309cals

Sunday

Breakfast - Rice Crispies (180cals)
4 & 1/2 mile soggy walk with Mum
Lunch - Porridge with 1/2 apple and a tspn of golden syrup (250cals incl the apple etc)
Snack - roll with cheese and ham (178cals for the roll, 19 for the ham, 50g at a guess for the cheese. Total of 248cals)
Running Total - 680cals
Dinner - Roast pork, veg, 4 small roast spuds. NO idea of calories! Say 420cals to round it up to a days total of ... 1100cals? Weigh day tomorrow, I bet i've not lost another 5lbs. Hopefully lost a couple but will be happy if I've not put any of those 5 back on.
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Total for the day - 1100 cals

Saturday

Breakfast - 2x toast & marmite (256cals)
Lunch - egg sarnie with 2x toast (325cals)
Feeling crap so likely to be a crap food day :-)
Small bowl of melon
Cinema then curry. About a coffee mugs worth of sweet popcorn (405cals per 100g, I reckon I had about 50g, so 200cals) then behaved myself with the curry.
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Total for the day - 781 not incl the curry, I reckon 1200 in total (420 for the curry; I shared a rice and veg and had most of one meat dish to myself. No bread or bharji's or any added extras!)

The Wrong Trousers!!!!

In the midst of a clothes crisis this morning with me chucking clothes round the room wondering what the hell to wear to work, I tried on a pair of trousers a size smaller than my normal size and they fit!!!! So I'm very pleased about that :-)
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Breakfast - Rice crispies (180cals)
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Snack - Fruisli bar (118cals)
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Lunch - Jacket potato with tuna/pepper/mayo filling. Was loads but apart from the trousers I'm feeling pathetic and sorry for myself and wanted some comfort food, same with the Fruisli bar, I wasn't hungry, just comfort eating . I'll say 400cals for the jack-pot. No idea really.
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Big OOOOOPS.... super-yummy left-over cakes from a meeting, I had a choc-fudge-shortbread triangle, lovely but about 150 calories and that's probably on the low side. I did look at The Quality Street and they're 147cals per 4 sweets so I put them back!
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Dinner - Chicken & veg pasta in creme fraiche sauce. (133cals for the chicken, 60g of pasta at 211cals & 51cals for the creme fraiche. Total 395cals).
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Total : 1243cals

HELP!!!!!!!! There's biscuits and a tub of Cadbury's Hero's in the office!

Breakfast - 1xegg (91cals I think) scrambled egg plus 2x bacon (37.5cals each, so 75cals). NO TOAST!!! Lets see how long I last with no carbs!
Total for breakkie - 166cals
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Snack - Banana. I held out til 11am! (95cals)
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Lunch - Mocassins, same as yesterday zzzzzzzzz...... plus bowl of chopped fruit same as yesterday (354+44cals)
Total for lunch - 398cals
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I'm managing to resist the chocs so far......
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Ooops.... 1x choc chip biscuit during mid-afternoon low point (68cals per biscuit according to the pack)
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Dinner - salmon with rice in a ginger/sherry/soy tomato sauce with shallots & pepper. 131g salmon, so 187cals according to my "Nutriscales"!! And 60g of rice, 222cals. Plus 45 cals for the tinned tomatos and I'll add 20cals for the veg & olive oil .
Total for dinner 474cals.
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1 square dark choc (52cals)
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Total for the day : 1253cals

Breakfast - 2x Weetabix with semi-skimmed milk and 1/3 tspn sugar (127cals for the 2x Weetabix, plus 200ml milk at a guess, 90cals plus 5cals for the sugar. Total 222cals))
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Snack - a bowl of chopped strawberries, melon and grapes (44cals, based on http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/ calories per serving)
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Really hungry for some reason but held out til lunch which was a pair of beige moccasins. Well, that's what it looked like. I had 2 wholemeal pitta bread with salad, a bit of chicken, a scraping of bertolli and some low fat french dressing. (127cals per pitta, I reckon half a breasts worth of chicken so 100cals? So 354cals) Oh and a 118cal yoghurt.
Total for lunch : 472cals
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Ooops... 1x choc biscuit (85cals, blimey)
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1/2km swim (20 lengths) whilst Aimee had her swimming lesson.
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Dinner - veggie pasta in Dolmio chilli sauce. I used 60g of pasta, it looked like a tiny portion but it was enough. (210cals for the pasta, 87 for the sauce according to the packet. 297cals in total)
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Total for the day : 1120cals

Tuesday

Breakfast - 2x toast with Bertolli & Marmite (256cals)
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Snack - All day meeting and lunch wasn't going to be til 1pm so I had a banana about 1130. (95cals)
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Lunch - 5 quarters of sandwiches, a small sausage roll and a handfull of grapes. Thank god there were no cakes or crisps, I have zero willpower! In fact, thank god I was in the meeting as someone showed me a go-round email on his Blackberyy saying there were birthday cakes in the kitchen!!!!! I reckon 300cals for the sarnies.
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Aimee has Chloe round for tea and I made them chicken nuggets and there were a few left over so I ate those! I had 6; same as before they're homemade so juct chicken breast, breadcrumbs and grating of chedder and parmesan cheese. But I would have had something about now anyway. Going to really hard yoga class tonight so need the energy :-) No idea on calories so going to allow 150cals as they were healthy ones, does that sound fair? in fact, will Google it in a bit.
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Dinner - another sodding chicken/veg stirfry. 217cals for the noodles and 138cals for the chicken. Plus veg & olive oil, I'd guess 50cals, so 405cals
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Total : 1206cals.

WAHAAAAAY!!! <...smug emoticon...>

Got on the scales this morning and just by watching what I eat a bit I have lost FIVE LBS in the week!!! I had to get on the scales twice to make sure! I was 12-4 last Monday (ask Mandy, whenever she asks me how much I weigh, I always say "about 12-4" and last Monday I was exactly that) and this morning I was 11-13!!! That's the first time I've been under 12stone in over a year!!! Wahoooooooo!!!
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Breakfast - Dust (zero calories). Only kidding... Rice crispies (180cals)
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OK, so I couldn't resist birthday cakes at work, I had one jam doughnut. But I resisted for 23 minutes after the email came out whereas usually I'd be first at the trough! Google search shows 287cals per 100g of M&S doughnut, it was a small one so I'm halving-ish that, 150cals.
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Lunch - Boots Shapers chicken tikka flatbread (263cals). And I'll have the apple I bought in (80cals)
Total for lunch - 343cals
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Snack at 5pm - 1 toast, bertolli & marmite (120cals). Starving... and going swimming when Aimee goes to Brownies at 6 and there's no way I'd have got through til dinner without something.
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20 lengths swim whilst Aimee was at Brownies
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Dinner - pasta (352cals), bacon (2 slices, 75cals according to the pack), creme fraiche (51cals) and veg. Total 478cals. Was masses, less pasta next time but 100g is what's recommended as a portion so that's what I went with.
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Total for the day : 1271cals

Sunday

Breakfast - 2x toast & jam
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Lunch - 2x egg omelette with 2x ham, 2x mushrooms and a grating of cheese
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3-mile walk round Chilworth with Aimee and Gogga today.
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Snacks - 4, yes FOUR (!), Ginger Nut biscuits... at 53cals each. A whopping waste of 212cals then. Blimey. In fact I only stuck at four as I got Mum to take the pack off me and chuck it. Well, she said she was going to chuck it but it went into her house with her when I dropped her home... She had one when I had my four. I think I have a ginger fetish; ginger cake, ginger biscuits, ginger men...
Just had carrots, melba toast (6x 13cals) and 1/5 tub of humous as well as I will be doing Aimee-stuff til about 8 and so won't eat til half past.
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Not really hungry enough for "proper" dinner so just had a yoghurt and banana and that's enough. Will work out cals this weekend in a bit. Getting on the scales tomorrow!

Saturday (Aimee weekend)

Breakfast - Rice Crispies (180cals)
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Lunch - Pasta bolognese. Will work out the calories later, I have no idea at the mo. I had far less of a bowl-full that I would have normally done. Also half a tin of peaches.
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Snack - Jam sarnie, Aimee's fault, she's permanantly hungry and wanted a sarnie. I couldn't resist.
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I'm currently doing Aimee's tea, she's asked for fishfingers, chips and peas. I got her to count out exactly how many chips and fishfingers she wanted (9 chips and 2 fishfingers!) so that's ALL I'm cooking so I can't have any! I bought some grapes so whilst she's eating tea, I'll have those. Can't wait.
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Dinner will be salmon and veg and maybe couscous depending on calorie running total once I've worked it out!
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Right... I didn't touch any of Aimee's chips! I had rice with dinner as I was hungry, I measured out what should be a serving of rice, 50g, and had that with 125g salmon and veg and it was LOADS. Also had 1square of choc.

Pants :-(

Breakfast - Rice crispies (180cals)
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Snack - banana (143cals) Tried to resist but I'm hungry. Seems ridiculous to worry about eating a pice of fruit because of it's calorie content when fruit's good for you :-(
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Lunch - Covent Garden tomato & basil soup (132cals) plus granary roll (153cals)
Total for lunch : 285cals (so about as much as a Shapers sarnie from Boots then!)
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B*llocks. Someone bought cakes in for their birthday. I had 2 slices of Mr.Kipling's chocolate slices at 132 cals each (according to the packet). I would have only had one slice but they come cellophane wrapped in two's and it wouldn't do to take one and leave an opened packet (ahem). 264cals then. But it's "that" week of the month so I'm allowed some chocolate aren't I!!
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Oooops... I needed some change for the carpark for Aimee's hospital visit this afternoon so popped into the shop to get some tic-tacs and walked out with some tic-tacs...... and a Cadbury's Creme Egg :-( It is SO unfair the way they put them on display just as you walk in the shop and at the tills. I am not to blame for their crafty marketing tecniques. However, I am entirely to blame for eating the damn thing... as I opened it, I thought "I have a choice here..." and proceeded to eat the whole thing in half a nano-second! Just gonna Google the calories, hold on... 150cals. Less than I thought but still 150 too much! Def having a choc craving today.
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Total for the day so far is 1022cals of which 414cals are from chocolate, what a waste! I'd only be on 608cals if I'd not had the choc. Healthy dinner coming up.
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OK. I lied. I had 2x toast and marmite for tea. That's hardly healthy. 236 cals. Plus a 284ml bottle of Stella 115cals. Pants.
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Total for the day : 1373cals

Attempting to start reducing intake, day 1...

Breakfast - 1x egg scrambled egg (89cals), 1x toast (91cals), bertolli (27cals).
Total 207cals.
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Lunch - Boots Shapers chicken & salad roll (257cals), yoghurt (151cals) and orange juice (142cals). I've not eaten the yoghurt and have only had half the orange juice and they're sat on my desk together with a banana and an apple. Now I'm looking at it all thinking that's all quite healthy stuff but there's about 400 calories in the lot! Boots do a Meal Deal and the roll and yoghurt would have been more expensive on their own so I got the juice as well to make up the 3 items in their Meal Deal. I'm going to eat the yoghurt later on when I get peckish as I've eaten the roll and am not hungry right now.
Total for lunch : 550cals. Shed loads :-(
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Please note I refrained from a midmorning snack but had 2 cups of tea instead!! Woah! (10cals)
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Dinner – Mark’s birthday so Aimee and I met him in Pizza Hut (Aimee’s choice because of the Ice Cream Factory!). This was going to be a challenge but I had salad starter rather than cheesy garlic bread and salmon & spinach pasta bake rather than pizza. Oh and a couple of small glasses of wine. So I’m saying 500 calories which is probably light but I’m giving myself some negative calories here for NOT HAVING ANY DESSERT!!! Oh yes… I did NOT have pud! Ask Mark! Ask Aimee! AND they do profiteroles which are my absolute favourite and I was sorely tempted but resisted!!! I’d pat myself on the back if I could reach
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It was interesting today to notice the only time when I was hungry. Usually I’d have a mid morning snack but I wasn’t hungry (just bored at work!) so didn’t have anything. For lunch I had the roll and wasn’t then hungry til about 3 when I had the yoghurt. But I got hungry at about 530pm, really really shaky-hungry, but held out til Pizza Hut. I clearly need something about 430. Will try that tomorrow.
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Total for the day : 1267cals

I nearly fell over!!

Breakfast - 2x toast & marmite on the way to work (236cals)
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Snack - I wasn't hungry but had a Fruisli bar as it was sat on my desk! (118cals)
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Lunch!!! - I went to Boots, haven't been there for ages and thought I'd have a look at what I would usually get for lunch, it would have been something like this... Shapers chicken wrap (279cals), Walkers S&V crisps (an unbelievable 263cals) and a tiny strawberry mousse cheesecake (273cals) so a shocking 815cals just for lunch... and that's before the packet of Minstrels would have fallen into my basket!!!!!! So probably 1000cals then... EEEEEEEEK!!!
So today I had the wrap (279cals) with a greek yoghurt (151cals).
Total for lunch : 430cals. That still sounds a lot :-(
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Snack - 1x Braeburn apple (80cals... that is SO unfair).
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420pm- I wasn't hungry when I had that apple an hour ago, just bored. I'm craving something sweet now, proper sweet, like chocolate... mmmnnnnnn... How on earth do I get rid of this sugar craving? And DON'T suggest grapes Mum! Aaaaargh!
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Between getting home and taking Aimee swimming I was starving and had the crusts from Aimee's ham sandwich. I reckon that's about 1/4 of a slice of bread (25cals)
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Dinner... aaaaaaargh :-( :-( I made risotto with chicken and veg. I weighed out the single "portion" of Arborio rice and the packet says 279cals!! WHY????? :-( So, 100g chicken (157cals) and a shallot, pepper, asparagus, leek and chestnut mushrooms. I looked at cals on the olive oil, 41cals per teaspoon!!!!!!!!! I cooked it all but didn't eat it all as there was loads, I guess I ate 3/4. Total for dinner : 358cals
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Total for the day : 1247cals

Tuesday

Breakfast - Rice crispies (180cals)
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Snack - Fruisli (118cals)
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I'm HUNGRY... and still an hour til midday :-(
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Lunch - Covent Garden veg soup (163cals), bread roll (153cals), Activia yoghurt (118cals). So a grand total of 434 cals which is way over a third of my daily allowance for a bloody boring lunch!
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Oh dear... had a portion of chicken nuggets and chips when Aimee had her tea. I wasn't going to, honest, but there were loads left over :-( They were home made chicken nuggets so just chicken breast, flour, egg, grating of cheddar & parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs. The chips were Auntie Bessie's and bloody lovely. I had about 8. I have no idea how many calories so will make the running total up to 1000 (so about 250cals). Oh bugger... I also had half Aimee's fudge bar (115 cals for the whole tiny bar!) plus a few of her sweeties, will say 80 cals. Gawd.... I'm not enjoying this honesty policy!
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Going to yoga later, will have something sensible afterwards. Sawdust perhaps... slightly more interesting than dust!
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Dinner after yoga, wasn't that hungry so was sensible (I think!) and had carrots & melba toast with humous (222cals)
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Total : 1302 cals

Weigh In

Got on the scales this morning and I weigh exactly what I thought I did, the same as before christmas and 1 stone more than my pre-pregnancy weight which is what I want to get back to. I guess putting on just one stone in eight years isn't that bad but I'd still like to lose it
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Breakfast - Rice crispies (180 cals)
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Snack - 1 banana (143 calories, that's an annoyingly huge amount of calories for something not very interesting)
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Lunch - Covent Garden leek & potato soup (150cals) plus bread roll (153cals), Danone Activia yoghurt (118cals). Total for lunch 421cals
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Snack - 1/5 pot humous plus melba toast and carrots. 222cals. That is SO unfair :-(
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Dinner - salmon fillet and onion/pepper/courgette/leek ratatouille (231 cals for the salmon and 45 for the tomatoes, so 276cals). Oh, almost forgot the square of choc I'm currently nibbling (52cals) and ... errr ... the tiny cake at work. It really was small, finger buffet stylee; I'm saying 100cals for that.
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Total for the day : 1394 cals :-(
Exercise : 20min swim whilst Aimee was at Brownies; completely knackering, I am so unfit!!

Sunday bloody Sunday

Breakfast - 2x toast (182cals), Bertolli (54cals), Marmite, 1x cuppa (5cals for the sugar)
Total for breakfast : 241cals
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Lunch - garlic & ginger prawn stirfry with noodles, onion, courgette & pepper. 217 cals for the noodles, 60 for the prawns, I'm saying zero for the veg (until someone tells me otherwise!) and there's 3cals in 5mls on soy sauce; god, there's calories in everything. Also a petit filous yoghurt, 104cals.
Total for lunch : 374cals.
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I square Lindt dark choc (52cals)
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Snack - Only 4 Jacobs Cream Crackers (34, yes THIRTY FOUR calories PER cracker!!) 27cals of Bertolli and 25g cheese (41cals). Total 204cals :-(
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Dinner - Jacket potato (250g, 136cals per 100g, so 340cals), with Bertolli (27cals), 50g of cheese (82cals) and 2 sausages (123cals each, so 246cals). Total for dinner... 695cals!!!! Oh, and one of Aimee's Opal Fruits or Starburst or whatever they're called!
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Running Total for the day : 1566cals. Hmmnnn.... I thought I had a good day, this isn't easy :-(

Saturday

Breakfast - rice crispies with milk and 1/3 tsp sugar. I can't believe I did this but I weighed out the amount they recommend as a portion (30g)!! It's about what I would have anyway. 180cals.
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Am resisting the urge to snack before lunchtime.
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Cuppa tea with 1/3 sugar - 1 so far. I've just Googled calories in sugar and there are 15 calories (& 0.5 WW points) in a tsp of sugar.
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Lunch - I made a 1x egg omelette with onion, courgette, pepper, mushroom and 2 slices of ham (38 cals for the ham plus 89 cals for the egg, so 127 cals, not bad. Notice I ignored any possible calories in the veg!) Petit Filous yoghurt (104 cals).
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My 3 sisters dropped out of this afternoons planned walk one by one for a variety of excuses... errrrr... reasons, so I traipsed the 3&1/2 miles by myself, it was beautiful. Classic mistake of stopping in at The Lucky Duck for a cuppa ... and had a slice of their ginger cake! That's Mandy's fault; I wouldn't have eaten anything if she'd been there! About a gazillion calories I should think (will say 200cals, I haven't a clue). Going out for a curry tonight. Oh dear.
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So 621cals today so far... before dinner anyway!
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Lovely curry and a couple of drinks. Loads of calories tho :-(

Dust for dinner

Breakfast - 2xegg scrambled egg, 1x toast, Bertolli spread (Total 296cals)
Snack - Petit filous (104cals) and yummy Kellogs Rice Crispie Caramel bar (151cals & 40% sugar!) I wasn't hungry but wanted a sugar fix.
3x cuppa tea in total all day
Total Cals so far : 551 and it's not even lunchtime yet!
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Lunch. Huh... Oh dear... Went to M&S as it's closest and I was busy. Reduced fat hummous & carrots (156cals), poached salmon & watercress sarnie on 2x vrown bread (355cals), large fruit salad (130cals but counts as 3 of your 5-a-day!). So a total of 641cals. Just for lunch :-(
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Total Cals : 1192. That's it, I'm having dust for dinner!
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Blew the budget tonight with a Sainsburys Thai red chicken curry and sticky rice microwave meal. My excuse being it's soooo cold that anywhere in this house other than in front of the fire, you turn to ice, including the kitchen, so I physically couldn't cook :-) I'm not telling you how many calories were in it but it wasn't the negative number I was looking for! One square of 52cals yummy Lindt choc also inhaled this evening.

Day 2

My god, I can get onto here at work!!!
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Breakfast - 1 egg (89cals), 1 toast (91cals) with Bertolli (27cals per tsp) Total = 207cals
Snack - Fruisli (118cals)
Lunch - mug of clearly watered down tomato soup & soft roll from Greggs. Resisted the yum-yums :-)
2x tea with 1/3 sugar so far
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oooops.... just succumed to the biscuits at work, one custard cream sized shortbread consumed!!
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I had nothing else to eat between the naughty biscuit and dinner but was starving and it took a lot to not eat anything. Looks like I need something late afternoon if I'm eating later than about half five. Had one more cuppa in the afternoon.
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Dinner (with Aimee) - mustard chicken and carrot & celeriac mash with mange tout. (Really suprised Aimee liked and ate all the mash but she said she only liked it a little bit!). No idea of cals for dinner. Nothing in veg surely (Mum?). Also had half a tin of peaches in fruit juice (89cals according to the tin, for half a tin!)
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I really fancy something sweet (proper sweet, peaches don't count!) so I might have a square of dark chocolate later (woah, steady on!), I just checked the packaging, it's only 52cals per square! I might have two squares...... woooooooheeee!!!
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One petit filous yoghurt (104cals). Have managed to ignore the choc, and Kellogs Rice Crispie Caramel Squares, so far... until just now, one square of Lindt dark choc, 52cals.

Breakfast - 2 slices brown bread with Bertolli & Marmite whilst dashing out the door
Snacks - banana and Fruisli bar (Jordans Wild Berries, 118kcal per bar Mum!)
Lunch - M&S beef/mustard/salad sandwich on 2 slices white bread. Also M&S creme caramel.
Snack - 6 Jacobs cream crackers with cheese (brie & cheddar) plus a few grapes
Dinner - not really hungry but just going to cook chicken stir fry, with noodles, 1/2 a pepper and onion with light soy sauce
Have also had 3 cups of tea with semi-skimmed milk and about 1/3 of a spoon of sugar in each cup.
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Thurs 8th Jan - Forgot to mention I had 3 biccies at work on Wednesday afternoon :-(