Lucy's diary

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Eats

Breakfast (281)- 35g oats cooked with 180g almond milk, 1 egg, sweetener, vanilla, and 1 serve choc PB prepared and half stirred through

Snack (184)- protein balls

Lunch (484)- Salmon, 1 cup brown rice, steamfresh veg mix, 1 tsp sriracha

Snack (39)- Light jelly, kombucha

Dinner (365) Chow mein mince (basically lean mince, cabbage, carrot and a powdered recipe mix lol) and a serve of black bean pasta. Holy volume Batman. This was a whole piled up plate.

Totals 1353 calories, 104 carb, 46 fat, 113 protein

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Went grocery shopping last night and stocked up on soups and ProYo as I have that random orthodontist appointment on Monday, just assuming he's going to be as aggressive with my poor top teeth as last time (doesn't look like the angle has changed much to me in the last 3 weeks). Have I mentioned how much I love grocery shopping? Haha!

I actually plan out the majority of my meals a whole fortnight in advance in case anyone is wondering. Every day I have set as to what kind of meat/protein I'm eating for lunch and dinner (white/ red/ seafood/ vegetarian) and plan around it (it's also why whatever I have for dinner is my leftovers for lunch the next day) and I rotate my breakfasts so I eat the same thing on the same day each week. It's handy when I grocery shop- I usually grab anything for the pantry/ freezer for the fortnight and get fresh stuff as needed. I just use my snacks to fill calorie/macro gaps.

Also I talk about calorie averages a lot- I track all that stuff with an excel spreadsheet so I don't have to work it out. I love spreadsheets.
 
Oh, your food always looks yummy, Lucy. I'll keep an eye out for the tea gardens kombucha & try some. I loved the one I had the other day & thought I would buy some online, but bought a ginger & lemon one at the supermarket for $5 for a 6oo ml one, but in plastic & thought I would try that before I order any. Is yours in glass or plastic & is that a 750 ml bottle? What do you usually pay for it? The 250 ml cans are $3 each, but that would be very convenient & it's free postage. How much do you drink each day?
 
cate said:
Oh, your food always looks yummy, Lucy. I'll keep an eye out for the tea gardens kombucha & try some. I loved the one I had the other day & thought I would buy some online, but bought a ginger & lemon one at the supermarket for $5 for a 6oo ml one, but in plastic & thought I would try that before I order any. Is yours in glass or plastic & is that a 750 ml bottle? What do you usually pay for it? The 250 ml cans are $3 each, but that would be very convenient & it's free postage. How much do you drink each day?
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I saw you looked up the kombucha, yea it's in plastic unfortunately. I think you can only try them in random health food stores too. I drink one a day every afternoon. I really like the remedy brand too, apple crisp is my favourite!
 
Haha, my dad is absolutely obsessed with grocery shopping as well. We have a thing in one of the supermarkets here that if you spend 50 euro, you get 10 euro off, so he wanders around and calculates how to get to the 50 euro on the button or only going a few cents over. Grocery shopping is a complete game to him.
 
Emilyrose said:
Haha, my dad is absolutely obsessed with grocery shopping as well. We have a thing in one of the supermarkets here that if you spend 50 euro, you get 10 euro off, so he wanders around and calculates how to get to the 50 euro on the button or only going a few cents over. Grocery shopping is a complete game to him.
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I love it. Meal inspiration!!!

Meghan258 said:
where I can buy a protein balls?
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I am in Australia and purchased those ones from a near use by date/ deleted items website called catch.com.au as protein bars etc are quite dear. It means I can buy a box of something for $10 instead of $40 and usually the best before is still 2 months away, or if it's a deleted line sometimes you still have a year! It's the only way I purchase those things otherwise they're like $3-5ea. Pharmacies or supermarkets usually have a range though, watch out for specials!
 
Guys... there was an enormous spider on the footpath on my walk today... jumped so high. Why couldn't it have stayed in the trees or in someone's house like a normal spider!??
 
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Fooooooood

Breakfast (405)- French toast with 5g butter

Snack (196)- protein bar

Lunch (365)- leftovers

Snack (106)- Light jelly, kombucha, mini choc rice cakes

Dinner (320)- Mountain bread chicken sausage roll with 15g sugar free tomato sauce, 110g roasted broccoli with a shake of cheesy bacon seasoning

Totals 1392 calories, 109 carb, 59 fat, 115 protein
 
Ok. Full disclosure and all that. Said I'd post all my food this week. So. If you're triggered by shitty food scroll on by.

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This happened.

So. Todays actual totals.

4202 calories, 448 carb, 204 fat, 164 protein.

'Scuse me while I go and have a heart attack. :rotflmao:

Ok but for real though :smash::smash::smash::smash:

I realised the way this was going and just went with it (which is about the moment I decided to take a photo) then threw out the rest of the choc coated rice cakes as it seems any kind of regular sugary stuff is a trigger. So I'm not letting that stuff sneak into the house anymore.

I'll also be real, I normally finish eating most days at around 3 or 4pm and I ate this between 6.30-7pm so I know I'm going to be pretty overfull tomorrow so will likely have a pretty low calorie/ kind of fast type day (likely between 800-1000 calories) which is totally reasonable after eating... 4200. Hahahahhahahahaha. Then back to normal, I promise.
 
No pictures of food today because it was BORING. Only really focused on hitting my protein goal and wasn't hungry enough at any stage to actually have a real proper meal. So here's a list of food eaten randomly today

- Plain protein pancakes (I actually like my pancake recipe plain, they're damn tasty)
- YoPro passionfruit flavour (first time trying this flavour, now one of my faves!)
- Mountain bread chicken sausage roll with 15g sugar free tomato sauce
- Primo chicken protein snack things (like cold chicken)
- Light jelly
- Halo top in cookie dough

Totals 1138 calories, 124 carbs, 37 fat, 102 protein

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So I'm coming up to 3 months of tracking (and 3 months since I bought my reformer) so I think I'll likely do progress pics next weigh in. Going to change what I do a bit the next 3 months, I really need to improve my muscle endurance so I can get through my 3 weeks of holidays in 2 months and then get a job when I get back. Got a Fitbit and switched from Samsung health to MyFitnessPal and linked the accounts, kinda interested in seeing how close the fitbit calorie burn is vs actual so I added a couple extra columns into my spreadsheet to track projections I made based on previous weeks, actual burn, and what my fitbit said. Anyway, the fitbit is for after I've finally made it to 60mins of walking for a week (around 2 weeks away) my goal after that will be working up to 10k steps a day consistently. I'll also be increasing the volume on my Pilates workouts so most exercises will be 4 sets of 10-20 instead of 3. I have physio on Monday and plan to get a decent stretching/foam rolling routine to help me touch my toes again, then I think after that I will likely only see him monthly instead of fortnightly.
 
Just a quick post! Finished today on 1515 calories.

First day with my Fitbit which was interesting, I'm not as sedentary as I thought. Pretty typical (if not a bit lazier) than usual day and ending on around 8500 steps... which means I probably already am hitting 10k steps a few days a week.
 
O well done! That´s always good to hear, but especially when you´re still working on getting healthy again.
 
Really got to stop being lazy about posting in here.

I'll start posting normally tomorrow. Promise haha.

End of another month, this week ending up on about an 1800 calorie average so for this month I'm at a 1743 average which according to my projection should give me about a 500-600g loss. Whoops hahahaha. Not even sure the scale will show that to be honest until maybe next week after I've finished my first sugar pill week on this new pill. According to my fitbit if my weeks previous to this one were even 100-200 calories burn daily less than what it tracks me at I should've lost more like 800g. Weird, when I had a fitbit before and I was WAY more active it under-estimated, now it seems to be overestimating (unless I have a huge whoosh next week).

I've looked ahead a bit and decided I can't really be lazy and don't want to fluff around on 500g a month losses because I should really be able to lose that in a week if I pull my head in. It's 8 weeks till I go on holidays and I'm going to set my weekly average to 1500. Basically I'm lowering my higher calorie day by a few hundred and keeping the rest of my days pretty steady. I'm going off projections though and not fitbit in case it is grossly overestimating me, which would give me around a 1.4kg loss next month (so still pretty slow... but not as slow as this month!) Uh if fitbit is correct I'd be losing more like 600-700g a week, so I'll just make sure to track my actual intake vs losses. (If that is correct though I'll up my calories, I'm happy at 300-400g a week losses).

SO next month expect visual food diary because that helps keep me on track and my fitbit rundown every day. Will also take progress pics and might share them tomorrow.

Ohhhh I had my orthodontist appointment yesterday and I GET MY BRACES OFF IN 2 WEEKS! Fucking finally.
 
Weigh in was 62.2kg (urgh) but cms were down a little this month. I know I have to be retaining fluid on the weigh in too as my tdee didn't drop from over 1900 down to 1750 in a month (even more annoying is my fitbit average is like... 2100) that I increased activity lol. Blaming the new pill, I was expecting annoying weigh ins. I just want to be in the 61s already!

So down 1cm each on my bust/ waist/ hips and thighs.

Right... 1500 calorie average this week. I'll be posting food and activity the day after in the mornings instead of the evening so I don't feel like not coming back for a few days if I eat again after I post lol.

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Yesterday morning when I went for a walk I was near the end when I walked into what I'm about 80% sure was a swarm of bees (was 100% sure at the time, now afterward I'm thinking they were too big to be bees... maybe horse flies and an assortment of bugs?) so I turned around and ran for the first time in over a year lol. Ahhhh and then I got home and shook out my hair and around 20 flying ants went EVERYWHERE. I killed about 10 but kept seeing them on the ceiling and found a few in the evening in the living room. So yea, think it was just a huge swarm of bugs. I miss the city, this would never happen there! I'd take walking into a swarm of midgies any day over swarms of bees/bugs and random huge spiders on the footpath.

Catching up with a friend this morning for coffee and a walk around the river so that'll be nice. We were supposed to go on Sunday but the weather was feral.
 
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