Amy's weight loss diary

PICTURES.
Mmmm your lunch looks goooood.
As does that ice cream.
Hmm i dont eat chicken so i dunno but i guess onions, peppers, water chestnuts (i hate them..), green beans.. mushrooms, sweetcorn?
 
Love the photos <3

The icecream look amazing, i definitely gonna try to make it!
 
Took more homemade pizza to my boyfriend who's working a night shift tonight. On the way back, missed one bus by about 2 minutes (15 minute wait between buses), so decided to walk to the next bus stop, got there, still had 10 min to spare, so decided to walk to the one afterwards. Bus came about 2/3 of the way to the next bus stop- sprinted the rest of the way, only to have the driver close the door in my face. Fortunately, buses do seem to come in threes, and one came about 2 minutes after that (even though there's supposed to be a 15 min gap at this time of night). At least I got some more exercise? And that sprinting (ok, it was only about 300m, and I don't really run fast) didn't hurt my knees or wind me at all. Wasn't even panting. :D
 
I can confirm, the ice cream is amazing. 51 calories per serve (the way I made it), too. Though the serving is small. Omnomnom. :drool5: Tempted to have more.

Also, ice tea (yes, the bottle of squash is empty, I need more) and latest graze box.

(In other news, I've only just had 1200 calories today. What gives?)
 
On the ice cream- it seems to separate, I'm not sure why, so the top part is fluffy but the bottom is icy and difficult to get through. With artificial sweetener (I used a sucralose based one, not sure whether it's because of that particular one) it has a bit of an aftertaste which hit about 5 min after I'd finished eating- sort of salty, and strange. But still completely awesome.
 
Need a recipe for chicken breast (other than the tikka one, my boyfriend's going away and so there's no point making that right now) and suddenly feeling very uninspired. I had to thaw a pack of chicken to get 50g out for my boyfriend's pizza (I made him one as he's working a shift tonight) and as it's been in the freezer for awhile (ie, only the freezing has saved it from being "off", the used by date was awhile ago), I need to cook it pretty quickly.

Any suggestions? Preferably something with store cupboard type ingredients. A marinade would be excellent because then I can get that started tonight and not worry about it in the fridge.

Edit to add: as I wanted to do it based on what I had in the house, settled on this: Adapted- 1/2 tsp rosemary and 1/2 teaspoon thyme instead of a teaspoon of chicken seasoning, because I don't have any (Google tells me it's primarily sage, rosemary and thyme, and I don't have any sage), 52ml soy sauce (had intended 50, mispoured) and 80ml lemon juice (had intended 62, or 1/4 cup, mispoured). Noting it here partly for my own records so I don't forget when I come to cook it tomorrow.

Any suggestions on what to do with it, other than the suggested recipe (ain't gonna happen) or throwing it in a saute pan with veg and hoping it comes out as some sort of stir fry (to serve with rice)?

Didn't want to make yet another chicken dish... but that meat's going to go off otherwise.
 
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Food diary, then... bed, stupid.

Worked out why I (thought I) was so low on calories today. Forgot to add lunch in. Whoops! (Wouldn't have made the choices I did at the end of the day if I'd have realised that- but no harm done) Remedying now.

Thursday 12 May

Breakfast: 45g oats, 72g peach (steamed), 103ml milk. Subtotal: 226 calories, 9g protein, 39 fat
Post gym snack: 125g apple, and Graze "Naked Goodness seeds" (pumpkin, sunflower, sesame- not particularly a fan). Subtotal: 259 calories, 8g protein, 19g carbs, 16g fat
Coffee: 500ml coffee with 164ml milk. Subtotal: 62 calories, 6g protein, 8g carbs, <1g fat.
Lunch: 2 slices rye bread, 90g tomato, 60g light cottage cheese, pepper, basil, oregano. Subtotal: 246 calories, 12g protein, 44g carbs, 2g fat.
Dinner: lemon chicken (has veg in it) with 50g rice and ice tea (210ml concentrate). Subtotal: 503 calories, 50g protein, 52g carbs, 9g fat.
Dessert: 91g plum and 115g apple, steamed, with a serve (calories/ nutrients calculated as 1/8 of total ingredients) of low cal vanilla ice cream. Subtotal: 150 calories (yes, really), 2g protein, 27g carbs, <1g fat
Hot chocolate experiment (as I was a little hungry and I thought it'd be worth a try): 394ml milk (massive great mug), 4g Cadbury bourneville cocoa, 2g vanilla extract (yes, I weighed those). Not quite sweet enough but I didn't want to add sugar. Subtotal: 156 calories, 14g protein, 20g carbs, 1g fat.
Total: 1605 calories (85%), 103g protein, 212g carbs, 34g fat, under sodium allowance (63% of total)
 
Breakfast: Going back to my remaining berries and hoping like hell Tesco are going to get them back in stock soon.

(45g oats, made up with 300ml water, and 80g frozen raspberries and 100ml milk on top. Cup of tea with 52ml of milk)
 
I'm having roast potatoes for lunch, because I can. (I worked out the rough calories before I started) With a massive side of veg. My sautee pan is a bit of a mess now though. Will edit this post and put pictures in.

Roast potato- 6g olive oil, 1g dried rosemary, 1g dried thyme, under a gram of salt, in a bowl, chop up and toss 199g of potatoes through it. Put on a non-stick roasting dish, heat in oven on 250 C (or "max" in my case) for 20-25 min.

Sauteed veg: 134g brown onion, 5g garlic, 100g tomato, 149g mushroom, 180g zucchini, 6 sprays Frylight.

(will tell you this later too, but 324 calories, 14g protein, 54g carbs, 8g fat)
 
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Yum breakfast looks amazingly delicious.
I love that you're posting photos now too. Samesies.
 
Thanks :) It's my way of keeping myself on the diet- making the food interesting (and dealing with cravings as they come- the roast potato was a response to a craving for some chips).

It was a good idea of yours- it shows people that you don't have to eat rabbit food and starve when you're on a diet. (May not take pictures of everything though- I doubt you all want to see "yay, an apple!" :smilielol5: plus showing evidence of everything would prove just how much I actually eat)
 
Damn it, I hate it when I smash stuff. Fortunately most of my stuff is cheap, and the mug I smashed was cheap even by my stuff's standards (and I wasn't exactly attached to it), but... :cuss:
 
Did you figure out a chicken recipe? I tend to use the America's Test Kitchen method for boneless stuff and just make it up as I go.

Step 1) Brown chicken in hot pan, remove.
Step 2) Deglaze the pan with a bit of wine or broth. (Basically just pour in some liquid and scrape the bits off the pan)
Step 3) Turn down heat, throw in onions and other aromatics (garlic, spices). Other veggies can go in here too, whatever you want.
Step 4) Toss chicken back in with some broth, let it simmer.
Step 5) Maybe thicken with something, maybe just leave as-is.

Alternatively, a tbs of soy and a tbs of sherry, plus some ginger and garlic make a nice marinade!
 
That sounds really good, I'm going to give that a go.

For tonight though (last night I felt I really had to do something with it, as I defrosted meat that was only still ok because I'd frozen it) I made a variation of the marinade here: and I'm going to chuck it in the pan with some random veg I have lying around (would be better with pak choi/ beansprouts or a stir fry mix, but I couldn't be bothered to go to the supermarket and get them) and some grated ginger. May use some but not all of the marinade in the mix (will simmer for awhile so I don't give myself food poisoning from exposure to raw meat)
 
That looks pretty tasty too! :)

I've actually marinated in chai + yogurt for an Indian themed dish, and that's worked out fairly well in the past as well.

Oh, and I'd go with large onion chunks for the kebabs when you get there. Maybe some tomato or peppers. Squash would probably work too, although maybe not as Indian themed as the others ;) Maybe cauliflower? Possibly eggplant, although I think that works better if you have time to salt it to get some of the bitterness out...
 
Thanks for the suggestions :) I was actually going to do the kebabs soon, but my boyfriend's going away for a bit so that's sort of pointless.

I have no idea what this is, but I like it. Took the chicken I'd marinated last night, put it in my saute pan with garlic, ginger, spring onion, carrot (the carrot doesn't work so well but I have heaps of them), capsicum, and mushroom. 419.5 calories, excluding the rice I served it with.
 
Sounds pretty good to me! I love spring onions too.

Also, sweet potato isn't bad from time to time, although I find it's easier to dice them and microwave them first, otherwise things take forever to cook.
 
I love my microwave. :beating: Makes everything so much easier.

It was pretty good but for some reason it left me feeling quite hungry. Annoying. So I've just had dessert. "Baked apple", in the form that I used to make it when I was a kid (so a form of comfort food). An apple, chopped up into small bits, with sultanas and brown sugar. Cover and microwave the lot for 2.5 minutes (until the sugar is liquid- fortunately I've never been stupid enough to spill it), then add yoghurt or ice cream (I used to add vanilla yoghurt, now I add plain Greek yoghurt). I overpoured on the Greek yoghurt which is why it probably doesn't look so nice (although it still tasted really good)- it usually comes out with the yoghurt looking brownish.
 
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