Amy's weight loss diary

Awh, thats a bummer :( No, I can't think of anything to mend your goggles--They are quite expensive aren't they! Would normal super-glue survive the water?
 
I paid 10 pounds for mine, which I thought was quite reasonable. But I bought them yesterday and already this is happening!

I've done some googling and there doesn't seem to be much around (at least using the search terms I was using) on fixing goggles. I wonder if people just replace them, but I don't want to do that, obviously. The nose bridge is incredibly cheaply made, it's ridiculous. I've just emailed my mum and asked her what she would do.
 
I think I may have found a solution to my sleep deprivation. I think. I hope. I've taken an old duvet cover I don't use anymore and taped it to the wall (masking tape, shouldn't damage the paint). If I leave it alone it should stay up. It's a reasonably dark colour, and although some light comes through, having it up there has cut the light by 80%. I could sleep in there right now, and not even have to bother with my eye mask (let alone the other thing I've been trying in my desperation, which was tying a pair of black leggings to my face- as well as using the mask- to try to block out more light).
 
I'm feeling really crappy and exhausted and I'm comfort eating. I don't think this is particularly damaging to my calories, because I'm opting for Vegemite on rice cakes (my sodium intake is entirely another story... oh dear). It's a damn good thing I ran out of TimTams months ago (and the import stores charge a stupid amount of money for them which I wouldn't consider in my wildest dreams), or else I might just eat a whole packet right about now. *That* would certainly be bad for my calories.
 
And here come the ice cream cravings. Always happens when I feel lousy. I think I might get the ingredients together and experiment with the low cal ice cream recipe I found months ago (although I've never made it with artificial sweetener before): The vanilla is good, substituting the vanilla with 1/3 cup coffee also works well, but I'm wondering about other flavours. I wonder specifically if removing the gelatin and replacing it with a sachet of sugar free jelly (jello for Americans) would work- say make it strawberry flavour? And/ or blend some blueberries (take the frozen ones and thaw them, much cheaper) and put them in (either in the strawberry or make vanilla and blueberry flavour).

Also, I haven't explored this properly yet, but now have a new recipe website that looks good. Yay!
 
Aw hun i'm sorry you're not sleeping well. I didn't know that. These pesky light mornings, hey? I love the light mornings because im an obnoxious morning person but if it wakes you up, then that is massively annoying.

Mmm i've seen that ice cream recipe before. You showed it to me. What does it taste like? Can you take a pic?

And yeh i dont think ricecakes and marmite will be damaging at all.
 
I'm very much an evening person- my brain doesn't function properly until midday and is at its best after 10pm. It's the only downside about this time of year for me. I typically go to bed at about 1am, so waking up at 7 sort of kills me (really not enough sleep). If I had to get up earlier, I'd work harder at regulating my sleeping hours, but I don't, so I don't. Hopefully with the duvet cover up I'll sleep a bit later. I might set my dawn simulator to wake me up at what I consider a decent hour for tomorrow. That would be good- to wake up to a gradual light and birdsong.

I've only made the ice cream recipe with sugar before (before I started calorie counting- I thought "hey, it's low fat!" not "hey, it has a tonne of sugar in it!"), but it's very good, both with vanilla extract and coffee. It's a little bit icy but it's well worth it. I'm going to get some Splenda when I next go shopping and try it with that. (I think I might go for vanilla and blueberry) I'll take a picture when I have a functioning SD card again- I ordered one off Amazon, it's on its way.

I've got Vegemite ;) (hilarious demonstration of how much we Aussies love our Vegemite: - I can get Vegemite in the local supermarket but my dad brought me a 900g jar last year, you can only get 220g here). 4 rice cakes and 16g of Vegemite- 144 calories. (TimTams are sort of like Penguins... but much better)
 
mmm Tim tams sound gooood I loooove penguins.
I think back to when i was an uber fatty/not healthy conscious and my buddies and i would be jammin or whatever and then someone would be like IWANT A PENGUIN, so we'd buy penguins, get mugs full of milk, bite the end off each end of a penguin and then suck through the milk like the penguin is a straw. The penguin gets all mushy and delish.

Aaaaah vegemite.
Soz australia. I need to stop thinking you're a brit ;P
 
What you're describing is what we'd call a TimTam slam.

(Maybe that's a good reason to hear my colonial voice? I definitely don't sound like a Pom- although I was once told that I couldn't possibly be from Australia because I looked English. Waitwut?)
 
I've just had dinner (lemon chicken... nom nom nom) and added the calories to my diary. I haven't had 1200 calories yet today (1180). How?! I'm meant to be pitching at closer to 1900. And I'm :piggy: , I always have been. And I've been comfort eating today. :confused:
 
amy1985 said:
imaninjadangit (sorry, I don't know your name), the recipe is this one: (I adapted by using less chicken- 5-6 chicken thigh fillets, or a little over 1lb, rather than 1.2kg, which is over 2.5lb. I also skipped the chives- presentation? pah- and rather than basting, as I don't know how, I cook with foil over the top for half an hour then without for fifteen minutes)
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My name is Robyn. Nice to meet you. :) I actually found the link in your diary right after I posted that. lol Thank you!!
 
You're welcome Robyn. If you make it, I'd love to know how you got on (a Facebook friend of mine made it recently- she claimed to be a bad cook, and she said it turned out pretty well. I feel proud :) )
 
Woah 1200, that's it? DUDE.
Eat more.

Omg a Tim Tam Slam? Love it.
 
I'm going to have to eat something- maybe some Greek yoghurt with steamed apple. Although I haven't been deliberately starving myself. Let's see, preview of tonight's food diary entry- regular amount of porridge with milk on top and regular amount of berries, a kiwi fruit and a cup of tea, regular lunch (rye bread, cottage cheese, tomato, herbs), ice tea, 4 rice cakes with vegemite, more ice tea, lemon chicken, rice. 1180 calories so far.
 
:cuss: Well I was going to make vanilla and blueberry ice cream. But guess what they didn't have at the supermarket, as they haven't every time I've been shopping in the last two weeks? My berry supplies are getting quite low. I'm going to have to find an alternative source, I have a horrible feeling the frozen berries are being phased out.
 
I'm getting the things together to make the normal vanilla ice cream (I don't know why I'm complaining, it's very good). I have some artificial sweetener (just the cheap stuff, I hope it works), and am currently chilling the evaporated milk in the fridge (and have the gelatine ready to go, although I'm not going to make that until the last minute otherwise it'll set). It'll be good to see what the difference is between making it with sugar and making it with artificial sweetener (apart from the calories!). My boyfriend's not too pleased, he claims to hate artificial sweeteners in all their forms.
 
amy1985 said:
I'm getting the things together to make the normal vanilla ice cream (I don't know why I'm complaining, it's very good). I have some artificial sweetener (just the cheap stuff, I hope it works), and am currently chilling the evaporated milk in the fridge (and have the gelatine ready to go, although I'm not going to make that until the last minute otherwise it'll set). It'll be good to see what the difference is between making it with sugar and making it with artificial sweetener (apart from the calories!). My boyfriend's not too pleased, he claims to hate artificial sweeteners in all their forms.
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Let us know of the result :drool5:
 
I will do :) I've made it before, but with sugar (before I started calorie counting), and it's very, very good (a little bit icy, but that's not a big deal). Also works replacing the vanilla essence with 1/3 cup coffee. I'll take a picture (it won't be very exciting, just a picture of white stuff in a plastic container, it doesn't look interesting) when I've made it and I've got a card for my camera, too.
 
Ice cream is now made and setting in the freezer. Should be done by tomorrow morning. Doesn't smell different to the version that I made with sugar, and I think the texture of the artificial stuff made it easier to whisk- less gritty.
 
Really have to go to bed, am completely and absolutely shattered. Walking zombie today. Hopefully my new window covering will allow me to sleep longer after the sun rises. Drinking my warm milk, then off I go.

Tuesday 10 May

Breakfast: 46g oats, 110g milk, 79g summer fruit mix. Subtotal: 225 calories, 9g protein, 37g carbs, 3g fat.
Snack: cup of tea with 52ml milk, 73g kiwi fruit. Subtotal: 53 calories, 2g protein, 10g carbs, <1g fat.
Lunch: 2 slices rye bread, 60g plain light cottage cheese, 93g tomato, dried basil, dried oregano, pepper. Cup of ice tea (210ml concentrate). Subtotal: 252 calories, 12g protein, 44g carbs, 2g fat
Snack/ comfort food: 4 wholegrain rice cakes with 15g Vegemite. Cup of ice tea with 211ml concentrate. Subtotal: 149 calories, 6g protein, 28g carbs, <1g fat (2% of allowance)
Dinner: serve of lemon chicken, 50g basmati rice. Subtotal: 498 calories, 49g protein, 52g carbs, 9g fat
Snack (to get me up over 1200): 142g raw carrot. Subtotal: 58 calories, 1g protein, 13g carbs, <1g fat
Dessert: 115g granny smith apple (cut up and steamed) with 97g summer fruit mix, 155g Greek yoghurt, and 10g Australian honey. Then 17g (oops) chocolate (the pack's nearly gone, which is good because I'm finding myself going back for more more often). Subtotal: 311 calories, 10g protein, 43g carbs, 9g fat
Night cap: 262ml milk (heated, to help me sleep). Subtotal: 91 calories, 8g protein, 13g carbs, <1g fat.
Total: 1641 calories (87%), 102g protein, 244g carbs, 27g fat, over sodium allowance (but a happy little Vegemite... that's what did it)
 
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