Mrs Shadow's Diary

Friday's doings:

Food:
1 coffee w/ cream
protein shake
chicken, bacon, feta and ranch
salmon patties w/ 2 fried eggs

1350 cals, 9 carbs

Exercise:
steps: 25,407
push ups (wall): 38, 32, 28
sit ups (on ball): 26, 23, 22
back extensions (on ball): 12, 11
straight leg raises: 14, 11
concentrations curls w/ 5 kilo dumbbells: 14, 8
 
mmm salmon patties... my fave! Do you put cottage cheese in there too? It makes it extra good!

Great work on the exercise! You're powering along!
 
overtherainbow said:
How on earth did you eat all that yummy loveliness for only 1400 calories?!
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Just clever I guess! :p I find it actually difficult to keep my calories up at times. Which may sound strange, considering my diet is low carb and high fat. [Fat is HEALTHY! There's a whole lot of research out there proving this. Okay, climbing down offa my high horse now.] I think the short answer really is that the fat keeps me satisfied with smaller portions. ;)

decisionmaker said:
mmm salmon patties... my fave! Do you put cottage cheese in there too? It makes it extra good!
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I've never thought of adding cottage cheese to salmon patties. Do you have a recipe, or do you just shove some in there? I simply add an egg to the salmon, then shallow fry, trying not to say too many bad words when the fat spits at me.

Thank you both for the encouragement!
 
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Mrs Shadow said:
Just clever I guess! :p I find it actually difficult to keep my calories up at times. Which may sound strange, considering my diet is low carb and high fat. [Fat is HEALTHY! There's a whole lot of research out there proving this. Okay, climbing down offa my high horse now.] I think the short answer really is that the fat keeps me satisfied with smaller portions. ;)

U might be right, Mrs Shadow...may'be the fat is keeping you satisfied even with smaller portion..unfortunately I can't have any fat as my cholesterol was up the roof a month ago!!! But about 2 days ago was watching Nigella Lawson cooking a lamb's shoulder :drool5: she was saying that all the goodness is in that fat being cooked slowly in the oven and that's what giving the lamb it's taste and sweetness. Bloody hell:drool5::drool5:!! I almost got dressed and went to buy a peace of lamb!! :willy_nilly:

have a lovely day!
Mady
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Mady, my cholesterol used to be up in the sky before I started low carbing - it was 9.3. But even though I know it seems difficult to believe, fat - especially saturated fat! Really!! - is the best possible thing to prevent heart disease and lower cholesterol. Not that I believe that "cholesterol" has anything to do with heart disease - it doesn't. There is just no scientific evidence whatever that there is any correlation. If you are interested I'd be happy to find you some studies to show you what I mean.

I had a pretty good day today. Had the usual back pain by evening, but it settled nicely with my trusty paracetamol and codeine tablets, along with a welcome hot water bottle. Maybe I had done too much during the day. I'm just hoping that another week or two of this level of exercising will result in a lower level of the pain.

Saturday's doings:

Food:
1 coffee w/ cream
Greek yoghurt
smoked chicken, bacon and feta w/ ranch dressing
beef massaman curry

1400 cals, 31 carbs

Steps: 21,849
 
Really impressive on your Step count..I have a hard time getting in 10000...even on days I exercise...well done!! :)
 
Thanks, tetemcg! Of course today I’ve blotted my stepping copybook.
But I have an excuse: I haven’t been too well today. Feeling somewhat better now, but took it really easy on myself, so not many steps. At least I stayed right on track foodwise. Other times I have used being sick as an excuse to eat what I liked. So maybe I am finally learning. ;)

Sunday's doings:

Food:
1 coffee w/ cream, 1 tea w/ milk
Greek yoghurt
protein shake
red curry chicken

1250 cals, 18 carbs

Steps: 8178
 
Feeling far more sprightly today, so got going with the exercising. I’ve been doing rather gentle workouts so far, but decided to hep it up a little today. I’m going to do a PUSH/PULL routine on alternating days (as per exrx.net) and will just see how I go. I really thought I’d be okay to use the barbell again, despite my husband’s reservations. [I still have a lot of balance problems due to the vestibular neuritis I’ve had for the last 6 months. ] Aaand, he was right. I hate it when DH is right and I am wrong! But using the barbell for the duck deads sent me toppling forward. I had taken the precaution of standing in front of the couch, and just as well… I had made sure there were no pussies in the house, because having any sort of weight landing on an innocent pussy cat’s head would be just devastating.
I also tried some genuine on the floor pushups. Didn’t even manage one, because I just toppled sideways. Sigh.

Food was okay though.
I make my own yoghurt, but I think I let this current batch “do” for a wee bit too long, because it’s quite sour. I normally love it plain, but this lot needs a bit of fruit. Eating any kind of fruit normally sets up cravings, and so it did this morning. But I managed to severely wound, if not kill, said cravings with some sugar free chewing gum. I was ready!

Monday's doings:

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
yoghurt w/ tinned peaches
chicken wings w/ ranch
fish curry

1400 cals, 32 carbs

Exercise:
steps: 25,154
Push:
push ups: (wall): 40, 29, 24
duck deadlifts w/ 16kg on BB: 6, 3
lying hip abduction w/ 5kg DB: 13, 13, 13
shoulder press w/ 2 x 5kg DBs: 9,6 (hurting my arthritic shoulder a bit)
kickbacks w/ 5kg DB: 13, 15, 15
 
Pretty good day today. I’m rather tired, presumably because of the increase in exercise, including the steps. So my routine for now will be to do a push/pull on Mon/Tues and Thurs/Fri, leaving Wednesday and the weekend free. I’ll still be stepping like crazy on two of those days, but will try to give myself a bit of a rest on one day a week.

Tuesday's doings:

Food:
1 coffee w/ cream, 1 tea w/ milk
yoghurt w/ peaches
Italian sausages w/ mushrooms and sour cream
chicken & potato casserole

1400 cals, 37 carbs

Exercise:
steps: 22,669
PULL:
ball crunches: 30, 25, 21
bent over rows w/ 5kg DB: 16, 7.5kg DB 16, 10kg DB 10
leg curls on ball: 10, 9, 6
upright rows w/ 5kg DBs: 10, 10
lying straight leg raises: 9, 10
concentration curls w/ 5kg DB: 11, 10
 
Glad you "severely wounded" (if not killed) your cravings with some gum :D

I think your doing the right thing giving your muscles a days break between strength training. If I am aching at all, I don't do it on consecutive days, but then, I strength train like a pansy :)

How do you make your own yoghurt? Is it hard?
 
Hiya rainbow. I use my trusty Aldi yoghurt maker and it couldn’t be easier. I'm a bit of a fan of Aldi. ;)

I had a wee fall from grace today. After eating my chicken wings, I remembered those tinned peaches sitting in the fridge, so I ate ‘em. Too many of ‘em. With too much cream. I really did enjoy them though. I am trying to convince myself my body “needed” them, but I’m not quite self deluded enough to believe it. Oh well, can’t be perfect all the time.

Wednesday:

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
protein shake
chicken wings w/mayo and sour cream
peaches and cream
fish red curry

cals and carbs? There are some things best not known…

Exercise:
20,438 steps
 
Thursday:

Weight: 93.4

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
protein shake
Italian sausages, mushrooms w/ sour cream
massaman beef curry

1450 cals, 38 carbs

Exercise:
steps: 23,720
PUSH:
push ups: (wall): 42, 33, 28
step ups: 22, 21, 14
lying hip abduction w/ 5kg DB: 15, 14, 14
shoulder press w/ 2 x 5kg DBs: 10, 8
kickbacks w/ 5kg DB: 8, 8
 
Ah well, you could do worse than peaches in a binge :) Even if you did pour naughty cream all over them, at least you had some nutrients :D And you did fabulously yesterday!

What is the beef curry like?
 
Rainbow, I loves curries of all description. The massaman curry is particularly nice - quite mild, which is just as well since rice sets off my diverticulitis, so I can no longer eat it. A true massaman curry has potatoes in it, which I eat, plus peanuts, which I can't eat. Still, I do pretty well with the foods I can eat.

Wasn’t well enough for any exercising yesterday, but had a good bash at it today.

Friday:

Food:
1 coffee w/ cream, 1 tea w/ milk
bacon and eggs
tuna and cheese on toast
beef korma

1550 cals, 51 carbs

8,546 steps


Saturday:

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
protein shake
macaroni cheese

1400 cals, 40 carbs

Exercise:
steps: 23,362
PULL:
ball crunches: 22, 22, 20
bent over rows w/ 10kg DB 12, 13, 12
leg curls on ball: 10, 10, 8
upright rows w/ 5kg DBs: 10, 9
lying straight leg raises: 10, 8
concentration curls w/ 5kg DB: 14, 12, 9
 
Not such a good day yesterday. Wasn't feeling all that well, and had zero energy. Didn't push myself either. And pigged out a bit on the spaghetti.
Oh well, it's a new week now, so I shall try that little bit harder this week.

Sunday:

Food:
protein shake
chicken wings w/ ranch
spag bol

1800 cals, 72 carbs :eek:

Only 6700 steps
 
I was having such a good day yesterday, until the diverticulitis hit at about 5 PM. Lot of pain and belly bloating. :( Hubby will get my antibiotics today, and they always help. So I may not post for a few days, so I can rest and get this stupid tummy better.

Monday

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
grilled sausages, potato and mushrooms
chicken red curry

1350 cals, 39 carbs

Exercise:
15,272 steps
PUSH:
push ups: (wall): 45, 41, 38
step ups: 27, 22, 20
lying hip abduction w/ 7.5kg DB: 10, 10
shoulder press w/ 2 x 5kg DBs: 10, 8
kickbacks w/ 5kg DB: 8, 8
 
Hi Rainbow, thanks for checking up on me. Just haven't been feeling well enough to sit at the computer. Still feeling seedy today, but the antibiotics are starting to do their thing.

At least the scales are down a little today, at 92.1, down from last week's 93.4!

What can't I eat? A lot. I just try to concentrate on all the yummy things I can eat, but sometimes I get a bit wistful... Mostly I can't eat vegies that are high in fibre, as well as crunchy vegies, such as cucumber, capsicum and so on.
Monday I took a (foolish!) risk and added some onions to the spag bol. And I am paying for it. Back to a shake of onion powder if any.

Tuesday:
Pretty miserable. Spent most of the day in bed.

Food:
(resting the gut as much as possible)
2 coffees w/ cream
yoghurt
3 protein shakes

1350 cals, 25 carbs

2677 steps

Wednesday:
Still rested most of the day.

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
yoghurt
2 protein shakes
toasted cheese sandwich

1550 cals, 45 carbs

3054 steps
 
Still feeling less than perfect, although slowly improving.

Thursday:

Weight: 92.1

Food:
2 coffees w/ cream
yoghurt
tuna and feta w/ ranch
macaroni cheese

1400 cals, 40 carbs

3525 steps
 
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