Put DOWN the Nutella!

Wasn't a great day yesterday, went a little over maintenance. Can still get in a really good deficit by weigh in though, gunna smash out 3 perfect days!!

Food Plan for tomorrow Day 55 of 112

B: 2 eggs, 1/3 avocado, 1 pc homemade bread
S: Apple with 2 tbsp. almond butter
L: 1 pc homemade bread with tomato, tuna and beans
S: 2 hard boiled eggs
D: Chicken burger chopped with tomato, spinach, mushroom and slim pasta

Exercise: Day 5 of strength program

Total calories: 1393 Total deficit: 979
Total deficit for the week: 2572 (sooooo looks like I'll be ending the week with around 3500).
 
Felt a bit blah this morning. Actually talked myself into having a day off, re-planned all my calories and everything so I'd get the deficit I wanted... Then was all mmm, should just do the stupid workout... So I did. Then I ate and chilled out for a bit and then was like... It's nice outside... Should go for that swim now. Haha. So talked myself out of doing anything but my body wasn't having it, went and did it all anyway! Having a good food day too, going to be easy to make today a perfect one. Yewwww!

Booked myself in to see a chiropractor when I go home on holidays too, don't know how good an idea that is but we'll see. Months of exercise and physio hasn't fixed my hip misalignment so may as well get it popped back in... I'm just worried it won't stay like that for long (which is why I prefer not to see a chiro). Going to the one my mum regularly goes to so not just a random person I found in the phone book (I so wouldn't do that by the way, not letting a random person crack my bones and make me a cripple lol). Just another thing to try out I guess!

Less than 2 weeks till holidays, woohoo!!! I'm not going to post new pics etc until the end of the year, it'll be a 5 week month but I won't be able to keep up with my current workout regime at home as I don't have pool access or access to the same equipment. Plus then I have the weight/ measurements I ended the year on! Also Jan will be a 5 week month as I won't be weighing in at my parents place, and when I get back on the 10th there's exactly 3 weeks left of Jan... so thought I'd use that to get back into my current program. Going to write something up I can do with the equipment my parents DO have, so it's not going to be an exercise- free fortnight... Will just be a lot more easy going than what I'm doing right now.
 
Good job on getting the workout in despite trying to convince yourself not to.

The holidays have snuck up on me, I have to buy at least two Christmas presents today or else...
 
Hahaha you're as bad as me MrVee, I only just ordered peoples' Christmas gifts yesterday!!!! Arrgh!! Hoping they'll arrive before we leave for holidays, express post to the desert can mean anything from 1 day to a week.

Yesterday was a perfect food/ exercise day, hurray! Just what I needed. I tasted a bit too much of a chocolate recipe I made today though, oops! Just adjusted a few meals and I'll still get the deficit I want. Tomorrow is the last day of the week, got to push to get this deficit! Hoping for a loss on the scales this week!!!!!!

Food Plan for Tomorrow

B- Chocolate bread experiment
S- 2 quinoa crackers with 1 tbsp. nut butter
L- Chicken and mushroom 2 egg omelette
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- 140g fish with salad

Exercise: 30mins swimming

Calories include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee, I also drink 2 cups tea during the day

Total calories: 1370 Total deficit: 1002
Total deficit for the week: 3567 (happy with that for the week!)
 
Weigh in tomorrow! Honestly have no idea how it'll go. Was feeling really bloaty and pretty blah yesterday, it's carried over to today a bit. Will just have to see and hope for the best! Next week is also the last week of the year, and that weigh in will be the last one till I get back from holidays!!! Plan on killing it this week, want to push the results a bit and stop lagging behind (especially if for whatever reason I'm still the same tomorrow, I think that'll mark 6 weeks in a row! Except for the 100g I lost last week lol) So I'll be planning for 1000cal deficits every day, maintenance on Christmas day, but in reality just doing the best I can. I don't want to have any days over maintenance this week!!!! I know I can do it! Not skipping exercise over Christmas either! Also after thinking about it I'm going to re-write my 5 day split for when I go home so I'll still be doing basically the same thing, just adjusted. No reason to go backwards! I was thinking of just working out 3x a week at home but I'm not swimming either so think I'll go a little nuts.

Food Plan for tomorrow

B: 2 eggs, 1/3 avocado, 2 beef chevups, 1 pc toast
S: Coconut bread with nuttelex (vegan butter)
L: Chicken breast with slim pasta, sauce and veg
S: 2 hard boiled eggs
D: Steak and salad

Exercise: 30mins swimming

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk with my 2 cups coffee, I also have 2 cups of tea during the day

Total Calories: 1381 Total Deficit: 991
Total Deficit for the week: 991
 
Good morning! And... weight is the same. ARGH. Thinking possibly of weighing in tomorrow, debating whether I should bother or not. Argh that means I've only lost 100g the whole month!! But cuz I added an extra week on will have to see if that makes a difference. Going to go as hard as I possibly can, hate being stuck in a plateau! I even went back and calculated my deficit for the month and it was around 9000 cals, only thing I can think is that those days that I go over maintenance are causing way too much disruption. Really want a week with no days over maintenance, more than anything that's what I'm aiming for this week. PUSH PUSH PUSH!!

Plan for tomorrow

B- Gingerbread experiment
S- 30g mixed nuts
L- Chicken breast, homemade toast with nuttelex, garlic and tomato
S- 2 quinoa crackers with 1/3 avocado
D- Chicken breast with mixed veg and slim pasta

Exercise- Day 1 of strength program (leg day)

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk with my 2 coffees, I also drink 2 cups of tea during the day

Total calories: 1370 Total deficit: 1003
Total deficit for the week: 1953
 
So... Um... Yesterday I took a flying leap off the wagon haha. Oops. Actually ate junk food! For the first time in months!! Had dairy free/ gluten free rocky road and sweet potato chips. I msged my husband in the afternoon and told him I wanted crap food n told him what to bring home... Also had a heap of nut butter... Eeek. Was pretty crazy the amount of food I ate, I won't lie. Kind of debating whether I should now make this a heavier week (intentionally eat a lower deficit every day to end around even) and see if that kicks the metabolism a bit? Or see if yesterday gets it moving and aim for around 3500? I'm thinking the latter, just because I'm not liking my chances of being able to eat much today or tomorrow haha. I think I will, I'll do what I can for the rest of the week and see how I end the year. My routine will change in the 2 weeks I'm on holidays anyway, it might be enough to get my weight moving again. I think I'll be eating a lot less while away as I don't see myself taking a spoon to the nut butter at my parents place!!

Food plan for tomorrow

B- 1 pc instant mug bread (todays blog post), 2 eggs, 1/3 avocado
S- 1 apple with 25g nut butter
L- Coconut bread with almond butter, salad of tuna, tomatoes and cucumber
S- 2 hard boiled eggs
D- Chicken with mixed veg and slim pasta

Exercise- 30mins strength training, 30mins swimming

Calories also include 1 cup almond milk for my 2 cups of coffee, I also have 2 cups of tea during the day

Total calories: 1487 Total deficit: 1034
Total deficit for the week: 75 (haha, so will be in deficit land at the end of tomorrow)
 
Ate a little more than planned yesterday, was experimenting with bread after success in the morning on a smaller scale so was tasting/ trying to get texture and flavour balanced. Had around a 600cal deficit. Reading about how fluid retention and other things stop fat loss and how much damage that one day a week when I let loose can actually affect fat loss. Grr frustrating. It's me doing it to myself. I've found a couple of really good books by Maria Emmerich that I suggest people read if they can, lots of info on diet and things that can affect metabolism. Really interesting!!

Food Plan for Tomorrow

B- 2 eggs, 2pcs homemade linseed bread, 1/3 avocado
S- Cookie dough ice-cream experiment (yea, lets see how my cookie dough goes when I can't buy coconut oil... hmmm...)
L- 2 chevups with chopped veg in slim pasta
S- 2 quinoa crackers with 1 tbsp almond chia spread
D- Chicken salad with chicken breast, tomato and cucumber

Exercise- 30mins strength training (the hard day! Chest and tris)

Total calories: 1395 Total deficit: 978
Total deficit for the week: 483

Just for giggles, I snapped this pic of my cat while she was cleaning yesterday... Just because she looked cute. I seem to have insane timing though, I saw the pic and was like whaaaaaaaaat!

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Happy Christmas Eve everyone!! Love and cuddles and happiness to you all (I'm sooo not posting tomorrow, so this is all your Christmas love now. Use it wisely!) :santa: :santa: :santa:

I'm actually thinking of disappearing after this week while I'm on holidays and starting a new diary when I get back... Been through a lot on here this year and honestly Nutella is not a problem anymore lol. Also I'm gearing up to change my diet a bit further- in about 3 weeks I'm allowed to eat cheese and butter again (oh, you better believe I'm counting down to eating that crumbly heavenly goodness!) and I don't plan to ever eat grains again. Even though I may be allowed to add rice back in way down the track I don't see/ feel the need, I haven't missed it at all. Also I've spent the last 4 days reading up on metabolism, hormones, neurotransmitters (I got through a book a day, go me!) and I'm going to change my macros to reflect what I believe will work best- going to break my diet down to 60% fat, 30% protein and 10% carb. Actually the last fortnight it's almost been around there anyway as my grain-free bread substitutes are pretty much carbless anyway, so won't be changing my macros much at all... it's more that I will be specifically aiming for it rather than just eating whatever and ending up there. If/when I start the new diary I'll outline the guidelines I'm sticking to in more detail! Going to be upping my cals every day too, I think I worked out it'll be between 1600-1900 every day instead.

Also going to mix up my exercise when I get back, got that all planned out too. Not that I'll be doing much different from now, I'll be doing my 5 day split still, then separately 2 days a week I'll add in 10 mins of HIIT boxing at a separate time from other exercise. Also on swimming + strength days I'll swim straight after strength instead of eating and resting in between, and on just ordinary swimming days I'll swim first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Kind of trying to shock my body a little, I'll see how I go for a month.

So tomorrow is Christmas, I'll give you my food plan. I can say that what I write down is probably what it will be- I'm having to make all my food separate from everyone else this year so I can't just randomly graze on everything in sight with the boys. Blessing in disguise maybe?? I might have to up cals more too as I'll be on my feet a lot tomorrow cooking for them AND me!
If you're wondering what's on THEIR menu- I'm making them choc chip pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast, then they will spend the day grazing on vintage cheddar *drool*, ritz crackers, homemade rum balls, fruit mince pies, chocolate and chips that their stockings are stuffed with, cherries... And for dinner, I'm slow cooking a marinated beef roast (I can't eat it, there's gluten in the marinade! Fuck you allergies!!) and roasting chicken breasts, pumpkin, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and dessert is chocolate self-saucing pudding and custard. And I'm using the recipe I always used to make for Ash and myself, so I know I'll be jealous of that too. Boo! Oh, and Ash is roasting what I think is a pork belly... I didn't see it properly, it just appeared in the fridge. I ain't touching it, just the smell of pork makes me bleaugh. I'm going to cook the chicken separately in the morning just so it's not in the oven at the same time as the pork!

Food plan for tomorrow

B- Huge coconut flour pancake stack (using 3 eggs, 1/4 cup coconut flour, 1 tsp xylitol, 1/4 cup almond milk. Haven't tried this, that's just what I thought sounded good! Fingers crossed!!)
S- Protein shake (after exercise) and cherries
L- Homemade ice-cream with 1 cup almond milk, 2 coconut milk ice cubes, vanilla, served with blackberries (SO EXCITED!)
S- Not sure, think we would have started drinking by now. I'm sticking to 2 ciders! If I don't get through all my pancakes in the morning I'll finish what's left over now.
D- Roast chicken breast, broccoli, cauliflower

Exercise- The boys eat breakfast SUPER late (like 11am) so I'm going to get up and swim for 30mins as soon as I wake up, then make and eat my pancakes, then do my workout (easy one tomorrow, shoulders!) then drink the shake. I'm guessing they'll be out of bed by then and I'll be making them breakfast!

Total calories: 1514 Total deficit: 945
Total deficit for the week: 452
 
Arrgh. Just thought I'd post quickly (proper post later)... Playing with my new HRM watch (Christmas present!) and have used it for my physio exercises and my swim- been WAY under-estimating my calorie burn. I don't even count my physio exercises in my daily calorie burn as I thought they were only an easy 10mins of nothing... Took me 23mins and I burned 141cals, which is almost as much as I estimate for my easier 30min workouts. Also with my swim I estimate 170- using the watch it said I burned 306. It wasn't even a good swim, I did about 6 laps less than usual! Which means I've been undereating on cals quite a few days. SO frustrating! Glad I've decided to up them!! Dying to see what it says for a workout, I'm doing my shoulder/bis/tris workout soon which is the easiest day of the week. Fitday usually guesses it at 177, will see what I end up with!
 
Workout= done. Today was shoulders which is the 'easiest' workout of the week- it's still hard, just the smallest muscle group so I'm not as shattered as I am after all my other workouts. Well... Me estimating 177cal burn (which I do for ALL my workouts), actual was 303cals. So... the disappointing truth... I've been undereating 300-400cals on my swimming + workout days, and 200-300 on my just swim/ just workout days. Maybe even more. No wonder I binge so often and haven't lost any weight for so long! Argh I suck!!! Also, I saw somewhere that homemade almond milk has less than half the calories of the supermarket stuff. As in 1 cup supermarket stuff= 100cals (which is what I've been adding to my calories every day) and homemade stuff for 1 cup = 40 calories. I don't know how accurate that is, but if that's true that's another 60cals I'm under every day by!!!! :ack2: Of course, maybe the increased amount of carby/ sugary food contributed to a higher bpm, unsure about it but that could influence it too. Guess I'll see more of a trend in the weeks to come.
So... definitely upping the calories from now on!!! Holy crap! Will be fully concentrating on my new macro counts when I get back from holidays, while I'm away I'll be watching calories, aiming for 100g protein every day and 30g fiber. Not going to worry about the rest till I can get back! Will be aiming for around a 600cal deficit every day too.

Food wise- Yesterday ended with around a 100cal deficit, today around 300ish. Aiming for a 1000cal deficit tomorrow and the next day and pushing weigh in back to Saturday as this week has been all over the place! Want to get a weight that I'm ending on for the year too and that's the last day I'll be able to weigh/measure/ take photos as I fly away on Sunday!

Food plan for tomorrow Will probably have to add an extra snack in, leaving the low workout burn estimate as usual and will change it after I've done my workout

B- Gingerbread cookie experiment
S- Coconut bread with 1 tbsp almond butter
L- Tuna and bean 2 egg omelette
S- Linseed bread with 1/3 avocado
D- Chicken breast, broccoli and cauliflower

Exercise- 30mins strength training

Total calories: 1369 Calorie Deficit: 1004
Total calorie deficit for the week 255
 
Some thread suggestions:

1. "A jar of nut butter is not a balanced meal"
2. "Losing weight through punching things"
3. Instead of 'Dances with Wolves' you could do "Swimming with Lizards"

Okay I'm out, except for more 'nut butter' stuff. There's a margarine product in the US called "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" which obviously would be easy to make a pun there.
 
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