Put DOWN the Nutella!

AH ok I'm back for my REAL post. I wasn't even anxious about stepping on the scales this week, was fully expecting same old haunting 66.2 to flash up in front of me. OMG. I'm so glad it's gone haha. Food is completely planned for the next fortnight, except for cheats- I can pick any day out of each week to have 2 ciders which I've allowed for in the weeks over-all deficit. I must be on the right track calorie-wise as I had deficits of between 2500-2800 the last two weeks, I just had to wait a fortnight to see it go lol. So next two weeks I'm playing catch-up! I really want to be 64kgs as planned in 2 weeks! I'm swimming again so can eat more calories EVERY day now instead of just on weight days, also some planned days are just heavier because that's what I chose to eat and it fits in fine with my weekly deficit. SO. Bringing it!


Oh hey, my blueberry muffins were a huge success! Husband inhaled two and went searching for more haha (which is why I get frustrated baking for him, wants to eat it all at once!) Told him he can have two today and two tomorrow for work. Here's a piccie!






They come in at 300 cals each, each one has 1 serve of oatmeal in it, healthy fats and 6g fibre. I'll have the recipe up on my blog in the next week! So glad he's finally getting into my baking- I told him I'd bake for him if it's healthy enough for me to eat too so he agreed... he picks what I bake and I make it healthy. Tossing up between an apple crumble bread or a lemon bread next.


Food plan for tomorrow- Day 16 of 112 (98 to go, lol)


B- Vanilla pancake stack layered with choc ice-cream (much healthier than it sounds, I promise!)

S- 2 hard boiled eggs

L- Chicken breast burger patty (homemade) on mountain bread with 20g uncheese, 1 tomato, spinach and mustard

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1/3 avocado

D- Leftover chicken parmigiana- 140g chicken breast topped with homemade tomato sauce and 20g uncheese, served with 1/2 cup cooked brown rice and a salad of tomato, cucumber, olives dressed with apple cider vinegar.


Exercise- 30 mins swimming


Calories include 1 cup homemade almond milk for in my 2 cups of coffee, I also have 2 cups of tea during the day (1 green, 1 spearmint)


Total calories: 1408 Total deficit: 989

Total deficit for the week: 1922 (Sunday and Monday are much heavier calorie-wise)
 
Thanks Mystic!!



Just to be different- here is todays food in photos!


Breakfast: 1 piece 100% organic rye sourdough toast, 2 eggs (scrambled), 1/3 avocado and a huge ass coffee with homemade almond milk




Morning tea was my second almond milk coffee and 2 hard boiled eggs... didn't take a pic, I'm sure you know what hard boiled eggs look like!


Lunch- 3 homemade chicken breast meatballs (only two pictured, I ate the other one!) on a spelt mountain bread wrap, with 20g uncheese, salad and a cup of green tea




Afternoon tea- 2 quinoa crispbreads with 1/3 avocado and spearmint tea





And dinner, which was totally amazing- 140g chicken breast, made parmigiana with tomato sauce and uncheese, 1/2 cup brown rice with leftover parmigiana sauce and a salad of cucumber, tomatoes and olives dressed with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and s&p.
 
Hi Luz! (remember me? lol) Just wanted to pop in and say that you are getting seriously skinny, girl. WTG! :hurray: Love the pic of you from the other day. I hope I look half as good in my 140s!
 
Thanks Mizzie, yay you're back!!! Missed you when you left last time! I'm going to have a diary stalk soon so will keep an eye out for yours!!!


Just cuz, here's my breakfast:




They were good!!! Plain vanilla pancakes with choc banana ice-cream. Om nom nom. (Ice-cream melted while I was trying to take photos though, grrr. I just love this photo because it looks so messy!)


SO YAY, started the week off perfectly! 1 awesome day down, 13 to go till the end of the month weigh in. Eep. Really hope I somehow manage to get to 64 by then! Going hard!! Glad I woke up a little earlier today, really need to get physio stuff done then get in the pool asap, going to be another 40C day here today (um, like every other day this week!) Expecting our first lot of storms for the wet season early next week, YAY! I love thunderstorms. They're pretty violent up here but as it's a heavy cyclone area the houses are all well and truly built to withstand pretty much anything that gets thrown at them (well, a cat 5 cyclone... I heard half the town washed away in a king-tide a couple of decades ago following a cyclone, but don't see that happening again for another few decades).


Seriously have a nut butter addiction hey, ordered macadamia, hazelnut and brazil nut with linseed to try with my usual health food shop order. YUM.


One last thing- the trainer I'm in contact with has finished my program, he's sending it to me in the mail on Mon! It took a while cuz he took it to his osteo friend for advice (I knew he was going to do that but he had trouble getting to see him). Can't wait to get started on that!


Food Plan for Tomorrow- Day 17 of 112


B- 2 eggs, 1/3 of an avocado on 1 piece of 100% rye organic sourdough

S- Roasted banana split (me having a play with my fruit n nuts again)

L- Chicken breast burger patty on mountain bread with 20g uncheese, tomato, spinach and carrot

S- Carrot and celery sticks with 50g uncheese

D- Tuna and veg tarts with 1 mountain bread, 1 tin tuna, 1 egg, 1/2 cup mashed pumpkin, spinach and diced celery topped with 40g uncheese


Exercise- 30 mins strength training


Calories include 1 cup of almond milk for my two coffees and I also have a cup of green tea and a cup of spearmint tea throughout the day.


Total calories: 1611 Total Deficit: 787

Total Deficit for the week: 2709 (lol that's already the whole deficit I had last week)
 
Happy lazy Sunday everyone! Yay, I've managed 2 perfect days this week, 5 more to go till weigh in! Today and tomorrow are higher calorie days (today just because I can, and tomorrow I have my cheat meal)


No plans for today as yet, I might go out n do a bit of shopping with Wade if my legs let me. Going to pick up a cheap donut maker, YAY! (The ones that look like a sandwich press) First thing the husband asked for was lemon donuts, so we'll see how that goes. I know the texture of donut mixture all too well from working in a bakery (blah, sticky awful stuff!) Though these ones won't be deep fried lol.


Yum, my chicken burgers were SO good! Think I might have to put them on my site too... they were really tangy/spicy and so hit the spot!


Food plan for tomorrow- Day 18 of 112 (can't believe how fast this is going!)


B- 1 piece of 100% rye organic sourdough with 2 eggs and 1/3 avocado

S- 1 punnet of strawberries with 40g mixed nuts
L- I think I'm going out for lunch with Wade tomorrow, will only be something light. I'm allowing 250 ish cals for meat and salad (fish if I can!)

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1 tsp almond and chia butter

D- Homemade pizza base with 50g uncheese, tuna, tomato, spinach, pumpkin and 2 ciders *cheat meat*


Exercise- 30 mins swimming


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


Total calories: 1938 Total deficit: 459

Total deficit for the week: 3168
 
This is going to be a future blog post but because I love you all I'll share now- This was one of the tastiest, quick to throw together post workout snacks ever!!!!





Baked banana split- Split a ripe banana down the middle, top with 1 tbsp nut butter (I used almond) and 1 tbsp shredded coconut, sprinkle with cinnamon and bake in the oven around 5-8 mins. EAT! Was sweet and gooey and crunchy. OM nom nom
 
Calories that I worked out= 276 with almond butter. Lol I wouldn't call myself a dieter, I count a calorie deficit instead of aiming for a certain amount of calories... Also this is just how I eat all the time :biggrin: I can't eat wheat or dairy, and choose not to eat foods with added sugar and am very selective of anything that I eat out of a packet or container. So I'm pretty much eating normally... Just in a more controlled way, if that makes sense! I don't do low fat or low carb, everything I eat is whole food as it should be! :biggrin:
 
ASounds like you're sti doing great!! And I would take your 40 degrees celcius! I just drove home shaking and shivering in my winter jacket and thick gloves cause it was so cold. When I got into the parkade (underground parking) the steam/condensation on my windows froze, completely blinding me!!
 
Good morning! Arrgh I woke up so early today after going to bed so late. Grr.


Thanks Mystic! I have been plowing through this week!! 3 perfect days down, 4 to go till weigh in. Woohoo! I'm pretty sure I've lost already too!


Super awesome fun times planned today- Wade is taking me out for lunch, then we are going out for a bit of shopping and I'm finally going to pick up a donut maker. Got a few other bits and pieces to grab too, doing some baking on Tue when my husband is home. I've written up a first trial for rum balls that I'm excited about- aiming to get as close to the real thing as possible! With him there I can have him taste mixture and can adjust to his taste (He's a big fan of the real thing) Means I also don't end up eating extras I shouldn't be! Also have a donut recipe drafted up for lemon donuts which I'll take a whack at on Tue too. He even let me feed him pies with mountain bread cases last night and gobbled them down!! This was dinner:


700



They are mountain bread pressed into large muffin tins (2 pies= 1 piece mountain bread) and the filling is 1 tin tuna, 1 egg, celery, pumpkin, spinach, chili powder, onion powder, s&p and topped with uncheese (Ash had his topped with parmesan). I think he's starting to realise 'healthy' food really isn't that bad lol.


Cheat meal tonight too!!!! I'm SO looking forward to pizza and ciders! Mixing my pizza up tonight, it's a homemade base topped with spinach, pumpkin, onion, anchovies and uncheese. NOM!


Food plan for tomorrow- Day 19 of 112


B- Oats cinnamon roll experiment

S- 2 hard boiled eggs

L- Homemade sushi with quinoa, 1 tin of tuna, cucumber, carrot, uncheese

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1/3 avocado

D- 140g steak with mushrooms in garlic over 1/2 cup brown rice and a slab of pumpkin


Exercise- 30 mins strength training- yay Ash is home so can box him!


Calories include 1 cup almond milk for the 2 cups of coffe I have, also have a cup of green tea and a spearmint tea during the day (only 2 teabags left! Sad face)


Total calories: 1457 Total deficit: 941

Total deficit for the week: 4109 (killin it this week!)


*Edited to change milk + milk calories, I've ordered almonds that I thought would come today but didn't so making cashew milk instead for a couple of days
 
Just back from lunch/ shopping!!! I got this for $12 from Kmart...





Then went out for lunch! Me + what I ate- fish n chips, minus chips + salad, no sauce or dressing (they put it on the side but I didn't use it I squeezed lemon over it all) NOM!





One more pic! This is the view from my driveway- just thought I'd show you that I really do live in the desert...
 
Goodness, you do live in a desert! I live in Minnesota, which is covered with trees, so that seems very empty to me. lol Congrats on two perfect days! Hope your cheat meal was as good as you expected. Those bananas look yummy. I don't like coconut, but that's given me some ideas. ^_^
 
Mizzie- It really is an awful place here, everything gets covered in dark red dirt and it's so dry! We do have a couple of trees in our backyard, seems all they do is drop all the leaves in the swimming pool. Grr.


Little John- I baked the banana at 200C for 5-6mins. You can tell you need to take it out by how dark your shredded coconut goes lol- if it's black, that was too long!



Had a HORRIBLE sleep last night, kept waking up all night. There was a thunderstorm randomly in the middle of the night that went on forever, the cats kept fighting/ playing, and my husband kept kicking me in his sleep. Grr. Wide awake at 4:30am, used the laptop for a bit then tried going back to sleep, didn't happen... Got up and made milk and have brekki in the oven right now.


I made cashew milk today because I was out of almonds (didn't buy more as I ordered some and expected them to come yesterday) It's really good! Very creamy. You don't need to strain cashew milk either so it was a 2 second job (I still soaked my cashews overnight!) Also had an amazing breakfast- that'll be a recipe this week. YUM.


Food plan for tomorrow- Day 20 of 112 (nearly the end of week 3 already!)


B- 2 eggs, 1/3 avocado on 1 piece 100% rye organic sourdough

S- Apple dipped in almond butter, coconut and cinnamon

L- Homemade quinoa sushi with tuna, uncheese, cucumber and carrot

S- Carrot and celery sticks in 50g uncheese

D- Stir fry with 140g chicken breast, 1/2 cup cooked brown rice and mixed vegetables


Exercise- 30mins swimming


Calories include 1 cup homemade cashew milk for my 2 cups of coffee, I also drink a green tea and a spearmint tea during the day


Total calories: 1499 Total deficit: 889

Total deficit for the week: 4965
 
Urgh workout was horrible today, I felt weak and off my game and my stupid legs were being awful to me! Got it done, possibly the worst workout ever but I did it. Grrr.
 
Sorry to hear about the leg troubles. Does the doc have anything for you that helps, or is it just the sort of thing that's going to flare up regardless?


Almost everyone who gets to be my weight gets serious knee or back trouble, and so far I've luckily dodged both. As you mention, it can be very hard to get the exercise you need to stay healthy when you know it's going to be that painful. Good on you for getting through it.
 
Thanks MrVee. I actually saw 2 doctors initially (over a year ago now) One laughed at me for coming in on crutches, said it was nothing/ I'd overdone it exercising and prescribed me valium and told me to 'sleep it off' over the weekend, the other looked at me for 2 seconds (this was 2 weeks later when I couldn't walk at all) and he said tendonitis, just keep resting. I've had well over $2000 in physio over the last year, it helps but I pretty much have to maintain this myself. My physio while I was on holidays was amazing, he helped me a lot not just with exercises but massage/ acupunture. Physios up here just don't do that stuff- actually there isn't a physio up here at the moment, mine left town the week I went on holidays. She pretty much told me it's a condition I have to manage from home, my other physio made me optimistic that this is something I'll recover from. I'm sure I will one day, it's just finding what it is that'll do it! It's mostly to do with muscle imbalance/ tightness, I know that one of my hips has dropped slightly as I can see it in photos which is why I have to do all the glute exercises from the physio every morning. My quads and calves get unbearably tight too, I get really bad pain behind my knees from my calves and I use a foam roller on my quads twice a day (also stretch quads/hamstrings/glutes/calves 2-3x a day). Swimming helps me a heap too which is why I got so frustrated when I couldn't swim! Even days when I can hardly walk I can still swim normally, and even that half hour in the water helps my muscles from atrophy. Got really bad yesterday, was on crutches in the afternoon. Grrr.


Rum balls! I made the recipe I'd written up with my husband taste-testing the mixture till he was happy, and they came out wicked!!!! He loves them, says they taste like real ones. One of my few creations that Wade actually tried too! I'll put the recipe up later this week. They're not low-cal (I worked out 185 cals each) but no added sugar, wheat and they are vegan. They look pretty too!


Going to use the donut maker for my breakfast tomorrow! Donut trial 1! Hoping they're good!!!


Looking forward to weigh-in this week too, I seem to have shrunken noticeably over a few days which doesn't happen often!


Food Plan for Tomorrow- Day 21 of 112


B- Lemon donut recipe trial no 1! (and hopefully the only one!)

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1 tsp ABC nut butter

L- Tuna and bean mountain bread nachoes (This recipe: http://www.lucysfitlife.com/?p=501)

S- 2 hard boiled eggs

D- Slow cooked chicken breast, veg and rice


Exercise- 30 mins strength training


Calories include 1 cup of homemade cashew milk for with my 2 coffees, I also drink 1 cup green tea and 1 cup spearmint tea during the day.


Total calories: 1470 Total deficit: 915

Total deficit for the week: 5778 (woop woop!)
 
Back here in our family we have a saying that doctors are just auto mechanics with expensive educations. I am not surprised that you found a doctor who decided that since he couldn't figure out what was wrong, that therefore there was nothing wrong. :(


My mom had Lyme disease back before most doctors knew what Lyme disease was, and was sent home many a time told there was nothing wrong with her. One day a doctor asked her, "do you take trips up to Wisconsin or Minnesota out in the woods?" A week later her Lyme disease was confirmed after about three years of doctors.


Well hopefully you have some good days coming up and your legs will give you some relief.
 
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