Tuesday March 11, 2008.
Breakfast: 7:30 Slice wholemeal toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam (15). Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). A boiled egg (70) and tomato (20) Coffee (5) Breakfast – 464 calories.
Snack: 10:30 A diet apricot yoghurt (84) and a coffee (5).
Lunch 12:30: An apricot delight roll (234) Grilled chicken thigh (~ 70) Coffee (5). Lunch - 309 calories
Snack/Dinner: 5:45 2 very thin slices chocolate mud cake with cream and chocolate (270), 2 Vive light wholemeal crackers (50), ~ 35 gm Sweberg cheese (126), ~ 25 gm triple cream Brie (107), celery capsicum snow peas mushroom and radish (~ 35 altogether), medium bunch grapes (125), slice watermelon (30). Snack/ Dinner - 743
Total - 1605 calories.
Weird food day. It was weird that I wanted the yoghurt when I was at home. Well weird because the yoghurt was because I wanted an icecream. Hmm. I think this was housework avoidance eating. This equates to eating when I didn't want to take the hem up on my party dress the other week.
Then when I was out, I thought it would be nice if I could have an apricot delight roll, and incorporate it into my lunch. Not eat it on the run while shopping, but maybe have one in an okay way. So I bought it, but then I was seriously wondering how to have a proper lunch. Like if I had cheese, I couldn't have crackers because my carbs were already in the roll. It's a low GI product, but still. Anyway I cooked a piece of chicken and ate the roll and then I'm like - that's it? Where is the rest of my lunch? I have already eaten the carbs and the fruit, and now I don't feel like having veges ... Oh well, I had the housework getting more and more urgent so I just did that instead.
And then I had had lunch, right, but there was an afternoon tea for my daughter's birthday. Now other such late afternoon things I have eaten as partly lunch calories, but I had already had lunch. Also, I have a policy that I will eat a little birthday cake when it is my birthday or someone in my immediate family's birthday. OK. So I sent out some food, stuck candles on the cake, took it out, and it's time to cut it already, even though I haven't eaten anything else yet. So I thought, ah bugger it, I'm having some anyway, I'll have it first. Yet another mistake! One piece was enough to convince me that it tasted pretty wonderful and that as the bit I'd had was so small, I could have another. And that made me think that I would really, really like to have more!! OMG!! So I very quickly got myself a plate full of cheese and biscuits and veges and grapes!! Which worked fine. Phew! I'm over the cake!
And then, fortunately, my sister-in-law was visiting alone and left fairly early. I never know in advance whether she will do that, or whether we will still be sitting around at 11:30! And I do love her company, but as far as my weight goes, it was lucky she left. Because then I thought, I actually feel full already. I had planned to have a small hamburger for dinner (small because even though I made them myself last time, when I counted up the calories afterwards, it made my day a bit high). So I started getting the kids food, but I reckoned I would leave my meal till later, and make it even smaller than I'd planned. And then I realized I still had time for a swim. Even better. And then by the time I came home I'd had enough time to realize that all the bits of that afternoon tea put together might not leave me with many calories if I actually want this to be a weight loss day, and part of a weight loss week, part of this challenge I'm in! Well, I know I can't guarantee a loss, but I can at least have normal calorie days, hopefully! Yeah! So I worked out the calories - and even though by then I was getting a bit hungry again, it turned out I had eaten them all already!!
Well that might sound bad to you. I didn't feel unhappy though. I am happy that I have had at least three awkward moments with my eating today, and even the potential start of a binge, and yet I am on track. I don't see any binge eating imminent. I didn't eat over my ok range. I know what I had and know I didn't actually miss out on anything. I don't feel deprived at all. Just a titch hungry, not much, and breakfast will fix that, as it often has before.
And I even got a bit of exercise in.
Exercise: 8:25 pm 30 minutes swimming. My breathing was improved tonight - I'm back to 5 stroke breaths on the freestyle - still only making it to about 7/8 of a freestyle lap before I'm hanging out for the end of the lap though. I did some warm up movements, a slow set of laps (breaststroke, then freestyle, then backstroke), then a fast set, then a faster, semi-timed set which took 7 minutes. Then I did some cool down movements.
Also this was a mega housework day. (Well semi-mega by my standards! Nothing incredibly heavy, but quite a few hours.)
