Food Diary

LBG wanted to know what I was eating so I’ll update this post each day with what I eat. I’m by no means the healthiest eater and I know there’s things I can do better but at the same time this is a lifestyle change and not a diet and I love food!

Monday 20th July

8.30am-11am – 300ml light iced coffee (PB’d)
9.30am – 1 mint choc biscuit
1pm – 1 sm tin tuna with sundried tomatoes and onion
2.30pm - 1 crunchie
7pm – grilled chicken thigh & vermicilli noodle salad

Exercise: 30mins bike; 15mins weights at gym

Tuesday 21st July

10am – Banana buzz boost juice
12.30pm – 3 Premium high fibre crackers with vegemite
2.30pm – Nestle peppermint crisp
6.30pm – Canneloni
8.30pm – small glass of coke
9.30pm – handful of shapes

Exercise: 20mins bike, 10mins treadmill (both using the HR zone trainer); 1 hr dancing class

Wednesday 22nd July

9.30am – Skinny hot chocolate
1pm – Nestle diet yoghurt
2.30pm – violet crumble
8pm – LBG’s mushroom risotto (PB’d)

Exercise: 10mins treadmill (incl 4mins jogging at 8.5km/hr); 20mins bike on HR Zone

I had a migraine, reflux, night cough, PB/vomit and the works on Wednesday night, which led to no sleep at all. Really hoping it’s related to TTOM and  not a band slip.

Thursday 23rd July
(due to night before didn’t eat much of anything)

11.30am – cold milo
3pm – handful of potato chips (PB’d)
5.30pm – crunchie
8pm – 4 oven chips (PB’d)

Had the night cough/PB about midnight but slept through rest of night thank goodness

Friday 24th July

9am – 11am – 100ml (if that) of light iced coffee (think I need to PB it too)

NSV

Just stayed overnight in Bunbury. Just had a shower and was brushing my teeth when I realised I had one of those typical skimpy hotel towells wrapped around me. ALL the way around! Yay!

More Fill Removed

Hey kids,

I’m in a much better place now after a couple of nights sleep without waking up every couple of hours choking and coughing. I went to see Dr Bowater on Wednesday  morning. He admitted that they really have no idea when restriction just reappears for no apparent reason but that it was good that I came in to have it fixed rather than struggle on. He removed 0.5ml (more than I wanted) and said that if within 7 days I feel like I’m slipping into the “yellow zone” where I’m eating too much, getting too hungry then I should go back and he’ll put a touch back in. He also said my results were pretty awesome, with my graph showing a steady decline. He asked me what my goal was, to which I replied: 72kgs and he said “way too low, your goal should be 77kgs”. Screw that, I’ve seen myself in the mirror and I have way more than 1.5kgs of fat to lose!

He also went through the 7 rules he has found that the most successful bandits stick to:

1. No breakfast. He asked if I drank hot drinks which I said no, so he said I should have a cup of warm water early then again at 10am

2. Light lunch – eg tin tuna in olive oil

3. Nil in afternoon – no snacking!

4. Healthy dinner – eg fish & vegies

5. Nil in evening

6. 200 mins of movement outside work per week

7. Alcohol – he asked how much I drank which I said usually a couple glasses wine on the weekend which he said was fine

Haven’t tried the warm water thing yet, seems a bit gross to me! I think I already do No’s 2, 4 and 6 for the most part but not sure about the no snacking!!!

GB and I finished our Level 1 dancing course this week and have joined up for Level 2. I have a lot of fun and I even think GB enjoys it (even if he won’t admit it!).

Pissed that Julie made it to the Masterchef final when she’s been skating in the bottom 3 of contestants the entire show! Don’t get me wrong, she seems like a lovely person, but can’t seem to handle pressure well and her food is nowhere near the level of others who have left. Vent over.

Anyway best get back to work and dealing with complaining annoying bastards all day. Thank god the weekend is nearly here!

PS – Have put a weight graph page into my blog. Link at the top amongst the other pages FYI