Hello Daily Diarists, I hope you're having a great weekend. It's busy here in the diamondblock household. My daughter is celebrating her 10th birthday tomorrow - her birthday is on Monday but we're having a friends and family day on Sunday. I've worked an extra shift, haven't made the birthday cake yet as I forgot to take the butter out of the fridge, had a supermarket delivery, head is spinning!
I found this quote a couple of weeks ago. One of the challenges is learning not to listen to that voice that tells me I'm wrong, or stupid, or unworthy. I'm not those things, and neither are you
I haven't done my planning for tomorrow yet but it will be something like this:
B - eggs, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, 300
L - picnic, probably ham rolls, crisps, veggies, apple, 450-500
D - sausage bake (JO recipe), greens, 600
Plus birthday cake, naturally!
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Enjoy your Friend and Family day diamondblock I used to love having the kids friends round for birthday sleepovers. Having young people around makes me feel young lol
Plan today for me is
Breakfast - portobello mushrooms with wilted spinach and chickpeas (150)
Lunch - vege frittata (320)
Dinner - stir fry chicken with lime and coconut milk (340)
Total - 810 Cal
If I add an apple (104) and maybe some yoghurt and blueberries for dessert (approx 100) it still leave plenty of room for any other snacks.
Hoping to start on the gardens today. Not much in the way of gardens here so most of it will be cleaning up dead leaves etc and pulling weeds before they start to get too big.
Also have nephews wedding next weekend so going to make his gift (quilted table runner and placemats - second time doing quilting ever), so will make a start on that.
Hidden you sound so busy, thank you for making time for us. Hope the birthday girl has a good day.
My plans for tomorrow are a bit sketchy.
I have to go to a function in a nearby Cathedral (after I have been to Mass), and it includes breakfast. Will try to avoid it if I can. If I do I will have a mushroom omelette and avocado when I get home.
Dinner will be crispy chicken, cauliflower, spring cabbage and Savoy cabbage with butter on the veggies. Followed by strawbs, raspberries and blackberries with double cream. 881 cals
Can’t give a total or macros because of not being in contro of the breakfast.
Dinner lentil and carrot soup. 200calories 1000 cal plenty for a few snacks during the day. cheese and crackers. some fruit also skimmed milk in my coffee.
I hope to have a walk by the river before lunch.
I do hope everyone has a good Sunday and a good week .
hi diamondblock, have a lovely day tomorrow and hope your daughter enjoys her birthday. I've slipped off plan today, weekends can be a bit tricky as the family chip in with what they want to eat and my plans get changed. Instead of the planned sausage meat pie we ended up with roast pork dinner for tea. I did skip the roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding. I also did a park run which made me so tired I ate more snacks than I had planned. Tomorrow I'll be having
B- porridge, fruit, seeds, half grapefruit 400
L- the homemade pie that was meant for today, runner beans 400
D- poached egg and salad with rocket, blue cheese, avocado 400 (not sure if that will taste any good, would normally have it on toast, but just making it up based on what's in the fridge)
snacks - small piece millionaires shortbread which I made to take for friends 300
Thanks for hosting Hidden . Happy birthday to your daughter. Have a great day!
I am back from a lovely week in Italy. I tried to eat more fish than pasta and did find gelato that was apparently sugar and milk free - I am not sure how they do it, but it didn't taste sugar free!
Before I went away I decided to take drastic measures. I have read a lot about the blood sugar 8 week diet. A recent health check identified that I am at moderate risk of developing diabetes. I want to do what I can to prevent it. It is 800 calories for 8weeks, cutting out bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and sugar to remove fat from the liver and hopefully lose abdominal fat. This is something I would never have advocated previously, but it is short term and I know others on here have been successful with it. I will see how far I get. I have set myself a target of 10% of body weight in 8 weeks - approx 17lbs.
B - benecol yoghurt drink - 59
L - 2 large eggs scrambled, 1/2 small avocado and 25gms feta 346
D - chicken wing and 100 gms roast chicken, spring greens, roasted BN squash 311
S - almond milk latte, 6 almonds, black coffee, lots of water with fresh lime, fruit tea. Multivitamin tablet - 66
Total - 782 - leaves me enough for a cup of tea with skimmed milk if needed.
Ex - 10,000 steps
Tip - you can think about things and ponder and debate your next steps or you can just jump in and do it.
I'm off to a craft event this morning and meeting up with my sister there. Planning my menu for today is difficult as my sister has suggested we have lunch out and I don't know where we're going!
Breakfast - sugar-free muesli and milk
Lunch - ???
Dinner - depending on lunch and time when I get home, I'm thinking either soup or an omelette with salad.
Snacks - fruit and maybe a yogurt.
Went out for lunch yesterday with some friends to a farm shop with a cafe. I've been there before but the menu has changed and it was difficult to find something that fitted my eating plan. In the end I chose a fish pie with salad. Only trouble was it tasted like there was a lot of butter in the mashed potato topping and possibly in the sauce too. Having eaten low fat and low sugar foods for the past few months, I felt quite sick for the rest of yesterday. Hopefully it won't have done too much damage but I'm going to be a lot more careful in future!
Hi ArctoLindy one meal is unlikely to do any harm. Fish Pie is very tasty and all you can do is choose the best option you can at the time. I hope you enjoyed your time with your friends.
I have a busy day today, lots to do, not much time to do it and haven't really planned my meals as such! However I will try to stick to a plan of sorts!
B; Tea with skimmed milk. Wholemeal toast with peanut butter and raspberries. 137cals
L; Poached Egg, cooked Cherry toms and Spinach on a Garlic & Coriander Naan 208 cals
D; 883 cals left.....Most likely chicken for Dinner as that's already cooked but if I have time I'd like to mame a chilli as really fancy since someone posted it up yesterday on their DD! There will be some cals left to play with throughout the day.
See...this is why the DD is good for me as I didn't have a plan until I started typing! 😁
Hi diamondblock thank you for todays diary. Happy birthday for your daughters birthday, hope she has a great day. I have had a great week this week. 2lb lost and fat measurement down another one. My plan for meals today are:
B Porridge with blueberrys and a large cuppa. 244 calories
L 2 x Sausages. mash, carrots, broccoli and onion gravy. 686 calories
D Trio olive bread with ham and cream cheese, followed by jelly and raspberrys. 405 calories
total 1545 kcal today, that's quite a bit over my 1330 kcal daily allowance; but adding on 30 minutes walk today, I've done ok. will have soup for lunch tomorrow
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