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Approaching the new year it seems to be a time to think about change. I was reading this article about resolutions that perhaps we can buddy up and try
So, for Sunday, OMAD/low carb method, bit more normal
Drinks Tea and Coffee with cream (up to 50 calories per cup), herbal tea, filtered water
D Beef pot roast, cabbage, cauliflower cheese, green beans and gravy. Berries and cream
Exercise will be a walk round the car boot sale I hope and dog walking (hoping for 12,000 steps each day), kettle bell exercises and hypnosis/yoga relaxation CDs 😊
Have an excellent Sunday!
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Good to see you on. I think you will be getting good steps running errands. What about a resolution for me???
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Excellent. I wonder if I can make things with egg whites, facepacks and conditioner, as I have some leftover when I make mayonnaise. We are going to be so hot and organized x
She just knew the sound of a pheasant squawking and the sound of a shotgun. She was the best dog ever ever but left me at 16 last year for a better place.
I have an egg white left over from mayo, too. I'm going to add it in to a couple of eggs for an omelette tomorrow. The only other thing I can think of is meringue - which I've never made
Don't think anyone has mentioned it, but "velveting" chicken (chinese cookery technique you do to keep the meat soft in e.g. a stir-fry) requires egg whites.
L: 2 poached eggs on a bed of grilled butternut squash' banana: 250 cals
D: spinach and cannellini bean curry (only because I absent-mindedly opened a tin of what I thought was tomatoes yesterday; now I have to use up the cannellini beans!); wholemeal pitta bread; half tin of pineapple; alc-free beer - 650 cals
Total 1480 cals.
Once again, I am battling a cold so I don't really feel like going out. My knitting project is quite challenging though, so I am keeping busy. Plus lots of books I got for Christmas.
I don't have any VapoRub. I do have some FirstDefence but I think it's too late for that. I have been squirting it up my nose and all it does is make me sneeze even more. 🤒
Thanks Lytham. My legs got cold yesterday, despite the thermals, woollen socks and fleece trousers. So I will have to do some moving around. Really don't feel like it.
On the plus side, I weighed myself this morning and I have put on a scant pound over Christmas. If I lose another 3lbs I will be back to my "happy" range.
Thanks Tubby54 - life could be worse, I suppose, and it's the kind of thing I will get through in a couple of days. Will hopefully be fighting-fit to get to my mother's for new year.
And we love chatting to you too ! Ooh I could eat both your omelette and leek soup, sounds a good day, especially with the cheese, everything tastes nicer with cheese x
The cheese I have is extra special as it's straight from the producer, This morning they actually gave me the ricotta........(it costs about E4) It's delic. mixed with soup,or even on it's own with pepper and a dribble of real olive oil. 💪😋xx
Good day. The leek and ricotta soup got a mmm from me. I think DD is a habit I cannot change now, I feel kinda odd if I get to nine pm and haven't been on I am always googling things people say. NSV is my fav learn this year.
Sometimes i wonder how we managed without Google. We had to use dictionaries,atlas's we even asked for directions from real people. Oh holy C c"£p all this thinking back, makes me feel old. XX
Well, I used to walk to the library to look things up. We keep explaining to the kids that we were not born into this technology and it isn't second nature.
Oh here,not everyone does Christmas day, but they have a big,usually fish supper onthe 24th. This year I went with a friend to my fav fish restaurant. Christmas is for families,my sis is in England and I can't go for Christmas. I'm used to it,I'm never alone always leaning on one friend or another.
The vein is stable but worrying. I'll get it seen to after the hols. Thanks for asking.xx
I'm putting the lap-top to bed now. I'll have the phone until the battery goes.
Morning Hopalong et al. I like the message in your post about how advice given now may seem irrelevant now but may suit us further down the line. That was very true in my case.
I haven't gone through all of the pics in the link you've provided but I will and will add them into my calendar reminders and daily notes... thanks for that.
The carbs in the house are disappearing so 'unwanted additions' to my menu should become less and less. I'm still in temp accommodation and have a kitchen with none of my gadgets, spices, oils etc.. so I never feel like making the effort to cook good food but I'm trying to do moreso.
Lchf with intermittent fasting... Still have leftovers so nothing has really changed from yesterday.
B: Coffees with whole milk
L: Leftover ham, cheese and roasted veg
D: Leftover beef, gravy and roasted veg. Cherries and cream
Lol, I just read that menu and thought 'that looks like yesterday's, am I in the right diary!' It must be so frustrating for you Tiggerr, I hope things get more settled for you soon.
Leftovers are still yummy but it must be difficult to re-vamp them without your kitchen bits and pieces.You're doing a great job sticking with it,hun.xx
I am having a rest from meatloaf, leftovers made into something My son bought us a le crueset pan for Christmas and I have some beef stew bubbling and soup in the slow cooker from leftover tomato sauce. I hope you are doing ok in your temp accommodation. You can pretend you are a student again. That's how I learnt to make bolognese! Central government money well spent I have a few ideas for resolutions more planning, less waste, getting bike out of mothballs now the days are getting longer. All the best to you and yours x
I'm always happier when I'm planning so that's what I'm going to concentrate on now and knowing that the days are getting longer always cheers me up too
Thanks for the link Hopalong, I had a good read yesterday, and then forgot to post my menu!!
So, today we have friends over, so I'm going to go for two meals. Ideally I'd like to not add the six snacks to that like I did yesterday, but heigh ho, let's see how I get on! Weigh in is going to be painful this morning, but I know that the Sunday Slimmers will forgive me (as they do every week at the moment!!)
Early lunch - turkey bone broth and a light prawn salad.
Early dinner - I'm doing a hot buffet, and salads, so I shall choose meats and cheeses in moderation with salads, and avoid bread and the delicious sausage rolls as I'm gluten free, and to keep calories under control I won't buy myself any gluten free alternatives.
Then supper will do doubt be some grazing. I'm going to set myself a cut off for food of 8pm today.
Exercise - not a great deal, I've finally succumbed to the nasty cold that the children have been suffering from, but I may try and get a short walk in the fresh air.
I didn't want to get to February and wish I had had a mince pie. I have enjoyed Christmas. We will get there. Back on track. I hope your cold goes away soon. Leeks are supposed to be good for the chest. With GF will you slowly reintroduce some gluten? All the best for 2020 x
Brilliant Eleanor, well done. I had both booze and snacks yesterday, from tomorrow I'm going to start planning anything snacky as an actual part of a meal.
Thanks Salcheq! I’ll go back to an afternoon (healthy!) snack when I’m back at work and don’t like a big lunch. But for now all Snack seems to mean is cake...so I’m at least trying to control this!
Well done. I cannot remember having a drink, it was Boxing Day I think. Had three medjool dates with some cheese in the last couple of days. Had a nice bottle of red earmarked for the holiday, but put some in the stew today. Sainos had sold out of aubergine yesterday, what is the world coming to! I wish you all the best for 2020. So glad our paths have crossed in 2019 x
Ooh I love that breakfast. Can I come round one morning 😉. I used to eat porridge with nut butter for breakfast in my last job - I’d keep a jar in my desk & buy porridge from the canteen To save myself from the honey on offer. I’ve cut out the porridge & added cream (heh heh) to my breakfast of berries & seeds now - not sure if that’s what is shrinking my mighty ar$e though, but something is...
That all sounds great Hopalong.
I am bed with a cold that surges when I don’t have to be Wonder Woman. Crap day yesterday & I need to tell you all about it - family lunch at my mums, my mum was ill so I had to cook it, which wasn’t that bad but another big roast on the heels of Christmas Day, in someone else’s kitchen, my ill mum fussing at me. Then we sit down to lunch, my teenage niece is so appallingly rude to my sister & I blow her head off & appall everyone even myself. Then I wash & clear up & my sisters family do nothing. Traipse past the kitchen on their way to lie on the sofas & play with their phones. Bro in law has mental health issues & also plays on his phone, encouraging his children & generally being a rude arse - as is role modelling treating my sister like dirt. We ALWAYS helped clear up at my grandmother’s as teenagers. My son age 6 is used to playing with his big cousins but they just play on their phones now & he’s upset he’s not allowed to. I did apologise to my niece & my sister, but I am hugely worried my niece is being allowed to treat my poor sister like dirt.
We were supposed to stay a few more days but everyone needed to come home last night & my mum needed to be left alone to be ill. After a good day LCHF, I came home & ate leftover Christmas desserts for medicinal reasons.
So today - I am in bed & my lovely husband is on childcare /playmobil duty.
Berries, seeds & cream for brunch
Afternoon Snack - Christmas cheese 😀
Supper - turkey curry, with veg no rice. Probably also another Christmas dessert
Hi Sfg, I love the sound of your menu, especially the turkey curry.
I can totally relate to your day yesterday. Probably why I choose to live in Italy, 🇮🇹. When I go to old Blighty I usually stay with my sis, where Mum lives too but after this year I'm reconsidering. Life's too short to be permanently on best behavior. It's Ok to be not OK. Sending healing hugs. XXX
I was pressing like for todays food, that seems restorative. Sorry you haven't had the best Christmas, Hidden . It is all over now and you can get well. My mum threw the whole turkey at her mother-in-law one Christmas for interfering in the cooking. I find my in-laws don't say thank you and that is something I find strange. It may be a phase with your niece, let's hope it is a short one. My partner and son had to work this year and NYE, but eldest son and I tried our best. Perhaps today is time to make a never again resolution. Keep your chin up x
Ha. Wish I had the balls to throw a turkey.... thank you so much. The plus side to all of this is when I do everything like a martyr & get upset with my family/in-laws, I drop quite a few pounds. I’ll weigh myself in a few days when it’s a less unhelpful time of the month - and no one make the correlation between me blowing my niece up & my peri menopausal hormones please... 🤪🤣
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