Well today was a bit of a surprise, as I thought I'd be well over calories thanks to lunch out and a frangipane tart from Aldi which appeared with my afternoon cup of tea! It appears not!
Here's what I ate:
Breakfast: 2 cups of tea (38 cals)
Lunch (pub): Flatbread stuffed with beetroot, goats cheese and rocket and a quarter of a garlic flatbread. Estimated cals (566 cals) Drink: soda water and blackcurrant cordial (9 cals)
Snack: Frangipane tart! (223 cals!)
Dinner: Sea bream fillet pan fried in olive oil. Griddled asparagus spears (cooked long and low with a smidge of olive oil), 80g of Jersey Royal new potatoes and 8g of garlic butter. (328 cals)
Drinks: 2 more cups of tea, water and a freslly ground coffee... (53 cals)
TOTAL: 1217 Calories (Daily Quota for weightloss : 1333 calories)
EXERCISE: 2902 steps out of 3000 goal
Hanging on the phone for 20 minutes first thing to secure tickets to watch Reading FC play Huddersfield in the Championship Playoff Finals at Wembley on 29th May - managed to get three tickets - YAY! Come on you Blues!
Been to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore Middlesex today to be seen by their hip specialist. I've been getting a niggling pain in one of my hips which is ALWAYS there and prevents me from sleeping through the night. It hurts whichever position I lie in. Recently prescribed Amitriptyline (10mg) which is also used for depression - but it works well on nerve pain and also zonks me out enough to allow me to sleep through the night....
I had an x-ray taken of my pelvis, which I was able to look at alongside the specialists.
My disability is congenital (I was born this way...) My two femur heads are both located about 10cm higher on my pelvis then they should be. Both femur heads looked in good and healthy condition, but then they don't have any "sockets" so there can not really be any wear and tear!
My femurs are attached to my pelvis just by muscles and tendons, so Hip Specialist and his colleagues were impressed with my range of movement, that I am able to lift my legs when laying and the fact that I am able to walk as well as I do (indeed that I am able to walk at all!)
They suspect that my pain isn't from the hip joint (I don't really have one) but is probably due to muscle / tendon / nerve problems. He's going to arrange for me to have an MRI scan of my spine to assess the state of my lower spine as he feels that my problems may be attributed to compression in the spine or my sacroiliac joint.
My two glute muscles are much higher up on my hip then they should be, as it is they which are doing much of the work when I walk. I know that I get a lot of tension and knots in my bottom! This is made worse by over-working them (walking) BUT I guess that exercise and walking will also strengthen them? Anyway, we will know once I have had the scan and hopefully I'll be given some suggestions / solutions to assist in getting rid of the pain.
Overall, I am very reassured by the fact that the pain isn't skeletal / arthritis / wear and tear.
Weigh in this morning - 0.8lb gain. Not unexpected as I was away last weekend enjoying a spa break with girl friends - much prosecco was drunk and a lot of food consumed! I was also in London during the week for a meeting and that involved a hotel stay, dinner with friends in a pub and two rather lovely tasting pints of Black Dog stout!
How's every one else's day gone, food and otherwise?
How many calories to have a day? 
1365 calories a day
