Hello all, welcome to Sunday's daily diary. Don't forget you have an extra hour - enjoy a lie in! I'm very happy as it means my alarm goes off an hour later for my 5am shift at work
Let us know what you're planning, share your ideas so I can cherry pick some inspiration. If you're having a good day or week, or not so good, check in here for some chat and support.
After work I'll be helping the kids to carve their pumpkins (the help I give seems to be to do it all!), and hopefully relax in the front of the fire with a good film.
My food plan is:
B - canteen breakfast of bacon (I skip the roll) followed by a fruit scone made by our cook. She's a great baker! 394 cals
L - not sure, I'll pick something up from work. 350-400 cals
D - JO creamy mustard chicken, mashed sweet potato, broccoli, then a little chocolate molten cake (BBC Good Food recipe) with raspberries and some creme fraiche, 900
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doh! That's what happens when I cook and post at the same time!
B. Probably 4 Weetabix with a new addition of coconut milk......sounds horrid.
L. I say L but up north we call it Dinner and could not put D for fear of confusion but anyway I might have Cumberland sausage with sauerkraut and oven baked parsnip slices.
D. I say D but up north we call it Tea so as above Turkey slices with boiled beetroot in a stottie ( flatbread ) and maybe coleslaw as a dip.
S. S is for supper I thought I would add this as I like the letter S I always go wandering into the kitchen like a moth does to a light so have seeds and nuts scattered about the benches so I don't scoff the kids chocolate, pumpkin seeds are running amock at the moment so I have toasted them earlier and will nibble on them while I'm waiting for my bed to shout my name.
hi, Marley. I'm from up north but I say lunch and tea. Not sure where I get that from. My hubby is a southener so perhaps he has influenced me. Cumberland sausage sounds good
Loving your dinner and tea, or lunch and dinner as it would be to me, unless it is a hot lunch, in which case it would be dinner, and a cold dinner which would be tea!!!
Anyway, it all sounds delicious, I think sauerkraut might go on the shopping list this week.
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My husband is from Stoke On Trent so we have different meals depending on who's talking about them!
Hello and welcome to the Daily Diary and Weight Loss Forum Hidden
Calorie counting can be fiddly when you first start but is really useful for weight loss Marley 😊.
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I like your post! Being a northerner who is living in the south I always hesitate. Although I think i tend to say lunch and tea. But today we are having roast at lunch time so that's dinner ! (to me!)
Hi, diamondblock. Thanks for hosting and thanks for reminding me about the clocks. I'm in Munich airport trying to pass the time waiting for a connecting flight home. I'm looking forward to getting back to normal, although dreading going back to work on Monday, back to too much stress and busyness. My next weigh in is Tuesday and I'm not looking forward to the scales showing up how much I've slipped on holiday. Tomorrow I'll be tired, so hoping a plan will help me get back on the wagon
B- porridge with seeds 350
L- scrambled eggs 200
D- beef and veg casserole with cauliflower rice 400
Good evening all and thanks to diamondblock for hosting. I have finally adjusted my sails today, with some help from Cracker10 and an imaginery spy camera! Anyway, result was that I have eaten exactly to plan for the first day in weeks! Yippee!
Creamy mustard chicken sounds amazing, have you posted a recipe?
Simple day for me tomorrow, been a strange weekend, after a week off work, away in Cornwall for a few days, then home and an ill husband so not eating proper meals for a few days, now son away at cub camp and daughter exhausted after a sleepover with friends.
B - banana, mango, pineapple and cashew smoothie. 200 cals
L - out with daughter shopping, so we'll got to a cafe somewhere - 700 cals
D - spicy chicken fajhita wrap, with yellow peppers, lettuce, sour cream and corn on the cob on the side - 500 cals.
Total - 1400 cals.
Exercise - shopping with daughter. I'd like to start running again but realistically that may not happen until Monday. I've been a bit ill recently and lost all my fitness but looking forward to starting again very slowly.
My meals are an approximation based on a lot of work I did initially when I started calorie counting. So, for my smoothie, I worked out the calories of everything going in - either from the packaging or from the NHS calorie checker online and the divided it by portions. My dinner I've done regularly, and I keep a note of all previous meals so I can refer. I know that a wrap, plus all the ingredients add up to 450, but I like a bit extra cheese and sour cream, so I've allowed 500. Lunch, I have no idea what I'll have yet, so I'll work it out once I've chosen something, and then adjust dinner if necessary up or down. Obviously I can't go crazy and have burger and chips, but 700 should allow me something like a good filled croissant or sandwich, or jacket potato.
Early on when I started this I made a note of all the calories in everything by portion size, and gradually I've learnt to remember them, but do still weigh things quite a bit, and check packaging and the NHS calculator quite a bit.
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My Fitness Pal app.
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Ill look into the fitness pal app, thank you diamondback
Mmm thanks for hosting Hidden and sharing such a lovely recipe for your evening meal. I'm trying to get back on track from a min break in a motorhome with lovely evenings sat with snacks, TV and some cutting and sticking (house renovation ideas from magazines) so I ate lots of popcorn, revels and honey peanuts. Oh dear I'm dragging the scales tomorrow ì think it will be my first gain in 9 weeks. So today I hope to eat well:
Breakfast: crumpets followed by yoghurt
Lunch: roast chicken and lots if vegetables
Supper: salad and carrot and coriander soup
I hope to get some exercise moving furniture around and reorganising the house ready for big refurb starting tomorrow. But tv abs a film sounds a nice idea if i have a break!
Sadly, I didn't benefit from the extra hour so am up and about at the usual hour. For those who don't live in the UK....we put our clocks back one hour last night!
It is still dark but I can hear the birds singing so hopefully that is the sign for a good day ahead.
Right .....DD for today
B - bacon and beans, two coffees
L - leek and potato soup, green salad (already picked/pulled and washed!) with carrot and cucumber, yoghurt
S - pan fried chicken breast, green veggie and potato, possibly reheated sponge pudding (as it didn't seem quite cooked when I had it last night) with a dollop of cream
Snacks - clementines (first ones this year) and banana
Water - as much a possible
Exercise - depends whether I have the energy to go for a walk or work in the garden.
PS I had my first ever nightmare in a foreign language last night - very weird!
Have a good day everyone .....whatever you are doing.....
What a great menu Hidden , even planning around work.
We have a couple of pumpkins to work on here too, think we need to look up some pumpkin recipes. Btw the superfood lasagna from yesterday was gorgeous!
My extra hour will be spent ironing!
Sunday's food:
B. Almond pancakes with cherries and banana
L. Roast aubergine with feta
D. Moroccan chicken tagine and apple cake
Haven't done the calcs yet.
Exercise. Lots more chores, up and down stairs and flat pack building. Can you believe I had to go to IKEA a third time in a week last night for a missing part!!
I will be treading a regular path there once work is done on the house - see how i made it sound like exercise!! Glad you got all the parts in the end.
Good morning Hidden and thank you for hosting, I’m glad you had the extra hour in bed before your early start. I love your image too, very philosophical 😊
Yesterday went slightly off plan as I was very hungry after my walk, so we had pulled pork for dinner and a pudding! Eeek 😊
So today is a banana first thing
Smoked haddock and egg for brunch
Pulled pork with potatoe wedges and vegetables for dinner.
Exercise is a gentle indoor cycle and some yoga to loosen up my aching joints after yesterday.
My tip for the day is pinched from Facebook but I like it
“Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful” 😊
Well done on your walk despite the aching joints. At the other end of the scale I felt very tired and just flopped in front of the tv and watched Sense and Sensiblity (for hours in the afternoon)!
Thanks for hosting Hidden , love the sailing analogy, so true. Today is day 2 of hubby's birthday celebrations, had a lovely day yesterday, was fairly sensible but more cals than maintenance. Today:
Good morning Diamond block hope you have a good day. Also everyone else on the forum . Today I on my way to Windsor for the day . Breakfast was scrambled egg on seeded bread. With a coffee 350 cals. Lunch at the pub probably a jacket potato with beans and a salad. Water to drink. 550cal In the evening small piece of Quiche with side salad. 350 cal lunch cals . I may have a scone with a coffee in the afternoon 250 cals total is 1500 cals. We will be having a nice walk around Windsor.
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Lovely. Windsor is a great place to spend some time, hope you're having a good day
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but anyway I might have Cumberland sausage with sauerkraut and oven baked parsnip slices.
I always go wandering into the kitchen like a moth does to a light so have seeds and nuts scattered about the benches so I don't scoff the kids chocolate, pumpkin seeds are running amock at the moment so I have toasted them earlier and will nibble on them while I'm waiting for my bed to shout my name.
Daily Diary Sunday 1st October
