Hello all, super early post from me today, but a busy evening coming up so I'm worried I'll forget if I don't do it now!!
Anyway, welcome to all, regulars, you know what to do, newbies, follow their lead, post what you plan to eat on Saturday with calories if you're calorie counting, any exercise you've got planned and any tip you'd like to share.
My poster today is based on my thoughts following a post by HappyBeee about making excuses which led me to thinking about how to change your mindset. After six months I know that I've started changing my eating habits but am still a long way from making them part of who I am. But I have occasionally seen some signs that it is coming, so my plan is to keep doing the things that work over and over again. So, I plan my meals, over and over again, I talk to myself when I'm upset and standing in front of the biscuit cupboard over and over again, I put on my trainers and go out in the cold over and over again, and hope that one day all these things just become part of who I am. They already are a little. So, my message today, is don't give up just because you get things wrong sometimes. You've just got to keep doing the right things over and over again and eventually, it'll become part of who you are. No quick fixes for habits built up over years!!! They have to be replaced slowly.
Menu for my manic Saturday:
B - mince pie porridge! 300 cals
L - ham and cheese omelette with salad 400 cals
D - chicken curry, veg curry, samosa, bit of rice, popadom and mango chutney. 700 cals
Total - 1400.
Exercise - brisk walk in the morning, running around doing everything that needs to be done all day!!
Happy Saturday all.
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So agree about making good habits part of who we are.
So today I am at a board meeting and the lovely chef will have made some bacon lettuce wraps for me - they are delicious.
We are then having a three course Christmas lunch. I honestly can't remember what I asked for but I know I will have thought about it carefully. I will decline potatoes and just eat the meat and veg. I would have chosen a lighter dessert too and will not be partaking in any alcohol.
This evening if I need anything I will have raspberries, blackberries and a bit of double cream.
If possible I would like to do a short run when I get back from the meeting but it might be too dark.
Lovely choices Ceals with berries and cream as a treat if needed later.. well planned out..
I hope you get a run too 👟👟
Early suits me just fine Salcheq
I've planned as much as I can for tomorrow but I've had to guess my lunch as we're visiting my partner's family. I think it's a fair guess though - as we often have a variation of this sort of thing there!
B toast with soya spread, 1 poached egg and half tin baked beans - 445cals
L a veggie option of some sort (everyone else has the meat), new potatoes, carrots/veg and a slice of chocolate loaf cake and fruit e.g. satsuma - 532 cals
D pasta with red onion and tomato sauce and nutritional yeast - 512cals
Snacks 2 x coffees with soya milk, 2 x dried figs - 160cals
Total 1649 cals out of a possible 1750
Exercise - a.m. parkrun (5k) - forecast says it will be zero degrees at 9am - hopefully the snow will stay away though!
Thank you Minniewinny. It will actually be my first run all week. Running in the freezing cold feels completely different when 200 other people are doing it too. And my shoes have excellent grips Hope it's not too snowy where you are. Nothing here yet...
Nutritional Yeast is a by-product of beer making but very different to marmite as it comes in flakes and has a subtle cheesey flavour, and also has a natural protein content and lots of B vits too. As I'm dairy intolerant I have a few weird things like this where others would normally have cheese. But it's working for me
Looks like a good variety on the menu tomorrow. Enjoy your parkrun, you are a brave woman! We have snow here but it quickly turns to slush then more snow then slush - horrible! But that is winter for you. Enjoy your day tomorrow.
Not running at all actually! I quite fancy the idea of running in snow (maybe best in waterproof trousers) but no snow here and my asthma has flared up today
Lunch will be about the company... I'm often a guinea pig for new veggie options - have you seen the Gosh range? But it's always just good to see certain people. Hope you have an excellent day too Ceals
I discovered a lovely Christmas spice yoghurt the other day and it tastes like mince pies - so I mix it in my porridge, and porridge becomes a mince pie - magic!
A good 2nd day for me on the BSD. I have still to have my dinner though and after having the beetroot, apple and cannellini soup at 5pm I am still stuffed! I really can't do a day on 380 calories!!!!
Tomorrow menu is
Breakfast: Apple, mango and hazelnut with natural yoghurt - 180 calories
Lunch: Courgette and feta salad - 270 calories
Dinner: Spicy chicken with lentils - 470 calories
Water: 3 litres
total calories 920
Exercise: not sure yet, maybe a walk. I do need to do more though.
Yes I had dinner, it was delish and light enough before bed. You could say it was a posh supper😅
The tastes are amazing though I do struggle with corriander 😕
Love your poster Salcheq, it is very true, it's all about perseverence.
Tomorrow is a family Christmas meal out so will try my best to stay light, guestimating calories for my meal. As sugar-free I requested the cheese & biscuits option be served to me when others have their dessert.
Actually I hope I can go, I have a cold that got worse today and have lost my sense of taste so may not be up to it.
Brunch - tofu scramble with chickpea bombs - 330
Light snack - red pepper soup - 100
Dinner - maple soup, butternut loaf and veg, cheese & biscuits - 1370
1,800 calories (way over my lower limit of 1,293!)
hi, jem, sorry to hear about your cold, hope you are ok tomorrow and can enjoy your meal. I often pick the cheese and biscuits option on a menu, it's such a treat as I love nice cheese but don't have it in the house too often. Try and get some rest before your meal and look after yourself
Your menu sounds gorgeous Hidden Chickpea bombs! Maple soup! Enjoy! Hope your cold is a bit better tomorrow, it would be a shame if it prevented you from going.
It doesn't taste much on its own although I like it like that for its simplicity but it takes on the flavours of whatever you cook it with, tamari, curry so for my brunch I break it up with my fingers into a scramble and cook it with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, chickpeas and spices. The one I use is fortified with calcium. It also comes in a silky form but that one is no good for scrambling. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
hi salcheq, thanks for hosting. Hope your Saturday goes well. Tomorrow I'll be doing park run if it's not too slippy underfoot, then friends coming over to relax and have lunch. I'll be having
B- half grapefruit, 25, water
After run- Greek yoghurt with banana, double cream, blueberries and seeds, 420. Porridge if still hungry, 250
L- doing pizza and salad for everyone. Small slice of pizza and large plate of salad 300
D- poached egg, avocado, tomatoes, halloumi, 400.
if low on calories, rhubarb crumble and cream, 250, handful brazil nuts 300
Hi Salcheq and thanks for hosting. Your thoughts on doing things over and over have really struck a chord with me. I've had a good week and a 2lb weight loss by trying to instill good habits which I hope will become my norm as time goes on.
Hope you enjoy your evening.
I'm intrigued by mince pie porridge!
My menu for Saturday is:
B - Overnight peanut butter porridge 454 cals
L - Leek and potato soup and an orange - 220 cals
D - Chicken casserole with steamed cabbage and carrots then strawberries and Greek yoghurt - 586 cals
Snacks - Dried fruit and nut mix - 127 cals
Total of 1,387 cals. I'm trying to stick to around 1,500 cals so maybe a few more nuts.
What a tasty day filled with all different foods and flavours. I reckon those good habits are well on their way, and isn't it easier when you plan your meals and have something delicious to look forward to, rather than thinking you have to deprive yourself!
Oh, and mince pie porridge is my new name for porridge with a Christmas spice yoghurt mixed in, I found it last week when shopping and am loving it - hot porridge with cold mince pie flavoured thick creamy yoghurt.
That is a serious amount of lovely food for such low cals Minniewinny. Have a great walk and thanks for the cheers for us all. If I had any idea how to find emojis on my laptop I'd join in!!
Thank you I have done the shopping and now relaxing. I don't like shopping anymore. people rush around banging into you pushing to get in no sorry when the y bang into you with there trolley. sorry moan over. it never used to be like that Or it is my old age coming into it.
Congrats on getting home safely and presumably your friend as well
I like food shopping but I can't abide all those crowds either. That's why I try and get to our local supermarkets around 7 or 8a.m.
Btw, I don't think it's an age thing, more a case of manners having drifted a tadge south over the years. Then again, maybe I'm one of the grumpy old gits I used to moan about when I was younger
Yum, tuna pasta bake is such lovely comfort food. Wish I'd got my children more into it when they were young, but they love tuna pasta, so I might give it a whirl one day in the holidays.Have a great day Caroline.
Hi Tiggerr, mince pie porridge is my name for porridge with Christmas spice yoghurt - it really does taste like mince pies, so makes an amazing breakfast. If I throw a few raisins in it would be even more convincing.
Good luck with the cheese souffle - let us know how it turns out.
Not sure I'm doing it now. Was giving it a go because OH likes them when we're out and because she can only eat soft(ish) food until end of Jan but now she's talking about getting a Chinese (legend has it that women are allowed to change their minds ). Deep breath and go with the flow...
Morning Salcheq . Thanks for looking after us today.
I didn't post in the DD yesterday but stayed on track. My curry night was postponed because of snow so I'd made a huge allowance that in the end never got eaten!
Have woken up quite quite peckish but have another night out with food planned tonight (fingers crossed!)
B. Almond pancakes fruit
L. Quinoa salad with beetroot and cashews
D. Buffet!!! I am still undecided on whether I'll bother to drink. Apparently the venue might not have the best quality liquor so I might not bother!
Hopefully won't go above my maintenance allowance of 2400.
Exercise will be dog walking, a home HIIT and some shimmying on the dancefloor
Morning salcheq, can totally understand the standing in front of the biscuit tin. I agree the more we do things it does begin to be the new norm, unfortunately I’m not there yet!
Planning on getting my butt to the gym this morning, it’s going to be tough going as my head is saying it’s Saturday and have a lazy day, but I put on this week and need to kick myself into gear!
Ooh, if I hadn't just eaten breakfast I'd be on my way to yours for that deluxe spanish omelette! Hope it was lovely. I love the extra helping of portion control with dinner! I'm completely with you on that, so good to eat the foods you enjoy, just at sensible portion size. Don't go too low today to make up for yesterday, in case you get hungry and do it again, just eat sensibly.
It was. No scran table at home but OH went 'off list' in Tescos and brought home jam doughnuts - I must have a word with him and hide them in a cupboard so they don't tempt me.
Congrats Bibas55, well done on your loss. Did you mean to post that in the weigh-in though, as this is the Daily Diary? Not that you're not welcome, lovely to have you here! What are your plans for food today? Keep up the good work.
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