The First Week in Review

Yay I made it one week! Posting everyday is definitely a new experience and I just don't know how I'm going to manage for another 358 days. One day at a time I suppose . . .


Since I have been back home and back to my usual routine, my diet has been pretty good. Lots of fruit and veg, plenty of healthy snacks, few junk food treats, and no fast food or take aways. I have averaged a calorie intake of 1875 over the past five days without too much trouble, so dropping below 1800 per day next week should be relatively easy. The harder part will be getting the balance right, particularly upping my protein intake without upping the fat at the same time. So in addition to keeping the calories below 1800, my goal this week is to have lean animal or fish protein at every meal and some protein of any kind with my snacks.


By the way, you’ll notice that yesterday I was eating pies at 7pm and didn’t get supper until almost 9pm. This is because my husband was in charge of dinner. Now don’t get me wrong; he’s an excellent chef, much more likely to experiment with new and complicated recipes than I am, and he has a great sense of how to season and cook food for best effect. However, all this takes time and it never seems to occur to him to start cooking before 7pm. Hence, whenever my man cooks, I can look forward to great food . . . at 9 o’clock at night.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Fibre:
2001.97	95.22g	285.09g	52.29g	21.39g
	19%	57%	24%
Calories burned through exercise:		345

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
08:00	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate
	Mattesson’s Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Gluten Free fruit muesli	70g
	Alpro Soy milk	120mL
	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	200mL
09:30	Black tea	500mL
11:00	Seedless Red Grapes	100g
	Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix	40g
11:30	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
13:45	Spinach	25g
	Tomato	100g
	The English Provender Balsamic Italian Dressing	15g
	Sainsbury's peeled prawns	100g
	Wholegrain brown rice	120g
14:45	Butterkist salted microwave popcorn	10g popped
	Sainsbury's Blackcurrant Fruit Dairy Split	60g
16:30	Tri-Berry Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	500mL
17:00	Total Greek yoghurt	125g
	Sainsbury's frozen mixed Blueberries and strawberries	106g
19:00	Sainsbury's Freefrom Bramley Apple Pies	2 pies
20:45	Baked turkey breast	77g cooked
	Roasted beets	93g
	and Roasted carrots	69g
	all brushed with olive oil (and herbs)	1 tbsp
	Steamed new potatos	93g