Adding up the treats

Not the healthiest day yesterday, despite my managing to keep the calories down. I did get enough fruit and veg, but that is the best that can be said of it. I was trying to have a more vegetarian day, so the only meat I got were the slivers of ham in my pea soup. The problem with vegetarian days for me is always getting enough protein. I’m having enough trouble keeping the protein over 20% on a normal day, what with all the sweet treats I’ve been having. Only 13% of my calories came from protein yesterday, compared to the 25% I’m shooting for.  And I don’t think it being a low calorie day was all that good, since almost 700 calories of those calories (35%) came from cookies, candies and sherry. Which means I was probably short of nutritious food.

 

I think I need to make a greater effort this week to ensure I’m getting enough healthy food at my three main meals of the day. As I’ve said before, I’d rather add the treats to my normal diet, have 2400 calories a day and more than enough protein and vitamins, than only have 2000 calories a day but most of that be sweet treats. I’m more likely to gain weight, but that was probably going to happen anyways with all the white sugar and white flour products I’ve been eating. And it will ensure that I stay healthy, with everything my body needs to recover from the workouts I’ll be doing this week.

I’ll still be baking Christmas goodies though, so check out my extra recipe posts!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2015.88	66.0g	258.40g	74.06g	7.80g	19.15g
	13%	51%	33%	3%
Calories burned through exercise:		Rest Day

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
10:00	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Whole Scrambled egg with 2 egg whites	3 eggs
	Genius brown bread toast	2 slices
	with Flora Light	7g
	with St Dalfour Four fruits jam	30g
	Sainsbury’s pressed apple juice	200mL
10:45	Black Tea	500mL
13:45	New Covent Garden Pea and Ham soup	300g
	Waitrose Cornish Quartz Cheddar	30g
	Mixed leaf salad	30g
	Kraft Light Honey Mustard dressing	20g
	Prewett’s Shortbread Christmas Trees	2 cookies
15:00	Green tea	250mL
17:00	2 Satsumas (Mandarin oranges)	110g
	Cadbury's Roses chocolates	80g
	Alpro Soya Original	200mL
19:00	Homemade candied almonds	20g
20:00	Cook Roasted Vegetable and Chickpea Curry	320g
	Basmati rice	50g (dry)
21:00	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
21:30	Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry	50g

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.