You Know its Christmas when . . .

. . . you find yourself eating fine cheese and pâté for lunch. I was having a difficult day and there seemed to be nothing in the fridge (grocery shopping was planned for the afternoon) except the fine cheeses, pâté and smoked salmon mousse we had bought for an afternoon snack on Sunday (where I managed to limit myself to some cheese and crackers). I thought about making something from scratch then just said screw it. I have to say having crackers with cheese, chutney and pate for lunch was delightful, especially with a Christmas fruit cake chaser. Which is pretty much how I ended up with such a high calorie count for the day. I thought I wasn't doing too badly when I put the salmon mousse back and added some raw tomatoes, but including the cake, that lunch was 882 calories and over 42g of fat, with only 22g of protein (somehow I thought the pâté would have more protein in it). This compared to the turkey cottage pie I had for dinner with 310 calories and 23g of protein per portion. And while I quite enjoyed the red wine I had last night, I really didn't need that second glass.

Ah well, ‘tis the nature of the season. And when you subtract the 360 calories I burned in my workout, I’m only just over 1800 calories for the day. Good thing I’m up for a run today though!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2214.48	79.89g	250.04g	75.90g	31.00g	17.01g
	14%	45%	31%	10%
Calories burned through exercise:		360

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:45	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Bob's Red Mill Pure Oats	40g
	with Sultanas	20g
	and walnuts	10g
	and brown sugar	10g
	Alpro Soya Original	200mL
09:00	Black Tea	500mL
10:15	Resistance workout
	Lemon Lime Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
11:15	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in Skim milk	225mL
14:00	Waitrose Ploughman's vintage farmhouse cheddar	35g
	Mrs Crimbles's Cheese crackers	52g
	Essential Waitrose Brussels pâté	45g
	Waitrose Carmelised red onion chutney	51g
	Raw tomato	135g
	Sainsbury's Freefrom iced rich fruit cake slice	1 slice
14:30	Green Tea	250mL
18:30	Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix	40g
	Orange, mango and cinnamon tea	250mL
19:00	Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
20:30	Turkey Cottage pie	225g
	Red wine	150mL
21:30	Red wine	150mL
22:00	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

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