I fell into two traps yesterday: restaurant food masquerading as low calorie and following my husband’s lead. I was in meetings all morning so missed my morning snack. Rather than wait until I got home to eat and go too long without food, I decided to have an early lunch on the go. I enjoy Leon’s restaurants because they usually have a decent selection of gluten free foods and it’s all pretty healthy anyways. Unfortunately healthy does not mean low calorie! I was really surprised to find my small slice of pecan pie was over 600 calories, but truly floored to find the chicken and rice box topped 800 calories! This would have been fine if I had then eaten the meals I had planned at my normal times, but then we didn’t have dinner until almost 9pm, at which point I was starving. Despite having a large steak for dinner, and no workout, I was still peckish all night and ended up finishing off my husband’s Dairy Milk chocolate bar.
I don’t recall if I’ve discussed the effects of friends and family on health and fitness before. Basically, we like to hang out with people who are just like us and we tend to unconsciously emulate those around us. If everyone we know is a couch potato, we are more likely to become a couch potato. If everyone around us is into exercise, odds are we’ll give it a go. One of the classic problems with this are the marriage/moving in together pounds. When women start living and eating with a male partner they often gain weight because they fall into the trap of eating the same foods, and the same amount of food, as their partner. Problem is, their partner is usually larger with a much higher muscle mass, so can get away with eating more without gaining weight.
In my case it means I am more likely to eat 300 calories of Dairy Milk chocolate I didn’t need because my husband is. Some days I just can’t be bothered to fight the psychology!
The Score:
Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
3070.00 | 136.26g | 344.27g | 131.88g | 0 | 24.77g |
18% | 45% | 38% | | ||
Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | |
What I ate:
Time | Item | Amount |
07:30 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
Cold water | 200mL | |
Mattesson's Turkey rashers | 3 rashers | |
Sainsbury's Freefrom oats | 50g | |
with Sultanas | 20g | |
Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
09:30 | Black Tea | 500mL |
11:30 | Leon's Aioli Chicken rice box | 1 serving |
Leon's raspberry lemonade | 300mL | |
12:00 | Leon's Pecan pie | 1 slice |
14:00 | Green tea | 250mL |
15:00 | Strawberry lemonade Nuun electrolyte tablet in water | 750mL |
16:00 | Honeydew melon | 150g |
Irish Yoghurts Diet Pear and Mango | 125g | |
Brazil nuts | 6g | |
Cashews | 17g | |
20:45 | Sainsbury's British Extra lean casserole steak | 140g |
Boiled and mashed sweet potato | 200g | |
Stir fried Kale | 40g | |
in Olive oil | 7.5mL | |
with Pine nuts | 4g | |
Bisto Best beef gravy | about 5g | |
21:30 | Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself chocolate mousse | 62.5g |
22:00 | Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate | 10 chunks |
23:00 | 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.
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