Making the Most of Leftovers

I don’t think this week is going to be all that different from last week; I foresee a lot of treats and rich dinners. Such as yesterday’s lunch of pâté on toast and pumpkin pie, followed by turkey and butternut squash risotto for dinner. At least I can say we are making the most of our Christmas leftovers! However, the real problem I had was the urge to snack on whatever came to hand while reading in the early evening. I had my afternoon snack as usual at 5:15 but that just didn’t seem to do it, and in less than an hour I went through over 665 calories. Mostly from simple sugars and fats, which led to the second problem of once again not getting enough protein.

I will be starting to exercise again this week, which will help with all the excess calories. However, I think I’d also better start dialling back on the junk food as well. If I can at least reduce the calories by 100 per day for the next week I should be able to start the New Year at my usual 1800 calories per day. On the plus side my husband has been making noises that we should do a mini detox for the next three days, skipping the chocolates in favour of vegetables and such. It would be nice if it happened, but we still have cookies and lots of cheese and pâté left, and I just don’t see us letting this much good food go bad (or throwing it away).

I don’t know what would be worse: to just massively overeat for the next 3 or 4 days and get it over with, or to just eat an extra 300 calories a day for the next month!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2474.07	81.10g	297.42g	89.27g	22.80g	23.69g
	13%	48%	32.5%	6.5%
Calories burned through exercise:		Rest Day

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
10:15	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
	Gluten Free fruit muesli	70g
	Alpro Soy milk	120mL
	Essential Waitrose Pressed apple juice	200mL
11:00	Black Tea	500mL
12:15	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
14:00	New Covent Garden Pea and Ham soup	300g
	Genius brown bread toast	1 slice
	Brussels Mini Pâté Packs	20g
	Cherry tomatoes	83g
	Homemade pumpkin pie	120g
14:45	Green Tea	250mL
15:30	Camomile Tea	250mL
17:15	Irish Yoghurts Diet Pear and Mango	125g
	Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix	40g
	Brazil nuts	6g
17:45	Hotel Chocolate Christmas cracker chocolates	3 pieces
18:00	Doritos Hint of lime corn chips	60g
	TriBerry Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	500mL
	Homemade sugar cookies	45g
19:15	White wine	120mL
20:00	Turkey and butternut squash risotto	310g
	White wine	120mL

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