Curry as a Treat

A much better day all around. Not only was it bright and sunny again, but I did get a good night’s sleep so was feeling more awake and motivated. I had a good morning working away at my desk, was able to eat quite sensibly, and had no problems doing my weight routine. Where it falls down a bit is with the dinner. Chicken curry with rice, salad and a couple of poppadoms doesn’t look like a lot of food on the plate, but it came in at over 800 calories and almost 30g of fat!

I always have this image of Asian food, from India to China to Thailand, as being healthier than traditional Western food. Which may or may not be true, but that doesn’t mean its low calorie! Until I came to England I had never considered having a curry as a regular meal, either as a take away or something made at home. Growing up I thought we did OK for international food at home – we had traditional Western meat and potatoes meals, but also Italian pasta, Mexican tacos and fajitas, “Chinese” stir fries and Ukrainian perogies and cabbage rolls. But the prairies in Canada were mainly settled by Europeans, so finding truly Asian meals like Indian curries and Japanese sushi was rather difficult. It’s changing now but I still remember the first time I had Japanese food was when I went to University in Vancouver in 1996.

This being the case I still view many Asian foods as occasional treats and as such am rubbish at estimating calories and fat grams in these meals. I’m sure there are lower calories versions, but for the moment I’d best keep my curries as occasional treats!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2193.34	129.01g	269.61g	65.67g	0	24.85g
	24%	49%	27%
Calories burned through exercise:		273

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:15	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
	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	200mL
09:30	Black Tea	500mL
10:00	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
10:30	Brazil nuts	6g
	Cashews	17g
	Satsumas	105g
	Irish Yoghurts Diet Strawberry	125g
12:45	Homemade cottage pie	1 serving
	Alpro soya original	200mL
	Raw Tomato	113g
	Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself chocolate mousse	62.5g
13:15	Green Tea	250mL
14:15	Resistance workout
	Strawberry lemonade Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
15:15	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in Skim milk	225mL
20:00	Loyd Grossman Rogan Josh sauce with chicken added	265g
	Tilda Lime & Coriander rice	125g
	Waitrose baby leaf salad	25g
	Sharwood’s plain poppadoms	2 poppadoms
	with Sharwood’s Mango chutney	50g
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.