Today's food diary

I'm mostly doing this for the benefit of the rest of my SW group so no fancy titles or blog post today. Today was a rest day from exercise, but I did do some housework so that probably counts ;).

Here's a picture of breakfast. Yes, that's diet food.

Food!

Healthy A: Milk
Healthy B: 4*Crispbread (with cottage cheese)

Breakfast

Cooked breakfast (bacon, sausages, baked beans, mushrooms, scrambled eggs, fresh tomato - 0 syns since I used Slimming World sausages and some of my milk allowance for the eggs)

Apple & Fat Free Yoghurt

Lunch

6 Chicken drumsticks (all skin removed)

Pickled Onions

Fruit

Dinner

Slimming World Singapore Noodles (ready meal from Iceland) with mushrooms

Snacks

Pickled onions (about 1.5 jars!)

Fruit

Yoghurt

Of fitness and fiddles

...in which I consider the old adage.

Well, not really, although it is an odd saying. Is a fiddle really fit? It might be fit to play, but it might equally be a wreck with broken strings. Maybe "as fit as  fiddle in good repair" might be a better simile, but it doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Anyway, on the subject of fitness, today I ran 3 miles. Which is what I've considered a short run about 2 months ago (when I did the Shrewsbury half marathon), but now it definitely does not feel like a short run; what's more, I ran the first mile in 7:38; this was my average pace over the half marathon, but after doing that today there is no way I could have done another mile at that speed, let alone another 12. 

So I guess that shows that fitness disappears really quickly if you don't maintain it (I'm making efforts to get it back now; running 3 times a week and gym 3 times, with 1 rest day).

So, today's food. No syns again today, for I am being super good at the moment...

Healthy A: 250ml Semi Skimmed Milk

Healthy B: 60g wholemeal roll

Breakfast

Nectarine, apple, grapes, fat free yoghurt

Lunch

Pasta with crustless quiche left over from yesterday

Dinner

Beef stew with pasta

Snacks/Drinks

Coffee/diet coke

Pickled Onions

Fruit

Chicken drumsticks (all fat removed)

Today's food diary...

Not much time today so I'm just going to list what I've eaten today. I'll try to get back to more regular blogging over the next few weeks.

Quite proud of myself as I went to Shrewsbury today and managed to resist staying out for lunch so I stayed in control.

Note: this is very low in Syns (none at all) because I'm making a serious effort to get back down to target, so I'm avoiding them - I will be having more next week as long as I have a decent loss this week!


Healthy A: 250ml Semi-skimmed milk

Healthy B: 60g Wholemeal roll

Breakfast

Fruit (apple/nectarine/plum) with fat-free yoghurt

Second Breakfast

Bacon (fat removed) on wholemeal roll with fresh tomato

Lunch

1/2 a roast chicken (yes, to myself), all skin removed with a salad pot (no dressing, just washed)
Noodles cooked in beef stock with mushrooms (cooked with the noodles)

Dinner

Crustless quiche with onions & peppers; pasta; beans; sweetcorn; mixed veg (runner beans, carrots, peas, broccoli)
(I had mine without cheese so It had no syns since I'd already used my HEA for milk).

Snacks/Drinks

Coffee * 4 (with milk from HEA allowance)

Pickled Onions

Fruit (free/speed)

Fat-free greek style yoghurt

Exercise: 1 hour in gym; 30 minutes resistance/core work, 30 minutes cardio (20 minutes HIIT on Elliptical, 10 minutes on bike).

Back to basics (and blogging)....

....in which not everything is going to plan.

It's now 4.5 months since I ran Greater Manchester Marathon, and I didn't realise I hadn't written a post since then; they've been quite a busy few months as I was working in Manchester on a contract for 3 of them. 

About 2 weeks into working there I ran Shrewsbury Half Marathon; as I had quite a lot of free time prior to that I was able to do 4 training runs a week. In combination with the GPS watch my wife got me for Christmas, that made a huge positive difference to my training and pace, so I ran it in 1:35:36 (my target was 1:40).

Unfortunately, it turned out that a marshal had sent runners the wrong way so the course was about half a mile short; this was really gutting as I think I'd have been around 1:38 and that would have been a really good time (especially for someone that could barely run a mile at the start of last year).

The Manchester contract has finished now, but it's left its legacy; it's a 1.5 hour commute from here to Manchester (45 minute drive followed by a 45 minute train journey). It turns out that being really tired (both from travelling and work) is not conducive to having willpower to resist snacking in the evenings or maintaining an exercise regime, so for the last 3 months I've been consistently gaining weight most weeks (or at best maintaining or losing a little, only to put more on the next week).

I'm now 1 stone over my target; I haven't really been in my target range since just after Christmas except for the odd week, but this is the heaviest I've been since last year. I'm still much better off than I was at the start of last year, but I don't want to gain any more weight as I want to get back to running, and hopefully get a good time in my next race (I haven't decided what that's going to be yet, but I need to sign up to something to keep me motivated).

So I've decided decided that this week to try to kick start I will go back to basics and stick to the SW plan 100%, and I thought I'd keep a record of what I'm eating here as part of that...so here's today's planned food:

Healthy A: 250ml Semi-skimmed milk

Healthy B: 60g wholemeal roll

Breakfast

Apple, satsuma, nectarine, fat free yoghurt (0 syns) (note: not all fat free yoghurts have no syns, but I checked the ones I had using the app and they are free).

Coffee with milk from HEA.

Second Breakfast (yes, that's a thing)

Bacon (all fat removed) on wholemeal roll (HEB) with fresh tomato (0 syns)

Lunch

Chicken drumsticks (skin removed) with salad (0 syns)

Dinner

Sticky Chicken (~2 syns) with Slimming World chips and salad

Snacks

Pickled Onions (free/speed)

Yoghurt (free)

Speed fruit (strawberries, apples, plums, nectarines)

Exercise ("Body Magic"):

3 Mile run