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).