day five evening

Saturday dinner is frequently roast chicken. I try and get one large enough to do for at least a couple more meals and I usually save the carcass in the freezer and boil a few up for stock every month.
Looking at the picture I either need some fancy sauce or perhaps just plates that aren't white. 150g chicken breast with a little of the crisp skin. Four little chunks of celery root roasted in the pan with the chicken and our usual side salad. Fitday adds up the day as 1,424 calories and 35g of carbs - but that's counting the chocolate almonds as regular and not sugar-free. I'm hoping for a little yogourt of something later on.

Yep, plain yogourt with a little sugar-free caramel syrup for flavour.
125ml (1/2 cup) and I had a little more diet pop later on too.

day five

Feeling better this morning. Up at a reasonable hour. Made a full pot of coffee (two big mugs worth). Doug cooked up some sausage so I made us 2 scrambled eggs each. It's nice having a meal together even if it's a quick breakfast.



Back from some shopping. Bought new jeans. Took two sizes into the dressing and the smaller size fit best. Yeah! The rest of the coffee was still in the pot and since I was warm from running around I made iced coffee to have while I thought about lunch.

Still have lots of ingredients from last night's stir-fry so made myself a bowl with about 90g of the beef, a cup of bean sprouts, 6 snow peas, two mushrooms, 35g of sliced jicama, a handful of spinach and a stalk of celery. Jicama lends itself very nicely to stir-fry. It stays crisp but absorbs the flavours very well. Was like a cross between water chestnuts and bamboo shoots.


Picked up some pop when I went looking for the snow peas so had a cup. After eating and adding up today's calories I decided it was time for a treat so had 10 nsa chocolate covered almonds.

day four

Had a rough night, woke up late and felt like I might be coming down with something.
Breakfast was a cup of coffee, a hard boiled egg and a bowl of flax cereal.
Did some of the grocery shopping without actually making a meal plan past Sunday. Thinking of taking a nap but made up some soup (chicken stock, handful of penne, some mushrooms and poured it over a bowl of spinach). Tasty but wanting more so had a chunk of cheese, about 35g and the half avocado left over from yesterday's lunch.


Managed physio but still feel a bit under the weather. Had a diet pop while preparing dinner. Made a stir-fry with 140g marinated beef, baby bokchoi, carrot, jicama, celery, mushroom, bean sprouts, a green onion, ginger, garlic and soy sauce. Fitday adds it up as about 600 calories, 16 net grams of carb and 46 grams of protein.

I think I'm going to have a cup of coffee (maybe half-caf) since I only had the one mug this morning and I'm feeling headachy.

end of day 3

On arrival at work I found a pot of hot tea, since I drink my tea without milk or sugar I poured myself my tiny HK cup full and didn't worry about calories.

For my early coffee break I broke out the coffee. And about half of the 30-odd grams of mixed nuts I had packed.



Around 7pm I had another break and had the dregs of the coffee, the rest of the nuts and about 25g of swiss cheese. Around 8pm I popped a couple more of those cinnamon "mints" (sugar-free of course).

day three

Working late today so going to have a big brunch meal. Breakfast is coffee and a hard boiled egg.






A smaller cup of coffee. Frittata made with shredded celeriac, sliced mushrooms, two eggs and a couple of tablespoons of boursin (garlic and herb flavour) on top. One small tomato grilled and two strips of bacon that I forgot in the microwave until after I had started eating. I don't usually like to microwave bacon but I don't really like the brand of bacon we currently have.


Tuna salad. One can of chunk tuna in water, a tablespoon of chopped walnuts some chopped celery and a tablespoon of mayo. Served up with 1/2 an avocado, six celery sticks and my last three radishes. Oh, and jell-o. Almost out, so got the dregs of both cherry and orange in there.

Day two

This morning for breakfast I had hot cereal made from ground flax with a little cinnamon, splenda, cream and about a tablespoon of chopped walnuts tossed in for texture (hot wet ground flax is best described as mucilaginous, extra texture is important). Also coffee. Always coffee.


For my morning coffee break - look coffee! And a large hard boiled egg.


For lunch my lazy low-carb option meat'n'cheese. Today there was 60g of Freybe's Hungarian salami, 30g of swiss cheese, four radishes, six celery sticks and sugar-free cherry jell-o. Shortly after lunch I had a couple of tiny dentyne mints so I wouldn't be breathing salami breath on the punters.


On my afternoon coffee break I had 30g (an ounce) of mixed nuts. After work I went to physiotherapy/exercise and when I got home I had diet orange soda watered down with club soda since I find even the diet flavours too sweet.



Dinner was a pork chop (about 150-175g after cooking) with a tablespoon of unsweetened applesauce. Half a cup of broccoli and a salad with a couple of slices of cucumber, a small tomato, a medium mushroom and a handful of leaf lettuce.

Today's totals 1,632 calories and 30 net grams of carbohydrates.

Day one

Bacon and eggs and coffee for breakfast. An ounce of mixed nuts split between morning and afternoon breaks along with my little thermos of coffee. Chicken salad, celery sticks, radishes and sugar-free jell-o for lunch. Cube steak prepared a little like chicken-fried steak, broccoli and a big salad for dinner.
FitDay totals: 1,493 calories, 109g protein and 24g net carbs.



I began eating low-carb over three years ago after being a vegetarian for at least five years. I started with this book and found that I really enjoyed cooking from scratch and managed to loose almost 25kg (50+lbs). Unfortunately some of my bad eating habits didn't really change; I'm hoping this project will help with snacking and portion control.

Everything?

Yeah, everything. At least that's the plan.

Some time ago I found that I lost weight most successfully with the aid of a journal (boring) or Fitday (occasionally tedious) to help me keep track of what I was eating. An article in the March '07 issue of Oprah magazine I found at work suggested that blogging about weight loss seemed to be working for a lot of people but I'd tried livejournal back in the day and found that I just didn't have that much to say.

Then last week Doug, my husband, who has an eye for quirky brought home a little book called "Everything I Ate" by Tucker Shaw. Eventually I put two and two together and decided that how much more mindful can I be about eating (a good thing they say) than to take a picture of every single thing I'm about to put in my mouth and post them in a blog for all and sundry to see.
Think I can do it?
I guess we'll see.