Strangely normal work day

Had coffee for breakfast and a few sips of whey protein drink - took the rest to work and had on morning break.Lunch was tuna salad, radishes, celery and jicama.
Finally got to my thermos of coffee late in the afternoon.
For dinner made chicken breasts in creamy mushroom sauce. Also some sauted zucchini and a side salad.
Nsa, fat-free creamsicle.
1,643 calories and only 36g of carbohydrates. A few more days like this will hopefully jump-start me back into quick loss mode.

Let's begin again.

Coffee.
Whey Gourmet protein shake. One scoop.
More coffee.
Lunch of tuna salad, two carrot sticks, three radishes and rather a lot of celery. Also yogourt and started reading "Rethinking Thin" which is more about diet culture than how to diet. I'll let you know after I've read a bit more.
A hard-boiled egg for afternoon break.
Found fresh wild pink salmon at the market on the way home. Had it poached with a few green peas in the pod, rather a lot of butter and a salad.
Enjoyed my strawberries and cheese so much the other night I bought some imported berries since it'll be another week before my plants produce another serving. 100g berries and 45g cheese. Very yummy and calories and carbs right on track.
Well after several of weeks of dinners and parties and way too many treats and a couple of days of just being too sick to really care I'm hoping that I can now get back on track. I still need to make a commitment to a new gym (which is pretty scary) but will make the effort this weekend.
The good news - today's calories 1,430 and 34g of carbohydrates and nothing that I'm unhappy to have chosen.

Very tired...

Started off with Whey Gourmet protein drink - 1 scoop and coffee.More coffee at breaktime and part of a Red Square Flaxmachine cookie. A serving is 28g and this piece is about 48g for a whopping 240 calories. It is however healthy and filling and the fat is all that good omega-3 stuff from the flax.
Lunchtime - celery, radish, jicama, tuna salad and the last of the nice Monchego sheep's cheese.
Doing a lot of food prep tonight for a party tomorrow so not really interested in cooking. 180g of chicken breast done on the counter-top grill, a side salad and a diet orange crush.
The chicken was very moreish and there were a couple of little bits left-over so I split them with Doug. That's another 25g there.
Later on after working up a sweat cleaning and fussing over tomorrow night I had two of the tiny freezer pops.
Total for today 1,510 calories and only 35g of carbohydrates. Wouldn't have gone over if I hadn't had that extra little piece of chicken. Not a big deal but seconds for the sake of taste is never a good idea.

Stress and discomfort and eating too much

The day started out well enough with coffee, one egg and one sausage.
Coffee break.Lunch is usually hard to mess up on since I've packed it the night before. Tuna salad, celery, radish and (surprise) broccoli and 1/2 cup blackberries with a little cream. At work we talk about the impending strike --> stress.
So I'm home from work and my husband is working late for the second night in a row so on my own for dinner. I'm pretty tired, my feet are sore (and I think I might have a slight bladder infection or some such) so I sit down at the computer to play and don't make dinner until I'm absolutely starving. Bad idea. I grab a wrap and since there's only about 70g of chicken left I make up the difference with bacon I had pre-cooked (nearly 40g) some mayo, tomato and lettuce and that should be dinner. I wolf it down and am still hungry for more (mistake number two).
So I grab the first easy thing I find (albeit from the freezer) almonds and some nsa chocolate chips. 30g of almonds and 20g of chocolate chips later and I feel a little ill and realize I've gone over my calorie goal for the day. Rats.
Calories today 1,674 (at least) but only 36g (net) of carbohydrates.

Rotten night, can't cope with work.

Woke up around 3:30 in the morning , lay in bed, went to the bathroom, got up for awhile, lay in bed some more and dozed off around 6:30 or so. My alarm usually goes off at 7am so I turned it off. Thanks to Doug got up in time to eat two hard-boiled eggs and knock back most of a mug of coffee and still get to work on time. Problem was I couldn't concentrate and was miserable.Came home and had a wee nap. When I woke up I was famished made a wrap with 40g of roast beef, 13g of bacon, 25g each of tomato and cucumber and some lettuce. Also mayo. Very tasty.
Since it was about 28 degrees celsius in the apartment I had a fudgesicle.
For dinner I was still out of sorts - I just had most of the lunch I would have had a work today. Tuna salad and the fresh veg.
So far today I've only had 1,093 calories and 39g of carbohydrates. However - we are going out to a movie tonight so I'm keeping my options open.

Not hungry today.

Started with a relatively big breakfast. Doug had just done up a dozen sausages (our own version of heat'n'serve) so I had a couple and two fried eggs and coffee of course.Didn't feel like my coffee at break time - had a diet Dr. Pepper instead.

Lunch was tuna salad, celery and jicama and the last few raspberries with a little coffee cream.
Drank most of my thermos of coffee after lunch.
Dinner was left-over beef stew, again with a piece of carrot and some jicama as well as steamed broccoli. Plus the usual side salad.
That's it - that's all she wrote. I thought about having some cheese and fruit this evening but got busy and just didn't bother. Today only 1,161 calories and 29g of carbohydrate. No one more surprised than me!

fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads

The day started innocently enough with some flax cereal and a cup of coffee.
A week ago last Sunday, Barry brought a bag of these little Piller's pepperoni tidbitz which are flavourful and very chewy - and therefore a satisifying snack. More fat and calories than a hard-boiled egg, but less than an ounce of mixed nuts. Go fig. And coffee.
Okay, here's where the fishyness begins. Last night in order to expedite the eating of a very ripe avocado I prepared tuna salad for my lunch today. Can you find what's missing from this picture? That's right! The avocado spent the day on the kitchen counter.
In the late afternoon I finished up my little thermos of coffee and had half a coconut Atkins bar. It was actually a little heavy, I had a touch of heart-burn afterward.
Got home and Doug had taken two big fillets of basa out of the freezer for dinner. We also had some green beans and a side salad. We've been paying a little more to get packaged Herb Salad. I really love the hit of dill and cilantro. Once the garden gets going I should be able to make my own.
As is frequently the case when we have fish for dinner I was noticeably hungry in only a few hours. Looking in the fridge I saw some lox trim that had lasted (ie not been scarfed down immediately) a surprisingly long time. I had about 50g of lox, 50g of cream cheese and four celery sticks which I assembled and ate over a period of 15-20 minutes. I still don't feel particularly full, but am satisfied. It didn't occur to me until I was weighing the lox that today had been awfully fish-heavy. Oh well.

1,643 calories and under 30g net carbs. Not too shabby.

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.