Still taking pictures.

Wednesday, January 9th. Coffee, 2 sausage, 2 eggs. More eggs for lunch (3 med as salad w/capers) carrot and celery sticks and radishes.



For dinner used up the rest of the savoy cabbage along with a barely visible blackened pork chop (not on purpose) and a salad.

Hungry watching movies later on. Had a mug of coffee and a small handful of PowerPop and a couple of werther's coffee caramel sugar-free candies.

Thursday, January 10th. Coffee, bacon and two eggs.



Really, really drowsy at work. Got the largest, strongest coffee I could. Was chipper and perky the rest of the day.


Lunch was a sandwich made on high-fibre (since we can't call it low-carb in Canada anymore) bread. Montreal smoked meat with a little cheese and dijon mustard. Carrot and celery sticks and a few radishes. Yogourt for dessert that I didn't eat until afternoon break. Wasn't too hungry at lunch because of the gallon of coffee but by mid-afternoon I wanted something more. Bought a small bag of almonds at the grocery and was going to count, but ended up eating more than half the bag. When I got home and weighed it discovered 80g of almonds missing. Didn't seem like much but sure packs a lot of calories!


Sliced turkey breast with a little gravy and piles of oven-roasted cauliflower. Also salad. Big mug of de-caf with a little sugar-free Torani syrup (english toffee flavour) which is kinda like dessert.

Strike rally but I'm still home sick...

Slept 11 hours pretty much uninterrupted last night. Hoping to get well if I can continue in this vein. Coffee when I finally got out of bed.Made an omelet from left-overs again. Some steamed broccoli and half a beef sausage (48g) along with 18g shredded cheese and two medium eggs.

Mid-afternoon I was feeling pretty hungry, had one scoop of Whey Gourmet protein drink.
Half an hour later still feeling very empty so 15g of pork rinds and a glass of diet pop.
Dinner was 73g worth of ham steak fried up in a mustard sauce with just a teaspoon of molasses for sweetness. 118g of steamed cauliflower with a little grated swiss cheese (19g) on top and a side salad.
Another fudge pop. Hey- they're such a deal at only 40 calories.
Later in the evening I was feeling quite hungry (to tell the truth I still am) so I had a big mug of de-caf and the last piece of the flax cookies (35g).
Today's totals: 1,411 calories and 39g of carbohydrates. I also did my abdominal exercises for the first time in a few days this evening. Now I just have to get rid of this sinus headache and get back to the gym!

Goal achieved!

Oh, hello again, look it's... coffee.
Two egg omelet. This time with mushrooms, green onions and sharp cheddar.
Went to physio/exercise and didn't get around to lunch until mid-afternoon. I had just enough to keep me going until dinner. 60g turkey breast from the deli, 47g (the lovely hard end) of the emmental and 60g of radishes.
For dinner we had meatloaf made with ground pork from Happy Island Pigs, a wee farm just a couple of hours up-Island from here and ground bison (we do have bison on the Island but I think this was from the mainland). The bison is very lean but luckily the happy pig was not. On the side is some mashed cauliflower impersonating potatoes and the usual salad.
Since I had lots of calories to spare today I enjoyed a lovely dessert of partially frozen rhubarb (I couldn't wait) and whipped cream. When stirred together it was like a fruit ice cream.
Total for today - drum roll please - 1,428 calories and just 29g of carbohydrates! Goal achieved. Now I just have to decide if there will be a particular reward or if heading off for a three day holiday next weekend is sufficient - even though I would have done that anyway.