My first regular weekend in how long?

Woke up pretty early for a day off - still started with coffee.Was up for quite awhile before I felt hungry. Wanted something like take-out so made a "breakfast wrap" with 2 scrambled eggs, bacon and 40g of swiss cheese in a high-fibre wrap. It tasted really good but was a little drippy.
Had another cup of coffee with my wrap.
After going to the gym and the grocery store I needed something to keep me until dinner. 51g of mixed nuts and some pop.
Dinner was 110g of roast beef, brussel sprouts and a salad.
These little nsa/fat-free creamsicles have been in the freezer for weeks. Only 25 calories each.
While cleaning up the kitchen found a few mouthfuls of coffee left in the bottom of the pot. Added ice and some cream for half a glass of iced coffee.
Total today 1,546 calories and 48g of carbohydrates. Much closed to what I would like aim for most days.

It's turned into muffin-mania

Right - I still had a stale superflax muffin left over from yesterday so, since I slept in, it became my breakfast and lunch. With coffee.



I made a quick wrap for dinner break at work with 50g of roast beef, 40g of cheddar, tomato, cucumber, lettuce and a swipe of may.


For my evening break I had 1/2 cup cottage cheese, two celery sticks and four radishes. Also a diet Dr. Pepper.


Wouldn't know where to start with the calories for the muffin - but I really didn't eat much today so I'm not worried. I suppose I'll get back to proper low-carb after Thanksgiving and all the other events coming up this weekend.

strike action and an extra long day at work

Started today with coffee and a double scoop of Whey Gourmet chocolate protein shake.Had a pretty good workout at the gym and came home just in time to make a dinner to take with me to work and eat a quick lunch. Lunch was a little lox, a chunk of cream cheese, radishes, jicama, celery and a couple of mushrooms.
An hour after I started my shift we walked out for three hours. I had a hard-boiled egg.
And a coffee.
I had made a wrap for my dinner. Turkey and corned beef, a little red onion, cucumber and some lettuce on a high-fibre wrap. There I am on a bench, eating outside the library.

By 7pm I was tired and my knee was throbbing. I had my yogourt and a 30g chunk of swiss cheese.

When I got home I was still fairly hungry - looked a the sardines but decided on the kipper snack.
Feeling pretty sorry for myself - having lost 3 hours of pay while having to stand in place in front of my work... I chose one serving, four tiny sugar-free cookies. While not actually low-carb since they're still made with wheat flour a serving only has 100 calories and pretty much filled the bill for something nummy.
Totals today, 1,443 calories and 50g of carbohydrates.

Now it's my turn to work late...

Up early even though it's my turn for the late shift today. Went to the gym with Trevor to try and make a transition from my rehab place to the gym at my community centre.
So I needed coffee.

And had one scoop of Whey Gourmet chocolate.Before leaving for work at 12:30 I had two sausages and two fried eggs.

and another Skinny Cow fudge bar.

Warm day so time for an iced americano.
This is my wrap when I was making it this morning so you can see all the goodies I packed inside. Turkey, pastrami, tomatoes (yes they're yellow) cucumber , lettuce and mayo.This is it at work after being wrapped up for a few hours. Also 1/2 cup blackberries.

Break time at work. Diet Dr. Pepper and a hard-boiled egg.
When I got home I found my cheese snack in my lunch bag (nice and warm too) so I had that while I made lunch for tomorrow.
Needed a little more after the cheese so had the last of the yogourt in the container - probably just shy of 1/2 cup and 1/2 cup of blackberries. (I really picked a lot - still hardly made a dent!)
Total calories 1,474 and 46g of carbohydrates - more like normal in spite of the strange day.

Trying to get back to normal

Coffee.
Wrap with 115g chicken, 20g cheese, 20g tomatoes, 15g onions and cucumber. Oh yeah, and mayo.
Taco salad for dinner. Big pile of lettuce, 140g lean ground beef, 40g cheese, tomatoes and two big dollops of sour cream.
Dessert by way of nsa Frozen Dessert Bars (cuz you can't call them ice cream) 120 calories each but worth it now and again.
Totals for today: 1,336 calories and 30g carbohydrates. That's more like it.

The cookies must go NOW!

So the good news is that I'm still blogging and taking pictures of everything I eat. The bad news is that those fabulous chocolate chip cookies that I made for the picnic last weekend have proved irresistible. There are lots of things in this world that make me want to go off the sensible eating plan these cookies have turned out to be the one thing that did. So - next time I want to bring a treat to an event - I'll make something that I don't like quite so much.

Coffee.

Half a cup of yogourt and 75g of blueberries.
A multi-grain, high fibre wrap with 40g ham, 30g cheese, 20g tomatoes and 10g each of onion and lettuce.
Coffee and a cookie.
Late afternoon snack of 35g of almonds.
A very light dinner of mixed greens with a Clover Leaf tuna steak in mild curry sauce.
and another cookie. Sigh.
Calories 1,475 (so it could have been worse) but an appalling 117g 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.

On my own so no real supper

Just one sausage with my two eggs and coffee this morning.Coffee break.
For lunch I had made a wrap with the high-fibre flatbread "Flat-Out". I filled it with slices of deli chicken and roast beef (30g each), cucumber, tomato and lettuce and some mayo. Also had jell-o, that's fruit fiesta not lime flavour. Also 1/2 a bottle of diet Dr. Pepper.
Didn't feel like making dinner since Doug was working till 9pm so I heated up the last of the stew and fished two pieces of jicama and about 80g of meat out of the gravy (and no, I didn't slurp down the gravy afterwards).
The I had one of the no-sugar-added, fat-free, only 40 calories per, fudgsicles.
Still hungry since that didn't really make a dinner so I had some snacks that I had packed for work earlier in the week and never eaten. 30g of almonds and 40g of sharp cheddar cheese.
In spite of not really paying attention to a balanced diet this evening I managed to keep today at 1,402 calories and 42g of carbohydrates.