January 2014- Let's record what we are eating!

I'm doing so badly today too....as I'm with my family I'm managing to skip breakfast and have the most LE friendly thing I can for lunch so that when I am fed dinner it shouldn't be too bad. However my mum has also been baking and there's loads of booze and chocolate around. I am powerless!

Today:
730am coffee with whole milk
830am coffee with whole milk
12.00pm - half pot of new covent garden veg soup with some extra sweet potato and butternut squash chucked in. An olive roll. A stir fry with a small amount white basmati rice, shredded cabbage and leek, tesco butternut squash layered vegetables
3.00pm - half a banana (DS pinched the other half!) and a flapjack
6.00pm - some roast ham, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, a sweet potato, a couple of boiled potatoes and a couple of roast potatoes (yes really!!!) a pint if aspalls cider
8.00 - some red wine and an Easter egg. A big one. And the cupcakes my mum made are calling me......

Eeeeek 2700 cals, 60g protein, 80g fat (32%)

Maybe I shouldn't post on these days as it's not really giving anyone ideas on the diet as this is not LE eating!

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Originally Posted by stephk

I'm doing so badly today too....as I'm with my family I'm managing to skip breakfast and have the most LE friendly thing I can for lunch so that when I am fed dinner it shouldn't be too bad. However my mum has also been baking and there's loads of booze and chocolate around. I am powerless!

Today:
730am coffee with whole milk
830am coffee with whole milk
12.00pm - half pot of new covent garden veg soup with some extra sweet potato and butternut squash chucked in. An olive roll. A stir fry with a small amount white basmati rice, shredded cabbage and leek, tesco butternut squash layered vegetables
3.00pm - half a banana (DS pinched the other half!) and a flapjack
6.00pm - some roast ham, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, a sweet potato, a couple of boiled potatoes and a couple of roast potatoes (yes really!!!) a pint if aspalls cider
8.00 - some red wine and an Easter egg. A big one. And the cupcakes my mum made are calling me......

Eeeeek 2700 cals, 60g protein, 80g fat (32%)

Maybe I shouldn't post on these days as it's not really giving anyone ideas on the diet as this is not LE eating!

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You're right that it's not true LE but I think it's nice to share with people how it really is living within the guidelines. That life gets in the way sometimes! :)

Married I am so sorry you feel that way. I think we are all just trying to help everyone else as it's so supportive here and everyone wants everyone else to get their DG. I am really sorry if I ever suggested that you eat more. I only asked if you were maintaining weight because if so, you don't need to worry too much about the days you are under. Honestly hon, if you are comfortable with your diet sod what anyone else thinks - you have to be comfortable with it above all else.

It sounds to me like you balance out overall anyway - some days under and some days over which is normal, we are not robots.

Hon it is healthier not to have weighing scales, you don't need them, the only reason I weigh myself is because there are scales in the gym. Before this I did not weigh myself, I preferred to go by how my clothes felt.

Weezie - happy to post but I'm in a streak of not doing great and this will continue until I'm back at work on Tuesday. All I can do is my best at the mo. Typical I finally get AF and now I can't stop eating!!!!

Stephk - I appreciate your posts, even when they aren't 100% LE. I don't have the guts to calculate my totals on the days I'm over but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has life get in the way!

I'm leaving tomorrow for an Easter vacation with my extended family at my grandmother's house. I won't be posting but I will do my best to be as LE as possible. It will be hard because I don't want to tell 25 relatives about my weird diet and I'm normally a huge meat eater and don't want to look weird.

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Soooooo full from all the food....

730am- coffee with whole milk
11.45- piece of warburtons seeded bread with humous, some white basmati rice shredded cabbage and leek, and butternut squash layered veg from tesco. Had a bite of DS's flapjack.
4.45- some strawberries
7.00 - we had curry takeaway. I had king prawn balti (instead of chicken), mushroom rice and chappatis ( instead of garlic naan). Bottle of Chardonnay
8.00 - it's my brothers birthday and my mum brought out some homemade birthday cake and we had some delicious chocolate cake (the good thing is, my mum only ever buys low fat margarine products.....)I'm sitting here so full!!!

Approx 2160 cals, 58g fat, 43g protein - if I hadn't gone over on cals I would have done quite well.............the wine is 450 by itself........

So yesterday...
730 - 2 coffees with whole milk
I was going to have breakfast as I was driving back to London but I wasn't hungry so took advantage and didn't eat!
1045- stopped for a break, had a humous sandwich, a Banana and a can of red bull.
2.30pm - carton of new covent garden roast tomato and balsamic soup. Successfully avoided bread but then ate 2 little Marc de champagne truffles
5.00pm 2 cosmopolitan cocktails
8.00pm - DH wanted chicken fajitas so I made extra veg. I had about a quarter of the pack of chicken and mainly veg. I had 4 tortillas and tried not to have too much cheese and sour cream. We shared a bottle of champagne. I successfully avoided dessert!

So - 2200 cals, 55g (26%) fat and 65g protein

We have friends round today so another naughty day :(

Ok...so back on the LE wagon today following my loss. 😢

Here is what I had:

11:30am
2 crumpets (wholemeal) with honey.
At home flat white made on rice milk.
Mini Easter egg. 😕

3:30
Peppermint tea

4:30pm
Nescafé caramel latte sachet

7:00pm
Cawliflower and green veg soup made on low sodium stock with a tablespoon of thickened cream and iodised salt. Served with tiger loaf Vienna bread.

And before bed I'll have a peppermint tea and another small Easter egg.

Total: 1400cals
22g Protein 30g fat
(I know, way too low on protein! 😕)

Mumofsix I am so sorry to hear of your loss :(

Well no point in posting about yesterday, I ate and drank continuously from 1130 to 830, easily 2800 cals, probably 100g fat and 70g protein. We had a BBQ but I stayed veggie at least...

Anyway, today back on it:
730am - coffee with whole milk
830am - coffee with whole milk
12.45- whole wheat fusilli pasta with sun dried tomato pesto (leftover from yesterday), a little Camembert, a little leftover spinach and avocado salad, one and a half white bakery rolls with butter.
4.00pm - gin and tonic
5.00pm punnet of graze yaki soba, gin and tonic
8.00pm - chickpea curry with white basmati rice

Approx: 1920 cals, 55g (27%) fat, 60g protein