keep track of my eating

just changing tack slightly, cos I want to include other health decisions too, like exercise and smoking. I’ve really enjoyed being in a team with you guys – thanks for the support! :o)

I just tried re-wording this goal on my list, and realised I’ve changed it for the whole team. Sorry! I’ll change it back, but unfortunately will have to leave the team to be able to re-word it the way I want…

WeekendBad things: Much too big a portion of ready-meal lasagne; WAY too much chocolate; two portions of custard brioche; entire bottle of rosé wine
Good things: Salmon fillet with green beans; HUGE mixed salad with chicken; couple mandarin oranges; lots of fresh cherries; lamb chops with baby potatoes and another big salad; large fresh berry smoothie; plenty of water
Funny things: ‘Punishment’ shots for knocking over the tower while playing Jenga with my cousins – vodka, pernod, apple schnapps, coconut, cherries, lemon, chocolate sauce, salt… very weird and nasty combinations :o)

Today
Coffee
2 thin-slice wholemeal toast
Yoghurt
Coffee
2 wholemeal sandwiches with waferthin turkey and mixed lettuce
Lemon & lime sherbet/water ice (naughty but not as bad as ice-cream)
‘Go Ahead’ low-fat yoghurt/berry biscuit bar
small bar dark chocolate
at least 4 glasses water so far

Hope I can remember everything…

at work:
Coffee
Yoghurt
Coffee
Muesli & low-fat milk
Salad bar – spoonfuls of pasta with olives, chickpeas with sweetcorn and roasted veg
LOADS of water – running to the loo every ten minutes all afternoon :-p
Toffee Crisp bar
large handful dried pineapple

in the pub:
Pint pear cider
Four (I think?) glasses white wine
Small plate finger food – two chicken wings, veg spring roll, funny kind of mini fishy thing, veg samosa, couple of potato wedges

at home:
Two wholemeal chapattis with lettuce, orange pepper and Brie
Crunchie icecream
Lots more water (staving off the hangover!)

One yummy caramel chocolate (all the sweeter for waiting for it and earning it!)
Handful dried pineapple
plenty more water
Two wholemeal chapattis filled with bacon, lettuce, red pepper, cucumber, sprouted alfalfa, and a little low-cal mayo
Chocolate icecream (_must find an ice-cream substitute for the hot weather, since self-denial is clearly not an option! :-p _)
more water

2 cups coffee
banana
large glass apple juice
yoghurt
coffee
muesli with low-fat milk
ham and cheese sandwich on wholemeal bread
2 mandarin oranges

about 3 glasses water so far

I came prepared to avoid sneaky afternoon chocolate today! Rations for afternoon snacking: yummy apple like yesterday’s, handful dried pineapple, one leee-tle caramel chocolate (being reserved for when this task I’m doing, which I hate, is finished!)

small milky cake bar thing

huge bowl salad – mixed lettuce, sprouted alfalfa seeds, tomato, cucumber, yellow and orange peppers, cashew nuts, small sprinkle cheese, dash olive oil and balsamic vinegar

3 small glasses apple juice

handful chocolate sweets

what all I ate over the long weekend, and even if I did I’d probably be too embarrassed to write it all here – it did include a few healthy things like salad sandwiches and fruit and lots of water, but it also involved pizza and chips and quite phenomenal quantities of chocolate. (Hey, premenstrual women are allowed chocolate, right? We wouldn’t crave it if we didn’t need it, right?!)

So far today:
coffee
yoghurt
coffee
sandwich – chicken pesto and yellow peppers on wholemeal bread
Solero icecream (you have to have icecream when you spend lunchtime in the park in the sun!)
bottle diet coke (don’t usually drink soda, this was free with lunch)
packet Smarties
coffee
apple

Meh. Mid-afternoon snacking is clearly an issue. This apple is surprisingly yum, though, considering what I wanted was yet more chocolate…

Dinner:
Chickpea & veg korma with brown rice
Medium portion Vienetta icecream

Today:
Coffee
Banana
Yoghurt
Coffee
Muesli with low-fat milk

glass of cranberry & raspberry smoothie (pure fruit)
Brie salad sandwich on wholemeal bread
packet Maltesers (_emotional eating, tut tut :-p _)
2 glasses water
mug low-cal hot chocolate
few hardboiled sweets (effort not to eat more chocolate – worked!)

Currently finishing off the carton of smoothie, about a glass and a half