Sunday 26 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 1pm) - 75g edam, seed mixture and a big stalk of celery. This is amazingly filling and I really had to put work into finishing it!

Lunch (finish 6.50pm) - Salad of lettuce, celery, zucchini, spring onion, snow peas and smoked salmon (135g), an apple and oil/vinegar mix.

Went plant shopping today and got a bunch of plants that are natives from a specialty nursery. I love natives, they just have a nicer look I think compared to the imports.

Also bought a mallet. Watch out concrete, here I come!!

Oh and something else I've noticed on top of the mental clarity, I think my hair is actually getting thicker! I am now having problems fitting it through my hair ties to put it up! And I haven't changed ties. If anything they should be a little stretched from me using them so often. Strange!

Saturday 25 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 11.10pm) - two hardboiled eggs and salad of lettuce, cucumber and celery with oil/vinegar dressing.

Lunch (finish 5.35pm) - 130g turkey in rye wrap with cucumber and half a medium tomato, an apple and a cup of tea.

Dinner (finish 11.45pm) - 140g smoked salmon, the other half of the tomato and cucumber, a pear and the seed mixture.

Weighed in today - down another 1.85kg! Yay!

The bad news is I took in my food log and she pointed out the rules state you can only have the eggs up to three times a week (due to the cholesterol). I didn't know that, thought the only limit with them was once a day. Oops! Anyway, as you know cholesterol doesn't really worry me. I don't believe it's a good indicator of heart health in the slightest. I'll follow these rules because I'm following the plan. But I'm not buying into the cholesterol theory.

Has everyone here read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes?

Friday 24 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 10am) - 200g yogurt and a pear. Yesterday I thought I had 200g but forgot to take my scales to work so I had to eye-ball it. Not much left in my 500g tub now after these two servings - oops!

Lunch (finish 3.30pm) - rye wrap with lettuce, cucumber and 130g chicken and an apple.

Dinner (finish 9pm) - two hard boiled eggs, 145g cauliflower, oil/vinegar mix and seed mixture.

Went to the gym today for the first time in about three weeks (wow! Longest gap in a few years for me!!) and I had NO energy for it. I didn't have good co-ordination like I usually do, urgh.

Thursday 23 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 9.10am) - 200g plain yogurt with a pair.

Lunch (finish 2.30pm) - rye wrap with lettuce, red capsicum and 140g chicken.

Dinner - 145g cauliflower (I love cauliflower!) and 140g tuna with oil, an apple and seed mixture.

Had a great day, still mentally clear like yesterday. I'm loving this. I may have found my way of eating - my mental clarity is all the evidence I need :)

Thanks Harry! I'm trying. Still feeling cold. Actually I probably shouldn't have told the acupunturist because he'll probably have attended to that and I'm start overheating again hehe. Can't have it all!

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 8.10am) - two hard boiled eggs and 130g cauliflower.

Lunch (finish 1.35pm) - rye wrap containing tuna in oil (I did as the Sureslim rules say and bought tuna in water and added the oil myself so I know it's good quality oil and how much), lettuce, tomato and capsicum. Supposed to be 130g tuna and 135g other stuff in the wrap - got the other veggies but not all that tuna fit in the wrap. I took this and ate it at work so will have to finish the rest of the tuna off tonight for dinner. Oh and as I was at a seminar (yes, I got questioned about why I brought and ate my own lunch when lunch was provided for us... not too badly though) I had roughly an apple in size of watermelon, canteloupe and strawberries.

Dinner (finish 7.10pm) - 100g grilled fish from the fish and chip shop (had to rub the fish with tissue to get any crusting off) with the rest of lunch's tuna and 145g cauliflower, seed mixture, an apple.

OK so to follow on from yesterday, I've reluctantly decided to keep my appointment tomorrow (I'm a chronic canceller) which is with my acupunturist. Think I might get him to assess how my eating changes have been affecting my body and possibly my cold issue. Actually the last two nights I've had brilliant nights' sleeps and I'm learning to rug up more. Might also have something to do with being the dead of winter right now lol. I forgot to take a multi this morning during my rush out the door so I'll have to remember tomorrow. I always feel better with them.

As for exercise, I have a booking with my trainer. If the shift at work can't be changed, I'll have to reschedule that appointment to the morning but either way it'll be on Friday. Yay! I'm soooo looking forward to getting moving again.

Thanks heaps guys, and of course I don't mind extra comments, Sunny! The more the merrier!

[Pictured is the kind of day it was today - soooo glad I wore my warmest coat which has a hood bc I got rained on hehe]

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 9.30am) - 200g yogurt and an apple.

Lunch (finish 3pm) - Egg salad same as yesterday. Yum! Plus an apple.

Dinner - going to be roast beef. I know I'm supposed to be off red meat, but besides me thinking that's nonsense, it's hard to have anything to do with my family that doesn't have red meat involved (as you may have noticed) and it's being made especially for me! So I'll have some. It's at home though so I wont get pressured into dessert again or anything like that.

Actual dinner (finish 9.10pm) - 140g roast beef with roasted onions and half a tomato, seed mixture. Full as!!

Thanks heaps for your ideas in yesterday's Comments :)
You're absolutely right, and telling me what I really need to know, I need to get back in to exercising. It's hard though, it's like a vicious circle - the more I get stressed and tired the more I don't want to exercise, and the more I don't exercise the more stressed and tired I get!

I'll push myself. Ok, *gets out diary* if I book it in here and promise it to you, then I have to go. Ok, I have an appointment on Thur but I'm going to call and change it, and go to Pump instead. Oh I haven't been to Pump in soooo long. I'm almost scared lol.

Maybe I should start taking a multi, Oct. Think that might help? I figured the cravings would just come naturally because your body craves things it hasn't had in a while... at least mine does.

Hmmm I'll try it out and let you know how I go :)

Thanks again! Have a good one!

Monday 20 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 9.10am) - 200g natural yogurt with a pear and a cup of tea.

Lunch (finish 3pm) - Salad with two hardboiled eggs, cos, celery and tomato. Oil/vinegar dressing.

Dinner - Seed mixture and some veggies.

I'm starting to get stressed about things again. I'm not sure why really. Maybe it's close to TOM. It's probably got something to do with my trainer cancelling on me the past two weeks (and I couldn't fit in any of her alternative times) so I'm lacking a bit of physical release.

I'm starting to get cravings again. Until now I've been relatively craving-free, but now I'm starting to get them. I'm getting really cold all the time (I'm talking sleeping fully clothed with two doonas and the heater on) and at work too. I'm not used to being cold - usually I quite like being cold and it's everyone else that gets uncomfortable. Also I'm no longer sleeping through the night. It's like I've got too much energy.

Who knows, I'll get to the bottom of it before too long.

Have a great day!

Sunday 19 July 2009

Brunch (finish 2.30pm) - Cajun chicken wrap (made with 130g diced cooked chicken sprinkled with cajun spice, cos, tomato, red capsicum and a rye wrap), an apple and a cup of sweetened peppermint tea.

Off to a family bday this evening, wish me luck! It will be my first meal out that I didn't prepare from scratch since I started Sureslim. I'm just keeping my portions in mind and going to do my best to get it right.

UPDATE: Dinner (finish ... umm I dunno) - at about 5.40pm I had a water cracker with a thin thin scrape of pate and four cherries. At about 6.30pm I had about 200g total of duck and beef (I am supposed to be off red meat but there was no more duck) with lemon gravy, cauliflower, green beans and a tomato and spring onion salad. Around 7.15pm I had two spoonfuls of vanilla cream. The teeniest bit of flourless chocolate cake which was yucky and easy to pass up.

So overall it was very outside what I should be eating, I did the best I could do given the situation I was in, and I didn't do too badly anyway so I'm going to move onto tomorrow as if there was no blip on the radar.

Saturday 18 July 2009

Breakfast (finish 1pm) - 200g yogurt with a pear, sweetened with stevia

Next meal (finish 7.20pm) - seed mixture (and the other half of yesterday's I didn't have), an apple, 100g smoked salmon, 40g chicken, 145g boiled zucchini, oil/vinegar mixture.

Had this great dream last night about Dexter (the actor, not the character) who was moving through different time portals and by doing this he started to bleed today's time with the 80s (and all the awful fashion that implies). LOL If I can remember it, I'll write it all down.

Saw the Dr today, got a second slip to have my cholesterol re-tested following this no-red-meat plan I've been put on to lower it. I know all about The Great Cholesterol Con and as such, I really couldn't give two hoots, but if they're up in arms I don't mind following what they say. I refuse to take any meds for it though, that's my boundary.