Thread: Berry's diary

Breakfast:
Cup of tea
Nature valley - honey & oats

Lunch:
Tomato and red pepper soup
Glass of rose

Snack:
100g raspberries

Dinner:
Extra light Philadelphia whole-grain pasta bake
Salad
Aero finesse mint (frozen)

+loads of water and green tea throughout the day

No exercise today as have sore legs from yesterday and am running a charity 10km on Sunday so need to rest my muscles.

I have been avoiding pasta but was seriously craving macaroni cheese all day (very weird and I am not a massive dairy fan) needless to say the meal was v disappointing actually. The aero pud made up for it though

Yesterday:

Breakfast:
Hot Cross Yum (Graze punnet) 134

Lunch:
Tuna nicoise salad (Tesco) 170

Dinner:
Vegetable soup & Orzo pasta salad (Marks) 355

Snacks:
Nakd cocoa bar 226
150g Raspberries 42
the Herb Garden (Graze punnet) 91

Green tea, coconut water, loads and loads and LOADS of h2o in preparation for:

Exercise:
Bikram yoga - my first ever class 90mins long. Was quite traumatising to begin with but actually really enjoyed it and I am sure the stretching will be fantastic for recovery of my muscles after all my running.

Yesterday:

Breakfast:
Small skinny cappuccino (Costa) 60
Juicy Pineapple (Tesco) 73

Lunch:
Tuna Nicoise (Tesco) 170

Dinner:
Spagetti & meatballs (Fuller for longer- Marks) 380

Snacks:
Toasted coconut (Holland and Barrett) 150
Biltong (Cruga) 120
200g Strawberries 56

Exercise: 6.26km along the Thames (44mins)

Yesterday

Breakfast:
Muller light toffee 88
Alpen light summer fruits 70

Lunch:
Tesco nicoise (AGAIN! creature of habit) 170

Dinner:
Salmon on spinach at Strada 525
Chocolate gelto from Strada 200
2x slimline G&T

Snacks:
Biltong 120
Raspberries 42
Toasted coconut 152

Exercise
Body pump 45 mins
5km on treadmill

Your food looks really good!
Good luck x

Thanks Mrs S- I went a bit AWOL at the weekend (M&S treat tubs- chocolate rolls - eeeek)

Yesterday

Breakfast:
Bounty Hunter (Graze) 145

Lunch:
Tuna nicoise (Tesco) 170

Dinner:
Lentil soup (Heinz) 178
Piccolini cherry tomatoes 35
Milky way crispy roll 128

Snacks:
150g Raspberries 42
Beef biltong 120
Toffee apple (Graze) 68

Exercise:
Body pump 45mins
Walked home (5km)

Yesterday:

Breakfast:
Skinny cappuccino 80
Muller light toffee 88
Alpen Light bar 70

Lunch:
Tesco tuna nicoise salad 170

Dinner:
Tuna and tomato pasta 350
Bounty hunter (Graze box) 145

Snacks:
150g Raspberries 42
Biltong 120
150g Blueberries 48
Toasted coconut 152

Exercise:
1.5 hrs bikram yoga

Yesterday:

Breakfast:
Muller light toffee 88
Alpen light summer fruits bar 70

Lunch:
Tesco tuna nicoise 170
Cruga beef biltong 120

Dinner:
Sharing platter (included salami, olives & chutney) est 500
Cocktails est 350

Snacks:
Blueberries 48
Toasted coconut 152

Exercise:
Treadmill 5km in 31mins



I weighed this morning and was 65.2 so up from 64.8 last WI grrrr

I find eating healthily/exercising enjoyable. My job is hard though as I have client meetings at least 3 days a week and this more often than not means a 2 course lunch/dinner and wine. I make sensible choices, always fish for main and usually soup for starter.

I was SO tired yesterday morning, I had to drag myself out of bed. At least I had not been so drunk to as to forget to pack my gym bag in preparation.

Breakfast:
- Graze punnet tropical daquiri 103

- Cup of tea 15

Lunch:
- Tesco tuna nicoise salad 170 (I wanted to buy an extra small can of tuna to add to this to up the protein and calories but the small tesco by my work had none with ring pull lids...grrr ... therefore to bump the protein I bought...)

- Tesco sweet chilli cottage cheese 80 (GAG- every now and then I revisit cottage cheese thinking its a good idea. It. Is. Not. Cottage cheese is disgusting and this is coming from someone who likes 99.9% of foodstuffs.)

Snacks in the afternoon:
- Beef biltong 120

- Raspberries 42

- Graze Peking Dynasty 130

Then I hit the gym after work for a 45min step and tone class (it was HARD intense CV plus hand weights at the end) followed by 45min Body Pump.

I was meeting friends so I walked from St Pauls along to Waterloo.

Dinner:

- 2x G&T slimline 100

- 1/4 of a Mediterranean platter (hummus, tsziki, pitta, greek salad) est 500

- 1/2 bowl of chips est 312

Sooo friday was just about within cals mainly because I had a really crap lunch - ryvita cracker bread x2 with laughing cow light and green beans. It was sooo bland and not filling at all ! Won't be doing that again. Was out in Hammersmith in the evening for a friends birthday but did nip to the gym for a quick 5km beforehand. Stuck to slimline G&Ts and avoided the fast food on the way home. Actually my bf and I cooked quorn mince pasta at 3.30 am when we got in ha!

Yesterday :
I had special k oats and honey at my bfs parents house, it's nice and sooo sweet but I had to har two bowls to even feel remotely satisfied. Bet it's v sugary !
I ran home from there and the route i took was just over 7km. Was rushing about shopping and doing errands so grabbed a teeny portion of my housemates pasta and tomato sauce for lunch.
Then bf and I had a BBQ in the evening , I had three reduced fat marks and spencer sausages, salad, olives , some halloumi. Then I had a marks strawberry and white Choc cornetto. Yum!

Today:
I bought some oatbran yesterday to try having that at work in the mornings. So I tried it this morning as porridge - it was delish! Made with half milk half water.

I had a marks and spencer Choc chunk cookie with a cup of tea mid morning then we went for a long walk over the Heath for about an hour and had pizza express for lunch. I had the American hot leggera and shared the caprese salad and dough balls.

Just had another cornetto (so good) and not sure what we will have this evening maybe either takeaway sushi or curry.

Have a hectic week coming up at work so need to stick as religiously as possible to the plan and squeeze exercise wherever I can.

I brought my oatbran with me to work with the intention of whipping up a quick porridge in the mornings. We have THE most retro microwave in the world with no light and no way of seeing what is happening inside. Therefore I had already exploded two attempts by 7.45am - v irritating. What is it about porridge that every time you peep at it, nothing is happening whatsoever and then two seconds later KAPOW - oatbran everywhere. TWICE!

Eventually I gave up and just stirred a couple of spoonfuls into a Muller light toffee.

B:
Muller light toffee 88
40g Oatbran 146

It was miserable and freezing at lunchtime and I didn't have time to go anywhere exciting so had to improvise with things I had in my drawers.

L:
Ainsley Harriot minestrone cup a soup 85
Cruga Biltong 120
Kit Kat 233

S:
Bounter Hunter (Graze) 145
Habas Tapas (Graze) 131

Then I did a Body Pump class- the abs section was killer- but we didn't do lunges which was a relief. I prefer biceps and triceps - I really want to see some change in my arms and have them thin and defined.

D:
3/4 of Marks & Spencer tomato and basil soup 180
Frozen milky way 98

I think I was pretty much on par at 1200 calories. Have already had another oatbran disaster this morning ARGH

Hi the wispa icecreams are found on farm foods for £1.25 for 4 and 120 cals !!

Wow yum! I don't have farm foods near me unfortunately !

Today started good (despite another oatbran disaster)

Breakfast: half cup of oatbran with milk 200

Lunch: salad from the deli with grilled chicken est 350

Snacks: alpen light Choc and fudge bar 70

Evening: at a work do managed to limit to 3 glasses of white wine 390 and literally 2 or 3 canapés 150

However then starving enroute home planned to have a veggie delight subway and might have still been within cals despite no exercise- it was shut!! So had KFC 3x original drumsticks 486 and 2x hot wing 165! Wasn't even that good- the veggie delight would have hit the spot much better the drumsticks were soooo greasy!!! Gag

Back on track tomorrow and I can do a big exercise maybe 10km run as free in the evening.

Haven't had Kentucky for over a year I can imagine the smell lol , good luck with your run 10k is great I am still between 3and 5k at mo can't seem to push myself further

Ugh DD it was so not worth it! The hot wings were marginally better. What is your fast food vice/ fave treat?

I did a charity 10k a couple of weeks ago in 1hr 2mins which I was pleased with but I did walk for a couple of mins around 3 times.

I am still not happy with my 5km run and can't wait to get to the point where I can run it in sub 30 mins comfortably, I just keep chipping away I think progress with running shows really fast from beginner to running say 15mins non stop and from there it gets tricky! Apparently being able to run 45min comfortably is a sort of threshold according to some of my friends and once you break that you can keep going and going!

When I run home from the office the total distance is about 11km and alot of it is uphill. I just run for as long as I can then walk a bit and pick up running again and so on. I have the RunKeeper app which is brill as it tracks you with GPS and shouts in your ear each km or each 10 mins which spurs me on. It also calculates an estimate of calories burnt.