Got to do it all again

kindleuser

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Just got back to my own home for the first time in 8 months after doing lots of travelling and knew I had put on weight but not as much as I have found out this morning.
Went on the Wii and thought I had put my OH's little person on instead of mine when the weight came up so went to change it and found out it was really mine. :cry:Jeeeeeeeeeez
knew I had put on that weight but not that much. Now it is going to come off and the only way to do it is write it down and this is the way to go.

Going to do about 1400 cals a day plus walking and exercise. Back to Rosemary Conley books and plan some menus.
 
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THURSDAY 21st JULY

Breakfast
40gms porridge 152
1 tbsp nuts and seeds 60
fruit 60
yoghurt 38

Breakfast total 310 cals

Lunch
Home made lentil & spinach soup 250
Home made oat biscuits - 2 --- 50
Sugar free jelly - fruit - yoghurt 100
Lunch total 400 cals

Dinner
Home made chicken meatballs 128
Home made tomato sauce 50
45gms pasta - dry 160
salad and oven roasted veg 120
Dinner total 458 cals

Extras
2 Ryvita and cow cheese triangle 100
2 Cadbury's Highlight drinks 80
Extras total 180 cals

Daily Total 1348 cals

10.636 steps................ 1 hour Pilates
 
Thursday's meals

Porridge breakfast
Lentil lunch
Pasta dinner

Lass321 - had a brilliant time but clothes are feeling a little tight so the extra weight has to go. Thanks for the reply
 

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Wow those meals look yum ;)

Do you have receipes for the soup and meatballs and oat bisciuts or can you point me in the right direction ?
 
Yes got the recipes - will sort them out and post them.
The lentil one I cook in a pressure cooker but will find one you can cook in a pan.

The chicken meatballs are from Ainsley Harriots Low Fat Meals in Minutes which I add bits to and it is his burger recipe but I also uses it for meatballs.

500gms lean minced chicken (I use boneless thighs as they taste better)
2 garlic cloves - crushed
chilli to taste - 2 tsp worcester sauce
1 tbsp chopped fresh mint - 2 tbsp parsley or coriander.
1 tsp cumin powder and 1 tsp coriander powder (not in AH recipe)
salt and pepper

Put everything into a food processor and whizz them up. Make into meatballs - I got 30 out of 470gms of chicken and I had 8 so about 16 cals each)
Put them in the fridge for about half an hour.
Heat a non stick pan and spray with frylite or similar if you want. Put the meatballs in the pan and cook them until they start to brown then turn over and brown other side - I put the lid on now and cook for 5mins.
Pour over a jar of pasta sauce and heat until the sauce is hot and the meatballs cooked.

We get cheap tomatoes where I live (40p for 2lbs) so I make my own sauce but would be cheaper to use a jar and more convenient in UK.

There were 10 left but no sauce so just froze the meatballs and will use them another day.
Left over oven roasted veg is going in tonights Spanish omelette.

OAT BISCUITS
These are just porridge oats which I whiz - put in a bowl and add potato flour then boiling water so it sticks together then let it cool then roll out thin and cut out. Cooks at 180c/Gas 4 for about 25 mins.
140gms porridge - 13 gms potato flour and 300mls of boiling water. Makes about 30.
I just work out the calories for each one by the stuff I use and cut them out with a tuna can with the top and bottom cut off !!!!

SPINACH AND LENTIL SOUP - 2 portions - 250 cals each.
140gms of mixed lentils - soaked if using toor dal.
veg or chicken oxo cube - 2 cloves garlic, chopped.
1tsp each of cumin, coriander, garam masala powder
good pinch of Hing (from Asian shops - helps with the wind problem of lentils etc:)
4 or 5 balls of frozen spinach
500mls of water or more if you want a thinner soup.
I put the whole lot in the pressure cooker for 12 mins.

If you use Masoor lentils - they are the small salmon pink ones you do not have to soak them and you can cook them in a pan on the cooker in about 20 mins and they turn yellow.
I make 4 portions at a time and freeze 2 of them - if you make it thick you can eat it as a curry with rice and veg.
 
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FRIDAY 22ND JULY

BREAKFAST
55gm slice of bread - toasted 115
1 poached egg 74
whole orange - blended 65
breakfast total 254

LUNCH
dal and spinach/oat bisc as yesterday 300
home made ice-cream, sugar free jelly and fruit 120
lunch total 420

DINNER
oven roast veg tortilla 188
babybel cheese 50
200gms chips cooked in Actifry, no oil 150
salad 60
picalilli 24
dinner total 472

EXTRAS
2 Cadburys Highlights 80
2 Lidl rye wafers & s.f. jam 70
small banana smoothie 100
extras 250

DAILY TOTAL 1396

STEPS 14,333
1/2 hour stretch and
1/2 hour low impact circuit classes



 

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SATURDAY 23RD JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge with fruit, nuts and seeds & yoghurt 300
Breakfast total 300

LUNCH
Home made Butternut squash soup 177 slice of toast 80
Home made banana ice cream and sugar free jelly, little fruit 120
Lunch total 377

DINNER
Black-eyed bean curry 150
Pumpkin curry 60
Cauliflower and tomato curry 120
120gms cooked rice 168
Dinner total 498

EXTRAS
2 Cadburys Highlights 80
2 Lidl wafers and cow cheese 84
1 Orange 60
Extras total 224

DAYS TOTAL 1399

STEP COUNTER - 12,139


 

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Yes the travel was brilliant thanks - now have to get my head down and get rid of this weight
 
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SUNDAY 24TH JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge etc 300
Breakfast total 300

LUNCH
Crust from new loaf - 51gms - 107
50gms cottage cheese 50
50gms smoked salmon 55
salad 40
Grape and Cherry ice cream with S.F. Jelly 120
Lunch total 372

DINNER
200gms Chicken breast and gravy 200
Ratatouille - Cauliflower - Spinach 135
150gms potatoes 115
Dinner total 450

EXTRAS
3 Cadburys Highlights 120
Slice Toast and Vegemite 110
Extras total 230

Daily Total 1352

Step Counter 6311




 

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MONDAY 25TH JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge etc but smaller - early gym day - 207
Breakfast total 207

LUNCH
Same as yesterday 372
Lunch total 372

DINNER
100gm cooked chicken breast 170
Coleslaw 50 salad 40 pickle 30
100gms peas 75
130gms Actifry chips with oil 210
Dinner total 575

Extras
2 Cadburys Highlights 80
Lidl wafer and cow triangle 84
Cherries 80
Extras total 244

Daily Total 1398

STEP COUNTER 14,363
1 HR PILATES


 

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Yes got the recipes - will sort them out and post them.
The lentil one I cook in a pressure cooker but will find one you can cook in a pan.

The chicken meatballs are from Ainsley Harriots Low Fat Meals in Minutes which I add bits to and it is his burger recipe but I also uses it for meatballs.

500gms lean minced chicken (I use boneless thighs as they taste better)
2 garlic cloves - crushed
chilli to taste - 2 tsp worcester sauce
1 tbsp chopped fresh mint - 2 tbsp parsley or coriander.
1 tsp cumin powder and 1 tsp coriander powder (not in AH recipe)
salt and pepper

Put everything into a food processor and whizz them up. Make into meatballs - I got 30 out of 470gms of chicken and I had 8 so about 16 cals each)
Put them in the fridge for about half an hour.
Heat a non stick pan and spray with frylite or similar if you want. Put the meatballs in the pan and cook them until they start to brown then turn over and brown other side - I put the lid on now and cook for 5mins.
Pour over a jar of pasta sauce and heat until the sauce is hot and the meatballs cooked.

We get cheap tomatoes where I live (40p for 2lbs) so I make my own sauce but would be cheaper to use a jar and more convenient in UK.

There were 10 left but no sauce so just froze the meatballs and will use them another day.
Left over oven roasted veg is going in tonights Spanish omelette.

OAT BISCUITS
These are just porridge oats which I whiz - put in a bowl and add potato flour then boiling water so it sticks together then let it cool then roll out thin and cut out. Cooks at 180c/Gas 4 for about 25 mins.
140gms porridge - 13 gms potato flour and 300mls of boiling water. Makes about 30.
I just work out the calories for each one by the stuff I use and cut them out with a tuna can with the top and bottom cut off !!!!

SPINACH AND LENTIL SOUP - 2 portions - 250 cals each.
140gms of mixed lentils - soaked if using toor dal.
veg or chicken oxo cube - 2 cloves garlic, chopped.
1tsp each of cumin, coriander, garam masala powder
good pinch of Hing (from Asian shops - helps with the wind problem of lentils etc:)
4 or 5 balls of frozen spinach
500mls of water or more if you want a thinner soup.
I put the whole lot in the pressure cooker for 12 mins.

If you use Masoor lentils - they are the small salmon pink ones you do not have to soak them and you can cook them in a pan on the cooker in about 20 mins and they turn yellow.
I make 4 portions at a time and freeze 2 of them - if you make it thick you can eat it as a curry with rice and veg.

Thanks will deffo be having a go :0

Need to hunt out some potato flour...
 
TUESDAY 26th JULY

Wedding Anniversary - went out for the day with friends - not too overboard but nearlly fell in :D:D
Ineedtobegood - no probs with the recipes - hope you enjoy them. I bought the potato flour in Holland and Barrat but it was a big bag and to be honest don't think I will use it all - easier to buy oat biscuits or use Ryvita type ones - Lidls are fine.
 
WEDNESDAY 27TH JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge etc
Breakfast total 300

LUNCH
Tuna and salad with pickle and picalilli
Fruit, jelly and yoghurt 120
Lunch total 360

DINNER
Lentil cottage pie - base 160 200gm potato topping 150 = 310
Ratatouille 70 - Cauliflower 40 - Mushrooms 30 -
Dinner total 450

EXTRAS
3 Cadburys Highlights 120
slice toast and vegemite 110
Extras total 230

Daily total 1340

Step counter 12,721
 
THURSDAY 28TH JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge etc 300
Breakfast total 300

LUNCH
1 slice toast and 1 poached egg 175
S.F.Jelly, fruit and yoghurt 120
Lunch total 295

DINNER
94gms Spicy Vietnamese Pork 200
Vegetable Rice 200
H.M. Coleslaw and salad 100
Plum Chutney 25
Grapes 90
DINNER TOTAL 615

EXTRAS
2 Cadburys Highlights 80
30gms Smoked salmon and 2 wafers 90
Extras 170

Daily Total 1380

Step Counter 11,207 1 hour Pilates
 

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FRIDAY 29TH JULY

BREAKFAST
Porridge 300
Breakfast total 300

LUNCH
Mixed fruit smoothie 152
Vegetable soup with pasta 200
Lunch total 352

DINNER
Club Sandwich
3 slices H.M. bread 252
30gms smoked salmon 35 egg mayo 84
prawns 30 2 crab sticks 42
Salad and Coleslaw 100
Dinner Total 543

EXTRAS
2 Cadburys Highlights 80
Biscuits and Cheese triangle 84
Extras total 154

Daily Total 1359

Step Counter 20,030 (left bag at gym and had to go back for it)

1/2 hour stretch class 1/2 hour circuit
 

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