Diary of a little auk

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana

Lunch
Baby leaf salad with 30g coleslaw
Pear

Tea
Pasta shells with very large portion of tomato & mushroom sauce *

Snacks
Bag of crisps
2 x wee plums

* sauce made with full tin of chopped tomatoes, tomato purée, 8 x baby button mushrooms and half an onion so I'm counting it as 2 portions of veg.

Week 4 day 3
fruit and veg portions: 20 of 35
treats: 1 of 6

 

[Emmaline]

Interesting point that you make there Rb .. I didn't know that about increasing protein when you have an injury .. perhaps that will help me with my problem.
Your menus look really good .. keep going with the plan

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana
Granola with almond milk

Lunch
Crispbread with feta cheese and jam
Pear

Tea
Half portion of vegetable curry with brown rice

Snacks
Bag of crisps
2 x wee plums
Apple

Exercise
56 lengths

Week 4 day 4
fruit and veg portions: 25 of 35
treats: 2 of 6

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana
Paleo bar

Lunch
Portion of potato wedges

Tea
Veggie chilli with nachos and cheese

Snacks
Bag of crisps
Pear
Apple
Orange

Exercise
64 lengths

Week 4 day 5
fruit and veg portions: 30 of 35
treats: 3 of 6

So not a great day for food but did feel like I had a really good swim this morning, it's defiantly getting easier to do my 60 lengths in the morning depending on when I manage to leave my house. There's certainly more muscle in my arms though I'm not sure if it's because I'm taking my pain killer again in the morning before I go to work.

We're off to Chester tomorrow for a very quick visit to the zoo so we'll see how that goes, I've tried to cram in more fruit and veg during the week so I don't need to worry as much at the weekend.

 

[Emmaline]

Everything looking good there Rb .. I'd love to be able to swim like that .. well done

 

[Razorbill]

Quick update from yesterday as I'm away to the zoo today and using the hotels dodgy WiFi.

Breakfast
Pear & plum

Lunch
Cheese & onion pastry from Greggs

Tea
Spinach & ricotta lasagne
Side salad

Snacks
2 x bags of crisps
cake

Week 4 day 6
fruit & veg portions: 32 of 35
treats: 6 of 6

 

[Emmaline]

Hope you have a good day Rb .. I haven't been to the zoo for absolutely ages and seeing it on TV isn't quite the same is it?

 

[Razorbill]

The zoo was really fun but I was tempted into more treats than I was strictly allowed though I did manage to get all of my fruit and veg in this week.

Breakfast
Fresh fruit cocktail
Dried fruits
Apple juice

Lunch
Cheese & tomato panini

Tea
Vegetable chow mein
4 x mini vegetable spring rolls

Snacks
2 x bags of crisps
Banana
Donut

Exercise
Walking round a zoo for 5 hours

Week 4 day 7
fruit & veg portions: 36 of 35
treats: 9 of 6

Time to reduce my number of weekly treats to 5 or so I think.

 

[Emmaline]

Well done on keeping to a reasonably good diet while you were out Rb .. it's not easy apart from the temptations there's often nothing that's suitable.
Glad your day went well.

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Fruit smoothie

Lunch
Apple
Easy peeler

Tea
3 x small slices spinach and ricotta pizza
Oven chips
Carrot

Snacks
bag of crisps
Banana
Chocolate bar

Week 5 day 1
fruit & veg portions: 5 of 35
treats: 2 of 5

We still have loads of rubbish from the weekend.

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana

Lunch
Lunch salad with vegan cheese
Easy peeler x 2
Soy dessert

Tea
Home made vegetable soup
Bloomer bread

Snacks
Nectarine
Chocolate bar

Exercise
66 lengths

Week 5 day 2
fruit & veg portions: 11 of 35
treats: 3 of 5

I'm really struggling with my TMJ just now, it's not being helped by the fact it's stress-triggered and some of my classes are being extremely difficult at the moment. Have spoken to my line manager today about these classes so hopefully some kind of solution will be offered soon.

 

[Loz1986]

Hi Razorbill, thought I'd pop over to your diary after your visits to my diary!

You're doing brilliantly with the swimming. And the food - love the idea of having a fruit and veg target for the week, I might pinch that idea for next week!

Long drives are the worst. If there's just me in the car, I tend to stop far less. With others in the car, someone always needs the loo, wants something to eat or wants to stop for a cigarette (not judging but yuck) and I always end up eating loads - that accounted for one of my bad days last week.

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Fruit smoothie
Banana

Lunch
Lunch salad
Nectarine
Apple

Tea
3 x small slices spinach and ricotta pizza

Snacks
2 x slices sourdough bread with olive oil
Chocolate bar

Week 5 day 3
fruit & veg portions: 16 of 35
treats: 4 of 5

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Pear
Nectarine

Lunch
Vegetable soup
Apple

Tea
Baked potato with baked beans and cheese

Snacks
1 slice sourdough bread with olive oil
Chocolate bar

Week 5 day 4
fruit & veg portions: 21 of 35
treats: 5 of 5

 

[Razorbill]

Food yesterday was alright but my day was totally miserable as I couldn't find my pain killer before I went to work. I struggled to swim 54 lengths in 35 minutes and when I came home I found it difficult to make my tea I was hurting so much. Wound up having a bath at 6 and tea at 8.

Breakfast
Nectarine
Pear

Lunch
low-Cal egg mayo and cress sandwich from tesco

Tea
pasta shells with home-made arabiatta sauce

Snacks
Apple

Exercise
54 lengths

Week 5 day 5
Fruit and veg portions: 25 of 35
Treats: 5 of 5

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana
Pear

Lunch
Apple

Tea
Vegetable balti with nan bread and popadoms

Week 5 day 6
Fruit and veg portions: 30 of 35
Treats: 5 of 5

Stewart to the rescue for dinner, was supposed to be going to the football today but I was too sore (this turned out to be a blessing in disguise as my team got humped and apparently the game was mince). I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this infernal jaw pain.

 

[Razorbill]

Breakfast
Banana
Fruit smoothie

Lunch
Egg mayo baguette

Tea
Vegetable balti with basmati rice

Week 5 day 7
Fruit and veg portions: 34 of 35
Treats: 5 of 5

 

[Razorbill]

Lunch
Half a pomegranate

Tea
Vegetable soup with baguette

Snacks
Bar of chocolate

Week 6 day 1
Fruit and veg portions: 2 of 35
Treats: 1 of 5

My jaw is too sore to eat much.

 

[fit4hols]

Sorry to hear about your jaw. It does sound like soup may be the best thing for now. Hope you're better soon

 

[Razorbill]

Back again though with a really sore jaw and totally fed up of being put on ineffective drugs. I've had to take some steps to resolving my jaw issues myself by speaking to my union rep at work and researching ways to manage my stress as this is the root cause of my pain.

I also got myself some new scales which tell me all sorts of unwanted info such as my BMI, body fat and water.

Breakfast
Roll on egg mayonnaise and tomato

Lunch
Cup of tea with a biscuit

Tea
Vegetarian lasagne with salad

Snacks
handful of black grapes
Banana

Week 6 day 1
fruit & veg portions: 5 of 35
treats: 1 of 5