Counting carbs and a whoosh!

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Feb 092012
 

Morning weigh in: 98.0kgs

Total days since last transgression

Daily LOSS: 1.0kgs / 2.2lbs
Total loss since New Year: 5.8kgs / 12.76lbs

Today’s menu: PV

Watercheck: 1.9l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener

Lunch

  • packet of pastrami
  • 3 celery sticks
  • small pack of carrot sticks
  • 2 slices of cheese
  • 30g tub of low fat hummous (3g of carbs)

Afternoon snack

  • Fat free fromage frais with sweetener and cocoa

Dinner

  • 2x “lettuce” burgers – ie burgers with lettuce to hold it all together rather than bread. J had bread. And it was delicious.

Exercise

  • 45 mins walking from bus stop to work and back (I used a further-away bus stop to boost my walking time. :) )

WHOOSH! What did I tell ya? I did a little jig on the scales this morning – you know the one. You’ve all done it at one p0int or another, right?

Now, I had hummous today. Technically, this is a transgression. However, it was a teeeeeeensy tiny tub, low fat, and contains less carbs than my celery (granted, the net carbs are probably higher) … OK, I just did the math on my carb intake for the day. Rough estimate (and overestimating probably) I count 37-40g of carbs today –  with a whopping 12g of this from my two cups of tea and the cup of coffee, plus the milk in my oatbran porridge. I’m thinking about cutting things down to one cup of coffee per day, and drinking oolong or jasmine tea the rest of the day. If I’d done this today, I’d have been below the 30g of carbs per day recommended for ketogenic diets.

Now that I’m almost 2 weeks into my transgression-free run, it’s amazing how much more seriously I’m taking this whole thing. It just goes to show how much of an All-Or-Nothing kinda gal I am.

However. The Holiday is approaching – just another 10 days to go before I’m sitting on a beach on the Red Sea, sipping cocktails and ignoring everything Dukan ever said. For one week. I expect to have to re-de-tox (is that a word?) on my return, because my god I’m looking forward to those cocktails, all of which are included in our All Inclusive package. Don’t hate me if I come back with a few extra pounds…

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A fromage free day

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Feb 082012
 

Morning weigh in: 99.0kgs

Total days since last transgression: 12

Daily GAIN: 0.6kgs / 1.32lbs
Total loss since New Year: 4.8kgs / 10.56lbs

Today’s menu: PP

Watercheck: 2.1l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener

Lunch

  • Nandos butterfly chicken breast
  • Half of a 1/4 Nandos chicken (my free 1/4 chicken, but it was too much chicken…)
  • couple of handfuls of peanuts

Dinner

  • grilled chicken thigh fillets

Exercise

  • 1 hour cycling to and from work

Well, that’s the anti-whoosh. Not to share-overly though, I was feeling a bit… plugged up, shall we say, all of yesterday. And today the cork stopper has come out. I suspect that this is all to do with going back onto Xenical. Suffice it to say that my evening weigh-in just now has made me confident enough to say that this is just a temporary glitch.

I didn’t get my fromage frais in today – I’m finally at that point of carb cleansing that I’m really not very hungry. There were STACKS of cookies at work today, and until recently they’ve been a real challenge to resist. But today, out of habit, I took in a long whiff of their delicious chocolate-wheaty scent and realised that they’re not that great smelling, actually. I looked at chocolate in line at the supermarket yesterday, and imagined myself eating a bar of it – and to be honest, the pleasure nodes of my brain barely fired at all.

To anyone who’s having difficulty with the carb cravings – try the counting-days-since-last-transgression thing. It’s been 12 days since my last transgression, and I’d be interested to see how long it takes other people to kick the cravings?

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Fromage Frais challenge – day 13

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Feb 062012
 

Morning weigh in: 98.4kgs

Total days since last transgression: 10

No Daily Change
Total loss since New Year: 5.4kgs / 11.88lbs

Today’s menu: PP

Watercheck: 1.9l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener
  • microwaved eggs

Lunch

  • Taco mince with fromage frais and a teensy bit of salsa
  • fat free fromage frais with cocoa and sweetener

Dinner

  • The most succulent, delicious sirloin steak.

Exercise

  • 1 hour cycling to and from work

Wey-hey! A Monday morning, and my weigh-in stays the same! The lack of Monday-Morning-Bounce is equivalent to a good loss on any other day, given the weigh-in is often 5 hours earlier than the post-Sunday lie-in weight. :)

I went to the doctor today, to renew my prescription of Orlistat. I ran out months and months ago, and the doc agreed to let me try it again. Orlistat is basically double-strength Alli, but under an NHS prescription it’s free, whereas Alli costs £60 or more for just one month’s supply, at half the strength. This is something to force me to carefully regulate my fat-intake, because taking Orlistat with a high fat diet is a recipe for disaster-in-the-pants, IF you know what I mean… ;-)

I’m not recommending Orlistat/Xenical to anyone – everyone’s bodies are different. Your mileage may vary, but it works for me. If you’re tempted, go speak to your doctor, and be fully aware of the “treatment effects” (ie they’re not side effects because you only get these less pleasant effects when you don’t take it right) before you take any. It might help you, it might not. It might be more trouble than it’s worth for you, or more expense if you’re not in a country with free healthcare like the UK.

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Fromage Frais Challenge Day 12

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Feb 052012
 

Morning weigh in: 98.4kgs

Total days since last transgression: 9

Daily LOSS: 0.1kgs / 0.22lbs
Total loss since New Year: 5.4kgs / 11.88lbs

Today’s menu: PV

Watercheck: 1.6l

Late Brunch (slept in, how glorious)

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener
  • microwaved eggs

Dinner

  • Home made Pollo Siciliana (aka fancy shmancy Chicken Parma, with fresh tomato rather than sauce and no breadcrumbs. NOM!)

Exercise

  • Nuhun.

Sorry for the lack of bloggage. But LOOK! Look at the scales! They’re going in the right direction! I’m down 1kg from where I was last week, and am almost the lightest I’ve been since Nov last year.

I got precious little done today except almost finish sewing another dress, and watch a LOT of Bones. Love that show – David Boreanaz has sure been benefiting from those acting lessons. Gone is annoying, mopey emo Angel, now there is nothing but the utterly charming Booth in his place. I’ll say it again – NOM! ;-)

15 days till we go away on holiday, yay!

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Fromage frais challenge day 10

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Feb 032012
 

Morning weigh in: 99.1kgs

Total days since last transgression 7

Daily GAIN: 0.8kgs / 1.76lbs
Total loss since New Year: 4.7kgs / 10.34lbs

Today’s menu: PP

Watercheck: 1.1l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • Oatbran flaxseed bread
  • microwaved eggs

Lunch

  • Bag of pub peanuts
  • fat free fromage frais

Dinner

  • Dinner item

Exercise

  • 1 hour cycling to and from work

Today I went out to the pub with my team for lunch, and of course they had to enthusiastically pick the one pub in the area which doesn’t do ANY kind of carb-free meal, especially not on a protein day. You’ll be so proud of me though – I ended up sitting there surrounded by burgers and fish& chips, and ate only a small pack of peanuts and a pint of diet coke. Fortunately I had some fromage frais back at the office which helped tide me over till dinner. You know you’re into the swing of the carb-free lifestyle when you can essentially skip lunch and your body doesn’t end up hurting you from the hunger.

Not the kind of thing I intend to do regularly, mind you. :)

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Fromage frais challenge day 9

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Feb 022012
 

Morning weigh in: 98.3kgs

Total days since last transgression: 6

Daily LOSS: 0.7kgs / 1.54lbs
Total loss since New Year: 5.5kgs / 12.1lbs

Today’s menu: PV

Watercheck: 2.1l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • Oatbran-flaxseed bread
  • microwaved eggs

Lunch

  • Beef & vegetable stew
  • Fat free fromage frais with cocoa and sweetener

Dinner

  • half a roast chicken, re-fried with Nandos portugese bbq marinade

Exercise

  • 1 hour cycling to and from work

Aaaand there’s my whoosh. Yay! :)

Feeling much better today – though cycling to work in -5 degree weather is NOT fun. My bike seat was frozen, and apologies for the detail, but… my cooch was ALSO frozen by the time I got to work… ;-)

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Fromage frais days 7&8

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Feb 022012
 

Day 7 Morning weigh in: 99.7kgs
Day 8 Morning weigh in: 99.0kgs

Total days since last transgression 4&5

Just a quick catch-up post cause I’ve been slack with posting.

Day 7 saw another up on the scales, which made me redouble my efforts to get those bloody Scales of Woe to do something useful with themselves. This paid off on Day 8 – I had a perfect PP day – no cheese, just chicken and my usual breakfast. Day 8 I was off work sick, and so my morning weigh-in may have been a little later than usual, hence the drop. I’ll take it though! :)

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Fromage frais challenge day 6

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Jan 302012
 

Morning weigh in: 99.6kgs

Total days since last transgression: 2

Daily GAIN: 0.2kgs / 0.44lbs
Total loss since New Year: 4.2kgs / 9.24lbs

Today’s menu: PP

Watercheck: 2.9l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener
  • microwaved eggs

Lunch

  • 4 Slices of Sainsburys roast chicken breast
  • a few slices of salami
  • 3 slices of Sainsbury’s roast beef
  • Vanilla Muller Light

Dinner

  • 6 oz fillet steak with red wine sauce
  • small poached egg – I was out for a friend’s birthday, and managed to convince the waiter to give me a poached egg instead of fries or vegetables. I was VERY good! :)

Exercise

  • 1hr 20 mins cycling to and from work

Well, I didn’t have fromage frais today – I was out for dinner and didn’t get home until it was too late. To make up for it, I had a Muller Light at lunch time – it’s funny, these things have about 17g of carbs per tub, but looking back over my halcyon weight-loss days back in June-Sept 2010, I’d chow down on one of these per day, and still achieve prodigious losses. I’m not entirely sure how that works, though I suppose I was walking an hour per day rather than cycling – I definitely work consistently harder when walking than when cycling. Edinburgh is so hilly that I’m either coasting/braking down a hill, or working very hard up a big hill.  All the same, I’m sure I manage to get at least 30 mins of solid workout on the bike every day, for my full hour commute.

Out for dinner tonight for a friend’s birthday, hence the extra cycle time around town. And it was COOOOLD tonight! I’ll admit that I was a bit nervous on the dark, icy bike path, but I made it home in the end. :)

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Fromage frais challenge – day 5

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Jan 292012
 

Morning weigh in: 99.4kgs

Total days since last transgression: 1

Daily LOSS: 0.3kgs / 0.66lbs
Total loss since New Year: 4.4kgs / 9.68lbs

Today’s menu: PV

Watercheck: 1.6l

Breakfast

  • 1/2 slice of oatbran-flaxseed bread
  • 3 lean rashers of bacon
  • 1.5 grilled tomatoes
  • scrambled eggs

Lunch

  • the other half slice of flaxseed bread, with thinly sliced cheddar cheese
  • Fat free fromage frais with cocoa and sweetener

Dinner

  • Grilled chicken thighs, with all the fat cut off

Exercise

  • 1 hour gardening

Feeling better today. I managed to get a blackberry invader vine under control, started preparing the greenhouse for spring – including cleaning the “glass” inside and out. Then I almost finished a new dress, ordered some more fabric for more summery dresses for Sharm el Sheikh, and watched a WHOLE lotta Bones (love that show!) So a good day.

Still haven’t had my whoosh, and it’s kinda making a mockery of my fromage frais challenge. Perhaps I should have started this whole thing after my period was all done, but then who knows if I would have gone up? I’m definitely seeing a difference in my face with the loss of almost 10lbs since New Year, so I’m ignoring the excess baggage my uterus is carrying around, and just getting on with my normal Dukan regime (though technically cheese is not very Dukan.)

Anyway, it’s late and J is calling me to bed, so I’d best sign off. xx

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Fromage frais challenge – Day 4

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Jan 282012
 

Morning weigh in: 99.7kgs

Total days since last transgression: 0

Daily GAIN: 0.2kgs / 0.44lbs
Total loss since New Year: 4.1kgs / 9.02lbs

Today’s menu: PP

Watercheck: 1.3l

Breakfast

  • mug of coffee
  • oatbran porridge with sweetener
  • microwaved eggs

Lunch

  • Half a slow-roasted chicken, shredded and refried with a little nandos seasoning cause it was bland…
  • a few thin slices of raw red pepper
  • a slice of cheddar cheese

Dinner

  • two sticks of celery and two slices of cheddar cheese
  • toffee flavoured vodka with kahlua and baileys :(
  • Fromage frais with cocoa and sweetener

Exercise

  • 1 hour 10 mins cycling to and from a hair appointment

Ugh… I see now why the Scales of Woe have been letting me down so. It’s not their fault – it’s the fault of my stupid uterus and its need to purge once a month. Period pain sucks. But at least I know that I always retain water before my TOTM, so in a few more days, I’ll get the nice big whoosh I’ve been waiting for.

I have been dreadfully exhausted today. We were supposed to be going to look at wedding venues today (or more to the point, venue, singular) but I was actually so relieved when J told me that he’d called them to make sure they were open, and it turns out that they’re not actually open again to the public until APRIL! So I’ve had a fairly vegetative day. I know I was supposed to be on a protein day today, but you know when you just want that CRUNCH of a veggie? I kinda needed that today.

I also transgressed today – I had a glass of sickly sweet liqueurs with my “dinner” (such as it was). I’m very annoyed at myself, and the fact that that transgressions counter has gone back to zero again. I was looking forward to seeing it at 14 at least. The really annoying part is that I had some bread on my plate with the celery and cheese, and managed to think of the counter and put the bread back in the bag. But I willfully had that drink.

I blame the hormones and the period pain (which is awful this month). :(

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