Sonoma/Mediterranean weekly thread - 18 to 24 July
How is everyone this week? I have some sort of cold/virus, so I started out today feeling a bit miserable, but I was cheered to find that I've lost a pound. I will be out of town this weekend, so between that and being ill, this may not be the best week for losing, but I'll do my best to eat healthy anyway.
B: Was on the go so had 4 mini babybel light
L: Grilled veggie salad
S: Handful of cashews
D: Grilled veggie & toasted ricotta salad
S: Tbsp ricotta mixed with vanilla essence.. had a sweet craving and I'm off sugar at the moment
Exercise - approx hour walking in pretty extreme heat, phew!
Sarah, that is spooky! Thanks for the good wishes. This is what I ate today:
B: Wholegrain toast with peanut butter; banana
L: Wholegrain pasta with quorn balls, mushrooms and tomato sauce; handful blueberries
D: Marrow stuffed with lentils, brown rice, tomato, spring onion and herbs (helping our vicar get rid of his glut of marrows!); grape juice
Exercise: 40 mins Wii Fit - very gentle, mostly yoga stretches and balance exercises, because of being ill. I did feel better for it, though.
In the spirit of honesty I'll post everything I ate today.. was an off day from work and spent the day at home
4 small chickpea patties
4 small kidney bean patties
A large bar of sugar free dark chocolate
4 slices of smoked halloumi
4 slices of chili halloumi
2 sugar free ice creams
4 chickpea patties
LOL what's wrong with me!! Hope I'm not pregnant. Oh well at least there was no sugar or carbs..
And...AND!! Slept 4 hours during the day and missed my body conditioning class... Sheesh... well I have 2 classes planned for tomorrow so hopefully that will make up for it
Sarah, like you say, it could have been a lot worse! The important thing is to get right back on track. Your two classes tomorrow may help - I know I eat better when I get my exercise.
Here's what I ate today:
B: All Bran with soy milk (we'd run out of regular); apple
S: 1 portion wholegrain crackers, 1 mini babybel
L: Salad with egg, peas, carrot, salad leaves, olives; 1 slice wholemeal bread; 1 handful cherries
D: Wholegrain pasta with rocket, mushrooms, pine nuts and blue cheese; grape juice
S: 1 dark chocolate brazil nut
Exercise: 50 mins walking, 10 mins yoga, 1 hr keep fit class
Sarah, that does look like a good day! Mine was better than expected - I was going round to a friend's house for dinner and thought she would probably cook something OP, but she was stressed out and gratefully accepted my offer to shop and cook. So this is what I ate:
B: Wholemeal toast with peanut butter; strawberries
L: Salad with egg, marrow, peas, salad leaves, olives; cherries
D: Wholegrain giant couscous with veggies (courgettes, mushrooms, peppers, spring onions), butter beans and feta in tomato sauce; grape juice
Nice dinner! Good that she let you cook too, meant you had full control over what you were eating. Haven't managed to find wholegrain couscous here yet.. Well I haven't touched a carb all week so I'm pretty pleased with myself. I also kept sugar very very low to non existent. TOM is due these days so weight hasn't changed too much just a couple of lbs. In any case it's good preparation for next week where I have a couple of nights out plus my Mum is coming to visit for a week next Friday and my diet gets shot to **** everytime she is here. Anyway, I digress -
Yesterdays~
B: Veg crudites w/2 laughing cow extra light
L: Veg & Quorn curry, no rice
D: Some Nuts & Cheese, wasn't hungry needed the protein after exercise
S: 2 cans of low carb lager
Well done, Sarah! I have a difficult couple of weeks coming up, too - I'm away with my choir this weekend and then on holiday on the Norfolk Broads from 30th July to 6th August. I'm trying to plan ahead as much as possible, but I won't be able to stay completely on plan.
My friend is in the process of being diagnosed for what is probably coeliac disease, so mealtimes with her are going to get more difficult. We discussed it, though, and we're going to try to view it as an opportunity to try some of the non-gluten grains that neither of us has tried before, like millet and spelt (which some coeliacs can tolerate and others can't, so it will be trial and error.) I like a cooking challenge, and she's trying to learn to cook, so if we view it in that light I think we'll do okay. I'm over there most weeks, so we need to figure something out.
I really like the giant wholegrain couscous, but the texture is not that different from the larger lentils that hold their shape during cooking, e.g. Puy lentils or similar. You could probably substitute those in most recipes.
Yesterday:
B: 1 wholewheat seeded English muffin with peanut butter; banana
L: Salad with egg, radicchio, carrot, peas, olives, peppers, mushrooms, probably something else I've forgotten ;-). Cherries.
D: Wholegrain pasta with Quorn meatballs, halloumi and vegetables in tomato sauce (courgette, spring onions, red pepper, basil, mushrooms - I was using up the remnant's of the week's vegetable box!). Grape juice.
Also I have a nice Millet & Vegetable risotto recipe, I will post it sometime for you if you like, basically millet is used instead of rice, its one of my favourites.
Todays~
B: Natural yoghurt w sweetener & vanilla essence
L: A huge slab of blackforest gateaux - we had an office birthday today so skipped lunch once I had had the cake. Which was amazing
D: Quorn and vegetable curry, no rice
S: Couple of low carb beers
Thanks for the good wishes, Sarah. I did have a lovely weekend, and I didn't do too badly on the diet and exercise front, either. This is what I ate:
Friday
B: Crunchy Bran with milk; banana
L (before I left to get my train): Wholegrain crackers; salad leaves with quorn "chicken", cucumber, strawberries and vinaigrette. The strawberries and cucumber are a delicious combination, but I felt really hungry afterwards, so I think I might serve it with lentils if I do it again.
S: Wholegrain crackers and peanut butter (I took these with me in my bag along with some disposable plates and cutlery.)
D: We went to Pizza Express, and I had the Bosco salad (salad leaves, tomatoes and mushrooms with a balsamic dressing). The dressing was a bit too sweet for me, but otherwise it was okay. I gave my dough sticks to someone else in the party - it really helped that I'd had the crackers before I went out. I also had an orange juice - not really encouraged on Sonoma, but normally I'd have grape juice, so I figured in terms of antioxidants orange would be better than nothing.
Exercise: 3 hrs walking.
Saturday
B: Crunchy Bran with milk; banana. I took these with me as well.
L: We were told to bring a picnic lunch to our rehearsal, so I popped into Tesco and got myself some salad and some strawberries, plus I ate more of the wholegrain crackers.
S: Wholegrain crackers and peanut butter.
D: Buffet after our concert. I had salad, some olives and a small handful of peanuts. Amazingly, they also had grape juice, so I had a glass of that.
Exercise: 1 hr 20 mins walking.
Today:
B: Crunchy Bran with milk; banana.
L: We ate at an Italian restaurant. I had a small mozzarella, rocket and tomato salad and some pasta con funghi made with corn pasta, which they have as a gluten-free option. It was really nice, but a very large portion of pasta, which I ate anyway because it was quite a late lunch and I was really hungry. I made up for it by not eating grains with dinner.
S: Small handful of grapes; 1 dark chocolate brazil nut.
D (back home): Salad with lentils, runner beans, tomatoes, spring onions, radishes and vinaigrette. This was absolutely delicious - I didn't even realise you could eat runner beans raw, but if anything I think they tasted better that way. Grape juice.
Exercise: 1 hr walking.
So, not bad for a weekend away, I think. Will be interested to see what the scale says this week.
Sonoma/Mediterranean weekly thread - 18 to 24 July
