Of refeeds and diet breaks

Nony_Mouse

This is one of the many ways I will be eating all the fuds today (this one may actually be slightly undercooked, Kayla will assess when she gets here, and make another if necessary). NB not yet smothered in whipped cream and fruit.

mph323

Mmmmm!

mph323

Here's my contribution to Christmas food madness - I started baking and couldn't stop so plates of cookies for everyone!

VintageFeline

I shall share a picture of my feast tomorrow. I always cook as if there are at least 5 people being fed. But it's just me. Meat is currently marinating, spuds are par-boiled, bread sauce (should really be eaten with poultry but meh, I make the rules) made during the week, everything else will happen tomorrow! And (bought) cheesecake for pudding because I wasn't paying £10 for a decent trifle nor making one.

I am excited. Roast potatoes and slow roast lamb are like my last meal foods. I will eat myself sick tomorrow.

Terebynthia

Jugged hare is depressurising. Home from mum and stepdad's, which was roast lamb and waay too much red wine. Goose is lurking in the wine cellar

mph323

What's a jugged hare? It sounds intriguing!

JoLightensUp

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm on holidays, my backyard is currently a beach, and I'm loving it! Going to my brother and sister-in-law's today in Sydney for Chrissy dinner. I don't know what we'll be eating, but they love food so it should be good. Hope you all enjoy your day, however you are going to spend it.

ETA: A Christmas Day bonus - we just realised that there is a small pod of dolphins going up and down our 'backyard'. So beautiful. I don't get to see that everyday!

Terebynthia

I basically used this recipe, but pressure cooked for 55 mins as I had serious side eye at "simmer for 1 hour at 160 degrees" and most recipes call for long slow cooking. It was very tasty, and I have a litre of stock from it to freeze for future stew activities.

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/classic-jugged-hare-recipe

Terebynthia

My Fitness Pal also tells me hare is very low in calories, which I guess makes sense as there's no fat to speak of

Rickster1967

I had pizza, Caesar salad and baked polenta chips in a restaurant tonight, it was freaking awesome and was the first time I've eaten out in 155+ days.

Logged it, completed diary and came in 6 kcals under diet break calorie target. All good.

Well until I remembered I did a whole day of NEAT in the form of cleaning, cooking, vacuuming and so on. Not logged that so probably a few hundred calories under Blast it

Nony_Mouse

Pine allergy, what pine allergy?

#worthit

bmeadows380

Terebynthia wrote: »

Jugged hare is depressurising. Home from mum and stepdad's, which was roast lamb and waay too much red wine. Goose is lurking in the wine cellar

I've always wanted to try rabbit and goose both, but they aren't easy to come by around here. I can get a frozen goose at the local grocery, but I've heard that goose is very greasy, and I hate to pay what they cost to try it only to find out I don't like it.

Rickster1967

Rabbit just about my favourite meat

mph323

Terebynthia wrote: »

I basically used this recipe, but pressure cooked for 55 mins as I had serious side eye at "simmer for 1 hour at 160 degrees" and most recipes call for long slow cooking. It was very tasty, and I have a litre of stock from it to freeze for future stew activities.

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/classic-jugged-hare-recipe

OMG that looks AMAZING!

AMC110

Just so I'm clear, is a refeed when you eat at maintenance level for a short period of time (a day, several days, couple of weeks, etc.)?

Nony_Mouse

AMC110 wrote: »

Just so I'm clear, is a refeed when you eat at maintenance level for a short period of time (a day, several days, couple of weeks, etc.)?

Refeed is at least two days, high carb (all explained in the video in the fist post). Diet break, which is what you should do if you've been at a deficit for a while, is 10-14 days, link in the first post to explain how and why.

Nony_Mouse

So, we got all the outside set up done, started the BBQ, and it began to rain...persevered with having lunch out after stringing a tarpaulin between trees, then retreated inside once it became clear that it was going to continue. Le sigh.

Here is a pretty picture of me and my niece (and Mario) before the rain.

livingleanlivingclean

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

So, we got all the outside set up done, started the BBQ, and it began to rain...persevered with having lunch out after stringing a tarpaulin between trees, then retreated inside once it became clear that it was going to continue. Le sigh.

Here is a pretty picture of me and my niece (and Mario) before the rain.

Beautiful! Merry Christmas to this thread - sounds like everyone is having delicious celebrations

We're just on our way home from lunch... Consisting of

Stuffed turkey breast roll
Glazed ham
Prawns
Various salads, including two of mine:
-salad of spinach, rocket, roast Beetroot, red onion, goats cheese, honey and cumin roasted walnuts (homemade, to die for) and orange dressing
-butter lettuce, cucumber/onion salsa, mango, avocado, roasted macadamia nuts and chilli, limey yoghurt dressing.

Then... Cherries, mince pies, amazing homemade Christmas cake (the maker gifted us some!), icecream Christmas pudding...

Completely stuffed. Supposed to be going to the beach for fish and chips tonight, but not sure that'll be happening

Rickster1967

Happy Christmas everyone, just getting ready for lunch in about 5 hours

May go over maintenance today

Nony_Mouse

I am so not evben gonna try to log that.

Actual lunch was a corn cob, three slices of halloumi, asparagus (with plentiful butter), two portabella mushrooms with blue cheese. With plentiful snacking on corn chips and guacamole, cherry liqueur chocs (at least seven according to wrappers), scorched almonds, either 4 or 5 Terry's choc orange slices, and pavlova. Oh, and a good 300 ml of peach vodka. TDEE of ~2900, I don't think I ate the much, but add vodka in and...

Finished pav



Oh and when Kayla's BF was talking to his mum in the UK she didn't know from the photo of us together which of us was his girlfriend Yeah, I'm only 17 years older than her!

Terebynthia

bmeadows380 wrote: »

Terebynthia wrote: »

Jugged hare is depressurising. Home from mum and stepdad's, which was roast lamb and waay too much red wine. Goose is lurking in the wine cellar

I've always wanted to try rabbit and goose both, but they aren't easy to come by around here. I can get a frozen goose at the local grocery, but I've heard that goose is very greasy, and I hate to pay what they cost to try it only to find out I don't like it.

Goose does throw an awful lot of fat - I make a virtue out of necessity when roasting it and strain it all off and freeze it in ice cube trays to make goose fat roast potatoes throughout the year - I usually get a couple of litres of fat. It's a lot richer taste than chicken or turkey. I like it, but it's hard to keep the breast moist. I'll start it upside down and then flip it, and cover the legs in foil. A breast does the 2 of us, with the second breast frozen for leftover sandwiches once we are back from holiday. The legs and other meat usually gets stripped and used in a curry or something.

Rabbit is very low fat and very tasty. A bit like chicken I guess?

Rickster1967

Rabbit is my favourite meat

Gamliela

Ima vote roasted lamb.

bmeadows380

we woke up this morning to a white Christmas! It was hard to judge just how much snow as it had blowed around pretty badly with the high winds over night, but I think there was around 2-3". Now it's bright and sunny, if still chilly.

The birds in the first picture are a titmouse in the feeder and a junco on the deck. The second is, of course, the every lovely cardinal.

Rickster1967

I have eaten at least my maintenance of 2760 by 6.30pm

amusedmonkey

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm jealous. I haven't seen decent snow in more than 10 years. Snow falls maybe a couple of times a year and lasts for a few days, but my city is as if it's in a weather bubble. It would be snowing everywhere else but here. Sometimes a few flurries break through for a couple of minutes, and that's it for the year.

Speaking of diet breaks, you know a diet break is a must when this is the tip of the iceberg:

Nony_Mouse

Right, a little dehydrated (though not much, go the vodka and soda, and also measuring my pours), weight down 400g. I figure once hydration comes back up and food weight vacates it will about even out. I'm just going to call 'the goal number' that my range centres around 60.5 at this point, I'm essentially just bouncing back and forth a few hundred grams either side of that now I think.

I did end up doing a vague for funsies log, came out about 500 cals over TDEE (which was 2900), which basically just balances out the previous two days that I was under (cos that's how maintenance works, y'all!).

I suspect I am being left with the remaining pavlova, which is over half of it, but that's okay, the actual pav is only ~200 cals for a decent slice, just need to estimate the cream on top, and everyone knows fruit has no calories so I'm good there. Motherlode of chocolate back in my cupboard. Will send remaining corn chips and potato chips home with Kayla, cos I bought some too and really don't need more!

kimny72

We are having a spiral cut glazed ham, mashed red potatoes, and roasted broccoli for dinner (both with plenty of butter and parmesan). And dinner rolls. Already ate the spreads with crackers and chips. I made a gingerbread white chocolate poke cake for dessert and my SIL is bringing a pie of some sort. And wine, plenty of wine :drinker:

Terebynthia

I had roast goose, stuffing, a roast potato (I cooked carrots for the hubby), cauliflower cheese, butter fried sprouts with chestnuts, a pig in a blanket and iberico ham. Am amazed it's only 1000 cal over maintenance. Amazing how logging it helps with the excesses. Goose now stripped and in the freezer

Nony_Mouse

So I'm going to repeat Weeks 1-4 of Strong Curves, because a) I've barely trained the past three weeks, and b) I know I wasn't really pushing myself enough on increasing resistance. Planning some nice vinyasa flow yoga this evening as a soft reentry to remind my muscles they're expected to do things, then will pick up at the level of resistance/reps I was up to and go from there.

Latest body fat estimates are in from my scrutineers (thanks @mmapags, @VintageFeline, @AnvilHead, and @Anubis609!!). I'm calling it 24% cos that's sub 25 Lower bod needs to lean out some more, let's just cross fingers that the fat comes off there!