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So I got up today intending to have a deficit day after yesterday's maintenance day, but then a friend sent a text asking if she could pop round for coffee if she took a lat flow test first. She arrived bearing a gift of a wonderful, chewy, crusty loaf of sourdough from her (award-winning) artisan bakery, still slightly warm from the oven. Oh, and two huge M&M easter eggs, one each for me and my husband.
She stayed for lunch, so it seemed rude not to start the loaf. We had sharp creamy organic vintage cheddar sandwiched between two thick slices of the sourdough, followed by two Border dark chocolate ginger biscuits. Dinner was a repeat performance of lunch (sans the Border biscuits), followed by 100g fat free skyr yoghurt with a teaspoon of chocolate inulin for a little additional fibre.
The good news is I'm still 400 calories below my maintenance calories and I've hit my daily protein, fat and fibre macros. I was sufficiently self-disciplined to weigh the sourdough (100g for lunch, 135g for dinner) and limit myself to 25g cheese per sandwich. So good habits kicked in to enable damage limitation in the face of the kryptonite combination of sourdough and cheese. I'm counting that a victory.
The bad news is that apart from my two breakfast prune bunnies it's been a bunny-less day, and the easter egg is singing its siren song....8 -
Oh my that sourdough sounds like it would have undone me 😍…… but 25gms of cheese grated can go a long way….when I thnk of the slabs I have cut and munched in th past … 🧀😱5
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That's totally okay to borrow it!
They're better, but I'm pacing myself very carefully because I do not want to anger them again.6 -
@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 Thank you! I will!4
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So the easter egg shell weighed 150g (792 calories) and the 2 packs of M&M brownies weighed 72g (336 calories)...so 222g of chocolate in total (1128 calories)...
I had 400 calories left of my maintenance calories (though I'd originally planned a deficit day).
I decided to eat 50g of the chocolate shell...264 calories.
100g of chocolate shell later (528 calories)...I tipped the remaining 50g and the 2 bags of M&M brownies in the bin and poured washing up liquid on them.
So instead of being 400g under maintenance...I'm ending the day 128 calories over maintenance.
Bad.
But couldv'e been worse...
Positives? Hmmm...let's think...I logged every single calorie. That counts for something, surely?7 -
Beyond counts! You did awesome!
I admit that the sourdough and chocolate would probably not have made it in anywhere other than my tummy!🤷🏻♂️
But I absolutely would have logged them by weight for sure2 -
I had 10 🐰 again today not counting nuts….maybe we should count nuts as squirrels?….Publix has a new organic fruit and vegetable bread with seeds and it is sooooooo good….( I love bread and I could not have resisted that sour dough bread )…. I also picked up a loaf of Easter Breakfast bread still warm and can’t wait to have a slice in the morning!1
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Why do I keep posting in the wrong place?1
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A bigger question: Why do you think you are posting in the wrong place
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Because I read something and I start writing lol1
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I was just being silly @conniewilkins56 - suggesting that there is NO wrong place so you cannot be posting in the wrong place. These threads are all stirred up anyway - I'm always happy to read what you've written no matter where it is.2
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lauriekallis wrote: »I was just being silly @conniewilkins56 - suggesting that there is NO wrong place so you cannot be posting in the wrong place. These threads are all stirred up anyway - I'm always happy to read what you've written no matter where it is.
I knew you were joking!….I am old and confused!….when I called 911 last week when we couldn’t get up I told the operator, “ We have fallen and we can’t get up ! “…..like the old commercials for life alert buttons…4 -
Got the rough shopping list done, and now I get to "shop" first in my kitchen, pantry, fridges and freezers. That way I know what I do need and what I don't. I don't have room to buy what I don't need, but I hate running out, so this works just fine and I only have to go out once a week. Autism means that dealing with people I don't know and the frustrations that go with grocery shopping are extra exhausting and so I try to just fold all my Going Out To Get into one morning, and then I come home and spend the afternoon in a dark room under a weighted blanket, and then I'm better.5
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These days I have to do an online grocery shops… just can’t bear to go anymore and rangle my way through the shopping trolleys and …people!3
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These days I have to do an online grocery shops… just can’t bear to go anymore and rangle my way through the shopping trolleys and …people!
Oh, I GET it. But I'm picky about my ingredients and want to pick out the meat myself.
At the same time as I do the list I'm starting a precooking list.
So having looked to see whether or not I have a packet of precooked and chopped bacon, and discovering that I do not, I add a pound of bacon to the list, and add "Bake bacon" and "chop and freeze bacon" to the precooking list.
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I wish I was organised like that …. Just pulled 2 tubs of I-do-not-what out of the Freezer for tonight’s tea! Labels must have fallen off! 😳4
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Organizing soothes me deeply. Probably because I'm autistic. Putting things into order makes me feel happy.
And by making a list I don't have to try to remember. I don't have to figure out what's important. I put it on the list. I can look at the list. Which is good, because I will not remember. Not reliably. That's the ADHD.
But now the precooking list is made, the final shopping list is made and put in store order, and while I won't print it out till tomorrow (often someone has One More Thing on Wednesday night/Thursday morning) I am at the point where I can call that done.
Am cleaning the kitchen and generally wiping behind and underneath where I usually don't on a daily basis but do once a week.4 -
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^^ I am doing your trick too @conniewilkins56 …. My tubs of whatever should be in Supper posts!
My day has been ok! No more to say!3 -
I swapped the ground Turkey I had out to boneless pork chops, asparagus, and sweet potatoes!….tomorrow is another day!5
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We're having pork chops in a couple weeks! I just saw it on the schedule and thought YUM.3
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But can you help me figure out what we're having in 10 minutes!?!??!?!?!
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Take-out? Delivery? Restaurant?3
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I do a weekly menu. Checking on weekend that I have or can defrost what I need. I don’t know that I can do 5 weeks in advance like Alexandra - she’s a force of nature!1
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Honestly, the five week is sort of same week repeated with variation.
I do a different "theme" each day of the week. One is always a leftover meal to deal with anything left, of course. But, for example, Monday is what I refer to as "slab"...aka, a piece of meat on a plate with sides, rather than in a stirfry or something like that. Well, what qualifies? Pork chop. Chicken cutlet. Steak. Fish fillet. Oh, look. That's four weeks of different Monday meals right there. You can make the theme anything you want. It just guides you so you can figure out "same but different" stuff.
Five weeks is because I don't want it to always be "First Monday is pork chops". Plus through experimentation, five weeks is about the time span for something to go from "Oh, this again?!" to "Oooh! I haven't had that for ages! Yum!"4 -
I'm still blaming Alexandra for the zucchini weenie!
Cooked, eaten... but clean up still to do! The more it is settling in... the more likely I am thinking I am to repeat it, or a variation! 3 -
Off to the store with Girlfriend today to do the weekly shop and prescription pick up. Then I get to settle into precooking. Here is the current precooking list:
Make garlic bread
Make bread rolls
Bake bacon
Chop bacon and freeze in packets for quichecake.
Make pulled beef/peppers quichecake.
Make bacon onion swiss quichecake.
Cut steak and freeze in packets.
Make shish tawook and freeze in marinade.
Make Chinese chicken packets
Make Chinese chicken sauce packets.
Make white rice and freeze in 2 oz packets
Make saffron rice and freeze in 2 oz packets.
Shish tawook is grilled chicken marinaded in a tomato-yogurt-spice blend. You're supposed to skewer them and make kabobs but I usually just toss them on a rack over a sheet pan and broil them. They're good that way too. I tend to cut the meat and freeze it in the marinade, and then I can just thaw it and cook it pretty quickly without a lot of fuss.
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Bloomin’ ‘eck- that is good organising! Off tomorrow as Good Friday & got an online shop coming tonight! I am going to do this and batch cook as much as I can tomorrow. Pledging allla @AlexanderFindsHerself1971 A menu will be written to mid next week!
Had one of the tubs from yesterday for lunch - was Leek & Potato Soup (can’t remember making it!) - was ok! The other is Sweet & Sour Pork - I’ve baggsied that! OH is sorting himself out …. And sulking I think 🙄😉5 -
The downside of searing peppers and onions for a Mexican quichecake is that the house always gets smoked up. I'd do it out on the grill if I had one.5
