The eats: day 25

6 October 2011 @ 9:14 pm

So I went a shitload over my kilojoule limit today, but was well under on my carbs.

Carbs really aren’t the problem with me – unless someone makes me eat bad food (yes, I blame others), I usually only eat around 50 per cent of my 100g limit of carbs each day.

I just need to work on keeping the kilojoules down a little bit. However, since I restarted this low-carb diet, not including days I ate the food of the devil, I’ve only gone over my kilojoule allowance four times in 25 days. That’s not too bad. Right…?

I also rode my bike for 45 minutes tonight. I rode 21 km (13 miles) and burnt 3047 kj (727 cals).

The details

Breakfast

Celebrity Slim cookies ‘n’ cream shake

Morning tea

2x almond innocence cookies

Lunch

Atkins choc hazelnut crunch bar

Afternoon tea

Atkins milk chocolate bar

Dinner

Cheese-filled meatballs with fried cauliflower

The totals

Kilojoules (calories)

7247 (1730)
+947 (+226)

Carbs

43g
-57g

Protein

118.5g

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Cheese-filled meatballs with fried cauliflower

6 October 2011 @ 9:01 pm

So. I made these tonight, and I think I’m in love. This meal had way too many kilojoules, but I think that has a little something to do with portion control.

Next time, I’ll probably only have two meatballs and make a side salad to go with it. There was a whole lot of fried brown on my plate!

Cheese-filled meatballs with fried cauliflower

Cheese-filled meatballs with fried cauliflower

The cheese-filled meatballs – makes 4

  • 250g beef mince
  • 12g almond meal
  • Italian herbs to taste
  • 20g cheese, cut into 4 pieces (I used Mainland Colby)
  • 2 tsp oil for frying

Mix the mince, herbs and almond meal together and divide into four. Make a ball, push a piece of cheese into the middle and re-shape.

Heat the oil in a pan, add the meatballs and cook until done.

(I’m going to try oven baking these to see how that turns out)

Carbs: 2.7g | Protein: 60.97g | Kj (cal): 2538 (606)

The fried cauliflower

  • 200g cauliflower, cut into small florets
  • 1 tsp water
  • 1 egg
  • Paprika
  • Italian herbs
  • Oil for frying

Put the florets into a microwave safe container with the water, cover with cling wrap and microwave for five minutes.

Crack the egg into another bowl, add the paprika and Italian herbs and mix together.

Heat oil in a small saucepan. How much oil is really up to you – I just used what was left in my bottle of oil, which was about 90mL.

Toss the cauliflower in the egg mixture, then transfer to the oil. I had my oil super hot, so it was in and out in about 15 seconds with a couple of turns.

Frying cauliflower

Frying cauliflower

Drain on some paper towel, serve and enjoy.

(Garlic aoli mayo goes really well with this, as does tahini)

Carbs: 4.2g | Protein: 11.4g | Kj (cal): 1239 (295)

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Chicken and salad wraps

5 October 2011 @ 9:30 pm

I made these for dinner tonight. Please note the below makes two wraps, and I ate both, even though I probably didn’t need to. You could divide everything by half if you wanted to, including the nutritional values.

Chicken and salad wrap

Chicken and salad wrap (I'll take a better picture next time I make these)

Spread the centre of each wrap with garlic aoli, then mush the avocado on top. Add your diced tomatoes and chopped lettuce. Sprinkle 15g cheese over each wrap.

The chicken I used was left over from a roast chicken I had bought, divided up and frozen in 85g bags. I put it in the microwave for 1 minute, then added the remaining cheese and microwaved for a further 30 seconds. I then divided this among the two wraps.

Add some HP sauce for a bit of extra kick.

Roll up and enjoy!

Carbs: 12.1g | Protein: 63.5g | Kj (cal): 2878 (687)

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The eats: day 24

5 October 2011 @ 9:13 pm

Work is killing me!

I was so tempted to stop and get McDonald’s on my way home after a 13 hour day in the office…. but I didn’t!

The details

Breakfast

Celebrity Slim choc mint shake (I tried their ‘lower carb’ variety this morning. It was disgusting – I had to tip it out and make a regular one)

Morning tea

Nada

Lunch

Atkins choc hazelnut crunch bar

Afternoon tea

Ham & cheese

Afternoon tea number 2 (At 7.30 pm!)

Atkins milk chocolate bar

Dinner

2x chicken and salad wraps

The totals

Kilojoules (calories)

5989 (1430)
-311 (-74)

Carbs

45g
-55g

Protein

118.5g

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Weekend wrap-up

3 October 2011 @ 5:58 pm

So I’m just home from a long weekend up in Sydney with my family.

The eating wasn’t great, but I stuck to low carb as much as possible…. except for Friday night, when I had a hamburger and chips with my parents :(

On Saturday morning, I had eggs, bacon and mushrooms. I didn’t eat much for lunch – a packet of pork crackle and I picked at some ham, feta cheese, olives and strawberries. For dinner we went to a Lebanese restaurant and I had lamb kofte and cauliflower with tahini – it was super nice, but it sure wasn’t coriander potatoes or falafels with hummus.

On Sunday I didn’t eat much (again). For lunch I had two hamburger patties with avocado, tomato, cheese and beetroot on them. For dinner I had about half a chicken breast. I randomly picked on some cashews and low-carb chocolate during the day, too.

Then, today, I didn’t eat breakfast and I didn’t eat lunch. I ate a strawberry and an atkins milk chocolate mint crisp bar in the car on the way home, as well as a few pumpkin seeds. I got on the exercise bike when I got home and rode for 84 minutes (about 36km [22.4 miles]) and burnt 4324 kj (1302 cals), then ate an atkins chocolate hazelnut crunch bar for dinner. I probably shouldn’t have ridden the bike for so long on so little intake… I’m feeling a bit weird now!

Back to my regular routine tomorrow. I also need to do up some kind of exercise routine this week, and hopefully stick to it.

 

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Breakfast!

1 October 2011 @ 10:46 am

I just had breakfast with my parents. We went to the Central Cafe, which is renowned for it’s huge meals that you’ve got NO chance of finishing.

Bacon, eggs and mushrooms for breakfast

Bacon, eggs and mushrooms for breakfast

I ordered scrambled eggs, bacon (well cooked), a side of mushrooms, hold the tomato, chips and toast. There was not a carb in sight!

Which is more than I can say for dinner last night. When mum and dad got to my place, they decided they wanted hamburgers and chips from the local takeaway. So I had the same. I didn’t eat many chips, and I only ate half my bun, but that was bad enough. :(

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Weigh in: end of week 3

30 September 2011 @ 5:34 pm

As mentioned in previous posts, I’ve changed my weigh in day to Friday. I did this because working hard all week to see little result on the scales on the Monday because I had visitors (three weeekends in a row) was starting to kill my motivation.

I’m happy to report that my eating was exactly on plan between Monday and Friday this week. I rode my exercise bike for 35 minutes on Monday, 45 minutes on Tuesday and 1 hour and 2 minutes on Wednesday,  burning 9515 kj (2272 cal) in total.

The numbers

SW: 135.3kg (298.3lb)
PW: 131.5kg (289.9lb)
CW: 129.7kg (285.9lb)

LTW: 1.8kg (3.9lb)
LTD: 5.6kg  (12.3lb)

CG: 10kg (22lb)
LTG: 4.4kg  (9.7lb)

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The eats: day 18

29 September 2011 @ 9:55 pm

No exercise today – worked late and had housework to do! Hopefully I’ll be able to get some time on the bike tomorrow night before my visitors show up.

I’m going to do my Friday weigh-in tomorrow too. I had a sneaky look this morning and I was pretty happy :)

The details

Breakfast

Celebrity Slim cookies ‘n’ cream shake

Morning tea

Atkins peanut cluster bar (I’d planned on having an apple, but forgot to take one to work with me – lucky I had this stashed in my drawer)

Lunch

Atkins choc hazelnut crunch bar

Afternoon tea

Ham & cheese

Dinner

Chicken, bacon and mushroom Empowering pizza (take two)

After dinner snack

Nada

The totals

Kilojoules (calories)

5795 (1384)
-505 (-120)

Carbs

39.9g
-60.1g

Protein

128.8g

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The eats: day 17

28 September 2011 @ 10:47 pm

Today was good, diet-wise. I ate all my meals – I even had a meal replacement AT WORK today so I could have Empowering pizza for dinner tonight.

Also, I am so proud, I rode my exercise bike for an hour and two minutes tonight! I rode 27km (16.7 miles) and burnt 4057 kj (968 cal). I kept my speed above 25 kph, so while I wasn’t speed-racing, I feel I did pretty well. That makes three days in a row! Yay!

And one more thing – I think I’m going to change my weigh in day to a Friday. I get very disheartened to do so well during the week (and peek on the scale to see a big loss), only to have visitors for the weekend that mess it all up! At least if I weigh in on Friday mornings I can get rid of the weekend overdose by then. Let’s see if it helps.

The details

Breakfast

Atkins cappuccino nut breakfast bar

Morning tea

Nobby’s BBQ pork crackle (muuuuch prefer the original flavour…)

Lunch

Atkins choc hazelnut crunch bar

Afternoon tea

A babybel cheese and an almond innocence cookie

Dinner

Empowering chicken, bacon and mushroom pizza

After dinner snack

Nada

The totals

Kilojoules (calories)

6271 (1497)
-29 (-6) 

Carbs

19.5g
-80.5g

Protein

131.2g

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Empowering pizza

28 September 2011 @ 10:33 pm

As part of my order from Empower foods, I got some low carb wraps. I used one tonight to make pizza!

Empowering chicken, bacon and mushroom pizza

Empowering chicken, bacon and mushroom pizza

I used:

  • 1x Empower wrap
  • 35g diced, lean shortcut bacon with all fat cut off (could do with more)
  • 50g sliced mushrooms
  • 1 tsp butter
  • 110g chopped chicken breast (from a roast chicken – could do with less)
  • 20 mL tomato sauce (I’m pretty sure I used less than this, but for nutritional value sake, I’m using the serving size)
  • 100g grated cheese (could do with less)

I chopped up the bacon and mushrooms and cooked them in a frypan with the butter. I then put the wrap on a pizza tray I’d lightly sprayed with oil, and spread it with the tomato sauce (all the way to the edges – Empower wraps can get a bit cardboard-y when heated). I then put a layer of cheese, then the mushrooms and bacon, then the chicken, then the rest of the cheese.

Stuck the pizza in the oven (on about 180 C) for around 15 minutes.

It was delish! Like I said above, I will use more bacon, less chicken and less cheese next time.

The carbs below mostly come from the tomato sauce (5.8g) — I used it because it was the only sauce I had. I’d use something else next time — any ideas??

Carbs: 10.6g | Protein: 77.6g | Kj (cal): 3240 (773)

EDIT

I made this again tonight with the following alterations:

  • 75g diced, lean shortcut bacon with all fat cut off
  • 80g chopped chicken breast
  • 75g grated cheese
  • 18g Leggo’s pizza sauce with garlic, onion and herbs

This was much better, and it brought the carbs and kjs down nicely.

Carbs: 6.2g | Protein: 68g | Kj (cal): 2664 (636)

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