WEEK THREE: Day Three

A big challenge today, I was invited by my year group to an afternoon tea they were putting on. I checked that it wouldn't be all cakes and decided to go along and resist!

BREAKFAST: green smoothie and hard boiled egg - the smoothie was challenging, I think the texture mostly, I will persevere as it did seem to fill me up

SNACK: carrot sticks and hummus

LUNCH: homemade salad (spinach, rocket, mangetout, cucumber, egg, seeds, sweetcorn, quorn sausage, tamari)

SNACK: (afternoon tea) 3 finger sandwiches and 2 vol au vent type things, all savoury

DINNER: salmon and broccoli soup and a roll with cheese, 2 quorn picnic eggs

Possibly about to have a crumpet snack.

Feeling very good, stomach flatter and was able to wear a skirt today that I haven't worn for ages!

WEEK THREE: Day Two

A busy day, I often eat better on full days as I'm not bored and snacking!

BREAKFAST: homemade granola with skimmed milk with cup of tea

SNACK: carrot sticks with hummus

LUNCH: school dinner, its always curry on tuesdays which I avoid for possible sugars and I don't want to small for the rest of the afternoon! Instead went for jacket potato with cheese and salad, no butter.

DINNER: broccoli and salmon soup with an italian roll and cheese, 2 quorn picnic eggs

Swam this evening, then food shopped and didn't eat til very late. However, I didn't really feel hungry until about 7:30 which I'm finding lately - not as hungry all the time.

Just made my first green smoothie from the iquitsugar website, a detox smoothie. The plan is to have it for breakfast tomorrow! I thought it would be terrible, what with the spinach and avocado in it but it just takes like kiwi fruit!

WEEK THREE: Day One

Cannot believe I've made it this far, I'm quite impressed with myself, I don't think I've ever actually gone this long without treats! Felt able to open up to Jimmy about some of my attitudes to food on the car journey back last night which I think was good for me.

BREAKFAST: homemade granola with skimmed milk

SNACK: slowly nibbled a leftover roll I had in my bag, didn't really need this but was feeling ill and seeking comfort, carrot sticks and hummus

LUNCH: school dinner - brie and spring onion quiche, two new potatoes, very small bit of salad

DINNER: salmon and vegetables - spinach, broccoli, sweetcorn, peppers

SNACK: rice cake with almond butter

Even went to the gym after school today and ran 3k, lots more energy still and clear mindset, also inspired by Jimmy's half marathon yesterday!

WEEK TWO - Day Six and Seven

Lots to catch up on - was away for part of the weekend, but I feel like I'm starting to just be thinking more about what I eat and how it affects me.

SATURDAY

BREAKFAST: pancakes made from rye flour with cheese and ham (tasted good but BIG mistake - had problems with rye before and thought I would try it again. Stomach pains began mid afternoon and finally abated about midday sunday!)

LUNCH: stirfry with sausages and veg (broccoli, peppers etc and tamari)

SNACK: cashew butter scrapings pot with oats added

DINNER: ate out, quite difficult to find something, had a spicy bean burger with chips. Only ate about two bites of the bun to avoid sugary breadyness.

SNACK: half a pretzel, handful of nuts


SUNDAY

BREAKFAST: homemade granola (oats, chia seeds, 4 seed mix, coconut, cocoa nibs, dairy free spread and coconut oil)

LUNCH: brown roll, cheese, cucumber, pepper, tuna pasta salad and sweet chilli bites

SNACK: bits of pretzel

DINNER: fish pie with vegetables

SNACK: nuts - too many! Also gave me stomach pains so really need to watch it with these.

WEEK TWO: Day Five

Not such a good day today, just too many carbs so still need to work on cutting these down as I think I ay be consuming more sugar through these than I think I am.

BREAKFAST: cheese pretzel then a crumpet with almond butter a little later on (regretted the cheese pretzel, too treaty for first thing!)

SNACK: carrot chopped up with hummus

LUNCH: white roll with cheese and quorn ham

SNACK: slowly nibbled at about half a small bag of roasted peanuts after stopping off at supermarket

DINNER: good intentions to make a nice stirfry but found prawns were off so had another roll with two sausages and cheese, crumpet with cashew butter after

Baked pretzels later and just had one - yum! No sugar in these!!

WEEK TWO: Day three and four

Another couple of long days!

WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST: weightwatchers bagel with almond butter

SNACK: pack of oatcakes, carrot chopped up with hummus

LUNCH: homemade salad (spinach, rocket, cucumber, avocado, egg, quorn chicken pieces)

DINNER: veggie burger with more salad

Also went to the gym before dinner, did 3k with 0.3k of walking, tough!

THURSDAY
BREAKFAST: weightwatchers bagel with almond butter

SNACK: pack of oatcakes, carrot with hummus

LUNCH: homemade salad - see above!!

SNACK: half a stale bagel with almond butter

DINNER: broccoli and salmon soup, ricecake with cashew butter (parents evening, boo!)

WEEK TWO: Day Two

BREAKFAST: weightwatchers bagel with almond butter (a change!)

SNACK: carrot chopped up with huumus...and the slow eating of another pack of biscuits

LUNCH: tuna and sweetcorn sandwich from school canteen, the main option was curry which I was concerned about sugar wise

DINNER: baked potato cooked with some olive oil and salt, tuna, sweetcorn, rocket, cheese and some dairy free spread

AFTER DINNER: used a leftover cashew butter pot, added an extra spoonful and filled with oats and milk, very good and shared with Jim.

Didn't have the almonds today and didn't have the tummy troubles. I think its uncooked nuts, I don't have problems with the butters and don't seem to have as many issues with roasted nuts. My book explains how to sprout them which makes them easier to digest, but you need to cook them for about 10 hours!!

Birthday cakes at school today which I managed to ignore, brought my carrots and hummus to the table and that helped to distract me!

Starting to feel like my tummy is getting a little flatter, and had a good swimming lesson today with lots of energy.