Monday, low-carb day one-hundred and eighty-three, repair day
Weigh-in at start of day wt. 110.2lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.8lbs); 1.2lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.7, w. 25.6, t. 30.5, h. 34.5 inches
Report at the end-of-week 26 of low-carb : total low-carb weight loss 27.6lbs, and last week 1.4lbs weight loss. Definite signs of shrinkage but still not recorded...
Gosh. The V&P vary-fairy must have *really* been teasing me yesterday then (definitely not the eeeevil scales-fairy as the analogues were up too), or perhaps it was all the bouncing about and 'transit' shifting. More significantly, that's a post-feed day measurement. Those good at sums will have worked out that I am now just 0.2lbs off my target weight. Okay, I admit it I AM EXCITED!!! FatDog does a wee doggy fling around the living room - wheeeee!
And, oh wowzer, that takes me below the 50kg mark for the first time in decades (49.9859kg, to be exact). What a wonderful thing to happen on my one hundredth repair day...
It'll be a busy day: working out what to do for Christmas dinner (I might actually try for some audience participation here and do a poll on a few options); working on the OH to finish his bit of the kitchen *and* the massive pile next to his study (which is stopping us from putting the stairs up and thus taking a goodly swedge out of the living space); organising the "under the stairs cupboard" crate into smaller boxes, if OH can be persuaded to go and acquire some for me; contemplating what to do with the two cauliflowers that the OH bargain bagsied last night; working up and cooking the HFW stuffed cabbage recipe (will have it two days running if need be); catching up on my log; looking at Arthur Dawson's "Eat Your Veg" which has just arrived...
Hmmm, "Eat Your Veg" is beautifully presented, very well structured, clearly written. I'm not sure why I felt *quite* so compelled to get it (there's meat in there, for a start) but the "buttered yam fufu" and beetroot soup recipes (preview) both seduced me, and the "skills" sections looked exceedingly useful (e.g. I do a lot of gratins and roasts - good to get the "proper form"). I was probably nailed by this Amazon review: "Think of Arthur as an English Yotam Ottolenghi with (thankfully) far fewer and more accessible ingredients but with similar taste explosions". Anyway, it's here now and it will be used, there are at least a dozen might-give-that-a-go recipes (aparently if you have more than two or three recipes in regular use from a cookbook it can be deemed a success) - it just doesn't quite have the I-want-to-cook-that-now factor that, for example, Cotter's books have... Jolly dee, practical but not distracting, that's exactly what I need right now.
Hmm. Don't think I've had that before: nausea and gut ache along with hunger, couldn't work it out at first but maybe a new form of hunger pain perhaps? Anyway, 'twas *instantly* fixed by a moderate dose of cheese and nuts - so effective that I had to follow up with two chocolate squares to celebrate (for gawd's sake woman, it's a repair day!).
Not doing so well on the Christmas dinner front. Have gorn through my cookbooks and, remarkably, there's very little in the way of Christmas recipes in them (yummy recipes, yes, specifically Christmas, no). So my list thus far, in no particular order, isn't as extensive as I expected it to be:
* Terre a Terre's "Steaming Kraut: mushroom ragout steamed puddings with broccoli and hazelnut confetti, spiced cranberries and two cabbages - one mulled, the other practically pickled" - not a trivial undertaking...
* Crank's Bible's "Christmas mushroom pie" - mushrooms, spinach, tarragon (that's me hooked), cream, ground almonds...
* @Breadandwine's "haggis en croute" idea - though I might cheat and use MacSween's veggie haggis inside, as I couldn't do better than theirs...
* FatDog's "nut balls" as per last year
* Leiths Vegetarian Bible's "Carbonade of chestnuts" (I really rather like the look of this)
* CBB's "Chestnut, spinach and mushroom filo torte with tomato and ginger coulis" (New Vegetarian)
* Cotter's "Lucy's sausages" - chestnuts, tofu, herbs and cheese - at the VBF's request (for the love of food)
The Steaming Kraut recipe is *really* tempting me, but will require some dedicated cooking both tomorrow and on the day, and might well be beyond my exceedingly limited capabilities. Still want to do it though. The carbonade sounds delicious. The cheat's version of haggis en croute would be a brilliant cop-out. Ooooh, tarragon - can't resist tarragon. And anything chestnutty gets the FatDog's fleas ticking...
So, good folk, I need your help, which would you suggest that I do?
No HFW cabbage again - OH didn't get the celery, and was back rather too late for me to start cooking at 19:30hrs anyway. Down in the dumps so didn't have the oomph to cook: salad, gram flour pancakes and cheese had to do for me. Took pity on the OH who seemed a little lost and cooked him fried eggs, beans and cheesy toast - lucky thing.
Think I'm going to post extra early, partly to put a hold on any further calorific temptations, but also to catch some UKian readers to hopefully help me with my quandry before they off to bed!
........ Calories 584.75 Carbs 22.25 Fat 41.41 Protein 37.00 Fibre 16.28
Weigh-in at start of day wt. 110.2lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.8lbs); 1.2lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.7, w. 25.6, t. 30.5, h. 34.5 inches
Report at the end-of-week 26 of low-carb : total low-carb weight loss 27.6lbs, and last week 1.4lbs weight loss. Definite signs of shrinkage but still not recorded...
Gosh. The V&P vary-fairy must have *really* been teasing me yesterday then (definitely not the eeeevil scales-fairy as the analogues were up too), or perhaps it was all the bouncing about and 'transit' shifting. More significantly, that's a post-feed day measurement. Those good at sums will have worked out that I am now just 0.2lbs off my target weight. Okay, I admit it I AM EXCITED!!! FatDog does a wee doggy fling around the living room - wheeeee!
And, oh wowzer, that takes me below the 50kg mark for the first time in decades (49.9859kg, to be exact). What a wonderful thing to happen on my one hundredth repair day...
It'll be a busy day: working out what to do for Christmas dinner (I might actually try for some audience participation here and do a poll on a few options); working on the OH to finish his bit of the kitchen *and* the massive pile next to his study (which is stopping us from putting the stairs up and thus taking a goodly swedge out of the living space); organising the "under the stairs cupboard" crate into smaller boxes, if OH can be persuaded to go and acquire some for me; contemplating what to do with the two cauliflowers that the OH bargain bagsied last night; working up and cooking the HFW stuffed cabbage recipe (will have it two days running if need be); catching up on my log; looking at Arthur Dawson's "Eat Your Veg" which has just arrived...
Hmmm, "Eat Your Veg" is beautifully presented, very well structured, clearly written. I'm not sure why I felt *quite* so compelled to get it (there's meat in there, for a start) but the "buttered yam fufu" and beetroot soup recipes (preview) both seduced me, and the "skills" sections looked exceedingly useful (e.g. I do a lot of gratins and roasts - good to get the "proper form"). I was probably nailed by this Amazon review: "Think of Arthur as an English Yotam Ottolenghi with (thankfully) far fewer and more accessible ingredients but with similar taste explosions". Anyway, it's here now and it will be used, there are at least a dozen might-give-that-a-go recipes (aparently if you have more than two or three recipes in regular use from a cookbook it can be deemed a success) - it just doesn't quite have the I-want-to-cook-that-now factor that, for example, Cotter's books have... Jolly dee, practical but not distracting, that's exactly what I need right now.
Hmm. Don't think I've had that before: nausea and gut ache along with hunger, couldn't work it out at first but maybe a new form of hunger pain perhaps? Anyway, 'twas *instantly* fixed by a moderate dose of cheese and nuts - so effective that I had to follow up with two chocolate squares to celebrate (for gawd's sake woman, it's a repair day!).
Not doing so well on the Christmas dinner front. Have gorn through my cookbooks and, remarkably, there's very little in the way of Christmas recipes in them (yummy recipes, yes, specifically Christmas, no). So my list thus far, in no particular order, isn't as extensive as I expected it to be:
* Terre a Terre's "Steaming Kraut: mushroom ragout steamed puddings with broccoli and hazelnut confetti, spiced cranberries and two cabbages - one mulled, the other practically pickled" - not a trivial undertaking...
* Crank's Bible's "Christmas mushroom pie" - mushrooms, spinach, tarragon (that's me hooked), cream, ground almonds...
* @Breadandwine's "haggis en croute" idea - though I might cheat and use MacSween's veggie haggis inside, as I couldn't do better than theirs...
* FatDog's "nut balls" as per last year
* Leiths Vegetarian Bible's "Carbonade of chestnuts" (I really rather like the look of this)
* CBB's "Chestnut, spinach and mushroom filo torte with tomato and ginger coulis" (New Vegetarian)
* Cotter's "Lucy's sausages" - chestnuts, tofu, herbs and cheese - at the VBF's request (for the love of food)
The Steaming Kraut recipe is *really* tempting me, but will require some dedicated cooking both tomorrow and on the day, and might well be beyond my exceedingly limited capabilities. Still want to do it though. The carbonade sounds delicious. The cheat's version of haggis en croute would be a brilliant cop-out. Ooooh, tarragon - can't resist tarragon. And anything chestnutty gets the FatDog's fleas ticking...
So, good folk, I need your help, which would you suggest that I do?
No HFW cabbage again - OH didn't get the celery, and was back rather too late for me to start cooking at 19:30hrs anyway. Down in the dumps so didn't have the oomph to cook: salad, gram flour pancakes and cheese had to do for me. Took pity on the OH who seemed a little lost and cooked him fried eggs, beans and cheesy toast - lucky thing.
Think I'm going to post extra early, partly to put a hold on any further calorific temptations, but also to catch some UKian readers to hopefully help me with my quandry before they off to bed!
........ Calories 584.75 Carbs 22.25 Fat 41.41 Protein 37.00 Fibre 16.28
how long will she be staying? 
