Wednesday, low-carb day one-hundred and seventy-eight, repair day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 111.2lbs (analogue scales corrected ~108.0lbs); 0.4lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.7, w. 25.6, t. 30.5, h. 34.5 inches
Boing. Understandable I suppose. There are still reasons to be cheerful: the trend is down.
That's yesterday's recipe stuff and logs done - now back to that corner. Don't seem to have quite the same energy for it today - can't really see my creamy feed day coffee making that much difference energy-wise, given that I'm (hopefully) fat-burning anyway - nah, it's probably the fact that it's a dark dreich day out there (lights all on and it's only half two), and the OH is faffing about creating further muddles (whilst defrosting the defunct fridge which I'm hoping he'll, eventually, concede as dump-fodder) ...
Whoomph... it's 7.45pm and that's my first five-minute sit down since starting about five hours ago. Dinner's on the go, simple as possible - roast mixed veggies with cheese and a lincolnshire veggie sausage - but I'm still trying to get "the corner" complete. Think that it's done now, but so am I.
I was rather hoping to do ricotta cheese and sun-dried tomatoes on the veggies, but BN voted for the simpler grated cheese. I could now eat a heffalump - probably the excessive bouncing about that I'm doing which would usually be associated with eating lots (escpecially as ciggies are no longer a reward option). I'm trying to think which tea will do the best to stave off the munchies (psycho, not *real* hungry). I'm so wanting to be good today and keep the calories as near to 500 as I can. I really wonder whether I'd be better off with a zero calorie / liquid repair day - eating definitely throws my I-want-more-food switch - might give it a try in the new year.
Maybe an anti-munchie activity would be to just sit back and gaze at and browse my beautiful cook books - it is *so wonderful* to be able to *get at* them now (there might even be a couple that I had forgotten I had!). And I've counted: I've 78 cook books and a baker's dozen exercise / "diet" books - nothing like as bad as my OH had led me to believe! Ooops, and I've five more on their way, plus the two CBB books awaiting publication. Still sub one hundred. Now, a *real* cookbookaholic would have *hundreds and hundreds*, wouldn't they?
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So, I'm finishing my peruse of
Tamasin Day-Lewis's "Good Tempered Food" (yes, it's a meaty one but it was one I rescued from the pulp pile as it had been vandalised with a black marker pen, remember?) and, apart from the fact that she lives in the world of (and has the budget of) the 1% and is nauseatingly OTT ("the Clarence Court Cotswold Legbar eggs make a very light cake"), some of the recipes are rather tasty looking. Her akri bhindi has tempted me to give okra a go, and her gnocchi di zucca to give gnocchi a second chance, and who could resist sesame and roquefort biscuits?
Now, to work: the BN came by bearing two beautiful savoy cabbages, some salad, and a tub of marscapone - so I'm needing cabbage recipes, preferably ones that involve marscapone(!), or ricotta (from our freegan friend the other day). What a pleasure - I can just sit upon my puff and take the books down from the shelves and peruse them - nae lifting and shifting mighty piles or fear of collapsing stacks - bliss!
Oh, so many lovely cabbage recipes! Curries, wraps, stuffs, stir-fries - I'm rather spoilt with choice. HFW has a lovely stuffed cabbage leaf recipe that might go on the menu for Sunday (it's one to share with others, methinks), but the next two days will probably see an adulteration of a Gayler stir-fry and a "layer cake", the latter partially inspired by my layered pancakes (done a while back, which were part-inspired by Tamasin oddly enough) but given impetus by CBB's "cabbage gateau" (
"Vegetarian Foodscape").
........ Calories 505.88 Carbs 16.74 Fat 35.44 Protein 27.64 Fibre 9.85
Not quite a "goody-two-shoes" day, but nearly
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Thursday, low-carb day one-hundred and seventy-nine, feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 110.6lbs (analogue scales corrected ~107.25lbs); 0.6lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.7, w. 25.6, t. 30.5, h. 34.5 inches
Please, please, please? Oh great weight-loss fairies, please give the FatDog strength of will to be good today too...
Seems that I inadvertently reduced my waist measurement on the tracker yesterday - my waist *is* probably down, but I'm not so convinced yet that I wish to register it - corrected now.
Joy and disappointment with the post today. Joy with the arrival of the beautiful
"Cafe Paradiso Cookbook" by Denis Cotter - a quick look and I'm further smitten with Cotter. And then disappointment, as
"the Classic 1000 Vegetarian Recipes" isn't the "very good" hardback that I ordered (albeit for a ridiculous £1.98) but a rather scabby "good" paperback edition - not sure whether to send it back or not, will see how the seller responds.
Gah - thought I'd get Jerusalem Artichokes from Mr. T's on the way home from work and, for the first time in ages, he didn't have any - too puggled to go back to Mr. A's (have I mentioned that Mr. A is the Asian spitting image of Ronnie Barker in 'Open All Hours'? even down to the mobile eyebrows - he's a really lovely warm guy with a very dry sense of humour - it's one shop that I genuinely look forward to going into). So home, knackered, minus one of the critical ingredients for my stir-fry tonight. Ung. Concede defeat - another tinned dal (dal makhani, Heera), nice salad, inherited yoghurt and poppadums (OH kindly forayed to the co-op for the latter). Then, some hours later... compote and cream and almonds and whisky (a la cranachan)... mmmmmmmm... I *like* this pudding lark (shame about the figure). Fingers crossed, the accounts will be kind (I'm rather winging-it these days, i.e. eating then doing the numbers - gradually "teaching myself how to eat sensibly without the aid of a spread-sheet" sort-of thing, not doing *that* well so far:)).
Grummph, did rather badly with the carbs there - simple sums are not my forte, obviously: I've rather been counting up the "big stuff" (dal, poppadums, compote) and forgetting that lots of little stuff (nuts, chocolate, merlot) mounts up too...
...... Calories 1505.55 Carbs 70.78 Fat 84.07 Protein 44.31 Fibre 16.25
And I must say
thanks to all for the carrot reminders and ideas - my newly accessible cookbooks have revolutionised my cabbage recipe seeking, so I think carrots should be a doddle now. Next to "do" my data into that dratted database (wish I knew what was holding me up) to get the equivalent revolution-in-access to my old(er) recipes - some of them were quite good, if I recollect (including carrots and cabbage).
Humongous thanks to you all for hanging in here with me xxx FatDogGawd knows how I'm going to get to sleep tonight as I'm as hi-do as could be - nope, nae pills, just excitement at a) what the scales will show tomorrow, b) which, if any, cookbook will arrive and c) attacking the chaos of the kitchen to transform it into a workable space. That, and I'm listening to psychotropic-at (seriously funky, smooth, chilled, laid-back jazzy stuff: tracks such as "astronaut", "earth" and "pyramit") which I love but can no longer find on-line - you try googling psychotropic, but not at work(!) - if anyone knows where they lurk, pray tell
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