Friday, January 25, 2013

Day Six - Not enough calories?

It has been pointed out to me by a dear friend and fellow weight loss legend (Hi Mel *waves*) that I may not be having enough calories. I definitely don't want to be one starving my body - not a healthy way to lose weight, and not an example I want to be setting for anyone who might be following me. So, she is kindly working out yesterdays calorie intake for me because I have never counted before and wouldn't even know where to start! If I am not getting enough, I'll adjust accordingly.
*Updated* She worked it out for me (roughly). All good, phew.

No exercise today. Rest day.

Breakfast: I really wanted CADA this morning, but we were out of almonds. CADA, for those who don't know, is CoconutAlmondsDatesApple - a handful of each and one apple whizzed up in the thermomix or food processor. Very yummy... But, no almonds, so instead I had grain free granola again, with almond milk and strawberries.

Morning tea: A cup of tea with almond milk. One of the rolls I made yesterday cut in the half and toasted in the toaster, and then spread with some blueberry jam I made using this recipe. I used blueberries instead of strawberries and coconut sugar instead of rapadura. I do love jam on bread, so this was a lovely, healthy alternative.

I went out to my parents house, and then onto the supermarket and was pretty hungry by the time I got home, so I also had a choc mint ball.

Lunch: I ended up having about a quarter of the last roll from yesterday with honey on it - the leftovers of what my little man didn't eat for lunch.
I bought a can of tuna in springwater at the supermarket, so I thought I'd use that for my proper lunch. I ended up mixing up the can of tuna with onion, carrot and an egg and shaped them into patties, then fried them up with a little avocado oil. I put two of the patties on a piece of rice mountain bread with some lettuce and tomato. I have three tuna patties leftover too - so that will come in handy for snacks or lunch.


Afternoon tea: A piece of raw chocolate, this time a coconut one. Most of an orange that I shared with the little miss (about 2/3) and a square of casheroo.

Tea: Chicken bacon alfredo over zoodles. Yum, it was so good! It's very handy having Mel doing her paleo challenge cause she puts up lots of yummy recipes I can try!


Dessert/Late night snack: Banana cream pie. I was really impressed with this - so yummy, yet it's grain free, dairy free and sugar free! It made heaps too, so we'll be having this for snacks and dessert for a while I think!
Once the kids were both in bed I had a cup of tea with almond milk and a couple of pieces of the raw chocolate (trying to finish it off to make space in my freezer).

I have a few challenging days coming up. We have lots of visitors and outings this long weekend, so there will be lots of temptation. I'm determined to stick to being sugar free. Dairy free will be trickier, especially seeing as I'm not 100% convinced I want to stay dairy free (I miss cheese *sigh*). I'll do my very best though - try and not just eat things that are offered to be polite, etc.

I'll be starting off the long weekend well though - with a 5km fun run tomorrow morning!

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