Food Log (10 September 2011)

The joys of sleeping in on a weekend. I had my alarm set for 08:00, but we didn't wake up until almost 10:00. Didn't have time to do yoga or walk since we had to get ready to leave to the town market/fair thing. Don't really know what to call it in English, but it's called a Marknad here.

Marknads are evil things I tell you. All sorts of handmade yummy things everywhere. Also only time you can get them is when Marknad comes to town. We went there to get my OH's favorite nougats, to me they're just flavoured sugarcubes since they're so sweet We picked up a kilo of his nougats, picked up some wild boar sausage, elk(moose) sausage, reindeer sausage and beer sausage. Also before we left my guy had to get a thing of Swiss almonds. Basically candied almonds, freshly roasted, and it's so good. I ate a good handful of them. Thank goodness it only comes to town once a year, or else imagine how big everyone in town's waistline would get.

I turned down pizza tonight. Yippie! I thought my guy was going to make dinner, and my guy thought I was going to make dinner. So I knew he was talking about me making homemade mac and cheese since I bought some shredded chedder cheese, ala Amercian style. The other day at the store we found cappelli pasta made from 55% whole grain spelt flour and 45% durum, it was one of those high fiber pastas. I made a baked mac and cheese(cappelli and cheese), and it was a success. It's really nice finding new ways to make our normal favorites into low GI favorites

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, blackberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, milk and agave syrup.

Snack: At Marknad: Good handful of candied almonds, a slice of each of the sausages.

Lunch: GI burger: All beef patty, with spinach and pickles, with condiments, and quinoa, barley, oats and basmati rice mix.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and peeled apple. A deciliter of soy milk.

Dinner: 3/4 spanish style beef chorizo sausage, spinach with lots of lemon juice, and baked mac and cheese.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate. 3 candied almonds.

Food Log (9 September 2011)

Finally I had a better yoga day. My legs still have some sore spots and bruises, but at least I was able to hold the hard poses for 15 breaths

I've been hungry all day, and craving bad foods. I had some naughty foods throughout the day. But didn't pig out on them like I normally would around this time. I finished up the salt and vinegar crisps finally. I had a few Dorito style chips, 1.5 spoonful of ice cream, I put it on a plate, to saviour each little bite I took from it to make it last. It took the craving away without me eating a bowlful of ice cream like I normally do when not dieting. I know it's bad, but I do give myself a pat on the back for at least controlling how much I allow myself to eat the bad stuff.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, raspberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, soy milk and agave syrup.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Last night's leftover: Spelt battered Alaskan pollack, spinach and tomato salad, plenty of lemon, and quinoa/oat/barley/basmati rice mix.

Snack: Some salt and vinegar crisps.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple.

Snack: 1.5 spoonful of lingon berries and digestives vanila ice cream. Some Doritos type chips.

Dinner: Last night's leftover: Spelt battered Alaskan pollack, spinach and tomato salad, plenty of lemon, and quinoa/oat/barley/basmati rice mix. 1 piece 86% dark chocolate (it's ok, but I like 70% better).

Exercise: 28 minutes fast long walk, pushups, crunches, and 50 minutes yoga.

Food Log (8 September 2011)

Goodness, I can't believe it's the end of Thursday already. Sort of scarey how time is just flying by, next thing I know it'll be Christmas. Hopefully by then I'll have lost a lot more weight.

I'm getting better at my walks, I can walk fast now even without the black rain clouds as a threat over my head. It doesn't feel like I'm walking fast anymore, which is a nice thing. I check the stopwatch two times during the walk to time myself.

Food wise I'm having a naughty streak, I'm having cravings of chocolates and sweets. But I've been trying to keep it in check. Though I do have to say darn those salt and vinegar crisps, oh well, I blame myself because they taste so good I'm really hungry today too, but I'm trying to keep it in check, all my meals today I felt like I could have ate a lot more, but didn't. I thought to myself don't let mother nature make you gain 3 lbs.

I decided to experiment with dinner tonight. I wanted battered fish, but I didn't want to use wheat flour, so I used wholegrain spelt flour instead. It turned out really yummy, and my OH enjoyed it alot. I also tried experimenting with my carbs by making 1/4 quinoa, 1/4 oats, 1/4 barley, and 1/4 basmati rice. It turned out really nice, it was very similar to rice, but low GI

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, raspberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, soy milk and agave syrup.

Snack: 1 piece dark chocolate.

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with avjar and several slices of wood smoked ham. Had several handfuls of salt and vinegar crisps.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple. 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Pan fried Alaskan Pollack, barely/basmati rice/oats/quinoa mix, and spinach and tomatoes salad with lemon. 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 27 minutes fast long walk, pushups, crunches, 32 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (7 September 2011)

I had an appointment at the hair salon today. Since I was in the town center my guy asked me to pick up some Swedish cinnamon rolls from the bakery for my guy and his coworkers for fika (tea time), and I picked out a carrot cake for myself. It was much much smaller than the cinnamon roll, and I thought maybe better for me. I had a half cup of tea with my cake, the cake was really tiny, it was ok but it wasn't the best, and not much carrots in it either. I ended up taking off half the cream cheese frosting as it was too sweet.

I also find those salt and vinegar crisps evil and yummy. I had a few handful of them again today. My inlaws stopped by for about an hour late this afternoon, so they had fika with swedish cinnamon rolls, but this time I made myself a knäckebröd with peanut butter and jam. So I guess that's one point out of minus 2 points for me today. A good positive is I got my mother inlaw curious about the stuff I eat. She also decided to try my snack, since I was talking about how yummy the knäckebröd with the peanut butter and jam are, and she was curious of peanut butter. Peanut butter isn't big here, I guess it's still a very American thing. I was telling them how you can eat it with so many things

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, strawberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, soy milk and agave syrup.

Snack: A handful of salt and vinegar crisps.

Lunch: Chicken and broccoli leftover, with red lentil and quinoa mix.

Snack: half cup of tea with possibly the world's smallest piece of carrot cake and the thing was expensive too. I could have easily ate it in one bite. I'll pass on it next time, as it wasn't worth the sin points.

Snack: Knäckebröd with peanut butter and jam.

Dinner: Last night's leftover grilled steak, corn on the cob, red lentils and quinoa mix, and a nice serving of spinach, tomato, cucumber and feta cheese salad. 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: It's rained all day today so I wasn't able to go for a walk. Pushups, crunches, and 60 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (6 September 2011)

I'm still a little sore and still very much bruised, but I was able to do my whole walk and yoga. Which made me feel so much better and refreshed. Some of the poses in yoga was still a bit painful today. Yoga is something I've fallen in love with, and am absolutely addicted to now. I feel so much better and alive after doing yoga.

Today while out grocery shopping, my OH spotted something that he knows I absolutely love to eat. It was a new limited edition flavor called London Calling Salt and Vinegar Chips(Crisps). The other one they have here is too sweet and not vinegary enough. So we decided to try it. This one was good, not great, but much better than that sweet one they have here. I ended up having a couple handfuls, I could have easily had more. Though I thought to myself crisps are a no no. Darn you UK for creating Salt and vinegar crisps!

Today I was having a huge craving for steak, so tonight we grilled some steak meat. Instead of eating half the steak, I ate the whole thing >_< So I ended up really stuffed. At least I didn't cave into my cravings for a chocolate milkshake today:( :)

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, raspberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, soy milk and agave syrup.

Snack: 1 piece dark chocolate.

Lunch: Last night's leftover: Chicken and broccoli stir fry with red lentil and quinoa mix.

Snack: 1 piece of chocolate (before grocery shopping), cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple (after grocery shopping).

Dinner: Grilled short loin steak, corn on the cob, red lentil and quinoa mix, and a big salad.

Exercise: 28 minutes fast long walk, pushups, crunches, and 60 minutes of yoga.

Tenth Weekly Weight Update!

This past week was an interesting week.  I was counting calories on MFP (MyFitnessPal), and according to the site you're supposed to eat back the calories you burn.  Sounds really easy, but I wasn't sure if it was accurately counting my calories burned, or if I was putting in all the calories in correctly.  A lot of times I wasn't able to eat all the calories back.  Eating low GL foods keep you full longer with less calories.  I felt it was too confusing and a huge hassle with the whole counting calories thing.  I have to admit it was very interesting to weigh everything and see how much calories it had.

I stopped counting calories over the weekend, since I actually gained weight trying to eat all the calories back.  I didn't enjoy the weight gain.  It's much easier without having to deal with counting calories.  Just eat low GI and GL foods and it pretty much does the trick.  A major no-no I have been doing recently is eating too much during dinner, and at times past 20:00.  My portions during the entire day is great, but when it comes to dinner I started to eat more.  I know by the end of the day I'd try to eat back my calories and so I'd eat a big dinner.  Eating that much for dinner is prefectly fine if I want to maintain my weight, but it's not fine for losing weight.

The past couple of nights I've been watching my dinner portions, making sure I eat till about maybe 65%-70% full, instead of going for 75%-80% full.  Amazingly I lost the weight that I gained during the week, and then some.  Every body works differently.  But I have to admit portion control has a lot to do with trying to lose weight even if you're not eating a lot and working out a lot.    


Here's the 10th weekly weight update:


-1.2 lbs (-.54kg)


Total amount since started: -12.0  lbs (-5.45kg)