Food Log (9 October 2011)

I don't count calories anymore, but I'm certain that today I was way over my calories and will probably pay for it tomorrow or on weigh in day. Only one more day until weigh in, so I should have been more careful.

Today we were out in the city and so we ended up eating there. We went to Max as it has a healthly menu compared to other fast food places and restaurants. I decided to go with a GI burger, and got chicken instead of beef. It was really good, the bread was whole wheat with lots of pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, oats and walnuts in it. Though when I got home I checked the calorie count on that bad boy and it was 742 calories Next time I'm sticking to the Delifresh chicken instead, it has only about 400 calories.

Since lunch had so many calories in it I decided to go a little easy on dinner. I ate only 2/3 of my steak, and not all the quinoa. But I don't think it would have helped. My OH ended up baking apples with cinnamon, brown sugar, and 86% dark chocolate. I took only a spoonful of vanilla ice cream and the baked apple thing. It was really good, and I could have so ate way more, and I'm sure the calories were ALOT. But I already felt so guilty from lunch, and also just for eating the dessert.

So I have to say today was a no good food day for me

Breakfast: Last night's leftover baked falukorv with salad and quinoa.

Snack: A quarter of Allévo bar.

Lunch: Max's GI chicken burger.

Snack: a peeled apple.

Dinner: Beef steak with salad and quinoa.

Dessert: Spoonfull of vanilla ice cream, with apples baked in cinnamon, brown sugar and dark chocolate.

Food Log (8 October 2011)

Today was a relaxing day of snuggling on the couch and watching some tv. I can't complain about that

For lunch was leftover chicken and aubergine curry that was in the freezer. I ate garlic naan, since I was a bit too hungry to wait to cook some basmati rice or quinoa. I know that was really bad of me. Naan tasted good, but it felt like I ate air. I didn't want to eat more than half since I know I could eat way more of it, and knew that's the trap of eating white wheat. You can eat a lot of it and not feel full, but the bum gets bigger. I think I made a good call on eating only half of it, even though I wasn't full.

I also learned that eating breakfast is so much better for my body and you should eat it. Earlier in the week when I was missing breakfast from not feeling good and sleeping in or not eating it, I gained weight. The scale was going up slowly, and now that I've been eating breakfast the scale is going back down. Hopefully I will have a minus at weigh in day, but Sundays and Mondays are usually my ultra strict days to help push a weightloss

Dinner tonight was a combined effort from me and OH. He cooked a Swedish dish of baked Falukorv (Swedish sausage) with apples, mustard, ketchup and cheese. I then made a salad of diced tomatoes, bell peppers and carrots, and a pot of quinoa. It turned out to be a yummy and healthy low gi/gl dinner

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

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Defrosted Chicken and aubergine curry with half a garlic naan.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate and 1 kiwi.

Dinner: Baked falukorv(Swedish sausage) with apples, with side of quinoa and tomato, bellpepper and carrot salad.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Food Log (7 October 2011)

I felt much better today, and the weather was really windy and cold, but I still decided to take my walk. Also I saw the weather forcast for the coming up days and it's going to be raining and really cold. So I had to squeeze in my walk

What a difference makes with the weather here. Last weekend we had unusually warm weather that was almost summer like. This weekend we're having unusually cold weather that's more winter like than fall. That's one thing out here in Sweden is that the weather is so unpredictable.

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

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Leftover Borscht soup with 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: A peeled apple with a dab of peanut butter.

Dinner: Leftover Borscht soup with 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, 45 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (6 October 2011)

I think my cold is coming back, I wasn't feeling too well this morning hints the no breakfast today.

I felt much better this afternoon so I was able to do my exercise. Too bad it was raining so I wasn't able to go on my walk. Instead I brought out the mini trampoline and did something different, I did a running style jumping thing for 425 jumps. It was much harder than normal jumping on the trampoline. I also did 30 pushups instead of the normal 20 pushups. I also did some sanding for an hour and a half.

Hopefully I didn't over do it this afternoon. This cold hasn't really kicked in full gear, but it hasn't left all the way yet Luckly I didn't have to cook tonight.

Lunch: Leftover Borscht soup with gräddfil and 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: A peeled apple with peanut butter

Dinner: Leftover Borscht soup with gräddfil and 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: Maybe I will have a piece or two of dark chocolate.

Exercise: Trampoline, pushups, crunches, and 60 minutes yoga.

Food Log (5 October 2011)

I went to the library today to return some yoga books I borrowed, and I found some interesting books there. So I ended up borrowing them. They're all Swedish books naturally One is Matsmart (Food smart), knowing where your food comes where, how it's grown or raised here in Sweden, and also how other countries like USA and Germany raise theirs. It talks about how nowadays food is much more important than how much it costs and the volume you get for that price. So it will be an interesting read as it does go along with the low GI/GL diet mentality The other book I borrowed is about Power Yoga, thought it'd be good to read about the harder poses

I picked up some dark chocolate as they were on sale still, and wanted to horde them away. I also needed some creme fraiche for my borscht, but thank goodness I stopped to look at the labels. The creme fraiche has about 330ish calories per 100g. There was the light version, but it has starch etc in it to make it firm, so I took a pass on that. Luckly we have gräddfil here, I think it's the equivalent to American sour cream, and that has about half the amount of calories as the creme fraiche did, and it's made with cream that's soured, so is creme fraiche but gräddfil uses less fat so it's a lot less firm.

Breakfast: Oat porridge, strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: a peeled apple

Dinner: Borscht with a slice of rye bread with butter.

Christmas Challenge!

So I've joined a Christmas Challenge to help keep myself focused on these cold and dark days.  The holidays are full of delicious but evil yummies.  Christmas is only 11 weeks away, that's less than 3 months.  It's a short time, but it's the most dangerous time of the year for weightgain.  We check in every week to see everyone's progress.  I think the challenge will be a lot of fun and really motivational

I know it's going to be tough to get to my challenge weight as it's getting closer to the holidays. I picked 13lbs so I can reach a nice even number of 150lbs. It's possible to reach it, if I lose about 1.2lbs a week for the next 11 weeks

Wish me luck everyone :)