Alexxa's Weight Struggle Diary - 2021
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It's made from baked red peppers, garlic, parsley, vinegar and a little bit of oil. We eat it quite often in my country. I usually buy it but in the summer when we have a lot of red peppers, we make it ourselves.
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Today s menu was like this:
8- golden milk
12 - 150 g beaten beans ( that's how we call it, I Don t know how to call them otherwise, maybe beans puree? ), 50 g cooked onions with red sauce ( we put it on the beans), 3 slices of bread and 1 cereal bar ( 20 g)
15- 100 g pork sausage with a vegetable salad
19 - vegetable cream soup with 50 g croutons + 1 gin with sugar free tonic water
My BF will soon come next to me with a bag of chips and a beer. I don t mind the chips, but I hope I won't be tempted by his beer!
Only 15 min walking to the store today. Quite lazy.
8- golden milk
12 - 150 g beaten beans ( that's how we call it, I Don t know how to call them otherwise, maybe beans puree? ), 50 g cooked onions with red sauce ( we put it on the beans), 3 slices of bread and 1 cereal bar ( 20 g)
15- 100 g pork sausage with a vegetable salad
19 - vegetable cream soup with 50 g croutons + 1 gin with sugar free tonic water
My BF will soon come next to me with a bag of chips and a beer. I don t mind the chips, but I hope I won't be tempted by his beer!
Only 15 min walking to the store today. Quite lazy.
Alexxa22
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I guess bean mash would be appropriate 
I only got a sip from my BF's beer so it is ok. Fortunately, I don't like eating chips so it isn't too tempting for me.
Yesterday's menu : ok - ish. Just 10 min walk to the store. Today i'm going to school so at least 1 h of walking.
8 - golden milk
10 - 100 g Shanghai chicken + 250 g baked peppers salad + 1 glass diet coke
15 - 80 g cheese + 60 g smoked ham + vegetable salad + 1 golden milk
18 - 250 g berries + 1 yogurt
20 - oriental salad ( potatoes, eggs, olives, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper) + 55 g sausages + 1 raw pepper
I only got a sip from my BF's beer so it is ok. Fortunately, I don't like eating chips so it isn't too tempting for me.
Yesterday's menu : ok - ish. Just 10 min walk to the store. Today i'm going to school so at least 1 h of walking.
8 - golden milk
10 - 100 g Shanghai chicken + 250 g baked peppers salad + 1 glass diet coke
15 - 80 g cheese + 60 g smoked ham + vegetable salad + 1 golden milk
18 - 250 g berries + 1 yogurt
20 - oriental salad ( potatoes, eggs, olives, vinegar, oil, salt and pepper) + 55 g sausages + 1 raw pepper
Alexxa22
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Visually, it isn t that much, just half a packet. But I ll try to eat less at a meal.
Yesterday was a good day. 10000 steps and good diet:
10- golden milk
12- cottage cheese with raw sunflower seeds
16 - 60 g schnitzel + 60 g chicken + vegetable salad with olives
19 - 100 g pasta with cheese, 50 g schnitzel, 10 g coffee creamer ( for a decaff coffee)
That's the cheese dilemma! Lots of calories in a small volume. If you look at portion sizes most cheeses are around 30 g. I usually have around 40 because I Iove me some cheese...
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This weekend I just want to relax. Maybe some cleaning. My BF went to the countryside and I took the chance to have some me time
The cheese I eat has somewhere between 250 - 300 calories per 100 g. Doesn't seem that much.
Today I ate like this:
9 - golden milk, 2 slices of toast with cream cheese, 2 slices of ham and one with Nutella ( ups!)
12 - Shangai chicken and a gin and tonic
16 - 3 slices of bread with some cream cheese + 1 gin and tonic
18 - some crackers and sunflower seeds
Lots of carbs today but it felt like I needed them. I also walked for 40 minutes.
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Yeah, if we refer to volume, it may seem like a waste of calories. 80 g of cheese is 200 calories, but depending on my cravings ( if I need something salty), I like having it instead of meat. I used to eat babybells and they were like 25 g or 30 but they had more calories than my regular cheese.
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Because it seems like my chill strategy doesn't really work on weight loss ( although it works on weight maintenance) I think I ll have to be a little stricter with me.
What I plan to change:
- eat no more than 1400 calories per day
- have at least 30 minutes walk ( outside or on the treadmill)
- eat less or none of my trigger foods so that I can control the quantities
- plan what to eat before eating it in order to control it better
What I plan to change:
- eat no more than 1400 calories per day
- have at least 30 minutes walk ( outside or on the treadmill)
- eat less or none of my trigger foods so that I can control the quantities
- plan what to eat before eating it in order to control it better
I find counting calories very helpful to get an idea of where it´s easiest to make useful changes - plus while you´re busy weighing and calculating/entering things into an app it´s a sinecure to keep an eye on your protein intake. Which is an area I often struggle with.
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I find that days with a fare amount of protein are the days I struggle less to keep my hunger at lower levels. Protein does help with being full and that s why I want to focus on having protein with each meal.
That's what I am trying to do as well. I hope that being aware of what I eat before I eat it will help me improve my eating habits. One of my problems is that I constantly think about food and that I rarely feel full after a normal meal. But I guess it's just a matter of habit downsizing my portions.
Having a larger portion of vegetables with every meal is generally the easiest way of feeling satisfied with the amount of food I eat. Plus, as you say, eating protein with every meal.
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As for today, it was good. I kept my calories under 1400 with 78 grams of protein. Did some walking ( 30 minutes on the treadmill and 10 to the store). Last meal 8 o'clock. I feel like I would like to eat something now but I won t. Maybe a glass of water, although that isn t a good idea before bed because I keep waking up at night to go to the bathroom.