Feeling rough

Feeling rough today - still have a bit of migraine hanging over me, and still feel nauseous. Didn't really feel like having a salad - craving comfort food - so opted for soup and a sandwich instead.

Ham and egg with a bit of light mayo instead of butter. Doesn't look like much, but that's about 450 calories right there.

With the cake I had later and pasta and sauce for dinner, I overstepped the calorie count by nearly 200 cals today.

Rabbit rabbit

I also found a rabbit in the freezer, so made a rabbit casserole for dinner. Felt like I'd had enough carbs today with a sausage butty for breakfast, so had mine on a bed of cabbage instead of with potatoes.

Thought the rabbit was a bit tough, but it was tasty and the cabbage was lovely with the sauce from the casserole through it. Mmmmm

Pie

I also emptied the freezer of lots of blackcurrants and summer fruit - frozen during the summer glut of produce from my mum's garden. Since there was also pastry, it was definitely time to make pie.

Shame I'd packed up all my baking trays and things, but my good neighbour lent me some dishes (in return for a pie!) and using the old fashioned method of rolling out pastry using a wine bottle, I make 3 deep fruit pies. One for each neighbour on either side, and one for us - good job I found a low calorie aubergine curry (Alizone recipe) for lunch, because this pie looks lovely...

Losing a trusted friend

Today I said a fond farewell to my freezer.

We're building an extension on the kitchen, and our house is very upside down - and some of the appliances have just had to go. The freezer was first of the list, so for the last 2 or 3 weeks we've been trying to empty it, by eating the contents instead of shopping. It's not been too bad - plenty of low calorie curries and soup in there, and hardly any fattening stuff (that all ceased about a year ago!).

But I did have some chicken livers - so I made some chicken liver pate (which I'd planned to make over Christmas but never got round to it). I've made four small pots which will keep in the fridge for a bit - although I've already given one to my neighbour, as I don't want to live on it all week. I do know it's my husband's favourite though, so I suspect he'll be having it on sandwiches for his lunch.

Weight

07/02/2012 - 12 st
12 st - sorry, just had to repeat that!

Went for my 2nd monthly check up to make sure I'm maintaining, and I'd actually lost 2lbs, and I'm now 4 lbs under target. This is one happy bunny!

Looks like keeping a VERY close eye on my calorie intake and weight is working - I've been reasonably successful and keeping to 1,500 cals per day - a bit of variation, but on a weekly average it's pretty well there. And I log everything, I mean everything, even the things I don't want to admit too, like the sneaked chocolate biscuit in the office - but then if it fits into my calorie allowance and I'm still maintaining, then an occasional chocolate biscuit is OK.

Picnic

Today's lunch - a desk picnic, which is very common. Today, it's a salad, homemade mackerel pate, and some bread.

I'm saving my apple for my afternoon snack. In our staff restaurant you get a free piece of fruit with a healthy option lunch (soup, salad or whatever the healthy option for the day is) so I've usually always got an apple or banana to keep me going.

There's usually homemade bread too, which I love, but try and only have it when I'm not having any carbs for tea. Tonight I'm having steak and ratatouille, so I treated myself to this crusty end of the loaf.

Mmmm, lovely way to spend 450 calories!

Coffee Morning

It might not seem like much, but this is my first cup of coffee in 11 months!

I stopped drinking coffee when I started the Alizonne plan in mid-April, because I couldn't have milk and don't like black coffee. To be honest, I didn't miss it. But this morning my hubby suggested coffee for a change, and I really enjoyed it.

Not sure I'd go back to drinking it regularly, and certainly not after dinner (I've gotten to love my peppermint tea after dinner), but it was nice and did make a change.