16. Food Diary Day 4

I’m calling it Food Diary from now on. Accountability is way too long a word.

I spoke too soon last night. I had terrible insomnia, and my stomach was like a vacuum, so I had to feed it at about 3am with a bowl of cornflakes with skimmed goat’s milk, and a pinch of fruit sugar - then again at 5am with ham and shredded carrot.

As my food delivery came early this morning, I didn’t eat breakfast as such. I just picked at my food as I unwrapped it.

Apple juice

1 apple

handful pistachio nuts

1 egg and a slice of Ryvita with soya spread

I had to eat the egg because it was cracked. I know I probably should have thrown it out for hygiene purposes, but I don’t like wasting food.

Usually if there are more eggs broken, I ring them and they refund me for the whole box of 12, even if only three are broken. As it was just one I didn’t bother. I did email to tell them they are losing money, and that a suggestion would be to clearly label shopping bags with eggs in, but they won’t implement it, as it makes too much sense.

Later whilst working I strated to flag. The thing about working from home is when you feel like you want to fall asleep, there’s nothing to stop you. But that would be lethal, as I’d just be awake all night again – hence:

Caffeine coffee with fruit sugar and goats milk

Lunch
Apple

Half a portion of fish pie

Green tea

Dinner
Last half portion of fish pie

Went out and drank:

2 Pineapple juices

2 mineral waters

1 litre of mineral water throughpout the day

14. Accountability Day 3

Breakfast
Porridge and raisins

Blackcurrant Tea

Banana

Dried fig, dried apricot, and a few mixed unsalted nuts

Decaffeinated Coffee, with one fruit sugar

Lunch
Cottage cheese, Flax oil, chives, garlic, chopped ham, chopped red pepper, 3 Ryvita

Green tea, with a bit of honey

Dinner
Fish Pie, again - still glorious!

The first improvement I noticed was that my food cravings had completely disppeared after only one day! That’s pretty fantastic.

I always used to have a bowl of cornflakes in the evening or something else to eat. Now I’m eating less but I don’t feel hungry at all. Today I had the banana and dried fruit and nuts at about 12, so I didn’t need lunch until 2.30pm.

Even then, my lunch was about a third of what I used to eat at lunch.

10. Accountability Day 1

So what did I have today if I’m honest?

Breakfast
Porridge, with half a teaspoonful of honey and a dessert spnfl of raisins

Mug of Green Tea

Lunch
3 dessert spn Cottage cheese, 2 dessert spn flax oil, dash of garlic granuals, dash of onion powder, chopped chives, and chopped fresh red peppr (heaped dessert spn full) with three slices of Ryvita, dark multigrain.

A smoothie with a banana, summer fruits, and organic cloudy apple juice.

Actually, this is going to be very time consuming if I state the amount all the time, so from now on, lets say, “a dollop” of everything. And a dollop of course, is whatever I think is needed!

How do people carry on when they have to weigh and measure out everything…? There’s none of that here!

Mid afternoon, another smoothie as earlier.

So tonight, I made my glorious fish pie. I’ll state the ingredients only – not all the amounts:

4 frozen cod steaks
prawns
mixed frozen vegetables
mashed potato still with skins on

sauce:
soya spread
cornflour
goat’s milk
soya powdered cheese
goat’s cheese
mayonnaise
ketchup (prawn marie rose sauce)
onion powder

And I made enough for the next four days, so this blog is gonna be quite monotonous!

Also made porridge to put in the fridge so I’m not tempted to buy cake or chocolate, and soaked some soup mix ready for tomorrow, consisting of lentils, chickpeas, barley and other good stuff. That’s my base for all my soups.

I also drank 1 litre of Evian – not enough I know.

But so far, I haven’t been tempted to snack all day, and I’ve worked solidly all evening – that’s progress!