diet diary - week...um...2?

[tielan]

Monday - 11th October - protein
breakfast:
- 2 tbsp oat bran + lite milk
- 1 cup tea + lite milk
- 2 tbsp yoghurt
- 3 almonds

lunch
- 1 tea egg
- a small portion of fish
- 1 chicken thigh
- 5 almonds

dinner
- 1 beef skewer
- 1 chicken skewer
- 2 prawn skewers
- dollop of mayo
- dollop of mustard

- 1/2 can of coke zero
- 600ml water

Tuesday - 12th October - protein and vegies
breakfast:
- 1 tbs oat bran + lite milk
- 100g yoghurt
- 1 cup coffee + lite milk
- 7 almonds

lunch
- 1 hamburger with the lot (egg, bacon, pineapple, tomato, lettuce, cheese, meat patty), bun removed
- two bites of bun
- 1 almond
- ½ can of coke zero

dinner
- 4 stalks broccolini
- 2 chicken necks with 3 chunks carrot, and onion
- 1 shot of diet ginger beer
- 1 shot of butterscotch schnapps

Wednesday - 13th October - protein
breakfast:
- 2 tbs oat bran + lite milk
- 1 tub yoghurt
- 4 cross-section chunks of smoked chicken breast
- a small fillet of ocean trout
- 3 almonds

lunch:
- large fillet of ocean trout
- chicken drumstick

dinner: (at parentals)
- chicken

Thursday 14th Oct - protein and vegies
breakfast:
- oat bran
- yoghurt
- smoked chicken breast

lunch:
- ???

dinner:
- imam bayildi (eggplant, tomato, shallots, garlic, beef mince, cottage cheese)

Friday 15th Oct - protein
breakfast:
- oat bran
- couple spoons of yoghurt
- honey virginia ham - 3 chunks?

lunch: (at Thai restaurant)
- pandan chicken parcels
- tom kha soup with prawn

dinner:
- 6 oysters
- soft-shelled crab and...something else I think it was more fish.

Saturday and Sunday, 16th-17th Oct
The diet kinda went out the door on the weekend since I was away from home, at a convention, having dinner with lots of other people. (The dinner meal was very good - the dessert was a beautifully rich chocolate mousse, but I couldn't even get halfway through!) However, before I threw the diet plan out the window, I weighed myself on a helpful set of scales left in the hotel bathroom:

57kg

So the diet is going somewhere. Slowly, but somewhere. I occasionally want something that isn't in the plan, but it's not difficult to resist since there are plenty of other things I can eat. I sometimes give in when I want something (and by give in, I mean "have a couple of bites of, or one of whatever") but I'm maintaining the chief structure of the diet.

And this morning, we're back on the wagon!

I admit, I rather like this diet. It's simple, it doesn't require me to go hungry, and it works.

I'd loathe counting calories, feeling like I was restricted by how much I could eat. I'm fine with restricting what I'm eating, so long as I don't spend half the day hungry. And there are times when I want to have something outside the food plan, but that's something I can manage. It helps to have an external rule set by someone else.

The only thing that worries me a little is the fact that I'm continuing an active lifestyle (sports and workouts) on a low-carb diet. I do find I'm a lot more tired these days. It's more difficult to get through a gym class, or a hockey game. And I constantly feel like I'm not getting enough sleep - although that might be because I'm not getting enough sleep - 7 hours for the last couple of days, but 4 on Friday, and not more than 6 a night last week.