yes it was bud!

Good find man, will try to be more vigilant! (200g is cooked weight)

So I remembered all those tropes about eating much veg as you like....seems to be true:-)
The 1st pic was the amount of veg for me and my girlfriend. the second was my portion!!!!

Here is my cals for the day:


60gramms oats: 225 cals
300ml semi skimmed milk: 147cals
100g mixed berries: 54

425cals for breakfast

Lunch: Chicken salad

200g beetroot: 86cals
56g feta cheese 140cals
15m olive oil: 123cals
salad leaves: 44cals
tea spoon mustard: 11 cals
200g chcicken breast: 328 cals

Dinner: Vegetable omlette/scarmabled egg thing:

2 eggs: 260cals
114g cherry tomatoes: 21cals
192g button mushrooms: 42cals
66g spring onion: 21cals
239g peppers: 60cals
1 tea spoon olive oil: 60cals
Dinner total: 464cals

Snacks:

Chicken breast pieces 150g : 177cals

Total for the day: 1795

Just catching up for the weigh-in -- great job

Cheers Monte! Just the second step though, long way to go!

go.go. power ranger!

Cheers mate.....I was more of a Captain Planet guy...Today's cartoons suck!

Just a quick thought about snacking, water and hunger....

Did my weekly shop... Normally, after I did my shopping I would buy something to munch on for the way home... This would usually be something terrible like a couple of sausage rolls with half a tub of some mayo based sauce...

I'm realising now, it wasn't because I was hungry, but because it was routine...Let me rephrase that, I thought I was hungry..

Coming home from the shop today, I still had that hunger....but I also know I'm going to have a healthy lunch soon. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, that being hungry sometimes is ok, and I just have to realise when I should just wait..

Similarly in the past, if I was hungry I'd have no guilt about going to buy 20 chicken nuggets with 3 sauces as a snack....

Now I just drink water...and if after a litre of water and I am still hungry, and I can't wait till my next meal, I'll go to the supermarket and buy some cooked chicken breast pieces.

To sum up....routine is important, water is important, and hunger well, it kinda depends.

This is really important. The line about never being hungry on a diet is BS, and like you say being hungry every once in a while isn't a big deal at all.

Snacking on cooked lean meat is fine obv, but unless you're already doing so snacking on raw veggies is recommended as well, especially if you're not very hungry.

Would love to love raw vegetables but I dont....truthfully I hate most raw veg!

I asked my gf about this idea thus morning....she said it would be to difficult. With such small portions....She is going to make a cake and bring the rest to work though so it's not in the house!

Come on man, if your gf is any good at baking/cooking, making portion-sized baked goods/desserts/sweets should be no prob at all. Muffins? Portion sized cobbler using berries, oats etc with some custard? Tons of options.

I used to be the same way. I now eat 4 - 6 (or more) cups of veggies a day. Raw as snacks some times (not as often now that I am on maintenance as when I was cutting weight), steamed with meals, in spinach salads, etc. If you hate them plain try some low cal dips: natural salsa, hummus, light / low fat dressing, etc. Veggies are incredibly low cal, lots of vitamins and nutrients, and many have decent protein to calorie ratios.

Hey man, I might be a 150kg bull of a man, but arguing with my gf is a no no lol I know what side my bread is buttered!

Of course it is a good idea, but she likes baking cakes... Truthfully, a part of me thinks she like it because

a.) She is great at it
b.) She likes the recognition she gets when she makes a great cake... Look put it this way, it's not going to affect me, (or her) as we can have a slice each and ship the rest off to the work colleagues..

I will remind her again about individual options later...but we have different realms in our house...She is in charge of baking, and I'm in charge of erm.....let me think about that, but you get the point!

Hey Fozzy, I have significantly upped my veggie intake! See pics of last meal.. Just the raw stuff I can't really deal with....Also thanks for the suggestions on the bourbon, my local whiskey supplier stocks all your suggestions, so once I reach 25kgs, boom, going to get myself some cask strength bourbon!

Bulls have muscles.

Ouch lol... Ok I'm a fat bull that let himself go, and is now working to get back in shape, without arguing with his gf!

So no breakfast today as I slept in...

Lunch:
1/3 cup of avocado: 82cals
2 slices pumpernickel bread: 238cals
65g light mozzarella: 103cals
cooked chicken breast pieces 100g: 132cals
cherry tomatoes 200g: 36cals

Lunch total: 591cals

Dinner:

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450g salmon: 815cals
160g peas: 140cals
185g spinach: 52cals
176g carrots: 81 cals

Dinner total: 1088

I will also drink tonight 1 measure of my favourite blend:

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1 measure: 97 cals

To go with:

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Total cals: 1776

By the way, I don't smoke cigars often...maybe once a month, probably even less...

Congrats on the baby Lol,

More than one whiskey i hope

Lol no baby, just treating myself...only the 1, mfp says so!

I just realised you saw the card lol its for one of my best mates back home!

Typical Sunday today, doing all the cleaning and cooking for the next week.

Decided to have a change in my lunches as beetroot and chicken salad was getting a bit boring, and I also want to start to develop a more varied repetoire of food...Hopefully it will taste good, because it sure looks good!

So I made a bulgur wheat salad with all this stuff:

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These are the calorie specs, once I broke it down per portion (5 portions in the week):

Black olives 32g: 43cals
Spicy pickled peppers21g: 4cals
150g cooked Bulgur wheat: 124cals
100g cherry tomatoes: 18cals
38g spring onion: 12cals
15ml lemon juice: 4 cals
10g parsley: 4cals
1 tea spoon of olive oil: 60 cals
200g cooked chicken breast: 286cals:

Total serving : 556cals

This is what it actually looks like:

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Salmon looks way overcooked, and also cooked at too high a temp - notice all the white stuff? Cal count looks a bit low too, unless it's wild salmon and # of cals is for raw weight. Not a big fan of salmon for dieting myself, but obv you have more leeway than me - but not if you intend to stick to 1800 cals a day.

Hey dude, I used the cals that were on the packet. Its from Lidl, ( a German discounter.) The cals also match exactly what is on mfp, so I just used that. I'm not really a gourmet, but it was soft and juicy and didn't taste overcooked.. In fact eating this is our new Saturday thing... I Love fish, and my girl friend is kinda hooked too! To be fair I wouldn't normally eat 450g worth of fish, but I didn't eat breakfast, and I calculated before I ate the stuff what the cals would be so I thought it would be ok...

I cooked it for 25 mins at 150, you think i should reduce the temp?

I of course would like to stick to 1800, at the moment I'm not struggling too much, it's just finding a varied and tasty menu which I can prepare ahead of time for during the week

....Btw I didn't add any oil or anything when I added the fish to the foil, and from what I have read cooking salmon does little to change the calory intake..

Hope the weekend is going well for you, and thanks for the advice!

150 is fine, but 25 mins is too long. Just need to look at the fish to see that. Salmon should be cooked until it's still red in the middle and still pink on the outside (if baked in the oven, though imo pan fried is way better - but usually fattier). Exact time will vary based on the size of the fish. Core temperature around 55-57 should be good. Roughly 15 mins at 150.

Would be surprised if it was wild salmon, labels can def be off. Knowing/researching the cal contents of basic proteins is a good thing imo, though obviously there's a fair amount of variance.