Will keep that in mind sir, and shrink my portion accordingly!

bulgur salad looks nice. you can also add bell peppers, cucumbers or a little balsamico, if you want some variety or new ideas; they all work well in a bulgur salad. i also steam small cut zucchini and add it in, fits perfectly imho.

btw: i would also use the scale to measure the olive oil. the size of tea- / tablespoons vary massively and the scale is much easier and more precise.

Balsamic and peppers are great idea, but I hate cucumbers... will use the scale from now on..previously used a measuring spoon set used for baking.

No breakfast again, as I had another sleep in... (im not particularly lazy, it's I'm normally up at 5 and dont get home till about 8/9 at night..so weekends and sleep are sacred.)

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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Boiled ham joint 250g: 472 cals
corn on the cob: 133cals
sugar snap peas; 42cals:

Dinner total: 648cals

Total : 1239

*To me the ham cals seem very low. That being said , I'm not eating anything else tonight, and that means I have a 500cal buffer just in case it is significantly larger...So whatever happens I should still be under my 1800 cal target.

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Coldest part of the salmon should be about 50c. A little more or less depending upon your preferences. Useful for all proteins.

Might have to invest! cheers for the suggestion!

Some education going on in this thread

Where im from, 180 for 20-25mins cooks everything from sausages rolls to chips to bacon to salmon

LOL

Gravy chip and cheese.....dinner of champions...well not for me anymore but you get the point..

or a cowboy supper!

Cheesy gravey chips are the ticket

To sicken ye i had a beef curry tonight, tho it was rank, beef was super chewy and seemed very fatting plus, since when does a meat+curry from a chinese literally mean, meat +onions+curry, wheres the mushrooms and peas etc gone ffs lol

Best chinese curry was coming home after a night out on the town, and hitting the emerald in shaftsbury square for a dinner box.. Curry half and half, with 3 battered chicken balls.. Are you actually from Belfast or are you a culchy :-)

Sorry to everyone else reading this, this is 2 northern irish fellas talking shop.. Slight derail

Lol, outskirts lad, got a castle here to narrow it down mate lol

Is the emerald between the Ni supporters club and that Italian restaurant?? Think ive been there a time or six

Its the one just cross the road from the cinema..like directly opposite it...

Strange day today, had my breakfast and was in a rush to get to work. I deliberately cut the amount of breakfast I ate because I knew I would be having a big dinner, and would have my packed lunch after... So I reduced the amount of oats by 20g and the amount of milk by 100ml...(look after the grams, and the kilos will look after you I thought.)

Anyway, being the clutz I am, I forgot my bulgur wheat salad! I was really looking forward to chowing down on that. I resisted the temptation to buy something at lunch, again knowing I was having my gf's birthday dinner later on... I felt peckish in the afternoon, but not too bad to be honest, as I downed lots of water.

After my root canal appointment in the afternoon, this is what I had at the restaurant:

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So first off I asked for a 1/2 portion of rice as discussed previously. I passed on the starter, and went with a yoghurt and cucumber dip as a side. There was some side salad, but I ate a small square of feta. I reckon the chicken was brushed with butter though.. Here is my estimated cals for the meal: Do you think I'm in the ball park?

Chicken 260g: 512cals
Basmati Rice 292.5 (1 1/2 cups): 351cals
Yoghurt 75g: 40cals
Grilled tomato:13cals
Butter 2tsp:70cals
Feta10g :29cals
Cucumber 1/10 of one: 5 cals

Dinner total 1020

Breakfast. Oats and mixed berries

40g oats: 150 cals
Mixed berries: 53 cals
Milk 200ml: 94 cals

Breakfast total: 297

Total for day: 1,317cals

Also if I had remembered to bring my lunch i would have been about 150-200 cals over...If I had brought my lunch would it have been better to eat it and over do you think?

1317 means you'll probably be really hungry tomorrow. Totally normal to eat more than your daily goal a day after eating way under (and vice versa). Not just normal, advisable.

Do you think the portions look about right though? cal wise..

I'm a little bit peckish now, but Im going to bed soon, so don't see any point in eating at the minute. Likewsie, I'll just eat what I have planned...

Ironically today was the day I was supposed to go over as it was planned!

I have trouble sleeping if I am really hungry. In your shoes I'd definitely eat 200 Kcal or fruit, or a bowl of cereal, or some yoghurt.

IMO there's more than 512 Kcal of chicken there.

Thanks for the feedback, still not good at judging things by eye.

Breakfast: oats and fruit

200ml milk: 94cals
oats 40g: 150cals
100g mixed berries: 53cals

Breakfast total:297cals

Lunch: Bulgur wheat salad,

Same ingredients as lsited before: 612cals
(cal count is slightly higher as list didnt save in mfp and had to add all ingrdients manually again!

Dinner: Chicken and veg wraps

2 wholemeal tortillas: 400cals
167.5 gramms chicken breast : 330 cals
134g onion: 54cals
134g peppers: 34cals
12.5g mild coconut oil: 112cals

Dinner total:931cals

Total for day: 1840.

Slightly over for the day which sucks, but tomorrow I will only eat 1 and 1/2 wraps which should even things out!

how much walking do you do on average per day? are you active in any form? if not, it would be useful to start doing some form of VERY LIGHT cardio. just make sure it's low impact. but walking, swimming, biking are all very useful and injury risk is quite low. just make sure to start out easy; just something like: walk for 10minutes 3x a week.
it's helpful for the weight loss, but that's not the main reason. instead, it's mainly for your cardiovascular fitness (heart, lungs, muscles etc). it also helps you to achieve (one day) long term weight-maintenance. and it prepares your body for future work load (either harder cardio or weight training or whatever)

That's really an interesting a question. Basically for my job I have to walk quite a lot to get to businesses. I was thinking of actually buying a tracker to monitor that same thing!

I got an iWatch for Xmas, and really like it. I don't know how good its algorithms are, but it actually has good information (gps and HRM) it can use to compute calories burned per day that basic fitness bands don't. It does seem to be more accurate in its step count than the garmin I had before.

Calories are too low overall, imo.

This is a toughie...Because at the moment cal wise I seem to be doing ok... I'm keeping to my calorie budget.Also the cal budget is making me think drastically about what I eat..

Here is an example... Previously I would have had no problem eating 4 wraps on a wrap night..Last night I could only have 2.. and I was full!!! ( I was 40 cal over though so may cut to 1 and a half) I didn't know/ I didn't look at the cal count..

Previously I would have had no problem drizzling olive oil over a salad, and now I limit to 1 tsp. I can't taste the difference.

However I take your point..If I find it's unsustainable I don't mind upping it a bit..

That's not to say that I don't get hungry though...It's just to say I'm learning to deal with it.

I don't even own an iPhone though..Thinking about a withings watch..

how much is "quite a lot" of walking? any way to quantify it? i don't want to be offensive, but often when a 160kg say they "did a lot of walking" it amounts to something like 200m in total. i have no idea of course of your specifics, but it matters.

what kind of phone do you use? if it has a separate movement sensor (most newer phones have that), its step-tracker should be ~as accurate as the usual acitivity trackers. there's also no reason to buy a withings watch (unless you want one anyway). there are also a lot cheaper options available. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into...rod531166.html is probably your best bet if you want 24/7 HR monitoring (even though it has some limitations). otherwise just buy something like a fitbit or a similar product, that's even cheaper.