Breakfast: 250 calories

• 2 waffles
• 8 oz 8th Continent light chocolate soy milk

Breakfast: 205 calories

• 1 cup Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Mango Peach juice

Snack: 140 calories

• Glazed walnuts

Lunch: 545 calories

• Peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Banana
• Raspberry yogurt

Supper: 680 calories

• 8-count chicken nuggets
• Small waffle fries
• Coke

I'm not surprised quite honestly. I've been cheating a lot and it's starting to show. My excuses for this week are:

• I HATE HATE HATE filling in a food diary. Grrrrrr!
• I keep forgetting to drink water
• My beloved Mp3 player is definitely dead, and barring a spontaneous zombie resurrection I'm going to have to fork out the money for a new one because...
• I've rediscovered how hard it is for me to drag my arse to the gym without music to keep me going! I've only been once this week and hated every second of music-less cardio. Bor-ing!
• Incidentally, being a semi-student I'm rather broke...
• and I can't find a player that I like. I may have to conform to the masses and buy an iPod...*shudders*
• I haven't been sleeping well cos of my horrible job hours. I don't cook well or consistently when I'm irritable.

Okay, I feel a little better now. I've decided today I'll do just one good thing; drink more water. Surely I can stick to one change at a time!

Anyone out there with a new iPod nano, what do you think of it? Have you had trouble with iPods in the past? I ask because mates of mine have had serious trouble with them in the past which has kinda turned me off the brand.

9:45am  Ham salad sandwich + tea

12:10pm  Broccoli and sweetcorn soup + pint of fizzy squash

This time made with steamed broccoli and raw sweetcorn, raw garlic and raw chilli. Flavoured with lemon juice and olive oil. I figured that the rest of the veg would be cooked when I heated up a bowl to eat.

Afternoon drink: hot chocolate

1pm  Crackerbread and cottage cheese

4:10pm  Beans, mince and tomatoes with dumplings + orange

5:15pm  Prunes + sweet spices tea

6pm  Sweet chilli broccoli + apple

8:50pm  Broccoli and sweetcorn soup

Evening drinks: tea + half pint of squash

Daily average this week is now 1,400 calories.

  One way toward Gluten-Free Simplicity is to pay attention to your intake of food, beverages and other substances.  You can keep a food diary.  Follow this link to get an idea of how to do this: http://www.myfooddiary.com/ .  I would suggest just trying to keep track (in writing) for about a month.

  After about a month, you can reflect on your intake and correlate this information with your symptoms and other events.  This can help you develop more insight into your diet and health, which might help simplify your path.

  More free food journaling information can be found at: http://www.nutrimirror.com/ad/6?gclid=CKugieH_mpYCFQE0xgodd0nlnw

Breakfast: 205 calories

• 1 cup Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Mango Peach juice

Lunch: 140 calories

• Granola bar

Snack: 330 calories

• Banana
• Toast
• 8 oz 8th Continent Light Chocolate soy milk

Supper: 460 calories

• 2 barbecue sandwiches

Snack: 250 calories

• Popcorn

Total Calories: 1385

9:40am  Cheese and ham salad sandwich + fresh coffee

I bought some cheap tomatoes at our food shop yesterday to bulk up my sandwiches. I originally took three slices of 'ham' but returned one.

1:45pm  Egg mayonnaise sandwich + cinnamon swirl + tea @ Starbucks

I thought twice about having a bit of Frank's cake seeing as I had eaten a pastry, cake and biscuit yesterday. But, from the first mouthful, no regrets. It was mega fresh and was just an explosion of flavour from the cinnamon and citrus in the icing. I think a whole one would have been sickly.

On the way home from our meeting, I popped into Tesco to get some Quorn beef-style bits after only remembering during the night that Tesco sold them, not Waitrose.

I'm gonna use them instead of the Quorn chicken-style pieces and mince. The beef-style pieces have a better flavour and texture than either. I bought six bags plus some doughnuts for Frank.

Afternoon drink: pint of fizzy squash

5:15pm  Tomatoes, beans and mince with dumplings + orange

Evening drink: fresh coffee

8pm  Apple and cottage cheese snack

I hadn't expected to eat again but I was hungry.

8:50pm  Ham and cheese snack

Unfortunately, eating earlier made me more hungry. I was distracted by thoughts of eating. It probably didn't help that I was watching Jamie's Ministry of Food.

But now - urgency over - I feel foolish, wondering why I just didn't have a tomato. *sigh*

Bum. At this rate, I'll have put on weight by Saturday. I now know from experience that I put on weight if I eat 1,600 calories a day or more.

The average this week so far is 1,340. Hmm, maybe still time to fix things.

Breakfast: 260 calories

• 1 cup Kashi GoLean! Crunch cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Strawberry Banana juice

Lunch: 140 calories

• Granola bar

Snack: 140 calories

• Banana
• Toast

Supper: 600 calories

• Fried rice (with extra rice, mushrooms, and zucchini–no asparagus)
• Chicken

Snack: 330 calories

• Slim a Bear vanilla ice cream sandwich
• 2 waffles
• Vanilla yogurt

Total Calories: 1470

What a great day. I have simply not felt hungry today. When I finally did get hungry at about 8pm I just had an egg and tomato salad and was no longer hungry again. I cant quite believe it! In fact I have only eaten 1500 calories today and this is much lower than what I can eat but I just dont feel hungry. Over the last few days I have stopped eating potatoes and the dried fruits and have tried to minimise carbohydrates by having only a few fruits and a handful of nuts. I am literally not feeling hungry and this may be why. OR it could just be that I am not having a hungry day but that has never happened on a diet before so I feel a bit insecure about the whole situation. Not been hungry on a diet kind of scares me to be honest. Its almost as if I would rather brace myself for the hunger rather than start to feel like I wont be hungry and then have hunger set in. Anyway.

As for the exercise I am doing so well. I am almost running now. Well I am walking so fast I dont think that I could walk any faster. My heart is relatively cool and not beating too fast so its obviously adapting well to the exercise regime but my poor legs cant seem to catch up. I might try stretching them pre work outs and not just post work outs and see if that helps. But it amazes me than within a week I am at this level of fitness. Today was good. 

Also Im starting to ponder the goodness or badness of dairy. As far as I can see it seems to be carbs that are the main cause of our modern diseases of civilization. So dairy? It certainly would add some diversity to my cooking. Would be interested in peoples feedback on this but for now I will keep leaving it out. But expect a post soon as I want to look into the research to see the good and the bad. 

Breakfast

Apple, Orange and a handful of cashew nuts

Lunch

Tuna salad: Lettuce, Tuna, Long eggplants (skinny version), Mint, Olive Oil, Spring Onions, Tomato

Dinner

Steak and Guacamole with salsa: Sirloin Steak (grass fed of course), Avocado, Olive Oil, Lime, Tomato, Cucumber, Onion, Capsicum, Coriander, 

Supper

Egg and Tomato Salad: 3 Eggs, Tomato, Onion

Snacks

Apple, Carrot

Total Calories - 1610 (oops not the 1500 I said but still well under my daily allowance)

Exercise - 20 mins brisk walking (161 calories)

Breakfast: 260 calories

• 1 cup Kashi GoLean! Crunch cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Strawberry Banana juice

Lunch: 140 calories

• Granola bar

Snack: 240 calories

• Toast
• Banana

Supper: 580 calories

• 2 chicken quesadillas

Snack: 250 calories

• Popcorn

Total Calories: 1470

Breakfast = Quaker Weight Control Banana Bread Oatmeal

Lunch = Pita w/ Baba Bhanouj and Tomatoes

Snack = Kar's Sweet and Salty Mix, Raspberry Yogurt

Dinner = Eggs and Toast

Snack = Manchego Cheese

1495 calories/58.6 g fat/184.8 g carbs/61.1 g protein

Coulda been worse, eh?

• One egg scrambled on wholemeal toast with salad cream
• small bowl of low fat natural yoghurt with some muesli
• Three Apples
• Turkey and lettuce sandwich on wholemeal bread with salad cream
• Cereal bar
• Tin of chunky vegetable soup with one slice of wholemeal bread 
• Few spoonfuls of natural yoghurt and a small bowl of couscous (still hungry)

I also did some free weighs and crunches

10:20am  Cheese salad sandwich + sweet spiced tea

Ooh, I really missed corn relish.

2pm  Sweet potato with cottage cheese + coffee

5pm  Curried squash soup + fresh coffee

7:50pm  Cottage cheese crisp snack + pint of squash

The day's totals:

Breakfast: 260 calories

• 1 cup Kashi GoLean! Crunch cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Peach Mango juice

Lunch: 140 calories

• Granola bar

Snack: 285 calories

• Toast with Laughing Cow light Swiss cheese
• 1 oz glazed walnuts

Supper: 710 calories

• Korean beef stir fry
• White rice

Snack: 100 calories

• Slim-a-Bear vanilla ice cream sandwich

Total Calories: 1495

• One egg scrambled on whole meal toast with low fat salad cream
• Turkey and lettuce sandwich with a raw carrot
• Two apples
• Tin of vegetable soup with two slices of bread.
• low fat yogurt

I also did some weight training today.

11:40am  Cheese and pickle salad sandwich + coffee + apple

3:20pm  Curried squash soup with chickpeas + pint of squash

Added beans from Ginni's tip.

Afternoon drink: pint of squash

5:10pm  Beans, mince and tomatoes with dumplings

Quite squidgey. I don't think I added water before.

7:20pm  Curried squash soup

Evening drink: pint of squash

It's the end of the weekend - three days since my Abel & Cole delivery - and I've already run out of fresh veg.

Breakfast: 280 calories

• 2 waffles
• Vanilla yogurt
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Strawberry Banana juice

Lunch: 840 calories

• 2 cheese & onion enchiladas
• Mexican rice
• 6 tortilla chips

Supper: 390 calories

• Kashi Tomato, Garlic, and Cheese Pizza

Snack: 100 calories

• Slim-A-Bear vanilla ice cream sandwich

Total Calories: 1610

10:45am  Ham salad sandwich + tea + apple

It's cold here and I put the apple in the microwave for 30 secs to take the chill off. It was really nice although it oxidised quickly.

2:40pm drink - sweet spiced tea - hungry while cooking soup

3:10pm  Curried squash soup

My new hand-blender arrived today (I'd broken the drive coupling of my main blender).

Afternoon drink: pint of squash

4:20pm  Curried squash soup with cottage cheese

I was hungry soon after the first serving of soup. More of a nagging feeling than a proper rumbling hunger.

Afternoon drink: sweet spiced tea

7:40pm  Courgette salad + pint of squash

I microwaved the courgette for a minute, again to take the chill off.

8:30pm  Thin Crisp snack

Again, that nagging feeling again to eat.

Luckily my latest soup is low in calories.

Breakfast: 270 calories

• 1 cup Kashi GoLean! Crunch Almond Flax cereal
• 1/4 cup organic rice milk
• 8 oz V-Fusion Peach Mango juice

Lunch: 250 calories

• Toast with Laughing Cow light Swiss cheese
• Salad
• 8 oz V-Fusion Light Pomegranate Blueberry juice

Supper: ~700 calories

• T-bone steak
• Small baked potato
• Green beans
• Macaroni and cheese

It's been weird. The last two weeks, I don't feel that I've been on a diet. I'm still weighing and watching what I eat but I don't feel that it's making a difference. And this is evidenced by my weigh-in: no overall weight loss in two weeks.

Getting up earlier has meant an extra meal a day. It's been very cold here and I haven't felt inclined to have a cold salad every day. Something to work on.

8:30am Apple with soft cheese and biscuit + sweet spiced tea

12:10pm  Mixed veg soup with cabbage + tea + prunes

3pm  Spinach with ham and cheese + banana

Afternoon drink: hot chocolate + tea

6pm  Mixed veg soup with cabbage

8:40pm  Cottage cheese salad + pint of squash

The day's totals:

Fried Mee

Lunch

Fried Mee + Rice + Bawang Goreng + Pinasakan

Dinner

Rice + Bawang Goreng + Pinasakan + Kuih Nasi Panjang + Banana

Overeat :-(

We were at Innovate '08 all day today, "the business of shaping our world". Lunch and refreshments were provided. As seems to happen before these all-day things, I didn't sleep well the night before and got up at 6am after waking up much earlier.

6:30am  Cereal

It still surprises me that a small bowl of cereal has the same calories as one of my cheese salad sandwiches.

10am  Danish pastry + coffee

11:30am  Biscuit + coffee

1:45pm  Potatoes with dressed salads + sparkling water

The vegetarian lunch option was tortellini. My carbs choice was potatoes or rice from the meat serving area. I remembered that potatoes had fewer calories. The shredded salad was lovely; lots of different things including mange tout.

3pm  Cake + coffee

The original plan was to have a piece of Frank's but I decided to have a whole portion. And very nice it was too.

7:30pm  Cottage cheese salad + pint of fizzy squash

Actually, I was feeling nauseous at this time but I wanted to eat and so I did.

It's only now seeing the photos that I see how many sweet treats I actually had. Hmm.