Just a little post ahead of my weigh in, I was going to start taking pictures of my healthy food but I haven't made any food today, god bless tesco light choices szwechan noodles (310 calories) :) I also passed my first year of university so it seemed the perfect time to treat myself to a jam and cream doughnut which in all fairness was only 220 calories but was amazing :) I loved that when I walked into my living room and sat down to eat it my dad's first comment was "I thought you were on diet" Pssh this idea of never eating anything nutritionally negative on a diet is ridiculous, there has to be a treat.
A diet is a bad word for what this is, this is a lifestyle change and making good food choices, still occasionally making the bad ones but for the majority of time taking stock of what I'm putting into my body. For example this year one of my dinners was a whole pasta bake! there's nothing wrong with having pasta bake with some cheese but my idea of a pasta bake was 574 calories worth of pasta, 455 calories in cheese, 300 calories in the sauce, so a grand total of 1329 calories for my main meal!
I'm not saying I'm never going to eat this kind of pasta bake again but I'm not going to eat the same amount. The main thing I've been learning is what a portion of something is, not estimating but weighing out my food not religiously but especially with pasta, cheese, rice etc anything carb rich or fat rich just so I've got a good idea of what I'm eating :). A normal serving of pasta is 50g my kind of portion before hand was 166g (1/3 of a pack of pasta) so over 3x what I should have been eating.
Also to finish off my ultimate high light of this week was being given a pair of chinos to try on that Vicki wanted to get rid of, there were a bit too tight I thought they were a size 16 so I was a little disappointed, it turned out they were size 14 chinos! So that is my success story, hopefully I'll be strutting around in them soon :)
See you monday for the weight update! xo
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