First thing's first - today was my first week weigh in - and my total loss was 2kg. Not brilliant for a Tony Ferguson week 1 unfortunately, and I am definitely a bit bummed. But - I have thought back about what I ate and it is possible there was perhaps a little too much salt. So the weekend unfolded like this.
Saturday morning we were up bright and early for Jim DiCarlo's 60th birthday breakfast at Dome. For breakfast I went for the fruit salad, a skinny latte, and just had my shake when I got home. Unfortunately the fruit salad did have quite a number of high GI fruits in it, like watermelon, rockmelon and pineapple, and it also had a big dob of yoghurt with honey on top (which I avoided, and wiped as much as I could off the fruit without looking manic in public!). But I still figure that some fruits that aren't 'allowed' is better than having the big breakfast which is full of fat, and way too much protein for my allowed portion size, not to mention the huge amount of carbs in the big chunk of white toast. So, whilst not perfect, it was the best I could do without offending the group by not ordering anything. So, I see temptation challenge #1 as a fairly good outcome.
Saturday afternoon, we went to Belinda and Paul's engagement party. I made sure to have my shake in the car on the way, so I wasn't feeling hungry at the party. This worked quite well, and I managed to avoid all the deep-fried platter food, and didn't eat anything at all. I had about 1 and a half glasses of white wine, and 2 glasses of water. Temptation challenge #2 - definite success!
Next stop after the party was to head to Kat and Kylie's for a 'Be Brave and Shave' barbecue - Kat shaved her head after raising over $800 for the Leukemia Foundation. All I drank there was water, and when the food came out I had 2 sausages (correct size for my protein serve) as they were the only protein available, some fried onions and some coleslaw which I saw Kat make with whole egg mayonnaise which is allowed on Tony Ferguson. There were also a few sultanas in it, but I wouldn't have had more than 5. So, again, best option I could have gone with out of what was available.
Then, Sunday we went out for lunch to celebrate Evan's 30th birthday. We went to Zanders in Scarborough, and I chose to not have lunch as my protein meal, but instead to have a salad and still have my shake. I didn't want to deviate from 2 shakes a day in the first week. For lunch I ordered a chargrilled pumpkin salad, which had no more than my allowed serve of pumpkin (pumpkin is a restricted vegetable on TF because it has a higher GI than other vegetables), green beans, heaps of baby spinach, cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. The feta cheese got shipped off straight away to Glenn's plate, and so the only feta I ate were the traces that were stuck to other bits of the salad. I think there was a very light dressing on the salad, perhaps just an olive oil and lemon juice or something like that.
Last night Meaghan came over for dinner and I cooked. I did skinless chicken breast stuffed with ricotta and spinach, with steamed vegetables (asparagus, green beans, yellow capsicum, roma tomatoes and broccoli) and made up some Greens gravy (allowed on TF) with some mushrooms in it. So, a TF friendly dinner too.
So after the weekend I had, I am a bit bummed that I didn't lose more weight this week. I was 91.3kg this morning, but did get down to 90.9 on Thursday - so it's a shame I didn't get back there. Have thought about everything I ate though, and thinking the following factors may have affected me:
- Yoghurt traces on fruit salad, and too many high GI fruits, or too much fruit in general for 1 serve;
- 1.5 glasses of sweet white wine, instead of allowed 1 glass of dry white wine (you are allowed a glass of white wine instead of a fruit serve a few times a week, so perhaps I had too much 'fruit' on Saturday with the fruit salad and the wine);
- Sausages are high in fat and sodium, and the whole egg mayo may have been a bit too fatty too;
- Dressing on the pumpkin salad may have been too oily, and the traces of feta I had were very salty;
- Gravy with last night's dinner is full of salt so would help me to retain fluid, and I also couldn't get low-fat ricotta so the 2 tablespoons of ricotta I had were full fat. I also had probably 40-50g too much protein at dinner (but if I hadn't cut my chicken breast back at all it would have been 200g too much!);
- Also struggled on both Saturday and Sunday to drink enough water, I don't think I would have gone over 1.5L on Saturday or 2L on Sunday.
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