What did you eat yesterday?

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That's a thought - we sometimes can't get the panettone we really love, since it's the only one we've found with candied peel in it. Since the others have been disappointing I usually just pass and let Pete scoff the lot but I'm not encouraging him to do that any more. (Not that he needs encouraging, but there again, I don't need to eat puddings either! )
 
Sat
B - 2 Slices of Toast buttered & spread with sugar free marmalade (homemade almond soda bread)
L - 1/2 Cold Cheese & Onion Quiche, with sweet pickle & Sliced Salad Sticks (Mini Cucumber, Carrot, Celery & Mayo) handful of macadamia nuts
D Homemade Chilli Con-Carne
served with half a spiralised sweet potato airfryed so nice & crispy & a courgette (spirally cut)
 
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Well, i must admit that rather stupidly, having reached my weight goal after 8 months, I celebrated with a piece of flapjack and a small glass of red wine. And very nice it was too.
 
Congratulations @Gwynn 🙂
 
Thank you. Now comes the really hard bit...weight maintenance.

I cannot believe that I have lost 38.6% of me. That's almost half of me gone. Makes me quite embarrassed to think how I was before!
 
Thank you. Now comes the really hard bit...weight maintenance.

I cannot believe that I have lost 38.6% of me. That's almost half of me gone. Makes me quite embarrassed to think how I was before!

I'm sure you will have absorbed a bunch of information re weight maintenance but I think it's really worth delving into the studies published by Kevin Hall's group at the US National Institutes for Health. He's a bit of a rockstar in the real metabolic research world (as against the Internet snakepit of quacks and grifters).

A long-term follow up study of contestants from the "Biggest Loser" TV travesty generated some noise a few years ago:


The main takeaway: comparing weight-maintainers and weight-regainers, there was no significant difference in the amount they eat, but a very significant difference in the amount of exercise. On average, yr bod and brain want you to put the weight back on; they will afflict you with constant food craving to make that happen; and the only sure-fire strategy is to increase physical acitvity to burn off the excess calories you will probably eat, say ~90 min of exercise per day.

(Personally, I think I'm a bit more fortunate than "average" when it comes to cravings, but I certainly think that maintaining my weight loss for the past 2.5+ years has a lot to do with walking 100-120 min per day.)

This review paper looks at some of the mechanisms for what's going on and general strategies for maintenance:


A list of all Hall's publications, a really fascinating collection IMO: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/biography/hall-kevin/publications
 
This week's menus - weather looks better mid week so will fire up the BBQ:

Friday Toulouse Sausage Loaf with Fried Pickle Salad (Dopamine Diet)
Yesterday Chicken stuffed with Stilton
Sunday Roast Pork, Red Cabbage, Savoy Cabbage & Runner Beans
Monday Tex Mex Meatballs (Pinch of Nom Quick and Easy) & Cauli Rice
Tuesday BBQ – Steak, Herby Lemon Chicken, Shawarma Chicken Kebab, BBQ Green Beans & Asparagus (Outdoor Cooking)
Wednesday BBQ – Steak, Korean BBQ Beef, Lamb Koftas (all from Outdoor Cooking), Tomato, Ricotta and Basil Salad (Loose Weight for Good)
Thursday Sausage and Sage Omelette (Dopamine Diet) & Greek Salad
Friday Chicken Madras (Indian Restaurant Cookbook)
 
Discovered tins of Marks and Spencer's Chunky Steak. The only suspect ingredient is a gelling agent Xanthan Gum (whatever that is). Not too much fats and no E ingredients.
Very tasty, add an oxo and veg and it's a tasty, nourishing, quick and very easy meal.
The lovely Jane did me 50gm new potatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, carrots, an onion and mushrooms.
Finished off with a dozen fresh strawberries and 7 fresh raspberries.

Tastiest meal since diagnosis other than that rather gorgeous fillet steak I had at the Bear Cross in July.
 
yesterday

brunch - takeaway carvery dinner - braised steak, cabbage and turnip - didn't have any mashed or roasted spuds (it's criminal not to have a ton of spuds here in Ireland - you normally get 4 or 5 scoops of mash and 4 roasties). Turnip wasn't good for my bg reading wise but it's my favourite veg - but my amazing other half had already said he didn't want the spuds, carrots and peas - I did know in advance that turnip was quite high/not a great choice.

dinner - homemade doner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole

today

brunch - homemade Indian chicken with raw spinach and salad (looks like a ton of it but that's actually a side plate)indian chicken.jpg

dinner - the other half of yesterdays homemade doner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole, drizzle of garlic salad dressing
 
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Saturday:
Brunch: Corned beef hash (made with new potatoes, mushrooms and red onion) with a fried egg.
Dinner: Stir fried prawns and veg with a hoi-sin type sauce cooked from scratch, small portion egg noodles. White wine.

Sunday:
Breakfast: 2 thin slices of toast cut from a Morrison's Spelt, wheat and rye loaf. Butter and Marmite.

Late Lunch: We were entertained by friends - 6 of us had nibbles on the terrace were some sardine thingies on little flatbreads (I didn't have any) plus puff pastry whirls filled with peanut butter. I had 2.
Indoors (it started to rain) Scallops with bacon, followed by crab tart, asparagus, roast carrot, Cheesy potatoes (similar to dauphinoise). Pudding was a lemon tart with raspberries and clotted cream. I had a little portion of everything.
Followed by cheese and port, then coffee and chocolate mints. Whatever I did with my insulin (3 separate doses) I managed not to go higher than 7.9 so I guess it was a success, it was certainly all a lovely treat!

Got home at 8pm. No more food for me tonight!
 
dinner - the other half of yesterdays homemade donner with rocket, 3 cherry tomatoes, a spoonful of homemade salsa, spoonful of homemade spicy guacamole, drizzle of garlic salad dressing
Sounds amazing but what is donner?
 
Sounds amazing but what is donner?
@Pattidevans Donner kebab meat - like you get in a takeaway (the thing that spins round on the pole) - it's so simple to make - just get mince (lamb or whatever type you like) just punch it until it goes soft rather than stringy bits, add Tongmaster donner seasoning and shape it into a ball or rectangle, cook in the oven for about 30 mins and slice it. I don't have it with any bread now but used to have the slices in a pita bread with salad and chilli sauce or sriracha sauce and some raita - yum
 
WOW! I had never heard of that! I haven't had a take away in years. It's a bit like Gyros in Greece then!
 
WOW! I had never heard of that! I haven't had a take away in years. It's a bit like Gyros in Greece then!
example doner pic.jpg if gyro looks like this then yeah 😛 - you can also have them made with chicken
 
@Pattidevans Donner kebab meat - like you get in a takeaway (the thing that spins round on the pole) - it's so simple to make - just get mince (lamb or whatever type you like) just punch it until it goes soft rather than stringy bits, add Tongmaster donner seasoning and shape it into a ball or rectangle, cook in the oven for about 30 mins and slice it. I don't have it with any bread now but used to have the slices in a pita bread with salad and chilli sauce or sriracha sauce and some raita - yum
I bung mine into a loaf tin and cook for about 1.5 hours covered and then a final 10 or so minutes uncovered. I love it with sriracha mayo - mayo and chilli sauce mixed together
 
I bung mine into a loaf tin and cook for about 1.5 hours covered and then a final 10 or so minutes uncovered. I love it with sriracha mayo - mayo and chilli sauce mixed together
Hi @adrian1der Isn't that meatloaf?
 
Yes - but spiced like doner kebab. I made Toulose Sausage Loaf the other day which is much the same but wrapped in foil
 
B: bacon, scrambled egg, tomato, thin slice toast
L: cooked meat, cheese, tomato, beetroot, ryvita, pickled cucumber (getting addicted so need to make more), half apple.
D: trout fillet, courgette, green beans. half roll, berries and cream
 
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