Too much to eat

76.4kg today Friday 8th Oct

I decided to save some of my prawns for dinner this time. Last time we had prawns I ate them all at lunch and felt way too full. I also felt the need for coffee and chocolate in the afternoon so my dilemma was how to keep the kJ under control. But by the time I ate the 6 prawns I had saved for dinner I didn't feel like anything else. I had my pear before bed and totalled about 5500kJ for the day.
Needless to say I was able to lose weight so I am now hoping that I can at least maintain the 76.4 til Sunday and that will mean I will have lost 0.5 kg in a week.
We have been counting kJ for about 6 weeks now and we are both finding it easier to judge and juggle to keep between 5000 and 6000kJ for the day. I know that I can keep this up until I get to my goal weight of 58 kg.
We have decided that we won't officially count on Christmas day and Boxing day because we want to have all those Christmassy things like cake, pudding, ice cream, chocolate, cocktails. I did a quick count of what all my wants would add up to and it came to about 14000kJ for one day. Funnily though when I looked over the list I was thinking 'How can I possibly find room for all this?'. So maybe it won't be such a big blowout after all. It is fun to look forward to a free day and imagine all the treats we can have. I don't have any desire to break out earlier because I really want to get down to 72kg by Christmas. I can remember winter 18 months ago I was 72kg and I felt great so that is what motivates me to get there again.

Still motivated

76.7 kg today Thursday
Sunday was 76.9
Monday 76.6
Tuesday 76.9
Wednesday 76.9

Somewhere I went up to 77.2 again which was frustrating. However, on Wednesday we went to lunch again and had jelly and icecream for desert and I just had to have a half piece of chocolate last night with my tea and I still lost.
Both of us are finding that we go up and down over the week like the stock market. We zig and zag but the trend is downward. Hopefully the stock market trend is upward! To balance out the lunch I had avocado on a mountain bread for dinner.
Today we got a free small slurpy with our fuel so we had half each and called it 300kJ each.
We are having prawns again today. The prawns and the sauce are 1300kJ. I should have some veges tonight but I don't feel like it. I will have two avo and mountain breads. Banana and mulberries round it out to 5600kJ for the day.

Another Week

76.9kg today. This weeks loss = 0.2kg
Another week has gone by. Last Sunday I was 77.1kg. I spent three days on 76.8 then went up to 77.2 and today I am down to 76.9. Losing the weight is a slow process to match the rate that I put it on, I suppose. 25kg in 25 years. I hope to lose it a bit faster than that. An average of 2 kg a month would make me happy. But it may be slower than that. I don't want too much pain. If I can lose it at any rate and eat what I have been it should be easy.

I prepared today's menu this morning, piling on what I thought was a lot of food and would surely put me over 5500kJ. But when I totaled it up it was fine.

1/4 rock melon - 165
Mulberry pie - 1200 and coffee - 330

two mountain breads and avocado - 2 x 650 with tuna - 403
coffee - 330 1/3 my banana ration - total banana ration 2 x 365

1/3 banana and tea
carrot and potat0 and sauce - 135 + 440 + 100 = 685
1/3 banana and tea

total = 5143kJ
There is room here for a wine 150kJ if I feel like it.

Making choices

76.8kg again today

I added a glass of wine after prawn lunch and then finished off a few tablespoons of left over mulberry sauce before dinner. I didn't feel like a big dinner so I left out the potato. This gave me kJ for a cup of coffee after dinner with my banana.

I am learning to consider what I am eating so it fits in the kJ count for the day. It is getting easier to swap things or halve things rather than eat everything. I feel as though I will be able to maintain this eating habit for a long time til I get to my goal weight of 60kg and then maintain order in my diet so that I do not put it on again.

We have a rock melon that we need to eat. A quarter slice will be about 250 kJ. This is no more than a banana or pear so we will be able to fit it into our kJ count quite easily as a fruit snack. It will mean leaving out other less useful snacks like wine or chocolate but they will wait for another day. We don't want to waste the rock melon.

I don't feel as though I am doing without anything I just juggle the items so I can eat things just for fun as well as nutrition.