Day Ninety

So today was the long-awaited Christmas meal and to be honest it was a bit of a let-down. The day began well enough with breakfast of buttery boiled eggs and gluten free sausages (a very low carb option) but the hotly anticipated lunch turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.

For starters I had chosen garlic mushrooms with onion bread. The mushrooms were fine, although a tiny portion and I only had half of one of the two pieces of bread as they’d toasted and burnt it, so this dish didn’t really trouble me too hard in the carb stakes. For my main course I had gone for rib eye steak, which as it turned out, came only with half a tomato and a spoonful of watercress. There was supposed to be chips and vegetables, but as the people on my table who had the Christmas dinner had asked for more of their potatoes and vegetables because they didn’t have enough in the one bowl they were given to share, I and the other person who had steak weren’t given anything. I didn’t even get some of the other’s vegetables because they only brought out sprouts the second time (which I detest with a passion) and all the roast potatoes went before they realised we weren’t getting anything. So this too didn’t push the carbs up. But then I had dessert, sticky toffee pudding with a very small helping of brandy sauce (apparently). This obviously was stratospheric in terms of carbs, but did taste lovely – although after my long time without that sort of food it was incredibly sweet and I had trouble finishing it even though I was starving. To go with the meal I had a small glass of sparkling wine which was supposed to be Prosecco but was far too sweet and cloying and a small glass of Pinot Grigio as well as several large glasses of water. I also had a further small glass of wine in the pub after the meal was finished, but after the disappointment of the meal I was feeling rather flat so bowed out and made my way home.

For dinner I had a chocolate mint protein shake and some wafer thin ham and cheese as I really needed to eat something, but didn’t want to push the carbs too high. I've tried to log the meal using Marks and Spencer's sticky toffee pudding as a guide and the results are shown below. Interestingly, without the pudding my carb level would have been in the mid twenties which is pretty good, so not a bad outcome really, and certainly nowhere near as bad as it could have been if I'd had a full meal!

Today’s exercise:  Just the walking to and from work etc.

Carb's Eaten: 88.7G* 

Exercising to: Christmas music!

Weight Loss = 1 stone and 11 pounds

Inch Loss = 12.5 inches

Mood: Feeling flat and strangely disappointed