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Thursday, 9 January 2025

Another day tracked

Thursday 9th January 2025


Short blog this morning as I posted some of this yesterday I think, breakfast was mushrooms on toast, I added a little milk to the pan to stop the mushrooms from sticking and to help them cook without oil whilst the soft cheese melted, really enjoyed this meal for under 200 calories (without the mugs of tea/coffee), quick to cook too.

  

I went to the gym straight from huddle for the first time this and walked a mile on the treadmill, it almost made me cry with pain but hopefully as I lose weight it'll get easier, my knees not as painful as it has been so maybe it's helped.  I still wouldn't want to walk round and stand on it for hours but I didn't wince as much as I usually do coming down the stairs this morning.

Lunch was leftover hotpot with veggies, those sprouts were so good but I left some of the carrot I was full and hadn't thought there was already carrots in the hotpot. 

    

I was surprised to find myself hungry again at tea time so I cooked the leftover chicken thighs from the pack I'd bought for the hotpot, I removed all the skin and bones and weighed my 2 pieces and served it with this microwave Dal Tarka that I'd bought to try before Christmas, the whole packet was 258 calories, it cost £1.85 and tasted okay, not sure I'd eat it again as a main but as a side if we were having fakeaway Indian, it'd be great. 

  


It tasted better than it looks. 

I ended my day on 1587 calories, I did enjoy some wine and eat a banana, the app says I had 9.2 of my f-a-day but they do count 2 portions of mushrooms as 2 of your 5 but that should only be 1 as the 5 should be different things.  I still hit the five easy, mushrooms, sprouts, carrots, onions, cabbage, banana, lentils (yes lentils count).

Fitbit says I did 9,924 steps and burned 2,080 calories, even managed 10 minutes in the active zone, it doesn't show the 25 minutes in the pain zone ;) 

I've ha a good nights sleep 8h 38m apparently, sleep score 86, I left the heating on when I went to bed because I was cold all night but woke up at 1am warm, thirsty and needing the loo - so came down and turned the heating off and had a glass of water, need to remember to take a glass/bottle with me to bed as it does help me drink that extra 500ml a day when I do that.  I'm drinking about a litre of water a day, so I could work on increasing that, see if that helps my joint pain.

Anyway I need to get ready for work, I'm sat here in my dressing gown and haven't thought about breakfast.  I've got a really busy day, 3 huddles and parents evening after work tonight which makes me laugh 5 minutes per teacher - that's crazy, what are you supposed to be able to cover in 5 minutes.

Here's to a great day, I've bought a ready made lasagne for tea so I don't have to cook, that'll sort the boys easily and I can just have a portion with some salad I think.

Catch ya tomo,

Luv u

Love me xx

  


Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Great start to the year...

Wednesday 8th January 2025


Well it's been over a month since I blogged and I've had a wonderful Christmas, a lovely rest and time with the family.  Bonus I maintained my weight which you can imagine pleased me enormously but now it's time to lose some weight.  

I indulged but didn't go crazy, I had my usual Christmas breakfast of a bottle of prosecco with orange juice :) I enjoyed some Bailey's, Whiskey, Port - all the important stuff - not all in one day of course and yes I did eat food too!

I opened my Nutracheck app on January 1st and I've 100% honestly tracked since, that probably helped me with the maintain when I weighed on Tuesday.  

I'm eating some delicious food, trying to think a bit more about what I eat and realising once again how much I really enjoy healthy food.   Here's some of the meals I've eaten this year proving you can eat great food and it's why I love calories because you can have anything as long as you count it, don't have to miss out on a glass of red. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is everything tracked so far this year,

  


This is how many calories my Fitbit says I've burned so hopefully next week I'll get a weight loss. 

 

I'm going to start blogging again to help keep me on track, I need to lose weight to help my pain, my knee is in bits and weight loss will help ease the pain.  I've got a telephone appointment to discuss the xray on Monday but I've already seen the comments from the Consultant Radiologist, it's not pretty tri-compartmental moderate change most marked in the medial compartment which from googling is tri-compartmental osteoarthritis which affects the whole knee and there's no cure, just painkillers, steroids and ultimately a knee replacement, so let's lose some weight to hopefully give me some relief.

On a positive, I went back to the gym today and managed to walk a mile on the treadmill slowly, it took me 25 minutes and I could've cried at the end it as so painful but I did it, this time last year I couldn't walk for 5 minutes because of my back, yeah I've got spondylolisthesis too, how lucky am I to have all these long worded conditions!

slow and steady, if I could lose 1/2lb a week, that's almost 2 stone by Christmas, 1lb a week would be 52lb which is almost the weight of a sack of spuds! 

Every pound lost is the equivalent of 4lb of pressure off my knee, that's my motivation and I need to not forget it!


What's your motivation?  Let's do this together - make 2025 our year!  You in?