5-7/10/2012

5/10 Breakfast porridge with whole milk, honey and cinnamon 1 cup coffee with cream (I'm not a morning person, this is about the best I can do most mornings) dinner 1/2 pot onken yoghurt 1 cup tea snack 1 small pot yoghurt 1 apple not feeling very happy and cranky, which means my appetite goes. 6/10 breakfast none dinner couscous with meditteranean veg and chorizo snack 1 apple 1 small yoghurt pot 3 rye ginger cookies 7/10 breakfast none dinner roast beef with rice and steamed veg discovered bisto gravy is mostly potato starch 3 cups coffee 1 slice pinapple upside down cake supper 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter

01-04/10/2012

01/10 Breakfast porridge oats, 1 cup with whole milk, honey and cinnamon 1 cup coffee with cream 1 apple lunch 1/2 large onken pot of yoghurt (mad dairy cravings which is weird considering how much cheese I eat) dinner spaghetti bolognese, 1 small portion of pasta with lots of sauce, no garlic bread (snaps fingers in dismay) to make sauce fry onions and garlic in a pan with a little butter or olive oil until soft, add beef mince and cook until completely browned, add 1 tin tomatoes, 1 courgette (zucchini) 1 carrot, 1 pepper (ie what ever is in the fridge) and cover with beef stock, allow to reduce down on a low heat, season to taste add fresh herbs, basil, tarragon, thyme before serving if you don't have fresh herbs add your dried herbs with the tomatoes 2 cups of tea 2ltrs water - am very thirsty all the time 02/10 - went to cinema in evening so all disjointed breakfast - no porridge so boiled two eggs, 1 cup of coffee with cream no lunch snack 1 yoghurt pot, 1 apple 1 bag of mixed fruit and nuts at the cinema 1 large cup of pepsi max dinner half a serving of couscous with feta and chorizo (added cold sliced sausage) 3 cups of coffee with cream throughout day 03/10 = went to the pictures again breakfast porridge with whole milk, honey and nutmeg as lifted wrong spice jar, not too pleasant 1 cup coffee creamer no lunch snack 1 yoghurt pot, 100g of cheese eaten in passing, 1 small bag of roasted hazelnuts at the cinema, 1 large pepsi max dinner 2 slices of rye bread with cheese and pate large portion of cauliflower cheese 2 cups tea 2 ltrs water 04/10 breakfast fried egg with bacon and mushrooms - done in butter dinner fried egg with sausages and mushrooms (visited a friend, was pretty much all she was willing to risk) snack 1/2 onken yoghurt pot small portion of almonds 2 cups tea 1ltr water I'm pretty sure I've entered ketosis as my breath is vile and I can taste it in the back of my throat still worried I'm not getting enough fat though

29-30/09/2012

strangely enough I'm getting page views, can't imagine why anyway 29/09/12 breakfast tropical fruit pot full fat milk 1 cup coffee with creamer dinner omelette with full fat milk, brie and german sausage missed the mushrooms but was still very good (to make 3 eggs, half a cup of milk, beat with a fork until smooth, add salt, pepper and a splash of white vinegar [you can't taste it but it makes the eggs fluffy] cook in a hot pan with a drop of canola oil, when the base is seared, add the slivers of brie and german sausage and move from the hob to under a hot grill until brown on top! 1 cup tea snacks 1 apple 1 yoghurt 1 small portion of fro-yo supper chicken slivers fried with red peppers this was an experiment because normally with omelette I'd have toast but clearly not so was hungrier than usual come supper time 30/09/12 breakfast 1 yoghurt 1 cup tea 1 large glass of sparkling water dinner steak cauliflower, brocolli, peas, carrots and pearl barley pearl barley not cooked in stock - never do that, it tastes like poly styrene balls, with stock it's yummy, without it's tasteless. 2 large glasses of sparkling water supper 3 thin slices of rye bread (made myself in the new breadmaker) with ardennes pate and left over brie 1 large glass of sparkling water 1 cup tea -- I have noticed I am a lot thirstier than I was before I started this diet and according to the scales, accounting for the 2lb either way discrepancy, removing a further 2lb for clothes I've lost a pound I'm much more regular than I was, and my skin appears to have stopped breaking out but with the breadmaker I made a white loaf for the housemate and nearly went on a bread binge because it smelled so good so i made a rye loaf instead next will be pumpernickel. also found some recipes for rye cookies that I might try I don't have much of a sweet tooth, always preferred savoury, but i do like the odd biscuit, so rye cookies solve that issue, and if i make them myself i can control what goes into them

24/09/2012 - 25/09/2012

I have a migraine settling in, yeesh Breakfast Porridge with whole milk, honey and cinnamon porridge is a pain to make in the pan so I learned to microwave it pour the porridge into the bowl, cover with milk, microwave on high for three minutes leave for a minute (or the bowl will burn your hand) then decide whether it's too firm, if it is just add another splash of milk, you'll stir it in in a minute. Put a large dollop of honey (I prefer set but personal preference!) on top and heavily sprinkle on cinnamon then thoroughly mix eat before it gets cold. dinner beef broth still drinking the broth I made the other day, although I grated cheese on the top and grilled it - a'la onion soup gratinee, normally there would be toast on top but not this time supper small bowl of porridge because it was freezing! and I wanted the warm through snack small bowl of full fat icecream (mint) 1 apple 2 cups of tea 2 cups of coffee (I was sat at my sewing machine and went on habit, we're talking full muscle memory) 25/09/2012 breakfast porridge (this is actually a lot nicer than people give it credit for) dinner thin steak slices fried with eggs and onion wondering if that wouldn't have worked better as an omelette! supper japanese noodles (from Japan) with miso broth cooked following instructions on packet with tuna boiled egg and spring onion 1 cup coffee (with breakfast) 1 apple 3 cups tea and a migraine forming, no trigger foods present, rats! was hoping it was some thing easy like don't eat MSG I have fibromyalgia and get very tired around lunch time so I nap, so it's very rare for me to have lunch.

22-23/09/2012

22/09/2012 Breakfast 1 cup of tea 1 apple 1/2 bowl muesli (last of it) dinner half of a 4 cheese pizza, mostly just ate the topping but had a bit of the bread surprisingly despite knowing it was very against the diet didn't feel guilty supper chicken strips baked in tomato sauce, (6) recipe dipped floured chicken sticks in a glaze of ketchup (2tbsp) sugar (1tsp) and Worcestershire Sauce (1tbsp) then put in oven at 180 degrees for 15 mins was very nice! 1 cup coffee all day! no soda, 4 cups of black tea with milk (no sugar) 2 cups of green tea with jasmine and half tsp honey ---- 23/09/2012 slept in VERY late dinner roast beef dinner but eschewed potatoes and roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings, ate only meat and veg. Suggested pearl barley as an alternative to potatoes for future reference. meat very overcooked and dry supper 1 cup of soup made from left over beef, pearl barley and frozen veg (same recipe as before just with beef instead of chicken and beef stock instead of chicken stock) very strong, possibly too much beef! 1 cup coffee 3 cups black tea

21/09/2012

I kind of suspected three days of eating three meals a day was going to be aberrant so guess what, it didn't stick breakfast 1 bowl muesli (that's the last of it) dinner 3 fried cumberland sausages, 2 fried eggs (with the sausages) and beans 1 cup coffee five or so cups of tea, mind, and the other half of the carton of berry juice still hideously constipated despite 2 senokot (natural laxative)

20/09/2012

Things that they should advertise the first week or so of a ketogenic diet you will be both hideously flatulent and constipated It's the change of diet, you poo things like bricks of solid anti matter that my body doesn't want to part with. Have had to take a natural laxative. I'm going more often as well, it's not worrying, but I did have to buy some sudocrem. Breakfast 1 large bowl of muesli 1 cup of tea (was halfway through when I realised it wasn't a horrid cup of coffee but a nice cup of tea. I'm not a morning person) Lunch 1 purchased small doner kebab - ate only the meat and veg, gave the dog the pita bread which soaked up all the fat - whole thing covered in mint sauce (proper stuff not the toothpaste you get in some kebab shops) Dinner 1 boiled egg (I made two but one wended it's way into someone else's salad) and the last of the soup made yesterday with the pearl barley 1 pint (over the day) of 5 alive berry juice! got makings for cassoulet but forgot to defrost the meat so didn't make it.