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.

19/9/2012

Today I had to go to the hospital so my nerves were frayed. Took the opportunity to pop into Tesco to get pearl barley and lentils. Crashed when I got home, anxiety high so appetite low. Breakfast 1 large bowl Swiss style Muesli (as packaged) with milk contains oats, bran flakes, dried fruit, nuts hands shaking as eating, but finished bowl. 2 cups coffee (meant this to be all for day, wasn't) Lunch N/A Dinner Chicken breast boiled with pearl barley in thick chicken stock very simple to make, surprisingly yummy. Seared chicken on all sides, put in pot with pearl barley, covered with chicken stock (from a oxo cube) brought to the boil and simmered for 20mins served in a bowl 1 cup black tea with milk Supper Used left over pearl barley and stock to make quick vegetable soup with mixed frozen veg in freezer, included carrots, peas and cauliflower, added a bit more stock and simmered until veg was soft. Threw in some fresh thyme, left to cool, put in jug in fridge (at least three meals worth) Ate in large cup after microwaving through still very good, just now with peas and carrots 1 cup coffee no midnight hunger pangs this is new

First Post

Recently, due to migraines, I was put on a ketogenic diet, with the instruction that I would almost certainly lose weight then I got sent to an ear nose and throat specialist who assured me that whatever was causing them was almost certainly dietary, probably, we're mostly sure and asked me for three months to keep a food diary but being anal when I started to log what I ate I found myself including recipes, and notes and I was encouraged to share it. Now I have a terrible relationship with food, years of bullying over my weight, even as a skinny teen I had big hips = ergo I was fat, and so my weight yoyo-ed even when I ate healthily, stress and other things did me in At university I ate crap that I mostly cooked myself and for the first time my weight levelled off at a healthy 9st 6oz (I'm 5'1, it was heavy but it seemed happy with itself) then I left university and worked a horrible job with little access to real food, so I lived on prepackaged crap and my weight ballooned to 15st that job caused the first of three nervous breakdowns, I have nothing but sympathy for people who work in call centres, it's shitty hours, never settled enough to lock into a pattern, and shitty fast food because you're too tired for anything else, and then you have to talk to people. Crippled with depression and agorophobia my weight just skyrocketed up to what it is at the moment, 19st 4oz. Even though I had no appetite and was eating like a bird. The problem it turned out wasn't how much I was eating but what. and no diet worked, so I did my research, I got my doctor to run tests and went to a nutritionist and we decided that altering my diet to a low GI plan was worth a test, but then there were the migraines so we just notched it up a bit to a ketogenic diet. now for those who don't know what a ketogenic diet is, it's high fat, adequate protein little to no carbs. But here's the thing, I looked at the science of it, at why foods were bad and foods were good and then I tried to cut out coffee. Well I say tried, I'm working on it. So that's why. So I hope you join me, this is the variant form of the notebook I carry around with me to record what I eat, with recipes etc maybe you'll take some of those recipes away and make yourself something yummy too, because seriously when you have the relationship I have with food, good doesn't quite cut it, it has to be great or I won't eat. This isn't a pro-ana site, this is just someone who has to watch her food taking a log