Day 2-ish

Lunch

Another day, the second on the diet...I mean I try, but doesn't seem to get there.

The food diary of the day starts with 2 oatcakes in the morning (120 cal) and my fruit salad = 190 cal.

A coffee with one teaspoon of sugar (20cal) and a wee wafer (87 cal) for snack.

Then when hunger hit me after about 2 hours of digging in the garden, I had my lunch. Strangely enough, today I have discovered how much does the oil in the salad account for the calories. I thought it makes no sense to keep track of a wee splash of olive oil. Well, when I checked the label today - one spoon of oil (about 25 g), which is more or less that 'splash' - accounts for a whooping 205 calories...and that killed my day again. I have cut down the cheese to 30 gr today (what they call a 'serving') = 125 cal. Then I finished the half of my yesterday's guacamole = 160 cal, with one oatcake (60 cal). And for dessert, only 50 ml of Greek full fat yogurt (cut down in half from yesterday) = 61 cal, and a square of dark chocolate = 22 cal.

So, with a total for the lunch (picture above) of 699 calories, my total for today (so far) is 1116 calories.

Wow. Simply wow.

And, as yesterday, still half a day to go. By the way, yesterday I was so munching on unsalted pistachios , that I must have been by the end of the day over 1800 calories...

After I clear the food from my fridge, I will try some of Michael's menus, as I am losing control on numbers. But there is also a good side of it: I don't think I would be aware of the calories that go in without even knowing....

P.S. I was checking the labels of the Ryvita - only 34 cal per slice. I think I would use this as replacement of the oatcakes (with the 60 cal per cake) for dips.

P.S.1 I remembered to weigh myself this morning: 69.2 kg...Let's see how it goes...