day 4, thursday 3rd may

morning :) well yesterday was a strange kind of day. got up and had a raspberry smoothie ( like them or not I have a load in the fridge that need to get eaten) and traipsing around sainsburys with mum i found they do prepacked fruit portions with the cals marked on then, Hoooorayyyy! ( also sainsburys in Mytown have all SF milkshakes half price so i stocked up) I can grab a healthy snack and not rely on polyol filled SF snack bars :) so I bought some of those. also Im struggling with knowing how many calories there are in the meals Im producing for us, I have little or no knowledge of the calorific content of foods because as I said I used to be be an atkins-er so I can list the carb content af a gazillion foods but how manhy calories in an apple... erm !
so I had a brainwave, weightwatchers do ready prepared meals with the calories stamped right there on the front, even I can work that out plus as they are ready prepared I dont have to worry about cooking or preparing them.

what I ate yesterday

• breakfast - SF raspberry smoothie 212 cals
• snack - approx 100g strawberries, 34 cals
• lunch - SF chocolate milkshake and assorted melon sections from sainsburys 52 cals
• tea - weightwatchers chicken tikka and rice ( hmmm not exactly what Id call spicey and I dont really like relly spicey food, still it was edible and more importantly it had the calories listed ) 312 cals, plus one naan bread at 163 cals
• evening snack - SF cranberry and almond bar 99 cals
• water - approx 2 ltrs, just didnt get the time to drink more, but I did have a couple of extra cups of tea
• alcohol - none. ( and boy did the evening drag!)

dh has the weightwatchers lasagne as he loves that, he said this one was a bit flat and could use a couple of more layers, I replied that would probably add a couple of hundred calories as well. he seems to be getting stomach aches when he has the SF bars, I hope it is not going to be a problem as if he has to go on just shakes he will bore of this very very quickly! I will look into the soups and pastas available in the diet market and see if there is anything he could take to work instead. after all it doesnt have to be sSF, he could have a can of soup etc as long as the calories tally with the SF plan we should both continue to loose weight.
cant beleive its only thursday, seems like I have been doing this for ever!
off to the library to get some books on calories etc