Dinner

A small serving of yesterday's stir-fry, and a can of Heineken.

Afternoon snack

A sweet'n'salty snack bar, and a bottle of water.

Lunch

Dim sum and then sum - our caterer brought in lots of different types
of dim sum. This wasn't exactly a healthy meal, I had something like
5 or 6 different dumpling things, a small serving of noodles, and a
small dessert thingie, some kind of one-bite custard pie. Soon after
lunch I had a café au lait 1% milk.

Breakfast

My usual: Optimum Power cereal and a café au lait, both with 1% milk,
plus a spoonful of healthy Lýsi.

Dinner

A small portion of tofu stir fry my wife made - very delicious and quite healthy.

Not so happy with myself now...

Was feeding my boys and went mad, a serious case of emotional eating
(was feeling very stressed from work). I had a glass of rosé, two
horrible cocoa chocolate biscuit type things full of trans fats, and
three or four large bites of the "too sweet" strudel we bought the
other day. The rest of both of the aforementioned ended up in the
trash once I got a grip on myself.

Oh me oh my :(

Afternoon snack

One slice of zucchini bread and a gluten-free blueberry snack bar.

Morning snack

Cafe au lait, 1% milk.

Lunch

Thai sour red curry fish with rice noodles and bok choy. This was a
pretty awesome dish, leading me to finish all of the quite large
serving.

Breakfast

My standard, with Otimum Power cereal.

Dinner

A pretty hefty dinner at an Italian restaurant: Quite a lot of antipasti for appetizers (quite a few calamari bits, half a sausage, one bruschetta, and some grilled octopus), followed by a sirloin steak (quite large) with a peppercorn sauce, sauteed vegetables and about half of the home fry potato wedges that came with it. With dinner I had a couple of glasses of red wine, and a cappuccino for dessert.

Afternoon snack

A café au lait 1% milk, a sweet'n'salty bar and a peach from the fruit basket.

Lunch

Mediterranean chicken salad with greens, citrus couscous, tomatoes,
olives and artichokes. This was a fairly large serving but very
healthy.

Lunch was followed up by a handful of grapes (our caterer brought a
fruit basket) and a café au lait 1% milk.

Breakfast

My usual, with Heritage O's cereal.

Dinner

Since I'd already stuffed my face in the Blitzessen a bit earlier, I just had a bowl of Optimum Power cereal with 1% milk.

Oh Man... self-control out the window

This blog was supposed to force me to think before I eat, and it has been great at that, but just now it didn't work. I was feeding my boys, and somehow ended up in a feeding frenzy myself. I had:
- 1 1/2 slices of Zucchini bread, one of them with butter
- What probably amounted to a serving of some cauliflower gratin my wife made for the boys
- Three pieces of chocolate :(
- Two teaspoonfuls of peanut butter (these were in an attempt to control the frenzy, which failed)
- A few blueberries

Doh! Doh! Doh!

Lunch

Sliced cold roast pork with jalapeno jelly served with apple slaw.
After lunch I had a cafe au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

My usual, with Optimum Power cereal.

Sweet Dinner

A bowl of Optimum Power, followed by lots of Icelandic chocolates. My justification was that the chocolates replaced a "proper dinner". If this blog had readers, now would be the time to speak up and tell me to get a grip.

Dunch/Linner

We went to the market and had a late lunch/early dinner. I had a crepe with bechamel sauce, ham, cheese and asparagus. After dinner, a couple of bites of something called antelope horns (at a middle eastern bakery) which tasted like perfume, and a bite of strudel (from a Polish bakery) that was too sweet.

Lunch

A bowl of plain 2.5% yogurt with blueberries, blackberries, and a
little bit of Optimum Power cereal.

An after Knapsack... no wait, an after nap snack

Café au lait with 1% milk plus 2/3rds of a gluten-free blueberry snack
bar (80 kcal for the 2/3rds).

Breakfast

Optimum Power cereal with 1% milk, and a spoonful of Lýsi.

Dinner

A little before dinner I had one and a half petit beurre cookies.

Dinner was a quite large portion of three different Chinese dishes: Peking duck, chicken with crispy noodles in peanut sauce, and "tofu pot" (vegetables plus deep-fried tofu).

Right after dinner my hand accidentally fell into a bag of peanut M&Ms a couple of times and the only thing I could think of was to stuff the two handfuls into my mouth.

Lunch

4 squares of yesterday's thin crust chicken pizza, and 1 square of the
thin crust pepperoni pizza.

Breakfast

My standard, with Optimum Power cereal.

Oh, the humanity!

As an evening "snack" I had horrible vast amounts of super delicious Icelandic chocolate candies and felt like I was about to burst afterwards.

Dinner

A little less than 1/2 a chicken thin crust pizza, and 1/4th thin crust pepperoni pizza, plus a couple of glasses of red wine.

Lunch

Nile perch filet with citrus and saffron sauce served with greens. A little before lunch I had a regular café au lait.

Breakfast

The usual, with Optimum Power cereal.

Dinner

Cajun chicken wrap with roasted peppers in whole wheat tortilla served with a salad of greens, baby tomatoes and olives, undressed.

Afternoon snack

A cafe au lait 1% milk and a sweet'n'salty bar.

Lunch

Roasted chicken breast served on Tuscan bread salad, tomatoes, basil
and garlic. The bread salad was not as healthy as I had hoped, some
cubes of bread with a fair bit of olive oil. The serving size was
small though.

Breakfast

Optimum Power cereal and a cafe au lait, both with 1% milk, plus a
spoonful of Lýsi.

Dinner

About an hour before dinner I cheated and had a couple of kids'
biscuits (little bear things), about 40 kcal combined. To stop my
cravings I had a teaspoonful of organic Valencia peanut butter (we're
almost out!).

Dinner was half a plate of a salad of iceberg and baby tomatoes,
dressed with just a touch of olive oil, balsamic and pepper, to go
with two halves of some organic vegetarian burritos (a whole burrito
was about 300 kcal). Also a couple of forkfuls of macaroni and cheese
my son was having.

Afternoon snack

1/4th of a very small (individual portion) salmon and goat cheeze
pizza, plus a small green salad, undressed.

Lunch

A puffed spelt wafer with a teaspoonful of organic Valencia peanut
butter, a sandwich with margarine, cheese, two slices of turkey ham
and two slices of some super healthy whole grain bread, and a serving
of plain yoghurt with blueberries. Followed closely by a café au lait 1% milk.

Breakfast

Optimum Power ceral and a café au lait both with 1% milk, plus a
spoonful of Lýsi.

Early Dinner

A lot of seafood: 2 lobster tails, 3 scampi tails, 2 large shrimps, all with some kind of garlic bread crumbs and dipped in garlic butter. With it, a serving of rice, vegetables and some home fries, plus half a bottle of white wine. All in all a philibuster of a meal.

Day's Menu

This is from memory the day after but I think I remember everything:

• Breakfast: My usual, i.e. a bowl of Optimum Zen and a café au lait with 1% milk, plus a spoonful of Lýsi.
• Lunch: Bulgogi beef on a mango oriental salad. This was very healthy and really good.
• Dinner: One and a half hamburgers of the normal size variety, in a white bun with maybe 1 1/2 or two teaspoonfuls of mayonnaise plus other healthy dressings.
• There might have been an extra café au lait 1% milk in there somewhere.
  

Evening snack

4 pieces of Linda Kaffisúkkulaði (chocolate, fairly large pieces each, total is probably similar to 2/3rds of a Mars bar).

Lunch

The crust of two slices of bread, with a little bit of margarine, a
somewhat large bowl of Optimum Zen with whole milk (regular milk was
out), and half a gluten-free apple breakfast bar.

Breakfast

A gluten-free apple bar, and a Lärabar made of cashews and dates.

Evening snack

16 pieces of Appolló lakkrís, and two bites of a Draumur.

Dinner

A shish taouk plate from restaurant Amir, sans pita bread, sans garlic sauce, but with hummus.

Pre-lunch snacks

The crust of one slice of bread, one of those sugar-free cookies, two strawberries, and a couple of
spoonfuls of yoghurt. A bit later, I had a 7-layer dip sampler at
Costco.

Breakfast

A small bowl of Optimum Zen cereal and a café au lait, both with 1%
milk, plus a spoonful of delicious Norwegian Lýsi.

Candy, Destroyer of Diets

About 8 pieces of Appolló liquorice, plus 3 pieces of Lindu Marsípan chocolate.

Dinner

Half a medium size thin and crispy Domino's pizza with chicken, onions
and pineapple, plus 4/14ths of a medium size thin and crispy
vegetarian pizza.

Afternoon snack

Something like 2 small sugar-free cookies.

Lunch

A really good steak salad; medium-rare steak pieces, arugula, slivers
of parmigiano, truffle oil, and aged balsamic vinegar. Before the
meal I had a café au lait and two slices of baguette bread with olive
oil and balsamic vinegar. Afterwards, I had a little bit (perhaps 8
small teaspoonfuls) of ice cream.

Breakfast

Two gluten-free apple bars and a Diet Coke.

Midnight snack

Actually way past midnight, I had one of these gluten-free apple bars
my wife bought (120 kcal).

...and

4 bonbons from the bakery across the street. Stressful indeed - but
now I'm done done done (with the eating, not the stress).

Evening snack

One Jocalat Lärabar (190 kcal). What can I say, it was a stressful night.

Dinner

A small portion of chicken pot pie, a not-too-big portion of
cauliflower gratine, a portion of kidney and chicken bean salad with
some olive oil, as well as the rest (3 bites) of that yucky Starbucks
monstrosity and a small square of carrot cake.

Afternoon snack

A crunchy peanut butter granola bar from Nature Valley (230 kcal).

Lunch

Salmon salad with dill on multigrain bread served with green salad.
Fairly modest serving. Followed closely by a cafe au lait 1% milk.

Breakfast

Two bites of the horrible Starbucks mutant croissant my wife bought
yesterday, a very small bowl of Mesa Sunrise and a cafe au lait both
with 1% milk, plus some Krakkalýsi.

Dinner

A modest serving of chicken pot pie, a serving of cauliflower gratin,
the small service of fiddlehead ferns that remained since yesterday,
and a small serving of tomato pasta salad.

Afternoon snack

A café au lait 1% milk and a Nature Valley Apple Cinnamon Trail Mix
bar (150 kcal).

Lunch

Roasted chicken with cauliflower puree and wilted greens. A fairly
modest serving. Followed closely by a café au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

A bowl of Mesa Sunrise flakes and a café au lait, both with whole milk
since the regular stuff was out (I used less than normally, especially
for the coffee), plus a spoonful of Krakkalýsi.

Dinner

A serving of tilapia, some fiddlehead ferns (weird green snail-like
vegetables) sauteed with garlic and sesame seeds, bean salad in olive
oil, a tiny bit of pasta salad with sundried tomatoes, and some
steamed broccoli with a tiny bit of butter. Altogether this made for
a fairly modest serving.

Lunch

Pad thai - chicken, tofu, egg, peanuts and sprouts. A somewhat hefty serving.

Morning snack

Café au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

A café au lait with 1% milk, a bowl of Mesa Sunrise (basically healthy
corn flakes) with whole milk (the 1% milk was finished), and a
spoonful of Krakkalýsi.

Dinner

Before dinner I had a couple of bites of my son's pasta.

Dinner was a portion of chicken pot pie and a portion of cauliflower
gratine, plus some grilled asparagus spears.

After dinner I had a slice of carrot cake and several pieces of See´s chocolate.

BIG OOPS. I've lost my horse but will try to get back on it tomorrow.

Afternoon snack

Café au lait 1% milk and half of that chocolate muffin (fairly small).

Lunch

Arugula salad with poached pears, pine nuts and parmesan, dressed with
about a teaspoonful of vinaigrette. This was a very small serving. I did not have the chocolate muffin that came with it for dessert - yippeekayee.

After lunch I had a café au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

A café au lait and a bowl of Heritage O's, both with 1% milk, plus a
spoonful of Krakkalýsi.

Dinner

About 1/3rd of a large Domino's thin crust pizza with chicken, onions and pineapple, and about 1/7th of a medium Domino's thin crust pizza with cheese.

A while after dinner I had about half of 6 different See's nuts and chews pieces (equivalent to about 3 pieces in total).

Lunch

I forgot to order food yesterday, so I didn't get the "healthy choice"
meal, which is what I normally order. What I got was a BLT sandwich
made with crispy proscuitto, oven roasted tomatoes, oka cheese on
multigrain bread served with green salad. The serving size was small
so I don't think this was a terrible choice.

The meal was followed closely by a café au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

A bowl of Corn Flakes with milk (probably 2%), a cup of coffee with a
bit of cream, and a banana. This was followed closely by a whole milk
café latte.

A dark grey day!

Not sure I remember everything, but here goes:

Breakfast: A bowl of Heritage Os and a café au lait, both with 1% milk, plus a banana.

Lunch: Quite a fair bit too much of three different types of crépes. Two out of three seemed quite fattening, with lots of cheese and bechamel sauce. I also had a beer to wash things down.

Afternoon snack: A café au lait, 1% milk, and something like 2/3rds of a "Beavertail" (a deep-fried pastry thing), part with cinnamon and sugar, another part (which I had more of) with chocolate sauce, pecans and glazing. Horrible but delicious.

Dinner: A little bit of beef sashimi, around 15 pieces of various sushi pieces (mostly healthy) and a little more than half of a piece of cheesecake, plus a couple of beers before dinner and some sake to go with dinner.

Breakfast

The usual: A bowl of Heritage Os and a café au lait, both with 1% milk, plus a spoonful of Krakkalýsi.

A black day!

I'm sure I forgot something since this is all written the day after.

Breakfast: 4 or 5 squares of yesterday's pizza, and some Diet Coke. For some reason I'm feeling hung over.

Brunch/Lunch: Lots of different things, some of them not healthy whatsoever; what I remember is some Rockaberry's Oreo cheesecake (a few teaspoonfuls), more pizza (probably 4-5 more squares altogether) and maybe 15-20 peanut M&Ms.

Dinner: Steak in a dark gravy and sweet potato fries with mayonnaise, washed down with two pints of lager and followed by a cappuccino and panna cotta.

Movie snack: I bought a medium popcorn (which is fairly huge) and shared it with my wife, probably had a bit more than a "small" bag.

Dinner

About 3/4ths of a medium Domino's thin and crispy crust pizza with pepperoni and stuff, and two glasses of red wine. After dinner I had something like 4 pieces of See's chocolates.

Lunch

Tuna salad with crackers, a meatball sandwich (kind of yucky) and a sliced apple, on the plane.

Breakfast

A small bowl of raisin bran with 2% milk, a banana, and a cup of coffee with half-and-half.

Dinner

Half a plate of baby spinach salad with some almonds, crumbled blue
cheese and half a teaspoon of dressing, plus two small pieces of
blackened cod (very good), a serving of chili corn rice, and a tiny
portion of asparagus spears sautéed in white wine. Soon after dinner
I had a couple of pieces of candied ginger and a 5g square of dark
chocolate for dessert.

Afternoon snack

Two small mouthfuls of some apple pie kind of thing.

Whole-day buzz

I had something like three cafe au laits with 2% milk throughout the day.

Lunch

Several tapas things, all of them pretty healthy, and amounting to a
relatively small meal. There was a shot-glass of avocado gazpacho
soup, a tiny portion of hamachi sashimi, a gigante beans dish, a
couple of tiny strips of beef on spicy spaghetti, a couple of
mouthfuls of a lamb chop (which was undercooked so I didn't have much)
and the small portion of mashed potatoes that came with it, and a
strawberry/lime "soup" dessert.

Breakfast

A small bowl of the granola from a couple of days ago, and a cafe au
lait, both with 2% milk.

Evening snack

1 slice candied ginger, 1 slice candied mango

Dinner

Indian food. I had a fairly modest serving (one plate, not heaping at
all) of a few different fairly healthy-looking-and-tasting dishes:
- a teaspoonful of mango chutney
- a small serving of basmati rice
- a serving of "shellfish delight" which I didn't finish
- a small serving of a very nice, spicy lentil dall
- a small serving of a pretty good squash chutney
- a small serving of a zucchini salad
- 1 papadum (okay this one is maybe not so healthy)

Afternoon snack

A small plate of raw vegetables and half a raspberry.

Lunch

A chicken breast with a green salad topped with a little bit of cheese
and crispy greens (celery etc.) and a small serving of a kidney bean
salad. Also a coffee with milk.

Morning snack

A cup of coffee with milk

Breakfast

A small bowl of raisin bran flakes with 2% milk, and a cup of coffee
with whole milk.

Dinner

A serving of a cajun pork and sausage gumbo, a very small serving of
rice, a small serving of a greens medley (kael and other similar
greens), and a small serving of roasted something-or-others that are a
cross between apples and potatoes.

Afternoon snack

Cafe au lait with 2% milk, then later in the afternoon a two-bite
cheese/paprika/tortilla snack.

Lunch

A small bowl of rice and kidney bean soup, followed by a large salad
(full plate) of baby greens, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and crawfish,
tossed with about a tablespoon of herb vinaigrette.

Breakfast

A very small bowl of some kind of granola with almonds and pumpkin
seeds, which was very tasty and very difficult to eat (which I'll take
as a good sign - lots of chewing required), plus a café au lait, both
with 2% milk.

Dinner

Half a plate of a baby greens salad with a handful of walnuts, red paprika, and a little bit of vinaigrette, plus a serving of prime rib in a cajun gravy.  I also had a little bit of crawfish bisque but it was terrible so I left it.

Afternoon snack

Cafe au lait, 2% milk.

Lunch in California

Half a plate of a green salad with a small handful of pistachios, a spoonful of pine nuts, a couple of handfuls of raspberries and a heaped spoonful of crumbled blue cheese, plus a fairly small "jambalaya "patty (shrimps and rice) and a serving of chili-rubbed Kobe beef.

Noon snack on the plane

A small bag of baby carrots, plus a little bit of the ranch dressing that came with them.

Mid-morning snack on the plane

Tuna salad plus crackers, and an apple (210 kcal altogether).

Breakfast

A bowl of Heritage O's and a cafe au lait, both 1% milk, plus Krakkalysi.

Progress so far

So far I've lost 4" on my waist (down to 45" from a start of 49") and at least 7 kilograms (down to 122.2 kg, was 129.3 on my first "official" day - but was a couple of kilos more a day or two earlier). 10 inches and 40 kilograms to go :)

Lunch

Grilled salmon trout and blue marlin with avocado ginger sauce (didn't seem fatty), a serving of basmati rice which I didn't finish, and a serving of boiled potatoes. Had a café au lait beforehand, and a glass of wine with the meal. For dessert I had about half a slice of decadent chocolate torte (shared with my wife). Soon after dinner I had a Hob Nob, I wonder why... :)

Breakfast

Café au lait, 1% milk, and a spoonful of Krakkalýsi. No cereal because we're going out for lunch soon.

Evening snack

A bowl of Orville Redenbacher's "Léger" pop (300 kcal in total), one
peanut M&M, and some Diet Coke.

Dinner

21/56ths (yes, scientifically measured) of two medium thin and crispy
crust Domino's pizzas with pepperoni and some veggies, plus two
glasses of red wine, and half a can of beer.

Afternoon snack

Cafe au lait 1% milk and a Sweet'n'Salty thingamabob.

Lunch

We had an appetizer which was a little bit of a cold yoghurt/cucumber/mint soup which really wasn't all that great - as Siggi put it, "tastes like thinned-out toothpaste".

Main course was a really delicious beef chili with a small dash of sour cream on top.

Morning snack

Cafe au lait, 1% milk

Breakfast

Three Weetabix cakes with 1% milk, a cafe au lait 1% milk, a couple of bites of my son's multigrain bread with margarine and cheese, and finished the rest (about half) of his drinkable yogurt.

Dinner

A Subway 12" tuna sub on whole wheat bread with Swiss cheese, lettuce,
tomatoes, mustard, salt and pepper.

Afternoon snack

A café au lait, 1% milk, and a Nature Valley Sweet'n'Salty bar.

Lunch

Artichoke heart, red pepper and ricotta served on green salad. This
was basically a really big salad with next to no dressing, only juicy
part was the ricotta stuffing in the artichoke hearts. Really good,
too.

Morning snack

Café au lait, 1% milk.

Breakfast

A bowl of Heritage O's and a cafe au lait, both with 1% milk, plus a
spoonful of Lýsi.

Dinner

A delicious stir fry my wife made, with noodles, string beans, paprika, onions and more, plus some awesome strips of marinated steak. Serving size was appropriate or maybe even somewhat small.

For dessert, I had 1/4th of a huge chocolate eclair (my wife had the rest).

Pre-dinner snack

One multigrain bagel crisp (20 kcal), three or four bites of my son's
cream-cheese bagel, and finally to stop my cravings, the crust of one
slice of bread and a teaspoonful of Valencia peanut butter.

Afternoon snack

Cafe au lait with 1% milk.

Lunch

Grilled chicken breast with greek salad. Portion size was not too big.

Breakfast

A bowl of Heritage O's and a café au lait, both with 1% milk, and a
spoonful of Krakkalýsi.