A nice round day 10

I had a bit of a busy week, so didn't really have much time to write here.

So first of all, I confess - there was a curry (there is an awesome Indian restaurant round the corner from where I live) and a chow mein (I have a Chinese takeaway downstairs...) in the past week. But I don't really think it matters, my overall efforts so far seem to be paying off - lost a kilo!!! Or so I assume from the average readings of my slightly broken cheaprubbish Ikea scale.

Even though I ate "trash" I still stuck to the small portions thing (4-5 meals a day but rather small portions), which I think is working really well. There also was another super-healthy but slightly tasteless soup in the process, which has later been fixed with tomato purée.

Tonight I am making something special, as I got fed up with eating tasteless rubbish. I went looking for nice recipes that would also be of the healthy variety - and was pretty successful! So basically, if it comes out brilliant I will post the recipe and SURE will post pics!!!

To summarise: I am weak! But I am trying, and even though it is not yet quite perfect, it is definitely miles better. I am feeling miles better in general as well.

Also, I let myself have dark chocolate. It is maybe calorific but is better than a Snickers and fully satisfies my sweetie cravings...

Day 3&4 in the diet land

I'm feeling slightly tired and run down today, as I spent many many hours trying to apply for jobs and such, and there WEREN'T ANY GOOD ONES. So after wasting most of the time on the computer I am a bit fed up, but just want to GET OVER IT!!! Or maybe it's malnutrition getting the better of me. Who knows!

Yesterday I have let myself go again, and I am quite upset about it. :

Brekkie: weetabix choco minis, skimmed milk; coffee with skimmed milk

snack 1: 1 slice of rye bread, low fat cottage cheese, 1 tomato (skinned, sliced, salted and peppered - yum!) and 1 piece of Face of Evil

snack 2: apple

Lunch: rye bread with 2 eggs

Dinner: more superspicy soup.

After that some sinning in the form of marzipan log had happened. Disgusting.

Today was miles better though, as I have just ran out of sweets in the flat. It will probably change tomorrow, no worries!

Brekkie: rye bread, cottage cheese, tomato, milky coffee (rye bread is here to stay!)

Snack 1: weetabix choca minis (what, I get tired of monotonousness, so I try to SPICE THINGS UP!)

Luncheon: finished off the soup and had a slice of wholemeal pita bread (I believe it was slightly mouldy, should I list that too?)

Snack 2: classic: rye bread cottage cheese

Dinner: baked veg.

Fern's Magical Veg Supper!

this portion served 2, and there is a little bit left

5 potatoes (mediocre size)

2 small courgettes

half a garlic bulb

1 large tomato

also:

olive oil

oregano

salt'n'pepper

Peel + wash + slice thinly potatoes. Chuck in oven proof dish along with some olive oil, oregano, salt and pepper, stir. In the oven! for about 40 minutes, 180 C in fan oven. I left the lid on as I was fearing they will dry up.

Slice courgette, chop tomato (I also peel it and cut out the green middle bit, but only because I'm an arse), peel garlic cloves - here no chopping is needed. Same as with potatoes, just no oregano. Put all this in a separate oven proof dish, again with a lid on. This will go in for 30 minutes.

What I also did was stirring it up every 10 minutes, I don't really know why, it made me feel happy about myself. I'm also a control freak and like to see how food is getting on when it's being made...

That's bedtime for me!

Sins of yesterday

Unfortunately, I managed to fail at something on the first day of my food revolution. The main reason is, the temptation is around every corner... Especially if you go shopping. For cheap veg, to Lidl. Especially if Christmas is round the corner, according to supermarkets. And as we know, Lidl is absolutely PACKED with German Sweets. And I have a massive weakness for those. So even though I actively avoided the sweets section, the CHRISTMAS SWEETS section has risen in front of me, completely unexpected. Next to carrots. And Lidl stuff comes in Lidl prices, so I easily managed to stretch my budged of £7 to accommodate a pack of dark chocolate cookie thingies and a block of chocolate coated marzipan. Man, I am absolute weakling when it comes to marzipan...

Rest of the day went pretty okay. The menu was as

it goes:

Brekkie: cinnamon bagel with butter... Run out of milk and one can't have cereal without milk! (poor justification), cup of coffee with flatmates milk

Snack 1: grapefruit - whole ;)

Luncheon: one (yes! one!!!!!) slice of pita bread

(wholemeal!) with some hummus. It was surprisingly filling.

Snack 2: (I suppose it could swap name with the lunch) slice of German rye bread with low fat cottage cheese. Glorious.

Dinnorzor: The ever fantastic VEGETABLE SOUP. My own recipe, or a universal recipe: pick veg that you like the look of, put some Oxo in water, dump the veg in water, boil, wait half an hour.

(tatatatatarara, this shalt be the first actual recipe on this site!)

Fern's Almost Nice Random Veg Soup

• 2 potatoes rather mediocre size
• 2 carrots (size as above)
• 6 brussels sprouts
• 1 courgette (I do not recommend putting it in, as after some boiling it almost vanishes but adds a curious smell to the whole soup)
• 1 massive leek
• 1 peeled tomato (it will vanish too, but adds some orangeness to the general colour of the liquid)
• too much cayenne chilli pepper (if you don't start crying/sneezing/feeling general burning sensation in your oesophagus and stomach is not enough)
• 2 Oxo cubes
• Some water. So that it like, covers the veg. But not much more. Yea?

Preparation: boil water with Oxos, wash and cho

p veg in whatever order, chuck them in the water, leave simmering for 30 minutes. In the meantime make sure you accidentally spill 1/4 of your cayenne chilli pepper into the soup. Et Voilà!

The general feel of it is: yes, it is edible! People it was tested on said it was nice, although too spicy. It also had a curious smell and investigation has lead me to believe it was the COURGETTE. I am one lucky girl now, as I have enough to last me few more days...

Pros: easy, quick, low effort, very very cheap, quite filling actually

Cons: mind your cayenne chilli pepper... Also tr

y some nice spices with it, as it might taste a bit bland.

And now for the SIN of the day. Post dinner I had two dark chocolate cookies (they aren't technically cookies, but are kinda cookie/biscuity shape). And then I had a couple of more. And then one more. And another. And another. Oh go on then, this will be the last one.

In total I ate 8.

For the poor unaware humans, this is the Face of evil:

It may not look like much, but believe me - it's SCARY what it can make you do.