Day 2 of New diet

Well its the second day and but things didn't quite go to plan as we went out for the day to a family fund day at Grimsthorpe Castle near Bourne.

For breakfast I did OK with a meal which was as per the Tesco eDiet. The meal was fried bacon, egg & courgette with cherry tomatoes. I must admit to being a bit iffy about this as courgette is not my favourite veg. I must say though that once I had had fried the courgette with the bacon that it didn't end up too bad and the cherry tomatoes which I cut in half brought back memories of my childhood when we used to have bacon cooked with plum tomatoes.

The afternoon was supposed to be Egg & Bacon salad but as we went out that wasn't on the cards and the options were a touch limited at the event. I ended up having an Ostrich burger as it is low in fat and high in protein.

For evening meal the Tesco eDiet has tasty chicken fingers which I had served up with the bacon and egg and some salad which I had bought for the afternoon meal. All in all that was very nice and it was very spicy - maybe we put in too much cayenne pepper but I do like it spicy so not too much hardship.

The snack option in the diet for the day is an egg mayonnaise salad but I probably won't be having that as I had the burger earlier.

In addition I have had a couple of babybels and a litre of water and 1.5 litres of low calorie barley water (Tropical/Strawberry & Kiwi). My 5 a day fruit and veg would be the courgette, tomatoes, salad? (does that count) and so is short so I will try and have an apple or banana for a snack later.

Starting diet again (eek)

Lol – this time its serious I’ve paid a chunk of cash to Tesco to join their ediet scheme and I’ve chosen the Low Carb option.

 

They have weigh ins each Thursday which are updated online and you can also update each day with  what you actually eat and I believe once a week they will come back on your progress. The system keeps track of your weight against a target and also calculates your BMI as you go along.  The target set is unrealistic with a target loss of 2 pounds per week so the target is to lose 2 stone 2 pounds in the next 15 weeks – which should bring us nicely to the danger period at Christmas!

 

The nice thing is that they provide recipe’s for each meal for a week and they provide you with a shopping list. You just go through the list and tick the items that you currently have and therefore do not need to buy and then you can either print your list or you can press another button which will ask the eDiet team to add the items to your Tesco online shopping trolley  (nice touch). They will then email you to let you know that they have added the items and they will advise if there were any items that they could not find. You can then go online and add any extras or swap for cheaper/more expensive versions before booking your delivery slot and checking out.

 

I got our first delivery today so the recipes start tomorrow with:

 

Breakfast – Broccoli frittata

Afternoon – Curried cauliflower soup

Evening – Grilled lemon herb lamb chops

Snack – Tuscan scrambled eggs

 

If you’re not into Low Carb then no worries as they do the following diet plans -  Weight loss & Healthy Eating,  Gi Diet,  Light choices Diet,  Mediterranean Diet,  Total Wellbeing Diet,  Vegetarian Diet and Low Carb Diet.

 

Click here to visit Tesco eDiets

 

Stuart

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Atkins Diet: How did you determine what your goal weight is?

deal with the question how to determine what your goal weight should be. Certainly the problems with using BMI are well known. It has no idea of body composition or if your body is 15% Body Fat or 30% Body Fat. It has no idea if your heart is in shape or not.

If you have no idea where to start, you might try a virtual model site:
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They give you a virtual image of yourself of what you might look like at a weight.

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Excel spreadsheets to track results:
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