It’s expensive to eat the “healthy” food I can get out around work, and I also have trouble feeling full. A takeout salad with chicken breast offers me maybe 3oz chicken, whereas I generally bring 4-6oz in a home-packed lunch. I do cut corners regularly, quality-wise, by taking deli ham to work to make a wrap with salad. I only use 3oz ham, but the wrap has 6g protein and I have a yogurt with it that brings another 12g (for 60 kcal), so a filling, low cal/high protein lunch at reasonable expense.
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Thanks. I cannot remember exactly but it was in the prediabetic range.
I will focus on meal prep now.
I love this approach. I support my local BBQ place when they do a food truck at our location, but it’s still an added expense, so I’ll pack some egg whites to beef up the meal (egg up the meal?) so that I don’t have to buy SO much BBQ to get to my nutritional goals. Little home brought tweaks can go far.
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Saturday 3rd August
110.5.5 kg bw
steak cooked last night
1 boiled egg
banana
protein shake
took 3 boiled eggs to work
15g almonds
15g Brazil nuts
only ate 2 eggs and the nuts plus 2 bananas
gym after work
horizontal chinups just failed 3 fairly strict
few sets of 2 and 1
then did kipping chinups
dB cleans 26x3
30 X 5
38 fail fail fail fail fail.
I got very very close and my grip is very much better on DBs now.
few bicep curls but quite fatigued
8 kg X 10 , 14kg , 16 kg. quit
bought 8 steaks
3 packets of bacon
and a pack of Cumberland sausages.
sausages were an impulse purchase. guess they should be ok in moderation.
this was my closest attempt,the first one .I am fairly fatigued after work through. I am hoping I can make it fresh.
steak packet of rice 2 slices of bread 200 cal fir the bread.
1 sausage 2 slices of bacon
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Nothing wrong with sausage. Just eat high protien with that meal and low/no carbs.
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Sunday
bw 110.7.5
2 slices of bread
2 bananas
steak
chicken samosa
chicken and bacon pasta mix
gym after work 1 pm
2 chins fairly strict
bar X 10 ,60 X 12 X 100 X 10 hard .
110 X 5 very hard
100x 7 100 X 3
29-30 mm bar no chalk. I tend to lose a rep on a thicker bar
few sets of 2s and 1s chin up
holding top position for as long as possible
curls. tired heavy and light for 10 22 kg
tricep dip bar - held top position for about 20-30 s
might be able to do one or two fresh.
lunch
2 bananas, creatine 5g
2 sausages
3 small chicken fillets
5.30om
goji berries full pack 300 cal
2 Brazil nuts
handful of almonds
500 cal total
3 bacon slices
2 slices of bread
I am going to have to cut calories. I’m eating too much.
it’s hard accounting for work and the gym in terms of calorie expenditure.
I seem to be at maintenance calories though.
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Monday 5 august
110.3.0 kg bw 02.16 am
last of high protein yoghurts
325 cal
2 slices of bread and a extra big cut of sirloin steak.
2 chicken samosa
2 slices cheese on toast
2 slices of bread
4 chicken goujons and new potatoes and vegetable mix.
at my mum’s after work until late.
3 small pieces of chicken fillet
all meds and supplements taken
break from gym today
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Tuesday
111.2.5 kg bw at 4.14 am.
gained a kilo night. must be water weight I suppose.
steak and beetroot
4.00 am.
McDonald’s crispy salad 285 cal
new pb on 100 gold Powertwister
streak
cheese on toast 2 pieces of bread
Banana
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wednesday
bw 111.3.5 kg
banana
steak
blueberries punnet small 125g
creatine 5g
cup of coffee with caffeine
seem to have picked up a stomach bug.
chicken tikka wrap 486 cals
gym deadlift.
had to give up v Bad Session plus breaking wind all of the time lol
60 X 5 100 X 5 140 X 2 DOH , hook grip mixed grip 5 total reps. 162.5 FS fail DOH.
160 X 1 , 2 mixed
180 two singles felt terrible
1 chin up
did find my hat in lost property though , so that is a plus.
some toast 2 bananas
feel a bit perkier
protein shake
chicken and rice
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Thursday 8 august
110.5.0 kg bw
4 bacon rashers 2 slices 114 cal
5 pieces of Warburtons bread 55 cal each
protein yoghurt
chicken samosa
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This is a helluva way to start a day
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Was thinking the same thing. Old habits creeping back in.
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I had a medical appointment today. it was a bit of stress eating I think.
Good part is my fatty liver has gone down from 80 to 42. 40 is the threshold. Not sure of the units.
I did have a cheese sandwich too.
I will have a good evening though.
My wife bought me the yoghurt yesterday evening.
I was up early to begin with 2.00 am. Then went back to bed until 4.30 am. But hit snooze until 4.50.
I am on a bit of a high now, so will knuckle down. Doctor wants me to lose another 10kg in 3 months. Fortunately my sleep apnea doesn’t need managing with a machine.
steak and rice.
that steak is starting to go a bit brown but smells ok
protein shake
Cheese and bread are really very dense calorically but not so much in terms of protein. Ever consider replace either the cheese OR the bread with some sort of meat? Cheese on bread tends to be a staple of yours here, and those are EXCELLENT options for gaining weight (it’s why we tend to feed kids grilled cheese sandwiches), but for someone looking to lose, it’s working a bit against those goals.
Congrats on working to improve your fatty liver!
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Thanks Punisher. I don’t have access to my foods at my mum’s. The doctor is close to her.
This will have to change though.
You seem averse to packing food and bringing it with you. Is there a reason for this?
My kid packs a lunch each day. They’re quite talented at it. I find it valuable
Do you not have access to doordash or instacart?
I think they are fast food delivery services.
Just eat gofresh, hellofresh.
No I just need her to defrost some meat. I am working on that.
At home now.
lol point taken