Weight Loss Week Six Day Two Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 2 - Thursday
20/02/2014

Lite n' Easy - 1200 Calorie - Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Fresh Omelette (Two Free Range Eggs Ham & Tomato Mix and Cheese)

This is yummy but I find it a bit fiddly to make an omelette (I'm just lazy really), so I think next time I will make it into scrambled eggs maybe.

Morning Snack: Peach Fruit Cup

Lunch: Smoked Beef, Baby Leaf Salad and Fruit Chutney Wholegrain & Oat Sandwich and an Orange

This is actually quite tasty, I didn't think I'd like the smoked beef and fruit chutney combo but it's actually quite enjoyable.

Afternoon Snack: Apple & Cranberry Fruit Mix

I don't really like these trail mixes and this one has a heap of cinnamon thrown in, well it seems like that to me.

Lite n' Easy Dinner: Braised Chicken & Almonds

Dinner: 27 Braised Chicken & Almonds

I really liked the fried rice, the sauce, the veggies, but the meat just let the whole dish down.  I'm pretty picky when it comes to meat and I hate grey thigh meat and that is exactly what is used here.  So because of that I would not recommend it and will not be ordering it again.  I wish the would use breast.

Glasses of water: 8

Additional Items:  Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, 2 sugars)

Exercise: 30 mins 2 mile (3.2km) walk Leslie Sansone (Can't find exact copy but there is a similar Youtube version here). (I use soup cans as light weights for upper body sections).

Weightloss Week Four Day Five Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy) - Eating Out When Losing Weight

Day 5 - Sunday
9/02/2014

Lite n' Easy Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Berry Wheat Bites Wholegrain & Oat Toast with Honey

Love the berry wheat bites, I had them for breakfast even before I started on LnE.

Morning Snack: Peach Fruit Cup

Lunch: Corned Beef and Mustard Relish Wholegrain & Oat Sandwich and a Green Apple

I don’t know why I ordered so many sandwiches this week? Perhaps I was sick of all the salads.  I don’t know if I should be having this much bread, it’s the third sandwich this week, thoughts anyone?

Afternoon Snack: Walnut & Date Cake

Dinner - 200g Eye Fillet Steak, no dressing, no sauce, no butter, no drama

Dinner: Restaurant Food – Alexandra Hills Hotel - 200g Eye Fillet Steak with Salad, no fries and a serve of veggies.  Menu (here)

This wasn’t a planned dinner and this was a good menu to test me as pretty much everything on the menu contained cheese, bacon, double cream, cream, butter, dressing, mayonnaise, aioli, fries etc etc.

Even the dinner I ordered came served with a dressed garden salad, beer battered fries and a choice of steak sauce with no option of vegetables at all.  I ordered it without dressing on the salad, no steak sauce and asked to swap the vegetables instead of fries. 

They told me it would cost extra for the vegetables, can you believe that?  So I’m ordering the meal without dressing, without sauce and without fries and still have to pay the same price and have to pay $6.00 on top of that for vegetables.  I also had to order the vegetables without butter as they are normally smothered in butter.

It was really nice though and I really did enjoy the fresh vegetables for a change, instead of frozen Lite n’ Easy ones.  As soon as I tried the steak I could taste salt and butter so I knew that was not going to be low fat. 

My sad attempt to finish dinner

I surprised myself though, I wasn’t tempted just determined to find something healthy.  I knew the steak wasn’t low fat so I filled up on all the vegetables and I was surprised that I couldn’t even finish the steak, I didn’t even eat half of it.  I couldn’t even eat the salad I was so full.

Normally I would have no problem finishing that steak and a bowl of fries covered in aioli and probably still be hungry and have desert after.

Glasses of water: 7

Additional Items:  Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, 2 sugars)

Exercise: None

How is your weight loss journey going?  I'd love to hear from you!