And here it is. This time the carryover champion (Sale of the Century reference, yes) is Hamburger casserole.

Past week has been a little annoying with me having a cold for a lot of it, and littlest child being sick too. Am concerned that being sick will cause a halt in weightloss.

Been discussing meal plan with PT and going to consider tweaking my calories down again a little, to around 5,500kj for the day. Also going to look for ways to have non-dairy healthy fat options. BUT CHEESE. We shall see.

Biggest hiccup this week is going to be Sunday when we are having a quasi Christmas BBQ event.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Brunch	Smoky Ranch chicken salad	Bacon crustless quiche	Ham and salad	Chicken burgers with avocado cheese and lettuce	Capsicum pizzas	Smoky Ranch chicken salad	Christmas BBQ Parents
Dinner	Cheesy hamburger casserole	Mexican beef mince taco bowl	Chicken breast, ham, tomato and cheese (parma style) with broccoli	Beef ragu with garlic buttered mug bread	Costco burgers with cheese, lettuce, tomato	Keto fried chicken with baked cauliflower	Bacon crustless quiche
Snacks	Vegemite and cheese scone	Baked Zucchini fries	Vegemite and cheese scone	Quest bar or cookie	Cheese and twiggy sticks	Vegemite and cheese scone	Almond Milk Latte
Drinks	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC

Its starting to be a pattern – something gets stuffed up, so I carry the recipe forward. This time its the ginger meatballs 🙂

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Brunch	Sliced chicken breast and salad *hardboil eggs*	2 x eggs with ham and lettuce	Chicken burgers with cherry tomatoes and lettuce	Cheesy hamburger casserole	2 x eggs with ham and lettuce	Sliced chicken breast and salad	Keto meat pie
Dinner	Salisbury steak and mushroom gravy	Chicken, broccoli curry paste and coconut milk stir fry	Cheesy hamburger casserole	Bacon and mushrooms with garlic bread	Keto meat pie	Garlic ginger turkey meatballs with baked broccoli	Keto chicken with herb butter
Snacks	Twiggy sticks and cheese cubes	Snickerdoodles	Twiggy sticks and cheese cubes	Snickerdoodles	Baked Zucchini fries	Twiggy sticks and cheese cubes	Snickerdoodles
Drinks	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC

It was our son’s birthday on Sunday, and we ate a piece of his birthday cake. This was done on purpose. It worked out around 40 carbs just for the cake, and we ate things like salad, sausages and an almond milk latte, so definitely over carbs for the day.

The next day was REALLY hard. I don’t know if its because it was my first appointment with a personal trainer at the gym, where I was weighed and measured, and failed to have blood pressure checked because of my fat arm.

Maybe it was the fact I thought I could catch a train into and home from the city to watch a movie. LOL. There is a reason I couldn’t do it for work. I ended up in tears on the platform. Fun times.

I was also more hungry than usual yesterday. I very nearly didn’t cook and was going to tell my partner to just have whatever for tea. He would have ordered pizza which would have been a terrible idea.

But I didn’t. I came downstairs, tidied the kitchen and cooked us some food.

Today has been better. I was still hungry this morning though.

I’ve been doing lots of things that most people would probably consider basic bodily maintenance, like the podiatrist.

Today was the optometrist. I have always had glasses but haven’t had new ones in five years. The ones I do have were a $7 zenni pair – I bought 3 but my favourite green ones vanished, these are red.

So today my script was done. It’s worse, apparently, but I don’t really need reading glasses yet. Just distance.

Picked out two new frames which are completely covered by health insurance – some blue metal frames and lilac plastic ones. Also for my script written out so I can grab some more cheapies.

However, the experience took way too long and pressed my buttons. I came home and shoveled crackers, cheese and liverwurst into my mouth. Should fit macros but it wasn’t good to eat my feelings.

Oh wow, I can hardly believe that it is week 6! This is the meal plan we will use this week:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Brunch	Chicken burgers with cherry tomatoes and lettuce *make mini chicken meatloaf*	Mini chicken meatloaf	Chicken burgers with cherry tomatoes and lettuce	Mini chicken meatloaf	Ham and salad	Chicken burgers with cherry tomatoes and lettuce	3yo birthday, will include small slice of choc mud cake, prob sausages and salad
Dinner	Cauli mushroom pizza	Sheet pan burgers	Garlic ginger turkey meatballs with baked broccoli	Bacon ranch chicken casserole	Keto beef ramen	Grilled chicken with peanut sauce	Taco bowl with avocado
Snacks	Mushroom egg muffin	Cream cheese cookies	Mushroom egg muffin	Cream cheese cookies	Mushroom egg muffin	cheese puffs	Almond milk coffee
Drinks	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC

Yesterday afternoon and evening was ridiculous. Instead of spending from 5-6 cooking and eating, I spent from 4.45-8.00pm picking up my partner from work in the city.

On the way home, the children all complained about being hungry. As they hadn’t had any fast food for the past 4 weeks either, we decided to get them a happy meal each.

For us we ordered double quarter pounders with cheese, no bun. No drink or anything. High-ish in calories but fit within my daily limit, and for the whole day I only had about 8 carbs. Winning. Wasn’t hungry afterwards and did not miss the bun one bit.

This week is also a bit stuffed around as my partner is going away overnight for a conference and I hadn’t factored that into the meal plan. Will leave one of my meals for a later date (the ramen) and as I can’t give him the leftover casserole for lunch on Wednesday I will have it for tea on Tuesday instead.

Wow, still going! Very pleased with self. This is the meal plan now. Partner said he really misses bread so am going to try cloud bread. Hmm. Picked up a huge bag of Byron Bay jerky at Costco, so going to try that for snacks.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Brunch	Pizza stuffed capsicums	Mushroom egg muffins	Bacon cheeseburger casserole *marinate chicken*	Mushroom egg muffins	Salami and cream cheese rollups	Salad with ham	Mushroom egg muffins
Dinner	Green chile chicken skillet	Keto beef ramen	Meatballs with cloud bread	Tandoori chicken with baked cauliflower	Bacon cheeseburger casserole	Pizza stuffed capsicums	Sheet pan burgers
Snacks	Jerky	Twiggy sticks and cheese	Cream cheese cookies	Jerky	Twiggy sticks and cheese	Cream cheese cookies	Twiggy sticks and cheese
Drinks	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC	Electrolyte Water Coffee HWC Avalanche HWC

I thought the new Asics runners-for-fat-people would help me out with my foot pain. That was a no 😦

So today I went to a podiatrist who praised my toenail cutting technique! I like getting something right for a change. He trimmed my big toenails as they are frankly behemoths, and then set about examining my feet and gait etc.

Was quite interesting, and evident from the wear pattern on my old shoes that I don’t really engage or use my big toes when walking. He has added some padding to my left shoe, and I am hoping it will help a lot. Going back in 10 days time to check it out, anyway.