Right, that’s this week’s meals all planned out.  Kind of.  The funny thing is that once I cut out all of the crisps, sweets, biscuits and all the other junk and started planning proper meals I struggled to get to my 1645 calories a day.  The highest is 1540 and the fewest 1050.

Part of the problem is that I don’t drink anything except water (for reasons I’ll explain another time).  So no fruit juice in the morning is minus 100 calories; no coffee throughout the day is minus another 100, and so on.  Maybe I should take up drinking alcohol again, that will soon bump the count up.

I’m going to stick with the plan anyway, to start with at least.  Over the week it is a 9454 calorie deficiency, which equates to about 2.7 pounds.  That’s slightly more than I was planning to lose, but until I get a feel for how many calories I burn – my real TEE – I’d rather my calorie intake was slightly under than over.