Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 6. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

mlz1413

Morning all,

Wed's are a bad day for me as I go to college so lunch is McD or a cafe meal, I did manage soup yesterday lunch but ate nearly the whole buttered baguette that came with it

so today is:
B: cereal - 200 cals
L: ham salad sandwich - hold the mayo!! - 350 ish cals
S: crisps & WW yogurt - 150 cals
Spag Bol - my fav so will have to control my portion size- 700 cals max

Also a bit of a first this week, I bought wine to go with sunday roast as a treat and I finished it off last night - for a bottle of wine to last 4 days is a minor miracle for me.

I now only have flavoured water and lemonade to drink so hope to have shifted the xmas excesses by 26th which is my weigh day.

taplady

whiteviolet - welcome! I'm another a bit like you in that I eat well a lot of the time but then ruin it all with a load of rubbish. I am actually at my target now but still post here to help me maintain it in the long term. I feel that I need the support I find here to keep me on track. I am scared about putting it back on and am determined not to!

2 days off now:j

B - scrambled eggs on toast

L - 3 bean soup with crackerbreads and cheese

D - quorn sweet and sour and noodles

fruit and yohgurts as snacks.

have a good day all

frogga - :hello:

PurpleSkies

I've not been doing so well as I can't seem to get off of the sweet stuff after eating large amounts of it over Christmas.
I have cut down but I'm still having at least one sweet thing a day, sometimes more. Yesterday I had a mars bar at lunch then a jam donut in the evening and today I've already had an apricot muffin.
Despite my still terrible eating habits I have managed a 0.2kg loss (which I think is around half a pound). It's hardly worth mentioning but I'm just so glad it's not a gain! It just shows you that exercise definitely help! Still need to work on cutting out the snacks though!
Is anyone else still suffering the post Christmas snacking blues?

miss_cupcake_2

PurpleSkies wrote: »

Is anyone else still suffering the post Christmas snacking blues?

Ooh, me! :hello:

I'm still trying to get rid of the bad habits I picked up over Christmas (i.e. grabbing a handful of Quality Streets whenever I walked past the tin). We still have half a tin of them in the house but so far I've managed to restrain myself and only have 5 or 6 a week rather than a day! I find that by not cutting them out completely I don't feel like I'm missing out and don't need to binge on them. For me it's definitely easier to fade out the snacks slowly rather than go cold turkey, so I wouldn't worry if you allow yourself a treat here or there. To start maybe try to aim fto allow yourself something every other day, rather than every day?

Whiteviolet

Thank you all so much for making me welcome!

I hope that last night, eating a pack of milk chocolate hob nobs AND choc chip biscuits was the turning point when I made the desicion to change.

The way foward is to admit I have a problem and move forward with you wonderful people.

Food plan 21.01.10

Shredded wheat with skim milk.
Natural yoghurt with chopped dates
HM Carrot and lentil soup
Natural yog with dates
Greeen veg with onions and smoked haddock.

I have just eaten the soup for lunch - so much tastier than a packet of biscuits how I be dim enough to think they are worth eating

Good luck to you all.

floyd

Hi Whiteviolet, welcome aboard! Another self-confessed binge eater here but I would say I am 99% reformed with only the odd slip over the course of a year as opposed to my previous weekly ones so its all progress. Welcome to all other returnees and new folk nice to have a full house again, it got a bit quiet before Christmas

B: 2 wholemeal toast & HM marmalade

L: Mince, tatties and veg

Probably Quorn chilli and rice with a salad, depends how hungry I feel as my lunch was much bigger than my usual soup or small sandwich but it was very tasty

S: 2 Bourbon biscuits

Looking forward to the weekend when I can make lots of soups to freeze for work lunches as that seems to be what keeps me on the straight and narrow

taplady

afternoon completely lost! - welcome to the thread! baby steps is a good way to start - nothing too drastic to start with.
snacks that I have are

clementines
bananas
apples
alpen light bars
melba toast with various toppings(16 cals each minus the topping)
ryvita crispbread
grapes
yoghurts like shape or mullerlight

another way to save on cals is to switch from an 800g loaf to a 400g loaf so you can have as many slices as usual but you're having half the cals:T
Plus switch to skimmed milk(you get used to it) or the milk with the purple lid called'One' as its lower fat than semi skimmed.

I hope thats been of some help!:)

mlz1413

PurpleSkies wrote: »

I've not been doing so well as I can't seem to get off of the sweet stuff after eating large amounts of it over Christmas.
I have cut down but I'm still having at least one sweet thing a day, sometimes more. Yesterday I had a mars bar at lunch then a jam donut in the evening and today I've already had an apricot muffin.
Despite my still terrible eating habits I have managed a 0.2kg loss (which I think is around half a pound). It's hardly worth mentioning but I'm just so glad it's not a gain! It just shows you that exercise definitely help! Still need to work on cutting out the snacks though!
Is anyone else still suffering the post Christmas snacking blues?

Every so often I crave chocolate and can easily eat a couple of bars without quenching the craving so now when I get those feelings I buy a sandwich a small bar of choc and a choc milkshake.

I eat the whole lot together, eat sandwich with shake and then polish off choc bar with last of shake, I normally feel like I've over-eaten and the taste of the shake lasts for hours so I don't eat anything else during the day - don't want to and don't need to.

Beats the cravings down in one go and if I eat a sensible main meal is within the 2000 cal limit for a day.



Also Hi completelylost,

I used to only eat peas and sweetcorn - still prefer these even now, but I got into a habit of letting them be put on my plate and then trying a tiny bit if I don't like it thats fine. But people cook veg's differently and I've found I like some veg roast (parsnips) others boiled (cabbage &cauli) and some only raw (carrots).

so well done for trying new things.

Your snacks are full of fat and salt - which taste lovely but as you know are full of calories. Try buying light crisps, dip carrots in hummus, carrot & cucumber in yogurt dips, olives in brine (not oil) or make yourself eat a sandwich which will fill you up rather than picking all night.

frogga

HI Guys,

I wasn't going to post to be honest but felt compelled to by the bingeing debate

As many of you oldies know I am actually a professional binger. I've been doing it for years and I am actually very good at it even if I do say so myself. I don't know how old you are White Violet but I would try really hard to stop it if you can. On here we say "The Toad" is visiting as I always describe my binge~fests as a horrible Toad on my shoulder making me do it!

I binged for about 10 years, through my teens and into my twenties but was never overweight. I even weighed 6st at one point even though I was still bingeing. Then it grabs you, and you forget that you're only supposed to do it sometimes and it becomes a daily routine. Then you've got problems.

Just to shock you ~ I went from 6st up to 22st at my heaviest :eek: Then I lost 10st and got back down to 12st, then went back up to 18st!!! I'm doing ok at the moment (Hi Tappy :A) but I'm trying to keep my head down as I often "lose it" once I get cocky and start showing off about how I've got the bingeing under control

All I know is, the Toad is at the door, but he's not coming in ~ infact, the chain is on

Be good ladies

Oh, would you look at that? Top spot! Good to see the computer knows who's the best xxx

Whiteviolet

frogga wrote: »

As many of you oldies know I am actually a professional binger. I've been doing it for years and I am actually very good at it even if I do say so myself. I don't know how old you are White Violet but I would try really hard to stop it if you can. On here we say "The Toad" is visiting as I always describe my binge~fests as a horrible Toad on my shoulder making me do it!

Thanks so much for your post Frogga - and everyone else, especially those who also have binge tendencies.

I am 49 - so old enough to known better! I was anorexic for about 2 years when I was 15 - didn't get any help for that as Mum in her wisdom would not "allow" me to have a mental illness, so just toughed it out until I got so ill I had to start eating again to feel better.

I've always been kind of "anxious around food but maintained perfect healthy weight through until about 4 years ago when the binge monster appeared after my divorce.

In over feeding myself once a week I am neglecting the good stuff in life I should be out experiencing.

May I ask anyone here what helped most to control the binging if you feel able to share your experience - does therapy help, keeping food diary, low carb???

Anyhow- stuck to plan today and 2nd visit to gym I joined last week.