7 pounds Junked in July :-)

The_Dragon

Good to see you Rotherham Lass and KentishLady - here's hoping for a brilliant month for all of us on the challenge!

KentishLady are you okay with your weight being on the front page?

tara747

It's now officially July! Here's to a good month 7 pound junkers!

Here are today's stats for me (239 wasted calories). Some of the figures are estimates.

Food & Calories

Small fromage frais - 45
150g low fat Greek yogurt - 120
14 strawberries - 46
250g cherries - 120
Sample of cake 20g - 100 (bad)
HM soup - 150?
HM bread - 100
Packet of Polos - 139 (bad)
Protein shake - 126
Apple - 50
Chicken pilaf with salad - 400?
Frozen yogurt and raspberries - 140?
Total 1536

Exercise
1hr 45 mins walking
36 flights of stairs
50 squats

binkyboo_2

well i am off on holiday very early tomorrow morning, i have no food in the house so not sure what i am going to eat today. i know i am going to have to be slightly disciplined while i am away but it is going to be very difficult with so much access to food and alcohol!
This will be my last post for a week unless i manage to get online on my phone.
CWM hope you managed to get some more weight off by your deadline. Enjoy being a bridesmaid and make sure you treat yourself for all the hard work you put in to get into that dress.
To everyone else good luck for this next week, i'm sure you will all do brilliantly.
Now i'm off to make a list of last minute things i've forgotten i need to take with me!

tara747

binkyboo - lucky you going off on hols!!!!! Where are you going?

I weighed in this morning at 131.8lbs (almost 9st 6lbs)... happy that I'm a little lighter than yesterday. So that's my starting weight for July - Dragon, can you add it to the first post? My target for July is 8st 13lbs... I would be so happy to get under the 9st mark but have a weekend away coming up so will have to be very good all month!

I'm having a low fat Greek yog for breakfast, which will be followed shortly by some fruit. Lunch will be HM soup and bread (again - need to use it up!). And I intend to do plenty of walking (even though the weather is HORRIBLE).

Good luck all!!!!!!!!

AdrianHi

How yesterday turned out (not going to do this every day).

Plan for yesterday, target 1400 cals (still balancing last weekend, normally 1550 calories) including the beer that's to come:
Breakfast 8.45pm at work - morning
Mug of tea plus semi-milk 20 cals
2 weetabix plus semi skimmed milk 170 cals
Coffee plus semi milk and 1/2 tsp sugar 30 cals
Mug of tea- black 0 cals

Lunch at 12.45pm
Soup 121 cals <- todays lower calorie soup will help a bit
2 slices bread no marg/butter 200 cals
Glass water
Coffee plus semi milk and 1/2 tsp sugar 30 cals (give up the coffe, no chance!)
Green tea 0 cals

Dinner 8.30pm
Water 0 cals
Spagetti bolognaise (home cooked), 550 cals (ingrediant calories added up using caloriecount.about.com)
Pint of beer 245

Total: 1366 cals :T
Managed to make most of the room for the evening beer with black tea, green tea and water instead of usual orange squash.

Dinner was at 8.30pm, feeling pretty hungry by 6pm but I was on the train home with no access to food so no temptation. Now there's a trick, if it's hard to get through the day without snacking, plan what is eaten when so your hungry at a time and place where there is no access to food. Just make sure it's not when driving, low blood sugar affects driving (polic drivers handbook).

tara747

AdrianHi wrote: »

Phew, glad you took those comments the right way, comes over a bit strong reading it back half a day later

I tried and failed on calorie counting once before, it was seeing my weight approaching another whole stone in weigh and realising it was an upward trend that got my mind in order. And then to begin with a few days of ignoring a rumbling stomach that was expecting a mid-afternoon snack. A few days of that and the stomach and mind stopped expecting the snack and it wasn't quite so hard.
For me a big part of all this was deciding to put brain in control of what goes in rather than just responding to what the stomach thinks it wants.
Got a live a little too though, had my beer out last night, managed to stick with only having one (about 250 cals) :j

(I copied this from the other thread to reply here)

Well done on the restraint! And feel free to be as honest/blunt as you like, it is good for me to hear the unvarnished truth.

That's a huge challenge for me, brain over stomach! If I can crack that it will be half the battle. How lng does it take before it gets easier and the 'mouth hunger' abates? A few days? Weeks? I wonder if there are any mind tricks which would help me ignore the snack urge. I'm off to google xo

tara747

AdrianHi wrote: »

How yesterday turned out (not going to do this every day).

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Total: 1366 cals :T
Managed to make most of the room for the evening beer with black tea, green tea and water instead of usual orange squash.

Dinner was at 8.30pm, feeling pretty hungry by 6pm but I was on the train home with no access to food so no temptation. Now there's a trick, if it's hard to get through the day without snacking, plan what is eaten when so your hungry at a time and place where there is no access to food. Just make sure it's not when driving, low blood sugar affects driving (polic drivers handbook).

Well done on making room for the beer! Your food yesterday was quite a bit healthier than mine too. This calorie counting lark does make sense it seems.

I agree, food is all too easily available these days - it is good to be able to take oneself away from it regularly to remove the ability to snack!

p.s. has anyone read the Allen Carr 'Easyweigh to lose weight' book?

AdrianHi

tara747 wrote: »

How lng does it take before it gets easier and the 'mouth hunger' abates? A few days? Weeks? I wonder if there are any mind tricks which would help me ignore the snack urge. I'm off to google xo

I still get a bit of mouth hunger at times, but it's easier to manage now.
For me, I cannot understate how important it was to carefully choose the timing of eating and spreading throughout the day intake of slow energy release food like breakfast cereals (Weetabix, Porridge etc.), lunch a bit of bread and soups are very good for satisfying hunger for longer, evening meals have potatoe, rice or pasta in a quantity about 2/3rds of what I used to eat.
Breakfast at work 8.45am because it means I can last until 12.45pm for lunch without snacking.
Again for me, controlling mouth "hunger" was mind over stomach but also not going "cold turkey" so to speak. Once you have the pattern of slow release energy foods in place throughout your day, perhaps replacing some of the fruits and yogurts, try removing one of the snacks from your day. Stick with that for a couple of days then remove then next uneccessary snack. It's much easier to take it one step at a time so your only having to get used to one missing snack time per day instead of several at once.
Replace missing vitamins/fibre from reduced high calorie fruit intake with lower calorie vegatable intake. May be even keep a snack but swap the 65 calorie apple thats going to give you a sugar high followed by a blood sugar low (when the insulin kicks in) which makes you fell hungry again, with a 25 calorie raw carrot that will not cause the blood sugar high then low.

I suppose it is quite technical but it really did and still does work for me. I also feel I can keep it up for as long as it takes and to keep the weight off this is really soemthing that has to continue for a life time if a bit less strict once I'm into maintaining weight.

I only lost 1lb in June but I know exactly why, my eating pattern went out the window while on 2 week holiday and I don't really know what calories I was taking in due to eating out a lot.

July is a new month, time to get back on plan

coffeeholic_2

Morning all xxx

Well my start weight for July is 11 st 9 lbs (can you pop that on 1st post please Dragon) so I've lost 2 lbs last week, which isn't great but its a start and I'm just chuffed that I didn't put on this week!!!

I hardly ate anything yesterday, but drank loadssss with it being so hot. I went for a run after I finished work which is a bit of a first for me - never had the urge to do that before! Note to self - buy sports bra....running while holding my chest is not a good look. :rotfl:

I haven't had my protein shake this morning as we were out of milk, OH bought me a sausage sandwich instead oops which has filled me up nicely. Off food shopping soon as I'm not working til later, so not sure what exercise I'll be doing later...might end up doing some lunges and squats etc if I don't have time for anything else.

Well done all those who have lost, and welcome new peeps to the thread!! :T :T

Binky - have a brill holiday..I wouldn't stress too much about what you eat and drink, just enjoy yourself!

Tara - how are you getting on with your shakes?

Have a brill day everyone
xxxxxx
:A

alared

Everyone has their own way to do things and what works for one doesn`t suit others.
I find it best if I pick a certain time and day to weigh myself and only do it once a week.
Day by day weighing doesn`t work for me because there may be no diffrence from the previous day and you could even have gone UP.
This is where a lot of people fail and give up because the diet "isn`t working" so why bother.
Plenty of water is another good tip to "fill you up" between meals.
My way is to count the calories and stick to my daily limit.
Easier said than done but just my 2p worth on DAY 1.