Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 7. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

vixtress

evening all.
have got over the shock of my weigh in this morning - keep calm and carry on is definately the way to go!

not bad today but still feeling really bloated.

today has been:

2 x wm toast

large wm wrap with lf houmus and a mountain of salad

2 x wm toast with 2 x scrambled egg & smoked salmon delicious
a piece of frsh pineapple.

no wonder i feel bloaty with all that bread :eek:

tomorrow will be

probably toast as always

salad with lf, hm coleslaw and 'somthing else'

something with chicken breast, asparagus & tendersteam broccoli i think

not much of a plan really is it
am off swimming now, aim to do 45 lengths (just over a km)

vix xx

CCP

Evening all.

I'm feeling a bit this evening - I checked a BMI-type calculator today and found I've got my long-term target weight wrong - I actually need to go down another 5kg to even get out of the 'obese' range. I know I'm overweight but I don't think I'm particularly enormous, but obviously I'm wrong. I really hope I've lost weight this week or that might be enough to make me give up on the whole thing.

One minor addition to today's meals: a small chunk of HM bread before dinner, with a tiny bit of butter, as I was really hungry and didn't want to end up eating the entire loaf of garlic bread.

ragz_2

CCP don't give up! You are doing great, I know it seems like a long way to go but remember you didn't get to that weight overnight so it'll take a while to go and a lot of hardwork, but that doesn't make it impossible and it certainly doesn't make it not worth doing. Think of all the benefits of being a healthy weight; decreased risk of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, cancer etc and how much you want as many healthy happy years as you can get. YOU CAN DO IT!

May2013 (Welcome to the thread! )No wonder you're starving that is NOT enough food! :eek: Where's the snacks? (Fruit?) The food diary you posted is more like a crash diet, it'll make you feel like cr*p eating that little and you can't keep it up. I'd be amazed if you've got much more than 1000 calories there, and you should aim for not less than 1200 for healthy sustainable weight loss. Have a look at LovetoPaint's signature for a guideline on how much you should be eating of different things, the key is healthier choices and smaller portions... not starvation!

CCP

Thanks, ragz - I know you're right.

I've actually just gone on to the NHS website and entered the same figures and that shows that even my interim target takes me out of the 'obese' range, and my overall target puts me only just outside the 'healthy' range. It looks like I've got myself all depressed over incorrect information (I guess the website I looked at didn't calculate correctly), so I'm back to where I was.

I'm still going to be very miffed if I have another STS week, though!

ragz_2

CCP Speaking of NHS sites, they are doing 8 week action plans for weight loss, get fit, healthy eating etc that may be of help to some people who want a little help. I'm doing their running plan (couch to 5k) and it's great so their other plans may be worth a look. In fact, I've just registered for their Weight Loss and Healthy Eating emails... every little helps lol

Ida_Notion

May2013 wrote: »

Hi All

In all my years of dieting I don't think I've never kept an eating diary...wow, it's really making me think twice before I've eaten anything today and so much more aware of portion size. Is a 50g portion of porridge really that small??

B - 50g (:eek:) porridge
L - scrambled egg + 4 Ryvita
D - Tuna, pasta, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, peppers

Very, very hungry today, I'm guessing it's going to take a week or so for my stomach to get used to responsible portion control

Are you counting calories, May? To be honest, that doesn't seem a lot to me. I'm doing the counting calories thing (1200 a day, give or take the odd dozen ), but a lot of it is stuff that I've always eaten, just much less of it. Although I won't be counting calories and will be more flexible if (when ) I reach my target, I want what I do in the meantime to be something I'll have some chance of sticking to, otherwise I know I'll never get there. I'd be lucky to last three days on what you've described and would probably be trying to chew through the plates as well. You only have to look at my list of edibles for the day to see that I'm not the best qualified person to advise on nutrition, but I do think you could be a bit kinder to yourself.

I once read somewhere that if you're overweight due to habitual over-eating and want to be (for example) nine stone, all you have to do is adjust your intake to be what a nine stone person would eat and eventually you would be nine stone too. If you want that 'eventually' to come a bit sooner, you lower your intake a bit more, much as we're doing, but there is no need to starve. This makes some kind of sense to me - since I stopped eating what a 12st 9lb woman would eat, the 12st 9lb woman has gone. I'm 12st 1.5lb now, but am eating substantially less than what a 12st 1.5lb woman (of my height) would have to eat to stay that way, and so even though I'm not starving myself the 12st 1.5lb woman should be repeatedly replaced by one who weighs less until she gets to nine stone and can eat what a nine stone woman eats, which she should be pretty much in the habit of by then. Maybe it's me that should be being less kind to myself, but I shudder at the thought of a future with little more than porridge, Ryvita and salad as a lifelong habit.

Having said that, I do realise that even though today's intake has so far come in at under 1100 calories and I'm not one bit hungry, nutritionally there is a fair bit of room for improvement!

Breakfast: none
Lunch: A packet of cheese and onion crisps (I really can't see the point in eating when I'm not hungry, especially when I know I'm going to be hungry later whether I do or not)
Dinner/Tea: Meatballs in tomato and vegetable sauce with pasta, garden peas and a bit of cheese.
Supper: Some Oopsied smart price trifle and fresh strawberries.

Exercise...

The usual walk to school and back, twice
Shifting a few bits and pieces round
A few hours spent pacing the floor while waiting in for a guy to turn up to do the boiler's annual service. Patience isn't one of my strong points

PS. Sorry for ignoring the most recent posts - I'm a very slow typist. Not a lot of point in me trying to catch up as there would only be more posts again when I'm done, but I promise I'm reading, taking notice and sending positive vibes to all

sparrer

Good for the losers, encouragement for everyone

B - F&F, grapefruit juice, tea

L - 2 dry fried eggs on 2 slices WW Danish , no butter, small squirt ketchup

D - pilchard salad which was pretty gross, made everything else taste bitter. See, I knew I didn't like tinned fish! But thought I'd give it a try to see if my taste buds had changed. Tomato, cucumber, lettuce, mushroom, celery dressed with a smattering of v low fat mayo and some ff yogurt.

Snax 2 Anzac biscuits, grapes, apple, banana, satsuma, scoop low fat ice cream.
Bad foods (biscuits, ice cream) have crept into the menu over the past couple of days, this has to stop

Exercise - up and down the stairs I don't know how many times emptying the drawers under the bed of tins and packets stored at the beginning of the recession. Some are now out of date! But it's food and I'm not wasting it (except for the tin of spaghetti hoops. No idea why I bought that, yuk). Cleaned the mirrors, pictures, glazed doors. That was enough for one day.

S

May2013

Hi Ragz and Ida – thanks for you comments …I think you’re both absolutely right, I’m not eating nearly enough calories at the moment (about 1000ish), I think that’s why I’m so hungry all the time….really had to smile about the 'chewing through the plate' comment, that sums me up to a tee right now :rotfl:

I try to look at the amount of food that I eat over a week rather than a day. My job takes me away from home quite a lot and it can be really difficult to find healthy option food choices on hotel menus – even the salads come drenched in dressings and full of carbs. Because of this I try to bank calories when I’m working from home to cover the extras I use when I’m staying away (this is a throw back from my WW days when we were told we could carry points over from one day to another). I know I’m not getting it right at the moment because I’m so horribly hungry and obsessed by food so any other advice you can share will be gratefully received.

I have to say reading through this thread has helped loads already as I can see the disparities between what I’m eating versus everyone else. Mine looks really boring doesn't it? I will make some adjustments to include some snacks but I have to say that I am worried that in the past 1500 calories tends to see me maintaining rather than losing weight...or maybe that's just my perception, I guess this eating diary will prove it one way or the other.

bramble1

Put on 0.4lbs this week. Not surprising, my heart wasn't in it the last couple of days.

Target of 1lb loss for next week.

Eating today
B - Muller corner
S - Aero biscuit
L - Rice salad with lettuce, kidney beans and sweet corn.
D - Pasta of some description
S - Muller corner (nearing eat by date!)

juliethemuse

morning all, today i'm having
breakfast 2 dry fried eggs on 2 ww toast , one low fat yoghurt (hope it dosent make me ill, its 5 days out of date, but i cant chuck food out)
Dinner - nothing
Tea - huge salad,
my jeans do feel a bit looser but that might be because they've stretched, i think i'm going to get some of those electronic scales, give myself a bit more encouragement,