bugbabes no crisps, no chocolate diary. Anyone want a challenge?

jo101_2

Hi

I really need this challenge, I need a good kick up the backside to try and lose some weight and dont have the time to sort myself out onto a diet like counting points on ww etc, so I'm in, also including no biscuits on mine.

Good luck everyone

Jo

Kitchenbunny

I'm not really doing too well at this. I've had a chocolate bar today with my lunch. I'm hoping that tonight's tea of fajitas will fill me up and that I won't be tempted to snack later on! However, I got some refillable silicon plastic lolly tubes which I've filled with smoothie and froze, so if I feel the need to snack I shall have a frozen smoothie pop.

KB xx

marrowgirl

I want chips, sigh. Will have a jacket potato instead but grumble about it.
Had an ok week. No chips, choc or cake but did give in to the power of the crisp packet. Theres a plate of biccies on the coffee table in front of me as I write (just had friends round) and so far I have managed to abstain from their chocolately goodness..... jammie dodgers, viennesse whirls and caramel digestives in case you're wondering. MmmmMMmmmMMmmm. Think I'm going to have to have a lie down!

marrowgirl

I want chips, sigh. Will have a jacket potato instead but grumble about it.
Had an ok week. No chips, choc or cake but did give in to the power of the crisp packet. Theres a plate of biccies on the coffee table in front of me as I write (just had friends round) and so far I have managed to abstain from their chocolately goodness..... jammie dodgers, viennesse whirls and caramel digestives in case you're wondering. MmmmMMmmmMMmmm. Think I'm going to have to have a lie down!

elfen

*has not eaten chocolate but is hormonal*

I will resist the urge....

candyapple_2

Mmmm caramel digestives, not had them in sooo long. Hope you managed to resist them.

I had crisps today, although they were the baked variety so probably not as bad for me, and they were yummy I think I demolished them in about 30 seconds. I feel better in myself for not stuffing myself with junk food all week as I normally would have, been so long since I had anywhere close to my 5 a day that I've had headaches and felt vile since about Thursday but think thats just my body going into shock at being fed properly:rotfl:

blue_monkey_2

Hi everyone,

Well, I was killing some time tonight and found this thread and thought I would say hello. In April I started a 'weight loss club' for a few mums at the school. We put in £2 a week and half of the money goes to the biggest loser (in form of a gift card), the other to the PTFA.

I have lost 12lb to date and there are another 3 weigh ins to go where I hope to lose another few pound so I've lost a stone. I've not been depriving myself of anything as that just makes you depressed and crave it more, but you eat it in moderation. I have found that sometimes I really, really want crisps to put it in my mouth and then I think 'actually, no, I'd rather lose the weight.

I have crisps every day - I need crisps, LOL. I also have jam on toast every day for breakfast. I have chocolate and a small portion of chip shop chips at least once a week and we have a day off on Saturdays. My exercise is walking the dog which I have to do regardless (although a nightmare this time of year with hayfever!!)

Have a look at Weightwatchers, there are lots of bits around on the internet which tells you how many points you can have and how many points each food is worth, you will then get used to knowing how much and what you can eat every day and what foods are good and what are bad. Some people think Fruit Juice and Muesli is good for you - it is healthy but bad if losing weight. The knowledge of knowing what you can eat to help you lose weight is far more use then eating healthily. and cutting stuff out as somethings are bad but people do not realise. Someone in our group on the Gi diet actually gave up because she was putting ON weight each week. Slimming World encourages you to eat all day long in my opinion and is no good.

Breakfast is either non-sugared cereal (look at portion size) with skimmed milk or jam on toast.

Lunch is a sandwich - 2 slices of bread with either a scattering of grated mature cheese, marmite or ham with one pack of Value crisps (small bag fills a 'hole' and is just 1 1/2 points.

Evening meal is a salad with new potatoes. I have lots of green leaves, toms and cucumber with a spoon of bacon bits, spoon of dried crispy onion and loads of light salad cream (2 points), potatoes are 2 1/2 points, 1/2 chicken breast chopped up 1 1/2 points. I am 10 stone and can have 20 points a day but it is finding out the things you can eat that fill you up -also a salad like the above without the meat means there is enough 'room' for a chocolate bar

That leaves enough points for something sweet - which I do not always have to be honest. No sugar jelly is nil points so have some of that in the fridge. make it with sugar free lemonade or soda water - it is lush and fizzes when you eat it, a bowl of cinamon grahams fills my sweet tooth and is just 1 1/2 points for a small bowl and is something for me to pick at. Also strawberries and raspberries with some low fat squirty cream.

I hope that no-one minds me posting this, I just wanted to say that you can lose weight without depriving yourself of everything nice.

Oh, and sugar free stuff is generally disgusting!! Sugar free jelly is fine if you make it with sugar free lemonade though

Anyway, I hope no-one minds me posting. I am really pleased with the weight that I've lost although I do think I do not look anything different and I really cannot shift that spare tyre!! I am sure I must have lot it from somewhere. If anyone else is in a PTFA it is worth suggesting running a club as it gives you all a huge incentive to make sure you do not put on and if you leave the other mums will know you are weak!!

blue_monkey_2

Kitchenbunny wrote: »

I'm not really doing too well at this. I've had a chocolate bar today with my lunch. I'm hoping that tonight's tea of fajitas will fill me up and that I won't be tempted to snack later on! However, I got some refillable silicon plastic lolly tubes which I've filled with smoothie and froze, so if I feel the need to snack I shall have a frozen smoothie pop.

KB xx

Fajitas are BAD! As are smoothies because of the high concentration of fruit sugars in them.

*sorry*

blue_monkey_2

If you work out your allowance on WW you can then work out what foods are good for you and help with losing weight, and what foods are bad and are to be avoided.

At 10 stone I can have 20 points and this is average for someone who is 38, does some running around and some sitting (I am a SAH mum). For every stone you weight more than me add on one point.

I have made a spreadsheet for my club that shows you how to work out how many points a food is 'worth' so if anyone wants it then please drop me a PM with your email address and I will forward it over. It'll just get you used to knowing what food is good and what is bad, that is all.

And if anyone wants to know what points value a food is worth then ask here - I need the calories and the Sat fat and I'll look on the calculator. Just ask, OK.

marrowgirl

I've avoided the Cs of lard-dom (crisps, chocolate, chips, cake & cookies)today & I feel very virtuous.
Brekkie - peaches & quark
Lunch - smash & cheese (ok not healthy but I was feeling lazy)
Dinner - vegetable risotto.
I even managed to drag myself (and DH) out for a walk today - thanks to Bugbabes good influence.

I need, need, NEED to lose weight and tone up. I'm going on holiday in Oct and I refuse to be a beached whale anymore.