Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 8. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

WantToBeSE

Good morning everyone!

Breakfast this morning was 2 slices of fruit bread.
Snack at 10.30am will be fruit.
Lunch will be roast chicken and all the trimmings.
Then possibly some soup later this evening if i feel hungry.

Is anyone else a bread fan? i LOVE bread so so much, but i think i need to cut down on it in order to lose weight.

daisiegg

Well done to the losers and STSers and to us all for plugging away!

I went out with work on Friday night to celebrate getting through our horrendous week and got roaring drunk (oops).....we were out for a curry, and then somehow I managed to have takeaway curry for dinner last night too! :eek: mind you, Indian for me is actually not that bad as I can't eat dairy and I don't find meat in a takeaway curry very nice so I always get vegetable, tomato-based dishes, no naan or anything, and don't eat a huge portion. What was less good was my hungover lunch of sweet potato fries and baked beans yesterday

Up early today as husband has gone off to the US on business for a week. Dropped him off at the station at 7am. I am going to try really hard this week to be good. Going to get on with school work now but will go on the treadmill or do a video later.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

WantToBeSE

It's my birthday today! And normally i'd indulge in all sorts of treats and then feel bloated and gross.

I am not going to bother this year. i am not a huge lover of cake, so not going to have one. I might bake some carrot cake muffins instead as i LOVE carrot cake.

Caterina

Happy birthday WantToBeSE!

Yesterday was a massive disaster for me too, had dinner at friends and ate industrial amounts of white rice, together with several servings of vegetables, beans, salads and baked apple cake. All very healthy mind you but waaaay too much.

I am feeling stuck because I was so successful on a low carb, almost vegetarian diet, no hunger, steady weight loss etc...but I have been scared by tales of doom about eating too many animal products, cheese, eggs etc, too much fish (mercury and other heavy metals contamination), then there is the paleo brigade screaming the dangers in insuline raising grains and pulses...

I really no longer know where to turn. Am suffering from food fear and confusion, food is no longer something to sustain me and I can't remember the last time I ate with simple pleasure, without computing in my mind the damage that this or that food can inflict.

For example: this morning breakfast was porridge, a but of soya milk but mostly water, a pinch of salt, chopped nuts, one chopped fig and sprinkling of cinnamon. Delicious and healthy but I can't stop thinking about the carb content, the sugar in the fig etc...

Does anyone else feel like this? And - short of going into therapy -what can be done?

Thank you for any replies.

Molly41

I think you should go back to instinctive eating. I am a great believer in it as I saw very many cases when i was a practising midwife. Craving certain foods (even bad foods) almost certainly indicates a lack of something. I have followed this principle myself and now notice that I crave salmon and fish when my B12 injection is due, peas and beetroot when i am anaemic etc.

Perhaps you should stop listening to all the advice out there as it is all loaded - diets are a huge money making industry. Government advice is in my opinion a well balanced and evidence based pr!cis so perhaps read that. A little of everything is the way to go and that will also reduce cravings and ensure you are not deficient in any minerals or vitamins.

sparrer

Happy Birthday WTBS, here's the perfect, no cal, no fat, no carb and no sugar cyber carrot cake for you :bdaycake:
Re bread, I loveit, love making it, smelling it, tasting it - but it doesn't love my tummy, makes me bloated and uncomfortable, so I'm just not making it any more. The alternative which suits me is crackerbread but there are lots of products out there, just a case of trial and error
Oh dear Caterina, I feel for you. I used to obsess about food/weight/good/bad etc., managed to stop, albeit slowly, by eating a little of what I fancied every day and hang the damage - life's too short to worry about a carbohydrate. Look around you and realise that people can live a perfectly good and healthy life by eating sensibly, exercising and enjoying life. My own mother is a very fit and healthy 92, was married to a butcher for 35 years, knows a good lamb chop when she sees one and wouldn't give a thank you for what she calls 'bowls of gruel'. Now I follow in her footsteps and just enjoy what I eat. (Admittedly I have gone over the top this last couple of weeks but I know I can get back on track quite painlessly)
eta sensible advice Molly, agree with you 100%

B - Huge Coxes OP apple from my tree, crisp and still cool and dewy. Perfick
D - out, will choose from the under 700 cal menu. Prob their pasta and meatballs, it's rather good
T - if I'm hungry - crackerbread spread with ff yogurt, vegemite/rf cheese/marmalade (not all on the same one )
S - grapes, melon, carrot batons
E - 1x10 mins done, plan more later and will mow the lawn when I get back from lunch

Have a sunny day whatever the weather

ellie99

Happy birthday WantToBeSE , have a lovely day.

Caterina...maybe you need to take a step back, and just eat what you feel like (within reason of course ). I know it's easier said than done, it must be no fun at all worrying about everything you eat. There are so many reports out there about how different foods are bad for us, and how do we know they won't change in the future? I think eating a reasonably healthy varied diet is enough.

daisiegg wrote: »

Up early today as husband has gone off to the US on business for a week. Dropped him off at the station at 7am. I am going to try really hard this week to be good.

daisiegg...when I was first married, many moons ago, my DH worked away every week...I found it much easier to stick to a diet and not overeat when I was on my own...and of course when he came home on Saturday nights it was a lovely excuse to splurge then

Having said that, I'm on my own today, it's wet and miserable, and I'm craving a huge bar of chocolate..it's 3 months since I've had a bar

WantToBeSE

Thanks for the Birthday wishes everyone

Ellie- i am SERIOUSLY impressed..3 months since a chocolate bar!!

Knit_Witch

WantToBeSE wrote: »

It's my birthday today! And normally i'd indulge in all sorts of treats and then feel bloated and gross.

I am not going to bother this year. i am not a huge lover of cake, so not going to have one. I might bake some carrot cake muffins instead as i LOVE carrot cake.

Happy Birthday :beer::bdaycake::beer:

ellie99

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Ellie- i am SERIOUSLY impressed..3 months since a chocolate bar!!

I announced (wisely or unwisely, has yet to be decided :rotfl:) in January that 2013 would be the year of No Chocolate.

I haven't written anything down, but I think I had a couple of titan bars in April, and fell off the wagon big time in June/July when I had 4 or 5 large popping candy bars. I love the stuff, I really had to force myself to stop buying it...haven't had any since mid July.
(and it's half price in my local shop just now, I wish I didn't know that!)

I'm hoping that by xmas time I won't want to eat a lot, because I always put on a few pounds eating choc at xmas.