My Food diary - Suggest me a substitute

Horace

Go to your GP and ask to see a health trainer - they will help you eat healthily and lose weight without having to worry about calories.

Walking is the best exercise you can do to lose weight - go for a brisk walk around the local park or your local area and pump your arms whilst you walk - that gets your heart beating faster and your body starts to use up the carbs you consume as energy instead of turning to fat. As you are eating so little then anything you do eat the body sees it as something to hold on to because it it doesn't know when it is going to be fed next.

Looking at the example diary sheet for a week that my health trainer gave me it syas drink 2ltrs of water/squash per day, drink 1 glass of water before each meal. Aim to do 30 mins of moderate physical activity per day. Eat 3 meals per day, eat 2/3 pieces of fruit and 3 portions of veg each day. Eat at regular times. No eating after 7pm (difficult if you are on shifts) and for snacks have baked crisps and yoghurt, keep an eye on your portion sizes.

An example of food for a day:

Breakfast (6am to 8am): 2 Weetabix with semi skimmed milk, 1 orange juice
Mid Morning (10am to 11am): Coffee/Tea with semi skimmed milk (no sugar) 1 digestive biscuit, 1 banana
Lunchtime (12pm to 1.30pm): Baked potato, 2 portions of veg, 1 glass of water (when I do this I have the baked potato with baked beans and a few bits of lettuce)
Early Afternoon (3pm): Coffee/Tea with semi skimmed milk (no sugar) 1 piece of fruit
Late Afternoon (4pm): 1 glass of water, Coffee/Tea with semi skimmed milk and no sugar.
Evening (5-7pm): Spaghetti Bolognese or Lasagne or Chilli Con Carne. 1 glass of water.

With Slimming World - it can be good for some, you are allowed to have 250ml of semi skimmed milk per day which is not a great deal when you think about it. Slimming World does not count calories - you can buy magazines in the shops, usually there is a man in them that has lost weight to provide inspiration.

closed

Ignoring calories is not something a doctor would advise.

Why do you need a trainer to suggest filling your stomach up with water so you don't eat as much, and do 5 a day

slimming world points are effectively an expensive but lazy calorie counting diet.

loopychriss

closed wrote: »

sliming world points are effectively an expensive but lazy calorie counting diet.

I attend a slimming world group and we don't have points or count calories. The plan is called Extra Easy because there's no weighing or measuring apart from dairy (milk and cheese) and carbohydrates such as bread and cereals, and of course, any 'syns' you want to have.

They are called syns because the whole plan is based on the synergy of the foods against each other. All I know is that it's working for me and completely changed my way of eating. I have been a yoyo dieter for over 40 years and found that calorie counting carried a lot of guilt for me if I went over my allowance for the day.

Yes, you have to pay to go to group, but the inspiration and support you get will be well worth the £4.95 a week. I personally tried doing it on my own but I do need that bit of encouragement from other people who are going through the same thing.

It won't happen overnight and it won't happen magically, you have to make an effort to make it happen. You have to plan ahead. And if you have a blip one day, get right back to it the next day, it doesn't mean the end of your quest to get slimmer and fitter.

closed

you dont have to have a daily allowance, just be aware how much is going in, and reduce it - yoyo diet is reducing, then not watching what is going in again, ie overeating

margaretclare

Sugar, sugar, sugar! It's the sugar which is bad for you. We've all been misled by low fat' this and that, but low fat means sugar will have been added.

I've no idea what wasabi peas may be.

HPoirot

margaretclare wrote: »

Sugar, sugar, sugar! It's the sugar which is bad for you. We've all been misled by low fat' this and that, but low fat means sugar will have been added.

I fully agree with this. I only realised how sluggish I was until I cut sugar out. OP your craving for sweetened milk and brioche is a classic sign of your sugar addiction coming to the fore. Fight it right back!!

Horace

closed wrote: »

Ignoring calories is not something a doctor would advise.

Why do you need a trainer to suggest filling your stomach up with water so you don't eat as much, and do 5 a day

slimming world points are effectively an expensive but lazy calorie counting diet.

I see a health trainer because I haven't been eating properly - I could go for days without eating anything at all so when I did eat, I would put weight on when I wanted to take weight off. At least now I am eating more and having regular meals and now the weight is coming off.

Calorie counting and being obsessive about it piles on the guilt which is what you don't want. I actually don't drink water before meals - I drink it throughout the day and will rather drink that than have coffee or tea. Slimming World does not count calories and it does not work on a points basis - you must be mixing it up with Weight Watchers.

inkypinky999

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If you can stick to 1100 calories a day, the weight will drop off, and after a few days the hunger pangs will go

you have an unusual diet though (vegetarian?)

where did the yolk go

if you like cucumber and tomato, fill your boots

I am primarily veg but yes can eat chicken, lamb, though prefer Chicken. Have not tried other meats yet want to try fish and duck next.

I throw away the Yoke, is there something I can do better off it?

inkypinky999

finally managed to not have milk and brioche and sugar, but instead had a goAhead slice and 3 biscuits (140 cal in total)

I may still go for Milk as that gives me a nice sleep...

today is getting bit tough in office..feeling kind of withdrawal symptoms.

the issue i face is lack of options or recipes which i can cook quickly..may be i need to be more organised at weekends to prepare for week.

thanks all for your inputs/comments they do help..keep them coming

HPoirot

Nothing wrong with eating egg yolk, it is very filling and you do not have much protein in your diet anyway. It might keep you off those snack cravings for a little longer.