Piglet to Gazelle - My weight loss journey

purpleshoes_2

What I would say is, its worth trying to clean up your diet to the point where any sweet stuff like cake you have on an occasional basis. I know there are diets where people can eat treats on a limited basis, but personally, eating smaller amounts of the stuff that caused people to gain weight in the first place, doesnt teach you very much about proper nutrition.

You already eat a decent amount of fruit. Id swap the cake for a bit of fruit

First_Trouble

We have a lot of cake, biscuits etc in the office and every friday someone brings in a homemade cake. This is hard to resist but I do take note and this Friday I will not have any.
Generally I would say I don't have a sweet tooth but I am finding that since writing this down and people pointing this out is really helping me to focus on reoccuring patterns and where I am going wrong.


My goals for this week are to complete week 2 runs and two workout sessions.

First_Trouble

Food and Exercise for yesterday

B: 2 hard boiled eggs
L: LO Enchiladas and small tin of sweetcorn
2 hard boiled eggs, 1 tbsp salad cream & small portion of HM Chilli
S: Apple, 150g Yoghurt, 1 tbsp dried cranberries, 5 almonds, 1 coffee
E:2 mile walk & took stairs twice

I am starting to find that I am not as hungry any more. This I can assume is down to me consuming more protein?

purpleshoes_2

First_Trouble wrote: »

Food and Exercise for yesterday

B: 2 hard boiled eggs
L: LO Enchiladas and small tin of sweetcorn
2 hard boiled eggs, 1 tbsp salad cream & small portion of HM Chilli
S: Apple, 150g Yoghurt, 1 tbsp dried cranberries, 5 almonds, 1 coffee
E:2 mile walk & took stairs twice

I am starting to find that I am not as hungry any more. This I can assume is down to me consuming more protein?

You need to up the amount of veg you are eating I think.

First_Trouble

purpleshoes wrote: »

You need to up the amount of veg you are eating I think.

I think I need to include a more detailed account into my food.

For example

Enchiladas - Chicken breast, Mix of red/green/yellow peppers, onions, bbq seasoning, ground chilli powder, topped with passata & cheese

Chilli - Lean mince, Garlic, chillies, onions, Mushrooms, tomatoes & peppers plus tinned toms or passata, ground coriander, tumeric, cumin, cinnamon, paprika, beef oxo cube

Would you say the veg ratio in these meals are ok? I tend to try for two cups of veg for every cup of meat roughly.

I get all my meat from a butcher so I know it is all good-quality. Trying to find the same for a fishmonger in the area that delivers.

purpleshoes_2

First_Trouble wrote: »

I think I need to include a more detailed account into my food.

For example

Enchiladas - Chicken breast, Mix of red/green/yellow peppers, onions, bbq seasoning, ground chilli powder, topped with passata & cheese

Chilli - Lean mince, Garlic, chillies, onions, Mushrooms, tomatoes & peppers plus tinned toms or passata, ground coriander, tumeric, cumin, cinnamon, paprika, beef oxo cube

Would you say the veg ratio in these meals are ok? I tend to try for two cups of veg for every cup of meat roughly.

I get all my meat from a butcher so I know it is all good-quality. Trying to find the same for a fishmonger in the area that delivers.

Around 80gs is a portion. You look like you are getting a decent mix in.

First_Trouble

purpleshoes wrote: »

Around 80gs is a portion. You look like you are getting a decent mix in.

I try to pack as much veggies into my meals as possible as it is generally the only time my husband will eat them. He is very lazy when it comes to food and prefers reheated leftovers or ready packaged if left to his own devices.

I do tend to eat the below on an almost daily basis so I could expand on this.

Sweetcorn
Garlic
Onions
Mushrooms
Tomatoes (varying between tinned, passata, cherry, salad)
Peppers

purpleshoes_2

First_Trouble wrote: »

I try to pack as much veggies into my meals as possible as it is generally the only time my husband will eat them. He is very lazy when it comes to food and prefers reheated leftovers or ready packaged if left to his own devices.

I do tend to eat the below on an almost daily basis so I could expand on this.

Sweetcorn
Garlic
Onions
Mushrooms
Tomatoes (varying between tinned, passata, cherry, salad)
Peppers

Sweetcorn isnt the best veg you could be eating

Try kale, spinach, broccoli as well

First_Trouble

purpleshoes wrote: »

Sweetcorn isnt the best veg you could be eating

Try kale, spinach, broccoli as well

What's wrong with sweet corn? I thought it was fiberous?
I say this as it's one of my favourite veg.
I do like broccoli and spinach never tried kale. What's the best way to cook with it?

First_Trouble

Today's food and exercise

B: smoked salmon & cream cheese multi grain bagel and coffee
L: butternut squash & feta quiche with mix of 3 salads (couscous, mixed leaf & broad bean)
beef stew - beef shin, mushrooms, onions, beef oxo cube, thyme & sage with green beans
S: banana, nectarine, 6 almonds, 150g yoghurt, small handful raspberries, ginger&lemon tea
E: 2 mile walk, week 2 run, took stairs