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VfM4meplse wrote: »

Another bad day - just one portion of salad leaves so I forced another one down now, along with 2 giant plums (which to be fair did not need to be forced, they were like nectar) - makes today a 2:2.

I knew I was eating too much sugar until about 5 months ago when I made a conscious decision to stop, I just didn't realise how little else I ate and that makes eating the required veg quota a greater challenge than I had thought.

You know I have to say this, and not in any way a nasty way, but omg, am I glad you are finding this so hard :rotfl:

Seriously I don't mean it nasty in any shape or form. Just OMG , you are human


Remember the days when people on here made others who weren't so thrifty feel bad? When I read your beat the sugar thread, I was like omg I'm failing again

You are doing so well and I enjoy reading your posts, but omg, you make me feel real when you also admit your failures

Thank you x

greenbee

Fruit juice at breakfast (1); sweetcorn and tomato for lunch (2.5); lettuce, beetroot, carrot, watermelon, cucumber, courgette, avocado for supper (7). 1.5 fruit 5.5 veg. And I'm not really eating much else as a result!

Avocado on toast or tomato on toast for breakfast would help get the veg intake up, and I love both of them. Otherwise vegetable-based options for breakfast are probably based around omelettes.

burtha

Unsure of what kind of day I have had ..
Banana breakfast , apple at lunch, made mushroom stroganof for supper with white rice and green beans , just had cheese on toast ...
So 2 fruit , 2 veg ...
Oh and a very nice ginger biscuit at 10 am

splishsplash

Morning...
Yesterday was a better day. Lunch was a huge salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, spring onion, sweetcorn, grated carrot, pine nuts, vinaigrette and dinner was crispy chili chicken w/rice, carrots and broccoli. Banana and apple for snacks.
I make that 8:2.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yesterday's tally was:
- blackberries with breakfast
- curry of lentils and spinach at lunchtime (I substituted some fat hen for the spinach - as pretty much same difference)
- snack of banana/avocado/nut butter bashed together (so 0.5 each of banana and avocado)
- had some plums, some dried plums and most of an apple (the most being it was home-grown - well the bugs got the rest of it....).

Fingers crossed for loads of home-made sauerkraut at some point soon - if those damn cabbage white caterpillars will just leave my cabbages I've got growing alone....

burtha

Well today ...
Banana breakfast , pear, 4 sticks celery, green beans , slice of white bread, (lunch plus snacks) , dinner , bubble and sqeek made with butternut squash ,potatoe,cabbage,lots of spring onions and parsley.
so 2 fruit , 5 veg

greenbee

Fruit juice at breakfast (1). Lots of salad at lunch (4). Junk the rest of the day. Still, at least the proportions are right.

splishsplash

Yesterday I had salad for lunch again - lettuce, tomato, cucumber, spring onion, sweetcorn, grated carrot, pine nuts, vinaigrette. Dinner was fish curry (1), rice, carrots and broccoli. Snack was an apple.

Total yesterday was 8:1.

VfM4meplse

Yesterday was better but not quite what I am aiming for, a 2:2 day in the end.

I've just had a nice big peach with a few blackberries, just 0:1 so far.

Soworried

Nil by mouth since midnight due to voice box surgery. It has left me sore so only had a little cup of soup.
I'll try to eat loads of veg the next few days.