~~Hana's Diary~~

Ankebuzz said:
Hey, well done on keeping an eye on your eating habits while on holiday!

Some ideas -

How about when you are not able to calculate calories or do not know what they are for a particular food, try to equate the portion sizes to the regular amount of food you would eat. 2-3 pieces of pizza equals about the same physical quantity of food that I get during a pretty healthy meal.

And when all else fails, eat slowly, and stop eating when you are no longer hungry (not when you are already full).

And if there are homeless people or beggars that you pass by or outside restaurants, they are always more than happy to take your leftovers. Not sure if you drive lot there, but we usually have car guards in all parking lots - they also appreciate it. Again, not sure if that is a valid option where you are :)
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Thanks :)

I can try to kind of log what sort of size things are that's a really good idea :) I'm not sure if I even know what regular portion sizes are really for most foods and I don't really feel not hungry or even full really until I feel sick :( I don't think my brain really knows what to look for :eek:

I've been trying to eat the same amount of things as my family are but I'll see if I can find ways to quantify it too :)

Luckily no homeless people here I've seen so far :) It's amazing since there are loads at home :(
 
Do you have an idea of what amount of food would make you feel sick? If yes: I suggest having 2/3 to half of that. Either way I think it´s a good thing that you´re getting aware of the problem "I have no idea how much food is normal".
 
LaMaria said:
Do you have an idea of what amount of food would make you feel sick? If yes: I suggest having 2/3 to half of that. Either way I think it´s a good thing that you´re getting aware of the problem "I have no idea how much food is normal".
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Not really :( It just happens after a while and then I may or may not stop when it does :( I really hope I can learn to be better at that stuff over time.

Today's lunch was pretty frustrating because we ended up going to this café that only did burgers. If I didn't want a burger my only option was the chips/fries on their own :confused: Dinner was good though we bought some new salad items and fresh tomatoes. The tomatoes here really are amazing :)

Breakfast:

Orange juice (smallish glass)

Lunch:

Beef burger with cheese (this was pretty huge but I only ended up eating about half)
Chips/fries (I ate most of these and they were like handmade ones and pretty thick)
Coke zero

Dinner:

Mozzarella cheese and two tomatoes with salt
Lettuce (about a handful?)
Olives (about 10ish)
Bread roll (mediumish)
Lemon water

Snacks:

2 apricots
 
The key with portion sizes/feeling full is just try and count calories as best as you can for a while, and then as time goes on you develop a skill for being able to judge how much food is really there just kinds by looking at it. If it looks like it weighs more than a pound, for a girl that's likely too much food unless it's heavily water based.

The key is to sort of stick with things for long enough to start to retrain yourself as to what a reasonable amount of food really is. I can now do a pretty good job of going to a restaurant and figuring out how many calories it roughly by looking at. Because I know how many calories a similar amount of food I made myself would be.

Just keep working at things until it becomes more of a habit and you get more comfortable knowing how much you should eat. I'd suggest having a touch more food for breakfast as that might help the bigger cravings for dinner. Even if it's just another piece of fruit or toast or something.

Welcome aboard!
 
MrVee said:
I'd suggest having a touch more food for breakfast as that might help the bigger cravings for dinner. Even if it's just another piece of fruit or toast or something.
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Yes, this!! Some protein with the fruit you usually have will help a lot. An egg, even some yoghurt. A few nuts for healthy fat.
 
MrVee said:
The key with portion sizes/feeling full is just try and count calories as best as you can for a while, and then as time goes on you develop a skill for being able to judge how much food is really there just kinds by looking at it. If it looks like it weighs more than a pound, for a girl that's likely too much food unless it's heavily water based.

The key is to sort of stick with things for long enough to start to retrain yourself as to what a reasonable amount of food really is. I can now do a pretty good job of going to a restaurant and figuring out how many calories it roughly by looking at. Because I know how many calories a similar amount of food I made myself would be.

Just keep working at things until it becomes more of a habit and you get more comfortable knowing how much you should eat. I'd suggest having a touch more food for breakfast as that might help the bigger cravings for dinner. Even if it's just another piece of fruit or toast or something.

Welcome aboard!
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Ankebuzz said:
Yes, this!! Some protein with the fruit you usually have will help a lot. An egg, even some yoghurt. A few nuts for healthy fat.
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Thank you :) I'm going to keep trying and hope that I get a bit better at stuff. I don't know how much a pound is really but I'd guess most of my meals aren't that heavy unless :)

Breakfast I'm gonna struggle with, I've never really been someone who eats much breakfast it just makes me feel really nauseous whenever I eat more than something really light that early. I had some tuna so far today though so that's protein and I'll try and make an effort to eat breakfast more when I can :)
 
:iagree: with Anke. You are doing fine & learning fast. Try adding yoghurt & crushed nuts or almond meal to your breakfast for some extra protein. You will get better at this. There is so much to learn & you have a lifetime to learn it. Go you :)
 
Ankebuzz said:
You are doing great! A healthy lifestyle is a learning process :) and you are learning quickly!
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cate said:
:iagree: with Anke. You are doing fine & learning fast. Try adding yoghurt & crushed nuts or almond meal to your breakfast for some extra protein. You will get better at this. There is so much to learn & you have a lifetime to learn it. Go you :)
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Thanks :) It's definitely a lot of things to try and think about. Breakfast as a concept is just a bit eurgh to me really but I'm going to try experimenting and trying out all these suggestions when I am home and I have more control :) Lots of stuff to compensate for when I get back!

Friday:

Breakfast:

Half a bread roll and a mini tin of tuna

Lunch:

About 3/4 olives
Bread roll with tomatoes and lettuce

Dinner:

Pizza with salami, red onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and parmasan cheese.

Quite a lot more carbohydrates than I meant to have looking back at it :( We had pizza again for dinner but I tried to get one with less cheese. Ended up eating the whole thing though and felt disgusting about now because it was like a standard size. I just have zero self control :(
 
Ok so let met give you an estimate for your day:
- Assuming your bread rolls are about the same as the ones I get here a mini can of tuna is half a regular one (in water, not oil) breakfast gets you 170 kcal.
- Green olives? No spread/fat/protein on the bread? Around 320 kcal.
- "Average" salami pizza for this area: around 900 kcal.
So don´t feel disgusting. You probably ate around 1400 kcal during the whole day. That´s not bad; your body was just not getting enough calories over the first part of the day so it took what it needed/wanted at night.
 
Sorry I took a break from logging things for a few days because it just got really stressful being away and not actually being able to control a lot of it. Thanks, I feel a little better seeing an estimate of the numbers but it still felt really horrible eating the entire pizza when I didn't intend to :(

Hoping to have some really good days, just ignore breakfast because we were coming back at like 2am so I decided to log it anyway xD

Breakfast:

  • Galaxy counters (165)

Lunch:

  • Cheesy bread (221)
  • Mixed leaf salad (29) with tomato (16) and salad dressing (10)
  • Sweet chilli hummus (115)

Dinner:

  • Spinach and salmon fishcake (233)
  • Coleslaw (153)
  • Mixed leaf salad (21) with tomatoes (18) and salad dressing (10)
 
Good thinking logging the Bad Thing even though you ate it so late at night it was early in the morning! Am I correct in thinking that this entire day was only around 1000 kcal? Hope you didn´t get too hungry later. Sleep well!
 
LaMaria said:
Good thinking logging the Bad Thing even though you ate it so late at night it was early in the morning! Am I correct in thinking that this entire day was only around 1000 kcal? Hope you didn´t get too hungry later. Sleep well!
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Oh my MFP thing says 1300 :eek: I'll go through and work it out again :) Yesterday was such a sleepy day I just lay there, apart from getting a a few things I from shop. I think I only got up to eat and drink until it was time to go to bed :)

Ankebuzz said:
Welcome back! Time to start eating breakfast ;)
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I'd forgotten thanks! Just had some almond nuts for breakfast :)
 
I just popped in to say that I like having you about in the forum. You are being very supportive in other people's diaries & that is always good to see, xoxo Cate.
 
You're doing really well! One of the biggest diet hurdles is simply being motivated enough to try to stick to it every day, especially on the tough unpredictable days.
 
Thanks :) I really like the community and supporting and talking to other people who're doing stuff too. I had a really bad day today for food :( Tried to get to 1200 and ended up eating way too much because of it. It's like the moment I give myself a little bit of something I'm incapable of staying in control. Going to keep myself more limited I think and just make sure that I don't eat things like this in an uncontrolled way again. Not had any unpredictable days yet apart from being on holiday but I need to sort out making things work when it's all normal :)

Wednesday:

Breakfast:

  • Raspberries (8)
  • Almonds (53)
  • Cheesy bread (195)

Lunch:

  • Tuna (127) with chilli hotsauce (5)
  • Mixed leaf salad (12) and tomato (16)

Dinner:

  • Grilled chicken (248) with lemon and herb flavouring (48)
  • Coleslaw (142)
  • Mixed leaf salad (23) with tomato (8) and ceasar salad dressing (10)
  • Diet lemonade (4)

Thursday:

Breakfast:

  • Raspberries (12)

Lunch:

  • Wholemeal pitta bread (192)
  • Hummus (58+146)
  • Pombear crisps/chips (158)
  • Peanut butter icecream (80)

Dinner:

  • Mixed leaf salad with peppers and tomatoes (44) with caesar salad dressing (10)
  • Beef steak (212)

Snacks:

  • Milk chocolate (347)
  • Almonds (20)
  • M&Ms (222)
 
& so do I. We never stop learning Hana. I just simply could not have milk chocolate or M&M's in my house. They are evil!
 
cate said:
I just simply could not have milk chocolate or M&M's in my house. They are evil!
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I think lots of us have "trigger foods". They emotionally take me back to a place when they were the only thing that could make me feel better. It is too easy to slip back, so I rather stay away. From sweetened condensed milk in a can, ahem. Also, if I get myself chocolate, then I allow myself to eat ALL of it, so I don't have to stress about it being there and not eating it :)
 
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