Amy's weight loss diary

Thanks :) I think it gave everyone in question a big scare. He works in the hospital complex he ended up at (but not in that section), so some of his colleagues who were working came to visit him when I was there. I also got a bit of a lecture over the phone from his sister about how I needed to look after him in lieu of family and how I couldn't let anything happen to him (the rest of his family lives in the south of England, about 5.5 hours away by train).

They think it's nothing serious (they made him do some stretches and based on the pain location and what he could and couldn't do think it's a pulled muscle in the chest), but there's still blood test results pending. I can definitely assure you it's not coffee related- he refuses to drink that.

I'm hoping this spurs him to do something to help him lose weight. I obviously worry about him. He actually brought up his weight to me a few times while we were waiting between nurse/ doctor visits in the hospital- that it was a risk factor and all that sort of thing. I'm really hoping that means that he'll try harder at the weight thing (when he's better, he needs to get better first). He expected he'd need a chest x-ray to eliminate something more serious, but he didn't get one because he's never smoked and he rarely drinks (he drinks maybe one or two units every three or four months, absolute tops), and after the doctor essentially said "you don't need an x-ray, you can go home" he was musing to me that he should've gotten an x-ray because his weight is a risk factor for the kinds of things they were looking for.

On the bus on the way up yesterday I really did fear the worst. He told me he considered not telling me that he was going to hospital, because he knew I'd come (despite not feeling well), but then decided that that would've been worse (if nothing else, he would've had hell to pay from me later!!!).

I'll be very glad when the day is over. I spent most of today in bed (we got back to his place very late- the buses weren't running back to my place by the time we got out- and it was a disturbed night because he was in pain and I was worried and so couldn't sleep properly), but I'm absolutely exhausted. Still got a bit of nervous energy bouncing around me though (been slowly dissipating since I got home) and so going to bed at the moment would be really pointless.
 
I think I'm almost ready to go to bed. As it's now Thursday, I'm going to write up my food intake for today. Some of it was at my boyfriend's place and so approximate, and I've had a bit of a binge/ comfort eat tonight (though thankfully my strategy of not keeping truly damaging foods in the house has saved me).

Wednesday 18 May

Lunch (this was at about 2pm, but it was the first thing I ate all day) A can (400g) of Heinz beef broth stew, two slices of 50/50 bread, and about 10g of Flora light. Subtotal: 391 calories, 15g protein, 62g carbs, 8g fat, already over my sodium intake! 15/64/20 split (I don't know how that works, but that's what the numbers say)

Coffee: probably about 100ml skim milk with say 250ml coffee. Subtotal: 37 calories, 3g protein, 5g carbs, negligible fat. 39/57/4

Dinner: 80g "cauliflower rice" with chilli powder and a little bit of water, with leftover soy marinade chicken. Subtotal: 440 calories, 24g protein, 36g carbs, 22g fat. 22/31/47

Snack: an 80g plum, an 85g peach, and a 120g apple. Subtotal: 129 calories, 1g protein, 31g carbs, <1g fat. 5/91/4

Snack: 208g zucchini and 213g carrot (steamed). Subtotal: 122 calories, 4g protein, 26g carbs, 1g fat. 9/82/9

Dessert/ comfort binge: 2 serves of sugar free strawberry jelly (16 calories), 2 slices of wholemeal bread with 10g Flora Light, 48g strawberry conserve, and hot chocolate (see picture- that was only 110 calories) with 4g unsweetened cocoa, 275ml milk, and a dash (approx 0.5g) cinnamon. Subtotal: 473 calories, 21g protein, 74g carbs, 9g fat. 18/64/17

Total: 1594 calories (90%), 71g protein, 236g carbs, 42g fat (oops!!!), way, way, way over sodium allowance (246%- yikes!). Split 17/58/24.

Must get back on bandwagon tomorrow. This was a lot better than it could've been in the circumstances, but it wasn't good.
 
Of course i'm not a doctor but if he had a heart condition of any sort, it seems unlikely to me that it could be due to his weight because these things take many years to develop. That's why it hits in the over 40s and then even more so in the over 50s.
 
Calorie question....I'm on 1500-1600 calories a day. Do I need to eat more on days I exercise, or stay the same? I don't want to eat 1500 calories and then do 400 calories worth of workouts and only have 1100 calories intake. Am I totally wrong?


"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."
 
I'm hardly an expert on the subject but I've seen bits of both arguments (eat a consistent amount, eat more on days you work out)- one doesn't convince me over the other, to be honest. Personally, I calculated my maintenance calories and deficit incorporating exercise (so I get about an extra 300 calories every day) and eat within my range (maintenance minus 1000 to maintenance minus 500- so I'm losing weight but the deficit isn't too deep)- how much I eat depends on factors that aren't scientific or relevant (my desire to comfort eat, how hungry I get during the day, etc). I actually find most days when I go to the gym I eat less than when I don't, and I don't seem to have suffered for it. It's going to have to come down to the obvious- do what works for you. If you don't need to eat more then don't, but if you find yourself more hungry, tired, crabby, dizzy, or any other symptom you associate with not eating enough, try eating a bit more and see what works.
 
I've finally gotten around to lunch. I'm so out of whack today.

I made my tuna mornay (which I've talked about in Carrie's- caffeinehigh- diary) because I'm in desperate need of comfort food. And have pictures (and of making coffee earlier today, because, why not). I had a 205g serve which worked out (how I made it- I was probably a little bit generous with the flour and milk) at 176.4 calories. I served with basmati rice (if I wasn't calorie counting I'd serve on toast with cheese between the toast and the tuna). Great student food, the only thing that needs to be kept in the fridge is the milk (and possibly the onion), and fairly cheap to make.
 
What a stressful couple of days you've had.
So sorry to hear that you boyfriend spent time in hospital.
I am glad to hear that your man is home.
Rest up. Relax. Be kind to yourself.
Your food looks goooood.
Mmm I want hot chocolate now too.
 
Thanks :) It was only 3-4 hours all told, but it was not a fun time for anyone involved. I'm still trying to get back on my feet and back to what I need to be doing. Thankfully the food is the easiest part of that. He's improved a lot since Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning.

The hot chocolate is deceptively good- it's got no sugar in it (or at least no added sugar- no sweeteners either). It's very different from what I'm used to, but it's grown on me.

Just had dinner- more pork with spiced apple. Chopped up the apple into much smaller pieces and cooked for longer on a lower heat. Also think I cooked the pork better than last time- it had more flavour and wasn't as tough. Still learning with the cooking, but I'm getting there.
 
Thanks :) That's what I did- but when I cooked them the other day I thought I'd better be safe than sorry as that was literally the first time I've cooked pork, and I know as with most meats undercooking is a bit of a hazard (and I think there are special hazards with undercooking pork). I usually use frylight for my recipes (except when I'm first making them, then I use oil to make sure I'm getting it right, but measure it carefully to minimise the calorific damage).
 
Utterly unrelated to weight loss or anything like that, but I love last.fm (and that it's free in the UK). Brings up so much music that I'd forgotten about or is hard to come by in the UK. I'm remembering just how much I love Tina Arena: (my taste in music is probably less than typical for someone my age)
 
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Must stop comfort eating. (And spilling yoghurt on my jumper, sigh)

I'm still under maintenance -500, but I want to try and eat towards the low end of my safe range, and at the moment I'm eating at the higher end. It's all healthy, but my god I'm a pig. :piggy: Oink oink. :piggy:
 
Food diary time.

Thursday 19 May

Breakfast: 45g porridge oats (made with water), 105ml milk, and 80g summer fruit mix, and 437ml coffee with 109ml milk. Subtotal: 262 calories, 13g protein, 42g carbs, 4g fat. 21/65/14 split.

Snack: 115g pear. Subtotal: 66 calories, negligible protein and fat, 17g carbs. 2/96/2 split.

Lunch: tuna mornay (205g) with 50g basmati rice. Subtotal: 353 calories, 20g protein, 58g carbs, 4g fat. 23/66/11 split.

Snack: 126g apple, 84g peach (was really dry, bleugh), a cup of tea with 61ml milk and 254ml water. Subtotal: 117 calories, 3g protein, 25g carbs, <1g fat. 11/86/3 split.

Dinner: another manifestation of the pork and spiced apple- 131g pork loin cutlet (fat removed), 113g apple, 5g olive oil, 2g total cinnamon and cumin, 9g brown sugar, about a gram of pepper, 215g zucchini and 115g green capsicum. Subtotal: 453 calories, 44g protein, 36g carbs, 15g fat. 38/30/32 split.

Dessert and pig out: homemade ice tea (297ml concentrate, no additional water added), a serve of homemade ice cream, 2 serves of sugar free strawberry jelly. And 107g pear (steamed), 107g apple (steamed), 67g plum (steamed), 87g strawberry, 81g blueberries, and 105g low fat Greek yoghurt. Subtotal: 358 calories, 13g protein, 62g carbs, 4g fat.

Total: 1612 calories (91% of goal), 95g protein, 243g carbs, 29g fat, 1604.3ml water (not enough), 409.1mg sodium (27% of allowance).
 
Oh, and my boyfriend and I have been invited to a black tie charity do. We were talking about it and he really wants to go (he'd have to swap work around, so it probably won't happen) to "show me off". OK, I do have a lovely long dress suitable for the event (bought it for a wedding I went to in February) and it'd be lovely to wear it having lost the weight I've lost (and maybe some more), but I'm not sure it's realistic. But a girl can dream. Was fun being the princess that day (ok, the bride was, but so many people commented how good I looked- even the father of the bride!!!)- would be more fun being a princess without that extra poundage. A girl can dream. Maybe another time.
 
Cinderella, you shall go to the ball. I can be your fairy godmother and call in sick for your bf if you want :)

My best mate had spilled yoghurt all over her jumper yesterday as well. There must be something in the air!

You haven't got that much extra poundage any more! you have a 24.7 bmi :) Woop woop!!!!!! You've been working towards this 24/7 now your 24.7. I don't know how far away the charity do is, but if its a month or so that'll give you a goal to work towards, although i'm practically certain you couldn't be doing any better than you currently are.

I always try to cook beef and pork as little as possible, taking it off the heat as soon as its done. A jamie oliver recipe that i tried out said the pork should still be pinkish in the middle. I didn't mind eating it like that (as Jamie said so), but my bf was a bit icky about it.
 
He said he's going to try but it's not that important. I suspect it'll be the kind of thing that comes up again, knowing who invited us.

The do's in about a month. I wouldn't say I had extra poundage now (well, ok, I would obviously like to weigh less), but I'm not sure what I weighed back at the wedding- definitely more than I do now. I suspect it was over 75kg, which gives me a BMI of at least 27 (the highest I know I've weighed in the past year has been 80kg- BMI of 28.7). I can definitely say that looking back at the pictures now, while I like (love) what I was wearing and how I was put together, the weight did sort of spoil it all (there are some horrendous pictures of me that the professional photographer took- funnily enough, all the ones taken with my camera make me look a little chubby at worst, whereas the professional ones make me look like a right heifer!)

I definitely like my meat a little on the rare side too :) Can't stand charcoal.

... In other news, I've decided that since I can't sleep, I'll clean (in the hope that my brain will protest at this idea and decide to let me sleep). My kitchen hasn't looked this good in a very long time.
 
Gosh you've lost so much since the wedding.
Eeeek.
You're the bessst.

Hope you had fun cleaning.
 
I don't know about "fun", but it needed doing. I hate cleaning and err a little too far on the untidy side. I decided I'd try "you can either sleep or do something you hate". Unfortunately that didn't work out the way I thought it would (doing anything to avoid cleaning). I went to bed at about 4:30am. I'm a little bit knackered today, to say the least.

haha, songs that age themselves. The one I'm listening to at the moment referred to Tamagotchis. That's hilarious.
 
Sorry to come back to hear your shitty news hun..Hope everything is okay and you're back into a routine (although by the 4am bed-time, I'm guessing not quite yet!) Hugs to you x
 
Thanks :) I'm getting better, it'll just take some time. At the moment the worst of it is the fact that I can't get myself back into a normal routine and I'm overeating a bit (thank heavens I don't keep crap in the house or the weight loss'd be right out the window!)
 
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