General hysterical diet-related rambling: From Flab to fab; Part two.

overtherainbow said:
Did you and Rod go on a diet at the same time? It is hard when you are not in diet-sync with your oh. See below!
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I'm sorry that your oh is driving you crazy with his eating...

LOL - the answer is that Rod didn't cut back at all during my big project...

I have a lot of experience of watching temptation right in front of me...

I started my big project back in 2007 (which was the year that Rod turned 45) - but Rod didnt start his at all... He continued eating as much as ever... I was actually already really badly worried about him as I knew that Rod was big - but he wouldnt get weighed so any idea of his weight was all guesswork... I did however have a good idea of how big he was - and I knew that his father had died as he turned 47 from a heart attack due to his obesity.

I really lived in fear that Rod would follow in his father's footsteps...

I could guarantee to see Rod eat a load of tempting food literally every day...

Anyway between Feb 2007 and May 2009 I took my weight down from 21 stone to 9 stone... Rod was still as big as ever - but not getting weighed so I didnt know how big...

I managed to maintain things just fine until 2011 when Rod got rushed into hospital with some major kidney problems... He needed an emergency operation and he weighed over 29 stone... We were told that they needed a full team to be able to operate as they would not try without a consultant surgeon and consultant anaesthetist... It was all pretty scary. Then they said that he needed more operations... Rod became motivated to lose weight - but I was pretty worried so we ended up having a year when he lost weight and I gained weight... He ended up having 5 operations that year. This added up to a lot of weight loss motivation for him and a lot of worry for me...

No sooner did we get the operations over - but we ended up making the decision that we ought to be in Newcastle because of my parents. This meant more stress and more weight gain for me and a bit of a weight gain for Rod... That is how at the start of this year my weight had gone up to over 12 stone... I thought that I ought to do something about it before it turned into an even bigger problem...

I cannot even say that we are fully in diet sync now as his food control is really not where it needs to be or where it was when he was losing weight... We are however both doing a lot of exercise with the salsa and zumba - although obviously I can jump about more than he can - he burns a heck of a lot of calories with the level of exercise that he does...
 
That's cool about the hypnosis tape! You really have to commit if your going to do that. They say you have to go on a preparatory very low calorie diet for a year... if u can commit to that why get that surgery at all? Just keep going!

My old boss had stomach staples and he would always binge eat and they would rip :p ugh can't imagine.

I'm watching lost too! :D just got Netflix a few months ago and i Loooooove it. I watch it on my iphone at the gym. I'm on season 3 episode 12 :) you?
 
Omega Oh god, that is awful. I really hope that for his own sake he can get back on the diet band wagon. The trouble with food is it can be an addiction, a very visible addiction, and however much people deep in their heart want to lose weight, they struggle mahoosively with it. At least if you are giving up smoking, alcohol or drugs, you will only be struggling really hard for a month or so… When you have that much weight to lose, it will take a couple of years of sustained effort. And food is everywhere, we need it to function from day to day… No-body would need to smoke a few cigarettes a day, and if we did, somehow, then people would have a lot harder time just limiting it to that when they were giving up smoking.

At least you are setting a good example and buying healthy foods. I hope he has another surge of motivation soon.
My Mother was the same size as Rod and she has stage 4 Kidney disease. Also diabetes, arthritis and she’s has a very bad back, slipped disks etc, and been bedbound a lot.

Slickz My mother had a gastric Bypass last January, I think she lost about 5 stone by herself before the op, then they put her on a liquid on diet of milk before the op. She does still overeat a lot though (although by normal standards) luckily her staples haven’t bust, that doesn’t bear thinking about! You can shrink the size of someones stomach, but it takes more to change their mindset. She weighs the same as me now though, so it has worked in reducing her weight. I think that getting the op on the NHS was a big motivator for her to lose that 5 stone in the first place… Maybe she wouldn’t have managed it without the promise of that.

I’m on episode 21 of season one (Claires just had her baby), I’ve only been watching it for a week though, I will catch up with you soon :D I'm watching it on LoveFilm. Finding it really hard not to google the cvharacters and the storyline, I have read so many spoilers!

Banana
Small bowl of bran flakes with a banana (Totally forgot to use soys milk I bought!)
Small pork roast dinner... Pork, 3 small roast potatoes, 1 small yorkshire, lots of veg
2 bananas, 2 slices of watermelon
A slice of honey on white toast
 
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Just popped in to say heeeeyyyyy!!!:) don't have much time to post but I hope all is well with you! Will check in with you soon:) love xxxx
 
That looks like some tasty food yesterday. I'm somewhat of a picky eater, but all that stuff looks yummy. I'm assuming the Yorkshire is the pudding and not the dog? :)
 
hi ruth!how was your day?
i was hooked on lost and then i didnt have time.then got hooked on nip tuck...i STILL dont know what happens in lost!never saw the last season!its a really good show!!!!
 
MrVee Oooh no, you guessed my secret ;) Yup, I was THAT hungry!

Jess I haven't had time to do anything but uni work for SO LONG now, so I am absolutely loving being at home all day watching telly :D Once I've finished, I will give Nip Tuck a try. I will probably love it as I'm fast becoming a cosmetic surgery addict :)

I made jelly (jello) yesterday night, I did two packets of it, which makes a huge bowl, which contains only 160 calories and will do me for a few days :). I can't say I particulary like the texture of it, but I am sure I will grow to like it, like I've grown to like so many other foods in the past. Its orange jelly with 5 satsumas in.

Did about an hour of hard-core gardening which got me rather out of breath and sweaty. It has never, ever been so much hard work before... That shows how big I am now. Also did my trampoline this morning, and I will do the 20 minute shred in a minute.

I ran out of diet coke today, and decided to drink a cup of tea. And BY GOLLY I didn't actually enjoy it! I only had about 5 sips then gave it to my Charlie boyo. Tea/sugar addiction-SQUASHED. Hell yeah. I'll give it a few weeks, then I'll get started on my caffeine addiction.

Food- Cauliflower cheese ready meal, jerk chicken snackpot, banana, glass of red wine, lots of satsuma jelly.
 
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I didn't get a chance to read your whole new diary...but I will!! It makes me happy that you are back and all of your awesomeness!! I need it! looking forward to getting back in to the groove of this place!! :)
 
Tete I wouldn't bother reading it if I were you, it's all about tea :) Really glad your back!

Hana I must admit that jelly is already growing on me :) I put a bit of the orange flavour in a bowl on its own to set. Just made up another lot of lime flavored jelly, and added that today, and next time I shall add the strawberry, and have a rainbow jelly. I do love rainbows lol

I have had the hungries today. I was really looking forwards to a pulled pork open fajita tonight. I was saving the best meal till last, but Charlie got in the fridge again (Its because I'm spending time in the garden) and ate it :/ So I had bran flakes for dinner, which didn't fully satisfy me, so I had another, and I still feel like I could eat more. My hungries could have also been brought on by the arrival of my Exante meal replacement thing. This had better be worth it. I am looking at 90 small sachets of powder, and thinking- SHITE, this all I am going to eat for a whole month!!!

I just don't know what to eat.... helllllllp. Might try an Exante milkshake.

The eveninh exercise session doesn't seem to be happening, maybe I should stick to doing it in the mornings, as I have done that every morning without fail. I have bought myself a new bike, and might be training for the breast cancer awareness 5k race for life soon.

Healthy fry up- two large tomatoes, two large mushrooms, two bits of fatless bacon, egg, 50 sprays of fry-light.
Two bowls of bran flakes with one banana
Large helping of satsuma Jelly
Exante Banana shake- Update- tastes okay.... Hopefully it'll be filling!
 
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I'm about to go food shopping now, for a few days food. Am going to be extremly very good tonight, as I messed up BIG time with my food yesterday night, I ate loads of chicken, including skin, and another HUGE bowl of bran flakes. I didn't even enjoy them. I hate the taste of them without banana. I feel disgusted withmyself for being such a piglet and forcing it down.

Today: onwards. upwards.
 
I got my uni results today :) I did better than I thought I would and got a B for amost everything. I did get an E for one bit of work, but I can resit it. We won't talk about that tho :D. So that's my foundation degree finished, I am going to go back and do a final year to get a full degree... And this time I won't leave it till the last nanosecond to actually do my work. My nerves have been in shreds waiting for these results, I tell ya.

Exante Strawberry shake
1 egg on two multigrain toast
Vegetables and prawns, stir fried
Lots of melon, mango and grapes with lime jelly.
10 minutes trampoline
45 minutes gardening
1 hour walking
 
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Looks like a good day lady! Pay day for me tomorrow--going to buy a ton of jelly and mango after seeing your posts!
 
Thanks all :D

Another good day today- so far! Though I must confess that all I have been thinking about for the past few days is Nachos. Lovely jubbly nachos from my favourite Mexcian restaurant, that are like food heaven. It is because I promised myself a night off the diet on saturday night. Also have been having craving for a cup of tea, probably because its not as warm as it has been. I just love tea in cold weather. A starbucks would probably do the job as well.

I have had a rather minging tongue recently, coated in white. It didn't even come off properly when I scrubbed it with a toothbrust, and made my tongue really sore, but the good new is that its gone now... Probably due to all the healthy yumminess I am putting into my body. Also, this is even grosser, but I keep on getting an infection in my belly button. Where it isn't actually exposed to air, it is like a long tube to the outside of my flab.And gods, it bloody stinks. I dry it ut with a hairdrier, and I had to do it beside an open window because of the smell. But that has gone now, hopefully never to return again!

I am definitely getting a bit fitter as well. I couldn't do three minutes on the trampoline at first, now I'm doing 10 with no trouble, will up it up to 15 from tomorrow.

Also, I subcribed to the health magazine Top Sante, it only cost £15 for an entire year, plus you get a free gift, which is a bundle of coconut oil products (Which is the best thing for nourishing your skin and hair) worth £38 for free :) I got £5 off the normal price with the voucher code TOP5VOUC. The deal finishes on the second of July, if anyones interested.



Bit of a lazy day today, tomorrow, I shall GO OUT!

Bran flakes with soya milk and banana
Piri-piri chicken fresh soup
About 15 strawberries.
1 egg (fry-light) with 1 multigrain toast, two large mushrooms, and two large tomatoes
Small portion of jelly
10 minutes trampoline
 
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Hope you work through your nacho issues. Mexican food has pulled me off diet quite a few times. Congrats on building some exercise stamina. I am about to crawl on my bike right now. A meal off plan once in a while can preserve sanity but don't let it turn into a week off plan...good luck!
 
Thanks Brawny :D

Tonight, I had pizza. With trimmings. I can feel my resolve crumbling away like apple crumble. Help, help, hellllllllllllp! I woke up starving. I think the problem is, that I usually drink about a pint of pepsi max before I get out of bed, and I had run out of it this morning... Maybe that helps fill the hole in my stomach, because I ate several things for breakfast, which still didn't fill me up.

I'm not going to have a meal out tomorrow night as planned, I am going to eat only fruit and veg. There will be much alcohol in the evening though.

Pleasedontletthisbetheend.

Exante vanilla shake
slice of multigrain toast with honey
mango pineapple and watermelon
small bowl shreddies
Large white wine
about 5 slices of stuffed crust pizza, three chicken strips and garlic bread
banana and grapes

I haven't eaten this much in a long time.
 
Pizza is far too good. I had pizza hut take-out friday night and it was soooo worth the crushing guilt the next day. Just put it down as a cheat meal and start again!
 
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