General hysterical diet related rambling: From Flab to Fab.

TOTALLY!!! Every diary I visit, people were struggling yesterday! Must be the volcano in Chile or soemthing. ;) Full moon? Well, the moo youn is definitely BIG at the moment, so maybe its gravity is pulling all that food up from the table... and our mouths are the closest thing... ;)

I love that you hated it! hahaha. The apple pie, I mean. Weird, isn't it? And I know exactly the kind you mean, where the innards look and taste like innards. But it was just there... STUPID generous people that bring things to your house! It's like when I was babysitting yesterday, the woman called me the day before and asked if I'd like any particular food in the house, because she's a health freak (bikram yoga instructor) and has nothing bad... or 'interesting', as she calls it. I said THAT IS PERFECT! Leave it that way! So when I arrived, she had bought a big bag of choc chip biscuits just in case. GRR!!! Stupid generosity! :)

Thanks for being awesome. I still am in awe of you and your fruit consumption... I think I may need to get into the tinned (not in syrup) variety to get my vitamins.

(just thought I'd drop that 'thanks for being awesome' in there amongst everything else to see if you'd spot it. Did ya? ;) )
 
You still did pretty well yesterday. Everyone slips up, it's not a big deal. (And my desserts are routinely more than that so I wouldn't stress).

Although... did you have lunch yesterday? I can only count two meals. Not trying to get on the high horse, just don't want you to derpive yourself of food- better to dust yourself off the next day rather than make yourself go hungry.
 
:rofl: Joh, thats it, anti gravity food :D

I know, damn them genorous people, damn them to a land of healthyness, where no calorific presents exist.

Awwww thanks!!!!!!! x

I only ever have one "main meal" Amy, I did try having lunch a few times, but it always brings my calories for the day too high. I had my breakfast at about 11, apple pie at 3.30, dinner at 6.30, fruit at about 9.30. So its all quite evenly spaced out, and I'm not hungry! I like being able to eat however much I want for dinner. I know that this wouldn't work for everyone, but it does for me!!!!

Ive ordered a kebab about 20 minutes ago, so I will be eating it at about twenty to 6.

Food
porridge with a large mashed banana (plus half my daughters) 549
Nectarine 63
Chicken shish kebab, in pitta bread with salad, handfull of chips 759
kiwi and banana 106
=1479

Exercise
15 minute morning workout 127
30 minutes walking 185
1 hour housework 326
=638 =841 after exercise deficit
 
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Ah, I see. That also explains how you can have things that I consider too calorific. If it works for you then I've got no arguments.
 
Today has been shit. No food in cupboards AT ALL. Tomorrow will probably be rubbish as well as Sharon (the magnificent cake lady) is coming round for Sunday dinner. My actual calories for the day aren't that high, but it has been most definitely a weird food day. I wouldn't say I am out of the mode, but I'm definitely not in it.

Food
Leftover feta and spinach pasta in a roux sauce. 350ish
1 slice of granary bread with 1 fried egg (all that was left) 260ish
2 pears, 2 kiwis 220ish
leftover prawns with leftover stir fry veg 300ish
orange juice 160
4 coffees 100
=1390

Exercise
No morning workout (massively dehydrated)
3 hours decorating (sanding, filling, wallpapering).
 
Sounds like you've done pretty well all things considered. Maybe a project is to get a list together of store cupboard meals/ snacks from things that you can keep for ages, and stock up on contingency food? Rice, pasta, potatoes and couscous all last pretty much forever, as do cans, and some frozen meat and veg have years of shelf life. I also have (for emergencies, it's not the greatest stuff in the world) a couple of cartons of long life milk (which I haven't had to resort to yet, but it'd be the end of the world if I ran out of milk and I couldn't get to the supermarket).

If Sharon (or other cake people) come to visit in a regular/ predictable manner, is it worth saving calories from other days in order to minimise/ eliminate the blowout (taking calorie consumption as a weekly average rather than just a daily thing) and meaning you can enjoy a certain amount (like I do with my chocolate- portion control all the way) with less guilt?
 
I ordered quite a few extra bits with the shopping this time :) My freezer is ridiculously small, you could only fit six big tubs of ice cream in it! I REALLY need to get a new one! I'm so looking forwards to being able to make extra food (cuirries etc) then freeze it, Its just not do-able at the moment. I make a concious decision every shopping day not to get more than a few frozen bits.

So, today, I ate a roast dinner and two servings of chocolate cake! I bloody enjoyed the cake, and you know what, I feel strong! And I didn't bust my calorie barrier either. Tomorrow my shopping will be here and I will eat well again. I semi planned to eat what I did today, it wasn't an impulse thing, and for that I'm glad.

I usually only ever cook new recipes, I must have done about 100 new recipes this year, and recently I have developed a slight phobia of having things more than once, however, I couldn't be arsed to do the shopping and search for new recipes, so I used tried and tested ones. So I actually know what my food for the week is going to taste like, and that everyone else will like it too (there is almost always someone who doesn't like whatever I cook lol).

I weighed myself at boots, and I have lost a pound since wednesday :) A normal bmi is in sight!

No exercise AGAIN this morning. I need to be nagged!

Food
2 mini eat natural bars 156
Roast dinner (Chicken leg with skin, 3 small roast potatoes, 2 small parsnip bits, a dollop of stuffing, normal sized bit of yorkshire pud, half the plate was carrots and peas) 664
Chocolate cake 580
5 coffees 125
=1525

Exercise
1 hours walking 361
30 minutes housework 158
=519
 
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loved the cake part!!!!You stayed in the calories so i think thats good!!!Statr your exercise again its soooo important!!!come on!!!i doing mine tomorow cause last week was sooo lazy!!!Congrads on your loss!!!:)
 
oh and ill tell you again youre so pretty!!!!!and you look so great in that pink dress you can see your progress!!!!Fanastic!!!
 
Thanks, you made me exercise this morning :) Normally I work out before I check the computer, but this morning I was lazy and dragged myself to the computer straight away, but I read your message, and thought "No, Ruth. Get your arse up and do it" and I did :)

Hope you did your exercises! Do it!!! You feel great that you've done it after! x

I have got LOADS of extra motivation to really knuckle down and lose weight fast- I have had an idea which could be quite profitable, and as its fitness related, I really need to lose the extra weight before I can do it. Since the chances of me getting into uni this september are slim (dropped out of college a couple of months before my course finished, I might just scrape a pass, but probably not), its my best option for potentially making some money. I would much rather start my own business, than work for someone else, as I know that without much in the way of qualifications (unless you are counting bloody brilliant gcse's which are useless on their own) my earning potential working for someone else will be v limited. .... My idea might not work out, but I'm gonna give it a go!

I have also started saving for my tummy tuck, I'm going to save £300 a month :D So it'll only be 4 months or so till I can afford one abroad in eastern europe. So I have two things I'm really excited about, and I am going to work my arse off to get it. No more treats for me for the next few weeks- I wanna lose 7 pounds. Then I'll only have a stone to go before my bmi is normal, and a stone isn't much.

I am going to get in touch with the princes trust later on after I have cleaned my house, they are a brilliant organisation who offer loads of free help and advice, and give grants and loans. I am fairly confident about running a few branches of a business myself, but I would be clueless if it were to expand on a big scale... heres a link They are brilliant! Fingers crossed eh?

All will be revealed about my idea in due course, I've got a lot of views on this diary, so I don't want to give my idea away lol.
 
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Hiya! :) Sorry I've been AWOL. You know me - busy busy busy busy. Swimming in the lake, barbecuing, climbing a mountain, writing, etc. :)

Can't wait to hear about your idea... ooo, I love a good mystery! Hope it all works out. It's nice to hear that you are so pumped up and you have good a good firm hold of that mojo of yours! It's funny to read everyhting from the past two days, where you were so flat and felt like you'd lost your grip, and now here you are all pumped up and excited again. I think it's good for us all to remember that this tends to be the cycle of things... :)

I can't imagine ALWAYS making new recipes! I always have a fallback for those unmotivated days... but lately it's rare for me to try something entirely new. So what are your dishes that you are going to go back to this week?

:) Glad I made you laugh. Ages ago. :)
 
:D Teeheeheeee!

I've decided I'm going to research my idea in depth over the next few weeks till I'm only a stone overweight. I literally haven't stopped thinking about things to do to make sure that this REALLY works. I am about to read some annual reports of rival companies- big ones- which I am actually looking forwards to. My highlighter is at the ready. There is also a lot of boring observation type stuff I can do while I'm weighting (pun intended) to lose wait (pun not intended).

When I am only a stone overweight I will approach the princes trust for help, I don't want them to take one look at me knowing my idea and burst out laughing.

Smilies are the best form of punctuation :)

I'm on a quest to find the recipes I love the most. I want to try hundreds of recipes. I ate the same 4/5 meals on rotation for years, and I didn't discover any new flavours, and it just got so boring. I was sick of it! I ate so much lasagne, that I never want to see it again. It was lasagne, chicken pie, chicken jacket potato and sweetcorn, chicken rice (packet savoury rice) and peas, and the occasional roast dinner with auntie bessies finest yorkshires and roasties. And nothing else.

I saved this weeks menu in a word document but I can't bloody find it arrggghhh. That will mess me up! From what I can remember its asian prawn salad, italian chicken with basil and beans, butternut squash salad, pork chops with home made apple sauce new potatoes and veg, chinese vegetabley rice (my favourite) with chinese chicken, and something else!

Food
Large banana 121
ham and cucumber sandwich 277
apple and 2 kiwis 137
693 cals... I've probably already said how good this is, but I will say it again- ITS GOOOOD!
1/2 tin pineapple 103
3 coffees 75
=1410

Exercise
20 minute morning workout.
1 1/2 hours cleaning. Will get out tomorrow to stop myself from rotting away.
 
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Wow, awesome day you had! Good girl! :hurray: So much fruit... *sigh*

I checked out that recipe... it looks like the yummiest thing in all of yummy town. I'm a veggie freak, so I think I'll make it maybe tomorrow or the next day, but decrease the calories a bit (you eat, like, NOTHING during the day and then just one big meal. Not me!) by having a bunch of steamed green beans or something as a side dish. A sprinkle of salt and paprika and YUM.
 
It really is! Definitely try it!!!! What i do is use normal sausages with chorizo bits in them. I've added red peppers before and it tasted great (would bulk it out a bit for less calories), it would work with tomatoes as well. A sprinkling of chickpeas would cut down the cals, I use quite a lot. I have never fried it in the pan, I do it in the oven. And i add a teensy bit of garlic as well.
 
Thanks for stopping by Anna :)

Thanks Joh, I am really proud of myself for keeping up with the fruit, you know how hard I was finding it at first :)

I have decided I am gonna be a food SAINT :newangel: for the next 19 days. I am going to eat as close to 1200 calories a day without going under as I can, And I will walk at least a mile, on top of my morning workout and cleaning frenzies. My aim is to weigh 13 stone exactly on the 10th july. So then, I will be able to get my idea into action. I sharn't hark on about it any more, this is time for action, not words!

Food
80g Fruit and fibre with 150mls whole milk 381
3 forkfuls creamy pasta, apple, banana and satsuma 309
300 cals (high estimate)
2 plums and a kiwi 106
5 coffees 125
=1222 cals

Exercise
15 minute workout
One hours cleaning
1.2 miles walking
 
I woke up this morning feeling skinny (first time that has happened in a while!), so I measured myself, and the tape measure confirmed it!

The last time I measured myself was 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have only lost 5 pounds since then, but I've lost almost an inch off my waist, an inch off my hips. Nothing off my legs, but I don't care :) I reckon the exercise must DEFINITELY be helping, as I think me losing about 8lbs equals an inch.

Starting
Waist- 36 inches
Hips- 44 1/2 inches
Thighs- 28 inches.

2 1/2 weeks ago
W-34
H- 43
T- 25

Now
W- 33 1/4
H- 42
T- 25

I will be so happy when my waist gets down to 31!
 
HELL yeah girl! How nice it is to wake up feeling as though what you are doing is really making a difference.

A food saint, eh? Well unfortunately I read Amy's diary before yours, and read that you are feeling like you're thinking about food ALL the time now that you have made that decision. Isn't the mind a crazy bloody thing? How is that going now? IT's an awesome idea to step it up, and I'm totally going to support you the whole way! But remember to look after yourself too.

Seems you are crazily motivated lately! It's awesome to see. :)
 
Oh god, I was! I had that feeling where you are obsessing over particular food items in such detail that you can almost taste them? Well, that was me yesterday night. I think the trouble was, except from breakfast, all I ate all day was fruit and veg. I won't be making that mistake again! I really am super-motivated, and I want it to stay that way!

I really liked that thing Amy put up, and I've been thinking about it today a bit. Here it is in my own words, and more related to food....

Your trapped in a little room, it is full of bookshelves, which are filled with unhealthy food. There is a secret door behind one of the bookshelves, you know its there, in the back of your mind, but it doesn't occur to you to open it.

Day after day, you sit in the room eating crap, you feel like the room has some sort of magnetic field keeping you there. You are comfortable in the room, but you are also so miserable. You tell yourself your happy. Being skinny isn't everything, right? But time passes, and you start to think about the door hidden away. You move the bookcase to reveal it, and think about walking through it, away from the food. But you panic, you don't truly believe that you will manage it... your just so used to sitting here, and you are afraid of going out, of changing.

Months later, you have become even more miserable, you loathe yourself. You open the door and look. There is a long corridor that leads you to where in your head, and body you have always secretly wanted to be. You step outside the door, and you sprint with all your effort and your might towards freedom from the room, and your body. You are crying, its so hard, so miserable, and you can't BEAR it. So you let the magnetic force suck you into the room again, believing it to be too difficult to ever leave. Its like you don't want it to be easy, you make yourself really miserable, try to hard, run too fast until you are deflated. After trying to leave a few times you lose confidence, you lose hope, you think that you are never going to be the sort of person who makes the journey successfully.

Then something clicks one day, you think, hey, I don't NEED that run to be a white knuckle ride. Look, there are windows along the corridor, and its beautiful out there. Why not walk, slow down, enjoy the journey. Then you notice there are friends along the side. You can't see them all with your eyes, but you know they are there, cheering you on, and rooting for you. They are on the same journey, and they want to help you.

So you leave the room, and you walk. You dance a little bit, and resist that pull for a while, then, you notice that the further you get away from the room, the better you feel. Hell, why did you waste all that time in there? What were you thinking? Then the healthy life at the other end calls out to you. This isn't just a room, this is the whole world. You can get out there, and do whatever you want to do, because now, your free. You can't believe how you treated your body all that time. You know, that you might visit the room again from time to time, but you are never going to stay there, now that you realise what an awesome feeling it is stepping out of your comfort zone, and getting the sparkling feeling inside that you had always dreamt of, but had not believed was possible.
 
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