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grrrkgrrrl

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So, I believe I should start a thread here as well... even though i am using a software calorie calculator but it's gonna be good to get some feedback on what i am doing.

up to date i have lost 13 kilos since september and yesterday was a very big day for me as i hit my -first- goal of getting my BMI to 25--the higher part of the healthy range. i am 5'6 and today i weighed at 71 kilos.

to celebrate, i went clothes shopping and was very very surprised that i was buying size 12 (uk) clothes. i still looking in the mirror and see a chubby girl. i don't know if that is true or if it is my perception of myself, but i cannot "see" myself as being "normal".

so what i will try to do from now on is part maintain (half the week) and part have some calorie deficit (remaining days). i still want to lose some more weight, but i feel that steadier and slower progress will work better for me at this point.

so, here goes today:

breakfast: 30g of special K and 100g of semi skimmed milk

morning snack: 1 medium sized banana

lunch: 100g of mixed veg salad(iceberg, carrot and red cabbage), 6 baby plum tomatoes, 1 portion of hummus (at 140cals per portion) and 1 whole wheat pitta bread (140cals)
- no oils or dressings on the salad/ i will be recording everything i use, however little or much i put.

afternoon snack: a pot of total 0% yogurt with 80grams of frozen (well they were defrosted when i ate them :p) red berries (unsweetened)

dinner: 100g of chicken breast grilled (100g before cooking), a portion of brown rice with stir friend mushrooms (no oil), with a splash of gravy.

i am still to have my evening snack which will be 4 wholewheat pieces of melba toast with 2 triangles of 0% fat laughing cow cheese.



i have also allocated calories for 200g of semiskimmed milk that went into the various cups of coffee and tea i had during the day. i don't have any other form of drinks/fizzy drinks etc bar water.

as a total i get for today around 1600 calories, and given i haven't done any exercise during the day --except from housework but that was nothing special-- i call it a "maintenance day"


finally, i hope this forum will embrace me and guide me. i know i haven't come or have to go through such a long way as other people here but it doesn't mean that my issues around food and habits are affecting me any less :)

love,

irene aka grrrkgrrrl
 
answered questions

1. What is your current height and weight?

5'6 and 71 kilos




2. If you were at an ideal weight now, what would that weight be?

67-68 kilos due to my build-- i am quite naturally athletic for a girl and lots of years of swimming when i was younger



3. At what weight would you like to be at four months from now?

67-68 kilos





4. Why do you want to lose weight?

first and foremost i want to be healthy and conscious about what i put in my body. other than that, the weight loss has made me and is making my more confident, less self-conscious, and stopped the feeling of inferiority when i am out and about in social situations




5. Do you want to lose weight for a specific life event such as wedding or reunion? If so, when is that event?

specific life event= living my life.




6. What obstacles could get between you and your weight loss goals?


the munchies. (not in the cannabis use sort of way). but i do get pangs of appetite -not hunger if i am honest- in which i eat junk.





7. Why do you think that you now have a weight problem?

i do not feel i have a weight problem any more. but i still need to "tweak" my weight a bit more



8. What lifestyle changes do you think would help you lose weight?



start exercising.





9. Have you lost weight in the past? If so, what has worked in the past to help you lose weight?



this has been the first diet i've ever been on, so the next couple of questions are void as well




12. Would you try writing down all food and drink consumed for a given period of time?


i am writting down everything. absolutely everything.




13. Do you cook at home often? If so, what do you cook?


i try to cook every night- i think since september i've only not cooked twice.
i cook forms of lean meat --usually grilled and steamed veggies. brown rice/ wholewheat pasta/ baked potatoes.




14. How often do you go out to eat? Where do you go?


as i said... i've only eaten twice outside since i started my diet.




15. What are your three favorite foods?


pizza, pasta, kebabs. :(



16. What are your three favorite restaurants?


meh...not worth mentioning, i doubt you'd know them




17. What are three things you can do differently when it comes to food?


more veg.



18. If you woke up tomorrow and your body was exactly the way you want it, what would be different?


i would have leaner thighs. i have very much a hourglass shape which is nice but my thighs are doing my head in.




19. Do you eat when you are not hungry?

yes


20. Do you binge eat (large amounts at a time)?


no

21. Do you hide your food or eat in secret?



no
22. Do you eat when you are sad, nervous, or depressed?


yes
23. Do you eat as a reward?

no




24. Do you eat while watching TV or using the computer?

yes


25. What do you normally eat for a meal?


lunch will usually be mainly a salad with something

dinner will usually be: chicken breast or pork escalope or vegetarian sausages with broccoli

baked potato with tuna and low fat cheddar

wholewheat pasta with some sort of sause (home made)

...these off the top of my head



26. What type of snacks do you eat?


fruit/low fat yogurt

27. In terms of exercise, what, if anything, are you currently doing?


very rarely i take walks. *ashamed*




28. Where do you go for exercise? A local public gym? School/work gym? Home?

i cannot afford anything else but home and the roads


29. What, if anything, are your three favorite types of exercise?


swimming, walking, tennis


30. What is your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly motivation to move towards your goals?


just to feel better about myself



31. Do you have rewards for certain goals?


not any specific ones, no ...




thanks for reading :)
 
Hi Irene,
Welcome to the forum and congrats on losing 13kg so far! Good work. Your plan looks great and you seem to be very motivated so keep it up and you will reach your goal in no time! I am the same height and just a couple pounds less so I look forward to reading your meal plans and getting some ideas. Bye for now!:waving:
 
today...

thanks chubbygirl, if you have any tips for me when you read my diary, let me know :D


so... today... i ended up sleeping in and didn't get to wake up until 10am, which is not very usual for me.. but i had a nice afternoon downtown, going around the shops with some friends and i think i had at least 1 hours worth of walking..in my head, that's exercise! :p


foodwise:

breakfast: 30g special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk
morning snack: 1 medium banana
lunch: 100g of mixed veg salad, 7 baby plum tomatos, 1 portion of hummus and 1 whole wheat pitta bread
afternoon snack: was missed while i was downtown but i had 1 tall skinny latte from starbucks

dinner: i gave it a go at making spaggheti bolognese.. this is the recipe that i used for the sauce BUT i split it in half and i am gonna have the rest of it tomorrow.
so for the whole lot, i used:

150g of lean mince, 1 onion, 1 green pepper, 1 tin of tomatos and 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

the recipe was simple, i sauteed the onion and the pepper, added the mince and sauteed it and then added the tomatos. in it i added 1 cube of veg stock, and a crapload of chilli powder.

so i used half of it for tonight's dinner had it with 75grams of whole wheat spaggheti.



for my evening snack i will have a pot of 0% total yoghurt with 100grams of frozen unsweetened berries

this brings today's total to 1600 calories :)
 
another day...

heya, diary

lovely to see you again.

today has been another lazy day...i should be doing a bit more studying but i have been to the shops again today. bought myself some brand new make up and some skin products to make me feel even prettier.

i think it's coming to that time of the month again..i always get hunger and appetite pangs just before my periods and i have to focus extra hard in order not to eat eat eat. eating wont help anything cos from experience i know that this time of the month it wont even diminish my appetite. it's like a monster. i dunno if the women reading this would relate to that, but thats what happens to me.


foodwise:

breakfast: 30g of special k with 100g of semiskimmed milk
morning snack: 1 banana
lunch: 1 wholewheat pitta bread stuffed with mixed salad and 2 slices of wafer thin ham
evening snack: 1 total 0% yoghurt with 1 tablespoon of honey and 10grams of smashed up almonds
dinner: 75 grams of wholewheat pasta with the remaining sauce from last night

and i will yet have my evening snack which will be 4 pieces of melba toast with 2 triangles of laughing cow cheese 0%


i have also allocated 200g of semiskimmed milk that has been going in my various coffees all day long and according to my calculations it brings my grand total of the day to 1500 calories

i didn't do too well on veg and fruit today but it's partly because its the end of the week and i dont have much in my house and also partly because i was out during lunch time so i couldnt really carry much with me :(

ta da, diary, see ya tomorrow
 
really tired...

so today has been my tiring day..

been up since 4.50am, travelled to london, had a day full of uni, then a meeting and then i caught the train back here and didn't get home until 22.30pm..

so since i have to do this weekly, i usually get to get with me foods i can carry, that won't go terribly bad and that they're gonna keep me full and happy...


so this is the best i have come up with:

breakfast: 5.am: 30g Special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

8.30am: 1 banana+ 1 skinny late

12.30: lunch ---> 1 wholewheat pita bread with 1 triangle of laughing cow cheese and 2 slices of wafer thin ham
----> 1 wholewheat pita bread with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter and 1 tablespoon of honey

16.00: 1 skinny late

17.30: 30g of almonds


then, when i get home, i need to eat something fast cos i am starving and as healthy as i can muster through my exhaustion. it's not ideal, but for my dinner i had:

4 fish sticks (fish fingers for the english folk)
1 small tin of beans in red sauce.



this brings the total to 1500 for the day..which i think it's good if you factor how long a day it is...

:D comments welcome.
 
not in a good mood...

:( i feel a bit blue today i think it's the final part of the pms before the REAL fun begins. so i will only write down what i've eaten today and be a bit silent and lurk in the shadow


breakfast: 30g special K with 100g of semiskinned milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: i took a pitta bread, opened it up in half completely, and spread a portion of hummus over the two halfs. i put a ton of salad on the two hummus slices and 1 slice of wafer thin ham over each. 10 cherry tomatos as well :)

afternoon snack: 1 total 0% yoghurt with 80g of unsweetened frozen berries


for my dinner i am having 3 vegetarian sausages (i've been only having veggie sausages since i realized the normal ones you can buy from the supermarket are completely utterly unhealthy and made from animal parts i'd rather not think about), with 150g of steamed broccoli and a portion of gravy.

i also allocated 200g of semiskimmed milk that went into my various coffees today.

the total comes up to 1400 calories and i also managed to motivate myself to do 20 minutes of steps on the staircase :)

i will try to do 20 minutes again tomorrow and see how long before i increase it and do more

that's it, nn
 
Congratulations on your weight loss to date.

You are doing great... Your food looks good too.

You really want to be adding exercise into the mix. There are all sorts of things that you can do to exercise without joining a gym. Here are some ideas from another diet forum. There are some other useful exercise ideas in other threads in the same section...



You mention PMS and also occasional attacks of the munchies... I see that you like fruit. I find sugar free sweets and gum to be very useful too.

I get a reasonable proportion of my sugar free sweets from Weight Watchers - but assuming that you do not have that as an option - Holland and Barrett stock the Sula Natura range of sugar free sweets which I think are pretty good too...

They certainly do a lot less caloric damage than normal sweets...

Never forget the wonder food that is sugar free jelly......
 
thanks, omega :) i will be checking out the links you gave me and see what i can do. the problem is is not lazyness..i've always enjoyed group activities more than solitairy ones and i do not have a peer group to go and play tennis/basketball..anything. i have really tried to keep away the sweets and it's not because i prefer fruit as it may seem from my diary... i am forcing the fruit in my diet because i know they're good for me.. :/ but it's been working and it actually IS good.

anyway..today has been a lazy sunday and i actually have a date tonight! whooohooo :) the problem is we're eating out, but i proposed we go to nando's so i will just have a chicken breast pita with salad -no cheese.

so foodwise today looks like this:

breakfast: 30g special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: i took a wholegrain pita bread, opened it up in half. i spread 1 tablespoon of peanutbutter (i felt like having a change from hummus) over each half and then topped it with salad and 1 slice of wafer thin ham. 10 cherry tomatos.

afternoon snack: 80grams of unsweetened defrosted red berries

dinner ---> nando's meal as i mentioned above

i also allocated 200g of semiskimmed milk that went with my various drinks i've had today. this brings today's total to 1500 calories (if i am harsh with the nando's) or 1400.

sadly.. i didn't do steps today. i will try harder tomorrow.

have a good night :)
 
Good work so far! You are really putting in the effort! :hurray: Keep up the positive attitude because I know from experiece that when the negative mood hits the healthy eating usually goes out the door - just my experience. Every day is another day so just keep it up and you will see excellent results!:waving:
 
thanks chubby and jess :) you guys were my motivation today. i didn't want to say two days in a row that i didn't exercise (seeing that you took a peek here) so i did 20 minutes doings steps on the stairs again :)

i finally got over my moody part of pms and now i am on the crampy/drained part. 6 more days and then i'll be sane and looking alive again.

foodwise:

breakfast: 30g of special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: pita bread with 100 calories worth of hummus spread on it. a nice big plate of mixed veg salad and 7 cherry tomatos

snack: 1 28g Alpen fruit and nut bar

dinner: i grilled 2 pork chops (i took out the visible fat when i was preparing it, but i am sure some was still in there), with 130 grams of steamed broccoli, 1 medium oven backed potato and a portion of gravy over the lot.

adding 200g of semiskimmed milk that went with tea/coffees, gives a total of 1500 calories for today :)

cya tomorrow x
 
Ugggh. TOM is the worst to deal with when ya wanna be healthy. Just keep in mind (tho sometimes its hard for me to use this advice to!) that working out helps to alleviate the bloating and pain from cramps, and can make future TOMs wayyy nicer to you. Food looks good too!
 
yeh i do get a very ridiculous relationship with food during TOM. today i followed omega's hint and bought some sugar-free jello, it's setting in the fridge as we speak and i cannot wait to have it after my dinner :)

all i've done today has been to go shopping but in all fairness i had a horrible night last night, didn't get to sleep unti 4am and i am exhausted and drained. hurra. i think i need to see a doctor about this.

a weird thing: when i was young and skinny i had really bad periods. i mean really bad. then, when i became my chubby me they got better but i just thought it was because of age and maturing.
as i am losing weight, the bad periods are returning with a vengeance.. what can be the relationship there ? i do have all the nutrients i should and i even take iron suplements with my multivitamins so i cannot understand it. i've never heard that being bigger gives calmer periods and losing weight makes them bad. :/

anyhoo...

food for today has been:

breakfast: 30g of special k with 100g of semiskimmed milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: 1 wholewheat pita bread spread with half a portion of hummus. 100g of mixed veg salad and 6 cherry tomatos

snack: 1 total 0% yoghurt with 1 tablespoon of organic honey

dinner is going to be 100 grams of wholewheat pasta with 30grams of grated low fat cheddar cheese.

plus a portion of sugar free jelly (if it sets)

adding 200grams of semiskimmed milk that went into my coffees today, brings us to a daily total of 1300 calories :)

good job there chuck!
 
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a good day

heya diary,

i had a good day today. my friend picked me up and we had a coffee downtown, then we went to his place and i met his parents who were lovely and then i came back home. it's weird now that i am writting it how fast the day went, even though i didn't really do much :p

also, i weighed myself at 70.8 kilos today --- 200grams is not the biggest weight loss but i am happy for this week because of TOM.
so... foods:

breakfast: 30g of special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: none--but had a tall skinny sugar free vanilla late at starbucks

snack: none- was out

dinner: i am grilling 120g of chicken breast, and i am boiling 1 medium potato which i will turn into mash with 50g of semiskimmed milk and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. a dollop of gravy over the lot

i still have added 200g of semiskimmed milk that has been in my coffees today (not including the late) and i still have 80g of defrosted frozen berry mix that i might have after dinner with a 0% total yoghurt.

total for today: 1300 calories

xx
 
Hey, in my opinion, if you were able to get ANY loss during TOM, you're lucky!! lol. I always seem to gain bad. Ugghh.
 
thanks, jess :)

this morning the scale said 70.3 ... i will be so happy when i am under 70 :)

so today... has been hectic.. i was out for most of the day again only i didn't think i would be.. so i left the house "unprepared"... and then temptation hit...
haven't done too bad calorie-wise.. but content-wise has been.. meh!


so.. breakfast: 30g special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

(left the house)

snack: none

lunch: 1 glazed krispy kreme doughnut. 1 tall skinny late from starbucks.

i feel soooo guilty about that doughnut....my friend had like 24 in his house.. and i had never had a krispy kreme before so i was tempted by all his doomsday speech about how i haven't lived till i try them.

afternoon snack: 20g of organic almonds (got home then)

dinner: 3 vegetarian sausages with 150 grams of steamed broccoli. 2 portions of gravy (60 calories worth) over them

i am still yet to have any sort of evening snack, i am between 2 yoghurt slices or an alpen cereal bar.

adding to those the 200g of semiskimmed milk that went into my coffees today, we're looking at 1200-1300 for today.

not bad

nn
 
it's them. at the end of the day i don't think they're a heck of a lot better than any other prepackaged/calorie control biscuits, but i sort of like them and the raisins in them are a bonus :)
 
today

nothing exciting happened today... nothing worth mentioning at least...

so it's just gonna be food recount at the moment unless something really exciting happens in the next two minutes :p

breakfast: 30grams of special K with 100g of semiskimmed milk

snack: 1 medium banana

lunch: 1 pitan cut in half with a portion of hummus spread over the two slices. 1 slice of wafer thin ham over each pita bit. 7 cherry tomatos.

afternoon snack: 15 grams of organic almonds

dinner: 4 fish fingers with a small tin of beans in red sauce.


adding 200grams of semiskimmed milk that went into my coffees, it brings us to 1300 kcals for the day :)
 
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