Journey to becoming who i want to be!

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Tenji1

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Never really commited to a food journal before! So i'm gonna write here and see how i can do it.


I'll just update the last few days


START WEIGHT: 189lbs

GOAL WEIGHT: 130lbs


Thursday 1st March

Breakfast:

Cup o' Soup [40calories]


Lunch

2 handfuls of Wholemeal Pasta with lots of lettuce, carrot and a squirt of extra light salad cream


Dinner

Mashed potato [with a splash of skimmed milk in it]

2 Veggie sausages

two handfuls of mixed frozen vegetables (peas and carrots)

mint sauce and instant bisto gravy


Snacks

6 Ryvita Crispbreads [20calories each]


Drinks

Cups of tea with skimmed or soya milk

Cups of Coffee with skimmed or soya milk

Can of Diet Coke


Exercise: None [Doh!]


Friday 2nd March

Breakfast

Small Bowl of malt Wheat cereal with skimmed milk


Lunch

Boots meal deal of Chicken tikka flatbread [251 Calories]

Bag of Shapers Salted popcorn [89 calories]


Dinner

Homemade oven chips [Potatos sprayed with 1 calorie cooking spray]

2 Vegetarian burgers [89 calories each: 178 calories altogether]

Frozen and fresh veg (Carrots, Babycorn, peas, green beans)


Snacks:

2 rice cakes with low fat cream cheese


Exercise: Slow-ish paced walking for about 4 hours


Drinks:

Cups of tea with skimmed milk

1Litre of Diet Coke


Saturday 3rd March

Breakfast

Slice of white bread with peanut butter [I had to rush out and wasnt at my house]


Lunch

Jacket Potato with Chicken Tikka and a side salad [i knowwww, bad, but my boyfriend insisted on going to a cafe he liked and it was the best affordable thing there]


Dinner

None


Snacks

Bite of cheese


Drinks

Mocha from cafe

Homemade mocha at home with skimmed milk and cadburys highlights chocolate powder

500ml bottle of diet cherry coke

1 Pint of Diet coke

3 x Becks non alcoholic beers (53 calories each) (212 calories altogether)


Exercise: 2 hour walk with dog




i know i've not done too great to begin with but i've cut down on cheese and bread [i used to go through about 6 slices of bread a day!] and i'm a total cheese fiend. I've decided to eat veggie meat when possible [plus i eat with my boyfriend and hes a vegetarian who is wanting to put ON weight] and i'm cutting out beer until i've lost at least a stone cause i find beer too much of a tempation. Luckily i have a few teetotal friends at the gigs i go to so i'm not alone in drinking non alcoholic drinks. Though i did find myself getting more bored towards the end of the night when everyone else was rather tipsy.


I need more exercise in my life apart from walking around town. I'm job hunting so i try to walk everywhere. I really want to swim when i have the cash, and i have a skipping rope but i dont really know how that can help me. I'm going to start doin exercise at home. Plus i can take my housemates dog out more.


plus i need to stat working out how many calories i have in a day!


I'll update with todays diet later on tonight, and weigh myself on monday morning :) X
 
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Welcome to the forum honey--I think your food looks good!!
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thank you! and i hope so! i have no idea whats good or bad, i've been pretty wierd with food since a young teen so whenever i diet i just cut out everything. its bad! But i think i'm doing alright this time! :) x
 
Right well, its a new week. I weighed myself and i was 185lbs :) Which means i've lost 4lbs since last Thursday. Not bad :)


the weather is gorgeous today so i'm going to take the puppy to the park. I might even take the boyfriend if he gets his lazy arse out of bed! haha


START WEIGHT: 189

CURRENT WEIGHT: 185

GOAL WEIGHT: 130


Yesterdays food diary


Sunday 4th March


Breakfast

2 or 3 carrots with Salsa dip

1 vegetarian sausage


Lunch

2 ricecakes with low fat cream cheese


Dinner

One Homemade vegetable curry with Tandoori paste, Carrots, Lentils, Peas, Chickpeas, Garum masala, Splash of skimmed milk and Rice.


Snacks

Bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes in the evening

Few bites of my boyfriends toast


Drinks:

500ml bottle of Diet coke

1 cup of tea with soya milk

Mocha with options low-calorie coconut chocolate powder.

Cup of mystery diet pop


Exercise

none. it was a lazy day.




GOALS FOR THE WEEK

More water, more exercise, stop picking at food when cooking!


Tenji

:) x
 
AYou've got a great start to your diary! Good luck with getting your boyfriend's arse out of bed...lol!
 
cheers :D i just hope i can keep it up. its around this time that i end up falling off the bandwagon but ive been doing really well this time.

hes out of bed. but locked himself in the bathroom. The poor puppy will never get walked at this rate! :rolleyes:
 
Soo i did end up taking the dog out on the coldest walk ever. Did not get as much exercise as i'd hoped but oh well, early days.


Food diary for yesterday


Monday 5th March


Breakfast:

Bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes with skimmed milk


Lunch:

Bowl of leftover homemade curry with vegetables


Dinner:

2 veggie burgers [178 calories altogether]

Homemade chips with peri peri seasoning [made with 1 calorie cooking spray]

Salad: peas, red cabbage, lettuce, cucumber, splash of light salad cream

tablespoon of baked beans


Snacks:

none


Drinks:

Homemade Mocha with cocoa powder

500ml or so of Diet coke


Exercise

Just over an hour walking with the dog



Soooo.. yesterday was bloody awful. I have to start eating right, or at least stop the boyfriend from wanting chips.


i woke up this morning feeling hungry, shit and i just want to not eat for the rest of the day. But slipping into old habits would be a bad thing at this point. got to remember that rome wasn't built in a day. I might wait until the end of this week before i weigh myself again, cause i was upset this morning. I used to be stupid with eating and used to seeing 1lb weightloss everyday. i've got to remind myself that losing weight healthily will take longer.


still struggling to motivate myself to eat something though. its nearly 3pm and i've not eaten all day.
 
shakey start to the day really. I had a paranoid moment where i just spent about 10 minutes staring into my cupboard, panicking and reading things. Totally lost sense of what i'm doing. This is harder than i thought it would be. I just want to lose some weight. I really really want to just be happy with my body. I went shopping today and tried on a top. It was a size 12 [i'm usually a size 14, maybe 16] and it looked okay. but i wasnt sure if it was worth buying cause i'm trying to shed weight. I tried some jeans on, something i desperately need cause i have NO jeans [i live in leggings, shorts and sweatpants] and i couldnt even fit into a size 16. I'm not even apple shaped, i'm hourglass. I hate my figure, and i now hate shopping. Bleh.


I'm trying to focus on my jewellery and t-shirt range i'm planning on bringing out soon. I bought a sketchpad today and some cheap pencil crayons so i'm gonna do proper designs of things rather than the little doodles have in the notebook i keep in my handbag. Hopefully focusing on this for a few hours each evening will stop me from snacking.


I'm just craving carbs. I just had a crumpet, couldnt resist. i feel terrible now. Goddamn my willpower


<end rant>
 
today has been fucking tragic. i feel like a pig. its not even been a week yet. goddamn it.


Today...


7th March 2012


Breakfast: (late breakfast, eaten at about 3pm)

Two slices of white toast with soya butter


Lunch: (about 5pm)

Packet Roast chicken salad sandwiches (300 Calories) [i was out in town, my usual low calorie meal wasnt available]


Dinner: (about 8pm)

Bowl of my housemates homemade lasagne. lots of veggies, bit of veggie mince. cheese though :(


Snacks:

One Crumpet with a bit of soya butter

Two rice cakes with Peanut butter

Cheese and bacon toastie between white bread [:( it was monstrous]

Handful of crisps


Drinks:

Gallons upon gallons of diet coke.


Exercise:

Slow walking around town for about 2 hours. Could have done more.




i refuse to cut out my diet coke, its the only thing keeping me sane. I'm struggling today. I am still so desperately hungry.

I know my problem is eating at night but i dont know what to do. I can't fall off this now.


I'm trying not to binge but i can feel it happening.
 
well its 4:40am and ive just binged my arse off. Im exhausted. i feel dreadful. Time to slope into bed with the boyfriend and pray that the scales will be kind tomorrow =/
 
Well i woke up, weighed myself and i hadn't gained or lost. So i suppose thats good.

but rather than falling off the diet and just going back to my old ways i am soldiering on with it!!! :)


Todays food diary


Wednesday 7th March


Breakfast: (late, about 2pm)

Bowl of honey nut cornflakes with semi-skimmed milk


Lunch:

Nothing (i was out dog walking for most of the day)


Dinner:

Generous helping of my housemates homemade curry. Not sure what was in it: sweet potato, mushrooms, courgettes, spinach, lots and lots of chilli. Other herbs and spices. Probably some oil in there aswell which isn't good.

1 pitta and two slices of white bread [it was that spicy i could only eat it with bread, feel a bit shit about that really]


Snacks:

bowl of homemade chips


Drinks:

Mocha with highlights chocolate powder

300ml can of diet coke

Water

Cherry Vimto


Exercise:

2.5 hour walk with dog and boyfriend, lots of running, jumping and climbing



feel a bit better today. still cant shake my chocolate craving. i dont even like chocolate usually, its wierd. my food i cheese and im not craving it. but yeah. i want chocolate. might have another low cal hot chocolate later on. i might need it to warm up. My friends and i cant afford the heating bills if they carry on the way they have been so we're skrimping and not turning it on. im sat in a huge coat and shivering. maybe i should gain weight and get a nice layer of blubber ;) ahhaha xxx
 
No news is good news! Keep it up and tomorrow you'll have lost something :)

Sorry about the heat - maybe a warm shower would help?
 
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No news is good news! Keep it up and tomorrow you'll have lost something :)

Sorry about the heat - maybe a warm shower would help?
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Very true! i think i'm gonna hold off weighing myself until next monday or something! I dont want to get obsessive about weighing myself again plus i know i might start getting a bit miffed if i've not lost again tomorrow. haha!


thats actually a good idea. Though my shower is temperamental at times... i could end up with an ice cold shower!!! haha x
 
i can see where i'm going wrong, i need to stop eating late at night. I'm fine throughout the day but when it gets to abotu 3am i'm ravanous. i need to stop eating stuff like toast and homemade chips and start snacking on carrots or somethin.


lets see if today is any better...


taking the boyfriend swimming tomoz.


I really hope i get a job soon, that would help me lose weight cause i wouldn't be at home all the time sat at the computer job hunting. Plus it might sort my sleeping pattern out and stop me from snacking late at night.


I'm really miffed off i've not lost today. i need to stop weighing myself every day. old habits are hard to break though.
 
bahh today has been lazy but im trying not to let it get me down. I deffo won't have lost. Tomorrow i'm planning a good work out day. And my friend, who also wants to shed a fair few lbs, and i are planning on going for walks around the more hilly side of bristol. Get them thighs-a-burnin!


Some of the people on this site really need to get into their heads what 'belly fat' really had. this lass couldnt have been more than 120lbs and people wouldn't stop talking about how much weight shes carrying on her stomach.

it was so flat, i was jealous. Seeing people sit and criticize someone i consider my ideal figure for having a bit of belly fat makes me wonder what the hell people think of me when they see me waddle down the road.


full on hatin myself currently. going to go out and try and forget about weight for a night. need to clear my head.
 
not updated in a few days. i didn't write down what i ate but its been a mixture of good and bad. Anyway, new week, new start. no point falling off now! i still have mainted a 4lb weightloss so i'm aiming for another this week.

upping the exercise. im unfortunatly unable to get out today due to commitments at home but i am aiming to force myself out of the house every day. im gonna have a stab at jogging, even if it is only gonna last 10 minutes to begin with. i also have a skipping rope.


also more veg, less carbs. stop the boyfriend from making homemade chips.


gonna loosely follow slimming world


speaking of the word loosely, why cant people learn the difference between the words lose and loose? every weightloss forum ive been on has a million people struggling with it...
 
AI hope we didn't get off on the wrong foot. Nothing is worse than being a part of a forum where you're suppose to feel comfortable, and then being at odds with someone.

You sound a lot like me. I feel ravenous sometimes, like I could eat my own arm off. What helps is water. Guzzle it whenever you get urges and you know you have eaten already.
As for diet...drink it! I gave up regular soda last May, then started drinking diet coke, coke zero, and diet Pepsi. The big thing you have to look out for is sodium. Sodium will pack on water weight. That's why prefer coke zero and Pepsi Max. They're super low in sodium.

One thing that has really helped me is an app on my phone called myfitnesspal. There is an enormous food database, that allows you to log your calories super easily. You an go to restaurants, and still log things. It's brilliant. :)

Sorry....I tend to ramble. Lol. Good luck! :)

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One thing that has really helped me is an app on my phone called myfitnesspal. There is an enormous food database, that allows you to log your calories super easily. You an go to restaurants, and still log things. It's brilliant. :)
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I agree with that. I've been using it too. Loooove it! I just love the fact that you can scan barcodes and it just pops up with all the info. I'm extremely lazy, so that is a huge plus for me...lol. And don't get me started on "lose" and "loose" ....drives me batty..lol!
 
Originally Posted by imaninjadangit

I hope we didn't get off on the wrong foot. Nothing is worse than being a part of a forum where you're suppose to feel comfortable, and then being at odds with someone.
You sound a lot like me. I feel ravenous sometimes, like I could eat my own arm off. What helps is water. Guzzle it whenever you get urges and you know you have eaten already.
As for diet...drink it! I gave up regular soda last May, then started drinking diet coke, coke zero, and diet Pepsi. The big thing you have to look out for is sodium. Sodium will pack on water weight. That's why prefer coke zero and Pepsi Max. They're super low in sodium.
One thing that has really helped me is an app on my phone called myfitnesspal. There is an enormous food database, that allows you to log your calories super easily. You an go to restaurants, and still log things. It's brilliant.
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Sorry....I tend to ramble. Lol. Good luck!
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noo of course not :) I'm wayy too confrontational online. and i come across as a bit of an ass at times. So my apologies!

That is a good idea. i really should drink more water.

I LIVE off diet cola. But i didnt know about sodium, so i think i'll switch to coke zero. i drink pepsi max but i find it a bit sickly!


I should be getting a smartphone soon so hopefully i can get that app at some point

thank you so much :) x





Originally Posted by jen_renee


I agree with that. I've been using it too. Loooove it! I just love the fact that you can scan barcodes and it just pops up with all the info. I'm extremely lazy, so that is a huge plus for me...lol. And don't get me started on "lose" and "loose" ....drives me batty..lol!
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it sounds really handy! will deff look into it.
haha at least its not just me!

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Well ive not had the internet recently. Plus i started and lost a job in the space ive been gone [my life is so tragic at the moment! haha]

Lost a few more pounds, but then kinda put them on again. I kinda fell off again recently. stressed and that.


but tomorrow the boyfriend is going back to manchester to visit his mum and go to a friends party. im staying here in bristol. this is a perfect opportunity to eat what i want, instead of what he wants. So i'm going to buy some low cal foods and go for a few walks. :)


I'll get there... eventually!
 
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