kevs journal

Hey Kev,

Just caught up with your diary and I gotta say you're definitely on the right road. Since you've done this before, all I can say is stay on the forum here and talk it out with us.

Keep it going bro.
 
Kev - look at T2's weight stats in his signiature - theres inspiration for you! You are doing great guns. Those early days are the hardest - as you said, its like an addiction, with your mind coming up with all sorts of reasons to eat bad. You need to force new habits - and its hard work - but as the saying goes "nothing tastes as good as fit feels".
 
...it dont help matters that saturday nights im alone because my mrs works in the evening so i just get a free roam around the kitchen ( like a scavenger)

Hoo boy. Know how this feels! Super congrats on NOT giving in--- that takes a lot of willpower and you've got it!

Good luck at your class tonight. :)

Sifen
 
thanks everyone for your messages, its reading these messages that make all the difference between losing and gaining weight, i feel if i didnt come onto the forum last night i might have given into the demons in the head, today has been much easier :), tomorrows weighin can not come soon enough, i even resisted my fav food on a sunday and that was roast potatos so i deserve to lose weight just for that :) im hoping to move my little weight loss slider along tomorrow,my food for today was

Breakfast; 2 wholemeal toast, pilchards, 1 x orange

Lunch; 3 egg omelette, 1 muller lite, grapes

Tea; chicken, cabbage, carrots, kale, potatos,( gravey 3 syns ),

Supper; mixed fruit

Drinks; 2.5 litres water, 5 cups tea,

3 of 10 syns used today
 
Great job Kev! Your willpower will only get stronger with time. I know about those evening munchies, thats what got me to where I am today. I have a rule, and I consider it my cardinal rule of dieting. After my dinner I take out the only snack I allow myself and leave it in the dinning room. I fill my water container for the last time and after that the kitchen is CLOSED. I don't set a foot in there after I'm done for the night, not even to clean it. It helps that its not a room I have to wander through to get to other areas of the house.
Keep up the good work, and these forums really are a great snack attack buster, the motivation and inspirtion contained in these journals keep me going on my path to fitness.
 
hi kevmac - looks like you've made a wonderful start - congratulations for choosing to get healthy!

like everyone said, there's heaps of inspiration here, so i hope you stay around for the long haul :)

all the best - and well done on increasing the water intake!
 
Today i have spent a lot of the day feeling nervous about my weighin tonight, all week i had been looking foreward to going to class but this morning i just had a feeling of doubt even though i had been 100% on my plan, i need not have worried though as i lost a fab 4lbs and it takes me out of the 31 stones, i will never be going back into that weight bracket again :)
The scales were funny tonight because they just would not settle for me they kept moving between 30st 10lbs and 30st 12lbs so i told the lady doing the weighing to take it at its heavest ( never know it could be a lb in the bank for next week )
I have worked very hard for this weight loss because i have not done anything in the way of exercise because of my back, i can walk ok but im still finding it difficult to leave my house because of my size, lets hope im soon out and about:) I would like to thank all the people here for their help and support, my food for today was

Breakfast; oat so simple, 1 x apple

Lunch; omelette, 2 x bananas

Tea; Gammon, runner beans, potatos, 1 x muller lite, grapes

Supper; 2 nimble (6 syns ), salmon, cucumber,

Drinks; 2 litres water ( 0.5litres still to drink ) 5 cups tea, 2 cans diet pop
 
WOW Congrats on the loss! I knew you would lose this week. Your food diary has been great and a couple of times you have even skipped the "bad" suppers (like that 3 egg omlet)! Well done! Keep it up, and keep posting!
 
Kev welcome to the forum
Wow !! just read your story and it was very moveing i had tears in my eyes
you made the irst step into your journey and we are hear bside you all the step of the way if you need our help just let us know
 
well i have had another very good day so its 8 days without cheating in anyway shape or form so im well pleased, i have been thinking to myself today about going out walking, i think it hit home a bit with reading what i put yesterday about being scared to go out, so i have promised myself that im going to get up earlier and walk the dogs and then walk them in the evening, i know some people might think im being daft but its just the way i feel about myself ( if im ashamed and disgusted at myself then i expect others to feel the same way ) anyway its a start for me :) my foods for today was

Breakfast; dry fried eggs, 2 nimble wholemeal toast, 1 apple

Lunch; syn free quiche, salad, (salad cream 3 syns) 1 mullerlite,1 pear

Tea; syn free slimming world chicken curry, syn free chips 1 mullerlite

Supper; grapes, 1 banana

Drinks; 1 litre water, 4 cups tea, i will try and drink some more water before i go to bed
 
Great job Kev!
I have to say every time I read that you ate Mullerlite it reminds me of the american beer miller lite and I feel a little thirsty...lol!
Have a fabulous day and keep up the awesome job!
 
Cheers for that Iwan naloseit everytime i write it down it will make me thirsty :) i think if i was going to drink then muller lite is about the best one for me,
I struggled on my diet plan yesterday, i dont know what it was but everytime i went into the kitchen everything seemed to be saying EAT ME, for a while i did give in i made myself i sandwich, cut some pork pie off and grabbed a couple of packets of crisps, i sat down in front of the tv and went to eat it and the guilt that hit me was over whelming, i didnt eat any of it, i know while making the food i kept thinking to myself that it would be ok to eat it all because i still had 4 whole days to repair any damage i would cause, you will be glad to know that as a treat for not eating the junk i drank a litre of water and had fruit :) my food for yesterday was

Breakfast; 2 wholemeal nimble toast, pilchards

Lunch; syn free onion soup, 2 bananas

Tea; salmon, salad = lettuce, onion, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, eggs, spinach, a few small potatos, cress, (salad cream 3 syns),

Supper; fruit

Drinks; 3 litres water, 5 cups tea, 1 can diet pop
 
I struggled again yesterday and once again i didnt give in, i think it was because the shopping was done and although im on a diet plan the rest of the family isnt, so im helping to put the shopping away and looking at all the cakes, pies, crisps etc and i was finding it so difficult, i dont expect the kids to have to give up on thier foods so i think its something im going to have to get used to, i think i will find it a lot easier when i return to work ( hopefully it will be next week ) my foods for yesterday was

Breakfast; oat so simple, 1 banana

Lunch; 2 x kippers, grapes

Tea; shepards pie ( with a half swede topping ) 2 mullerlites

Supper; 2 nimble wholemeal toast(6 syns), pilchards 1 pkt crisps (6 syns)

Drinks; 2 litres water; 3 cups tea, 1 can diet pop

12 of 10 syns used today 18 of 30 syns used for the week
 
Im so angry now, i have just had a short meeting with my boss about returning to work and the 1st thing he said to me was hiya kev your looking well, i thought hellooooooooo im sat here weighing in at 432lbs and you call that well :mad: i know he was only trying to be nice but i really dont need to hear things like that, im fed up with people saying to me that i carry my weight well when everyday is a struggle for me, im going to try and use his comment to my advantage and show him that i can and will lose weight so next time i see him it will be justified for him to say im looking well, rant over ( i just needed to get it off my chest )
 
Had another good dieting day yesterday but the best thing was even though it was my dreaded friday it passed without me feeling hungry, i just kept myself busy all evening, my food for yesterday was

Breakfast; 2 kippers, 1 banana

Lunch; dry fried eggs, bacon, tomatos, (ketchup 2 syns), 1 pear

Tea; gammon, couple of small potatos, salad, 2 mullerlites, grapes

Supper; syn free quiche, 1 pkt crisps (6 syns)

Drinks; 2.5 litres water, 5 cups tea, 1 can diet pop

8 of 10 syns used today
 
I feel a lot happier today because i got through yesterday better than i ever thought i would do, kept myself busy again today and i think this is a real key to me losing weight, my food for today was

Breakfast; 2 weetabix, milk from allowance, sweetener, melon

Lunch; 2 wholemeal nimble toasted, pilchards, 1 apple

Tea; potatos (6 syns), turkey, cabbage, (gravey 4 syns), 1 mullerlite

Supper; did not have any :)

Drinks; 1 litre water, 4 cups tea, 3 cans diet pop

10 of 10 syns used today
 
Superb job resisting those munchies Kev! If I'da made a sammich like that I'da tucked into it before guilt set in. Your inspiring! Keep up the good work!
 
You sound like you're doing an excellent job! Especially with the added difficulty of a family that isn't on a diet. I do the food shopping here, so it's a lot easier for me to buy healthy stuff. Major kudos to you for not giving in!

An aside, what exactly is a 'syn', other than something you don't want a lot of? I didn't find a meaning in your journal, though I might have missed it.

Be well!

Sifen
 
great job backing away from the munchies, I'm the kind of person that feels guilty waayyy too late. Keep up the good work, it's hard but well worth it in the end. :)
 
Thanks for your replies, im really looking foreward to my slimming class tomorrow night, The diet im following is called slimming world and a syn is something we can use for a treat, it can be anything, we get between 10 and 15 syns a day depending on how much weight we have to lose, im meant to be on 15 but i cut it to 10 just to kick start me into my diet, we can use the syns daily or save them all up until the end of the week and have a night out with some drinks, i dont drink so i use mine through the week, my dieting day is split into 4 main parts, im allowed 2 HEB choices which can be bread, potatos/ rice and pasta ( if im on a meat day ) im allowed 2 HEA choices which is cheese and milk, then there is the free foods, there are so many things that is free and the list is endless, chicken, fruit, fish, vegetables, then we have the syns, the diet is also split into 2 choices where we have red days ( lots of meat and very little potatos/rice/pasta) or a green day ( lots of rice/pasta and potatos and little meat), i proberly havent explained it very well but the diet does work very well
 
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