LRAT Diary

[lrat]

Friday
Breakfast
Wheatabix x2 with apple

Lunch
Falafel salad wrap with tahim mayonaise.

Dinner
Chips & chicken

Gym
Treadmill for 12minutes - 2 minutes fast walk, 6 minutes jogging, 2 minutes fast walk and 2 minutes cool down
3 sets of low row
3 sets of leg press
3 sets of lat pull downs
3 sets of leg curl
3 sets of chest press

Saturday
Breakfast
Hoisin duck wrap from Pret & half a pot of fruit salad.

Lunch
KFC: 1x Chicken drumstick, 1x chicken wing and 1/4 portion of chips.

Dinner
Omelette (3 eggs, pepper), spring onions, cherry tomatoes, green leaves.​

Long day out with my mother; we went to watch the guard change over at Buckingham palace and then went to Tower of London; lots of walking - ouch my poor feets not use to so much walking - it was fun though!​

 

[Delsid]

Hey!!
Walking is gooooood!!
I need to get out of your diary for now though coz all this listed food is making me even more hungry hahahha.
All the best of luck to you!! You're doing great!

 

[lrat]

Hey!!
Walking is gooooood!!
I need to get out of your diary for now though coz all this listed food is making me even more hungry hahahha.
All the best of luck to you!! You're doing great!

Thanks, I don't know what doing good is anymore. I go from one extreme to the other.

Eating too much and not doing enough exercise to eating too little and doing too much exercise.

Just to keep everyone in the loop - I have plans tomorrow evening but I will try go to a walk in health center tomorrow morning and hopefully get a check up - maybe they will give me some guidelines too. If I don't go please be mad at me.

 

[Delsid]

Oh man, I know what you mean.I used to be like that and sometimes fall into this trap. As in, 'I ate too much, so I blew it , so I'm not gonna do any exercise' or the other way 'obsessing about every calorie and overdoing it at the gym'. When you're trying to lose weight keep in sight why you're doing it. Make it very clear to yourself. And food-wise it helps me to cook as much as possible so a) I know exactly what's in my food b) I dont obsess about what I've just eaten and how much I've eaten.
Also, what I've noticed is this. If I have a good morning with a healthy breakfast I tend to have a good afternoon followed by a good evening. If you go to the health centre tomorrow morning (and maybe turn it into a bit of a walk? take e detour? go to the park on your way back - to get some exercise AND headspace) you will MOST LIKELY feel more motivated to have a better afternoon! Try it and report here GOOD LUCK!!!!

 

[lrat]

GP said I looked healthy and let me go.

I thought she'd be a little concerned at my calorie in take and the fact I felt nauseous in the mornings and exhausted throughout the day.

Blood pressure was fine and she took a urine sample which she said was fine.

I guess I will continue as normal then? It's a nice day today. Going to take a long stroll then go to the gym before I go out tonight.

 

[lrat]

Monday
Breakfast
Wheatabix x2 and raspberries

Lunch
Green leaves, cherry tomatoes and chicken.

Dinner
Pasta with a home made tomato sauce (inc onions, yellow bell pepper, cherry tomatos, sweetcorn, thyme, pepper, garlic)

Gym
10 minutes on treadmill (6 mins running) +/- 2minutes fast walking at start and end
3 sets of low rows
3 sets of leg curl
3 sets of leg press
3 sets of chest press
3 sets of arm curl
3 sets of lat pull down


Tuesday
Breakfast
Wheatabix x2 and raspberries

Lunch
Green leaves, cherry tomatoes and chicken.

Dinner
rest of the pasta from yesterday

No Gym Today! Had a meeting and I've got some type up to do.​

 

[Cate]

GP said I looked healthy and let me go.

I thought she'd be a little concerned at my calorie in take and the fact I felt nauseous in the mornings and exhausted throughout the day.

Blood pressure was fine and she took a urine sample which she said was fine.

I guess I will continue as normal then? It's a nice day today. Going to take a long stroll then go to the gym before I go out tonight.

I still think you are undereating & putting your health at risk. Doctors are usually time poor. I think she should have been concerned. How did you put it to her? I think a referral to a nutritionist would be a good idea. Have you done any homework on the side effects of undereating & overtraining? I worry when I see someone risking their long-term health for short-term "gain." Nausea & exhaustion are not acceptable.

 

[lrat]

I still think you are undereating & putting your health at risk. Doctors are usually time poor. I think she should have been concerned. How did you put it to her? I think a referral to a nutritionist would be a good idea. Have you done any homework on the side effects of undereating & overtraining? I worry when I see someone risking their long-term health for short-term "gain." Nausea & exhaustion are not acceptable.

I told her I was a little concerned and that I was advised to seek medical advise. Described my symptoms to her and she didn't seem to have any concern. She asked me if I had actually thrown up which I told her no - I think maybe then she see no immediate threat.

This was a walk in centre so she did advise me to go see my local GP (which is back home); who may want to do blood tests and other things (which I don't have the time for). She advise me to go back if I saw any other symptoms which surprised me - i would have expected her to say if you start throwing up then visit us.

I did try to google nutritionists but I wasn't sure what I was looking for really; there are different types and it was all a bit over my head so I gave up - I also think nutritionists are long term commitments which I don't really feel is right for me right now due to moving back to university shortly.

I did have a brief look at side effects; the one's that frightened me the most was damage to organs (which is probably for a severe case); tiredness, loss of apetite and other things were secondary but things I thought may have been present at the time. I am however feeling a lot better as of lately - either I adjusted and got use to it or I started eating a little more subconsciously.

I do appreciate your concern; I'm a little oblivious to all this and the side effects long term - all I care about is the result of my weight loss both short term and long term. Obviously quick short-term results are more appealing but I do want to maintain a steady weight loss and weight once I've lost it.

Wednesday
Breakfast
Bowl Shreddies with raspberries

Lunch
Chicken salad wrap with BBQ sauce (i think the sauce is really unhealthy - probably a tonne of salt in it).

Dinner
I wanted to have some veggies with my chicken breast but I forgot I used them all up - so probably i'll have some rice or salad with it.

Gym
10 minutes on treadmill
3 sets of leg press
3 sets of leg extension
3 sets of low row
3 sets of chest press
3 sets of lat pull down​

 

[lrat]

Thursday
Breakfast
Shreddies with raspberries

Lunch
~ around half a pizza

Dinner
Chicken breast, avacado, red bell pepper, garlic, spring onions, rice and maybe other things

It was really tasty; i'm glad because it looked horrible

Friday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Noodles with kung pow chicken

Dinner
BBQ, lots of protein with some salad & potatoes.

Little bit of a bad week for me; however it's ok i'll get back on track next week. I come home to see my family and my dad for fathers day. It's nice to hear comments from close relatives about how I look slimmer and healthier - you don't get that effect with the people you work with and see every day.

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[lrat]

Saturday
Breakfast
Wheatabix x2

Lunch
Chicken salad sandwhich

Dinner
Chicken Kiev, Salad and New potatoes.

Sunday
Breakfast
Wheatabix x2

Lunch
Sheppards Pie with mixed vegetables, gravy

Dinner
Chicken Salad Wrap x2​

 

[lrat]

Monday
Breakfast
Shreddies

Lunch
Falaffel and salad wrap & cherries

Dinner
Rice, chicken breast, garlic clove, half red onion; greek yoghurt, cranberries, curry powder, thyme

Tuesday
Breakfast
Shreddies & cherries

Lunch
Chicken salad wrap & cherries

Dinner
Chicken breast, mixed vegetables and new potatoes

Gym
12 minutes on the treadmill
3 sets of low row
3 sets of leg ress
3 sets of leg extension
3 sets of chest press (this doesn't feel like it's improving; still struggling)
3 sets of lat pull down
3-5 minutes on treadmill before I shot off

My weight has gone up a fair bit recently; probably due to my bad week and weekend (back at home again).

I think at the start of last week I was dipping into mid 116kg; now weighing in this week fluctuating between 117kg and 118kg - for me this seems like a failure; mentally thinking I've gone up 2kg when I see the high 117kg. Hopefully it will go back down into the 116kg's this week with enough work put in at the gym (however the hot weather is putting me off!)​

 

[Trusylver]

Even if it feels like failure at the moment it is not, you only fail if you give up and I see no sign of you giving up

Keep up the great effort !

 

[lrat]

Wednesday
Breakfast
Shreddies

Lunch
Fallafel salad wrap

Dinner
Chicken breast with rice

Thursday
Breakfast
Shreddies

Lunch
Ham and cheese roll

Dinner
Noodles with vegetables

Friday
Breakfast
Shreddies

Lunch
duck wrap

Dinner
A unhealthy snacking moment - bag of crisps, pack of haribos and bottle of oasis.

Saturday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Noodles with vegetables

Dinner
Pasta with tomato sauce

Sunday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
1x Belvita original breakfast biscuit pack (4 biscuits)

Dinner
Brown rice, lentils and new potatos thingy ready meal

Bad week for gym again. Really need to give myself a kick up the bum and go again. I'll try go tomorrow however I will be going to Paris on Tuesday and returning Sunday so next week will be a quiet one.
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[lrat]

My week in Paris is nearly over. I return back to London tomorrow and I expect to have put on weight with all the eat outs however maybe all the walking has counteracted it. We will see when I weigh myself on Sunday.

I know I haven't posted my weight for a long time however I think I last recorded it at around 115kg maybe 116kg.

Will get back on top of my entries next week.

 

[lrat]

So I last recorded my weight at 115.7kg; when I weighed myself yesterday it was at 117kg. So it went up as expected - back to the gym tomorrow and hopefully work my butt off to push it back down. I've also decided to try go vegan for this month (if it goes well i'll consider continuing it) - i've talked about it in the past as one of my ideas pre-joining and I think i'm going to give it a trial phase now.

The 1st / 2nd of July were a write off for no animal-products and I also slipped at lunch today. So starting from today I will try to avoid all animal products. I did a small shop today and bought non-animal products; for the first time I bought humus, nuts (cashew), an avocado?!

Trying to think of meals to have tomorrow. I bought some baby potatoes; lettuce; tomatoes; an avocado; onion; garlic; paprika; red/yellow/green bell pepper and maybe some other things. I wanted to buy lentils but couldn't find any so I will go and check again tomorrow.

I need something to substitute either mayonaise or butter (something to moisten my baby potatoes), chuck in some spring onions along with it. Then possible mix up a small salad with avocado, lettuce, tomatoes and nuts and a small portion of bread.

I can then cook some pasta; making my own tomato sauce with thyme; chopped tomatoes; bell pepper of choice; lentils and onion (chopped).

If anyone has any suggestions let me know; i'm just brain dumping and throwing ideas about. I'll probably have a browse online later.

Monday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Ham and cheese roll; some blueberries.

Dinner
Finished chicken off from last night; some humus and a bread roll.​

 

[Sunflower_]

Home-made pasta sauce sounds good! I love making that for dinner. I like doing roasted baby potatoes with paprika and bell pepper. Just chuck it all in a pan - it's delish!

 

[lrat]

Tuesday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Couscous and lentils pot thing & a vegetable samosa

Dinner
Bread and humus and chili oil dip

Gym
Usual routine at gym after work, was a difficult session trying to get back into the swing of things.

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Wednesday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
3 course meal -> starter (salad), main(chicken with baby potatoes), desert(icecream with lemon sorbet)

Dinner
Some weird concoption
Baby potatoes; avocado, lettuce, tomatos, bell pepper, garlic, tomatoes, humus and maybe something else I forgot.

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Thursday
Breakfast
Shreddies and raspberries

Lunch
Left overs from dinner yesterday

Dinner
Naughty Big Mac & fries with strawberry milkshake <- drunken purchase
several double vodka and diet coke

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Friday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Indian meal out with my team; can't remember the name but a selection of different vegetarian dishes.

Dinner
Nil -> 3-4x pints and 2-3x double vodka and diet coke, some shots.

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Saturday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Nil <- slept in

Dinner
Pasta, lentils, bell pepper, tomatoes, onion with home made tomato sauce

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Sunday
Breakfast
Nil

Lunch
Left over pasta from yesterday

Dinner
Not decided yet - leaving it awfully late been busy. May go to bed having nothing.

Throughout the week been eating blueberries in the morning so could count that as part of breakfast. Only just started to eat blueberries never really liked them before; my taste buds are changing and it's a strange feeling starting to eat things I have never liked before. I'm now drinking tea without milk!?

A bad week for gym, I managed to go once and it was a tough session - it's been hard trying to go during my lunch break so I was only able to resort to going after work that one time. Will again keep trying to get back on it. :\

Haven't been able to keep to my vegan diet this month because of badly timed team lunch (people leaving etc) and going to restaurants with no / poor vegan options. Also that one drunken mistaken where I had McDonalds :\​

 

[lrat]

Monday
Breakfast
Nil -> forgot to have some of my blueberries

Lunch
Falaffel and salad wrap

Dinner
Noodles with various spices and vegetables.

Gym
Again another usual session after work (probably not as hard core as before going on holiday) - first time this week felt a bit easier than the first and only time last week.

Weighing
Weighing from Sunday was and still is at roughly 113kg (bouncing between 112.5kg to 113.5kg) which i'm happy about (down from 115.7kg from last recording).

Getting closer to my target; to think when I first started I was around 130kg (21 stone) and now i'm down to 113kg (17.8 stone).

I'm down 17kg - thought I was nearly half way to my first goal of 95kg but not yet - still 19kg to go.​

 

[CaliGirl]

Congrats on your weight-loss Irat........Going Vegan can be REALLY hard!! I went vegetarian for a week and it wasn't easy, and I'm already used to eating all the veggies/fruits...but because I can't have a lot of pasta/rice/potatoes (due to intolerances) it is a struggle to maintain this meal plan without affecting my health. My suggestion is, if you are doing it for weight loss purposes...then keep introducing to your meals these "untried" nutritious items (there are so many veggies, fruits, nuts that we go yeaaaaaaaaars without it or have never eaten), make small goals like trying 3 different items every week and/or having something with the color green in every meal. In addition, I would suggest you start with meatless Mondays.....and if that works well, then do a couple of days a week without meat......that's a more sensible way to keep with your weight-loss/health goals and you will also help the environment tremendously with that small change!! ;-)

Xoxox

 

[lrat]

Congrats on your weight-loss Irat........Going Vegan can be REALLY hard!! I went vegetarian for a week and it wasn't easy, and I'm already used to eating all the veggies/fruits...but because I can't have a lot of pasta/rice/potatoes (due to intolerances) it is a struggle to maintain this meal plan without affecting my health. My suggestion is, if you are doing it for weight loss purposes...then keep introducing to your meals these "untried" nutritious items (there are so many veggies, fruits, nuts that we go yeaaaaaaaaars without it or have never eaten), make small goals like trying 3 different items every week and/or having something with the color green in every meal. In addition, I would suggest you start with meatless Mondays.....and if that works well, then do a couple of days a week without meat......that's a more sensible way to keep with your weight-loss/health goals and you will also help the environment tremendously with that small change!! ;-)

Xoxox

Thanks! I think the vegan thing is definitely maintainable but is more an issue with society; trying to find places to eat out that cater for vegans is difficult, more often than not there are plenty of options for vegetarians but those meals will contain eggs or cheese (most sandwiches, wraps and salads always seem to contain cheese).

I think going vegetarian will be much easier - it so much easier to eat that way however I am still experimenting with this vegan phase. It seems looking online for meal inspiration that there are lots of curry based meals - yet I expect these are very time consuming.

I think some basics that come to mind so far:
Pasta -> tried
Rice (curry / chilli concarne) -> todo
Wraps (fallafel) -> tried
Burritos -> todo
Salads -> sick of trying
Noodles -> tried

There are many different combinations in regards to salads and curries. I been told to try out different beans and lentils but i'm not sure what otherwise to keep trying and experimenting. I try but i'm scared of not liking something new and also the worry of not knowing for to prep or cook it.

Also to note I do miss my chicken and eggs - before trying this vegan diet experiment I was not really eating processed meats, red meats or cheese, like I said previously i was slowly phasing out milk (no longer have milk in my tea - and I like it), and i'm content using almond milk for my cereals and tea when necessary.