Motivation- weight loss and other goals

[emsahib]

I just found this sight this morn. I was trying to figure it out and as I was browsing, your foods caught my interest! I don't even know what it is you all are eating! Hahaha
Anyway, I would love, love, love to lose about 40 pounds? Anyone want to go at this with me?

Hi, I haven't been a member that long, but the site seems quite easy to work around. The forum is split into different categories, you'd probably find the nutrition forum helpful, there's also a newcomers forum. As for what we're eating, most people say this in their diaries, though some peoples diaries are for other things as well like recording their moods or exercise. I haven't spoken to too many people here, but everyone seems very helpful, maybe you should start your own diary to get some feedback.

 

[emsahib]

Thursday 28th July

Breakfast Fruit and fiber with yogurt (yes I do love this breakfast lol)

Lunch Half tin of beans on two pieces of toast, bit of cheese and pepper

Dinner Made a yummy vegetable stir fry my bf isn't too keen on stir fry's so I haven't made one in a while. He said he might prefer it with rice, (got sooo many packets of noodles in the cupboard from when there was a deal on I don't think I'll ever get to use them!) anyway rice it was. Brown rice, veg was broccoli, baby corn, mange tout, red pepper, mushroom, with some garlic, spices and soya sauce. Thought it came out very well, but I didn't find it quite so filling.

Snacks Last 2 cheeries, some grapes, 3 ryvitas with light cream cheese and tomato, green tea. Erm don't think I had anything else :S should have written it down. However I do know that I didn't have any cakes, cookies, chocolate, icecream or anything like that so that's good

Exercise Nothing apart from walking to the shops and carrying the food shopping

Reading :S None!

 

[little_star]

Ohhh, we are around same age (I'm 25 as well ), weight and have same goal. How cute is that?!
I support the idea of the little treat. I have the same "system", but once a week (I know myself, if I allow 2 days I will end eating junk food and candies every day ). For me works better if I don't have a specific day, when I really feel I must-have something sweet or yummy I will have it. Then I am done for the rest of the week.
This week (which should be the second one of "real" diet) I haven't felt I want my treat yet, so I guess (if in the next 2 days I still don't desire it) I will skip my "candy day" which would be great!

 

[Lylitu]

Hey, it's good to see someone else from the UK around here!
Just wondering how tall you are?
When I weighed ten stone I was an 8/10 depending on shop/style etc, and I've 5ft 5, but I was a 12 in anything that needed to go around my shoulders like fitted jackets! I'm so broad lol
Sounds like you've been doing really well though!!

 

[emsahib]

Ohhh, we are around same age (I'm 25 as well ), weight and have same goal. How cute is that?!
I support the idea of the little treat. I have the same "system", but once a week (I know myself, if I allow 2 days I will end eating junk food and candies every day ). For me works better if I don't have a specific day, when I really feel I must-have something sweet or yummy I will have it. Then I am done for the rest of the week.
This week (which should be the second one of "real" diet) I haven't felt I want my treat yet, so I guess (if in the next 2 days I still don't desire it) I will skip my "candy day" which would be great!

My bf suggested I have one of the treat days on saturday rather than sunday, not sure if it is a good idea having two if yesterday was anything to go by! But then I thought having two would break the week up. I'll have to read your diary if you have one to get some better tips

Hey, it's good to see someone else from the UK around here!
Just wondering how tall you are?
When I weighed ten stone I was an 8/10 depending on shop/style etc, and I've 5ft 5, but I was a 12 in anything that needed to go around my shoulders like fitted jackets! I'm so broad lol
Sounds like you've been doing really well though!!

Hey I'm about 5 foot 7, also I should have said my weight didn't stay at 10.1 that was just a very lucky morning! It went back up to 10.4, but this morning it was 10.3 hopefully it will start to go down, although so long as it doesn't go up higher than 10.4 then that's something! Also I'm a pear shape, dunno if that makes any difference.

Friday 29th July

Breakfast 2 toasted teacakes with a bit of margerine

Lunch Was a bit of a snacky lunch had 4 ryvita's (2 seasame 2 pumking seed and oat) with low fat cream cheese and tomato, and some slices of pepper, carrot and apple. Oh and some walnuts. Was nice but found I was ready for dinner alot quicker!

Dinner 1 vegggie burger with a baked potato (was thinking about making wedges but thought baked potato would be better) with a bit of cheese, and some green beans

Snack Small banana, yogurt with a handful of cereal.

Also did some reading!

Saturday 30th July

Breakfast Fruit and fiber cereal with yogurt

Exercise Me and my bf joined a new gym (as you can see we weren't going to the old one much and a nicer gym was doing a special weekend deal, they have more facilities and classes and a swimming pool. Plus we figured as we can only go at the weekend maybe that will push as to go more to make the most of it. I did 15 mins of the cross trainer, tried out some chest machine my bf was doing (I quite enjoy learning new machines) then I did 20 mins of cyclying and then me and my bf did a yoga class for an hour. It was called body balance, its actually a mixture of yoga, pilates, and tai chi set to music and the moves aren't held for long but move quickly(ish) from one to the other. Really proud of my bf for trying it and I thought he looked really peaceful and graceful so all in all about 1 hour 35 mins

Lunch Was so exhausted from the gym. Like I mentioned earlier my bf suggested I make saturday treat day, so we quickly went to the shops after the gym and I choose a small chocolate cake (ok not that small! lol) My bf also got some tortilla crisps, which I wasn't going to eat, and had a apple when I came in to work up some strength to make lunch. My bf offered me 1 crisp and next then before I knew it I was sharing the bag with him. I also had a toasted teacake for something a bit more substantial.

Dinner At least dinner was healthy made pasta with veg, broccoli, red and green pepper, mushroom, red onion. Turned out really well I liked the way the broccoli soaked up the tomato. With bit of cheese.

Snacks That chocolate cake which I shared with my bf, thankfully he always has the lions share, but I don't think my first official treat day was a huge success, restraint wise.

Reading Finished A Picture of Dorian Grey

 

[emsahib]

Oh I've just realised I've already checked out your diary little star. It's an interesting idea thinking of each day as the first, I always seem to find projects easiest at the beginning.

 

[emsahib]

I've had a think about my treat days and I think while it is a good idea for me to allow myself some treats so that I can keep this up in the long run, it probably won't help over indulging if I want to loose weight.

I think I need some control and rules just to make sure these days don't become an "anything goes" type of day. I still like the idea of having two days to break the week up, though if I know I'm going out to a restaurant or to a party etc then that will be one of my treat days. Also I like the idea of Saturday being a bigger treat day and Wednesday being a mini treat day.

So I thought I'd try to eat a treat that's no more than 300 cals on Saturday and just 100 cals on Wednesday. This will give me to control I need with my treats without feeling like I'm being deprived. Also when I say treats this means anything naughty that I'm having extra, I'm not counting any meals as treats I mean. But it does mean that next Saturday if I want cake I'll just have one slice of cake that come to no more than 300 cals. I think for my Wednesdays I'm gonna buy some fun sized chocolate bars as I know many of those are under 100 cal.

Also I'm going to a bbq this saturday so if I have pudding there I'll just have to guess the calories, but I'm going to try and have some restraint anyway

Sunday 31st July

Me and my bf (who's name is Tom encase anyone's wondering) went to visit my parents yesterday, its about a 40 min drive. Didn't see my Dad for long as he was working but got to see my Mum and my Grandma which was nice

Breakfast Fruit and fiber cereal with yogurt

Snack Had a banana before the drive. Then when we did arrive had a few mixed nuts and raisins.

Lunch Cheese onion and tomato toasted sandwich.

In between lunch and dinner we played some games and then I sorted though some old clothes of mine, chucked some out and took some back with me. And a pair of trousers that I used to really like fits me again! I remember trying them on another time and I couldn't do them up, wish I could remember when that was. I bought them at the beginning of my first year at uni, I'd lost weight before uni by accident working at a cinema as I was on my feet alot of the time. Then my eating habits became really bad at uni, lots of take aways, icecream etc etc. It says they're a size 42, which is still a size 14, but a pair of jeans I always wear are too big for me now and they're also a size 14, I think I should measure them both! Got really quite hungry sorting all those clothes out, and time went so quickly we didn't have dinner till about 8 o'clock.

Dinner Which was half a cheese pizza, chips and salad. My mum had actually cooked two pizzas for me and Tom and cut them into slices. (I always find that pizza seems smaller or easier to eat more of in slices). I was eating quite quickly as I hadn't realised I was so hungry but managed to slow down and also declined any more pizza. Mum had also got more ice cream (I'd already declined ice cream earlier as well lol and crumble) But I found that I was actually pretty full anyway. I did have one cherry lol (I actually feel a bit silly including that) And my Grandma had brought some biscuits round, they were really tiny so I had one.

Oh and I was offered chocolate lol. Think I did quite well to resist all that and just have a tiny biscuit. I actually took two of the chocolates home (celebrations) which I will wait to have on Wednesday Oh and Mum gave me a box of strawberries! I love strawberries! Which made me think actually there's alot of lovely food that I can have like fruit that's healthy too

 

[emsahib]

Monday 1st August

Breakfast Fruit and fiber cereal with yogurt and strawberries! small glass of orange juice

Lunch Half a tin of tomato soup with slice of bread and marg

Snack Cheese, onion and tomato toastie

Dinner Baked sweet potato and loads of green beans.

Snacks More strawberries, mixed dried fruit and nuts

 

[Irishprincess]

Your doing great hun keep up the great work

 

[emsahib]

Your doing great hun keep up the great work

Aw thankyou. I don't know if I'm doing that well, but I guess I'm learning

Tuesday 2nd August

Breakfast Fruit and fiber cereal with yogurt and strawberries. (that's the last of the strawberries gone, but my strawberry plant is growing some! one is actually turning red! lol I'm kinda surprised it seems like magic. But we don't have a garden so its just been growing in a pot on the window sil)

Lunch Packet of sundried tomato cous cous with mozzarella, tomatoes and pepper

Snacks Few dates throughout the day. I'd forgotten how much I like dates! Couple of ryvitas with cream cheese

Dinner Made a vegetarian moussaka which was really nice and my bf Tom absolutely LOVED it so that made me feel good. It's just slices of aubergine with some beans (meant to be kidney but I just used whatever we had in the cupboard) onion, garlic, tinned tomatoes and cinnamon, I also added some tomato puree which wasn't in the recipe. Oh and I used yogurt instead of cream to mix with the egg and cheese for the topping. Also had some peas on the side. Not really sure what you're meant to serve with moussaka.

 

[emsahib]

Wednesday 3rd August

Breakfast Fruit and fiber cereal with yogurt (sadly no strawberries)

Lunch Avocado, mozzarella, tomato and red pepper salad with some walnuts.

Snack Two ryvitas one with peanut butter, one with jam (peanut butter worked better). I may also have had another at some point with cream cheese. Also had a few dates

Dinner Finished off the moussaka with some peas.

Snack Had my two celebration chocolates that I'd been saving since Sunday. Then a bit later on I was gonna have some more date, and realised that two dates are 30 cals, so I thought I could either have about 5 or 6 dates, or I could have some more chocolate lol. I'd been to the shop to get some fun sized chocolates that are 80 cals each) So I had one of those instead. Still I know the dates are healthier for me even if they do have sugar, its natural sugar. Just need to be careful that I don't know overindulge in dates! Anyway I won't have any more "treats" bascially chocolate or cake or anything till Saturday.

 

[emsahib]

I realise that I haven't been dong that much exercise. Today and yesterday I asked Tom if he wanted to go to the gym together before he has work (he's on late shifts this week) but he didn't fancy it. I know I can go by myself, but sometimes you just need someone else to go with you to give you a bit of a push. Last time I did any exercise (that wasn't walking to the shops though that has to count for something) was Saturday. (Also even though we did join a new gym that's just at the weekend we've still got the full time one that hasn't finished yet. Hopefully we'll go together next week when he's on earlies)

So today I was thinking one of the problems I have with motivation (for anything really) is I put it off till tomorrow. Trouble is it always seems to be tomorrow I'll say I'll do it, and not today. So I came up with another plan that I would try and do 20 mins of exercise everyday, infact even 10 mins would be something. And then I'd have to do it today, but it wouldn't take too much time or effort, but again it would be better than nothing.

As I mentioned before sometimes I have a problem with my right leg and right hip, sometimes even lower back on that side. I had a tiny bit of pain in my leg today but it didn't seem too bad. Decided to do 2 of the workouts on my 10 min solutions fitness ball dvd the core one followed by the stretching one as I thought these would be fine for my leg, but after doing that my leg started hurting more, which is annoying as I feel like I didn't put too much strain on it. Actually now sitting down it does feel a little better, about an hour ago sitting down I had pain in my hip without even moving it. Hopefully it'll sort itself out as it does like to come and go, alot of the time when I haven't done anything!

So anyway hopefully it won't get in the way of my new plan. But obviously if its too bad to do even 10 mins then I'll rest it.

 

[emsahib]

My leg and hip were feeling quite painful last night, I took some pain killers though and this morning it does feel a bit better. I need to pop into town today anyway so I'm hoping a little bit of walking will actually be good for it. Sometimes if I don't move for a while it can feel a bit stiff.

Thursday 4th August

Breakfast Didn't have quite enough fruit and fiber for a bowl so had half fruit and fiber half cluster things with some extra raisins.

Lunch Cheese and onion toastie.

Snacks Few dates, couple of dried apricots, couple of ryvitas and cream cheese, half a grapefruit.

Dinner Spinach and falafel burger with baked sweet potato, sweet corn, green beans, and carrots

 

[emsahib]

I don't think I'm going to carry on with this food diary, but it has taught me that it is important to be aware of what I'm eating. I think probably around my last entry, my weight was back to 10 stone 5, I felt a bit annoyed by this as I'd been snacking on "healthy" things, so after this I decided to eat a few bad things. Then after this I talked to my bf and decided that I needed to meet somewhere in the middle. I realised that for me having the treat days didn't work because 1) they could just turn into binge days, and 2) the other days I'd be telling myself I can't have chocolate or whatever and then to compensate I'd eat nuts and dried fruit and not be aware of the weight creeping back on.

So now I'm not doing a diary, but I am trying my best not to snack inbetween meals. If I'm really hungry then I'll have a piece of fruit or some carrot sticks or something. If I want some dried fruit or nuts I'll only have a couple. Plus if I want a bit of chocolate I can have 1 square, or something like that that's small. I'm also measuring my cereal again as otherwise I can be eating more than I realise, and also being careful about portion sizes. I'll be going to the gym at least one day at the weekend, and recently I've been going on a few walks.

So far this has been working really well, and I'm now down to 10 stone 1. I feel like getting better at resisting temptation, but I don't feel deprived, and I feel I can indulge in a small way from time to time. I think it's also best that I stop the food diary now as in september I'll be back at uni and really won't have the time, but I may check back here now and then.

Also I went to the doctor again about my leg (different doctor to normal) and she said that it was a nerve thing, and that my options are pain killers, deep heat and possibly physiotherapy, she did say it might go on its own though. She also said that its fine for me to exercise so that's good anyway. And the pain has been bad sometimes then fine othertimes, but I can cope with it I think anyway.

 

[Irishprincess]

Hey hun, i dont think you should stop posting in this diary as it can help you so much in terms of keeping focused on what you need to do to lose weight!! Im sorry to hear about the pains in your legs but i would definitely recommend physiotherapy. I had a really bad pain in my foot a couple of months back and went to physiotherapy and it fixed my food.

Best of luck dear!!!