New Year, new habits

Dinner

Had what I thought. Sausages (210), potato (120), gravy (40) = 370

Left over = 75 cal.

Then had a mini milk (31)

So

In

Breakfast: banana = 135
porridge = 267
Lunch: cottage pie = 466
Dinner: Sausages (210), potato (120), gravy (40) = 370
Snacks: 3 choc bites = 87
Minimilk (31)

Total: 1356


Out

10 min run - basically 0.


19/01/10
IN: 1356
OUT: 0
 
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Today

Got up and ran 1 hr 10 min so that's ok.

Then foodwise had my banana (135 - but too early so I felt a bit sick) and then had a meeting so missed breakfast (sigh). So ate a Moussaka for lunch (328), then 2 mr kipling biscuits (251) and cup of tea with milk (100) and 3 choc bites (87). Total = 901.

Left over = 499. Am having dinner at 6.30 before pilates and have brought a bake or something with me (has mash over the top so don't know). Leaves 149 ish calories which I will eat as four sausages in a snack later I think. Or some bruschetta. I bought some ready made bread ones from M&S Simply Food - life is nothing without these luxuries, right? If I can get/make a cheap salsa (say 50 cal max) then 2 sausages (105), quarter of a pack of bruschetta - about 5 - (135) = 290. Ummm. Too high. Why rock the boat? 3 sausages (158) will do it. Or two sausages and a minimilk.

Am very interested to see how my weight is on Thursday? I think 3lb+ - I would be ecstatic. 1 - 3lb - would be happy. Maybe try to be more consistent with the exercise next week. I think staying the same or gaining :-( and I would cut back to 1200 asap (i.e. in another week because I promised to stay 2 weeks on this)
 
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ahhh - getting behind. Actually ate 1/2 a broccoli bake (175) before pilates. Then after pilates ate 2 poached eggs (108), 2 sausages (105), 160g of mushrooms (21) with 50g quark (36.5) = 445.5

Today

Ran for 1 hr this morning. Need to get my runs back up closer to 2 hrs!

Bfst: porridge, banana
Lunch: Moussaka
Dinner: Moussaka
Snack: 15 mikado = 155 cal, 2 sausages (105) 2 minimilk (62)

Total = 1379
 
201. Am pretty happy with that for two reasons. Hasnt been the greatest diet week for several reasons. On the food side - I've upped my calories this week to 1400 cal and actually went to the pub this week and splurged to 1800 one of the days. So my body adjusting to that still lost weight. And on the exercise side - two things really. One, skipped 3 days this week of exercise. Partly due to work commitments and late nights at the weekend. And the days I am doing are pretty much an hour rather than the 1.5 I was doing previously. That's mainly cos I'm getting up late (tiredness) and so I need to get to work. Tossing and turning a bit at night which I think is due to being so tired.

Also the exercise I am doing is clearly expending less energy than even a week ago. Getting very used to the running and it is no longer at all difficult to move myself around. I think one of the reasons I'm sleeping worse this week is because I'm not properly tired out. Need to up the intensity of what I'm doing. It's not about being exhausted but I feel jumpy almost in work, like I need to get rid of some energy.

I think I'm gonna stick to the diet for the next week. Like 1400 cal a lot. The meals worked quite well and am incorporating other meals (sausage and mash) and snacks (mikado) as well.

Exercise needs a boost this week. Thinking that I may now be fit enough for HIIT. I am joining my local gym anyway but won't get an induction until the beginning of Feb. Then begins cross training and ellipticals and things. But for the next two weeks I need something else to do. 3 days of HIIT and 3 days of steady state should do it I think. Will also buy an exercise DVD which is quite high intensity which I can do occasionally if I still feel wired.

It turns out that I've tried HIIT before anyway in some previous diet attempts because I thought that was how you learned to run - doing as much as you could then stopping. I can also see how it led to those regimes being unsustainable - it is exhausting on the body. Not sure what the equivalence is between HIIT and steady state. 1:1?

On the plus side, my weird pains and tightness are pretty much gone. Part of this is prob that I'm running less, and the snow stopping, but I think my running form has changed. My ankles especially used to hurt but now I think my knees are taking the impact. I dont know if this is better but it feels better to me. Now my knees are not really tight or painful either. Pilates is prob helping.

Also forgot to drink as much water. May just set a daily alarm every work hour for water. Am coming up to my TOM and will begin to retain water and bloat like crazy.

So from tomorrow
- water every hour
- 3 days HIIT and 3 days steady state
- stick to 1400 cal

Have lots of meals left over this week so think no big cooking session is necessary this weekend. Have eaten a lot of sausage/mash etc. Looking forward to my big breakfast this weekend - will have about 700 cal for breakfast this time so looking for (already dreaming of it)
- 4 sausages - 210
- 4 pieces bread - 216
- 2 poached eggs - 108
- mushrooms - 30
- cherry toms - 50
- maple syrup pancake - 100 cal
 
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Well today I learned a little lesson about satiety. In other words, being full. Today I went to lunch with some work colleagues. It was good however the restaurant was really difficult to figure out mealwise. All the salads contained a lot oily things and it looked like that classic 700 calorie salad type. Other things involved things that I knew would have lots of hidden calories (Mayo, sour cream etc). So I had a peri peri chicken and chips dish. Looked very much like nandos so thought I could check the cal count easily. Turned out to be very high in cal - about 1100 cal. My solution = calorie cycling. Up today's count to 1800 then cut tomorrow. However I had that lunch at 1pm. It is now 11.30pm and I am still stuffed. Not just full but groaningly stuffed. Don't feel sick but just stuffed. I don't want anything sweet and I'll prob just have some water and go to bed. Cos of breakfast (1/2 porridge + banana = 268) i'm still over - by 173. But having something that really fills doesnt necessarily kill your intake.this is good news for my life.

Tomorrow I'll have 1200. I'm going to have two meals like I always do. An English breakfast for 400 and then a low fat version of what I had today for 700. Plus 100 snacks. I always leave space for snacks because I hate to think that I'll ruin it last thing at night. I'm thinking homemade oven chips for 250 cals. Then 450 cal of peri peri chicken. Water down the sauce to marinade for 50cal and 400cal of chicken. Have a whole baby chicken I will just portion and will stick to lean cuts of white meat and bin the skin. I'm trying not to be too adventurous with food as without my staple meals, I'd be screwed. But slowly increasing the boundaries on what I can eat. How can this even be a diet? I have eaten more chocolate in the last fortnight than in the last 6 months - and I've lost weight.

My aim is basically to get it so that I can eat what I like and feel ok calorie wise without having to go to restaurants and eat salad. I don't want this to take over my life in that way.

But I can't do this without getting the exercise right. I'm impatient and frustrated that I can't start at my gym right now but this is as good a time as any to start HIIT. I've been doing well but not excelling at the physical side. I haven't pushed myself as much as I could because I'm wary of hurting myself. I know I can also feel physically better and lose weight without damaging my joints or muscles. But I need to not get complacent. I want to start HIIT this week and do two things in the next month. One is start at the gym, the other is to buy an exercise dvd. I want to up over the next week or two to two hours a day.
 
food today didn't go as planned at all

morning snack: 2 toast + 10 cal spray = 118

breakfast: 2 toast + 35 cheese + 10 cal spray = 153

dinner: peri peri chicken - 120g of chicken breast (no skin or fat) - 140 cal + one chicken wing (100cal) + peri peri sauce (22 cal) = 262 cal
Homemade chips - 240g potato + 10 cal spray = 250 cal

snacks:3 florentines (amazing at 45 cal each) = 135

a portapizza - 85 cal

this was spectacular. 140g huge portabella mushroom (only 36cal)
spread with 4tbsp passatta (17 cal)
and sprinkled with cheese. Got some low fat cheddar slices which are 63 cal each. Used 1/2 a slice for 32 cal

1 mini twister - 45 cal

Total: 1188 cal
 
The shroom pizza sounds awesome! I have never seen portobello mushrooms big enough here to even attempt this. I watched the american Biggest Loser thing yesterday and they had a hamburger with portobello mushrooms instead of the bun. I'd love that as I cannot eat bread or pizza dough, but without the access to the mushrooms it looks like it won't happen anytime soon :(!

How do you like Pilates? I started a DVD yesterday, it has an hour worth of it on, and I thought you know, I am hardcore, I do 90 minutes of hard dancing 4 times a week, some silly Pilates is not even going to be really worth it... man was I wrong! I was exhausted. And some stretches just hurt so badly... I really need to work on that stupid elasticity of mine. How long are your classes and how many are you? How long have you been at it and do you notice any changes to your core? My parents both do Pilates (they do no other sports but my mom is naturally superskinny and my dad used to be and is now podgy) and they have gained a ton of core strength.

Have a great sunday, Camy
 
That website just depressed me! Entered how much I want to lose in the next 3-4 weeks (10lbs) and it told me I'd have to backpack for 48 hours STRAIGHT to lose that much :(

*sobs*

And like, saying no to 402 glasses of wine!! Insane.
 
Hey Camy

I added some mince to that pizza - I don't want to make you cry but it is the most delicious thing ever!

Hopefully you can find some bigger mushrooms because they are a relevation.

I'm only two sessions into Pilates but it has already made a difference. My classes are about 1.30 min once a week. There are about 8 of us in the class and the teacher is also a licensed physiotherapist and really knows her stuff. It's been great. Firstly I think it has helped my running form a lot. Especially the day after Pilates my body feels amazing. And it makes me sit and stand a lot straighter.

It's so hard though - even the small movements. Even in two weeks I am mch more aware of my core muscles and end up stretching quite a bit.

How's it all going?


Sunflower

Don't read the website like that! Lose a pound or so and then think about how much you lost and how amazing it is to lose that! Whatever you do, don't look up your total target weight loss or it is too stressful!
 
Keep writing long diatribes on my itouch but forgetting to transfer them over. Will do so at some point but the bullet points

- HIIT - not for me. Yet. Did some on Sunday and my body is still aching today. Not worth the calories burned if it stops me doing 3 hours of steady state to do 15 min of HIIT
- Water - need to drink more as slacking on it and is probably impeding weight loss
- Sleep - slowly slipping back into sleeping later. Got to make sure that I don't allow this to drift into plateaus so need to remain focused
- Breakfast is making me feel sick because it's now a lot bigger. Will prob halve the porridge or swap the banana for toast or something and have it earlier or later.

As for the last few days:

24/01/10

In

Bkfst: 2 toast + 20 cal spray = 118
Lunch: Cauliflower cheese (184) + chips (220) = 338
Dinner: Chips (220) + mushroom pizza with mince (120) = 340
Snacks: 1 toast (53) + 1/4 cheese (18)
2 mini twisters (90)
4 florentines (180)
1 satsuma (35)
1 minimilk (30)

Total: 1403

Out

40 min jogging (333) + 10 HIIT (0?)

24/01/10
IN:1403
OUT: 333

25/01/10

In

Bkfst: Porridge (267) + banana (135) = 402
Lunch: Cottage Pie (306)
Dinner: 2 bread (108) + 1/2 cheese slice (35) + ham slice (10) = 153
Snacks: 2 M&S feta pastries (2 x 80) = 160
1 choc cake bite from M&S = 90
1 satsuma = 35
Tea (milk) = 100

Total: 1246

Out

Nothing! HIIT has shredded my body. Completely - pains in legs, joints, thighs everywhere.

25/01/10
IN: 1246
OUT: 0
 
I don't like HIIT either and I don't do weights for exactly that reason, if I don't enjoy it I will not be consistent and I'd rather do a sport that makes me loser slowly but I am consistent in than one where after a few weeks I will have quit.

About the breakfast: I eat my breakfast in several sittings, today I had juice, then an hour later a banana, then 45 minutes later my cereal. I don't usually feel like eating a whole lot straight after waking up and if I force it down I am hungry again fairly soon afterwards. The calories are the same, so it is ok. And I guess I am lucky that my morning job allows me to do this.

Have a great day, Camy
 
Hey Camy

People get so evangelical about certain kinds of exercise and I don't want to derail my own progress by trying something before I'm ready.

But I am joining a gym and starting the 30 day shred so hopefully that should give my workout a shake up.
 
Well yesterday was my least successful day of my diet so far. But it at least reinforced the fact that we do learn from the failures of previous diets to find an eating pattern that we can work with.

So yesterday I forgot my lunch! I ate an early toast sandwich to up my cal as I was switching to a 1/2 porridge bowl. Then a 1/2 porridge and a banana (= 269) for breakfast which convinced me to give up on the banana once and for all and just eat the porridge. A bowl of porridge is more filling than the 1/2 bowl and a banana and together they are too much.

Then I had no lunch. So I went to the shop and bought some soup (a big container of thick soup which was 212 cal for 600g) and a loaf of ww bread. Fine right? Wrong. Soup does not fill me. This was the problem with my other diets. Everyone recommends soup for lunch and I might as well drink water. I was starving. So I ate 3 slices of bread and then another two pieces later on and then two satsumas.

So my eating went to pieces for the whole day because I was so hungry. I'm due on which didn't hurt but I felt empty all day. I decided to cycle and just up my calories for the day and eat less today. That's what I did. Classic case of eating lots of unsatisfying nibbles instead of just eating a full meal.

26/01/10

In[/U
Breakfast: 2 toast + 1/2 cheese + 1 ham slice = 153
1/2 porridge and banana = 269

Lunch: Soup (212)
Bread (nimble loaf - 3 x 48 cal) = 144

Dinner: Cottage Pie (306)

Snacks: 2 slices bread = 96
2 satsumas = 70
2 bread and cheese (48 + 48 + 32)
2 slices ham = 20
3.5 slices of cheese = 217

Total: 1585

Out

45 min running (333) + 10 HIIT

26/01/10
IN: 1585
OUT: 333

I was running so late I felt like I had to do some HIIT but that's the last time! Ordered 30 day shred.

Today (27/01/10) on a strict 1200. (off work) Did 30 day shred - which was tough!

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs + 2 toast + 2 sausages (105) + 20 cal spray = 341
Lunch: Moussaka (268)
Dinner: 2 bread (48x2) + 1/2 cheese (35) + ham slice (10)

Snack: 1 mini bagel (100) + 15g cream cheese (19) + 5g spring onion (2) = 121
5 breadsticks (35) + 15g cream cheese (19) + 1g spring onion (1)
12 Mikado (122)
2 ham (20)
1 toast + 2 cheese + ham
1.5 choc bites

IN: 1215

Under today to make up for the overspend.
 
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28/01/10

In

Bfkfst: Porridge (267)
Lunch: Moussaka (268)
Dinner: 3 KFC drumsticks (486)
2 toast (96)
1/4 cheeese (16) + 8g pate (28)
1/2 cheese (32)
Snacks: 1 minimilk (30)
1 mikado (11)
3.5 choc bite (101.5)

Total: 1332

Weighed myself this morning - 197.2. Nice to see that 7 there. It can be difficult to tell with scales but water weight loss even tends to be followed by fat loss so weighing twice a week is good enough for me. That means I've lost 16 pounds so far. Also measured and lost 4.5 inches more. Total inches loss of 12 inches so far.

Haven't been consistent in noting my measurements so I'll list them below

Hips 02/01/10: 48in 16/01/10: 46in 28/01/10: 45in -3

Bust 02: 44.5 16:44 28:43.5 -1
Chest 02: 38 16:36 28:35 -3
Thigh 02: 29.5 16:28.5 28:28 -1.5
Calves 02: 18.5 16:17.5 28:17.5 -1
Waist 02: 43 16:42 28:41 -2
Upp Arm 02: 15 16:15 28:14.5 -0.5

Biggest reduction from hips, chest and waist. This mirrors my skirts feeling looser. The chest is encouraging because that's not an obvious place. My weight came on all over with my arms really growing last.I've always had a roughly hourglass figure and I assume I'll slim back into it. I keep reading about people worried about losing their boobs. But at the height of their weight, they have Ds or DDs. Mine are a big 38E! They better go down to at least a big C.

As for the rest of my body, I have no idea what measurements I am supposed to have! I know my waist should be much slimmer than my bust and hips but who knows. I may research the size I want to be and what those measurements are.

Sleeping terribly at the moment. Keep waking up at 3am, 5am and feel exhausted. Couldn't run this morning. Can't do 30 day shred until I have the flat to myself (from the 8th) but will try and sneak one or two in before then. That plus pilates was agony yesterday. But I think without that focus on my upper arms, they won't reduce til last. Esp since most of my work is lower body work.

Gym next week hopefully though may end up doing 30 day shred a lot as well. Bought a gym mat and some small weights so will be able to do it properly.I think doing level 1 and then a 60 min run will be better than a 2 hr run.

I'm officially gonna stop bothering to measure the cals I burn 'out' in exercise. Just no point. I'll count the only vaguely reliable thing - cal in- because my weight loss indicates that doing exercise does make a huge difference to my weight loss even though by my cal out equation, it shouldnt.
 
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Hey hun,

Thanks for the encouragement. Feeling pretty excited this week. You're still losing quite a bit yourself! How is it going?

Just housekeeping - I keep a physical diary and have loads of posts from my itouch.

29/01/10

Breakfast: Porridge (267)
1 toast (48) + 1/2 cheese (35)
Lunch: 2 fish + veg pie (392)
Dinner: 2 pieces KFC (324)
Snacks: 1 reeses cup (80)
1 tea (50)
2 pancakes (200)
1 tsp golden syrup (27)
1 minimilk (30)
1 mikado (11)

In: 1464
 
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Now is probably time to revisit my 'goals'

I have bought a gym mat, some weights and 30 day shred so I have had some fun but I think I need to look again at what to buy.

1) New trainers - I think that this is probably my next key buy. These ones are doing great but I think I need to be properly fitted to rule anything out.

When: 25 pounds lost = 188

2) Sports bra(s) - I know :) - I've been wearing two bras but I think that in a fortnight I'll be ready to invest some monet is a good sports bra. They are soooo expensive that I'm trying to see if my boobs shrink a lot in the next week or so, I can get a better fit.

When: When 18 pounds is lost = 195

I feel like everything else I can do without.

I think I'd rather buy clothes and stuff as I lose the weight instead of just filling my house with crap. My headphones are fine, my running clothes are fine. Everything is fine.
 
I have a tiny crush on Jillian Michaels... there I said it. She is HOT!

Anyhow congrats on the 7 there, I was also very happy to see my numbers go down this week, I wasn't sure with my weird period situation and all, but phew. My coursemates and I are doing a "treat box" we set goals for the week and put some treat in the box, if by the next monday we have done our goals (for instance mine will be 4 classes taken and 2 times pilates) we get the treat. It doesn't have to be food, it could be a ticket to the cinema, or anything really that makes it special. For me it will hopefully make me do the PIlates classes as all of my other classes I really love and wouldn't miss. They are just starting at a gym and want to try to go more often. Only one of them is a bit chubby, the other ones are skinny, but they want to be fitter.

Anyhow, you are doing so well, I am so proud of you. You will be skinny and smoldering hot in no time at all.
Oh yeah the sportsbra, make sure it holds each boob separately and firmly. I bought a really expensive one from a brand I don't want to advertise but it starts with N and rhymes with Ike ;)... anyhow so it has great back support but the breasts are sort of in the same compartment and mine tend to then move sideways all the time. It is really annoying and not such great support if they can move and wiggle, is it?
I need some new sport bras too (just have that one, I currently use normal bras for my classes but the girls are not liking it... they seem to be hanging even lower!), I might ask my mom to take me shopping when I go home in 3 weeks, I love when she pays for my shopping :D. plus she hasn't bought me any birthday present yet and wanted to buy me clothes but I told her to wait and buy them in June when I will be too thin for all my current clothes ;)!!

Have a wonderful weekend, Camy
 
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