Can we have a thread to list every day what we've eaten?

[shiningcadence]

Hi, I've recently started cutting down ready for my holiday at the end of Aug. also my 3 year old asked me why I had a big bum

I'm not calorie counting per se because I haven't got the time but I've cut down lots and am eating quite healthily most days.

I'm still tempted by the odd treat though and I think a massive motivation for me would be if I knew I was coming on here every evening to list what I'd eaten that day. Does anyone else else think this would help them? If so, please join!

I also think it might be helpful to see what others are eating to give me ideas for healthy snacks and meals.

Also, is anyone excercising as well as cutting down? I haven't got the time to do any 'proper' excercise (sahm with 3 dc, dh works long hours, no family nearby etc) but I've been doing squats and arm lifts when the dc are playing and have also been hula hooping in the garden - I find this a really good way to tone up my stomach. What excercises are others doing? Any tips for excercises that can fit around the dc?

I will be back this evening to list what I've eaten and what excercise I've done today - hopefully this'll keep me on track this afternoon :)

Hello, only me. Still in Devon but thought I would have a sneaky peak. Looks like you're all doing well.good to see you are
still eating weetabix. Have tried the fruit mini ones. They r yummy. Have a great holiday shining

Hi shining and mummaemma.

Today work day, so bit random! 2 ginger biscuits grabbed for breakfast , the rest of the day is no better. Cup of tea, malt loaf bar, flake, banana. Cheese & onion baguette from greggs, tea, another flake. Half a punnet of grapes, glass of orange juice, and a iced latte. Oh and bottle of water.

Hi mummaemma, lovely to hear from you :)

Hi rummikub, again it's not too bad because you didn't have dinner. It all sounds yummy too :)

Yesterday for dinner I had jacket potato with clover light spread, low fat coleslaw, tomatoes and cucumber and carrot sticks and houmous. Then 5 Jaffa cakes in the evening

Today I had:
X2 Weetabix with skimmed milk for breakfast
Snack - x2 yra apple bars
Lunch - boots meal deal - houmous and falafel wrap, walkers baked salt and vinegar crisps and a berry flavoured water - cant think what it was called.
Snack - 5 Jaffa cakes again - think I'm addicted to them Must try harder!

Had a manic day running round sorting out last minute bits for hols. Feel like I want to sleep already, don't know if I'll manage the wii tonight.

Dinner - red onion omelette, low fat coleslaw
Snacks - mini twix
1 square dark choc
X4 mini cookies
X2 marshmallows

Oh dear, not done very well at all. I think I've just been reaching for the sugary treats because I feel so knackered :(

But is that all you have eaten? It's not many calories!

I haven't eaten well today either..

2 toast, tea, a chunky kit kat, 4 cracker bread with dairy lea. And I will probably have a cup of tea with something sweet.

Menu planning is definitely key.

I might join you, if that's ok! Trying to be a bit more aware of everything I eat on a daily basis as when it's written down it's much easier to see how it could be improved ...

Breakfast: snack-sized Eat Natural bar, 1 peach, cup of tea with milk

Lunch: home-made veg soup, 1 apple, can Coke zero (v. bad)

Snack: slice of Burgen low-GI soy and linseed bread, toasted, woith slice of cooked chicken and a large tomato

Dinner: haven't had dinner yet, but it will be home-made fishcakes, roasted veg and whatever else needs used up in the salad drawer

Lurking, that sounds like a great day!

I had tea 2 toast & jam. Tea and kit kat. Potato salad with tuna, sweet corn and feta. Tea and 2 short bread biscuits.

Today, tea, toast and jam. Tea and malted milk biscuits (4!), potato, feta, coleslaw salad. Cornetto. Is everyone away

Not logged on for a few days. Today I was experimenting to make lower calorie baking recipes. I made 40 mini scones and a banana loaf which was a bit disappointing because there wasn't enough banana in it.

Today I had;

an orange, Weetabix with milk

ham & cheese omelette with salad and small slice wholemeal bread

grilled fish, boiled potatoes with 1/2tsp half fat butter and broccoli

mini scone, slice banana loaf, yoghurt with blueberries and 1/2tsp honey

Friday:

Breakfast: snack-size Eat Natural bar, apple
Lunch: slice of soy and linseed bread, two slices chicken breast, tomato, cucumber
Dinner: spaghetti carbonara, big salad
Snacks: handful of black olives, chocolate-covered rice cake

Saturday:

Breakfast: slice of soy and linseed bread, toasted, tiny bit of peanut butter, scraping of rhubarb and ginger jam (this combo makes my DH feel sick, but I love it)
Lunch: M&S Vietnamese marinated pork rolls with dipping sauce (I love these and they're only about 150 cals for a whole pack as they're mostly veg)
Dinner: salmon fillet, wholegrain rice, tomato and fennel salad, green beans
Snacks: apple, Dr Karg 3-seed cracker with slice of ham and a tomato, chocolate-covered rice cake

Tonight I'm doing roast chicken but trying to make it lighter, healthier and more summery (so alas, not making any Yorkshire puddings, which are my favourite thing in the whole world and so I make them with any roast meat) .

Going to roast the chicken, make a very light gravy, will do smashed new potatoes with herbs for DH but will not have any myself, then will fill the plate with green beans, broccoli, parsnips (not very summery but I lovel them) and roasted squash. Will report back.

Hurray friends! I though I was going to have to post on my ownsome.

Friday I had tea, 2 toast. Tea and biscuits. Kit kat chunky. Pizza and coleslaw and cornetto.

So far today, tea and 2 toast, stopped having jam.

Lurking your days look so healthy! I feel embaressed by my poor efforts!

Yes I agree Lurking's diet looks very healthy.

Today;

Usual 40 min gym and 25 min swimming

Breakfast - orange, porridge with banana, pecans+ 1/2tsp maple syrup

Lunch - ham, half fat cheese, rye bread, salad with beetroot

Dinner - jerk chicken (anyone else tried Bart's seasoning?) with rice, pineapple salsa and rice

Snacks - M&S chic frappe dessert and homemade banana loaf

TOTAL 1202 cal including iron supplement

I'm trying quite hard at the moment. I have a terrible sweet tooth and quite a sedentary lifestyle (work at home) so over the summer decided I had to just stop eating cake and chocolate at home. Still eat it when I go out to meet friends, but I'm trying to make it an occasional thing.

Anyway: here's Sunday's meals:

breakfast - the usual Eat Natural cereal bar, cup of earl grey with milk

lunch - one (out of a pack of two) egg & cress sandwich from the Sainsbury's Be Good To Yourself range. Horrible. I hate supermarket sandwiches but decided at the last minute to go out straight from doing the food shop and I knew I'd have to eat or would faint from hunger. It was minging.

afternoon snack - a nectarine, can of coke zero (bad habit but you can't give up everything or life wouldn't be worth living)

dinner - roast chicken, few spoonfuls wholemeal rice, green beans, roast parsnips, savoy cabbage with chestnuts, light gravy. Pudding was a pack of melon & grapes.

I wish I liked porridge as I know it's about the best breakfast you can eat and really keeps you going until lunch, but it makes me gag! Have tried every possible variety of it but just can't do it. I'm going to have to kick the cereal bar habit, though

I work from home too but I make a point of getting in some exercise before I start work so I get up and go to the gym and swim first thing in the morning. Usually I'm back around 9:15am.

Funny enough I didn't have a particularly sweet tooth until I started to lose weight. My nemesis was bread and cheese.

Now I eat Weetabix or porridge before I go to the gym and I'm quite hungry when I get back so I have a daily treat with a coffee. I find homemade flapjacks, mini scones, banana loaf, pancakes, mini muffins, coffee cake and carrot cake can all be made with no sugar , less fat and fewer calories than bought ones. Most of them keep well in the freezer out of sight! If I'm not going to have many calories left I just have one mini scone or muffin but if I need more calories I can eat 2 or 3 of the minis or have a slice of one of the cakes.

Today I had an orange and Weetabix for breakfast;

ham, cheese, rye bread and salad for lunch

dinner - salmon fishcakes with yoghurt and watercress dressing and salad

snacks - a large wholemeal and blueberry muffin (180 cal!), yogurt and pineapple

Total 1210 cal

That's really great advice about the cake, thanks STIDW I might make a low-sugar, low-fat version of something and freeze it in small slices to have for breakfast. I'm really struggling with the healthy breakfast thing as I don't really like cereal & milk. I do like granola-type things but they are laden with calories.

Well done on the pre-work exercising. I am doing the Couch to 5K thing at the moment but I have learned that I can't run first thing in the morning as I'm too stiff in the mornings and need to wait until lunchtime when I've loosened up (I realise that makes me sound like I'm 85).

Yesterday's intake was as follows:

Breakfast: the usual Eat Natural cereal bar; cup of lavender Earl Grey
Lunch: another pack of M&S Vietnamese pork rolls, giant salad with rocket, tomatoes, cucumber, roasted peppers and assorted other salady things that needed used up
Dinner: home-made chicken and veg soup made from Sunday's chicken carcass. Pack of melon for pudding.
Snacks: apple, Dr Karg cracker with mini tub of Philadelphia lightest, dark chocolate rice cake

Total 1242 calories (although I made a wild guess at how many cals were in the soup)

Can I join? I've put on loads of weight over the summer and need to cut wayyyy back. Mainly chocolate, biscuits and wine

Today so far:

Breakfast - black coffee, bowl of chopped fruit & soya yoghurt

Lunch - vegetable soup, salad leaves, grated carrot and beetroot

Snack - 4 after eights and a cup of tea

Hi, well I am far too ashamed to list yesterday's food, suffice to say it involved a McDonald's breakfast meal, lots of chocolate, coffee, lucozade, curry. Hangover food.

Today was much more reserved. Tea, toast, jam. Fudge finger. Rice, Dal, chicken. Choc ice cream.

Welcome artemis! I'm finding that it does help to list everythng I eat and see it written down. Rummikub, what else can you do on a hangover except get some carbs and fat down you? It's the only solution ...

Yesterday for me was:

Breakfast: Eat Natural bar, cup of tea, nectarine

Lunch: Dr Karg 3-seed crispbread, a sardine (drained of excess oil), a plum tomato, bowl of chicken & veg soup left over from Sunday's dinner

Dinner: lean pork medallions in cider sauce, carrot & swede mash, broccoli

Snack: dark chocolate rice cake with cup of tea

calculated at 1220 calories but I have no idea about the chicken soup - just made a wild guess at 350 calories for the bowlful

Hmm my day went a bit crap after I posted yesterday!

Snack - slice of toast with peanut butter

Dinner - roasted squash and fennel salad with pearl barley and walnuts, scoop of dark chocolate sorbet

Cup of hot chocolate with 2 marshmallows before bed

Breakfast - chopped fruit, soya yoghurt, 1 boiled egg and black coffee

Snacks - an orange

Lunch - veg soup, tofu, 1 slice bread, 2 x small biscuits

work drinks before dinner - 2 small glasses of prosecco, large handful of plain crisps

Dinner - spinach pesto with pasta, served with roasted carrots, 1 scoop of chocolate sorbet

Some lovely sounding food on here! Today, brioche, latte, jerk chicken wrap from shop, latte, flake. Spicy stuffed bitter gourd. 2 glasses orange juice. 2 mallow tea cakes.

Once the dc have settled back in school I plan to be more organised so I don't resort to chocolate.

Lurking, yes I definitely needed all the fat, salt, sugar, caffeine that day to feel human again!

Hi everyone I'm back,

Am back at work today too so quick update on yesterday

Breakfast weetabix semi milk
Large hot chocolate from costa
Low fat veggie sandwich choice m & s.
3 falafels with uncle Ben's rice

Everyone seems to be getting back into some kind of a routine. Artemis I am liking the sound of chocolate sorbet as a treat.

Anyway, yesterday:

Breakfast: soy & linseed toast, scraping of (no added sugar) peanut butter, scraping of rhubarb and ginger jam, an apple, cup of tea

Lunch: two mushrooms stuffed with tomato and pepper sauce (courtesy of M&S - only about 150 cals and very filling), watercress, tomato & cucumber salad

Afternoon snack: cup of tea, dark chocolate rice cake

Dinner: hmmm, DH was on kitchen duty so I had to eat what he had spent hours lovingly cooking. Home-made rissoles (leftover lamb, chicken, ham, all put through the mincer with onion & herbs, formed into patties, breadcrumbed, fried, oh dear...), baked beans, broccoli

Again, had to wildly estimate calories for the rissole part. When in doubt I just bung in 600 calories as that's as much as I can imagine a dinner being, as long as the portion size is reasonable, which it was.

So just under 1300, I think. About to make porridge for this morning's breakfast and will see if I can eat it without gagging.

2nd day back at work and totally knackered!

breakfast black coffee, chopped fruit (grapes, bananas, grapefruit segments)

lunch cup of veggie soup, tofu, slice of bread and sliced tomato

snack a square of orange chocolate

ANOTHER post work drink, grrr 1 small glass of wine

dinner veggie stir-fry, noodles, (last of the) chocolate sorbet