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 :)

Well I had every intention of being good today but it all went terribly wrong. But here goes

Weetabix
Wispa bar
Twirl ( well they were giving away free chocolate at work)
2 tracker bars
Monster munch
Wossits
Blueberry muffin
Jacket pot with beans and corn on the cob
Feeling sorry for myself. Binge binge binge.

Sounds like you doing great Rummi. Iron rich foods it is then. What was wrong with the soup. Too runny? Wish I was a 10 / 12. I've crept up to 12 / 14. No surprises there. Have stopped my gym membership so planning on walking more and biking. We have a great cycle trail nearby. How's everyone else doing?

It was way too thick the soup! I have lots to eat, frozen into portions now. I am on high dose iron tabs from docs but they are really hard on my tum, so increasing iron in diet prob best way to go. I nearly bought monster munch too mummaemma.

Tea and toast for breakfast, blueberry yoghurt, chunk of cheese, packet of rolos, 2 packets of onion ring crisps. Dinner ready meal of spinach & ricotta cannelloni and garlic bread.

Not a good day!

Nice to see other people back! Rummi, sounds like you're doing fine - you can always thin down soup that's too thick . Mummaemma, I would love to work somewhere where they gave away free chocolate. What a perk

Anyway, yesterday for me was:

breakfast porridge, a peach, a cup of tea

lunch butternut squash & sweet potato soup, a Dr Karg crispbread, half minitub Philly lightest, a tomato

dinner venison burger (no bun!), celeriac chips, done in the oven with oil spray, big pile of mange-tout

snacks olives, a milk chocolate rice cake, one teaspoonful of DH's cheesecake to see if it was any good

1100 calories - I think, but again it might have been more. I'm trying to keep a bit under the daily allowance I've set myself as I know you always tend to underestimate rather than overestimate, plus I never count the milk in my tea.

Lurking that is an amazing day! Are your energy levels ok? I think I must be on some sort of sugar roller coaster as my energy levels plummet esp when out and I do just buy chocolate.

Basic scone recipe I use is here;

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2275599/Mary-Berry-Special-Part-II-Buttermilk-sultana-scones.html

I substitute the sugar with 50g agave syrup and the butter with 50g coconut oil. Although agave and coconut oil have similar calorific values to sugar and butter less is required so it reduces the number of calories. I use the smallest pastry cutter. Last time I made the recipe it made 40 scones although some of them were not very thick. 30 is a better.

I've had a couple of disastrous days this week. I was out for lunch and coffee on Wednesday, dinner on Thursday and again for lunch yesterday so no weight loss. Back on the straight and narrow today and I'm going to have to increase my exercise for a few weeks I think. That means finding 1.5 hours day which is a bit tedious.

Today:

Breakfast Orange and porridge

Lunch Smoked salmon 1/2 bagel with salad

Dinner Pasta Bolognese with 2tsp parmesan

Snack Carrot Cake, Strawberries and half fat cream

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2275599/Mary-Berry-Special-Part-II-Buttermilk-sultana-scones.html

yesterday again

breakfast toast, chocolate vegan spread, banana

snack biscuit and tea

lunch fish and chips, sweetcorn and sugar snap peas (I work in a boarding school and we get what the kds get!)

dinner pasta with red peppers, sausage, fresh tomatoes and onions, 1 glass red wine.

Breakfast: glass of V8 spicy tomato and veg juice, and a couple of mouthfuls of blue cheese and a pickled egg

Lunch: Small ceasar salad with chargrilled prawns, diet coke

oops. I see I'm doing this wrong. should have posted for yesterday as haven't finished today yet. Ok will start again.

Yesterday:

Breakfast: Just one of those Dr Karg crispbreads with all the seeds etc, and loads of butter on. God, I bloody love those things. It's hard not to eat the packet.

Lunch: A small bowl of berries with splenda and some cream.

Dinner: Vague efforts to low carb went out of the window - I ate one very small slice of onion tart, three ritz crackers with smoked salmon and cream cheese on, a couple of bites of salami, and 2 little thai fish ball things.

Also far too much red wine - was at a party.

Sub -not heard of Dr Karg's crispbread. will look out for them. you have a small appetite, i could eat that in a morning. this thread is making me hungry !!!!!!!

Oh I don't have a naturally small appetite at all. I am very consciously eating small, small meals. Almost one stone down, and two to go. Try to stick (mostly) to low carb/low GI foods, but sometimes I fail, which is where training myself to eat tiny portions comes in useful - it doesn't get too out of hand!

Google Dr Karg - they are gorgeous!

Ok, so total for today is:

Breakfast: glass of V8 spicy tomato and veg juice, and a couple of mouthfuls of blue cheese and a pickled egg

Lunch: Small ceasar salad with chargrilled prawns, diet coke

Dinner: A buttered Dr Karg cracker, a handful of salted almonds and a sugar free jelly, 2 large glasses of wine.

breakfast fried egg,1 slice potato bread, mushrooms, black coffee

snack tea and 3 biscuits

lunch poached chicken breast, steamed carrots, broccoli, 2 small new potatoes, water

dinner 2 large glasses white wine, homemade flatbread with tomatoes, mushrooms, sweetcorn, garlic, pinenuts, chilis.

Hi yesterday I had my usual tea and toast. Lunch was home made carrot soup and bread, butter. Dinner mince & pea curry, yoghurt and rice. Tea and several biscuits. Shared a pack of haribo funny mix with dd.

subliminal and mummaemma - just look at my posts and you will see how I share the Dr Karg love. God, they are delicious. I am trying to eat only good carbs most of the time, so these are ideal. I do ration out the pack and only have one a day, though, or it would all get out of hand. I like the spelt ones and the 3-seed ones.

subliminal - well done on the weight loss!

rummikub - yep, my energy levels are fine. I have a very sedentary job (I work from home and literally roll out of bed and roll into my office in the next room), don't have children and so it's easy for me to not move around very much at all. I have taken up running in the last couple of months and am really trying to eat a bit more appropriately. I've always eaten well (no processed food, lots of fruit and veg, etc) but am very prone to far too much cake, chocolate, biscuits etc etc. Working from home is TERRIBLE for this - I was literally having a biscuit or cake every single time I had a cup of tea, so it had to stop. I only want to lose around a stone, so not tons, but it's more about getting out of bad habits.

STIDW - thanks for the recipe. I am trying not to get into the habit of baking, but these look good and are just the thing for a very small but tasty mouthful.

Yesterday was not healthy, though, as DH was on dinner duty (he is fond of all the things I try to avoid):

breakfast porridge, unsweetened stewed apple, a peach

lunch a Dr Karg, bit of Philly lightest, some crayfish from a tub, rocket & tomato salad (low fat dressing), handful of olives

dinner a M&S posh dog sausage (no bun), home-made coleslaw (I forced DH to make it with only one spoonful of mayo and the rest Greek yoghurt), onion rings

snacks a rice cake with more Philly lightest, a milk chocolate rice cake

Not great. Not nearly enough veg. I did run for 35 minutes though. Estimated calories 1311.

DH is on the kitchen again tonight and doing roast pork. Also tomorrow I am meeting a friend for coffee and cake. Gaaaaaah. Losing weight would be much easier if I (a) lived alone and (b) never met anyone for lunch, dinner, coffee or drinks.

I do that too lurking - apart from anything else they are blimmin' expensive so one a day is my treat. But I rarely allow myself to eat normal bread any more - I can't be trusted around it and I end up with hearburn anyway.

Today:

Glass of spicy tomato/veg juice for breakfast

One small homemade cheese scone thing mid morning I made them, so I had to try them

Lunch: one Dr Karg crispbread with butter, cream cheese and cucumber.

Dinner: Minced lamb casserole thing with a cheesy scone topping and some mash on the side. I tried not to eat too big a portion but I have failed a bit today. It wasn't huge - certainly not the size I would normally have eaten, but it was more than I intended to eat. Cross with self now.

1 glass of red wine with dinner and will prob have another later.

I'm not so much cross at the volume, it wasn't a lot for a day's food really, but it was not low carb at all. I either have to eat bigger low carb meals or tiny carby ones if I am to get anywhere at all. I failed on both counts today.

Hi all. Today, tea and toast. McDonald's fillet fish, fries (my dd made me), evening dinner was mince curry, rice, yoghurt, mango chutney followed by rum & raisin ice cream.

yesterday

breakfast fruit salad ( 1/2 banana, grapes, raspberries, 1/2 orange)

snack tea and 2 biscuits

lunch 4 mini falafels with hummus

dinner 2 slices duck breast, chard,roasted fennel and a large bite of DH's pie 2 large glasses of white wine

oh and a large scoop of carrots with dinner too!

Subliminal don't be too hard on yourself. It's hard to keep up good habits every single day and if you go a tiny bit overboard once in a while perhaps it just kick-starts your metabolism a bit, so no real damage done. That's the theory I work with anyway

Yesterday for me was:

breakfast porridge with raspberries and about 5 grams of dark chocolate chips. That was a mistake. Either I have conquered my sugar addiction or porridge and chocolate just doesn't go together.

lunch a Dr Karg, Philadelphia lightest, bit of John West dressed lobster (I found this in Sainsbury's beside the tinned tuna and thought it might be nice on a Dr Karg, and it's not laden with calories like most patés are), plum tomato, an apple

dinner a baked pork chop (very lean), roasted parsnip & butternut squash, broccoli, slow-cooked red cabbage, sneaky helping of potato dauphinoise (but not a huge portion like I would have had a few months ago)

snack a rice cake with more Philadephia, then a plain chocolate rice cake. God, it's not like I especially like rice cakes but I seem to have them every day.

Estimated cals 1100 but as usual it was probably more. I really do feel like I must be underestimating the calories of everything that isn't specifically listed on MFP.

Today I am going out for . Hurrah! Am also going out for a run later and will just have soup for dinner so hoping it all evens out.

Today so far...

breakfast porridge with chopped apple and raspberries, black coffee

snack nakd fruit bar, 1 biscuit, water

lunch lean pork chop with 3 dried apricots in gravy, broccoli, carrots and rice

Today have had VVVV stressful day which I don't want to talk about but it has made me realise what a comfort/stress eater I am. In moments of stress/anger/frustration I reach for some food (usually high carb/high fat) to counteract my negative feelings by giving me an instant hit of something delicious (or just hunk ) to take my mind of it.

Today I had:

Breakfast: very small glass tomato juice (not much left)

Lunch: a Dr Karg cracker with butter, loads of cream cheese and cucumber, and a piece of smoked mackerel. It was lovely and I had to make a conscious effort not to eat loads more, but I managed it.

A couple of handfuls of salted nuts

Dinner: Shepherd's pie. I dished it up onto a small side plate so I wouldn't eat too much but I did have seconds, and really had to stop myself from eating more. I at least recognised the signs of eating to spite myself.

I managed not to completely cave in and eat loads though. Two glasses of wine already due to v.stressful day.