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 :)

just junk, not hunk

Today;

Breakfast; orange, Weetabix, ss milk

Lunch; Turkey, brie & cranberry on 1/2 roll, green salad leaves and beetroot

Dinner; Jerk chicken, sweet potato wedges (1 spray oil 1tsp wholegrain mustard) and salad

Snacks: banana with half fat cream, flapjack, spicy BNS soup

I've got about 60 calories leftover

You lot have amazing will power. I just cave in to my cravings.

Today, cereal, milk, cup of tea, 2 biscuits. Mid morning (before 10!) I had a banana, cheese chunk, twix. Lunch ham sandwich, banana, tea, chocolate. Dinner (late) mince curry and bread, crisps, flake. Work day today. I think I need the food to keep me going!

subliminal, sorry to hear you had a bad day. You did really well not to cave in, though. Hope today is a better one for you

Yesterday for me was:

breakfast porridge, unsweetened stewed apples

lunch a Dr Karg, Philly lightest, bit of tinned dressed lobster, bowl of leftover roasted veg from Sunday's dinner (squash, parsnip, broccoli) served as a salad with rocket and low-fat French dressing

dinner broccoli & stilton soup, half a small wholemeal roll, a peach

snacks (quite large) florentine biscuit when out with friend.

Ran for 35 mins, so that probably compensated for the biscuit! Estimated cals 1200.

Today, though, I have just realised that I have run out of Dr Kargs! The horrors! Will have to make emergency trip to supermarket or I will have no idea what to have for lunch

thank you lurking - yes, in days of old I would have consoled myself with a whole cake or something, just to spite myself, and then feel even more like useless crap for a week, so I suppose it's progress.

I am disappointed that my weight loss seems to be slowing right down and even going up by a couple of pounds some days, in spite of eating very little over the last 6 weeks.

I have to just face facts - I can't do white carbs even in small doses if I want to lose any noticeable weight this side of the next year.

All this 'eat less and move around more' only works to a point. You have to eat ALOT less and move around to a crazy degree otherwise nothing much happens. Eating what you want to eat in moderation, like a normal person, only works once you are already slim I think. What I need calls for more drastic action.

breakfast 1/2 bowl of porridge with chopped apple, black coffee

snack nakd fruit bar, tea

lunch vegetable and chicken stir fry with noodles, water

dinner veggie burger (no bun), green beans, carrots, 3 small new potatoes, small portion of apple crumble with soya cream

I am not listing today's food. Suffice to say it was all junk. Just thinking... Yep, all junk beginning to end. Food shop tomorrow.

I have had a good day. Yay! Onward and upward.

Breakfast: Tomato juice

Lunch: v. small portion of leftover shepherd's pie from last night (I halfheartedly scraped most of the potato off to make it more low carb)

snacks - none

Dinner (out with friends) : small steak, little bit of peppercorn sauce (it wasn't creamy) and a small portion of mixed steamed veg. I gave all my chips away. didn't even eat one.

3 glasses of red wine. Oh well.

Well done, Subliminal and Artemis. Sounds like you both had a good day. I know what you mean about how it is just so hard to lose weight (especially once you start to get a bit older). I lost a stone and a bit five or six years ago then gradually put the whole lot back on. This time round it is much much more difficult.

Rummikub, your honesty made me laugh . Onwards and upwards today, eh?

Yesterday:

breakfast: the usual porridge and unsweetened stewed apple

lunch: butternut & sweet potato soup, a rice cake, Philly lightest, a peach

dinner: pasta bolognese: bolognese sauce made with turkey mince and no oil (also it had lots of onion, carrot, celery & mushrooms), had it with wholewheat pasta, no parmesan. surprisingly tasty. Is 75g pasta (uncooked) too big a portion, do you think?

snacks DH was cooking haggis bonbons and made me try one. Aaargh. It was delicious, but at least I only had one. Also, I accidentally ended up in the pub and had two gin & slimlines.

Estimated cals 1300. DH is muttering things about having the haggis bonbons for dinner. Think I will attempt a plate of roasted veg with two of the said bonbons and that might keep calories reasonable. Going out for a run today too so that should help.

Today....meh. Not great, not awful.

Breakfast: Large glass of Clamato juice (American brand of tomato and clam juice which I am addicted to and is luckily quite low carb.)

1 Dr Karg cracker with butter and cream cheese, 2 sticks of celery with salt

Lunch: nothing as such, had late breakfast and early dinner, but did snack on two smallish cubes of cheddar and ate a few mouthfuls of very coconutty curry sauce which I made for everyone else's dinner.

Dinner: An small omelette made with one egg and stuffed with some leftover meat and veg.

Evening snack: another Dr Karg cracker with butter and cream cheese

2 very large glasses red wine.

Hi everyone
Lovely to see lots of newbies to the thread and to see you rummikub and STIDW still here :)
Sorry I buggered off on holiday without saying goodbye. I wanted to come on before I went away to thank you guys for helping me :) Honestly, if it wasn't for you all on this thread I wouldn't have lost any weight, it was such an incentive to know I'd be coming on here in the evening to list all my food for the day, really helped me keep on track most days But seriously, big thanks
I ended up with a 4lb weight loss for holiday but more importantly I was a lot more toned and didn't look half bad in a bikini - if I may say so myself
But by the end of the holiday I think I put it all back on - and probably more too! because of the eating, drinking and lounging about all day So, from tomorrow I'm going to be reporting back in as before and I'm hoping to get that 4lb back off - and any more I've put on. And my aim is to be half a stone lighter by Christmas. I think (hope) that's a realistic target.
Chat to you all tomorrow :)

Today, cereal & milk, cup of tea & 2 oat biscuits. 2 chunks of cheese. Malt loaf, tea. Finger of fudge. Ryveta 1. 2 slices of cheese & tomato pizza. Tea, homemade cupcake.

Shining, great that you lost weight and were more toned for your holiday.

shining, I thought you'd abandoned your own thread! Very well done on your pre-holiday weight loss. Sounds like you got that "bikini body" all the magazines tell us is actually possible . I think holiday weight is fairly easily lost so a couple of weeks of posting here every day should sort you out.

Half a stone lighter by Christmas seems very realistic. I would like to lose a stone altogether. I only weigh myself once in a blue moon as I have a tendency to stand on the scales obsessively. I'll weigh myself at the end of the month and see how things are going.

Yesterday, I am annoyed to report, I made a special trip to Sainsbury's to stock up on Dr Karg, only to find that they're not selling them any more. The cheek of it! The shelves were starting to fill with Christmas food, so I guess there was no room for robust spelt-based crackers. Am suffering withdrawal symptoms so will need to make a trip to Waitrose.

Anyway, yesterday:

breakfast the usual porridge, unsweetened stewed apples

post-run snack rice cake, dressed lobster spread, leftover tomato & fennel salad

lunch pea & ham soup, bag of bite-sized caramelised onion mini-oaty cakes (delicious! don't know if you get them outside Scotland, they are like healthy crisps), milk choc rice cake

dinner celeriac, parsnip, butternut squash, all roasted with olive oil spray & herbs. 2 of DH's haggis bonbons. onion gravy. An entirely weird dinner that I wouldn't be serving to guests but which managed to taste really quite nice. Pleased that I only had two haggis things.

snack snack-size Eat Natural cereal bar. The last one in the pack and I will try not to buy any more as they're not v. healthy, although they pretend to be.

Estimated cals: 1175. Also had a 30-minute run.

Lurking, your dinner didnt sound weird at all, it sounded super tasty.

It was, actually, but I am a bit of a sucker for gravy ...

Welcome back Shining, it sounds as though you had a good holiday.

breakfast orange, porridge with banana, nuts and 1/2tsp maple syrup

lunch grilled bacon with pancake, spinach, feta and mushrooms

dinner beef and lentil bolognese, pasta, salad with beetroot

snacks banana loaf, yogurt with nuts seeds and oats.

1203 cal

WI today and I've lost 1.5lbs this week which isn't bad I suppose considering what I ate last Wednesday and Thursday.

Well done on your weight loss, STIDW. That sounds great. Do you have much more you want to lose?

breakfast porridge, unsweetened stewed apple

snack slice of low-GI soy & linseed bread, scraping of rhubarb jam; mini Babybel light

lunch pea & ham soup, pack of mini oaty bakes

dinner veg korma (chickpeas, spinach, squash, mushrooms, courgette), brown basmati rice, half a mini naan

I had a bad day yesterday. Was hungry mid-morning for no real reason hence the snack.

Also, I realised that it is well-nigh impossible to keep the calories down on a curry even though I had a fairly restrained portion. I'm just glad I didn't put any meat in it or that would have bumped it up even more.

Far too many carbs, although at least most of them were the unrefined sort. Shouldn't have eaten the half mini-naan though (even if it was just three bites - MFP really does make it obvious when you're throwing calories away). I think that came in at about 1300. Have leftovers tonight for dinner, but no naan and am going out for a run later so that should balance things out a bit more.

Yesterday
breakfast slice toast with vegan chocolate spread, banana, black coffee

snacks 2 biscuits, tea, 4 crackers with vegan butter

lunch chicken curry (tomato based) with rice and salad, water, a clementine

dinner pasta with spinach, garlic, carrots, mint, pine nuts; 1 small piece of orange chocolate.

Hmmm....well yesterday started fine nd then went a bit downhill.

Small glass of clamato juice first thing, then a low-carb protein shake mid morning, then no more food until I went to some reception/drinks thing with canapes and stuff at 6pm. I was bloody starving and tried not to eat the ones with carbs but it was pretty impossible as the meaty ones didn't come out until quite late and I was ready to keel over by then, and dangerously at risk of getting too drunk due to an empty stomach!

I had two mini sort of mexican type things of chorizo on tortilla bread topped with guacamole - each about two bites each piece. Then two little thai fishcake things, then some dips of cheese fondue with some small bits of bread, then two skewers each of barbecued chicken, and barbecued halloumi and tomato, and then a v. small portion of chicken curry but no rice. 1 small dessert canapé, about two bites. 3 large vodka and slimline tonics.

It was a mistake to go there hungry. I should have eaten something earlier so my resolve did not crumble under the influence of drink.

In the scheme of things it was not a particularly excessive day's food but ONCE AGAIN it was not how I set out to eat! My self control is seriously pants.

I weighed myself this morning and am now over 9 st . Not happy with this at all. Yesterday, tea & toast. Lunch (I made a conscious effort to have lunch!) was a sweet chilli chicken wrap from tesco and a twirl.
Dinner quiche, coleslaw, roasted tomatoes. Cup of tea and 3 oat biscuits.

I looked at the dr Karg crackers and they do look v tasty but expensive, so have stuck to ryveta for 99p.

Today starting with tea and toast.

Subliminal, those do's with that food are so easy to over indulge in aren't they. Esp when done well.

You sounded v restrained. I would have downed all the Thai fish cakes! Yum!

I know! Each thing was only little, but the trouble is they just kept coming round.

If I'd been at home with my little side plate in front of me I oculd have measured more easily how much I was eating in one go, but when I added it all up at the end of the night it was much more than I had realised.

Have not had a good start to the day so far, but I must not allow a small setback to turn me into a pig for the next three days.

No don't let it set you back. I like to view my food intake from a weekly perspective, it all evens out. I am also trying to look for opportunities for nutrition and vitamins rather than calories from quick fix sugar.

Having said that for lunch I have had ham and tomato sandwich, tea and finger of fudge (only 111 cals). I don't do lunch so planning it in (not choc) is new to me.

That means that on the 5:2 fast days you can eat 5 fingers of fudge for your 500 calories. Hmm...now there's an idea...

Like your thinking!