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 :)

Hi all,

I weighed myself today and I've only put on 1lb since holiday, yay! Though I suspect it might come on gradually, I'm not quite sure how gaining/losing weight works.

Today I had:
Breakfast - 1 Weetabix with ss milk, a banana
Snack - coffee - 1 brown sugar, ss milk, 4 Jaffa cakes
Lunch - subway - veggie pattie sub with salad, walkers prawn cocktail crisps and a diet coke
Snack - muller rice
Dinner - wholemeal pasta, mixed veg sauce, piece if garlic bread.
Snack - coffee and 4 squares dark chocolate.

Not the best day but I'm easing myself back into this slowly

You all eat such lovely food, puts me to shame. But at least I can get lots if inspiration from all your posts :)

Chat tomorrow :)

rummikub, I am just over 9 stone too. I'm within a healthy bmi and 9 stone is a perfectly healthy weight for some but because I have a small frame it just doesn't look right for me to be that weight, if that makes sense? Are you the same? What do you want to weigh ideally? I'd like to get down to 8 and a half stone which is what I was before dd3. I found it easy to lose the baby weight after my first 2 dc but for some reason after dd3 I haven't been able to shift it :( She's 3 now so it really needs to be gone now!

9 st I can just about get away with, but want to be 8- 8.5 st. I am small framed and short. It's a balance between looking and feeling slim and not losing too much from my boobs and face. I was between 7.5 to 8 st pre children. I am still claiming baby weight! (Sshh my youngest is 7)

For tea it was a ready meal chicken curry and rice shared between 3 of us. And about to have a cup of tea and 2 oat biscuits.

yesterday (Friday)

breakfast slice brown toast, vegan marg, jam, black coffee

lunch baked salmon, courgettes, cherry tomatoes and 5 chips (!)

snacks 3 biscuits, tea, bite of a boy's spare rib at work, bite of another boy's chocolate at work [they like to share their food - I need to learn to say no!]

dinner spicy kidney bean burger (no bun) with green beans and new potatoes.

Today will be crazy at there is a black tie dinner at work so skipped breakfast, am having lunch with the pupils as usual and will try to eat as healthily as possible.

Hi everyone,

Not a great day for me.

Breakfast: muller rice
Snack: a pear, Greek yogurt
Lunch: 2 slices vegetable pizza, a potato waffle, low fat coleslaw, cucumber, carrot and pepper slices with houmous and tzaziki (sp) dips.
Snack: 5 cashew nuts, 2 squares dark choc, 2 small Milky Way bars I have to stop eating chocolate!
For dinner I decided to have a banana and a piece of toast as I'd been quite naughty with the snacking, so far so good... Then dh brings home curry and chips on the way home from work - I know I could've refused but it was there in front of me smelling all lovely and vinegary so I succumbed . I did have a small plate though, honest.

Ooh, lots of posts since yesterday morning, which I will read properly when not on the phone & about to go to sleep. Yesterday I didn't eat enough:

breakfast slice low-GI soy & linseed bread, scraping of rhubarb jam, a peach

lunch beans on toast, made with another slice of same bread and not quite enough beans (DH's leftovers), a chocolate rice cake

dinner was meant to be home for proper dinner at 8 but ended up not getting home until 10, so no proper dinner, just 4 oatcakes with Philly light and a plum tomato, a mini Babybel light and another chocolate rice cake. Not nearly enough fruit & veg and not really enough calories, also had a 35 minute run.

breakfast black coffee

lunch chicken, snow peas and green peppers with noodles

snacks glass cava and crisps at pre-dinner drinks

dinner salmon and grated raw veg (starter), game stew with 3 potatoes, carrots and spinach (main), blood orange jelly (pudding) lots of wine and 1 whiskey

Artemis, I wish I worked at your school . That sounds like a proper Sunday, food-wise.

Saturday for me was:

breakfast Total 0% Greek yoghurt, with a peach, a tiny scattering of toasted flaked almonds and an even tinier scattering of dark chocolate chips
lunch a pack of the M&S vietnamese pork roll things (only 150 cals and so good...)
dinner DH's lasagne, green salad, tomato salad, an apple
snack a small scoop of spiced coconut gelato from the most amazing ice cream shop that I'm afraid I can't walk past

Estimated 1100 cals (can this be right? I did try to have a sensible portion of lasagne, which had been made with turkey mince and not beef, but even so...)

Yesterday was:

breakfast slice of soy and linseed low-GI toast, scraping of rhubarb jam, scraping of Philly lightest
lunch a Dr Karg, bit of M&S cottage cheese with prawns, a banana
dinner roast chicken, green beans with bacon, roasted celeriac, squash, peppers, couple of spoonfuls leftover brown rice
snack two squares divine milk chocolate

Alas, DH had been in charge of the chicken and stuffed lots of tarragon butter under the skin, which I did my best to not pour onto my plate. Had a 30 minute run, though. Estimated cals 1300 (hoping this is accurate...).

I've had a funny couple of days (not awful but mixed) and I've lost track of what I ate. I'm bac again today with renewed vigour and determination to really make an effort to a) stick to low carbing and b) just eat virtually fuck all.

Today: Coffee with coffeemate x 1

Breakfast: An Atkins protein shake

Early Lunch: very small bowl of egg and tuna mayonnaise with red onion and celery.

Afternoon snack: Small bowl of cold roasted cauliflower with garlic.

Dinner: prawn/cod/tomato/green pepper/chorizo thing tonight, but won't have any french bread with it like the rest of the family.

Will try really hard not to have any wine but we have some people popping over so I might just have to have one.

It's been absoutely weeks since I have allowed myself to eat a big meal, or be free and easy with the bread, or any chocolate, or sugar of any kind, hardly any potatoes, no pasta. Just don't understand why my wight loss has completely stalled. Oh well, I'm still lighter than I was, so I guess I must just stay positive.

Subliminal, I feel your pain. I have been eating so well for the last six weeks or so, with only a biscuit here and there, hardly any normal bread, mostly wholemeal rice & pasta, tiny portions compared to what I used to eat, no coffee and a diet made up of all the right things - you'd really think the weight would be melting off me instead of every half-kilo being a battle of will and endurance

It's not fair is it?

I did succumb to a very small piece of French bread and two glasses of red wine, but the dinner was all fish and veg, and I had an elegantly small sized portion.

It's great, but there is a lot of food I could do without in many ways!

breakfast porridge with blueberries, black coffee

lunch 1/2 chicken breast with carrots, parsnips, courgettes, in plain passata-based tomato sauce

snacks 1 biscuit, black coffee

dinner mushrooms with garlic, 1/2 slice bread, home-made veg curry (no rice).

I was away over the weekend and lost track of what I ate. I don't think it was too bad although I did buy a bottle of wine to share and ended up drinking most of it myself.

Today;

Breakfast: Weetabix, ss milk and an orange

Lunch: Broccoli soup, Waitrose prawn and mango salad

Dinner: Chicken fajita with salsa and cheese

Snacks: Yogurt with blueberries and roasted nuts, seeds and oats/rock bun

I got MFP to recalculate my allowed calories based on the weight I've lost (actually I estimated my starting weight as I was too scared to stand on the scales and I think I was lighter than I thought, so probably haven't lose that much!). Anyway, I'm now allowed 1240 a day. I've roughly divided it into 200 breakfast, 300 lunch, 600 dinner, 140 snacks. It's doable, of course, but it doesn't allow for any slip-ups.

Grrrrr. I swore I was just going to try to eat well and not become obsessive about calorie counting and here I am .

Anyway, yesterday:

breakfast porridge, half a pear, handful of raspberries
lunch chicken & sweetcorn soup, a Dr Karg, cottage cheese with prawns
dinner leftover lasagne, roasted squash & celeriac
snacks 2 dark chocolate rice cakes

Estimated at 1080 but that could be wishful thinking. I have no idea how to count calories of home-made things without getting really anal and weighing everything as it gets cooked. I think DH would get quite exasperated if I made him do that as he was trying to make dinner ... I'm doing it in a really unscientific way and assuming that an average dinner containing lean meat but cheese sauce would be maybe 600 calories then knocking a hundred or so off because I'm having a smallish portion. I'm really plucking figures out the air, though ...

Going out for lunch with DM today. She is a feeder (despite being no more than a size 12 herself) and believes anyone who doesn't put away a hearty lunch followed by a giant slice of cake is malnourished and wilfully starving themselves. Heaven help me...

Just back to say that lunch was indeed a calorie disaster. I have 550 left to last the day. No snacks for me ...

I have had a good day today. I went to my book club on an empty stomach and my friend decided we'd crack open a bottle of wine at 11am. So that was my breakfast.....

has ONE MOUTHFUL of delicious homemade brownie (to soak up the alcohol, that's all ) and then when I got home I ate a pickled egg.

(this is shaping up to be the weirdest day's food ever.)

Drank plenty of water today, for a change.

After doing the afternoon school run I ate a few bits of cold roasted cauliflower. (more peculiar randomness) then I popped into my neighbour for something and she MADE ME drink another glass of wine (this is all by about 4.30 ) Honestly, I know how it sounds.....

Then for dinner I had a nice, small portion of Cobb Salad. chopped egg, chopped bacon, avocado, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, crumbled blue cheese etc. And lots more water. No more wine.

Apart from the wine I am very pleased with today and feel quite in control. I had better have lost some frigging weight by tomorrow.

I hate people that do that lurking. My MIL does that - always putting cakes and puddings in from of people that she never touches herself.

It is really irritating. I kknow it comes from the best of intentions and all that, but aaaaargh. When you're surrounded by cake and trying not to eat any, the last thing you want is someone practically pinning you to the table and force-feeding you.

subliminal, I am laughing out loud at your day of random foodstuffs and alcoholic beverages. Any day that starts with breakfast wine, chocolate brownie and pickled egg is going to be quite bizarre . It sounds like a good day all round.

So yesterday (I managed to claw things back in the evening):

breakfast: small dollop natural yoghurt, raspberries, half a peach, toasted almonds

lunch: 3/4 of a pack of M&S saefood selection sandwiches. 3/4 of a slice lemon drizzle cake

post-run snack: a Dr Karg with cottage cheese

dinner: baked salmon fillet, tiny bit watercress sauce, tomato salad

snack: chocolate rice cake

Estimated at 1250. Had a 30-minute run, though. Will try to have a restrained day today as am not leaving the house and don't have much in the way of enticing food that would tempt me. Have decided to weigh myself again on 7 October. Surely I will have dropped a pound by then?

Wednesday

breakfast porridge with fresh raspberries

snack an orange, 1 biscuit

lunch vegetable soup, 3 slices of smoked tofu, 1/2 slice of bread

snack a plain oat cracker, 2 mint chocolate sweets

dinner 1 veggie sausage, 1 lean meat sausage, 3 new potatoes, grated raw carrot and beetroot salad, french beans, 1 large glass of white wine

Wednesday for me was:

breakfast porridge, half a pear, handful of raspberries, sprinkling toasted almonds

lunch chicken & sweetcorn soup, a Dr Karg

dinner oh dear; DH had gone to town and bought lots of deli bits so we could have a picnic dinner. I had to try to restrain myself: 2 slices wholegrain soda bread, Philly lightest, prawns on one slice, parma ham on the other, handful marinated anchovies, handful olives, roasted veg on rocket, tiny spoonful egg mayo

snacks a mini Babybel light, a dark choc rice cake

1235 cals? who knows ...

Woohoo! My weight loss has finally kick-started itself again. After a couple of weeks of annoying to-ing and fro-ing, in spite of eating small meals and not indulging in anything really sugary/carby, I have finally seen the scales start to go in the right direction again. Only one more pound to go and then I'll have lost the first whole stone.

I had a very good day on Wednesday although I can't remember specifially what I ate.

Yesterday it started well then went a bit adrift. I ate/drank:

A flat white from Costa

A Dr Karg with butter and Philadelphia.

Out for lunch with DH as he had the day off. Had a green salad with prawns for starter followed by steamed fish and vegetables, no carbs.

One glass white wine.

No dinner as such, due to lunch out. Saw friends in the evening, ate some salted almonds and had two Cosmopolitans mixed by my friend and then a large glass of red wine (Cosmos full of sugar syrup ) which then made me peckish so I had a small slice of my DS's cold pizza when I got home.

Not great but not ruinous. I still think I'm on track and feeling positive today.

That sounds pretty good, subliminal, considering you had a lunch out and saw friends, which can both be perilous activities ... I have a day and evening out planned with a friend who needs cheering up today. I foresee cake, prosecco and probably something not entirely diet-friendly for dinner. It can't be helped, though, and I'm trying to look at the weekly picture rather than the daily one

Thursday

breakfast porridge with raisins and chopped banana

snack small packet salted crisps, carton ribena, 1 small "finger" sandwich from buffet (school trip, failed to bring healthy snack )

lunch grated carrot and beet salad, 60g smoked tofu, cold french beans, 1 slice bread. 1 clementine

dinner 70g of whole wheat pasta with roasted tomatillos and tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil, soya chicken pieces, 50ml passata, lime juice and diced red onion. 1 mint chocolate sweet.

snack 2 cups chai tea with unsweetened soya milk.