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 :)

Fadbook, you had a GREAT day - well done, great choices all the way. And happy birthday to your dd (and congrats to you for having her 3 years ago

You have really upped the exercise too so that will stand to you in another week or so when it really adds up and the weight will be falling off you.

Dinner was fine and I didn't overeat at all. Ribs were salty so drinking a lot of water since. Will have a low cal hot choc in a few minutes and early to bed tonight.

Fadbook, I am the same with carbs, they really are my downfall, I could eat fresh bread, doughnuts, cream doughnuts, cake, english muffins, toast croissants pastries etc all day long if it had no impact on my waistline. Sadly it does, so I have to really limit myself...I dream of a time when there will be no restrictions

Could I join please? Trying to loose the baby weight, went to a wedding at the weekend, thought my dress looked fab till i got there and found I had to spend the whole time pulling the top up, and the split at the back down, felt like a sausage splitting its skin! dreading the photo's!

Today;

Breakfast: Half a slice wholemeal toast with butter and jam
2 cups of tea

Lunch: Wholemeal pasta with tomato and bail sauce (and lots of cheese... )

Tea: 2 poached eggs on wholemeal toast with light spread and a 'Shape' chocolate yoghurt.

Also had 2 cups of tea with wholemilk (its all we buy, because its what the DC drink, wondering if I should try almond or soya milk?)

Is that ok do you think? It is quite carb heavy.
Oh, and i'm bf'ing too so have to be sensible about it!

Thanks Red, my baby is all grown up. She's 2 not 3 where does the time go? Been very nostalgic today and tearful at bedtime

Welcome notanymore - you sound like you're doing well so far. If you're bf, you will need you calories still, so don't restrict you diet too much. Perhaps more exercise rather than cutting out food? I used to power walk with dd in pushchair to the park and back. She'd only be in the swings for 15 min and I'd come back, but always felt I'd exercised! How old is baby?

She's 6 months, but also have a 4.5yr old and a 3yr old so I'm trying to do exercise DVD's in the evening but only seem to be managing one a week at the moment. Hopefully this will pick up come september!

Morning everyone.
red well done, you're doing fab.

pregnantpause Wow 900 calories for cinema nachos! Thanks for the warning. We are off to the cinema tomorrow so I will be avoiding! Don't be too hard on yourself though, I think everyone indulges at the cinema. And you went without dinner and did lots of exercise so I'm sure you're back on an even keel.

kate I hope your neck is feeling better today, painful injury isn't it.

fadbook I take my hat off to you for not having any of your dd's birthday cake, well done :) I don't think I could've shown the same restraint! I know exactly what you mean about handling the dc food/being tempted to finish it off. It's so hard when they are eating exactly what you fancy and then they leave a lovely big untouched helping. I think just shoving it in the food bin as soon as possible works best for me As for handling the lovely buttered toast, cakes etc., I have no advice I'm afraid.

notany Welcome :) It is hard fitting exercise around the dc isn't it. I don't know if you've read the whole thread but, if you haven't, I bought a hula hoop and 5 mins on that a few times a day is really making a difference to my waist and stomach. It's easy to fit around the dc and seeing their mum hula hooping is highly amusing them I also do squats/lunges/running on the spot whilst they're playing. In the evening I go on the wii fit which is great for exercise if you have one. I think the food you're eating is fine, you need your energy if you're bf and you'll probably find that exercising will make you more hungry too.

Well, yesterday I had my omelette as planned and I was very good and didn't put any cheese in it - first time I've had an omelette without cheese . I do like cheese and eat too much of it I think so decided to go without and it was surprising still tasty. I had tomatoes and red onion instead. For dessert I had a big fruit salad but then I had a Mini Milk ice lolly and some marshmallows, neither of which are high in fat or calories but I'm still cross with myself for picking needlessly.

I had 2 coffees with skimmed milk - not too impressed with the skimmed milk but needs must, aye.

Look forward to checking in later.

Have a great day all :)

Evening all,

Dashing here as the evening seems to have run away with me. Just wanted to say hello to notanymore - welcome!

Shining, you are doing great, I love the idea of the hoola-hoop and I could really do with trimming my middle area, I am tall and reasonably lean but run to apple-y very easily, it is my real problem area. I think the hoola-hoop could be the trick.

Took dc to town after work to get school shoes and books etc - groan!

Didn't do too badly, treated them to an ice-cream in a new gelato place and had a 1 scoop of pistachio in a very small tub myself (to keep them company ) but it was quite rich and I didn't finish mine which is surprising.

So today I had:

3 x rye crackers + banana + coffee with low fat milk
Lunch: M&S egg and cress sandwich, latte with low fat milk, the tiny biscuit that comes with the coffee in M&S cafe, water
Snack: half a scoop of pistachio gelato
Dinner: Bill Granger's creamy parma ham and mushroom pasta (name is deceptive as there is only 80mls of cream in the whole dish and that serves 4 of us) but it is really delicious and super fast, it is my fail safe in-a-hurry dinner. Dc had olives, I had green salad with a drizzle of homemade dressing
supper: will be a low-cal hot choc drink once I get to sit down

Walked what felt like miles lugging heavy bags so that HAS to count for something!! My legs are tired now too.

Actually I bought a swimsuit today for the 1st time in years, got it in M&S navy & white, vaguely nautical, tried in on earlier and didn't keel over as I had dreaded, it was ok, not nearly as traumatic as I had expected. It has spurred me on to keep it up another while anyway......

A good day for you shining, well done I eat far better when I'm not with dd, her dippy egg and toast was just too tempting yesterday, far more than the cake! God help me this Saturday - I've ordered a birthday cake for her party and I'm doing a buffet for about 15 kids and adults - might do a huge bowl of salad to much on!

Food intake
Breakfast - granola and banana. Large tea. My dd is loving granola the moment. She asks for hoops or shreddies and then ends up saying "mummies cereal" and eating most of mine!

Lunch - egg salad with home made garlic and herb dip (low fat Greek yoghurt) and a plum. Another large tea.

Dinner - chicken fajitas (1.5 as dd gain stole half of one!) loads of veg was in as DP made it and he always puts more in (2 large peppers, 2 onions, mushroom and courgette). Did have cheese but not much, and my low fat dip again. I'd also cooked some broccoli for dd and ate that as she hasn't touched it.

Snacks - portion of grapes, hot chocolate out of work drinks machine. Have folded and had one piece of clotted cream fudge we'd brought back from Devon I even thought of you all as I ate it as it was so lush. I'm now feeling guilty!

Exercise - 30 sit-ups this morning; will do some tonight too.

Fad- that's a great day, let's be honest if you don't have any treats then it's not a sustainable option. in terms of daily calorie intake, along with nutritional intake, that's a brilliant day! Even with a cube of fudge!

I had a stupidly early day today, meeting in work at seven til twelve, so breakfast was a garage chicken on a stick and packet of skips.
Dinner- bulgar wheat and herb tabbouleh
Snacks- strawberries and grapes
Tea- warm chicken salad

My usual 100ml of skimmed milk.
Exercise- the shred and a 2 mile cycle.

Hi all,

You're all doing so well with both the excercises and food intake. I am almost drooling over some of your meals though, especially your fajitas fadbook with loads of veg and homemade dip, mmmm. In fact I might do some fajitas on the weekend.

red ooh you are lucky with your figure, I am a 'pear'. I have a very slim upper body (though tummy needs a bit of toning after dc) but huuuge hips and thighs :( I wish my tummy was my 'problem area' because there seem to be a lot of exercises aimed at tummy toning. Toning the hips and thighs are another matter - even squats and lunges which are meant to be for toning thighs seem to make my calves ache more than anything - maybe I'm doing them wrong! I know it sounds silly but sometimes I wish I had a bigger upper body so that I was more in proportion iyswim. I feel that because my upper body is small it accentuates my bottom half . I would love to be tall and lean!

So, today I had a good(ish) day:

Muller rice and strawberries

Jordan's Frusli bar

Banana

2 breadsticks

2 squares of dark chocolate, melted, with cashew nuts, raisins and dried cranberries

x6 jelly babies

Rigatoni pasta with light mayo and salad

x4 squares dark chocolate

x3 coffees with half a sugar and skimmed milk
Lots of water.

Exercise: x3 5 min intervals on hula hoop and 1 hour on wii fit.

Tomorrow we were planning on watching a film at the cinema but I had second thoughts - dd3 is only 3 and it would've been her first time at the cinema and I decided today that I don't think she is capable of sitting through a film yet. So we are off to a soft play centre instead - different one to the other day, hoping they will have some decent food on the menu here. I will try and eat a bigger breakfast though, just in case. I am hoping to be burning a lot of calories tomorrow running after dd3 in the soft play. When we go during term time I let her off on her own as it's quiet (as long as I can see her) but during the hols it's so busy and it's such a big play centre so I end up in there with her, running around and climbing and sliding and recapturing my youth and burning lots of calories :)

Hello everyone,

How are you all doing today?

Shining - hope you are having fun at the soft play centre! running around after little ones will burn off calories for sure. It is so funny about the body shape isn't it? A girl I work with is a lot shorter than me and way more 'pear' shaped and I always envy her tiny waist and more shapely hips. she can wear skinny jeans and a shorter, tighter top and look good were as I seem to be always trying to cover my mid-area and am conscious of it. We are never happy with how we actually are!

I did very well yesterday, and have done ok so far today. I was down to 11st 1lb this morning but it can fluctuate. It is that time of the month too so that often causes bloat for me.

Anyway, had a really really busy morning in work with meetings out of the office so a good bit of fast walking about town, fingers crossed that will help.

Breakfast: 2 x crackers + banana + coffee (was 3 crackers but dh didn't seal them up properly and they were stale and I am a bit sick of them now so need a change)

Work: 2 coffees at meetings

Lunch: homemade egg salad sandwich (egg, tomato, lettuce, cucumber and spring onion with a scrape of extra light mayo)
Cup of tea and 2 choc rice cakes

4 x fizzy jelly haribos that dd left lying about

Dinner will be the same as last night - pasta with parma ham & mushroom as I have enough ingredients to make it again and it will use them up and we are trying to use stuff up before hols next week.

Talk soon

Shining - hope the soft play has had you sweating and out of breath, and you resisted any cakes and chocolate??

Red - you've had a good day again, well done.

Today has been good, apart from a stupidly early start at 4.54am when dd decided I needed to get up I therefore took the chance to go to work earlier than normal so was in for 7am [tired emotion]

Breakfast - granola, banana and coffee

Lunch - lemon & pepper chicken leg from Morrisons hot food counter and a large salad bowl from their help yourself bit. Loads of salad and a few noodles, coleslaw and a boiled egg. Was well nice and pleased I put my own 'chicken salad' together as their pre made ones wouldn't have filled me up and would probably have tasted shite

Dinner - grilled pork steak (no fat), vegetable stirfry (onion, pepper, sugar snap peas, carrot, courgettes) and 3 wedges (potato cooked in microwave and fried in a little olive oil).

Snacks- strawberries, banana, (soon to be one cube of fudge....it's calling my name FAD...BOOk? FAAADBOOK??...)

No exercise today. Need to get on it!

DTD is classed as exercise, yes??

Not so good today for me...

Breakfast was a Jordan's Frusli bar and a banana with a coffee (half sugar, skimmed milk) So far so good...

Lunch at play centre: veggie breakfast (healthiest thing on the menu) - x2 veggie sausages, fried egg, mushrooms and tomatoes. It also came with toast and chips which dd3 obligingly ate :)

A chocolate and hazelnut brunch bar - 165 calories and 7.3g fat :( I needed something full of sugar to keep me able to chase dd3 around the 4 storey soft play frame! And this kind of set the tone for the rest of the day...

Coffee (2 sugars - in my defence it was a very strong coffee and just tasted ick without the extra sugar. Also had full fat milk - all that was available)

Bottle of Diet Pepsi

Packet of skips

Small Milky Way

Rice Crispies cereal bar

Coffee (half sugar, skimmed milk).

I just seemed to be craving sugar like mad today, guess it was all the running around, but what I should've done is taken some fruit/dried fruit in my bag, though saying that they do have a strict policy regarding not bringing in your own food so I guess I ate the best I could in the circumstances that's what I'll keep telling myself anyway. Also, thinking back to the last time we visited this play centre, I had a cheese toastie and chips for lunch, as well as a full fat Pepsi, a cupcake and 2 lattes . So I've definitely improved! God, looking back I ate so badly, although I did eat better at home, honestly! Just days out with the dc would send me into junk food overdrive!

You have both done really well today, well done!

red, it's funny how we are never happy with what we have isn't it. I was discussing this with my friend recently, she has always envied my thick, curly hair which I hate with a vengeance and always try to blow dry straight and have layers cut into it to thin it out. Whilst I have always lusted after her straight, shiny hair which she desperately tries to curl and thicken up with different hair products. We're a strange bunch us women aren't we

FadBook if you aren't tucked up in bed now I hope you soon will be, that is a very early start and I think you've done especially well today to refrain from gorging whilst being tired. When I'm tired all I want to do is eat.

About to do an hour on the wii now - not going to have dinner tonight, I've consumed far too much already but I'm feeling very full so that isn't a problem.

Off out shopping with dh tomorrow so will hopefully burn lots of calories rushing around the shops, also hoping to be too busy thinking about clothes etc to be thinking about food! God I sound like such a gannet .

Chat tomorrow.

Oops missed your last post FadBook. Yes I'd say dtd is definitely a form of exercise especially if you are on top

You really did get on it then fad any cardio where you are exercising enough to be out of breath will burn an average of ten calories a minute. dtd counts if done right

I had a good day, though a bit backward

Breakfast- smoked salmon, with poached egg and homemade hollandaise (only used one egg yolk and a teaspoon of butter so no worse than if I d had a slice of toast alongside)
Dinner- roasted new potato, red pepper and chorizo
Tea- a 30g bowl of cereal.
Snack- Dh and I shared a mars bar as desert.
Snaxk 2- ten strawberries

My breakfast is a meal and my tea was a breakfast, so it reads wrong but I weighed today, and after a week I'm four pound lighter. Yay!

I was too tired and too lazy to go on top! need to do some sit ups tonight too

sorry you've had a shit day, I think you have made some better choices that you did previously (cheese toasty vs vege sausages etc). Do what you can on the wii tonight and I'm sure you'll feel better.

cross posted Pregnantpause!

You've had a great day and 4lb light is amazing, well done.

I haven't got scales in the house - daft really, we've just never had any. I randomly weigh myself at my friends house every 5 weeks (she cuts my hair) and I weighed myself today and I was 10lb 10oz which I was pleased with as was around 11lb about a month ago.

I'm tall and "carry off" my weight if I wear the right clothes, but none of my clothes have even fit me recently and when shopping, I was picking up size 14 not 12's. My whole body shape has changed since having DD so whilst I'm tall and 'look' lean, my belly and waist look bigger and curvier to me. I just want a flat stomach. DD played with her tea cups on my belly this afternoon and said 'jelly belly' again she's only 2 so she's only copying the words I've said but it's annoying!

Evening, hope all, hope everybody had had a good one.

Breakfast- salmon and scrambled eggs
Dinner- spaghetti hoops and toast
Tea- steak stir fry with half a nest of egg noodles
Snacks grapes and a slice of toast.
100ml skimmed milk

Exercise- a three mile cycle at 17mph.

Very happy today, it has gotten easier, I'm not as hungry or snacky as I was last week, which can only be a good thing.

Well, that was eloquent wasn't it? I meant I hope everybody has had a good day

Evening all,

Well done pregnantpause, a really good day.

I've been good too :)

Breakfast was a Jordan's Frusli bar and an apple with a coffee - skimmed milk, half a sugar.

Dh and I went shopping for holiday clothes so there was lots of whizzing round shops and carrying bags so hopefully lots of calories burnt. We ran into Burger King for a quick lunch (classy, aye ) I had a veggie wrap which was according to the menu 400 odd calories but it was very filling and kept me full for the rest of the day. When we got home I was still feeling quite full so dinner was just half a tin of tomato soup.

I'm off to have a coffee now and that will be it for me today.

Not sure how much I've lost because I've been doing this for around 3/4 weeks and only weighed myself a few days ago but I have to say I can notice a massive difference in the way clothes fit. Unfortunately my bum still seems to be twice the size of my head and showing no signs of shrinking but my thighs are smaller and looking more toned and my 'love handles' have gone! Yay!

Happy Friday to Pregantpauce and Shining! Well done!

I've had a good day too I think.

Breakfast - granola, banana & tea

Lunch - left over stirfry veg and pork from last night with extra salad as it wasn't quite a dish full and 1 small potato

Snacks - banana, apple and mixed fruit salad bowl of the food van-man (who basically has lots of nice sausage baps, bacon rolls, cheese pasties etc) - I picked the healthy option of strawberry, melon and grapes !

Dinner - large salad (pepper, spinich, mix salad leaves, cucumber, celery) and grilled chicken breast. We had a bowl of oven chips between us which I felt guilty about then realised I hadn't really had much carbs today other than my little wedge

Exercise - 25 squats, 40 sit ups this morning and 30 second plank. DD was counting my sit ups in 10's, which was quite cute until I realised I'd done 40!! This stomach better be flat by Thursday when I get on that plane!!

Oh god, you have all done SO well today

I am having a TERRIBLE day food-wise, no idea what has happened other than stupidly tired after a very intense few weeks at work, lots of outside-work stuff to deal with and not enough time in the days and a horrible af .....anyway excuses exschmuses.....

I will list it ALL in the interest of being honest here:

Breakfast: 1 slice of fruit bread toasted, butter, coffee (so far so good)
Work: nothing (no time)
Lunch - after work I had to pay a babysitter so I could get my hair cut and coloured, sounds like a treat but I hate having to do it and I had a MILLION other things to squeeze into a 30min slot before the hair appointment, raced around town organizing stuff like Birthday cake for dh for next week etc.

Had 15mins left to eat, well, before I know it I am in McDonalds - very close to hairdressers etc etc etc (excuses!) Had a quarter pounder regular meal with diet coke, ate about half the chips, all the burger, Dashed to appointment.

Home: snaffled a handful of crisps left by dd. And 6 squares of turkish delight chocolate. 2 glasses of sparkling water.

DH texted to say as a treat he is bringing home chinese - prawn schezuan (sp?) boiled rice (his fav, told him to only bring 1 portion and I will have a spoon of his, haven't told him about the lunch I had yet!)

And to top it all, I tried on a pair of jeans I wanted to wear tomorrow and they are STILL TOO BLOODY TIGHT ON THE WAIST Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why, oh why did I fall off the wagon so badly??????

I am contemplating a G&T now, have just thrown the towel in.

On the plus side, my hair looks lovely. For going to bed.

Someone save me from myself here...........

Aww red cheer up :)

You have done brilliantly with both your food intake and exercise over the course of this thread. A one day blow out won't make a difference, just be very good tomorrow. It's very hard to stay on track when you're busy and stressed, I know. But on the up side think of all the calories you burnt rushing around today. Enjoy your Chinese, don't feel guilty.

Is it your dh party tomorrow then? Don't worry about the jeans, find something else that does fit. Think how much nicer you will look and feel for all the hard work and effort you've put in. Hope you're feeling better soon, honestly you should be so proud of yourself :)

Oh Shining,

You are so kind! Thanks for the support. I did have some of the chinese and it was very nice AND I had the G&T. Heading to bed now and feeling ok.

No, party is this night next week and the jeans I have for that are ok at the moment. We are going to visit friends tomorrow to stay overnight and I bought Stupidly expensive jeans last year which have always been a bit on the tight side on the waist since I gained these extra pounds and I really want to get back into them, I thought given the 4lb loss they might fit again, but they are too tight on the waist (fit everywhere else fine) and they are giving me dreadful muffin-top.

I will be away till sunday night now, so be good everyone!

Thanks again Shining!

That's okay red, hope you enjoy your weekend.

My day has been so-so I guess, not great but not terrible either.

Breakfast was a Jordan's Frusli bar and a piece of toast with marge and a cup of coffee (skimmed milk, half a sugar)

I had a v v busy day so no lunch but lots of naughty(ish) snacking: 4 squares dark chocolate, around 7 cashew nuts, bottle diet coke, packet of skips, muller light yogurt.

Dinner was spinach tortellini pasta with a mixed veg sauce.

Then 3 Jaffa cakes

I've also had lots of water to drink.

Not doing the wii or anything tonight as exhausted but prob burned a fair few calories running around today.

Hope you're all doing well :)