Starting tomorrow! Who’s with me!?

[PutTheCakeDOWN]

Possibly no one is with me....but that’s fine 👍😂

I lost weight and got to my target early last year. Then lockdown hit, and I can’t stop eating. I have a stone to lose and I AM DOING IT!

I need to be accountable to someone and my poor DH must be fed up of hearing about it by now bless him. So even if I’m just talking to myself, I’m going to come back morning and night and record my food diary. I’d love it if anyone wants to join for some mutual support and encouragement though!

I’m calorie counting, on 1400 a day. I’m going to have pancakes on Tuesday but then I’m giving up chocolate and bread (including bagels etc but not wraps) for lent.
I’ve eaten my own body weight pretty much in junk today and this just cannot go on!

So there. It’s down in black and white and I’m doing it.
Please feel free to join!
:)

First day went well, I think its the control freak in me that likes weighing food and calorie counting. I'm on 1700 a day to lose half a pound a month, but hoping to lose more.
My day went
Poached egg on toast, half a glass of oj and black coffee
Chicken sandwich, satsuma and choc biscuit, black coffee
Pork with apple, cabbage, peas and very small saute potato, lots of water
Glass of white wine
Piece of toast and tea.

My downfall is wine, and that I just love food. I still want to eat lots of nice stuff, I just have to eat less of it. I have tried making low fat versions of my favourites like mac and cheese, hollandaise sauce or barbecue sauce, and they are just pretty horrible. Better to eat half of something good, than a plateful of something you don't enjoy.

Weigh in first thing. Good luck all.

I really need to do a bit better. I felt tired and had a headache all of yesterday so it wasn’t a good day:

Large bowl shreddies and full fat milk 400
Milk in tea and coffee 100
Half childs pizza 190
Three large crackers 150
Stir fry pork, veg and noodles 750
About 20 large choc buttons 200

1800

My second bad day in a row so kind of dreading the scales.

1800 isn’t a bad day @shenanigans5 ! It’s a maintain day or very very slight gain day at worst.

On my bad days I stop tracking at 2000 😂😂🙈🙈

I think that’s sensible @PutTheCakeDOWN. Aim for 1400, if you need something else then use those 300kcals and know that as long as some days of the week you hit 1400 you are still in a deficit. It will take longer to lose but you are more likely to get there if you don’t feel deprived.

My food diary for yesterday:
Breakfast- weetabix, coffee with sugar 280kcals
Snack - 40g walnuts 200kcals
Lunch - leftover black bean enchilada filling and savoury rice, cheese 500kcals
Dinner - Ham and cheese omelette, coleslaw and oven chips 700kcals
Snack - banana 100kcals

1780kccals, so slightly over but close enough for me.

Is it too late to join in? I want to lose 24kg but going to chunk it up into 1kg a week targets because I don't think I'll be able to restrain myself more than that 😅

My friend introduced me to the 7 minute workout app so I started that last night too...my issue is keeping the motivation up past the first few days

I was feeling bad that I'm struggling with 1400 (it's so low because I'm short and immobile). Maybe I need to aim for 1400 but not beat myself up if only manage 1500.
Good luck everyone!

Can I join. I need to lose 21lb. I'm going slow though so it'll be by Christmas. To do this I'm on 1500 call per day, exercising 6 x week. I'm hypothyroid so it'll be difficult to shift.

I've been on 1200 for a while, though yesterday was our anniversary and I had over that, but it was a total one off!

@NapCracklePop try and work out what your maintenance calories are and then on an off day, as long as you don’t go over those you won’t undo any of your good work. Obviously you won’t contribute to an overall loss on those days but it’s got to be about focusing on the long term trend for a reduction in calories overall.

So, yesterday I was 0.8lb down, a good start, don't think the weekend will go too well. Tonight we had our first ever delivered takeaway....
My meals today:
Poached egg on toast, half glass ok
Ham sandwich and satsuma
Fish and chips
150ml wine
20g pringles
Still kept under 1700 Cal's due to the chips being rubbish after a long time in a car. Oh well.

I've had another day of snacking - I really need to stop that!

Breakfast - special K bar and a coffee

Lunch - a Greggs doughnut (bought by DP)

Dinner - Sainsbury's taste the difference paella

Snacks - homemade biscotti, Reece's peanut butter cups x2, 2x mini refresher bars

Comes in at just over 1,000 calories but it's so unhealthy and I really do need to do something about it. Tomorrow I will eat at least 2 pieces of fruit and veg!

I’ve clawed my way to just under my allowance today. Somehow!

Breakfast - cornflakes (234)
Lunch - jacket potato with tuna and salad (434)
Dinner - chicken wrap (361)
Snacks - tea (40) apple (47) Cheetos (138) plum (26) ice cream (98)

Total - 1378

It’s not easy but it can only get easier.....right!? 😂

Porridge made with water, apple slices, sweet freedom caramel syrup

2 pieces reduced fat cheese on toast

Paneer tikka shaslick
Half a glass of wine
2 chocolate finger biscuits

I don't know how many calories in my evening meal. I think paneer is a low fat cheese, and it is marinated rather than a sauce . I didn't have any rice with it.
Also, first glass of wine for about two weeks, had a few sips and just didn't fancy it !

I got on the scales today and 2 lb less than when I last got on

Well yesterday was a complete write off! I had breakfast as woke up bloody ravenous for some reason. When I eat breakfast it's always the same, more hungry all day

B: porridge with cinnamon and honey
L: (at 11:30 😬) Tuna Salad, 2x choc biscuits, salted almonds,bag of choc eggs
D: Indian takeaway with LOTS of rice and Naan and half bottle of Malbec
Snacks: anything I could get my clammy hands on - all day
No tracking of calories was attempted past lunch time

Today I will be back to 1200 !!🙏

My changed approach of committing to heavy workouts (45 min-1hr bodyweight and resistance exercises every other day, with rest days and yoga and walking in between), calorie aim of 1500 and focus on macros split of 40% protein, 30% fats and 30% carbs is working well for me. I've flirted with periods of keto in the past and found it totally unsustainable for me, but this is more than manageable. In fact I'm genuinely struggling to hit calorie targets! My diet is looking something like whey protein shake with milk and Greek yoghurt and fruit breakfast, lunch is the biggest struggle because I'm super full from breakfast! So I'll have something smallish like a plate of veg with moroccan spices and mango chutney or soup and a slice of seeded bread, plus more yoghurt, then meat and loads of veg for tea followed by a protein shake. I keep coming in at about 1000-1300. First time ever I'm not seeking out processed snacks or massive sugar hits. I've lost 2lbs, which I'm refreshingly annoyed about as ideally I think I need to be gaining for muscle growth. It weirdly feels like more because I'm not bloated and sluggish I think. My goal is to feel and look strong!!!

I'm down 2lbs since last Saturday. I do weigh daily but I only log the Saturday ones. I should be happy about this. I think my loss goals are somewhat unrealistic lol

@FedNlanders I think 2lb is brilliant. I'm aiming for a lb a week, which may be doable on 1700 a day.

Thank you. I know 1lb -2lb is the most realistic long term option. Just getting impatient to see results 😁

@AesopsMables solidarity! I gave up tracking yesterday after the second slice of cake.
Today will be better...

1-2lbs a week is an amazing rate of loss! Just imagine if you consistently lose that, by 21st June (FREEDOM!!!!!!) that’s another 16lbs. Let’s say a stone to allow for an off week or 2.

I’m struggling to calorie count because I make a lot of my food from scratch and I don’t necessarily measure as I go. But I’m counting what I can and making an assessment/guess at the rest.

Yesterday’s food diary:
Breakfast: weetabix with ss milk, coffee with sugar - 280kcals
Lunch - lentil and carrot fritters, wholemeal wraps, hummus, chilli sauce appx 1000kcals
Dinner - chipotle basa, miso pak Choi and ginger rice 450kcals

Total - 1730

Slightly better day today!

Breakfast - toasted warburtons protein bagel with lightest Philadelphia and a white coffee

Lunch - scrambled eggs and baked beans on toast

Dinner - Shish Taouk with vermicelli rice and salad, followed by baklava

Snacks - pickled onion crisps, a carrot, a satsuma and a flat white

Exercise - 30 minute yoga flow session with ankle weights (first time using them and I can't say I enjoyed it but definitely feel like I had to make more effort which is good)

Comes in at just under 1,500 calories

@BasinHaircut I have a similar issue with homemade meals and working out the calories - and it's quite difficult to actually weigh everything and then make sure portions are all equal if you're cooking for other people too!

Today is a washout, I'm not counting. We had a lovely lunch with friends (I'm not in the UK so its allowed)' but I'm not eating too much tonight. Back to counting tomorrow though.

Much better day and putting yesterday down to typical PMT eating pattern

L: scrambled eggs with mushrooms and Asparagus = 350 cals

D: sausages with mashed cauliflower, peas and gravy = 650

S: 30g almonds

Well today I’m going over calories. Had a few treats with a movie this afternoon (probably 300kcals) and also really fancied peanut butter and jam on toast this morning so I had it - and it was about 600kcals. So extra 300 for breakfast and then an extra 200 on snacks means I’ve only got 250kcals left for dinner if I want to stay on track - not happening.

Dinner is Piri piri roasted veg with sweet potato mash and feta. I’ve got some lentil patties to finish off too (which I can’t work out the calories for) which I may or may not warm up to serve with it.

What I have realised is that I actually regret 200 of the 300 snack calories. I ate some of DS’s sweets and had a fizzy drink and I just didn’t really enjoy them. I should have just had a banana and some nuts for 300kcals. I don’t really know why I didn’t as I would have enjoyed them.

Anyway - onwards and upwards!