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That does sound a bit bonkers Wreck. For me, the best way to deal with nutrition and weight control is just to actually understand what is in the food that I am eating. If my weight ever gets a bit too high, I just need to calculate which foods are giving me how many calories, and it is immediately obvious where I am going wrong. Then I just need to make an adjustment and everything sorts itself out.

At the moment I'm the other way and I have to check the content of food to make sure I am getting all of the nutrition that I need, and including enough high calorie foods to maintain my weight, but that's okay. I just need to check the tables and I can work it out okay.

I love this database:

nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4259/2

It's quite simple really. The less processed a food is the better it is for you. People need to go back to basics. I'm no angel though and I know how difficult it can't be. The amount of shit people feed their children is awful though. I weigh 10 year olds who weigh more than I do, the parents can only blame themselves. Rant over

@Wreck that’s exactly it. My cupboards are pretty bare but my fridge is always full to bursting with fresh food.

Weightwatchers flex plan is very much about eating good real food. Chicken and turkey breast, all fish and shellfish as long as it’s unsmoked, eggs, fruit, veg, fat free plain yoghurt can all be eaten freely.

I’ve just had a bowl of yoghurt and fruit for a snack. Having salmon fillets with salad, pita bread and hummous for lunch. If I’m hungry before dinner I’ve got some water thin chicken I could have, or even crack open a tin of tuna, hard boil a couple of eggs, etc. And dinner tonight is steak with new potatoes and salad.

Should be a low spend day. Need yet another loaf of bread and that’s it. Currently waiting in for someone to look at my washing machine and find out why it’s shredding our clothes. Been given a 3 hour time slot, they should be here before 1ish.

I have an odd relationship with food. I struggled with my weight for a few years when I was a teenager (hitting a low of 6 stone when I was 15). Im tall. So this was not healthy. I essentially survived on an apple a day and avoided eating.

My food relationship now is much much better. I’m a healthy weight. And eat essentially everything. But in moderation.

Dh cooks and at present is “controlling” (for want of a better word) my food. He cooks, puts food in front of me and we eat. He packs me a lunch and trusts that I’ll eat it. This has all come about after my pnd diagnosis. Food went out the window. I wasn’t interested and if it was left to me I’d just eat cheese toasties. Which while delicious are not great nutrition wise!

Slimming world annoys me too. I sit next to a SW-er. Constantly moaning about how hungry she is but constantly snacking on those sw bars and mug shots. And not losing weight. She also does no exercise.

I’m an everything in moderation eat less move more believer.

Today I’ve had toast and peanut butter, a couple of digestive biscuits, will have a Haloumi and chickpea salad for lunch (thanks dh!) and pea potato pakoras for dinner (again courtousy of dh)

It's interesting that so many people find it tricky. I'm eating entirely unprocessed food at the moment, except for crisps. If I didn't eat crisps I'd not be able to keep enough weight on.

The human body is a mighty complex instrument.

See, I followed SW previously and did really well on it. But I didn’t eat any of the processed rubbish that some people live on. So no muller light (bleurgh) or fry light or other weird things. I basically cooked from scratch, didn’t have much fat and mostly avoided bread. (I did also break the rules on avocado and smoked mackerel and coconut milk in a healthy curry without a backwards glance!). I think most diets work if you cook decent food from scratch. Where people turn into starving bores is when they try to eat all the same crap as before (crisps, chocolate, puddings) but eat processed diet substitutes instead of the original crap. Not filling enough and barely any nourishment. You basically have to just eat proper food. Then it’s fine.

I’m not following a plan right now. I don’t think meals are really my problem, it’s skipping meals and snacking, or just emotional eating between meals. Especially chocolate. Anyway, my ‘diet’ is: would I want DD to eat what I’m eating when she’s 14? If the answer is ‘no’ then I shouldn’t eat it!

I guess we’d need to start a thread over in weight loss chat?

NSD so far. But been quoted £150 for solving my phone-line-for-home-alarm problem. Jeez.

Is a gammon joint gluten free?

Ahhh em six stone is so tiny. Your diet sounds lovely and healthy now though.

For me having kids improved my diet because I need the energy and, of course, I want to stick around as long as possible. Talking of which Jamie Oliver 5 ingredients recipe tonight:: egg fried rice with tofu.

DH is talking about taking DS1 to a Trump protest later. Not sure I see the point...but hey no.

£10 flowers for DM.

Hey-ho.

Jeez I need to use the preview button.

I would think so Wreck.

£1 sanitiser gel
89p caustic soda for cleaning the sink traps. You get 10 uses out of it.
£10 petrol
£1.15 milk for dh.

DD has just rubbed smoked mackerel right through her hair. It’s 25C out here. Roll on bath time 🤢

It should be wreck unless it's marinaded in something. If it's literally the meat then all good

I just wrote the 6 month report for my science grant that I got last November. I'm mightily relieved to see that I've definitely done a decent bunch of work on it. I kind of bombed out at Easter because I was knackered. Anyway it looks okay.

I'm having an NSD so far. Gawd the suspence is thrilling. Will I make it to bedtime without realising we've run out of food or something? no

flappy yeah it was tiny. I’m not small either. 5’10 so it really did not look good on me. Healthy weight now though 😀👍🏻

To add to today’s food:

Half a pack of pop chips (bbq flavour mmmm) and a magnum. The boss bought one for everyone and it’s be rude to waste it...?! Also a green tea and another litre of water.

So far nsd. I checked me bank account and wished I hadn’t 😪 have made a transfer from my savings to top me up a bit and remembers I’d paid for things on my account which should have come from the joint account so have transferred the cash again.

Need to get back on eBay selling.

Currently on one of many trains home. Day ok some tough bits. PAC a Mac came in handy! Need to spend £3 later for ds’s activity and depending when I get home there may have to be a chippy tea on the run as I may not have time to cook anything.

That sounds positive Sunny

Em glad dh is feeding you. When I have been depressed I find it very very hard to eat at all so it’s good that he’s helping in that way.

I’m not a fan of organised diet clubs, given I’m quite anti social they are not for me but appreciate they are great for other people.

I’ve previously done well on hairy dieters and also on the tom kerridge low carb high dopamine type eating plans. Of those low carb seems to work best in terms of weight loss but like all things it becomes hard to cut potatoes etc out of your diet once winter rolls around!

I don't think I fit into the weight loss gang, but last year went from 12 stone to 8st 10. The only way I can do it is to use mfp, count every calorie and basically eat like a toddler. I've put at least a stone back on now, and am simply not bothered. My tatty old clothes still look bloody awful. I still look old and terribly tired.

Spent £2.79 on a big tin of dogfood and some lollies, and dp used my card for diesel. Will have to buy more dogfood later. Off to dd1's concert in a bit.

Dp is being snippy and nasty to me. It just gets better here.

Sweet potato fries went out the window when au pair cooked too many regular chips for dd, still within my macros & yummy 😋

NSD.

Looks delicious, Mammy. All part of being kind to yourself, following your recent sad loss. X

Sweet potato fries went out the window when au pair cooked too many regular chips for dd, still within my macros & yummy 😋

This was a frugal choice because they'd be thrown out otherwise, curry sauce was 3/4 jar left in fridge from another time too

Hes no cause to be Lonely.

Dh has had a decent sized ppi payout from an old account. Considering he's always refused ppi I think it's worth doing those forms just on the off chance.

We didn't think he'd get anything.

Evening all - it's my monthly check in! My only one all month - I've been busy, busy, busy doing overtime and reading the Love Island threads - wow, I thought you Frugaleers chatted a lot - they're on thread 11 and it's only been on five weeks.

Anyway...no huge progress made this month. Overdraft last month was...£179.80 and this month it is.....£157.02, so just £22.78 paid off.

I got 17 hours overtime in this month's wage

And did about 40 hours this month for August's wage.

It's going to be reviewed at the end of July though so I'll have to try and get as much as i can in before then - at least it means I can afford Christmas this year..

Lonely have you asked him what's his problem? Still Adjusting I suppose!

Thank you for sharing that about yourself, em - I hadn't realised you'd been through all that. I am extra glad you saw the GP too and are keeping an eye. That isn't meant to sound patronizing, I just know how quickly pnd can set in especially when there have been struggles before x

Well at least it didn't go up Scarlett so don't feel too bad. Do you any surveys at night? there boring but it all adds up.

I bet the Christmas thread is in full swing by now. I think it started in march .

Just marking.... Back to read from the start. I thought I had lost you