Come diet with me

[Glenshee]

This thread is for everyone who wants to stick to their diet, and would like to benefit from public support in doing so.

Rules for participants:

1. Define your own limits - post them here or keep to yourself, but be clear and specific about which foods are allowed and which ones are not;

2. Keep your diary - post here on a daily basis what you've eaten, and how this deviates - if it does - from your goals;

3. Be honest;

4. 1 month commitment required - which means that even if you have a diet slip, you are still expected to keep posting your daily reports (and hopefully get back on track in the meantime) until at least 1 February;

Feel free to talk about anything health and diet related - especially the difficulty you're facing when trying to change your eating habits - but please be supportive and sensitive to other people's decisions/choices. Negative or judgemental posts about somebody else's ability to keep to their promises strictly not allowed.

Remember - this thread is more about making it happen than talking about it.

Believe in yourself! You're doing this to become a better YOU.

Wow, Glenshee no coffee? I am entirely in awe. Haven't even thought to report coffees, oh dear...

I am really struggling with the late-night cravings, find it hard to go to sleep, wonder if it's just a habit? Carrot sticks at 9:30 just not cutting it I'm afraid.

Today's Report:

B: Whole wheat toast with thin slice of ham and poached egg, tomato juice
L: Fat free turkey on a WW panini with swiss, grilled peppers and onions
Lots of herbal tea
Snack: Blueberries
D: Grilled pork chop, mushroom risotto, asparagus with olive oil and feta

Does painting a ceiling without a proper ladder (therefore climbing up and down about a million times) count as exercise? That's about it for today.

Hello all. Day 3...

Bfast: porridge plus sprinkle of sweetener
Lunch: veg soup plus tuna salad
Dinner: chicken and red pepper stir fry, muller light yoghurt
Snack: velvet crunch sweet chilli rice cakes (my complete saviour in a hunger pang crisis - taste delicious, lots in a packet so takes time to eat and only 80 calories per bag)

3 cups of tea, 1 bottle diet coke, 4 glasses of water (still rubbish, especially as went to Zumba class so def should have drunk more).

So pretty pleased with today and definitely feeling less of the Christmas bloat, but this is always how I start off with a health kick, very disciplined to start and then all goes horribly wrong and suddenly i'm back to my daily 'kit kat o'clock'.

Right, new day - new plan.

Have ordered all sorts of healthy stuff and waiting for Tesco to deliver it. Have meal planned so should be organised.

Plan (although this may be tweaked) is to eat healthy, low fat foods. Watch portion sizes, especially bread, rice and pasta. Lots of water. No alcohol through the week. Run 3 times a week.

Can't have breakfast until tesco del man arrives. Starving!

Goodness, where has everyone disappeared to today?

BF - Kellogs Special K Berries and semi-skimmed milk

L - 4 sweet onion ryvita with phili light and muller lite yoghurt

D - chicken chausseur with a little rice

So far so good. Am too cold to drink water though...

Hey openyerlugholes ur day looks yum. May I suggest some fruits as well to get all the nutrients
Which low fat foods are good for satiety?
I m trying to work on exercise but the weather isn't helping

You know I realised when my tesco order arrived that I had completely forgotten about fruit! Will pop to the shop tomorrow and get some.

Bit premature but heres my day so far and planned for later:

Brekkie- spaghetti hoops 110cals and 1 slice wholemeal toast 80cals

Lunch- Chicken and veg soup 150cals 1 slice wholemeal bread 80cals yoghurt and fruit compote 150cals

Snack- cereal bar 90cals skips 82cals

And when I get home from work-

Dinner- chicken and noodle sirfry 350cals

1092 in total, will probably have some fruit after dinner (may add some extra noodles to stifry as i'm quite hungry)

breakfast;marmite toast,banana,yogurt
lunchtime;ham sarny with rocket,cherry tomatoes
dinner;chickpea casserole.couscous.beetroot and carrot salad
aim to eat a banana in a minute.then thats it for today,even if it means an early night!i will not be going own last nights path!
glensheeonly cakes left for kids lunch tomorrow.am plan make batch sugar free muffins and date slices tomorrow so they have treats and theres nothing "dangerous"on the premises!

Breakfast: porridge
Mid-morning: two chocolate biscuits (oops - met a friend for coffee and couldn't resist )
Lunch: lentil soup (no bread in attempt to make up for biscuit misdemeanour)
Dinner: two baked potatoes, baked beans, small bit of cheese, salad
Snacks: satsuma, smoothie
One glass of wine

Day 4

Brekkie - Cereal bar & fruit smoothie
Lunch - Bean salad (yup, it was as dull as it sounds !), 2 plums
Dinner - 1 piece of pizza and a massive mixed salad with a drizzle of dressing

1 coffee, 1 skinny latte and lots of water

gomummygo - "Haven't even thought to report coffees" - well maybe you shouldn't. But for me it's important because I know my body can't handle coffees well - and if you had similar reactions to mine I bet you'd also be thinking twice before having a coffee. I do.... but still can't resist it on occasion. It's hardest on purposeless meetings at work when it's so hard to stay awake and everyone around is drinking gallons of coffee but I know I can't. :(

gomummygo - how about a decent amount of exercise at 6 or 7 pm? Does that help to fall asleep? (I know it's hard to slot it in, with kids and all, but if it's going to change the way you live, then maybe worth giving it a go?)

Another shred done :) feeling good but sore! Hoping I get a decent night sleep now... gomummygo shred might work for you, only 20mins to squeeze in...

Woolwif - hey but in this case the peer pressure will be mounting up with time, so you better leave your ideas of slipping diet behind

liveinazoo - well done - good idea with the treats :) Dangerous stuff 'on premises' is a definite hazard! Just spotted a half-empty box of Jammie Dodgers in the kitchen (nothing to do with me!) and I know for definite that I would have gobbled up 2 or 3 if not for the 'fear' of reporting them in this thread! Phew :)

You've got a glowing report today! Wow!

MegBusset - yep it's always extra hard to resist when you're with friends...

My day today was totally unusual routine-wise (I knew I won't have time for lunch for example), so:

Breakfast - 1 homemade crumpets, tea
Snack/early lunch @11am - 2 more homemade crumpets, a little bit of chicken
Lunchtime - 1 cup of tea with milk
Tea - Soup with chicken and potatoes; buckweat with cooked carrots, a little bit of chicken
Late evening (but before cut-off time) - double portion of raw veg salad, 4 rice cakes with tea

2 glasses of water :( Bad, but I had real difficulty squeezing it in, as was madly busy and running about all day.

Went to jiu-jitsu today and really enjoyed it, so feel absolutely fab right now!

Hello all. Day 4

Bfast: porridge
Lunch: salmon wholemeal sandwich
Dinner: chicken ratatouille (was very nearly a pizza but the thought of 'fessing up made me put it back in the freezer), muller light yoghurt
Snacks: none, it's been a ridiculously manic day, no time to even go to the loo, let alone snack
Drinks: one tea, 5 glasses of water (much better)

Haven't weighed myself yet but tried on a dress I bought in the sales that was a little on the tight side and I'm sure it does up more easily. :)

Day 3:
b- chicken sandwich
L- egg white omlet+ bread
D- fish+tortilla wrap
S: mixed nut, satsumas, banana

wolfwifjust popped in to see how everyones doing....im so pleased you have a tangible sign you are doing well.you may even get to the point the dress is loose!
ive made the decision to abandon breakfast til kids are at school as it means i get to eat without rushing.much easier to eat properly then,rather than grab a biscuit/sugary cereal bar

Morning. Yesterday's food:
Breakfast: Optivita cereal, skimmed milk, 1 tsp sugar (don't think I'll ever be able to give up sugar on cereal).
Lunch: Roast chicken, stuffing and tomato sandwich with low-fat mayo. Satsuma.
Dinner: Chicken casserole with tomato and mushroom sauce; peas. Fat free vanilla yogurt.
Snacks: 2 x cadbury's choc eclair sweets out of kids Heroes tin.

There is so much Christmas chocolate in our house, the DC have 2 gift bags full of the contents of selection boxes, giant chocolate santas, chocolate coins etc, as well as their tin of Heroes. I am being so disciplined, I'm quite proud of myself, just eating the eclairs as they don't like them.

I'm also making a rule not to weigh myself too often, no more than once a week. I'm aiming for an average loss of 1lb per week.

Yesterday
I egg mayyonaise sandwich (M&S)
M & S Count on us tuna salad

Went to pices with chinese meal out as kids are back off to uni at the weekend BUT I only had 2 mini veg spring rolls 2 chicken satay skewers and three mini spare ribs instead of the usual loads of stuff.
Did have 2 glasses of prosecco though.

Back to normal today and my jeans do feel slightly looser.

Afternoon!

BF Special K with berries

L 3 ryvitas with light phili and 2 low fat yoghurts
1 glass water

3 cups coffee

Sounds a lot like yesterday's menu...

Anyway not sure what to have for dinner. Fancy tuna pasta though with salad. Yep, think that's what we will have.

Been for my run today -feels good! Also trying to not weigh every day. It's hard though. Lost a lb I think though.

For dinner had baked potato with tuna and sweetcorn mayonnaise (very low fat) and lots of salad. Was lovely!

Fancy having a drink tonight...

One week in for me, and I have lost 2lb :)

Breakfast: bran flakes
Lunch: low fat tuna mayo & salad sandwich on granary
Snacks: satsuma, apple, smoothie
Dinner: pasta with pesto sauce and loads of veg, low fat garlic bread
Wine (well you can't have pasta without it)