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.

Day 5 for me...

Brekkie-
Small ham and tomato sandwich on wholemeal bread 160cals

Lunch-
Chicken noodle soup 140cals yoghurt and fruit compote 150cals

Snack-
Skips 82cals cereal bar 90cals

Dinner-
Chicken and broccoli crisp bake 205cals vegetable crisp bake 165cas with extra veg

992cals but I'll definitely use 200 for a snack after doing my shred DVD later, might have a bowl of cereal or similar... Hope you all had a good day!

MamaGeekChic & Glenshee Think you might be right about the evening exercise as I feel very jumpy when I don't eat late at night. My main source of exercise is normally right after lunch. What is the shred like? 20 minutes is a possibility as DS would probably try to do it with me!

Today's report:

Last night: whole wheat flatbread baked with olive oil, tomato, onions and feta about six minutes BEFORE cutoff
Breakfast: flax toast and a handful of blueberries
Lunch: Poached egg, cheese, pemeal bacon on a ww english muffin. Basically eggs benedict without the good stuff!
Dinner shall be: borscht, baked potato, roasted peppers and steaks. I shall aim to fill up on the borscht.

Glenshee that must be really hard with the coffee. Especially smelling it from others. Props to you for your restraint.

I guess the best way to describe it is circuit training, it's tough going but just about bearable for 20mins...

Think I'm having sugar withdrawals... I've had a headache all day :(

Day 5

Brekkie - Cereal bar and smoothie
Lunch - Spicy Veg & Bean soup and wholemeal roll
Dinner- Jacket Potato, cottage cheese, Ham and tomato salad

Friday Night "treat" - 5 salted caramel buttons (very nice but the 5 have made me want to polish off the whole packet)

I'm desperately trying to avoid weighing myself until Monday morning but I'm very tempted. I've also ordered the 30 day shred dvd

MegBusset - well done on the 2lb off

evening all
todays report
breakfast;rice krispies and sunseeds with skim milk
snack;banana
lunch;marmite sarny,cherry tomatoes,yogurt,apple
snack;carrot sticks with 2tsp almond butter to dunk in
dinner;lots oven chips and baked beans
snack;slice sugar free tropical fruitcake

impressed myself by not eating half a loaf of bread with the chips
still need to work on the fluids.any suggestions.am currently managing 5oomls water a day.dont have any other drinks
mama in my experience i always get a headache from sugar withdrawal.it will pass.i find 2 and3rd days of it are worst.eating root veg seems to help methink its the natural sweetness easing transition

Today's report:
B - cup of tea, and later puffed rice with hemp protein powder and raisins
L - chats potatoes, chicken, some cucumber
snack - 2 bananas, some sweetened dried cranberries
1 cup of decaf coffee
Tea - carrots rice, raw veg salad
Late evening but before cut-off: I've been thinking a lot about sweets :) and settled on 2 toasts with soft cheese. Happy.

5 cups of tea
4 glasses of water
Vitamin C and magnesium tablets

Day 4
B- toast and jam+whole milk
L- mixed vegetables + half a sausage
T- t and croissant ( cent resist :/)
D- fruit salad

Snaks- mixed nuts (I m hoping these finish soon or the diet will b uselessl)

Gomummygo. What ds flax toast taste lik?

Day 5...and I still haven't succumbed to chocolate

Bfast: porridge
Lunch: piri piri chicken salad wholemeal sandwich
Dinner: roasted salmon with plum tomatoes and cottage cheese
Snacks: none, have just got braces for my teeth and are such a pain to take out to eat, that snacking hasn't been worth the effort.
Drinks: 1 tea, 1 diet coke, lots of water as only thing allowed with braces in

Weight loss 3.5 lbs, hooray. Am going to relax a bit this weekend as have been a bit over-zealous this week for it to be sustainable long term, I think. So hopefully knowing I will post to the thread means I will treat myself without totally troughing out, that's the cunning plan anyway.

had 3 digestives with NAS Jam- 201cals... headache gone! Was going to have porridge but we have none left apparently :(

Vanfurgston - You don't really taste it, it's the texture of any other multigrain/whole grain toast with the little seeds in it. I'm big on flax, ground or not, put it into everything. Omega3's and all that. :)

Well done Meg and Woolwif on the weight loss!

Guess it was the sugar Mama, hope it stays gone.

Is this shred dvd available on ebay? Is it actually called that?

its called 30 day shred, i got it new on amazon for about a fiver

Thanks Mama, will check it out!

Thanks gomummuygo
Where do u get it frm (fx u dnt make it urself cz baking is beyond me)

Yesterday had:
Breakfast - 2 slices of walnut bread
Lunch- Jacket potato with cremefraiche
Supper- pate and low fat coleslaw sandwich
satsuma
Up for work now and uniform trousers definitely more comfortable.

So, I am starting Day 6 and the lure of the scales was just too much I am 12 stone exactly so have lost 6lb . I will be a bit less strict over the weekend so suspect I won't lose any more for a few days.

(clapping emoticon) Tillyscouts mum that's awesome 1 lb a day

I suspect its more of an indication of how much of a greedy porker I was before, if I'm honest

That's great TSM :)

Wow Tilly! Congrats.

Vanfurgston - it's in all the grocery stores here (with the multigrain bread usually), but I'm in Canada, so probably not that helpful. I'd be happy to ship you some but it would likely be a bit stale upon arrival!

Today's report:

Brekkie (late)- 1 chicken & broccoli crisp bake 205cals and sweetcorn 50cals strange breakfast but leftover from last night and I didn't want it going to waste...

Lunch- half a cup of lentil soup 50cals and a teeny 20g slice of baguette 50cals not much due to late breakfast

Snack- cereal bar90cals

Dinner- 8oz fillet steak 200cals (I thought it would be more but this is as per myfitnesspal) 150g sweet potato 135cals and homemade ratatouille

Pudding (it is the weekend after all!)- crushed meringue nest 50cals low fat choc mousse pot 90cals with strawberries and grapes

Sooo... 1020 all in, might just have a wee glass of wine!

Completed day 4 of the shred too... OUCH!

Today's report

Brekkie - cereal bar and smoothie

Lunch - Beetroot, Sweet Potato and Goat's Cheese salad (Pub lunch. I tried to chose one of the "better" things on the menu and was intending to leave some but it was far too yum and I ate the lot )

Dinner - Mushroom Omelette & salad

3 coffees, 1 tea and numerous glasses of water. Still waiting for the shred dvd to arrive but we did go for a walk (to the pub !), so that was about 6 miles round trip.

Breakfast: porridge
Lunch: tomato & bean soup, two slices granary bread
Snacks: satsuma, apple, smoothie
Tea: salmon, new pots, asparagus & peas
One glass wine

Baked chocolate muffins with the DC this afternoon and didn't so much as lick a spoon

Evening all...Day 6...day off from being healthy

Bfast: porridge and raisins
Lunch:slice of banana and pecan loaf, skinny vanilla latte
Dinner: pizza (thin crust but a massive one)
Lots of water

So not the healthiest of days but I did turn down a huge piece of rocky road so could have been worse and, my goodness, I enjoyed it!

Woolwif - no, not too bad at all for a day-off surely! I'm well impressed.

Today:
B - Carrot rice, tea
L - 2 jacket potatoes with cottage cheese and chives filling
snacks - 3 cups of tea with milk, 3 home-made reasonably sweet buns (not all at once, throughout the day)
T - carrot rice, again

1 glass of water :(