Stop Bingeing and Start Eating Healthily Thread

[SnowyWellies]

Would anyone like to join me? I am a yo yo dieter, a failed WW (could not bear the small portions) failed SW (went wild on Free foods) and I eat too much of the wrong sorts of food. I binge then starve and I want to get out of that cycle. I also enjoy my evening 3 glass of wine a little too much! I feel bloated, pasty, tired and I hate how I look in the mirror. I am about to hit 40, and I refuse to spend any more time hating myself. I want to deal with my psychological food issues, and I want to finally be the woman I am meant to be.

I am 5 ft 2 and weigh 11 stone 3.

My aim- to increase fruit and veg. To cut out wheat as I bloat very badly on wheat. To take as much care over my own diet as I do over the diets of my children and my husband. To not treat my body like a rubbish bin.

As of this morning. I am tired. My skin is pale and blotchy. I am very bloated in the stomach. I am aiming to lose 24 pounds, but want to do it properly and without feeling deprived. I want to make this process luxurious, with a focus on gorgeous healthy food.

Today's plan:

Breakfast - fruit and natural yoghurt with a drizzle of honey.

Lunch - home made carrot and coriander soup.

Dinner - fresh veg risotto.

I need ideas for delicious alcohol-free drinks. Currently I love a splash of grapefruit juice and soda water.

Anyone want to join me? The focus is on good food, and to deal with the psychological issues around bingeing and self hatred. I am not a psychologist, just someone who needs- and can offer support!

Weigh in days will be Mondays and Thursdays.

Bambi - how about adding some protein to lunch?

Today's menu:

Cup of tea

Gbk burger with bun, salad, sweet potato fries

Tortilla 'pizza' - wholemeal wrap spread with tomato purée, cheese and Jalepenos then dry fried till cheese is melted. A bit of leftover garlic bread from yesterday.

That should read burger WITHOUT bun

Well done to all the losers!! snowy I know how bloody frustrating it is to not see a change on the damn scales. My barrier is usually 10st, I find it very difficult to get much below that. The only thing that really works for me beside the calorie restriction is a lot of running, drinking 2 litres of water a day and cutting down on carbs.

I'm doing ok, went out for lunch with my lovely work friend yesterday and had baked mushrooms and grilled chicken and new potatoes. Instead of having a desert we both resisted temptation. Work has been truly truly awful at the minute, the stress is horrendous and is making me feel really down. Even though I am only part time it dominates my thoughts when I'm not there. I wish I had a stress outlet but thankfully I have not been eating more as a result which I usually do.

Off for a run this morning and hoping to have a good food day. I'm going to attempt the chicken ramen recipe from the wagamamas book later. Lunch will be a sandwich. Have a good day all :)

twinkle that's a good point, I will try and add some in hopefully that will bump me up :)

My menu today hasn't been great but it's within cals!

Bacon sarnie

Half portion of small chipy chips

Half an oven pizza

At least you are within calories twinkle that's gotta count :)

Good for you only having halves and small portions, I wish I had that much self control I wouldn't be in this position! Haha

I keep thinking my body is not a dustbin and therefore doesn't need a whole portion of chips.

Was over yesterday but not by huge amounts so not enough to gain.

Happy Mother's Day

I am having a treat day - white chocolate truffle with a cup of tea this morning in bed. Natural yoghurt and fresh pineapple for breakfast. Picnic lunch with my family, lots of nice bread, cold roast beef, potato salad, kettle chipa and a big slice of raspberry cheesecake. Cava and probably lots of it!

and to us all for being fabulous

Lovely menu MissWooWoo!

Happy Mother's Day! (As crazy as it sounds- DH and I both forgot! Too much going on and lots of stress)

Myt scales are still being resistant... 10 stone 12. Grrr.

I am out for a pub lunch today, and will enjoy myself. :)

Hope everyone has a GREAT day!!!!

Happy Mother's Day ladies have a fabulous day whatever your up to. Sod the healthy eating today

Yes enjoy all of your fabulous lunches etc! I am off out for lunch as well so shall be throwing caution to the wind today but as I resisted Chinese last night I feel I deserve it

I have failed miserably these last couple of days nothing I have eaten has had any nutritional worth.

Sorry

But I will be back arnie style ..with blueberries not raspberries ....tomorrow x

Happy Mother's Day all!

Don't worry labootin. Get back to things and report on Thursday. :)

I had a nice pub lunch. Mango prawns and chicken wings and a wine spritzer. DC3 is currently obsessed with logos, so on the way we got him a Sainsbury's in-house magazine.

The whole time was spent saying 'yes darling, you are right, that IS Sainsbury's'. [beats head against wall]

Labootin - get yourself back on it today. What's your menu today?

I didn't do too badly today ladies, had weetabix in bed for breakfast haha and then out for lunch had whitebait followed by seafood linguine (ate all the seafood but only half the pasta) and resisted wine and desert.

It was such a weird sensation knowing I was full and leaving pasta! I never leave food

Tomorrow is another day laboutin, a treat weekend doesn't hurt every once in a while

Well done for the good day bambio it's hard to keep,it together on special occasions and your menu sounds delish!

I haven't been brilliant nor terrible. No binging but definitely eating over my 1200kcal. I'm going running after the school run so I am going to try and have no more than 500 kcal today. It's bloody freezing here though and I don't feel much like running when it's so cold but I'm going with a friend so I have to make the effort. I always feel better for it afterwards though.

I need more food inspiration as I'm not much of a chef. I have been looking at the hairy dieters cook book which looks good so might order that. I tend to stick to the same things, roasts, stews, spaghetti bolognase, chicken fajitas. Your menus always sound lovely. Anyway off to get dc ready for school. Have a good day all :)

flossie thanks :) it wasn't as bad as I thought to be fair. The hardest was resisting the bottle of fabulous wine MIL bought. The feeling of being in control was very satisfying as normally I never hear ignore the voice inside saying I am full

Am still going to be extra good this week and hope for another loss. I would love to hit the 8lb mark. I did a sneaky weigh in sat and lost 4 more pounds making almost 9 in total but I won't count that until my official weigh in Thursday in case it goes down as a result of Mother's Day! Hopefully it won't and I can safely say I have hit the half stone mark.

It's so good to see results, it really spurs me on. As do all of your fantastic stories and updates. These boards are making me more determined than ever as I know it's achievable, if you can all do it there is no reason I can't!

Re recipes, maybe we should all post our top five healthy ingredients and see what we can come up with as tasty dinners when everyone has a bit more time. Then we can all mix and match.

Good luck with your run flossie

Morning all. [twirl] SnowyWellies here with a new name. I wanted WetWellies in honour of the weather, but it was taken so have gone with this. For now. :)

Well done BambieO!

It is cold here, but not snowing (yet) so I am making lasagne with salad for dinner. I am taking a rest from dieting for the week- my only aim is to not go wild.

Like your idea of top 5 healthy ingredients, Bambie. Mine would be;

salmon
natural yoghurt
grilled lamb
tomato
cucumber

Those are in my basket every week- and I tend to do things liked baked salmon and lamb kebabs with salad.

Loving the new name! It would be snowy wellies here in the south east, it's really coming down but not settling very well.

My friend made a salmon lasagne smellie she said it was delicious!

I would definitely go with the lamb kebabs, me and DH usually have them in pitta with salad and natural yoghurt so pretty much same as you!

I would definitely try the salmon lasagne and also salmon fish cakes.

My mains are:

Chicken I know creature of boring habit haha
Flat mushrooms
Mozzarella
Beef tomatoes
Red onion

I always end up with roasted mushrooms and mozzarella served on a bed of salad but I'm so bored of it now :(

Suggestions welcome!

Hmmmm...... chicken breast stuffed with creamy mushrooms and mozzarella? I recently roasted tomatoes on the vine and they were nice.

Somehow being nn 'smellie' suits me!

Haha I was dubious about shortening it but I couldn't resist

That sounds delicious! I think I will have that tonight :) makes a nice change and gets me some protein too as my dinners seem all veg/salady at the mo which isn't very sustainable and also must leave my diet lacking in some nutrients etc.

Love stuffed chicken. We have a co-op special that is chicken stuffed with asparagus, mozzarella and wrapped in bacon which i want to try this week. It is basically that, just those ingredients and i thought it looked pretty nice.

Right... off to start the lasagne. Dh will be home about 7. it has started snowing now so I am sure a dish of steaming yumminess will be a good welcome.

Glad WetWellies was taken now. Somehow being shortened to 'Wet' would be awful!