A 'What did you eat today?' thread for those dieting.

[CharleyDavidson]

I love a 'What did you eat today?' thread. But the one in chat was getting interesting as those not dieting were a bit unimpressed by the food day's of some.

I thought we could (if you like) say what 'plan' or method you are using, what you ate and how successful you felt the day was.

I'm on myfitnesspal

B - toast and margarine, apple, coffee
L- dh s homemade carrot soup with a spinach pumpkin seed and cottage cheese salad, balsamic vinegar on it. Apple. Then also had piece choc cake from a leaving lunch.
D- lentil and carrot stew. Followed by tinned ravioli and banana chopped with yogurt.
Cycled to work which is over an hour in total, hence why I could have the cake and ravioli!

Hi Smillas, yes you can have bread on slimming world but not in 'unlimited' amounts like rice, pasta etc. Each day you have a healthy extra A allowance and a healthy extra B allowance - the A is for calcium (so 30g cheese/certain amount of milk which differs between skimmed, semi skimmed etc) and fibre (so 2 slices wholemeal bread/1 Alpen bar/ 2 ryvita/ special K/oats). So you can have bread but if you had say toast at breakfast and ryvita at lunch then you'd need to syn the ryvita because you used your B allowance at breakfast. Sorry if I've totally confused you! You do get used to it .

On Slimming World, no food is banned. Most meat, fruit, veg, things like pasta, rice etc are free, as well as seasonings, eggs, fry light, tinned beans, tomatoes etc. Calcium and foods high in fibre (cereals/bread) are allowed in small amounts, and you have 5-15 syns per day for things like butter, crisps, ice cream etc. Most things are surprisingly low - 'light' butter is 3 for example, a kit Kat is 5 syns for example. Stuff like dominoes and coffee shops are surprisingly high, but it does make you think about what you eat

Hope this helps

Also, the idea is to have 1/3 of your plate fruit or vegetables - so you could have 200g of pasta for eg (not that you would), but you'd need to balance it with the equivalent of veg and protein. So instead of having 200g of pasta and that's it, you'd have say some pasta, chicken for example, and veg, and you'd be much less likely to overeat on pasta while there is some truth in that you can eat however much potatoes, rice, pasta etc you want, the catch is you'd need to balance that out with veg, so a natural way of limiting your carb intake

Can I join in? Trying to lose weight Ive put on through medication (andeatig too much rubbish)
I haven't had chocolate or crisps (my big downfall ) since Sunday.

B- 4 oatcakes with crunchy peanut butter, glass if grapefruit juice, tea.

L- tea and two bars of oat and honey biscuits

D- 1 box of micro chips???? and half a rack of ribs with bbq sauce, tea.

Snack before bed of cheese and an apple.
I drink gereen tea???? without milk or sugar.

Also, the idea is to have 1/3 of your plate fruit or vegetables - so you could have 200g of pasta for eg (not that you would), but you'd need to balance it with the equivalent of veg and protein. So instead of having 200g of pasta and that's it, you'd have say some pasta, chicken for example, and veg, and you'd be much less likely to overeat on pasta

Ohhhhhhh ok, that makes a lot more sense! As said, I've been counting calories (using MFP) since the start of the month, DP has too, and we've had pasta once in that time. The portions were miniscule and it still wasn't worth it! Whoever mentioned tinned ravioli is getting daggers from my eyes right now, I love that stuff. Or did. I might not like it anymore since it's been so long since I last had it - don't live in the UK anymore.

Today I've had:

Cup of tea with one sugar

One egg and one rasher of bacon in a pitta bread with bbq sauce

Porridge: 25g oats, 11g brown linseed, really big banana, 26g blueberries, 85g milk, some water and some cinammon

A mini Babybel and a couple of glasses of Pepsi Max.

That's only 800 cals but I had half a frozen pizza with added spinach on top for just shy of 400 at 3am just before bed (as DP was getting up for work, so breakfast for him) and added it to today's cals. Trying to resist eating anything else because I had a heavy day yesterday to start with.

bfast - nothing, feeling sick & hungover
mid-morning - coffee with milk
lunch - split pea soup
dinner - puy lentil salad with various vegetables.

I had a terrible day yesterday so being ultra good today!

I'm on slimming world. For breakfast I had strawberries, Apple and muller light. Coffee.
Lunch was two boiled eggs, beans, heck chicken sausages and two wholewheat sandwich thins.
Dinner is going to be chilli con carne and cauliflower rice and some cheese on top.

Breakfast - Nothing
Lunch - Mint and Lamb Soup with a slice of bread
Dinner - will be 2 x fishcakes and new potatoes, with carrots

Snacks - I had a orange ice lolly and a can of diet pop

B- 2 rounds of toast with marmade
L- 4 oatcakes with peanut butter and an apple.
No idea about dinner, it might be half a chicken fried rice!
Drink, tea and water

B- Muslei
L- hotdog
D- sweet and sour chicken with stir fry veg and brown rice
Snacks- coffee cheese and some breadsticks

Not the best day. Great as far as calorie-goal was concerned. Rubbish macros!

B- nothing. CBA
L - nothing. Popped round to visit a friend and ended up out of the house over lunchtime and didn't really notice missing lunch as my hunger levels do drop when dieting.
D - pizzas made with 2 warburton's thins, half fat mozarella, ham and lots of veg.

I more than made up for my lack of lunch in the evening though. I had a glut of raspberries, so I made a sort of raspberry eve's-pudding and had 2 big servings.

On about 1235 cals for the day.

Tomorrow is going to be breakfast out with family, so I will probably skip lunch as I will still be full. And then will repeat my pizza lunch for dinner tomorrow as a)it's low cal b)it's delicious c)it takes ages to eat and d) -and most importantly - I still have chopped veg from making them today to use up.

Then I will be meal planning and shopping for the rest of the week at some point.

You had bread... I miss bread…

GinBunny, have a look at 5:2 - you can have bread on 5 days a week! Just not too much of it!

B - Wholegrain pitta with one egg, one rasher of bacon and 1 tbsp barbecue sauce. Half an avocado.
L - Nothing
D - Wholegrain pitta and 41g red chilli hummus
Snacks - 5g pistachio chocolate, 20g (handful) blueberries
Drinks - 3 x coffee with milk and sugar, Pepsi Max, blueberry tea, water

PS If anyone suffers from frequent constipation already I would recommend staying the hell away from the 5:2 diet. (!)

I'd like to join - I had success on 5:2 but can't motivate myself to get back on that wagon and needed to lose 10lbs in 6 weeks....now I think it's 6lbs in 3.5weeks so MFP and trying to limit to 1200kcals 5 days a week, and not drinking alcohol on those days...have a boozy foodie weekend coming up

Today:
L: 3/4 of an almond butter sandwich, 2 boiled eggs, 1 rice cake, a few licks of DD's disgusting soft serve ice cream
D: homemade savoury bun thing, spinach, shishito peppers, broccoli all drizzled in lime and coriander and sea salt
S: two coffees with soy creamer, 1 almond latte, a mango

Also had lots of black coffee

Are you guys following a diet plan at all? Some of these meals don't sound very healthy at all?

Great idea. I'm having 1200 a day. Will report back this evening!

Are you guys following a diet plan at all? Some of these meals don't sound very healthy at all?

It's the weight loss section....

Which is why I'm surprised! I'm always looking for healthy recipe ideas but was suprised by some of the choices.

Some people are doing anything possible to loose weight, VLCD's even so don't be surprised people are just doing what works for them to loose weight in any way possible. I'm sure you can find recipes on BBC good food.

I'm using nutracheck which is like mfp. As long as I stick within my 1400 cals a day I can choose whatever. Some days it's very healthy choices, some days it's less quantity but more indulgent food.

I'm not dieting as such but I am trying to be healthier.

I'm using MFP and aiming for calories of around 2,000 a day as I'm breastfeeding (and bloody starving as a result). I know my usual pre-pregnancy aim was around 1,500 to maintain weight, and if bfing burns 500 cals a day that gets me to 2,000.

Yesterday I had:

Banana and small flapjack
Couple of biscuits and cup of tea at baby group
Boots meal deal - onion bhaji wrap, choc chip Clif bar
Afternoon snacks - cucumber, cherry tomatoes, mange tout, hard boiled egg, miso soup, strawberries
Chickpea scramble (chickpeas, broccoli, mushrooms, onion, garlic, various spices etc)
Gelato

Came in at 1,914 (ish).

Today I've had:

Peanut butter sandwich and black coffee
Quorn peppered steak; pasta with broccoli and tomatoes; little blob of mayo on the side. Diet cola to drink

No snacks yet but have hard boiled egg and more veg in fridge. For tea, not sure... Maybe frittata if that doesn't feel like too many eggs!

I'm on 1200 cal a day and eating less sugar, less processed food. I still eat crap occasionally but calorie counting on MFP is working for me.

B- really needed toast with jam this morning
L- soup
D- grilled fish with steamed veg
S- as its FatFriday I have Ben and jerrys cookie dough and a bottle of blossom hill for when dc are asleep

Im just trying to eat my three meals day, no snacking. Imalso trying to cut down on sugar because it makes me a bit crap.

B- 2 rounds of toast with marmalade
L- Asda pot noodle
D- going out so not sure yet. Im going to the cinema later where I usually have popcorn but will resist tonight

I started this on monday and weighed myself today and have lost a pound. Not much but better than nothing I suppose.

Yesterday:

Mac cheese and chips

5 x melba toast with philladelphia
melon
blueberries