A place where I can be honest and accountable

[Snoopysimaginaryfriend]

I'm starting this thread in the hope that recording my diet and exercise will make me more accountable and help me identify areas where I can improve. If anyone else would like to join in that would be great.

About me:
Name- snoopysimaginaryfriend
Age- 31 (how the hell did that happen)
Weight- 9stone 13pounds
Height- 5ft 2inches
Target weight- about 8 and a half stone although I know I might not get there whilst I'm still breastfeeding (boobs are ginormous at the moment, I miss my d cups!)
About me- currently on maternity leave with four and a half month old refluxy DD. My DH works long shifts and often does overtime so it's me who does all the feeding (bf most of the time), bedtimes, bath times, night waking etc. Plus housework. DD does not sleep through the night and I seemed to develop pregnancy related insomnia pretty much from the moment of conception so I'm tired most of the time. I am hypothyroid so I take levothyroxine daily. In the year prior to having DD I had three miscarriages and I think I used food as a bit of a crutch to cope with the grief. I had to take prednisolone for the first 16 weeks of pregnancy so that didn't help control my appetite. I also retained a hideous amount of water during pregnancy so I've already lost a good three stone but this last stone and a half is bothering me.

The plan

• cut out sugar. I can easily stuff my face with chocolate just because I am so tired but then I crash so it doesn't help me in the long term.
• walk 10000 steps a day. I don't have a Fitbit or anything like that so I rely on the pedometer on my phone and often leave my phone on the side all day so have no idea what I'm doing.
• drink more water. I often get to lunchtime and realise the cup of tea I made at 8am is now stone cold and untouched.
• get my five a day, mostly veg. I love fruit and veg so this shouldn't be an issue but it's an effort to make a nice salad when I can just open a chocolate bar.
• when DD is sleeping better introduce some HIIT

And that's it. Nothing too radical. I'd like to lose about a pound a week and be closer to nine stone by Christmas so I will post my diet and activities daily and do a weekly weigh in.

And if you have read through all of that, thank you for your patience

How did you get on today?

I had a tiny bowl of shredded wheat and some skimmed milk. Then bacon in wholemeal bread.

Lunch was chicken, pilau rice and salad.

I snacked on grapes and 2 tiny shortbread rounds.

Dinner is chicken potatoes and veg.

Skipped my usual latte... I found the big breakfast really helped. I must try and make time in the morning to eat more…

I also had an apple and 2 satsumas.

Hi fantasticmr fox, thanks for your advice.

I think with things like cleaning the kitchen I'm just one of those people who's a bit obsessive. when I was pregnant it wiped me out so much I wasn't good for anything. DH picked up the slack but his standards aren't up to mine so now I can actually stay awake for 16 hours a day I just want to put things right so I can relax.

With regards to the pram i actually have two DD hates the pram! And she can easily scream for almost an hour ( or until she makes herself sick, whichever comes first) but she loves the sling and it's so much easier to go shopping etc with her not screaming her head off.

I will check mfp. I didn't think I was actually cutting that many calories. I tend to have a whole avocado everyday, peanut/almond butters, smoked salmon, whole milk etc

bibs your lunches always sound lovely and filling. Do you make them fresh or are they leftovers etc?

yesterday I had:

Breakfast- porridge, with whole milk
Lunch- tomato and avocado salad with lemon dressing, four ryvita (two with quark and smoked salmon and two with quark and Parma ham), a satsuma

Dinner- chicken with boiled potatoes and cabbage

Snack- ryvita with peanut butter and banana, hot chocolate and whole milk

DH will be home a bit earlier tonight ( eight thirty ) and he has a day off tomorrow.

I'll post today's food later.

I buy the cooked chicken and microwave rice from Aldi Then do myself a side salad.

Swapped evening meal to Thai green curry and rice that I had leftover in the fridge.

The lentil curry my sister kindly gave to me

bibs that sounds delicious!

Yesterday I had:
Exactly the same as the day before hahaha

And I walked 10000 steps outside the house and then my period started for the first time in fourteen months

Today I skipped breakfast and stayed in bed, my mum was looking after DD

Lunch- two frankfurters, two eggs, one tomato and a slice of wholemesl toast.

Snack- banana and peanut butter on ryvita

Dinner- spaghetti bolognese

As my period started I might treat myself to my favourite chocolates tonight

Your menu sounds yum

Today I had

Shredded wheat, skimmed milk and fruit

I snacked on a mugshot (cup a soup with noodles)

Lunch was from Eat! Falafel salad with taboulleh, houmous, chickpeas, etc. Was delicious.

My husband and I had an appt and he had a late lunch in Burger King. I had a hamburger and picked at a few chips.

I didn't really fancy dinner, just had some leftover chicken, couple of potatoes and roasted parsnips,

Half a bounty and a couple of biscuits were consumed....

Today I've had oats and skimmed milk and a lovely salad for lunch so far, with chicken, lentils, rice, roasted cauliflower yum yum! Snacked on a yoghurt.

I love love love taboulleh and falafel!

We sometimes make houmous at home so I might try that later.

I had two delicious bendicks bitter mints in bed with some chamomile tea whilst watching question time last night haha

So far I've had porridge for breakfast. Going to make some lunch now

Hey how did you do over the weekend?

Oh god bibs I can't even remember. DH has been working so much recently I'm all over the last place trying to keep the household going and sort my mum out. I had chocolate for breakfast today and no lunch about to have a Thai green curry for dinner and start again tomorrow haha

How was your weekend?

I can't remember either!!!

Hahaha oh dear

DH has three days off finally. The downside is he's doing the cooking and he has weird taste. So for breakfast I had one burger, one fried egg, tomato and toast. For lunch I had one burger, noodles and peas. See what I mean

The good news is I've already done 7000 steps outside the house

Let's start again tomorrow!!

Hey Snoopy, what's happened, have you fallen into a vat of chocolate?!