Frugaleers talk food/fitness & weight loss 2019(2)

[Happierwithouthim]

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Boom! Yoga done, decided to go for a brisk walk beforehand as the longer I was fused to the couch, the less I wanted to go.
Cals done, 6gr under on protein, but over on fibre. 3 days on track

Re. Weighing, I can see how the average would work for some but I think it would demotivate me... horses for courses!

I would have made a pie but as I had cottage pie yesterday I made a casserole thingy with new potatoes and a splodgebof Creme Fraiche in. With broccoli. Was good but a bit salty (I didn’t add salt but bacon + stock was a bit much).

14k steps today, not too bad.

It’s certainly demotivating me today Sea.

Long big smoke day today so food will be what can be purchased that will do least damage

Your top tip of going to m&s was a good one wolf.

Lost the salt and weekend weight. Back on track. Body pump today.

I like the daily weights but it took a bit to get over the daily peaks and troughs.

Wolf pret do good lunches too.

My weight is back up this morning so will try to do better today. Ended up having the last piece of Christmas cake last night. It wasn't much but still.

I'm going to try and make one of those homemade pot noodles linked to on the other thread for lunch today. Yum!

Have booked Pilate's for tonight.Eating a mound of porridge to keep me going this am.

Crazy day yesterday.... one of those ones that prevents eating because the phone never stopped ringing. 73.3kg this morning. I didn't even get to ride my bike. Which lends weight to the theory that it is the less calories in that is causing the loss. Exercise is useful because it focuses me on being healthier.

I weigh myself every morning - it does fluctuate but that is the way it is. So long as the general trend is downward that is good. This is where I confess I have a spreadsheet with a graph. I like visuals.

I also like wine and crisps - this is my weakness. I don't particularly like chocolate or sweets and we very rarely have puddings. I just need to convince myself that both are as grim as yoghurt & I am onto a winner. This may be in Unicorn uplands.

I'm going to go out on a limb and state I don't weigh myself, or very rarely. I don't want an arbitrary number having an affect on how I feel about myself. I'd rather focus on being fit, strong and healthy, which, just for me, is more important. I don't know how I'd feel if Dd, who is 17 weighed herself daily. Luckily, she's a fitness freak like me. Or a weirdo 😂😂😂😂

Utterly respect others views though. Just saying it's what works for everyone that means we are a diverse and interesting set of folk.

Saturday I ate all the food ever, because of the long run on Friday but it was all healthy at least.

Yesterday
Egg on toast,
Pasta and roast veg salad.
Potato, spinach and cauliflower curry with rice.
Hummus and celery. Brownie. Two chocolates.

Today is an hours Z2 run (low aerobic, teaching the body to use fat), a gym session later with DD. Not running yesterday but a cross country race Sunday was fun.

DD eats a fair bit of protein though, as she weight trains and it helps recovery and repair of the muscles. So she'll have a shake after the gym whereas I don't bother and will only specifically refuel after a hard or long effort.

green - I've run for years and am reasonably competitive in my field. So my work load is probably extreme really. I think it's my MH release too. I'm grim if I haven't moved.😂

I was always of the opinion that once a week was enough to weigh but having been in Team RH for so long now I can honestly say I don't even notice the ups and downs of the scales anymore, it has lost it's hold on me.

I've noticed I'm hungrier and going over my calories since I joined gym/started back to bootcamp so I'm going to move up a calorie club to 1700. It's the group I'm meant to be in anyhow for my weight so I'll give it a shot and see how it affects the scales, if it doesn't move I'll reduce to 1650.

jam you're in the place I want to get to, that I can judge by my clothes and how I feel and eat intuitively, not sure if that's going to happen or if it's just part of my nature to have to always track to maintain.

How do you slow yourself down running? I find that hard to do because I always want to improve my time!

I did my final spin class last night, I just really don't like it and my coccyx is playing up from it too. It's a great calorie burner though. Spoke to instructor and he questioned my reasoning for picking that class when I don't like cycling, I replied to conquer it, he thought it was funny and said he's like that about running, just can't stand it.

unescorted I love that you have a graph, I'm part of a facebook group since my ww days and we've got a spreadsheet that I can go back years on and see when I was last a certain weight!

I can’t imagine not having to track, I’ve proved I can’t eat intuitively again & again. Deeply envious of those who don’t need to. I totally agree, I’d hate my daughters to weigh in every day but then they don’t have my issues with weight or at least not yet. But then they’ve been parented & fed very differently to the way I was. I hope I’m getting it right, I’d be broken hearted if I thought they felt the way I do about food/my weight

not you make such a good point about what we pass on to our dcs. I must remember that. I'd hate for mine to lack body confidence like me. It's so easy to pass your hangups on.
I have registered for my first park run on Saturday, have searched for the flattest one in the area, for my first one.

I remember having my nose held and being force fed by my step dad and I can never leave food on my plate.

Homemade 'pot noodle' was delicious!

not I'm sure your DD's do not and will not have any issues with food. It sounds like you are super aware of how food has affected your life and taken steps to ensure this is not the case with them.

Alcohol could be my issue being honest. I could easily use it as my stress release. I've taken steps since January to address this. I couldn't ever not drink, I love the pleasure of a good quality red wine, but it was starting to be a habit and a negative way of dealing with stress.

happier, agree - you probably need the extra calories. Interestingly, since I've started weight training, there's a couple of dresses that I can't get into anymore, as my back is broader. But I'm far stronger and fitter for doing the weights sessions. I likely weigh more too.

Re running slow, it's certainly a skill. Depends on how often you run and what you want to gain from the running if that makes sense? If you are using the runs for fitness, you're probably fine, if it's structured training then the slow running can benefit the faster stuff by teaching the aerobic system to take priority and also by flushing through some fresh blood to the muscles and aiding recovery. I do 6 days running a week, so some stuff has to be slow, so I can recover fully for a hard session. Wearing a HRM can help keep you slow or just literally forcing yourself to go easy.

So far
Porridge with oat milk, mango and seeds.
Freekah salad (picture below, made on Saturday), a hard boiled egg, two falafel, brownie.
Dinner will be veggie Shepherds pie and veggies.

Yeah, we were fine to leave stuff on our plates to be fair.

Both those meals look yummy. I've got a pomegranate in my desk drawer at work at the moment!

Horrific wreck

Leaving stuff on your plate was definitely not allowed in our house growing up. Nor was slow eating or drinking with meals. Things like that definitely have life long impacts.

I don’t think I’ve done too bad on the old travel food front today.

Two cups of tea
Cocoa 0% fat Bircher from M&S
Superfood quinoa salad thing with bean houmous thing M&S (made me feel ill the lid had opened in my bag but o wonder if it had actually been open on the shop shelf)
Fresh coconut pieces
Sandwich baguette from pret for tea

That should be me done bar maybe a couple of cups of tea tonight when I get home

I went to Tesco and picked up the big bag of giant buttons. I wanted them really badly. I love chocolate buttons from the fridge and they were only 90p. Instead I picked up some chocolate topped rice cakes. Probably no nutritional value and still a fair few calories but not as much as chocolate buttons (and I would definitely have eaten the whole pack)

Interesting healthy food guidelines from Canada

Not my best day today. 6g short on protein, 22 Cal over. 10800 steps. Did body pump though and am ready to increase some weights there.
Not bad

I'm teaching my DC to be healthy. They see me weight myself and my food. I talk to then that it is part of me being a healthy mam and so I can keep fit.
They also know I go to the gym loads.

Haven't had time for yoga today so will do two tomorrow. Dh will be at football so can do it without any interruptions.

A colleague said I looked like I was losing weight today. I’ll take that and scales be damned (last two days weigh ins have been abysmal)

That’s great wolf - the scales can flux, doesn’t mean you’re not getting smaller. Keep the faith😉
Day 4 and still keeping to my 20% only junk rule, although today when a bit of a struggle when I got to the end of my cals. But black tea & squash will get me through. Just over 14,000 steps done

I won these last night

See, I weigh myself every week when trying to lose weight and much less often when I’m not . But I am not at all a slave to the scales because I don’t have a view on what I ‘should’ weigh. Having always been overweight as an adult, but to various degrees, I know how relatively comfortable I felt in my own skin at different weights. I know I won’t need to be 9st to feel pretty good about myself either. So assuming my motivation holds out, I don’t know when I’ll stop - I suppose when I feel pretty good and healthy! I do plot a graph though...

While I’m still somewhat motivated by being able to wear naice clothes and feel good in them, I’m much more motivated by health and strength now. Having had a pregnancy plagued by spd, then losing my dad, being plagued by plantar fasciitis for 18m, and slipping a disc last year, I am feeling decidedly mortal! And I want to ease the stress on my body. So that is truly motivating. I wish I liked running though but I truly can’t feel the love

Pretty good on the food front today. Banana and cereal bar for breakfast, chicken and brown rice salad (with lots of chopped veg) for lunch and then pork and veg stir fry with noodles for dinner. Snacks were fruit and a pack of Itsu seaweed thins. Treat was a hot choc just now, made with semi Skimmed Milk, cocoa Powder (not hot choc Powder - so no sugar. I could have added sugar but I find normal hot choc too sweet, this was lovely) with a few mini marshmallows on top. I still have some Syns left for treats but I feel stuffed and really don’t want anything else.

Stuck at a desk all day so just 10,200 steps.

Wolf, take the compliment! How you look /feel is definitely more important than the numbers. but harder to put on a graph