Frugaleers talk food/fitness & weight loss 2019 - May

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Hi all
I'm here but not feeling great.

Have dd booked into doctor to get a prescription for ringworm on Thurs & I'm thinking of asking for anti depressants for myself. It's been years since I've been on them but I've been feeling a bit flat for a few weeks now. I've not been able to exercise as much as usual but I don't think it's enough to cause this, I'm going to nip in the bud now.

I've had a tough time with marriage ending, house going on the market and no viewings and think it's just all got to me. I got angry with the dc twice last week and I didn't like how I flared up at them yesterday.

Best to get on top of it before it spirals happier

Clearly I'm doing a shit job of bringing dd up to have a healthy attitude to food. She just stole and ate three kit kat chunky bars. Literally don't know what to do about it.

Happier, take care and definitely do what is best for you. I'm in awe of you to tackle this head on x

Oh Wreck, that is a tough one. On one hand you don't want her eating all of that at once and on the other hand you don't want to start banning food.
And stop thinking you are a shit parent, you are NOT, fact!
Could you have a chat with her about moderation and that treats are just that?
I forget how old she is, but would the 80/20 rule, where 80% of the time she has a good diet and 20% junk, be something she would understand?

Happier well done on recognising it and taking action, that’s a hard thing to do just on its own. it’s been a bloody tough year for you and you are doing brilliantly but we all need a little help sometimes. Go easy on yourself

Wreck stop being so hard on yourself. Sometimes they can’t resist, just like us. It’s not on you

Woah hold the phone wreck. You are not doing a shit job. DD went through a phase of this recently stealing and hiding wrapping, spending £10 a time at the shop on junk. So if you're shit I am too. We had a chat about heath and moderation. Nothing banned so no forbidden fruit. Seems better.

Happier you have had a tough year. Nothing wrong with getting help including meds.
to you both

Got calories and macros but the shite had been inverted. Steps got too.

Travel tomorrow which is always a good challenge

Thanks everyone. She's been doing it a fair bit recently. I can't go on too much about health because not too long ago she stopped eating because she was worried she would get unhealthy and die 🙄 I'm just going to have to stop buying it all (it's only for dh's lunches or my hypo sweets) or hide it. I just ate a double decker duo to cheer myself up

Thanks for the support everyone

Went to gym this evening & really wasn't feeling it, came out to get my headphones & bf happened to ring, we'd a good chat for about 45 mins & I went back into gym then & did 1k treadmill (6mins) 2k on rowing machine, did deadlifts & lat pulldowns I think they're called, did a few bicep curls & then gave up & went home. Fitbit was dead today so no idea on steps

Calories are perfect, didn't hit protein but did hit fibre so I'm avoiding kitchen now for rest of night

Wreck my attitude to junk in this house is I'll buy a certain amount of it in the weekly shop but once it's gone it's gone. Obviously it's different for you with hypos but you could keep something specifically for that in a special place eg medicine cabinet so everyone knows it's purpose

Happier well done today and I hope you are feeling better soon.

Wreck That's tricky with treats, especially for growing girls I think. Stealing isn't on, but forbidding it/making it harder to access might backfire. Growing up we always had a small 'treats box' we could access, but our parents monitored it (there wasn't loads inside, and when it was gone for the day, that was it).

Curvy thanks for the tagine recipe on the other thread, will try it!

Breakfast: peanut butter toast with banana, tea, coffee
Lunch: vegan grilled 'cheese' sandwich and grapes, coffee
Dinner: Ratatouille lentil pasta bowl
Snacks: half a Holland and Barrett flapjack, 2 small bites dark marzipan chocolate

Late sign in!
Steps 17165
Food
B- coffee and a cereal bar
L- left over tagine, alpro choc dessert, satsuma, apple and a flat peach
D- falafel balls with spaghetti and a tiny bit of violife mozzarella.
Snacks- hummus and breadsticks and an ice lolly.

No worries moi, hope you enjoy it.

Did the gym help you feel better happier? Can you get out back into your routine again.

Travel today. Taking breakfast on the train. Will be toast at the other end as the train make me feel sick. God knows what else.

Happier she definitely knows what they're for that's what made me so angry about those before. The chocolate bars are for dh (he's a builder and an unhealthy yet skinny one ). They'd just had a chocolate peanut granola bar too.

Moi they have a bowl in the cupboard which they have something out of after school. It currently has banana soreen (she doesn't like) peanuts (she doesn't like) and aforementioned chocolate and peanut granola bars which she does like.

0.6lb down today. Same as last Tuesday and 0.6lb up on last weeks average. Going in the right direction

Gym did help life it wasn't a huge training session but it was something I could control if that makes sense.

Going to run tomorrow morning as meeting my cuz for dinner in my childfree time. Then hopefully do gym again fri eve before meeting bf for a bit and sat am go for a run.

Then next week I'm on hols with the dc so will be active everyday but with no time for exercise/headspace.

The following week my mother is minding so we'll see and week after I'm childfree so should be able to do something most days.

Hopefully all this and anti depressants will lift me out of a fog.

Ds told me yesterday wreck that he'd had no treats at all yesterday but au pair had sent me a pic so I knew he had, then he told me that was just so I could see his creation and that he put all the sweets back. He's 5.5 I told him off for fibbing

Not a great day.

1 fig roll

2 fig rolls
Falafel and humous salad
Small chocolate rice cake
Two ginger nuts

Some pretzels

Sweet potato burger in a bun
Carrot sticks
More humous but not loads
Spoonful of coleslaw

85% chocolate mini bar from Aldi.

Oh also some grapes and raspberries.

Some how managed to get macros. Went to Zumba for steps.
Had a boiled egg salad. Thought I didn't like boiled eggs. Turns out I do.

Breakfast: Cereal with soya milk, tea, coffee
Lunch: Falafel beetroot wrap and lentil chips
Snacks: Chocolate bar, strawberries, breadsticks, chai tea soya latte
Dinner: homemade curry, basmati rice, lentils, half a popadom

Glad you're feeling a bit better Happier and I hope it continues.

Steps 14301

B- half an apple and pear, cereal bar and coffee
L- falafel, salad and hummus. Mixed fruit salad, alpro youghurt
D- 'fish', chips and salad.
Snacks- a few breadsticks, small choc bar and 2 lotus biscuits

Looks like we were all in the falafel yesterday

0.4pb down today and only 0.3lb away from last weeks average hopefully I can do it!

Down today but didn't drink enough so have a cracking headache. Will up the fluid today. Piyo tonight for a bit of a stretch

Hi all. Back from my holidays and feeling very bloated. I took a scales with me and my last weigh in was Monday - around 10lb on in 11 days. Now I bet that makes the odd pound a bit more paleatable😂 Anyway some of it is salt retention, but too much of it is pure flab. I’ve made himself hide the scales and I’m not weighing again until Sunday week, that gives me 12 days of calorie deficit. Tired today but ok, back on 1650 a day. I did take measurements so I’ll check them again after the 12 days.
Hope everyone’s well, I’ve had a busy day doing the holiday washing, back in work tomorrow

79 calories over as DH scuppered my plans for food with KFC. Average is fine though.
Steps got and piyo.
Pilates at lunchtime today.
Holding at 126.5 ish. Ok with that. Going to go back to weights Friday as have lose skin now.

Mmm kfc. That's not many over considering.

0.2 up today but I haven't been to the loo since Monday so hardly surprising

Not where did you go? Good plan not weighing for a while.