Back on my diet and feeling optimistic!

[FlamedToACrisp]

DAY 1
Starting Weight: 17st 2.75lbs
Exercise: Spent 6 hours painting the living room and hallway.
Mood: Optimistic

Breakfast: 1 banana.
Lunch: 1 roll with butter, thin cheese and loads of salad; 1 handful of cheese savouries.
Dinner: Cottage pie with sliced potatoes on top, lots of extra veg.(The bloody cottage pie took ages to brown nicely with spray-on sunflower oil instead of butter)
Drinks: Diet Pepsi.
Snacks: 2 nectarines (I don't allow myself any sweet things except fruit until after dinner); saucer of sweet treats to last me all evening (15 assorted sweets and a Freddo)

You are doing it. Well done. I hope your husband is doing ok.

I eat everyday. Intermittent fasting is just time restricted eating.You are doing it yourself on the days you don't eat breakfast. Basically that is all I do. Don't eat breakfast try and have a late lunch to create a non eating window every day.

DAY 15
Weight: 16st 8.25 lbs
Exercise: Sitting on my plump derriere in front of the keyboard
Mood: Mildly irritated

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich (crusty white bread), bunch of grapes
Dinner: Jacket potato with a little butter and cheese, 4 rashers of bacon, baked beans
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 banana, half an apple; saucer of sweeties

Sorry if you're getting a sense of deja vu - there are some foods I never get bored with! really pleased to still be losing weight.

DAY 16
Weight: 16st 7.5 lbs yay!
Exercise: Sorted out a few cupboards, a bit of housework
Mood: Focused... not on dieting, but on my family history research. It took my mind off it in the hungry gap between lunch and dinner!

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich (crusty white bread), handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: Chicken Madras and white rice
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 banana, 1 orange; saucer of sweeties

Another good day

This is so impressive OP - 5lbs and you'll have lost a stone!

@Belindabelle and how is that method working out for you? btw I do have a 'no eating' part of the day - and believe me, it feels a looooong time between lunch at 1pm until dinner at 7pm. Even with a piece of fruit or two in the gap. I'm just so used to grazing all day long (as well as meals) and I need to learn a new 'normal'.

DAY 17
Weight: 16st 6.5 lbs
Exercise: Walked to the corner shop - Iceland, aren't I lucky? - and bought lots of yummy fruit, otherwise another sedentary day as I have to stay in to look after DH.
Mood: Slightly gloomy - picked up a delightful ear/nose/throat infection while at the hospital with DH. My ears feel swollen inside

Breakfast: 1 orange
Lunch: 2 slices of toast with marmite and ultra-thin cold cheese, grapes, slice of honeydew melon
Dinner: Jacket potatoes with thin butter and cheese, 'cheating' stew (mix a tin of stewed steak, tin of veg soup and sm tin of carrots together, serves 3 - one of the best days of my life when I found "I expect my dinner on a plate when I get home"-ex-DH considered that a delicious home-cooked meal!)
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 orange, bowl of strawberries and grapes; saucer of sweeties

@QuimReaper thanks for the encouragement. I know my thread isn't very exciting, but nor is my life tbh. But being accountable by having to 'fess up on everything I eat is really working!

Just wanted to commend your honesty-being open about falling off the rails and accounting for the bad days is really tough to do! I know myself how easy it is to not log the slips like they didn’t happen.
Currently pregnant so not being too strict on my food but I’m definitely guilty of not counting my calories on a rough day in the past and have fought really hard not to so this!
Your doing really well-good luck reaching your goal!

DAY 18
Weight: 16st 6.5 lbs
Exercise: Mooching around the house feeling ill
Mood: Very sorry for myself!

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich, handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: Boiled potatoes, 'cheating' stew, peas
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 orange, grapes, 1 slice of melon; saucer of sweeties

DAY 19
Weight: 16st 6.5 lbs
Exercise: None at all
Mood: Sociable - had a couple of friends round and went out in evening

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad crusty roll, handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: two-thirds of a pizza, garlic bread
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Strawberries, grapes; 6 chunks of Dairy Milk, 2 After Eights, 8 alphabet letters

Keep going you are doing really well. When you have the head space, please do try to incorporate more healthier foods into your diet, you may be losing weight but you aren't eating particularly healthily but keep up the good work

Addictive thread is addictive.

Keep at it, @FlamedToACrisp! It's lots of fun and very motivating watching your weight go down. And thank you for being so brutally honest about what you are eating, we all have diet mishaps and it's very reassuring to know that we aren't alone.

@Sweetooth92 @Meirion thanks for cheering me on

@zenasfuck (just realised your name isn't Zena's Fuck!) What kind of healthy foods would you suggest? I know I eat a very limited range of foods and don't enjoy cooking much but all ideas welcome!

DAY 20
Weight: 16st 5 lbs it's going!
Exercise: Scrubbing a floor, bit of decorating
Mood: Dull but determined

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich
Dinner: Beef grill (like a large burger), fried potatoes, baked beans
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes, 5 strawberries; saucer of sweeties, might have an orange later

Dammit! Why didn't I measure myself before I started? Oh yes, because it makes me hate myself. Like shopping for clothes. I can never find any the right shape, and anything I buy online is either ridiculously large or annoyingly small.

DAY 21
Weight: 16st 5 lbs
Exercise: none
Mood: gloomy and full of cold - I have become the leading snot-producing country of the world

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 1 banana, 1 orange, cheese and tomato sandwich, 1 garibaldi biscuit
Dinner: 2 pork chops, saute potatoes, peas, gravy
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes, 1 banana, 1 garibaldi biscuit; saucer of sweeties

Hmm. I think I might have regained a bit by tomorrow. Garibaldis are deceptively not very sweet - I kinda feel like they don't really count as a treat, but I find them hard to resist

DAY 22
Weight: 16st 5.25 lbs oops!
Exercise: none
Mood: still feeling vile

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich, handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: 4 fish fingers, oven chips and tinned sweetcorn (while watching CHEF - the irony was not lost on me as I looked at my plateful )
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes, 1 orange; saucer of sweeties

And another fascinating update begins...

DAY 23
Weight: 16st 4.25 lbs
Exercise: My fitbit thinks I've taken it off
Mood: Reasonably optimistic

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 2 slices of toast with a tin of baked beans & sausages
Dinner: Jacket potato with just a little cheese, beef grill and baked beans
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes, 1 banana, 1 orange; saucer of sweeties

DAY 24
Weight: forgot to weigh myself
Exercise: Loads of rushing around, reached fitbit goal
Mood: Positive

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich (granary bread), handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: 4 slices of shop pizza, 4 mini sausage rolls
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes, 1 orange; saucer of sweeties

Well done OP, you're doing great. I love reading your updates.

You're easily on track to lose a stone in a month OP - amazing start!

This is a very enjoyable thread! I’m at exactly you starting weight now and it’s the heaviest I’ve ever been after recently losing my mum. Keep up the great work!

PS I’m sorry to hear about your loss.

How are you getting on @FlamedToACrisp

DAY 25 (yesterday)
Weight: 16st 4.5lbs
Exercise: Not a lot!
Mood: Happy - had friends staying and had an enjoyable board games night

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: 2 slices of toast and marmite (granary bread)
Dinner: roast chicken, roast potatoes, mini Yorkshire pud, peas, gravy, slice of choc gateau, strawberry icecream
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: Grapes - no sweeties today because of the dessert

@Thankgoodness1 Although I find it hard to diet when I'm preoccupied with other stuff, I don't think my weight is closely related to losing my mum and sister over the last two years. I think I'm just a greedy oink I just enjoy nice food and eat too much of it. Losing Mum was harder because it was less expected and happened fast, over a few weeks. I had time to cry over my sister for about a year before she died, so it was easier to come to terms with, but I will miss her for the rest of my life.

As you can see - I've always been chubby and not enthusiastic about exercise. My parents could leave me on the lawn, pop into the house and do a couple of bits and come out to find me still there, happily examining bits of grass!