Back on my diet and feeling optimistic!

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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)

Oh OP you were an absolute PEACH! Look at that smile!

So sorry to hear about your mother and sister. I don't honestly know how people cope with deaths close together, I was thrown completely out of kilter when my Dad died and would have shattered if I'd had a second one within a year. Within two years really. I see what you mean about thinking your weight is essentially unconnected, but I still think it can be extremely hard to find motivation to do anything about it, so you should still give yourself a pat on the back for throwing yourself into it.

DAY 26
Weight: 16st 4 lbs
Exercise: Walked to the corner shop twice... once to buy loads of sweets and once to buy loads of fruit!
Mood: Meh

Breakfast: none (visitors scoffed my bananas)
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich , handful of cheese savouries, handful of grapes
Dinner: Eating out with our guests - Steak pie, chips and carrots, and, erm… erm... a big Cookie Crunch icecream sundae with cream, toffee sauce etc. This meal may have knocked my diet back by a few days but it was yummy
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: I don't believe I've earned my sweeties tonight, so will console myself with a little bowl of grapes and 'cutted-up' strawberries to nibble.

Hi! Well done on keeping up the diary! We are all invested in you now!
I’ve been trying to eat better too but last night I had pizza and fairy 🧁 cakes so I’m back on it this morning.

I too lost my mum suddenly earlier this year. It’s devastating.

DAY 26
Weight: 16st 4.5 lbs
Exercise: None. I just don't feel up to doing it until I get rid of this bug.
Mood: Pleased cos my family history research is doing well

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 2 slices toast with sardine & tomato paste
Dinner: Beef savoury rice with chunks of left-over chicken mixed in, peas. And then a left-over bit of choc gateau with strawberry icecream.
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: grapes, strawberries; I don't deserve my sweeties but I felt a bit gloomy so I ate them anyway

that was day 27 btw

Any good ideas on how to get rid of perfectly good leftovers which no one wants to eat except you, before you're tempted to eat them?

DAY 28
Weight: 16st 4.5 lbs
Exercise: Walked to the shops, resisted buying a French stick, a bit of light gardening.
Mood: Stir crazy.

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: Cheese salad sandwich, handful of cheese savouries
Dinner: Savoury mince with carrots, boiled potatoes
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: grapes, strawberries; saucer of sweeties

Now looking at the last slice of choc gateau... how can I clear some space in the fridge?

Well, I resisted the last bit of gateau... mainly because DH ate it!

DAY 29
Weight: 16st 4.25 lbs
Exercise: Walked to the shops three times for various things... 775 steps to go to reach target.
Mood: Happy but still feeling ill

Breakfast: 1 banana
Lunch: 2 cheese salad finger rolls
Dinner: Savoury mince with carrots, jacket potatoes with small bit of cheese
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: grapes, strawberries; saucer of sweeties

DAY 30
Weight: 16st 3.25 lbs
Exercise: 5 hours of cleaning and decorating
Mood: Confident

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 1 banana, cheese salad sandwich, grapes
Dinner: pizza sub, oven chips
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 crumpet with marmite, 1 biscuit, a few sweeties

I love your thread Flamed - keep up the good work

DAY 31
Weight: 16st 3.25 lbs
Exercise: 3 hours of light gardening/decorating
Mood: Distracted

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 1 banana, cheese salad sandwich
Dinner: Roast gammon (slurp!), saute potatoes, baked beans, strawberries and a little bit of strawberry icecream
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: grapes; saucer of sweeties

My clothes are feeling looser already!

So close to the 1 stone mark- yay!!

@Thankgoodness1 @zebrasdontwearbras @soulrunner thank you all for cheering me on - it really does help. Especially as I just forgot to bid on that thing I wanted on Ebay and it went for £8 - there's only one more on there and they're asking £40 bugger bugger

anyway...

DAY 32
Weight: 16st 3.25 lbs
Exercise: 9 hours of decorating
Mood: Too knackered to think about it

Breakfast: none
Lunch: 1 banana, cheese salad sandwich, handful of cheese savouries, grapes
Dinner: Roast gammon left over from yesterday, beef savoury rice, peas
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: strawberries and grapes; saucer of sweeties

DAY 33
Weight: 16st 3.5 lbs nooooo!
Exercise: 5 hours of decorating
Mood: Leave me alone

Breakfast: none
Lunch: cheese salad sandwich, strawberries, grapes
Dinner: sm tin of beanz & sausages, oven chips, big slab of honeydew melon
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: saucer of sweeties

I've obviously reached the end of the easy bit, as I've stopped losing weight, even though I've worked hard physically for the last 2 days. Now I'll have to start counting calories for my evening meal. Not a good day.

Where are you in your cycle? Could be hormonal.

My cycle? It's a penny-farthing. Went through the menopause many years ago.

DAY 34
Weight: 16st 3.5 lbs
Exercise: 6.5 hours of cleaning and decorating - reached fitbit goal! (why do I always want to call it a satnav?)
Mood: Mildly irritable - but the job's nearly finished now, thank goodness

Breakfast: none
Lunch: left my carefully-prepared lunch at home by mistake so had 1 roll with cheese and marmite
Dinner: Braised lamb with new potatoes, cauliflower and carrots. And it was a bit naff so I was bad and had a massive icecream sundae afterwards.
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: none - might eat some melon later

I need to learn to resist yummy desserts! Once again DH had arranged for us to go out to dinner with friends. And at least two more mega-calorie meals are expected, as we have a big-eater guest staying next week. I don't think he means to be a diet saboteur but it's certainly working out that way! Stern words have been had. Now I must have some more with myself

DAY 34
Weight: 16st 2.5 lbs yessss! At last I've lost the first stone!
Exercise: 6 hours of cleaning and at last my Mum's house is FINISHED and ready to go on the market! Reached fitbit goal again!
Mood: Happy!

Breakfast: none
Lunch: took yesterday's lunch with me but it was all soggy so only ate half a cheese salad sandwich and 1 banana
Dinner: Lasagne, oven chips and salad
Drinks: Diet Pepsi
Snacks: 1 lebkuchen heart; saucer of sweeties

Definitely need to go fruit shopping tomorrow. Got home to find DH had cleaned the fridge and eaten the last of the delicious melon I was looking forward to ( meanie!) On the plus side I am finding it fairly easy to resist eating sweet things during the day if I keep myself busy.

Yay! Congrats!!

DAYS 36-39

Did you wonder where I was? My DH was rushed to hospital on Sunday night, and we've just got back.

So... no diet for a few days. I can't believe a hospital could serve such huge portions in the canteen - I ordered an omelette and chips and the serving was swimming in grease and would have easily fed two people (yes, I only ate half of it). And all the vegetables they offered were horrible, flabby and severely overcooked.

I must admit a lot of biscuits, crisps and chocolate crept in because I just couldn't be bothered to worry about calories.

But we're home.

I dread to think how much I've put on, but I've done LOADS of walking - I reached my Fitbit goal every day, and on one of the days I actually did TWICE as many steps as my target!

The truth will be revealed tomorrow as I return to the path of righteousness.

I did wonder where you’d gone! Sorry to hear about your DH. Don’t worry about what you ate. Just get back on it.

How’s your hubby op? X